I'm sure the most important thing, the thing the have-nots are starving for more than food or water or education or job skills, is windows that maximize with really cool effects.
Macs will also cost at least 5 times as much.
Would you like to donate the remainder?
See, why can't we work on the real basics and the education. Instead of giving them food and water, which, I mean, you know what poor people do with food and water. It doesn't last long. However, these laptops will, at least if used correctly, make the third world countries have a chance in some world markets they didn't have access too before.
If you really care about the basics, donate to a charity to send the hungry food and water. I shall do so too. However, giving them education is just as noble, because although it is not immediate, it is longlasting.
Also, they should sell these laptops at $200 to the first and second world countries. They can be used as a web enabled laptop and secondary computer. Then, for every one they sell, they can give one to the third world countries gratis.
I think a score of 1 is really much less than this deserves.
bberens brings up a point. I am going to draw a little on my knowlege of Jewish thought, because, well, I can. Maimonides said that the highest level of Tzedakah (charity) is when one helps someone to become self-sufficient.
It all hearkens back to the story of the beggar asking the two fisherman brothers for fish. One brother was about to give him a few fish from their plentiful catch. The other brother told the beggar they had no fish to spare, but could teach him how to fish. After all, if he had one fish, he could eat for a day, if he knew how, he could eat for a lifetime.
So, we should make 3rd world countries self-sufficient.
This does not mean we cannot send them food and water and medicine and aid. To do so is not bad, and would save more people in the short term.
This just means we have to make sure they can build the infrastructure to attain self-sufficiency. This will save more people in the long term.
Look what FDR did in the US. Relief, recovery, reform. We need to do all three. Sending 1000 bags of rice to starving people will feed them another day. Sending one computer may cause them to get the skills they need to feed themselves. We need to do both.
I keep in mind that sometimes being a content originator isn't about making money but about doing something more ephemeral for myself
ephemeral:
1. Short-lived or short, lasting for a short period of time
2. Existing for only one day, as with some plants and insects
From Wiktionary.
Sure you used the right word?
When content creators create something, I'm sure most want it gone out of existence in a day.
Well, I'm not gonna give up if the government has to arrest me.
One of FOSS's biggest weapons is that we appeal to the nation's idealism. Microsoft might appeal to the "Corporate Ideals", of "MAKING BIG MONEY", but they lack heart, and I think this might be increasingly more important. People will find out about the underdog, especially if the OSS community tells them. I see a lot of people interested in Linux. Get the people on your side, and you have no problem.
Also, that penguin is cute. Get someone in a Tux costume to be the lawyer, and Linux would win any case.
I am going in to college next year, and my current binder, which normally looks like a bomb hit it, attests to the fact that I shall need a laptop.
However, I remember in AP Biology two years ago, we were given quizzes on the reading from the previous night. The teacher was nice enough to give us outline note sheets.
My strategy for success on these quizzes were two-fold.
One part was only copying down what I thought I might forget, and mostly sketch out prompts for my memory to pick up. I thus didn't have to decipher small text or anything.
The other part was reading it just before sleeping.
So, yes, taking overall general notes helps you remember the rest. Now we have an anecdote.
Well, then, perhaps it would be beneficial for OO.org to have it's own e-mail client with all these features that Outlook has. Someone please make it cleaner and more useable than Outlook. And make it "just work"
And for everyone who is interested in making another one with similar features, any intercommunications between OO.org's e-mail and the rest of it should be clearly and simply stated.
That would be a very short strand of DNA. Most DNA arranges itself into fibrous structures inside the nucleus of the cell.
Also, DNA is normally not a flaming mass of gases.
Trekkies are a national security risk.
Trekkies are everywhere. I might even be a Trekkie.
See, Trekkies tend to believe that people must be tolerant, and progress in science, in order for any aliens to pay serious attention to them.
You can see why this isn't in the national interest.
The effects were minimized before they started breeding.
Luckily, many Trekkies are male, leading to certain problems in mating, and a Trekkie and a `Normal' have a good chance of having a normal child. However, the number of female Trekkies is not decreasing.
We must stop this infection of our society.
I am, at the present moment, an beginner/intermediate programmer. I have found it rather hard to find people willing to help with pretty elementary stuff. If someone doesn't want these people posting on slashdot, I suggest they make a site or forum of some sort for beginner programmers to find such help and advice from volenteers and more advanced beginners. And if such a site already exists, please point me, and anyone else concerned, to it.
That only applies to crashing into someone in front of or in back of you. If you crash into someone with a car of the same mass head-on, the effective collision is 198mph. Which is going to involve flames and death. Plenty of flames and death.
e is proportional to mass and the square of the velocity, however...
kinetic energy = one-half mass times velocity squared
KE=1/2mv^2
This does not detract from your argument, however force (mass times acceleration) momentum (mass times velocity) and impulse (change in momentum) figure in here too.
