Last night, I had dinner at a friend's house. The family is from Italy. They had purchased for a nephew (in Sicily) an Itunes card and sent it over. He had just called yesterday wondering why he couldn't use the card in Italy. I told them that I had no idea as I would never purchase from Itunes, but that I'd investigate.
I get into work, and voila!/. has the story I need and the answer.
Thank you slashdot - you've saved me some legwork.
Wow, that's interesting news. I picked one up at a garage sale a few years back for $1. I plugged it in once to a TV, wrote some funky BASIC code to print my name all over the screen and haven't taken it out of the box since.
Maybe I should revisit.
In any case, I would actually LOVE one of these OLPC machines for my kids. They're always playing on my laptop: http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/51
Though I've never middle-clicked - well not since I was learning Unix on a SPARC 5 anyway - I can use the menu in Konsole to copy and paste. People often tell me that simply selecting something puts it in the clipboard - not true.
In any case, maybe I should just take advantage of the OSS-ness of Linux and add CTRL-C, CTRL-X, and CTRL-V into the borne shell or into Konqueror.
I've been a SUSE user for about two years now. I have exclusively SUSE on one laptop and dual boot one desktop with Win2K. My other desktops have either SUSE/XP or SUSE/2K at work. I remember the big push after Novell bought Evolution and brought all the Mono developers on board, where they said, 'hey, let's all be one big mono happy family and everyone use Gnome.' Of course, us KDE-fans screamed and pouted and stomped our feet so much, that Novell pulled back to some degree.
I remember back to TechEd (or was it TechNet) 2001 in Atlanta where Bill and Co. introduced.NET to us as "the next big thing." Even back then I thought of it as a half hearted attempt to marginalize Java. (Not that I had any love for Java at the time.) Now, they have the market share they want, we've all got VS 2005 loaded on our machines (next to Netbeans 5.5) and those few who use Linux (including me) as a desktop may want to use C#/Mono to develop. Well, the problem is, there's no good IDE. Monodevelop isn't really up to the same level as VS 2005 or NetBeans (or Eclipse, for that matter) and is currently at a 0.13x release. Who'd want to develop an enterprise-scale application using that?
So, here's Miguel, who failed at getting us enterprise users to adopt Evolution, and he wants us to go with Mono.NET. I particularly love Miguel's naivety in saying he'd want to, "even go as far as Microsoft recommending Mono for all of their developers looking at migration." Migrating from what? Windows? Microsoft doesn't want people to migrate away from Windows. That's the furthest thing on their minds.
In any case, I'll stick to migrating to Java. Now that it is going to be truly OSS, I'll trust them just a wee bit more than our good friends in Redmond.
I realized this weekend that my Palm Zire 72 has only been used as a MP3 player for the past six months, since my employer gave me a Blackberry. The BB does web, email, phone, and the all-important games for those really long meetings.
I saw a billboard for a store on the way to work this morning which read, "iPods and Cell Phones," and thought how the two will soon probably be combined at that location. Since the technology has changed, and phones are now an extension - the way ghetto blasters and walkman players once were - we'll probably be seeing a lot more teenagers and college students picking up iPhones as their one device.
I took a look at my Dell Windows computer (charcoal), and my Dell Linux laptop (silver), then compared them to my Monarch Linux desktop. It isn't greener, in fact it is beige.
You know, after playing Frogger for hours on end, I used to feel like going out and walking across five lanes of traffic and several alligator-infested rivers.
I feel MUCH better now, knowing it WAS the video game's fault.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk...sigh, I miss Bill already. Where's Jim A. these days, anyway? At least he comes across as a sensible chap.
Think about it. If the T-Rex had this tool they might have been able to forstall the deforestation caused by that evil meteor. Their gradual decline and loss of way of life could have been prevented. It is really too bad Google Earth didn't exist back then.
I only wonder if Google will soon build Google TimeMachine and let people travel back to help the poor dinosaurs prevent the incredible deforestation and increases in global greenhouse gasses caused thereby.
