I thought OLPC was not about a "laptop" but about an educational tool?
It is not about Linux, it is about the software you can use with it and the way it is setup to work. If you put a blank copy of Windows on it, the kids will be fscked over with a green, useless piece of crap.
* will they include python? (if I know MS, if they do, it will be some stripped down version of Visual Basic.NET)
* will they include other stuff in OLPC?
or just the useless OS?
3rd world get screwed over once more. As usual, by their own corruption and lack of forthright of their own so called leaders, as well as by the rich nations.
It is not easy to auto-test graphic based stuff. It is also even worse automatically testing applications where you reboot the test environment that normally runs inside a virtual machine, though I guess that should happen when you start fiddling with system driver updates in the patch.
I seriously doubt that games tend to have any form of automated testing. Especially something as eve (see its history with database shutdowns few months ago because of a patch they put in and didn't test)
Actually, I would not even blame the QA for this. The problem is clearly in the dev camp for choosing boot.ini as a valid filename. It was a timebomb since they were using their own patch utility and not.msi. It just went off because of a typo.
Generally, for a non-system applications (eg. drivers), the QA is not responsible to test if the OS will boot after an upgrade, as the upgrade does not play around with OS's internals. Their own patch utility + type + boot.ini name timebomb are responsible for this fsck-up.
They not only stitched it wrong, they also retouched the merge lines making the resulting image *useless* scientifically. It is just a nice picture now that one may as well have drawn. You can't do any measurements with it as all relative information is basically lost through their effort to make it prettier.
Only if they get paid for it. Most programmers in India are not the same type of coders we have in US or Canada or Europe. Most OSS developers code because they like to. Most developers in India write code because they view it as something that earns them more money. It is a different mentality hence the low number of OSS developers in projects like Debian from India vs. US or even Canada.
In that case, the greedy bastards behind Asterisk are infringing this poor inventor's patient as well! I get emails with voicemail attachments all the time!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111111
</sarcasm>The above is sarcasm for politically correct moderators with no sense of homour
People advocating social Darwinism tend to be the ones that are well off financially, socially and health-wise. They are the ones that would probably not last a day in a real "survival of the fittest" world, but because of their status think they can dictate the morals of society.
The less tolerant (aka pricks) should be well advised that they end up in the same hole as the poor, ill and otherwise disadvantaged individuals.
As to the GP, there is nothing wrong with being poor. There is more about wealth than what toys you can afford. I also have a prepaid cell and I find it that it is more than I need most of the time anyway. It is sitting there "expired" for most of the year:)
Use your brain man! One advantage doesn't imply overall better. Look at a bear vs. human. Bear will kill a human almost 100% of the time in a 1-on-1 conflict without other aids. It does not mean the bear is more evolved than a human. Same here. The chimp was able to memory more information than humans. That's the only result here. How does it involve evolution or Darwin astounds me.
Sometimes I wander how illogical thought can be viewed by some as being logical.
The chimps clearly can *memorize* the screen faster than a human. That is photographic memory. In experimental sciences, the experiment is the truth. This is the experiment that shows that the monkey was able to view and memorize the screen faster than a human. And no, monkeys see about the same as we do.
It is sad that the only thing we can come up with is a childish "no, we are better because I said so! the experiment cannot be true! whahahaha!". Sad. We are just a creature with limits and this experiment shows this. We should accept the results and move on. The results should humble us (oh, and it is another nail in the "humans are gods of animal world" coffin) and not start to deny the truth (experiment).
Don't look at market cap and start comparing one company to another. You *cannot* do that. It is not that simple.
Remember year 2000 and value of Nortel? Where did that "value" go? Or Worldcom?
Apple is the smallest company of the 3 mentioned. They have the least number of employees by far. They serve the least number of customers. Their market cap is so high because of speculation on part of the investor. IBM and AT&T are by far larger companies that are much more stable than what Apple is today. That is just an economic fact. Just look at P/E ratio of Apple vs. IBM or AT&T for comparison. Or the book value of the companies. Or the assets.
Today, Apple is a semi-niche company (graduated from niche few years ago). It cannot weather the same turmoil like AT&T, IBM or Microsoft. Although in many ways it is still more valuable than something like Google (very speculative there - like Nortel in 1999 IMHO - will advertising market hold in recession?).
