I've got 10,000 files just in my photos directory. If I want to move them to another computer, I am 2/3 of the way to loosing my family photos. I'm sure that there are lots of people with more pictures than me.
I don't know what your talking about. If we all followed Gores plan and commit suicide, no human would ever go to war again. Dead people are peaceful after all.
This could be market research. If they sell more DRMed music for the same price as the same music offered DRM free, you can bet that it will be spun as users wanting DRM.
I have over 10,000 photos on my hard disk, weighing in at a little over 15GB. I didn't really start taking a lot of photos until I went digital, because it is a pain in the ass to deal with storing paper photos. Today, I don't use my camcorder much, because storing all of those tapes is a pain, and hard drives are just not nearly big enough to realistically put all of the video on the hard drive.
Not only is 4TB not that big, but there are uses that I'm not even bothering to consider because disk storage isn't big enough. How about security cameras. At ~3GB an hour, that is 72Gb a day for each camera. If you had 7 cameras around your home (or business), that would be ~500GB a day. A 4TB drive would only last 8 days.
Of course, depending on the application, you might want to have a second copy of your data as a backup. This means that you could easily go through a 4 TB drive every 4 days. So, maybe drives will be big enough when we hit the 1PB size. Of course this is under the premise that video doesn't get dramatically higher resolution, and that we don't come up with a new data type that requires even more space.
Oh, and I am going to want this data replicated between my server, laptop, and car, so we need to triple all of those number.
That's my personal storage needs. I'm sure there are others that would want more, and businesses that would have well over 100 cameras.
Sorry, but humans who have only been taught to sort by color cannot be put in front of books and successfully sort by alphabet. You just think they can because you forget that every child is taught to sort by alphabet in grade school.
Sex with machines is already down right common. Ever heard of a vibrator? Most women have them. So, the having sex with a machine part has already been covered by half of the population. For the 'relationship' part. Just look at how many people look at their dogs. When these psychos say that their dog is their 'Baby', they are not kidding. If you point out to them that it is a dog, and not a human, at best, you can expect them to get angry at you for intruding on their fantasy, and 2 minutes later, it will be like it never happened.
Now, imagine if those dogs looked, walked, and talked like a human. The issue would be enhanced 10 fold.
The thing that makes me say "hmmmm..." is that it is always assumed that the robotic sex/relationship partner industry will be driven by men as customers. Given that the current machine sex partner industry is driven by sales to women, it seems likely that advancements in technology would be sold to them first.
I don't want it in flac. I want a zip file that contains an ISO and images for packaging. I then want a discount for doing the manufacturing myself instead of paying extra for it. I can rip to flac myself, but I want to know that when I make a CD and put it in a player, it can go out to the CDDB and get all of the details.
The other option I want is downloads via flac that is followed up by a physical disk in the mail. This would give me all of the professionally produced packaging and pressed disk, while still giving me the instant satisfaction of getting the music by download.
"However, I'd guess if you look around hard enough, you could find five, or maybe even six billion people around the world who live out Al Gore's message better than he does."
Given that at the end of "An Inconvenient Truth", they put up on the screen that you can reduce your carbon output to 0, I would guess that there are not any people who live by Al Gores message. Although, I do look forward to Al Gore demonstrating his technique for this.
"It probably came pre-installed, and her complaint is with the complexity of installing any OS."
This is absolute BS. A month after turning 2, my son did his first Ubuntu install. No problems. While I am happy accept that he is a freaking genius, I reluctantly have to assume that the ability for my son to install Ubuntu at 2 years old, has more to do with the fact that it is dead easy to install than him having super human intelligence.
"Gee I guess there is a shortage of crowds in California."
No, they just figure that getting caught taking secret pictures of a hairy anti-war protester is going to be less damaging to their career than getting caught taking secret pictures of a leather boy in assless chaps at the annual gay pride parade.
That is exactly what I want. Heck, have cd burning on there and a web browser that has DistroWatch bookmarked, and it will make sure that even a system where the drive is totally corrupted, can get the latests and greatest version of whatever distro the user wants. It would also silence any complaints over which distro they chose, as it would be assumed that you would pick your favorite, or if you don't have a favorite, you would pick the one with the highest download numbers on DistroWatch.
