Microsoft Windows has an install base of 1.4 billions. I don't know what kind of twisted logic you're using to get to "billions of people" using Linux, you probably mean wifi router and mobile phones, but then the same kind of bullshit argument could be made about all those ATMs, billboards and airport terminals that run Windows (we've all seen the bluescreens over time square).
The real discussion here is about actual desktop computers and so far Linux hasn't made a dent in the market. Even with the popularity of ubuntu Linux currently has the same market share as Windows Vista. Less han 1.5%.
There's no reason why the availability of free food and/or clothing should limit the potential to grow other kinds of businesses. On the contrary,the less time you have to worry about food and clothing, the more time is available to explore other business ventures.
Why don't you provide more details about those "other business ventures"?
Just remember that this is a country where crime and corruption are rampant, where there is no reliable electrical grid, where access to clean water is a challenge, where there is no more trees and where there is a very poor network of roads and railways. And fuel is more expensive than in the USA, for people making on average $400 per year.
Of course thanks to helpful people like yourself it's no longer possible to make money there growing food, making clothes, repairing cars, building houses, manufacturing generators or making solar panels. Education and healthcare are also out. There's little or no resources to mine. And the weak financial system is flooded with small loans startups financed by foreigners.
What's left? Selling arts and craft on etsy? Creating wordpress themes? Opening sushi bars? Golf courses? Tattoo parlors?
> The thing that takes people out of poverties is proper legal and financial structures.
so, to combat poverty, we should be sending them lawyers and investment advisors... i guess they could eat them.
Here's an example of something that actually happened in Haiti.
For generations there was an informal justice system in rural areas where a local person of social standing would be the equivalent of a sheriff. They were called "section chief" or something similar. It wasn't perfect but it worked.
Then the NGOs took over in the 90s, discarded this "antiquated and non-democratic" system and replaced it with police stations affiliated with the national police (because that's how "civilized" law enforcement should be). The people staffing those stations are usually young men from urban areas with zero knowledge of the local culture and no appreciation of the rural lifestyle, and have alienated the population with endless scandals of corruption and brutality. Now the poor people have no protection against crime, instead they have to deal with corrupt cops.
Then there was the earthquake. Following that, boatloads of free stuff started to arrive in Haiti. Rice, flour, clothes, shoes. And not just the basic stuff. Also car parts, machine tools, generators, solar panels, plumbing hardware. This drove countless Haitian companies, big and small, out of business. Guess what: those people are now penniless and hungry.
The result is that since the NGOs have been involved in Haiti there's been a constant increase in poverty, crime, corruption and violence. But yeah, keep sending your grain and your used clothes and your advisors to "fight hunger". It won't actually help, it will make things worse, but *you* will feel better, that's what matters.
When I first saw the headline I thought, oh they figured out you just have to spot the train tracks in any US cities and what's north of those is the poor area. That or using Google maps to overlay a chicken & waffle restaurants heatmap to spot the low income areas.
Spend money on satellites to stare at poor people instead of giving them food.
Giving food to poor people in developing countries doesn't help fight poverty. Usually it makes things worse because growing and selling food is one of the few businesses that are possible for entrepreneurs in those areas, and they can't compete with the free food delivered by charities and NGOs and aid programs. Same for clothes.
The thing that takes people out of poverties is proper legal and financial structures. The day you find out how to achieve that (and not just replacing dysfunctional structures with corrupt ones) please email Bono and let him know.
So yes, in the meantime, studying poverty is the best alternative. It doesn't feed people but it doesn't fuck with their meager business opportunities either.
I guess then they're guilty for the Death of PC, since they own 90% of that market. This is a true genocide. 1.4 billion computers dead because of Microsoft.
There was a time were mentioning problems with AMD processors on Slashdot would have been as dangerous as wearing blue in a red part of the hood in Los Angeles.
people didn't just show up here with out going through a legal process.
The natives who were here before the English might quibble with "legal."
Can you define what you mean by "natives"?
Of course it's a very convenient way to bundle many different people in a same category and paint them as innocent victims of the evil white invaders, although various tribes (with different languages and customs) had been invading and slaughtering each other for generations before. That's like saying that Germans and French and Brits are all "Europeans" as if they hadn't massacred each other since the dark ages.
White bashing is not courageous, it's not self-righteousness, it's just lame.
So the Australian government opted to host this thing on their own servers
Where did you get that from?
You must be new here. On Slashdot, you don't need to be right, you just have to sound right to get mod points.
I see you went for the other strategy, which is to accuse other people of making stuff up because you are yourself too lazy to even read TFA.
You must be new here. On Slashdot we don't read TFA before posting;-)
Yeah I usually do that but this time I wanted to see if it was another debacle caused by low-cost offshore rent-a-sysadmins. Turns out it's not, it was caused by expensive IBM rent-a-suits and/or somewhat expensive local civil servants.
So the Australian government opted to host this thing on their own servers
Where did you get that from? Everything else I've read disagrees with that and says that IBM was hosting the VMs for the ABS.
