The laptops themselves will form this mesh. Each laptop has wireless connectivity. Each laptop will connect to other similar laptops in range. Sort of like how P2P filesharing works. A mesh network is decentralized and composed of the client computers.
A harder question is how connectivity to the 'regular' internet will achieved.
Kids already have a way to interact while doing school work: It's called SCHOOL!
I grew up in a rural area of a third world country. All communication infrastructure is bad. There were no phones, the roads bad and public transportation almost non existent. I would have welcomed any possibility of interaction with other kids outside of school. Especially on weekends and holidays.
Let's stop waiting and hoping for "Pie in the sky" solutions for problems that already have a low-techsolution.
I have taught in a third world country. There simply are not enough trained teachers. Distance learning (formal or not) has the potential to make a difference.
Let's start using what we have, and stop looking as technology as a panacea to fix the worlds' ills.
I'm a scientist and an engineer. Using technology to try and help is what we do. If someone from another discipline has an idea that they think can work, please go ahead and help.
Maybe $100 computers won't solve our problems, but the other things we've been trying for the past couple centuries don't seem to have been working out either. If computers don't help education that much, would all the first world countries please send the computers in their schools to schools in third world countries? If it doesn't work out for us either we can use the cases as traps to catch dinner.
Actually many of the GIFs were actually replaced with PNGs
GIFs and PNGs support transparency (something JPEGs can't do)
In any case many of had followed history and not only changed our GIFs, but also our JPEGs to PNG. PNG is a powerful open standard for image compression that is supported by our internet overlords.
Though control-H acts like backspace, and control-D is eof, in most Unix shells (and cisco's IOS) control-D will delete the character directly under (to the right of?) the cursor.
So ^B^B^B^B^B^B^D^D^D^D^D^D would work (^B moves the cursor on character to the left). If you really want to nitpick though, he deleted 7 characters even though 'Micros' is only 6 characters.
PS Only heterosexual gay chimpanzees support software patents.
What in the world are you talking about? Oh, think I understand. You raise some good points. Where exactly will the line be drawn? I think we are OK for the time being though.
How about word processing software? Or college classes requiring you to write papers?
Persons can use Word Processing software to duplicate (plagiarise). Likewise college courses do drive alot of persons to copy the work of others in an unethical manner. But in both cases the intent of the software manufacturer/college is not to encourage copying. In fact colleges strongly discourage unethical use of other's work.
Or every instance of a family singing "Happy Birthday"?
I don't think that copyright holder has ever claimed that private performance of his or her song was in violation of their copyright.
From the article, quoting from the bill - "creates a new class of people who can be sued or prosecuted for copyright infringement -- those who a "reasonable person" would believe "intentionally aids, abets, induces or procures" copyright violations"
The spirit of the bill doesn't seem to include any of your examples, but we all know how creative these lawyers can get.
By the way 'Happy Birthday' is now free, anyone can use it. Previously while still under copyright Sony had to pay US 1 cent in fees for each device (well for some watches anyway) it produced that played that jingle.
"Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, clearly targeting P-to-P vendors, claimed his bill focuses on companies that profit by encouraging children and teenagers to infringe copyrights."
But what does that mean for the organizations that develop P2P applications, but do not profit from thier development. For example gnutella, giFT, and OpenFT ?
Would bittorrent fall in this category? It is certainly used to distribute pirated material, but its intended purpose (and popular use) is to distribute legal (FLOSS, demo) items.
The Yahoo! article wasn't clear. It says the bill attacks P2P developers, but all the direct quotes by Hatch say that he is after companies that develop software anticipating that software to be used for piracy.
"it creates a new class of people who can be sued or prosecuted for copyright infringement -- those who a "reasonable person" would believe "intentionally aids, abets, induces or procures" copyright violations"
"Tragically, some corporations now seem to think that they can legally profit by inducing children to steal. Some think they can legally lure children into breaking the law with false promises of 'free music.'"
I don't know if you can fault the intent, but my guess is that poor legal implementation will again be our undoing.
Read the article (or even the blurb). They aren't talking about a cell phone. Its more like a broadband router with 3G network support.
There are many instances where this would be helpful. For example mobile applications would be made possible by such a device. Think WiFi hotspots on trains, buses, and cars.
It would also be an alternative for persons that have no other broadband internet access available to them. Cell networks are easier and cheaper to roll out than physically wired networks, so it might give someone access to the internet that might otherwise be impossible.
