Ohhh, so the chinese are trying to bully their way into the wireless industry in an incredibly obvious and poorly negotiated way, and when they failed, they went crying excusionism and stomping their feet and pouting.
It's just numbers. 0-255 or 0-65535, it doesn't matter. You convert a block of data to a VERY long number, run the encryption algorithm on it, and convert it into a transport-friendly charset (like base 64 for email, or binary for TCP/IP). The password is the same - whatever charset its in, it just gets converted to a number. Now, slap on top the fact that your comment is MEANINGLESS when applied to what should be a transparent network layer, and I fail to see why you should be allowed to multiply.
My GOD, but you sound like Jeffry Rowland's 'the Englishman'. I'm having difficulty taking you seriously.
I think this particular sentiment is hilarious in its nature. We have a population and land mass at least as big as any european country - per state. Yes. Our country has problems. It comes from having to manage a LOT more counrty than yours does. So yeah, you provincial fuck, shove it up your ass.
As for thinking how other countries should be run - well, not so much. We suggest capitalist democracy, as that tends to place control, at least in the early stages, in the hands of the citizenry. No, I don't exactly trust a communist government. I'll deal with a socialist government; at least the government's just redistributing resources at that point, but I'm not a fan of 'the government owns everything'. Absolute power and all.
Can't run our own? Been doing it for over 200 years, and despite our issues, are still the number one economic force in the world. I'm not saying we're doing a spectacular job, but honestly, being the best country in the world is like being the valedictorian of summer school.
Police state? Yeah. You're clever. No, seriously, what police state? The one in which we have standards formed by the IEEE? 'cos last I checked, the 'I' stood for 'International'. Not that the wireless standard we use is in any way related to ourpolice statiness.
Napster isn't the 'big guys'. GP is referring to the bootleg cartels. These groups are almost mafiaesque in their tactics, and I don't see them flinching at having to murder the head of the RIAA if he/she decided to 'crack down' on bootlegging properly.
Magic numbers (the first X number of bytes in a file, identifying its file type) have been around since well before Calder was formed. I don't know. Maybe they were the first to call them 'magic', but the concept's been around for ages (check out the.zip spec, the original 16-bit.EXE spec, the.gif spec, and a number of others. It shouldn't be hard to prove prior art here.)
Business never wins that one; they almost always survive by way of massive change - which, of course, is all that's being asked of them.
And rememeber: this dynamic isn't just young idealists going up against business-experienced people; its business-experienced people going up against young idealists in the idealists' home turf. There will be no winners - just concessions. And I can tell you now: the concessions won't include DRM. The more that shit gets spread around, the more its resisted against.
Documenting as I code helps me avoid stupid mistakes, memory leaks, and the like. Well, that and best-practices programming. Let no buffer go unchecked, or if it does, at least put in a '#warning: fixme! unchecked buffer' in place and do it later.
OS-X for x86 won't run on any hardware you could get into the machine. Check the 'elitism' bit.
They needed to use open source exclusively for things of that nature; most of the HAL on the machine would have to be custom built, at least partially.
And, no. The text/notebook functionality is just what it replaces in the third-world classroom. You've got every educational too in the OSS landscape available to you. Discuss.
["You regularly recieve free food and medication but your quality of life dimishes because of the lack of anything else usefull. You have the neccessities to live but not the motivation."] "I'm calling BS on this one. First of all, the very idea that not having an Open Source Laptop means you have no motivation to live is the biggest bunch of nonsense I've ever seen posted on this site (which is saying something)." So you're saying that an OSS Laptop is the only thing of any use in the world? Please, learn a little basic logic before flying off the handle.
These kids aren't motivated to improve their lives because, while they know there is a better way somewhere, they don't know how any of it works. Showing them how the better way works - educating them - is the only way to improve their quality of life.
Unfortunately, those who find their way out and into a first world country get their education - and never look back. They could go help educate their old communities, but they don't, generally. Most of them enjoy life in the first world - and that's actually fine. They have no obligation to return, just as you have no obligation to care about the third world.
So education is needed badly in the third world. Whether this is done expensively by conventional means (building schools, providing many many textbooks over the course of many many years) or by innovative methods (of which the OLPC is - reduced costs in providing textbooks while providing a far more useful object than any textbook collection) is a matter of whos got the best ideas and who can get the support.
