If you'll notice, the Intel device is very similar to the Nokia N800. It runs Linux, and uses Nokia's Gtk enhancements for touchscreens called "Hildon".
Charging the poor for new books is by no means charity. Do you think the poor should not have new books? Do you think they should all have to read books cast-off by the west?
And eliminate profits?? What are you, a first-class moron? Profits are why people invest. Take away profits and they'll do something else with their money, like build huge mansions, or castles in the sky.
Let's concentrate only on the harm that guns make possible. That way we can demonify them. We can say that guns kill 20,000 people per year (in the US), so guns should be banned. But what if we did the same for automobiles? Cars kill 50,000 people per year (in the US), so cars should doubly be banned.
Nothing is wholly good, or bad, except possible people who try to claim something is wholly good or bad. THEY are wholly bad.
You've embarrassed yourself well enough that I'm just going to deconstruct your last sentence. You have to say 'weird libertarian racist dogma' because libertarians are neither weird, nor racist, nor dogmatic.
Thanks for admitting it. So you really don't have a clue about Eric's mad skilz as a developer, do you? The previous time I saw him was at FISL in '05, in Porto Alegre Brazil. He was all happy because he was south of the equator, and could finally test (in person) some code in gpsd related to negative latitudes. He's at a conference and... he's coding. So, yeah, the people who diss Eric's coding say more about their ignorance than they do about Eric's coding.
As for his self-promotion, he has a goal to promote freedom. In order to get press attention, you need to promote yourself. Bruce Perens acknowledges being his own best friend, for the same reason. If you want to achieve a goal that includes people paying attention to you, you end up making more noise than you "deserve". Primates don't like this, so they criticize the people do this, but... it's effective. Practically any time Perens posts on Slashdot, he gets a +5.
Yes, it would have been much cheaper for IBM to simply buy SCO. Turn their bastard hell stock into IBM shares which the SCO folks could sell off completely without trashing IBM's price. Cash out! IBM didn't want every bitch coming to them for salvation, though, so they're making an example of SCO.
He was using the English language ambiguously. Other languages have no problem. "Libre" is free as in freedom, "gratis" is free as in beer. He should have been more careful in his use of the language. I'm sure he will in the future.
You're talking about making the world a perfect place. The OLPC folks are only talking about making the world a BETTER place. You're fantasizing. They're dreaming. Do you understand the difference?
Over time, for a commodity product, price == cost == marginal value, unless something else changes to halt this progression. But that's NOT MY POINT. I said nothing about reduced price of a product.
Let's say that a product takes 0.5 of input X, 0.3 of input Y, and 0.2 of input Z. Then input Y gets cheaper. On the next day, the company simply saves money. But over time, the company will change its production around so that the product takes 0.4 of input X, 0.5 of input Y, and 0.1 of input Z (assuming neither X nor Z has gotten cheaper). Because it's cheaper, they put more of it into the product.
Oh, god, what bullshit is this! Choice is not a problem! If choice was really a problem, then somebody would create a Linux distro with no choices. "Sit down, shut up, and run the software we choose". Except, nobody does that because nobody wants that.
temperature of the planet is between 0 and 40 Celsius. At this temperature there could be liquid water.
Errrr, we have liquid water on earth at this temperature. More importantly, what is the air (if any) pressure. That will affect whether you have liquid water at 40C or not.
No, reduced cost of an input will *in time* result in greater use of that input once the business adjusts to the new lower cost. It will have an effect on the other inputs as well, but may result in more or less use of them.
Okay, now you've got ME confused. I went back and read what I wrote, and I can't see why you would think I said that companies will spend more on expensive inputs. Could you explain further?
This was 100% predictable. I'm too lazy to go find where I predicted it, but every industry consists of a mix of inputs. The inputs are chosen based on their value to the company in producing the final product. If you make one of the inputs cheaper (by including outsourcing) (or by including Open Source) that causes the industry to use *more* of the product over time. In the short run, they'll use less because all of their processes are predicated on using the original mix. As they buy new equipment, hire people with different skills, and make new products, they can change the mix to make new of the new cheaper factor.
