The operating system will come with linux installed. Why would you want to take linux off a working system and put an inferior operating system on it? That does not make sense. You get more power and functionality out of linux then you do windows, and is not the idea behind this to educate people anyway?
I'm a visualy disabled OSS developer and linux consultant for hire. If your looking for information, its always best to check the lists around the tools we use, like tuxtalk, emacspeak, or blinux.
The main problem many of us have is the cost for the special hardware voice synth stuff. If you really want to make your stuff easier to use, work on software support and improve/create kernel leval/dev/speech output. The entire operating system should support this, but nobody is interested except the people who need it.
To the ignorant: The reason the parent post is funny is because nethack generates its content randomly each play, so its impossible to map out something that is usable by more then the current player. It is also one of the many things that give it its replay value.
To the un-initiated: The parent post is talking about a town central to the story line of the American version of Final Fantasy 3 for the super nintendo. Its called a different numbered version in the Jap. Version..
To the people who do not get it:
The parent post is funny because his profile says he is a thirty year old male.. and he just admitted to dressing up as Dorthy, a young girl.
I use them as well, and I have to say they there customer support is very good as well, they dont treat you like a number and they generaly seem to respect the fact that you choise them to do buisness with.
I get all my music from them in CD Quality lame encoded MP3, no Digital Ristriction Managment. I just wish they had more music in french that had english versions as well, and audio books.:/
He couldn't be more wrong. If people don't like the rewrite, they won't use it.
Wrong. IANAL, but many OSS projects use the "version 2 or greater" clause when making there projects GPL. This could *force* upgrades and use of the GPL to version 3.0, by simply releasing it... After all, people already agreed.
Sometimes its not about where we "want" to work, its about the fact that we have families to take care of and bills to pay, and just happen to know a hell of a lot more then the people overseas who have been doing it for 10 years less and only working for 2 months in a call center, yet call themselves "professionals". Its sickening. You would think american companies would rather have competent people who can do more for there business working for them and not badly educated and incompetent people who put there core business at risk every time somebody who calls for tech support cant understand there accent, hangs up, and then never buys from that company or its service provider again.
I am also worried about is the idea that america jobs are no longer American jobs. Companies who started here, got big here, and where founded by Americans who should respect there country do not, so they commit treason and outsource thereby affecting the american economy negatively and attacking the core of america in the process. Do you know that legally all it takes to get a CEO of one of these companies - any anybody actually - sent to jail and possibly killed (Capital punishment) for treason is "the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act or a confession in open court for conviction" as per the constitution? I wish I had a list of every big name who outsource to India and takes american jobs away from Americans who need them, because I would use it.
So based on the above way of looking at constitutional law and economics, Out sourcing is treason in my humble opinion, and the reason the economy is so bad right now. More jobs in america equals more money in taxes and more money for public works and a better country for us all. The system may not work perfectly, but at least if you have a job you can pay your rent and take care of your dependants.
2) Raising the prices of software engineers (shit, and now I make more money).
So your telling me the reason its so hard to get a decent job - and the reason I have to do 'consulting' to pay my rent - is not because everybody is illegally outsourcing to India in direct conflict with the legal definition of treason as per the US Constitution and weakening the american economy, but instead because they expect to pay me more when I would be perfectly happy with a job that paid the bills doing what I love?
Your welcome for asterisk. I can't take all the credit of course but if your running it on sun ultrasparc hardware, Drop me a line as I did the work to port it.
My soon to be wife has lived for years in Africa as a exchange student through her church - West africa, not the tourist spots that get cleaned up to look better so they attrract more tourist money - so I know a little something about this.
Water is a rare resource there. If you get bitten by a bug for example, you wipe the bloody sore on the wall to scratch it because if you use your water for the day on it, you dont drink.
A person can live - barely - on about 2 bucks american a day for food and basic needs - and no that does not include toothbrushes or soap as they are luxuries - in Africa if they have a home; Unfortunately most dont even have 50 cents american per day.
It is a fact that electricity is only available in the larger cities if at all, and without electricity you are not going to be able to boot a computer much less use any software on it open source or not. The African people are cunning in the way that they can usually do what it takes to survive - survival of the fittest being a cruel but true thing in the extreme land and political environment and all the civil wars they have gone through - but they can not use electronics without electricity.
But they do know how to use the tools when they are available. The biggest thing over there - and the one thing every African knows how to use - is the windows based computers at the internet cafes in the larger cities. People walk days just to use them. Saying that they do not have the knowledge to use computers is not only an insult to them and a racist comment in itself, but completely goes against the standing facts that keep Spam filters against Nigerian - yes Nigeria is in Africa - Spam from hitting your inbox.