"This 'cheap OSS laptops for starving children' schtick is nothing but self-promotion on behalf of the OSS community and will do nothing whatsoever to improve the lives of the poor."
Calling this self-promotion is not just showing your bias, but the latter half of that sentence just shows your complete ignorance of how society works as a whole.
As such, I ask that parent be modded troll. He's a fucking idiot.
The declared model for their use is to provide portable, non-consumable textbooks in virtual form, delivered over the mesh network at first opportunity. Since it also handles notebook capacity, communications and potentially entertainment, I would say that the device is a cost-saver all 'round.
Lag behind... in what way exactly? I'll admit, the US isn't at the top of its game, but I'd like to know which third world country we're lagging behind and in what aspect.
Feh. Even in middle school, I'd just sift out the common primes until I got stuck with a pair of incompatible numbers, then do it in my head (if they were small enough), long division, or feed it into my calculator (if I was allowed).
No, seriously. Screw the fractions bollocks, and this everyday math is oversimplified shite. Teach kids how to do factoring, common 'prime rules' (sum of numbers = 3,6, or 9;/3, for example.) and rules of multiplication. They're not stupid, and if they can wrap their heads around the concepts as objects, they'll be able to handle it.
Meh. You haven't experienced a properly configured Linux environment. Slax, with an addon module or two is a good example. If these guys are after what I think they are, a lot of the work is going into system integration on the little machine's OS.
Besides, between Jobs' elitism and Gates' greed, you'll never be able to get the price down to $100 with their software on the thing.
This shit's been going on for years; there's one in my area. The memebrs are - how shall I say - mostly adult kids. I just ignore them; I mean, what's the point. They think they're doing some kind of stree relief, I guess.
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Dunno. You've been accepting it for years.
Ohhh, so the chinese are trying to bully their way into the wireless industry in an incredibly obvious and poorly negotiated way, and when they failed, they went crying excusionism and stomping their feet and pouting.
See me not give a flying rat's ass.
*blink*
You obviously don't understand encryption.
It's just numbers. 0-255 or 0-65535, it doesn't matter. You convert a block of data to a VERY long number, run the encryption algorithm on it, and convert it into a transport-friendly charset (like base 64 for email, or binary for TCP/IP). The password is the same - whatever charset its in, it just gets converted to a number. Now, slap on top the fact that your comment is MEANINGLESS when applied to what should be a transparent network layer, and I fail to see why you should be allowed to multiply.
Funny joke. You might want to use a smiley or something to indicate you're being sarcastic.
My GOD, but you sound like Jeffry Rowland's 'the Englishman'. I'm having difficulty taking you seriously.
I think this particular sentiment is hilarious in its nature. We have a population and land mass at least as big as any european country - per state. Yes. Our country has problems. It comes from having to manage a LOT more counrty than yours does. So yeah, you provincial fuck, shove it up your ass.
As for thinking how other countries should be run - well, not so much. We suggest capitalist democracy, as that tends to place control, at least in the early stages, in the hands of the citizenry. No, I don't exactly trust a communist government. I'll deal with a socialist government; at least the government's just redistributing resources at that point, but I'm not a fan of 'the government owns everything'. Absolute power and all.
Can't run our own? Been doing it for over 200 years, and despite our issues, are still the number one economic force in the world. I'm not saying we're doing a spectacular job, but honestly, being the best country in the world is like being the valedictorian of summer school.
Police state? Yeah. You're clever. No, seriously, what police state? The one in which we have standards formed by the IEEE? 'cos last I checked, the 'I' stood for 'International'. Not that the wireless standard we use is in any way related to ourpolice statiness.
Heh. We'll see about that. The Creative Nomad plays stuff from allofmp3.com just fine. So does the iPod.
Napster isn't the 'big guys'. GP is referring to the bootleg cartels. These groups are almost mafiaesque in their tactics, and I don't see them flinching at having to murder the head of the RIAA if he/she decided to 'crack down' on bootlegging properly.
Why? Anyone see that the RIAA is on the wrong course. In fact, the only people who CAN'T see that are those with business degrees.
No, no, it was something about the beast and the pit. And, ah, "He is awake..."
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.zip spec, the original 16-bit .EXE spec, the .gif spec, and a number of others. It shouldn't be hard to prove prior art here.)
