I think he has a point- 14.1" laptop screens are cramped enough even with my thinkpad's 1400x1050 resolution.. I positively shudder to think what it would feel like to read slashdot on a 3 inch screen at a fifth of that resolution.
Are you having "useability" as a yardstick? Silly you. It's all about having an electronic toy that convince
A) Geeks that they will now outrank other geeks.
B) Non-geeks that they are now cooler than other non-geeks.
C) Geeks that having an ubercool toy will get them sex with a non-geek.
A game, used in an unsupervised setting, without any plan: Is just a leisure pursuit. False dichotomy. Leisure pursuits can be great for learning. It's the reason I could code circles around my Electrical Engineering classmates as an undergrad.
Worked for you, but are you the target demographic for OLPC? I think not. I love all these posts arguing against my view, created by people who also are not the target demographic for OLPC.
or does every time Dvorak speak about something, it sounds like the ramblings of an old crazy homeless man...
Some people love attention and once they get it will rattle off whatever is on their minds. Other people (media) will actually record these ramblings and present them as news in the hopes others will read their content, then flip to the ads and give business to one of their advertisers.
Worst of all, onece it makes it to slashdot, someone will do this:
In Soviet Russia phone dooms YOU!
And hopefully that's were it all ends, but you never know, it may be picked up by 60 minutes or 20/20 and go on from there.
So John says nobody is flocking to smart-phones, ergo Google is d00med to failure. Gosh. Maybe it's because the other smartphones didn't have something Google's will. I seem to recall many phones which played music and did a variety of other tasks not going anywhere until Apple launched the iPhone.
I really don't see where they are going with this being educational. Get out on a jobsite and start pouring concrete. Things are a little different than they are in that game. I would know.
A game, used in a supervised setting for educational use, with an actual plan: Growth in learning.
A game, used in an unsupervised setting, without any plan: Is just a leisure pursuit.
We're trying to raise these kids out of poverty/third world squalor and ignorance. Why present them with computer games which will simply turn them into couch potatoes, dependant upon the next video game release for validation and... never mind, answered my own question.
Knowing it exists means you can also work around it
That's the rub -- not knowing about it until after you've lost irreplacable files.
Reminds me of this old poster I had on the wall with Moses looking down at a broken tablet, while thundering out of the cloud above him were these words: XI Thou Shalt Make Backups
So what happens if you're moving a 120GB folder one directory level on a 150GB disk?
Typically if you are moving within the same logical device the file pointer is moved and no copying need take place.
When moving to another device your code reads and writes, within a loop and traps exceptions (such as the device suddenly vanished, where the OS should raise an exception and your application traps it.) A wide variety of errors could occur while moving and in the event any of them happen the user should be notified in an appropriate manner and the original data not deleted.
I've written a number of applications which moved files or data between databases and it's fundamental your application is on the watch for any problems. Not to have an exception raised or to trap any and all, well, that's simply an inexcusable lapse.
This sort of thing is extremely critical if you happend to be defragmenting a disk drive. Long before Macs and PCs we had to defrag our mainframe drives and the applications which did the work were quite careful. Often the best practice, if you had the resource of a second drive, was to simply defrag to a new drive then re-assign the new dist as the original.
I ride my bike in a city that doesn't have overwhelming traffic problems (so cars can go much faster than in the big city), and I can catch up with cars that passed me up to 1/4 of a mile back
When I was a lad I delivered 150 newspapers on a bicycle with baskets. Now it seems everyone "delivers" with a car. I quote "delivers" because by that I mean they throw the paper somewhere in the general direction of the house. I had to go up and down driveways and leave it on the mat (don't do this, don't get tips!) Some people wanted paper under a mat, in an old-style milk box, even one had a fishing creel by the door.
It's kind of strange that this didn't come up while people were beta testing OS X 10.5. Samba is used in many places. I hope they get it fixed soon.
Exactly which decade did you fall into your recently awkened from coma in? Testing? Testing? Nobody tests anything anymore, they just go play with all the new toys and stare at the eye-candy. Actual mundane, humdrum testing? That's an SEP if ever I didn't see one.
I can attest to the validity of that scenario, only I've been in the opposite position: I commuted everywhere (school, work, shopping, home) on bicycle, and the rush hour traffic got so bad that all the cars were either crawling down the road or standing still....while I whizzed by everyone in the bike lane.
The really excruciating irony is that I've done the same thing while cranking away on an uphill stretch of road.
The irksome thing is you passing them while they're stuck, just pisses them off completely and they'll do dumbass things to try to cut you off if you're in the road, even in the bike lane. Funny how some people will do stuff while in a vehicle they wouldn't dare try outside of it.
f'santa cruz. Just because hippy's can ride the boards down to check the surf, its by no means any base for a comparison.
I think the surfers prefer those big cruiser bikes with the board racks on the side. The daughter of a woman I worked with used to carry board and everything on a scooter. Those who cross town are often commuting, I personally know several people who do it.
Glenn Canyon, 17, or Graham Hill? Either choice is a deathwish...
Graham Hill. I wish I'd thought of asking how he managed it. I took a bicycle down that road once and
of its own accord it would go about 30 mph. He did mention he took the bus back home after work.
Depends on where you live. Here in Melbourne, Australia the ticket machines on train stations have about fourteen different anti-vandalisation features. At Incheon, South Korea where I was working last week the ticket machines are little computers with no attempt at protection. They are cleaner, too.
This is something one notices when one travels. Different care accorded the 'commons'. Some people take a certain civic pride that their city is clean and free of vandalism. Others believe it is someone else's problem to look after everything.
Okay... think "Minneapolis", "January", "6:00 am", and "10 mile commute". Now do that on a skateboard.
