just make a rule that cell phones are banned from school.
Anyone caught with a cell phone gets detention or suspension for repeated offenses.
If parents want to reach a child in emergency they can call the office and have them paged, if a student has an emergency they can use the office phone.
Reasons for banning cell phones:
#1 They distract class.
#2 They are used for cheating.
#3 They are used for passing notes via texting.
#4 They stop the student from learning.
#5 Other students can easily steal them.
#6 They can be used for playing games instead of learning.
#7 They can be used for listening to music instead of learning.
#8 They can be used for Internet surfing instead of learning.
#9 They make noises that interfere the class.
#10 They are counter-productive to the learning process for many other reasons.
Teachers need to have cell phone detectors to sniff out the illegal use of cell phones. No more body searching, just use the cell phone detectors.
I don't buy DRM'ed music, I only buy music that does not have DRM to it. Most of my music tastes are 1980's and 1990's music which are available in CD form via used CD stores and Pawn Shops for like really cheap.
I listen to AM and FM radio for free, while I cannot choose the music they play I can change the channel until I find a song I like to hear.
I still own a Sony Walkman and a lot of cassette tape music I bought. My wife still has a stereo system that uses LPs.
I don't own an iPod or iPhone, but I do have a cheap MP3 player by jWin that uses SD cards and my songs in MP3 format barely fill the 512M SD card.
I am on disability since 2002 and been out of work because I have been too sick to work. I cannot afford to buy too many songs or media players like the iPod or iPhone. I have to work with what I can afford to buy, and keep my "legacy music" technology working until it breaks and needs replacements.
Owning DRM music that "expires" is stupid, if you bought something you should be able to own it until you get tired of it and sell it. With the audio CDs people would just sell their old CDs at garage sales or sell them to used CD shops or Pawn shops. But with a DRM music file, not only does it expire, but if you don't want it anymore you cannot sell it to someone else. Capitalism works with a "used market" as well for people to buy stuff cheaper because it is used. Shut off that "used market" and you shut off part of the economy. Thus the economy will suffer for it.
and in the USA it is usually a custom to vent our feelings so that we don't hold them in and get sick.
Most of the time it is over little things, and people usually vent to their friends who take the time to listen to them.
What we have now is venting via the Internet. My advice to people who want to do that is to use a handle or nickname that cannot be traced back to them, and they post anonymously. Because now it seems as if venting using your real name can lead to libel and other charges. Yeah some web sites require a real name, I usually use Orion Blastar because it is my nickname or pen name.
Just that now there is no such thing as privacy anymore.
I've posted things I felt bad about later myself, since I have a mental illness it is easy to get caught up on venting due to my negative thoughts created by the mental illness. I am trying to learn how to control it so that I don't get into trouble or offend anyone. I usually use humor and joke around, but not everyone gets my jokes and start to take me seriously. Woe be to those who take Orion Blastar seriously because I claim to be a space pirate ninja from 4096 AD. I make posts and stuff in character, and pirate ninjas are not always known to be nice. But I am trying to tone down my character so he isn't as offensive as he used to be. This is more role playing than anything, but sometimes my character makes posts that get modded up on Slashdot.
Heh yeah it would be fun. But we'd have people claiming Christians are trying to force their religion down other's throats by using a video game to promote their religion over others.
But it would be cool leading a Holy Army as David vs. Goliath and using only a sling shot against Goliath and seeing if you can beat him by trying to aim for his head. Or being Daniel in a lion's den and trying to charm the lions into not attacking you. But there has to be some random element in which your character has to do something with the possibility of failure to make it a fun game, and then it doesn't follow the Bible as much.
not the stupid reboot that was not based on the original game, but a reboot of the Classic Bard's Tale series for newer systems.
Bard's Tale on the IBM PC using EGA graphics and PC Speaker was not as good as the Amiga or Atari ST versions. It was meant to be played on a system with good graphics and good sound.
