Strangely, last time the two were on stage, it didn't end well for Jobs... was the beginning of the end in those days for Apple... is history repeating itself?
As much as I'd love to see One-laptop-per-child get off the ground... they've had their chance. It's been too freaking long! Face it, it's vaporware. Intel's offering is also likely vaporware. It's a fight between one vaporware vs another vaporware!
What makes one vaporware more `noble' than another vaporware? Just 'cause one has `child' in the name... I guess.
I personally would be happy to get a cheap-durable-light-small laptop from any manufacturer. All I need is bash (& all unix utils), vim, perl, gcc. It doesn't even have to have a GUI (just a gnu screen in text mode).
Scientific calculators in India cost around 600RS(15$). How come a child laptop cost 10$.
Well, it will be a computational device that children can hold on their lap. Why shouldn't they call it a `laptop'?
(and by computational device, I of course mean pen and paper, as in, a mini-turing machine; for all practical purposes, $10 can buy you an `infinite' [lifetime supply!] amount of paper tape in India).
Google's obligation is to serve the consumer doing the search with the most accurate and fair results possible, not to ensure that sleezy companies
I think you fail to realize that sleezy companies are google's customers. Folks searching the web are the product... being sold to the highest bidder (literally!).
... i.e. just about as long as laptops have been usable. Wireless eavesdropping and TEMPEST issues were a common discussion topic back in the Cypherpunks era, among the technical experts as well as among the tinfoil hat crowd, and a number of us had worked with TEMPEST professionally.
Not only that... this technique was published!...in Cryptonomicon!:-)
You probably have a couple hundred MBs of data that is really being used, and the rest can be swapped out with very little performance penalty.
All the more reason to make boards that take 1 gig of -really- fast RAM, and 32 (or more) gigs of slower/cheaper RAM for... times when you don't need that speed. Eliminate swap disk completely.
I was forced to use a Mac (laptop) for six or so months. I didn't switch (from Linux---dumped Windows a -while- ago).
Macs just feel weird. The laptops look really cool, but the keyboard is horrible. If you do a lot of typing... it just feels "wrong". Most PC keyboards feel ``natural'' (ie: IBM Thinkpad keyboard).
So, just for that, Apple hardware is overrated in my opinion. You mention folks buying Apple Hardware for the sole purpose of installing Linux on it... amm... d0h! No serious Linux user would do -that-; only apple fans...and if they're apple fans... they'll use OSX.
As for the OS... My Linux box is more functional. I dunno why Apple went through such trouble to screw up a perfectly good UNIX installation.
I don't think IT people really think about stuff like that much...
I think the sole purpose of IT is to make things easy to use/access, and get out of the way. Unfortunately, in many corps, IT exists for IT's sake, and many procedures are in place primarily to get in the way between users and their job. After all, IT must appear to be actively doing something---instead of just passively allowing for everyone to use IT resources.
Daylight savings: Someone at my place applied a few patches, and time got changed -twice-. 2 hours forward. Nobody in the -whole- place couldn't change their system time (they're not -allowed- to do it). For 2 days, everyone's time was off by an hour. I thought that was rather stupid.
Anything that deals with email, etc., is best handled by educating users (and firing those who don't learn). If a user works with a computer for a few weeks, and doesn't know what a ``Command Prompt'' is, or doesn't know how to rename a file, or change file's extension, or the difference between a text file and a word document, fire them. The organization will be better without such `users' (I don't care if they're business folk, if they use a computer, they must be computer literate---otherwise don't let'em use a computer, or fire'em).
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I think it's appropriate to link to Ken Perlin's site.
Strangely, last time the two were on stage, it didn't end well for Jobs... was the beginning of the end in those days for Apple... is history repeating itself?
8. Tie it all to Robots!
As much as I'd love to see One-laptop-per-child get off the ground... they've had their chance. It's been too freaking long! Face it, it's vaporware. Intel's offering is also likely vaporware. It's a fight between one vaporware vs another vaporware!
What makes one vaporware more `noble' than another vaporware? Just 'cause one has `child' in the name... I guess.
I personally would be happy to get a cheap-durable-light-small laptop from any manufacturer. All I need is bash (& all unix utils), vim, perl, gcc. It doesn't even have to have a GUI (just a gnu screen in text mode).
I believe you'll find this interesting:
http://www.pantz.org/blog/blog-08-2005.shtml
Just follow the instructions to create the big disk.
Only there's not going to all of a sudden be double-the-transactions. They're still working with the same number of transactions.
