As a motorcyclist, I'm both thrilled and terrified by this tech. On one hand, maybe a sensor-laden car will do a better job of detecting me than the driver alone. On the other hand, if the sensors are only tuned to detect the average Buick, I'm toast.
I hope to hell the folks in the testing labs realize that their sensors need to see _all_ road users.
it's not really like google maps -- at least, not the data in question. in israel, at least, the maps were 100% generated by Freemap, based on data contributed by the users as they drove the roads. (israel is a small enough country that you can pull that off.) the location and path data was uploaded from the client phone apps (which ran GPL'ed code, based on RoadMap) to a central server (which was always private code).
so what's interesting is what the initial terms of service for the user-contributed map data was. i'd bet that this is like the CDDB case, where they were free to take the user-contributed CD database private at some point.
as for RoadMap -- i'm a principal author of RoadMap, and am still the underworked maintainer of the mostly inactive sourceforge project. i looked into the GPL issue when the waze complaints started, and convinced myself at the time that certainly none of my code was in the current client. and frankly, i'd be shocked if any of the original code was left at all.
sigh. there was never an OLPC decision to "switch to windows". there are about 2 million XO laptops deployed to children, and they all run fedora-based linux.
you should install one of the latest 10.1.2 or 10.1.3 releases on your XO-1, if only to see how far the project has come. no, it won't be the snappiest system you've used, but it will run gnome, and firefox, and generally be quite useful.
xo-3 will be a one of a family of tablets developed in partnership with marvell, all based more or less on the moby, as a references. the xo-3 will certainly be designed to meet the needs of developing-world children -- there would be no point, otherwise.
there are 1.5 million kids out there using OLPC laptops. for example, every elementary school kid in uruguay has an XO. i'm having trouble seeing the failure in this.
the XO laptops are made in the same factory(ies) that all other major laptops are made in. the low price is the result of low-cost design, and selling for cost.
while there have been trials of Windows-based XO laptops, there are zero major deployments using windows. there are 1.5 miliion laptops being used, today, somewhere in the world. and they all run linux.
this simply isn't true. the vast majority of XO laptops will never see a microsoft OS. only a small percentage will, either because the country doing the deployment has insisted, or because microsoft itself is paying for the deployment.
will make a nice indentation shiftwidth, especially for using the indent command (>). Works great for programming, especially with autoindent (:set ai). But when programming with autoindent, you often need to unindent one shiftwidth... do that by typing control-D at the beginning of the line. You can go to the very beginning of an autoindented line with 0 control-D.
if you're going to do a lot of coding, please don't get in the habit of using "sw" to change your indent. it results in a mixture of spaces and tabs on ever line which, while it sometime seems practical, is incredibly unpopular. i made this mistake long ago, and now have lots of code that annoys other people, and annoys me when other people edit it. (yes, i could convert it all, and sometimes i do, bit by bit.) it's better, if you want 4 column indents, to set your tabstop to 4, and use tabs for indenting. (set ts=4). in vile, you could use "set c-tabstop 4" to do this just for c-mode files. i assume there's a similar buffer-type specific setting for vim. (i'm not a vim user.)
while i agree that the Tiger data is often frustratingly wrong, and to a GIS professional it may be "crap", for amateurs it's a far sight better than the alternative (i.e. nothing) if you want to use open-source mapping software here in the US. OSM is importing the Tiger data, and over time, it may become the better source for casual navigation. but in the meantime, the pure Tiger maps are pretty good, and free.
RoadMap (http://roadmap.sourceforge.net) does a good job of rendering Tiger (and, more recently OSM) data in a fairly compact way. i've used RoadMap on a handheld device for many years on long-distance motorcycle tours. yes, sometimes it takes me to a dead end, or to a non-existent road, but by and large, it's not too bad. i wouldn't depend on it to get me to a business meeting or interview though. for that i'd use google maps, and download the route and use it on top of RoadMap-rendered maps.
(disclaimer -- i'm the current maintainer of RoadMap.)
remember, these advocates are also people that gave good money to the cause -- $212, to be exact. so yes, in fact, they are strong advocates. there's nothing wrong with demanding some accountability from a charitable organization.
yes, you should have gotten something from OLPC. call 800-379-7017 or 800-201-7144 to get a "real" confirmation number from OLPC, and to verify your address is correct, and deliverable.
i don't think that's what you mean. the emacs "vi mode" is called "viper", i believe.
like vim, "vile" is a standalone rewrite of vi. vile's name is a bad joke of an acronym: "VI Like Emacs". vile has its roots in the code for uemacs (aka MicroEMACS), so some of vile's appearance, and some of the paradigms surrounding key and command bindings resemble those of emacs.
(btw -- i'm allowed to call it a bad joke -- i named it.)