As with the chips, it is just a business decision of Apple to switch suppliers for what they view as a better value.
Your post made my day. So it is ok to cheat and steal as long as you don't injure the end-user? Great! Thanks for the tip. Now I don't have to create something, I can just copy it and rip off the people that actually created it.
Just buy from the same source like Lenovo or IBM and you should be OK. Of course, there is the price premium but then this is not toner for a printer;)
Want web browsing with better support than Lynx and a TUI? Try elinks. Elinks does actual formatting for you.
What did I miss? Well, there is plenty of TUI games in Linux ranging from chess to nethack. Heck, you can be a darn good Linux/UNIX admin if you are completely blind and not even be much slower than sighted colleges. I'm not sure that would be the case on a Windows/Mac machine - at least not *now*.
Text user interface is probably best for people that can't see. If you can see a little, then I guess you can use magnifiers and similar. But if you want to get some real work done, then text interface is best as it is easiest for the the user/screen reader/Braille. On a TUI, stuff tends to happen in order (1D) which is easier to follow than trying to visualize a screen (2D).
I have yet see XP or Vista crash that is not caused by bad drivers.
XP update in a virtual machine (run Linux after all;), passed 30 days uptime. No issues.
Vista, well, hasn't crashed on the box. Problems with virtual machine (kvm+qemu) as no networking support in qemu compatible with Vista, yet. But hasn't crashed in real installation (32-bit and 64-bit) either.
I suspect that any crashes in OS X may be driver related (video driver) though I'm using 10.4.10 version and that doesn't crash.
I've had linux crash in few releases in Debian though probably because of some driver and because I use it so much (nVidia drivers). Anyway, all of the major OSes (XP/Vista,OS X,Linux) are very stable and don't crash - bad drivers are almost always the problem and bad hardware accounts for vast majority of the rest.
How about getting tazered and your adrenal glands open up? Does adrenal rush mean excited delirium too? Apparently it does because in most cases "we don't know the cause of death" but "it wasn't tazer" bullshit.
Human body is a very balanced thing and sometimes it goes out of whack by the circumstances. That is why people can die of "fright" and shock. When you tazer them, you put their body into shock (unless they know *exactly* what to expect, like the morons that let themselves be tazered for fun - but at least they know what to expect). Some bodies can cope with it, some can't. Other systems break.
Any it is NOT possible to predict the path of the zaping in the human body! It goes between the two electrodes but you CANNOT predict the branching just like you CANNOT predict the branching of a lightning bolt. It goes the wrong direction, zaps a nerve tissue that sends impulses to your heart or adrenals or some other vital system. Or you fry a nerve or nerve bundle. Opps! Sorry, guy/gal dies! And then they say bullshit that the cause of death cannot be determined and probably underlying illness was an issue! Bullshit!
The only people that are reasonably safe from tazaring are muscled fit people that get hit in a large muscle away from major nerves so basically a Russian rullete, yey!. You get hit in upper back and the tazer zaps your spinal cord? Opps, game over. But no, tazers are not lethal. Fuck. These bastards are worse than the tobacco companies!
Tazer the morons firing these things on unarmed people right in the head. Can't hurt them - nothing there.
/rant
or should I say
/exited delirium
99% of people tazered should NEVER have been tazered. Police should ONLY use it IF AND ONLY IF the person is brandishing a non-gun weapon that can kill or severely injure the arresting officer (ie. if a gun would be used to kill the suspect). No other situation.
No no no. And the Spaghetti Monster people, while on the right track are not quite there yet. Global warming is caused by pirates! How? Have you ever seen Stargate? Then you know! The pirates of the yonder days have ascended and are looking down on us causing global warming. That with the high vibrational state of the dimensional alien pirate cyborgs are vibrating our poor Earth hotter!! How do I know this? From the secret mind control waves on the austral spectrum frequencies! You just have to tune them in!!
So, global warming is caused by ascended alien cyborg pirates observing the earth from a high vibrational dimension! It is so simple. Why the scientists don't even want to do studies on this??? Because of the secret alien-government hybrid cloning cover-up!
