Here are my impressions, which are also worthless: The eee certainly is stylish. I really like the hardware hacking you can do with it. I don't like the screen, though--not that it is too small physically, but that the resolution is so low, that text on the screen has to be larger in order to read it, which makes the screen effectively too small. Does that make sense?
My OLPC I really like, though again nothing is perfect. The hardware is top notch (though I have read of keyboard failures, that could happen to any manufacturer). The screen is great, I can read it in bright sunlight, I can flip it around and use it as an "ebook reader"--mostly to read pdf documentation for other software I use. I don't need to read that in direct sunlight, though.
One can't really complain about keyboards designed for children, but both the OLPC's keyboard and the eee (designed for adults) are about the same physical size, which means I can't touch type on either, but the fact that the keys are physically smaller on the OLPC, with a large gap between keys makes the occasional two-key press on the OLPC much less frequent than an eee.
One thing I really HATE, though, about the OLPC is that crappy sugarUI, and the whole activity vs. application paradigm. I also can't stand that file system hierarchies are ignored, and everything is collapsed to a single flat directory. How do I then save things to the correct subdirectory on my usb drive?
There are guides available to boot OLPC into ubuntu, for instance, but so far I've been too lazy to do so, especially since I have other options as far as hardware goes.
Classmate? meh, don't know, don't care. The few online reviews I have seen have not been flattering. The one plus, it doesn't have the sugarUI. The downside? Windows.
My wishlist for an UMPC would be: an OLPC, only slightly wider so it can acomodate a keyboard just large enough for me to touch-type, with ubuntu preloaded. If they make the next-gen eee an inch or so wider for the same reason, only with a decent screen (even if it is not as good as OLPC's) then I would settle for that.
I thought they banned "Mexican night" on the ISS because of the limited air supply, but they are letting this guy take his spicy sauerkraut? This kimchi thing sets a dangerous precedent.
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Totally. I can say with no fear of hyperbole that I have just about turned blue holding my breath waiting for Openmoko to release a consumer product. I am no developer, so the Neo 1973 (and the Trolltech greenphone before that) doesn't quite cut it for me. I nearly peed my pants when I saw news articles announcing the Freerunner. example
Close one eye and try the test. Focal distance has nothing to do with having one or two eyes (pointing walleyed, crosseyed, or straight ahead) it has everything to do with optics. Your eye can't distort its lens enough to focus light from an object that close. That is why jewelers wear loupes (that and a bit of magnification)
Here's an experiment to demonstrate the problem. Start reading a (physical) page of text. Bring the page in until it touches your nose. Can you still read anything? Unless you are horribly nearsighted you probably began straining around 8-10 inches, and lost focus entirely at 6-8 inches. I am about 20/400 in my good eye, the closest I can read is at 4 inches with my glasses off.
Is there an optometrist in the house who can explain how these displays work, and whether or not they are healthy for your eyes?
The new brand features Vista prominently... the idea is not to sell MP3 players for rival hardware manufacturers, but to use rival MP3 player manufacturers to sell Vista. The schizo aspect of it is they are also trying to sell their DRM to "content holders" and I suspect that this is much the same problem for them as Sony electronics conflicting with Sony entertainment is an ongoing problem for Sony.
I agree. The correct term for destroying the operating system or file system is "hose" This would be a mild hosing, considering one only needs to boot from CD and replace a text file. But still.
What? I don't think even the heaviest chain-smoker gets infected with tobacco mosaic virus. I'm sorry, I just don't see the "obviousness" of this application.
OK, now the serious part: biosphere 2 probably wouldn't have been the joke that it was on the talk shows if the stated goal of the program was to find out just how sustainable it could be with then state of the art engineering and technology, rather than completely seal it for 2 years and see what happens.
As it turns out, it wasn't 100% sustainable, and they did have to "cheat" which caused endless laughs. Serious science did come out of it, but who remembers any? One thing I remember that was interesting, and in retrospect should have been obvious, was that then ants they brought aboard for typical ant ecological duties _could_not_be_controlled. Duh. Everywhere but where they were supposed to be, getting into everything but what they were supposed to be doing. (When I was in California this summer, I encountered ants small enough to invade (unsealed) jars of peanut butter with the lids screwed down). Another thing was the inefficiency of their oxygen cycle. I think that was the ultimate reason they popped the hatches.
They would have been better off had they sealed up, did a progress report every 1 or two months, and replaced/modified any technology or systems that were not performing as well as planned. And brought the orkin man in.
Even so, I am assuming that these people learned from biosphere 2, and that their 95% sustainability has some basis in fact. But will it be 95% sustainable on the moon? It will be a disaster if you get there, set it up and find out it is only 60% sustainable, and the materials you hoped to mine on the moon are not as easily obtainable as you hoped.
No doubt any such venture should have a lifeboat in orbit and an ascending vehicle.
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Here are my impressions, which are also worthless:
The eee certainly is stylish. I really like the hardware hacking you can do with it. I don't like the screen, though--not that it is too small physically, but that the resolution is so low, that text on the screen has to be larger in order to read it, which makes the screen effectively too small. Does that make sense?
My OLPC I really like, though again nothing is perfect. The hardware is top notch (though I have read of keyboard failures, that could happen to any manufacturer). The screen is great, I can read it in bright sunlight, I can flip it around and use it as an "ebook reader"--mostly to read pdf documentation for other software I use. I don't need to read that in direct sunlight, though.
One can't really complain about keyboards designed for children, but both the OLPC's keyboard and the eee (designed for adults) are about the same physical size, which means I can't touch type on either, but the fact that the keys are physically smaller on the OLPC, with a large gap between keys makes the occasional two-key press on the OLPC much less frequent than an eee.
