I thought this quote from the article was quite scary:
"The Rwandan leader initially ordered 10,000 XOs, then upped it to 100,000. The program now makes up a large fraction of the countryâ(TM)s education budget, according to Negroponte."
I'm all up for the use of computers in a developed world, including the OLPC initiative but considering most of these countries don't have a basic deployment of schools, teachers, books, etc isn't it unwise to spend a "large fraction" of your budget on OLPCs?
Tourists can get an Oyster card too. Actually all my friends that come to visit get one. There's a £3 deposit which you can get back at the end of your visit but that's it. The requirement for a London address (which was easily circumvented anyway) doesn't exist any longer.
Bus travel in London is cheap. It costs 90p for any bus ride, short or long, which compared to other English cities and most European ones is cheap. The Underground on the other hand is not (around £2). I very rarely have to take more than one bus journey, your suggestion of 4 bus journeys is ludicrous.
The weird thing is, I don't really care about privacy and I think plenty of people from my age (24)group don't either, and this is especially true with the non geek crowd.
I feel is ok to use my privacy as a currency in a commercial exchange. Gmail can read my emails, I get free webmail. Google Docs reads my documents, I get free 'Office'. The same thing in most other cases, id cards, oyster cards, cctv, etc.
I understand a lot of people here value their Privacy much higher but to be honest, my life is pretty boring and I don't have too much to hide.
Having CSS working is great and all, but I still dont understand how streaming media (You Tube, etc) still stops once the window where its playing is in the background. Its the main reason why I switched from Opera to Firefox, it seems so basic to fix that Im still wondering if its only my versions of Opera that dont work...
I believe TV, albeit in a different form, will continue to exist for a long time. What a lot people dont seem to realize is that the lack of interaction and choice with TV can be an advantage. The passivity of the watching experience is actually its best selling point, the ability to arrive home tired from work(and likely to have been in front of a computer) and just sit down and watch mindless junk for a couple of hours. TVs role will diminish but I would be doubtful if pre-programmed channels(even if over the internet) will ever disappear.
I was just wondering what does actually drive this guy to do this? I would imagine publicity seeking but it just seems too stupid to be real. What's the fucking point really?
The biggest problem I see with this, at least for me, is that now I won't be able to save my emails on to the hard drive once my account is full. Even with the purposed increased storage I would like to have a way to archive my emails. Any way to work around this limitation?(other than copy pasting every single email...).Thanks.
I see everyone talking how great the ipod is, how great it looks, how good it sounds and that it even does your bed for you in morning . And well, i'm not going to deny that is probably the best portable audio player around. To me the main problem is the price. Here in England the cheapest ipod is selling at 250 pounds. Last week i bought a Sony Minidisc playerwith MDLP(allowing up to 4x80mins on a single md) and NetMD(transfering mp3s to the md) for just 100 pounds. If had the money i would have definitely have bought the ipod but for many ppl it's simply too expensive.
I remember Fujitsu being one the first PC companies adding BeOS to their PCs in Japan during the brief glorious of BeOS a few years back. I can't find the story now but it was quite big for the small BeOS community.
OpenBeOS would seem to be a very good alternative to Linux in the consumer eletronic market. Hopefully when it's ready(in a year time maybe) it will versatile enough to be able to re-create a OpenBeIA which would be ideally for these kind of job. And I don't have to start on why BeOS was/is amazing...10scs boot up time, journaling file system, beautifully simple interface, virtually crash proof, etc, etc...
"The issue is that global warming *is* melting the polar ice caps" This isn't exactly true. Recent studies shown that, for instance, the south part of the artic is in fact melting but the north part is in fact gaining ice(some article in New Scientist a few months ago). Many of the measurements in the past were only made on the south part. I'm not saying that global warming is a trend, simply saying that it's not a sure scientific fact either.
I've been using Kazaa for a few weeks now and I always find that I can almost never get mp3 with a bitrate higher than 128(while with the now defunt napster and audiogalaxy it was quite easy). Why is is that and is it there any way to get higher bitrates? TIA
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I disagree. The graphic novel version is almost as I had imagined it when I had
read the original book. It's high quality drawings and superb colouring. Btw,
there was once an english translated version but apparently is out of print but
if you are a hardcore fan you can buy it rather expensively from 2nd hand in amazon:
vol
1, vol
3.
This rumour has been running around Be community for quite some time now, the only difference is that its rumoured with BeOS/BeIA instead of Linux. Sony its actually using BeIA with E-Villa and BeOS seems in fact was born for something like that, it could finally be the Media OS it always wanted to be. Steve Sakoman(Bes COO) has been flying constantly to Japan lately and rumours of a Sony buyout of Be have also existed...everything very subjective of course(as the Linux rumour is) but it doesnt seem such a strange idea in the end...
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I thought this quote from the article was quite scary:
"The Rwandan leader initially ordered 10,000 XOs, then upped it to 100,000. The program now makes up a large fraction of the countryâ(TM)s education budget, according to Negroponte."
I'm all up for the use of computers in a developed world, including the OLPC initiative but considering most of these countries don't have a basic deployment of schools, teachers, books, etc isn't it unwise to spend a "large fraction" of your budget on OLPCs?
