You forgot get permits and right of way access to even begin doing this. Thats why people use wireless. Not to mention the cost (includes labor x your_time) of doing this would crazy compared to getting two directional wifi antennas and a couple of routers.
I know what my other devices use, Im specifically talking about the Wii. 11 watts at idle is inexcusable. The default is enable wiiconnect24. Joe Sixpack isnt going to know to turn it off. There are millions of these things sitting around not be used but draining energy off the grid. Someday people will take 'vampire drains' seriously, but unfortunatley they dont. Saying "well Tivo is worse" isnt a solution. Two wrongs dont make a right.
Think about it this way. If I play 5-10 hours a week, how much more energy am I wasting just keeping it plugged in? Lets not trivialize 11 watts of constant drain. Its pretty serious.
Exactly. i played with an XO for the first time about three months ago and as I held it I thought "Why isnt this thing in the form factor of an e-book?" So much real estate is wasted on trying to make it a general purpose computer. Kids, in real life, wont be hacking code 90% of the time, they'll be reading ebooks for their studies. This form factor is a lot smarter for how these students are actually going to use them.
Heck, Im still pissed there's no affordable e-book reader out there. I already have a couple of nice laptops and a nice desktop. I dont need another machine, but I would love a cheap (sub 150 dollar) e-book reader that accepted all sorts of formats and was easy on the eyes. I dont know why sony and amazon think the price point for these things is 300+ dollars. It 99 dollars or less. If the XO people do this it will be pretty revolutionary.
The wii uses 11 watts of power at standby by default because of the WiiConnect24 feature. Nintendo designed it so it it checks in with wifi while 'off' for updates and other tasks. This right here is a good example of bad engineering. Instead of turning this on selectively (or turned on by games that might need it), its on by default and it just eats up power. Its like leaving a new CFL bulb on 24/7. That might not seem like a lot but multiply that by the units sold and you're seeing one of the worst standby machines on the market.
Wired is written for non-technical people. I dont think its ever pretended to be anything but the 'people magazine' of technology, hence its popularity.
I got a refurb'd one at woot for 80 dollars. Yep, a 30gig player for 80 dollars. I havent had any problems with "DRM." I load mp3s on it and it plays. Video too if I want to take that extra step of encoding it into wma.
Since the recent firmware update I can even synch over wireless. Hell, it even has an FM radio in it.
Of course we never discuss the massive drm in the ipod, the missing radio, and the incredible price of apple's product.
>I felt the whole spice deal weakened the hard sci-fi goodness of what otherwise would have been a less fantastical book.
Err, the entire premise of the book is about the spice. How it affects culture and religion. Youd also have to toss out the bene gesserit, life extension, expanded consciousness, arakkis, etc. You would then end up with a story about a prince who walked around his castle wishing he had better things to do.
Stick to the hard sci-fi instead of trying to mold creative authors into your boring restraints. Thanks.
>but looking at societies (seemingly) stuck in all stages of historic (and prehistoric) justice systems, their harsh punishments often reduce these crimes to almost zero.
Thats bullshit. Capital punishment has shown us OVER AND OVER that is does not reduce crime.
>I'm betting wives in Iran don't "dishonor" their husbands as much as in the USA.
Youre advocating beating of wives on the net? Are you crazy? Wow, when did this place become the islamic version of fark?
Im cheering for some light rail in America. Seriously, Im sick of the solution being ANYTHING but building some decent public trans. Yes, Im aware that the US is a large place, but the US is a country of cities and there's no need to connect them. So why dont we have intra-city light rail? Well, we do but car ownership kills it anywhere there might be parking.
Perhaps its time to start putting train and trollies back into our cities.
Yeah but my understanding is that a lot of the sites doing the hosting are in themselves compromised on the user level. On the system level the admins could be running anti-virus. The real downside is that they have no incentive to do this, which is a shame.
No, its because MS put an anti-storm package in its recent patch tuesday.
I'm still curious about all this web-based junk. Why dont all web site operators do some kind of malware/virus scan nightly. Hell ClamAV is free, although I'm not sure if it detects these kinds of things.
>Rather, a vacuum is left and we find country after country with a youth that has become hedonistic, shallow, selfish, consumerist and unhappy.
Ah yes, the idealized past argument. Because we all know that these are new problems and people a generation ago were perfect beings who never gave into being selfish and shallow, etc.
