As a big Trump supporter, I find this story to be amusing, This act was certainly closer to a Halloween prank than to an assault on national security. I think that Mr Trump would also see the humor - although now that we have all had our laughs, I think Twitter needs to make sure it doesn't happen again.
The tablets are an endevaour by the Indian Government to reach out to the farmers as a means of communication to advise them about crops and similar kind of work.
I don't understand how the farmers are going to receive this information since bandwidth is limited and expensive in India. I am working near the city of Vadodara in Gujarat. Where I stay at a 5 star hotel, the Internet costs $12 per day and sometimes the bandwidth sinks so low it is unusable. My iPhone 4 works great with 3G in the city, but just outside the city where I work, there is only EDGE connection and even if the connection is strong, the available Internet bandwidth is almost nonexistant. Is there 3G capability in this cheap tablet? Where are these farmers getting the wifi connection?
Then how do they pay for the bandwidth if they can get it? The daily headline here is that people in the villages don't make enough money to eat.
These limits are only on XP based netbooks whereas the Linux netbooks can be much more powerful if the manufacturer wishes it.
The question in my mind is why Dell chose not to offer the more powerful hardware options for Linux. They offer the same limited hardware even if you order ubuntu installed. Perhaps they just want to keep their inventory simplified, but I suspect if it Microsoft hegemony.
My experience with the iPhone (3G) in Japan was that browsing Internet, using maps, weather, etc. really sucks up bandwidth, but I was able to get email within the reasonable budget that I had purchased. You can check your usage in the Settings under General. That way you don't get surprises.
They realized that Ross Perot got 90% of his support after the debates, so they created a system to prevent any other parties from being able to join by raising the bar high enough.
This fact does not contradict the thesis that presidential debates are controlled. Ross Perot was pushed heavily by the liberal media to make sure that there candidate won when the Republic would have won otherwise.
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As a big Trump supporter, I find this story to be amusing, This act was certainly closer to a Halloween prank than to an assault on national security. I think that Mr Trump would also see the humor - although now that we have all had our laughs, I think Twitter needs to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Even though I am a member of the Republican base and I disagree with you remark, I have to give you kudos for a clever turn of words.
The tablets are an endevaour by the Indian Government to reach out to the farmers as a means of communication to advise them about crops and similar kind of work.
I don't understand how the farmers are going to receive this information since bandwidth is limited and expensive in India. I am working near the city of Vadodara in Gujarat. Where I stay at a 5 star hotel, the Internet costs $12 per day and sometimes the bandwidth sinks so low it is unusable. My iPhone 4 works great with 3G in the city, but just outside the city where I work, there is only EDGE connection and even if the connection is strong, the available Internet bandwidth is almost nonexistant. Is there 3G capability in this cheap tablet? Where are these farmers getting the wifi connection? Then how do they pay for the bandwidth if they can get it? The daily headline here is that people in the villages don't make enough money to eat.
These limits are only on XP based netbooks whereas the Linux netbooks can be much more powerful if the manufacturer wishes it.
The question in my mind is why Dell chose not to offer the more powerful hardware options for Linux. They offer the same limited hardware even if you order ubuntu installed. Perhaps they just want to keep their inventory simplified, but I suspect if it Microsoft hegemony.
My 9" Dell Mini with ubuntu is very nice. I also took the option for 2 GB RAM. Dell no longer offers that option.
My experience with the iPhone (3G) in Japan was that browsing Internet, using maps, weather, etc. really sucks up bandwidth, but I was able to get email within the reasonable budget that I had purchased. You can check your usage in the Settings under General. That way you don't get surprises.
They realized that Ross Perot got 90% of his support after the debates, so they created a system to prevent any other parties from being able to join by raising the bar high enough.
This fact does not contradict the thesis that presidential debates are controlled. Ross Perot was pushed heavily by the liberal media to make sure that there candidate won when the Republic would have won otherwise.