In other words, the "One $100 dollar laptop per nerd" prgoram is a failure, because the laptop actually costs $300. Because of this failure, the kids in Africa will now be forced to learn with books, paper, and pencils.
for posting that. I was hoping someone would get in the thread and mention that.
For Ubuntu devs, an FYI. Browns, orange, and green _went out_ with the BRADY BUNCH. What's more, the UPS guys have trademarked the color brown, so you are just asking for a lawsuit here. So it would be wise to invent another color which will automagically make Ubuntu look 300% better.
Apple doesn't even use brown for the power cord, let alone the OS. Please please please copy apple here.
I haven't used deep freeze, but I am pretty sure that it locks down the registry preventing many a program from being installed in the first place. The problem with copying over using a small linux partition is that it doesn't stop the user from installing games and hence not getting productive work done, or possibly installing malware that could read other's usb keys with trojans between your reboots etc.
As other's have mentioned in this thread, there are other products that accomplish mostly the same thing. Or, you could have the machines run linux all together which would take care of 99% of the gameplaying.
If people need to use specifically Word or Excel, I would use codeweavers.
To claim that Utahns would never vote for a Democrat because they are a "red state" is ridiculous.
I see no one on the horizon from either party who could mount a challenge to Orrin Hatch. Maybe the current (republican) governor might. People don't know Hatch for his pork, but they do know him for his strong mormon church ties, and that certainly helps him (in a big way) get re-elected. The republican party wants to keep him in office so bad they changed the rules to make it harder for a republican challenger to run against an incumbent candidate in the last election cycle.
You are right, if the right democrat with name recognition ran against Hatch, they might have a small chance (as did democrat Matheson). I see this as highly unlikely though as it would take a lot of money to defeat Hatch's warchest. But any way you cut it, Utahns will vote with red state politics in mind in November. Otherwise, Hatch wouldn't win the election. A much more workable scenario is to have a notable republican candidate run against Hatch in a primary (too late for this election cycle).
This dividing of states into blue and red is complete and utter rhetorical bullshit, and it irritates me when people use it as if it is something concrete and real.
When they show the election board in November (barring something major), it's going to be red Utah for the senate whether you disagree with the concept or not. I would hope that enough people are dissatisfied with Bush to vote against Hatch, but polls indicate this is not the case. I know that the FOX propaganda channel plays a big role in this decision, as does the fear that Democrats will let gay marriage become the law of the land. That's the way it is with family members I know. Call it what you want, but some justifiably call it red state politics.
There are many elected officials from Utah that are Democrats, especially in state and city offices.
No, there are a few. Saying that there are many implies some kind of parity. The fact that the republicans have overwhelming majorities in the state legislature disproves that idea. The Democratic mayor is not running and probably will be replaced with a republican, I suspect because he knew he faced a difficult time with his previous strong anti-Bush stance and vocal stand on gay issues.
Also, to infer that another senator (whether Democratic or Republican) would not have voted for the copyright extension is idiotic.
No. What I am inferring is that these laws should have never been proposed in the first place. They all originated out of the senate Judiciary committee which Hatch presides over, and he acts as a prime mover to get such legislation passed through. The fact that it was a voice vote in the middle of the night when everybody was worried about that stain on Lewinsky's dress just makes it more criminal. How about no more voice votes on copyright law? I'm sorry, Hatch is largely responsible for all this crap legislation. Yes the other senators were clueless and went along with it. But the roots of the weed find there way back to Hatch. I didn't even mention all of it like the INDUCE act and wanting to blow up people's computers.
Besides, even if you could get Orrin Hatch ousted, would that really have any effect?
You must either be a troll for saying that or living under a rock. If a turnip got elected, it would be better for copyright law and online rights, because at least the turnip wouldn't continually hack at the copyright law making it worse, or propose an even more draconian patriot act. Secondly, that sentence sounds like you are trying to justify his political existence somehow.
Wouldn't the media companies just lobby other powerful senators?
First, Hatch should be voted out office to be held accountable for the copyright (and other) legislation he did push through. Besides that, having Hatch around makes it too easy and convenient. And yes, they would just lobby somebod
Our founding fathers never intended for copyrights to last FOREVER as the do now, but for "limited times.' I think a little peace of that 100 million should be used to get copyright abuser enablers out of office. For one, find a another republican (red state Utahns will never vote for a democrat on principle alone) to replace Orrin Hatch PLEASE.