My fiance has personaly known some of these africans and talked to them, and do you really think that nigerians would be sending you spam and trying to get money from you if they where not so damn poor with no other option? Sure once it works it may just be greed that keeps them going, but in such a sorry state of existance and in such a poor country if it works and keeps them fed and clothed, what else are they going to do to survive? I am not saying spam is good - its bad and the people who send it have very low to non-existant ethics - but what other choice do some of these people have thanks to companies like microsoft not even wanting to try to help africa be developed enough to be self supporting?
Microsoft is just splitting hairs and insulting people, as well as lying through there fscking teeth. They have the power to make not only Africa as a developing natuion but the entire world a better place, and they will not do it because they are too damn greedy to think of anybody else but there own profit margins. The funny thing is they say they are against spam, so you would think they would want to help develop africa - and nigeria - enough to allow the spammers alone to have other options. That in itself would make the world a better place.
So what happens if they screw up and the computers are working fine? Do they do what kiddie gamers do once they get fragged and blame the 'Damn Lag' for there own incompetence or mal-practice?
"its not our fault you no longer have a arm, its the computers and the insurance wont pay you either as you knew the risks. There is nothing else we can do for you now, but I assure you lobotomies are coming back in fashion."
THe funny thing is the person probly used the recent flaws found a la Black Hat Conf to sniff for the needed data to get that data.
Not expliotable? Heh.
A layer of paint will not hold up the foundation of that house any more then a layer of paint would hold up the second floor all by itself. It does not mater how good or ugly it looks, if the code for IE7 is still crap it will still suck and be slow like IE6.
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But that would prove in most peoples eyes that ActiveX was a failure, and Microsoft would never admit to something that could hurt there bottom line.
Please list them, and while your at it please prove that he is not biased as they claim.
Strangly, I think I may have met both his wife *and* his collage-coed sister. But hey, thats the internet.
;)
The operating system will come with linux installed. Why would you want to take linux off a working system and put an inferior operating system on it? That does not make sense. You get more power and functionality out of linux then you do windows, and is not the idea behind this to educate people anyway?
I'm a visualy disabled OSS developer and linux consultant for hire. If your looking for information, its always best to check the lists around the tools we use, like tuxtalk, emacspeak, or blinux.
http://leb.net/blinux/e /all/msg00106.html
http://leb.net/blinux/blinux-develop.html
http://leb.net/blinux/list-archive/blinux-announc
The main problem many of us have is the cost for the special hardware voice synth stuff. If you really want to make your stuff easier to use, work on software support and improve/create kernel leval /dev/speech output. The entire operating system should support this, but nobody is interested except the people who need it.
To the ignorant: The reason the parent post is funny is because nethack generates its content randomly each play, so its impossible to map out something that is usable by more then the current player. It is also one of the many things that give it its replay value.
To the un-initiated: The parent post is talking about a town central to the story line of the American version of Final Fantasy 3 for the super nintendo. Its called a different numbered version in the Jap. Version..
To the people who do not get it: The parent post is funny because his profile says he is a thirty year old male.. and he just admitted to dressing up as Dorthy, a young girl.
I use them as well, and I have to say they there customer support is very good as well, they dont treat you like a number and they generaly seem to respect the fact that you choise them to do buisness with.
I get all my music from them in CD Quality lame encoded MP3, no Digital Ristriction Managment. I just wish they had more music in french that had english versions as well, and audio books. :/
Wrong. IANAL, but many OSS projects use the "version 2 or greater" clause when making there projects GPL. This could *force* upgrades and use of the GPL to version 3.0, by simply releasing it... After all, people already agreed.
Sometimes its not about where we "want" to work, its about the fact that we have families to take care of and bills to pay, and just happen to know a hell of a lot more then the people overseas who have been doing it for 10 years less and only working for 2 months in a call center, yet call themselves "professionals". Its sickening. You would think american companies would rather have competent people who can do more for there business working for them and not badly educated and incompetent people who put there core business at risk every time somebody who calls for tech support cant understand there accent, hangs up, and then never buys from that company or its service provider again.
I am also worried about is the idea that america jobs are no longer American jobs. Companies who started here, got big here, and where founded by Americans who should respect there country do not, so they commit treason and outsource thereby affecting the american economy negatively and attacking the core of america in the process. Do you know that legally all it takes to get a CEO of one of these companies - any anybody actually - sent to jail and possibly killed (Capital punishment) for treason is "the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act or a confession in open court for conviction" as per the constitution? I wish I had a list of every big name who outsource to India and takes american jobs away from Americans who need them, because I would use it.
