I've always wondered why don't they just place the servers in places where it's cold all the year, imagine how much power they could save by using ducts to distribute the cold air from the outside in the server room. I mean, a solution like this can't be that hard to implement!
Yeah, it's quite disappointing to see the OLPC project's initial premises destroyed like this.
Negroponte shouldn't have allowed this. And not only he did, he now seems to be encouraging it.
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 - October 3, 1967) was an American songwriter and folk musician. Guthrie's musical legacy consists of hundreds of songs, ballads and improvised works covering topics from political themes to traditional songs to children's songs. Guthrie performed continually throughout his life with his guitar frequently displaying the slogan "This Machine Kills Fascists". Guthrie is perhaps best known for his song "This Land Is Your Land" which is regularly sung in American schools. Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress.
This device brought to my mind the concept of R speed from the HitchHiker's Guide to the galaxy:
R is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental wellbeing and not being more than say five minutes late. It is therefore clearly an almost infinitely variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed taken as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers and even death.
The first format to release cheap burners will be the definite winner here, it's always been that way, just check all the amazing storage devices that have already become extinct because of the lack of a cheap writing device.
I then used my contacts from the '90s to land me a position in my current company as a supervisor where I was quickly promoted to DM based on my attitude, work ethic knowledges of the business and results.
Wow man, must be cool to work as a Dungeon Master, I don't see how this is related to the IT management stuff though...
Yeah, but he was forced to take some hormones or something after being accused of being gay, maybe that caused the imbalance that led to his suicide.
Terrible loss anyway...
I automatically associate wikipedia with the HitchHiker's Guide to the galaxy, and Encyclopedia britannica with Encyclopedia Galactica.
Seriously, seems like Adams saw the future on that one.
'The electronic I Ching calculator was badly made. It had probably been manufactured in whichever of the South-East Asian countries was busy tooling up to do to South Korea what South Korea was busy doing to Japan. Glue technology had obviously not progressed in that country to the point where things could be successfully held together with it. Already the back had half fallen off and needed to be stuck back on with Sellotape.'
'It was much like an ordinary pocket calculator, except that the LCD screen was a little larger than usual, in order to accommodate the abridged judgments of King Wen on each of the sixty-four hexagrams, and also the commentaries of his son, the Duke of Chou, on each of the lines of the hexagram. These were unusual texts to see marching across the display of a pocket calculator, particularly as they had been translated from the Chinese via the Japanese and seemed to have enjoyed many adventures on the way.'
'The device also functioned as an ordinary calculator, but only to a limited degree. It could handle any calculation which returned an answer of anything up to "4".'
'"1 + 1" it could manage ("2"), and "1 + 2" ("3") and "2 + 2" ("4") or "tan 74" ("3.4874145"), but anything above "4" it represented merely as "A Suffusion of Yellow". Dirk was not certain if this was a programming error or an insight beyond his ability to fathom, but he was crazy about it anyway, enough to hand over £20 of ready cash for the thing.'
I think parents are responsible for their kids protection, I mean, nowadays some parents expect TV and Internet to raise their children for them, and then they complain about the dangers of such things.
I mean, it's true, internet is full of dangers to kids, but those dangers can be eliminated with some adequate parenting, after all, it's easier than making the whole internet safe for children, isn't it?
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Replacing solitaire with blackjack, and hookers...
sorry, I meant mbps and kbps :P
Oh, and the service is quite unstable, no matter which company you choose
Wow, I live in Argentina, here we pay US$30 for a 1mb down 64/128kb up connection :'(
I've always wondered why don't they just place the servers in places where it's cold all the year, imagine how much power they could save by using ducts to distribute the cold air from the outside in the server room. I mean, a solution like this can't be that hard to implement!
I'll second that. And add a no flash option also. God I hate it, mostly because flash designers want to use it on everything.
Wait, so LOLPython didn't make it?
http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2007/06/01/lolpython.html
Yeah, it's quite disappointing to see the OLPC project's initial premises destroyed like this.
Negroponte shouldn't have allowed this. And not only he did, he now seems to be encouraging it.
Well, that's just plain wrong. Seriously...
May I suggest PP?
I imagine it could be used to cheat on exams also :P
Students of the future may have to wear the mandatory tinfoil hat while taking an exam!
Don't worry, they're working on that. See http://www.aolcdn.com/red_galleries/michael-jackson-400a052307.jpg
R is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental wellbeing and not being more than say five minutes late. It is therefore clearly an almost infinitely variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed taken as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers and even death.
If I had $100B I'd spend it on blackjack and hookers!
In fact, forget about blackjack.
Yeah, besides, this is like the 5th article about the fibre cut in the last three days. It's becoming quite uninteresting...
The first format to release cheap burners will be the definite winner here, it's always been that way, just check all the amazing storage devices that have already become extinct because of the lack of a cheap writing device.
Mr Gates, don't get mad, it's just a comment!
Wow man, must be cool to work as a Dungeon Master, I don't see how this is related to the IT management stuff though...
Yeah, but he was forced to take some hormones or something after being accused of being gay, maybe that caused the imbalance that led to his suicide.
Terrible loss anyway...
May I suggest the Chewbacca Defense?
I read the title as Penis Sized Flash Module, and thought intel was trying a different approach to get a bigger share of the ladies market...
I automatically associate wikipedia with the HitchHiker's Guide to the galaxy, and Encyclopedia britannica with Encyclopedia Galactica.
Seriously, seems like Adams saw the future on that one.
May be the only case in which the phrase "it's not a bug, it's a feature!" is not applicable... or is it?
I think parents are responsible for their kids protection, I mean, nowadays some parents expect TV and Internet to raise their children for them, and then they complain about the dangers of such things.
I mean, it's true, internet is full of dangers to kids, but those dangers can be eliminated with some adequate parenting, after all, it's easier than making the whole internet safe for children, isn't it?