Depend what you call "better". Sometimes a full desktop operating system with an interface meant for mouse with several buttons and keyboard could be more complicated for the tasks meant for a simple touchscreen interface? Accessing Android market of apps (some fitting pretty well to the hardware features of it, like camera, gps, or accelerometer) won't hurt neither.
Why ChromeOS if you plan to use that device more for playing multimedia or reading local books than accessing internet? What if you want it primary as internet terminal over all other uses?
And having Ubuntu doesn't have to mean full ubuntu, could be the NBR edition, or running Moblin.
All the alternatives have their own strenghts depending of the use you plan to give to it. And one of the strong points of the device is to have those alternatives.
Probably the best device for reading books is not an e-reader. If you want to use books in the old style, but digital, there dedicated e-readers could be good enough, and are several good ones. But if you have to carry a device anyway, maybe that does more than just reading ebooks is part of the things that adds weight (in both senses) to other alternatives.
For me not having to carry an extra, dedicated device is one big advantage for me. Desktop computers, notebooks, netbooks, tablets, and even cellphones are alternatives that can do a lot more than just reading books. Portablility, good enough screen, battery life, are factors that are important too, and that several of those alternatives have. And you have their functionality too (internet, work, etc). Convertible notebooks (i.e. the Asus T91 or Lenovo S10-t3), tablets (yes, even the ipad), or big screen cellphones (iphone, droid, n900, etc) are good enough book readers and provide a lot more than most of the dedicated ones
Maybe not in temperatures, but in i.e. measuring distances all names are at powers of ten of a base measure. Inches, feets, miles, are not so regular, in proportion and in names. How many feets is a mile? How many meters is a kilometer? How many different names of units you must know?
And yes, it makes math easier, if you have numbers of different units... a mile + 3 foots is harder to do than a kilometer + 3 meters.
It IS an innovation over Google Earth, not so much at the mapping side, but in image consolidation. Instead of putting a googlevan capturing images of all streets, they take pictures taken from anyone into popular social services and integrate them giving an unified view. They even can't be sued for that as Google is, because those images/videos were taken by normal people.
But if you want to complain about Microsoft for something, start for the requirements to see that. Silverlight (and probably even IE running over real latest version of Windows, if they can push it) will be a minimum for that "full" experience. Oh, and the patents they could had put to any form of image consolidation like that.
Take enough time, and without going to space humanity is unsustainable.
Re:And the zombification of our children continues
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Pretty much depend on what they are doing while there, what you consider "education", and how much you consider education what they would be doing if that werent implemented. In any case, the main difference between internet and the things that parents put them at home, is that tv is not even interactive, and games are usually alone, no interaction with others.
Anyway, if they are so plugged at the bus, then at home they wouldnt be tv/ds/xbox, but pretty much at what they are doing at the bus.
BTW, i live in Uruguay, where most school children have an XO (and few days i read that they plan to give them to even younger kids), and there seem to be a trend to be quieter and plugged to them for some children at least. I hope that that kind of education don't have a clear negative effect (if it will be the end of childhood, please that be the A.C.Clarke version)
Thats the only thing that i think that will have some meaning to show in 3D, dense math formulas morphing into events, if i remember well most of what happens in the movies is more chat in closed rooms than anything resembling action. Unless they take the Matrix approach for math.
This IdeaPad U1 is nice, but you have a basically different computer when you have the keyboard than when not. A better approach are convertible tablets, like i.e. from the same manufacturer IdeaPad s10-3t, you can turn the capacitive touchscreen to make it look like a tablet, is the same OS in both cases, 10 hours of battery, and a reasonable price. Is definately bulkier than the iPad, but have several advantages over it.
Alec Guiness and Peter Cushing in the 1st movie wasnt exactly unknown nor unreal actors at that time. And if a prequel was ever made, maybe would had some known actors of that time, but sadly (fortunately?) that never happened.
Sometimes you feel someone did a list of what should not be done regarding privacy and named the implementation of all that rules Facebook. Twitter is a better example of what could be implementing Google.
And if they do in their usual way, will be a somewhat open protocol, a federated social network. Not sure if twitter have such protocol, but if so, the right move for google would be to use the same protocol, and interconnect both.
At least in my case, taking notes implies that probably noone will be able to read them, maybe not even me. But is too little technology to carry.
But if you dont mind to carry technology, some ideas: - a notebook/netbook with comfortable enough keyboard and long enough battery is an option, you can use the (builtin?) webcam to copy diagrams. - Speaking of cameras, you can film the entire class, and write down it later, at your own rythm, same for just the audio. Both alternatives will mean to spend maybe more time that you been in class for saving what is worth of it. Maybe even your phone could do that work (and then you are not carrying extra hardware specially for this), else you have or dedicated hardware (i.e. videocam) or a note/netbook for that. - You can do a mix, taking audio or video of the class, and take notes, maybe with something that tracks time to compaginate them with the media. - Not sure about note/netbooks that have touchscreens that let you use pen, how much you win i.e. for drawing diagrams while you use the keyboard (not the pen) to write whats happening, probably depends on the app you use to store all that info.