Sorry, I should have said that I want this supported by the hardware manufacturer. If I call them saying that hardware has failed, I don't want to have to argue about it, and I definitely don't want to have to format my drive to prove it isn't a software problem. I want to put in a CD that the manufacturer agrees will load the hardware into a usable state. If the computer fails to function, then there would be no argument about whether it is hardware or software.
I want a live CD that has drivers for all of the hardware, and applications to test with. This way if the machine acts up, I can put the install CD in, and know immediately whether the problem is hardware or software related. Preferably the disk would have recovery applications, and the ability to connect to the manufacturer for screen sharing initiated by the user.
Of course, for installing on a hard disk, I want to make my own choices in hardware.
I'm wondering how this isn't liable against every Linux user out there. He is publicly calling us all patent violators, and it appears that he knows it isn't true. Is there a reason that some lawyer doesn't start up a class action suit against MS for liable?
"Do you believe in a God? How do you think God would feel about you being so selfish that you will allow children to get sick and or die because of your greed!"
Good thing they had not thought of that before. Otherwise, they might have pointed out to you that ultimitely it was "God's" decision, and if he is willing to sit by and watch, they would not be in a position to argue.
Did you read your own link? All it says is that it wants poor kids to learn to learn. Beyond that, it is a whole lot of wasted space saying nothing. There is nothing on the page you linked to that could not be satisfied by a C64 based computer. In fact, it would be satisfied better, as a C64 is simple enough that those new to computers could actually learn how it works internally.
For the non-computer related learning, the C64 was capable 20 years ago, and is capable today. What exactly, besides web browsing (which will still need infrastructure) is the "$100" laptop supposed to do that could not be done on a C64?
"The OLPC is very clearly not a "high powered" laptop You are obviously spoiled to the point that you have become delusional. In the range of computers from the Z80 through the Core 2 Duo, the Geode 433 is far closer to a Ferrari than a Pinto. Just because you can buy a faster one in in the first world does not mean that the "$100" laptop isn't a high powered device.
Besides, the fact that the device is no longer crank operated means that it is not suited to the original requirements.
The OLPC certainly appears to be a way to get tax free charitable donations to pay for R&D. Of course time will tell...
And, comments like this show that the OLPC is a fraud. Networking is not needed for education. Yes, it might be nice, but certainly not necessary. Of course, it isn't going to be as great for selling to the first world countries after all of the R&D is done with money that was intended to be used for charity.
It's very simple. For an educational computer, the C64 has plenty of power for a third world computer. There are plenty of people in 1st world countries that ran their businesses of of C64s. They did their homework off of C64. Heck, they even connected to networks with their C64s.
I realize that many people now don't understand how the computers they use work, and they think that a computer is the screen that connects them the the Interweb, but when I dialed into the local BBS on my C64, I was using Networking.
It never ceases to amaze me how people will lament that third world children don't have computers, but think that if they can't have a high powered, wireless, internet connected, high resolution laptop, then they might as well not have anything at all.
Clearly, what you think the OLPCs goals are, (and what they actually are) are not what they are publicly stating that.
I figured that the lesson learned from the $100 laptop was how to get other of people to pay for your commercial R&D while praising you for being a humanitarian by claiming that your product will be much cheaper than is realistic, claiming that you are doing if for charity, and maybe selling a few thousand at cost when you get it far enough along to be manufactured.
This project is a scam. If the goal is to teach kids about computers, there are much cheaper, and far more durable ways to do it. I can't find it know, but when the "$100" PC was first announced, I went out and priced what it would cost to build a PC based around a C64 as a core, and I could get the parts RETAIL in single unit prices for ~$90. The only thing that was not included was the wireless networking, but it did include the hand crank, as the DTV (C64) runs off of 4 AA batteries. It shouldn't be that hard to generate 6 volts with a hand crank.
OK, but that makes no sense given that the story is about how the record company doesn't like it's deal with Apple, but doesn't have a real choice due to Apples hold on the downloadable music market. This makes it sound like people are making excuses for Apple.
