Yes, but isn't latency as seen from the user's point of view -when browsing- largely caused by waiting for the page's data to download, which is a bandwidth issue? Latency issues are more noticeable in something like instant messaging and interactive activities where data flow is largely bi-directional.
The only problem with the 'give software away, sell support' model is that it disincentives creating a really easy to use tool. But because no one will buy your support if they don't use you're software, you must make your software desirable, and a large factor in that will be the ease and reliability of use, which are support items. It's a kind of catch-22 situation. Support cannot always be used as a steady source of income.
The signature on the reverse of a credit card is NOT meant for verification of who you are. You must sign the back of the card in order to legally use that card, it is your agreement to follow the card's service agreement.
Additionally, cashiers are NOT required by law in most cases (even when you write "see ID" on the back) to check for proper identification.
Writing CID or see ID or anything else is *technically* illegal, as it is not your signature , and as a cashier, I would be correct to deny your purchase. However, pretty much nobody would actually do this and CC companies would likely look the other way, as they just want you to spend as much as you can on their card.
Under no circumstances break compatibility. Perhaps you're right, but I'd say only if this backwards compatibility is optional. I wouldn't want to have to wait while windows 3.1, '95 and '98 compatibility layers were installed or loaded onto my system, nor have them taking up Hard drive space, if I don't run such programs.
As for GIMP, the last time I used it, it still didn't have any easy way to draw Ovals/Circles and Rectangles/Squares, something that even the most basic of image editors (MS Paint) has.
MS Paint is NOT an image editor. It is a drawing tool. This is why is has a few simple brushes, shapes and thats it. You can use OpenOffice.org Draw for this functionality and more, as well as being able to adjust and re-arrange the shapes you draw.
The GIMP is meant for image editing, where drawing arbitrary shapes is less likely to be your goal.
I dislike MS as much as anybody else here, but they did put forth time and money developing drivers and the like specifically to make XP run on the XO. (hmm, would be easy to make that a typo)
Additionally, there are costs associated with maintaining XP with security updates and bugfixes, running product activation servers, knowledge base servers (all of which need to be maintained) and all kinds of other expenses such as licensing of media technologies.
Don't get me wrong, I greatly dislike MS, but to say there are no costs associated with it is dead wrong. These cost do, however, often apply to open source companies as well, and most certainly some of them apply to OLPC. It may well be that going with MS's deal is just cheaper than doing it all in-house.
"In collecting evidence for those takedown notices, Media Sentry investigators do not usually download suspect music files. Instead, the company uses special software to check the "hash," a sort of unique digital fingerprint, of each offered file to verify that it is identical to a copyrighted song file in the RIAA's database.
How they hell do they hash the file without downloading it??
just playing devil's advocate, but maybe it could be because students at harvard have enough money to just buy their music? I'd be curious to know the number of i-tunes, etc, subscribers there are.
yes, but it is still orders of magnitude off. A vast majority of people will be willing to accept a 5 minute delay for their text message to get through, NO ONE will accept a 5 minute delay on their cell phone call. Anything more than.5 seconds would be completely unacceptable.
if your going to go with a car analogy... imagine you had car that i could borrow and upon my not using it anymore, you could almost never tell i had been using it, even when we were both using it at the same time?
what makes you think the heat is being sucked out? it doesn't go off into nowhere, it will be used to generate steam to power turbines. This steam will need to be either a) released into the atmosphere or b) condensed into water, releasing some it's heat. Granted, much of this heat energy will be transformed into electricity, but its not 100% efficient. Lots of that heat will simply be released back into the environment.
Have a gateway from 1998 (PIII 733) with a 7200 RPM, 30 Gig HD, can't remember brand, think it is seagate. This machine has been ON, with yearly breaks of about a week (vacation), since we bought it. It has even been pushed off a table onto a cement floor while running! That was a year ago, and it (sadly) it is still the family computer!
Wow. Case in Point? Intimidate mods, get modded informative for making an opinion statement (irregardless of the fact that the opinion may/may not be widely held)?
