> 10 weeks to save a ton of coal
No, it's still 10 wks. Unless the box is directly wired to your cerebral cortex, you're going to need a monitor that probably uses a touch more than 2 watts - the eeePC UMPC uses 14W so to be greener you better attach a 12W screen to your Cherry box.
Never used Tribe, but if any of their users left for MySpace then the Tribe homepage templates must have been Coyote Fugly, as MySpace makes my eyes bleed and ears scream.
> they apparently just use thermal depolymerization
"High heat? Using what, free energy? But that means the organic crude isn't an actual fuel source but a product that, unlike oil, requires energy input to get energy output."
Wow, that whiney hydrogen-naysayers argument is like lego; completely interchangable. Wait, lemme try it out on solar energy, wind and nuk-u-lar power...
soooo..... uber efficient enzymatic production of hydrogen from simple stocks (i.e. water) or is this tech completely inapplicable (HS chem ~ 25yrs ago)
My small classroom experience (highschool; vocational-ed, 3yrs) has convinced me that general purpose OS's are wrong-o for the classroom; with Win being 'wrong-est' of all. Getting the latest whiz-bang teaching tools (smart boards, touch tablets, projection devices, etc) is, unfortunately, usually an exercise in desktop support rather than a simple yet effective integration of some really great technology to improve education delivery. Sugar represented to me OLPC's attempt to deliver a multi-media platform to children and teachers w/o them having to figure out what the hell is 'Virus Heat' or whatever 'malware of the month' is making me spend 2/3 of my 55min class trying to bring up this kid's presentation on George Washington.
Turn it on, use it, turn it off, repeat for the next 9 months - Windows, Gnome and Mac aren't designed for this - I think an ubuer 'Leapster' or pumped up PalmOS with simple apps to manage common document formats (open office or doc, pdf, ppt, xls, csv, jpeg, mp3) is a much better idea. Sugar should reduce scope to perhaps being the anti GimpShop; trying instead to layer a *simpler* interface on existing apps solely for near-intuitive use of education-useful technology.
Mebbe so, but since we now know you can recover data from a a hard disk dropped from orbit I think we can declare a winner in dead trees vs magnetic storage.
Well, not all windpower generators take their design from 300yr old Dutch models; some companies remember we're in the 21st century. On their website there's a picture of their system on a low-rise apartment building; it's so invisible it could placate the most rabid NIMBY-ite.
> free poultry
Some companies are even putting grates in front of their blades. I do find it amusing when people become so concerned about the fauna when you talk about renewables when they never care about the small animals taken out by transformer stations unless said animal 'terrorist' kills himself as a blow against human imperialism against his species.
Gotta agree with commenter; if I can get a full featured laptop from Dell for $600, why is a much less capable machine only $100 cheaper? Asus seems to have gotten the price point right, $300 is more on target (and I can't wait until the OLPC starts the race toward the bottom). The previous poster's blisterpack laptop will be the death knell of the printed text book (and my 7th grade daughter's 35lb backpack).
Do I sound sufficiently excited? I thought my audible.com subscription; up to 5 books/mo for $20, was a great bargain; unfortunately when I dumped the last Windows box in my house I lost access to their library (and iTunes, but Amazon's DRM-less mp3 store is proving an adequate replacement). I would *love* to be able to subscribe to audible again, especially now with my new Palm Centro which is slowly replacing my old cell, my palm and my iPod. They keep sending me email inviting me back, and I keep responding that I can't until they drop DRM; no response from them on this request however.
From the article:
Taylor said. "It opens a door to this notion that you can make any organ: kidney, liver, lung, pancreas - you name it and we hope we can make it,
Great, now I'm going to get even more emails about making my friends envious of my "mannishness". No, wait, she means 'internal organs'. Whew!
Beg to differ; I have been reading ebooks on my Lifedrive for some time - it's a pain to save them as pdb and load via sync (I use Linux, so no docs2go conduit). Instead, I save as.doc or export to PDF, plug SD into port on side of my Compaq 2150US laptop (one of those $10 SD cradles from Microcenter is also an option if you're box doesn't take SD directly) and I take along TONS of content that way. Wirelessly delivered content is overrated (paid even more so) - if you can use the desktop you should be able to copy your own damn files to your reader.
Sheesh, if you can plug in an iPod you can plug in an SD card.
>> If this is a good thing I'm not sure, the current model works as a filter to keep all the 'crap' out.
>Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
This response had me ROTFLMMFAO.
For the first and ONLY time in my life -- "dittos".
> you start reading you forget that you are reading from an electronic device.
Until my mishugginah battery runs out. I read pdfs and downloads from fanfiction.net on my battery-chewing backlit Palm Lifebook - it's a great "life-saver" when I get stuck in the dentists, shopping w/ the wife, buying tires or find myself anywhere I have an unexpected 15-30mins of unplanned incarceration. I have lots of books at home, but they usually don't come with me everywhere like my Palm. I'd love a small reader that was always with me, that contained tons of material (like the NPR podcasts on my iPod). Still, $400 is a bit steep. I mean, has Amazon *seen* the Nano?