Err, I can run Abiword on Linux. I do it all the time. And I, like most people who run Linux, don't need GNU/Linux to do it.
The battle was lost at the time Stallman started fighting it. If he wants to create GNU/Linux, he can do it any time he wants. The reason he doesn't is because the day he does, everyone will say "Oh, so THAT's what GNU/Linux is" and he will have to face facts: that people call Linux Linux, and not GNU/Linux.
Sometimes, and those specific instances are clearly enumerated in the Constitution. Everything else that the federal government does is, well, unconstitutional. I mean, I can read as well as the Supreme Court. Given their decisions on what the federal government can and can't do, I think I can read better than the Supreme Court.
"patchwork of state laws"??? You morons, that's exactly HOW the United States is *supposed* to work. Look at the name: United States. We're not a single country, we're a union of independent states, each of which has its own government, and its own set of laws. The "patchwork of state laws" is our guarantee against a tyrranical central government. The different state laws allows people to pick and choose between the laws that protect them most and oppress them least. It's a feature, not a bug!.
"For the children! We've got to close down the Internet for the children!"
You can bet that the child pr0n horseman will cause all anonymous access to the Internet to be lost, no matter the cost to the public. At some point somebody is going to write a "render your own kiddie porn no real children involved" program, at which point the authorities are going to have to make or break the case that kiddie porn causes child abuse. What if it doesn't? Will they lie to protect their power over us? Will the Pope still be Catholic?
OLPC is a tool for learning. It's not a word processor and spreadsheet. OLPC software will come with source codel. Is Microsoft giving away the source for Word and Excel?
Slashdot Mirror
If you'll notice, the Intel device is very similar to the Nokia N800. It runs Linux, and uses Nokia's Gtk enhancements for touchscreens called "Hildon".
Charging the poor for new books is by no means charity. Do you think the poor should not have new books? Do you think they should all have to read books cast-off by the west?
And eliminate profits?? What are you, a first-class moron? Profits are why people invest. Take away profits and they'll do something else with their money, like build huge mansions, or castles in the sky.
Dotslash??
Let's concentrate only on the harm that guns make possible. That way we can demonify them. We can say that guns kill 20,000 people per year (in the US), so guns should be banned. But what if we did the same for automobiles? Cars kill 50,000 people per year (in the US), so cars should doubly be banned.
Nothing is wholly good, or bad, except possible people who try to claim something is wholly good or bad. THEY are wholly bad.
You've embarrassed yourself well enough that I'm just going to deconstruct your last sentence. You have to say 'weird libertarian racist dogma' because libertarians are neither weird, nor racist, nor dogmatic.
Thanks for admitting it. So you really don't have a clue about Eric's mad skilz as a developer, do you? The previous time I saw him was at FISL in '05, in Porto Alegre Brazil. He was all happy because he was south of the equator, and could finally test (in person) some code in gpsd related to negative latitudes. He's at a conference and
As for his self-promotion, he has a goal to promote freedom. In order to get press attention, you need to promote yourself. Bruce Perens acknowledges being his own best friend, for the same reason. If you want to achieve a goal that includes people paying attention to you, you end up making more noise than you "deserve". Primates don't like this, so they criticize the people do this, but
Yeah, the Indian authorities want to keep people from kissing in public on Orkut.
Yes, it would have been much cheaper for IBM to simply buy SCO. Turn their bastard hell stock into IBM shares which the SCO folks could sell off completely without trashing IBM's price. Cash out! IBM didn't want every bitch coming to them for salvation, though, so they're making an example of SCO.
Would you explain copy_instance() to me? I have a little bit of developer credibility, and *I* can't figure it out:
http://www.python.org/about/success/esr/
Of course since ESR is such a crappy coder compared to you, UNDOUBTEDLY you understand the code at first glance.
Oh, and by the way, RMS has borrowed a few things for the GNU project. That's one of the reasons why Linus doesn't cooperate with the FSF.