So based on the above way of looking at constitutional law and economics, Out sourcing is treason in my humble opinion, and the reason the economy is so bad right now. More jobs in america equals more money in taxes and more money for public works and a better country for us all. The system may not work perfectly, but at least if you have a job you can pay your rent and take care of your dependants.
2) Raising the prices of software engineers (shit, and now I make more money).
So your telling me the reason its so hard to get a decent job - and the reason I have to do 'consulting' to pay my rent - is not because everybody is illegally outsourcing to India in direct conflict with the legal definition of treason as per the US Constitution and weakening the american economy, but instead because they expect to pay me more when I would be perfectly happy with a job that paid the bills doing what I love?
Is not that the same thing?
Your welcome for asterisk. I can't take all the credit of course but if your running it on sun ultrasparc hardware, Drop me a line as I did the work to port it.
I just wish somebody with the funds had the brass ones to actualy do that; But the ones with the money will always protect that.
So as usual, take main stream press accounts of science stuff with a very big grain of salt!
I prefer sodium chloride coalesced into a crystalline matrix.
My soon to be wife has lived for years in Africa as a exchange student through her church - West africa, not the tourist spots that get cleaned up to look better so they attrract more tourist money - so I know a little something about this.
Water is a rare resource there. If you get bitten by a bug for example, you wipe the bloody sore on the wall to scratch it because if you use your water for the day on it, you dont drink.
A person can live - barely - on about 2 bucks american a day for food and basic needs - and no that does not include toothbrushes or soap as they are luxuries - in Africa if they have a home; Unfortunately most dont even have 50 cents american per day.
It is a fact that electricity is only available in the larger cities if at all, and without electricity you are not going to be able to boot a computer much less use any software on it open source or not. The African people are cunning in the way that they can usually do what it takes to survive - survival of the fittest being a cruel but true thing in the extreme land and political environment and all the civil wars they have gone through - but they can not use electronics without electricity.
But they do know how to use the tools when they are available. The biggest thing over there - and the one thing every African knows how to use - is the windows based computers at the internet cafes in the larger cities. People walk days just to use them. Saying that they do not have the knowledge to use computers is not only an insult to them and a racist comment in itself, but completely goes against the standing facts that keep Spam filters against Nigerian - yes Nigeria is in Africa - Spam from hitting your inbox.
My fiance has personaly known some of these africans and talked to them, and do you really think that nigerians would be sending you spam and trying to get money from you if they where not so damn poor with no other option? Sure once it works it may just be greed that keeps them going, but in such a sorry state of existance and in such a poor country if it works and keeps them fed and clothed, what else are they going to do to survive? I am not saying spam is good - its bad and the people who send it have very low to non-existant ethics - but what other choice do some of these people have thanks to companies like microsoft not even wanting to try to help africa be developed enough to be self supporting?
Microsoft is just splitting hairs and insulting people, as well as lying through there fscking teeth. They have the power to make not only Africa as a developing natuion but the entire world a better place, and they will not do it because they are too damn greedy to think of anybody else but there own profit margins. The funny thing is they say they are against spam, so you would think they would want to help develop africa - and nigeria - enough to allow the spammers alone to have other options. That in itself would make the world a better place.
*waits on the steps of the temple until somebody notices him* That has to be the most informitive post I have read all day. How can I learn more?
First post!
What about linux compatability? Mplayer will often play files just fine with the right plugins.. at least on gentoo.
I'm a J2EE developer, actually. Many like myself would say that java doesnt count :P
So what happens if they screw up and the computers are working fine? Do they do what kiddie gamers do once they get fragged and blame the 'Damn Lag' for there own incompetence or mal-practice?
"its not our fault you no longer have a arm, its the computers and the insurance wont pay you either as you knew the risks. There is nothing else we can do for you now, but I assure you lobotomies are coming back in fashion."
Sex before code? Sex at all? ;)
Despite your userid I am forced to assume that you must be new here
THe funny thing is the person probly used the recent flaws found a la Black Hat Conf to sniff for the needed data to get that data. Not expliotable? Heh.
A layer of paint will not hold up the foundation of that house any more then a layer of paint would hold up the second floor all by itself. It does not mater how good or ugly it looks, if the code for IE7 is still crap it will still suck and be slow like IE6.
And hospitals and parks as well.