I am not a gamer, but here is to the hope that it provides "real" games. It's good for all of us that use Linux as our everyday OS. It encourages support in other areas as well...
Why? Really.. why? There is no reason Android needs to become a desktop OS.
I'm sorry, I don't buy the "everything must converge" theory and, quite frankly, when Win8 comes out it will probably kill the idea off once and for all. There isn't an institution that I can think of that will put Windows 8 on their desktops unless they want to drive their users and support people insane.
However I do believe Linux and Android apps should be ported back and forth... but for other reasons.
Sorry.. but this statement is just B.S. Apple IIs and TRaSh-80s were the gateway for hundreds of future computer users and programmers. Students learned TONS on them, though maybe not was initially intended.
I agree with the point made often around here is that there is magical thinking when it comes to educational computer use. Today you need good guides. Computers in the classroom also mean something totally different when most homes have smart phones and PCs. However, you have to be careful... Apple IIs in schools enable a new era... it's not fair to say that they didn't. However, today kids already have already had the exposure to computers that the AppleII gave my generation so you need to take it to the next step and get under the hood.
One of the points: try to talk to someone at a school about squid services. Watch the blank stare. The web is simply magic; our technology training of teachers is still in the dumpers.
Every time I mention a point like this it causes someone to do a knee-jerk "you commie, you think all profit is bad!!!11!!one" reaction, but this hits the nail on the head.
The general unspoken assumption by a large part of our society right now is profit can drive everything and the market can magically fix all problems. That's bunk because there isn't ONE human system that solves all problem, whether it be the free market system or Open Source software.
As a society we will have to get through this idiocy and eventually get back to the idea that there are some processes that we don't necessarily need or want to be for profit. I expect we will be a rough ride until then.
But is Linux only able to join the party is it plays in the game Microsoft created? Do you have to be a multi-million dollar company to play? Can I write my own OS if I wanted to and have it boot "securely" on hardware that I own.
None of this seems answered right now. I know that the idiots in Washington DC think you have to be a company to make software, but when you implement that into the hardware it's total bullshit.
I am still waiting for my Pi, and probably will for quite some time, however while I wait let me put in my endorsement for a version of the XAMPP project for the Pi. One of the things I wanted to use mine for was a simple web development server, but XAMPP doesn't do builds for ARM yet. There is a niche there.
If they have anything, it's sunlight. Get one 12 volt battery charger setup & battery per village. Get one USB power bank per kid. Get decent power banks and it will be enough to use the Pi for hours. A good 12 volt setup will charge at least a half dozen power banks at a time.
My previous neighbors had "Not Your Internet" or sometimes "Not Your Wifi."
Of course, living in bumfuck Indiana, most popular is "belikin." Ho hum.
In the middle of the building where I work I detected a "Grab My Dick" the other day setting up a Macintosh. Still don't understand what that is about...
Summer camps that sing some of the "popular" christian songs (like the Christian pop music you sometimes see being sold on TV) have to pay songwriters fee and additional fees if they want to do things like show lyrics on an overhead projector. That's no joke. They pay these fees by clearinghouses that are like BMI and ASCAP that specialize in collecting the fees from the church community.
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Just a new way to get Sudoku games?
I am not a gamer, but here is to the hope that it provides "real" games. It's good for all of us that use Linux as our everyday OS. It encourages support in other areas as well...
Why? Really.. why? There is no reason Android needs to become a desktop OS.
I'm sorry, I don't buy the "everything must converge" theory and, quite frankly, when Win8 comes out it will probably kill the idea off once and for all. There isn't an institution that I can think of that will put Windows 8 on their desktops unless they want to drive their users and support people insane.
However I do believe Linux and Android apps should be ported back and forth... but for other reasons.
...was not disappointed.
She's got it. Yeah, baby, she's got it.
"in my day we had TEXT in our books.. and WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!"
Now get off my lawn.
I love the hulu and the youtube!
This requires organization. Good luck...
Sorry.. but this statement is just B.S. Apple IIs and TRaSh-80s were the gateway for hundreds of future computer users and programmers. Students learned TONS on them, though maybe not was initially intended.
I agree with the point made often around here is that there is magical thinking when it comes to educational computer use. Today you need good guides. Computers in the classroom also mean something totally different when most homes have smart phones and PCs. However, you have to be careful... Apple IIs in schools enable a new era... it's not fair to say that they didn't. However, today kids already have already had the exposure to computers that the AppleII gave my generation so you need to take it to the next step and get under the hood.
One of the points: try to talk to someone at a school about squid services. Watch the blank stare. The web is simply magic; our technology training of teachers is still in the dumpers.
Sorry? As I read it only bios manufacturers can install those keys.
If I can install my own keys I have no problem with it, but if I can't I do.
Every time I mention a point like this it causes someone to do a knee-jerk "you commie, you think all profit is bad!!!11!!one" reaction, but this hits the nail on the head.
The general unspoken assumption by a large part of our society right now is profit can drive everything and the market can magically fix all problems. That's bunk because there isn't ONE human system that solves all problem, whether it be the free market system or Open Source software.
As a society we will have to get through this idiocy and eventually get back to the idea that there are some processes that we don't necessarily need or want to be for profit. I expect we will be a rough ride until then.
Also, it's a great way to get an OS labeled "insecure" by knownothings.
But is Linux only able to join the party is it plays in the game Microsoft created? Do you have to be a multi-million dollar company to play? Can I write my own OS if I wanted to and have it boot "securely" on hardware that I own.
None of this seems answered right now. I know that the idiots in Washington DC think you have to be a company to make software, but when you implement that into the hardware it's total bullshit.
The Police wrote a song about that, IIRC.
I am still waiting for my Pi, and probably will for quite some time, however while I wait let me put in my endorsement for a version of the XAMPP project for the Pi. One of the things I wanted to use mine for was a simple web development server, but XAMPP doesn't do builds for ARM yet. There is a niche there.
If they have anything, it's sunlight. Get one 12 volt battery charger setup & battery per village. Get one USB power bank per kid. Get decent power banks and it will be enough to use the Pi for hours. A good 12 volt setup will charge at least a half dozen power banks at a time.
My previous neighbors had "Not Your Internet" or sometimes "Not Your Wifi."
Of course, living in bumfuck Indiana, most popular is "belikin." Ho hum.
In the middle of the building where I work I detected a "Grab My Dick" the other day setting up a Macintosh. Still don't understand what that is about...
Just make sure no one is playing a boombox and no one is dancing at the riot. If that happens they will charge you 1.5x normal fee.
Summer camps that sing some of the "popular" christian songs (like the Christian pop music you sometimes see being sold on TV) have to pay songwriters fee and additional fees if they want to do things like show lyrics on an overhead projector. That's no joke. They pay these fees by clearinghouses that are like BMI and ASCAP that specialize in collecting the fees from the church community.
Rather is is always doggy style, since both parties want to keep watching the hockey game.
**BUZZ**
Assuming rationality. That's always a bad assumption!
Toe tapping: 1.2x normal fee.
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They called Phil Dick a paranoid. Turns out he was the only one with a proper sense of reality. Go figure.
Microsoft doesn't have the right to "license" hard ware. It's not their hardware, it's not even their design.
This is Microsoft forcing vendors in the corner with their O.S. once again. This is non-competitive behavior once again.
If they have such a great O.S. there is no need for locking out others. It's weak and it's sick.