I'm not trying to troll, but if you do need a scripting language for more than a "Personal Home Page" then you're essentially better off using Perl, Python or Ruby.
(Just for the record, I'm telling this while having advanced knowledge in PHP, Perl and Python and intermediate in Ruby)
There are quite a lot of analysts saying that if the first world were to stop donating to Africa, the continent would sort itself out.
That's mainly because those familiar with the African situation know that in almost all cases the food and basic resource supplies only keep the local warlords in power and the population there barely alive. What Africa needs is not donations - they make the situation worse - but an own economy producing their own food and their own tools. Cut the donations and help Africa do that rather than keeping up the status quo.
(Btw, when talking about Africa I mean the poor and unstable countries of Africa, not countries like South Africa.)
Anyone considered, that the slow of growth could be entirely the fault of the current administration in the US, the huge monopolies on the market coupled with lax regulations and prohibitively expensive costs for the home user?
Sweden and Japan seems to have no problem in internet usage growth even though the/capita ratio is already higher in those countries, so saturation is _clearly_ not the problem in the USA. Of course those countries support or at least do not prohibit the growth of the Internet by silly laws and monopolies.
Unless you use a very basic package of software - you would get more than that by micro-optimizing any given software, you seem to imply that you need performance.
For most of the users performance change under 10% doesn't matter.
This is an important benchmark, aswell. So if we're capable of modelling a simple virus today with a supercomputer - in 10-20 years we'll be capable of modelling that virus on our home computer and by that time supercomputers will be able to modell simple one cell organisms probably.
This is stupid. The vulnerability is a local root "exploit". You're saying you're making a reinstall after one of them has been found just to make sure?
I'm not using Ubuntu, btw. I'm a hardcore debian-living-on-the-edge-sid-compile-your-own-ker nel-with-patches-written-by-yourself-on-top-of-grs ec-and-pax user.
"No matter how many worms and infected machines are out there, a default Ubuntu box will never be infected by them."
Unless, of course there is a vulnerability in the networking part of the Linux kernel. It has happened before, but of course it is quite unlikely thing to happen - although I wouldn't say "never".
There are exceptions, like the governmental institutions, huge companies or laptops, but OEM windows is not nearly as common here as in the US. Most computer shops would even supply you with a copyright infringing windows xp pro corp. edition copy if you ask them to.
"I am just thinking that most Computer's are prebuilt by some vendor and have a legal pre-installed copy of windows on them."
Yeah, this is where Middle and Eastern Europe is a bit different. Generally people buy computers from small to middle size computer shops.
"Why are Goverment Desktops running windows anyway? Sure you need to provide civil servants with the tools to carry out their jobs, but unless it's necessary to run a particular windows only application surely linux is a more cost effective solution. Especially when the o/s is just there to launch a terminal session."
I can answer that question about Hungary's government. That's because currently the minister of informatics is a tool and doesn't even know (that's literally the situation!) what an operating system is, and furthermore because he accepts the yearly/bi-yearly guidance of Microsoft Hungary in renewing contracts."
On the other hand though F/OSS is alive and well in Hungary, We've got quite good Firefox and OO.org adoption rates compared to the already pretty well doing Europe and of course FSF.hu (Free Software Foundation) helps a lot in matters except in the government.
Yay! I'd actually be very happy about that decision. Anyone who uses windows for home mostly pirates it here, but the government would be forced to not buy the overpriced Windows any more (The government here also bought windows licenses for everyone in higher education - they could axe that too!).
What do you think makes it possible? The human brain responsible for high level social interaction and technological innovation is a major evolutional advantage. What does it say? Two things:
1. It is better to be in a society for higher survival chances.
2. Smart people have a better chance of survival collectively.
These remarks seem trivial, but these issues are complex if you look a bit closer.
They should have no problems with that, they just have to extend the NJ law to the UK and you're all set for a nice job with Google, or alternatively a handy work in the PI (Prison Industry) in Guantanamo bay.
Yes, your initial calculations assumed $20 / Gbyte of traffic. That is just unrealistic. By that measure even as a home user I'd be paying thousands of dollars a month.
I call bullshit on that. What do you mean until recently? Because Croatian didn't even exist as a independent country up until 1994, when the Croatians split from the former Yugoslavia.
I've been in Croatia around 10-15 times since then, just two years after the war the first time, and I had absolutely no problems.
Did I also mention that Croatia is a popular holiday destination in Europe? They'd be stupid to make travel hard!
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I'm not trying to troll, but if you do need a scripting language for more than a "Personal Home Page" then you're essentially better off using Perl, Python or Ruby.
(Just for the record, I'm telling this while having advanced knowledge in PHP, Perl and Python and intermediate in Ruby)
There are quite a lot of analysts saying that if the first world were to stop donating to Africa, the continent would sort itself out.
That's mainly because those familiar with the African situation know that in almost all cases the food and basic resource supplies only keep the local warlords in power and the population there barely alive. What Africa needs is not donations - they make the situation worse - but an own economy producing their own food and their own tools. Cut the donations and help Africa do that rather than keeping up the status quo.
