The economics of scale idea was good imho. A large part of the price of computers (or any goods for that matter) is what the middle man takes. By selling huge volumes at a time directly from the producers your cost structure is entirely different. And if you do it the right way you can be a lot cheaper. Also he was not selling goods in a traditional way at all. The OLPC is/was about an educational project. Like selling a school book to a country. They were not selling to the consumer at all, but to governments providing services. And that is all about politics. OLPC was popular, so a lot of countries signed on. But in many countries corruption is a very big factor. So many countries didn't follow through, because there was not enough pressure. I still believe OLPC did everything right (well maybe except the including Windows part), they just didn't mount enough political pressure. I saw the XO first hand. It is a superb piece of hardware well suited for its task. I couldn't evaluate the software much.
Wifi usually has very low power. DECT is usually much more harmful. It is not such a good idea to keep the wireless phone on the nightstand if it is not in the cradle it keeps radio connection with.
Electromagnetic radiation can be a real, measurable hazard to health. But usually the worst offender is the radio clock on the night stand less than 50 cm away from your head. Cheaply made and poorly shielded it can have an effect on you body.
Very clever Mr, 3000 rockets were fired into Gaza before the ceasefire ended. Most of them even before the ceasefire started. You either didn't even read or understand your source (just read the first paragraph again) or willingly mislead to make your argument.
I am sich and tired of this kind of shit. As I mentioned in my post there is a lot of ugly propaganda out there. And your f*ing post is one of them. And the answer to your post calling the war genocide is too. Genocide is something entirely different. But I guess on the web the strongest arguments count. Doesnt matter if they are true or just made up.
The link to this girl on Youtube: Kids don't have opinions on their own yet. Many believe that people develope their true free will when they become adults. Since you are from a country that puts kids on trial as adults I guess you are not one of them. I think she just says what people tell her. In this case probabely Fatah.
Cherry picking by looking at the body count? Since there is no military end to this war (e.g. it can't really be lost or won) and there is no real beginning, because they have been fighting more or less since the foundation of Israel there are not a lot of options to compare stuff. Counting the number of innocent civillians killed is an easy way to check who might be the bigger asshole.
There is no winning this war. As much as I support Israel and their right to exist without rockets being fired on them left and right they are the bad guys in this case. They usually are these days if you look at the body count. The Hamas was provoked into breaking the ceasefire. The IDF sent a special forces unit into Gaza to break up a tunnel for smuggeling. They could have done that on the Isrealy side. But elections are coming up and Baraks popularity (Ehud Barak is a former PM, currently heads the defense department and masterminded the war) has surged. The whole thing could easily backfire as we have seen with the war in Lebanon and the political end of Peres.
The blockade of Gaza for such a long time should be considered an act of war. The whole Gaza strip is practically a prison. And Egypt is not helping either.
Back to the web: The occupation of former Jordanian areas (where the Palestinians now live) is being used by all the nationalistic arab governments of the region to divert public interest away from their corrupt regimes. So there is always a lot of propaganda going on. And that propaganda has moved to the web. There are a lot of very ugly anti Israel webpages out there. With tons of very ugly lies.
The appstore (where Steve decides what is trustworthy and what is not, to quote the video) sold the "I am rich"-app for cryin' out loud. Among a bunch of other crap. Other apps that are very useful are not given a chance and won't run.
They steal from you, so it might not be such a crime to steal from them. By not paying taxes they steal money from everyone. Just divide what they stole by the number of people living in the US and you get the figure they stole from you.
Now, do you still feel that this is not important?
Stealing from individuals is one thing. Stealing from large corporations is kinda different. That is why people evade taxes. The government is a huge operation. Common morality works this way.
You are trolling on Slashdot claiming you were indirectly involved in Saddams biological weapons program and that the Clinton administration was bought into approving it?
As much as I hate liberals I would like to point you to the huge holes in your story, but the bs bells over here are ringing so hard I find it difficult to think straigt.
"alarms going off"
lol
And US intel services didnt know of didn't react???
There is a guy that used to work at Lotus: Mitch Kapor
He and is team developed a much better groupware server/client than Notes/Domino from 2001 on. It's name is Chandler and it is already Open Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(PIM)
"Moreover, you don't make many friends or any inroads if you manage a project in such a way that you expect volunteers to contribute their work for free in such a way that a company keeps the rights to that code and incorporates it in a proprietary product while the original developer gets squat."
MySQL?
There are many very successful products that do exactly that. That is not the problem. The code is under the GPL as well. The original developers are quite fine with that.
Webcams seem to be high on the list of laptop users of today. Does OpenSolaris have many webcam drivers? Or maybe they went with the simple solution. Include a webcam and have a driver ready for it.
A friend of mine has a Macbook. His Wlan connection didnt work, because aps he was using were too far away. I advised him to buy a cheap usb stick so he could attach it to a usb cable in order to move the antenna around the desk to receive better signal without having to shove the whole Macbook around. I was also warning him about first checking which were supported with his Macbook.