It bloody well better look like this. Geez, Google, got NIH syndrome much? Get a clue! Do the final 10-20% ON SOMETHING OPEN SOURCE and stop reinventing the bloody wheel already.
>Re-solder the connector on, put a bit of epoxy around it,
Damn good advice; I think I'm going to do this for every small plugin device I buy from now on (cell phone, ipod, camera). I've had both an otherwise working Razr and Compaq laptop become unusable due to power connector problems.
My small enterprise (sole prop) won an SBIR from the US Dept of Ed to create a method for teachers to better utilize data in the classroom to drive instructional design. Unfortunately, I didn't win the second phase, but I did parlay the l33t java skills I gained in the effort for a new gig in Ann Arbor.
As soon as I get all the code cleaned up, I hope to upload it to Sourceforge.
> Yes, but you're talking about 'selling back to the grid' at that same time that everybody else on the grid, according to your reasoning, won't need the power, either.
Perhaps your house is providing the lights and powering the computer and A/C in your office cubicle?
I flipped it over, popped out the stock hard drive and popped in a blank one of my own. I then loaded up the OS of my choice and went on my merry way
This is VERY VERY good advice - I do believe I will make a point of following it for every subsequent laptop I purchase from now on. I've never needed warranty service so far (I replace about every 2-4yrs) but I love having the option.
Now if I could figure out what to do with all these legal Windows licenses I've got laying about - I've got about 5 from Win2k - XP; I tried putting an XP on my daughter's refurb laptop (edutainment, iTunes) but couldn't find an XP install CD that would let me use any of my codes. There is *nothing* like wasting hours with multiple "invalid code" failures trying to install Win or MS Office that makes you truly appreciate Ubuntu and Open Office code-free installs.
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> 10 weeks to save a ton of coal
No, it's still 10 wks. Unless the box is directly wired to your cerebral cortex, you're going to need a monitor that probably uses a touch more than 2 watts - the eeePC UMPC uses 14W so to be greener you better attach a 12W screen to your Cherry box.
Never used Tribe, but if any of their users left for MySpace then the Tribe homepage templates must have been Coyote Fugly, as MySpace makes my eyes bleed and ears scream.
> they apparently just use thermal depolymerization
"High heat? Using what, free energy? But that means the organic crude isn't an actual fuel source but a product that, unlike oil, requires energy input to get energy output."
Wow, that whiney hydrogen-naysayers argument is like lego; completely interchangable. Wait, lemme try it out on solar energy, wind and nuk-u-lar power...
soooo..... uber efficient enzymatic production of hydrogen from simple stocks (i.e. water) or is this tech completely inapplicable (HS chem ~ 25yrs ago)
> add some ginger and spices
Allspice? Nutmeg? Arsenic? A little more detail would be appreciated.
> the idea of Sugar was better than its execution
My small classroom experience (highschool; vocational-ed, 3yrs) has convinced me that general purpose OS's are wrong-o for the classroom; with Win being 'wrong-est' of all. Getting the latest whiz-bang teaching tools (smart boards, touch tablets, projection devices, etc) is, unfortunately, usually an exercise in desktop support rather than a simple yet effective integration of some really great technology to improve education delivery. Sugar represented to me OLPC's attempt to deliver a multi-media platform to children and teachers w/o them having to figure out what the hell is 'Virus Heat' or whatever 'malware of the month' is making me spend 2/3 of my 55min class trying to bring up this kid's presentation on George Washington.
Turn it on, use it, turn it off, repeat for the next 9 months - Windows, Gnome and Mac aren't designed for this - I think an ubuer 'Leapster' or pumped up PalmOS with simple apps to manage common document formats (open office or doc, pdf, ppt, xls, csv, jpeg, mp3) is a much better idea. Sugar should reduce scope to perhaps being the anti GimpShop; trying instead to layer a *simpler* interface on existing apps solely for near-intuitive use of education-useful technology.
> burning equivalent to rm -r
Mebbe so, but since we now know you can recover data from a a hard disk dropped from orbit I think we can declare a winner in dead trees vs magnetic storage.
To resurrect lost White House emails, natch.
> fast moving blades
Well, not all windpower generators take their design from 300yr old Dutch models; some companies remember we're in the 21st century. On their website there's a picture of their system on a low-rise apartment building; it's so invisible it could placate the most rabid NIMBY-ite.
> free poultry
Some companies are even putting grates in front of their blades. I do find it amusing when people become so concerned about the fauna when you talk about renewables when they never care about the small animals taken out by transformer stations unless said animal 'terrorist' kills himself as a blow against human imperialism against his species.