Since there are legal issues about it, you cannot call it Bard's Tale but you can call it something else and use the same type of RPG gaming system. I would base it on the D20 or D&D 3.0 and up rules and spice it up with new classes like Ninja class and Cleric class, that players can upgrade to if they meet the minimum requirements.
Maybe upgrade the dungeon system to a better 3D engine, upgrade the graphics to modern system with better special effects. Make it so old Bard's Tale, Wizardy, and other system characters can be converted to the new system so that people playing the old game on emulators can just copy the character files out of the emulator onto the new version.
Heck you could call it Adventurer's Tale or Bard Quest or something, and just develop a dungeon system with spells and combat and not violate any IP laws. Just create new mazes and spells and stuff and us die hard Bard's Tale and Wizardy players would buy it and play it.
Jupiter clears out a path of asteroids and comets by being so massive that it attracts them to itself to either fling it to an orbit in the asteroid belt or out to the Oort Cloud or takes a hit from it to prevent it from cluttering up the solar system.
If it wasn't for Jupiter and other gas giants, we'd have more comets and asteroids getting near the inner planets, so Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are Soccer Goalies as well.
But they don't always stop everything, just a majority of it.
Early on when our solar system was being formed, there were a lot of collisions with Earth and our Moon, and some say some of the collisions helped life to form and evolve, but in later years fewer and fewer collisions happened until we have the modern day.
Oh yeah forget about writing a signature on checks and employment agreements and employment forms. You can just have someone witness your "X" in place of a cursive signature. Usually it is a signal of illiteracy, but in this case it is lack of cursive scripting skills.
But since almost everything is going to be automated, electronic checks, electronic forms, soon we won't need cursive skills anymore. We'll most likely just use PIN numbers in place of a signature, which the IRS and other companies use for eFiling requests.
BASIC is usually used because it was designed for beginners.
Yeah we can skip the Visual BASIC because it has become too complex and is locked into Windows. A simpler BASIC is Free BASIC. It is also cross platform between Linux and Windows. Another BASIC is BASIC-256 designed for kids to use.
A more easier and simpler language is Logo which uses a turtle with a pen to draw things and is designed for younger kids to use, but older ones can use it as well.
It is better to start out children and teenagers on the easier and simpler languages so they don't get discouraged and give up. Do you really want to teach them C first and then try to explain the proper use of a semicolon and pointers? You teach them the languages you know later, after they mastered the simpler and easier languages. After mastering BASIC or Logo you can teach them C, C++, Python, Java, PHP, whatever later.
Uh patents cost a lot of money, if one has 10,000 ideas, it is impossible to patent them all.
Better to figure out which ones are rational and reasonable and could work in the real world and then patent those ideas that are doable. Only way to figure that out is to talk to someone else about it first. Coming up with ideas is called brainstorming and usually you need other people to add in their advise to see if it makes sense to them.
Lawyers and non-discloser agreements are usually used in these matters.
on how it saves power. For almost any business you will need your servers running 24/7 esp if they are hosting web servers for your business. Running a power capping technology that shuts down the servers hosting your web site doesn't make much sense because when it is shut down nobody can access it. The whole point of running a web server is to provide 24/7 services even if your business is closed and everyone went home. But for some businesses they have people working all shifts and there is never a down time for hospitals, law firms, fire houses, police stations, etc. So why would you want to power cap, say a 911 Computer Automated Dispatch server that has to run 24/7 and can never be down?
Yeah I know you can shut down parts of the server not in use to save 20% energy etc, like the monitor and graphics card, etc, but you cannot shut down the hard drive or network controller if it is constantly being used. I guess you can even shut down cache memory, but it would make the server slower in a way.
It actually makes better sense to design servers that use less electricity than to rely on a power capping technology to do it for you. When are we going to see "green servers" that not only reduce the electricity used, but also include batteries to store electricity on them for use later on when electricity becomes expensive and the server needs to use less power from the A/C source and pulls power from the battery instead.
