ot;book", you get
a
pointer to a book on Microsoft Office because there is a page listed that shows
"open office document" as a menu item, and somewhere else on that page there
must
be "book"....but I hardly think that is a tactic by Microsoft.
My solution? Just give mo
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Hi Phil,
I only hope that I get as much free publicity for FOSS when I DIE as Bill Gates
generates for Microsoft when he announces that he MAY *semi-retire* in *two
years*.
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FOSS.
I agree with Tom. We need to work through those who are going with
collaboration. FOSS has gotten to where it is by convincing people that
it is the way to go, not just standing back and yelling at them.
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lot of mouse work, where I find it more comfortable
using the external mouse.
All of the pictures seem to have a "touchpad" and some buttons below it,
indicating a built-in mouse.
Cheers,
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acts are a simple google away.
Yes indeed. Sometimes facts take a little reading and thinking too.
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one.
I can not be sure that this is Frye's tactic, but if it smells like
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e market. It is
just a bad system builder, and an ugly loss-leader business model used by
Frye's.
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ense for Microsoft Office, Photoshop, and all the
other things she is used to?
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Boar
it for a Athlon 64 or an
Intel P4." So for $40. more they said it became a quite capable office
system, although noting that serious gamers would probably still be a bit
disappointed. Then again, serious gamers spend way over 4000 USD for a machine.
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ne, making sure DMA is turned on for the hard drives after
installation.
Warmest regards,
maddog
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sts down. Let them record the
stories and songs of their cultures and spread them to the world.
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ike the day after he found out that
AMD won the deal for the laptop).
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Bo
s down to this (and please pardon the simplification):
o software you can do on the back of a napkin, napkins are relatively "free"
o hardware you need to have a signal analyzer, and that costs money
maddog (who has done both hardware and software)
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also did FAB work for lots of companies that had designs, but no FABs.
When it comes to FABs, there may be very strange bedfellows.
I agree, this is a non-issue.
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t, their own work, and their own
constituency.
In the end it is your decision, and that decision may be to apply for the
grant even if these limiting conditions exist, but you should go in "eyes wide
open", and not having blinders due to large amounts of money.
Warmest regards,
mad
hat the issue of copyright
got extended to single copies, then single pages.
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, for people that travel abroad, VoIP is a great thing,
>but if
I am trapped in a dark alley with thugs after me, my cell-phone is my friend.
Regards,
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Voic
gital Divide, let's not close our eyes to the lesser realized, but still
potent social issues that can also affect it.
Warmest regards,
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> I second Dave's sentiment. What about all of us Mac OSX users? I'd be
> cranking away at it if it was available. Shucks.
Or the 60,000,000 Linux and *BSD users?
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o learn how to use the computer
at the Telecentro, then use the same software in their homes. Most of them
can not afford proprietary software, so they would have to pirate it,
if proprietary software were used to instruct them.
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Ami,
I forgot to mention that I also observed a young girl in the Telecentro
running a program which taught her the proper way to brush her teeth.
So learning "C" was not the only lessons being taught.
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I found the study (as most studies trying to predict the future) a bit simple
and fairly useless.
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inancing the
whole thing, with the end-users paying about $24. per month. At the end of
the two years they will own the computer. Target volume: 1,000,000 units.
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no reason why manufacturing in larger quantities
can not bring down the price so more and more people (or churches, cafes and
schools) can afford them.
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five or six hundred dollars for a PDA that has a phone built in
(the PalmONE Trio comes to mind), this unit could do all that, and a lot more.
And it is not tied to any one type of phone or phone system.
As Taran says, the Simputer was designed (and FIELD tested) for a very
specific market. Let's
ot;PDAs" do not have this
capability.
If you get a chance you might want to try it in this configuration as part
of your evaluation.
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d and unwanted, incoherent and unstructured with no way to
automatically separate the wheat from the chaff, the information from
the data.
And having said all of that, I now leave this discussion to clean out my
mailbox of 1345 emails, 98% of which are SPAM.
