Also, I'd like for it to now be legally disallowed to use the term "buy software" in a commercial context as it no longer applies and would falsely advertise what it is that we "purchase".
Seriously. If a person watches a commercial that says a product is for "sale". They go into the store and see a "sale" sign for the product. They then take the product to the cash register and offer to "buy" the product. The cashier runs the transaction, takes their money, and hands them a "sales receipt". How is this not a SALE of the product?
I don't know what US you are living in, but the one I live in does not limit the number of hours a week you work, and denying workers their breaks every 2 hours is common practice. If the lawyers don't think they can make a lot of money off the situation, they are not interested. This means either the worker must be a very well paid worker, or there must be a very large number of lower wage workers that can be defended in a single action. Anybody else is out of luck.
I would say the opposite. The netbook is inevitable. Of course, it is all down to definitions that pretty much equate to "A netbook is what I decide at the moment it is." Since a laptop 10 years ago would be called a netbook today, and laptops are not going anywhere soon. Here is how I see it playing out. Apple continues to try and be the big bad monopoly, and much like they did with the Mac, they will sell at an inflated price even when there are other solutions that are dramatically cheaper. List will leave an opening for the dozens of companies that run their competition's OS. Android. There will be a bunch of Android tablets released that will miss the mark on what people want. The thing right now seems to be to make tablets that too small to be useful as a 'pad', but to big to be useful as a phone.
Eventually, one of the manufacturers will figure out that the size is the killer feature of the iPad. It is literally just a giant iPod Touch, and that is what makes it really useful. I know that after playing with an iPod Touch, one of the first things I thought was "This is a decent device, but it would really shine if it had an 8 1/2" x 11" screen.
Once Android device makers figure out that a page sized tablet is in demand they will start making them, and they will overshadow the iPad in sales. Eventually, a developer will decide to use the bluetooth to connect two Android tablets together with one being the keyboard and the other being the screen. They will make a hokey bracket and hinge so that they will end up with an Android 'netbook' that can be held like a book with two pages showing, or can be set on a desk and be a more traditional 'netbook' with the keyboard being the touch sensitive screen. Will this be me? Maybe eventually if someone doesn't beat me too it. Once the first few homebrew 'tablettops' are out, some manufacturer will decide to start producing them right.
So, do you call two tablets that are joined into a clamshell a netbook? If so, they are not going away. If not, they are doomed.
You used a lot of words, but none of them describe Madoff as someone that welfare would have prevented from committing crimes. He argues against your point.
Your whole point boils down to "$800 a month on welfare or $800 a month as a drug dealer?". The problem is that is a false dichotomy. You forget about the option of getting $800 a month on welfare, AND getting $800 a month as a drug dealer. No matter how much you pay them on welfare, the amount that they get on welfare plus crime is always going to be more than the amount that they will get being just on welfare. The vast majority of people always want more money. Getting a job replaces welfare income. Crime adds to welfare income.
We have various forms of welfare. The lifestyle of people on welfare would be like royalty when compared to peoples lives just a few hundred years ago. Yet, we still have crime. We are not talking about people just trying to put food in their children's bellies when we look at the 'poor' in America and crime. By historical standards we pretty much don't have 'poor'. By today's standards we do. The reason is that once you get past the immediate need for food and shelter, wealth is pretty much defined by the ratio of your resources compared to those around you. This means that until you get to a Star Trek level of abundance, you will always have poor. And as long as you have welfare, crime will always be an available way to make someone a little less poor.
Personally, I think that welfare is frequently approached from the wrong direction. I have been poor. I mean my wife and I had a $40 a month food budget for the both of us poor. I know how cheap you can eat in America. While this was 20 years ago, and prices have gone up, the amount of money that people are given for food on welfare is WAY more than necessary. It used to drive me crazy watching people buy steaks and pre-mixed orange juice with food stamps, then buy their booze and cigarettes in a separate transaction because welfare wasn't 'supposed' to pay for cigarettes and booze.
Much better than food stamps which create an illegal black market, they should give away MREs. The main tweak to them would be to NOT make them taste good. (Whether they do or don't taste good, the military does try) In fact, make them nutritious, but taste bad on purpose. Give away with no questions asked all the MREs a person can carry. While there would likely be a greater amount of food waste, the cost should be off set by the massively reduced personnel waste we have now. If anyone could get them, it would wipe out the black market for food stamps and the resale of government food. By making them taste bad, it would provide an incentive to move off of them that giving money to people for food does not, without them ever having to go hungry.
