I can't seem to find the specs, but I doubt they come with 3G. How is free WIFI in populous parts of Thailand? rural parts? Devices are a good thing, but without Internet access or some infrastructure for getting educational content to students they will not be useful.
So your tourist view of a country gives you the authority to generalize an entire population (69 million). Do you speak any Thai languages? Have you read any indigenous poetry? Have you employed scientific social research methods?
I'm sorry, but it is flamebait, offensive and racist to call an entire country a population of uncreative service-people.
Absolutely. However, evidence suggests that this was not the case with Thomas Jefferson. Sally Hemings went with him to France where slavery was illegal and if she desired she could have left him and remained in France. She chose to stay by his side. That their relationship had to be secret during their lifetimes is tragic, and we can never know the full story. Evidence suggests Thomas Jefferson was a good man living in bad times.
Yeah I could not find out what the ornament was. (Will have to wait until I can get to the University library to download the paper). I would believe something like fossilized poop or teeth abrasions as evidence of what they ate, but "an ornament" warrants more description and explanation. Was it a pictographic manual of hunter-gathering?
I find it easy to tune into newscasts with a plain old Linux computer when I want news. No CNN, but news.google.com (ok not TV) and www.democracynow.org (1 hour long video or audio).
I haven't had a TV in years, and I'm going to cancel netflix soon too for the summer. Maybe re-open the account in the winter when it's cold out
Hi charitable contributions are extraordinary and great, unquestionably. However it's difficult to accurately say that he helped the world. You are comparing a known good to an unknown good.
For instance if history were different maybe no Bill Gates or no Microsoft anticompetitive practices, one might imagine a world where there were many more small business. Netscape might have still existed for instance. It is not a radical statement to say that many individuals lost their businesses due to Microsoft's anticompetitive practices. It is conceivable that the aggregate contributions of those businesses would have far exceeded the contributions made by Bill Gates.
I'm not going to make that argument. I'm just saying that doubt exists in my mind. Wikipedia says that B + M Gates plan on giving 95% of their wealth away. I wonder what 5% of their wealth is. It's probably more than enough for 7 generations of Gates to never work and still live like kings. Is it ethical for the Gates to really keep any more than they need?
These http://www.genesi-usa.com/products/smartbook don't look half bad. There are many many more on the market, but they are overshadowed by trendier tablets. Maybe windows 8 arm port will cause this to change.
If you can run a corporate win 8 desktop on arm, why would you want a powerhogging Intel?
I wish I had modpoints to give you for this. I wholeheartedly agree.
Although a good solution for those who are easily offended is a firefox plugin which makes 1/5 mediawiki pages fail to load, but leaves wikipedia intact
Coal gassification plants offer a much cleaner way to burn coal (or any biomass really). Not that I'm a proponent of growing dependence on coal, but there have to be sustainable alternatives (nuclear is not sustainable) like geothermal (might be very promising in Japan), wave and wind (I know it fluctuates, so you overbuild. There is consistent wind pattern and excess power generation could be stored in hydrogen)
This is a little different. You are free to implement your own search engine and implement a Google RESTful API but do not actually hit google.com. If Google objected to (or demanded payment) for you using their API independent of their services, then it would be the same thing.
Shouldn't the criminal phisher be responsible? So I leave my car unlocked and someone steals it. You could say "you idiot you deserve that". Does the thief gain legal rights to my car now? The bank is in a better position to try to reduce this type of scam. The non-security aware Joe, is really a victim who was pushed on to internet banking and then duped. Banks could require (or recommend) security awareness training for anyone who uses their sites, but afaik, they do not.
Most of the problems you cite are *highly improbable*. Nobody is claiming that a driverless car will never make a mistake, but the facts are many automotive fatalities each year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate This is because humans make mistakes. Our current system is not 100% safe. A replacement system does not have to be 100% safe, just better.
To evaluate a driverless systems success it is not meaningful to look at the least likely cases, but to look at overall whether or not it will reduce of increase number of deaths. If 90% of deaths are due to drunk drivers, and driverless cars only fail when say a bridge collapses (a very rare incident), then this will be a net win.
Not that i've rtfad or anything but i think isps in au and nz have metered charge systems. so if a neighbor uses your bw, you pay. They have every incentive to use your bw instead of their own (raising your bill).
Here in usa, i have no security on my wifi either, but it only grants access to my lan. To use the internet, openvpn is required. I usually relax that for guests as i cannot support every client.
My vision is Renewable->Electricity+Water->Hydrogen->Hydrogen blimp fuel Transportation network->Electricity and Vroom!
Coal power is awful, but there is no reason we couldn't use the existing petroleum style of distribution to move hydrogen (although blimps are more fun than Exxon Valdez!)
Even better hydrogen generation can be done where there is vast quantity of renewable resources. I'm not an energy expert, but in my imagination I see use harnessing energy from wave currents and using it to generate hydrogen, fill blimps and ship hydrogen to places that need power. And also there are a lot of islands that are geothermal hotspots with access to lots of volcanic energy and ocean water.
