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Just to clarify (I'm a developer working for the OLPC) that we've had developer boards for months-and-months now, using them to test the software on. These particular computers are simply more complete. But yeah, speed has been a major factor all along.
Did anyone else find it interesting that Google's Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price is equivalent to e*(10^9)? ($2,718,281,828) I think this is Google's way of telling us geeks that everything is going to be 'ok'.
I completely agree with the parent. My roommate and I now have three computers in our dorm room, four monitors (we both have duals) and it doesn't both either one of us. Especially considering that our latest computer addition has 7 hard drives, multiple fans, and no sides on the case. Learn to love the white noise - it is glorious.
"Time will tell whether this is a good calculation or not."
To the company or to you? The people who have their entire media collection encoded in OGG is a severe minority, you may be waiting quite some time before your 'ideal' ogg player comes out.
I highly recommend that you check out w3mir - which was found after a quick search on CPAN (The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network). I particularly like w3mir due to it's ability to compare against existing copies of your local mirror - which is more of what you're looking for. Using this in conjunction with a simple shell script (to tar and mv files, as so desired - hooked to a cron job) will create your very own, automated Internet Archive.
Pick up a book on Javascript, and write your own! The 'Search and Replace' feature that you mentioned would take an experienced programmer only minutes to write - and if you're just beginning, you could probably have something working before the day is over. My guess is that you'll probably save a bunch of money, and support costs, over using some proprietary third-party utility.
What I meant by "open source language" was that the employer wanted me to leave the code in it's original open source format - allowing him to (in the future) edit the program himself, or hire someone to make additional changes. I agree that I could've sent it to him in a compiled state - but that wasn't what was requested, so I was simply working in the confines of what was given me. I hope this clears things up.
I was once commissioned to write a web application that dealt with secure signature technology. As the deadline came up, the dealings with my employer became "shady" - meaning that it looked like he wasn't going to pay out at the end. I wanted to do something similar to what you stated (an auto-timeout) however this application was written in an open source language (Perl) and needed to be kept that way. So - with some quick obfuscating I wrote a quick feature so that at a later date, if the employer didn't pay, I could simply access http://website.com/perl.pl?delete=y and it would delete itself. I'm glad I added this "feature" because it wasn't long after that he "disappeared" claiming all sorts of reasons for his non-payment. I then quickly used my feature and was glad for it.
Of course, if my employer was skilled enough, he could've gone in and removed the code himself. This leads to the point of the trouble of joining Open Source and backdoors - as it's virtually impossible to do without some skilled programmer looking at it and being able to remove it. I thought you mind find that to be interesting.
The teacher who pushed me to do my best ad work the hardest, would have to be Mr. Cuddihy from a class called: Computers and Calculators and you learn just that (see title)
He pressured me in different ways:
When others were creating games for their TI-83's (a requirement for the class) he pressured me to go even farther and to work harder. (Cleaner, Shorter, Faster Code)
We started doing some Visual Basic which was very easy, so he challanged me to build things that no one (in our class) had ever thought of... An Instant Messenger Program.
For a project we had to pick a topic to write about... Mr. Cuddihy gave me an article pertaining to HTML+TIME. We both agreed that it looked pretty good, but when I started my research, there was literally no documentation on it! I had to surf around the Microsoft site, where there was a little reference to it, and chat with people on the HTML+TIME newsgroup and put in a lot of extra hours, but it all paid off! I created a site that was getting responses from (for example) the Lead Program Manager of Internet Explorer, and is still getting responses today!
When we started Fractals, Mr. Cuddihy told and showed us all these great programs to create them with, it was really cool. BUT, before he would let us touch the computer, we had to learn how to take a Fractal Equation, and draw a fractal on graph paper... This was *very* challanging, but very rewarding!
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) went along with the Web Page unit, but they weren't taught. (most of the students were still learning the basics of HTML) Mr. Cuddihy pressured me to create a web page *totally* in Style Sheets. (No Table, Font, or Other Commonly used formatting tags) I created the site, altough writing it totally in CSS was totally useless, it was great experience!
The next year, Mr. Cuddihy moved away without notice... supposedly to Ithaca, New York. (Which was interesting, because another one of my friends had magically run away to Ithaca... I think it's the witness protection program!) So, Mr. Cuddihy, wherever you are, thanks!
1) Drugs are addicting.
2) Drugs are deadly.
3) Drugs are Illegal.
Remove #3 and I think we've solved the problem.
