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Instead of apologizing for your dullness, you are blaming the OP. Nigerians can be very dull. And proud of it, too!

Source?

See who is talking about "consent". Did you not post that number without the owner's consent.
I am going to ban you without your consent if you are not careful. Thanks a million for your cooperation.

Unless you're coming to Nigeria to start a business, you'd better stay where you are.
Don't come here to suffer. If you have kids, please don't even think about coming here. Thanks!

If the boss is genuinely in need of a personal assistant to boost his productivity and keep him organized, why not?

See Import/Export Business

I am a Jewel of inestimable value. I want to be worth 25 billion naira so I can start my own mega-bank.

You don't want to "indict a company" here, but you are ready to indict all malt drink manufacturers?

First, you have to know how to solve it manually. Once you know that, then constructing an algorithm is easy.

My software is definitely going to be browser-based.
The big question is whether I will host it myself (on the Internet) or
allow my customers to run the software on their laptops and servers.

Advantages of self-hosting (web-based software) include:
- Not having to worry about piracy.
- Being able to sell my software internationally.
- Not having to support multiple versions of your software.
- Minimal distribution costs since web hosting is cheap.
- Zero installation costs.
- Cost-effective advertising through Google Adwords.

The problems with the web-based hosted approach include:
- Relatively poor performance if customers don't have a very fast Internet link.
- My application is only as reliable as the customer's Internet access and power supply.
- I can't sleep well knowing that I'm responsible for my customers' mission-critical data.

The web-based approach is the better choice if I'm aiming to sell my product Internationally.

The standalone option seems preferable if I'm selling to Nigerians, but then I'd have to deal with piracy which is a big problem here. Nigerians may buy CDs and DVDs, but they don't but software. Nigerians may buy laptops and PCs preloaded with original software, but they don't buy software. This simple fact cannot be ignored! The only way to deal with piracy is to do what the Nigerian movie industry does and sell my software to the pirates.

That seems like a very risky business model, so I'm back to the idea of making my software web-based. That's not so bad, since I'm a webmaster. Right? I hope so! Too bad for people who don't have broadband. My key to making the web perform almost as well as a local or LAN-based application is to reload pages less frequently. Details later.

Here's a discussion I started on another web forum: Help: I Don't Want To Build A Web App.

Don't be too eager to sell your new-found freedom (from parents) for a morsel of bread.
Enjoy it for at least a year before jumping into another form of bondage (marriage, African style).

Cockroaches have been found in all kinds of drinks such as Coca Cola, Fanta, and Zobo.

Why don't you tell us which particular brand of Malt drink your family member found a cockroach in?

I don't necessarily want to spend the rest of my life with every girl I respect,
but I respect entrepreneurs with minds and dreams and strong ambitions of their own.

After working for 5 years, they are to be terminated for being HIV positive or pregnant? Abominable.

As a graduate, you can do what you want. Find a job and a flat and live on your own for a year. Otherwise, you will end up with a controlling husband that treats you exactly the way your parents are treating you now. Yuck!

I have a question: if you have broadband, is the speed of Internet access as fast as accessing a LAN?
Because as a modem user, I have found myself assuming that web access is slow, which makes me want to make my browser-based program downloadable, but that won't be necessary if broadband is as fast as LAN access.

Can you name the specific 'high and mighty' people that you are accusing of fomenting trouble in the area?

You need to get a .ng domain name first. The rest is straightforward, though not easy - you just need a web host.

Just follow the rules and all will be fine.

Hmmm. Wasn't Mulan quite black? Why does the first black princess have to be a frog princess?

They are in a fad-driven business. I don't think they can become billionaires. Before that happens, they would expire.

Did you read this in a newspaper?

Let him do what he wants to do. His mind is no longer in the studies; maybe he's unable to cope. People should be allowed to do what they want to do as much as possible. Let him do what he wants to do oga. Thanks.

Thanks a million, Aziza, for sharing this information with us.

If your software runs locally and uses a browser, it makes more sense to call it 'browser-based'. I'm determined to make my next application browser-based, but it could be standalone (not web based).

Just download Python from www.python.org and start playing with it. It comes with a tutorial.

http://ivory.idyll.org/articles/advanced-swc/

The previous Python topic may also be helpful: Who Knows Python?

Some interesting tutorials:
- http://www.diveintopython.org/ Dive Into Python
- http://ivory.idyll.org/articles/advanced-swc/ Software Carpentry In Python

Python Tricks & Tips:
- http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~meine/python_tricks

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If he is taking courses instead of working, then he is consuming more than what he's producing.

Yes, but from which page on which newspaper website did you copy it from? Please tell us now.

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