The model is flawed, but there are ways of having some privacy ; for example, hosting your own email on your own server, using encrypted partitions and encrypted swap over https, imaps, and if needed, pop3s, and giving emails addresses to friends and people you wanna have communication with. Having a drill press near the harddrive for when cops show up is optionnal. Basically the dead letter model will still work. I assumed this is why so many businesses have domain name email hosted on a single server.
... a 1-2% user base hosting install parties in so many different cities when new versions are launched and maintaining user groups isn't qualitatively the same as a 92% user base that are mostly apathetical. It doesn't seem like Microsoft will ever put a break on software piracy, because that's who's their tech enthusiast user basis is. Wine is getting better and better though.
Obviously, north american and west european governments can sorta afford to get Windows this or that, but even then, for political reasons (read realpolitik), its way better to have software built locally, or at least that you can review locally.
It would be nice if you remembered that in the same wave of protests the Free Trade Area of Americas got abandoned, and the role of the WTO got totally toned down. Obviously the government doesn't recognize that, because the rule #1 is to "never surrender to violence", and they pretended that the reorientation of the WTO priorities was in the air, somehow.
If you read actual documents on the riots that happened in Gothenborg and Prague around those time, the governement feels definitely threatened by widespread resistance to itself, and even more by the black blocs tactics that are considered by governement as decentralized cell-based potentially terrorist organizations. How do you think the cops got 1,2 billion dollar Canadian to protect Toronto in June ?
Also remember that north-american countries are directly relying on cheap labour in most of the "third-world" countries to keep on top of the imperialist food chain. Challenging such systems of oppression, when your benefiting from it, is surprising form altruism.
Overall I'd like if you would acknowledge the role of the government in decentralizing jobs to the southern hemisphere instead of eating their racist bullshit of: "immigrants are stealing our jobs".
As told in a lot of reports. But the government can't do much when suddenly it's stormed from everywhere, and after days and days of riots, some cop say: "hey I saw a blog that calls for this demonstration that was more like an angry mob !" I even think they didn't manage to close one of those blog.
Also the election of 2004 in Spain, which happened three days after the Madrid train bombing, was won by the socialists, even though national TV was continually broadcasting that the ETA made those bombing (the ETA is a left wing basque nationalist group). Manuel Castells, a Spanish sociologist claim that everybody in the country was just SMSing all day for those three days, since it was clear for anyone left wing that it wasn't the ETA: the ETA usually claim their attacks, and do not usually target civilian.
That is the only reason why they do it: generic medecine spread through africa and south america, and they want to get their market back. This operation is a desperate attempt to make more profit, as they are a corporation, which mean they want to make the most for the shareholders.
Real compassion would be to drop the patents on aids medecine to help africa, just as the WHO propose (http://www.aegis.com/NEWS/AFP/2001/AF0103B8.html).
I'm a north american french native speaker. I used and use english for work. Here, we have a long curriculum filled with english, which makes you almost learn the grammar and syntax, and learn you to have conversation with other french canadian that have the same shitty accent.
The problems I got when I first travelled to an entirely english environment: - Culture. WTF is Doctor Seuss ? - Idiomatics. Hanging out got no french equivallent, and having to ask what mean making out is sktechy. - Picking up everything, and getting people to understand everything.
Practice makes it perfect. Seriously, be sure to know a little about local politics and government, or better, go there for 1 or 2 months after learning grammar and stuff. Looking like a traveller is ok for most people, but pretending you speak a language when your not used to it and don't know nothing about the culture will make you look like a dumbfuck retard.
And if you have to travel, don't fuck with those "civilized western" countries. Morroco, Tunisia, Iran or Syria are not so dangerous, and not so "clean" either.
Should what all evil corporations do: destroy whatever they done good, leaving the place for democratic, open and better grassroot initiatives.
Thanks a lot Ballmer !
The strenght of political movement is to adapt strategies. If Canada had taken over your democratic institution, and you started a group of resistance and thought about suicide bombing, you would fucking read a book about how does the canadians think terrorist looks like before doing anything.
Does anyone notice that it is normal to defend something that is put in public domain ? If my code were to be used by some capitalist motherfucks to makes lumps of cash, I would like to know it, and I would like either file a laswuit that would take forever and end up by getting some ludicrous compensation or better, stab the bastard. If you make something free, you make it for the society, not for some corporate interest.
Fuck ! The guy shared some crappy movie which the creation is already paid ! It's not even loss of profit: it's probable loss of profit.
No one deserve more than an 100$ fine for that, just to prevent most people from doing so all the time. Don't even think about jail time !
It's a minor offense !
And it's awesome that amazon think about file swappers ! When you won't be able to get music of small artists over p2p, you will know it will be free or almost free on amazon !
1. The body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture. 2. A set of doctrines or beliefs that form the basis of a political, economic, or other system.