He was using the English language ambiguously. Other languages have no problem. "Libre" is free as in freedom, "gratis" is free as in beer. He should have been more careful in his use of the language. I'm sure he will in the future.
You're talking about making the world a perfect place. The OLPC folks are only talking about making the world a BETTER place. You're fantasizing. They're dreaming. Do you understand the difference?
jg says they were going to put the SD card slot on there anyway. SD is pretty cheap to support; just a socket and a few I/O bits.
Over time, for a commodity product, price == cost == marginal value, unless something else changes to halt this progression. But that's NOT MY POINT. I said nothing about reduced price of a product.
Let's say that a product takes 0.5 of input X, 0.3 of input Y, and 0.2 of input Z. Then input Y gets cheaper. On the next day, the company simply saves money. But over time, the company will change its production around so that the product takes 0.4 of input X, 0.5 of input Y, and 0.1 of input Z (assuming neither X nor Z has gotten cheaper). Because it's cheaper, they put more of it into the product.
Oh, god, what bullshit is this! Choice is not a problem! If choice was really a problem, then somebody would create a Linux distro with no choices. "Sit down, shut up, and run the software we choose". Except, nobody does that because nobody wants that.
r tz-master-chooser.html
The whole "choice is bad" meme is complete and utter nonsense. http://angry-economist.russnelson.com/barry-schwa
Errrr, we have liquid water on earth at this temperature. More importantly, what is the air (if any) pressure. That will affect whether you have liquid water at 40C or not.
No, reduced cost of an input will *in time* result in greater use of that input once the business adjusts to the new lower cost. It will have an effect on the other inputs as well, but may result in more or less use of them.
Okay, now you've got ME confused. I went back and read what I wrote, and I can't see why you would think I said that companies will spend more on expensive inputs. Could you explain further?
2nd post; oh well. But here's where I predicted that this would happen (May 10th, 2005):- and-it.html
http://angry-economist.russnelson.com/open-source
This was 100% predictable. I'm too lazy to go find where I predicted it, but every industry consists of a mix of inputs. The inputs are chosen based on their value to the company in producing the final product. If you make one of the inputs cheaper (by including outsourcing) (or by including Open Source) that causes the industry to use *more* of the product over time. In the short run, they'll use less because all of their processes are predicated on using the original mix. As they buy new equipment, hire people with different skills, and make new products, they can change the mix to make new of the new cheaper factor.
PLus, I'm in teh race for fr1st p0st.
Err, I can run Abiword on Linux. I do it all the time. And I, like most people who run Linux, don't need GNU/Linux to do it.
The battle was lost at the time Stallman started fighting it. If he wants to create GNU/Linux, he can do it any time he wants. The reason he doesn't is because the day he does, everyone will say "Oh, so THAT's what GNU/Linux is" and he will have to face facts: that people call Linux Linux, and not GNU/Linux.
Sometimes, and those specific instances are clearly enumerated in the Constitution. Everything else that the federal government does is, well, unconstitutional. I mean, I can read as well as the Supreme Court. Given their decisions on what the federal government can and can't do, I think I can read better than the Supreme Court.
"patchwork of state laws"??? You morons, that's exactly HOW the United States is *supposed* to work. Look at the name: United States. We're not a single country, we're a union of independent states, each of which has its own government, and its own set of laws. The "patchwork of state laws" is our guarantee against a tyrranical central government. The different state laws allows people to pick and choose between the laws that protect them most and oppress them least. It's a feature, not a bug!.
"For the children! We've got to close down the Internet for the children!"
You can bet that the child pr0n horseman will cause all anonymous access to the Internet to be lost, no matter the cost to the public. At some point somebody is going to write a "render your own kiddie porn no real children involved" program, at which point the authorities are going to have to make or break the case that kiddie porn causes child abuse. What if it doesn't? Will they lie to protect their power over us? Will the Pope still be Catholic?
OLPC is a tool for learning. It's not a word processor and spreadsheet. OLPC software will come with source codel. Is Microsoft giving away the source for Word and Excel?