Well G.ho.st allows email, IM, and live collaborative document editing via Zoho and Google Docs via the G.ho.st virtual machine. It also has an open API if you read the forums that developers can create additional communication centric applications.
Yahoo has had my.yahoo.com for a long time now for those who never even heard about it. I use it to keep track of content on web sites like Slashdot, etc and it looks like the Yahoo APIs are there to extend it like Google's Wave APIs.
Yeah but I remember the Windows ME beta and RC was better than the RTM version. So you really cannot tell by the beta and release candidate if the RTM version will have different issues. Windows ME was based on Windows 98 like Windows 7 is based on Windows Vista.
But then again Windows XP was based on Windows 2000, and at first it had issues but the service packs seemed to make it good enough for use. Which is why Vista users downgraded to XP in the first place.
Well to be honest like a garage a computer repair business charges for "labor" costs as well as the cost of the hardware to be installed. The extra $50 not only pays the technician earning $7.56/hr but his/her manager and other management as well.
When I ran a computer repair shop, I did not snoop in the data files or try to log into banks, I avoided any private information as possible and just repaired the problem. If it was something as simple as a loose hard drive cable or memory chip, there usually was no charge at all. I found those that I treated with better customer services came back when it was time to upgrade. I learned that working in two computer shops in the early 1990's you treat the customer better and they came back. My only fault was not being able to afford a credit card machine or rebates, which drove customers to the consumer electronic stores that took credit cards and offered rebates so they sold computers for less than my shop could afford. But then the stores that offered the rebates and credit card machines, were the ones that snooped in private data and tried to get the customer to replace parts that didn't need replacement.
The first thing you do when a computer has a hardware problem is check all of the connections, reseat them and all of the expansion cards as well and see if that fixes it. Diagnostic software helps as well to determine if a part is bad. After that check if the drivers are up to date and if any of them have any bug issues in them that cause problems.
The problem is that the professional shops pay technicians per hour so they force them into taking short-cuts to save time so they don't check for a loose connection or driver issue and go right to replacing the part or in some cases the entire motherboard. Because if they don't, they often get fired and replaced with someone who will. It is cheaper for a big company to do a part swap than reseat a memory chip or hard drive cable. Plus a technician has to work on 30+ systems a day and cannot afford to spend a few hours on just one system.
Now a small computer shop is different because it does not have middle management or as many customers, so the technicians have time to look for loose connections and reseat them.
is your APP pure HTML, or does it contain JavaScript code like the PhoneGap project uses?
If it contains JavaScript code, maybe Apple didn't like the way it was designed as it was similar to the old PhoneGap code they rejected, did you update your JavaScript code to the new PhoneGap codebase that was approved, or did you remove the old PhoneGap code with different JavaScript code?
If your APP is HTML with JavaScript, Apple might have an issue with that. Sometimes JavaScript code can do nonstandard things that locks up a web browser or causes incompatibility issues. When I programmed in JavaScript I had to keep changing my code to changing Web browser standards, as soon as a new web browser was released, the way JavaScript worked would change and I had to change my code to accommodate it.
If it is pure HTML, there might be tags you are using that Apple finds non-standard and thinks they might run exploited code.
Yeah I know, Apple wants to protect their users and set quality control standards high, and they include such rules as not using third party or open source frameworks, and Apple does not want the APP modified on the iPhone after being bought, Apple does not want the APP to run on a competitor's phone (HTML and JavaScript applications can easily be ported to another format), and PhoneGap type applications may not work on future iPhones, it is all a matter of risk management. Apple does not want to risk anything so it sets strict guidelines on what an iPhone APP can and cannot do.