Yes. I think if Negroponte ran a non-profit which gave away these devices he could dictate whatever configuration he wanted, but considering the government is the buyer then they have a right to ask for what they want. If the government in question makes a decision that you disgree with, then thats their perogative. The same way you have a right to buy a lime green VW bug.
They also may have other needs than just usability. Perhaps they have some win32 software that theyve developed that they want to run on these things.
I know its unfashioable to say on slashdot, but the customer's wants should be valid. The elitist "we know better, so fuck off" attitude is why OSS is marginalized as it is.
> it is always suicide to acquiesce to any Microsoft offering
Considering we have no inside information, it might be that a lot of these countries arent impressed by the sugar-based system and want windows. In that case Negroponte's duty would be towards them and their wants. Even a non-profit must bow down to market demand. In the end this is just a business transaction.
Look at how quickly ASUS is getting on the XP bandwagon with its eeepc. There's no conspiracy here. its just old fashioned demand. So I picture the XO ecosystem as allowing both XP and Linux.
My take on this is that they know that there are a few mmo codebases that serve this function and are hesistant to spend millions of tax dollars on reinventing the wheel on an initiative that isnt such a great idea to begin with. (Who really needs an mmo about space?)
I can see organizations like Second Life stepping up to this challenge by investing some man-hours into setting up a server for NASA. Heck, they could even use the same client and just change the branding. This would be a huge advertising opportunity for them. NASA could then hire people to create the content using SL's tools. If it turns out that no one wants to play this mmo, then its no big loss.
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You forgot get permits and right of way access to even begin doing this. Thats why people use wireless. Not to mention the cost (includes labor x your_time) of doing this would crazy compared to getting two directional wifi antennas and a couple of routers.
Dont run as a local admin. The same way you wouldnt run as root 24/7 on a linux box. Amazing what that does for security.
I know what my other devices use, Im specifically talking about the Wii. 11 watts at idle is inexcusable. The default is enable wiiconnect24. Joe Sixpack isnt going to know to turn it off. There are millions of these things sitting around not be used but draining energy off the grid. Someday people will take 'vampire drains' seriously, but unfortunatley they dont. Saying "well Tivo is worse" isnt a solution. Two wrongs dont make a right.
Think about it this way. If I play 5-10 hours a week, how much more energy am I wasting just keeping it plugged in? Lets not trivialize 11 watts of constant drain. Its pretty serious.
Exactly. i played with an XO for the first time about three months ago and as I held it I thought "Why isnt this thing in the form factor of an e-book?" So much real estate is wasted on trying to make it a general purpose computer. Kids, in real life, wont be hacking code 90% of the time, they'll be reading ebooks for their studies. This form factor is a lot smarter for how these students are actually going to use them.
Heck, Im still pissed there's no affordable e-book reader out there. I already have a couple of nice laptops and a nice desktop. I dont need another machine, but I would love a cheap (sub 150 dollar) e-book reader that accepted all sorts of formats and was easy on the eyes. I dont know why sony and amazon think the price point for these things is 300+ dollars. It 99 dollars or less. If the XO people do this it will be pretty revolutionary.
The wii uses 11 watts of power at standby by default because of the WiiConnect24 feature. Nintendo designed it so it it checks in with wifi while 'off' for updates and other tasks. This right here is a good example of bad engineering. Instead of turning this on selectively (or turned on by games that might need it), its on by default and it just eats up power. Its like leaving a new CFL bulb on 24/7. That might not seem like a lot but multiply that by the units sold and you're seeing one of the worst standby machines on the market.
So I guess theyre going to say that:
1. Every so often an alien teacher becomes self-enlightened somehow on one of the many planets (or world systems) of our universe.
2. This teacher spreads a religious message on how to end suffering.
Huh, sounds like ol' Benedict is converting to Buddhism.
Thats pretty subjective, but for me its Make Magazine.
On low bandwidth connections web browsing is surprisingly fast if you block ads or just block flash.
Funny how dishes are ugly but not the following:
A toilet and its plumbing
An airconditioner
The vent for the dryer
A washer and dryer
etc
Homes are chock-full of technology. Picking on just the dish is really just shooting yourself in the foot.
Wired is written for non-technical people. I dont think its ever pretended to be anything but the 'people magazine' of technology, hence its popularity.
>If you read the article, the reader claims he never downloaded the game in the first place, nor can he find an evidence of it.
