The eSlates are the end-user terminals of EELS, used by both teachers and students. An eSlate is Linux-based tablet computer, modified to survive in the technologically risky environment that is primary and secondary education. The tablets come in the same form-factor as a current textbook, and have a user-interface custom-designed for computer novices. Data input is done through a stylus on a touch-screen, using a combination of tapping and handwriting recognition. In addition, the bottom of the unit slides out to reveal a small keyboard for longer writing assignments.
There can't be enough dupe stories about this game on slashdot...
I picked the fist game up about a month ago for 20 bucks, I think <i>that's</i> the retail price... my wife played it... me three year old daughter plays it! People just pick it up and play, it's <i>that</i> good.
You know, that game? The one hardcore players always talk about in the prophecy? The one that will not feature graphics but instead will focus on really good gameplay?
I agree with you, I've been telling people that ask me which machine they would like and I usually tell them to just buy the cheapest one but with more installed ram. Simply because the average user can't really tell the difference between a low end and a medium-to-high end pc. Current MS software is not demanding enough of the recent crop of processors.
But the parent poster also has a point, I bet the likes of Dell, IBM, HP and Lenovo are right now assesing what risk this Apple+Intel merger represents to them if it should come to pass. I bet someone at Microsoft is working hard on an Excel spreadsheet trying to see when it would be best to buy out AMD...
I don't that it's such a good idea for imperial troopers to carry around explosive devices, especially when you go to and fro with just a couple of inches of metal between you and the vacuum of space.
At the risk of losing my good karma, and come off as a troll, my first tip to you is to change the name of the app...
It's one thing to have an application on sourceforge named phpmygreatapp because you NEED that name there in order to attract potential coders as well as getting some people to beta test your software... phpmygreatapp let's people on sourceforge guess quite a bit about your application and wether they can contribute or use a client-server-web-php-based app
If you want to get funding however, call your app something else! Remember that your application's name is like the proverbial book-cover and people will judge your app on the basis of name alone (like I am doing now) until they get a chance to poke and prod it...
The best example of this is Firefox, can you imagine a successful app named CPlusPlusMyBrowser?...
seems strangely appropiate, especially when looking at the original OSE picture:
"Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive." ~ Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
Assuming there is the same amount of expertise of the PayPal engineers as the EBay ones (which also happen to have moved the entire EBay platform to Sun Servers and the application codebase from C and whatnot into Java... while the EBay site was running... and eliminating maintenance downtime) it is mindboggling to think about this possibility.
But just as mindboggling could be that someone in the PayPal camp could be trying to indirectly harm Sun, or cast doubt on the decission to move to Sun's servers... I wonder if any Microsoft certified engineers saw their chance to rise evaporate at the sight of Sun Servers running Unix/Linux/Solaris
The author talks about a "stripped-down version of Office for Linux targeted at emerging markets"
And though it is actually a great idea...
Instead, who not get an "enhanced" Office for said markets?
"Enhanced" being some multimedia creation capability (think PowerPointMovie&Sound), make a better Image Composer part of the suite along with FrontPage, offer Frontpage extensions for apache running on Linux and while you're at it, make said extensions able to compile asp pages. Get it running out of the box with minimum user intervention complete with personal web site. Stick in a little drm and user information gathering by the side...
Mind you this is not for the slashdot crowd, but those "emerging markets"... handled well could make DRM ubiquitous and Office the defacto standard for the next ten years...
... in backward compatibility (ie: the technical side) isn't the real issue here.
Gamers recurring to old games instead of new games, is! (ie: buying power)
Let me explain, up until very recently my ps1 game collection was bigger than all other current generation collections together (ps2,gc,pc). I bought my last ps1 game a scant 3 months ago... yup, at the bargain bin! I wonder how many games I 've let pass thinking that a ps1 $10 buck game would be a wiser choice... and by the time I finish taht ps1 game maybe the ps2 game will reach the bargain bin too...
What microsft doesnt want is gamers going through the bargain bin of Halo... err I mean Xbox games instead of buying NEW (read full price) games...
What they are saying to me essentially is this: "Buy the X-Box and it's games now, or you won't have another chance to play those games."
I hope I made some sense... and I have decided that the living room will reamin X-Box free...
But really, I don't envision myself not having a multifunction gadget / cellphone / camera / oggplayer / moblogserver / egobooster (that will let me call 911) even if I have VoIP...
was the one that finally got me hooked on slashdot, and become a daily reader.
I don't know if it's an optimistic projection of the past, but I remember thinking how incredible it was tha so many people could offer so many interesting and insighfull things to say... it (the article) got me off yahoo chat and into news/forums like slashdot and geekpress.