He was a big sponser of the Copyright Term Extension Act, DMCA, the patriot act II on steroids, FBI carnivore, extended wiretapping, and his office wanted to get the Claritin patent extended because he was using their jet when running for president.
Anything to get this IP black hole out of office will reap a 10x benifit in the future, and not just for better copyright law.
Once that is done, get a repeal of the bastard CTEA law (it won't happen while he is in the senate). In fact, bet on a CTEA II to come down the pike to protect that nasty rodent
Ahoy matey! My musings exactly! Here's be a badge that be given to scouts for helpin' shootin' down big media that be suin' li'l girls and grannies by learnin' the ways of pirates.
Them know how to tie knots pretty good, so learnin' them to hoist a mast an' fire a cannon nary be hard at all.
I didn't see you as too harsh, you made the exact post that I wanted to make. The production values weren't high, and were created on what seems a shoestring budget with only a couple of cast members. I think that for the writers it most likely is the "principle" of the thing rather than the probably minimal residuals from what is nothing more than scraps of storyline. And from NBC's perspective they were most likely hoping to stuff the DVDs with the webisodes to help sell them, in which case "promotional material" wouldn't be far from the truth.
So in a sense, both sides make a valid point. It would be better if they could reach a negotiated settlement rather than creating bad air in their business relationship.
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There's nothing like the sight of a wet cardboard powerloader crumbling under its own weight.
In other words, the "One $100 dollar laptop per nerd" prgoram is a failure, because the laptop actually costs $300. Because of this failure, the kids in Africa will now be forced to learn with books, paper, and pencils.
Maybe it's an African thing.
Maybe it is. Maybe because it looks like it came out of a third-world country is why the call to make Ubuntu "gorgeous" was made in the first place.
for posting that. I was hoping someone would get in the thread and mention that.
For Ubuntu devs, an FYI. Browns, orange, and green _went out_ with the BRADY BUNCH. What's more, the UPS guys have trademarked the color brown, so you are just asking for a lawsuit here. So it would be wise to invent another color which will automagically make Ubuntu look 300% better.
Apple doesn't even use brown for the power cord, let alone the OS. Please please please copy apple here.
99.9% of this album's audience will be listening to it alone, most likely in a basement.
Hey you insensitive clod, I have cats.
Oh, they mean trash bags. Those crazy Brits. They should've used Hefty! Hefty! Hefty! instead of wimpy wimpy wimpy.
but either way, they're only made up of people.
New product just announced from Microsoft - Soylent Cake!
Warm beach with girls. Money.
This thread is now closed. Please submit next Slashdot story.
Whether a laptop is seized or not depends on size and brightness of the screen, and if it might have DVD rom and good speakers.
I haven't used deep freeze, but I am pretty sure that it locks down the registry preventing many a program from being installed in the first place. The problem with copying over using a small linux partition is that it doesn't stop the user from installing games and hence not getting productive work done, or possibly installing malware that could read other's usb keys with trojans between your reboots etc.
As other's have mentioned in this thread, there are other products that accomplish mostly the same thing. Or, you could have the machines run linux all together which would take care of 99% of the gameplaying.
If people need to use specifically Word or Excel, I would use codeweavers.
To claim that Utahns would never vote for a Democrat because they are a "red state" is ridiculous.
I see no one on the horizon from either party who could mount a challenge to Orrin Hatch. Maybe the current (republican) governor might. People don't know Hatch for his pork, but they do know him for his strong mormon church ties, and that certainly helps him (in a big way) get re-elected. The republican party wants to keep him in office so bad they changed the rules to make it harder for a republican challenger to run against an incumbent candidate in the last election cycle.
You are right, if the right democrat with name recognition ran against Hatch, they might have a small chance (as did democrat Matheson). I see this as highly unlikely though as it would take a lot of money to defeat Hatch's warchest. But any way you cut it, Utahns will vote with red state politics in mind in November. Otherwise, Hatch wouldn't win the election. A much more workable scenario is to have a notable republican candidate run against Hatch in a primary (too late for this election cycle).
This dividing of states into blue and red is complete and utter rhetorical bullshit, and it irritates me when people use it as if it is something concrete and real.
When they show the election board in November (barring something major), it's going to be red Utah for the senate whether you disagree with the concept or not. I would hope that enough people are dissatisfied with Bush to vote against Hatch, but polls indicate this is not the case. I know that the FOX propaganda channel plays a big role in this decision, as does the fear that Democrats will let gay marriage become the law of the land. That's the way it is with family members I know. Call it what you want, but some justifiably call it red state politics.
