You keep using that word, but i dont think you know what it means. zeroconf is a network deamon, i belive you are talking about NetworkManager, which relise on hal wireless driver support (and was originally in gnome before kde), but YMMV with NetworkManager, its great if it works but a real PITA if it doesnt or you want to do something none standards (sniff, bridge, etc)
Erm, you do realize that the others also have regenerating shields? The only difference is that your actual health isn't in the HUD, so you never know if you can take a hit after your shield fails. (I consider that to be a feature, not a bug.)
I've heard that a few times, but as their are no health packs and it seams to take about the same amount of time after your shields have dropped to kill you irrespective of how many times you've done it, i doubt its true. Feel free to prove me wrong but im fairly sure its just a set amount of damage you can take after your shields drop.
erm the mesa libraries have always been open, so this isnt really going to bring about
Just imagine, we can now add opengl to Heretic and Command and Conquer, and it can all still be very much free. I can't wait for when I can port Halflife2 to Linux.
At most it will lead to better quality of code in Xorg and mesa libraries but that depends on the actual license.
IT completely removes the patent stuff from the license. So you can redistribute the code even if it breaks patents, but then of course your subject to the patent laws of your country
right because stoping a potential threat that can be stopped plenty of other ways is far more important than making peoples votes count (especially for a presidential election where having a week majority dosent matter.
Hell as its never going to happen id also suggest using 2nd preference voting. that way nobody has to avoid voting for their prefered candidate in case they let their least favorite slip in
Let's see...Halo helped establish a new console manufacturer in the gaming industry, polished the FPS on consoles and had its design elements copied into subsequent FPS games that are now considered standard, yet it's not revolutionary?
Let me introduce you to my little friend goldeneye, FPS on a console and that was ~10 years ago
If Microsoft was milking the Halo franchise, there would have been a Halo game at the launch of the 360,
I thought it was just delayed
In fact, one of these Halo games coming out is already a known entity, Halo Wars, and is an RTS game, not an FPS.
Wow an RTS from an FPS game, it sounds well i wont laugh at you yet, ill let you belive your dream.
A & B) thats why they are just testing it now, this isnt even going to affect the schedule they're on much. C) No there are some nut-jobs but, meh ( i mean somebodies got to vote for palin) D) Actually it was mainly paid for by a few governments. if your referring to the work scientists have put in, then Im sure they would rather this stuff came out in the testing & calibration than getting a bad dataset at the end
I very much doubt his little accelerator is just for decoration, not all research is done at CERN but given that you spend much more time analysis the data than generating it his point was that a couple of weeks downtime doesn't mean much to high energy physicists.
*I'm sure theres a vista joke in that last paragraph somewhere, if only i could smash it into another paragraph and see what came out
i was thinking this, ever since dell basically put arm next to the x86 for the long life laptop, as plenty of netbooks arnt using windows they can use whatever arch they want. why not just produce an arm netbook, sure it will probably have to run konqueror or something instead of firefox, but it could have a battery life of days not hours. gnash can do youtube now, so apart from a flash games your not missing much. you can browse the web, write docs, read emails, etc?
It was the regenerating shields that made halo1 great for me, meant you could play a risker game, while still falling back to protect the actual health. That is why ive never finished the others. however as it is the flagship game for the xbox it has the sort of following cs did years ago meaning that they CAN and WILL milk it. So given the Xboxs impending success ( pc geeks are using laptops (often with linux) so game online on xbox) look forward to at least another 3/4 halo games (even if one is a racing game)
Because its new scientist Thursday, as a teenager i used to read new scientist but as i went to university whenever they covered something i knew, i realized how ridiculous the articles were. newscientist should be treated like wikipedia, if an article is interesting link to a more indepth review on the topic elsewhere (preferably with less bs)
The child with an XO is not just a passive consumer of knowledge, but an active participant in a learning community. As the children grow and pursue new ideas, the software, content, resources, and tools should be able to grow with them. The very global nature of OLPC demands that growth be driven locally, in large part by the children themselves. Each child with an XO can leverage the learning of every other child. They teach each other, share ideas, and through the social nature of the interface, support each other's intellectual growth. Children are learners and teachers.
