thailand has announced that a project designed to be able to provide thousands of books to individual students at a cost of around 150$ has been cancelled because it was too expensive
The reader costs $150.
How much does it cost to adapt or produce 1000 titles for a PDA display? To train teachers and kids in the effective use of the library?
If you want kids to read you had better give them something that is as easy on the eyes and gives them as much pleasure as the printed book.
Plain ASCII text or HTML is not going to do the job.
$100 computers will offer hope, and widespread open source adoption will bring deep innovation and economic improvement
A lot has been said here about the $100-$150 OLPC. Less about the cost of the infrastructure needed to support it. Instructional materials. Internet access. Teacher training and so on--and perhaps not enough about whether the machine is best described as a general-purpose laptop, a PDA or an e-book reader.
The only difference between Apple and Microsoft...
Microsoft in 2006 is a debt free company with $36 billion in cash, billions more in liquid reserves, the market leader with revenues growing at the rate of 11% a year.
Fully half on Apple's revenues are from sales of the iPod and through iTunes. That is a lot to have riding on a single consumer product.
the as-yet unreleased CP/M-86 was {IBM's] first choice for an operating system because CP/M had the most applications at the time. Negotiations between Digital Research and IBM quickly deteriorated over IBM's non-disclosure agreement and its insistence on a one-time fee rather than DRI's usual royalty licensing plan. After discussions with Microsoft, IBM licensed an operating system similar to CP/M that a Seattle area computer company had made for its own hardware. This system became PC-DOS. CP/M-86
Gates gambled that he could deliver a serviceable OS in time for the scheduled release of the IBM PC. He kept the asking price low. He negotiated a non-exclusive license that helped open to door to the PC-clone.
In entrepreneur capitalism this is what separates the men from the boys. You cut a deal and you make it work.
Kidall mistakenly thought he had more time and a stronger position from which to bargain.
CP/M-86 arrived too late and cost much more than people were willing to pay.
Don't like the default theme that comes with Firefox? Go get another.
The default theme is the user's introduction to the browser. It should have the look and feel of his native GUI.
the best way to help is to go through the source and fix the bug! Don't talk about it, do it, and solve everyone's problem with having it!
Advice useful only to a programmer and likely only to a programmer on the Firefox team.
I have some news for you: it's supposed to be a basic [RSS] implementation that gives you the bare essentials. If you want one with bells and whistles, go get an extension that suits your needs better.
What is morally wrong is to impose your own morality (like porn is bad) on others.
different societies have different values. but they will enforce limits. norms of behavior. whether you believ they have the moral right to do so or not.
But the Gaia project itself is not violating the license, they are just providing the means. Its the people that use the Gaia API that do the violation.
the burner has multiple uses. the Gaia API only one. "providing the means" was suffiencient to sink Napster.
are these parents seeking to ban microwaves and cordless telephones?
it's a false analogy that weakens your argument.
microwave ovens are designed to shield users from exposure, phones are used intermittently.
the wireless network is always on.
it is not unreasonable for parents to ask if continuous exposure to low level microwave radiation is safe for their child.
it is not unreasonable to ask what power levels are safe. what frequencies are safe. under a particular set of circumstances.
although a lot of people seem to think that it 'just comes with the computer' (even though they do of course pay for it). It annoys me to see the two get confused.
live with it.
because the only distinction that matters in the domestic consumer market is between the OEM Windows PC and the Mac.
Many people such as yourself seem to have an idealistic view of child pr0n enforcement.
and many people here have no idea of what child porn is. it is not art photography. it is not consenual sex among teens. it is the sexual exploitation and abuse of minors. whatever their age.
...and the reasons why Microsoft doesn't give a damn:
Vista in the home is mass market. The OS of choice for the middle class. Direct sellers and big box retail will position it with HDTV and the XBox 360. It will sell in the millions and tens of millions of units.
Activation. WGA. DRM.
You subscribe to a radio service. You play an HD movie. Now and again you might be asked to validate or renew a license. Click. Click. Done.
