I could see either an SD slot or the extra FLASH but both seem to provide the same feature of added storage space.
Built-in flash is cheaper than an external card (especially SD, CompactFlash is much cheaper), but a system without expandability is the classic case of false economy, where you through the whole unit out because you need to store 64MBs more, and you have 8MBs left...
And just because the chipset has the support, it's not free or cheap.
It's not free, but per-unit, it's quite cheap.
As far as increasing system runtime memory from 128MB to 256MB goes, it's a toss up as to if this really buys you anything in that the device is a limited function laptop and not a general purpose laptop.
No, it isn't a toss-up. The people designing this thing aren't complete idiots, who can't count.
So, where did all the extra cost come from?
I'd have to say inflation. It's not the project's fault that it takes $175USD to buy something that cost $125 ~5 years ago...
The very day I heard that Quantus was the OLPC partner, I wondered if their contracts to build Microsoft systems would allow Microsoft to somehow derail the manufacturing process. It's not a conspiracy theory, it is a fact of how Microsoft does business.
When has Microsoft ever stopped a company from building hardware, just because a Microsoft OS isn't running on it? If there's no examples of that happening before, then yes, it is just a conspiracy theory. Microsoft has plenty of dirty tricks, but that isn't one of them.
Windows is easy to use if the only OS you ever used is windows.
Nope, it still isn't.
Windows requires you to defragment regularly, and install (commercial) software that can do boot-time defragmenting. Windows requires you to (usually buy) antivirus software and allow it resources on a regular basis to scan your system. Windows requires spyware scan and removal tools. Windows requires the skills to edit the registry to remove stale or corrupt entries. Windows requires the time and skill to reinstall the whole system on a regular basis. Windows requires an advanced understanding of file system permissions (complex ACLs) to even attempt to secure it from malicious/idiotic software/users. Windows requires completely isolating yourself from the internet with a firewall. Windows requires gigabytes of updates to keep your system even at the relatively low level of security it started with. etc. etc.
Windows is not easy to use in the slightest. It is a huge hassle, and if people would spend a fraction of their time learning something else that they use to fix their Windows system, it would pay off in no time.
I am sure some countries will be more than happy to get cheap laptops on one side and then install Windows on them in exchange for a large discount from Microsoft for their government's Windows/Office licenses on the other.
That's absolutely an insane idea.
First of all, countries aren't going to spend tens of millions of dollars on the OLPCs, to get a few thousand dollars in discounts from Microsoft. Second, they aren't going to be stupid enough to cripple the OLPC machines they are spending such a large amount on, by using a copy of Windows that doesn't have the tiniest percentage of the software that the OLPC is going to come installed with... Everything from a software oscilloscope to powerful image editors. Windows is also quite unlikely to support things like the eBook mode of OLPC, that saves such a huge amount of power, where it's so precious.
And that's just talking about the laptop itself... OLPC isn't just the laptop, it's also the extensive training of teachers, the servers with content for school work, as well as acting like hubs for shared internet access.
Your conspiracy theory doesn't even make sense, to anyone who understands anything at all about the OLPC project.
Incidentally, with the introduction of RoHS-compliant lead-free solder, you will see this more and more.
People are screaming about RoHS a lot, but I don't believe your assertion for a second.
Tin melts at a higher temperature than Lead, which will require a change in manufacturing (and some say, more damaged components), however, that's fine with me, because it means the defects will be there before the components are tested, and so, caught before the unit is sent to stores. That could make for slightly higher prices, BUT...
Tin is also STRONGER than lead. Solder joints breaking is a major cause of failure, and perhaps more frustrating, is a major cause of devices partially working, where myths like blowing on your nintendo cartridge or holding your controller connector just the right way, come from. With tin solder, in all likelyhood those connections will last far longer than with lead solder.
So I don't even believe it's a wash. I firmly believe we'll come out better with tin soldered components than with old lead/tin solder combinations.
its role as the absolute guarantor of everything under the sun is exaggerated.
Your statement is far too generalized to be agreed with, or disputed.
"Sure, that medicine will save your life, but it's over-hyped."
it didn't protect you (and the rest of the world) from Gitmo,
In-fact, it has. After a few years working through courts, detainees (re)gained numerous rights. Not perfect, but more progress takes time.
The same is true for your other examples as well...
In practice, all it means much of the time is that when community attitudes finally change, it's more often judges rather than politicians who give effect to the change.
We aren't talking a century here, so "community attitudes" aren't changing much, if at all. The court is extremely often far ahead of public opinion as well.
It hasn't been perfect, of course, but what system is? It's decided better than the alternative.
We're not hearing from the teachers and administrators who get the highest marks on the website, are we? Just the bad ones who are trying to save their jobs not by improving but through censorship.
