The computers aren't the goal of the education (at least, for the target age of the XO) but the medium. They aren't learning computing, but math, language, geography and so on, using the computers as a much improved version of blackboard or paper and pencil.
Yes, it generates dependency. Not all countries have the infrastructure or raw materials to build that kind of computers in an affordable way. But most of what matters (OS/applications) is open, you can install sugar in "normal" laptops, desktops PC, or other architecture computers. If some competitor oir your own country decides to build a similar portable computer able to run it, can.
At least the ones used in Uruguay come with Linux, almost all school children here have a linux laptop, and you see poor children on the street or buses using them.
Not sure where in the article they say that won't include them. Both are available for ARM processors, at the very least, so if are not included is their choice, not limitation enforced by the platform.
The N900 have full flash, at least version 9.4. Version 10.1 is available to ARM too, just not widely available for the N900 (you can try asking for it here)
So far more than biological characteristics is culture what defined what is a "person". If you don't belong to a culture, you usually you aren't treated as a person (and you can be killed, eated, enslaved, tortured or experimented on you, with no moral worries from the ones doing that), no matter if you are human or more intelligent than the ones judging you.
So until dolphins learn to speak and "get" our culture, they won't be treated as persons, at least, not for long, unless we are the ones that change. The same could be said about i.e. big apes.
At least in spanish, a possible translation of large, that also is almost letter by letter the original word, is "largo", that in fact is more about lenght than size. And that number with all the digits qualify as a very long string. Maybe the original joiurnalist wrote that in spanish, or have spanish as mother tonge (ok, or maybe another latin derived language where that happens).
Well, the time machine part could be a bit complex to get. But would be easy to send a monolith to Saturn or Jupiter, it even don't need to land, just to stay in orbit. Anyway, filling it with (movie) stars will make that expensive. Can't it be filled with politicians or lawyers? it will make humanity to advance too.
The Bible, there is enough text there defending/promoting rape, incest and murder that they should not just censor individual words replacing some for less "politically incorrect" alternatives, if they apply the same argument they should rewrite most of it. Good luck with that.
Not Rincewind to carry around an smart luggage. By now is almost a must to carry a cellphone, but you can decide to not carry a notebook always, at least, not everywhere or in every situation.
The word precognition should fall into the same kind of internal contradiction as the word almighty, at least for the future events on which you can change affect whether it happens or not. To predict the future is ok, but really knowing the future should violate some physics rules as going faster than the speed of light.
That makes it easier for them, not harder. Happened a lot of times that courts ordered Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or others to disclose user data. And not just in the US.
If you want to have really private info with you, better you have an app that encrypt it in a safe way.
If one clearly wins, then everyone loses. My hope is that none of both do, and even more playerscome... blackberry, palm, meego, all should live (and prosper) to have a healthy ecosystem.
The first rule is too restrictive, specially now when saving money matters more than harming humans. So the best android hacks usually pass around changing the weight or deleting one of the 3 rules, or putting a zeroth rule in front of them, even if requires capabilities that the positronic brain should not get without a serious hardware upgrade.
If rapture is really coming, both selling for getting money won't make sense, and could get them bad karma in a very wrong moment making others buy something that they "know" wont last.
In the other hand, if some of them want to give their expensive big houses away for free will get them good karma just in time to cash it, i could accept one of those gifts.
Religious freaks will go crazy if they interpret that the lower sun activity is there to compensate human global warming, as a sign of some god trying to fix our mistakes here. Add that to the near 2012, and be ready for massive amount of people in the streets ready for the rapture.
Considering budget problems, a cheaper, and already being implemented, is to turn red an already colonized planet, like this one. Governments just dont need to do anything, and will be there by the end of the century.
In the past, when a Fox News reporter was given the task of count different plant species, usually went like "1...2... too many". But things are improved, probably after seeing really big numbers related to US debt or bank bailouts, now when faced with the same task this time realized that the amount of plants weren't that many.
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The computers aren't the goal of the education (at least, for the target age of the XO) but the medium. They aren't learning computing, but math, language, geography and so on, using the computers as a much improved version of blackboard or paper and pencil.