Overthrow the proletariat another day, buddy.
Bill Gates and his billions of dollars look like the proletariat to me...
From Miriam Webster:
1 : the lowest social or economic class of a community
2 : the laboring class; especially : the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live
Also from same:
bourgeoisie
1 : MIDDLE CLASS
2 : a social order dominated by bourgeois
So, mod "MOD PARENT "IDIOT"" idiot. Please.
It reminds me of a minor space race battle, the battle to write in space.
The US spent millions of dollars to make a pressurized nitrogen pen that could write in space.
The Soviets used a $0.05 pencil.
Go figure.
A friend of mine has a 17" screen attached to her computer. She has her desktop at 800x600. It can prolly handle at least 1024x768. I have one the same size operating at 1280x1024. Yet she has it at 800x600. She also has google AND yahoo toolbars on IE, putting the viewable screen size for the web at maybe 300-400x750 (she will not listen to my firefox rants). I think I win.
Stealing is mostly wrong. Unless you're Robinhooding, and even then some. Now, going against Walmart has the "Steal from the rich" part, but iPods are not the best thing to give to the poor. They need food more. And I doubt I'll see those $4.99 iPods in the hands of the homeless.
However, on Saturday, I was on a religious retreat, and I was talking with the school principal of my Synagogue. My Synagogue houses illegal immigrants on Wednesday nights. She said she didn't know whether it was illegal or not. I said, if it's illegal, the law is wrong.
Law is nowhere near infallible (look who makes it in the US), but law is there for a reason. And stealing is (not unconditionally, as I mentioned) wrong to most.
So, law can easily be wrong. But this law is right in this case.
I think that fixing XP has nothing to do with it.
However, if you buy a piece of commercial software, some small portion of it may go to treat malaria. Ok, so it's a good thing.
And if you download a piece of comparable able free software, you can donate the $20-$500 you saved to Malaria if you so desire. Or less. And both you and Malaria are likely getting more money.
I have no problem with any charitable works. I still think Microsoft is a fairly evil company, because of the tactics it uses. But if Bill Gates spends his money in the right way, that's not a bad thing.
Google's motto is "Do no evil", but Microsoft's is still not "Do only evil"
I mean, they did make Age of Empires.
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I'm sure the most important thing, the thing the have-nots are starving for more than food or water or education or job skills, is windows that maximize with really cool effects. Macs will also cost at least 5 times as much. Would you like to donate the remainder?
See, why can't we work on the real basics and the education. Instead of giving them food and water, which, I mean, you know what poor people do with food and water. It doesn't last long. However, these laptops will, at least if used correctly, make the third world countries have a chance in some world markets they didn't have access too before. If you really care about the basics, donate to a charity to send the hungry food and water. I shall do so too. However, giving them education is just as noble, because although it is not immediate, it is longlasting. Also, they should sell these laptops at $200 to the first and second world countries. They can be used as a web enabled laptop and secondary computer. Then, for every one they sell, they can give one to the third world countries gratis.
I think a score of 1 is really much less than this deserves. bberens brings up a point. I am going to draw a little on my knowlege of Jewish thought, because, well, I can. Maimonides said that the highest level of Tzedakah (charity) is when one helps someone to become self-sufficient. It all hearkens back to the story of the beggar asking the two fisherman brothers for fish. One brother was about to give him a few fish from their plentiful catch. The other brother told the beggar they had no fish to spare, but could teach him how to fish. After all, if he had one fish, he could eat for a day, if he knew how, he could eat for a lifetime. So, we should make 3rd world countries self-sufficient. This does not mean we cannot send them food and water and medicine and aid. To do so is not bad, and would save more people in the short term. This just means we have to make sure they can build the infrastructure to attain self-sufficiency. This will save more people in the long term. Look what FDR did in the US. Relief, recovery, reform. We need to do all three. Sending 1000 bags of rice to starving people will feed them another day. Sending one computer may cause them to get the skills they need to feed themselves. We need to do both.
I keep in mind that sometimes being a content originator isn't about making money but about doing something more ephemeral for myself ephemeral: 1. Short-lived or short, lasting for a short period of time 2. Existing for only one day, as with some plants and insects From Wiktionary. Sure you used the right word? When content creators create something, I'm sure most want it gone out of existence in a day.
Well, I'm not gonna give up if the government has to arrest me. One of FOSS's biggest weapons is that we appeal to the nation's idealism. Microsoft might appeal to the "Corporate Ideals", of "MAKING BIG MONEY", but they lack heart, and I think this might be increasingly more important. People will find out about the underdog, especially if the OSS community tells them. I see a lot of people interested in Linux. Get the people on your side, and you have no problem. Also, that penguin is cute. Get someone in a Tux costume to be the lawyer, and Linux would win any case.
