I think that I must be the only person who actually purchased an XO, because all of the reasons given for the poor sales are not pointing out the one problem that the OLPC XO had on launch: it was (and still is) sluggish. It is a pain in the ass to use, since doing things like reading PDFs is slow as hell.
My OLPC is sitting in my office unused because, as much as I wanted to use it to read PDFs and browse the web, Sugar is slow and doing things like moving from page-to-page in the reader take a looong time.
On the development side, did the Sugar APIs ever get mature enough that the documentation was stable? Is it really ready for third parties to write software in Sugar without having to worry that large sections of their code will have to change on the nest upgrade? Looking right now at the docs, there are still parts of the code that do not have stable APIs.
How can you take a sluggish device with moving APIs and expect to sell it to countries on a large scale? Will governments really be willing to spend millions of dollars on something that is clearly unfinished design-wise and second-rate?
Microsoft and Intel did not kill the OLPC. The OLPC was enough to kill itself.
I have family in China, and have seen how much better the average person's life has been improved by access to more opportunity. Chinese business practices are good and bad - it is a bit like the wild west over there right now. The Chinese people pretty much woke up one day and were handed Capitalism and Free Trade and told that this is the new plan. I have seen businesses over there with very good and bad business practices.
While I agree that China is still very backward human-rights wise, they have improved a whole lot. Access to things like hospitals, food, education, and business opportunity are very important.
China is shifting towards freedom, it is just taking a while. Economic freedom is an important first move. There has been talk of private property rights in China.
I worked in health care for years, and it was easier to encrypt all emails rather than picking through the sensitive ones. I think that a lot of people are less concerned with the government and more concerned with non-government people reading their emails. I imagine that a lot of people that read Slashdot have to encrypt their email, either through company policy or legal concerns.
So, he is a patriot that cherry picks the facts. As long as the ends justify the means, then? I mean, who cares what the truth is as long as he gets his message out. Smells like propaganda.
I agree. I think that a lot of people see pictures of China, or even visit, without a sense of what China was like 10 years ago. It is not perfect, but there is more opportunity right now for a Chinese citizen than there has been in the last 50 years. Private business is everywhere, and even though Shanghai is overcrowded right now, there is a lot of opportunity cropping up in rural areas. I can not see this as a bad thing, knowing how bad it has been for the average Chinese citizen before they started to embrace capitalism.
It seems that a lot of critics want a country with a billion people to change overnight which is not going to happen.
For me, at least, the big problem with Michael Moore is that he knowingly distorts the truth to get his message across. He is an end-justifies-the-means sort of person who is very hard to trust.
Stop using your facts to overcome this very interesting emotional argument. If I can ignore the fact that Chavez once was a violent coup leader, and a fascist asshole who uses his power to shut down the press, so can you. Plus, have you got Greg Palast, Chavez' own Herbert Matthews, to make you look as clean as Christ? I think not.
You can not reverse a non-linear chaotic system. Whenever you hear someone say otherwise you can not win the argument because you are arguing with emotion.
It seems like the non-libertarian argument is that we need is a large, centralized government to tell us how we should live our lives, because we are too stupid to figure it out for ourselves.
He chose to make it public to show what he's fighting for. He wants Linux to get real, not to be totally out of touch with reality. We need proprietary software, and very often, they need Linux. It's not about fighting with them - it's about cooperating. Haha. Sure he did.
His argument was a bit valid, but it is not Red Hat's fault - it is the people who own all of the little Fedora repositories that have not really worked well together. Fedora is about software freedom, and Eric cares about getting Linux everywhere no matter what. I am not really sure where ESR stands on the whole freedom argument, or if he only cares about challenging Microsoft.
If someone wants to build a better box, then do it. As far as the GPL3, it is a voluntary license. The same argument that you made for a better Tivo can be made for the new GPL.
This is all about getting funding. A really great PR scheme made to make the "greedy" drug companies look bad and get money for the cancer researcher.
This is not a recent trend - it is a common trick. Look at global warming, AIDS/HIV research, etc. Not that this is a bad thing. People do what they have to so that they can get the funding needed to put together research projects.
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Really. If it was so bad that it would not benefit consumers, why not let the market kick it out? I understand - DRM = evil, but this is silly.
There is always a larger price for letting your government set business standards. Today, they outlaw something that you consider bad, tomorrow they outlaw something they consider bad. Slippery slopes.
If you are a small company, sure. But, Peoplesoft has lots and lots of HR information, tax information, and insurance information that your custom app wouldn't have included. It knows about things like child support, and how the tax system works in almost every city in the world. I thought that it was a crap system, until I had someone walk me though the HR module and the Financials and I was blown away.
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I think that I must be the only person who actually purchased an XO, because all of the reasons given for the poor sales are not pointing out the one problem that the OLPC XO had on launch: it was (and still is) sluggish. It is a pain in the ass to use, since doing things like reading PDFs is slow as hell.
My OLPC is sitting in my office unused because, as much as I wanted to use it to read PDFs and browse the web, Sugar is slow and doing things like moving from page-to-page in the reader take a looong time.