Do you mean that you lose your mind when you need useability ? If you know that useability defeated your ideology you must have feeled it ? So you have lost your mind ? But how can we be really sure, since this is the writing of somebody who lost his mind ?
Anyhow, do you know that pragmatism itself is considered an ideology ?
Not to say C# expensive, need unbelievable amount of memory and often weird in their error message and behaviors, it just mix up a lot of concept to make the simplest things hard. For example: how to hide the OO aspects of the language when you come to teach scope ? How to hide classes when you need to draw a button, a textBox, and use Convert.ToDouble just to get a number out of the GUI ? Why you have to mess with objects, properties, and often functions, to make the program write a single thing in a GUI ?
If I had choice, I would use any free implementation of DOS 6.22 and borland turbo pascal 7 for teaching the first course of algorithmics. Why ?
- You get real easy drawing system using 320*200 256 colors systems, while having great shell user demanding system - You get a language which make lot more sense than C based system, using begin and end instead of { and } (more expressful), = instead of == (less dumb errors),:= instead of = (look more of an arrow, giving an idea of the sense of the affectaction) and finally, iteration is a lot clearer: "for i:= 1 to 10 do" or "if a = b then" are much clearer than any C based language constructions. - You get strong types as in C, which help a lot dealing with variable scope - You use ; as in c - You get clear compiler message - You can give out bootables disks of the compiler and OS, without caring about the computer they use at home. - You can make fast conversion to C language at the end of the course, once the concepts behind all the structures are clear. At this point, they'll get irritated by the formal begin end, but will bet harassed by C[++|#|] weird syntax.
I'm currently teaching in Quebec City, a big city for Quebec government workers, and I did Algorithmics 1 in Java/Eclipse, and now teaching Algorithmics 1 in another college with C#/VS.NET, and I can't tell how much student got crashed by an help window never showing up or the impossibility to choose where a project could be saved. And the overhead of VS.NET make 2Ghz machines look like 386. And any GUI will just turn a could be good coder into somebody who can't think without tracing.
I just can't wait for when the officials and coworkers will just stop the hype about the "good and new technologies", and start saving keeping old crusty computer giving algorithmics with perl/python/php over linux.
No conclusion but microsoft academic alliance is a threat to your children.
If you're accumulating a lot of things in a big mansion, you'll probably look like a rich guy, and if you don't try to be known as a friendly rich guy, people who have to round their end of month on the so-called us-welfare will think of you as a potential target. The best way around is to get implied in grassroot organization, tool pool, community organisation. A lot of people active in those groups will remark you, and spread the word around that you're a friendly rich. This will at least save of ELF raids.
Harming the people who try to steal with any device will emit the message of don't go stealing there to less people, and make those people wanting revenge, which is probably not a good solution, because all security will fail at some point.
In quebec, because the workers movement have been strong at some point, there is a lot of laws to protect workers, and the company is supposed to protect their worker from all kind of problems. Also, there is a sorta 50% unionization rate in here, which mean that you'll probably be part of an union if you work here, and can use the money from your union to sue the company.
Otherwise, a solution can be to join the local branch of the IWW , which is mainly an open membership union, which can help you for free, if you demonstrate some interest in the labour movement, by showing up to meetings and stuff. This is also a good way of learning a lot about your state labour rights.
Microsoft could just send is service pack, and as usual, during installation, printing meanless phrases such as: registering component, building registry, etc...
If you have to work for any company who wan't a pretty cheap system, you'll probably be paid to make a pretty user interface for a free/open source software. So the end user interface is just, most of the time, just in the todo list. And most of free/open source programmer prefer writting a UI than a whole program, because in the whole program, they're going to write the UI anyway.
Most of free/open software used as desktop software is significantly comprehensible for a sysadmin who install the software for the users. If developping countries using free/open source, it's probably because no end user try to recompile their X server before using it. Ever used Portage or RPMs ?
Feature centric developpement is all but normal when people are coding for fun. Don't you know the old trick :/* function cool3dGraphicsWithThunderAndLightning(void) {...
}
*/ ???
And the religious blindness is just as astonishing. Don't you that mono's developped by sleepwalking coder ? And does the KDE have a winxp like interface ? And does mac os X have applet running in the task bar like gnome ? Most of the people that are adding function at late nights don't care about the ms-likishness of the thing, they're just knowing that they're going to save two keystrokes per months.
I had only two things to say to those who will start an open recipe site. First: there is already pretty cool things done about that
like a kind of recipe manager, with a pretty cool database on food nutrient (sadly, under console). There must be much of those things. Second, keep in mind to organise the whole thing to get the possibility of having a search for vegan, vegetarian, ovo-vegetarian, neo-vegetarian, and the sub-kind of not-so-hippie. They are about the last person to watch food for their health.
