It looks like you're trying to close Powerpoint. Would you like me to kill you now?
NOOOOO!!1
BANG! BANG! BANG!
It looks like you're dead. Would you like help in calling the mortician?
And while we're talking about geeks and Obesity, let's not forget The Hacker's Diet. In my experience, it's a sensible and effective way for people with a sedantary lifestyle to lose weight safely, effectively and sensibily. Some comments in this related Slashdot article are helpful too.
This IMHO probably spells doom for a large percentage of content on YouTube. I for one, used to find it useful to catch up with some good scenes from say, the newest episode of SouthPark without having to wait for a rerun.
True, Warner has embraced it's content for ad revenue, but I'm sure Youtube was treading on a thin edge, and would've had their a55es sued sooner or later.
This will just expedite the inevitable, and I expect Google to quickly unpublish most (C) content to save their a55es. That'll probably reduce it to what Google Videos is right now, fun, but with very limited content.
Goodbye, Youtube, it was a good run while it lasted.
Deep Pockets (TM) invite lawsuits ~GillBates (2006)
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C'mon, don't tell me you've never pressed on a URL on a printed page and expected something to happen.
I can tell you I've never tried "pressing" a URL on anywhere other than an electronic screen (not even physical hyperlinks (Semacodes).
What I miss more in hard copies of books though, is an easy search/grep functionality. Yeah, Indexes and Table of Contents try to achieve this to a certain extent, but that's nothing compared to the search capability in Electronic documents.
On countless occasions, after a long day of poring over text in vi, and searching for text as easily as "/[search-pattern]", I miss the same capability when I sit down to read a printed book.
And no, I don't want to go to http://books.google.com/ when I want to find the last page I read that I read a Character's name on in my mystery novel.
I found the article very interesting, and adequately detailed. The system seems well thought out and adapted to fit into local conditions (high illiteracy rate, resource crunch, simplicity, etc).
From TFA:
Voters enter a booth and pop a clear glass marble into one of three drums representing the candidates, instead of a putting a ballot paper into a box...snip...The drums are painted in the colour of the candidate's party and have their photograph and party symbol...snip...The marbles are placed into trays with either 200 or 500 holes - similar to a solitaire board - which makes it easy for officials to verify numbers.
Microsoft needs to understand that the Internets are not something you just dump something on. They're not luck big trucks.
They're like series of tubes. And if they don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
FYI, President APJ Kalam is quite literally a rocket scientist, who was formerly with the Defense Research and Development Organization. He's met with Richard Stallman a number of times to talk about OSS, particularly with it's importance to a developing country like India, and stressed it's importance to domestic software organizations a number of times.
A collection of miscellaneous links about OSS developments in India.
I'm hoping to see more active participation in OSS development from India, as more of it's educated masses come online. Computer and internet usage has surged among the middle-class only in recent years, with improvement (albeit gradual) in infrastructure.
He does grab the ball and he does wind up, and the first time you see it, you think your life might be about change....
...as any sane man concerned about his personal well-being should be, when his scrotal sacs are being subject to a sudden pulling and potentially detaching action.
Google is buying all the fiber because of it's well known benefits. Fiber absorbs several times their weight in water, resulting in softer, bulkier stools, which makes it easier for traffic to pass through the colon.
Anybody who's experiencing problems due to clogged Tubes is well-advised to deploy as much Fiber as possible.
And needless to mention, it works great as backup rations when actual food is hard to come by! Stir in a little water, heat over a low flame and it's done!!
Also, the concern about health effects may seem silly, but there have been plenty of cases where things that were relatively harmless for adults turn out to have adverse effects on still-developing children. Given this, and given that these children would presumably be using these laptops for many hours a day, asking for studies on this does not seem unreasonable.
FTA: "Both physical and psychological effects of children's intensive exposure to the computer implicit in OLPC are worrisome, to say the least.
The psychological aspect seems to be more important and worrisome, IMHO. The things developing children interact with are known to cause a long-standing effect on their psychological development - particularly creativity, analytical skills and imagination. Most people (and geeks) including me can relate to how Legos had a +ve impact on their mental development as kids and how the newer "specialized lego sets" hamper this development by being too restrictive. The same can be said for many other articles/games that kids are exposed to in their developing ears.
I would venture to say that extended interaction with a particular GUI/software/interface could have a negative impact on development of these mental faculties. I'm not saying that it will, but it is quite likely that it will hamper/restrict the child to think only along a certain way, and it is quite reasonable to prevent a large-scale project such as this before adequate medical studies have been done.
You young 'uns and your fancy-schmancy "Desktop Publishing" and "print on demand". In my day, we didn't have this ninny-winny "DTP software" with "cookbook templates".
