Convenient of you to forget that the country you live in is the worlds greatest terrorist nation. Remember Vietnam? Korea? Nicaragua? El Salvador? Columbia? Venezuela? Haiti? Cuba? Egypt? Lebanon? Iran? Iraq? Sudan? Afghanistan? Turkmenistan?
As for history lessons. You may not remember that the English once ruled your nation and France tried to help out your sorry asses
FFS. Do you have any idea whatsoever what life is like outside your own little clique? $100 is a huge amount to invest in _anything_ in any third world country. These people dont have flushing toilets, or phones, or TVs, or any other luxury you take for granted. Education for them would be a great thing, and they basically can't afford it. Get off your high horse.
God bless America, eh? If you cant find a reason to be agressive to them, or a reason to invade, try selling them cheap stuff they don't need at prices they can't afford? It seems history is one thing that the US doesn't teach, or at least not very well.
$100 is well beyond an average third-world citizen's one year salary
I think you are missing the point entirely. Its not meant to be a personal computer for third-world / developing countries, but more as a public computer for the town / village centre. Give them a phone line for internet and decent educational software alongside a decent encyclopdia and its a boon to people for miles around.
And even if it is possible to build a PC the size of a Mini Mac with exactly the same specs (performance, weight, cost, color and whatnot)
Approximately, yes - not the manufacturers link, but its still the same damn PC. There are even smaller ones out, but not very mass-produced. But basically the Mac Mini is nothing new, just better marketted than anything similar.
Have you considered implants? Or stronger drugs? Windows Media Codecs might be just the ticket! Have you not s^Hbuffered enough yet from all that intra-device comnubulationishness?
Analogies are used to create law and set precedents...
Stop watching Ally McBeal. In the real world analgies are just that - crap vaguely related to the point you're trying to make, but in fact totally unrelated to the matter at hand.
Everyone keep harping on about this and that google are going to release a web browser. I reckon thats wrong, and that they're going to release a file browser similar to windows explorer, but better - with a top-notch search built in to the interface and other cool stuff
Nothing to see here. Dude, have a look at perl someday. All this sh!t has been done already. Why do people keep re-inventing the wheel? We don't need new languages or frameworks. We need programmers to act sensibly and use the right language/framework for the job at hand. Think outside the box.
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Watch the downmodding speed world record start right here
When you can honestly show me how any sane person can support the RIAA's stance on anything - yet remain a money-gouging, price-fixing cartel who pay their representants (the artists) pittance - I may actually listen to you.
Who cares about the semantic web or any new web technology if its going to be deluged by spam within 5 days of deciding to use it, and thus becoming unusable / untrustable as a resource. Deal with the spam problem, then come back to me about these great new technologies that are vulnerable to it.
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Mod parent up. +1 (Break out the champagne.) All is not lost. Some people on tha interweb still get it.
Convenient of you to forget that the country you live in is the worlds greatest terrorist nation. Remember Vietnam? Korea? Nicaragua? El Salvador? Columbia? Venezuela? Haiti? Cuba? Egypt? Lebanon? Iran? Iraq? Sudan? Afghanistan? Turkmenistan?
As for history lessons. You may not remember that the English once ruled your nation and France tried to help out your sorry asses
FFS. Do you have any idea whatsoever what life is like outside your own little clique? $100 is a huge amount to invest in _anything_ in any third world country. These people dont have flushing toilets, or phones, or TVs, or any other luxury you take for granted. Education for them would be a great thing, and they basically can't afford it. Get off your high horse.
I'm sorry but you have me confused. Are you complaining or lauding that particular individual? Either that or you're pamts held up with a string ...
God bless America, eh? If you cant find a reason to be agressive to them, or a reason to invade, try selling them cheap stuff they don't need at prices they can't afford? It seems history is one thing that the US doesn't teach, or at least not very well.
$100 is well beyond an average third-world citizen's one year salary
I think you are missing the point entirely. Its not meant to be a personal computer for third-world / developing countries, but more as a public computer for the town / village centre. Give them a phone line for internet and decent educational software alongside a decent encyclopdia and its a boon to people for miles around.
Is this what you meant? Yeah, they totally failed.
how hard was an actual non-mangled clickable link?. Kind of a pity mirrordot is /.ed too
And even if it is possible to build a PC the size of a Mini Mac with exactly the same specs (performance, weight, cost, color and whatnot)
Approximately, yes - not the manufacturers link, but its still the same damn PC. There are even smaller ones out, but not very mass-produced. But basically the Mac Mini is nothing new, just better marketted than anything similar.
Have you considered implants? Or stronger drugs? Windows Media Codecs might be just the ticket! Have you not s^Hbuffered enough yet from all that intra-device comnubulationishness?
Dude... It's a camera. How many processes do you suppose are going to run on it at any given time? I'd say 2-3
No KDE then? Why the hell would you run Linux without all that KDE eye-candy? Monstrous!
Whats that mysterious "unix" word stand for then?
Analogies are used to create law and set precedents ...
Stop watching Ally McBeal. In the real world analgies are just that - crap vaguely related to the point you're trying to make, but in fact totally unrelated to the matter at hand.
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Everyone keep harping on about this and that google are going to release a web browser. I reckon thats wrong, and that they're going to release a file browser similar to windows explorer, but better - with a top-notch search built in to the interface and other cool stuff
mod parent up. the truth sometimes has tiny pointy teeth.
please let me know when Ruby on Rails can add one and one together faster than any similar scripting langauge
Nothing to see here. Dude, have a look at perl someday. All this sh!t has been done already. Why do people keep re-inventing the wheel? We don't need new languages or frameworks. We need programmers to act sensibly and use the right language/framework for the job at hand. Think outside the box. -- Watch the downmodding speed world record start right here
You wouldnt happen to know of a GUI-based database control for parsing Slashdot comments like yours would you?
oh wait ...
krog was right then?
So you don't deny that they are "money-gouging, price-fixing cartel" then? I guess we're in agreement then ...
+5 insightful? No. +5 predictable? Perhaps.
When you can honestly show me how any sane person can support the RIAA's stance on anything - yet remain a money-gouging, price-fixing cartel who pay their representants (the artists) pittance - I may actually listen to you.
Who cares about the semantic web or any new web technology if its going to be deluged by spam within 5 days of deciding to use it, and thus becoming unusable / untrustable as a resource. Deal with the spam problem, then come back to me about these great new technologies that are vulnerable to it.