You could skip the boring part of the show and watch the only the ads later in internet. Internet is just a better media for that for ads and related things (at least you can click over spam links)
The original article say that they scan 40 millon sites an 10 millon emails each hour, and they are refering to thjis report (that also links to the full info, and video of the presentation of that info).
Matters a lot how they get their "sample", honeypots, honeyclients, reputation systems and "advanced grid computing systems" (whatever it is). What is feeding information to that sample? Not old sites with rightful content sitting around since years ago, but in good part spammers, botnets, and people that want that your pc forms part of one. And mail is already known that is 95% spam. The sample is just too rigged to be at all related with what really is in internet or what you have some chance to see.
Telegraph, mail, phone, are basically 1vs1 communications, usually between people that know each other. Newspaper, Television, movies, are 1 or few to many, and sometimes the source of that communication is controlled by very few or follow the policy of government or some groups. But internet is communication everyone with everyone, usually unfiltered.
Pre-internet you could anonimize all the people of a region, country or culture, put them under an unified view, and see them as the enemy, rival, or whatever your government say. Now you deal directly against with individuals, against people with what you could communicate. Maybe won't stop future wars (i.e. didnt stopped US intervention in iraq) but could make that kind of things harder. If you take governments out of the equation, could be seen as a positive push to world peace.
Ok, until the trigger for WWIII is the discussion on who should get that cash.
In any direction, changing state (or prevent that change) not using plain heat, but just charging electrically could make some applications more energy efficient.
"Just reported in a public way" != "Just discovered"
Bugs reported in a private way to microsoft could take months to be fixed or disclosed (i.e. the recent IE6+ bug that enabled intruders get into google and other companies recently were reported 4-5 months ago).
And of course, the bad guys dont report bugs, they exploit them. And people could find (or not) that something weird is happening when is already too late.
The whole economy around ebooks is different from paper books, but they want that ebooks with digital distribution cost the same as paper ones with physical distribution. Is like you want to go to Vienna Street (supposing that is a street called that way in your city) and the bus charges you the price of a plane ticket to the city of Vienna. You end in some place called Vienna in both cases, but one of the charges is a bit unfair (and you probably will sue the bus driver, or company, or whoever set that price)
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Depend what you call "better". Sometimes a full desktop operating system with an interface meant for mouse with several buttons and keyboard could be more complicated for the tasks meant for a simple touchscreen interface? Accessing Android market of apps (some fitting pretty well to the hardware features of it, like camera, gps, or accelerometer) won't hurt neither.
Why ChromeOS if you plan to use that device more for playing multimedia or reading local books than accessing internet? What if you want it primary as internet terminal over all other uses?
And having Ubuntu doesn't have to mean full ubuntu, could be the NBR edition, or running Moblin.
All the alternatives have their own strenghts depending of the use you plan to give to it. And one of the strong points of the device is to have those alternatives.
Probably the best device for reading books is not an e-reader. If you want to use books in the old style, but digital, there dedicated e-readers could be good enough, and are several good ones. But if you have to carry a device anyway, maybe that does more than just reading ebooks is part of the things that adds weight (in both senses) to other alternatives.
For me not having to carry an extra, dedicated device is one big advantage for me. Desktop computers, notebooks, netbooks, tablets, and even cellphones are alternatives that can do a lot more than just reading books. Portablility, good enough screen, battery life, are factors that are important too, and that several of those alternatives have. And you have their functionality too (internet, work, etc). Convertible notebooks (i.e. the Asus T91 or Lenovo S10-t3), tablets (yes, even the ipad), or big screen cellphones (iphone, droid, n900, etc) are good enough book readers and provide a lot more than most of the dedicated ones
Maybe not in temperatures, but in i.e. measuring distances all names are at powers of ten of a base measure. Inches, feets, miles, are not so regular, in proportion and in names. How many feets is a mile? How many meters is a kilometer? How many different names of units you must know?
And yes, it makes math easier, if you have numbers of different units... a mile + 3 foots is harder to do than a kilometer + 3 meters.
It IS an innovation over Google Earth, not so much at the mapping side, but in image consolidation. Instead of putting a googlevan capturing images of all streets, they take pictures taken from anyone into popular social services and integrate them giving an unified view. They even can't be sued for that as Google is, because those images/videos were taken by normal people.
But if you want to complain about Microsoft for something, start for the requirements to see that. Silverlight (and probably even IE running over real latest version of Windows, if they can push it) will be a minimum for that "full" experience. Oh, and the patents they could had put to any form of image consolidation like that.
scarcity of world butterflies if they plan to do long term weather predictions.
Take enough time, and without going to space humanity is unsustainable.
Pretty much depend on what they are doing while there, what you consider "education", and how much you consider education what they would be doing if that werent implemented. In any case, the main difference between internet and the things that parents put them at home, is that tv is not even interactive, and games are usually alone, no interaction with others.