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I've got 10,000 files just in my photos directory. If I want to move them to another computer, I am 2/3 of the way to loosing my family photos. I'm sure that there are lots of people with more pictures than me.
I don't know what your talking about. If we all followed Gores plan and commit suicide, no human would ever go to war again. Dead people are peaceful after all.
"In fact, you can even reduce your carbon emissions to zero."
Al Gore
This could be market research. If they sell more DRMed music for the same price as the same music offered DRM free, you can bet that it will be spun as users wanting DRM.
I have over 10,000 photos on my hard disk, weighing in at a little over 15GB. I didn't really start taking a lot of photos until I went digital, because it is a pain in the ass to deal with storing paper photos. Today, I don't use my camcorder much, because storing all of those tapes is a pain, and hard drives are just not nearly big enough to realistically put all of the video on the hard drive.
Not only is 4TB not that big, but there are uses that I'm not even bothering to consider because disk storage isn't big enough. How about security cameras. At ~3GB an hour, that is 72Gb a day for each camera. If you had 7 cameras around your home (or business), that would be ~500GB a day. A 4TB drive would only last 8 days.
Of course, depending on the application, you might want to have a second copy of your data as a backup. This means that you could easily go through a 4 TB drive every 4 days. So, maybe drives will be big enough when we hit the 1PB size. Of course this is under the premise that video doesn't get dramatically higher resolution, and that we don't come up with a new data type that requires even more space.
Oh, and I am going to want this data replicated between my server, laptop, and car, so we need to triple all of those number.
That's my personal storage needs. I'm sure there are others that would want more, and businesses that would have well over 100 cameras.
Sorry, but humans who have only been taught to sort by color cannot be put in front of books and successfully sort by alphabet. You just think they can because you forget that every child is taught to sort by alphabet in grade school.
Sex with machines is already down right common. Ever heard of a vibrator? Most women have them. So, the having sex with a machine part has already been covered by half of the population. For the 'relationship' part. Just look at how many people look at their dogs. When these psychos say that their dog is their 'Baby', they are not kidding. If you point out to them that it is a dog, and not a human, at best, you can expect them to get angry at you for intruding on their fantasy, and 2 minutes later, it will be like it never happened.
Now, imagine if those dogs looked, walked, and talked like a human. The issue would be enhanced 10 fold.
The thing that makes me say "hmmmm..." is that it is always assumed that the robotic sex/relationship partner industry will be driven by men as customers. Given that the current machine sex partner industry is driven by sales to women, it seems likely that advancements in technology would be sold to them first.
I don't want it in flac. I want a zip file that contains an ISO and images for packaging. I then want a discount for doing the manufacturing myself instead of paying extra for it. I can rip to flac myself, but I want to know that when I make a CD and put it in a player, it can go out to the CDDB and get all of the details.
The other option I want is downloads via flac that is followed up by a physical disk in the mail. This would give me all of the professionally produced packaging and pressed disk, while still giving me the instant satisfaction of getting the music by download.
Remember, the XO-1 is always discussed at wholesale prices, while the Fit-PC is discussed at retail.
"However, I'd guess if you look around hard enough, you could find five, or maybe even six billion people around the world who live out Al Gore's message better than he does."
Given that at the end of "An Inconvenient Truth", they put up on the screen that you can reduce your carbon output to 0, I would guess that there are not any people who live by Al Gores message. Although, I do look forward to Al Gore demonstrating his technique for this.
You left out the part where the station wagons drop anti-tank mines all over the roadways.
"It probably came pre-installed, and her complaint is with the complexity of installing any OS."
This is absolute BS. A month after turning 2, my son did his first Ubuntu install. No problems. While I am happy accept that he is a freaking genius, I reluctantly have to assume that the ability for my son to install Ubuntu at 2 years old, has more to do with the fact that it is dead easy to install than him having super human intelligence.
"Gee I guess there is a shortage of crowds in California."
No, they just figure that getting caught taking secret pictures of a hairy anti-war protester is going to be less damaging to their career than getting caught taking secret pictures of a leather boy in assless chaps at the annual gay pride parade.
