As they mention the damage from cosmic rays/radiation will probably shorten the travelers life considerably. Still, I'd go even if it takes a yer to get there and I get 2 full years of decent life there (and then 6 months till cancer takes me). I'm so there... There should be a poll connected to this article.:)
Going to mars?
* I'm game!
* No way!
* Send the Cowboy
Is that PC crap message all you could muster? Being the fr1st on to comment on the fr1st story on a new subsection of slashdot - You should be ashamed of yourself! Now go stand behind the Natalie Portman statue and por hot grits down your pants!!!;-P..
This player was not a CD/MP3 player. The F10 had 32 Megs of memory which was not expandible. The next verion (the one that I have!) the F20 had an expandible memory slot for SmartMeida cards (those thin memory cards, remember?). You could expand it to a whooping 64M of total memory. I tried inserting a 128M card but it wouldn't play. Also the interface for uploading songs was conected to the _parallel_ (LPT) port of the comp. It was pretty unstable. The filesystem was also not FAT12/16/32 based so it was a hassle to get the songs on the player a few yeras after when it was hard coming by Win98 (for which the software was written). There was a Linux driver released by I digress...:).. I still wish I had gotten the F10 just for its potential legendary status. BTW, my F20 is still running after all these years, while I've had several other "el cheapo" players die on me.
...after all these years he still can't find his sister and her health is detiriorating. I hear she's supposedly somewhere around the Den though. Well, good luck Sulik!
I lived in the north of Sweden (Luleå) for a year and one night there was going to be some major northern lights. The sky was clouded BUT the clouds looked as if they were backlit with a powerfull greenish-pinkish light! The night was quite bright and this was during the winter when even the days are dark and at best gloomy. So don't hesitate to take a look..:)
Of course there will be "millions of variations" (heh, dream on..:P.. hundred(s) at the most i guess), but all the bad ones will die out or just be played by the gangs that cooked them together. The good ones will attract more players and developers and thus - evolve. Also, open source software being used on a server doesn't mean that a server admin can not be BOFH:ish and impose strict rules.
Cheers..
Re:ok, I'm biting... about this illiteracy...
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Your problem is the use of Bangkok. I too have been to Thailand, and if you make the trip out to Surat Thani, Chumphon, or Ayutthaya you would learn that Bangkok is not typical of Thailand, and the people in Bangkok live far different lives then those in the country.
I was actually in Surat Thani also, remided me of Bulgaria..:).. And also to Chiang Mai where my brother lives. And me using Bangkok as an example was to show exactly that you can't take a single person/area/town to represent an entire country. Did you miss this: [snip] _any_ countrys population is not homogenous? Some people may have no use of a OLPC laptop while others will. [snip]? It seems to me that we kind of agree.. Still waiting for gp to answer... not holding my breath though..
Cheers...
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So you have been to a lot of third world countries? Oh, you haven't? Every time this project is mentioned experts of your caliber start spewing their 0.02$ around. Interestingly, that's approximately how much those expert views are worth. Combined.
I've been to a few third world countries. One of them is Thailand (they are among the ones interested in the OLPC). I bet you'll see more poverty and illiteracy in New York than i Bangkok. Can you please get it through your brick wall that _any_ countrys population is not homogenous? Some people may have no use of a OLPC laptop while others will. Just as in the west. Another country i've visited where I stayed with the locals is Gambia. It's a pretty poor country but most of the young ones I met spoke 3-5 languages.Virtually everyone spoke English and French, then their tribal language and one or more of the other bigger tribal languages. How many languages do you speak? How many can you write?
Poverty != stupidity. Poor country != everyone being hungry and illiterate. People in poor countries are often much more motivated to study because they know it's a way out of poverty.
Hmmm... Why do I bother feeding trolls....:|.. I dunno... But at least I'm also doing something instead of just complaining. I've left one laptop in Gambia and one in Chile before. I'll be on a round the world trip in about a month and a half (hopefully) and I'm packing lots of older laptops to give away. Guess what kind of OS they'll be running. That's my OLPC(ountry;P).
This is NOT a failiure of the project itself. It's a failet net-pledge only. The goal of which was pretty unrealistic anyway. I still signed up though...:)... one can always hope I thought. Anyway:
This is NOT a failiure of the "One Laptop Per Child" project.
