They didn't just lose focus, they lost a lot of goodwill by working with MS.
The push for XP came from the education minister - the guy who is expected to sign a purchase order for 100,000 units.
This was a fatal mistake since their plan required being able to produce large enough amounts of these to be able to sell them cheaply, and they were turning away the people who were willing and able to buy at the time.
The XO-1 was something of a cross between an e-book reader and a netbook - when neither product was clearly defined or particularly economical to produce.
The first to dive off the pier- usually misses the deeps, hits his head on a rock and drowns.
Things went downhill the second they started working with MS.
There was never an uphill.
Total distribution: 1,374,500 units.
Mostly in Columbia, Peru and Uruguay. There have been two confirmed orders in 2009. Deployment of XO laptops
OLPC's market is the third world education minister.
But the minister is expected to buy into the package deal - the kid-friendly laptop and a constructivist philosophy of education - which is more or less a product of the western media lab.
There are strong echoes here of the new math of the sixties - and what went wrong that time around. Whatever Happened To New Math?
The demand for XP came from the bottom up - from OLPC's potential customers. The geek for all his talk of the cathedral and the bazaar tends to think top-down.
I don't come to Wikipedia to see HQ images. I come for free information I can immediately use: quote or contribute. There are plenty of other sites, where you can find images.
Images are easy to find. But illustration? Deft and meaningful integration of text and media?
Wikipedia is not a celebrity fansite. It's about information. If the information is sufficient to allow f.i. to tell a Mr. Clooney from a Ms. Berry, the goal has been achieved.
No it hasn't.
The right photograph can sum up the essence of what made the man or woman the star:
Unfortunately none of these strategies protect my from a major accident like a house fire. I just need to make sure not to do something stupid like fall asleep with a cigarette in my mouth.
You could buy a media rated fire safe.
You'll pay a stiff premium over the price of a safe that only has to protect paper. "Fahrenheit 451" and all that.
You might also consider renting a safety deposit box at your bank.
For porn I'd want instant immolation. Media no more durable than flash paper.
The primary difference being that bugs like this Firefox flaw are accidental and unintentional, whereas DRM is quite deliberate hence the "defective by design" nomenclature.
Of course it's deliberate.
Insert disk. The movie plays.
That's what sells the slim-line HTPC with Blu-Ray drive and the video card with HDMI out.
The geek rants on and on about the horrors of DRM while his kids are next door watching WALL-E on the 80" DLP. Everyone is happy. Life goes on.
You can if you can store the power - the heat or the cold - until it is needed.
It's become economical for large buildings to freeze a tank of "water" at night and use it to cut the cost of air conditioning during the day.
The idea isn't new or unfamiliar - sailboats and inboards were using similiar systens for refrigeration and freezing decades back. You'd be drawing significant power off the main engine - but only for an hour or two.
We have had this sickening pattern of pandering to groups who take the most offense to things. Women in the workplace and black people in the work place. Neither are typically "minorities"
But in the police station and fire hall they are often very poorly represented - if they have any visibility at all.
It's an old problem and one that every big city mayor knows can blow up in his face at any moment.
Useful for when you make a living suing powerful organizations with the means to retaliate against you, while still being able to download porn on the corporate network.
I don't want this guy on the same planet as my corporate network.
The phonograph of 1910 would set you back $50-$250 good-as-gold dollars.
Why else do you think public performance rights - the coin-in-the-slot nickelodeon - became the real sticking point for musicians and composers?
The phonograph record or cylinder of those days was for all practical purposes a rental.
Only the most expensive players would have had separate - acoustically linked - tonearms and horns ["speakers'] and a diamond or perhaps carbide-tipped stylus.
Edison used custom pressings and a set up like this in blind "tone tests" with live musicians and singers to demonstrate "hi-fi" reproduction.
What's a good free sharepoint alternative, in a single package?
SharePoint is part of the MS Office system.
What you buy - or rent - from Microsoft is a sophisticated - scalable - turnkey solution for a business of any size.
If you want to be competitive, you have to see how well the parts fit together.
New Features in SharePoint 2010:
The Ribbon.
Ribbon icons will now allow users to check in and check out documents as they are viewing document libraries. Companies will be able to customize the ribbon and even remove it in favor of the older user interface found in SharePoint 2007.
Web edit.
Site owners can edit their sites almost as if they were typical Office documents. Other user-focused upgrades include the ability to use Office themes in SharePoint.
Business Connectivity
The Business Data Catalog, introduced in SharePoint 2007, gets a makeover and a new name in SharePoint 2010. Business Connectivity Services now gives users the ability to read and write to business databases. Users can create, read, update, delete, and query that data, even publishing it to Office, so that data published to SharePoint via Business Connectivity Services can do things like show up as a selectable list of data in a form document in Word.
