While this effort will definitely help poorer countries, the emphasis on these laptops/notebooks missed the point that what these countires need is:
1: Fair trade. While the US and EU preach free and fair trade, they continue to subsidize their corn and sugar farmers, who inturn dump their excess produce in poorer nations, effectively killing local production.
2: Less production of greenhouse gases. The US alone produces 25% of these gases, yet it has a tiny fraction of human kind living on this globe. The sad thing is that poorer nations pay for the repercussions in way of floods and droughts. Think of unusual weather patterns.
The only way the US and EU countries will listen is when tropical diseases knock at their doors. The bad thing is that ordinary folks might pay with their lives before a cure is found. There are already incidents of malaria in the US in regions where it never existed before.
The iPOD represents and is a way of life. Anything other than the real thing is not worth the effort, and Sony will discover this pretty soon. Others did discover this long time ago...including Dell and Microsoft.
You forgot to mention that in the case of copper, many folks can do some basic maintenance whereas with fiber, one has to engage an "expert". I have joined 2 copper ethernet cables to get a longer one with a set of pliers before. If it were fiber, I'd be in big trouble since at that time, I was really broke.
Yes, that file selector is one of the things that keeps me from ever trying GNOME. It's butt ugly. Really. The other thing is that to me, GNOME is rather "dark", and dark colors depress me a lot.
I will not be surprised that with time, it will be discovered that this gum does not work, or actually does more harm than good! In America, it's all about the money. Somebody is making money off this and another will make money solving the problems this gum will bring.
If the army wants good teeth for its soldiers, they should simply eat more natural foods. That's foods with less or no additives. Over the past 17 years I have come across many Africans in the US. I mean those who grew up on the African continent. What I have found with these fellows is that none of them has bad teeth. Many had never seen a dentist till they came to America. They have good teeth, why? Because they say, they did not eat any candy or junk food as kids.
Remamber, Vioxx was an approved FDA drug which was later discovered to be dangerous afterall.
I agree...there seems to be nothing new from the screenshots. But I know there is something to be appreciated as compared to the last releases. What about Kubuntu? Should we expect KDE 3.5? When it comes to Ubuntu, I only touch the KDE based one. And with superkaramba to be integrated, nothing compares to it.
One thing though...I love the Tahoma and Times New Roman fonts. Unfortunately, I have to copy them from Windows make my environment look good. The Tahoma font itself is very small 252 kb I wonder why no one on the Linux world have created a look-alike. I have no expertise on this unfortunately, otherwise I'd have created a look-alike long ago.
I hope DNA is still useful and extractable. Let them (scientists) extract it. If they can find a few cells, cloning could be possible. Then, once again there can be a chance of seeing the giant creature alive.
> Novell made what amounted to a mistake in the eyes of many of their users, and such users let Novell know that. So Novell did the responsible thing, listened to their users, and cleared up the problem. That's not a bad thing. They were being responsive to their customers needs.
If that were the case, then Novell should have adopted KDE ad the default desktop long ago. Some on-line survey indicated that SuSE had the best presentation of KDE and that it was why 76% of SuSE users were using KDE. In comments, an over whelming number suggested to Novell to adopt KDE as the default. Obviously, it never happened...! Now talk of Novell listening to its products' users and doing the right thing.
What a spectacular flip-flop! Now who can take Novell serious with similar announcements in future?
This begs the question: Was the initial decision to only support GNOME made with no anticipation for consequences? If there were no consequences expected, then those who made the decision should be fired in my opinion.
If there were anticipated consequences, then why did the PR personnel not do it in a sane way? This flip-flopping by Novell does them no good. They already have a [bad] reputation of spoiling everything they touch.
I would not have touched the new SuSE with GNOME at all! For me, I need that GNOME file selector fixed before I can consider it.
Yes, we appear to have discussed this recently...but for me, the subject of Dell and Linux is kind-of boring now. I find it is the same old thing. The editor should have given us a break on this one.
I really want to take a look at Morfik Basic, Morfik Pascal, Morfik C# or Morfik Java in action. Any one care to post sample code? What about screenshots?