Problem is, transactions are following same exponential growth pattern as... CPU speed... but faster.
Hmm... Hasn't Netcraft confirmed BSD's death yet?
There is NO WAY in which a laptop can cost only $10
Depends on your definition of a `laptop'.
ie: Pen and paper can be seen as a computational device, that one can hold on their lap. And $10 buys a lot of paper.
Scientific calculators in India cost around 600RS(15$). How come a child laptop cost 10$.
Well, it will be a computational device that children can hold on their lap. Why shouldn't they call it a `laptop'?
(and by computational device, I of course mean pen and paper, as in, a mini-turing machine; for all practical purposes, $10 can buy you an `infinite' [lifetime supply!] amount of paper tape in India).
Google's obligation is to serve the consumer doing the search with the most accurate and fair results possible, not to ensure that sleezy companies
I think you fail to realize that sleezy companies are google's customers. Folks searching the web are the product... being sold to the highest bidder (literally!).
when you to port that over to a different OS, it doesn't work quite so well.
:-)
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I guess some people are just determined to believe the worst about people
``Think the worst about people, and you'll usually be right.'' --Catbert.
Remind anyone of ``Hi, I'm Aptiva?'' from IBM? ...lets party like it's 1994.
Yes I would like my house trashed now. | No I will trash the house myself later.
...have it come back with that question every minute.
And if you answer "No",
... i.e. just about as long as laptops have been usable. Wireless eavesdropping and TEMPEST issues were a common discussion topic back in the Cypherpunks era, among the technical experts as well as among the tinfoil hat crowd, and a number of us had worked with TEMPEST professionally.
...in Cryptonomicon! :-)
Not only that... this technique was published!
If they're going to force him out of class for their benefit, they need to pay him for his losses.
Might as well factor all the future lifetime earnings that -may- have been missed due to that hour of class.
It's a wonder our representatives don't outright grow horns the first day on the job.
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."-Douglas Adams
...but IBM is a one stop shop of best practices.
Hmm.... Have you actually used Notes?
I don't care who buys it. I'll never see a DoubleClick ad again as long as Adblock Plus can be set to *doubleclick* .
:-/
Unless all the ads would be hosted on google.com... try blocking -that-
Spread these articles throughout the entire month of April.
:-)
Wait for the dupes
You probably have a couple hundred MBs of data that is really being used, and the rest can be swapped out with very little performance penalty.
All the more reason to make boards that take 1 gig of -really- fast RAM, and 32 (or more) gigs of slower/cheaper RAM for... times when you don't need that speed. Eliminate swap disk completely.
3. If you want creativity, shun the larger shops and go work for a startup, or start one up yourself.
Or a large shop in crises! Kinda like a big elephant on crack (instead of a small enraged mouse).
I was forced to use a Mac (laptop) for six or so months. I didn't switch (from Linux---dumped Windows a -while- ago).
Macs just feel weird. The laptops look really cool, but the keyboard is horrible. If you do a lot of typing... it just feels "wrong". Most PC keyboards feel ``natural'' (ie: IBM Thinkpad keyboard).
So, just for that, Apple hardware is overrated in my opinion. You mention folks buying Apple Hardware for the sole purpose of installing Linux on it... amm... d0h! No serious Linux user would do -that-; only apple fans...and if they're apple fans... they'll use OSX.
As for the OS... My Linux box is more functional. I dunno why Apple went through such trouble to screw up a perfectly good UNIX installation.
I may be a Mac fanboy, but I don't see how fewer computers can be a benefit for students.
They look cooler.
I don't think IT people really think about stuff like that much...
I think the sole purpose of IT is to make things easy to use/access, and get out of the way. Unfortunately, in many corps, IT exists for IT's sake, and many procedures are in place primarily to get in the way between users and their job. After all, IT must appear to be actively doing something---instead of just passively allowing for everyone to use IT resources.
Daylight savings: Someone at my place applied a few patches, and time got changed -twice-. 2 hours forward. Nobody in the -whole- place couldn't change their system time (they're not -allowed- to do it). For 2 days, everyone's time was off by an hour. I thought that was rather stupid.
Anything that deals with email, etc., is best handled by educating users (and firing those who don't learn). If a user works with a computer for a few weeks, and doesn't know what a ``Command Prompt'' is, or doesn't know how to rename a file, or change file's extension, or the difference between a text file and a word document, fire them. The organization will be better without such `users' (I don't care if they're business folk, if they use a computer, they must be computer literate---otherwise don't let'em use a computer, or fire'em).