On the development side, did the Sugar APIs ever get mature enough that the documentation was stable? Is it really ready for third parties to write software in Sugar without having to worry that large sections of their code will have to change on the nest upgrade? Looking right now at the docs, there are still parts of the code that do not have stable APIs.
How can you take a sluggish device with moving APIs and expect to sell it to countries on a large scale? Will governments really be willing to spend millions of dollars on something that is clearly unfinished design-wise and second-rate?
Microsoft and Intel did not kill the OLPC. The OLPC was enough to kill itself.
FICS has been replaced by chessd: http://chessd.sourceforge.net/index-en.html
that Hans didn't do it still? I bet there are still a few.
Well, he still wrote a damn good filesystem
I have family in China, and have seen how much better the average person's life has been improved by access to more opportunity. Chinese business practices are good and bad - it is a bit like the wild west over there right now. The Chinese people pretty much woke up one day and were handed Capitalism and Free Trade and told that this is the new plan. I have seen businesses over there with very good and bad business practices.
While I agree that China is still very backward human-rights wise, they have improved a whole lot. Access to things like hospitals, food, education, and business opportunity are very important.
China is shifting towards freedom, it is just taking a while. Economic freedom is an important first move. There has been talk of private property rights in China.
Maybe China will be the next Chile.
So, why not just go to the other coffee shops then? Oh, you just want to bitch about Starbucks!
I worked in health care for years, and it was easier to encrypt all emails rather than picking through the sensitive ones. I think that a lot of people are less concerned with the government and more concerned with non-government people reading their emails. I imagine that a lot of people that read Slashdot have to encrypt their email, either through company policy or legal concerns.
I have used RHN in the past to manage a large group of servers and if the desktop support is anything like it, this will be a big win for Redhat IMHO.
"You can always turn the television off and, of course, block the channels you don't want.... But why should you have to?"
Kevin J. Martin
FCC Chairman
So, he is a patriot that cherry picks the facts. As long as the ends justify the means, then? I mean, who cares what the truth is as long as he gets his message out. Smells like propaganda.
I agree. I think that a lot of people see pictures of China, or even visit, without a sense of what China was like 10 years ago. It is not perfect, but there is more opportunity right now for a Chinese citizen than there has been in the last 50 years. Private business is everywhere, and even though Shanghai is overcrowded right now, there is a lot of opportunity cropping up in rural areas. I can not see this as a bad thing, knowing how bad it has been for the average Chinese citizen before they started to embrace capitalism.
It seems that a lot of critics want a country with a billion people to change overnight which is not going to happen.
If you can get to Wikipedia. I was in China a few weeks ago and I couldn't get to it.
For me, at least, the big problem with Michael Moore is that he knowingly distorts the truth to get his message across. He is an end-justifies-the-means sort of person who is very hard to trust.
Stop using your facts to overcome this very interesting emotional argument. If I can ignore the fact that Chavez once was a violent coup leader, and a fascist asshole who uses his power to shut down the press, so can you. Plus, have you got Greg Palast, Chavez' own Herbert Matthews, to make you look as clean as Christ? I think not.
You are right, and I don't understand why people defend Chavez, except that they have Bush-blinders on.
Well, this is the internet after all, and fact does not matter but speculation does.
You can not reverse a non-linear chaotic system. Whenever you hear someone say otherwise you can not win the argument because you are arguing with emotion.
It seems like the non-libertarian argument is that we need is a large, centralized government to tell us how we should live our lives, because we are too stupid to figure it out for ourselves.
He also just happened to join the Freespire board. Freespire is Linspire, a company which just signed a deal with Ubuntu. hrmm
His argument was a bit valid, but it is not Red Hat's fault - it is the people who own all of the little Fedora repositories that have not really worked well together. Fedora is about software freedom, and Eric cares about getting Linux everywhere no matter what. I am not really sure where ESR stands on the whole freedom argument, or if he only cares about challenging Microsoft.
If someone wants to build a better box, then do it. As far as the GPL3, it is a voluntary license. The same argument that you made for a better Tivo can be made for the new GPL.
This is all about getting funding. A really great PR scheme made to make the "greedy" drug companies look bad and get money for the cancer researcher.
This is not a recent trend - it is a common trick. Look at global warming, AIDS/HIV research, etc. Not that this is a bad thing. People do what they have to so that they can get the funding needed to put together research projects.
Really. If it was so bad that it would not benefit consumers, why not let the market kick it out? I understand - DRM = evil, but this is silly.
There is always a larger price for letting your government set business standards. Today, they outlaw something that you consider bad, tomorrow they outlaw something they consider bad. Slippery slopes.
I love your sig. Math background?
If you are a small company, sure. But, Peoplesoft has lots and lots of HR information, tax information, and insurance information that your custom app wouldn't have included. It knows about things like child support, and how the tax system works in almost every city in the world. I thought that it was a crap system, until I had someone walk me though the HR module and the Financials and I was blown away.
No, violent crime down due to poverty being pushed out of DC. You said it yourself, real estate values are going way up in DC.
His sig said something about South America. Maybe that is the place with no violent crime.
You know, your view can be in the same langauge as the rest of the code. Plus, not all gui apps need to be strict mvc applications.