Macs aren't really at issue here, as there are virtually none in Israel (though I believe there was one hobby store in Tel Aviv that carried macs... I heard it went out of business). I could be wrong.
The current rovers can travel, in expected conditions, an average of 100 meters a day. The mission is expected to last 90 days. Multiply them, and you get 9 kilometers. They won't go that far, but it's impressive range. Where do you get these 'facts', anyway?
Yes, this is real. You can actually control your own rover through the web, and see live images. These aren't replica's, but made of lego's to drum up interest in the "Red Rover Goes to Mars" bit sponsored by The Planetary Society, a group over 20 years old that advocates space exploration and planetary science, founded (in part) by the great Carl Sagan.
Go to http://www.redrovergoestomars.org/Rrsites.php and control your own rover!
I've heard alot about these models, and they're supposed to be spactacular. Incredibly accurate. There's a great collection of interviews (audio) with project scientists available at http://www.planetary.org/audio/planetaryradio.html . Really worth a listen.
As an Israeli computer technician, I see what everyone uses here. 95% (maybe more) windows. almost 100% office. now Israel's government is in a major budget crunch, and is cutting corners everywhere. Other corners cut: Handicapped support (not enough to live on now), public health benefits and so on.
as for the claims that MS office doesn't support hebrew, it depends which version. Every copy you can find in Israel will be "Hebrew Enabled" which provides FULL Hebrew support, including great help files and even the interface.
German is a far more widely used language than hebrew, is Latin charachter based, has similar grammer, has many USians fluent in it, is a major economic language and is left-to-right.
All this considered, I would be SHOCKED if German was not supported.
As I've said in 4-5 posts, We also tried netscape and safari at the guidance of mac tech support to no avail, finally being told there was 'no support'.
So ha.
I would, but the computer in question is 30000kilometers away (Jerusalem to Baltimore). The problem was also a while ago (March 2003) and thus wasn't OSX 10.3. You seem to understand the issue completely. Here's what I know: We called Mac tech support (in a pay call, btw, she payed for prefered service I believe), and after 20 mins on hold while the tech looked and looked for a solution, we were told that they just 'don't support' it. Ah well. We went to a local library (for nice win machines), and my cute 3 year old nephew (cheers to Kevin!;) got a book which I read to him that night. He kept assuming I was done and turning the pages. a good time was had by all, except a morning wasted looking for fixes...
I try;P
anyway, this mission is packed chock-full of fun science. Go to http://www.planetary.org/audio/pr20030623.html and listen in on the Sundial, which is alot of fun, especially as an elementary school project.
There's lots of stuff for the adult, too.
Sure, except....
That doesn't help me reading gibberish form buttons, which was my primary problem. Read the rest of my posts in that thread and you'll see that it wasn't just microsoft. It wasn't the writing, I had no need to do that, not to mention no hebrew keyboard. It was the READING of the FORM.
wasn't the right to left. It aligned and ordered the giberish properly. it was the encoding. It was also the most recent version available as of March '03. that I'm 100% sure of.
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good! but still, almost no israeli macs. I've seen maybe a dozen in a youth spent fixing comps.
of the windows, honeybunch. of the windows. anyway, even so, wouldn't 95% be near 100% anyway?
Macs aren't really at issue here, as there are virtually none in Israel (though I believe there was one hobby store in Tel Aviv that carried macs... I heard it went out of business).
I could be wrong.
The current rovers can travel, in expected conditions, an average of 100 meters a day. The mission is expected to last 90 days. Multiply them, and you get 9 kilometers. They won't go that far, but it's impressive range. Where do you get these 'facts', anyway?
Yes, this is real. You can actually control your own rover through the web, and see live images. These aren't replica's, but made of lego's to drum up interest in the "Red Rover Goes to Mars" bit sponsored by The Planetary Society, a group over 20 years old that advocates space exploration and planetary science, founded (in part) by the great Carl Sagan.
Go to http://www.redrovergoestomars.org/Rrsites.php and control your own rover!
I've heard alot about these models, and they're supposed to be spactacular. Incredibly accurate. There's a great collection of interviews (audio) with project scientists available at http://www.planetary.org/audio/planetaryradio.html . Really worth a listen.
yes, it does (I'm no fan of this war).
As an Israeli computer technician, I see what everyone uses here. 95% (maybe more) windows. almost 100% office. now Israel's government is in a major budget crunch, and is cutting corners everywhere. Other corners cut: Handicapped support (not enough to live on now), public health benefits and so on.
as for the claims that MS office doesn't support hebrew, it depends which version. Every copy you can find in Israel will be "Hebrew Enabled" which provides FULL Hebrew support, including great help files and even the interface.
I'm gonna make a wild guess here, and use my usual rejection line for men:
Sorry, you have one penis too many
hey, it was fun while it lasted!
except.... I don't need chinese, and neither does the multibillion dollar israeli computer industry.
Somehow I expected comments about a lesbian slashdotter to attract aLOT of responses. Should I be annoyed or thankful?
German is a far more widely used language than hebrew, is Latin charachter based, has similar grammer, has many USians fluent in it, is a major economic language and is left-to-right.
All this considered, I would be SHOCKED if German was not supported.
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As I've said now SEVEN TIMES, it was PRE 10.3! READ THE DAMN POSTS! AUGH! why am I even replying anymore? ;)
As I've said in 4-5 posts, We also tried netscape and safari at the guidance of mac tech support to no avail, finally being told there was 'no support'.
So ha.
I would, but the computer in question is 30000kilometers away (Jerusalem to Baltimore). The problem was also a while ago (March 2003) and thus wasn't OSX 10.3. You seem to understand the issue completely. Here's what I know: We called Mac tech support (in a pay call, btw, she payed for prefered service I believe), and after 20 mins on hold while the tech looked and looked for a solution, we were told that they just 'don't support' it. Ah well. We went to a local library (for nice win machines), and my cute 3 year old nephew (cheers to Kevin! ;) got a book which I read to him that night. He kept assuming I was done and turning the pages. a good time was had by all, except a morning wasted looking for fixes...
I try ;P
anyway, this mission is packed chock-full of fun science. Go to http://www.planetary.org/audio/pr20030623.html and listen in on the Sundial, which is alot of fun, especially as an elementary school project.
There's lots of stuff for the adult, too.
Forms!
Forms were the problem. Forms, I say! I've said it before and I'll say it again! Forms! read the rest of my posts in this thread to understand. Forms!
Sure, except....
That doesn't help me reading gibberish form buttons, which was my primary problem. Read the rest of my posts in that thread and you'll see that it wasn't just microsoft. It wasn't the writing, I had no need to do that, not to mention no hebrew keyboard. It was the READING of the FORM.
It was offtopic, true, but still interesting! It'd surprise me if /. did an article about WinMe soon... :P
wasn't the right to left. It aligned and ordered the giberish properly. it was the encoding. It was also the most recent version available as of March '03. that I'm 100% sure of.
mmm, tried with safari and netscape too, with the support of Mac tech support, but to no avail.