One Laptop per child has emulators for regular PCs and their software is ideally suited to a small child: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_components
They even have a "live boot" based on Fedora Linux
Remember the biblical "Woman taken in the very act of adultery"?
Likely SHE was 12 years old and reaped by a much older and (based on the culture of the times).
WHERE WAS THE MAN? Can you say "scarlet letter?"
How about WW I veterans who were "guilty" of "cowardice" after 4 years in the trenches?
"BLAME THE VICTIM" sure does make things look much nicer. *I* am not to blame, so *I* can just ignore the problem because it is only the "lessre races" who are "at fault".
SOME of us call this RACIST!
I haven't eaten a "Twinkie" or anything of the sort in 40 years!
Yes I AM forced to eat, like it or not.
At the time I lived on a sailboat and typically walked 4-5 mile/day for as long as I was able.
As I recall S$500
To be fair it is not the amount of the fine, it is a "collision of cultures" where Singapore has significant numbers of immigrant workers who have never even seen toilets!
If it is a law they will obey it, if it is just a strange new custom they won't!
One of the problems with obesity is that like rape it has a large chorus of "blame the victim" from the totally clueless!
I used to weight 450 lb and it took a massive effort (including WL surgery) to ge tme down to 200lb again!
DO NOT blame the victims, it is an easy excuse which solves NOTHING!
No reality is that THEY get to "invest" $1M+ of your money (typically at 4% return) to be "high net worth".
Having $10M invested at a reasonable return (say 7% - meaning somewhere ELSE!) doesn't count...
"Nonsense. Appeal to authority is one of the standard logical fallacies. "
It reaches the absolute pinnacle when the "authority" is a paper that the author published some time ago!
I actually had this happen as "proof" that I was wrong once.
FWIW The Pentagon didn't buy his argument after I pointed this out!
There are SOME active brain cell in that building!
Actually I would like a list of the BOTTOM 10 or so!
I want a job that leaves me doing NOTHING while I collect a paycheck until I get fired for no reason.
That way i can take 7 or 8 such jobs and make LOTS of $$$
ROTFL LMAO!
As one of the 50(??) people to have lived in Arizona since then, I remember the (then) Phoenix traffic engineer expound at great length about the EVILS of left turns and especially the COMMUNIST PLOT of LEFT TURN ARROWS!
As I recall he considered LEFT turns to be some sort of COMMUNIST PLOT (OOOOH!) so he carefully desinged every intersection to make LEFT turns as difficult as possible.
This did wonders for the numbers of anyone who did not need to make an (EVIL) LEFT turn!
"Subversives", "Snowbirds" and "Illegals" however got the punishment they richly deserved for "choosing" such a terrible "lifestyle".
Sigh - so many snowbirds, so little freezer space.
"Welcome to Arizona - leave your money and GO HOME"
In Scottsdale Az the lights are deliberately set to stop you at EVERY intersection!
WHY you ask?
According to the chief traffic engineer "So you will be "encouraged" to stop and shop at the local businesses along the way!!"
Yes I actually heard this from his lips! Although his head did seem a little strange from a bad case of "recto-cranial inversion".
I NEVER shop in Scottsdale because of this!
How is this different from the system that Metro Toronto put in place CA 1960?
There was a huge fuss about the "waste of money" until they took the system down to relocate the central computer.
The streets were so clogged that the Metro govt spent many millions to cut the down time by a few weeks.
The algorithm was simple - it "bunched" the traffic then tried to increase the probability that each "bunch" would get a green light at the next traffic light.
Not only did it effectively add an extra lane of traffic to every street, it effectively eliminated speeding! If you got ahead of your "bunch" then you got held up at the next light until your (legal speed limit) "bunch" caught up!
I regularly help stranded motorists who have a problem but whose cell phone doesn't work...
It is not just the Haiti/Alaska Earthquakes that need "emergency" communications!