/tribute to all the whackos that don't know what science is - they also sometimes get articles in science papers and other real publications:(
A lot of stuff hasn't shown to be anything (see the current issue with plastic bottles and link to cancer/ADHD/etc - wasn't a problem for a long time!). It doesn't mean it doesn't triggers things for some people (1% of the population of US is 3 million, but only a few statistically). When I drink/eat Aspartame, my body goes into panic attacks (ie. not mental panic, but stuff like night sweats - not fun) about 1 week after consumption. With "Splenda" (sucralose - "discovered" when someone accidentally tasted a potential pesticide), I end up with my already high blood pressure (normally stable) to go crazy for weeks. Takes about a month to return to the "normal" range.
And yes, I'm fit (better than 99% of the population, at least) and not overweight. Glucose and other carbs do not cause any problems for me. I stay away from high-fructose corn syrup as that doesn't give me the energy of other real carbs.
Anyway, as soon as I cut out ALL Aspartame and "Splenda" completely (wasn't really drinking the stuff before much either), all my problems magically fixed themselves. Still have high blood pressure (primary - no one knows why), but at least that is stable and no more panic attacks.
Maybe aspartame works for some people. Let's hope it doesn't cause problems for them as it did for me. The concern is that my problems happened a long time after ingesting the stuff so there is no direct link like some people that get seizures. Very difficult to figure out what is happening. My guess is some long term metabolic system gets out of whack - it may already be out of whack somewhat hence the high BP.
PS. How do I *know* it is aspartame and splenda? Because that is the *only* thing I changed. I eat the *same* stuff as before with the exception of these two additives.
It is not about weight. It is about being fit and your body fat %.
That is why diets do not make you healthy. They may make you a little healthier, but a fit fat (not morbidly obese) person is healthier than a thin sedentary one.
Unless you are a rower or something, you are obese. Sorry.
Check your body fat percentage. Pigs have a 18% of fat. Fit white males are 10-15% or so (some lower). Fit black males go down to 6% or so. Females have more fat, OK as long as not on their stomachs (fat butts is OK for health women! And not that bad looking either:).
If your body fat is over 20%, well, you are fat. If it is over 30%, not good, not good.
high calories "carb" snacks? WTF? Find me *one* that is a snack not a drink.
Everything in snacks is either high fat, and saturated fat at that (chocolate, chips, fries, etc.), or high in the "So Great for You" high-fructose corn crap. The only high carb thing available are the soft drinks and "juices". Or people started eating high carb snacks like apples, oranges, bananas, pineapples? The calories in those are mostly all from carbs!
Fatness is from one thing and one thing only - eating too much *calories* and not getting enough exercise.
The low-carb propaganda just leads to
* depression (you need sugars for seratonin)
* kindey failure - switching your diet to high protein puts a heavy load on kidneys, and thus problems
* low energy (no carbs! guess what?!)
Carbs are really *needed* as long as you use them up! If you take a 800 calories shot of carbs from your McLarge Cola and then sit on your couch, you'll end up either fat or with diabetes or both. 800 carbs consumed => 1600 calories burned in exercise and you'll be fine and feel good. And no, diet drinks are even worse for you.
But then this the problem - people are inherently *lazy*. They will chose to die than get off their couches. At least that's what 60% of Britons would do. I bet it may be even worse in US.
Rotating universe would display average transverse motion that would be detectable. So far it is not. And that has nothing to do with 'Absolute space". You want to prove Einstein wrong by showing that preferred direction exists (absolute space), please, provide a reproducible experiment.
This is worse than the tragedy of the commons because at least (most) farmers understand the downside of over-grazing.
That is not tragedy of the commons. That is common sense. Farm land is not common. It is limited.
If you want tragedy of the commons, see:
* fishing (oceans and stock populations and current inaction over it - or action by Japanese to kill more whales to "fix the problem" (no fish, no problem))
* CO2 and other greenhouse gases
* Mercury (most mercury pollution in oceans,lakes,etc.), Uranium (2-4ppm), Thorium(4-6ppm) and other pollution from coal fired power stations - no one cares about those but bring up nuclear power and they tell you how Uranium is dangerous.
* Air quality in "developing" (eg. China/India/Bangladesh) or "developed" areas (Toronto and other major cities).
Internet is NOT a tragedy of the commons. It is a limited resource that ISPs need to pay for and thus if they start losing money, they'll up the rates. "Tragedy" solved.