Gotta agree with commenter; if I can get a full featured laptop from Dell for $600, why is a much less capable machine only $100 cheaper? Asus seems to have gotten the price point right, $300 is more on target (and I can't wait until the OLPC starts the race toward the bottom). The previous poster's blisterpack laptop will be the death knell of the printed text book (and my 7th grade daughter's 35lb backpack).
Yay! Yay! Yay!
Do I sound sufficiently excited? I thought my audible.com subscription; up to 5 books/mo for $20, was a great bargain; unfortunately when I dumped the last Windows box in my house I lost access to their library (and iTunes, but Amazon's DRM-less mp3 store is proving an adequate replacement). I would *love* to be able to subscribe to audible again, especially now with my new Palm Centro which is slowly replacing my old cell, my palm and my iPod. They keep sending me email inviting me back, and I keep responding that I can't until they drop DRM; no response from them on this request however.
From the article:
Taylor said. "It opens a door to this notion that you can make any organ: kidney, liver, lung, pancreas - you name it and we hope we can make it,
Great, now I'm going to get even more emails about making my friends envious of my "mannishness". No, wait, she means 'internal organs'. Whew!
> SD .. are for cameras
.doc or export to PDF, plug SD into port on side of my Compaq 2150US laptop (one of those $10 SD cradles from Microcenter is also an option if you're box doesn't take SD directly) and I take along TONS of content that way. Wirelessly delivered content is overrated (paid even more so) - if you can use the desktop you should be able to copy your own damn files to your reader.
Beg to differ; I have been reading ebooks on my Lifedrive for some time - it's a pain to save them as pdb and load via sync (I use Linux, so no docs2go conduit). Instead, I save as
Sheesh, if you can plug in an iPod you can plug in an SD card.
> PSP ebook reader
Post a howto I like'd a multi-function $200 PSP way better than a $400 single purpose DRM'd device.
>> If this is a good thing I'm not sure, the current model works as a filter to keep all the 'crap' out.
>Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
This response had me ROTFLMMFAO.
For the first and ONLY time in my life -- "dittos".
> you start reading you forget that you are reading from an electronic device.
Until my mishugginah battery runs out. I read pdfs and downloads from fanfiction.net on my battery-chewing backlit Palm Lifebook - it's a great "life-saver" when I get stuck in the dentists, shopping w/ the wife, buying tires or find myself anywhere I have an unexpected 15-30mins of unplanned incarceration. I have lots of books at home, but they usually don't come with me everywhere like my Palm. I'd love a small reader that was always with me, that contained tons of material (like the NPR podcasts on my iPod). Still, $400 is a bit steep. I mean, has Amazon *seen* the Nano?
> What will Google's phone look like?
It bloody well better look like this. Geez, Google, got NIH syndrome much? Get a clue! Do the final 10-20% ON SOMETHING OPEN SOURCE and stop reinventing the bloody wheel already.
>NASA spends between $400,000 and $1.3 million on a party at every shuttle launch,
So, that's like, 3-4 times per year? Feh, they've got a long way to go before they reach Lohan-esque fete-tification.
>Re-solder the connector on, put a bit of epoxy around it,
Damn good advice; I think I'm going to do this for every small plugin device I buy from now on (cell phone, ipod, camera). I've had both an otherwise working Razr and Compaq laptop become unusable due to power connector problems.
> What you mean "we" whiteboy?
I think you mean, "paleface", that is, if your're referencing the Lone Ranger joke.
> It's an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected
In short, it's a declaration of war against the Spanish Inquisition, which, in hindsight, isn't totally unexpected.
My small enterprise (sole prop) won an SBIR from the US Dept of Ed to create a method for teachers to better utilize data in the classroom to drive instructional design. Unfortunately, I didn't win the second phase, but I did parlay the l33t java skills I gained in the effort for a new gig in Ann Arbor.
As soon as I get all the code cleaned up, I hope to upload it to Sourceforge.
> Yes, but you're talking about 'selling back to the grid' at that same time that everybody else on the grid, according to your reasoning, won't need the power, either.
Perhaps your house is providing the lights and powering the computer and A/C in your office cubicle?
I flipped it over, popped out the stock hard drive and popped in a blank one of my own. I then loaded up the OS of my choice and went on my merry way
This is VERY VERY good advice - I do believe I will make a point of following it for every subsequent laptop I purchase from now on. I've never needed warranty service so far (I replace about every 2-4yrs) but I love having the option.
Now if I could figure out what to do with all these legal Windows licenses I've got laying about - I've got about 5 from Win2k - XP; I tried putting an XP on my daughter's refurb laptop (edutainment, iTunes) but couldn't find an XP install CD that would let me use any of my codes. There is *nothing* like wasting hours with multiple "invalid code" failures trying to install Win or MS Office that makes you truly appreciate Ubuntu and Open Office code-free installs.
> Deer and other animals do eat portions of crops
Eat the damned dear.. sheesh!