I just finished 30 around the country car trip with my family between California and the Midwest. My wife drove, while I worked from the back seat. I had good 3G tethering coverage through most of the south side of the country. On the way back, going it wasn't as good as Wyoming and South Dakota had horrible coverage. All in all, I was shocked at just how good T-Mobile's 3G coverage is. At one time, it might have been fair to insult T-Mobile's coverage, but in Northern CA, my coverage is slightly better than I had with Verizon (Only slightly because they both seem to have almost 100% coverage). In the rest of the country, It was still pretty good. There are a couple of low population states that I wouldn't recommend T-Mobile in, but all in all, I have very happy with their coverage.
Bernie Madoff criminals are unrelated to the conversation. I guarantee you that Bernie Madoff is not deciding whether to commit crimes based on whether he can get Section 8 housing or not.
Greasy is not at all as straightforward as you might think. The man and the conformists agree on this point but not all the parents might. There are very healthy individuals who live on a diet composed largely of fats. Fats are filling fats make you not want to eat more, carbs do the opposite.
I am one of those people. On a high fat/low carb diet, I have to go out of my way to eat enough, and stay trim no matter how many calories I take in. With a high carb/low fat diet, I am starving all the time, and pack on the fat.
Part of the problem with the question is that it is kind of the wrong question. The differences between a pad and a netbook are the keyboard and touch screen. That is a pretty flimsly line to draw. Yes, it changes some of how you use it, but add a touch screen to a netbook, and the line gets fuzzier. Add a keyboard to a pad, and it is the same thing.
Personally, I would want to see a bracket added to the side of a pad, so that I can take it out as a standard pad, OR I could clip a second one to the first, and have a clamshell pair of pads. Then it could be held like an open book, or it could be set on the table with one screen being a full size keyboard, and the other being a monitor.
While they are at it, make sure that the device has a good hidd system in place so that you can easily connect external mice/keyboard/GAMEPADS, and you have a real winner. For bonus points, include software that lets you remote desktop in to you home system, so that you can have full access.
With the two screen system, you can have your full laptop, you can have a more natural book metaphor, you can have your iPad configuration, you have built in screen protectors, and if you want to play a game with a friend, you just unhook the two halves, and hand one over.
While I never believed that telepathy existed in humans, as a youth, I always found it odd that telepathy was considered impossible. You are right, although if you were going to make a brain reader, you should be able to make a writer that doesn't require an in ear speaker. The real trick that is still total sci-fi would be to splice up our genes so that we deposit whatever materials are necessary to make the radio reader/writer naturally in our bodies.
I want a notebook that is just a keyboard, monitor and battery pack with an indentation for my phone to become the mousepad. My phone is already powerful enough to be a general purpose computer. No, it isn't powerful enough to replace my desktop, but for most of the kinds of things that I do with my laptop, it would do just fine.
Bingo. I have sat through many lectures in college where the instructor was simply BSing their way through the subject matter, and many where they were just plain wrong. Not all of them mind you, but my experience with Wikipedia is that it is about as reliable as what you get out of a college. In both cases, you have to look at what kind of information is presented. Soft subjects are pretty poor. Hard subjects are generally pretty good, or at least verifiable. History is politically decided.
The ironic part is that I have yet to meet a person that calls it theft who hasn't "stolen" huge amounts of other peoples works. Ok, there are some infants and toddlers, but that is about it. Somewhere between the ages of 2 and 3, every person I have ever met started "stealing" other peoples "IP", and never stops until the day they die.
I know this is off topic, but this is exactly the problem that always gets dismissed when discussing public transportation. People (not saying you) complain about suburbs, and how other people should just move closer to their work. How we should all live close to work or at least public transportation stops in the insane idea that we can all just dump our cars. The situation you describe is exactly the problem of having too many people trying to live in too small of a space.
Of the criminals I have known in life, they have been criminals because it was easy at the moment. They did not look at the long term. The criminal behavior was also financial compatible with continuing to receive SSI, SDI, and Section 8. It is as likely as not that these programs increase crime as it is that they decrease it.