If I sound depressed, it is only becaus
>Well, SPAM is employing a lot of people. That's probably the real problem.
I think that the real problem is that people reply and react to SPAM. That
is what makes SPAM "profitable". Unfortunately it is also a hard habit to
break in the general population.
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the Internet, just as we trained people about other forms of acceptable
etiquette. And we need world-wide laws for those who decide that living
in polite society is below their needs.
>Good article. Thank you for inspiring me to find it on the web. :-)
I try to inspire people. :-)
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itself would probably contain the SPAM message.
For those people who have distinct audiences and senders, those people wishing
to register their information with some secure database before sending email,
this might work. But it would disenfranchise many.
Still, it is an option to think about
95 degrees F should
add a fan to the box, which increases power consumption, and these low
power requirements usually mean a Flash disk as the "hard drive" (which is
not necessarily bad in dirty or salty climates).
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the efforts of M.I.T., Rice University
and others who have volunteered to put all of their materials up on the web
and make them available to everyone.
I have hopes that cool heads will prevail, and we should praise the
progressive institutions and decry the draconian ones.
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ss multiple hardware architectures from multiple hardware vendors, across
multiple versions, once an exploit is known.
Regards,
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aping security hole in it that you could drive trucks through. There are
a lot of people in the "Digital Divide" that are still using Office '97, and
will never be able to get that needed patch.
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people feel that it meets their
needs, they can order it. I was only making them aware of this milestone.
Regards,
maddog
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he team that designed, built, and brought this to market.
maddog
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now what it really is like.
Warmest regards,
maddog
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So what technology will they do without? Computers? Cell Phones? Lights?
Heat? Running water? Flush Toilets? Books (Printing Press is "Technology")?
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scores are only estimated, completely prejudiced and totally
without any practical measurementthey just feel right. :-) ]
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ds could be warm. We should hold
the next WSIS there...at this time of year.
The point that I am trying to make is that we DON'T even have the machinery
and infrastructure in place, much less all the other stuff.
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0,000 volunteers.
Perhaps Digital Divide needs what we in Linux call an "Uber Project" on
Sourceforge, with other little projects starting underneath in various areas,
so people can see them and exchange ideas, practical code examples and see
projects that worked.
That way the Cathedral
the
REAL world, sayNigeria or (dare I say it) Appalacia or Indian reservations
in the South West of the United States? Or maybe inner-city Chicago...the
Digital Divide is not an "African thing".
You passed along that article just to get a rise out of me, didn't you?
FLAM
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> Perhaps strong individualistic tendencies are part of the lists. :-)
They certainly are a part of New England Yankees (not to be confused with the
New York Yankees).
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>so it's not just for Linux geeks like Taran and Mad Dog. :-)
Unfortunately Jon "maddog" Hall:
* programmer
* systems administrator
* product manager
* educator
* author
* businessman
* collector of antique clocks, Edis
botics engineer.
I thought this was great, and the only problem I had with it is that I am sure
the world has lost a really fantastic future ice-skater. On the other hand, I
will be really glad to see her robot on Mars....and beyond.
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Hi,
I will be at Linuxworld, and will be "hanging out" in the Greater New Hampshire
Linux User's Group booth when I am not giving talks on VoIP for the
conference or talks in CA's booth or talks in IBM's booth.
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that you need it for.
That is what Brazil and the emerging economies need, not just "cheap software".
And THAT is worth working toward. (sorry for the capital letters).
Warmest regards,
maddog
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al food, local housing and
pay local taxes, and that is good enough to slow down my "Digital Divide".
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face.
If anyone would like to attend the "BoF", please send me a note PRIVATELY
(without copying everyone else on the list) so I can hold out enough coupons
to give to everyone. Please only ask for the coupons if you need them and
intend on using them.
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t more people
to the discussion. A smaller group could always meet later.
Although it is late in the planning cycle, I am fairly sure they might
accommodate us.
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