In comparison, today's comments have been mostly funny, with few 'insightfulls' or 'interestings'...
It has always seemed to me like Asimov's books are pretty much unfilmable. Unadaptable to a form of visual media like movies or even comic books.
It seems to me that Asimov was such a large part of the stories himself. I mean the omnipresent "narrator" in his stories tells the reader everything while the characters themselves say very little. There is so much that the narrator says about the characters themselves, the world around them that is important and would be lost in a movie.
And then you have Asimov's penchant for delivering a contention point then argueing both sides of it! He did't "make up" the reader's mind for them (though certainly nudged). I think it would be hard to translate that into film.
Even so I keep expecting someone (somepeople?) to start making flash animations of some of his short stories...
Oh, well... I know I will see it when it comes and unless it pulls a Jackson (an incredible adaptation of an established work that becomes itself a classic), my soul will cry and I will feel debased for having watched it.
I didn't RTFA (of course) but upon reading the headline it ocurred to me that if such a thing can be done... could Linux be used to bypass (maybe even break!) said MS DRM features on the hardware level?
I'm no OS coder, or kernel hacker, so I ask... could it be possible?
Here in Puerto Rico we have only one landline telco (recently sold by govt) they have 256dn/128up dsl service for which I signed up for about 50 something bucks (and it'll amount to 70 something with the hidden costs and whatnot) however I've yet to pay anything because the service is not available where I reside because it's a "rural" area... been waiting for it for months.
Now Puerto Rico is roughly 100 miles wide by 35 miles but the telco insists in having a separate metro and rural area (this might change soon) with some services available only in the metro area (incidentally metro-to-rural calls are long distance calls, ie costlier).
Oh, and cable? Even less penetration than DSL and more than a $100 bucks for the lowest transfer rates.
And for business I've heard it say that unless your' biz has some punch you have to wait an average of six months for a T1...
Slashdot Mirror
There can't be enough dupe stories about this game on slashdot...
I picked the fist game up about a month ago for 20 bucks, I think <i>that's</i> the retail price... my wife played it... me three year old daughter plays it! People just pick it up and play, it's <i>that</i> good.
You know, that game? The one hardcore players always talk about in the prophecy? The one that will not feature graphics but instead will focus on really good gameplay?
I think this is the one.</Morpheous>
I agree with you, I've been telling people that ask me which machine they would like and I usually tell them to just buy the cheapest one but with more installed ram. Simply because the average user can't really tell the difference between a low end and a medium-to-high end pc. Current MS software is not demanding enough of the recent crop of processors.
But the parent poster also has a point, I bet the likes of Dell, IBM, HP and Lenovo are right now assesing what risk this Apple+Intel merger represents to them if it should come to pass. I bet someone at Microsoft is working hard on an Excel spreadsheet trying to see when it would be best to buy out AMD...
I don't that it's such a good idea for imperial troopers to carry around explosive devices, especially when you go to and fro with just a couple of inches of metal between you and the vacuum of space.
At the risk of losing my good karma, and come off as a troll, my first tip to you is to change the name of the app...
It's one thing to have an application on sourceforge named phpmygreatapp because you NEED that name there in order to attract potential coders as well as getting some people to beta test your software... phpmygreatapp let's people on sourceforge guess quite a bit about your application and wether they can contribute or use a client-server-web-php-based app
If you want to get funding however, call your app something else! Remember that your application's name is like the proverbial book-cover and people will judge your app on the basis of name alone (like I am doing now) until they get a chance to poke and prod it...
The best example of this is Firefox, can you imagine a successful app named CPlusPlusMyBrowser?...
Slashdot rendering problem?
Sooo.... that means we won't ever see dupes again?
I'm sure there is a great sci-fi anime involving kids with strange powers in your post, but I'm too lazy to make it up just now...
Assuming there is the same amount of expertise of the PayPal engineers as the EBay ones (which also happen to have moved the entire EBay platform to Sun Servers and the application codebase from C and whatnot into Java... while the EBay site was running... and eliminating maintenance downtime) it is mindboggling to think about this possibility.
But just as mindboggling could be that someone in the PayPal camp could be trying to indirectly harm Sun, or cast doubt on the decission to move to Sun's servers... I wonder if any Microsoft certified engineers saw their chance to rise evaporate at the sight of Sun Servers running Unix/Linux/Solaris
the Drake Equation
That being said I don't believe in ufo's at all...
The author talks about a "stripped-down version of Office for Linux targeted at emerging markets"
And though it is actually a great idea...
Instead, who not get an "enhanced" Office for said markets?