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As a motorcyclist, I'm both thrilled and terrified by this tech. On one hand, maybe a sensor-laden car will do a better job of detecting me than the driver alone. On the other hand, if the sensors are only tuned to detect the average Buick, I'm toast. I hope to hell the folks in the testing labs realize that their sensors need to see _all_ road users.
it's not really like google maps -- at least, not the data in question. in israel, at least, the maps were 100% generated by Freemap, based on data contributed by the users as they drove the roads. (israel is a small enough country that you can pull that off.) the location and path data was uploaded from the client phone apps (which ran GPL'ed code, based on RoadMap) to a central server (which was always private code). so what's interesting is what the initial terms of service for the user-contributed map data was. i'd bet that this is like the CDDB case, where they were free to take the user-contributed CD database private at some point. as for RoadMap -- i'm a principal author of RoadMap, and am still the underworked maintainer of the mostly inactive sourceforge project. i looked into the GPL issue when the waze complaints started, and convinced myself at the time that certainly none of my code was in the current client. and frankly, i'd be shocked if any of the original code was left at all.
consumer cellular. it works, they're really helpful on the phone, and it's cheap.
sigh. there was never an OLPC decision to "switch to windows". there are about 2 million XO laptops deployed to children, and they all run fedora-based linux.
you should install one of the latest 10.1.2 or 10.1.3 releases on your XO-1, if only to see how far the project has come. no, it won't be the snappiest system you've used, but it will run gnome, and firefox, and generally be quite useful.
do these exist in a form suitable for whole-house use?
xo-3 will be a one of a family of tablets developed in partnership with marvell, all based more or less on the moby, as a references. the xo-3 will certainly be designed to meet the needs of developing-world children -- there would be no point, otherwise.
mlj developed the tech while at OLPC. the current laptops use (the direct predecessor of what would become) pixel qi screens.
there are 1.5 million kids out there using OLPC laptops. for example, every elementary school kid in uruguay has an XO. i'm having trouble seeing the failure in this.
the XO laptops are made in the same factory(ies) that all other major laptops are made in. the low price is the result of low-cost design, and selling for cost.
and it was true then, too. i've heard of one very small trial in which windows was used on the XO. the other 1.5 million XO laptops all run fedora.
no, definitely not with windows, or windows ce. not a chance.
while there have been trials of Windows-based XO laptops, there are zero major deployments using windows. there are 1.5 miliion laptops being used, today, somewhere in the world. and they all run linux.
note that the first 500K have already been discussed: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/11/1854205
where do you get "costs $99 each"? the cost is $200 each.
this simply isn't true. the vast majority of XO laptops will never see a microsoft OS. only a small percentage will, either because the country doing the deployment has insisted, or because microsoft itself is paying for the deployment.
will make a nice indentation shiftwidth, especially for using the indent command (>). Works great for programming, especially with autoindent (:set ai). But when programming with autoindent, you often need to unindent one shiftwidth... do that by typing control-D at the beginning of the line. You can go to the very beginning of an autoindented line with 0 control-D.
if you're going to do a lot of coding, please don't get in the habit of using "sw" to change your indent. it results in a mixture of spaces and tabs on ever line which, while it sometime seems practical, is incredibly unpopular. i made this mistake long ago, and now have lots of code that annoys other people, and annoys me when other people edit it. (yes, i could convert it all, and sometimes i do, bit by bit.) it's better, if you want 4 column indents, to set your tabstop to 4, and use tabs for indenting. (set ts=4). in vile, you could use "set c-tabstop 4" to do this just for c-mode files. i assume there's a similar buffer-type specific setting for vim. (i'm not a vim user.)
while i agree that the Tiger data is often frustratingly wrong, and to a GIS professional it may be "crap", for amateurs it's a far sight better than the alternative (i.e. nothing) if you want to use open-source mapping software here in the US. OSM is importing the Tiger data, and over time, it may become the better source for casual navigation. but in the meantime, the pure Tiger maps are pretty good, and free. RoadMap (http://roadmap.sourceforge.net) does a good job of rendering Tiger (and, more recently OSM) data in a fairly compact way. i've used RoadMap on a handheld device for many years on long-distance motorcycle tours. yes, sometimes it takes me to a dead end, or to a non-existent road, but by and large, it's not too bad. i wouldn't depend on it to get me to a business meeting or interview though. for that i'd use google maps, and download the route and use it on top of RoadMap-rendered maps. (disclaimer -- i'm the current maintainer of RoadMap.)
it's only that particular rendering engine that's using data from '98. the data is updated (almost) annually. 2006 is the most recent, i believe.
remember, these advocates are also people that gave good money to the cause -- $212, to be exact. so yes, in fact, they are strong advocates. there's nothing wrong with demanding some accountability from a charitable organization.
yes, you should have gotten something from OLPC. call 800-379-7017 or 800-201-7144 to get a "real" confirmation number from OLPC, and to verify your address is correct, and deliverable.
i don't think that's what you mean. the emacs "vi mode" is called "viper", i believe.
like vim, "vile" is a standalone rewrite of vi. vile's name is a bad joke of an acronym: "VI Like Emacs". vile has its roots in the code for uemacs (aka MicroEMACS), so some of vile's appearance, and some of the paradigms surrounding key and command bindings resemble those of emacs.
(btw -- i'm allowed to call it a bad joke -- i named it.)