Other user-focused features include the addition of the ability to read Visio documents in SharePoint, and an upgraded version of Microsoft Groove, now renamed SharePoint Workspace and given improved data synchronization capabilities.
IT
Managers get improved administrative capabilities with a dashboard that uses the ribbon interface; a set of tools to monitor server farm health and data performance and fix common problems; and usage reporting and logging. Developers get a new set of tools and capabilities like a developer dashboard for easier debugging and a new programming interface, as well as built-in support for Silverlight.
Platforms
SharePoint 2010 will support Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. However, it will not come in a 32-bit version, and will require Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 or 2008 (64-bit only). It will also no longer support Internet Explorer 6.0.
I know, I know, the prevailing opinion is that SharePoint sucks, but in my experience, companies that grab hold of SharePoint integration with Exchange and MS Office, would rather give up their children than that combo. Where is the competition for that ENTIRE feature set, for a comparative amount of money?Exchange-Outlook-SharePoint, baby! {July 12]
I'll be sitting in heavy traffic, clogging up the streets, taking longer to reach my destination, and probably causing more accidents and safety issues.
This is an incentive?
The expressway is safe. You and you car are now at much higher risk - and your premiums skyrocket.
Your fuel costs go up.
Your maintenance costs go up.
The federal minimum wage rises to $6.55/hr on July 24. That's the minimum you lose for each hour wasted in your daily commute.
This should stand as proof that graphics should not be in the forefront of the entire gaming industry, they had graphics then and did much better giving a fully descriptive story as was needed
The dialog and descriptions were not always as good as you remember them.
The more important lesson to be learned from Infocom - and the best graphical adventures - is that they were willing to explore and exploit any environment and any popular fictional genre.
Detective story, police procedural. Lovecraftian horror. Traditional, hard core Sci-Fi...
When I was arrested as a juvenile and got charged with 2 moderately serious charges, I had 2 counts of conspiracy, which were also felonies, added for "thinking" about doing it before I actually did it.
You did more than just think about it.
There was evidence introduced to show that you planned - you organized - you acted in ways that helped push the thing forward.
There is no such thing as a "moderately" serious felony charge.
Actions which advance a criminal conspiracy don't have to be criminal in themselves.
Never have been.
You aren't being prosecuted for cracking an algorithm.
You are being prosecuted because you broke into protected systems and files - for your own amusement and profit.
The satellite companies have a very weak business model
I have come to two firm conclusions:
That the geek believes that his technical skills are a universal "Get Out Of Jail Free" card.
That the geek's definition of a failed business model is any model which expects him to cough up some cash every thirty days or so.
If consumers find another way to view the data in their house, then tough tits for the satellite company.
Its also tough tits for the subscriber whose service goes belly up because the geek thinks he is entitled to everything that isn't nailed down. Tough tits for the geek whose viewing options have shrunk to the Snuggies commercials on channel 47 and the tractor pull on 35.
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If you give a child a laptop, it'll last a few years. If you teach a child to use open source software, you've given her technology for a lifetime.
There is almost nothing of interest in open source that isn't routinely ported to Windows or begins as a native Windows app.
But there is quite a lot in FOSS that remains second-tier at best.
FOSS is attractive to programmers. But it hasn't hasn't solved the problem of recruiting and supporting first-rate talents with other skills.
Even in its own domain it has real trouble competing with the tightly integrated solutions offered by Apple and Microsoft.
iLife for off-hours play. MS Office tools for every task at work.
"No assembly required -" all the pieces are in place.
Whatever a spreadsheet program was worth to me in 1999, it's worth the same thing to me today
This is true only if your job description hasn't changed in the last ten years.
They didn't just lose focus, they lost a lot of goodwill by working with MS.
The push for XP came from the education minister - the guy who is expected to sign a purchase order for 100,000 units.
This was a fatal mistake since their plan required being able to produce large enough amounts of these to be able to sell them cheaply, and they were turning away the people who were willing and able to buy at the time.
The XO-1 was something of a cross between an e-book reader and a netbook - when neither product was clearly defined or particularly economical to produce.
The first to dive off the pier-
usually misses the deeps, hits his head on a rock and drowns.
The netbook may still lack a clearly defined market: Many netbook buyers aren't happy [June 21]
It wouldn't be entirely unfair to describe sales of the Linux netbook as "a flash in the pan."
OLPC needed to sell millions of units each year to avoid being lapped by its commercial competitors. I don't think that was ever going to happen.
Things went downhill the second they started working with MS.
There was never an uphill.
Total distribution: 1,374,500 units.
Mostly in Columbia, Peru and Uruguay. There have been two confirmed orders in 2009. Deployment of XO laptops
OLPC's market is the third world education minister.
But the minister is expected to buy into the package deal - the kid-friendly laptop and a constructivist philosophy of education - which is more or less a product of the western media lab.