The PC is entertainment. The PC is communication. The PC is home office work. What the PC is not in this market is a hobby or an obsession. No one is looking for an excuse to crack open the hood.
Virtualization implies maintaing multiple operating systems, software libraries, and skill sets. Pure torture to anyone but a Geek.
How does a process tell the difference between two images, nonetheless two nude people, one 16 and the other 18?
there is a reason why they call it kiddie porn.
we are not talking about mature teens. we are not talking about artistic nude photographs. we are not talking about the age of consent.
we are talking about the rape of a child for the sexual entertainment of an adult. we are talking about infants and toddlers. we are talking about boys and girls age twelve and younger.
When did the 'FOSS community' become an entity that could be analyzed as a single group so that you could point at it saying that's what's wrong with it
then perhaps what is wrong with FOSS is its lack of cohesion. what can't be defined, can be ignored.
This is Microsoft's way of trying to get a 'unique new interface' rolled out as rapidly as possible. If you're not using this 'unique new interface' then you know you're behind the time - hell, knowing Microsoft products, it also means you're probably about to be EOL'd!
that's the risk you take. but there is good money to made in software that integrates well with Office.
I would venture to say that the overwhelming majority of MS Office users do not need to use, or even want to use, most of the features that are present in those bloated applications
which doesn't mean a damn thing when you considering which office suite to deploy and support across an entire organization.
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Looking at things from Google's perspective, they should want to support whatever could help topple MS. They have a spot of Apple's board, so they are helping Apple from a strategic standpoint
Apple has a secure niche market and leverages the dominance of the Windows OS through iTunes to its own advantage. Microsoft holds a very strong hand everywhere else.
Google is a brand name only in search and advertising. It has no presence in mass market retail. No experience in supporting the home market, small business, at the level an OS must have to be a viable alternative to Windows.
Why do you suppoae every OEM Linux distro tanks when it hits the shelves at Walmart?
Why can't the defendent just say "oh, I knew it was a cop, I was aroused by the idea of someone lying about their identity, not the fact that they were pretending to be a child"?
He can say it.
But that will mean taking the stand, with all the risks of cross-examination. It means opening the door to just about anything that might cast doubt on his character and credibility.
He can say it.
But that doesn't mean the jury is obliged to believe it. Not after they have read the transcripts. Not after they have seen the photographs.
The Florida law defines the crime as an attempt to solicit a minor: actions in the real world, not the dream realm of thought crime. In refusing to see and accept the distinction, you have fundamentally misread Orwell.
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The reader costs $150.
How much does it cost to adapt or produce 1000 titles for a PDA display? To train teachers and kids in the effective use of the library?
If you want kids to read you had better give them something that is as easy on the eyes and gives them as much pleasure as the printed book.
Plain ASCII text or HTML is not going to do the job.
A lot has been said here about the $100-$150 OLPC. Less about the cost of the infrastructure needed to support it. Instructional materials. Internet access. Teacher training and so on--and perhaps not enough about whether the machine is best described as a general-purpose laptop, a PDA or an e-book reader.
Microsoft in 2006 is a debt free company with $36 billion in cash, billions more in liquid reserves, the market leader with revenues growing at the rate of 11% a year.
Fully half on Apple's revenues are from sales of the iPod and through iTunes. That is a lot to have riding on a single consumer product.
Get a clue. You don't have to strong-arm anyone to build for 95% of the domestic PC market.
no. it's just that this bedtime tale of heroes and villains is easier to live with than the truth.
Gates gambled that he could deliver a serviceable OS in time for the scheduled release of the IBM PC. He kept the asking price low. He negotiated a non-exclusive license that helped open to door to the PC-clone.
In entrepreneur capitalism this is what separates the men from the boys. You cut a deal and you make it work.
Kidall mistakenly thought he had more time and a stronger position from which to bargain.
CP/M-86 arrived too late and cost much more than people were willing to pay.
which means that any reasonably useful configuration of Firefox is likely to crash because of some poorly written extension.
Very hard.
