The exact legality could get murky. I live in the US; is a parent who sells their child's textbooks committing a crime (I'm not sure)? I suspect that someone selling his son's CM1 would be the same as someone selling all his son's issued textbooks.
IF these end up in the hands of individuals, there still won't be a way to legitimately stop the resale of these computers. Besides, unless eBay and other on-line auction houses specifically stop the sale of these laptops explicitly by name, there isn't a way to prohibit their sale there either.
I hope that places like eBay do block the sale of these devices.
In addition, how are you possibly going to prevent people like Saddam Hussein (when he bought a container ship full of PS/2s) from reusing these components for military systems or for purposes completely unrelated to the supposed educational mission?
We won't be able to stop this. Nevertheless, Saddam doing what he did didn't stop Sony from manufacturing the PS2, and I don't think these possibilities should stop the manufacturing and distibution of the CM1.
These devices are not going to be handed out for free. They will be sold to the respective countries at the cost of manufacturing. It is up to the receiving governments whether to participate or not. If they would like to spend their money on fixing more pressing issues, then that's fine; that's their prerogative.
Also, selling the "child's" version of the laptop (if their is indeed a consumer version) will almost definitely be illegal and looked down upon. I can see these things propping up on eBay, then being taken down. A grown person using one of these laptops (the child's version) would be looked at the same way as a person driving a post office truck around; it's very noticeable that they are doing something they probably shouldn't be doing.
What needs to be prevented are the stealing and misuse these devices, not the development and distribution of the device itself. We can fight that by refusing to purchase stolen CM1s. If there is no market for them, hopefully there won't be big problems.
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The government agrees to help prevent others from copying your works for a limited period of time. If you have some other way of preventing others from copying your work it is not illegal.
Copyright law also grants the right to copy works under specific conditions. This is called fair use, and it's doing exactly the opposite of what you're saying. Copyright is not one sided.
We don't have a right to other people's creations.
If I sell a book (which I wrote) to you, when the copyright expires you will have the right to my work. You can reprint it, sell copies, digitize it and put it on bittorrent, or whatever. At that point I have no right to dictate what you do with my work, because my copyright is gone. That's the problem with DRM; it can be made to never expire.
...February 31st is NOT a date, and does not belong in any column named "date".
You're just jealous that your year is shorter than mine. Don't hate on me because I refuse to recognize calendars that skip days. 31 days in every month. It's gotten me in a little trouble at work though...
Isn't this fixed in recent versions of MySQL anyways?
Nice design; it renders great on FF1.5 (linux). Although you might consider displaying the links with an underline (or something) to distinguish them as links. Right now I can't tell what's a link and what's not.
Ya, I've heard that line of bs from mysql for about a half-dozen years:
- they said it when they didn't have transactions - and it wasn't true
- they said it when they didn't have unions or subselects - and it wasn't true
- they said it when they didn't have referential integrity - and it wasn't true
- they said it when they didn't have triggers, stored procs, and views - and it wasn't true
When I say that MySQL is fine for most applications, I mean now, not 6 years ago.
Sure, you can build robust applications with it.
I'm glad we agree.
...extra effort... is required to achive "robustness" when [in MySQL]:
- silent errors and data corruption problems current and historical
- frequent deviations from ansi sql (comments, nulls, etc)
Ok, I guess I'll give you these. I'm just glad that PostgreSQL and all the others don't deviate at all from the ANSI SQL stantards.:-)
Also, I have never had a problem with MySQL corrupting data. Do you have any references regarding data corruption due to a fault in the MySQL code? (seriously, I would like to read about it)
- simple optimizer that is notorious for performance problems on 5+ way joins...
- lack of parallelism or partitioning features - giving it about 2-5% of the speed of oracle/db2/informix when it comes to large table scans (reporting, analytics, etc)
I would consider these advanced functions.
- if you're planning on having your app run at various isps, most don't support current version...
How is this MySQL's fault?
So, sure. You can build robust apps with it. But man, it is so much more work than using postgresql.
I'm not saying that MySQL is better or worse than anything else. What I'm saying is that for the vast majority of applications out there, MySQL will do the job just fine.
Now, this might change in two years. Assuming that MySQL... resolves the most significant existing issues. Then yes, it will be a reasonable option, right up there with postgesql[sic], etc.