Also think about all the possibilities for actual cellphones. Mix VOIP with broadband over cellphone, the right software, and voila, long distance, overseas calls for next to nothing. Maybe we could get video in addition to voice (after we figure out why we would want that)
The future of cellphone and WAN technology is bright. Try ot to be such a wet blanket.
I didn't realize that the UN was involved in this kind of thing. It is good though. I wonder if they will have a stronger influence than they have had with other issues (like war).
Now there is additional unified governmental support. Here is another article that talks about governmental cooperation to fight spam. This is in addition to cooperation we read about between Microsoft, Yahoo! and others. It'll be interesting to see how the spammers counter. They are a particularly strong bunch. Like cockroaches I suppose.
"Now the problem is rapidly spreading to cell phones. Nine of every 10 spam messages in Japan are now directed to mobile phones as text messages, Horton said."
Thats the scary part. How do we stop spam on phones? They easiest way would probably involve filtering by our service providers. But do we trust them to do that? And would they do that? I don't know about USA or Japan, but here in Jamaica, the majority of unsolicited text messages that I get actually comes from my cellphone providers (I have phones from two telcos).
University of Virginia Hospital could save as much as $218,000 a year if it replaced 15 human couriers with six HelpMate robots, which would pay for themselves in little over three years.
Its not just IT workers that are in danger, and its not just Indian workers that are taking away jobs.
But thats just how the world works. Invention brings about efficiency but it also opens new avenues for humans. After all H. Ford's assembly line has created a net gain in jobs, right?
I don't think the MPAA's profits make it right or wrong to download movies over the internet.
It would me feel better to know that the entity I am stealing from isn't going to be destroyed by my theft, but it still doesn't make it right.
I really,really hate the RIAA, MPAA, and Fraunhofer (mp3 people), but I make my stance by boycotting their products (I try my best in any case) and by telling people the things I find wrong with these organizations. And if you are going to pirate, when in public don't just point out that they have lotsa money anyway, but give your other reasons (inflated prices, price fixing, artist exploitation, etc). I really want things to change. Having illegal foundation arguments hinders, not helps.
Greets to RBK, VOD, RAC, JAH, APC, RNS, TMD et al !
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I guess they were trying to innovate with Expose. Both these features address the same problem. They both allow users to manage multiple open application quickly and easily.
Everyone knows tux was just a front man for a certain red daemon:)
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The truth is just as unlikely as these made up stories.
A world class operating system started from scratch by a single person, with no commercial incentive?
A group of hundreds (thousands?) of persons are from differing countries organization, commercial and voluntarily maintaining and improving it? Concerted development support from companies (IBM, Sun, Novell, HP, Fujitsu, et al) that are fierce competitors every other day of the week?
Its really amazing. Good luck to everyone trying to spin a better tale than this.
SuSe isn't the only big distro from Europe. There is also Mandrake. Plus maybe this is because of an initiative taken by Lindows/Linspire. Things happen to those that put forth effort. This page seems to indicate that Questar and Lindows and in some kind of partnership.
Linspire is Debian. Debian based distributions are even more similiar than rpm based ones. Once installed, you can hardly tell Debian distros apart. In fact many people call these Debian based distros alternative installers
For all the open-source community is waiting for that eleventh hour of deliverance when an intern in a cheap Penguin suit exclaims publicly that "the era of the Linux desktop is here" -- it's not happening for a while.
I disagree. Its been happening for a while. Today slashdotters complain about stories of linux migration. They say so what, thats not news any more. A review of 3 linux distros by a non techie on a mainstream (not even tech section) channel? Change always takes time. Usually when things occur slowly its hard to take notice. No one can argue that a greater percentage of persons use linux today than did a year ago (no matter how small the change). That has been true for several years now. Linux companies have stopped going bankrupt and are now seen as lucrative (look at ximian and suse being bought by novell. look at Redhat being able to challenge SCO in the legal system)
A few days ago I was teaching my friend how to use a few command line programs (like 'ls' and 'cd') in FreeBSD. This ended up turning into a two hour circus regarding where the spaces go.
FreeBSD is not newbie friendly means that all linux distros are hard to use? I use Debian/Sid myself and always use the command line. But that can't detract from the efforts of Xandros, Lindos, SuSe, Fedora, Redhat, Knoppix, et al who work their asses off to ensure the simplest user experience.
YES, YOU IDIOT!! THE PAPERCLIP TOO!
Nobody likes the paperclip.
I don't care if it's a dancing penguin that takes up your entire screen, if it ends up being annoying as opposed to just plain hard for the normal user, that's a step up.
