I'm afraid that you weren't thinking very clearly when you posted, but I'm sure that you will find it helpful to closely re-read and thoughtfully contemplate the posts in question (especially #53 and #60), consulting a dictionary if you encounter any unfamiliar terms.
> The pictures of her with the robot caught my eye at first...
I don't think you realize that a thread of comments on someone's appearance is not appropriate in this context. Having to put up with stuff like that can get really old, and discourage women from participating in the "community". In case you hadn't yet realized it, Mrs. Breazeal has damned impressive techie credentials. (And she probably has better aesthetic sense than you do, as well.)
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Thad Starner, Brad Rhodes, and Steve Mann were/are some of the key people in the wearable computers work at the MIT Media Lab.
Thad and Steve have graduated and gone on to professorships. Brad is still at the Media Lab, and is working on various agent-based interfaces for wearables and computers in general. Of course he runs Linux on his wearable,:) and makes the source to one of his projects, the Remembrance Agent, freely available.
First of all, "asking for Linux community input" is an obvious way to manipulate the opinions of the (loosely-defined) Linux community. Often it's an honest request for input; often only partly so, or not at all.
Second, Microsoft can use a large response as ammunition to support the story that Linux isn't a serious business platform because it doesn't have Microsoft apps.
Third, if Microsoft *does* get Office on Linux, it will use that as leverage to kill other possible application solutions, and then will further use Office as a foothold to get proprietary frameworks atop Linux. It will be difficult (though not impossible) to prevent that. Isn't this kind of monopoly leverage what many Linux people have been trying to avoid?
(BTW, I have talked with Simson Garfinkel several times, and he seems like a good guy, but I think he's inadvertently helping Microsoft more than Linux this time.)
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I'm afraid that you weren't thinking very clearly when you posted, but I'm sure that you will find it helpful to closely re-read and thoughtfully contemplate the posts in question (especially #53 and #60), consulting a dictionary if you encounter any unfamiliar terms.
> The pictures of her with the robot caught my eye at first...
I don't think you realize that a thread of comments on someone's appearance is not appropriate in this context. Having to put up with stuff like that can get really old, and discourage women from participating in the "community". In case you hadn't yet realized it, Mrs. Breazeal has damned impressive techie credentials. (And she probably has better aesthetic sense than you do, as well.)
Thad Starner, Brad Rhodes, and Steve Mann were/are
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some of the key people in the wearable computers
work at the MIT Media Lab.
Thad and Steve have graduated and gone on to
professorships. Brad is still at the Media Lab,
and is working on various agent-based interfaces
for wearables and computers in general. Of
course he runs Linux on his wearable,
makes the source to one of his projects, the
Remembrance Agent, freely available.
http://wearables.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wea
http://rhodes.www.media.mit.edu/people/rhodes/R
First of all, "asking for Linux community input"
is an obvious way to manipulate the opinions of
the (loosely-defined) Linux community. Often it's
an honest request for input; often only partly so,
or not at all.
Second, Microsoft can use a large response as
ammunition to support the story that Linux isn't
a serious business platform because it doesn't
have Microsoft apps.
Third, if Microsoft *does* get Office on Linux, it
will use that as leverage to kill other possible
application solutions, and then will further use
Office as a foothold to get proprietary frameworks
atop Linux. It will be difficult (though not
impossible) to prevent that. Isn't this kind of
monopoly leverage what many Linux people have been
trying to avoid?
(BTW, I have talked with Simson Garfinkel several
times, and he seems like a good guy, but I think
he's inadvertently helping Microsoft more than
Linux this time.)