Yeah ironically Apple has exchanged freedom for security, and in doing so shut out developers like yourself. Even something as simple as HTML code and/or JavaScript has to be reviewed and has a possibility of being rejected. It goes against the open source philosophy, I don't know what else to say. Even Microsoft is not that strict on what can and cannot be done on their smart phones or Windows OS. Except to say that Microsoft's products are more prone to exploits and viruses and other malware, and maybe Apple is doing this kind of thing to prevent exploits in their iPhone?
Apparently the people moderating my comments don't understand why moving things to the Cloud would improve on the OLPC project and solve the problems and fix the mistakes.
Yeah it is a good idea, and on topic with the story. But since I am Orion Blastar I get marked as "troll" or "offtopic", and I get used to that sometimes. Someone can write the same thing as me and get "insightful" and "interesting".
Consider that Sugar is written in Python, it can be easily ported to Jython and then run in a Java Virtual Machine via the Cloud. Once that happens not only OLPC machines can access it, but any other computer device with a Java Virtual Machine and Internet access.
It is a good idea, but because I came up with it and not someone else it is a "troll" or "offtopic", please see my signature for why I get rated as such.
maybe partner up with Google to use ARM processor based ChromeOS laptops and design in the OLPC design with the string pulled power charger and less expensive display, etc.
Each village gets a web server with wireless Internet access that can run Cloud applications in Google Chrome to save on storage space and invent new Cloud applications to run with Google Chrome. Each web server per village could have Google Apps for domain names installed or whatever software OLPC and Google develop for the developing world to use.
That way people and children with other laptops and computers can use Google Chrome or another web browser to tie into the village web server or school web server and share applications and data on the Cloud.
Linux without Sugar should be able to run Chrome OS and Google Chrome web browsers, and they have to redesign the Sugar apps to work with the Cloud and via a web server. OLPC is a neat project, but they need to learn from their mistakes and adapt and innovate their way out of this mess. I am sure the OLPC XO laptops can be reflashed with a Chrome OS build to replace Sugar and still use the old hardware.
Technology Microsoft bought via VirtualPC from Connectix instead of inventing it themselves, also technology borrowed from Citrix that got put into Terminal Server and later merged with VirtualPC with Microsoft Virtual Server and then used in Windows 2008 Server.
Whomever controls the virtual machine technology, controls the future. This may be an attempt by Microsoft to attack VMWare, Citrix, Oracle/Sun's VirtualBox, and insert their own virtualization code in Linux and other platforms.
Windows 7 uses VirtualPC technology to run an XP Virtual machine in Windows 7 Pro and up for "legacy Windows software".
Microsoft might be trying to put their own "IP" and get it accepted into Linux distributions, only to sue later and claim Linux has their "IP" in it. After the SCO vs. IBM and Linux, and Microsoft suing Tom Tom over their Linux code accessing FAT tables on SD Cards, you have to wonder why Microsoft is releasing some of their "technology drivers" under the GPL for Linux when Microsoft has a history or suing over Linux or using SCO to sue over Linux in the past.
The SCO vs. IBM charge was that IBM took SCO Unix source code (It used to be Microsoft Xenix before it was sold to SCO) and you have to wonder if Microsoft was behind that lawsuit.
This kind of stuff makes one a bit paranoid about Microsoft releasing anything for Linux.
If Microsoft didn't have a past history of trying to sue over Linux, people like me wouldn't be this paranoid. I am sure I am not alone in thinking that, since this is Slashdot after all. Patent Trolls are a current theme here.
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just make a rule that cell phones are banned from school.
Anyone caught with a cell phone gets detention or suspension for repeated offenses.
If parents want to reach a child in emergency they can call the office and have them paged, if a student has an emergency they can use the office phone.
Reasons for banning cell phones:
#1 They distract class.
#2 They are used for cheating.
#3 They are used for passing notes via texting.
#4 They stop the student from learning.
#5 Other students can easily steal them.
#6 They can be used for playing games instead of learning.
#7 They can be used for listening to music instead of learning.
#8 They can be used for Internet surfing instead of learning.