In our enterprise the big push is thin-clients through VMware View. Lots of people connect to these Windows 7 virtual desktops using IPAD + bluetooth keyboard (as well as Android devices, and laptops Linux, Mac and Windows). Not a lot of people always have access to Internet and have always available remote-access desktops today, but even today the situation is getting good enough that something like an IPAD could be a desktop replacement for a very good portion of the time.
How is tea a PITA? I just take a cup, drop two Ridgways organic Earl Grey teabags add water and pop it in the microwave. My problem with coffee is I tend to drink the whole pot, but with tea, I brew 1 cup at a time, so I can have that morning cup without being tempted to drink more because "there is more in the pot going to waste"
I use my IBM/Lenovo X60t for this purpose. To me, it is a high-end laptop (Intel core duo with 4 Gb of RAM and a 256GB SSD). Although by today's standards it is low-end. It is more than sufficient for me to code, access servers and connect to network devices. Thanks to the larger battery it can run over 3 hours on a full charge. With the big battery, it weighs slightly over 3 lbs. I transport it in my panniers on my bicycle.
From an artists perspective it has a 12.1" WACOM screen with a pressure-sensitive stylus input (XGA+ and 1400x1050 res), and under ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I can use inkscape, and gimp operating exclusively in portrait mode (although I can switch to whatever orientation suits me). I can draw on it pretty well, but still prefer pen and ink, a drawing board and a GIANT peice of paper. It is great for a digital artist, but I don't think it will replace paper-media for art. I do use it as a paper replacement for note-taking with xournal.
Bear in mind this device is over 5 years old. They never fully took off like the IPAD did, but the newest model (with Intel Core i7) is available today. If you are interested in the Lenovo Tablets, I'd suggest and EBAY search for an X60T. They are quite inexpensive at this point or if you have lots of money, go for the newest one. I wonder what an i7 does to battery life though....
Feel free to ping me directly if you want to work on pen-tablet-art software for Linux. I love this platform and am sticking with it. I don't know if the rest of the world will join us though.
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Internet access via tablets can enable distance education of this sort:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VRtujwa_b8
I can't seem to find the specs, but I doubt they come with 3G. How is free WIFI in populous parts of Thailand? rural parts? Devices are a good thing, but without Internet access or some infrastructure for getting educational content to students they will not be useful.
So your tourist view of a country gives you the authority to generalize an entire population (69 million). Do you speak any Thai languages? Have you read any indigenous poetry? Have you employed scientific social research methods?
I'm sorry, but it is flamebait, offensive and racist to call an entire country a population of uncreative service-people.
Absolutely. However, evidence suggests that this was not the case with Thomas Jefferson. Sally Hemings went with him to France where slavery was illegal and if she desired she could have left him and remained in France. She chose to stay by his side. That their relationship had to be secret during their lifetimes is tragic, and we can never know the full story. Evidence suggests Thomas Jefferson was a good man living in bad times.
He fathered children from a slavewoman. There is no evidence that he treated her any different than family.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Hemings
He was also opposed to slavery, but did not think the south could handle integration and continued to own slaves.
Yeah I could not find out what the ornament was. (Will have to wait until I can get to the University library to download the paper). I would believe something like fossilized poop or teeth abrasions as evidence of what they ate, but "an ornament" warrants more description and explanation. Was it a pictographic manual of hunter-gathering?
I find it easy to tune into newscasts with a plain old Linux computer when I want news. No CNN, but news.google.com (ok not TV) and www.democracynow.org (1 hour long video or audio).
I haven't had a TV in years, and I'm going to cancel netflix soon too for the summer. Maybe re-open the account in the winter when it's cold out
Hi charitable contributions are extraordinary and great, unquestionably. However it's difficult to accurately say that he helped the world. You are comparing a known good to an unknown good.
For instance if history were different maybe no Bill Gates or no Microsoft anticompetitive practices, one might imagine a world where there were many more small business. Netscape might have still existed for instance. It is not a radical statement to say that many individuals lost their businesses due to Microsoft's anticompetitive practices. It is conceivable that the aggregate contributions of those businesses would have far exceeded the contributions made by Bill Gates.
I'm not going to make that argument. I'm just saying that doubt exists in my mind. Wikipedia says that B + M Gates plan on giving 95% of their wealth away. I wonder what 5% of their wealth is. It's probably more than enough for 7 generations of Gates to never work and still live like kings. Is it ethical for the Gates to really keep any more than they need?
These http://www.genesi-usa.com/products/smartbook don't look half bad. There are many many more on the market, but they are overshadowed by trendier tablets. Maybe windows 8 arm port will cause this to change.
If you can run a corporate win 8 desktop on arm, why would you want a powerhogging Intel?