Next time I saw him he had a Linksys. And it worked perfectly-
Java was not GPL'd by SUN, because they feared it might be forked. And they didnt want Java to be forked. So the first thing Linux developers should have done after SUN GPL'd Java was to create a fork?
My friend (not a Linux user at all) says the same: Netbooks need to be cheap and should have a long running time. Flash drive instead of moving parts hd. Linux is the natural choice for that.
Only problem is: Most of the hardware is very poorly put together and the software is much worse. How much does it cost to pay someone to make a useable image of Xubuntu or Fedora sth. and put it on one of those things? Is that really so difficult?
There are companies that contribute greatly top open source, like SUN for example (OpenOffice, Open Solaris,...). And there are companies out there that leech off of it and even refuse to open up if they are asked to do so by the FSF.
Next time you make a purchase decision you should take that into account if your company is using oss.
I also happen to not like being intoxicated by any substance and I don't smoke. But I happen to know people that consume substances and that would never fuck up their lives. My mother works in the social sector and she knows many, many people that consume alcohol and did fuck up their lives. In fact, she is managing their lives, because they can't do that anymore, because they drank aways their brain.
Part of Ronald Reagans huge increase in military spending was SDI. Ignoring the ABM treaty they tried to make a "missle shield" work in the 80s. And it didn't work. And apparently it is far from working now. But the effects are the same. They are pouring massive amounts of money into it and only get a new arms race, but no added security (remember, it doesn't work at all in real conditions, the test was to send a "kill vehicle" and a rocket to a pre determined spot to have them meet there and were watching everything on radar).
Is that what is in the best interest of the American people? New arms race and lots of money spent?
While a hassle- and flash-free version of the article seems nice the linked page also does not seem to contain any adverstising. How does InformationWeek pay their authors and bandwidth bills (Slashdot seems to add a lot to the latter)?
Because ISPs need to pay for traffic that leaves their network they try hard for p2p traffic to stay within their network. If someone big would pay for something like this it would be a large ISP. And I think they are already working on something like this. If I am not mistaken it is for Bittorrent. So keep checking.
Slashdot Mirror
The economics of scale idea was good imho. A large part of the price of computers (or any goods for that matter) is what the middle man takes.
By selling huge volumes at a time directly from the producers your cost structure is entirely different. And if you do it the right way you can be a lot cheaper. Also he was not selling goods in a traditional way at all. The OLPC is/was about an educational project. Like selling a school book to a country. They were not selling to the consumer at all, but to governments providing services. And that is all about politics. OLPC was popular, so a lot of countries signed on. But in many countries corruption is a very big factor. So many countries didn't follow through, because there was not enough pressure.
I still believe OLPC did everything right (well maybe except the including Windows part), they just didn't mount enough political pressure. I saw the XO first hand. It is a superb piece of hardware well suited for its task. I couldn't evaluate the software much.
Wifi usually has very low power. DECT is usually much more harmful. It is not such a good idea to keep the wireless phone on the nightstand if it is not in the cradle it keeps radio connection with.
Electromagnetic radiation can be a real, measurable hazard to health. But usually the worst offender is the radio clock on the night stand less than 50 cm away from your head. Cheaply made and poorly shielded it can have an effect on you body.
Here is to hippies:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103815/
Very clever Mr, 3000 rockets were fired into Gaza before the ceasefire ended. Most of them even before the ceasefire started. You either didn't even read or understand your source (just read the first paragraph again) or willingly mislead to make your argument.
I am sich and tired of this kind of shit. As I mentioned in my post there is a lot of ugly propaganda out there. And your f*ing post is one of them. And the answer to your post calling the war genocide is too. Genocide is something entirely different. But I guess on the web the strongest arguments count. Doesnt matter if they are true or just made up.
The link to this girl on Youtube: Kids don't have opinions on their own yet. Many believe that people develope their true free will when they become adults. Since you are from a country that puts kids on trial as adults I guess you are not one of them. I think she just says what people tell her. In this case probabely Fatah.
Cherry picking by looking at the body count? Since there is no military end to this war (e.g. it can't really be lost or won) and there is no real beginning, because they have been fighting more or less since the foundation of Israel there are not a lot of options to compare stuff. Counting the number of innocent civillians killed is an easy way to check who might be the bigger asshole.
There is no logic in this war. On either side.
There is no winning this war. As much as I support Israel and their right to exist without rockets being fired on them left and right they are the bad guys in this case. They usually are these days if you look at the body count. The Hamas was provoked into breaking the ceasefire. The IDF sent a special forces unit into Gaza to break up a tunnel for smuggeling. They could have done that on the Isrealy side.
But elections are coming up and Baraks popularity (Ehud Barak is a former PM, currently heads the defense department and masterminded the war) has surged. The whole thing could easily backfire as we have seen with the war in Lebanon and the political end of Peres.
The blockade of Gaza for such a long time should be considered an act of war. The whole Gaza strip is practically a prison. And Egypt is not helping either.