For Example:
If hundreds of people were dumb enough to get addicted to drinking bleach... Let them!
The people who are leading the war, are also helping to stop it! By giving their own soldiers more "bleach" to help them fight. Something to think about...
It looks to me that OSs (Whistler, Mac X) are congregating towards larger icons and a more user-friendly interface. This will help my Mom check her e-mail and the likes, lol. Personally I like it and I can't wait until the real product arrives on the shelves. Nice Article!
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Just to clarify (I'm a developer working for the OLPC) that we've had developer boards for months-and-months now, using them to test the software on. These particular computers are simply more complete. But yeah, speed has been a major factor all along.
Did anyone else find it interesting that Google's Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price is equivalent to e*(10^9)? ($2,718,281,828) I think this is Google's way of telling us geeks that everything is going to be 'ok'.
...and traffic to the site immediately quadruples.
I completely agree with the parent. My roommate and I now have three computers in our dorm room, four monitors (we both have duals) and it doesn't both either one of us. Especially considering that our latest computer addition has 7 hard drives, multiple fans, and no sides on the case. Learn to love the white noise - it is glorious.
Windows (Too much for his own OS)
Terminal (Too 'enlightened' for a GUI)
AsbestOS (Too flame-inducing)
Lisp Machine (Too awesome)
"Time will tell whether this is a good calculation or not."
To the company or to you? The people who have their entire media collection encoded in OGG is a severe minority, you may be waiting quite some time before your 'ideal' ogg player comes out.
I highly recommend that you check out w3mir - which was found after a quick search on CPAN (The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network). I particularly like w3mir due to it's ability to compare against existing copies of your local mirror - which is more of what you're looking for. Using this in conjunction with a simple shell script (to tar and mv files, as so desired - hooked to a cron job) will create your very own, automated Internet Archive.
Pick up a book on Javascript, and write your own! The 'Search and Replace' feature that you mentioned would take an experienced programmer only minutes to write - and if you're just beginning, you could probably have something working before the day is over. My guess is that you'll probably save a bunch of money, and support costs, over using some proprietary third-party utility.
What I meant by "open source language" was that the employer wanted me to leave the code in it's original open source format - allowing him to (in the future) edit the program himself, or hire someone to make additional changes. I agree that I could've sent it to him in a compiled state - but that wasn't what was requested, so I was simply working in the confines of what was given me. I hope this clears things up.
I was once commissioned to write a web application that dealt with secure signature technology. As the deadline came up, the dealings with my employer became "shady" - meaning that it looked like he wasn't going to pay out at the end. I wanted to do something similar to what you stated (an auto-timeout) however this application was written in an open source language (Perl) and needed to be kept that way. So - with some quick obfuscating I wrote a quick feature so that at a later date, if the employer didn't pay, I could simply access http://website.com/perl.pl?delete=y and it would delete itself. I'm glad I added this "feature" because it wasn't long after that he "disappeared" claiming all sorts of reasons for his non-payment. I then quickly used my feature and was glad for it.
Of course, if my employer was skilled enough, he could've gone in and removed the code himself. This leads to the point of the trouble of joining Open Source and backdoors - as it's virtually impossible to do without some skilled programmer looking at it and being able to remove it. I thought you mind find that to be interesting.
LOL, same thing happened to me! I took a Screen Shot of it too... lol!
The teacher who pushed me to do my best ad work the hardest, would have to be Mr. Cuddihy from a class called: Computers and Calculators and you learn just that (see title)
He pressured me in different ways:
The next year, Mr. Cuddihy moved away without notice... supposedly to Ithaca, New York. (Which was interesting, because another one of my friends had magically run away to Ithaca... I think it's the witness protection program!) So, Mr. Cuddihy, wherever you are, thanks!
A couple points to ponder:
1) Drugs are addicting.
2) Drugs are deadly.
3) Drugs are Illegal.
Remove #3 and I think we've solved the problem.
For Example:
If hundreds of people were dumb enough to get addicted to drinking bleach... Let them!
The people who are leading the war, are also helping to stop it! By giving their own soldiers more "bleach" to help them fight. Something to think about...
Great! Now I can play some more of those M$ Games that I like! (Age of Empires!)
It looks to me that OSs (Whistler, Mac X) are congregating towards larger icons and a more user-friendly interface. This will help my Mom check her e-mail and the likes, lol. Personally I like it and I can't wait until the real product arrives on the shelves. Nice Article!