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I thought OLPC was not about a "laptop" but about an educational tool?
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It is not about Linux, it is about the software you can use with it and the way it is setup to work. If you put a blank copy of Windows on it, the kids will be fscked over with a green, useless piece of crap.
* will they include python? (if I know MS, if they do, it will be some stripped down version of Visual Basic
* will they include other stuff in OLPC?
or just the useless OS?
3rd world get screwed over once more. As usual, by their own corruption and lack of forthright of their own so called leaders, as well as by the rich nations.
It is not easy to auto-test graphic based stuff. It is also even worse automatically testing applications where you reboot the test environment that normally runs inside a virtual machine, though I guess that should happen when you start fiddling with system driver updates in the patch.
I seriously doubt that games tend to have any form of automated testing. Especially something as eve (see its history with database shutdowns few months ago because of a patch they put in and didn't test)
It just did?
Actually, I would not even blame the QA for this. The problem is clearly in the dev camp for choosing boot.ini as a valid filename. It was a timebomb since they were using their own patch utility and not
Generally, for a non-system applications (eg. drivers), the QA is not responsible to test if the OS will boot after an upgrade, as the upgrade does not play around with OS's internals. Their own patch utility + type + boot.ini name timebomb are responsible for this fsck-up.
They not only stitched it wrong, they also retouched the merge lines making the resulting image *useless* scientifically. It is just a nice picture now that one may as well have drawn. You can't do any measurements with it as all relative information is basically lost through their effort to make it prettier.
Only if they get paid for it. Most programmers in India are not the same type of coders we have in US or Canada or Europe. Most OSS developers code because they like to. Most developers in India write code because they view it as something that earns them more money. It is a different mentality hence the low number of OSS developers in projects like Debian from India vs. US or even Canada.
Someone at Apple is going to throw an impeccably designed chair in California, made in China, about this.
In that case, the greedy bastards behind Asterisk are infringing this poor inventor's patient as well! I get emails with voicemail attachments all the time!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111111
</sarcasm>The above is sarcasm for politically correct moderators with no sense of homour
People advocating social Darwinism tend to be the ones that are well off financially, socially and health-wise. They are the ones that would probably not last a day in a real "survival of the fittest" world, but because of their status think they can dictate the morals of society.
:)
The less tolerant (aka pricks) should be well advised that they end up in the same hole as the poor, ill and otherwise disadvantaged individuals.
As to the GP, there is nothing wrong with being poor. There is more about wealth than what toys you can afford. I also have a prepaid cell and I find it that it is more than I need most of the time anyway. It is sitting there "expired" for most of the year
Use your brain man! One advantage doesn't imply overall better. Look at a bear vs. human. Bear will kill a human almost 100% of the time in a 1-on-1 conflict without other aids. It does not mean the bear is more evolved than a human. Same here. The chimp was able to memory more information than humans. That's the only result here. How does it involve evolution or Darwin astounds me.
Sometimes I wander how illogical thought can be viewed by some as being logical.
The chimps clearly can *memorize* the screen faster than a human. That is photographic memory. In experimental sciences, the experiment is the truth. This is the experiment that shows that the monkey was able to view and memorize the screen faster than a human. And no, monkeys see about the same as we do.
It is sad that the only thing we can come up with is a childish "no, we are better because I said so! the experiment cannot be true! whahahaha!". Sad. We are just a creature with limits and this experiment shows this. We should accept the results and move on. The results should humble us (oh, and it is another nail in the "humans are gods of animal world" coffin) and not start to deny the truth (experiment).
Don't look at market cap and start comparing one company to another. You *cannot* do that. It is not that simple.
Remember year 2000 and value of Nortel? Where did that "value" go? Or Worldcom?
Apple is the smallest company of the 3 mentioned. They have the least number of employees by far. They serve the least number of customers. Their market cap is so high because of speculation on part of the investor. IBM and AT&T are by far larger companies that are much more stable than what Apple is today. That is just an economic fact. Just look at P/E ratio of Apple vs. IBM or AT&T for comparison. Or the book value of the companies. Or the assets.
