We have other OS distributions that that live just fine on SD cards or sticks, already. If you want to bring computing to slums as a useful resource, the big problems are probably really:
1) actual hardware, shared or not, to run whatever open source OS you pick; 2) electricity to run the hardware and shelter for the hardware; 3) people to train those who have never used computers before, may have other literacy issues besides, and quite possibly speak dialects you will have difficulty getting localization for; and 4) affordable/free network access if these people want to use the internet.
I'll bet these are not the only issues, but if you don't address these, I suspect your money and time will be mostly wasted.
They only have one option that mentions immediately practical applications in its supporting information. That's the Technology skin, with the applications being easier crew identification, etc. Precisely the only reason why you would think they would invest the resources to play with pretty lights on the surface of a prototype, right now. The others are designs that might be nice to have someday, if there are large populations in these environments that might want to express individuality and creativity.
Over the last few months, we've been averaging a little more than 1 Bitcoin story every 2 days. Please - please, stop accepting every submission that has the word Bitcoin in it. At this point, I'd almost like them to start covering the 2016 Presidential Election. Enough.
Agreed. There should be an algorithm to make it progressively more difficult to create each Bitcoin story, with reviewers getting paid a small amount of karma for each submission they proc-- aarrgggh, doing it again!
A work-grade Matter Compiler, an electron microscope, and a few loupes and precision drivers. Oh, and some prototypical mediatrons I've been compiling that can share a bus when the sheaf is arranged like a book...
I can remember a day when Boy Scouts of America would have been approving of something like hackerscouts.org because they would have shared a central theme; curiosity, experimentation, education, science -- all good things to interest young people. It's disappointing to see the BSA stooping to such douchenozzly levels. The have apparently lost enough positive virutue I would not want to be associated with them today.
So you held onto your badge while they were actively booting kids and scoutmasters for being gay and/or atheist, and during the child abuse scandals. But them trying to enforce their trademark gets you mad enough to do something?
The study notes that, according to the Department of Education's most recent study, 19 percent of undergrads at four-year colleges received merit aid despite scoring under 700 on the SAT. Their only merit, in some cases, might well have been mom and dad's bank account.
The study doesn't actually say that, at least not according to the chart on page 4. It says that 18.8% of the students in college who had scores of 0-699 got merit aid. Not that 18.8% of all the students in college received aid with such low scores.
Try a search for "gay people in Kenya," for example.
I don't know if these people all made the mistake of thinking the "interested in" sections of their profiles would not be publicly visible by default, or whether they set them public but were relying on the obscurity of only friends looking them up. Perhaps some made their accounts years ago, and haven't kept up with the ever-eroding privacy on this site that requires you to go back and re-specify as private some things that used to be private by default. The point is, it hasn't been this easy before to just search for masses of people based on one common trait.
Whether it's being gay [an orientation (not just a set of activities) still actively punishable by death or jail time in many countries], atheist or minority religion in a fundamentalist country, or some other minority that can be profiled ("people who like red hair in London" -- only partly joking, "gingers" do get bullied), a lot of people are about to find out what Facebook Feature Creep really means.
Wait until you spend enough time at your new job that your parents decide they're sick of it, and unwittingly hire your coworkers to handle you.
$25 an hour (if he works 8 hour days for that $200) is not bad at all if he lacks better opportunities. U.S. federal minimum wage is $7.25. In fact, his parents might ask him for jobs, if they're retired. He could become head of an online crime "family."
I'm not one, but I think that software engineers use formalized approaches (Requirements Elicitation, etc.) to not only solve immediate problems, but also recursively improve those processes so that they're always benefitting from what they've done in the past, making them more responsive and nimble.
Also, and this is just something I've noticed: I see a lot of people identifying themselves as "Java developers" or "C++ developers" or giving some other specific language(s) in their title. I don't remember offhand any software engineer doing this. I would expect software engineers to be conversant in multiple languages and frameworks, and be comfortable in learning new ones (or even creating their own as needed), so that they can pick the right tool for the job at hand.
The more options you have, the more options you have.
Don't think of the tablet as only a consumer device, and only for media consumption. Think of the tablet as a laptop replacement for network troubleshooting purposes. Reconfiguring wireless routers that puke their configs, etc. A tablet would be much lighter to walk around with in a PoP/IEP/data center, especially since you could hold it with one hand and type with the other. And when you're done, (at least if you're a big guy like me) just drop it back in your coat pocket, no need to repack a laptop bag.
Also, I know an internet cafe that sometimes has problems with both of its wireless networks such that nobody can log on... but most of their tables upstairs are also wired, and those ports are always open.
I scanned through various product pages, and couldn't find anything about display resolution. I'm not interested in sitting through videos. Can anybody summarize some actual specifications?