Yeah, huh. Good ol' Rudy discovered this almost a century ago. I love the article, "An alternative way to prevent knock is to use a fuel other than gasoline..."
What? Like diesel? AFAIK, your average diesel has something like 20:1 compression and a much larger torque curve. Plus we can use good old veggie oil.
I took a C# application (http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/lacrr/era_20071 207.jpg) we've just put into production and tried to compile on my SUSE laptop using Mono. Most did work, except for the assemblies which - gasp - are tied into 3rd party COM components.
Ooops!
Funny - when I read "Visual Basic on Linux" I first thought of VB6 and almost dropped my Monster Blue. Now THAT would be cool. Oddly enough, I'm still having to go in and fix VB programs. I don't even have any VB programmers working for me, so I'm stuck doing the dirty work. Just yesterday, I had to fire up VB6 and dig through some spaghetti written in '99 to figure out some issue.
You know, I have been avoiding buying music over the 'net simply because I don't want to be stuck with some proprietary DRM format that isn't transferrable to my various players. For example, I once bought an album from Lush on Real Tunes or whatever. I then tried to transfer it to my Palm Zire and - bzz! - no luck. Because the Real Player on my Palm doesn't handle DRM files, I cannot play it. Oh, and it didn't play in Amarok either.
I know the industry is afraid of downloads - just look at what you can get on Usenet - but they should just provide what we want in an easy interface (like iTunes) and we'll buy.
Of course, come to think of it, I can't play my U2 or Duran Duran 12" EPs on Amarok either, so I wonder if my argument is moot...
They all run at similar temperatures. Yes, but since an old college buddy of mine runs the company, they're cooler.:P
I actually am not involved with servers, and do little which requires fast processing - at least at home - so don't pay much attention to this market. I'm sure there are many options out there.
Seriously: What could an OSS-based user-submitted search algorithm do that Pigeon Rank - http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html - couldn't? If a team of highly trained pigeons can build an empire like Google, then I seriously doubt that user-based indexing would work.
Actually they've had "ram drives" for some time now - http://www.cenatek.com/ - is one company which makes them. I am sure there are others, but this would be the coolest.
If PJ Isn't "real" then how would a subpoena work?
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I read through the interesting comments and have one question. If - say - Pamela Jones weren't a real person, then how would a subpoena get served? Also, if PJ is out of the country, there would be no ability to serve the subpoena until she/he/it/they got back.
In my experience - with a six-year-old and four-year-old - low tech rules. The ubiquitos (sp?) lego seems to be the toy of choice again and again.
This past christmas, the two of them got a robot dragon, remote controlled cars, video games and a host of other electronic stuff. After all is said and done, they're playing the most with generic lego bricks and building airplanes, space ships, tanks, rockets, bridges, tall towers and whatever else they can come up with.
The electronic toys - those that still work - have fallen by the wayside.
Of course, the six year old does love firing up NESTicle and playing Super Mario Bros. too.:P
You have an extremely valid point, which I didn't even think of in my original post. Given that almost any modern app - save a "Hello World" tutorial - is going to communicate on some level with other applications, this model may get very old quickly. Even in my simplistic Linux system, I'm running Firefox, which is communicating processes and threads with the Window Manager KDE, and the various sub-components of that.
If my OLPC applications are completely isolated, how am I going to implement this new idea I have for cross-application communication based on shared pipes among apps.
I'm thinking it would work well to implement such a feature so that the writing widget can talk to the chat widget and the spreadsheet widget. I was planning on calling it, Dynamic Communication Over Methods, or DCOM for short.
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Last night, I had dinner at a friend's house. The family is from Italy. They had purchased for a nephew (in Sicily) an Itunes card and sent it over. He had just called yesterday wondering why he couldn't use the card in Italy. I told them that I had no idea as I would never purchase from Itunes, but that I'd investigate.
/. has the story I need and the answer.
I get into work, and voila!
Thank you slashdot - you've saved me some legwork.