Your honor, the gloves clearly dont fit! Putting the defendant in charge of evidence usually produces the same results.
Yes, dont be this guy.
I got a refurb'd one at woot for 80 dollars. Yep, a 30gig player for 80 dollars. I havent had any problems with "DRM." I load mp3s on it and it plays. Video too if I want to take that extra step of encoding it into wma.
Since the recent firmware update I can even synch over wireless. Hell, it even has an FM radio in it.
Of course we never discuss the massive drm in the ipod, the missing radio, and the incredible price of apple's product.
>I felt the whole spice deal weakened the hard sci-fi goodness of what otherwise would have been a less fantastical book.
Err, the entire premise of the book is about the spice. How it affects culture and religion. Youd also have to toss out the bene gesserit, life extension, expanded consciousness, arakkis, etc. You would then end up with a story about a prince who walked around his castle wishing he had better things to do.
Stick to the hard sci-fi instead of trying to mold creative authors into your boring restraints. Thanks.
>but looking at societies (seemingly) stuck in all stages of historic (and prehistoric) justice systems, their harsh punishments often reduce these crimes to almost zero.
Thats bullshit. Capital punishment has shown us OVER AND OVER that is does not reduce crime.
>I'm betting wives in Iran don't "dishonor" their husbands as much as in the USA.
Youre advocating beating of wives on the net? Are you crazy? Wow, when did this place become the islamic version of fark?
>I think it is hands down the best Marvel based movie I have seen.
Isnt that like saying "Whoa, that's a pretty tall midget."
>The subject was "Man Amplifiers". Nothing to see here.
Yeah, umm, that magazine with "Man Amplifier" on the cover isnt exactly Popular Science. Its more like Popular Sphincter.
Im cheering for some light rail in America. Seriously, Im sick of the solution being ANYTHING but building some decent public trans. Yes, Im aware that the US is a large place, but the US is a country of cities and there's no need to connect them. So why dont we have intra-city light rail? Well, we do but car ownership kills it anywhere there might be parking.
Perhaps its time to start putting train and trollies back into our cities.
This was done with MSRT via patch tuesday. Some details here:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9080958
Yeah but my understanding is that a lot of the sites doing the hosting are in themselves compromised on the user level. On the system level the admins could be running anti-virus. The real downside is that they have no incentive to do this, which is a shame.
No, its because MS put an anti-storm package in its recent patch tuesday.
I'm still curious about all this web-based junk. Why dont all web site operators do some kind of malware/virus scan nightly. Hell ClamAV is free, although I'm not sure if it detects these kinds of things.
>Rather, a vacuum is left and we find country after country with a youth that has become hedonistic, shallow, selfish, consumerist and unhappy.
Ah yes, the idealized past argument. Because we all know that these are new problems and people a generation ago were perfect beings who never gave into being selfish and shallow, etc.
Yes. I think if Negroponte ran a non-profit which gave away these devices he could dictate whatever configuration he wanted, but considering the government is the buyer then they have a right to ask for what they want. If the government in question makes a decision that you disgree with, then thats their perogative. The same way you have a right to buy a lime green VW bug.
They also may have other needs than just usability. Perhaps they have some win32 software that theyve developed that they want to run on these things.
I know its unfashioable to say on slashdot, but the customer's wants should be valid. The elitist "we know better, so fuck off" attitude is why OSS is marginalized as it is.
> it is always suicide to acquiesce to any Microsoft offering
Considering we have no inside information, it might be that a lot of these countries arent impressed by the sugar-based system and want windows. In that case Negroponte's duty would be towards them and their wants. Even a non-profit must bow down to market demand. In the end this is just a business transaction.
Look at how quickly ASUS is getting on the XP bandwagon with its eeepc. There's no conspiracy here. its just old fashioned demand. So I picture the XO ecosystem as allowing both XP and Linux.
My take on this is that they know that there are a few mmo codebases that serve this function and are hesistant to spend millions of tax dollars on reinventing the wheel on an initiative that isnt such a great idea to begin with. (Who really needs an mmo about space?)
I can see organizations like Second Life stepping up to this challenge by investing some man-hours into setting up a server for NASA. Heck, they could even use the same client and just change the branding. This would be a huge advertising opportunity for them. NASA could then hire people to create the content using SL's tools. If it turns out that no one wants to play this mmo, then its no big loss.