The grammar nazi allready bashed you for the spelling so I'll take the second round..:)
Sputnic [sic] wasn't a dog. It was the first satelite launched into space. Sputnik means satelite but also companion, or even better "co-traveller" in russian. Laika was the first dog (living creature [not counting bacteria and the like clinging to the insides of satelites]) in space.
Back on subject, this here Charles is definitely not the first geek/nerd in space. It's a joke to try and take the title just because he's got som media dweebs to back his claim. All true geeks/nerds know the truth anyway..:P
I had one..:).. And its predecessor - the Spectravideo SVI-318/328. Back then Microsoft was still a bit of a rebel against the then predominant IBM. Funny how positions change overtime.
BTW.. On the subject of cartriges - let me remind you that the C-64 also had a cartridge slot and games delivered on cartriges.
I think the question is wrong. Since they compare FOSS to going on a date, then paying for software would be like going to a hooker, right? Would you "date" a hooker? I wouldn't..:P
Yepp, I've run into some problems wint the new kubuntu and wireless. For some reason it won't let me do "chanel switching" (the parameter that messes it up is "channel 6"), and since that is the GUI driven wlassistant tries to do the whole configuration fails. My solution is to "strip" that part of the command and run it like this:
I've got those rows in a file called wireless.sh that I run as root with sudo.
The problem has something to do with insufficient rights on the device. I know it's a bummer and ubuntu should not have to be fixed with haxx0r scripts considering one of their goals is to be simple at a Joe SixPack level... but I've run into this problem on just one comp and all the others are working excelelently..:)
Cheers...
P.S. No, that's not my passphrase or my essid or computers nick..:P.. and yes, I'm running against an old router which can't do better than that..:P
IANAGN (I am not a grammar nazi), but you said(wrote) it _twice_!!... ( and once in a correct way:P )
You don't rip TO dvd.. You rip FROM.. You can then BURN to dvd. To "rip to dvd" is like saying "I'll rip your tounge IN". You know? RIP, as in ripping something AWAY from something else.. thank you..
I always vote!..:P.. Did I _anywhere_ say that I am apathic? Or that I don't vote? Whare in your reply did you state what _you_ are doing about the situation? I've also done a lot of volunteer and so called grasroots work. I've also for a period of time been labeled (officially, mind you) a terrorist by the regime of one of those "for life" leaders you mention.. But that's another tale...:)
In an enormous number of cases, the difference between winning an election and losing it can come down to 1-2% of the voters.
This is an interesting observation which both amuses and depresses me. One may wonder how come the elections in the USA normaly end up this way. Also in Europe we are seing the same tendencies (last Italian election Berlusconi vs Prodi).
Tha answer is that if you give a large group of people two very similar choices, like for example in te Pepsi/Coke chalanges, you end up very close to 50/50 ratios. If you let someone choose between eating a pizza and and a rotten rat - the results are way, way higher. So the "choice" we're given is not a real choice, it's more of a farce and an excuse to call the system a democracy. Thare is a nice saying for this in Swedish: "It's like choosing between Plague and Cholera".
What does this tell us then?
<SARCASM> That two-party politics (USA) is 100% improved one-party politics (USSR)!! </SARCASM>
I've been hoping for Taco to include the "colapse thread" feature for a long time. I still think it should be native instead as in the form of a plugin - then everyone could (and probably would) use it.
It would make it a lot easier to find the next real comment after a comment tree created by some Troll post... Another positive thing is that we'd get rid of the "high positioning" replies that normaly end up in the first tree. Are you listening Taco?..:)
Troll is the ugly sibling of a Flamebait. He is "trolling" as the troller ships for responses by making loose statments as "properly installed" and comparing windows "distros" from 1999-2001 to modern Linux distros. A lot of the "facts" are pulled from a certain dark area. Just the other day we got a couple of DELL comps here at the office. I finished the install of XP just to see what it came with and how it compared to Debian Sarge with xfce. XP was _slower_ compared to my "properly installed" Debian for the tasks run here.
What makes windows slow then? IMHO it's all the standard crap that is turned on, even the "themeing" is run as a service FFS! And if you want your install to stay clean from viruses, troyans and other attacks you also have to be running a lot of "protection" software of which AntiVirus is the most damaging for performance.
