that's why sharia law, for example, is wrong: chopping someone's hand off for stealing, or chopping someone's head off for prostitution, is not civilization
Please don't amalgamate what the most extremist whackos do with what Shari'a law is in essence. It's been awfully misinterpreted.
I agree with your point though. I'm just not comfortable with you calling it Shari'a (the linguistic root of which is "legitimacy") when it's nothing more than a way dictators control the masses.
It's like firefox. It's a great alternative that only computer literate people will every try, and that most businesses will ignore because it doesn't matter for them.
Nonsense. I installed Firefox on dozens of computers for family and friends who are far from computer literacy. They use it exclusively now and thanked me for introducing them to it.
The guy in charge there received a triumphal welcome at AIPAC 2007 (the 2nd/3rd most powerful lobby in Washington) and is actually supported by the guy who came really close at becoming VP in 2000.
Wow! How does such crap get modded +5? The Wiki isn't just about maths. It includes a variety of political articles, and anyone remotely familiar with them knows that the English Wiki is biased (if not downright propaganda) on several articles. The most notorious being articles dealing with Israel whose wording is evidently pro-Zionist.
I got repeatedly threatened by the guy and called an apologist for trying to wanting to include Tehran official response to the mistranslation of the infamous "wipe off the map" Ahmadinejad speech. They wanted to block my account for adding the conciliatory words of the Ayatollah (the guys who actually has a say on Iran's foreign policy) in the article.
Nonsense. The main problems Linux have are the lack of commercial software support and hardware drivers. If Ubuntu takes off (scratch that, it already did) it'll fix both problems and that's obviously not something distro-specific. Then you're forgetting about the GPL. Last but not least, Ubuntu is Debian based and there's no way the GNU zealot over at Debian (I mean that as a compliment) will ever bend to the will of a corp. EVER!
I trust Mark. The guy transpires good faith. He's wasn't solely after money like Gates. He was the man with the vision (how long till we have nerd-cults dedicated to him?).
A 200$ 7" 2Gb gadget is no match for the 150$ full-blown Medison celebrity machine. I also hear it comes with a spam-proof email client. Or was it scam-proof? I forget...
Absolutely. I thought it went without saying. But in times when lots of people are buying the whole "spread democracy" line, it doesn't hurt to spell it out.
Truly enough, the traditional monopolies of the telecom companies are what's keeping the prices high up. To talk about the case I know best, the Moroccan telecom company IAM (Maroc Telecom) abuses its monopoly in so many ways that citing them would require a whole article. The people benefiting from that are, of course, the political and business elite. It wouldn't surprise me that the government is purposely keeping the masses off the Web to keep them blindfolded. Aware citizens would certainly demand change from the dictatorial regimes Africa's infested with.
Yes yes, I know, the tobacco industry is evil and has a history of funding shady science, but I still feel that the scorn being shown on/. is disproportionate.
FIC is actually behind the new 7" UMPC that VIA sells under the name Nanobook. Packard Bell is launching their own version in a while. Neat machines if you ask me, but for the price I'd rather have a couple of Asus EEEs.
Hard to tell from the press release which mass market (GTA02) model (if either) is really close to feature parity with the iPhone, but if you compare the two top end models, the price is the same.
Nonesense. The Neo Advanced is not a top end model. It's the exact same unit that come in a nicer package and with all kinds of gadgets for the hacker in you. You can't possibly call the inclusion of debugboards and other JTAG cables as making a "top end model". It makes no sense.
If you really wanna compare the Neo Advanced with the iPhone, you'll have to include the many billions of dollars you'll have to give Apple so that they give you some of the iPhone's IPs.
Oh, and did I mention the Neo's got built-in GPS? Imagine a world where the freaking phones switch into silent mode when you enter a theater.
Maybe now they can fix that stupid Python 2.5 dependency that prevents its installation on Feisty? And maybe add some shortcuts to the video player. For God's sake, how hard can it be? Other than that, it's an astonishing product.
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Let me guess...you're an emacs guy.
The giant black bezel you're talking about are actually speakers.
Real mean use Lilo. Oh, wait...nevermind.
While a caricaturization, there is some truth to the EncyclopiaDramatica article that follows (Note that SlimVirgin as part of the cabal)
I got repeatedly threatened by the guy and called an apologist for trying to wanting to include Tehran official response to the mistranslation of the infamous "wipe off the map" Ahmadinejad speech. They wanted to block my account for adding the conciliatory words of the Ayatollah (the guys who actually has a say on Iran's foreign policy) in the article.
Nonsense. The main problems Linux have are the lack of commercial software support and hardware drivers. If Ubuntu takes off (scratch that, it already did) it'll fix both problems and that's obviously not something distro-specific. Then you're forgetting about the GPL. Last but not least, Ubuntu is Debian based and there's no way the GNU zealot over at Debian (I mean that as a compliment) will ever bend to the will of a corp. EVER!
I trust Mark. The guy transpires good faith. He's wasn't solely after money like Gates. He was the man with the vision (how long till we have nerd-cults dedicated to him?).
A 200$ 7" 2Gb gadget is no match for the 150$ full-blown Medison celebrity machine. I also hear it comes with a spam-proof email client. Or was it scam-proof? I forget...
I'll take the Neo and OpenMoko over a carrier-locked-2-year-contract-proprietary phone on which running "Hello world" gets to be news.
It's about info wanting to be free, you nimrod. Had Skype released the code, they wouldn't have been sued in the first place.
Absolutely. I thought it went without saying. But in times when lots of people are buying the whole "spread democracy" line, it doesn't hurt to spell it out.
Truly enough, the traditional monopolies of the telecom companies are what's keeping the prices high up. To talk about the case I know best, the Moroccan telecom company IAM (Maroc Telecom) abuses its monopoly in so many ways that citing them would require a whole article. The people benefiting from that are, of course, the political and business elite. It wouldn't surprise me that the government is purposely keeping the masses off the Web to keep them blindfolded. Aware citizens would certainly demand change from the dictatorial regimes Africa's infested with.
I called them earlier this week to schedule a visit. They're booked until January 2008!
FIC is actually behind the new 7" UMPC that VIA sells under the name Nanobook. Packard Bell is launching their own version in a while. Neat machines if you ask me, but for the price I'd rather have a couple of Asus EEEs.
If you really wanna compare the Neo Advanced with the iPhone, you'll have to include the many billions of dollars you'll have to give Apple so that they give you some of the iPhone's IPs.
Oh, and did I mention the Neo's got built-in GPS? Imagine a world where the freaking phones switch into silent mode when you enter a theater.
Maybe now they can fix that stupid Python 2.5 dependency that prevents its installation on Feisty? And maybe add some shortcuts to the video player. For God's sake, how hard can it be? Other than that, it's an astonishing product.
You must have "tech savvy" confused with "using IE on Windows".