#9 They make noises that interfere the class.
#10 They are counter-productive to the learning process for many other reasons.
Teachers need to have cell phone detectors to sniff out the illegal use of cell phones. No more body searching, just use the cell phone detectors.
I don't buy DRM'ed music, I only buy music that does not have DRM to it. Most of my music tastes are 1980's and 1990's music which are available in CD form via used CD stores and Pawn Shops for like really cheap.
I listen to AM and FM radio for free, while I cannot choose the music they play I can change the channel until I find a song I like to hear.
I still own a Sony Walkman and a lot of cassette tape music I bought. My wife still has a stereo system that uses LPs.
I don't own an iPod or iPhone, but I do have a cheap MP3 player by jWin that uses SD cards and my songs in MP3 format barely fill the 512M SD card.
I am on disability since 2002 and been out of work because I have been too sick to work. I cannot afford to buy too many songs or media players like the iPod or iPhone. I have to work with what I can afford to buy, and keep my "legacy music" technology working until it breaks and needs replacements.
Owning DRM music that "expires" is stupid, if you bought something you should be able to own it until you get tired of it and sell it. With the audio CDs people would just sell their old CDs at garage sales or sell them to used CD shops or Pawn shops. But with a DRM music file, not only does it expire, but if you don't want it anymore you cannot sell it to someone else. Capitalism works with a "used market" as well for people to buy stuff cheaper because it is used. Shut off that "used market" and you shut off part of the economy. Thus the economy will suffer for it.
and in the USA it is usually a custom to vent our feelings so that we don't hold them in and get sick.
Most of the time it is over little things, and people usually vent to their friends who take the time to listen to them.
What we have now is venting via the Internet. My advice to people who want to do that is to use a handle or nickname that cannot be traced back to them, and they post anonymously. Because now it seems as if venting using your real name can lead to libel and other charges. Yeah some web sites require a real name, I usually use Orion Blastar because it is my nickname or pen name.
Just that now there is no such thing as privacy anymore.
I've posted things I felt bad about later myself, since I have a mental illness it is easy to get caught up on venting due to my negative thoughts created by the mental illness. I am trying to learn how to control it so that I don't get into trouble or offend anyone. I usually use humor and joke around, but not everyone gets my jokes and start to take me seriously. Woe be to those who take Orion Blastar seriously because I claim to be a space pirate ninja from 4096 AD. I make posts and stuff in character, and pirate ninjas are not always known to be nice. But I am trying to tone down my character so he isn't as offensive as he used to be. This is more role playing than anything, but sometimes my character makes posts that get modded up on Slashdot.
would be to make a Green Lantern ring that uses green lasers controlled by Willpower. :)
Heh yeah it would be fun. But we'd have people claiming Christians are trying to force their religion down other's throats by using a video game to promote their religion over others.
But it would be cool leading a Holy Army as David vs. Goliath and using only a sling shot against Goliath and seeing if you can beat him by trying to aim for his head. Or being Daniel in a lion's den and trying to charm the lions into not attacking you. But there has to be some random element in which your character has to do something with the possibility of failure to make it a fun game, and then it doesn't follow the Bible as much.
not the stupid reboot that was not based on the original game, but a reboot of the Classic Bard's Tale series for newer systems.
Bard's Tale on the IBM PC using EGA graphics and PC Speaker was not as good as the Amiga or Atari ST versions. It was meant to be played on a system with good graphics and good sound.
Since there are legal issues about it, you cannot call it Bard's Tale but you can call it something else and use the same type of RPG gaming system. I would base it on the D20 or D&D 3.0 and up rules and spice it up with new classes like Ninja class and Cleric class, that players can upgrade to if they meet the minimum requirements.
Maybe upgrade the dungeon system to a better 3D engine, upgrade the graphics to modern system with better special effects. Make it so old Bard's Tale, Wizardy, and other system characters can be converted to the new system so that people playing the old game on emulators can just copy the character files out of the emulator onto the new version.
