I really, really hope di.fm can move their servers and do the paperwork in some other country. Most of the music is European anyway, isn't it? It's what I've been been listening to for the last six years and there is no way I CAN GO BACK to four folks drumming and strumming anymore.
Is that what government wanted? That I'll have a credit card charge in EUROS, PESOS or whatever for my music? Good work, geniuses. You've managed to offshore even the intangible.
If this screws up a lot of the current commercial internet radio and if only a fraction of them make it overseas that is really unfortunate.
But if this destroys the ability of the internet to be a medium for communities to regain some power and identity? Well, just another goose step into the brave new future. And maybe _government's_ cut in the deal?
I have about every mod I could find in books: hardwired a keyboard, metal keyboard case, power switch, power LED, reset button, even added a joystick port for a modified Commodore stick for the flight simulator. Hardwired in the 16K module so I could mount the bus out for expansion. Sound card, printer, and something called a "stringy floppy" -- a video tape micro-cassette drive that was about as fast as a Commodore 5-1/4" floppy. Love to show you a picture on my vanity DSL server.... but you know. Do wish now that I had kept the genuine ZX81 intact and used a Timex 1000.
Had access to ZX magazine and it was great. A few of the programs were distinctly superior to what was sold on cassettes here. Still have a couple years of copies .
Then there's the issue of all the new infrastructure that needs to be put in for electric cars.
What on earth are you talking about? I know where to get electricity. And since hybrids still ultimately run on gasoline, I know where to get gasoline. Where is the hydrogen production and distribution system for my friendly local hydrogen station you are advocating?
As someone who was consistently getting high 90s% recognition on OmniPage with preservation of basic layout and images for work in 1996, linux is a non-starter and pathetically WAY, WAY behind in this area. It isn't even a GIMP vs. Photoshop ("Yeah, well GIMP is just different and 'special'!") argument. I'll look at a couple of the other suggestions here but I had basically just given up and said this is a linux blind spot.
So if Google _also_ wants to use it to torture kittens, or whatever, I"d have to say, "Well, let's weigh the pros and cons before we make a hasty judgement."
Ultimately, we all want affordable full-wall-sized VR so we can have breakfast on the veranda overlooking the scenic world landmark of our choice, don't we?
But, yes, I quickly realized that large panels are for families, business, and people who entertain by showing movies. My wife and I are probably as well served by an inexpensive 22" 1680x1050 six feet from our heads on the sofa than we would be by an expensive 50" of lower resolution on the opposite wall.
Enough with the Prius bashing. We all know electric motors have great torque. I believe the Prius computer intentionally reins that in some for the boring commuter experience. I got my wife a "My Prius accelerates faster than your SUV" bumper sticker but she doesn't have what it takes to put it on. And they maneuver just fine in 70+ mph freeway traffic.
When you can effortlessly duplicate all goods, the only status comes from the number of human beings you own as a feudal master.
Don't confuse ease of manufacturing with equality of rights. We already have adequate ease of manufacturing. The problem is finding the people to buy the stuff after it is created.
Marx remains completely relevant in his observations as a political scientist. State communism does not. What is created will be interesting to see. But that there will be an uprising is quite sure. I've been telling everybody I know since at least 2000 that the end of the 20th century is the second (information) age of the robber barons as the end of the 19th century was the culmination of the industrial age of the original robber barons. No great insight there. Less popular is saying that the mainstream media will be unable to maintain hegemony and the desperation of immense inequality will force people into the streets in a neosocialist movement around 2020-30 as it did in the 1920s and 30s.
Just a reasoned prediction, not a wish. Hegelian, if you want, based on past cycles which we apparently don't have the wisdom to control yet. Not my choice to have the coming "interesting times" coincide with my becoming old and frail like some Kris Kristophersen in a bad goth cyberpunk movie.
To paraphrase Noam Chomsky, "Europe provides the money, Asia manufactures the goods, the U.S. provides the soldiers. That's globalization." Geez, not letting your kids play FPS is like packing them off to school wearing berets.
The only morality that matters in the U.S. is religious (because it is said that atheists can't have a morality) and the only religion that matters in the mainstream media is evangelical and evangelicals already have their own "swept away" FPS where your victims convert or die. So it isn't _whether_ your kids play FPS, it is _why_ they play FPS.