Think about it: with paper, you can easily correct mistakes, skip questions (or go in a different order). How is this any different from digital??? If the digital systems don't allow this, there are serious flaws.
Most important: with the computer, you're SOL if you drop the computer or the battery dies, or the software crashes.
This is partially true, but similar can happen to paper. If you drop the paper in a puddle, you're SOL, if the papers get ripped up, your SOL. Battery and other problems can be mitigated by using an internet connection to upload data to a more reliable data storage location on a periodic basis, minimizing the amount of work that would need to be redone, as the 'deposits' could be much more frequent than with paper.
I'm sure that by the time we get to mars, will figure out a way to route more power to the subspace communicator by diverting plasma directly into the main deflector...
basically designed in, in the form or extremely low internal resistance. just draw a load connected to an ideal battery (super cap) and a battery with an internal resistance. The ideal battery is like a short, so while is sufficiently charged (has a voltage higher or equal to battery) it will be the (ideally) only supply to the load.
Except Those who generate power... presumably replicators turn energy into matter, so, energy will be in demand, as will energy storage technology, energy transport, maintenance of those systems, etc
and then... we get into editing text files to update certain software. would you have you grandma do it? what about that ditzy secretary you know who cant figure out the whole "web thingy" but really needs to read this "pdf file thingy" to book airline reservations?:-)
not trolling, just experienced with supporting "dumb users" and scared of the idea of supporting them on linx as it exists today.
si
Very True, but the answer is simple, and i've said this before:
1) get rid of the ditzy secretary, if she can't use "this web thingy" and open "this pdf thingy", but that's what she needs to do, then she's obviously not qualified, so fire her and get someone who is.
2) Who ever said using a computer was supposed to be easy and idiot proof? It is a complex device. There is a metalworking shop on my campus that anyone in engineering can use, if you take go through the free training courses. The equipment there is all fairly common, but just because its common and most drill presses work the same doesn't mean untrained people should use them.
My point is, computers are complex, read up about it if you want to use it, and stop wasting other people's time, we can't help you if you won't help yourself. -- not directed at you, SI, but those we must support.
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Yes, but isn't latency as seen from the user's point of view -when browsing- largely caused by waiting for the page's data to download, which is a bandwidth issue?
Latency issues are more noticeable in something like instant messaging and interactive activities where data flow is largely bi-directional.
The only problem with the 'give software away, sell support' model is that it disincentives creating a really easy to use tool. But because no one will buy your support if they don't use you're software, you must make your software desirable, and a large factor in that will be the ease and reliability of use, which are support items. It's a kind of catch-22 situation. Support cannot always be used as a steady source of income.
The signature on the reverse of a credit card is NOT meant for verification of who you are. You must sign the back of the card in order to legally use that card, it is your agreement to follow the card's service agreement.
Additionally, cashiers are NOT required by law in most cases (even when you write "see ID" on the back) to check for proper identification. Writing CID or see ID or anything else is *technically* illegal, as it is not your signature , and as a cashier, I would be correct to deny your purchase. However, pretty much nobody would actually do this and CC companies would likely look the other way, as they just want you to spend as much as you can on their card.
Perhaps you're right, but I'd say only if this backwards compatibility is optional. I wouldn't want to have to wait while windows 3.1, '95 and '98 compatibility layers were installed or loaded onto my system, nor have them taking up Hard drive space, if I don't run such programs.
MS Paint is NOT an image editor. It is a drawing tool. This is why is has a few simple brushes, shapes and thats it. You can use OpenOffice.org Draw for this functionality and more, as well as being able to adjust and re-arrange the shapes you draw.
The GIMP is meant for image editing, where drawing arbitrary shapes is less likely to be your goal.
Yes, and as a dedicated citizen, I want you to hand those mementos over to me so I may turn you in!
I dislike MS as much as anybody else here, but they did put forth time and money developing drivers and the like specifically to make XP run on the XO. (hmm, would be easy to make that a typo)
Additionally, there are costs associated with maintaining XP with security updates and bugfixes, running product activation servers, knowledge base servers (all of which need to be maintained) and all kinds of other expenses such as licensing of media technologies.