One thing I really HATE, though, about the OLPC is that crappy sugarUI, and the whole activity vs. application paradigm. I also can't stand that file system hierarchies are ignored, and everything is collapsed to a single flat directory. How do I then save things to the correct subdirectory on my usb drive?
There are guides available to boot OLPC into ubuntu, for instance, but so far I've been too lazy to do so, especially since I have other options as far as hardware goes.
Classmate? meh, don't know, don't care. The few online reviews I have seen have not been flattering. The one plus, it doesn't have the sugarUI. The downside? Windows.
My wishlist for an UMPC would be: an OLPC, only slightly wider so it can acomodate a keyboard just large enough for me to touch-type, with ubuntu preloaded. If they make the next-gen eee an inch or so wider for the same reason, only with a decent screen (even if it is not as good as OLPC's) then I would settle for that.
What? They can measure the position AND momentum without changing the phase-shift impulse on their Heisenberg compensators? Don't tell Geordi
You misspelled faeces. Funny, I do all my best thinking on the crapper too.
I thought they banned "Mexican night" on the ISS because of the limited air supply, but they are letting this guy take his spicy sauerkraut? This kimchi thing sets a dangerous precedent.
It's projected to be $35 for the lightest fare on a falcon9 and that is just to orbit. Still, the prize won't cover the fare.
Crap, I missed Bandwidth Explosion Bodes I and II. Were they any good? Are they available on a Mac?
Are they some kind of guitar hero/FPS mashup?
"They are currently looking for potential users with very high bandwidth to test the upper limits of the system."
You comcast users can forget about it, then.
What? A "robot" tag without the compulsory "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag?
on my Infinuim Phantom console!
Totally. I can say with no fear of hyperbole that I have just about turned blue holding my breath waiting for Openmoko to release a consumer product. I am no developer, so the Neo 1973 (and the Trolltech greenphone before that) doesn't quite cut it for me. I nearly peed my pants when I saw news articles announcing the Freerunner. example
I still don't see it marketed anywhere though.
Close one eye and try the test. Focal distance has nothing to do with having one or two eyes (pointing walleyed, crosseyed, or straight ahead) it has everything to do with optics. Your eye can't distort its lens enough to focus light from an object that close. That is why jewelers wear loupes (that and a bit of magnification)
Here's an experiment to demonstrate the problem. Start reading a (physical) page of text. Bring the page in until it touches your nose. Can you still read anything? Unless you are horribly nearsighted you probably began straining around 8-10 inches, and lost focus entirely at 6-8 inches. I am about 20/400 in my good eye, the closest I can read is at 4 inches with my glasses off.
Is there an optometrist in the house who can explain how these displays work, and whether or not they are healthy for your eyes?
They are probably using 16 modules, but 192 GB is reserved for that damned U3 partition.
Yeah, I'm still waiting for a Linux or OS X U3 removal tool, because I don't do Windows.
Seeing how much you can damage your liver through competitive drug use?
[posting from my new OLPC! Woohoo!]
Maybe the teacher DID notice the difference... that he had Multiple tabs open, one of which was www.amInakedornot.com
/didn't RTFM, browsing amInakedornot in the other tab instead.
Internet explorer (before v7) did not have tabbed browsing.
The new brand features Vista prominently... the idea is not to sell MP3 players for rival hardware manufacturers, but to use rival MP3 player manufacturers to sell Vista. The schizo aspect of it is they are also trying to sell their DRM to "content holders" and I suspect that this is much the same problem for them as Sony electronics conflicting with Sony entertainment is an ongoing problem for Sony.
Do I need to report it every time someone draws a picture of a penis on pictochat? Good thing I don't do that any more.
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I agree. The correct term for destroying the operating system or file system is "hose"
This would be a mild hosing, considering one only needs to boot from CD and replace a text file.
But still.
What? I don't think even the heaviest chain-smoker gets infected with tobacco mosaic virus. I'm sorry, I just don't see the "obviousness" of this application.
too bad the moderators will mod every "I agree" post redundant :-D
"We could gain traffic by posting boobs ... it would drive you guys away."
Posting boobs wouldn't drive me away! I promise!
(unless they are saggy granny boobs or man boobs)
O! What horrible calamity doth this portend?
Send Pauly shore up there.
OK, now the serious part: biosphere 2 probably wouldn't have been the joke that it was on the talk shows if the stated goal of the program was to find out just how sustainable it could be with then state of the art engineering and technology, rather than completely seal it for 2 years and see what happens.
As it turns out, it wasn't 100% sustainable, and they did have to "cheat" which caused endless laughs. Serious science did come out of it, but who remembers any? One thing I remember that was interesting, and in retrospect should have been obvious, was that then ants they brought aboard for typical ant ecological duties _could_not_be_controlled. Duh. Everywhere but where they were supposed to be, getting into everything but what they were supposed to be doing. (When I was in California this summer, I encountered ants small enough to invade (unsealed) jars of peanut butter with the lids screwed down). Another thing was the inefficiency of their oxygen cycle. I think that was the ultimate reason they popped the hatches.
They would have been better off had they sealed up, did a progress report every 1 or two months, and replaced/modified any technology or systems that were not performing as well as planned. And brought the orkin man in.
Even so, I am assuming that these people learned from biosphere 2, and that their 95% sustainability has some basis in fact. But will it be 95% sustainable on the moon? It will be a disaster if you get there, set it up and find out it is only 60% sustainable, and the materials you hoped to mine on the moon are not as easily obtainable as you hoped.
No doubt any such venture should have a lifeboat in orbit and an ascending vehicle.
"Twitchy psychopath" works best in FPS, and Tourette syndrome seems to dominate Barrens chat in WoW
... A New Hope
This is the one they should have made first! I can't wait to see Episodes V and VI.