For all the amazing work it's done over the years, it's specs really aren't that impressive in modern terms.
Which is exactly the crux of the NASA decision, for not too much more than the cost of maintenance, they could launch a newer, dramamtically more powerful scope.
This actually has a lot of validity. In my ideal world, IBM actually wants Amazon to start putting some of its more overreaching business process/software patents into some patent commons, like IBM has already done. Most corps have to pursue patents for everything they can possibly try, because everyone else is doing the same. The amount of patent infringement that happens every day is insane, but all the corps have big enough patent portfolios that it's a mutual-self-destruction effect keeping everyone from enforcing their rights too strongly.
"Stallman and his allies hacked away for nearly a decade but couldn't get GNU to work. In 1991 Torvalds, then an unknown college kid in Finland, produced in six months what Stallman's team had failed to build in years--a working "kernel" for an operating system. Torvalds posted this tiny 230-kilobyte file containing 10,000 lines of code to a public server, dubbing it "Linux" and inviting anyone to use it."
Apple's edge isn't OSX, it isn't the iPod, it isn't softly glowing lights, it's the overall style. Have you seen DELL's concept of "Style"? The big thing is to partner and outsource and break down a company into its core competency, well, I say Apple's core competency is style, and they have to keep all the parts that are intimately tied to their being able to deliver on the style. OBVIOUSLY, they are already outsourcing some of their manufacturing, or we wouldn't have viral-infected iPods floating around.
The day I trust an analyst is the day I trust a politician.
such as an eight-minute clip from a Jay-Z concert, the Wall Street Journal reports."
I'm sorry, but I don't see how Wall Street Journal reports, no matter how much emotion one put into their reading, or what background music there might be, could possibly be appealing to the pirate market.;)
I respect their desire to reduce the impact of Western cultural hegemony, but the better way to do this is to encourage your own culture to flourish, not to make others illicit. Does no one learn from US's prohibition attempts?
Really, though, if they need help in profiling people who bought Battlefield 2142, sell them short Right Now. Advertisements for: *sci-fi movies, models, games, paraphrenalia *anything related to the womens. hot pr0n, internet dating sites *deoderant (more of a public service than an advert, really) *guns are good ideas, and will sell
Ads for: *sporting equipment *feminine goods/perfumes/etc. *sunglasses or anything outside-related *56k modems are bad, and will not sell.
The preceeding ideas are copyrighted by me, and can be used freely by anyone except the gaming and advertisement industries, who must pay me royalty fees if they wish to take this BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS train of thought out of the station.
We should take this offline, well, online, but off of/. ; I'm interested (being in IT and Dev myself) at how exactly OLPC is intended to get distributed, how training/diffusion of the new tech is expected/planned/hoped to happen? A million laptops is a lot to deal with for a recipient country, especially as they'll be largely new (open hardware and software, yay, but this specific combo hasn't been seen before). my email is (oh god I'm about to post my email on/.!!) my_slashdot_username @ my_slashdot_username punto com
There's been off and on talk about a "server" / central node in some places that would provide a more reliable gateway to the Internet, storage space, and so on, see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/System_Software#Distribu ted_Filesystem.3F , for example. I'm out of the loop, so this may've been a pipe dream that wandered off.
I think for most PDA apps, you could drop the images entirely. Not necessarily what you want to do for OLPC (I'm presuming y'all are still considering a community server to host it?).
Are you filtering for only images which the pages you have include, or is that 76G all the images total in wikipedia?
Start launching cows into sensitive/protected airspace and see how fast we can get even more stupid laws passed? I'm pro-flying-cow control, and I vote.
All of this conveniently ignores that correlation is not causation. maybe being stupid correlates with not taking care of yourself? Maybe they're both caused by a third variable (perhaps watching too much TV?)
The European community have known about this bug (and there are many others) for years now. Why do you think they're so solidly against genetically modified food? This is a Thwips Monsantoi
(btw, I'm joking, but just to be safe, I for one welcome our new genetically-modified-food-created insectile pooping overlords!)
They have to sound completely certain, that's their business. Luckily, there's not yet a providor of Analyst-analysis. Man, I'd love to see Gartner's hit-rate from say 99-01 in market predictions;)
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sure it can figure out "Jenna Jameson" quick enough.
China is simply too large of a rapidly emerging market for MS to walk away. That being said, I hope they do.
I Nominate this post for "Best Post EVAR!!111!!eleven!"
We're talking about China, not the US.
For all the amazing work it's done over the years, it's specs really aren't that impressive in modern terms.
Which is exactly the crux of the NASA decision, for not too much more than the cost of maintenance, they could launch a newer, dramamtically more powerful scope.
Now, if it only wouldn't crash every time my internet connection hiccuped, and take less than 30MB of ram...
And the reality, a week later, when the boss has problems/forgot his super-cool passphrase and you're now locked out of his information, too.
