But Gates said giving away Microsoft software isn't intended to turn students against open source software entirely. Rather, he hopes it will just add one more tool to their belt.
translates into
Gates said: I don't want you to stop using pencils, I just want you to start writing on plastic.
Appart from that, I can't see why the IT department doesn't make backup copies, for when people do stupid things like this. Isn't there a weekly image they pull that can be restored?
Surely after all these years, you would expect governments to have some kind of backup system or plan. They should start using thin-clients, NFS (or any better thing) and do full backups weekly.
I've contacted LANCOR and got the following helpfull extra information from them. Probably good for anybody who would like to research this and form an opinion:
start quote
Thank you for contacting us on the subject matter of OLPC.
I will suggest that you do the following steps below and you will come to the
same conclusion our investigators and lawyers did... OLPC stole IP from
LANCOR.
Check the first keyboard layout released with the XO laptop before August
2006.
Take it from us that OLPC purchased our keyboards sometime in August 2006.
Now go to OLPC's http://dev.laptop.org/query and follow the development of
OLPC's new set of keyboard layouts and driver. (Take note of the first day
this development started.
Check for OLPC's new XO keyboard layout used at the CES 2007 show.
Now go to OLPC's wiki.laptop.org and again follow the postings of
information about their keyboard layout development and key date changes were
made.
Now when you have all these info collated, call OLPC and ask why they
choose to remove the keyboard layouts used in the CES 2007 XO model after
September 2007.
See if you can put together all the various versions of OLPC keyboard
layouts and match them to events you discovered from their query database.
Simply by using Ray tracing you can fill those cores up to their max and probably have allot of fun! How about having a processor per pixel in you mobile phone, this whole multi-core thing is going to be a delightful future.
I can't help but put on paper that this blog contains what a child of two would tell you if you showed it these results.
If I would add another operating system, the one I wrote, then it would have a very low security vulnerability count. Simply because nobody is looking at my system or knows anything about the internals makes it neither secure nor vulnerable.
These numbers simply won't show you whether one systems is more secure in general usage. However, anybody thinking they do, should go work for Microsoft. Because these people are surely stupid enough to slow a company down.
Not even 800 apps and they are listing apps twice, like Nero 7 Premium. And what's with mentioning the 64bit version of a program as a seperate effort? (like Microangelo Toolset 6). If you're smart you can get your app in there 8 times: personal, business, professional and gold versions with each a 64 and 32 bit compilation available.
The tools mentioned here have nothing to do with whether they are well used or not. To get on the list, you need to be a Microsoft certified partner and have a Vista version for your software.
I say this is the weirdest and most useless list I have seen Microsoft produce in years.
I think P2P is the awnser to this one, combined with push. Things like RSS would surely benefit from push protocols. And as the users have enough bandwidth on their end, this is mostly a server-side problem as I see it.
Allow everybody to copy everything and pass it on! Would mean the end of DRM, hihi.
I'd say this is just like most blog articles: flaming to get referred to. Bill is blogging on his own MSNBC again. But when people actually go there to read it, it's so shallow and dim minded that they decide to click on the ads.
Isn't this going to be the same problem as Yahoo showing Wii pictures from flickr on their Wii page? (Also see: http://www.flickr.com/forums/help/32752/ )
If netvibes starts adding advertisements to their page (and they will) they will hopefully get the problems they deserve for layouting other people's content.
Not all viruses made and sent are profitable, and yet they don't seem to stop either: there will also be honour. So, let's hang people who sent spam then, no profit, no honour. Great solution, right? Well you are still stuck with a now almost impossible to answer question: when is something spam. So the only solution there is: make it impossible. That is the only solution. My 2 cents.
For when any of these services get killed, let the record state that: MD5(BackupHDDVD.zip)= 484a73b61fb795d84e11d72614f77db0 SHA1(BackupHDDVD .zip)= c9f28f76ff4f1a8bfe74fa963466e8483da95eff SHA512(B ackupHDDVD.zip)= 661a12808e64ec516b1eb9e493bf5de4a08223f2ee4258735d aa6a382a1d2e1fbe4b732bebd4133e5af0d968c0904d310f73 40e63edab7b69e1948b08 3dd2617 ED2K(BackupHDDVD.z ip)= 4860e9248663d52dc47bfc98d61ec6d7 GNUNET(BackupHDD VD.zip)= COD1504ECJM52QOUN7I97FQTSIG848VITP15GSQTL9L3GAGT5O FRSIRJ5FLT84PUBBODIQ60I16J23RJ83J3TMLNMQF1II5GGFEI C5O.COTARKV5PLT8MFC6E BDF83IMEJI74A3H0QNTGMEGDS6P PO6AEFF75S439R2T731ODI37MP0HM3TQ27266N6FMK4PS8SDLC KNE3UIPD8
This review is simply stating that games that are not meant to run on Linux, and sometimes even not allowed, are bad at it.