No, in two years people will still be dinging MySQL for its shortcomings instead of giving it credit (even just a little) where it's due.
MySQL is fine for the vast majority of applications out there. You can build robust database applications with it, no problem. Now, if what you are really trying to say is that there's better things out there, then sure I'll agree with you. But to just say that you can't get robustness out of MySQL... I don't think that's accurate at all.
Debian Sarge running on a Celeron 466Mhz with 256MB (PC-100) RAM here.
I usually have the following running: X11 (sawfish WM), Firefox (10+ tabs open), 3 or 4 xterms, gaim, xmms, apache-ssl, mysql, postfix, samba, ipchains firewall, and some other (minor) things. Runs great. I don't want to even try doing the equivalent on WinXP.
And no, I'm not a zealot. I run WinXP on my laptop, and it works just fine (although the specs on the laptop are much better).
TLD: Country Codes ONLY. This includes a ".us" TLD. A great renaming must take place for all the US.com,.mil,.gov, and so on.
Within the TLD there can be anything the country wants. Existing naming conventions should be adhered to (e.g. yahoo.com.us, bbc.co.uk, etc)
Recommended subdomains (each country can choose whatever they want however):
com - Companies (may contain offensive material)
net,gov,mil,org - Same as today (there's too much resistance to change these)
kids - Material suitable for children. Each country is free to specify what's suitable.
This is the most "fair" way to restructor DNS. It makes more sense, and the.kids domain provides an easy white-list that parents can allow (and block everything else).
Current TLDs would redirect to the new addresses for an appropriate time period (e.g. "af.mil" becomes "af.mil.us", "yahoo.com" becomes "yahoo.com.us", etc). This isn't something new, this is something a lot of people have been asking for some time now.
I'm kind of against the.xxx (or.xxx.cc) domain, as I don't think it would really work. Sure, the country could mandate that all pornography sites redirect to an equivalent.xxx domain (e.g. "sex.com" becomes "sex.xxx.us"), but there is a huge gray area. What happens when (inevitably) people start crying, "You can't banish my site to a.xxx.us domain. My site contains only art!" ?? Whooo boy, that's a big old can-o-worms.
My stance: It's easier to whitelist obviously child appropriate content than to blacklist inappropriate content, but let each country decide what they want to do for themselves.
I like the picture of the guy wearing the glasses in the middle of that page. It looks like he's getting getting his eardrums blasted out. lol, "Where's the volume knob!!"
I like the way you think. But I have to ask, why not just build the entire music player into the headsets? Why two pieces with the complicated bluetooth system connecting them?
How long until Apple/Napster/Yahoo comes out with a music player that does this? Think about it, the player automatically connects to iTunes (or whatever) over WiFi, logs into your account, and starts streaming music. That would be sweet.
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The exact legality could get murky. I live in the US; is a parent who sells their child's textbooks committing a crime (I'm not sure)? I suspect that someone selling his son's CM1 would be the same as someone selling all his son's issued textbooks.
I hope that places like eBay do block the sale of these devices.
We won't be able to stop this. Nevertheless, Saddam doing what he did didn't stop Sony from manufacturing the PS2, and I don't think these possibilities should stop the manufacturing and distibution of the CM1.
I'm with you. Now, if we could just figure out a good way to access local media and view multimedia content on thin clients...
These devices are not going to be handed out for free. They will be sold to the respective countries at the cost of manufacturing. It is up to the receiving governments whether to participate or not. If they would like to spend their money on fixing more pressing issues, then that's fine; that's their prerogative.
Also, selling the "child's" version of the laptop (if their is indeed a consumer version) will almost definitely be illegal and looked down upon. I can see these things propping up on eBay, then being taken down. A grown person using one of these laptops (the child's version) would be looked at the same way as a person driving a post office truck around; it's very noticeable that they are doing something they probably shouldn't be doing.
What needs to be prevented are the stealing and misuse these devices, not the development and distribution of the device itself. We can fight that by refusing to purchase stolen CM1s. If there is no market for them, hopefully there won't be big problems.
No problem.
You can learn about them the way I did, through a podcast actually. Here is the link:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/twit/TWiT49AH.mp3
You may be interested in IPac.
Copyright law also grants the right to copy works under specific conditions. This is called fair use, and it's doing exactly the opposite of what you're saying. Copyright is not one sided.