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The model is flawed, but there are ways of having some privacy ; for example, hosting your own email on your own server, using encrypted partitions and encrypted swap over https, imaps, and if needed, pop3s, and giving emails addresses to friends and people you wanna have communication with. Having a drill press near the harddrive for when cops show up is optionnal. Basically the dead letter model will still work. I assumed this is why so many businesses have domain name email hosted on a single server.
... a 1-2% user base hosting install parties in so many different cities when new versions are launched and maintaining user groups isn't qualitatively the same as a 92% user base that are mostly apathetical. It doesn't seem like Microsoft will ever put a break on software piracy, because that's who's their tech enthusiast user basis is. Wine is getting better and better though. Obviously, north american and west european governments can sorta afford to get Windows this or that, but even then, for political reasons (read realpolitik), its way better to have software built locally, or at least that you can review locally.
It would be nice if you remembered that in the same wave of protests the Free Trade Area of Americas got abandoned, and the role of the WTO got totally toned down. Obviously the government doesn't recognize that, because the rule #1 is to "never surrender to violence", and they pretended that the reorientation of the WTO priorities was in the air, somehow.
If you read actual documents on the riots that happened in Gothenborg and Prague around those time, the governement feels definitely threatened by widespread resistance to itself, and even more by the black blocs tactics that are considered by governement as decentralized cell-based potentially terrorist organizations. How do you think the cops got 1,2 billion dollar Canadian to protect Toronto in June ?
Also remember that north-american countries are directly relying on cheap labour in most of the "third-world" countries to keep on top of the imperialist food chain. Challenging such systems of oppression, when your benefiting from it, is surprising form altruism.
Overall I'd like if you would acknowledge the role of the government in decentralizing jobs to the southern hemisphere instead of eating their racist bullshit of: "immigrants are stealing our jobs".
As told in a lot of reports. But the government can't do much when suddenly it's stormed from everywhere, and after days and days of riots, some cop say: "hey I saw a blog that calls for this demonstration that was more like an angry mob !" I even think they didn't manage to close one of those blog. Also the election of 2004 in Spain, which happened three days after the Madrid train bombing, was won by the socialists, even though national TV was continually broadcasting that the ETA made those bombing (the ETA is a left wing basque nationalist group). Manuel Castells, a Spanish sociologist claim that everybody in the country was just SMSing all day for those three days, since it was clear for anyone left wing that it wasn't the ETA: the ETA usually claim their attacks, and do not usually target civilian.
That is the only reason why they do it: generic medecine spread through africa and south america, and they want to get their market back. This operation is a desperate attempt to make more profit, as they are a corporation, which mean they want to make the most for the shareholders.
Real compassion would be to drop the patents on aids medecine to help africa, just as the WHO propose (http://www.aegis.com/NEWS/AFP/2001/AF0103B8.html).
I'm a north american french native speaker. I used and use english for work. Here, we have a long curriculum filled with english, which makes you almost learn the grammar and syntax, and learn you to have conversation with other french canadian that have the same shitty accent.
The problems I got when I first travelled to an entirely english environment:
- Culture. WTF is Doctor Seuss ?
- Idiomatics. Hanging out got no french equivallent, and having to ask what mean making out is sktechy.
- Picking up everything, and getting people to understand everything.
Practice makes it perfect. Seriously, be sure to know a little about local politics and government, or better, go there for 1 or 2 months after learning grammar and stuff. Looking like a traveller is ok for most people, but pretending you speak a language when your not used to it and don't know nothing about the culture will make you look like a dumbfuck retard.
And if you have to travel, don't fuck with those "civilized western" countries. Morroco, Tunisia, Iran or Syria are not so dangerous, and not so "clean" either.
Would you try bring a pound of hash from turkey in your backback ? You would mail it and pay the extra charge for insurance.
Yep ! Viola is french for rape. And voilà is written with an accent.
Should what all evil corporations do: destroy whatever they done good, leaving the place for democratic, open and better grassroot initiatives. Thanks a lot Ballmer !
The strenght of political movement is to adapt strategies. If Canada had taken over your democratic institution, and you started a group of resistance and thought about suicide bombing, you would fucking read a book about how does the canadians think terrorist looks like before doing anything.
Another hit against Microsoft !
Does anyone notice that it is normal to defend something that is put in public domain ? If my code were to be used by some capitalist motherfucks to makes lumps of cash, I would like to know it, and I would like either file a laswuit that would take forever and end up by getting some ludicrous compensation or better, stab the bastard. If you make something free, you make it for the society, not for some corporate interest.
Hmmm... that's time for the worldwide campaign proxy an american !
Fuck ! The guy shared some crappy movie which the creation is already paid ! It's not even loss of profit: it's probable loss of profit. No one deserve more than an 100$ fine for that, just to prevent most people from doing so all the time. Don't even think about jail time ! It's a minor offense !