They have a Gmail trademark notice at on their page and I know GMail is a trademark of Google, but why would they have it at the bottom of their web page?
May be I should rephrase the question and ask...why don't they have "Hotmail is a registered trademark of M$?"
Are they affiliated to Google in any way? If so, they do not mention it anywhere on the page!
Now folks, get ready for yet another round or dose of bloat on the cell phone. Where can I get a simple cell phone to just make and make calls?
Question: Is is possible to assemble one from legacy components like we do with computer systems? I would not mind the size. I guess it would be quite big.
I need to know what the greatest lie is and who will be honored for it...from the justification for war and the [non-existent] WMDs, and Scooter Libby's lies about that CIA agent, to Iraq's imminent usage of a nuclear device in 45 minutes...and so on. Who will take that honor?
...let's wait for a view or even a publication to counter this view. I will admit I agree with a lot of what the author has mentioned. To what I am skeptical about, I have to say that I have no knowledge. I was a good read though.
I mean, simply plant more vegetation or trees. The amount of deforestation in the world is amazing. In Haiti for example, it's very bad. When I was in school several decades ago, I learned that green plants use carbondioxide to make chlorophyll - that green pigment in green plants. And they in turn release oxygen. This would be a better solution. Am I wrong?
How does M$ keep its website secure? With all the millions of Windows systems out there getting updated all the time, and generating traffic for other reasons, I wonder why M$'s website has never been taken down - never! How does M$ do it?
We in the country do not lock our homes when we leave. Nothing has ever happened. I guess I am speaking for myself and the few friends I know here.
Our politicians should do what matters for the ordinary folks like fixing health-care and other services, then legislate on matters like these. Is that too much to ask for?
> Well, you can still be proud of the little things like democracy and freedom of speech.
Remember that in this land of the "free", ambassador Wilson's wife was exposed as a CIA agent just because he questioned intelligence used to justify the Iraq war and that slavery flourished for centuries too. For decades and even up to now, the land of the free still has second class citizens just because they were not born by the "right" parents.
Can we as Americans still be proud when the Chinese finally land on the moon? What frontier shall we be left with to brag about? The sad thing is that, even with technology, we seem to have no answer to IEDs in Iraq...so much so that it appears we are being whipped over there!
Never mind that Dick Cheney said that increased insurgent activity is characteristic of kicks of a dying horse! This he said almost a year ago! Take a look http://icasualties.org/oif/. The picture looks ugly.
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Stupid? I am not. Those who say that greenhouse gases have no effect or that these gases would make the climate better are not serious.
OK, can we say that these gases have a net positive effect on the environment? I guess not. No wonder you post anonymously.
1: Fair trade. While the US and EU preach free and fair trade, they continue to subsidize their corn and sugar farmers, who inturn dump their excess produce in poorer nations, effectively killing local production.
2: Less production of greenhouse gases. The US alone produces 25% of these gases, yet it has a tiny fraction of human kind living on this globe. The sad thing is that poorer nations pay for the repercussions in way of floods and droughts. Think of unusual weather patterns.
The only way the US and EU countries will listen is when tropical diseases knock at their doors. The bad thing is that ordinary folks might pay with their lives before a cure is found. There are already incidents of malaria in the US in regions where it never existed before.
Am I wrong on these facts?
Where are the reviews? Slashdotters are known to review new gadgets to be released well in advance. How come I have not seen any reviews of this item?
...that M$ continues to bundle, just like before. I have come to one conclusion. Courts in Korea are just as inept as those in this USA. Sad indeed.
The iPOD represents and is a way of life. Anything other than the real thing is not worth the effort, and Sony will discover this pretty soon. Others did discover this long time ago...including Dell and Microsoft.
You forgot to mention that in the case of copper, many folks can do some basic maintenance whereas with fiber, one has to engage an "expert". I have joined 2 copper ethernet cables to get a longer one with a set of pliers before. If it were fiber, I'd be in big trouble since at that time, I was really broke.
Yes, that file selector is one of the things that keeps me from ever trying GNOME. It's butt ugly. Really. The other thing is that to me, GNOME is rather "dark", and dark colors depress me a lot.