I am sure that I love Debian core, and FreeBSD as much as the other guy, but if I want something thats simple and easy to use (for non linux persons) get something that says it is. Try something new out. FreeBSD isn't always the best for everything. Nowadays all the 'desktop' distros seem to be pretty good.
To be fair, the Yahoo article only mentioned Mandrake as having strange terminology and jargon. And this was the 'PowerPack'edition. And the mention that the 'Discovery' edition has features more suited to a first time trial of linux.
This page says that SuSe 9.1 was the first to include ntfs resizing. It also has links to install images for most of the major distros that have a (non destructive) partionining utility (that includes NTFS support).
One interesting thing about the washington post's review is that they found the interface of Mandrake and SUSE to be very cluttered, while they found fedora's interface to be far cleaner. GNOME vs KDE ? Many always assume (including me) that KDE would be better liked be windows users.
Also while the washington post's article says linux is an awkward alternative, the experience was that some hardware support was better and easier than windows XP and that it was far cheaper. Since I have to disagree with the statements about it being harder to install software (look at apt-get, urpmi, yum, emerge -- the problem is that there is a LOT of outdated information on the web, this will eventually change), it _definately_ makes linux a contender. Its simply amazing to me that someone who isn't a linux head is doing an article on yahoo/washington post. Slowly but _surely_ I say.
Its actually the numer of particles per mole (atoms, molecules, ions etc). Depends on what composes what you are talking about. For example, there are 6.022E23 molecules of water in a mole of water whilst there there are 3 x 6.022E23 atoms in a mole of water, since each water molecule has 3 atoms (h20 - 2 hydrgen and 1 oxygen)
What do you use for $39.99 ? I had Gotel (64k) for $40 a month, but they suck. Using free GPRS thru cellphone from Cable and Wireless now (till they start charging for it). Supposed to be 3+1 (40200/13600) but only getting 1+1 (real slow).There was Cable in JA too but they went under (wasn't really any cheaper than dsl either.
I was pondering the relatively uninteresting nature of some of the posts today and then WHAMMO !!! It hit me...
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The laptops themselves will form this mesh. Each laptop has wireless connectivity. Each laptop will connect to other similar laptops in range. Sort of like how P2P filesharing works. A mesh network is decentralized and composed of the client computers.
A harder question is how connectivity to the 'regular' internet will achieved.
Kids already have a way to interact while doing school work: It's called SCHOOL!
I grew up in a rural area of a third world country. All communication infrastructure is bad. There were no phones, the roads bad and public transportation almost non existent. I would have welcomed any possibility of interaction with other kids outside of school. Especially on weekends and holidays.
Let's stop waiting and hoping for "Pie in the sky" solutions for problems that already have a low-techsolution.
I have taught in a third world country. There simply are not enough trained teachers. Distance learning (formal or not) has the potential to make a difference.
Let's start using what we have, and stop looking as technology as a panacea to fix the worlds' ills.
I'm a scientist and an engineer. Using technology to try and help is what we do. If someone from another discipline has an idea that they think can work, please go ahead and help.
Maybe $100 computers won't solve our problems, but the other things we've been trying for the past couple centuries don't seem to have been working out either. If computers don't help education that much, would all the first world countries please send the computers in their schools to schools in third world countries? If it doesn't work out for us either we can use the cases as traps to catch dinner.
Actually many of the GIFs were actually replaced with PNGs
GIFs and PNGs support transparency (something JPEGs can't do)
In any case many of had followed history and not only changed our GIFs, but also our JPEGs to PNG. PNG is a powerful open standard for image compression that is supported by our internet overlords.
Though control-H acts like backspace, and control-D is eof, in most Unix shells (and cisco's IOS) control-D will delete the character directly under (to the right of?) the cursor.
So ^B^B^B^B^B^B^D^D^D^D^D^D would work (^B moves the cursor on character to the left). If you really want to nitpick though, he deleted 7 characters even though 'Micros' is only 6 characters.
PS Only heterosexual gay chimpanzees support software patents.
What in the world are you talking about? Oh, think I understand. You raise some good points. Where exactly will the line be drawn? I think we are OK for the time being though.
How about word processing software? Or college classes requiring you to write papers?
Persons can use Word Processing software to duplicate (plagiarise). Likewise college courses do drive alot of persons to copy the work of others in an unethical manner. But in both cases the intent of the software manufacturer/college is not to encourage copying. In fact colleges strongly discourage unethical use of other's work.
Or every instance of a family singing "Happy Birthday"?