There are strong echoes here of the new math of the sixties - and what went wrong that time around. Whatever Happened To New Math?
The demand for XP came from the bottom up - from OLPC's potential customers. The geek for all his talk of the cathedral and the bazaar tends to think top-down.
I look forward to the day when music is free to copy and musicians make their money from live performance
What does your insistence on live performance mean for the musician who is no longer up to the physical rigors of a concert tour?
Do we retire - or euthanize - every musician at age sixty who still has something to offer but needs and expects something in return for his work?
Prestige doesn't pay the rent.
If I remember correctly, the first color photograph appeared in the New York Times on October 16, 1997.
And what of the Sunday Times? The magazine section?
Color printing on newsprint was never an easy problem to solve. You do not want a slightly-out-of-register color photograph on the front page.
Images are easy to find. But illustration? Deft and meaningful integration of text and media?
Knowledge in words flows unhindered
If that were true why is it that we have had so few science writers like Gould or Sagan that can communicate effectively to a popular audience?
I wasn't aware that "popularity" had become the editorial standard for an encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is not a celebrity fansite. It's about information. If the information is sufficient to allow f.i. to tell a Mr. Clooney from a Ms. Berry, the goal has been achieved.
No it hasn't.
The right photograph can sum up the essence of what made the man or woman the star:
Thursday Thirteen: The 13 Most Handsome Classic Movie Stars, Thursday Thirteen: The 13 Most Beautiful Classic Movie Stars
The geek sets the bar too low.
He confuses quantity and quality. Raw data with information.
Depth. Meaning. Context. Understanding.
Unfortunately none of these strategies protect my from a major accident like a house fire. I just need to make sure not to do something stupid like fall asleep with a cigarette in my mouth.
You could buy a media rated fire safe.
You'll pay a stiff premium over the price of a safe that only has to protect paper. "Fahrenheit 451" and all that.
You might also consider renting a safety deposit box at your bank.
For porn I'd want instant immolation. Media no more durable than flash paper.
The primary difference being that bugs like this Firefox flaw are accidental and unintentional, whereas DRM is quite deliberate hence the "defective by design" nomenclature.
Of course it's deliberate.
Insert disk. The movie plays.
That's what sells the slim-line HTPC with Blu-Ray drive and the video card with HDMI out.
The geek rants on and on about the horrors of DRM while his kids are next door watching WALL-E on the 80" DLP. Everyone is happy. Life goes on.
Sure, it'll take a while to upload your initial 2TB
His service is capped at 100 GB a month.
Uploading 2 TB would take the better part of two years - assuming 100% of his traffic was dedicated to the process.
It would be simpler and cheaper to use a courier service.
..Unless you take into account the ship's wheel, an invention going back to around 1700, 170 years before the typewriter.
But keyboard instruments can trace their roots back to the 3d century BC. Keyboard instrument
Can you wait for off-peak power for any of those?
You can if you can store the power - the heat or the cold - until it is needed.
It's become economical for large buildings to freeze a tank of "water" at night and use it to cut the cost of air conditioning during the day.
The idea isn't new or unfamiliar - sailboats and inboards were using similiar systens for refrigeration and freezing decades back. You'd be drawing significant power off the main engine - but only for an hour or two.
We have had this sickening pattern of pandering to groups who take the most offense to things. Women in the workplace and black people in the work place. Neither are typically "minorities"
But in the police station and fire hall they are often very poorly represented - if they have any visibility at all.
It's an old problem and one that every big city mayor knows can blow up in his face at any moment.
I don't want this guy on the same planet as my corporate network.
She runs three separate virtual machines designated Red, Yellow, and Green, each running a separate browser and used for increasingly sensitive tasks.
Three operating systems to maintain. Three browsers. Three filing systems? Three PDF viewers?
Where does it end?
To me, the Zero Day exploit suggests that a random choice of OS, web browser and file viewer would make more sense.
But the whole idea seems overly complex and dangerously fragile.
The phonograph of 1910 would set you back $50-$250 good-as-gold dollars.
Why else do you think public performance rights -
the coin-in-the-slot nickelodeon - became the real sticking point for musicians and composers?
The phonograph record or cylinder of those days was for all practical purposes a rental.
Only the most expensive players would have had separate - acoustically linked - tonearms and horns ["speakers'] and a diamond or perhaps carbide-tipped stylus.
Edison used custom pressings and a set up like this in blind "tone tests" with live musicians and singers to demonstrate "hi-fi" reproduction.
What's a good free sharepoint alternative, in a single package?
SharePoint is part of the MS Office system.
What you buy - or rent - from Microsoft is a sophisticated - scalable - turnkey solution for a business of any size.
If you want to be competitive, you have to see how well the parts fit together.