Full color, SVGA, Transmissive TFT (800 x 600) micro- display with an adjustable backlight; Field of view: 32 degrees (diagonal); Virtual image size: 15 in. diagonal
And if you wouldn't have wasted your time on that public speaking course and instead used that opportunity cost to take a class in a Lisp language like Scheme you'd understand why your failure to close that left parenthesis is driving me bat shit insane right now.
Hadn't, not wouldn't have. I wouldn't have commented, but <argh>. So I did, anyway.
Is it too late for me to change careers to be a robot designer, and how do I go about doing it?:) No, seriously, do I need to go back to school and get an EE degree, or what?
Wow, that is huge. When I use a Sense-based ROM on my Inspire 4G, it's usually 3-400M. When I tried ICS out for a while, it was under 200, I'm pretty sure. Wonder if that ROM's got a bunch of extra stuff in it like third party browsers, etc.?
I would be highly interested if I could download incremental updates (patches?). Who wants to download 70-600mb of data for every nightly?
The size for me isn't such a factor -- at least up to about 300M or so, at which point it becomes a time suck to do often. What keeps me from doing any nightlies is having to wipe& reinstall. I use so many registered services that it's very annoying to redo their apps every time, even if I'm just cutting and pasting from the 1Password app. And yes, I do have Titanium Backup Pro, but it's not a good idea to recover all data across releases, even point ones.
Figured out how to up the RAM from 16k to 48k (the max) myself.
Yup, my dad saved over $300 buying the modules for our Model I Level 2 himself over letting Rat Shack put them in -- my first lesson in vendor markup, as a kid.
With both parents having done their dissertations on that machine, it's no wonder I'm used to being up all night -- that Daisy Wheel Printer II was loud enough to be heard across the house, and would go at all hours.
It wasn't a matter of the contraction; as I said, I put the question in different forms. Even so, a human who knows English would understand that contraction. Also, putting the question mark inside or outside the quotes shouldn't matter, since that's a "standard" that varies. Again, a human would understand.
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We have other OS distributions that that live just fine on SD cards or sticks, already. If you want to bring computing to slums as a useful resource, the big problems are probably really:
1) actual hardware, shared or not, to run whatever open source OS you pick;
2) electricity to run the hardware and shelter for the hardware;
3) people to train those who have never used computers before, may have other literacy issues besides, and quite possibly speak dialects you will have difficulty getting localization for; and
4) affordable/free network access if these people want to use the internet.
I'll bet these are not the only issues, but if you don't address these, I suspect your money and time will be mostly wasted.
They only have one option that mentions immediately practical applications in its supporting information. That's the Technology skin, with the applications being easier crew identification, etc. Precisely the only reason why you would think they would invest the resources to play with pretty lights on the surface of a prototype, right now. The others are designs that might be nice to have someday, if there are large populations in these environments that might want to express individuality and creativity.
http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=bitcoin
Over the last few months, we've been averaging a little more than 1 Bitcoin story every 2 days. Please - please, stop accepting every submission that has the word Bitcoin in it. At this point, I'd almost like them to start covering the 2016 Presidential Election. Enough.
Agreed. There should be an algorithm to make it progressively more difficult to create each Bitcoin story, with reviewers getting paid a small amount of karma for each submission they proc-- aarrgggh, doing it again!
A work-grade Matter Compiler, an electron microscope, and a few loupes and precision drivers. Oh, and some prototypical mediatrons I've been compiling that can share a bus when the sheaf is arranged like a book...
I can remember a day when Boy Scouts of America would have been approving of something like hackerscouts.org because they would have shared a central theme; curiosity, experimentation, education, science -- all good things to interest young people. It's disappointing to see the BSA stooping to such douchenozzly levels. The have apparently lost enough positive virutue I would not want to be associated with them today.
So you held onto your badge while they were actively booting kids and scoutmasters for being gay and/or atheist, and during the child abuse scandals. But them trying to enforce their trademark gets you mad enough to do something?
The study doesn't actually say that, at least not according to the chart on page 4. It says that 18.8% of the students in college who had scores of 0-699 got merit aid. Not that 18.8% of all the students in college received aid with such low scores.
It's because it's harder to tell when there are new comments in a thread, so conversations fragment.
Nothing at all like pretending to start a topic here, just to try to get us to click on your link to continue, right? :)
Well, I'm convinced: it's our civet doodie not to support this animal cruelty.
Try a search for "gay people in Kenya," for example.
I don't know if these people all made the mistake of thinking the "interested in" sections of their profiles would not be publicly visible by default, or whether they set them public but were relying on the obscurity of only friends looking them up. Perhaps some made their accounts years ago, and haven't kept up with the ever-eroding privacy on this site that requires you to go back and re-specify as private some things that used to be private by default. The point is, it hasn't been this easy before to just search for masses of people based on one common trait.