If I sell a book (which I wrote) to you, when the copyright expires you will have the right to my work. You can reprint it, sell copies, digitize it and put it on bittorrent, or whatever. At that point I have no right to dictate what you do with my work, because my copyright is gone. That's the problem with DRM; it can be made to never expire.
You're just jealous that your year is shorter than mine. Don't hate on me because I refuse to recognize calendars that skip days. 31 days in every month. It's gotten me in a little trouble at work though...
Isn't this fixed in recent versions of MySQL anyways?
You sure be right on that.
In Ubuntu I pop in a CD, and Sound Juicer automatically pops up. Hit the rip button. Done. What's the issue?
So... what you're saying is that you don't run Gentoo on all of your computers.
doh
I think you mean spend money.
They're between the condoms and the deodorant, duh.
Oh, sorry, I guess you've never been in that section.
(kidding!)
I recommend XFCE. I'm using it on a Celeron 466 with 256Mb RAM (debian sarge). Not exactly fast, but very usable as long as you stick with GTK apps.
Nice design; it renders great on FF1.5 (linux). Although you might consider displaying the links with an underline (or something) to distinguish them as links. Right now I can't tell what's a link and what's not.
You have to Apple-Shift-Spacebar-period click it. Duh.
There's also a very good podcast interview Ilfack did with Leo Laporte. If you'd like to check it out, here's the direct link.
Just be thankful all the Perl programmers out there are experts obsessed with elegant code.
When I say that MySQL is fine for most applications, I mean now, not 6 years ago.
I'm glad we agree.
Ok, I guess I'll give you these. I'm just glad that PostgreSQL and all the others don't deviate at all from the ANSI SQL stantards.
Also, I have never had a problem with MySQL corrupting data. Do you have any references regarding data corruption due to a fault in the MySQL code? (seriously, I would like to read about it)
I would consider these advanced functions.
How is this MySQL's fault?
I'm not saying that MySQL is better or worse than anything else. What I'm saying is that for the vast majority of applications out there, MySQL will do the job just fine.
No, in two years people will still be dinging MySQL for its shortcomings instead of giving it credit (even just a little) where it's due.
Oh phooey.
MySQL is fine for the vast majority of applications out there. You can build robust database applications with it, no problem. Now, if what you are really trying to say is that there's better things out there, then sure I'll agree with you. But to just say that you can't get robustness out of MySQL... I don't think that's accurate at all.
Debian Sarge running on a Celeron 466Mhz with 256MB (PC-100) RAM here.
I usually have the following running: X11 (sawfish WM), Firefox (10+ tabs open), 3 or 4 xterms, gaim, xmms, apache-ssl, mysql, postfix, samba, ipchains firewall, and some other (minor) things. Runs great. I don't want to even try doing the equivalent on WinXP.
And no, I'm not a zealot. I run WinXP on my laptop, and it works just fine (although the specs on the laptop are much better).
This is the most "fair" way to restructor DNS. It makes more sense, and the .kids domain provides an easy white-list that parents can allow (and block everything else).
Current TLDs would redirect to the new addresses for an appropriate time period (e.g. "af.mil" becomes "af.mil.us", "yahoo.com" becomes "yahoo.com.us", etc). This isn't something new, this is something a lot of people have been asking for some time now.
I'm kind of against the .xxx (or .xxx.cc) domain, as I don't think it would really work. Sure, the country could mandate that all pornography sites redirect to an equivalent .xxx domain (e.g. "sex.com" becomes "sex.xxx.us"), but there is a huge gray area. What happens when (inevitably) people start crying, "You can't banish my site to a .xxx.us domain. My site contains only art!" ?? Whooo boy, that's a big old can-o-worms.
My stance: It's easier to whitelist obviously child appropriate content than to blacklist inappropriate content, but let each country decide what they want to do for themselves.
I like the picture of the guy wearing the glasses in the middle of that page. It looks like he's getting getting his eardrums blasted out. lol, "Where's the volume knob!!"
So make it smaller. :-)
I like the way you think. But I have to ask, why not just build the entire music player into the headsets? Why two pieces with the complicated bluetooth system connecting them?
How long until Apple/Napster/Yahoo comes out with a music player that does this? Think about it, the player automatically connects to iTunes (or whatever) over WiFi, logs into your account, and starts streaming music. That would be sweet.