Well, don't trust appearances. I have understood the workings, but I'm not going to accept that which is worng without trying to do something about it. Shalom Aleichem.
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As they mention the damage from cosmic rays/radiation will probably shorten the travelers life considerably. Still, I'd go even if it takes a yer to get there and I get 2 full years of decent life there (and then 6 months till cancer takes me). I'm so there... There should be a poll connected to this article. :)
Going to mars?
* I'm game!
* No way!
* Send the Cowboy
Is that PC crap message all you could muster? Being the fr1st on to comment on the fr1st story on a new subsection of slashdot - You should be ashamed of yourself! Now go stand behind the Natalie Portman statue and por hot grits down your pants!!! ;-P ..
thanx! I'll be here another decade!..
This player was not a CD/MP3 player. The F10 had 32 Megs of memory which was not expandible. The next verion (the one that I have!) the F20 had an expandible memory slot for SmartMeida cards (those thin memory cards, remember?). You could expand it to a whooping 64M of total memory. I tried inserting a 128M card but it wouldn't play. Also the interface for uploading songs was conected to the _parallel_ (LPT) port of the comp. It was pretty unstable. The filesystem was also not FAT12/16/32 based so it was a hassle to get the songs on the player a few yeras after when it was hard coming by Win98 (for which the software was written). There was a Linux driver released by I digress... :) .. I still wish I had gotten the F10 just for its potential legendary status. BTW, my F20 is still running after all these years, while I've had several other "el cheapo" players die on me.
Cheers!...
...after all these years he still can't find his sister and her health is detiriorating. I hear she's supposedly somewhere around the Den though. Well, good luck Sulik!
Cheers...
I lived in the north of Sweden (Luleå) for a year and one night there was going to be some major northern lights. The sky was clouded BUT the clouds looked as if they were backlit with a powerfull greenish-pinkish light! The night was quite bright and this was during the winter when even the days are dark and at best gloomy. So don't hesitate to take a look.. :)
Cheers!..
Of course there will be "millions of variations" (heh, dream on.. :P .. hundred(s) at the most i guess), but all the bad ones will die out or just be played by the gangs that cooked them together. The good ones will attract more players and developers and thus - evolve. Also, open source software being used on a server doesn't mean that a server admin can not be BOFH:ish and impose strict rules.
Cheers..
I was actually in Surat Thani also, remided me of Bulgaria.. :) .. And also to Chiang Mai where my brother lives. And me using Bangkok as an example was to show exactly that you can't take a single person/area/town to represent an entire country. Did you miss this: [snip] _any_ countrys population is not homogenous? Some people may have no use of a OLPC laptop while others will. [snip]? It seems to me that we kind of agree.. Still waiting for gp to answer... not holding my breath though..
Cheers...
So you have been to a lot of third world countries? Oh, you haven't? Every time this project is mentioned experts of your caliber start spewing their 0.02$ around. Interestingly, that's approximately how much those expert views are worth. Combined.
:| .. I dunno... But at least I'm also doing something instead of just complaining. I've left one laptop in Gambia and one in Chile before. I'll be on a round the world trip in about a month and a half (hopefully) and I'm packing lots of older laptops to give away. Guess what kind of OS they'll be running. That's my OLPC(ountry ;P).
I've been to a few third world countries. One of them is Thailand (they are among the ones interested in the OLPC). I bet you'll see more poverty and illiteracy in New York than i Bangkok. Can you please get it through your brick wall that _any_ countrys population is not homogenous? Some people may have no use of a OLPC laptop while others will. Just as in the west. Another country i've visited where I stayed with the locals is Gambia. It's a pretty poor country but most of the young ones I met spoke 3-5 languages.Virtually everyone spoke English and French, then their tribal language and one or more of the other bigger tribal languages. How many languages do you speak? How many can you write?
Poverty != stupidity. Poor country != everyone being hungry and illiterate. People in poor countries are often much more motivated to study because they know it's a way out of poverty.
Hmmm... Why do I bother feeding trolls....
Cheers...
as in "embrace extend [and] extinguish"... :|
This is NOT a failiure of the project itself. It's a failet net-pledge only. The goal of which was pretty unrealistic anyway. I still signed up though... :) ... one can always hope I thought. Anyway:
This is NOT a failiure of the "One Laptop Per Child" project.