Ok, I read your link. You know, the one that praises the UI for Notes. I still call you out for trolling. The complain the guy had had NOTHING to do with caching. As was explained by the follow-ups to your #6. Unread marks are maintained for each USER. The unread marks replicate just like all other data. No caching issue at all. Basically you are complaining because Exchange is broken, and you want Notes broken in the same way. Why on earth would I want MY unread marks to be changed by YOU reading something?
Shared mail is generally a questionable action to take anyway. While there are a few exceptions, it is generally what incompetent admins do because Exchange is feature incomplete, and they try to set it up like Exchange. The proper thing to do is use the mail template and create a mail-in database. That way you don't have a user to maintain, and you are not paying for extra licenses that you are not using. Whether you are correctly using a mail-database derived from the mail template, or if you are incorrectly using a fake user, you can still have a mark to indicate that a document has been opened by SOMEBODY. Just put @SetField("GroupRead", "X") in the QueryOpenEvent of the form and add a column to show that. You can get fancier, but that is no harder than a simple Excel spread sheet. With Notes/Domino, you can have proper per user read marks, OR group read marks.
Of course, even though Notes handles it fine, I would like to know what tool handles it 'right' by your standards, and how that tool lets me know if I have read the email as opposed to anybody having read it.
I don't know, I have a stack of Wii games, and I don't own a single PS3 game. In fact, as I look through my library of literally over a thousand original console games, a good 90% of the games were purchased for systems that had been hacked. Maybe I am really that unique of a human being... Somehow I doubt it though.
How about car shock absorbers that recharge the car battery. I could be wrong, and I would love to see someone in the know run the numbers, but I would guess that there must be at least as much energy pushed into shock absorbers as there is in a regenerative breaking system.
Yes, it is not free, and yes, this suggestion will bring out the trolls, but you might want to consider Lotus Notes/Domino. It is ~$140 for the system, and ~$40 a year maintenance (Includes all upgrades) cost per user, but IBM isn't going anywhere any time soon.
It has good full text indexing, you can keep your mail on a client, and on the server, with incredibly flexible replication rules for what is stored where.
It supports IMAP, so it talks well to most clients.
The iPhone syncs seamlessly with it via ActiveSync, and an Android client is in beta as we speak.
It includes an http client, and the http client even offers offline access. That's right. You can use the http client, and still read your mail and write emails that will be sent the next time you make a connection.
It also has folders, but you can put any email into as many folders as you want, so you have the best of both Outlook folders and Gmail tags.
It supports auto-processing rules for automatic filing of data, as well as being a full development environment if you want to get really fancy.
It is brain dead easy to set up and maintain.
The server runs on Linux and Window, and the client runs on Linux, Windows and Mac.
I found it interesting that contrary to "common knowledge", when the speeds here just north of the Bay Area, were raised to 65mph, the number of accidents dramatically decreased over what I was seeing prior to the speed change. I suspect it is because the basics of driving at 65 are not noticably more dangerous than 55, and with each car spending less time on the road, we had less traffic congestion thus keeping cars on the road even less time. This meant that you not only had less time to get in an accident, there were fewer cars to get in an accident with.
No, They realized in the rush to be more Mac like, they got the button wrong, so now sometimes it closes the applicaions and sometimes it just closes the window and leaves the application running windowless in the task bar. is now in a context sensitive menu on a monitor that may or may not be the monitor running your application.
Bingo. At 1, I gave my son my old machine when I upgraded. I put ubuntu on it with eCompris. I spent maybe 5 minutes showing him that the mouse moved the mouse icon on the screen, and clicking the mouse made things happen. That and the keyboard. I then loaded the eCompris module that would uncover a picture when the mouse ran over it. It got progressively more difficult. A couple of hours later, I showed him how to turn on the computer, how to load his game, and how to properly shut down the computer. After that, I let him go. He was proficent at getting around withing a few days.
At 2, I formatted the hard drive and gave him the disk to install himself. He did it with no problem. I then used that to mock anyone that claimed that Linux was too hard to install.
At six, he does more general gaming, so he runs windows most of the time now, but he does periodically boot up Linux in VMWare to play around with some of the simple games on it.
There is nothing inappropriat about an adult computer for a 1 year old. Keyboards are cheap. Mice are cheap. If you are paranoid about the wires, just get a wireless keyboard and mouse.
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Not anymore than running a virtual x86 machine on an existing x86 machine.
Also, I'd like for it to now be legally disallowed to use the term "buy software" in a commercial context as it no longer applies and would falsely advertise what it is that we "purchase".
