In computer science at uni we learned Oracle for database stuff, C for network programming, UNIX system calls for OS design, OpenGL for computer graphics, Java for basic programming, Linux was our OS and Eclipse was our IDE.

In my first job out of uni all of those were exchanged for the Windows equivalents; it really doesn't matter what platform you learn on.

I know right, they started teaching history in high school, now everyone considers themselves a historian and the hard working historians are out of work!

We need the next generation to be as dumb as possible, so we can be employed for as long as possible.

Loosely translated: The people in the code.org film already knew each other from other places before they made the film! And they have similar ideals and goals! And therefore they were probably involved in 9/11!!

Maybe start a petition?

If it's not the GnuSense Linux fork GnuTense it's worth actively working against, because anyone we can persuade to stop working on other distros will start working on GnuTense!

Some routers are worth $20k, but obviously a school will never need one of these.. The question is why they were sold to schools; was it fraud by Cisco? was it a badly designed procurement process? was it corruption?

And then US businesses are at a disadvantage to EU businesses which only sell their products in the US.

Hi, what you need is webcamd for a low powered machine with a cheap USB webcam (best to check the chipset compatibility before buying, just in case).

There'll be a bit of manual page reading, setting the motion detection thresholds and areas, configuring it to start on boot, archive/FTP images taken, add timestamps to the images, etc, and writing the scripts that will get run when motion is detected, but it'll be cheap, customizable and it'll work.

I've used this setup in a local maritime simulator where there was a breakin attempt (lots of projectors and electronics naturally), and they wanted a bit of extra security on the cheap.

HTH,

Yeah.. wake me up when they have ported it to the OpenBSD pkgsrc system as part of the official set of packages and maybe I'll think about potentially buying a game. (As long as it contains no DRM and is also part of the OpenBSD pkgsrc system as part of the official set of packages, audited by portaudit, of course.)

A few million people would die of starvation, but hey..

Do you even know what a free trade agreement is?

There are many free trade agreements, what do you mean "the Free Trade Agreement"? And FTAs are (as the name suggests) intended to promote free trade; how was "the" free trade agreement created in response to market based iron ore pricing? And Australia doesn't have a free trade agreement with China who are our main importers of iron ore.

I'm an Australian, and I pay more for technology than people in other parts of the world including the US. This is kind of a pain in the ass, but I have to admit that if it wasn't worth it to me I wouldn't pay. Our currency is really strong at the moment, so in general imports are very cheap and local goods/services are very expensive, and we really pay very little for technology in relative terms.

I sure wouldn't want other countries which buy our imports to say to us "wait that's not fair; it only costs you guys $40/tonne to export iron ore and we're paying $150/tonne. We're going to get the government involved to try and fight that somehow".
To that I would say "the value of something is whatever its buyer is willing to pay for it" and we have to be consistent in that.

No, I don't understand the difference. Suppose Apple allowed another company to make iPhone hardware, so long as it met the specifications and they paid Apple appropriately; why would Apple then have to allow people to dual-boot?

Currently Apple have alternative suppliers for the components that go into the iPhones, but they are the ones who ultimately do the packaging and shipping. Are you saying that if Microsoft did the packaging and shipping it would be okay for them to ban dual-booting? Are you saying that it's no problem for them to do it for the Microsoft Surface, which they do package and ship?

Did you know Apple are "the single gatekeeper" for what runs on iPhones? Isn't that outrageous? And I when I discovered I can't run QNX on my Nintendo Wii I was just furious.. It's almost like they're not selling these devices as general purpose computers!

It's the same deal with iOS isn't it? Even with Android phones you need to work to root them. Same thing for Tivos, TVs, consumer linux routers, etc; the device and software are sold as a single package. Hardly a new evil Microsoft thing, and not even controversial outside of the FSF.

But I agree 100% that if you don't like it don't buy it.