The short answer is yes, it does effect it a fair amount. Not necessarily negatively, different things are researched more and other things are tabled for a while. Similar to war, it just changes where we expect and therefore invest in there to be innovation.
The first issue would be that you are not boosting microsofts sales by "buying" something you won't use and probably won't be getting a refund.
Plus, most pre-installed linux environments recieve a certain amount of funding from letting the company use them; though I'm not sure of that.
On the other hand: it is nice to have a copy of windows around if you ever need any kind of BIOS or firmware update. It's very hard to do some of that stuff in linux.
I will never understand why even bother with the OLPC...
Why not just use an Eee PC, it's a solid computer, and with the price you end up
getting significantly more. Coming from someone who owns an Eee and has used an XO
several times; I can tell you that the XO is inferior in so many ways. Not just with
little things either, anyone who has tried using that screen in non-ideal conditions
knows what I mean.
Doesn't it seem kind of absurd that there is a multinational effort to shut down 1 website?
Really?
Maybe instead of protecting us private media interest we could start protecting private citizen interest; a la leave us the hell alone. There have been few bigger wastes of time this decade.
On that note: Don't all pc games already have this? I think it's called the minimum system requirements?
Besides, doesn't nvidia already do something similar to this?
I mean I see little nvidia stickers all over the gamestore?
Well it seems like the motivation for it is way off and they are being kind of slippery and cocky about it. But really, what harm can there be? There is obviously the risk of fragmentation, but can you think of a time where fragmentation was at least a little bit useful for the community? It may be a headache for sysadmins but usually it all comes together in the end
But this thing is obviously not meant for day to day use and is non-functional for the vast majority of people; so why not just let it live and grow and see if something useful comes out of it. It may seem pointless now, but at least they are doing something that MAY be productive.
1. Why the hell has it taken this long to get a Voice Recognition front end implemented?
2. Who decided that tomboy notes is a worthy front end?!?! Who uses tomboy notes? Couldn't we have something that would allow us to use speech to text in a way which is useful?
The scariest bomb! Imagine: a bomb that fills in all the insert blanks in the area! Picture the confusion , the chaos, and the miscommunication!
But in all seriousness why does every object somehow seem to be made into a bomb... Sounds like someone at the DoD has been hitting the reefer a little heavy.
Refusing to carry the links of one of THE most popular web pages on whole internet seems like a poor business decision. If you can't share the links you want then many people are just going to switch.
I mean who doesn't share youtube videos over IM?
Sorry but this just seems ridiculous
and, you know what? We're not scared. You see us getting our foot in the door, and you're scared. Be sure that this is the beginning of a long series of victories.
Mircrosoft, DON'T TREAD ON ME.
Someone get cracking on the flag.
The issue however is that it is absurdly ironic to have microsoft use someone else's proprietary software instead of they're own stuff that they are trying to get everyone else to use.
So logical, yes, but it's also absurd.
I hear this is supposed to be good for the overall market, you know the fostering of competition to force both to improve; but am I the only one with the sneaking suspicion that as consumers we are still going to get raped?
If you ever worked in a law office, you will eventually realize EVERYTHING is encrypted to some point...Have you ever tried reading a settlement contract?
This seems kind of gimmicky. The price point makes it unlikely that any home users will purchase it when it is cheaper to buy a usb harddrive, but the form factor and hardware make it impractical for an enterprise setting where it doesn't make any real sense in a large distributed network.
Though I suppose it could be good for a small office setting with file sharing needs...
It's interesting how much trouble she had, but the experiment is a little bit backwards.
The issue here is the same thing would happen with windows; anyone here who has every volunteered to teach senior computing will definitely agree.
I transfered my girlfriend over to ubuntu about when 7.04 came out, but it's foolish to expect anyone to know how to use an operating system out of the box (yes, including OS X). You have to give someone a crash course, or at least give them the sources to figure it out themselves. There are at least a few excellent ubuntu wikis out there which can easily help someone make the transition.
Just throwing someone non-technical into any operating system will result in similar results.
Hell, It happened to me when I needed to do a windows install for a project, even I was on the forums every ten minutes trying to figure out how the hell the whole thing is put together.
I think that honestly if Software Update doesn't work, the machine can't be considered to be a successful model.
If you downloaded windows or Linux and could never update, would you consider it a successful install?
The issue, as I understand it from a friend who trains dogs for the TSA, the issue with training current sniffer dogs is that only about 1 in a few hundred of the potential dogs fits the profile they need. They look for dogs with obsessive personalities and dogs that have a very strong attachment to a specific item(toy). They use this toy they are fascinated with and use certain methods of conditioning to tie the scents of whatever the dog is trained to sniff out to the toy.
So the hope with the cloned dogs I would suspect is that they think the personality traits of these dogs might be a genetic predisposition.
So in other words if it works out, even 95% fail rate is better than the 99+% chance that they have to find a dog through normal screening methods.
Haha, trust me the irony of it is disgusting.
I almost couldn't take the class because of it, but I scraped together some spare parts and have a little XP box that I made to do it. It's really a shame because the software is actually pretty good. I tried to get it to run in WINE, but I'm not so good with the WINE so it only got to about half working, I'm sure if someone who knew what they where doing they could get it to run.
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The short answer is yes, it does effect it a fair amount. Not necessarily negatively, different things are researched more and other things are tabled for a while. Similar to war, it just changes where we expect and therefore invest in there to be innovation.