I don't think that copyright holder has ever claimed that private performance of his or her song was in violation of their copyright.
From the article, quoting from the bill - "creates a new class of people who can be sued or prosecuted for copyright infringement -- those who a "reasonable person" would believe "intentionally aids, abets, induces or procures" copyright violations"
The spirit of the bill doesn't seem to include any of your examples, but we all know how creative these lawyers can get.
By the way 'Happy Birthday' is now free, anyone can use it. Previously while still under copyright Sony had to pay US 1 cent in fees for each device (well for some watches anyway) it produced that played that jingle.
"Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, clearly targeting P-to-P vendors, claimed his bill focuses on companies that profit by encouraging children and teenagers to infringe copyrights."
But what does that mean for the organizations that develop P2P applications, but do not profit from thier development. For example gnutella, giFT, and OpenFT ?
Would bittorrent fall in this category? It is certainly used to distribute pirated material, but its intended purpose (and popular use) is to distribute legal (FLOSS, demo) items.
The Yahoo! article wasn't clear. It says the bill attacks P2P developers, but all the direct quotes by Hatch say that he is after companies that develop software anticipating that software to be used for piracy.
"it creates a new class of people who can be sued or prosecuted for copyright infringement -- those who a "reasonable person" would believe "intentionally aids, abets, induces or procures" copyright violations"
"Tragically, some corporations now seem to think that they can legally profit by inducing children to steal. Some think they can legally lure children into breaking the law with false promises of 'free music.'"
I don't know if you can fault the intent, but my guess is that poor legal implementation will again be our undoing.
Read the article (or even the blurb). They aren't talking about a cell phone. Its more like a broadband router with 3G network support.
There are many instances where this would be helpful. For example mobile applications would be made possible by such a device. Think WiFi hotspots on trains, buses, and cars.
It would also be an alternative for persons that have no other broadband internet access available to them. Cell networks are easier and cheaper to roll out than physically wired networks, so it might give someone access to the internet that might otherwise be impossible.
Also think about all the possibilities for actual cellphones. Mix VOIP with broadband over cellphone, the right software, and voila, long distance, overseas calls for next to nothing. Maybe we could get video in addition to voice (after we figure out why we would want that)
The future of cellphone and WAN technology is bright. Try ot to be such a wet blanket.
I didn't realize that the UN was involved in this kind of thing. It is good though. I wonder if they will have a stronger influence than they have had with other issues (like war).
Now there is additional unified governmental support. Here is another article that talks about governmental cooperation to fight spam. This is in addition to cooperation we read about between Microsoft, Yahoo! and others. It'll be interesting to see how the spammers counter. They are a particularly strong bunch. Like cockroaches I suppose.
"Now the problem is rapidly spreading to cell phones. Nine of every 10 spam messages in Japan are now directed to mobile phones as text messages, Horton said."
Thats the scary part. How do we stop spam on phones? They easiest way would probably involve filtering by our service providers. But do we trust them to do that? And would they do that? I don't know about USA or Japan, but here in Jamaica, the majority of unsolicited text messages that I get actually comes from my cellphone providers (I have phones from two telcos).
J2ME, SMS enabled versions of spamassasin?
University of Virginia Hospital could save as much as $218,000 a year if it replaced 15 human couriers with six HelpMate robots, which would pay for themselves in little over three years.
Its not just IT workers that are in danger, and its not just Indian workers that are taking away jobs.
But thats just how the world works. Invention brings about efficiency but it also opens new avenues for humans. After all H. Ford's assembly line has created a net gain in jobs, right?
I for one welcome our new ... bah, hello nurse :)
I don't think the MPAA's profits make it right or wrong to download movies over the internet.
It would me feel better to know that the entity I am stealing from isn't going to be destroyed by my theft, but it still doesn't make it right.
I really,really hate the RIAA, MPAA, and Fraunhofer (mp3 people), but I make my stance by boycotting their products (I try my best in any case) and by telling people the things I find wrong with these organizations. And if you are going to pirate, when in public don't just point out that they have lotsa money anyway, but give your other reasons (inflated prices, price fixing, artist exploitation, etc). I really want things to change. Having illegal foundation arguments hinders, not helps.
Greets to RBK, VOD, RAC, JAH, APC, RNS, TMD et al !
I guess they were trying to innovate with Expose. Both these features address the same problem. They both allow users to manage multiple open application quickly and easily.
Everyone knows tux was just a front man for a certain red daemon :)
The truth is just as unlikely as these made up stories.
A world class operating system started from scratch by a single person, with no commercial incentive?