That "everything else" can't be much because this comes from one of the linked articles in the summary.
The clarification here is that many people have been saying IBM was hosting the e-Census website. According to our source, this is not strictly correct. IBM provided a content distribution network (CDN), running on SoftLayer, for static content such as fixed text and images. This is similar to the services Akamai provides with clustered nodes distributed across the world.
But the actual e-Census application, which operates dynamically is not hosted by IBM. Our source suspects the application is being hosted on ABS' own systems.
The part that was hosted by IBM (static files, etc) is the only part that didn't go down in flames. Why did they host only the static files? Because they didn't have the Australian-specific certification for cloud computing. So the Australian government opted to host this thing on their own servers. A piece of shit solution, but a certified one.
who cares about mansions? They can keep the mansions.
the real story here is, why did he own two 108 inch TV and three 82 inch TV? That's like having a harem made of two top models and three merely pretty women. What's the rationale? Did he start with the smaller ones and decided to upgrade later, rotating them between living room and bedroom? Or did he have the 102 inch for himself and installed the 82 inch in guest rooms?
thhey never give the important details in those articles.
GM is a terrible company. Bad management, bad engineering, bad everything. They staff their R&D department with lifers who spend more time complaining about not getting a clause in the collective bargaining deal about toilet paper quality or ratio of decaf pots in the cafeteria than they spend thinking about the future of transportation. And somehow being acquired by that gigantic cancer would have helped Lyft gain market share over Uber?
Only outcome would have been to force Lyft to use shitty GM cars.
If you think travelgate, whitewater and Vince Foster turned out to be nothing, then congratulations, you bought into the liberal media narrative.
As for Benghazi, let's not forget that the Obama team themselves threw Clinton under the bus, the scandal didn't come fromthe other side. Of course once again you're having a liberal bias so you only see the evil republicans.
The NYT sleeper cell woke up, that's what happened. After almost ten years of watering down Obama scandals and witholding evidence of criminal misconduct, they were anxious to get back in offensive mode, like a platoon of green berets who got bored of doing UN blanket distribution duty.
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This is a story about KDE. I would assume it obvious that this is about linux on the desktop.
Microsoft Windows has an install base of 1.4 billions. I don't know what kind of twisted logic you're using to get to "billions of people" using Linux, you probably mean wifi router and mobile phones, but then the same kind of bullshit argument could be made about all those ATMs, billboards and airport terminals that run Windows (we've all seen the bluescreens over time square).
The real discussion here is about actual desktop computers and so far Linux hasn't made a dent in the market. Even with the popularity of ubuntu Linux currently has the same market share as Windows Vista. Less han 1.5%.
What about in areas where the tracks run north south?
Which ever side is closest to the Mississippi. If you think I'm making this up look at a map of largest US cities.
There's no reason why the availability of free food and/or clothing should limit the potential to grow other kinds of businesses. On the contrary,the less time you have to worry about food and clothing, the more time is available to explore other business ventures.
Why don't you provide more details about those "other business ventures"?
Just remember that this is a country where crime and corruption are rampant, where there is no reliable electrical grid, where access to clean water is a challenge, where there is no more trees and where there is a very poor network of roads and railways. And fuel is more expensive than in the USA, for people making on average $400 per year.
Of course thanks to helpful people like yourself it's no longer possible to make money there growing food, making clothes, repairing cars, building houses, manufacturing generators or making solar panels. Education and healthcare are also out. There's little or no resources to mine. And the weak financial system is flooded with small loans startups financed by foreigners.
What's left? Selling arts and craft on etsy? Creating wordpress themes? Opening sushi bars? Golf courses? Tattoo parlors?
Please elaborate.
> The thing that takes people out of poverties is proper legal and financial structures.
so, to combat poverty, we should be sending them lawyers and investment advisors. .. i guess they could eat them.
Here's an example of something that actually happened in Haiti.
For generations there was an informal justice system in rural areas where a local person of social standing would be the equivalent of a sheriff. They were called "section chief" or something similar. It wasn't perfect but it worked.
Then the NGOs took over in the 90s, discarded this "antiquated and non-democratic" system and replaced it with police stations affiliated with the national police (because that's how "civilized" law enforcement should be). The people staffing those stations are usually young men from urban areas with zero knowledge of the local culture and no appreciation of the rural lifestyle, and have alienated the population with endless scandals of corruption and brutality. Now the poor people have no protection against crime, instead they have to deal with corrupt cops.
Then there was the earthquake. Following that, boatloads of free stuff started to arrive in Haiti. Rice, flour, clothes, shoes. And not just the basic stuff. Also car parts, machine tools, generators, solar panels, plumbing hardware. This drove countless Haitian companies, big and small, out of business. Guess what: those people are now penniless and hungry.
The result is that since the NGOs have been involved in Haiti there's been a constant increase in poverty, crime, corruption and violence. But yeah, keep sending your grain and your used clothes and your advisors to "fight hunger". It won't actually help, it will make things worse, but *you* will feel better, that's what matters.