Seriously. If a person watches a commercial that says a product is for "sale". They go into the store and see a "sale" sign for the product. They then take the product to the cash register and offer to "buy" the product. The cashier runs the transaction, takes their money, and hands them a "sales receipt". How is this not a SALE of the product?
I don't know what US you are living in, but the one I live in does not limit the number of hours a week you work, and denying workers their breaks every 2 hours is common practice. If the lawyers don't think they can make a lot of money off the situation, they are not interested. This means either the worker must be a very well paid worker, or there must be a very large number of lower wage workers that can be defended in a single action. Anybody else is out of luck.
I would say the opposite. The netbook is inevitable. Of course, it is all down to definitions that pretty much equate to "A netbook is what I decide at the moment it is." Since a laptop 10 years ago would be called a netbook today, and laptops are not going anywhere soon. Here is how I see it playing out. Apple continues to try and be the big bad monopoly, and much like they did with the Mac, they will sell at an inflated price even when there are other solutions that are dramatically cheaper. List will leave an opening for the dozens of companies that run their competition's OS. Android. There will be a bunch of Android tablets released that will miss the mark on what people want. The thing right now seems to be to make tablets that too small to be useful as a 'pad', but to big to be useful as a phone.
Eventually, one of the manufacturers will figure out that the size is the killer feature of the iPad. It is literally just a giant iPod Touch, and that is what makes it really useful. I know that after playing with an iPod Touch, one of the first things I thought was "This is a decent device, but it would really shine if it had an 8 1/2" x 11" screen.
Once Android device makers figure out that a page sized tablet is in demand they will start making them, and they will overshadow the iPad in sales. Eventually, a developer will decide to use the bluetooth to connect two Android tablets together with one being the keyboard and the other being the screen. They will make a hokey bracket and hinge so that they will end up with an Android 'netbook' that can be held like a book with two pages showing, or can be set on a desk and be a more traditional 'netbook' with the keyboard being the touch sensitive screen. Will this be me? Maybe eventually if someone doesn't beat me too it. Once the first few homebrew 'tablettops' are out, some manufacturer will decide to start producing them right.
So, do you call two tablets that are joined into a clamshell a netbook? If so, they are not going away. If not, they are doomed.
You used a lot of words, but none of them describe Madoff as someone that welfare would have prevented from committing crimes. He argues against your point.
Your whole point boils down to "$800 a month on welfare or $800 a month as a drug dealer?". The problem is that is a false dichotomy. You forget about the option of getting $800 a month on welfare, AND getting $800 a month as a drug dealer. No matter how much you pay them on welfare, the amount that they get on welfare plus crime is always going to be more than the amount that they will get being just on welfare. The vast majority of people always want more money. Getting a job replaces welfare income. Crime adds to welfare income.
We have various forms of welfare. The lifestyle of people on welfare would be like royalty when compared to peoples lives just a few hundred years ago. Yet, we still have crime. We are not talking about people just trying to put food in their children's bellies when we look at the 'poor' in America and crime. By historical standards we pretty much don't have 'poor'. By today's standards we do. The reason is that once you get past the immediate need for food and shelter, wealth is pretty much defined by the ratio of your resources compared to those around you. This means that until you get to a Star Trek level of abundance, you will always have poor. And as long as you have welfare, crime will always be an available way to make someone a little less poor.
Personally, I think that welfare is frequently approached from the wrong direction. I have been poor. I mean my wife and I had a $40 a month food budget for the both of us poor. I know how cheap you can eat in America. While this was 20 years ago, and prices have gone up, the amount of money that people are given for food on welfare is WAY more than necessary. It used to drive me crazy watching people buy steaks and pre-mixed orange juice with food stamps, then buy their booze and cigarettes in a separate transaction because welfare wasn't 'supposed' to pay for cigarettes and booze.
Much better than food stamps which create an illegal black market, they should give away MREs. The main tweak to them would be to NOT make them taste good. (Whether they do or don't taste good, the military does try) In fact, make them nutritious, but taste bad on purpose. Give away with no questions asked all the MREs a person can carry. While there would likely be a greater amount of food waste, the cost should be off set by the massively reduced personnel waste we have now. If anyone could get them, it would wipe out the black market for food stamps and the resale of government food. By making them taste bad, it would provide an incentive to move off of them that giving money to people for food does not, without them ever having to go hungry.
