It should be the patriotic duty of any American company shipping PCs to China to crack and re-write this software and ship PCs with a hacked version that bypasses all Chinese censorship but still appears to be the official party censorware.
I have a 1,3, & 5yo. My oldest started playing kid games (Sesame St., Dora, Blues Clues Etc.) around 2. She took to the interface very quickly, probably from watching mommy and daddy use a mouse all day. After about two weeks she was able to navigate windows and bring up the browser and the games I installed on her machine, it is now almost second nature to her how to access the content on the machine, whether it be games, music, movies or the internet (she can't type yet so she has a window of icons of URls of places she's allowed to go). Her younger sister did the same thing, mainly by watching her and 'playing' with the system. Kids are very intuitive and it's amazing how easy it was for them to learn how to use the computer. I just gave them each an old PC and let them have fun. It's not something you can force on them at this age, they have to want to do it and they will make mistakes. My 1yo now mimics her older sisters as well, moving the mouse around and randomly clicking on things. Working with kids and computers on a regular basis I see no problem with this, It's prep for their life ahead. As far as console games, they all play Donkey Konga on my gamecube and are equally proficient in that too. It all depends on the parents involvement which really is the key to their development in any field.
with that kind of pin density, i wonder what a speck of dust getting into that socket would do to a system. Although it looks like a BGA socket so there may be less of a chance of a bad contact.
It's cool that they are going to be intergrating more system controller logic into the main CPU, it's the evolution of the pc design, eventully I forsee single chip systems with minimal external circuitry, just one 5000 pin chip and a small wafer with some io connectors. Cool!
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It should be the patriotic duty of any American company shipping PCs to China to crack and re-write this software and ship PCs with a hacked version that bypasses all Chinese censorship but still appears to be the official party censorware.
This is news to me. Why would you actually want to allow anyone to track you, you're just asking for trouble.
I have a 1,3, & 5yo. My oldest started playing kid games (Sesame St., Dora, Blues Clues Etc.) around 2. She took to the interface very quickly, probably from watching mommy and daddy use a mouse all day. After about two weeks she was able to navigate windows and bring up the browser and the games I installed on her machine, it is now almost second nature to her how to access the content on the machine, whether it be games, music, movies or the internet (she can't type yet so she has a window of icons of URls of places she's allowed to go). Her younger sister did the same thing, mainly by watching her and 'playing' with the system. Kids are very intuitive and it's amazing how easy it was for them to learn how to use the computer. I just gave them each an old PC and let them have fun. It's not something you can force on them at this age, they have to want to do it and they will make mistakes. My 1yo now mimics her older sisters as well, moving the mouse around and randomly clicking on things. Working with kids and computers on a regular basis I see no problem with this, It's prep for their life ahead. As far as console games, they all play Donkey Konga on my gamecube and are equally proficient in that too. It all depends on the parents involvement which really is the key to their development in any field.
If that's true, then it paves the way for totally cool intergalactic monkey knife fights!
They probably put the resistor in backwards
with that kind of pin density, i wonder what a speck of dust getting into that socket would do to a system. Although it looks like a BGA socket so there may be less of a chance of a bad contact. It's cool that they are going to be intergrating more system controller logic into the main CPU, it's the evolution of the pc design, eventully I forsee single chip systems with minimal external circuitry, just one 5000 pin chip and a small wafer with some io connectors. Cool!