And wasn't it Bowling for Columbine where they said half the victims were head shots and FPS were where they acquired their considerable skills? Your kid gets drafted into the imperial legion and looks like a fool because he hasn't had the advantage of practice on FPS how are you going to feel?
Convince me I'm wrong and those _aren't_ the mainstream memes of 21st century America.
My first response was: "And....why? Commercialization has done so much to foster communication and intellectual synergy in the U.S., hasn't it?" And the products, whose research we've paid for, are so affordable when the patent is licensed to a monopoly.
Oh, right. I forgot. It would be communism to promote affordable public higher education so universities _have_ to become business enterprises.
Geez, sometimes I feel so sorry for kids today. I think a state college credit was about $12 in my time and I remember a Big 10 5000 grad course was $155 + $15 for grad registration.
Count me confused too. So what will be _really_ cool (anarchy-wise) will be when people release hacks for consumer media hardware of the future the way people hack game consoles to play linux? How do they tell what hardware has been conpromised? Each Blu-Ray disk comes with an explicit agreement to let the industry probe your hardware?
Anyone driving a mini-Winnebago like an Expedition or a pickup might want to argue the point with me but I would say a Prius isn't that small a car being nowhere near as small as a Geo or a European car like a Z car or even a Honda Insight hybrid. It is a four-door with a mini-SUV design. We alternately shop for groceries every other week getting an overflowing cart of staples at a Cub one week and walk-out at a local yuppie chain the other week. I have yet to fail to get a dozen bags of groceries, cat litter and TP in the rear hatchback section.
It's also my understanding that a Prius weighs about 100 pounds more than an 80's Chevy Celebrity 4-door station wagon. To understand why I Googled that you would have to know that our second car saves energy the 3rd world way -- we keep it forever.
The current American Scientist has an article on how plug-in hybrids with a transmission similar to the Prius, a smaller engine and larger batteries and generator should probably be the next step.
Flamebait or educated inference? All the links say is that it is "the Dem's budget plan". Apparently, nobody is taking responsibility for it or offering a reasoned defense. Isn't this the way lobbyist graft works? And if you "follow the money" (a pretty useful maxim in my experience) the beneficiary is?
I wonder what Nicholas Negroponte thinks about this and whether distributing $100 laptops to poor U.S. kids is still a stupid idea.
on his radio show when people were eulogizing Sonny Bono's genius for promotion after his fatal skiing encounter with a tree. If memory serves, his summary was to the effect, "How much genius does it take to meet on Monday morning to decide how to smear the payola for the week?"
That's why I'm a big one for backup/restore and update because I feel it is almost always easier for me to tweak hardware drivers and the like than it is to get my personal configuration back.
Obviously not practical in a business setting.
If they are going back to 1983 with the Newton....
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Commodore Plus/4 of 1984.
I must have been one of the few who purchased one retail in about the three months they were released before Jack Trammell left and it was yanked. I only saw Lisa's sold in the surplus junk catalogs of the time like C.O.M.B. once. but it seemed there were enough Plus/4's and programs to sell surplus for YEARS. That alone should be a factor to get them in the top 21. I believe a bunch of them were purchased by Belgium or the Netherlands to give away to the deaf.
The first, and as far as I remember only, 64K computer to include a complete office suite of integrated word processing, spreadsheet, database and graphing on ROM! Of course, it was so buggy you had to run the patched floppy anyway. And it was so weak you would have wanted to buy the individual program cartridges of real programs for anything serious. But the real deal breaker was that they moved the video API so virtually no game or serious Commodore 64 program was compatible with it. Yes, they put out a computer that was in competition with and incompatible with their own other computer which happened to be the most popular computer in the world at the time.
The fact that it also included a built-in assembler/dissassembler was sort of cool because I could spend time trying to hack C64 programs to run on the Plus/4 and learned a lot. But not exactly a consumer selling point.
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On another front, there is always OS/2 to bash but wasn't there a/. article on the most intelligent games the other day and didn't it seem like Galactic Civilizations won? GC and GC2: originally native OS/2 -- although the OS/2 community seems to have so alienated Brad Wardell he'll hardly admit that himself these days.