There is no inherent external dependency in being able to localize software into their language, fix the software to remove bugs, and repurpose the software to fit their needs. Nor is there any restriction in regard to redistribution; OLPC cannot know and should not control how the tools we create will be re-purposed in the future.
A world of great software and content is necessary to make this project succeed, both open and proprietary. Children need to be able to choose from all of it. In our context of learning where knowledge must be appropriated in order to be used, it is most appropriate for knowledge to be free. Further, every child has something to contribute; we need a free and open framework that supports and encourages the very basic human need to express.
Give me a free and open environment and I will learn and teach with joy.
you may notice the mention of a need for proprietery software, i tried looking back at the page history to see if this was part of the original version, but that only went as far back as some anti-Microsoft FUD in march, but the project was clearly meant as more than a laptop project, from wikipedia:
OLPC's stated ethos that "It's an education project, not a laptop project"
Watch what they do. Be it on XP, Vista, RiscOS, Amiga, Linux, Unix, etc... I don't give a damn. Let them access the information that you and I can and let them make their own choices.
If this were any other project then the choice of ms would be disappointing as it causes a dependence and reliance on the support that linux/bsd would not but as its coming from a project that has been more about open software than others its more frustrating. Don't get me wrong, i agree that they should make their own choices, i just think that its a shame that this the OLPC project has gone from being a great thing about empowering communities with free software to a good thing about giving out some laptops.
I think the point wasn't so much that KDE4 is lacking, although my recent spin of ibex showed a few limitations compared to hardy (some kde some kubuntu), but that BSD has a reputation for a throughly inspected, very stable environment and KDE4 hasnt been out long enough for it to be either.
Ive been wondering about this for a while, but instead of megapedia something more like metapedia, a mashup of various wikis with little/no content of its own. editors could add sections of any approved wiki to an article, but the actual content would still come from (and so be edited on) the original wiki (wikipedia, memory alpha, etc). Because it doesn't have to provide its own content that way it doesn't suffer the same fate as most of the better than wikipedia projects, starting out with not enough content to attract editors or even keep up with wikipedia if they start off with a dump of wikipedia.
tbf it is slightly slower, not 10x though. and why the fuck are you looking for speed for uncompressing something like a rar file? there are much better formats for fast compression decompression and apparently.7zip is better for flat out compression too.
why not just use classmates then. i have nothing against MS or peru in this case but the original point of the OLPC project was to give them the technology without making them dependent on anybody. Much like giving farmers old trackors which they can fix, is much more useful than some brand new air conditioned JCB.
Yes giving them computers is good, but getting them dependant on us is not so good. But its the fact that OLPC started out with a much better goal than just selling cheap laptops and now its been reduced to yet another cheap laptop shipper.
Interesting, then why did bush (sr) ban it? (i mean that as a genuine question, as back in the days of bush sr the US certainly didn't believe in mad made global warming.)
But the police didn't do anything facist they just asked her not to link to their page! otoh i would like to does people who use flash banners so im torn.
I found out that this had happened. Everything was going so well but these idiots of Microsoft always have to put the noses where no one wants them. In short: the entire project got fucked up. Long live peru!
assuming your only talking about CO2 pollution, your more or less correct, but you are of course completely misunderstanding my point that the actual drilling is rather bad for the environment as well. The rig is far from efficient meaning local species are killed by the pollution of the oil rig, the tones of chemicals poured into the ocean to protect the foundations are also terrible for wildlife and id guess the actual drilling process is far from perfect leading to direct contamination of the water with oil.
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The zeroconf kdenetworkmanager
You keep using that word, but i dont think you know what it means.
zeroconf is a network deamon, i belive you are talking about NetworkManager, which relise on hal wireless driver support (and was originally in gnome before kde), but YMMV with NetworkManager, its great if it works but a real PITA if it doesnt or you want to do something none standards (sniff, bridge, etc)
OMG, Iran is coming right at us!!!