Magic numbers (the first X number of bytes in a file, identifying its file type) have been around since well before Calder was formed. I don't know. Maybe they were the first to call them 'magic', but the concept's been around for ages (check out the
Business never wins that one; they almost always survive by way of massive change - which, of course, is all that's being asked of them.
And rememeber: this dynamic isn't just young idealists going up against business-experienced people; its business-experienced people going up against young idealists in the idealists' home turf. There will be no winners - just concessions. And I can tell you now: the concessions won't include DRM. The more that shit gets spread around, the more its resisted against.
Documenting as I code helps me avoid stupid mistakes, memory leaks, and the like. Well, that and best-practices programming. Let no buffer go unchecked, or if it does, at least put in a '#warning: fixme! unchecked buffer' in place and do it later.
OS-X for x86 won't run on any hardware you could get into the machine. Check the 'elitism' bit.
They needed to use open source exclusively for things of that nature; most of the HAL on the machine would have to be custom built, at least partially.
one per CHILD. it's in the project name.
And, no. The text/notebook functionality is just what it replaces in the third-world classroom. You've got every educational too in the OSS landscape available to you. Discuss.
And again, for about five times cost.
Its for any nation that wishes to pay to provide one laptop per child.
Take a look at http://www.laptop.org/map.en_US.html
Hell, half the time, they don't even RTFA.
Wow. Closed-source fanboy or what?
["You regularly recieve free food and medication but your quality of life dimishes because of the lack of anything else usefull. You have the neccessities to live but not the motivation."]
"I'm calling BS on this one. First of all, the very idea that not having an Open Source Laptop means you have no motivation to live is the biggest bunch of nonsense I've ever seen posted on this site (which is saying something)."
So you're saying that an OSS Laptop is the only thing of any use in the world? Please, learn a little basic logic before flying off the handle.
These kids aren't motivated to improve their lives because, while they know there is a better way somewhere, they don't know how any of it works. Showing them how the better way works - educating them - is the only way to improve their quality of life.
Unfortunately, those who find their way out and into a first world country get their education - and never look back. They could go help educate their old communities, but they don't, generally. Most of them enjoy life in the first world - and that's actually fine. They have no obligation to return, just as you have no obligation to care about the third world.
So education is needed badly in the third world. Whether this is done expensively by conventional means (building schools, providing many many textbooks over the course of many many years) or by innovative methods (of which the OLPC is - reduced costs in providing textbooks while providing a far more useful object than any textbook collection) is a matter of whos got the best ideas and who can get the support.
"This 'cheap OSS laptops for starving children' schtick is nothing but self-promotion on behalf of the OSS community and will do nothing whatsoever to improve the lives of the poor."
Calling this self-promotion is not just showing your bias, but the latter half of that sentence just shows your complete ignorance of how society works as a whole.
As such, I ask that parent be modded troll. He's a fucking idiot.
The declared model for their use is to provide portable, non-consumable textbooks in virtual form, delivered over the mesh network at first opportunity. Since it also handles notebook capacity, communications and potentially entertainment, I would say that the device is a cost-saver all 'round.
Lag behind... in what way exactly? I'll admit, the US isn't at the top of its game, but I'd like to know which third world country we're lagging behind and in what aspect.
Feh. Even in middle school, I'd just sift out the common primes until I got stuck with a pair of incompatible numbers, then do it in my head (if they were small enough), long division, or feed it into my calculator (if I was allowed).
/3, for example.) and rules of multiplication. They're not stupid, and if they can wrap their heads around the concepts as objects, they'll be able to handle it.
No, seriously. Screw the fractions bollocks, and this everyday math is oversimplified shite. Teach kids how to do factoring, common 'prime rules' (sum of numbers = 3,6, or 9;
Meh. You haven't experienced a properly configured Linux environment. Slax, with an addon module or two is a good example. If these guys are after what I think they are, a lot of the work is going into system integration on the little machine's OS.
Besides, between Jobs' elitism and Gates' greed, you'll never be able to get the price down to $100 with their software on the thing.
Slow news day, I suppose.
This shit's been going on for years; there's one in my area. The memebrs are - how shall I say - mostly adult kids. I just ignore them; I mean, what's the point. They think they're doing some kind of stree relief, I guess.
I would. But then, I document my code.
*poke*
Nationalist troll here!