it does actually have the 800x480 screen. It is quite good, nice and bright, but behind a fairly thick perspex covering so it isn't particularly delicate.
look at Novatech they have all their headline prices without operating system. You can specify various flavours of windows as an optional extra. In fact look at this one
No Operating System Installed £249.99 inc vat
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition £299.99 inc vat
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic £329.00 inc vat
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium £339.00 inc vat
Microsoft Windows Vista Business £349.00 inc vat
Microsoft Windows XP Professional £359.00 inc vat
and of course you realise that the castle doctrine comes from the phrase "an Englishman's home is his castle" and the law was derived from English Common Law. Not that we are allowed to shoot people in England, it is considered bad form, even if it is in your own house.
Firstly, it is programming.
Secondly it isn't just about getting kids interested in programming. You can use it to teach geometry, starting with the difference between left and right and moving on to the angles in a triangle etc. You can use it as a tool to teach all sorts of lessons if you have the imagination.
it is genuine btw. We did a rather lame April Fools version just before we got the real deal. http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/01/ooxml-fails-iso-approval/ we are not clever enough to do an acknowledged AF followed by an elaborate hoax.
So what numbers don't add up?
you have one CPU and you are asking it to both encrypt and decrypt a stream which can't be sniffed on the wire because it isn't going on the wire. I guess it is less silly on dual core or more where you could be encrypting on one core and decrypting on another. Either way it doesn't sound particularly efficient. That said if it is fast enough and you are familiar with it as a tool then please carry on.
a simple LCD scanner purchased on ebay for £10 including shipping from Hong Kong to the UK works just fine on Linux. It is just a USB human input device. In other words it is a keyboard. Point it at a bar code and it will type the code into the current cursor position. If you get a more expensive laser scanner then you can scan barcodes from a longer distance rather than touching the barcode as my one needs. If you get an even more expensive one then you can have it wireless so you will forget where you put it. Printing bar codes is similarly easy, google the free3of9 font and put a * at either end of the data you want in the bar code, e.g. *134567823* and print that in free3of9. For some reason Firefox doesn't like that font. Can't remember the detailed reasons but they seemed rather academic and pedantic about the correct unicode glyph positions for things that are not quite fonts.
In terms of software, you don't seem to have a clue. Find someone who has. OpenBravo has a new companion called OpenPOS which might be of interest (probably too big for your needs though) GNUcash might be of some interest too.
a planet would not be 100% uniform liquid at room temperature. You don't get planet sized blobs of water. Our planet is a lot of liquid around a fairly small probably solid iron core. The most common liquid component of planet earth by a long way is magma. The solid rock crust and liquid water in the seas is so insignificant by comparison it is surprising we even bother to talk about it. Anyhow what you were probably thinking about is a planet with a surface completely covered by liquid water or something like it. I think something could arise on such a planet, at the surface (or possibly below it if we are allowed to assume a hot core with volcanic vents.) You could get algae mats forming and sinking when they die off. Huge floating mats could then provide an ecosystem for other things to evolve around. At some point there could be fishlike animals under the mats and amphibious creatures walking on top of the mats. I can't see any real limit to the size and stability of the floating mats. Any creature looking to develop technology would have to use organic materials, which makes electronics a bit tricky. In terms of leaving the planet, fuel and a launch pad wouldn't be too tricky, building the rocket might be though.
They downgraded from Notes to Outlook/Exchange at about that time. They did have a reliable and secure mail system so they had to get off that in a hurry and on to a system that provides plausible deniability just when you most need it.
but not from the surface, that is in the middle. Light starts from a source and then bounces about the scene until it meets the camera. Most light rays don't intersect with the camera before they are fully absorbed. The trick is to start from the camera and go outwards hitting surfaces and bouncing about until you hit some light. Starting from both ends might lead to better results. I can't see how starting from a surface would help much, but then I am not a ray trace developer.
from the Won't-somebody-think-of-the-children? dept.
If you are in the UK then get down to Olympia where the BETT technology in education show is running now until Saturday. Entry is free and if you go to stand SW105 (upstairs in the small hall where Linuxworld was) you will find The Open Learning Centre where we have three lovely little OLPC laptops meshed and ready to play with. We have had an amazing day today. Everyone wants to see them, people are queuing up just to hold them and see the screen.