I just finished 30 around the country car trip with my family between California and the Midwest. My wife drove, while I worked from the back seat. I had good 3G tethering coverage through most of the south side of the country. On the way back, going it wasn't as good as Wyoming and South Dakota had horrible coverage. All in all, I was shocked at just how good T-Mobile's 3G coverage is. At one time, it might have been fair to insult T-Mobile's coverage, but in Northern CA, my coverage is slightly better than I had with Verizon (Only slightly because they both seem to have almost 100% coverage). In the rest of the country, It was still pretty good. There are a couple of low population states that I wouldn't recommend T-Mobile in, but all in all, I have very happy with their coverage.
Bernie Madoff criminals are unrelated to the conversation. I guarantee you that Bernie Madoff is not deciding whether to commit crimes based on whether he can get Section 8 housing or not.
Greasy is not at all as straightforward as you might think. The man and the conformists agree on this point but not all the parents might. There are very healthy individuals who live on a diet composed largely of fats. Fats are filling fats make you not want to eat more, carbs do the opposite.
I am one of those people. On a high fat/low carb diet, I have to go out of my way to eat enough, and stay trim no matter how many calories I take in. With a high carb/low fat diet, I am starving all the time, and pack on the fat.
Part of the problem with the question is that it is kind of the wrong question. The differences between a pad and a netbook are the keyboard and touch screen. That is a pretty flimsly line to draw. Yes, it changes some of how you use it, but add a touch screen to a netbook, and the line gets fuzzier. Add a keyboard to a pad, and it is the same thing.
Personally, I would want to see a bracket added to the side of a pad, so that I can take it out as a standard pad, OR I could clip a second one to the first, and have a clamshell pair of pads. Then it could be held like an open book, or it could be set on the table with one screen being a full size keyboard, and the other being a monitor.
While they are at it, make sure that the device has a good hidd system in place so that you can easily connect external mice/keyboard/GAMEPADS, and you have a real winner. For bonus points, include software that lets you remote desktop in to you home system, so that you can have full access.
With the two screen system, you can have your full laptop, you can have a more natural book metaphor, you can have your iPad configuration, you have built in screen protectors, and if you want to play a game with a friend, you just unhook the two halves, and hand one over.
While I never believed that telepathy existed in humans, as a youth, I always found it odd that telepathy was considered impossible. You are right, although if you were going to make a brain reader, you should be able to make a writer that doesn't require an in ear speaker. The real trick that is still total sci-fi would be to splice up our genes so that we deposit whatever materials are necessary to make the radio reader/writer naturally in our bodies.
With this, it eventually just creates a level that you can beat...
I want a notebook that is just a keyboard, monitor and battery pack with an indentation for my phone to become the mousepad. My phone is already powerful enough to be a general purpose computer. No, it isn't powerful enough to replace my desktop, but for most of the kinds of things that I do with my laptop, it would do just fine.
Bingo. I have sat through many lectures in college where the instructor was simply BSing their way through the subject matter, and many where they were just plain wrong. Not all of them mind you, but my experience with Wikipedia is that it is about as reliable as what you get out of a college. In both cases, you have to look at what kind of information is presented. Soft subjects are pretty poor. Hard subjects are generally pretty good, or at least verifiable. History is politically decided.
The ironic part is that I have yet to meet a person that calls it theft who hasn't "stolen" huge amounts of other peoples works. Ok, there are some infants and toddlers, but that is about it. Somewhere between the ages of 2 and 3, every person I have ever met started "stealing" other peoples "IP", and never stops until the day they die.
I know this is off topic, but this is exactly the problem that always gets dismissed when discussing public transportation. People (not saying you) complain about suburbs, and how other people should just move closer to their work. How we should all live close to work or at least public transportation stops in the insane idea that we can all just dump our cars. The situation you describe is exactly the problem of having too many people trying to live in too small of a space.
Off topic rant over....
Of the criminals I have known in life, they have been criminals because it was easy at the moment. They did not look at the long term. The criminal behavior was also financial compatible with continuing to receive SSI, SDI, and Section 8. It is as likely as not that these programs increase crime as it is that they decrease it.
Ok, I read your link. You know, the one that praises the UI for Notes. I still call you out for trolling. The complain the guy had had NOTHING to do with caching. As was explained by the follow-ups to your #6. Unread marks are maintained for each USER. The unread marks replicate just like all other data. No caching issue at all. Basically you are complaining because Exchange is broken, and you want Notes broken in the same way. Why on earth would I want MY unread marks to be changed by YOU reading something?