I don't complain when my bank makes an error in my favor, either. But you can be damn sure I complain when they make an error in their own favor.
I have no doubt there are people who complain about their bank making an error, when, in-fact, it has not, but that doesn't instantly discredit everyone who complains, nor does the fact that the beneficiaries are silent (rather than speaking-out, against their own interest).
Teaching is one of very few services whose practitioners are hard to gage until it's too late.
"Too late" for one group of students... not for the 25 that come after.
Now you know who sucks, and therefore who to avoid.
I wouldn't recommend putting any faith at all in that site. I was quite surprised to find 3 of my former teachers in the db. Guess what, the ones who's classes are EASIEST are the ones who have rave reviews... These aren't carefully evaluated expert opinions here.
You're absolutely right that the social problems are being vastly overblown. It seems most people can't understand any situation other than the one they're currently in, and invent all sorts of problems that don't really exist.
It has always astonished me to hear of couples that "couldn't make the marriage work" because one person may regularly have to be away from home. Meanwhile, before planes and trains, people would routinely be separated for years at a time, and not uncommonly for much of their lives. I can't help but wonder at what point society suddenly switched from years apart being acceptable, to a few occasional weeks apart being intolerable...
The same goes for isolation. Today we have all kinds of communications tech that was unimaginable when pioneers were traveling in small groups for months across harsh wilderness. For some reason, when it becomes "space" instead of "the middle of nowhere" people think there's something more dramatic and simply different about it.
The same goes for hardship. Why people, over a century ago would regularly have to handle several of their children and commonly spouses dying, but today can't be asked to deal with their spouse having lost a limb, is beyond me.
What is the trigger, in our modern society, all across the world, that causes our DNA to flip a switch, and turn us all from responsible adults, into the spoiled, unstable, irrational little children of today, which we expect everyone to be?
But no kqemu; so I'll stick with Linux, FreeBSD or Solaris;
In my experience (using Qemu on FreeBSD), kqemu doesn't provide even a noticeable performance improvement, even with the recent "-kernel-kqemu" improvements... Perhaps disk I/O is so much of a bottleneck that the virtual CPU doesn't really get maxed-out often?
I can't believe OpenBSD is still refusing to provide Official ISOs.
Creating an ISO is positively trivial. The file system layout is exactly the same as the FTP tree. Just be sure to make it bootable with mkisofs -b, or whatever "bootable" check-box your Win32 CD burner program has...
Not to mention that there are dozens of different ways to install, and a bootable CD is rarely the most convenient. FTP install is quite handy.
It's only for non-x86 systems that creating bootable CDs is somewhat difficult. And even there, I'd much rather create my own multiple system CD than download an x86 ISO, an Alpha ISO, a Sparc ISO, and burn each to several different (mostly-empty) CDs.
Besides, don't you know, over time everything leaves the body, so if necessary, hold the patient in the private hospital for a week after the treatment is done (time can be spent for monitoring.)
Not everything leaves the body. If you eat more calories than you burn, the fat you build-up contains all kinds of particles that have long since left your bloodstream.
And even if you work around the hundreds of other likely problems, you're still going to have to have absolutely insane security to be 100% sure that a single drop of dried blood isn't smuggled out of the facility by any of the patients.
second of all, sure it can. There are even methods today to filter blood through machines,
Blood filters have NOTHING to do with eliminating or otherwise treating viruses.
So no, nothing even remotely close to what you describe, exists.
Let's say the medication is some sort of nano-machines with built in self destruct mechanism that renders them into basic elements after a short time period.
That's going way over into the far-end of sci-fi now.
In any case, this is not a discussion about a specific way of curing some disease.
No, it's a discussion of keeping some medications a trade secret, and you have yet to explain how it would be conceivably possible to do so.
in case when 'the cure' means removal of a virus from bloodstream, it wouldn't be useful to reverse anything,
Well, nothing like that has ever been done, and would be a complete revolution in treatment. You wouldn't have to worry about making money... Governments across the world would be bidding more than their entire yearly GDP just to get their hands on one.
Also, it was specifically stated that this was a "medicine".
In Cnet style, I will guarantee success, provided only that the record labels don't pull the plug...
music downloaders are not going to switch to using a service that costs the same as using BitTorrent or Limewire, but comes with abominable disclaimers or advertisements.
Quite the opposite. P2P is notorious for crappy quality, fake files, and damaged files.
An ad on every song is excessive, but a couple second run through mp3splt (or mp3trim on Win32) and you're done.
Better/easier than P2P. I fail to see how this is bad.
What's more, everyone will probably listen to the ad a couple times before they remove it, so it should still make money for advertisers, and keep the site in business.