Once you have had your little green laptop urges satisfied please go round every other stand and ask them if their software/hardware solution runs on Linux:-)
yes, she will. She helped develop new innovations and bring the project from drawing board to production. Her job is done. Now someone else will manage the continuing development of the product as it moves from technology transfer to mass production.
on a technical architecture level Notes is way better than Exchange for groupware applications. Exchange is designed to be an email server, Notes is an application server. On a technical level for groupware applications (not just email) Notes is way better than Exchange. As an email server Exchange might be better for some people, Generally Notes is perfectly good enough at email for most organisations.
To put it in an Open analogy, Notes is like Joomla! Exchange is like Exim+Dovecot. They do different things. You could write a Joomla component to do email, but it won't be as good at email as Exim/Dovecot because that isn't it's specialty.
The only reason anyone uses Exchange is because of monopolistic practices and huge marketing expenditure.
I am Alan Bell, (the secret is out) and I put together dis29500.org (with the help of The Open Sourcerer) but the content and suggestions were not written by us, although we do agree with many of them. The comments were written by the National Bodies. I believe the US gets credit for this one http://dis29500.org/us-0270
The disparity of rules for PAS, Fast-Track and ISO committee generated standards is fast making ISO a laughing stock in IT circles. The days of open standards development are fast disappearing. Instead we are getting "standardization by corporation", something I have been fighting against for the 20 years I have served on ISO committees. I am glad to be retiring before the situation becomes impossible. I wish my colleagues every success for their future efforts, which I sincerely hope will not prove to be as wasted as I fear they could be.
it would be rather ironic if they discovered a gigantic underground vault full of Jurassic plants left by the dinosaurs for future civilizations in the event of a large extinction event.
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It is very good value for money, the bandwidth and latency is very low, performance is excellent. No way could I afford that level of bandwidth and processor and rack space as a dedicated box. The initial slashdot shock caused the VM to run out of memory (it is doing a lot of stuff in just 128MB) and I was struggling to fix it. One email to support and 10 minutes later they have boosted the memory, restarted the box, sent me a reply and posted that they had fixed it on Slashdot! I would unhesitatingly recommend hosting stuff in a VM from Bytemark.
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it does have a hinge but that is on the keyboard unit, which is basically disposable. Probably costs about 5-10 quid for a replacement keyboard.
it does actually have the 800x480 screen. It is quite good, nice and bright, but behind a fairly thick perspex covering so it isn't particularly delicate.
it is a VIA chip. x86 compatible. No, I don't get the code name thing either.
not quite sure why it was referred to as Linos, but I think that was an error.
well you will be pleased to know that we pay it too. We just call it rip off Britain..
look at Novatech they have all their headline prices without operating system. You can specify various flavours of windows as an optional extra. In fact look at this one
No Operating System Installed £249.99 inc vat
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition £299.99 inc vat
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic £329.00 inc vat
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium £339.00 inc vat
Microsoft Windows Vista Business £349.00 inc vat
Microsoft Windows XP Professional £359.00 inc vat
and of course you realise that the castle doctrine comes from the phrase "an Englishman's home is his castle" and the law was derived from English Common Law. Not that we are allowed to shoot people in England, it is considered bad form, even if it is in your own house.
it is an open and competitive market. We just haven't seen one of them for a while.
Firstly, it is programming. Secondly it isn't just about getting kids interested in programming. You can use it to teach geometry, starting with the difference between left and right and moving on to the angles in a triangle etc. You can use it as a tool to teach all sorts of lessons if you have the imagination.
it is genuine btw. We did a rather lame April Fools version just before we got the real deal. http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/01/ooxml-fails-iso-approval/ we are not clever enough to do an acknowledged AF followed by an elaborate hoax. So what numbers don't add up?
yes really, there was such a thing and here is an IRC log featuring a complete bunch of idiots and RMS. http://www.after-y2k.com/abacusworldexpo/ircRMS.html
I am running Sugar build update.1 691 The browser is based on Gecko
you have one CPU and you are asking it to both encrypt and decrypt a stream which can't be sniffed on the wire because it isn't going on the wire. I guess it is less silly on dual core or more where you could be encrypting on one core and decrypting on another. Either way it doesn't sound particularly efficient. That said if it is fast enough and you are familiar with it as a tool then please carry on.