OS/2 Warp came out almost a year before Win95, was far cooler, and although NT 4.0s NTFS certainly tromped HPFS I would argue that OS/2 was a lovely user experience and I was running it with DSL, a pre-1.0 Mozilla and happily streaming mp3s in the background into 2001.
teachers are better off giving students solved problems so they have the learning to take home,"
Instead of just a parameter synopsis, what percentage of linux man pages include a thorough working example at the end? Might cut down the need to call people dumb newbies.
Sounds like the moral is that the media companies will end up demanding hardware we will have to hack just to run linux. In the meantime Vista gives us a break to prepare for that because it will be some months before it becomes clear Vista doesn't really protect content and some years for Microsoft and the manufacturers to come up with an even more draconian PC.
Sadly, the American Dream includes owning a Home, with a yard and all that fun stuff. This means that we don't have the population densities outside of a few major metropolitan areas to support rail travel.
Oh, bleh! I'm tired of hearing that. So driving to an airport is easier than driving to a train station?
Part of the problem with trains in the U.S. is that Republicans hate them because they are "subsidized" -- like airlines _AREN'T_? Give me a break. More like Amtrak hasn't collected enough graft to make being their CEO interesting. I know the billion our state gave our local airline never did produce the promised jobs but it produced some great executive bonuses. And I'm sure those airports cost next to nothing to build, maintain, expand and staff.
The specific problem with Amtrak is that they own next to nothing. They are a bunch of locomotives and cars. They don't own the track and they share it. Sharing the track can be a pain because they aren't in control of their schedule if other trains aren't out of the way on time. The track itself can be practically third world. When the ground is moist and near rivers I have made trips where the train was going under 40 kph for extended stretches. And one memorable flood year where we must have gone about 6 miles at 10 kph and they routed us through some side track that had the locals in one village bringing out their cameras. A pitifully shameful reality on the Hollywood gloss the world sees of America.
On the other hand, I love trains. You actually get to see the country go by. All seats have first-class leg-room and you can wander to the dining and view cars. They do drop you off downtown. Their stations can be beautiful -- while airports are typically among the most monstrous structures conceived by the mind of man. It has been my experience that the staff at airports are so happy they could just shit. After a staffing study was done on Amtrak a few years ago I get the feeling their staff are almost as miserable now (_but_not_quite_!) The odds of your luggage getting lost are small. Sometimes trains can go through weather like violent thunderstorms that would ground planes. Slower, yes, but you can work on a train same as a plane, right? Just more pleasantly.
As an old guy who was playing with a Commodore at home before he got his hands on a green screen 4.77 mhz dual-floppy IBM PC at work I can appreciate the depth of thought that went into this selection. A lot of people may never have seen a lot of these programs or hardware but they were huge at the time.
I would have liked to have thrown Borland a bone. If not for all the people who learned Turbo Pascal 3, maybe for Quattro Pro for Windows 3.1 instead of Xcel. I can still remember when PC Magazine gave them top honors for best tabbed Windows spreadsheet before they went all-Microsoft all-the-time.
Firefly barely had enough science to make it not qualify as a current fiction w/ spaceships.
I'm not sure you want to make that last point. How many big name sci fi writers will tell you they are writing about the present day? And isn't it a good thing that the gimmickry doesn't get in the way of the story?
The thing about Star Wars is that I'm not a big fan of "The Force" as science (and it plays such a big part) that River's comparatively attenuated superwoman powers have an edge there for me.
One thing I hope we can all agree is a good thing is that there isn't a Star _Trek_ movie in that list.
OK. But from the U.S. standpoint I'd say it was a pretty innoxious day in the Foreign Service. When my wife and I took the orals, it seemed like the roleplaying scenarios were intentionally designed to highlight that allegiance was to country and not to bleeding heart causes like the environment or human rights. And that you could rise to the occasion and defend the unpopular. The different scenarios we had to defend were almost cartoonish in their uncoolness.
Size matters. I'd rather have 7" than a 3" PDA/phone screen.
Since Mandriva presumably wants to make money instead of "just" being a non-profit charity I seriously think they should go the route of FreePlay radio. Market in the first world and charge at an appropriate sweet spot -- if only to help support the 3rd world effort.
Just because I have electricity doesn't mean I didn't love my original FreePlay. They probably sold as many in the 1st world as they did in the 3rd.
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Well, no I won't.
I really, really hope di.fm can move their servers and do the paperwork in some other country. Most of the music is European anyway, isn't it? It's what I've been been listening to for the last six years and there is no way I CAN GO BACK to four folks drumming and strumming anymore.