Don't get me wrong, I greatly dislike MS, but to say there are no costs associated with it is dead wrong. These cost do, however, often apply to open source companies as well, and most certainly some of them apply to OLPC. It may well be that going with MS's deal is just cheaper than doing it all in-house.
"In collecting evidence for those takedown notices, Media Sentry investigators do not usually download suspect music files. Instead, the company uses special software to check the "hash," a sort of unique digital fingerprint, of each offered file to verify that it is identical to a copyrighted song file in the RIAA's database.
How they hell do they hash the file without downloading it??
just playing devil's advocate, but maybe it could be because students at harvard have enough money to just buy their music? I'd be curious to know the number of i-tunes, etc, subscribers there are.
yes, but it is still orders of magnitude off. A vast majority of people will be willing to accept a 5 minute delay for their text message to get through, NO ONE will accept a 5 minute delay on their cell phone call. Anything more than .5 seconds would be completely unacceptable.
why not write one? I'd read it!
what harmful thing piggybacks on condoms? ooooh.... I thought something smelled...
I'd estimate about 1 GBPS, using 24 bits * 2.75*10^6 * 165 MHz / (8 bits/byte)
if your going to go with a car analogy... imagine you had car that i could borrow and upon my not using it anymore, you could almost never tell i had been using it, even when we were both using it at the same time?
is that supposed to be the beach boys?
Ba ba ba, ba barbra anne....
what makes you think the heat is being sucked out? it doesn't go off into nowhere, it will be used to generate steam to power turbines. This steam will need to be either a) released into the atmosphere or b) condensed into water, releasing some it's heat. Granted, much of this heat energy will be transformed into electricity, but its not 100% efficient. Lots of that heat will simply be released back into the environment.
try a scanner and OCR software, usually quick and easy. You can then write up a program to parse the resulting text for you
perhaps you mean ODF?
Have a gateway from 1998 (PIII 733) with a 7200 RPM, 30 Gig HD, can't remember brand, think it is seagate. This machine has been ON, with yearly breaks of about a week (vacation), since we bought it. It has even been pushed off a table onto a cement floor while running! That was a year ago, and it (sadly) it is still the family computer!
Wow. Case in Point? Intimidate mods, get modded informative for making an opinion statement (irregardless of the fact that the opinion may/may not be widely held)?
How is this any different from digital??? If the digital systems don't allow this, there are serious flaws.
Most important: with the computer, you're SOL if you drop the computer or the battery dies, or the software crashes.
This is partially true, but similar can happen to paper. If you drop the paper in a puddle, you're SOL, if the papers get ripped up, your SOL. Battery and other problems can be mitigated by using an internet connection to upload data to a more reliable data storage location on a periodic basis, minimizing the amount of work that would need to be redone, as the 'deposits' could be much more frequent than with paper.
I'm sure that by the time we get to mars, will figure out a way to route more power to the subspace communicator by diverting plasma directly into the main deflector...
basically designed in, in the form or extremely low internal resistance. just draw a load connected to an ideal battery (super cap) and a battery with an internal resistance. The ideal battery is like a short, so while is sufficiently charged (has a voltage higher or equal to battery) it will be the (ideally) only supply to the load.
Except Those who generate power... presumably replicators turn energy into matter, so, energy will be in demand, as will energy storage technology, energy transport, maintenance of those systems, etc
not trolling, just experienced with supporting "dumb users" and scared of the idea of supporting them on linx as it exists today.
si
Very True, but the answer is simple, and i've said this before:
1) get rid of the ditzy secretary, if she can't use "this web thingy" and open "this pdf thingy", but that's what she needs to do, then she's obviously not qualified, so fire her and get someone who is.
2) Who ever said using a computer was supposed to be easy and idiot proof? It is a complex device. There is a metalworking shop on my campus that anyone in engineering can use, if you take go through the free training courses. The equipment there is all fairly common, but just because its common and most drill presses work the same doesn't mean untrained people should use them.
My point is, computers are complex, read up about it if you want to use it, and stop wasting other people's time, we can't help you if you won't help yourself. -- not directed at you, SI, but those we must support.