Back to the web: The occupation of former Jordanian areas (where the Palestinians now live) is being used by all the nationalistic arab governments of the region to divert public interest away from their corrupt regimes. So there is always a lot of propaganda going on. And that propaganda has moved to the web. There are a lot of very ugly anti Israel webpages out there. With tons of very ugly lies.
Trusted Computing used to be treated as one of the most evil things here on Slashdot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFbqSYdNK4
The appstore (where Steve decides what is trustworthy and what is not, to quote the video) sold the "I am rich"-app for cryin' out loud. Among a bunch of other crap. Other apps that are very useful are not given a chance and won't run.
They steal from you, so it might not be such a crime to steal from them. By not paying taxes they steal money from everyone. Just divide what they stole by the number of people living in the US and you get the figure they stole from you.
Now, do you still feel that this is not important?
Stealing from individuals is one thing. Stealing from large corporations is kinda different. That is why people evade taxes. The government is a huge operation. Common morality works this way.
You are trolling on Slashdot claiming you were indirectly involved in Saddams biological weapons program and that the Clinton administration was bought into approving it?
As much as I hate liberals I would like to point you to the huge holes in your story, but the bs bells over here are ringing so hard I find it difficult to think straigt.
"alarms going off"
lol
And US intel services didnt know of didn't react???
There is a guy that used to work at Lotus: Mitch Kapor
He and is team developed a much better groupware server/client than Notes/Domino from 2001 on. It's name is Chandler and it is already Open Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(PIM)
Why Lotus Notes?
"Moreover, you don't make many friends or any inroads if you manage a project in such a way that you expect volunteers to contribute their work for free in such a way that a company keeps the rights to that code and incorporates it in a proprietary product while the original developer gets squat."
MySQL?
There are many very successful products that do exactly that. That is not the problem. The code is under the GPL as well. The original developers are quite fine with that.
Webcams seem to be high on the list of laptop users of today. Does OpenSolaris have many webcam drivers? Or maybe they went with the simple solution. Include a webcam and have a driver ready for it.
A friend of mine has a Macbook. His Wlan connection didnt work, because aps he was using were too far away. I advised him to buy a cheap usb stick so he could attach it to a usb cable in order to move the antenna around the desk to receive better signal without having to shove the whole Macbook around. I was also warning him about first checking which were supported with his Macbook.
Next time I saw him he had a Linksys. And it worked perfectly-
Java was not GPL'd by SUN, because they feared it might be forked. And they didnt want Java to be forked. So the first thing Linux developers should have done after SUN GPL'd Java was to create a fork?
Gltron can be played by up to four people in front of one computer. Great fun for a couple kids. I have seen it.
http://www.gltron.org/
My friend (not a Linux user at all) says the same: Netbooks need to be cheap and should have a long running time. Flash drive instead of moving parts hd. Linux is the natural choice for that.
Only problem is: Most of the hardware is very poorly put together and the software is much worse. How much does it cost to pay someone to make a useable image of Xubuntu or Fedora sth. and put it on one of those things? Is that really so difficult?
There are companies that contribute greatly top open source, like SUN for example (OpenOffice, Open Solaris, ...). And there are companies out there that leech off of it and even refuse to open up if they are asked to do so by the FSF.
Next time you make a purchase decision you should take that into account if your company is using oss.
AFAI understood this is an IE exploit. So you expect ppl. that use IE to do that?
To me, that sounds much more realistic than the space elevator.
Maybe Apple will now do the same? Or rather not:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo
You decide who to trust!
I also happen to not like being intoxicated by any substance and I don't smoke. But I happen to know people that consume substances and that would never fuck up their lives. My mother works in the social sector and she knows many, many people that consume alcohol and did fuck up their lives. In fact, she is managing their lives, because they can't do that anymore, because they drank aways their brain.
"but there is no larger entrenched interest than the taxman"
pork pork pork, war in iraq, war on terror, military spending, big business welfare, ...
I don't want to sound like Michael Moore here, but ...
Part of Ronald Reagans huge increase in military spending was SDI. Ignoring the ABM treaty they tried to make a "missle shield" work in the 80s. And it didn't work. And apparently it is far from working now. But the effects are the same. They are pouring massive amounts of money into it and only get a new arms race, but no added security (remember, it doesn't work at all in real conditions, the test was to send a "kill vehicle" and a rocket to a pre determined spot to have them meet there and were watching everything on radar).
Is that what is in the best interest of the American people? New arms race and lots of money spent?
I wasn't talking about the consumer, I was talking about Slashdot.
While a hassle- and flash-free version of the article seems nice the linked page also does not seem to contain any adverstising. How does InformationWeek pay their authors and bandwidth bills (Slashdot seems to add a lot to the latter)?
Right: They pay the same way Slashdot does. With ads. It's a one page article:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212202109
Because ISPs need to pay for traffic that leaves their network they try hard for p2p traffic to stay within their network. If someone big would pay for something like this it would be a large ISP. And I think they are already working on something like this. If I am not mistaken it is for Bittorrent. So keep checking.