Nobody OLPC is a charity, so perhaps you're misunderstanding the topic, although your overreaction about the capitalization of "critical" casts doubt on your sincerity on the topic.
Congrats on everything going hunky-dory in Uruguay; some of us are looking beyond the tips of our own noses and thinking about more than our situation.
Their goal is not to sell laptops for everybody. They are making this for kids who might use them to learn. Both objectives don't have to be acheived together, and don't even need to be compatible. But kids are NOT the consumers, they are the beneficiaries of the G1G1 program. So, without consumers of the OLPC, NONE of the objectives are being achieved.
Consumers of the OLPC G1G1 are a CRITICAL aspect of the program. Consumers of the OLPC G1G1 program are also its most important test resource.
Without consumers, there is no OLPC G1G1. And if G1G1 fails, it's likely OLPC will fail as well.
Aside from that, EEE would not even exist without the OLPC project. Laptops exist since the eighties. Ridiculous statement. The Sony VAIO Picturebook (PCG series) precedes both the OLPC and the EEE by a full decade. The EEE is the next gen of truly useful fully-functioned ultraportables like the Picturebook, et.al.
On the other hand (and on the opposite of the spectrum from the EEE and the PCG), the OLPC is --- despite its noble aspirations--- merely a glorified toy, and is performing as such.
Nice try, but no cigar.
Norway has mountains ranges and large fjords cutting off easy access to most anywhere, and less than 3% arable land. The majority of the population of Norway lives in areas NOT cut off from easy access by fjords and mountains. Otherwise, they wouldn't just not live there, they wouldn't live, period.
It's much harder to cable up Norway than the US. Wrong, per the fact stated above. The inhabited areas of Norway are pretty straightforward to cable, and there has never been a need to cable the uninhabited parts... y'know, the parts made inaccessible by fjords and mountains.
Yet, they have a much higher broadband penetration, especially outside the big cities. Yes, because it is a LOT easier to cable up Norway than the US, for the reasons stated here. By virtue of climate and geography, the US allows for larger pockets of more remote inhabitation, which makes the inhabited areas of the US more difficult to cable than those in Norway.
No, I guess they just go regular bombing. Yes, 10 years ago some lunatic bombed an abortion clinic and killed people, and our culture as a whole (including nearly every fundy Xtian in America) saw it and called it as the heinous act of criminal cowardice that it was. Your linked article even quotes an ANTI-ABORTION PROTESTER at the scene as using those exact words to describe the bombing.
Really... it takes some seriously pathological disingenousness to compare that single incident to the hundreds of incidences of Islam-approved-and-sponsored suicide bombings.
all someone has to do is present you with a link to amazon or to wikipedia or to slashdot, and you don't even have to click it for the auto-login cookie to be exchanged. Those of you with credit card info saved on amazon, beware. There's no such thing as an amazon "auto-login cookie", so there's nothing to "beware".
Ironically, the most recent (May 2008) issue of the Fortean Times features an item on Clarke's recent (on his 90th birthday, to be precise) reiteration of his ongoing skepticism of UFOlogy in general (his quote: "They (UFOs, per the existing 'evidence') are not spaceships") and the ensuing uproar on the UFO boards.
Additionally, the same issue of FT notes that Clarke's first contribution to tasty paranormaloid TV, Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World (1980), has been reissued on DVD.
Unfortunately, as To Catch A Predator has demonstrated, vigilante groups set up, hide their own law breaking, then self congratulate whe they manage to catch people who may well never have been an issue save for their aggressive response. The above statement is utter and complete crap.
First of all, no "vigilante" behavior happens on TCAP. The participants go into known pedophile chat rooms (which include adults self-identifying as kid-seeking adults, adults impersonating kids, kids self-identifying as such, and kids impersonating adults) and simply troll for idiots.
The idiots self-identify as idiots when they idiotically and irresponsibly agree to meet "a kid" for real live sex, put their idiot selves into their idiot cars, drive their idiot selves to an agreed-upon meeting place, lumber their idiot bodies into said meeting place, and open their idiot mouths, indicting themselves totally and completely.