Cheers...
The grammar nazi allready bashed you for the spelling so I'll take the second round.. :)
:P
Sputnic [sic] wasn't a dog. It was the first satelite launched into space. Sputnik means satelite but also companion, or even better "co-traveller" in russian. Laika was the first dog (living creature [not counting bacteria and the like clinging to the insides of satelites]) in space.
Back on subject, this here Charles is definitely not the first geek/nerd in space. It's a joke to try and take the title just because he's got som media dweebs to back his claim. All true geeks/nerds know the truth anyway..
Cheers!..
I had one.. :) .. And its predecessor - the Spectravideo SVI-318/328. Back then Microsoft was still a bit of a rebel against the then predominant IBM. Funny how positions change overtime.
BTW.. On the subject of cartriges - let me remind you that the C-64 also had a cartridge slot and games delivered on cartriges.
I think the question is wrong. Since they compare FOSS to going on a date, then paying for software would be like going to a hooker, right? Would you "date" a hooker? I wouldn't.. :P
Yepp, I've run into some problems wint the new kubuntu and wireless. For some reason it won't let me do "chanel switching" (the parameter that messes it up is "channel 6"), and since that is the GUI driven wlassistant tries to do the whole configuration fails. My solution is to "strip" that part of the command and run it like this:
/sbin/iwconfig eth1 mode managed rate 11M key open 1234567890 essid firewall nickname mycomp
:)
:P .. and yes, I'm running against an old router which can't do better than that.. :P
dhclient eth1
I've got those rows in a file called wireless.sh that I run as root with sudo.
The problem has something to do with insufficient rights on the device. I know it's a bummer and ubuntu should not have to be fixed with haxx0r scripts considering one of their goals is to be simple at a Joe SixPack level... but I've run into this problem on just one comp and all the others are working excelelently..
Cheers...
P.S. No, that's not my passphrase or my essid or computers nick..
IANAGN (I am not a grammar nazi), but you said(wrote) it _twice_!!... ( and once in a correct way :P )
You don't rip TO dvd.. You rip FROM.. You can then BURN to dvd. To "rip to dvd" is like saying "I'll rip your tounge IN". You know? RIP, as in ripping something AWAY from something else.. thank you..
*selfcombustion prevented*
Cheers...
Ponder on that one.. :P
Cheers.. And keep up the anger!..
This is an interesting observation which both amuses and depresses me. One may wonder how come the elections in the USA normaly end up this way. Also in Europe we are seing the same tendencies (last Italian election Berlusconi vs Prodi).
Tha answer is that if you give a large group of people two very similar choices, like for example in te Pepsi/Coke chalanges, you end up very close to 50/50 ratios. If you let someone choose between eating a pizza and and a rotten rat - the results are way, way higher. So the "choice" we're given is not a real choice, it's more of a farce and an excuse to call the system a democracy. Thare is a nice saying for this in Swedish: "It's like choosing between Plague and Cholera".
What does this tell us then?
<SARCASM> That two-party politics (USA) is 100% improved one-party politics (USSR)!! </SARCASM>
Cheers... :|
It would make it a lot easier to find the next real comment after a comment tree created by some Troll post... Another positive thing is that we'd get rid of the "high positioning" replies that normaly end up in the first tree. Are you listening Taco?.. :)
Cheers!..
Troll is the ugly sibling of a Flamebait. He is "trolling" as the troller ships for responses by making loose statments as "properly installed" and comparing windows "distros" from 1999-2001 to modern Linux distros. A lot of the "facts" are pulled from a certain dark area. Just the other day we got a couple of DELL comps here at the office. I finished the install of XP just to see what it came with and how it compared to Debian Sarge with xfce. XP was _slower_ compared to my "properly installed" Debian for the tasks run here.
What makes windows slow then? IMHO it's all the standard crap that is turned on, even the "themeing" is run as a service FFS! And if you want your install to stay clean from viruses, troyans and other attacks you also have to be running a lot of "protection" software of which AntiVirus is the most damaging for performance.
Cheers..
Cheers...
Well, don't trust appearances. I have understood the workings, but I'm not going to accept that which is worng without trying to do something about it. Shalom Aleichem.