In much of the world Ham Pactor (Winlink) is the ONLY way to communicate. Try 2 days to get a phone line to the USA, or 9600 baud "Internet" shared with 4 other users! (Bali, Indonesia)
This was GREAT, but I still think Redflex Van Tarred And Feathered is the very BEST April Fools gag I have seen this year!
Redflex is the Australian company that is running and promoting these idiotic "traffic cameras" that are supposed to save us from bad drivers, Al Quaieda, halitosis and all forms of evil.
Especially when you look at the full "fess up" video: April FOOLS!
HMMM - is there an Aussie word for FOOL and FRAUD?
Of course the difference is between a one shot effort that costs billions per launch and a 747 that lets you fly around the world for under $1000!
Biggest problem with the shuttle is that by commercial airline standards there are so few flights they are still in about the third month of prototype testing - the two mishaps showed that quite well!
Any commercial spacecraft is going to have to do much more extensive testing than the shuttle has received even at "end of life".
The King James of England and Scotland who paid for the "King James" bible to be translated, and for the first Anglican "Book of Common Prayer" (an attempt to find "common ground" between protestants and Catholics!)
He did a lot and caused a huge controversy - like appointing his lover as Archbishop of Canterbury!
All in all one of the most interesting Kings of British history.
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One Laptop per child has emulators for regular PCs and their software is ideally suited to a small child: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_components They even have a "live boot" based on Fedora Linux
Remember the biblical "Woman taken in the very act of adultery"? Likely SHE was 12 years old and reaped by a much older and (based on the culture of the times). WHERE WAS THE MAN? Can you say "scarlet letter?" How about WW I veterans who were "guilty" of "cowardice" after 4 years in the trenches? "BLAME THE VICTIM" sure does make things look much nicer. *I* am not to blame, so *I* can just ignore the problem because it is only the "lessre races" who are "at fault". SOME of us call this RACIST!
You classify yourself by that statement.
I haven't eaten a "Twinkie" or anything of the sort in 40 years! Yes I AM forced to eat, like it or not. At the time I lived on a sailboat and typically walked 4-5 mile/day for as long as I was able.
As I recall S$500 To be fair it is not the amount of the fine, it is a "collision of cultures" where Singapore has significant numbers of immigrant workers who have never even seen toilets! If it is a law they will obey it, if it is just a strange new custom they won't!
It took THAT much effort to stay down at 450lb! "Blame the victim" did NOT help!
One of the problems with obesity is that like rape it has a large chorus of "blame the victim" from the totally clueless!
I used to weight 450 lb and it took a massive effort (including WL surgery) to ge tme down to 200lb again!
DO NOT blame the victims, it is an easy excuse which solves NOTHING!
Next you will tell me that making them use the iphone/ipod to flush the urinals is a bad idea....
Well in Singapore you could use the picture as evidence to prove that you really did flush! (S$100 fine for not flushing!)
No reality is that THEY get to "invest" $1M+ of your money (typically at 4% return) to be "high net worth".
Having $10M invested at a reasonable return (say 7% - meaning somewhere ELSE!) doesn't count...
"Nonsense. Appeal to authority is one of the standard logical fallacies. "
It reaches the absolute pinnacle when the "authority" is a paper that the author published some time ago!
I actually had this happen as "proof" that I was wrong once.
FWIW The Pentagon didn't buy his argument after I pointed this out!
There are SOME active brain cell in that building!
Actually I would like a list of the BOTTOM 10 or so! I want a job that leaves me doing NOTHING while I collect a paycheck until I get fired for no reason. That way i can take 7 or 8 such jobs and make LOTS of $$$ ROTFL LMAO!
As one of the 50(??) people to have lived in Arizona since then, I remember the (then) Phoenix traffic engineer expound at great length about the EVILS of left turns and especially the COMMUNIST PLOT of LEFT TURN ARROWS!
As I recall he considered LEFT turns to be some sort of COMMUNIST PLOT (OOOOH!) so he carefully desinged every intersection to make LEFT turns as difficult as possible.