It is, after all, arguably the most common grammatical error in the English language.
The meaning is always clear in context and there is little real incentive to correct it. Nor will you get any thanks for pointing it out.
The default theme is the user's introduction to the browser. It should have the look and feel of his native GUI.
the best way to help is to go through the source and fix the bug! Don't talk about it, do it, and solve everyone's problem with having it!
Advice useful only to a programmer and likely only to a programmer on the Firefox team.
I have some news for you: it's supposed to be a basic [RSS] implementation that gives you the bare essentials. If you want one with bells and whistles, go get an extension that suits your needs better.
IE7 has raised the bar a little higher than this.
different societies have different values. but they will enforce limits. norms of behavior. whether you believ they have the moral right to do so or not.
the burner has multiple uses. the Gaia API only one. "providing the means" was suffiencient to sink Napster.
it's a false analogy that weakens your argument.
microwave ovens are designed to shield users from exposure, phones are used intermittently.
the wireless network is always on.
it is not unreasonable for parents to ask if continuous exposure to low level microwave radiation is safe for their child. it is not unreasonable to ask what power levels are safe. what frequencies are safe. under a particular set of circumstances.
live with it.
because the only distinction that matters in the domestic consumer market is between the OEM Windows PC and the Mac.
it ended when you began collecting photographs and videos of children being raped. every society sets limits. this is where many draw the line.
and many people here have no idea of what child porn is. it is not art photography. it is not consenual sex among teens. it is the sexual exploitation and abuse of minors. whatever their age.
Vista in the home is mass market. The OS of choice for the middle class. Direct sellers and big box retail will position it with HDTV and the XBox 360. It will sell in the millions and tens of millions of units.
Activation. WGA. DRM.
You subscribe to a radio service. You play an HD movie. Now and again you might be asked to validate or renew a license. Click. Click. Done.
The PC is entertainment. The PC is communication. The PC is home office work. What the PC is not in this market is a hobby or an obsession. No one is looking for an excuse to crack open the hood.
Virtualization implies maintaing multiple operating systems, software libraries, and skill sets. Pure torture to anyone but a Geek.
there is a reason why they call it kiddie porn.
we are not talking about mature teens. we are not talking about artistic nude photographs. we are not talking about the age of consent.
we are talking about the rape of a child for the sexual entertainment of an adult. we are talking about infants and toddlers. we are talking about boys and girls age twelve and younger.
The copyright on Steamboat Willie expires:
eight minutes of silent-era sight gags with synchronized sound connected by a thin narrative thread.
Make of that what you can.
You do not get the rights to the trademarked character designs. You do not get the rights to the Mouse in any of his later incarnations.
which will be the last time the Mapuches will see any public or private investment in the preservation of their native language and culture.
who needs the grief?
then perhaps what is wrong with FOSS is its lack of cohesion. what can't be defined, can be ignored.
yeah, maybe. if you have that kind of money. and if he wants to take on that kind of job.
successful proprietary/closed source projects do tend to pay attention to their users. that is, after all, how they make their living.
that's the risk you take. but there is good money to made in software that integrates well with Office.
which doesn't mean a damn thing when you considering which office suite to deploy and support across an entire organization.
Apple has a secure niche market and leverages the dominance of the Windows OS through iTunes to its own advantage. Microsoft holds a very strong hand everywhere else.
Google is a brand name only in search and advertising. It has no presence in mass market retail. No experience in supporting the home market, small business, at the level an OS must have to be a viable alternative to Windows.
Why do you suppoae every OEM Linux distro tanks when it hits the shelves at Walmart?
He can say it.
But that will mean taking the stand, with all the risks of cross-examination. It means opening the door to just about anything that might cast doubt on his character and credibility.
He can say it.
But that doesn't mean the jury is obliged to believe it. Not after they have read the transcripts. Not after they have seen the photographs.
The Florida law defines the crime as an attempt to solicit a minor: actions in the real world, not the dream realm of thought crime. In refusing to see and accept the distinction, you have fundamentally misread Orwell.