The show's only charter is to corral the idiots, and they succeed at it. A number of responsible non-idiots frequent the same chat rooms and never forget their responsibility to their fellow human being, part of which involves understanding that having real live sex with a minor is both illegal and idiotic.
Taking idiots off the internet, off the streets, and out of everyone's way is a valuable service to responsible non-idiots everywhere. It's good to know that idiot-removal services like To Catch A Predator exist, although the show's title is a misnomer: it should be To Catch An Idiot.
Here's an example of what correct markup should look like:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://schemas.slashdot.org/strict.dtd">
The documented standard uses a URL that links to the W3C's copy of the DTD only as an EXAMPLE. The standard DOES NOT REQUIRE usage of the URL to W3C's copy of the DTD. Responsible developers use a URL that links to their OWN COPY of the DTD. ANYTHING else is just leeching from W3C. PERIOD.
No, let's say thank "god" no one was ever killed on behalf of religious skepticism, or agnosticism, or whatever you call it. Well, no one, except the billions who risk being bored to death by it...
I on the other hand am shiftless but fruitful, and my lazy offspring are going to micromanage you all the way to your grave. Incorrect. The offspring of those to whom your job was outsourced will be doing that.
Actually, the black one is the babe-magnet (which I am using to type this reply) and the white one (which my wife is using across the room) is the geek-magnet.
1. Far too many people in meatspace, where direct confrontation is discouraged because it could be "harmful" or "offensive" or "illegal", or just plain painful/dangerous/deadly, etc. 2. Far too many people (and opinions) in cyberspace, which provides the option of anonymity, allowing for some degree of immediate and therapeutic outlet for stress-venting via trolling/hating, which reinforces the notion of the 'net as a vast playground for the wild id. 3. Multiply 1 and 2 by exponent. 4. Profit!
Whoa, whoa, whoa... now, hold on just a second. Kill the mouth-breathing comments? No more "dude, that's SO gay" to be found ANYWHERE? Do you realize what you're saying? You just negated the whole "collaborative" Web 2.0 paradigm shift, for chrissakes! Ixnay! IXNAY!!!!
The mother wanted to use her daughter as the justifier for the purchase and initiated that approach with Ballmer.
Ballmer addressed that approach by stating that the daughter saw value in it.
Where the entire approach falls apart (and which continues to validate my point) is in the mother's retort, reiterating her age to Ballmer ("She's only 13!"). Correct. She's 13. But the daughter neither bought nor installed Vista. That the daughter is 13 is irrelevant to the central issue here, which is that the mother is blaming Ballmer for HER (the Mother's) inability to install Vista, but JUSTIFYING her urgency for wanting to install Vista by her daughter's wants. Again, it's like telling a toy manufacturer "you RUINED Christmas for my family!!!" because YOU failed to assemble the toys properly during Xmas eve.
Incorrect. Apple never held the publishing rights to the Beatles' music, and as such was never able to "auction" them to anyone. In any case, the ownership of publishing rights is peripheral to what is actually being discussed here, which is ownership to the original recordings.
Apple owns the licensing rights to the Beatles' image, logos, trademarks, etc. Apple is owned by the surviving Beatles and the late Beatles' widows/estates. Ownership rights to the original Beatles recordings mutually owned by EMI-Capitol-Apple.
The publishing rights, which are entirely different entities, have been sold down the pike by a number of folks since the aptly-named Dick James (the band's former managing director for publishing) sold his share of stock in Northern Songs (the company created to publish the Lennon/McCartney songbook) to a British company called ATV in 1969.
It is this controlling share of the publishing rights which eventually ended up in the hands of Michael Jackson. Paul McCartney and the estate of John Lennon still own a stake in Northern Songs, as they always have, but do not own a controlling share in the company, which explains why you occasionally will encounter a cheesy Beatles cover in TV spots for Target and so on...
The ability to make the original Beatles recordings available in digital format does not involve Michael Jackson or any of the publishing rights holders in any way. It is up to EMI-Capitol-Apple, which own these recordings, to do so, and, as of last notice, those songs will be made available during the course of the year.
BTW, all four Beatles' solo catalogs are currently available in officially licensed digital format (the last hold-out, the George Harrison catalog, was just made available this month).