And it's awesome that amazon think about file swappers ! When you won't be able to get music of small artists over p2p, you will know it will be free or almost free on amazon !
Anyhow, do you know that pragmatism itself is considered an ideology ?
Not to say C# expensive, need unbelievable amount of memory and often weird in their error message and behaviors, it just mix up a lot of concept to make the simplest things hard. For example: how to hide the OO aspects of the language when you come to teach scope ? How to hide classes when you need to draw a button, a textBox, and use Convert.ToDouble just to get a number out of the GUI ? Why you have to mess with objects, properties, and often functions, to make the program write a single thing in a GUI ?
:= instead of = (look more of an arrow, giving an idea of the sense of the affectaction) and finally, iteration is a lot clearer: "for i := 1 to 10 do" or "if a = b then" are much clearer than any C based language constructions.
If I had choice, I would use any free implementation of DOS 6.22 and borland turbo pascal 7 for teaching the first course of algorithmics. Why ?
- You get real easy drawing system using 320*200 256 colors systems, while having great shell user demanding system
- You get a language which make lot more sense than C based system, using begin and end instead of { and } (more expressful), = instead of == (less dumb errors),
- You get strong types as in C, which help a lot dealing with variable scope
- You use ; as in c
- You get clear compiler message
- You can give out bootables disks of the compiler and OS, without caring about the computer they use at home.
- You can make fast conversion to C language at the end of the course, once the concepts behind all the structures are clear. At this point, they'll get irritated by the formal begin end, but will bet harassed by C[++|#|] weird syntax.
I'm currently teaching in Quebec City, a big city for Quebec government workers, and I did Algorithmics 1 in Java/Eclipse, and now teaching Algorithmics 1 in another college with C#/VS.NET, and I can't tell how much student got crashed by an help window never showing up or the impossibility to choose where a project could be saved. And the overhead of VS.NET make 2Ghz machines look like 386. And any GUI will just turn a could be good coder into somebody who can't think without tracing.
I just can't wait for when the officials and coworkers will just stop the hype about the "good and new technologies", and start saving keeping old crusty computer giving algorithmics with perl/python/php over linux.
No conclusion but microsoft academic alliance is a threat to your children.
It'll allow you to set the research field to "my basement" to search "christmas lights" or "cross over rj45"
If you're accumulating a lot of things in a big mansion, you'll probably look like a rich guy, and if you don't try to be known as a friendly rich guy, people who have to round their end of month on the so-called us-welfare will think of you as a potential target. The best way around is to get implied in grassroot organization, tool pool, community organisation. A lot of people active in those groups will remark you, and spread the word around that you're a friendly rich. This will at least save of ELF raids. Harming the people who try to steal with any device will emit the message of don't go stealing there to less people, and make those people wanting revenge, which is probably not a good solution, because all security will fail at some point.
In quebec, because the workers movement have been strong at some point, there is a lot of laws to protect workers, and the company is supposed to protect their worker from all kind of problems. Also, there is a sorta 50% unionization rate in here, which mean that you'll probably be part of an union if you work here, and can use the money from your union to sue the company.
Otherwise, a solution can be to join the local branch of the IWW , which is mainly an open membership union, which can help you for free, if you demonstrate some interest in the labour movement, by showing up to meetings and stuff. This is also a good way of learning a lot about your state labour rights.
Microsoft could just send is service pack, and as usual, during installation, printing meanless phrases such as: registering component, building registry, etc...
If you have to work for any company who wan't a pretty cheap system, you'll probably be paid to make a pretty user interface for a free/open source software. So the end user interface is just, most of the time, just in the todo list. And most of free/open source programmer prefer writting a UI than a whole program, because in the whole program, they're going to write the UI anyway. Most of free/open software used as desktop software is significantly comprehensible for a sysadmin who install the software for the users. If developping countries using free/open source, it's probably because no end user try to recompile their X server before using it. Ever used Portage or RPMs ? Feature centric developpement is all but normal when people are coding for fun. Don't you know the old trick : /* function cool3dGraphicsWithThunderAndLightning(void) { ...
}
*/ ???
And the religious blindness is just as astonishing. Don't you that mono's developped by sleepwalking coder ? And does the KDE have a winxp like interface ? And does mac os X have applet running in the task bar like gnome ? Most of the people that are adding function at late nights don't care about the ms-likishness of the thing, they're just knowing that they're going to save two keystrokes per months.
I had only two things to say to those who will start an open recipe site. First: there is already pretty cool things done about that like a kind of recipe manager, with a pretty cool database on food nutrient (sadly, under console). There must be much of those things. Second, keep in mind to organise the whole thing to get the possibility of having a search for vegan, vegetarian, ovo-vegetarian, neo-vegetarian, and the sub-kind of not-so-hippie. They are about the last person to watch food for their health.