What about .god?
I am going in to college next year, and my current binder, which normally looks like a bomb hit it, attests to the fact that I shall need a laptop. However, I remember in AP Biology two years ago, we were given quizzes on the reading from the previous night. The teacher was nice enough to give us outline note sheets. My strategy for success on these quizzes were two-fold. One part was only copying down what I thought I might forget, and mostly sketch out prompts for my memory to pick up. I thus didn't have to decipher small text or anything. The other part was reading it just before sleeping. So, yes, taking overall general notes helps you remember the rest. Now we have an anecdote.
Well, then, perhaps it would be beneficial for OO.org to have it's own e-mail client with all these features that Outlook has. Someone please make it cleaner and more useable than Outlook. And make it "just work" And for everyone who is interested in making another one with similar features, any intercommunications between OO.org's e-mail and the rest of it should be clearly and simply stated.
That would be a very short strand of DNA. Most DNA arranges itself into fibrous structures inside the nucleus of the cell. Also, DNA is normally not a flaming mass of gases.
Wow. Slashdot. And no Windows bashing yet. On a security issue. Sign of the apocalypse?
Trekkies are a national security risk. Trekkies are everywhere. I might even be a Trekkie. See, Trekkies tend to believe that people must be tolerant, and progress in science, in order for any aliens to pay serious attention to them. You can see why this isn't in the national interest. The effects were minimized before they started breeding. Luckily, many Trekkies are male, leading to certain problems in mating, and a Trekkie and a `Normal' have a good chance of having a normal child. However, the number of female Trekkies is not decreasing. We must stop this infection of our society.
I am, at the present moment, an beginner/intermediate programmer. I have found it rather hard to find people willing to help with pretty elementary stuff. If someone doesn't want these people posting on slashdot, I suggest they make a site or forum of some sort for beginner programmers to find such help and advice from volenteers and more advanced beginners. And if such a site already exists, please point me, and anyone else concerned, to it.
That only applies to crashing into someone in front of or in back of you. If you crash into someone with a car of the same mass head-on, the effective collision is 198mph. Which is going to involve flames and death. Plenty of flames and death.
e is proportional to mass and the square of the velocity, however... kinetic energy = one-half mass times velocity squared KE=1/2mv^2 This does not detract from your argument, however force (mass times acceleration) momentum (mass times velocity) and impulse (change in momentum) figure in here too.
Overthrow the proletariat another day, buddy. Bill Gates and his billions of dollars look like the proletariat to me... From Miriam Webster: 1 : the lowest social or economic class of a community 2 : the laboring class; especially : the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live Also from same: bourgeoisie 1 : MIDDLE CLASS 2 : a social order dominated by bourgeois So, mod "MOD PARENT "IDIOT"" idiot. Please.
It reminds me of a minor space race battle, the battle to write in space. The US spent millions of dollars to make a pressurized nitrogen pen that could write in space. The Soviets used a $0.05 pencil. Go figure.
A friend of mine has a 17" screen attached to her computer. She has her desktop at 800x600. It can prolly handle at least 1024x768. I have one the same size operating at 1280x1024. Yet she has it at 800x600. She also has google AND yahoo toolbars on IE, putting the viewable screen size for the web at maybe 300-400x750 (she will not listen to my firefox rants). I think I win.
Well, he steals from the rich and gives to himself. He's in the wrong here, but he has a lot of entertainment quality.
Stealing is mostly wrong. Unless you're Robinhooding, and even then some. Now, going against Walmart has the "Steal from the rich" part, but iPods are not the best thing to give to the poor. They need food more. And I doubt I'll see those $4.99 iPods in the hands of the homeless. However, on Saturday, I was on a religious retreat, and I was talking with the school principal of my Synagogue. My Synagogue houses illegal immigrants on Wednesday nights. She said she didn't know whether it was illegal or not. I said, if it's illegal, the law is wrong. Law is nowhere near infallible (look who makes it in the US), but law is there for a reason. And stealing is (not unconditionally, as I mentioned) wrong to most. So, law can easily be wrong. But this law is right in this case.
So maybe we can all see the individual molecules on the set? I'd prefer 1x the resolution on 21.2 convenient blu-ray discs.
I think that fixing XP has nothing to do with it. However, if you buy a piece of commercial software, some small portion of it may go to treat malaria. Ok, so it's a good thing. And if you download a piece of comparable able free software, you can donate the $20-$500 you saved to Malaria if you so desire. Or less. And both you and Malaria are likely getting more money. I have no problem with any charitable works. I still think Microsoft is a fairly evil company, because of the tactics it uses. But if Bill Gates spends his money in the right way, that's not a bad thing. Google's motto is "Do no evil", but Microsoft's is still not "Do only evil" I mean, they did make Age of Empires.
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