Hey, according to the article, part of the program is that the laptops go home with the kids. They can play at home (or sit outside Starbucks and surf) if they wanted to.
Meaning, the laptop itself is not necessarily the reason more kids are coming to school.
This comes from the Joe PC department, so bear with me...
Isn't it possible to have software -- roughly similar to a proxy server -- run on the different computers in a wireless network to achieve a similar sort of mesh effect for smaller networks.
It would be handy to use other computers in the house as repeaters, i.e., not have to buy separate boxes or run extra network cable for additional access points.
Hey, remember that uncompressed video requires a lot less procesing power to display. More bandwidth muscle hopefully could mean a cheaper, slower processor in a cheaper phone with longer battery life.
The test firing/flight of a new, top-secret weapon/aircraft was explained as an incredibly co-incidental pair of meteor entries occuring at roughly the same time and in roughly the same area of the sky.
The problem here is that this requires total concentration: no looking up while entering data. On a pen-based computer with graffiti or transcriber, one often doesn't need to look down at the screen all the time in order to write.
As an added bonus, it makes me quite nauseated. Immersive writing. Uuuuuhhhh.
Now where was that thread on preventing motion sickness from intense immersive gaming?!?
Okay, but the real Springfield, IL police department beat the Simpson's Springfield police department to the punch anyway.
I remember back in the early 80's when the SPD busted some criminals at the Prarie Capital Convention Center after sending them letters that said they had won something.
I don't remember any kids named Bart at my school, though.
The Russians did have their own space shuttle. I don't remember the Russian name, but it translates as Blizzard in English.
Rather than reverse engineering a whole space shuttle themselves, the based it upon bluprints available through NASA's civialian space technology spinoff program.
Incidentally, the Russian version, in addition to being able to blast off into space (with the help of a booster) and return to Earth, was also equipped with jet engines that actually allowed it to fly from place to place on the Earth like a regular plane. No piggybacking.
It never flew in space, but it did fly on Earth.
<freudbait>It also had a cool pointy six-foot-long nose-spear thing. Wow!</freudbait>
Wow! Wouldn't it be great if a whole community of users could grow up around these simple, easy-to-use devices, using them to chat, order simple services, summon a doctor...
Oh, wait a second. That was the Minitel in France.
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Hey, what the hell's wrong with YOU?
Had you read the story, you would know that control of the facility was tranferred from the USDA to the Dept. of Homeland Security.
Nitwit.
Right next to the WiFi hub is a carnivore box, courtesy the FBI?
Anyone know if 2.6 has better power management for laptops? -- the speedstep chip I've got goes for hours in Windows, and for an hour in Linux.
'r'-'l' substitution happens with Japanese speakers, not Chinese speakers, silly.
Palladium.
It's laying the foundation for songs being locked to your hardware. Voila! Non-swappable songs. (Later on after they kill off all competition.)
Hey, according to the article, part of the program is that the laptops go home with the kids. They can play at home (or sit outside Starbucks and surf) if they wanted to.
Meaning, the laptop itself is not necessarily the reason more kids are coming to school.
Maybye there is a niche market for Lindows after all!
This comes from the Joe PC department, so bear with me...
Isn't it possible to have software -- roughly similar to a proxy server -- run on the different computers in a wireless network to achieve a similar sort of mesh effect for smaller networks.
It would be handy to use other computers in the house as repeaters, i.e., not have to buy separate boxes or run extra network cable for additional access points.
Hey, remember that uncompressed video requires a lot less procesing power to display. More bandwidth muscle hopefully could mean a cheaper, slower processor in a cheaper phone with longer battery life.
The test firing/flight of a new, top-secret weapon/aircraft was explained as an incredibly co-incidental pair of meteor entries occuring at roughly the same time and in roughly the same area of the sky.
Coincidence. Yeah. Right.
= Commodore 64 form factor?
No, actually, isn't that called 'Genetic Drift?'
Wrong. If you were a 2D being and a sphere assed through your plane you'd see a dot grow into a long "wall" or "line", disappearing into a dot again.
The book Flatland (available online in its entirity) covers all the nuances of the 2D lifestyle.
Wait,where were the penguin suites? I want a suite. I'm sick of this cubicle!
[Reboot server in safe mode...]
"What in the Sam hell..."
This article includes the business plan and links to the company's homepage.
Back up your database in 186,000 8.5x11"-style pages of semicolon-separated printouts.
Woo.
Erm. And Shindler's List was a bouquet of daisies?
The problem here is that this requires total concentration: no looking up while entering data. On a pen-based computer with graffiti or transcriber, one often doesn't need to look down at the screen all the time in order to write.
As an added bonus, it makes me quite nauseated. Immersive writing. Uuuuuhhhh.
Now where was that thread on preventing motion sickness from intense immersive gaming?!?
Okay, but the real Springfield, IL police department beat the Simpson's Springfield police department to the punch anyway.
I remember back in the early 80's when the SPD busted some criminals at the Prarie Capital Convention Center after sending them letters that said they had won something.
I don't remember any kids named Bart at my school, though.
I thought the story after the FBI story was more interesting.
Now, that's what I call carnivore!
Nice theory, but the company is not listed. It has plans to do so within about five years.
A better chance of making money probably has more to do with encrypted cellular phones. They're pricy, at about USD 2,700, though.
The Russians did have their own space shuttle. I don't remember the Russian name, but it translates as Blizzard in English.
Rather than reverse engineering a whole space shuttle themselves, the based it upon bluprints available through NASA's civialian space technology spinoff program.
Incidentally, the Russian version, in addition to being able to blast off into space (with the help of a booster) and return to Earth, was also equipped with jet engines that actually allowed it to fly from place to place on the Earth like a regular plane. No piggybacking.
It never flew in space, but it did fly on Earth.
<freudbait>It also had a cool pointy six-foot-long nose-spear thing. Wow!</freudbait>
Wow! Wouldn't it be great if a whole community of users could grow up around these simple, easy-to-use devices, using them to chat, order simple services, summon a doctor...
Oh, wait a second. That was the Minitel in France.