I didn't think the OLPC was anything special until I saw the Sugar environment.. it's the best, most innovative software I've seen for international children. Sugar is what makes the machine what it is - and therefor far better than any other hardware/software combination that has been produced.
If the implementation (as to what layer it goes down to) is the issue.. then I guess that's up to them and their development efforts. But the fact that kids can "view source" on any screen that they see I think is golden. If not right away, that should be something that reaches down to the very core of the OS so that kids can learn down to the core as well. If it's just an app, that's a good start but it should go further.
The naming/marketing is a hurdle though, yes.
That's like the kind of sneakiness that would end up in Ocean's 11 or The Unusual Suspects. Whoever made this should do something productive with their time.
We don't have enough satire games (something I'm hoping to make at some point) to counter this trend. Especially detrimental is the steady growth of games which glorify the murder-in-war simulation.
The reason why is clear if you've ever listened to these people make their cases in congressional hearings - they get hella PAID for scamming the government. For whatever reason, senators and state reps have a soft spot for this particular thing they have no understanding of. They feel the fear and dish out contracts by the truck-load.. maybe it's a way for them to seem "tough on crime" without actually doing anything; maybe it's favoritism or otherwise; but it works time after time.
I for one find it appalling. 90% of what these "experts" profess in their doomsday cyber war talks are complete bull and no one is allowed to publicly counter their presentations with things like, oh, the truth for instance.
See.. what they should really be doing is sending them to the houses of the power-mad - heads of Homeland Security, the TSA, the corrupt officials who are running this whole War on Terror load of crap.
If they're too high-profile, then send them to someone like Paul Bremer (the guy in Calif. who got put in charge of making $9 billion of the $12 billion of cash shipped on palettes to Iraq, disappear without a trace).
You know I mean, if you're going to mess with the system, do it with style..
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I didn't think the OLPC was anything special until I saw the Sugar environment.. it's the best, most innovative software I've seen for international children. Sugar is what makes the machine what it is - and therefor far better than any other hardware/software combination that has been produced. If the implementation (as to what layer it goes down to) is the issue.. then I guess that's up to them and their development efforts. But the fact that kids can "view source" on any screen that they see I think is golden. If not right away, that should be something that reaches down to the very core of the OS so that kids can learn down to the core as well. If it's just an app, that's a good start but it should go further. The naming/marketing is a hurdle though, yes.
Thanks.. it's odd that they didn't include that in the post.
That's like the kind of sneakiness that would end up in Ocean's 11 or The Unusual Suspects. Whoever made this should do something productive with their time.
We don't have enough satire games (something I'm hoping to make at some point) to counter this trend. Especially detrimental is the steady growth of games which glorify the murder-in-war simulation.
The reason why is clear if you've ever listened to these people make their cases in congressional hearings - they get hella PAID for scamming the government. For whatever reason, senators and state reps have a soft spot for this particular thing they have no understanding of. They feel the fear and dish out contracts by the truck-load.. maybe it's a way for them to seem "tough on crime" without actually doing anything; maybe it's favoritism or otherwise; but it works time after time. I for one find it appalling. 90% of what these "experts" profess in their doomsday cyber war talks are complete bull and no one is allowed to publicly counter their presentations with things like, oh, the truth for instance.
See.. what they should really be doing is sending them to the houses of the power-mad - heads of Homeland Security, the TSA, the corrupt officials who are running this whole War on Terror load of crap.
If they're too high-profile, then send them to someone like Paul Bremer (the guy in Calif. who got put in charge of making $9 billion of the $12 billion of cash shipped on palettes to Iraq, disappear without a trace).
You know I mean, if you're going to mess with the system, do it with style..