It is 0.76" thick at the thickest part, tapering to 0.16".
Decimal inches always struck me as awkward; saying 19mm tapering to 4mm is much cleaner. Steve Jobs is already legendary in some circles, but even his biggest fanboys haven't predicted his ability to force the US to finally adopt the metric system.
But according to TFA, MS are asking the OLPC folks for more flash storage, so we must assume MS is not planning to buy a crapload of XO's and modify them. Just how then would the BIOS get changed if not during original manufacture? OLPC would not likely agree since alternate BIOS would probably bust the XO's FLOSS load, as well as the OLPC ethos, quite badly.
A suppose MS could come up with a special XP-on-XO installer that also re-flashes the BIOS. That is doubly-evil, but not unexpectedly so.
The thing that isn't mentioned in TFA - and it's no small item - is that the OLPC has a completely free/open bootloader. No commercial stuck-in-the-eighties BIOS here. IIRC, WinXP needs a PC BIOS to run on,
DRM is fine if you agree to it contractually. My main objections to entrenching DRM into law are:
DRM doesn't prevent determined infringers and never will. It is a colossal waste of time and money conjured by lawyers.
A copyright holder, always a private entity (in the US), has no business controlling or even downgrading my (or your) entertainment equipment by force of law.
DRM does not expire, but copyright does. If DRM actually worked, big media gets defacto infinite copyright term.
the fact M$ decided to force it's users to migrate through update
While I personally think MS Windows is lame, I do have a work laptop with XP installed. It is simply untrue that an IE7 upgrade is forced. It may be true that most users will end up with it installed because of their upgrade policies or habits, but IIRC it was as simple as not agreeing to the EULA to avoid its installation.
I find it doubly concerning that by-the-seat-of-the-pants development has been shown to be more costly, yet very few organizations strive to improve process.
I believe that a group of developers founded on solid software engineering principles can run circles around the hack-and-patch crowd. However, the sales-and-marketing folks usually steer the boat and their motivations and thinking patterns are often orthogonal to the developers. Open source projects have a special attraction in this regard because, at least in theory, the development approach can be guided by engineers. Oh but if it just paid...
Lueders is fatally wrong in stating FLOSS is fundamentally a business model.
Sure businesses can be built around FLOSS, but at its heart FLOSS is a freedom movement. There is no way to beat a freedom movement by saying it threatens someone economically. It would be like preventing peace to keep the arms dealers in the black.
Sarah Ewen, Sony's "Linux Evangelist" gave a talk a LugRadioLive 2006 in July where she dropped a major hint that the PS3 would ship with Linux on the HDD. Even if that turns out to not be true, I came away with the distinct impression that Linux on the PS3 was important to Sony and would be easily available and well supported.
Slashdot has an international audience of technology-savvy readers. Many of us have laughed at the hilarious responses to international threats made by some who seem to believe US law applies worldwide. More seriously, what, if anything can the RIAA do to folks outside the US?
The other thing that was interesting about producing fuel on Mars is that it could be completed by automated systems before any manned missions even blast off from Earth.
I find the comparison of someone accused of unauthorized file copying to a rapist to be rather disgusting. And to compare the RIAA to a rape victim is laughable. These aren't even criminal proceedings! It is a private dispute between a big bully and some poor ISP customer.
The Cornell team anaylzed signals from a demonstration satellite that by itself is not useful for navigation, and according to the documentation transmits the same power-envelope, but not the same PRN's, as the operational system.
According to Cornell's lawyers, the DMCA was not a concern because navigation data is not, and cannot be, copyrighted.
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I had no idea the goatse guy worked for Microsoft.
It is 0.76" thick at the thickest part, tapering to 0.16".
Decimal inches always struck me as awkward; saying 19mm tapering to 4mm is much cleaner. Steve Jobs is already legendary in some circles, but even his biggest fanboys haven't predicted his ability to force the US to finally adopt the metric system.
I'm afraid that would be vaporware.
But according to TFA, MS are asking the OLPC folks for more flash storage, so we must assume MS is not planning to buy a crapload of XO's and modify them. Just how then would the BIOS get changed if not during original manufacture? OLPC would not likely agree since alternate BIOS would probably bust the XO's FLOSS load, as well as the OLPC ethos, quite badly. A suppose MS could come up with a special XP-on-XO installer that also re-flashes the BIOS. That is doubly-evil, but not unexpectedly so.
The thing that isn't mentioned in TFA - and it's no small item - is that the OLPC has a completely free/open bootloader. No commercial stuck-in-the-eighties BIOS here. IIRC, WinXP needs a PC BIOS to run on,
...he is not *the founder* of Boing Boing. That title goes to Mark Frauenfelder. Cory is a co-editor.
Poetic justice will be a Firefox extension that fixes the bad calculations. Or implements the "behave like unpatched Office 2007" feature.
... and stop releasing your crappy movies in Canada altogether. And while your add it, spare our friends in the rest of the world too.
...SCO will hire y'all with the cash they win from your former employer.
... we can no longer use the term "the server is borked".
the fact M$ decided to force it's users to migrate through update
While I personally think MS Windows is lame, I do have a work laptop with XP installed. It is simply untrue that an IE7 upgrade is forced. It may be true that most users will end up with it installed because of their upgrade policies or habits, but IIRC it was as simple as not agreeing to the EULA to avoid its installation.
No, I'm not JOHN, man. I'm the Katz. So that's what you call me. Katz, Katzer, or El Katzerino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
Hear, hear.
I find it doubly concerning that by-the-seat-of-the-pants development has been shown to be more costly, yet very few organizations strive to improve process.
I believe that a group of developers founded on solid software engineering principles can run circles around the hack-and-patch crowd. However, the sales-and-marketing folks usually steer the boat and their motivations and thinking patterns are often orthogonal to the developers. Open source projects have a special attraction in this regard because, at least in theory, the development approach can be guided by engineers. Oh but if it just paid...
Perhaps they should also have a badge for not IM'ing your congressman.
Lueders is fatally wrong in stating FLOSS is fundamentally a business model. Sure businesses can be built around FLOSS, but at its heart FLOSS is a freedom movement. There is no way to beat a freedom movement by saying it threatens someone economically. It would be like preventing peace to keep the arms dealers in the black.
Sarah Ewen, Sony's "Linux Evangelist" gave a talk a LugRadioLive 2006 in July where she dropped a major hint that the PS3 would ship with Linux on the HDD. Even if that turns out to not be true, I came away with the distinct impression that Linux on the PS3 was important to Sony and would be easily available and well supported.
Slashdot has an international audience of technology-savvy readers. Many of us have laughed at the hilarious responses to international threats made by some who seem to believe US law applies worldwide. More seriously, what, if anything can the RIAA do to folks outside the US?
The other thing that was interesting about producing fuel on Mars is that it could be completed by automated systems before any manned missions even blast off from Earth.
you forgot Massivecapitaloss.
like a rape victim taking the rapist to court
I find the comparison of someone accused of unauthorized file copying to a rapist to be rather disgusting. And to compare the RIAA to a rape victim is laughable. These aren't even criminal proceedings! It is a private dispute between a big bully and some poor ISP customer.
...we've secretly replaced the Count's normal drink with new Soldier's Crystals. Let's see if he notices the difference...
Man evry [sic] sentance [sic] wood [sic] look stoopid [sic] with awl [sic] thows [sic] sic [sic] notes.
the Eagles were wrong