Today, Apple is a semi-niche company (graduated from niche few years ago). It cannot weather the same turmoil like AT&T, IBM or Microsoft. Although in many ways it is still more valuable than something like Google (very speculative there - like Nortel in 1999 IMHO - will advertising market hold in recession?).
As with the chips, it is just a business decision of Apple to switch suppliers for what they view as a better value.
Your post made my day. So it is ok to cheat and steal as long as you don't injure the end-user? Great! Thanks for the tip. Now I don't have to create something, I can just copy it and rip off the people that actually created it.
Theft is theft. Fair-use is fair-use.
Just buy from the same source like Lenovo or IBM and you should be OK. Of course, there is the price premium but then this is not toner for a printer ;)
There is a curses command line spreadsheet that even has Braille mode. It is called sc. You can look it up in Debian at,
http://packages.debian.org/sc
Word processing? The best solution is either LaTeX or something like markdown
http://www.attacklab.net/showdown-gui.html
Want web browsing with better support than Lynx and a TUI? Try elinks. Elinks does actual formatting for you.
What did I miss? Well, there is plenty of TUI games in Linux ranging from chess to nethack. Heck, you can be a darn good Linux/UNIX admin if you are completely blind and not even be much slower than sighted colleges. I'm not sure that would be the case on a Windows/Mac machine - at least not *now*.
Text user interface is probably best for people that can't see. If you can see a little, then I guess you can use magnifiers and similar. But if you want to get some real work done, then text interface is best as it is easiest for the the user/screen reader/Braille. On a TUI, stuff tends to happen in order (1D) which is easier to follow than trying to visualize a screen (2D).
I have yet see XP or Vista crash that is not caused by bad drivers.
;), passed 30 days uptime. No issues.
XP update in a virtual machine (run Linux after all
Vista, well, hasn't crashed on the box. Problems with virtual machine (kvm+qemu) as no networking support in qemu compatible with Vista, yet. But hasn't crashed in real installation (32-bit and 64-bit) either.
I suspect that any crashes in OS X may be driver related (video driver) though I'm using 10.4.10 version and that doesn't crash.
I've had linux crash in few releases in Debian though probably because of some driver and because I use it so much (nVidia drivers). Anyway, all of the major OSes (XP/Vista,OS X,Linux) are very stable and don't crash - bad drivers are almost always the problem and bad hardware accounts for vast majority of the rest.
Human body is a very balanced thing and sometimes it goes out of whack by the circumstances. That is why people can die of "fright" and shock. When you tazer them, you put their body into shock (unless they know *exactly* what to expect, like the morons that let themselves be tazered for fun - but at least they know what to expect). Some bodies can cope with it, some can't. Other systems break.
Any it is NOT possible to predict the path of the zaping in the human body! It goes between the two electrodes but you CANNOT predict the branching just like you CANNOT predict the branching of a lightning bolt. It goes the wrong direction, zaps a nerve tissue that sends impulses to your heart or adrenals or some other vital system. Or you fry a nerve or nerve bundle. Opps! Sorry, guy/gal dies! And then they say bullshit that the cause of death cannot be determined and probably underlying illness was an issue! Bullshit!
The only people that are reasonably safe from tazaring are muscled fit people that get hit in a large muscle away from major nerves so basically a Russian rullete, yey!. You get hit in upper back and the tazer zaps your spinal cord? Opps, game over. But no, tazers are not lethal. Fuck. These bastards are worse than the tobacco companies!
Tazer the morons firing these things on unarmed people right in the head. Can't hurt them - nothing there.
/rant
or should I say
/exited delirium
99% of people tazered should NEVER have been tazered. Police should ONLY use it IF AND ONLY IF the person is brandishing a non-gun weapon that can kill or severely injure the arresting officer (ie. if a gun would be used to kill the suspect). No other situation.
So, global warming is caused by ascended alien cyborg pirates observing the earth from a high vibrational dimension! It is so simple. Why the scientists don't even want to do studies on this??? Because of the secret alien-government hybrid cloning cover-up!
A lot of stuff hasn't shown to be anything (see the current issue with plastic bottles and link to cancer/ADHD/etc - wasn't a problem for a long time!). It doesn't mean it doesn't triggers things for some people (1% of the population of US is 3 million, but only a few statistically). When I drink/eat Aspartame, my body goes into panic attacks (ie. not mental panic, but stuff like night sweats - not fun) about 1 week after consumption. With "Splenda" (sucralose - "discovered" when someone accidentally tasted a potential pesticide), I end up with my already high blood pressure (normally stable) to go crazy for weeks. Takes about a month to return to the "normal" range.