Wow, that's interesting news. I picked one up at a garage sale a few years back for $1. I plugged it in once to a TV, wrote some funky BASIC code to print my name all over the screen and haven't taken it out of the box since.
Maybe I should revisit.
In any case, I would actually LOVE one of these OLPC machines for my kids. They're always playing on my laptop: http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/51
Though I've never middle-clicked - well not since I was learning Unix on a SPARC 5 anyway - I can use the menu in Konsole to copy and paste. People often tell me that simply selecting something puts it in the clipboard - not true.
In any case, maybe I should just take advantage of the OSS-ness of Linux and add CTRL-C, CTRL-X, and CTRL-V into the borne shell or into Konqueror.
Sounds like a plan!
Um, since when have I not been able to do so?
I highlight whatever text (Firefox, Opera, Kate...) select CTRL+C, go to whatever app (Pan, Firefox, KMail...), press CTRL+V and it works.
Am I missing something?
The only place I find annoying is in the shell thingy where I have to do this obscure SHIFT+INSERT to paste.
I've been a SUSE user for about two years now. I have exclusively SUSE on one laptop and dual boot one desktop with Win2K. My other desktops have either SUSE/XP or SUSE/2K at work. I remember the big push after Novell bought Evolution and brought all the Mono developers on board, where they said, 'hey, let's all be one big mono happy family and everyone use Gnome.' Of course, us KDE-fans screamed and pouted and stomped our feet so much, that Novell pulled back to some degree.
.NET to us as "the next big thing." Even back then I thought of it as a half hearted attempt to marginalize Java. (Not that I had any love for Java at the time.) Now, they have the market share they want, we've all got VS 2005 loaded on our machines (next to Netbeans 5.5) and those few who use Linux (including me) as a desktop may want to use C#/Mono to develop. Well, the problem is, there's no good IDE. Monodevelop isn't really up to the same level as VS 2005 or NetBeans (or Eclipse, for that matter) and is currently at a 0.13x release. Who'd want to develop an enterprise-scale application using that?
I remember back to TechEd (or was it TechNet) 2001 in Atlanta where Bill and Co. introduced
So, here's Miguel, who failed at getting us enterprise users to adopt Evolution, and he wants us to go with Mono.NET. I particularly love Miguel's naivety in saying he'd want to, "even go as far as Microsoft recommending Mono for all of their developers looking at migration." Migrating from what? Windows? Microsoft doesn't want people to migrate away from Windows. That's the furthest thing on their minds.
In any case, I'll stick to migrating to Java. Now that it is going to be truly OSS, I'll trust them just a wee bit more than our good friends in Redmond.
All hail teh Lizard!
I realized this weekend that my Palm Zire 72 has only been used as a MP3 player for the past six months, since my employer gave me a Blackberry. The BB does web, email, phone, and the all-important games for those really long meetings.
I saw a billboard for a store on the way to work this morning which read, "iPods and Cell Phones," and thought how the two will soon probably be combined at that location. Since the technology has changed, and phones are now an extension - the way ghetto blasters and walkman players once were - we'll probably be seeing a lot more teenagers and college students picking up iPhones as their one device.
Just a hunch.
I took a look at my Dell Windows computer (charcoal), and my Dell Linux laptop (silver), then compared them to my Monarch Linux desktop. It isn't greener, in fact it is beige.
I guess the report is wrong.
You know, after playing Frogger for hours on end, I used to feel like going out and walking across five lanes of traffic and several alligator-infested rivers.
I feel MUCH better now, knowing it WAS the video game's fault.
Good one!!
...and...
...sigh, I miss Bill already. Where's Jim A. these days, anyway? At least he comes across as a sensible chap.
Every time I think of him all I can picture is..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc4MzqBFxZE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
Does anyone actually care what Steve says?
Think about it. If the T-Rex had this tool they might have been able to forstall the deforestation caused by that evil meteor. Their gradual decline and loss of way of life could have been prevented. It is really too bad Google Earth didn't exist back then.