This did wonders for the numbers of anyone who did not need to make an (EVIL) LEFT turn!
"Subversives", "Snowbirds" and "Illegals" however got the punishment they richly deserved for "choosing" such a terrible "lifestyle".
Sigh - so many snowbirds, so little freezer space.
"Welcome to Arizona - leave your money and GO HOME"
Is Glenn Beck moderating on slashdot?
AGGGGH you have found my secret!!!!
"Do the math"
If you hit a red light at 30 mph, then at 25,45,55, or ?? you will "make" the green!
Also at 25 and 15, but who drives THAT slowly! Certainly no one in Arizona the "Surveillance State"
In Scottsdale Az the lights are deliberately set to stop you at EVERY intersection! WHY you ask? According to the chief traffic engineer "So you will be "encouraged" to stop and shop at the local businesses along the way!!" Yes I actually heard this from his lips! Although his head did seem a little strange from a bad case of "recto-cranial inversion". I NEVER shop in Scottsdale because of this!
How is this different from the system that Metro Toronto put in place CA 1960?
There was a huge fuss about the "waste of money" until they took the system down to relocate the central computer.
The streets were so clogged that the Metro govt spent many millions to cut the down time by a few weeks.
The algorithm was simple - it "bunched" the traffic then tried to increase the probability that each "bunch" would get a green light at the next traffic light.
Not only did it effectively add an extra lane of traffic to every street, it effectively eliminated speeding! If you got ahead of your "bunch" then you got held up at the next light until your (legal speed limit) "bunch" caught up!
I wonder if they are going to use this as their campaign video?
http://www.youtube.com/v/yL3pYTyF8Zk&hl=de&fs=1
It is nice to see a different point of view LOL
I htought Sarah Palin's password was "peanuts" though :-)
Congratulations and don't forget to have fun!
Hope to see you on the air sometime soon!
de AA4MW
but ALL of the state can use 2M!
...
I regularly help stranded motorists who have a problem but whose cell phone doesn't work
It is not just the Haiti/Alaska Earthquakes that need "emergency" communications!
In much of the world Ham Pactor (Winlink) is the ONLY way to communicate. Try 2 days to get a phone line to the USA, or 9600 baud "Internet" shared with 4 other users! (Bali, Indonesia)
Yes know I tried it in 1961, but couldn't afford the equipment - so I built my own.
...
Somehow I kept coming back until I moved onto a sailboat to sail around the world in 1994 and I am still going.
Every year there seems to be something new that I haven't tried
de AA4MW, former WB4YKO, former VE3BYO and about 20 others!
"Isn't it ironic that Ham Radio is meant to be a communications system for amateurs?"
Read that as FOSS for radio communication!
de AA4MW/VK0DKW
This was GREAT, but I still think Redflex Van Tarred And Feathered is the very BEST April Fools gag I have seen this year!
Redflex is the Australian company that is running and promoting these idiotic "traffic cameras" that are supposed to save us from bad drivers, Al Quaieda, halitosis and all forms of evil.
Especially when you look at the full "fess up" video: April FOOLS!
HMMM - is there an Aussie word for FOOL and FRAUD?
OH YES its : "Redflex"!
Of course the difference is between a one shot effort that costs billions per launch and a 747 that lets you fly around the world for under $1000!
Biggest problem with the shuttle is that by commercial airline standards there are so few flights they are still in about the third month of prototype testing - the two mishaps showed that quite well!
Any commercial spacecraft is going to have to do much more extensive testing than the shuttle has received even at "end of life".
The King James of England and Scotland who paid for the "King James" bible to be translated, and for the first Anglican "Book of Common Prayer" (an attempt to find "common ground" between protestants and Catholics!) He did a lot and caused a huge controversy - like appointing his lover as Archbishop of Canterbury! All in all one of the most interesting Kings of British history.