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Developers, Developers, Developers! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/19/ballmer_eggs/
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they are both tools to help to form your perception of the world.
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if countries won't buy the XO for lack of MSFT software read the Negroponte NYT quote carefully. It is basic colonial behaviour (corruption etc.): "“The people who buy the machines are not the children who use them, but government officia
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Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Its functioning is secret, so it is incompatible with the spirit of learning. Teaching children to use a proprietary (non-free) system such as Windows does not make the world a better p
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India has its own "OLPC"[1], not being a client state. Education works best, when you work your way through: there is not royal path to knowledge (or, teach fishing instead of selling cheap fish, if you like). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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I mostly did 1) the other way around, and it also holds true. Concerning 2), few people realise, that hw in the last years was artificially expensive due to lack of concurrence: basically x86 won the CPU arena, a few misses aside (e.g. ARM,
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But you can choose your employer (unless you are a slave , which doesn't apply here, being [] shipping magnates). It is so simple; so elementary, that most people don't see it (e.g. think of mass-energy relationship). MIT's primary goals an
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte gives Big Brother a whole new meaning...
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It is a worst type of "bug" because it seems intentional: the implications are enormous, the temptation is simply too big. Remember the "netscape" crypto lib (ssl huh...)? With half-key repositories, weak rnd generators, "bugs". This doesn'
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This deliberate, although not new. deception: Century of the Self protection: Power of Nightmares http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%22century%20of%20th...
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It is simply the abuse of monopoly [and THAT is illegal]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel
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flyback http://code.google.com/p/flyback/ would do the job, if only somebody would attach inotify (even with the Python glue?)...
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Öt szép szűzlány őrült írót nyúz. Egy hűtlen vejét fülöncsípő, dühös mexikói úr Wesselényinél mázol Quitóban.