Huh. I'm currently typing this on my sixth Mac in 15 years, but it will go the Ubuntu way soon (I've already tried... "release keys?" WTF?). My iBook already did.
Thing is, I won't pay to upgrade from 10.3.9, and I can't friggin' make either Fink or GCC work on what I have. That means I'm stuck with substandard versions of AbiWord and OO.o, and general frustrations with Scribus, Inkscape, etc. All of it just works on Ubuntu.
Not that there haven't been frustrations there, too (wireless? "release keys???"), but by and large, I'm more productive on Ubuntu. More than once -- more than twice -- I've gotten up from my Mac to go use my Ubuntu machine.
I was about to say quite the opposite. Having RTFA, I suspect this will be one of the few articles in recent memory to be more interesting than the comments.
My guess is that for 99% of the children in these countries, the laptops will be totally useless, because what those kids really need is food, a clean source of water, and (especially for the girls) a chance to go to school and become literate.
To recap the responses to this kind of argument when it came up the last three or four times stories about the $100 laptop appeared on/.:
Not every child in poor nations is starving. Even the ones who suffer from some level of malnutrition can still benefit from education.
While most children in poor nations don't get as much education as they should, most get some. Most of them would love to learn to use a computer.
Until and unless you follow through with your ideas, don't complain about people who follow through on theirs.
Also, did you notice the part where the governments of not one, but four poor nations are buying the computers? That would seem to indicate somebody thinks they will be useful.
As a long-time Macophile, I played with Linux for years and was never completely happy with it until recently (read: until I installed Ubuntu). I've always had a Mac around as a back-up, but for the last several months, I find myself using it less and less, and getting frustrated with it more and more. The final straw was when I couldn't get the FreeNX client to work on it so I could use Linux on my nice, big flatscreen iMac. Now the only thing standing between me and putting Ubuntu on the iMac is a lack of free time.
On an off-topic note, it appears to be my Mac background that makes me like Gnome. KDE feels too much like Windows. Cue flames!
There's a one-gallon gas tank strapped to it solely for the purpose of being able to give it an MPG rating.
Good point... If you carried a gallon of gas in an open container as you traveled 3000+ miles at 15-25 mph, I imagine that'd be enough time for the gas to simply evaporate.
Telco: Hey, Google, as of tomorrow, we're going to charge you an extra fee to use our pipes.
Google: Uh, I don't think so. I think we'll just make google.com inaccessible altogether to your pipes, and buy a few ads supporting your competitors who provide full service at normal prices. Take a minute to think about how your customers might react to that before you try to throw your weight around against us.
I am neither a programmer nor a lawyer, so there may be some nuances I'm missing, but here's how I see it.
- FLOSS reveals everything there is to know about how it operates and interoperates.
- Microsoft reveals as little as possible about how it operates and interoperates.
- Microsoft has a high-profile, highly-paid person trying to figure out how to make the two work together. So far, this appears to be quite a challenge for them.
Unless I've missed something crucial, Microsoft will never fix this problem to everyone's solution. The problem isn't in their software. The problem is in their business model. But they can never admit that, so they'll go on trying to figure out which size wrench to use to hammer the light bulb into the socket.
Nothing, or at least not directly. The two skillsets are orthagonal, but in the right niche, complementary. After all, it's all about content, and if you can both translate it and style it, all the better.
Oh, and by the way, I forgot to mention in my original post my heavy use of Google Calendar. I hope readers will understand my oversight.
Google is the only search engine I've used in the past, what, four or five years now, and I have a Gmail account that I check constantly. I use the translator to give me ahead start on my translating work. I know about the calculator feature. I use Google Maps all the time. I've checked the spreadsheet out and look forward to GoogleWritely. I look for jobs on Base (anyone need a bilingual CSS coder?). I use the personalized homepage to keep track of the three blogs I run and the 762 that I read every day. I'd use the Page Creator if I wasn't pretty good with Drupal. I've followed the Web Clip links and even a few GoogleAdWords links. At any given time, I have between three and seven tabs open to Google services.
I have just one question. When is it too much of a good thing, privacy or no privacy?
I know its a cliché, but its true. I honestly wish I was a little older so I could enjoy the origins of computing, and moreso, the origins of gaming. Pitfall!, Boulderdash etc etc all classic games
There was a high price to pay for being around in those days - Ronald Reagan, Cyndi Lauper, pink polo shirts with upturned collars, 512K being enough for anyone...
C'mon. It's not hard to figure out that the technology of the '20s would have looked strange and magical to people of eighty years previous to that: airplanes, automobiles, tractors, radios, light bulbs, motion pictures, telegraphs, trains, steam engines, and the list goes on.
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Inkscape is perfect for this sort of thing. I've used it many times.
Wow, not bad. In the space of a half-hour, I've been modded up to five and back down to two.
I, for one, consider George W evidence that we some of us have evolved very little from monkeys.
Huh. I'm currently typing this on my sixth Mac in 15 years, but it will go the Ubuntu way soon (I've already tried... "release keys?" WTF?). My iBook already did.
