I have a creepy supiscion that what you pay in the US for a OLPC is the actual cost for getting you that Laptop. Or at least 80% of the cost is for your laptop, I hope I'm wrong.
It packs black and white images like crazy, though a Firefox plugin would be nice, this really is one of the best online book viewer I've seen technology wise. It's fast and pretty easy to interface with scripts, and all the images seems to be cropped.
You get points for educating us about design patents, intersting idea. The other points is just ranting though, I think it's good that goverments try to keep costs low by using email systems that are low cost for them.
No, there are contributors from Intel, I'm not sure about the two main guys but a quick google showed that one of them were using a private email for applying patches.
The problem is we get lots of nice diamonds, cheap food, fruits, precious metals, oil and good electronic recycle facilities. So we want to be there and help because it helps us, now missionaries aren't this cynical they actually do want to spread their religion.
Metro is high volume, printed on lowgrade paper and has almost no editorial staff, all praise to Stenbeck for launching that idea. Lots of things is easier in that kind of paper, e.g. you are not looking at the picture with a magnifying glass to look at new features in games.
Are you sure, I would say you can readbytes off a interface you own, but reading personal data is another matter. This is why EFF wants to sue AT&T for wiretapping the entire US population, are yu saying what AT&T is legal?
I'm yet to see a good userfirendly GPG implementation that just works. KGPG is the wrong way, you aren't supposed to have to use a seperate program for encryptation, it has to be built in.
Have you ever tried to set up GPG? It's really a lot of things to get right directly you need to know about keyservers and how to send publickeys in a secure way etc. etc. And you need to know all the commands.
To install TOR I did, click on "install new packages", find TOR, install. Change to the Proxy gateway. I actually forgot that I was using TOR..
Not dumb everyone thinks the same, but I've been using my laptop as a reader for so long and it works very well. I've had long discussions about this with an editor of childrens books, she really loves books too. There is no way to convince her or you that this is the shit, because it isn't.
There are issues to solve, and it's going to take a while to solve them, but what is fixed on this is that you can get lots of books fast (1 minute to download), and cheap.
But it's not free, it's a lock in. Perhaps these kind of devices will win over a greater mass to the Free Software/Against DRM movement.
Pretty easy.. there are HTML dumps of Wikipediaavailable, you can put them on a SD. No auto update yet, and they are pretty big at least 7GB compressed..
That is not to say that there won't be a niche for e-ink devices,
No you can't read books on N800 and iPhone there is too much fiddling. As soon as you start having a LCD as big as a the eInk devices you have no battery life anymore. There are alot of e readers out there, you can get eInk devices at $350, but you are right it's not really interesting until they get that price down.
No you can't give digital copies away, well you can but then are are comitting a crime. But you can get over 12.000 book titles for free. Paper books are great, but I love having information at my reach, just being able to call up any book very fast would be a great thing.
I would think so, of course as long as no one can probe you are doing it, it should be fine. If you lend you computer to someone and sniff his traffic, that's going to be illegal, same thing. The question is if your intent is to inform people, does that make it less illegal. Of course it does, now being called a hacker certainly doesn't help.
$24 annual seems pretty low, if you want quality go buy EDGE which is the only gaming magazine that I would buy, they don't give it to you for $2 each though... From my own experience with printing 4 color newspapars, it's impossible to good quality and sell for that little.
Actually it can be considered to be better than a eee PC which costs about the same (well $100 less). I would love to have a Solid state laptop (no fan!) and a high res monochrome screen (reading!), and low power (green!).
Bad luck I'm in Scandinavia, may be you can buy one and send it to me?
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GPL v3 protects your right to tinker, and OLPC is supposed to have , if it is in in the final version I don't know.
PS you can use the id in too link within a page.
I have a creepy supiscion that what you pay in the US for a OLPC is the actual cost for getting you that Laptop. Or at least 80% of the cost is for your laptop, I hope I'm wrong.
