In all fairness, I'm a born American, but I've lived most of my life in Argentina and Brazil, and to tell you the truth, I'd rather go to a hospital in Argentina or Brazil, than in America or some other 'developed countries'.
To give you an example, any worker in Argentina has the right to give 6% of his monthly earnings (whatever they are) to get IOMA, which is kind of a health insurance. To give you hard numbers, in Argentina I could go to a fully educated specialist, for about 20 pesos (which translated would be about U$S7), and get a prescription (for free) to get any medicine you need. In most cases you pay very little (or nothing) for your medicine. Try to get that in the United States.
Also, we have public universities here, free for everyone. Of course, this has some disadvantages, or, as a friend of mine that studies economy in the US would say, we are "subsidizing the growth of bigger economies", which means that a lot of people that gets free education here goes abroad. Of course, if they are able to work abroad, is because they are in pair with their foreign counterparts (I have endless examples of this happening).
So, I don't want to brag about the "niceties" of living in an "undeveloped" country like Argentina, but I think that in some ways people there (now I live in Brazil, that also has a lot of nice surprises, when you live in the South) have a lot of opportunities poor people in developed countries are denied.
Well I think the reviewer could have included some other really nice freewares (or open source programs, depends on each program).
Scite
Winamp
Mplayer with some frontend
Clamwin Antivirus
Quickstart (a very nice program that let's you use your keyboard instead of the awful Start menu)
Poppy for windows
UltraVNC (for those without Terminal Services)
CutePDF (print to PDF from any program)
Spybot
Shareaza
And some other programs. I use all of this on a regular basis and I they all work perfectly. I can't even say that about Abiword...
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A really nice editor is Scite, I use it all the time, and is almost as powerful as UltraEdit. The only problem (maybe) is that most of the configuration is done through file editing. But this also allows for a very detailed configuration.
Off course, there's always Vim, but that is another story (and I really like code completion and some other things that Scite has and Vim lacks).
Well, I haven't tryed opera in a long time, so now I installed it just for the sake of tasting (posting from Opera). The interface is very nice, and features wise it rocks, now...
Even in the worst case situation (bittorrent eating half of my bandwidth) Firefox seems to download pages faster. I think firefox gives that impression by showing the parts of the page it has already downloaded. For example when loading this thread, opera took about 20 seconds, while firefox started right away, and then completed the rest in a few seconds.
Anyone can tell me whether Opera has an option to enable the same behavior as Firefox?
Well, this article shows that at last we came to the point where a bot is comparable to a human being at a chat room. In fact, we didn't get to this point with better AI, but with worse RI (real intelligence, if the term applies to this case).
Ladies and Gentleman: a completely insensitive and unintelligen bot can be more interesting to chat with than a human! Well, at least they write correctly (N07 L@M3 @SS).
Do anyone have a better word? The next thing we'll know, we won't be able to speak to people we like, do things are we are told by the govt, etc.
That reminds me of the time when americans where apalled by the conditions the people living in the USSR had to stand. We are not very far folks! Maybe next 4 years cycle will give us that too!
The day the world gets rid of this awful fundamentalists. Of any kind, not just Muslim. This is the kind of thing that makes me think that religion should be deemed as "outdated" and forgotten by all of us.
Don't take I'm saying the bombings where about religion. Of course it's mostly political, but without the idiocy promoted by religion there wouldn't be any supporters for this kind of action (and the retaliation that will come later).
Hav you ever asked yourself if every bodycount your government gives you is real? Maybe you are counting some innocents among the "walking/talking kamikazi bombs" (sic).
Not that I'm saying you should get your head out of the window and get your facts on your own...
This law is just another blindfold for the ones that think the government should do something to "stop those terrorists and competitors to know as much as we do". It will change nothing. The US is as advanced as many countries in Europe, and even behind Japan and some other countries in some technologies.
I fail to see how restricting anything in the universities will help avoid terrorism, when the terrorists (Osama, etc) that planned 9/11 were trained by US military. Oh! Wait! maybe they _did_ take a degree in MIT...
And taking nationality into account is such a lame measure as any other: you have Al-Quaeda in the middle east, ETA in Spain, IRA in Ireland, Drug dealers in Colombia, etc. Your country of origin has nothing to do with you bieng a fscking fanatic. Last time I checked, some _fanatics_ were trying to pass a law to make all schools teach creationism in Alabama...
OK, with the way things are going, some time from now, our beloved government may even ban citizens from going outside the US. Did anyone say Cuba???
Now come and tell me Firefox is more insecure than IE... last time Microsoft took only a week to fix a problem, was because of the blaster worm that was making internet unusable.
well. i don't remember Sun getting to dominate the world because of guavac & jikes. do you? and indeed, didn't the author know the C# and.NET where standarized by ECMA?
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In all fairness, I'm a born American, but I've lived most of my life in Argentina and Brazil, and to tell you the truth, I'd rather go to a hospital in Argentina or Brazil, than in America or some other 'developed countries'.