Erm, you do realize that the others also have regenerating shields? The only difference is that your actual health isn't in the HUD, so you never know if you can take a hit after your shield fails. (I consider that to be a feature, not a bug.)
I've heard that a few times, but as their are no health packs and it seams to take about the same amount of time after your shields have dropped to kill you irrespective of how many times you've done it, i doubt its true. Feel free to prove me wrong but im fairly sure its just a set amount of damage you can take after your shields drop.
What's more, 2010 means another iteration of Moore's Law.
Which means, taking the iPhone as a benchmark, we'll have phones with 256 megs of RAM and 1.2 ghz processors
Or 1/2 the price.
erm the mesa libraries have always been open, so this isnt really going to bring about
Just imagine, we can now add opengl to Heretic and Command and Conquer, and it can all still be very much free. I can't wait for when I can port Halflife2 to Linux.
At most it will lead to better quality of code in Xorg and mesa libraries but that depends on the actual license.
IT completely removes the patent stuff from the license. So you can redistribute the code even if it breaks patents, but then of course your subject to the patent laws of your country
right because stoping a potential threat that can be stopped plenty of other ways is far more important than making peoples votes count (especially for a presidential election where having a week majority dosent matter.
Hell as its never going to happen id also suggest using 2nd preference voting. that way nobody has to avoid voting for their prefered candidate in case they let their least favorite slip in
Let's see...Halo helped establish a new console manufacturer in the gaming industry, polished the FPS on consoles and had its design elements copied into subsequent FPS games that are now considered standard, yet it's not revolutionary?
Let me introduce you to my little friend goldeneye, FPS on a console and that was ~10 years ago
If Microsoft was milking the Halo franchise, there would have been a Halo game at the launch of the 360,
I thought it was just delayed
In fact, one of these Halo games coming out is already a known entity, Halo Wars, and is an RTS game, not an FPS.
Wow an RTS from an FPS game, it sounds well i wont laugh at you yet, ill let you belive your dream.
Why are you selling a TV news broadcast on a street corner?
A & B) thats why they are just testing it now, this isnt even going to affect the schedule they're on much.
C) No there are some nut-jobs but, meh ( i mean somebodies got to vote for palin)
D) Actually it was mainly paid for by a few governments. if your referring to the work scientists have put in, then Im sure they would rather this stuff came out in the testing & calibration than getting a bad dataset at the end
I very much doubt his little accelerator is just for decoration, not all research is done at CERN but given that you spend much more time analysis the data than generating it his point was that a couple of weeks downtime doesn't mean much to high energy physicists.
*I'm sure theres a vista joke in that last paragraph somewhere, if only i could smash it into another paragraph and see what came out
i was thinking this, ever since dell basically put arm next to the x86 for the long life laptop, as plenty of netbooks arnt using windows they can use whatever arch they want. why not just produce an arm netbook, sure it will probably have to run konqueror or something instead of firefox, but it could have a battery life of days not hours. gnash can do youtube now, so apart from a flash games your not missing much. you can browse the web, write docs, read emails, etc?
It was the regenerating shields that made halo1 great for me, meant you could play a risker game, while still falling back to protect the actual health. That is why ive never finished the others. however as it is the flagship game for the xbox it has the sort of following cs did years ago meaning that they CAN and WILL milk it. So given the Xboxs impending success ( pc geeks are using laptops (often with linux) so game online on xbox) look forward to at least another 3/4 halo games (even if one is a racing game)
im waiting for a funny shaped cluster to be named the flying spaghetti monster, ramen
Because its new scientist Thursday, as a teenager i used to read new scientist but as i went to university whenever they covered something i knew, i realized how ridiculous the articles were. newscientist should be treated like wikipedia, if an article is interesting link to a more indepth review on the topic elsewhere (preferably with less bs)
OLPC is not about anything more than being a cheap provider of technology and never has been unless I mistook something?
you missed something
from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Core_principles
The child with an XO is not just a passive consumer of knowledge, but an active participant in a learning community. As the children grow and pursue new ideas, the software, content, resources, and tools should be able to grow with them. The very global nature of OLPC demands that growth be driven locally, in large part by the children themselves. Each child with an XO can leverage the learning of every other child. They teach each other, share ideas, and through the social nature of the interface, support each other's intellectual growth. Children are learners and teachers.