Is that what government wanted? That I'll have a credit card charge in EUROS, PESOS or whatever for my music? Good work, geniuses. You've managed to offshore even the intangible.
Probably the two most important posts.
If this screws up a lot of the current commercial internet radio and if only a fraction of them make it overseas that is really unfortunate.
But if this destroys the ability of the internet to be a medium for communities to regain some power and identity? Well, just another goose step into the brave new future. And maybe _government's_ cut in the deal?
Me too (ZX81).
.... but you know. Do wish now that I had kept the genuine ZX81 intact and used a Timex 1000.
I have about every mod I could find in books: hardwired a keyboard, metal keyboard case, power switch, power LED, reset button, even added a joystick port for a modified Commodore stick for the flight simulator. Hardwired in the 16K module so I could mount the bus out for expansion. Sound card, printer, and something called a "stringy floppy" -- a video tape micro-cassette drive that was about as fast as a Commodore 5-1/4" floppy. Love to show you a picture on my vanity DSL server
Had access to ZX magazine and it was great. A few of the programs were distinctly superior to what was sold on cassettes here. Still have a couple years of copies
.
Then there's the issue of all the new infrastructure that needs to be put in for electric cars.
What on earth are you talking about? I know where to get electricity. And since hybrids still ultimately run on gasoline, I know where to get gasoline. Where is the hydrogen production and distribution system for my friendly local hydrogen station you are advocating?
Good one. Yeah, GOCR is crap.
As someone who was consistently getting high 90s% recognition on OmniPage with preservation of basic layout and images for work in 1996, linux is a non-starter and pathetically WAY, WAY behind in this area. It isn't even a GIMP vs. Photoshop ("Yeah, well GIMP is just different and 'special'!") argument. I'll look at a couple of the other suggestions here but I had basically just given up and said this is a linux blind spot.
So if Google _also_ wants to use it to torture kittens, or whatever, I"d have to say, "Well, let's weigh the pros and cons before we make a hasty judgement."
Ultimately, we all want affordable full-wall-sized VR so we can have breakfast on the veranda overlooking the scenic world landmark of our choice, don't we?
But, yes, I quickly realized that large panels are for families, business, and people who entertain by showing movies. My wife and I are probably as well served by an inexpensive 22" 1680x1050 six feet from our heads on the sofa than we would be by an expensive 50" of lower resolution on the opposite wall.
Enough with the Prius bashing. We all know electric motors have great torque. I believe the Prius computer intentionally reins that in some for the boring commuter experience. I got my wife a "My Prius accelerates faster than your SUV" bumper sticker but she doesn't have what it takes to put it on. And they maneuver just fine in 70+ mph freeway traffic.
I can't think of a product developer I would rather have measuring radiation exposure.
Voluntarily. Paying to do it. Explains a lot about Word.
You want sci fi: A for Anything, Damon Knight
When you can effortlessly duplicate all goods, the only status comes from the number of human beings you own as a feudal master.
Don't confuse ease of manufacturing with equality of rights. We already have adequate ease of manufacturing. The problem is finding the people to buy the stuff after it is created.
Marx remains completely relevant in his observations as a political scientist. State communism does not. What is created will be interesting to see. But that there will be an uprising is quite sure. I've been telling everybody I know since at least 2000 that the end of the 20th century is the second (information) age of the robber barons as the end of the 19th century was the culmination of the industrial age of the original robber barons. No great insight there. Less popular is saying that the mainstream media will be unable to maintain hegemony and the desperation of immense inequality will force people into the streets in a neosocialist movement around 2020-30 as it did in the 1920s and 30s.
Just a reasoned prediction, not a wish. Hegelian, if you want, based on past cycles which we apparently don't have the wisdom to control yet. Not my choice to have the coming "interesting times" coincide with my becoming old and frail like some Kris Kristophersen in a bad goth cyberpunk movie.
To paraphrase Noam Chomsky, "Europe provides the money, Asia manufactures the goods, the U.S. provides the soldiers. That's globalization." Geez, not letting your kids play FPS is like packing them off to school wearing berets.
The only morality that matters in the U.S. is religious (because it is said that atheists can't have a morality) and the only religion that matters in the mainstream media is evangelical and evangelicals already have their own "swept away" FPS where your victims convert or die. So it isn't _whether_ your kids play FPS, it is _why_ they play FPS.