You have your own part of the world. Please stay within it's boundaries and spend the saved time READING Wikipedia's article on law. You DO NOT and SHALL NOT ever control other nations laws.
Why is it, when the any other country in the world uses the WTO to complain about US tariffs on a tiny percentage of certain imported goods, people line up to behind them and protest the US? But when the US uses the WTO to complain about hundreds of billions of dollars of patent and copyright violations by other nations, people protest the US?
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Built-in flash is cheaper than an external card (especially SD, CompactFlash is much cheaper), but a system without expandability is the classic case of false economy, where you through the whole unit out because you need to store 64MBs more, and you have 8MBs left...
It's not free, but per-unit, it's quite cheap.
No, it isn't a toss-up. The people designing this thing aren't complete idiots, who can't count.
I'd have to say inflation. It's not the project's fault that it takes $175USD to buy something that cost $125 ~5 years ago...
When has Microsoft ever stopped a company from building hardware, just because a Microsoft OS isn't running on it? If there's no examples of that happening before, then yes, it is just a conspiracy theory. Microsoft has plenty of dirty tricks, but that isn't one of them.
Nope, it still isn't.
Windows requires you to defragment regularly, and install (commercial) software that can do boot-time defragmenting. Windows requires you to (usually buy) antivirus software and allow it resources on a regular basis to scan your system. Windows requires spyware scan and removal tools. Windows requires the skills to edit the registry to remove stale or corrupt entries. Windows requires the time and skill to reinstall the whole system on a regular basis. Windows requires an advanced understanding of file system permissions (complex ACLs) to even attempt to secure it from malicious/idiotic software/users. Windows requires completely isolating yourself from the internet with a firewall. Windows requires gigabytes of updates to keep your system even at the relatively low level of security it started with. etc. etc.
Windows is not easy to use in the slightest. It is a huge hassle, and if people would spend a fraction of their time learning something else that they use to fix their Windows system, it would pay off in no time.
Please phrase that differently in the future. Typos can and do happen, and a small typo in that sentence could have been a killer...
That's absolutely an insane idea.
First of all, countries aren't going to spend tens of millions of dollars on the OLPCs, to get a few thousand dollars in discounts from Microsoft. Second, they aren't going to be stupid enough to cripple the OLPC machines they are spending such a large amount on, by using a copy of Windows that doesn't have the tiniest percentage of the software that the OLPC is going to come installed with... Everything from a software oscilloscope to powerful image editors. Windows is also quite unlikely to support things like the eBook mode of OLPC, that saves such a huge amount of power, where it's so precious.
And that's just talking about the laptop itself... OLPC isn't just the laptop, it's also the extensive training of teachers, the servers with content for school work, as well as acting like hubs for shared internet access.
Your conspiracy theory doesn't even make sense, to anyone who understands anything at all about the OLPC project.
People are screaming about RoHS a lot, but I don't believe your assertion for a second.
Tin melts at a higher temperature than Lead, which will require a change in manufacturing (and some say, more damaged components), however, that's fine with me, because it means the defects will be there before the components are tested, and so, caught before the unit is sent to stores. That could make for slightly higher prices, BUT...
Tin is also STRONGER than lead. Solder joints breaking is a major cause of failure, and perhaps more frustrating, is a major cause of devices partially working, where myths like blowing on your nintendo cartridge or holding your controller connector just the right way, come from. With tin solder, in all likelyhood those connections will last far longer than with lead solder.
So I don't even believe it's a wash. I firmly believe we'll come out better with tin soldered components than with old lead/tin solder combinations.
Your statement is far too generalized to be agreed with, or disputed.
"Sure, that medicine will save your life, but it's over-hyped."
In-fact, it has. After a few years working through courts, detainees (re)gained numerous rights. Not perfect, but more progress takes time.
The same is true for your other examples as well...
We aren't talking a century here, so "community attitudes" aren't changing much, if at all. The court is extremely often far ahead of public opinion as well.
It hasn't been perfect, of course, but what system is? It's decided better than the alternative.
Sadly, I don't believe you were intentionally trying to be ironic with that statement...
Wow! That is perhaps the most fucked-up law I've heard of in the western world... Apparently Canada followed suit as well.
Requiring you to be censored because the truth could be somehow harmful to someone is huge loop-hole in freedom of speech.
I don't complain when my bank makes an error in my favor, either. But you can be damn sure I complain when they make an error in their own favor.
I have no doubt there are people who complain about their bank making an error, when, in-fact, it has not, but that doesn't instantly discredit everyone who complains, nor does the fact that the beneficiaries are silent (rather than speaking-out, against their own interest).
"Too late" for one group of students... not for the 25 that come after.