To give you an example, any worker in Argentina has the right to give 6% of his monthly earnings (whatever they are) to get IOMA, which is kind of a health insurance. To give you hard numbers, in Argentina I could go to a fully educated specialist, for about 20 pesos (which translated would be about U$S7), and get a prescription (for free) to get any medicine you need. In most cases you pay very little (or nothing) for your medicine. Try to get that in the United States.
Also, we have public universities here, free for everyone. Of course, this has some disadvantages, or, as a friend of mine that studies economy in the US would say, we are "subsidizing the growth of bigger economies", which means that a lot of people that gets free education here goes abroad. Of course, if they are able to work abroad, is because they are in pair with their foreign counterparts (I have endless examples of this happening).
So, I don't want to brag about the "niceties" of living in an "undeveloped" country like Argentina, but I think that in some ways people there (now I live in Brazil, that also has a lot of nice surprises, when you live in the South) have a lot of opportunities poor people in developed countries are denied.
We wouldn't be as intelligent as we are hadn't God touched us with His Noodly Appendage...
- Scite
- Winamp
- Mplayer with some frontend
- Clamwin Antivirus
- Quickstart (a very nice program that let's you use your keyboard instead of the awful Start menu)
- Poppy for windows
- UltraVNC (for those without Terminal Services)
- CutePDF (print to PDF from any program)
- Spybot
- Shareaza
And some other programs. I use all of this on a regular basis and I they all work perfectly. I can't even say that about Abiword...A really nice editor is Scite, I use it all the time, and is almost as powerful as UltraEdit. The only problem (maybe) is that most of the configuration is done through file editing. But this also allows for a very detailed configuration.
Off course, there's always Vim, but that is another story (and I really like code completion and some other things that Scite has and Vim lacks).
Well, I haven't tryed opera in a long time, so now I installed it just for the sake of tasting (posting from Opera). The interface is very nice, and features wise it rocks, now...
Even in the worst case situation (bittorrent eating half of my bandwidth) Firefox seems to download pages faster. I think firefox gives that impression by showing the parts of the page it has already downloaded. For example when loading this thread, opera took about 20 seconds, while firefox started right away, and then completed the rest in a few seconds.
Anyone can tell me whether Opera has an option to enable the same behavior as Firefox?
Well, this article shows that at last we came to the point where a bot is comparable to a human being at a chat room. In fact, we didn't get to this point with better AI, but with worse RI (real intelligence, if the term applies to this case).
Ladies and Gentleman: a completely insensitive and unintelligen bot can be more interesting to chat with than a human! Well, at least they write correctly (N07 L@M3 @SS).
Totalitarism.
Do anyone have a better word? The next thing we'll know, we won't be able to speak to people we like, do things are we are told by the govt, etc.
That reminds me of the time when americans where apalled by the conditions the people living in the USSR had to stand. We are not very far folks! Maybe next 4 years cycle will give us that too!
The day the world gets rid of this awful fundamentalists. Of any kind, not just Muslim. This is the kind of thing that makes me think that religion should be deemed as "outdated" and forgotten by all of us.
Don't take I'm saying the bombings where about religion. Of course it's mostly political, but without the idiocy promoted by religion there wouldn't be any supporters for this kind of action (and the retaliation that will come later).
Hav you ever asked yourself if every bodycount your government gives you is real? Maybe you are counting some innocents among the "walking/talking kamikazi bombs" (sic). Not that I'm saying you should get your head out of the window and get your facts on your own...
This law is just another blindfold for the ones that think the government should do something to "stop those terrorists and competitors to know as much as we do". It will change nothing. The US is as advanced as many countries in Europe, and even behind Japan and some other countries in some technologies.
I fail to see how restricting anything in the universities will help avoid terrorism, when the terrorists (Osama, etc) that planned 9/11 were trained by US military. Oh! Wait! maybe they _did_ take a degree in MIT...
And taking nationality into account is such a lame measure as any other: you have Al-Quaeda in the middle east, ETA in Spain, IRA in Ireland, Drug dealers in Colombia, etc. Your country of origin has nothing to do with you bieng a fscking fanatic. Last time I checked, some _fanatics_ were trying to pass a law to make all schools teach creationism in Alabama...
OK, with the way things are going, some time from now, our beloved government may even ban citizens from going outside the US. Did anyone say Cuba???
Now come and tell me Firefox is more insecure than IE... last time Microsoft took only a week to fix a problem, was because of the blaster worm that was making internet unusable.
Adobe has been releasing Acrobat for linux for years. This doesn't count as 'an step towards open sourcing the reader'.
For some real open source steps, look into their site. They have some nice UI rendering framework there for free (and open source).
well. i don't remember Sun getting to dominate the world because of guavac & jikes. do you? and indeed, didn't the author know the C# and .NET where standarized by ECMA?
LOL! i guess he got to know that empirically. kinda embarrasing going to court with the evidence, don't you think?? :P