And wasn't it Bowling for Columbine where they said half the victims were head shots and FPS were where they acquired their considerable skills? Your kid gets drafted into the imperial legion and looks like a fool because he hasn't had the advantage of practice on FPS how are you going to feel?
Convince me I'm wrong and those _aren't_ the mainstream memes of 21st century America.
No kidding.
My first response was: "And....why? Commercialization has done so much to foster communication and intellectual synergy in the U.S., hasn't it?" And the products, whose research we've paid for, are so affordable when the patent is licensed to a monopoly.
Oh, right. I forgot. It would be communism to promote affordable public higher education so universities _have_ to become business enterprises.
Geez, sometimes I feel so sorry for kids today. I think a state college credit was about $12 in my time and I remember a Big 10 5000 grad course was $155 + $15 for grad registration.
I'm holding out for Microsoft jeans and chewing tobacco.
Count me confused too. So what will be _really_ cool (anarchy-wise) will be when people release hacks for consumer media hardware of the future the way people hack game consoles to play linux? How do they tell what hardware has been conpromised? Each Blu-Ray disk comes with an explicit agreement to let the industry probe your hardware?
Anyone driving a mini-Winnebago like an Expedition or a pickup might want to argue the point with me but I would say a Prius isn't that small a car being nowhere near as small as a Geo or a European car like a Z car or even a Honda Insight hybrid. It is a four-door with a mini-SUV design. We alternately shop for groceries every other week getting an overflowing cart of staples at a Cub one week and walk-out at a local yuppie chain the other week. I have yet to fail to get a dozen bags of groceries, cat litter and TP in the rear hatchback section.
It's also my understanding that a Prius weighs about 100 pounds more than an 80's Chevy Celebrity 4-door station wagon. To understand why I Googled that you would have to know that our second car saves energy the 3rd world way -- we keep it forever.
The current American Scientist has an article on how plug-in hybrids with a transmission similar to the Prius, a smaller engine and larger batteries and generator should probably be the next step.
Flamebait or educated inference? All the links say is that it is "the Dem's budget plan". Apparently, nobody is taking responsibility for it or offering a reasoned defense. Isn't this the way lobbyist graft works? And if you "follow the money" (a pretty useful maxim in my experience) the beneficiary is?
I wonder what Nicholas Negroponte thinks about this and whether distributing $100 laptops to poor U.S. kids is still a stupid idea.
on his radio show when people were eulogizing Sonny Bono's genius for promotion after his fatal skiing encounter with a tree. If memory serves, his summary was to the effect, "How much genius does it take to meet on Monday morning to decide how to smear the payola for the week?"
That's why I'm a big one for backup/restore and update because I feel it is almost always easier for me to tweak hardware drivers and the like than it is to get my personal configuration back.
Obviously not practical in a business setting.
Commodore Plus/4 of 1984.
/. article on the most intelligent games the other day and didn't it seem like Galactic Civilizations won? GC and GC2: originally native OS/2 -- although the OS/2 community seems to have so alienated Brad Wardell he'll hardly admit that himself these days.
I must have been one of the few who purchased one retail in about the three months they were released before Jack Trammell left and it was yanked. I only saw Lisa's sold in the surplus junk catalogs of the time like C.O.M.B. once. but it seemed there were enough Plus/4's and programs to sell surplus for YEARS. That alone should be a factor to get them in the top 21. I believe a bunch of them were purchased by Belgium or the Netherlands to give away to the deaf.
The first, and as far as I remember only, 64K computer to include a complete office suite of integrated word processing, spreadsheet, database and graphing on ROM! Of course, it was so buggy you had to run the patched floppy anyway. And it was so weak you would have wanted to buy the individual program cartridges of real programs for anything serious. But the real deal breaker was that they moved the video API so virtually no game or serious Commodore 64 program was compatible with it. Yes, they put out a computer that was in competition with and incompatible with their own other computer which happened to be the most popular computer in the world at the time.
The fact that it also included a built-in assembler/dissassembler was sort of cool because I could spend time trying to hack C64 programs to run on the Plus/4 and learned a lot. But not exactly a consumer selling point.