13 year olds see a lot of value in Zwinkies, expensive ring-tones, and fake plastic jewelry. So when it comes to deciding value, "she's 13" is a perfectly good answer. 100% incorrect. The 13 year old didn't buy and install Vista. Most 13 year olds don't have the option of buying things themselves, because they have no criteria. Therefore, the reply "she's 13" is actually irrelevant to Ballmer's statement, since it was the mother's decision and responsibility to buy and install Vista, NOT the 13-year-old's.
This is no different than a frustrated Dad on a late Xmas eve struggling to assemble a very simple toy or bicycle and not having the skill/patience/RTFM-skills to succeed, and, rather than accept his own shortcomings, turns around and exploits the kid's Xmas morning disappointment to unfairly berate the manufacturer.
Nope, the word "literally" IS appropriate usage, since the article is about video games, and it is therefore understood that EVERYTHING that takes place in a video game occurs on a metaphorical level. In this specific game's metaphorical world, your controller LITERALLY provides you with control of a killer's hands.
Just read the article in my free hotel copy of USA Today... the print copy's headline is "MANHUNT 2 bloodied... but unbowed as game earns M rating". There's not a single "sensationalist" word in the article.
Obviously. And anyone who thinks her intent was anything other than creating a disturbance is either a complete idiot or a cornpone lying liar. Anyone with a functioning brain can clearly see that she's a fucking clown pulling stupid clown shit at the fucking AIRPORT for NO OTHER REASON than to make a scene. If that's the "civil liberty" that's at risk here (clowns losing their right to do clown shit), then I'm A-OK with that.
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Nobody OLPC is a charity, so perhaps you're misunderstanding the topic, although your overreaction about the capitalization of "critical" casts doubt on your sincerity on the topic. Congrats on everything going hunky-dory in Uruguay; some of us are looking beyond the tips of our own noses and thinking about more than our situation.
Really... it takes some seriously pathological disingenousness to compare that single incident to the hundreds of incidences of Islam-approved-and-sponsored suicide bombings.
Ironically, the most recent (May 2008) issue of the Fortean Times features an item on Clarke's recent (on his 90th birthday, to be precise) reiteration of his ongoing skepticism of UFOlogy in general (his quote: "They (UFOs, per the existing 'evidence') are not spaceships") and the ensuing uproar on the UFO boards.
Additionally, the same issue of FT notes that Clarke's first contribution to tasty paranormaloid TV, Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World (1980), has been reissued on DVD.
First of all, no "vigilante" behavior happens on TCAP. The participants go into known pedophile chat rooms (which include adults self-identifying as kid-seeking adults, adults impersonating kids, kids self-identifying as such, and kids impersonating adults) and simply troll for idiots.
The idiots self-identify as idiots when they idiotically and irresponsibly agree to meet "a kid" for real live sex, put their idiot selves into their idiot cars, drive their idiot selves to an agreed-upon meeting place, lumber their idiot bodies into said meeting place, and open their idiot mouths, indicting themselves totally and completely.
The show's only charter is to corral the idiots, and they succeed at it. A number of responsible non-idiots frequent the same chat rooms and never forget their responsibility to their fellow human being, part of which involves understanding that having real live sex with a minor is both illegal and idiotic.
Taking idiots off the internet, off the streets, and out of everyone's way is a valuable service to responsible non-idiots everywhere. It's good to know that idiot-removal services like To Catch A Predator exist, although the show's title is a misnomer: it should be To Catch An Idiot.
Here's an example of what correct markup should look like: The documented standard uses a URL that links to the W3C's copy of the DTD only as an EXAMPLE. The standard DOES NOT REQUIRE usage of the URL to W3C's copy of the DTD. Responsible developers use a URL that links to their OWN COPY of the DTD. ANYTHING else is just leeching from W3C. PERIOD.
...and yet outsourcing continues to be considered a valid option, despite all the shortcomings pointed out.
Actually, the black one is the babe-magnet (which I am using to type this reply) and the white one (which my wife is using across the room) is the geek-magnet.
http://pttbt.ca/2007/11/22/amazon-sneaks-world-domination-past-patent-office.html After following that link, at first I thought I was reading something straight off The Onion, that is until I realized there was no humor to be found anywhere. Whew! That's a relief!