That is exactly what I want. Heck, have cd burning on there and a web browser that has DistroWatch bookmarked, and it will make sure that even a system where the drive is totally corrupted, can get the latests and greatest version of whatever distro the user wants. It would also silence any complaints over which distro they chose, as it would be assumed that you would pick your favorite, or if you don't have a favorite, you would pick the one with the highest download numbers on DistroWatch.
Sorry, I should have said that I want this supported by the hardware manufacturer. If I call them saying that hardware has failed, I don't want to have to argue about it, and I definitely don't want to have to format my drive to prove it isn't a software problem. I want to put in a CD that the manufacturer agrees will load the hardware into a usable state. If the computer fails to function, then there would be no argument about whether it is hardware or software.
I want a live CD that has drivers for all of the hardware, and applications to test with. This way if the machine acts up, I can put the install CD in, and know immediately whether the problem is hardware or software related. Preferably the disk would have recovery applications, and the ability to connect to the manufacturer for screen sharing initiated by the user.
Of course, for installing on a hard disk, I want to make my own choices in hardware.
I'm wondering how this isn't liable against every Linux user out there. He is publicly calling us all patent violators, and it appears that he knows it isn't true. Is there a reason that some lawyer doesn't start up a class action suit against MS for liable?
It's blasphemous to say that God is sinning! Even if you call it a sin of omission.
"Do you believe in a God? How do you think God would feel about you being so selfish that you will allow children to get sick and or die because of your greed!"
Good thing they had not thought of that before. Otherwise, they might have pointed out to you that ultimitely it was "God's" decision, and if he is willing to sit by and watch, they would not be in a position to argue.
"The OLPC is very clearly not a "high powered" laptop You are obviously spoiled to the point that you have become delusional. In the range of computers from the Z80 through the Core 2 Duo, the Geode 433 is far closer to a Ferrari than a Pinto. Just because you can buy a faster one in in the first world does not mean that the "$100" laptop isn't a high powered device.
Besides, the fact that the device is no longer crank operated means that it is not suited to the original requirements.
The OLPC certainly appears to be a way to get tax free charitable donations to pay for R&D. Of course time will tell...
And, comments like this show that the OLPC is a fraud. Networking is not needed for education. Yes, it might be nice, but certainly not necessary. Of course, it isn't going to be as great for selling to the first world countries after all of the R&D is done with money that was intended to be used for charity.
It's very simple. For an educational computer, the C64 has plenty of power for a third world computer. There are plenty of people in 1st world countries that ran their businesses of of C64s. They did their homework off of C64. Heck, they even connected to networks with their C64s.
I realize that many people now don't understand how the computers they use work, and they think that a computer is the screen that connects them the the Interweb, but when I dialed into the local BBS on my C64, I was using Networking.
It never ceases to amaze me how people will lament that third world children don't have computers, but think that if they can't have a high powered, wireless, internet connected, high resolution laptop, then they might as well not have anything at all.
Clearly, what you think the OLPCs goals are, (and what they actually are) are not what they are publicly stating that.
I figured that the lesson learned from the $100 laptop was how to get other of people to pay for your commercial R&D while praising you for being a humanitarian by claiming that your product will be much cheaper than is realistic, claiming that you are doing if for charity, and maybe selling a few thousand at cost when you get it far enough along to be manufactured.
This project is a scam. If the goal is to teach kids about computers, there are much cheaper, and far more durable ways to do it. I can't find it know, but when the "$100" PC was first announced, I went out and priced what it would cost to build a PC based around a C64 as a core, and I could get the parts RETAIL in single unit prices for ~$90. The only thing that was not included was the wireless networking, but it did include the hand crank, as the DTV (C64) runs off of 4 AA batteries. It shouldn't be that hard to generate 6 volts with a hand crank.
Ahhh... That makes more sense.
OK, but that makes no sense given that the story is about how the record company doesn't like it's deal with Apple, but doesn't have a real choice due to Apples hold on the downloadable music market. This makes it sound like people are making excuses for Apple.
Now we know how they came up with all that Global Warming data!!!