I doubt these little cars will work in that scenario, either. While the roads are clear, there are still a number of skateboarders who will go easily 5 miles across town. You know they do, when you get stuck in commute traffic and twenty minutes later arrive to see the same skateboarder you saw a long ways back. There was a fellow who worked down on the end of the wharf, rode his board all the way in from Scotts Valley.
from the top of this page:
"but is designed as a system of shared cars with kiosks..."
nobody owns individual cars, you subscribe to the service and grab a car from a kiosk wherever you need one.
What happens when the all end up at the same place in town on a Friday night
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Himself.
As long as someone is still reading/listening, he's doing it.
Probably the one responsible for All your base are belong to us!!
I foresee a video made of this, it going on as a running joke, it never dying, it finally popping up on slashdot and becoming the latest meme.
OH THE HUMANITY!
Are you having "useability" as a yardstick? Silly you. It's all about having an electronic toy that convince
A) Geeks that they will now outrank other geeks.
B) Non-geeks that they are now cooler than other non-geeks.
C) Geeks that having an ubercool toy will get them sex with a non-geek.
Worked for you, but are you the target demographic for OLPC? I think not. I love all these posts arguing against my view, created by people who also are not the target demographic for OLPC.
Some people love attention and once they get it will rattle off whatever is on their minds. Other people (media) will actually record these ramblings and present them as news in the hopes others will read their content, then flip to the ads and give business to one of their advertisers.
Worst of all, onece it makes it to slashdot, someone will do this:
In Soviet Russia phone dooms YOU!
And hopefully that's were it all ends, but you never know, it may be picked up by 60 minutes or 20/20 and go on from there.
So John says nobody is flocking to smart-phones, ergo Google is d00med to failure. Gosh. Maybe it's because the other smartphones didn't have something Google's will. I seem to recall many phones which played music and did a variety of other tasks not going anywhere until Apple launched the iPhone.
Of course it's worth it. Just think of all that alien anime we're missing out on!
A game, used in a supervised setting for educational use, with an actual plan: Growth in learning.
A game, used in an unsupervised setting, without any plan: Is just a leisure pursuit.
We're trying to raise these kids out of poverty/third world squalor and ignorance. Why present them with computer games which will simply turn them into couch potatoes, dependant upon the next video game release for validation and ... never mind, answered my own question.
So we can live I Robot (Asimov's book, not the rubbish movie.)
This is going to make it increasingly difficult for me to take over the world! I want to know who to blame.
I've been trying to save it off, but have a player and a 11 meg file in my cache, which I expect is the video.
Hmm. They're getting trickier and tricker.
They'll demand the right to see what's being encrypted.
Guy Fawkes masks all around
Mmmm! Laser roasted birds. rhrhrhrhrh ...
That's the rub -- not knowing about it until after you've lost irreplacable files.
Reminds me of this old poster I had on the wall with Moses looking down at a broken tablet, while thundering out of the cloud above him were these words: XI Thou Shalt Make Backups
Typically if you are moving within the same logical device the file pointer is moved and no copying need take place.
When moving to another device your code reads and writes, within a loop and traps exceptions (such as the device suddenly vanished, where the OS should raise an exception and your application traps it.) A wide variety of errors could occur while moving and in the event any of them happen the user should be notified in an appropriate manner and the original data not deleted.
I've written a number of applications which moved files or data between databases and it's fundamental your application is on the watch for any problems. Not to have an exception raised or to trap any and all, well, that's simply an inexcusable lapse.
This sort of thing is extremely critical if you happend to be defragmenting a disk drive. Long before Macs and PCs we had to defrag our mainframe drives and the applications which did the work were quite careful. Often the best practice, if you had the resource of a second drive, was to simply defrag to a new drive then re-assign the new dist as the original.
When I was a lad I delivered 150 newspapers on a bicycle with baskets. Now it seems everyone "delivers" with a car. I quote "delivers" because by that I mean they throw the paper somewhere in the general direction of the house. I had to go up and down driveways and leave it on the mat (don't do this, don't get tips!) Some people wanted paper under a mat, in an old-style milk box, even one had a fishing creel by the door.
Exactly which decade did you fall into your recently awkened from coma in? Testing? Testing? Nobody tests anything anymore, they just go play with all the new toys and stare at the eye-candy. Actual mundane, humdrum testing? That's an SEP if ever I didn't see one.
Normally while moving you ensure the copy completed before deleting the original. Apple must be using some discount programmers.
The really excruciating irony is that I've done the same thing while cranking away on an uphill stretch of road.
The irksome thing is you passing them while they're stuck, just pisses them off completely and they'll do dumbass things to try to cut you off if you're in the road, even in the bike lane. Funny how some people will do stuff while in a vehicle they wouldn't dare try outside of it.
I think the surfers prefer those big cruiser bikes with the board racks on the side. The daughter of a woman I worked with used to carry board and everything on a scooter. Those who cross town are often commuting, I personally know several people who do it.
Graham Hill. I wish I'd thought of asking how he managed it. I took a bicycle down that road once and of its own accord it would go about 30 mph. He did mention he took the bus back home after work.
This is something one notices when one travels. Different care accorded the 'commons'. Some people take a certain civic pride that their city is clean and free of vandalism. Others believe it is someone else's problem to look after everything.
I doubt these little cars will work in that scenario, either. While the roads are clear, there are still a number of skateboarders who will go easily 5 miles across town. You know they do, when you get stuck in commute traffic and twenty minutes later arrive to see the same skateboarder you saw a long ways back. There was a fellow who worked down on the end of the wharf, rode his board all the way in from Scotts Valley.
What happens when the all end up at the same place in town on a Friday night