I only wonder if Google will soon build Google TimeMachine and let people travel back to help the poor dinosaurs prevent the incredible deforestation and increases in global greenhouse gasses caused thereby.
One can only hope.
All Hail Google!
...like this truck.
http://www.backcountryjournal.com/21742.jpg
And it was much better than my compact Maxima.
Yeah, huh. Good ol' Rudy discovered this almost a century ago. I love the article, "An alternative way to prevent knock is to use a fuel other than gasoline..."
What? Like diesel? AFAIK, your average diesel has something like 20:1 compression and a much larger torque curve. Plus we can use good old veggie oil.
That's great...
...if you want to drive a subcompact. What about for those of us who want to drive a midsize car like my Avalanche?
That is exactly the issue.
1 207.jpg) we've just put into production and tried to compile on my SUSE laptop using Mono. Most did work, except for the assemblies which - gasp - are tied into 3rd party COM components.
I took a C# application (http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/lacrr/era_2007
Ooops!
Funny - when I read "Visual Basic on Linux" I first thought of VB6 and almost dropped my Monster Blue. Now THAT would be cool. Oddly enough, I'm still having to go in and fix VB programs. I don't even have any VB programmers working for me, so I'm stuck doing the dirty work. Just yesterday, I had to fire up VB6 and dig through some spaghetti written in '99 to figure out some issue.
You know, I have been avoiding buying music over the 'net simply because I don't want to be stuck with some proprietary DRM format that isn't transferrable to my various players. For example, I once bought an album from Lush on Real Tunes or whatever. I then tried to transfer it to my Palm Zire and - bzz! - no luck. Because the Real Player on my Palm doesn't handle DRM files, I cannot play it. Oh, and it didn't play in Amarok either.
I know the industry is afraid of downloads - just look at what you can get on Usenet - but they should just provide what we want in an easy interface (like iTunes) and we'll buy.
Of course, come to think of it, I can't play my U2 or Duran Duran 12" EPs on Amarok either, so I wonder if my argument is moot...
I actually am not involved with servers, and do little which requires fast processing - at least at home - so don't pay much attention to this market. I'm sure there are many options out there.
Seriously: What could an OSS-based user-submitted search algorithm do that Pigeon Rank - http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html - couldn't? If a team of highly trained pigeons can build an empire like Google, then I seriously doubt that user-based indexing would work.
Am I wrong?
I think this is a grand idea. However, instead of using it for guest workers, we make it tied to the activation of iPods. Then everyone will get 'em!
Actually they've had "ram drives" for some time now - http://www.cenatek.com/ - is one company which makes them. I am sure there are others, but this would be the coolest.
I read through the interesting comments and have one question. If - say - Pamela Jones weren't a real person, then how would a subpoena get served? Also, if PJ is out of the country, there would be no ability to serve the subpoena until she/he/it/they got back.
Am I wrong?
In my experience - with a six-year-old and four-year-old - low tech rules. The ubiquitos (sp?) lego seems to be the toy of choice again and again.
:P
This past christmas, the two of them got a robot dragon, remote controlled cars, video games and a host of other electronic stuff. After all is said and done, they're playing the most with generic lego bricks and building airplanes, space ships, tanks, rockets, bridges, tall towers and whatever else they can come up with.
The electronic toys - those that still work - have fallen by the wayside.
Of course, the six year old does love firing up NESTicle and playing Super Mario Bros. too.
You have an extremely valid point, which I didn't even think of in my original post. Given that almost any modern app - save a "Hello World" tutorial - is going to communicate on some level with other applications, this model may get very old quickly. Even in my simplistic Linux system, I'm running Firefox, which is communicating processes and threads with the Window Manager KDE, and the various sub-components of that.
It is too late to think about this now.
If my OLPC applications are completely isolated, how am I going to implement this new idea I have for cross-application communication based on shared pipes among apps.
I'm thinking it would work well to implement such a feature so that the writing widget can talk to the chat widget and the spreadsheet widget. I was planning on calling it, Dynamic Communication Over Methods, or DCOM for short.
Now I'm bummed!