When it came down to it the space elevator though nice, is a dumb idea. Like the jet pack.
Think if the resources needed to defend it from terrorists, or maintenance costs. Seemed also like a put all your eggs in one basket as well
I mean we would be much better off to just improve our propulsion ability.
Personally i like a rocket powered mag-lev launch vehicle, that would travel down a rail that ends up pointing to the sky.
Though you are correct that cross feeding of downers has been illegal for years now... I worry that the large spike in feed prices (corn) will cause some struggling farmers to do things that they wouldnt normally do when feed prices had been lower....like feeding the chickens the downed cow from his neighbor.
You are probably 100% right, windows 200 sounds really good. I am not IT or software savvy and only know thru my own use of windows 98'.
I assumed 98 wold be lite on the memory needs and such so thought that it could be a good choice.
I will have to post requests on the olpc newsgroups to see if anyone can configure windoes 2000 for the olpc.
Firstly let me just say I purchased my olpc to use while I travel to third world countries and off the grid (as mot of them are), I like the olpc for its battery life its ability to be recharged without an outlet, and most of all its ruggedness.
Now while I understand that xp is a great operating system and modern. I must say that I would be thrilled to use windows 98' on my olpc. . For a few reasons...
1)Suger is very boring, its like using a graphing calculator.
2) I would prefer to use word 97 and excel, along with IE (or ideally firefox, but beggars be choosers)
3) I am more familiar with windows and do believe that my ability to connect to other computers and receive files will be much more successful than using sugar.
4) hopefully will not need to load from SD card
Let me finish by saying I know what the olpc was made for, but as someone who did the whole give 1 get 1 because they genuinely appreciate the innovations of the laptop I am an adult and do use it for work.
this is hypocrisy... congress does sell their vote all the time to special interest groups... whos with me in protesting this by offering up our votes for sale.
Imagine what a couple dozen votes for sale will generate
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When it came down to it the space elevator though nice, is a dumb idea. Like the jet pack. Think if the resources needed to defend it from terrorists, or maintenance costs. Seemed also like a put all your eggs in one basket as well I mean we would be much better off to just improve our propulsion ability. Personally i like a rocket powered mag-lev launch vehicle, that would travel down a rail that ends up pointing to the sky.
Though you are correct that cross feeding of downers has been illegal for years now... I worry that the large spike in feed prices (corn) will cause some struggling farmers to do things that they wouldnt normally do when feed prices had been lower....like feeding the chickens the downed cow from his neighbor.
You are probably 100% right, windows 200 sounds really good. I am not IT or software savvy and only know thru my own use of windows 98'. I assumed 98 wold be lite on the memory needs and such so thought that it could be a good choice. I will have to post requests on the olpc newsgroups to see if anyone can configure windoes 2000 for the olpc.
Firstly let me just say I purchased my olpc to use while I travel to third world countries and off the grid (as mot of them are), I like the olpc for its battery life its ability to be recharged without an outlet, and most of all its ruggedness. Now while I understand that xp is a great operating system and modern. I must say that I would be thrilled to use windows 98' on my olpc. . For a few reasons... 1)Suger is very boring, its like using a graphing calculator. 2) I would prefer to use word 97 and excel, along with IE (or ideally firefox, but beggars be choosers) 3) I am more familiar with windows and do believe that my ability to connect to other computers and receive files will be much more successful than using sugar. 4) hopefully will not need to load from SD card Let me finish by saying I know what the olpc was made for, but as someone who did the whole give 1 get 1 because they genuinely appreciate the innovations of the laptop I am an adult and do use it for work.
this is hypocrisy... congress does sell their vote all the time to special interest groups... whos with me in protesting this by offering up our votes for sale. Imagine what a couple dozen votes for sale will generate