The only valid point the article could make, is that most Linux software is written to be cross-platform and it's easier to run anything Linux on Windows (CoLinux, Gimp for Windows, AbiWord, Gnumeric, XMoto, etc) then the other way around. However, the article doesn't make that point.
In my opinion, this article can only make people mad (and comment on it) or bore them into clicking on adds.
Although that is true, it is hard to get people to see the evil of censorship. Another view of it is: if Google would remove the pages, they would be judge, jury, and executionar. They need and independent judge to trial this, so I just hope they work with people to get the right documents to court.
Professor Schultz said: "The idea is that you can mouth words in English and they will come out in Chinese or another language."
He must know that language is more then just words, there is grammer to. Then there is a story line, context, etc. etc. Let alone the fact that most people don't finish their sentence when they are having a conversation (tape a conversation and check it).
And for those experts who said: it showed the technology was "within reach". Stop calling yourself expert, because this is like telling people: computers can play chess now, so they will probably take over the world in a few years.
This might be problematic. Google keeps putting their Google account on various services. But part of being in a community is having "an account there". So as you say, many people will be unwilling create a Google account.
But still, as the full staff will be retained, then this is just a good economic buy. I think they probably won't put Google accounts on there any time soon.
The documentarie shows that there is no level of security for these machines anywhere. They could have added so much more security: direct printouts (store on paper too, without asking the program to report it), security hashing, soldering the flash system, a key per machine, lock the access to the main board with a key, seperate keys for use and check-ups, keep the keys seperated from the machines (not in the same storage), secure access to the machines (not an open warehouse without alarms).
And those measures are just of the top of my head! If you would sit down, and think about it: there are no proper security measures here.
Another thing is, that in large voting districts, the number of people per machine is large enough to make it a valuable target. So, saying it is FUD is HEC (Hope, Ease, and Comfort).
I can't see why everybody is focussing on security. Shouldn't this be about user choice? If I want to install a virus, security risk or spamming server, I should be able to. Even if I need to overwrite parts of the core system.
To me, this looks more like Microsoft is trying to protect the users against there own choices again. Sometimes, this might be good, but it should never go further then some emphesized text in an alert window.
He probably wants to work in a patent office like Albert Einstein. From Wikipedia: Einstein clashed with authority and resented the school regimen. So currently Banh is the oposite of Einstein in some sense.
Now Einstein "descovered" relativity, so Banh will discover "speedivity" (the faster you go, the more likely you are to come full circle)??
Two seconds of Googling could have told you that the JVM has supported more languages than.net for a long time.
I didn't mean the number of things to do with languages written in Java. What I was hinting at was language A to java bytecode compilers. If you search around the web, you will also hear that CIL is less language oriented then java bytecode.
You do know that Java is MUCH bigger than.Net out in the real world?
Yes. But I hoped to point to the future and say: "well, maybe". Not tell people how the world is (haha, it's purple, haha).
You really have no idea what you are talking about. Java developers could use Ruby to do fast and easy unit tests for instance.
Ok, so Ruby is a nice language. And having another possibility to run Ruby somewhere is good. And yes, JVM might become the most attractive place to run Ruby. But for the desktop, I can't really see that happening.
To keep other poeple from telling me I can't and don't know the future, these are just my 2 cents.
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Appart from that, I can't see why the IT department doesn't make backup copies, for when people do stupid things like this. Isn't there a weekly image they pull that can be restored?
Surely after all these years, you would expect governments to have some kind of backup system or plan. They should start using thin-clients, NFS (or any better thing) and do full backups weekly.
Thank you for contacting us on the subject matter of OLPC.
I will suggest that you do the following steps below and you will come to the same conclusion our investigators and lawyers did... OLPC stole IP from LANCOR.
- Check the first keyboard layout released with the XO laptop before August
2006.
-
Take it from us that OLPC purchased our keyboards sometime in August 2006.