a simple LCD scanner purchased on ebay for £10 including shipping from Hong Kong to the UK works just fine on Linux. It is just a USB human input device. In other words it is a keyboard. Point it at a bar code and it will type the code into the current cursor position. If you get a more expensive laser scanner then you can scan barcodes from a longer distance rather than touching the barcode as my one needs. If you get an even more expensive one then you can have it wireless so you will forget where you put it. Printing bar codes is similarly easy, google the free3of9 font and put a * at either end of the data you want in the bar code, e.g. *134567823* and print that in free3of9. For some reason Firefox doesn't like that font. Can't remember the detailed reasons but they seemed rather academic and pedantic about the correct unicode glyph positions for things that are not quite fonts. In terms of software, you don't seem to have a clue. Find someone who has. OpenBravo has a new companion called OpenPOS which might be of interest (probably too big for your needs though) GNUcash might be of some interest too.
a planet would not be 100% uniform liquid at room temperature. You don't get planet sized blobs of water. Our planet is a lot of liquid around a fairly small probably solid iron core. The most common liquid component of planet earth by a long way is magma. The solid rock crust and liquid water in the seas is so insignificant by comparison it is surprising we even bother to talk about it. Anyhow what you were probably thinking about is a planet with a surface completely covered by liquid water or something like it. I think something could arise on such a planet, at the surface (or possibly below it if we are allowed to assume a hot core with volcanic vents.) You could get algae mats forming and sinking when they die off. Huge floating mats could then provide an ecosystem for other things to evolve around. At some point there could be fishlike animals under the mats and amphibious creatures walking on top of the mats. I can't see any real limit to the size and stability of the floating mats. Any creature looking to develop technology would have to use organic materials, which makes electronics a bit tricky. In terms of leaving the planet, fuel and a launch pad wouldn't be too tricky, building the rocket might be though.
They downgraded from Notes to Outlook/Exchange at about that time. They did have a reliable and secure mail system so they had to get off that in a hurry and on to a system that provides plausible deniability just when you most need it.
but not from the surface, that is in the middle. Light starts from a source and then bounces about the scene until it meets the camera. Most light rays don't intersect with the camera before they are fully absorbed. The trick is to start from the camera and go outwards hitting surfaces and bouncing about until you hit some light. Starting from both ends might lead to better results. I can't see how starting from a surface would help much, but then I am not a ray trace developer.
from the Won't-somebody-think-of-the-children? dept. :-)
If you are in the UK then get down to Olympia where the BETT technology in education show is running now until Saturday. Entry is free and if you go to stand SW105 (upstairs in the small hall where Linuxworld was) you will find The Open Learning Centre where we have three lovely little OLPC laptops meshed and ready to play with. We have had an amazing day today. Everyone wants to see them, people are queuing up just to hold them and see the screen.
Once you have had your little green laptop urges satisfied please go round every other stand and ask them if their software/hardware solution runs on Linux
yes, she will. She helped develop new innovations and bring the project from drawing board to production. Her job is done. Now someone else will manage the continuing development of the product as it moves from technology transfer to mass production.
on a technical architecture level Notes is way better than Exchange for groupware applications. Exchange is designed to be an email server, Notes is an application server. On a technical level for groupware applications (not just email) Notes is way better than Exchange. As an email server Exchange might be better for some people, Generally Notes is perfectly good enough at email for most organisations. To put it in an Open analogy, Notes is like Joomla! Exchange is like Exim+Dovecot. They do different things. You could write a Joomla component to do email, but it won't be as good at email as Exim/Dovecot because that isn't it's specialty. The only reason anyone uses Exchange is because of monopolistic practices and huge marketing expenditure.
I am Alan Bell, (the secret is out) and I put together dis29500.org (with the help of The Open Sourcerer) but the content and suggestions were not written by us, although we do agree with many of them. The comments were written by the National Bodies. I believe the US gets credit for this one http://dis29500.org/us-0270
it would be rather ironic if they discovered a gigantic underground vault full of Jurassic plants left by the dinosaurs for future civilizations in the event of a large extinction event.
It is very good value for money, the bandwidth and latency is very low, performance is excellent. No way could I afford that level of bandwidth and processor and rack space as a dedicated box. The initial slashdot shock caused the VM to run out of memory (it is doing a lot of stuff in just 128MB) and I was struggling to fix it. One email to support and 10 minutes later they have boosted the memory, restarted the box, sent me a reply and posted that they had fixed it on Slashdot! I would unhesitatingly recommend hosting stuff in a VM from Bytemark.
excellent suggestion, I will keep that in mind for the future. More ram seems to have done the trick though.