I also am a fan of EAs F1 and F1 in general and I would like to point out that this will probably be detrimental to the face of the modding community that follows F1 2002. If you doubt the existence of this mod community look at for example the high quality work of Simbin gtr.kickassgamers.com it is almost better than the original game itself and much more fun for the friendly competition (more forgiving for bumps and missed braking zones)
I still question the validity of this device as we are talking about places where they are barely able to survive much less learn how to im their friends the next village over. I think this is a good first step, but is it in the right direction? I wonder if there are more efficient ways these resources could be used. Such as a non mobile device? Why does it have to be mobile, makes it easier to steal or lose.
I aplaud thier efforts however as this is more of what the world needs, that and an internation space committe/agency.
I have tried twice in the past to try to switch cold turkey over to linux (whether it be slackware or Mandrake) and both times I ended up coming back to windows. I believe the main problem would be the little things: I couldn't get the ICQ clone working or one program kept crashing and I didn't know the equivalent of the ctrl-alt-del and so had to restart my system. The apps were somewhat of a problem because I had to learn a whole different way of doing things, I am not saying that this was bad, but it was new and therefore took much effort.
My current approach (which seems to be happening automatically) is on my normal browsing the internet system, I am starting to intsall various open source apps like open office and phoenix to slowly ween myself from the windows versions. I often find they are better (mouse gestures anyone?) Or the price is right (I got tired of finding a copy of Office 97 in my house).
I guess the previous two attempts really just didn't work out because it took so much effort to switch, and with a busy schedule, I didn't always have time to look at the HOWTO or readme when I wanted to use a simple mail filter, or mount the installation CD. Yes I know all of this stuff is out there in HOWTO's but it is sometimes very spread out and verbose. Maybe there is (or should be) a place where simple to use documentation on windows equivalents in linux could be briefly (and if desired verbosely) for things from ctrl-alt-dels to shortcuts.
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I also am a fan of EAs F1 and F1 in general and I would like to point out that this will probably be detrimental to the face of the modding community that follows F1 2002. If you doubt the existence of this mod community look at for example the high quality work of Simbin gtr.kickassgamers.com it is almost better than the original game itself and much more fun for the friendly competition (more forgiving for bumps and missed braking zones)
I still question the validity of this device as we are talking about places where they are barely able to survive much less learn how to im their friends the next village over. I think this is a good first step, but is it in the right direction? I wonder if there are more efficient ways these resources could be used. Such as a non mobile device? Why does it have to be mobile, makes it easier to steal or lose. I aplaud thier efforts however as this is more of what the world needs, that and an internation space committe/agency.
I have tried twice in the past to try to switch cold turkey over to linux (whether it be slackware or Mandrake) and both times I ended up coming back to windows. I believe the main problem would be the little things: I couldn't get the ICQ clone working or one program kept crashing and I didn't know the equivalent of the ctrl-alt-del and so had to restart my system. The apps were somewhat of a problem because I had to learn a whole different way of doing things, I am not saying that this was bad, but it was new and therefore took much effort.
My current approach (which seems to be happening automatically) is on my normal browsing the internet system, I am starting to intsall various open source apps like open office and phoenix to slowly ween myself from the windows versions. I often find they are better (mouse gestures anyone?) Or the price is right (I got tired of finding a copy of Office 97 in my house).
I guess the previous two attempts really just didn't work out because it took so much effort to switch, and with a busy schedule, I didn't always have time to look at the HOWTO or readme when I wanted to use a simple mail filter, or mount the installation CD. Yes I know all of this stuff is out there in HOWTO's but it is sometimes very spread out and verbose. Maybe there is (or should be) a place where simple to use documentation on windows equivalents in linux could be briefly (and if desired verbosely) for things from ctrl-alt-dels to shortcuts.
my $0.02