This actually has a lot of validity. In my ideal world, IBM actually wants Amazon to start putting some of its more overreaching business process/software patents into some patent commons, like IBM has already done. Most corps have to pursue patents for everything they can possibly try, because everyone else is doing the same. The amount of patent infringement that happens every day is insane, but all the corps have big enough patent portfolios that it's a mutual-self-destruction effect keeping everyone from enforcing their rights too strongly.
Forbes writers need to stop watching Fox:
"Stallman and his allies hacked away for nearly a decade but couldn't get GNU to work. In 1991 Torvalds, then an unknown college kid in Finland, produced in six months what Stallman's team had failed to build in years--a working "kernel" for an operating system. Torvalds posted this tiny 230-kilobyte file containing 10,000 lines of code to a public server, dubbing it "Linux" and inviting anyone to use it."
Apple's edge isn't OSX, it isn't the iPod, it isn't softly glowing lights, it's the overall style. Have you seen DELL's concept of "Style"? The big thing is to partner and outsource and break down a company into its core competency, well, I say Apple's core competency is style, and they have to keep all the parts that are intimately tied to their being able to deliver on the style. OBVIOUSLY, they are already outsourcing some of their manufacturing, or we wouldn't have viral-infected iPods floating around.
The day I trust an analyst is the day I trust a politician.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm an avid supporter of the web browser I downloaded from IE7.com , it's secure, fast, and super-flexible!
(before you flame me, check out IE7.com)
such as an eight-minute clip from a Jay-Z concert, the Wall Street Journal reports."
;)
I'm sorry, but I don't see how Wall Street Journal reports, no matter how much emotion one put into their reading, or what background music there might be, could possibly be appealing to the pirate market.
I respect their desire to reduce the impact of Western cultural hegemony, but the better way to do this is to encourage your own culture to flourish, not to make others illicit. Does no one learn from US's prohibition attempts?
Because putting movies on USB keys is not backward compatible with your standard set-top DVD player.
:)
Oh, wait. *smack*
Prolly because a 4.7GB USB key costs a lot more to make than a 4.7GB DVD disc.
p.s.: I hope they don't program it with an option to play global thermonuclear war! =P
Or worse, John Conway's "Game of Life"
Really, though, if they need help in profiling people who bought Battlefield 2142, sell them short Right Now. Advertisements for:
*sci-fi movies, models, games, paraphrenalia
*anything related to the womens. hot pr0n, internet dating sites
*deoderant (more of a public service than an advert, really)
*guns
are good ideas, and will sell
Ads for:
*sporting equipment
*feminine goods/perfumes/etc.
*sunglasses or anything outside-related
*56k modems
are bad, and will not sell.
The preceeding ideas are copyrighted by me, and can be used freely by anyone except the gaming and advertisement industries, who must pay me royalty fees if they wish to take this BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS train of thought out of the station.
That's not the complete acronym, it's actually the Pro-P2P International Socialist Society Of Free File-Sharers (PISSOFF).
We should take this offline, well, online, but off of /. ; I'm interested (being in IT and Dev myself) at how exactly OLPC is intended to get distributed, how training/diffusion of the new tech is expected/planned/hoped to happen? A million laptops is a lot to deal with for a recipient country, especially as they'll be largely new (open hardware and software, yay, but this specific combo hasn't been seen before). my email is (oh god I'm about to post my email on /.!!) my_slashdot_username @ my_slashdot_username punto com
There's been off and on talk about a "server" / central node in some places that would provide a more reliable gateway to the Internet, storage space, and so on, see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/System_Software#Distribu ted_Filesystem.3F , for example. I'm out of the loop, so this may've been a pipe dream that wandered off.
I think for most PDA apps, you could drop the images entirely. Not necessarily what you want to do for OLPC (I'm presuming y'all are still considering a community server to host it?).
Are you filtering for only images which the pages you have include, or is that 76G all the images total in wikipedia?
Well, you *are* reading slashdot comments. Might I suggest more fruitful areas in which to seek insightful commentary on statistical analysis?
Like....uh... hm.
Well, crap.
This explains the state of the world today, huh?
(or maybe it's just strongly correlated)
Start launching cows into sensitive/protected airspace and see how fast we can get even more stupid laws passed? I'm pro-flying-cow control, and I vote.
All of this conveniently ignores that correlation is not causation. maybe being stupid correlates with not taking care of yourself? Maybe they're both caused by a third variable (perhaps watching too much TV?)
The European community have known about this bug (and there are many others) for years now. Why do you think they're so solidly against genetically modified food? This is a Thwips Monsantoi
(btw, I'm joking, but just to be safe, I for one welcome our new genetically-modified-food-created insectile pooping overlords!)
They have to sound completely certain, that's their business. Luckily, there's not yet a providor of Analyst-analysis. Man, I'd love to see Gartner's hit-rate from say 99-01 in market predictions ;)