(Btw, when talking about Africa I mean the poor and unstable countries of Africa, not countries like South Africa.)
"that you can hook up to a TV and keyboard and use as a computer."
Yeah, I see now. That would work perfectly well at places without electricity.
Anyone considered, that the slow of growth could be entirely the fault of the current administration in the US, the huge monopolies on the market coupled with lax regulations and prohibitively expensive costs for the home user?
/capita ratio is already higher in those countries, so saturation is _clearly_ not the problem in the USA. Of course those countries support or at least do not prohibit the growth of the Internet by silly laws and monopolies.
Sweden and Japan seems to have no problem in internet usage growth even though the
Unless you use a very basic package of software - you would get more than that by micro-optimizing any given software, you seem to imply that you need performance.
For most of the users performance change under 10% doesn't matter.
Easy. We just have to make processors subatomic. Problem solved.
I doubt it will happen soon though.
This is an important benchmark, aswell. So if we're capable of modelling a simple virus today with a supercomputer - in 10-20 years we'll be capable of modelling that virus on our home computer and by that time supercomputers will be able to modell simple one cell organisms probably.
Imagine the profit!!!!!444
But seriously, who doesn't think that the patent system is a joke?
This is stupid. The vulnerability is a local root "exploit". You're saying you're making a reinstall after one of them has been found just to make sure?
r nel-with-patches-written-by-yourself-on-top-of-grs ec-and-pax user.
I'm not using Ubuntu, btw. I'm a hardcore debian-living-on-the-edge-sid-compile-your-own-ke
"No matter how many worms and infected machines are out there, a default Ubuntu box will never be infected by them."
Unless, of course there is a vulnerability in the networking part of the Linux kernel. It has happened before, but of course it is quite unlikely thing to happen - although I wouldn't say "never".
"Is that actually True?"
There are exceptions, like the governmental institutions, huge companies or laptops, but OEM windows is not nearly as common here as in the US. Most computer shops would even supply you with a copyright infringing windows xp pro corp. edition copy if you ask them to.
"I am just thinking that most Computer's are prebuilt by some vendor and have a legal pre-installed copy of windows on them."
Yeah, this is where Middle and Eastern Europe is a bit different. Generally people buy computers from small to middle size computer shops.
"Why are Goverment Desktops running windows anyway? Sure you need to provide civil servants with the tools to carry out their jobs, but unless it's necessary to run a particular windows only application surely linux is a more cost effective solution. Especially when the o/s is just there to launch a terminal session."
I can answer that question about Hungary's government. That's because currently the minister of informatics is a tool and doesn't even know (that's literally the situation!) what an operating system is, and furthermore because he accepts the yearly/bi-yearly guidance of Microsoft Hungary in renewing contracts."
On the other hand though F/OSS is alive and well in Hungary, We've got quite good Firefox and OO.org adoption rates compared to the already pretty well doing Europe and of course FSF.hu (Free Software Foundation) helps a lot in matters except in the government.
"Stop selling products in Europe."
Yay! I'd actually be very happy about that decision. Anyone who uses windows for home mostly pirates it here, but the government would be forced to not buy the overpriced Windows any more (The government here also bought windows licenses for everyone in higher education - they could axe that too!).
Hurray for EU!
Only if you're Steve Ballmer.
Was sagst du? Ich könnt behören dich nicht!
Yeah well...
Researchers came up with a brand new solution to make styrofoam disappear!
The revolutionary new process is called 'burning', and it will get rid of styrofoam entirely!
Of course they figured out what to do with the gases, they convert them to styrofoam, so with this amazing idea, they get rid of both problems!
News at 11.
I completely agree, it is kind of funny to see video in wmv format for a linux event.
But there is video.
Or this one in case the first is overloaded.
(Groklaw article where I took the links from is here.)
What do you think makes it possible? The human brain responsible for high level social interaction and technological innovation is a major evolutional advantage. What does it say? Two things:
1. It is better to be in a society for higher survival chances.
2. Smart people have a better chance of survival collectively.
These remarks seem trivial, but these issues are complex if you look a bit closer.
Bah, that's nothing! The first rule of starting a programming project:
Get five tons of sand and then...
They should have no problems with that, they just have to extend the NJ law to the UK and you're all set for a nice job with Google, or alternatively a handy work in the PI (Prison Industry) in Guantanamo bay.
Yes, your initial calculations assumed $20 / Gbyte of traffic. That is just unrealistic. By that measure even as a home user I'd be paying thousands of dollars a month.
$20 for an extra GB of traffic? Those are insane rates...
That's still too much. I'd say by a factor of 1000 at least.
You seem to have mistakenly assumed Gbit/s instead of Mbit/s!
600Mbit/s is not a huge thing to have.
Croatia?
I call bullshit on that. What do you mean until recently? Because Croatian didn't even exist as a independent country up until 1994, when the Croatians split from the former Yugoslavia.
I've been in Croatia around 10-15 times since then, just two years after the war the first time, and I had absolutely no problems.
Did I also mention that Croatia is a popular holiday destination in Europe? They'd be stupid to make travel hard!