Shared mail is generally a questionable action to take anyway. While there are a few exceptions, it is generally what incompetent admins do because Exchange is feature incomplete, and they try to set it up like Exchange. The proper thing to do is use the mail template and create a mail-in database. That way you don't have a user to maintain, and you are not paying for extra licenses that you are not using. Whether you are correctly using a mail-database derived from the mail template, or if you are incorrectly using a fake user, you can still have a mark to indicate that a document has been opened by SOMEBODY. Just put @SetField("GroupRead", "X") in the QueryOpenEvent of the form and add a column to show that. You can get fancier, but that is no harder than a simple Excel spread sheet. With Notes/Domino, you can have proper per user read marks, OR group read marks.
Of course, even though Notes handles it fine, I would like to know what tool handles it 'right' by your standards, and how that tool lets me know if I have read the email as opposed to anybody having read it.
So, again, I call you out troll...
I don't know, I have a stack of Wii games, and I don't own a single PS3 game. In fact, as I look through my library of literally over a thousand original console games, a good 90% of the games were purchased for systems that had been hacked. Maybe I am really that unique of a human being... Somehow I doubt it though.
That's not what Sony claims.
Seriously, what is wrong with or for that matter, the Notes client web client?
I call you out troll. I also call you out on your made up problem of not knowing if something is read or not. Unread marks replicate between servers.
How about car shock absorbers that recharge the car battery. I could be wrong, and I would love to see someone in the know run the numbers, but I would guess that there must be at least as much energy pushed into shock absorbers as there is in a regenerative breaking system.
Yes, it is not free, and yes, this suggestion will bring out the trolls, but you might want to consider Lotus Notes/Domino. It is ~$140 for the system, and ~$40 a year maintenance (Includes all upgrades) cost per user, but IBM isn't going anywhere any time soon.
It has good full text indexing, you can keep your mail on a client, and on the server, with incredibly flexible replication rules for what is stored where.
It supports IMAP, so it talks well to most clients.
The iPhone syncs seamlessly with it via ActiveSync, and an Android client is in beta as we speak.
It includes an http client, and the http client even offers offline access. That's right. You can use the http client, and still read your mail and write emails that will be sent the next time you make a connection.
It also has folders, but you can put any email into as many folders as you want, so you have the best of both Outlook folders and Gmail tags.
It supports auto-processing rules for automatic filing of data, as well as being a full development environment if you want to get really fancy.
It is brain dead easy to set up and maintain.
The server runs on Linux and Window, and the client runs on Linux, Windows and Mac.
I found it interesting that contrary to "common knowledge", when the speeds here just north of the Bay Area, were raised to 65mph, the number of accidents dramatically decreased over what I was seeing prior to the speed change. I suspect it is because the basics of driving at 65 are not noticably more dangerous than 55, and with each car spending less time on the road, we had less traffic congestion thus keeping cars on the road even less time. This meant that you not only had less time to get in an accident, there were fewer cars to get in an accident with.
No, They realized in the rush to be more Mac like, they got the button wrong, so now sometimes it closes the applicaions and sometimes it just closes the window and leaves the application running windowless in the task bar. is now in a context sensitive menu on a monitor that may or may not be the monitor running your application.
Bingo. At 1, I gave my son my old machine when I upgraded. I put ubuntu on it with eCompris. I spent maybe 5 minutes showing him that the mouse moved the mouse icon on the screen, and clicking the mouse made things happen. That and the keyboard. I then loaded the eCompris module that would uncover a picture when the mouse ran over it. It got progressively more difficult. A couple of hours later, I showed him how to turn on the computer, how to load his game, and how to properly shut down the computer. After that, I let him go. He was proficent at getting around withing a few days.
At 2, I formatted the hard drive and gave him the disk to install himself. He did it with no problem. I then used that to mock anyone that claimed that Linux was too hard to install.
At six, he does more general gaming, so he runs windows most of the time now, but he does periodically boot up Linux in VMWare to play around with some of the simple games on it.
There is nothing inappropriat about an adult computer for a 1 year old. Keyboards are cheap. Mice are cheap. If you are paranoid about the wires, just get a wireless keyboard and mouse.