Anyway, if they are so plugged at the bus, then at home they wouldnt be tv/ds/xbox, but pretty much at what they are doing at the bus.
BTW, i live in Uruguay, where most school children have an XO (and few days i read that they plan to give them to even younger kids), and there seem to be a trend to be quieter and plugged to them for some children at least. I hope that that kind of education don't have a clear negative effect (if it will be the end of childhood, please that be the A.C.Clarke version)
Thats the only thing that i think that will have some meaning to show in 3D, dense math formulas morphing into events, if i remember well most of what happens in the movies is more chat in closed rooms than anything resembling action. Unless they take the Matrix approach for math.
This IdeaPad U1 is nice, but you have a basically different computer when you have the keyboard than when not. A better approach are convertible tablets, like i.e. from the same manufacturer IdeaPad s10-3t, you can turn the capacitive touchscreen to make it look like a tablet, is the same OS in both cases, 10 hours of battery, and a reasonable price. Is definately bulkier than the iPad, but have several advantages over it.
Alec Guiness and Peter Cushing in the 1st movie wasnt exactly unknown nor unreal actors at that time. And if a prequel was ever made, maybe would had some known actors of that time, but sadly (fortunately?) that never happened.
Australian government keeps paying drug addicts new doses instead of drug rehab treatments because is cheaper.
Havenlock Vetinari for any chance? This law seems to come right from one of Discworld books.
is Buzz. Else they should be blocking every other web mail provider (hotmail, yahoo, etc)
Smarting up our immune system could turn to be a dumb idea, as a good part of us comes from virus
Sometimes you feel someone did a list of what should not be done regarding privacy and named the implementation of all that rules Facebook. Twitter is a better example of what could be implementing Google.
And if they do in their usual way, will be a somewhat open protocol, a federated social network. Not sure if twitter have such protocol, but if so, the right move for google would be to use the same protocol, and interconnect both.
At least in my case, taking notes implies that probably noone will be able to read them, maybe not even me. But is too little technology to carry.
But if you dont mind to carry technology, some ideas:
- a notebook/netbook with comfortable enough keyboard and long enough battery is an option, you can use the (builtin?) webcam to copy diagrams.
- Speaking of cameras, you can film the entire class, and write down it later, at your own rythm, same for just the audio. Both alternatives will mean to spend maybe more time that you been in class for saving what is worth of it. Maybe even your phone could do that work (and then you are not carrying extra hardware specially for this), else you have or dedicated hardware (i.e. videocam) or a note/netbook for that.
- You can do a mix, taking audio or video of the class, and take notes, maybe with something that tracks time to compaginate them with the media.
- Not sure about note/netbooks that have touchscreens that let you use pen, how much you win i.e. for drawing diagrams while you use the keyboard (not the pen) to write whats happening, probably depends on the app you use to store all that info.
You could skip the boring part of the show and watch the only the ads later in internet. Internet is just a better media for that for ads and related things (at least you can click over spam links)
Matters a lot how they get their "sample", honeypots, honeyclients, reputation systems and "advanced grid computing systems" (whatever it is). What is feeding information to that sample? Not old sites with rightful content sitting around since years ago, but in good part spammers, botnets, and people that want that your pc forms part of one. And mail is already known that is 95% spam. The sample is just too rigged to be at all related with what really is in internet or what you have some chance to see.
Make you hate when xkcd is right at something.
Telegraph, mail, phone, are basically 1vs1 communications, usually between people that know each other. Newspaper, Television, movies, are 1 or few to many, and sometimes the source of that communication is controlled by very few or follow the policy of government or some groups. But internet is communication everyone with everyone, usually unfiltered.
Pre-internet you could anonimize all the people of a region, country or culture, put them under an unified view, and see them as the enemy, rival, or whatever your government say. Now you deal directly against with individuals, against people with what you could communicate. Maybe won't stop future wars (i.e. didnt stopped US intervention in iraq) but could make that kind of things harder. If you take governments out of the equation, could be seen as a positive push to world peace.
Ok, until the trigger for WWIII is the discussion on who should get that cash.
Then its time to start making heavier water
Turning ice into water by cooling it?
In any direction, changing state (or prevent that change) not using plain heat, but just charging electrically could make some applications more energy efficient.
"Just reported in a public way" != "Just discovered"
Bugs reported in a private way to microsoft could take months to be fixed or disclosed (i.e. the recent IE6+ bug that enabled intruders get into google and other companies recently were reported 4-5 months ago).
And of course, the bad guys dont report bugs, they exploit them. And people could find (or not) that something weird is happening when is already too late.
like destroying the meaning of privacy for all the users of internet?
The whole economy around ebooks is different from paper books, but they want that ebooks with digital distribution cost the same as paper ones with physical distribution. Is like you want to go to Vienna Street (supposing that is a street called that way in your city) and the bus charges you the price of a plane ticket to the city of Vienna. You end in some place called Vienna in both cases, but one of the charges is a bit unfair (and you probably will sue the bus driver, or company, or whoever set that price)