When I first saw the headline I thought, oh they figured out you just have to spot the train tracks in any US cities and what's north of those is the poor area. That or using Google maps to overlay a chicken & waffle restaurants heatmap to spot the low income areas.
Now THAT would have been a sjw field day.
The irony in calling someone stupid and saying nothing else
Did you go to school with Alanis Morissette?
Spend money on satellites to stare at poor people instead of giving them food.
Giving food to poor people in developing countries doesn't help fight poverty. Usually it makes things worse because growing and selling food is one of the few businesses that are possible for entrepreneurs in those areas, and they can't compete with the free food delivered by charities and NGOs and aid programs. Same for clothes.
The thing that takes people out of poverties is proper legal and financial structures. The day you find out how to achieve that (and not just replacing dysfunctional structures with corrupt ones) please email Bono and let him know.
So yes, in the meantime, studying poverty is the best alternative. It doesn't feed people but it doesn't fuck with their meager business opportunities either.
I guess then they're guilty for the Death of PC, since they own 90% of that market. This is a true genocide. 1.4 billion computers dead because of Microsoft.
There was a time were mentioning problems with AMD processors on Slashdot would have been as dangerous as wearing blue in a red part of the hood in Los Angeles.
people didn't just show up here with out going through a legal process.
The natives who were here before the English might quibble with "legal."
Can you define what you mean by "natives"?
Of course it's a very convenient way to bundle many different people in a same category and paint them as innocent victims of the evil white invaders, although various tribes (with different languages and customs) had been invading and slaughtering each other for generations before. That's like saying that Germans and French and Brits are all "Europeans" as if they hadn't massacred each other since the dark ages.
White bashing is not courageous, it's not self-righteousness, it's just lame.
Barbra Streisand's lawyer called, he said you can't steal her effect
A study conducted on Slashdot indicates that the lack of punctuation makes it more difficult to understand what a headline means
Where did you get that from?
You must be new here. On Slashdot, you don't need to be right, you just have to sound right to get mod points.
I see you went for the other strategy, which is to accuse other people of making stuff up because you are yourself too lazy to even read TFA.
You must be new here. On Slashdot we don't read TFA before posting ;-)
Yeah I usually do that but this time I wanted to see if it was another debacle caused by low-cost offshore rent-a-sysadmins. Turns out it's not, it was caused by expensive IBM rent-a-suits and/or somewhat expensive local civil servants.
Where did you get that from?
You must be new here. On Slashdot, you don't need to be right, you just have to sound right to get mod points.
I see you went for the other strategy, which is to accuse other people of making stuff up because you are yourself too lazy to even read TFA.
Where did you get that from?
Everything else I've read disagrees with that and says that IBM was hosting the VMs for the ABS.
That "everything else" can't be much because this comes from one of the linked articles in the summary.
The clarification here is that many people have been saying IBM was hosting the e-Census website. According to our source, this is not strictly correct. IBM provided a content distribution network (CDN), running on SoftLayer, for static content such as fixed text and images. This is similar to the services Akamai provides with clustered nodes distributed across the world.
But the actual e-Census application, which operates dynamically is not hosted by IBM. Our source suspects the application is being hosted on ABS' own systems.
http://www.cso.com.au/article/...
The part that was hosted by IBM (static files, etc) is the only part that didn't go down in flames. Why did they host only the static files? Because they didn't have the Australian-specific certification for cloud computing. So the Australian government opted to host this thing on their own servers. A piece of shit solution, but a certified one.
Fucking cunt probably had it coming.
You SJW are exhausting. The second a woman is involved in a story, she has to get all the credit.
Maybe you shoulded haved payed more attention to the thread,
various physical goods including a mansion!
who cares about mansions? They can keep the mansions.
the real story here is, why did he own two 108 inch TV and three 82 inch TV? That's like having a harem made of two top models and three merely pretty women. What's the rationale? Did he start with the smaller ones and decided to upgrade later, rotating them between living room and bedroom? Or did he have the 102 inch for himself and installed the 82 inch in guest rooms?
thhey never give the important details in those articles.
GM is a terrible company. Bad management, bad engineering, bad everything. They staff their R&D department with lifers who spend more time complaining about not getting a clause in the collective bargaining deal about toilet paper quality or ratio of decaf pots in the cafeteria than they spend thinking about the future of transportation. And somehow being acquired by that gigantic cancer would have helped Lyft gain market share over Uber?
Only outcome would have been to force Lyft to use shitty GM cars.
Fools! Lyft can't be buyed so easily.
If you think travelgate, whitewater and Vince Foster turned out to be nothing, then congratulations, you bought into the liberal media narrative.
As for Benghazi, let's not forget that the Obama team themselves threw Clinton under the bus, the scandal didn't come fromthe other side. Of course once again you're having a liberal bias so you only see the evil republicans.
The NYT sleeper cell woke up, that's what happened. After almost ten years of watering down Obama scandals and witholding evidence of criminal misconduct, they were anxious to get back in offensive mode, like a platoon of green berets who got bored of doing UN blanket distribution duty.
You need the decoder ring to read the real message.