There are definitely some games with seriously limited redeeming value, like Space Invaders. Sure, you can work on your reactions and figure out a few basic strategies, but that's about it. But there are other games that you really can learn a lot from as a young kid. When I was using my C64, I found that games like Zork, MULE, Strip Poker, Ultima IV, were not only fun but also exposed me to a lot of things I hadn't known or thought of before. The way I see it, an open Source Space Invaders would be a better tool than Ultima or even etoys/Squeak since an interested child can look at the source (assuming the show source button still exists on the OLPC) of Space Invaders and understand how this game works a lot more easily than they would be able with a game like Ultima.
I don't disagree with you about letting developers have access to the machine, but have you tried virtualizing the olpc desktop in qemu, vmware et al? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_emulation has some links of interest.
Is a virtual olpc not enough to get your games on a real olpc? I ask out of ignorance so please don't take offense.
If you are a web developer or even a hobbyist with a website you will need to code for IE. If you don't want to run windows just to check on changes you've made to a website then you'll want to know how to install Internet Explorer on linux or other operating systems.
Personally, I respect the fact that Google is acquiring these startups rather than copying the ideas of said startups. Why put writely, jotspot etc out of business by copying them? It seems much less evil to at least pay off the startups who showed the initiative to come up with something new.
Is there no flash support for the DS version of opera? Even if there isn't, there are quite a few browser based games that don't rely on javascript or flash. I realize that these games may not appeal to the typical console gamer but nintendo has already expressed that they want to draw in non-traditional gamers and there are quite a few people playing games like http://www.urbandead.com/ and http://www.fallofnations.com/ These games already work on browsers for Palms and Windows Mobile so they should work on the ds.
There is a real chance that this browser can be more than a novelty and may open up even more games to the ds. Does no one else see this? If so I can't say that I've seen evidence on any of the video game review websites. Is there something about the ds opera browser that should not make it possible to play games like the ones on websudoku.com and http://dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Browser_Based/ ?
I'm suprised they are going with a subscription based model. $7 for 4 episodes and I'll get billed monthly? While I'd consider a subscription for something like the Daily Show aren't podcasts more like songs i.e. something people are willing to spend 99 cents to purchase at will?
Incidentally, I wonder if this article will slasdot itunes podcasts section? Podcasts don't seem to get the greatest amount of bandwidth compared to the rest of the itunes Music Store.
" I could still just download it via bittorrent for free..... "
Once upon a time when bittorent was new I'd agree with you. I the Bablyon 5 Pilot Movie in 15 minutes back then. Today it would probably take me 20 hours to download. What Apple is attempting could still fill a niche because I'm not waiting a 20 hours to watch something I want to see on a whim.
"Video iPod Apple's First Bad Move? Unlike its musical forebear, the video iPod may not be ready for prime time. "
First, the ipod was not ready for prime time when it first appeared and yet look at what Apple has accomplished. When the 1st ipod came out in 2001 there was no itunes music store, no cottage industry of ipod accessories, no support for PCs and no cult of ipod. The only way to get music on your ipod was to rip cds yourself or download mp3s and get access to a Mac.
Now it's 2005 and the ipod is firmly entrenched in the American psyche and it is easy to get audio onto an ipod but difficult to get video on it unless you rip dvds or download optimized movie files yourself. The situation is hardly any different.
Second, Apple is not selling a Video-ipod or vpod or anything else that emphasizes video. Apple's selling ipods, some of which have video playback capabilities. These other companies are trying to sell hardware that may have no real market.
IDGI either, what's the point of having a Mac-only Linux on ones iPod instead of a boot-anywhere LiveCD so you can boot an otherwise worthless (and much more widely available) Windows box and just use your iPod/Flashdrive as storage?
Terra Soft focuses on the linux on PPC arch. Maybe you think that is pointless but do we really need another live cd that is x86 only? Do you think it's a good idea that no one focuses on linux on other architectures?
I'm very familiar with google watch and I've actually quoted the very same exerpt that you have but what do you think this proves? I can link dozen's of pages that claim creationism has been scientifically proven and anything else that I'd like to prove. You said: "Google's privacy policies state that: 1.) Any information on you is fair game. 2.) They will happily turn over any information they have on you at any government request. 3.) Your Gmail may reside on their servers indefinitely, even after you delete it. This may also be "indexed" on their servers and the contents read at any time."