A group of hundreds (thousands?) of persons are from differing countries organization, commercial and voluntarily maintaining and improving it? Concerted development support from companies (IBM, Sun, Novell, HP, Fujitsu, et al) that are fierce competitors every other day of the week?
Its really amazing. Good luck to everyone trying to spin a better tale than this.
SuSe isn't the only big distro from Europe. There is also Mandrake. Plus maybe this is because of an initiative taken by Lindows/Linspire. Things happen to those that put forth effort. This page seems to indicate that Questar and Lindows and in some kind of partnership.
Linspire is Debian. Debian based distributions are even more similiar than rpm based ones. Once installed, you can hardly tell Debian distros apart. In fact many people call these Debian based distros alternative installers
For all the open-source community is waiting for that eleventh hour of deliverance when an intern in a cheap Penguin suit exclaims publicly that "the era of the Linux desktop is here" -- it's not happening for a while.
I disagree. Its been happening for a while. Today slashdotters complain about stories of linux migration. They say so what, thats not news any more. A review of 3 linux distros by a non techie on a mainstream (not even tech section) channel? Change always takes time. Usually when things occur slowly its hard to take notice. No one can argue that a greater percentage of persons use linux today than did a year ago (no matter how small the change). That has been true for several years now. Linux companies have stopped going bankrupt and are now seen as lucrative (look at ximian and suse being bought by novell. look at Redhat being able to challenge SCO in the legal system)
A few days ago I was teaching my friend how to use a few command line programs (like 'ls' and 'cd') in FreeBSD. This ended up turning into a two hour circus regarding where the spaces go.
FreeBSD is not newbie friendly means that all linux distros are hard to use? I use Debian/Sid myself and always use the command line. But that can't detract from the efforts of Xandros, Lindos, SuSe, Fedora, Redhat, Knoppix, et al who work their asses off to ensure the simplest user experience.
YES, YOU IDIOT!! THE PAPERCLIP TOO!
Nobody likes the paperclip.
I don't care if it's a dancing penguin that takes up your entire screen, if it ends up being annoying as opposed to just plain hard for the normal user, that's a step up.
I am sure that I love Debian core, and FreeBSD as much as the other guy, but if I want something thats simple and easy to use (for non linux persons) get something that says it is. Try something new out. FreeBSD isn't always the best for everything. Nowadays all the 'desktop' distros seem to be pretty good.
To be fair, the Yahoo article only mentioned Mandrake as having strange terminology and jargon. And this was the 'PowerPack'edition. And the mention that the 'Discovery' edition has features more suited to a first time trial of linux.
This page says that SuSe 9.1 was the first to include ntfs resizing. It also has links to install images for most of the major distros that have a (non destructive) partionining utility (that includes NTFS support).
Cheers
One interesting thing about the washington post's review is that they found the interface of Mandrake and SUSE to be very cluttered, while they found fedora's interface to be far cleaner. GNOME vs KDE ? Many always assume (including me) that KDE would be better liked be windows users.
Also while the washington post's article says linux is an awkward alternative, the experience was that some hardware support was better and easier than windows XP and that it was far cheaper. Since I have to disagree with the statements about it being harder to install software (look at apt-get, urpmi, yum, emerge -- the problem is that there is a LOT of outdated information on the web, this will eventually change), it _definately_ makes linux a contender. Its simply amazing to me that someone who isn't a linux head is doing an article on yahoo/washington post. Slowly but _surely_ I say.
Its actually the numer of particles per mole (atoms, molecules, ions etc). Depends on what composes what you are talking about. For example, there are 6.022E23 molecules of water in a mole of water whilst there there are 3 x 6.022E23 atoms in a mole of water, since each water molecule has 3 atoms (h20 - 2 hydrgen and 1 oxygen)
You mean GNU / Linux version 10.0 of course
Cross platform internet based game
What do you use for $39.99 ? I had Gotel (64k) for $40 a month, but they suck. Using free GPRS thru cellphone from Cable and Wireless now (till they start charging for it). Supposed to be 3+1 (40200/13600) but only getting 1+1 (real slow).There was Cable in JA too but they went under (wasn't really any cheaper than dsl either.
I was pondering the relatively uninteresting nature of some of the posts today and then WHAMMO !!! It hit me ...
.dreams
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.deb is better than your rpm !
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Reclaiming the Commons
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High Definition DVD
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Boulevard of Broken
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August 2002 Daemon News Ezine Published
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HighWLAN
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Atari 2600 Hacks
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