Oh, wait...
Alright, children... now everybody settle down. Don't make me have to pull over this fake lunar module.
1. Far too many people in meatspace, where direct confrontation is discouraged because it could be "harmful" or "offensive" or "illegal", or just plain painful/dangerous/deadly, etc.
2. Far too many people (and opinions) in cyberspace, which provides the option of anonymity, allowing for some degree of immediate and therapeutic outlet for stress-venting via trolling/hating, which reinforces the notion of the 'net as a vast playground for the wild id.
3. Multiply 1 and 2 by exponent.
4. Profit!
Whoa, whoa, whoa... now, hold on just a second. Kill the mouth-breathing comments? No more "dude, that's SO gay" to be found ANYWHERE? Do you realize what you're saying? You just negated the whole "collaborative" Web 2.0 paradigm shift, for chrissakes! Ixnay! IXNAY!!!!
The mother wanted to use her daughter as the justifier for the purchase and initiated that approach with Ballmer. Ballmer addressed that approach by stating that the daughter saw value in it. Where the entire approach falls apart (and which continues to validate my point) is in the mother's retort, reiterating her age to Ballmer ("She's only 13!"). Correct. She's 13. But the daughter neither bought nor installed Vista. That the daughter is 13 is irrelevant to the central issue here, which is that the mother is blaming Ballmer for HER (the Mother's) inability to install Vista, but JUSTIFYING her urgency for wanting to install Vista by her daughter's wants. Again, it's like telling a toy manufacturer "you RUINED Christmas for my family!!!" because YOU failed to assemble the toys properly during Xmas eve.
Incorrect. Apple never held the publishing rights to the Beatles' music, and as such was never able to "auction" them to anyone. In any case, the ownership of publishing rights is peripheral to what is actually being discussed here, which is ownership to the original recordings.
Apple owns the licensing rights to the Beatles' image, logos, trademarks, etc. Apple is owned by the surviving Beatles and the late Beatles' widows/estates. Ownership rights to the original Beatles recordings mutually owned by EMI-Capitol-Apple.
The publishing rights, which are entirely different entities, have been sold down the pike by a number of folks since the aptly-named Dick James (the band's former managing director for publishing) sold his share of stock in Northern Songs (the company created to publish the Lennon/McCartney songbook) to a British company called ATV in 1969.
It is this controlling share of the publishing rights which eventually ended up in the hands of Michael Jackson. Paul McCartney and the estate of John Lennon still own a stake in Northern Songs, as they always have, but do not own a controlling share in the company, which explains why you occasionally will encounter a cheesy Beatles cover in TV spots for Target and so on...
The ability to make the original Beatles recordings available in digital format does not involve Michael Jackson or any of the publishing rights holders in any way. It is up to EMI-Capitol-Apple, which own these recordings, to do so, and, as of last notice, those songs will be made available during the course of the year.
BTW, all four Beatles' solo catalogs are currently available in officially licensed digital format (the last hold-out, the George Harrison catalog, was just made available this month).
This is no different than a frustrated Dad on a late Xmas eve struggling to assemble a very simple toy or bicycle and not having the skill/patience/RTFM-skills to succeed, and, rather than accept his own shortcomings, turns around and exploits the kid's Xmas morning disappointment to unfairly berate the manufacturer.
Nope, the word "literally" IS appropriate usage, since the article is about video games, and it is therefore understood that EVERYTHING that takes place in a video game occurs on a metaphorical level. In this specific game's metaphorical world, your controller LITERALLY provides you with control of a killer's hands.
Just read the article in my free hotel copy of USA Today... the print copy's headline is "MANHUNT 2 bloodied... but unbowed as game earns M rating". There's not a single "sensationalist" word in the article.
Obviously. And anyone who thinks her intent was anything other than creating a disturbance is either a complete idiot or a cornpone lying liar. Anyone with a functioning brain can clearly see that she's a fucking clown pulling stupid clown shit at the fucking AIRPORT for NO OTHER REASON than to make a scene. If that's the "civil liberty" that's at risk here (clowns losing their right to do clown shit), then I'm A-OK with that.