Thing is, I won't pay to upgrade from 10.3.9, and I can't friggin' make either Fink or GCC work on what I have. That means I'm stuck with substandard versions of AbiWord and OO.o, and general frustrations with Scribus, Inkscape, etc. All of it just works on Ubuntu.
Not that there haven't been frustrations there, too (wireless? "release keys???"), but by and large, I'm more productive on Ubuntu. More than once -- more than twice -- I've gotten up from my Mac to go use my Ubuntu machine.
I was about to say quite the opposite. Having RTFA, I suspect this will be one of the few articles in recent memory to be more interesting than the comments.
Or yours, at any rate.
To recap the responses to this kind of argument when it came up the last three or four times stories about the $100 laptop appeared on
Also, did you notice the part where the governments of not one, but four poor nations are buying the computers? That would seem to indicate somebody thinks they will be useful.
Perhaps they could merge the two and form the UI OS. Jef Raskin could help.
1. Install Drupal.
OK, I'm good to go!
Reminder to self: drink coffee before posting to Slashdot.
"I used the thing the brain was the most amazing organ in the body. Then I realized, well, look what's telling me that!"
As a long-time Macophile, I played with Linux for years and was never completely happy with it until recently (read: until I installed Ubuntu). I've always had a Mac around as a back-up, but for the last several months, I find myself using it less and less, and getting frustrated with it more and more. The final straw was when I couldn't get the FreeNX client to work on it so I could use Linux on my nice, big flatscreen iMac. Now the only thing standing between me and putting Ubuntu on the iMac is a lack of free time.
On an off-topic note, it appears to be my Mac background that makes me like Gnome. KDE feels too much like Windows. Cue flames!
redact Audio pronunciation of "redact" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ri-dakt)
tr.v. redacted, redacting, redacts
1. To draw up or frame (a proclamation, for example).
2. To make ready for publication; edit or revise.
From dictionary.com.
I certainly hope a court would redact its opinions. I would not, however, hope that it would censor its own opinion.
If we're going to discuss constraints on information, can we please do so in an informed way? It does us no good to self-constrain.
There's a one-gallon gas tank strapped to it solely for the purpose of being able to give it an MPG rating.
Good point... If you carried a gallon of gas in an open container as you traveled 3000+ miles at 15-25 mph, I imagine that'd be enough time for the gas to simply evaporate.
Telco: Hey, Google, as of tomorrow, we're going to charge you an extra fee to use our pipes.
Google: Uh, I don't think so. I think we'll just make google.com inaccessible altogether to your pipes, and buy a few ads supporting your competitors who provide full service at normal prices. Take a minute to think about how your customers might react to that before you try to throw your weight around against us.
Edit: "...to everyone's satisfaction,..."
And I did use the Preview button!
I am neither a programmer nor a lawyer, so there may be some nuances I'm missing, but here's how I see it.
- FLOSS reveals everything there is to know about how it operates and interoperates.
- Microsoft reveals as little as possible about how it operates and interoperates.
- Microsoft has a high-profile, highly-paid person trying to figure out how to make the two work together. So far, this appears to be quite a challenge for them.
Unless I've missed something crucial, Microsoft will never fix this problem to everyone's solution. The problem isn't in their software. The problem is in their business model. But they can never admit that, so they'll go on trying to figure out which size wrench to use to hammer the light bulb into the socket.
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Not just any CMS, but Drupal with the attachment and acidfree modules. That fits your description to the letter.
Nothing, or at least not directly. The two skillsets are orthagonal, but in the right niche, complementary. After all, it's all about content, and if you can both translate it and style it, all the better.
Oh, and by the way, I forgot to mention in my original post my heavy use of Google Calendar. I hope readers will understand my oversight.
Google is the only search engine I've used in the past, what, four or five years now, and I have a Gmail account that I check constantly. I use the translator to give me ahead start on my translating work. I know about the calculator feature. I use Google Maps all the time. I've checked the spreadsheet out and look forward to GoogleWritely. I look for jobs on Base (anyone need a bilingual CSS coder?). I use the personalized homepage to keep track of the three blogs I run and the 762 that I read every day. I'd use the Page Creator if I wasn't pretty good with Drupal. I've followed the Web Clip links and even a few GoogleAdWords links. At any given time, I have between three and seven tabs open to Google services.
I have just one question. When is it too much of a good thing, privacy or no privacy?
I know its a cliché, but its true. I honestly wish I was a little older so I could enjoy the origins of computing, and moreso, the origins of gaming. Pitfall!, Boulderdash etc etc all classic games
There was a high price to pay for being around in those days - Ronald Reagan, Cyndi Lauper, pink polo shirts with upturned collars, 512K being enough for anyone...
Perhaps the article meant that Windows has 119% uptime.
Technology changes
C'mon. It's not hard to figure out that the technology of the '20s would have looked strange and magical to people of eighty years previous to that: airplanes, automobiles, tractors, radios, light bulbs, motion pictures, telegraphs, trains, steam engines, and the list goes on.
Had you posted that 19 minutes ealier, before I figured it out on my own, it would have been helpful.
D'oh! Apparently I didn't even RTF summary.
That'll teach me to post caffeine-free.