When we wanted to write something, we had to do it all by hand. All we had to write on was a good old-fashioned hillside and our trusty hammer to write it with.
No sirree, none of these childish "publishing packages" for us. We used to trudge up in the hills all day long to find a good spot to scribble on, and we loved it!
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And for unrealistically 'imaginary' values of 'real'.
Quite a creative venture, but who knows how it'll end.
It looks like you're trying to close Powerpoint. Would you like me to kill you now?
NOOOOO!!1
BANG! BANG! BANG!
It looks like you're dead. Would you like help in calling the mortician?
...I generate "wind energy" several times a day, but I don't ask the Government to pay for it, do I.
And while we're talking about geeks and Obesity, let's not forget The Hacker's Diet. In my experience, it's a sensible and effective way for people with a sedantary lifestyle to lose weight safely, effectively and sensibily. Some comments in this related Slashdot article are helpful too.
True, Warner has embraced it's content for ad revenue, but I'm sure Youtube was treading on a thin edge, and would've had their a55es sued sooner or later.
This will just expedite the inevitable, and I expect Google to quickly unpublish most (C) content to save their a55es. That'll probably reduce it to what Google Videos is right now, fun, but with very limited content.
Goodbye, Youtube, it was a good run while it lasted.
Deep Pockets (TM) invite lawsuits ~GillBates (2006)
I can tell you I've never tried "pressing" a URL on anywhere other than an electronic screen (not even physical hyperlinks (Semacodes).
What I miss more in hard copies of books though, is an easy search/grep functionality. Yeah, Indexes and Table of Contents try to achieve this to a certain extent, but that's nothing compared to the search capability in Electronic documents.
On countless occasions, after a long day of poring over text in vi, and searching for text as easily as "/[search-pattern]", I miss the same capability when I sit down to read a printed book.
And no, I don't want to go to http://books.google.com/ when I want to find the last page I read that I read a Character's name on in my mystery novel.
Short Answer: No.
Long Answer: Yes.
Longer Answer: Both of the above, but each in a separate Universe.
! troll
I found the article very interesting, and adequately detailed. The system seems well thought out and adapted to fit into local conditions (high illiteracy rate, resource crunch, simplicity, etc).
From TFA:
Voters enter a booth and pop a clear glass marble into one of three drums representing the candidates, instead of a putting a ballot paper into a box...snip...The drums are painted in the colour of the candidate's party and have their photograph and party symbol...snip...The marbles are placed into trays with either 200 or 500 holes - similar to a solitaire board - which makes it easy for officials to verify numbers.
And the definition of Tubeworm probably needs to be rewritten.
They're like series of tubes. And if they don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
...out flies a chair out of the open Window.
...nothing breaks down barriers like hearing someone from the opposite gender breaking wind.
A collection of miscellaneous links about OSS developments in India.
Indian President Advises Open Source Approach
President Of India Advocates OSS
Indian President Advises Open Source Approach
Stallman Goes to India (and meets the President)
and finally, more recently...
Indian State Logs Microsoft Out
I'm hoping to see more active participation in OSS development from India, as more of it's educated masses come online. Computer and internet usage has surged among the middle-class only in recent years, with improvement (albeit gradual) in infrastructure.
...without a link to the Lamest Edit Wars in Wikipedia.
...old-age homes in South Korea report rising bandwidth and electricity costs.
Anybody who's experiencing problems due to clogged Tubes is well-advised to deploy as much Fiber as possible.
And needless to mention, it works great as backup rations when actual food is hard to come by! Stir in a little water, heat over a low flame and it's done!!
Yes, it's going to be a S.A.D. day for the rest of us.
Not to rain on their parade, but these ice sculpture guys seem to have beat them to it.
FTA: "Both physical and psychological effects of children's intensive exposure to the computer implicit in OLPC are worrisome, to say the least.
The psychological aspect seems to be more important and worrisome, IMHO. The things developing children interact with are known to cause a long-standing effect on their psychological development - particularly creativity, analytical skills and imagination. Most people (and geeks) including me can relate to how Legos had a +ve impact on their mental development as kids and how the newer "specialized lego sets" hamper this development by being too restrictive. The same can be said for many other articles/games that kids are exposed to in their developing ears.
I would venture to say that extended interaction with a particular GUI/software/interface could have a negative impact on development of these mental faculties. I'm not saying that it will, but it is quite likely that it will hamper/restrict the child to think only along a certain way, and it is quite reasonable to prevent a large-scale project such as this before adequate medical studies have been done.
When we wanted to write something, we had to do it all by hand. All we had to write on was a good old-fashioned hillside and our trusty hammer to write it with.
No sirree, none of these childish "publishing packages" for us. We used to trudge up in the hills all day long to find a good spot to scribble on, and we loved it!