Heck you could call it Adventurer's Tale or Bard Quest or something, and just develop a dungeon system with spells and combat and not violate any IP laws. Just create new mazes and spells and stuff and us die hard Bard's Tale and Wizardy players would buy it and play it.
Cosmetic surgery seems to be on the rise and more and more modern women elect for cosmetic surgery of some form to look more beautiful.
Was this even considered a factor in the research?
Jupiter clears out a path of asteroids and comets by being so massive that it attracts them to itself to either fling it to an orbit in the asteroid belt or out to the Oort Cloud or takes a hit from it to prevent it from cluttering up the solar system.
If it wasn't for Jupiter and other gas giants, we'd have more comets and asteroids getting near the inner planets, so Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are Soccer Goalies as well.
But they don't always stop everything, just a majority of it.
Early on when our solar system was being formed, there were a lot of collisions with Earth and our Moon, and some say some of the collisions helped life to form and evolve, but in later years fewer and fewer collisions happened until we have the modern day.
Oh yeah forget about writing a signature on checks and employment agreements and employment forms. You can just have someone witness your "X" in place of a cursive signature. Usually it is a signal of illiteracy, but in this case it is lack of cursive scripting skills.
But since almost everything is going to be automated, electronic checks, electronic forms, soon we won't need cursive skills anymore. We'll most likely just use PIN numbers in place of a signature, which the IRS and other companies use for eFiling requests.
BASIC is usually used because it was designed for beginners.
Yeah we can skip the Visual BASIC because it has become too complex and is locked into Windows. A simpler BASIC is Free BASIC. It is also cross platform between Linux and Windows. Another BASIC is BASIC-256 designed for kids to use.
A more easier and simpler language is Logo which uses a turtle with a pen to draw things and is designed for younger kids to use, but older ones can use it as well.
It is better to start out children and teenagers on the easier and simpler languages so they don't get discouraged and give up. Do you really want to teach them C first and then try to explain the proper use of a semicolon and pointers? You teach them the languages you know later, after they mastered the simpler and easier languages. After mastering BASIC or Logo you can teach them C, C++, Python, Java, PHP, whatever later.
Uh patents cost a lot of money, if one has 10,000 ideas, it is impossible to patent them all.
Better to figure out which ones are rational and reasonable and could work in the real world and then patent those ideas that are doable. Only way to figure that out is to talk to someone else about it first. Coming up with ideas is called brainstorming and usually you need other people to add in their advise to see if it makes sense to them.
Lawyers and non-discloser agreements are usually used in these matters.
Just what a company needs, a slower server. Nice bottleneck there.
on how it saves power. For almost any business you will need your servers running 24/7 esp if they are hosting web servers for your business. Running a power capping technology that shuts down the servers hosting your web site doesn't make much sense because when it is shut down nobody can access it. The whole point of running a web server is to provide 24/7 services even if your business is closed and everyone went home. But for some businesses they have people working all shifts and there is never a down time for hospitals, law firms, fire houses, police stations, etc. So why would you want to power cap, say a 911 Computer Automated Dispatch server that has to run 24/7 and can never be down?
Yeah I know you can shut down parts of the server not in use to save 20% energy etc, like the monitor and graphics card, etc, but you cannot shut down the hard drive or network controller if it is constantly being used. I guess you can even shut down cache memory, but it would make the server slower in a way.
It actually makes better sense to design servers that use less electricity than to rely on a power capping technology to do it for you. When are we going to see "green servers" that not only reduce the electricity used, but also include batteries to store electricity on them for use later on when electricity becomes expensive and the server needs to use less power from the A/C source and pulls power from the battery instead.
Well since I cannot sign up to the Wave project to it, and my access to the video is blocked, I cannot see what the fuss is all about.
I am going by screen shots which looks a lot like my.yahoo.com to me, and the Yahoo API developer system.