Yes, it generates dependency. Not all countries have the infrastructure or raw materials to build that kind of computers in an affordable way. But most of what matters (OS/applications) is open, you can install sugar in "normal" laptops, desktops PC, or other architecture computers. If some competitor oir your own country decides to build a similar portable computer able to run it, can.
At least the ones used in Uruguay come with Linux, almost all school children here have a linux laptop, and you see poor children on the street or buses using them.
Not sure where in the article they say that won't include them. Both are available for ARM processors, at the very least, so if are not included is their choice, not limitation enforced by the platform.
The N900 have full flash, at least version 9.4. Version 10.1 is available to ARM too, just not widely available for the N900 (you can try asking for it here)
So far more than biological characteristics is culture what defined what is a "person". If you don't belong to a culture, you usually you aren't treated as a person (and you can be killed, eated, enslaved, tortured or experimented on you, with no moral worries from the ones doing that), no matter if you are human or more intelligent than the ones judging you.
So until dolphins learn to speak and "get" our culture, they won't be treated as persons, at least, not for long, unless we are the ones that change. The same could be said about i.e. big apes.
Looks like an appropiate name for everything that comes out from facebook
15 years ago you could had asked something like "Will Mouses Kill the Keyboard?"
At least in spanish, a possible translation of large, that also is almost letter by letter the original word, is "largo", that in fact is more about lenght than size. And that number with all the digits qualify as a very long string. Maybe the original joiurnalist wrote that in spanish, or have spanish as mother tonge (ok, or maybe another latin derived language where that happens).
Well, the time machine part could be a bit complex to get. But would be easy to send a monolith to Saturn or Jupiter, it even don't need to land, just to stay in orbit. Anyway, filling it with (movie) stars will make that expensive. Can't it be filled with politicians or lawyers? it will make humanity to advance too.
The Bible, there is enough text there defending/promoting rape, incest and murder that they should not just censor individual words replacing some for less "politically incorrect" alternatives, if they apply the same argument they should rewrite most of it. Good luck with that.
Not Rincewind to carry around an smart luggage. By now is almost a must to carry a cellphone, but you can decide to not carry a notebook always, at least, not everywhere or in every situation.
The word precognition should fall into the same kind of internal contradiction as the word almighty, at least for the future events on which you can change affect whether it happens or not. To predict the future is ok, but really knowing the future should violate some physics rules as going faster than the speed of light.
If is done by Microsoft, is probably vapor or smoke (and mirrors).
I think that All you zombies from the same author fits better.
That makes it easier for them, not harder. Happened a lot of times that courts ordered Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or others to disclose user data. And not just in the US.
If you want to have really private info with you, better you have an app that encrypt it in a safe way.
If one clearly wins, then everyone loses. My hope is that none of both do, and even more playerscome... blackberry, palm, meego, all should live (and prosper) to have a healthy ecosystem.
The first rule is too restrictive, specially now when saving money matters more than harming humans. So the best android hacks usually pass around changing the weight or deleting one of the 3 rules, or putting a zeroth rule in front of them, even if requires capabilities that the positronic brain should not get without a serious hardware upgrade.
Im sure should be pigs in platforms not far from there. Don't drink and play Angry Birds..
Considering all the patent trolls around, couldnt this have some kind of prior art problem?
If rapture is really coming, both selling for getting money won't make sense, and could get them bad karma in a very wrong moment making others buy something that they "know" wont last.
In the other hand, if some of them want to give their expensive big houses away for free will get them good karma just in time to cash it, i could accept one of those gifts.
Religious freaks will go crazy if they interpret that the lower sun activity is there to compensate human global warming, as a sign of some god trying to fix our mistakes here. Add that to the near 2012, and be ready for massive amount of people in the streets ready for the rapture.
Considering budget problems, a cheaper, and already being implemented, is to turn red an already colonized planet, like this one. Governments just dont need to do anything, and will be there by the end of the century.
In the past, when a Fox News reporter was given the task of count different plant species, usually went like "1...2... too many". But things are improved, probably after seeing really big numbers related to US debt or bank bailouts, now when faced with the same task this time realized that the amount of plants weren't that many.
In the Nokia N900 you had skype (and googletalk) video calling since 6 months ago,but the front camera wasnt very good. How good is iphone one?
Like this one