And yes, I'm fit (better than 99% of the population, at least) and not overweight. Glucose and other carbs do not cause any problems for me. I stay away from high-fructose corn syrup as that doesn't give me the energy of other real carbs.
Anyway, as soon as I cut out ALL Aspartame and "Splenda" completely (wasn't really drinking the stuff before much either), all my problems magically fixed themselves. Still have high blood pressure (primary - no one knows why), but at least that is stable and no more panic attacks.
Maybe aspartame works for some people. Let's hope it doesn't cause problems for them as it did for me. The concern is that my problems happened a long time after ingesting the stuff so there is no direct link like some people that get seizures. Very difficult to figure out what is happening. My guess is some long term metabolic system gets out of whack - it may already be out of whack somewhat hence the high BP.
PS. How do I *know* it is aspartame and splenda? Because that is the *only* thing I changed. I eat the *same* stuff as before with the exception of these two additives.
From TFA: "To maintain this level, around 800 Argo floats need to be deployed per year"
So, the boxes die and are these removed from the ocean? Or just left there? But I guess one straw can't break camel's back.
It is not about weight. It is about being fit and your body fat %.
That is why diets do not make you healthy. They may make you a little healthier, but a fit fat (not morbidly obese) person is healthier than a thin sedentary one.
Unless you are a rower or something, you are obese. Sorry.
:).
Check your body fat percentage. Pigs have a 18% of fat. Fit white males are 10-15% or so (some lower). Fit black males go down to 6% or so. Females have more fat, OK as long as not on their stomachs (fat butts is OK for health women! And not that bad looking either
If your body fat is over 20%, well, you are fat. If it is over 30%, not good, not good.
high calories "carb" snacks? WTF? Find me *one* that is a snack not a drink.
Everything in snacks is either high fat, and saturated fat at that (chocolate, chips, fries, etc.), or high in the "So Great for You" high-fructose corn crap. The only high carb thing available are the soft drinks and "juices". Or people started eating high carb snacks like apples, oranges, bananas, pineapples? The calories in those are mostly all from carbs!
Fatness is from one thing and one thing only - eating too much *calories* and not getting enough exercise.
The low-carb propaganda just leads to
* depression (you need sugars for seratonin)
* kindey failure - switching your diet to high protein puts a heavy load on kidneys, and thus problems
* low energy (no carbs! guess what?!)
Carbs are really *needed* as long as you use them up! If you take a 800 calories shot of carbs from your McLarge Cola and then sit on your couch, you'll end up either fat or with diabetes or both. 800 carbs consumed => 1600 calories burned in exercise and you'll be fine and feel good. And no, diet drinks are even worse for you.
But then this the problem - people are inherently *lazy*. They will chose to die than get off their couches. At least that's what 60% of Britons would do. I bet it may be even worse in US.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6994632.stm
That made no sense. Sorry.
Rotating universe would display average transverse motion that would be detectable. So far it is not. And that has nothing to do with 'Absolute space". You want to prove Einstein wrong by showing that preferred direction exists (absolute space), please, provide a reproducible experiment.
lol, this is not a card. You can't "upgrade" your laptop - it is not a desktop.
Geez. I think someone got lost on the intertubes here.
That is not tragedy of the commons. That is common sense. Farm land is not common. It is limited.
If you want tragedy of the commons, see:
* fishing (oceans and stock populations and current inaction over it - or action by Japanese to kill more whales to "fix the problem" (no fish, no problem))
* CO2 and other greenhouse gases
* Mercury (most mercury pollution in oceans,lakes,etc.), Uranium (2-4ppm), Thorium(4-6ppm) and other pollution from coal fired power stations - no one cares about those but bring up nuclear power and they tell you how Uranium is dangerous.
* Air quality in "developing" (eg. China/India/Bangladesh) or "developed" areas (Toronto and other major cities).
Internet is NOT a tragedy of the commons. It is a limited resource that ISPs need to pay for and thus if they start losing money, they'll up the rates. "Tragedy" solved.