There are many elected officials from Utah that are Democrats, especially in state and city offices.
No, there are a few. Saying that there are many implies some kind of parity. The fact that the republicans have overwhelming majorities in the state legislature disproves that idea. The Democratic mayor is not running and probably will be replaced with a republican, I suspect because he knew he faced a difficult time with his previous strong anti-Bush stance and vocal stand on gay issues.
Also, to infer that another senator (whether Democratic or Republican) would not have voted for the copyright extension is idiotic.
No. What I am inferring is that these laws should have never been proposed in the first place. They all originated out of the senate Judiciary committee which Hatch presides over, and he acts as a prime mover to get such legislation passed through. The fact that it was a voice vote in the middle of the night when everybody was worried about that stain on Lewinsky's dress just makes it more criminal. How about no more voice votes on copyright law? I'm sorry, Hatch is largely responsible for all this crap legislation. Yes the other senators were clueless and went along with it. But the roots of the weed find there way back to Hatch. I didn't even mention all of it like the INDUCE act and wanting to blow up people's computers.
Besides, even if you could get Orrin Hatch ousted, would that really have any effect?
You must either be a troll for saying that or living under a rock. If a turnip got elected, it would be better for copyright law and online rights, because at least the turnip wouldn't continually hack at the copyright law making it worse, or propose an even more draconian patriot act. Secondly, that sentence sounds like you are trying to justify his political existence somehow.
Wouldn't the media companies just lobby other powerful senators?
First, Hatch should be voted out office to be held accountable for the copyright (and other) legislation he did push through. Besides that, having Hatch around makes it too easy and convenient. And yes, they would just lobby somebod
Are you talking about aerial imagery, or were you talking about something like this?
Our founding fathers never intended for copyrights to last FOREVER as the do now, but for "limited times.' I think a little peace of that 100 million should be used to get copyright abuser enablers out of office. For one, find a another republican (red state Utahns will never vote for a democrat on principle alone) to replace Orrin Hatch PLEASE.
He was a big sponser of the Copyright Term Extension Act, DMCA, the patriot act II on steroids, FBI carnivore, extended wiretapping, and his office wanted to get the Claritin patent extended because he was using their jet when running for president.
Anything to get this IP black hole out of office will reap a 10x benifit in the future, and not just for better copyright law.
Once that is done, get a repeal of the bastard CTEA law (it won't happen while he is in the senate). In fact, bet on a CTEA II to come down the pike to protect that nasty rodent
I have always admired Sony's quality music CD offerings$$&&&+++NO CARRIER
... am I forgetting anything?
Well the fact that he got caught in a "Stroke-back Mountain" moment with a Microsoft product is pretty bad in my book.
That's what I meant - it's a guy's nipples 'sploding with delight. Probably has man-boobs too.
And so, in the October of 2006 the great slashdot war of dirtiest-handle-on-the-frontpage was begun.
And the worst thing of the dirtiest-handle-on-the-frontpage war is that it was started by a male.
Ahoy matey! My musings exactly! Here's be a badge that be given to scouts for helpin' shootin' down big media that be suin' li'l girls and grannies by learnin' the ways of pirates.
Them know how to tie knots pretty good, so learnin' them to hoist a mast an' fire a cannon nary be hard at all.
I didn't see you as too harsh, you made the exact post that I wanted to make. The production values weren't high, and were created on what seems a shoestring budget with only a couple of cast members. I think that for the writers it most likely is the "principle" of the thing rather than the probably minimal residuals from what is nothing more than scraps of storyline. And from NBC's perspective they were most likely hoping to stuff the DVDs with the webisodes to help sell them, in which case "promotional material" wouldn't be far from the truth.
So in a sense, both sides make a valid point. It would be better if they could reach a negotiated settlement rather than creating bad air in their business relationship.
It's not like you need flashy banners and embedded movies...
Unless you need to see pictures of nekkid Americans.
are needed to buy gold for WoW.
It would be better if they just said that.
Hey, that's a nice cut of clone you have there!
In no time you'll have tons of people speeding up their KDE by doing everything on the command line
Your post gives me a hankering to boot up DOS 3.3, the last true great OS if you ask me.
what? are people hardware or something?
Maybe because they get hacked.
uninformed commentary from the peanut gallery
Speak for yourself. The rest of us happen to have expert criminal forensic knowledge to go with the best non-lawyer legal minds around.