It packs black and white images like crazy, though a Firefox plugin would be nice, this really is one of the best online book viewer I've seen technology wise. It's fast and pretty easy to interface with scripts, and all the images seems to be cropped.
You get points for educating us about design patents, intersting idea. The other points is just ranting though, I think it's good that goverments try to keep costs low by using email systems that are low cost for them.
You need to stand up for your views..
I don't get it, if you only use a Mac with Boot Camp for Windows why don't you just use a PC?
No, there are contributors from Intel, I'm not sure about the two main guys but a quick google showed that one of them were using a private email for applying patches.
The problem is we get lots of nice diamonds, cheap food, fruits, precious metals, oil and good electronic recycle facilities. So we want to be there and help because it helps us, now missionaries aren't this cynical they actually do want to spread their religion.
Metro is high volume, printed on lowgrade paper and has almost no editorial staff, all praise to Stenbeck for launching that idea. Lots of things is easier in that kind of paper, e.g. you are not looking at the picture with a magnifying glass to look at new features in games.
Are you sure, I would say you can readbytes off a interface you own, but reading personal data is another matter. This is why EFF wants to sue AT&T for wiretapping the entire US population, are yu saying what AT&T is legal?
I'm yet to see a good userfirendly GPG implementation that just works. KGPG is the wrong way, you aren't supposed to have to use a seperate program for encryptation, it has to be built in.
My uncle was a rent-a-boot, he traveled the world to fire people, he couldn't do it for more than 4 years though. Got really hard on him in the end.
Have you ever tried to set up GPG? It's really a lot of things to get right directly you need to know about keyservers and how to send publickeys in a secure way etc. etc. And you need to know all the commands.
To install TOR I did, click on "install new packages", find TOR, install. Change to the Proxy gateway. I actually forgot that I was using TOR..
So lets say you go to South America on a weekend trip and you want to post some pictures on Flickr.. Howto access those password?
braiiins...
I thought you had 2 weeks notice lay offs in the U.S., no strings attached..
I get 8-9 hours on my Thinkpad X40 with a new battery.
Not dumb everyone thinks the same, but I've been using my laptop as a reader for so long and it works very well. I've had long discussions about this with an editor of childrens books, she really loves books too. There is no way to convince her or you that this is the shit, because it isn't.
There are issues to solve, and it's going to take a while to solve them, but what is fixed on this is that you can get lots of books fast (1 minute to download), and cheap.
But it's not free, it's a lock in. Perhaps these kind of devices will win over a greater mass to the Free Software/Against DRM movement.
Perhaps the fact that there are soo many book available helps? The problem with ebooks have always been that there is no way to get books for them.
Pretty easy.. there are HTML dumps of Wikipediaavailable, you can put them on a SD. No auto update yet, and they are pretty big at least 7GB compressed..
No you can't read books on N800 and iPhone there is too much fiddling. As soon as you start having a LCD as big as a the eInk devices you have no battery life anymore. There are alot of e readers out there, you can get eInk devices at $350, but you are right it's not really interesting until they get that price down.
No you can't give digital copies away, well you can but then are are comitting a crime. But you can get over 12.000 book titles for free. Paper books are great, but I love having information at my reach, just being able to call up any book very fast would be a great thing.
I would think so, of course as long as no one can probe you are doing it, it should be fine. If you lend you computer to someone and sniff his traffic, that's going to be illegal, same thing. The question is if your intent is to inform people, does that make it less illegal. Of course it does, now being called a hacker certainly doesn't help.
Information wants to be free.
$24 annual seems pretty low, if you want quality go buy EDGE which is the only gaming magazine that I would buy, they don't give it to you for $2 each though... From my own experience with printing 4 color newspapars, it's impossible to good quality and sell for that little.
Actually it can be considered to be better than a eee PC which costs about the same (well $100 less). I would love to have a Solid state laptop (no fan!) and a high res monochrome screen (reading!), and low power (green!).
Bad luck I'm in Scandinavia, may be you can buy one and send it to me?
It is a cool story, this is a time when you should have logged in.. :-)