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On another front, there is always OS/2 to bash but wasn't there a
OS/2 Warp came out almost a year before Win95, was far cooler, and although NT 4.0s NTFS certainly tromped HPFS I would argue that OS/2 was a lovely user experience and I was running it with DSL, a pre-1.0 Mozilla and happily streaming mp3s in the background into 2001.
teachers are better off giving students solved problems so they have the learning to take home,"
Instead of just a parameter synopsis, what percentage of linux man pages include a thorough working example at the end? Might cut down the need to call people dumb newbies.
Sounds like the moral is that the media companies will end up demanding hardware we will have to hack just to run linux. In the meantime Vista gives us a break to prepare for that because it will be some months before it becomes clear Vista doesn't really protect content and some years for Microsoft and the manufacturers to come up with an even more draconian PC.
Sadly, the American Dream includes owning a Home, with a yard and all that fun stuff. This means that we don't have the population densities outside of a few major metropolitan areas to support rail travel.
Oh, bleh! I'm tired of hearing that. So driving to an airport is easier than driving to a train station?
Part of the problem with trains in the U.S. is that Republicans hate them because they are "subsidized" -- like airlines _AREN'T_? Give me a break. More like Amtrak hasn't collected enough graft to make being their CEO interesting. I know the billion our state gave our local airline never did produce the promised jobs but it produced some great executive bonuses. And I'm sure those airports cost next to nothing to build, maintain, expand and staff.
The specific problem with Amtrak is that they own next to nothing. They are a bunch of locomotives and cars. They don't own the track and they share it. Sharing the track can be a pain because they aren't in control of their schedule if other trains aren't out of the way on time. The track itself can be practically third world. When the ground is moist and near rivers I have made trips where the train was going under 40 kph for extended stretches. And one memorable flood year where we must have gone about 6 miles at 10 kph and they routed us through some side track that had the locals in one village bringing out their cameras. A pitifully shameful reality on the Hollywood gloss the world sees of America.
On the other hand, I love trains. You actually get to see the country go by. All seats have first-class leg-room and you can wander to the dining and view cars. They do drop you off downtown. Their stations can be beautiful -- while airports are typically among the most monstrous structures conceived by the mind of man. It has been my experience that the staff at airports are so happy they could just shit. After a staffing study was done on Amtrak a few years ago I get the feeling their staff are almost as miserable now (_but_not_quite_!) The odds of your luggage getting lost are small. Sometimes trains can go through weather like violent thunderstorms that would ground planes. Slower, yes, but you can work on a train same as a plane, right? Just more pleasantly.
As an old guy who was playing with a Commodore at home before he got his hands on a green screen 4.77 mhz dual-floppy IBM PC at work I can appreciate the depth of thought that went into this selection. A lot of people may never have seen a lot of these programs or hardware but they were huge at the time.
I would have liked to have thrown Borland a bone. If not for all the people who learned Turbo Pascal 3, maybe for Quattro Pro for Windows 3.1 instead of Xcel. I can still remember when PC Magazine gave them top honors for best tabbed Windows spreadsheet before they went all-Microsoft all-the-time.
Firefly barely had enough science to make it not qualify as a current fiction w/ spaceships.
I'm not sure you want to make that last point. How many big name sci fi writers will tell you they are writing about the present day? And isn't it a good thing that the gimmickry doesn't get in the way of the story?
The thing about Star Wars is that I'm not a big fan of "The Force" as science (and it plays such a big part) that River's comparatively attenuated superwoman powers have an edge there for me.
One thing I hope we can all agree is a good thing is that there isn't a Star _Trek_ movie in that list.
OK. But from the U.S. standpoint I'd say it was a pretty innoxious day in the Foreign Service. When my wife and I took the orals, it seemed like the roleplaying scenarios were intentionally designed to highlight that allegiance was to country and not to bleeding heart causes like the environment or human rights. And that you could rise to the occasion and defend the unpopular. The different scenarios we had to defend were almost cartoonish in their uncoolness.
Size matters. I'd rather have 7" than a 3" PDA/phone screen.
Since Mandriva presumably wants to make money instead of "just" being a non-profit charity I seriously think they should go the route of FreePlay radio. Market in the first world and charge at an appropriate sweet spot -- if only to help support the 3rd world effort.
Just because I have electricity doesn't mean I didn't love my original FreePlay. They probably sold as many in the 1st world as they did in the 3rd.