Please, a lot of major distros don't have that. Ubuntu doesn't even have gcc by default!
I actually have never used a something, so fortunately I have "something" trademarked. I want my $.002. You'll be hearing from my lawyer.
The first issue would be that you are not boosting microsofts sales by "buying" something you won't use and probably won't be getting a refund.
Plus, most pre-installed linux environments recieve a certain amount of funding from letting the company use them; though I'm not sure of that. On the other hand: it is nice to have a copy of windows around if you ever need any kind of BIOS or firmware update. It's very hard to do some of that stuff in linux.
I will never understand why even bother with the OLPC...
Why not just use an Eee PC, it's a solid computer, and with the price you end up getting significantly more. Coming from someone who owns an Eee and has used an XO several times; I can tell you that the XO is inferior in so many ways. Not just with little things either, anyone who has tried using that screen in non-ideal conditions knows what I mean.
What he said.
How about the "help pay off Amon's student loans" fund? Or wait, How about the "help Amon get a copy of guitar hero" fund"?
Doesn't it seem kind of absurd that there is a multinational effort to shut down 1 website?
Really?
Maybe instead of protecting us private media interest we could start protecting private citizen interest; a la leave us the hell alone. There have been few bigger wastes of time this decade.
On that note: Don't all pc games already have this? I think it's called the minimum system requirements? Besides, doesn't nvidia already do something similar to this?
I mean I see little nvidia stickers all over the gamestore?
Well it seems like the motivation for it is way off and they are being kind of slippery and cocky about it. But really, what harm can there be? There is obviously the risk of fragmentation, but can you think of a time where fragmentation was at least a little bit useful for the community? It may be a headache for sysadmins but usually it all comes together in the end
But this thing is obviously not meant for day to day use and is non-functional for the vast majority of people; so why not just let it live and grow and see if something useful comes out of it. It may seem pointless now, but at least they are doing something that MAY be productive.
I wish I could light you on fire with my mind.
I'm sorry but Gnostech is probably the most hilarious pun I've seen on Slashdot in a while.
1. Why the hell has it taken this long to get a Voice Recognition front end implemented?
2. Who decided that tomboy notes is a worthy front end?!?! Who uses tomboy notes? Couldn't we have something that would allow us to use speech to text in a way which is useful?
The scariest bomb! Imagine: a bomb that fills in all the insert blanks in the area! Picture the confusion , the chaos, and the miscommunication! But in all seriousness why does every object somehow seem to be made into a bomb... Sounds like someone at the DoD has been hitting the reefer a little heavy.
Refusing to carry the links of one of THE most popular web pages on whole internet seems like a poor business decision. If you can't share the links you want then many people are just going to switch.
I mean who doesn't share youtube videos over IM?
Sorry but this just seems ridiculous
and, you know what? We're not scared. You see us getting our foot in the door, and you're scared. Be sure that this is the beginning of a long series of victories.
Mircrosoft, DON'T TREAD ON ME. Someone get cracking on the flag.
The issue however is that it is absurdly ironic to have microsoft use someone else's proprietary software instead of they're own stuff that they are trying to get everyone else to use.
So logical, yes, but it's also absurd.
I hear this is supposed to be good for the overall market, you know the fostering of competition to force both to improve; but am I the only one with the sneaking suspicion that as consumers we are still going to get raped?
Which I guess is kind of like saying "nothing will work"
If you ever worked in a law office, you will eventually realize EVERYTHING is encrypted to some point...Have you ever tried reading a settlement contract?
Though I suppose it could be good for a small office setting with file sharing needs...
So theres that..
It's interesting how much trouble she had, but the experiment is a little bit backwards. The issue here is the same thing would happen with windows; anyone here who has every volunteered to teach senior computing will definitely agree. I transfered my girlfriend over to ubuntu about when 7.04 came out, but it's foolish to expect anyone to know how to use an operating system out of the box (yes, including OS X). You have to give someone a crash course, or at least give them the sources to figure it out themselves. There are at least a few excellent ubuntu wikis out there which can easily help someone make the transition. Just throwing someone non-technical into any operating system will result in similar results. Hell, It happened to me when I needed to do a windows install for a project, even I was on the forums every ten minutes trying to figure out how the hell the whole thing is put together.
I think that honestly if Software Update doesn't work, the machine can't be considered to be a successful model. If you downloaded windows or Linux and could never update, would you consider it a successful install?
The issue, as I understand it from a friend who trains dogs for the TSA, the issue with training current sniffer dogs is that only about 1 in a few hundred of the potential dogs fits the profile they need. They look for dogs with obsessive personalities and dogs that have a very strong attachment to a specific item(toy). They use this toy they are fascinated with and use certain methods of conditioning to tie the scents of whatever the dog is trained to sniff out to the toy. So the hope with the cloned dogs I would suspect is that they think the personality traits of these dogs might be a genetic predisposition. So in other words if it works out, even 95% fail rate is better than the 99+% chance that they have to find a dog through normal screening methods.
Haha, trust me the irony of it is disgusting. I almost couldn't take the class because of it, but I scraped together some spare parts and have a little XP box that I made to do it. It's really a shame because the software is actually pretty good. I tried to get it to run in WINE, but I'm not so good with the WINE so it only got to about half working, I'm sure if someone who knew what they where doing they could get it to run.