-
Now go to OLPC's http://dev.laptop.org/query and follow the development of
OLPC's new set of keyboard layouts and driver. (Take note of the first day
this development started.
-
Check for OLPC's new XO keyboard layout used at the CES 2007 show.
-
Now go to OLPC's wiki.laptop.org and again follow the postings of
information about their keyboard layout development and key date changes were
made.
-
Now when you have all these info collated, call OLPC and ask why they
choose to remove the keyboard layouts used in the CES 2007 XO model after
September 2007.
-
See if you can put together all the various versions of OLPC keyboard
layouts and match them to events you discovered from their query database.
end quoteMore information and metalinks on http://metamirrors.nl/node/139
Another nice youtube video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or03p7Lkjq0 . Shows a dragonfly chopper at work.
Simply by using Ray tracing you can fill those cores up to their max and probably have allot of fun! How about having a processor per pixel in you mobile phone, this whole multi-core thing is going to be a delightful future.
I can't help but put on paper that this blog contains what a child of two would tell you if you showed it these results.
If I would add another operating system, the one I wrote, then it would have a very low security vulnerability count. Simply because nobody is looking at my system or knows anything about the internals makes it neither secure nor vulnerable.
These numbers simply won't show you whether one systems is more secure in general usage. However, anybody thinking they do, should go work for Microsoft. Because these people are surely stupid enough to slow a company down.
Maybe they where told to keep quiet about it, like the Gaim... ehm Pidgin people.
The tools mentioned here have nothing to do with whether they are well used or not. To get on the list, you need to be a Microsoft certified partner and have a Vista version for your software.
I say this is the weirdest and most useless list I have seen Microsoft produce in years.
Allow everybody to copy everything and pass it on! Would mean the end of DRM, hihi.
I'd say this is just like most blog articles: flaming to get referred to. Bill is blogging on his own MSNBC again. But when people actually go there to read it, it's so shallow and dim minded that they decide to click on the ads.
Isn't this going to be the same problem as Yahoo showing Wii pictures from flickr on their Wii page? (Also see: http://www.flickr.com/forums/help/32752/ ) If netvibes starts adding advertisements to their page (and they will) they will hopefully get the problems they deserve for layouting other people's content.
Not all viruses made and sent are profitable, and yet they don't seem to stop either: there will also be honour. So, let's hang people who sent spam then, no profit, no honour. Great solution, right? Well you are still stuck with a now almost impossible to answer question: when is something spam. So the only solution there is: make it impossible. That is the only solution. My 2 cents.
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This review is simply stating that games that are not meant to run on Linux, and sometimes even not allowed, are bad at it.
The only valid point the article could make, is that most Linux software is written to be cross-platform and it's easier to run anything Linux on Windows (CoLinux, Gimp for Windows, AbiWord, Gnumeric, XMoto, etc) then the other way around. However, the article doesn't make that point.
In my opinion, this article can only make people mad (and comment on it) or bore them into clicking on adds.
Thets' knot insightfull, the hats just bunny!
I'll need two in stock a spelling checkers. Stop or try to batminton a speech recognizer.
Although that is true, it is hard to get people to see the evil of censorship. Another view of it is: if Google would remove the pages, they would be judge, jury, and executionar. They need and independent judge to trial this, so I just hope they work with people to get the right documents to court.
And for those experts who said: it showed the technology was "within reach". Stop calling yourself expert, because this is like telling people: computers can play chess now, so they will probably take over the world in a few years.
Simply, no.
But still, as the full staff will be retained, then this is just a good economic buy. I think they probably won't put Google accounts on there any time soon.
And those measures are just of the top of my head! If you would sit down, and think about it: there are no proper security measures here.
Another thing is, that in large voting districts, the number of people per machine is large enough to make it a valuable target. So, saying it is FUD is HEC (Hope, Ease, and Comfort).
I can't see why everybody is focussing on security. Shouldn't this be about user choice? If I want to install a virus, security risk or spamming server, I should be able to. Even if I need to overwrite parts of the core system.
To me, this looks more like Microsoft is trying to protect the users against there own choices again. Sometimes, this might be good, but it should never go further then some emphesized text in an alert window.
Now Einstein "descovered" relativity, so Banh will discover "speedivity" (the faster you go, the more likely you are to come full circle)??
To keep other poeple from telling me I can't and don't know the future, these are just my 2 cents.