I know that KittenAuth is an old idea, but can anyone tell me why isn't this system ideal to replace current captchas?
Tourists can get an Oyster card too. Actually all my friends that come to visit get one. There's a £3 deposit which you can get back at the end of your visit but that's it. The requirement for a London address (which was easily circumvented anyway) doesn't exist any longer.
Bus travel in London is cheap. It costs 90p for any bus ride, short or long, which compared to other English cities and most European ones is cheap. The Underground on the other hand is not (around £2). I very rarely have to take more than one bus journey, your suggestion of 4 bus journeys is ludicrous.
iPhone can be tethered
The weird thing is, I don't really care about privacy and I think plenty of people from my age (24)group don't either, and this is especially true with the non geek crowd.
I feel is ok to use my privacy as a currency in a commercial exchange. Gmail can read my emails, I get free webmail. Google Docs reads my documents, I get free 'Office'. The same thing in most other cases, id cards, oyster cards, cctv, etc.
I understand a lot of people here value their Privacy much higher but to be honest, my life is pretty boring and I don't have too much to hide.
Having CSS working is great and all, but I still dont understand how streaming media (You Tube, etc) still stops once the window where its playing is in the background. Its the main reason why I switched from Opera to Firefox, it seems so basic to fix that Im still wondering if its only my versions of Opera that dont work...
I believe TV, albeit in a different form, will continue to exist for a long time. What a lot people dont seem to realize is that the lack of interaction and choice with TV can be an advantage. The passivity of the watching experience is actually its best selling point, the ability to arrive home tired from work(and likely to have been in front of a computer) and just sit down and watch mindless junk for a couple of hours. TVs role will diminish but I would be doubtful if pre-programmed channels(even if over the internet) will ever disappear.
Often in roommates ads, it is specified that the person needs to be gay or male/female. How different is that from a race specific(read racist) ad?
Why has IE7 taken so long to be released?
gmail now worksin opera 8.
Why doesn't it work on Opera?
I was just wondering what does actually drive this guy to do this? I would imagine publicity seeking but it just seems too stupid to be real. What's the fucking point really?
The biggest problem I see with this, at least for me, is that now I won't be able to save my emails on to the hard drive once my account is full. Even with the purposed increased storage I would like to have a way to archive my emails. Any way to work around this limitation?(other than copy pasting every single email...).Thanks.
Does anyone know anything more about "possible radio transmissions from a distant planet"? TIA
I see everyone talking how great the ipod is, how great it looks, how good it sounds and that it even does your bed for you in morning . And well, i'm not going to deny that is probably the best portable audio player around. To me the main problem is the price. Here in England the cheapest ipod is selling at 250 pounds. Last week i bought a Sony
Minidisc playerwith MDLP(allowing up to 4x80mins on a single md) and NetMD(transfering mp3s to the md) for just 100 pounds. If had the money i would have definitely have bought the ipod but for many ppl it's simply too expensive.
I remember Fujitsu being one the first PC companies adding BeOS to their PCs in Japan during the brief glorious of BeOS a few years back. I can't find the story now but it was quite big for the small BeOS community.
OpenBeOS would seem to be a very good alternative to Linux in the consumer eletronic market. Hopefully when it's ready(in a year time maybe) it will versatile enough to be able to re-create a OpenBeIA which would be ideally for these kind of job. And I don't have to start on why BeOS was/is amazing...10scs boot up time, journaling file system, beautifully simple interface, virtually crash proof, etc, etc...
"The issue is that global warming *is* melting the polar ice caps" This isn't exactly true. Recent studies shown that, for instance, the south part of the artic is in fact melting but the north part is in fact gaining ice(some article in New Scientist a few months ago). Many of the measurements in the past were only made on the south part. I'm not saying that global warming is a trend, simply saying that it's not a sure scientific fact either.
The Kazaa webpage does have a new Kazaa 2 download link but it points to the download.com site with the download of only the 1.72 version. !?!?
I've been using Kazaa for a few weeks now and I always find that I can almost never get mp3 with a bitrate higher than 128(while with the now defunt napster and audiogalaxy it was quite easy). Why is is that and is it there any way to get higher bitrates? TIA
"also was available in a cut-down form for free on the web, but they've now removed that"
You can still get it at mirrors and it was recently uploaded to bebits(BeOS's freshmeat). You can get both the windows and linux version here.
You check as well how to install the personal edition in a proper partition or make the original virtual partition bigger
I disagree. The graphic novel version is almost as I had imagined it when I had
read the original book. It's high quality drawings and superb colouring. Btw,
there was once an english translated version but apparently is out of print but
if you are a hardcore fan you can buy it rather expensively from 2nd hand in amazon:
vol
1, vol
3.
This rumour has been running around Be community for quite some time now, the only difference is that its rumoured with BeOS/BeIA instead of Linux. Sony its actually using BeIA with E-Villa and BeOS seems in fact was born for something like that, it could finally be the Media OS it always wanted to be. Steve Sakoman(Bes COO) has been flying constantly to Japan lately and rumours of a Sony buyout of Be have also existed...everything very subjective of course(as the Linux rumour is) but it doesnt seem such a strange idea in the end...