If the army wants good teeth for its soldiers, they should simply eat more natural foods. That's foods with less or no additives. Over the past 17 years I have come across many Africans in the US. I mean those who grew up on the African continent. What I have found with these fellows is that none of them has bad teeth. Many had never seen a dentist till they came to America. They have good teeth, why? Because they say, they did not eat any candy or junk food as kids.
Remamber, Vioxx was an approved FDA drug which was later discovered to be dangerous afterall.
One thing though...I love the Tahoma and Times New Roman fonts. Unfortunately, I have to copy them from Windows make my environment look good. The Tahoma font itself is very small 252 kb I wonder why no one on the Linux world have created a look-alike. I have no expertise on this unfortunately, otherwise I'd have created a look-alike long ago.
I hope DNA is still useful and extractable. Let them (scientists) extract it. If they can find a few cells, cloning could be possible. Then, once again there can be a chance of seeing the giant creature alive.
If that were the case, then Novell should have adopted KDE ad the default desktop long ago. Some on-line survey indicated that SuSE had the best presentation of KDE and that it was why 76% of SuSE users were using KDE. In comments, an over whelming number suggested to Novell to adopt KDE as the default. Obviously, it never happened...! Now talk of Novell listening to its products' users and doing the right thing.
This begs the question: Was the initial decision to only support GNOME made with no anticipation for consequences? If there were no consequences expected, then those who made the decision should be fired in my opinion.
If there were anticipated consequences, then why did the PR personnel not do it in a sane way? This flip-flopping by Novell does them no good. They already have a [bad] reputation of spoiling everything they touch.
I would not have touched the new SuSE with GNOME at all! For me, I need that GNOME file selector fixed before I can consider it.
Yes, we appear to have discussed this recently...but for me, the subject of Dell and Linux is kind-of boring now. I find it is the same old thing. The editor should have given us a break on this one.
...after all, SAP made most of their profits when opensource was still an underdog. Just like M$ would smear FOSS. Does this surprise anyone?
I really want to take a look at Morfik Basic, Morfik Pascal, Morfik C# or Morfik Java in action. Any one care to post sample code? What about screenshots?
May be I should rephrase the question and ask...why don't they have "Hotmail is a registered trademark of M$?"
Are they affiliated to Google in any way? If so, they do not mention it anywhere on the page!
Question: Is is possible to assemble one from legacy components like we do with computer systems? I would not mind the size. I guess it would be quite big.
I need to know what the greatest lie is and who will be honored for it...from the justification for war and the [non-existent] WMDs, and Scooter Libby's lies about that CIA agent, to Iraq's imminent usage of a nuclear device in 45 minutes...and so on. Who will take that honor?
For sure, he said "...right now, Google will do anything except cure cancer...", in a recent interview I found at http://www.zdnet.com/
...let's wait for a view or even a publication to counter this view. I will admit I agree with a lot of what the author has mentioned. To what I am skeptical about, I have to say that I have no knowledge. I was a good read though.
I mean, simply plant more vegetation or trees. The amount of deforestation in the world is amazing. In Haiti for example, it's very bad. When I was in school several decades ago, I learned that green plants use carbondioxide to make chlorophyll - that green pigment in green plants. And they in turn release oxygen. This would be a better solution. Am I wrong?
How does M$ keep its website secure? With all the millions of Windows systems out there getting updated all the time, and generating traffic for other reasons, I wonder why M$'s website has never been taken down - never! How does M$ do it?
Our politicians should do what matters for the ordinary folks like fixing health-care and other services, then legislate on matters like these. Is that too much to ask for?
Remember that in this land of the "free", ambassador Wilson's wife was exposed as a CIA agent just because he questioned intelligence used to justify the Iraq war and that slavery flourished for centuries too. For decades and even up to now, the land of the free still has second class citizens just because they were not born by the "right" parents.
Never mind that Dick Cheney said that increased insurgent activity is characteristic of kicks of a dying horse! This he said almost a year ago! Take a look http://icasualties.org/oif/. The picture looks ugly.