There is no inherent external dependency in being able to localize software into their language, fix the software to remove bugs, and repurpose the software to fit their needs. Nor is there any restriction in regard to redistribution; OLPC cannot know and should not control how the tools we create will be re-purposed in the future.
A world of great software and content is necessary to make this project succeed, both open and proprietary. Children need to be able to choose from all of it. In our context of learning where knowledge must be appropriated in order to be used, it is most appropriate for knowledge to be free. Further, every child has something to contribute; we need a free and open framework that supports and encourages the very basic human need to express.
Give me a free and open environment and I will learn and teach with joy.
you may notice the mention of a need for proprietery software, i tried looking back at the page history to see if this was part of the original version, but that only went as far back as some anti-Microsoft FUD in march, but the project was clearly meant as more than a laptop project, from wikipedia:
OLPC's stated ethos that "It's an education project, not a laptop project"
Watch what they do. Be it on XP, Vista, RiscOS, Amiga, Linux, Unix, etc... I don't give a damn. Let them access the information that you and I can and let them make their own choices.
If this were any other project then the choice of ms would be disappointing as it causes a dependence and reliance on the support that linux/bsd would not but as its coming from a project that has been more about open software than others its more frustrating. Don't get me wrong, i agree that they should make their own choices, i just think that its a shame that this the OLPC project has gone from being a great thing about empowering communities with free software to a good thing about giving out some laptops.
I think the point wasn't so much that KDE4 is lacking, although my recent spin of ibex showed a few limitations compared to hardy (some kde some kubuntu), but that BSD has a reputation for a throughly inspected, very stable environment and KDE4 hasnt been out long enough for it to be either.
Ive been wondering about this for a while, but instead of megapedia something more like metapedia, a mashup of various wikis with little/no content of its own. editors could add sections of any approved wiki to an article, but the actual content would still come from (and so be edited on) the original wiki (wikipedia, memory alpha, etc). Because it doesn't have to provide its own content that way it doesn't suffer the same fate as most of the better than wikipedia projects, starting out with not enough content to attract editors or even keep up with wikipedia if they start off with a dump of wikipedia.
easier than that SSID:passwordispassword
tbf it is slightly slower, not 10x though. and why the fuck are you looking for speed for uncompressing something like a rar file? there are much better formats for fast compression decompression and apparently .7zip is better for flat out compression too.
why not just use classmates then. i have nothing against MS or peru in this case but the original point of the OLPC project was to give them the technology without making them dependent on anybody. Much like giving farmers old trackors which they can fix, is much more useful than some brand new air conditioned JCB.
Yes giving them computers is good, but getting them dependant on us is not so good.
But its the fact that OLPC started out with a much better goal than just selling cheap laptops and now its been reduced to yet another cheap laptop shipper.
Interesting, then why did bush (sr) ban it? (i mean that as a genuine question, as back in the days of bush sr the US certainly didn't believe in mad made global warming.)
But the police didn't do anything facist they just asked her not to link to their page! otoh i would like to does people who use flash banners so im torn.
I found out that this had happened. Everything was going so well but these idiots of Microsoft always have to put the noses where no one wants them. In short: the entire project got fucked up. Long live peru!
assuming your only talking about CO2 pollution, your more or less correct, but you are of course completely misunderstanding my point that the actual drilling is rather bad for the environment as well. The rig is far from efficient meaning local species are killed by the pollution of the oil rig, the tones of chemicals poured into the ocean to protect the foundations are also terrible for wildlife and id guess the actual drilling process is far from perfect leading to direct contamination of the water with oil.
After removing the permanent damage (a.k.a health point) it just became a case of throwing more stuff at you all at once.