New Features in SharePoint 2010:
The Ribbon.
Ribbon icons will now allow users to check in and check out documents as they are viewing document libraries. Companies will be able to customize the ribbon and even remove it in favor of the older user interface found in SharePoint 2007.
Web edit.
Site owners can edit their sites almost as if they were typical Office documents. Other user-focused upgrades include the ability to use Office themes in SharePoint.
Business Connectivity
The Business Data Catalog, introduced in SharePoint 2007, gets a makeover and a new name in SharePoint 2010. Business Connectivity Services now gives users the ability to read and write to business databases. Users can create, read, update, delete, and query that data, even publishing it to Office, so that data published to SharePoint via Business Connectivity Services can do things like show up as a selectable list of data in a form document in Word.
Other user-focused features include the addition of the ability to read Visio documents in SharePoint, and an upgraded version of Microsoft Groove, now renamed SharePoint Workspace and given improved data synchronization capabilities.
IT
Managers get improved administrative capabilities with a dashboard that uses the ribbon interface; a set of tools to monitor server farm health and data performance and fix common problems; and usage reporting and logging. Developers get a new set of tools and capabilities like a developer dashboard for easier debugging and a new programming interface, as well as built-in support for Silverlight.
Platforms
SharePoint 2010 will support Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. However, it will not come in a 32-bit version, and will require Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 or 2008 (64-bit only). It will also no longer support Internet Explorer 6.0.
Microsoft Begins Detailing SharePoint 2010 July 15
I know, I know, the prevailing opinion is that SharePoint sucks, but in my experience, companies that grab hold of SharePoint integration with Exchange and MS Office, would rather give up their children than that combo.
Where is the competition for that ENTIRE feature set, for a comparative amount of money? Exchange-Outlook-SharePoint, baby! {July 12]
I'll be sitting in heavy traffic, clogging up the streets, taking longer to reach my destination, and probably causing more accidents and safety issues.
This is an incentive?
The expressway is safe. You and you car are now at much higher risk - and your premiums skyrocket.
Your fuel costs go up.
Your maintenance costs go up.
The federal minimum wage rises to $6.55/hr on July 24. That's the minimum you lose for each hour wasted in your daily commute.
This should stand as proof that graphics should not be in the forefront of the entire gaming industry, they had graphics then and did much better giving a fully descriptive story as was needed
The dialog and descriptions were not always as good as you remember them.
The more important lesson to be learned from Infocom - and the best graphical adventures - is that they were willing to explore and exploit any environment and any popular fictional genre.
Detective story, police procedural. Lovecraftian horror. Traditional, hard core Sci-Fi...
A $200 OS for a $400 computer is "not too expensive?" What planet do you live on?
The better question would be to ask what planet you come from.
The OEM system install is the gold standard in the Windows market. No one gives a damn about retail list.
The most you can reasonably expect from the typical Windows user is a one-time OS upgrade in-place for a late model system.
The steeply discounted refurbished quad core HP Pavilion purchased in late July and eligible for a free upgrade in October.
There are enormous economies of scale in producing for the Windows market.
By the time product hits the shelves whatever competitive advantage the "free" OS might have has long since disappeared.
That is why WalMart drop-kicks the Linux netbook into the dumpster.
No need to educate buyers unfamiliar with the OS. No need to maintain a dual inventory and support structure.
When I was arrested as a juvenile and got charged with 2 moderately serious charges, I had 2 counts of conspiracy, which were also felonies, added for "thinking" about doing it before I actually did it.
You did more than just think about it.
There was evidence introduced to show that you planned - you organized - you acted in ways that helped push the thing forward.
There is no such thing as a "moderately" serious felony charge.
Breaking encryption should never be a crime.
This argument is bogus.
Actions which advance a criminal conspiracy don't have to be criminal in themselves.
Never have been.
You aren't being prosecuted for cracking an algorithm.
You are being prosecuted because you broke into protected systems and files - for your own amusement and profit.
The satellite companies have a very weak business model
I have come to two firm conclusions:
That the geek believes that his technical skills are a universal "Get Out Of Jail Free" card.
That the geek's definition of a failed business model is any model which expects him to cough up some cash every thirty days or so.
If consumers find another way to view the data in their house, then tough tits for the satellite company.
Its also tough tits for the subscriber whose service goes belly up because the geek thinks he is entitled to everything that isn't nailed down. Tough tits for the geek whose viewing options have shrunk to the Snuggies commercials on channel 47 and the tractor pull on 35.
There's nothing game developers can do to stop them
The developer can move to a much tighter integration of on-line and off-line content and services.
He can migrate to a pure subscription or rental model.
You can still sell your disk -
but all you really have to offer is the unregistered shareware demo that expires in three weeks.
The first three episodes of Commander Keen.