Well G.ho.st allows email, IM, and live collaborative document editing via Zoho and Google Docs via the G.ho.st virtual machine. It also has an open API if you read the forums that developers can create additional communication centric applications.
like Yahoo are trying to do the same things with their search engines and web sites as well. here is a list of things Yahoo provides to developers including the BrowserPlus project which sounds a lot like what Google is try to do if I am not mistaken? Why is Yahoo not covered by Slashdot but Google is, for have an open API for developers to build on?
Yahoo has had my.yahoo.com for a long time now for those who never even heard about it. I use it to keep track of content on web sites like Slashdot, etc and it looks like the Yahoo APIs are there to extend it like Google's Wave APIs.
Yeah but I remember the Windows ME beta and RC was better than the RTM version. So you really cannot tell by the beta and release candidate if the RTM version will have different issues. Windows ME was based on Windows 98 like Windows 7 is based on Windows Vista.
But then again Windows XP was based on Windows 2000, and at first it had issues but the service packs seemed to make it good enough for use. Which is why Vista users downgraded to XP in the first place.
Yeah the more text in a web site or Slashdot story, the longer it takes to load.
Sometimes less is more. Learn to say more by using less text.
Turn off "Verbose" mode.
Well to be honest like a garage a computer repair business charges for "labor" costs as well as the cost of the hardware to be installed. The extra $50 not only pays the technician earning $7.56/hr but his/her manager and other management as well.
When I ran a computer repair shop, I did not snoop in the data files or try to log into banks, I avoided any private information as possible and just repaired the problem. If it was something as simple as a loose hard drive cable or memory chip, there usually was no charge at all. I found those that I treated with better customer services came back when it was time to upgrade. I learned that working in two computer shops in the early 1990's you treat the customer better and they came back. My only fault was not being able to afford a credit card machine or rebates, which drove customers to the consumer electronic stores that took credit cards and offered rebates so they sold computers for less than my shop could afford. But then the stores that offered the rebates and credit card machines, were the ones that snooped in private data and tried to get the customer to replace parts that didn't need replacement.
The first thing you do when a computer has a hardware problem is check all of the connections, reseat them and all of the expansion cards as well and see if that fixes it. Diagnostic software helps as well to determine if a part is bad. After that check if the drivers are up to date and if any of them have any bug issues in them that cause problems.
The problem is that the professional shops pay technicians per hour so they force them into taking short-cuts to save time so they don't check for a loose connection or driver issue and go right to replacing the part or in some cases the entire motherboard. Because if they don't, they often get fired and replaced with someone who will. It is cheaper for a big company to do a part swap than reseat a memory chip or hard drive cable. Plus a technician has to work on 30+ systems a day and cannot afford to spend a few hours on just one system.
Now a small computer shop is different because it does not have middle management or as many customers, so the technicians have time to look for loose connections and reseat them.
is your APP pure HTML, or does it contain JavaScript code like the PhoneGap project uses?
If it contains JavaScript code, maybe Apple didn't like the way it was designed as it was similar to the old PhoneGap code they rejected, did you update your JavaScript code to the new PhoneGap codebase that was approved, or did you remove the old PhoneGap code with different JavaScript code?
If your APP is HTML with JavaScript, Apple might have an issue with that. Sometimes JavaScript code can do nonstandard things that locks up a web browser or causes incompatibility issues. When I programmed in JavaScript I had to keep changing my code to changing Web browser standards, as soon as a new web browser was released, the way JavaScript worked would change and I had to change my code to accommodate it.
If it is pure HTML, there might be tags you are using that Apple finds non-standard and thinks they might run exploited code.
Here is a story on why Apple rejected the PhoneGap framework in the first place.