Whether it's being gay [an orientation (not just a set of activities) still actively punishable by death or jail time in many countries], atheist or minority religion in a fundamentalist country, or some other minority that can be profiled ("people who like red hair in London" -- only partly joking, "gingers" do get bullied), a lot of people are about to find out what Facebook Feature Creep really means.
Wait until you spend enough time at your new job that your parents decide they're sick of it, and unwittingly hire your coworkers to handle you.
$25 an hour (if he works 8 hour days for that $200) is not bad at all if he lacks better opportunities. U.S. federal minimum wage is $7.25.
In fact, his parents might ask him for jobs, if they're retired. He could become head of an online crime "family."
Internet years.
Or dog years. I wonder about Timothy sometimes.
Timothy? 'e's not 'arf bad.
I'm not one, but I think that software engineers use formalized approaches (Requirements Elicitation, etc.) to not only solve immediate problems, but also recursively improve those processes so that they're always benefitting from what they've done in the past, making them more responsive and nimble.
Also, and this is just something I've noticed: I see a lot of people identifying themselves as "Java developers" or "C++ developers" or giving some other specific language(s) in their title. I don't remember offhand any software engineer doing this. I would expect software engineers to be conversant in multiple languages and frameworks, and be comfortable in learning new ones (or even creating their own as needed), so that they can pick the right tool for the job at hand.
why would you want ethernet over USB?
The more options you have, the more options you have.
Don't think of the tablet as only a consumer device, and only for media consumption. Think of the tablet as a laptop replacement for network troubleshooting purposes. Reconfiguring wireless routers that puke their configs, etc. A tablet would be much lighter to walk around with in a PoP/IEP/data center, especially since you could hold it with one hand and type with the other. And when you're done, (at least if you're a big guy like me) just drop it back in your coat pocket, no need to repack a laptop bag.
Also, I know an internet cafe that sometimes has problems with both of its wireless networks such that nobody can log on... but most of their tables upstairs are also wired, and those ports are always open.
I scanned through various product pages, and couldn't find anything about display resolution. I'm not interested in sitting through videos. Can anybody summarize some actual specifications?
From one of the links:
Display type
Full color, SVGA, Transmissive TFT (800 x 600) micro-
display with an adjustable backlight; Field of view: 32
degrees (diagonal); Virtual image size: 15 in. diagonal
And if you wouldn't have wasted your time on that public speaking course and instead used that opportunity cost to take a class in a Lisp language like Scheme you'd understand why your failure to close that left parenthesis is driving me bat shit insane right now.
Hadn't, not wouldn't have. I wouldn't have commented, but <argh>. So I did, anyway.
Is it too late for me to change careers to be a robot designer, and how do I go about doing it? :)
No, seriously, do I need to go back to school and get an EE degree, or what?
Wow, that is huge. When I use a Sense-based ROM on my Inspire 4G, it's usually 3-400M. When I tried ICS out for a while, it was under 200, I'm pretty sure.
Wonder if that ROM's got a bunch of extra stuff in it like third party browsers, etc.?
The zips for the nightlies for the ROMs I use (not Cyanogen) usually auto-wipe.
My nightlies are from another developer, not one of the Cyanomod family. That's how :)
I would be highly interested if I could download incremental updates (patches?). Who wants to download 70-600mb of data for every nightly?
The size for me isn't such a factor -- at least up to about 300M or so, at which point it becomes a time suck to do often. What keeps me from doing any nightlies is having to wipe& reinstall. I use so many registered services that it's very annoying to redo their apps every time, even if I'm just cutting and pasting from the 1Password app. And yes, I do have Titanium Backup Pro, but it's not a good idea to recover all data across releases, even point ones.
Figured out how to up the RAM from 16k to 48k (the max) myself.
Yup, my dad saved over $300 buying the modules for our Model I Level 2 himself over letting Rat Shack put them in -- my first lesson in vendor markup, as a kid.
With both parents having done their dissertations on that machine, it's no wonder I'm used to being up all night -- that Daisy Wheel Printer II was loud enough to be heard across the house, and would go at all hours.
Hey, I'm a crazy cat MAN, you insensitive chauvinist clod!
Meow-meow feelings hurt.
Meow-meow not nice.
This may bring us closer to the choice of subbed or dubbed. :)
Yes, though I'm willing to pretend that there's a human with excellent typing skills or transcription software for the early stages of this test :)
It wasn't a matter of the contraction; as I said, I put the question in different forms.
Even so, a human who knows English would understand that contraction.
Also, putting the question mark inside or outside the quotes shouldn't matter, since that's a "standard" that varies. Again, a human would understand.