I don't mean to single you out, lots of people say printer cheaper than ink, but ink in new printers is usually 1/4 or 1/2 a store baught cartridge (check product numbers).
I have always been bothered that a distro will offer a torrent and it sucks, but then I go to the mirror and get a decent rate. If the mirror(s) were to seed the torrent it would be great, and then I could help them out too.
I'm sure the torrents are good now, but I doubt they will be in a month.
"Most adults would brush off what is called cyber bullying."
It's funny you say that, because there was an interview on the BBC with a teacher who was complaining about it. It really sounded like he was upset with what happened to him and was pushing for the law.
I believe he was filmed on a cell phone as a student pantsed him and that was put on youtube. The teacher did not seam to really care about the students at all, and only the other faculty.
I own it legally for the GC, but I felt like playing through Zelda and it was worth 5 USD to no have to get up and turn the sytem on and put the game in. The state saving is a nice add on too (obviously emulators do this too).
I have a ramp with limited visibility and a stop song at the bottum (though yilding is safer to prevent getting rear ended) on my way home. The traffic I am merging into is going 40+ MPH and I have very little space to do it. When traffic is busy I am happy to not be driving an old geo metro.
For getting onto many highways 20-60 or even 20-70 is not bad to have. The 0-60 is a good rough measurment for ICEs.
'It was more an example of how one could think that the OLPC isn't a clear cut "great idea".'
You are correct the OLPC is not a clear cut "great idea" everywhere (or really even a "great idea" everywhere). But that is a far cry from the claims that some make that it is a waste of money, or that the money is better spent on food as blanket statements. The OLPC program has a lot of positive things about it, especialy in areas with some infastructure to allow at least limited internet access.
You don't take your laptop into the garden, but also the cost of a pamphlet is trivial to you, it is likely not to everyone though. Also, your laptop is not designer for sunlight visibility, rough environment, or operation for extended periods of time without an outlet (perhaps). The OLPC is specifically designed with these issues in mind and therefore could be worth taking into the garden to save $.10 or $.25. If a country is in such a place that sustainable forestry and paper production can provide some wealth, then let us subsidize that with the money saved in the schools to help it get started. If money is there to be made it should not be pure aid money that makes it happen, business should be involved.
With governments as the biggest customer we either have a lot to fear (curruption buracracy ect.), or it is indeed something people that are local feel the need for and not just a western solution jammed down their throats.
I also think OLPC has potential in American (US) schools to reduce the cost of education. It will probably never happen though because the text book companies will not let it.
Part of the problem is that many westerners are all talk and no action (like me). The amount of money "save the Earth" types spend on cigarrettes is stagering and I think everyone can agree it could be better spent.
Point taken about building them in countries that are supposed to benifit from them.
But all the jobs created in text book printing distribution ect. are jobs that could better be spent doing other things (like educating for example). Creating efficiency can be painful, but that is how economies improve. Creating fake work can be a short term solution (see 1930's US) and have great results (see the US 30's era projects), but creating a sustainable economy should be the goal, and creating ineficiencies for the sake of jobs is not the way to go. Much better to just pay the people directly to do whatever they want prodective and hope they start a business that fills a real need. In fact you can do it in a micro-loan fashion and it doens't even need to be charity.
Part of what OLPC does though is make teching cheaper.
In the US all (most) of the schools can afford textbooks. OLPC could very quickly pay for itself and increase the availability of up to date information. These are problems that only the worse of US schools have so there is not a real parallel.
You ask why not use the local people to write the books and print them? I ask why not use local people to write the lessons in HTML?
Things like tests can be distributed for free, instead of written out by hand. This allows for more time to be spent on productive things which is what computers are all about.
It took twice as long for the X360 to sell where the Wii is now. I hardly would call that getting their act together.
Nintendo was doing better at the end of December than Xbox did at the end of March.
Nintendo has had something like this before. Shortages on massivly selling items reaping them massive net income.
The only console that was doing this well at 4 months in the US was the N64 (I only looked at the US market) and it was a stagered launch so it is not quite the same thing.
Nintendohas produced a massive amount of Wiis, more than any other console at this point in its life (I am making this as an assumption, but would bet at least 4:1 on it).
Slashdot Mirror
So they call everybody?
That doesn't sound that reasonable to me at all.
But printers usually don't come with full ink.
I don't mean to single you out, lots of people say printer cheaper than ink, but ink in new printers is usually 1/4 or 1/2 a store baught cartridge (check product numbers).
Why don't the mirrors seed for the torrents?
I have always been bothered that a distro will offer a torrent and it sucks, but then I go to the mirror and get a decent rate. If the mirror(s) were to seed the torrent it would be great, and then I could help them out too.
I'm sure the torrents are good now, but I doubt they will be in a month.
"Most adults would brush off what is called cyber bullying."
It's funny you say that, because there was an interview on the BBC with a teacher who was complaining about it. It really sounded like he was upset with what happened to him and was pushing for the law.
I believe he was filmed on a cell phone as a student pantsed him and that was put on youtube. The teacher did not seam to really care about the students at all, and only the other faculty.
If they are funding projects like Metisse I think we need more.
Isn't one of the ideas that population remains fairly constant (this is what causes the selection).