Someone asked you to show them where google's privacy policy makes these claims and then you post from googlewatch.org That's almost (well not really but you get the point) like quoting Microsoft on Linux's total cost of ownership
I agree. What older ipods need is the shuffle songs setting from the settings menu on the main screen. This new option is only useful if you have fewer than 200 songs
"Remember that Huygens was to sink beneath the waves rapidly, but as it sank, it would take pictures of the ocean? So much for the wisdom of the scientists!"
Having a sea does not mean Titan has no land. Nasa hoped the probe would splash down into liquid but always knew that odds were that the landing would be on hard ground. Some of these pictures still suggest the possibility of a hydrocarbon sea.
You are right that this media player may not be very hackable (although that remains to be seen) but you can't discount the effect of linux becoming commonplace in appliances. Linux as a desktop/server operating system may never mean anything to the average consumer.
Linux as the operating system that powers their media devices, remote controls, cars, video game consoles etc, etc will mean a lot more. This may be one of the key ways that linux gains mainstream consumer acceptance.
Some IBM mainframes are already at this level of self-diagnosis. Where I work, IBM repairmen show up with spare drives for the RAID array when they fail and the array phones IBM to report the fault. We don't know that a drive failed until the field service tech shows up!
Interesting. Where I work this happens too except instead of IBM techs we get sent techs who work for the city and instead of finding out that they were sent for some good reason, 90% of the time it turns out that the techs were sent for no reason. The techs usually don't even know that a machine called in a service request and waste a lot of time asking me why they were called.
If the future holds more of this I hope I die soon.
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I don't disagree with you about letting developers have access to the machine, but have you tried virtualizing the olpc desktop in qemu, vmware et al? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_emulation has some links of interest.
Is a virtual olpc not enough to get your games on a real olpc? I ask out of ignorance so please don't take offense.
If you are a web developer or even a hobbyist with a website you will need to code for IE. If you don't want to run windows just to check on changes you've made to a website then you'll want to know how to install Internet Explorer on linux or other operating systems.
Personally, I respect the fact that Google is acquiring these startups rather than copying the ideas of said startups. Why put writely, jotspot etc out of business by copying them? It seems much less evil to at least pay off the startups who showed the initiative to come up with something new.
Is there no flash support for the DS version of opera? Even if there isn't, there are quite a few browser based games that don't rely on javascript or flash. I realize that these games may not appeal to the typical console gamer but nintendo has already expressed that they want to draw in non-traditional gamers and there are quite a few people playing games like http://www.urbandead.com/ and http://www.fallofnations.com/ These games already work on browsers for Palms and Windows Mobile so they should work on the ds.
There is a real chance that this browser can be more than a novelty and may open up even more games to the ds. Does no one else see this? If so I can't say that I've seen evidence on any of the video game review websites. Is there something about the ds opera browser that should not make it possible to play games like the ones on websudoku.com and http://dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Browser_Based/ ?
I'm suprised they are going with a subscription based model. $7 for 4 episodes and I'll get billed monthly? While I'd consider a subscription for something like the Daily Show aren't podcasts more like songs i.e. something people are willing to spend 99 cents to purchase at will?
If you are going to list software that will let you run an operating system from within another don't leave out qemu ahref=http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/rel=url2 html-2228http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/>
Qemu may not run as fast as vmware does now but it's here, it's free and you can change whatever you want about it. The same is not true for vmware
Two of my favorites that you did not mention:
slacker astronomy http://www.slackerastronomy.org/slack-live.xml
skepticality Science and Skeptic Thought http://skepticality.libsyn.com/rss/
Incidentally, I wonder if this article will slasdot itunes podcasts section? Podcasts don't seem to get the greatest amount of bandwidth compared to the rest of the itunes Music Store.
" I could still just download it via bittorrent for free..... "
Once upon a time when bittorent was new I'd agree with you. I the Bablyon 5 Pilot Movie in 15 minutes back then. Today it would probably take me 20 hours to download. What Apple is attempting could still fill a niche because I'm not waiting a 20 hours to watch something I want to see on a whim.