"Enhanced" being some multimedia creation capability (think PowerPointMovie&Sound), make a better Image Composer part of the suite along with FrontPage, offer Frontpage extensions for apache running on Linux and while you're at it, make said extensions able to compile asp pages. Get it running out of the box with minimum user intervention complete with personal web site. Stick in a little drm and user information gathering by the side...
Mind you this is not for the slashdot crowd, but those "emerging markets"... handled well could make DRM ubiquitous and Office the defacto standard for the next ten years...
God, I hope they don't have a clue...
... in backward compatibility (ie: the technical side) isn't the real issue here.
Gamers recurring to old games instead of new games, is! (ie: buying power)
Let me explain, up until very recently my ps1 game collection was bigger than all other current generation collections together (ps2,gc,pc). I bought my last ps1 game a scant 3 months ago... yup, at the bargain bin! I wonder how many games I 've let pass thinking that a ps1 $10 buck game would be a wiser choice... and by the time I finish taht ps1 game maybe the ps2 game will reach the bargain bin too...
What microsft doesnt want is gamers going through the bargain bin of Halo... err I mean Xbox games instead of buying NEW (read full price) games...
What they are saying to me essentially is this: "Buy the X-Box and it's games now, or you won't have another chance to play those games."
I hope I made some sense... and I have decided that the living room will reamin X-Box free...
Public Payphone
But really, I don't envision myself not having a multifunction gadget / cellphone / camera / oggplayer / moblogserver / egobooster (that will let me call 911) even if I have VoIP...
Time will tell
was the one that finally got me hooked on slashdot, and become a daily reader.
I don't know if it's an optimistic projection of the past, but I remember thinking how incredible it was tha so many people could offer so many interesting and insighfull things to say... it (the article) got me off yahoo chat and into news/forums like slashdot and geekpress.
In comparison, today's comments have been mostly funny, with few 'insightfulls' or 'interestings'...
Casshern (aka: Casshan Robot Hunter)
It has always seemed to me like Asimov's books are pretty much unfilmable. Unadaptable to a form of visual media like movies or even comic books.
It seems to me that Asimov was such a large part of the stories himself. I mean the omnipresent "narrator" in his stories tells the reader everything while the characters themselves say very little. There is so much that the narrator says about the characters themselves, the world around them that is important and would be lost in a movie.
And then you have Asimov's penchant for delivering a contention point then argueing both sides of it! He did't "make up" the reader's mind for them (though certainly nudged). I think it would be hard to translate that into film.
Even so I keep expecting someone (somepeople?) to start making flash animations of some of his short stories...
Oh, well... I know I will see it when it comes and unless it pulls a Jackson (an incredible adaptation of an established work that becomes itself a classic), my soul will cry and I will feel debased for having watched it.
Over here in Puerto Rico yellow license plates belong to government cars so it wouldn't work he... oh, ohh... now I get it!
I got a chuckle out of this line from the googlecache disclaimer:
"Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content."
I didn't RTFA (of course) but upon reading the headline it ocurred to me that if such a thing can be done... could Linux be used to bypass (maybe even break!) said MS DRM features on the hardware level?
I'm no OS coder, or kernel hacker, so I ask... could it be possible?
I dunno 'bout the rest of the /.ers but i just like the Geeky-School-Jock pushes back Geek-Pretender tone of the response
I've been trying unsuccessfully to download firebird for the last 20 minutes...
Also been readin slashdot... I reload de home page and there it is... a slashdot news on mozilla... announcing a new version no less...
I think I'll postpone getting firebird for a day or two until the slashdotting subsides
Here in Puerto Rico we have only one landline telco (recently sold by govt) they have 256dn/128up dsl service for which I signed up for about 50 something bucks (and it'll amount to 70 something with the hidden costs and whatnot) however I've yet to pay anything because the service is not available where I reside because it's a "rural" area... been waiting for it for months.
Now Puerto Rico is roughly 100 miles wide by 35 miles but the telco insists in having a separate metro and rural area (this might change soon) with some services available only in the metro area (incidentally metro-to-rural calls are long distance calls, ie costlier).
Oh, and cable? Even less penetration than DSL and more than a $100 bucks for the lowest transfer rates.
And for business I've heard it say that unless your' biz has some punch you have to wait an average of six months for a T1...
Choose a punchline:
A) Taco didn't get invited...
B) I for one welcome our new campfire geek overlords!
C) In Soviet Camps the stories tell you!
D) All your camp are belong to the geeks...
Ok, ok I wasn't really trying...
I hear you... my bladder is still hurting from seeing this movie... so I got a plan
1. See RoTK, after twelve glasses of water (yes, Bart is a genius)
2. Sue for medical and psycological loss
3. PROFIT!!!
I stand corrected...