The human population is growing rapidly and has been for most of history. Because of that the pressure is less than say, shrimp.
I could be entirly wrong of course.
Song here.
or go here and listen to track 11.
Agreed.
It is also better than voting in exchange for money.
I think the idea is that you are going down (shit) creek without any control if you don't have a paddle.
If I was on shit creek with no paddle I would certainly prefer to be at the bottom of it and not the top.
All the drives I purchased were formatted FAT32.
I always format them to NTFS or EXT3 or HFS+ To allow big files to be on them.
Not much point in a 100 GB+ drive that you can't put your DVD ISOs on IMHO.
I wonder if there will be a new universaly supported lowest common denominator like FAT32 by the time 8TiB drives come out though.
It is convienient to be able to write to your disks from every computer.
If we don't like the idea ge will let us know that he is already doing it to make us feel better.
I purchased the original Zelda for VC.
I own it legally for the GC, but I felt like playing through Zelda and it was worth 5 USD to no have to get up and turn the sytem on and put the game in. The state saving is a nice add on too (obviously emulators do this too).
Anyway, what could you do to give debuggers special privileges that you could prevent other people from using?
This is obvious, you give them the permisson but run them as protected. This prevents other apps from mdifying them.
Actually it runs OSX but has a couple things (USB for eample) Disabled.
It is eq1uivelent to getting full Linux on the Linksys routers that run Linux, or a Tivo.
Web browsers, calculators, calenders on the DS?
Awsome.
I have a ramp with limited visibility and a stop song at the bottum (though yilding is safer to prevent getting rear ended) on my way home. The traffic I am merging into is going 40+ MPH and I have very little space to do it. When traffic is busy I am happy to not be driving an old geo metro.
For getting onto many highways 20-60 or even 20-70 is not bad to have. The 0-60 is a good rough measurment for ICEs.
8 L per 100 km gives me ~29 MPG
9 L oer 100 km giles me your ~26 MPG
Arn't CVT tansmissions becomng affordable though?
That takes care of the add gears parts (don't know about reliability).
'It was more an example of how one could think that the OLPC isn't a clear cut "great idea".'
You are correct the OLPC is not a clear cut "great idea" everywhere (or really even a "great idea" everywhere). But that is a far cry from the claims that some make that it is a waste of money, or that the money is better spent on food as blanket statements. The OLPC program has a lot of positive things about it, especialy in areas with some infastructure to allow at least limited internet access.
You don't take your laptop into the garden, but also the cost of a pamphlet is trivial to you, it is likely not to everyone though. Also, your laptop is not designer for sunlight visibility, rough environment, or operation for extended periods of time without an outlet (perhaps). The OLPC is specifically designed with these issues in mind and therefore could be worth taking into the garden to save $.10 or $.25. If a country is in such a place that sustainable forestry and paper production can provide some wealth, then let us subsidize that with the money saved in the schools to help it get started. If money is there to be made it should not be pure aid money that makes it happen, business should be involved.
With governments as the biggest customer we either have a lot to fear (curruption buracracy ect.), or it is indeed something people that are local feel the need for and not just a western solution jammed down their throats.
I also think OLPC has potential in American (US) schools to reduce the cost of education. It will probably never happen though because the text book companies will not let it.
Part of the problem is that many westerners are all talk and no action (like me). The amount of money "save the Earth" types spend on cigarrettes is stagering and I think everyone can agree it could be better spent.
Point taken about building them in countries that are supposed to benifit from them.
But all the jobs created in text book printing distribution ect. are jobs that could better be spent doing other things (like educating for example). Creating efficiency can be painful, but that is how economies improve. Creating fake work can be a short term solution (see 1930's US) and have great results (see the US 30's era projects), but creating a sustainable economy should be the goal, and creating ineficiencies for the sake of jobs is not the way to go. Much better to just pay the people directly to do whatever they want prodective and hope they start a business that fills a real need. In fact you can do it in a micro-loan fashion and it doens't even need to be charity.
Part of what OLPC does though is make teching cheaper.
In the US all (most) of the schools can afford textbooks. OLPC could very quickly pay for itself and increase the availability of up to date information. These are problems that only the worse of US schools have so there is not a real parallel.
You ask why not use the local people to write the books and print them? I ask why not use local people to write the lessons in HTML?
Things like tests can be distributed for free, instead of written out by hand. This allows for more time to be spent on productive things which is what computers are all about.
I thought it was slashdot tit
It took twice as long for the X360 to sell where the Wii is now. I hardly would call that getting their act together.
Nintendo was doing better at the end of December than Xbox did at the end of March.
Nintendo has had something like this before. Shortages on massivly selling items reaping them massive net income.
The only console that was doing this well at 4 months in the US was the N64 (I only looked at the US market) and it was a stagered launch so it is not quite the same thing.
Nintendohas produced a massive amount of Wiis, more than any other console at this point in its life (I am making this as an assumption, but would bet at least 4:1 on it).
If you have time to ask on slashdot and check for a reply, you have time to use google.
I am not an expert at search but it took me less than 1 minute to find the step by step directions.
UPS has deisel hybrids in test (in Chicago I think).
They are hydrolic/deisel hybrids, so still different.