I wouldn't recommend putting any faith at all in that site. I was quite surprised to find 3 of my former teachers in the db. Guess what, the ones who's classes are EASIEST are the ones who have rave reviews... These aren't carefully evaluated expert opinions here.
As always, Star Trek did it first.
(Sorry Marina... had to be done.)
You're absolutely right that the social problems are being vastly overblown. It seems most people can't understand any situation other than the one they're currently in, and invent all sorts of problems that don't really exist.
It has always astonished me to hear of couples that "couldn't make the marriage work" because one person may regularly have to be away from home. Meanwhile, before planes and trains, people would routinely be separated for years at a time, and not uncommonly for much of their lives. I can't help but wonder at what point society suddenly switched from years apart being acceptable, to a few occasional weeks apart being intolerable...
The same goes for isolation. Today we have all kinds of communications tech that was unimaginable when pioneers were traveling in small groups for months across harsh wilderness. For some reason, when it becomes "space" instead of "the middle of nowhere" people think there's something more dramatic and simply different about it.
The same goes for hardship. Why people, over a century ago would regularly have to handle several of their children and commonly spouses dying, but today can't be asked to deal with their spouse having lost a limb, is beyond me.
What is the trigger, in our modern society, all across the world, that causes our DNA to flip a switch, and turn us all from responsible adults, into the spoiled, unstable, irrational little children of today, which we expect everyone to be?
I clearly chose the wrong profession...
And to think, I specifically asked my councilor if I could have "sextoy" as my major.
In my experience (using Qemu on FreeBSD), kqemu doesn't provide even a noticeable performance improvement, even with the recent "-kernel-kqemu" improvements... Perhaps disk I/O is so much of a bottleneck that the virtual CPU doesn't really get maxed-out often?
By beaming down to the nearest planet and finding the sexy green alien babes...
Once again, Star Trek shows us the way forward.
Now that's a huge waste of CDs, and really no easier, since you still have to get the layout right, and the like.
Of course it does.
It runs Linux binaries directly, like all the BSDs.
It also has Qemu, Bochs, BasiliskII, GXEmul, etc. in ports, on which Linux will no-doubt run.
Insert "In Soviet Russia" "Beowulf Cluster" "I read that as" "??? Profit" and any other completely mindless
For the same reason Linux kernels, and any other files aren't directly linked in
Just for you: ftp://ftp5.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.1/i386/c
Creating an ISO is positively trivial. The file system layout is exactly the same as the FTP tree. Just be sure to make it bootable with mkisofs -b, or whatever "bootable" check-box your Win32 CD burner program has...
Not to mention that there are dozens of different ways to install, and a bootable CD is rarely the most convenient. FTP install is quite handy.
It's only for non-x86 systems that creating bootable CDs is somewhat difficult. And even there, I'd much rather create my own multiple system CD than download an x86 ISO, an Alpha ISO, a Sparc ISO, and burn each to several different (mostly-empty) CDs.
Do those "attempts" basically consist of a guy coming up with crazy ideas about using water filters to remove viruses, to get venture capital? Because that's about all a search found: http://www.sundayterritorian.com.au/common/story_
Not everything leaves the body. If you eat more calories than you burn, the fat you build-up contains all kinds of particles that have long since left your bloodstream.
And even if you work around the hundreds of other likely problems, you're still going to have to have absolutely insane security to be 100% sure that a single drop of dried blood isn't smuggled out of the facility by any of the patients.
Blood filters have NOTHING to do with eliminating or otherwise treating viruses.
So no, nothing even remotely close to what you describe, exists.
That's going way over into the far-end of sci-fi now.
No, it's a discussion of keeping some medications a trade secret, and you have yet to explain how it would be conceivably possible to do so.
See my first comment. That can't possibly work with any type of medications.
Well, nothing like that has ever been done, and would be a complete revolution in treatment. You wouldn't have to worry about making money... Governments across the world would be bidding more than their entire yearly GDP just to get their hands on one.
Also, it was specifically stated that this was a "medicine".
Quite the opposite. P2P is notorious for crappy quality, fake files, and damaged files.
An ad on every song is excessive, but a couple second run through mp3splt (or mp3trim on Win32) and you're done.
Better/easier than P2P. I fail to see how this is bad.
What's more, everyone will probably listen to the ad a couple times before they remove it, so it should still make money for advertisers, and keep the site in business.
Why is it, when the any other country in the world uses the WTO to complain about US tariffs on a tiny percentage of certain imported goods, people line up to behind them and protest the US? But when the US uses the WTO to complain about hundreds of billions of dollars of patent and copyright violations by other nations, people protest the US?
You think India and China aren't going to care when hundrsounds, to me, like it would be one hell of an effect.