[llama66]

true

[BartSimpson]

llama66 wrote:

true

You get Intellectual Integrity points from me for that!

[ridenrain]

So endith the lesson.
Nice.

[Terence]

ridenrain wrote:

I was trying to think of a reason that China hasn't moved in there.

Because the US would recognize Taiwan as a nation the very next day.

[kenmore]

Florida isn't communist but they are sure good at vote fixing

[kenmore]

ridenrain wrote:

Cuba has computers?

Yep.. computers in every resort and they are allowed in private homes
Castro says " we are in touch, so you be in touch"

[Terence]

kenmore wrote:

Florida isn't communist but they are sure good at vote fixing

actually they aren't, Gore was trying win by disenfranchising military votes and counting spoiled ballots.

Kennedy on the other hand, stole Nixon's election victory with the wholesale fraud in Illinois.

Imagine no Vietnam, Kennedy assassination, or Cuban Missile Crisis. It would be an entirely different world.

People might still believe in something.

[kenmore]

was that ever proven?

[Monkeyman]

When I read the topic, I didn't think of the operating system at all. I thought Cuba was outlawing, uh, windows. Actual windows.

[NuMbA]

GreenTiger wrote:

The Cuban government apparently is getting a might bit upset that
the operating system Windows may by corrupting their sense of values
and have banned its use on the island, they are working on their a new OS call Neuvo ( or some such spelling).

I have a tendency to agree for different a reason, Vista has given
a lot people heartburn so at times I consider when I upgrade to go Apple.

That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard...
All it is is an operating system, it's what people use it for that might corrupt their sense of values, and they could just do the same thing with their new os.

And also if you don't like vista that's still not a good reason to ban it, and most people have no problem with it anyways.

Monkeyman wrote:

When I read the topic, I didn't think of the operating system at all. I thought Cuba was outlawing, uh, windows. Actual windows.

That's the same thing that I thought too lol.

[herbie]

I think the whole point is to NOT send $$ to MSoft in the USA for every single computer in Cuba and develop some internal software development.
How many actual teachers could your School District hire if it didn't shell out so damned much money in Windows royalties? And how many students would actually learn about computers rather than be trained at public cost to be MSoft consumers under the guise of 'computer training'?

[NuMbA]

herbie wrote:

I think the whole point is to NOT send $$ to MSoft in the USA for every single computer in Cuba and develop some internal software development.
How many actual teachers could your School District hire if it didn't shell out so damned much money in Windows royalties? And how many students would actually learn about computers rather than be trained at public cost to be MSoft consumers under the guise of 'computer training'?

But then they still have to pay for the computers them selves and the cost to make the os's, but banning it still makes no sense because some people rather still use windows.

[ridenrain]

China was playing with getting their own software also. Most of their government computers are running pirate versions of windows and don't have legit. anti-virus so their functionality is low.

[herbie]

Quote:

But then they still have to pay for the computers them selves and the cost to make the os's, but banning it still makes no sense because some people rather still use windows.

You forget:
Linux doesn't cost anything to 'make'.
Cuba isn't going to buy Dells, they'll grab computers right from the China factories.
Cuba doesn't give a flying you-know-what what people "want" or "would rather".

Case of 'In Communist Cuba, computer will own you!'. 10,000 person dept. to check your Facebook entry for subversive comments.

[Terence]

Linux is cost prohibitive in regard to computer support staff and training end users who require the easiest dumbed down crap possible. It is why it Linux is doomed to be a niche market geek toy, and nothing more.

I say that despite using it and Apache myself. Even I still use this Windows box for everything else other than my hosting servers.