Yeah I know, Apple wants to protect their users and set quality control standards high, and they include such rules as not using third party or open source frameworks, and Apple does not want the APP modified on the iPhone after being bought, Apple does not want the APP to run on a competitor's phone (HTML and JavaScript applications can easily be ported to another format), and PhoneGap type applications may not work on future iPhones, it is all a matter of risk management. Apple does not want to risk anything so it sets strict guidelines on what an iPhone APP can and cannot do.
Yeah ironically Apple has exchanged freedom for security, and in doing so shut out developers like yourself. Even something as simple as HTML code and/or JavaScript has to be reviewed and has a possibility of being rejected. It goes against the open source philosophy, I don't know what else to say. Even Microsoft is not that strict on what can and cannot be done on their smart phones or Windows OS. Except to say that Microsoft's products are more prone to exploits and viruses and other malware, and maybe Apple is doing this kind of thing to prevent exploits in their iPhone?
Apparently the people moderating my comments don't understand why moving things to the Cloud would improve on the OLPC project and solve the problems and fix the mistakes.
Yeah it is a good idea, and on topic with the story. But since I am Orion Blastar I get marked as "troll" or "offtopic", and I get used to that sometimes. Someone can write the same thing as me and get "insightful" and "interesting".
Consider that Sugar is written in Python, it can be easily ported to Jython and then run in a Java Virtual Machine via the Cloud. Once that happens not only OLPC machines can access it, but any other computer device with a Java Virtual Machine and Internet access.
It is a good idea, but because I came up with it and not someone else it is a "troll" or "offtopic", please see my signature for why I get rated as such.
maybe partner up with Google to use ARM processor based ChromeOS laptops and design in the OLPC design with the string pulled power charger and less expensive display, etc.
Each village gets a web server with wireless Internet access that can run Cloud applications in Google Chrome to save on storage space and invent new Cloud applications to run with Google Chrome. Each web server per village could have Google Apps for domain names installed or whatever software OLPC and Google develop for the developing world to use.
That way people and children with other laptops and computers can use Google Chrome or another web browser to tie into the village web server or school web server and share applications and data on the Cloud.
Linux without Sugar should be able to run Chrome OS and Google Chrome web browsers, and they have to redesign the Sugar apps to work with the Cloud and via a web server. OLPC is a neat project, but they need to learn from their mistakes and adapt and innovate their way out of this mess. I am sure the OLPC XO laptops can be reflashed with a Chrome OS build to replace Sugar and still use the old hardware.
Technology Microsoft bought via VirtualPC from Connectix instead of inventing it themselves, also technology borrowed from Citrix that got put into Terminal Server and later merged with VirtualPC with Microsoft Virtual Server and then used in Windows 2008 Server.
Whomever controls the virtual machine technology, controls the future. This may be an attempt by Microsoft to attack VMWare, Citrix, Oracle/Sun's VirtualBox, and insert their own virtualization code in Linux and other platforms.
Windows 7 uses VirtualPC technology to run an XP Virtual machine in Windows 7 Pro and up for "legacy Windows software".
Somehow people can say the same thing I say in my post but get rated as 'insightful' instead of troll.
Microsoft might be trying to put their own "IP" and get it accepted into Linux distributions, only to sue later and claim Linux has their "IP" in it. After the SCO vs. IBM and Linux, and Microsoft suing Tom Tom over their Linux code accessing FAT tables on SD Cards, you have to wonder why Microsoft is releasing some of their "technology drivers" under the GPL for Linux when Microsoft has a history or suing over Linux or using SCO to sue over Linux in the past.
The SCO vs. IBM charge was that IBM took SCO Unix source code (It used to be Microsoft Xenix before it was sold to SCO) and you have to wonder if Microsoft was behind that lawsuit.
This kind of stuff makes one a bit paranoid about Microsoft releasing anything for Linux.
If Microsoft didn't have a past history of trying to sue over Linux, people like me wouldn't be this paranoid. I am sure I am not alone in thinking that, since this is Slashdot after all. Patent Trolls are a current theme here.