"Video iPod Apple's First Bad Move? Unlike its musical forebear, the video iPod may not be ready for prime time. "
First, the ipod was not ready for prime time when it first appeared and yet look at what Apple has accomplished. When the 1st ipod came out in 2001 there was no itunes music store, no cottage industry of ipod accessories, no support for PCs and no cult of ipod. The only way to get music on your ipod was to rip cds yourself or download mp3s and get access to a Mac.
Now it's 2005 and the ipod is firmly entrenched in the American psyche and it is easy to get audio onto an ipod but difficult to get video on it unless you rip dvds or download optimized movie files yourself. The situation is hardly any different.
Second, Apple is not selling a Video-ipod or vpod or anything else that emphasizes video. Apple's selling ipods, some of which have video playback capabilities. These other companies are trying to sell hardware that may have no real market.
Romeo http://www.irowan.com/romeo/ is a free alternative to Salling Clicker and while it may not be as polished, it's quite cool
Okay the work execution is spelled exectuion in your screenshot. Is this a joke?
IDGI either, what's the point of having a Mac-only Linux on ones iPod instead of a boot-anywhere LiveCD so you can boot an otherwise worthless (and much more widely available) Windows box and just use your iPod/Flashdrive as storage?
Terra Soft focuses on the linux on PPC arch. Maybe you think that is pointless but do we really need another live cd that is x86 only? Do you think it's a good idea that no one focuses on linux on other architectures?
Well if you want to try some of the homebrew games rather than simply pirating you can try http://dualis.1emulation.com/
I'm very familiar with google watch and I've actually quoted the very same exerpt that you have but what do you think this proves? I can link dozen's of pages that claim creationism has been scientifically proven and anything else that I'd like to prove. You said:
"Google's privacy policies state that:
1.) Any information on you is fair game.
2.) They will happily turn over any information they have on you at any government request.
3.) Your Gmail may reside on their servers indefinitely, even after you delete it. This may also be "indexed" on their servers and the contents read at any time."
Someone asked you to show them where google's privacy policy makes these claims and then you post from googlewatch.org That's almost (well not really but you get the point) like quoting Microsoft on Linux's total cost of ownership
Please respond to this message if you can figure out how to make this new shuffle setting useful.
Have you used this new feature on an older ipod?
When I press the new shuffle songs option, my ipod plays the first of 6100 songs regardless of which playlist I was currently in.
That is pretty useless but maybe I'm using this feature wrong. Care to educate me?
I agree. What older ipods need is the shuffle songs setting from the settings menu on the main screen. This new option is only useful if you have fewer than 200 songs
"Remember that Huygens was to sink beneath the waves rapidly, but as it sank, it would take pictures of the ocean? So much for the wisdom of the scientists!"
Having a sea does not mean Titan has no land. Nasa hoped the probe would splash down into liquid but always knew that odds were that the landing would be on hard ground. Some of these pictures still suggest the possibility of a hydrocarbon sea.
Salling Clicker is cool but Romeo is almost as good and is free (OS X only) http://www.irowan.com/romeo/
You are right that this media player may not be very hackable (although that remains to be seen) but you can't discount the effect of linux becoming commonplace in appliances. Linux as a desktop/server operating system may never mean anything to the average consumer.
Linux as the operating system that powers their media devices, remote controls, cars, video game consoles etc, etc will mean a lot more. This may be one of the key ways that linux gains mainstream consumer acceptance.
Some IBM mainframes are already at this level of self-diagnosis. Where I work, IBM repairmen show up with spare drives for the RAID array when they fail and the array phones IBM to report the fault. We don't know that a drive failed until the field service tech shows up!
Interesting. Where I work this happens too except instead of IBM techs we get sent techs who work for the city and instead of finding out that they were sent for some good reason, 90% of the time it turns out that the techs were sent for no reason. The techs usually don't even know that a machine called in a service request and waste a lot of time asking me why they were called.
If the future holds more of this I hope I die soon.
You can add this to the truncated laptop while you are at it:
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I'm one of those people who boycott Nike and Walmart and I'll probably boycott EA too.
In fact, you've almost convinced me to start pirating EA's games.