I wish I had modpoints to give you for this. I wholeheartedly agree.
Although a good solution for those who are easily offended is a firefox plugin which makes 1/5 mediawiki pages fail to load, but leaves wikipedia intact
Coal gassification plants offer a much cleaner way to burn coal (or any biomass really). Not that I'm a proponent of growing dependence on coal, but there have to be sustainable alternatives (nuclear is not sustainable) like geothermal (might be very promising in Japan), wave and wind (I know it fluctuates, so you overbuild. There is consistent wind pattern and excess power generation could be stored in hydrogen)
This is a little different. You are free to implement your own search engine and implement a Google RESTful API but do not actually hit google.com. If Google objected to (or demanded payment) for you using their API independent of their services, then it would be the same thing.
Shouldn't the criminal phisher be responsible? So I leave my car unlocked and someone steals it. You could say "you idiot you deserve that". Does the thief gain legal rights to my car now?
The bank is in a better position to try to reduce this type of scam. The non-security aware Joe, is really a victim who was pushed on to internet banking and then duped. Banks could require (or recommend) security awareness training for anyone who uses their sites, but afaik, they do not.
Plus the cost of storage/MicroSD card.
goggles?
I find my brain forgets things. Keeping notes (typed of written) allows me to organize my thoughts and retain bits of stuff when I review later.
I use Ibm X servers (X60t) and xournal with stylus for math/equations/drawings, but vim in laptop mode for everything else.
Most of the problems you cite are *highly improbable*. Nobody is claiming that a driverless car will never make a mistake, but the facts are many automotive fatalities each year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate
This is because humans make mistakes. Our current system is not 100% safe. A replacement system does not have to be 100% safe, just better.
To evaluate a driverless systems success it is not meaningful to look at the least likely cases, but to look at overall whether or not it will reduce of increase number of deaths. If 90% of deaths are due to drunk drivers, and driverless cars only fail when say a bridge collapses (a very rare incident), then this will be a net win.
The $599.00 android tablets are $200.00 overpriced.
How about the $400 Galaxy Tab 10.1 (lighter, bigger screen and nicer to use IMHO than iPad v. any)?
"is your password a complicated password?" ...
"no its simple"
"what is it"
"acomplicatedpassword"
"i thought you it was simple"
Not that i've rtfad or anything but i think isps in au and nz have metered charge systems. so if a neighbor uses your bw, you pay. They have every incentive to use your bw instead of their own (raising your bill).
Here in usa, i have no security on my wifi either, but it only grants access to my lan. To use the internet, openvpn is required. I usually relax that for guests as i cannot support every client.
My vision is Renewable->Electricity+Water->Hydrogen->Hydrogen blimp fuel Transportation network->Electricity and Vroom!
Coal power is awful, but there is no reason we couldn't use the existing petroleum style of distribution to move hydrogen (although blimps are more fun than Exxon Valdez!)
Even better hydrogen generation can be done where there is vast quantity of renewable resources. I'm not an energy expert, but in my imagination I see use harnessing energy from wave currents and using it to generate hydrogen, fill blimps and ship hydrogen to places that need power. And also there are a lot of islands that are geothermal hotspots with access to lots of volcanic energy and ocean water.
In our enterprise the big push is thin-clients through VMware View. Lots of people connect to these Windows 7 virtual desktops using IPAD + bluetooth keyboard (as well as Android devices, and laptops Linux, Mac and Windows). Not a lot of people always have access to Internet and have always available remote-access desktops today, but even today the situation is getting good enough that something like an IPAD could be a desktop replacement for a very good portion of the time.
How is tea a PITA? I just take a cup, drop two Ridgways organic Earl Grey teabags add water and pop it in the microwave. My problem with coffee is I tend to drink the whole pot, but with tea, I brew 1 cup at a time, so I can have that morning cup without being tempted to drink more because "there is more in the pot going to waste"
I use my IBM/Lenovo X60t for this purpose. To me, it is a high-end laptop (Intel core duo with 4 Gb of RAM and a 256GB SSD). Although by today's standards it is low-end. It is more than sufficient for me to code, access servers and connect to network devices. Thanks to the larger battery it can run over 3 hours on a full charge. With the big battery, it weighs slightly over 3 lbs. I transport it in my panniers on my bicycle.
From an artists perspective it has a 12.1" WACOM screen with a pressure-sensitive stylus input (XGA+ and 1400x1050 res), and under ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I can use inkscape, and gimp operating exclusively in portrait mode (although I can switch to whatever orientation suits me). I can draw on it pretty well, but still prefer pen and ink, a drawing board and a GIANT peice of paper. It is great for a digital artist, but I don't think it will replace paper-media for art. I do use it as a paper replacement for note-taking with xournal.
Bear in mind this device is over 5 years old. They never fully took off like the IPAD did, but the newest model (with Intel Core i7) is available today. If you are interested in the Lenovo Tablets, I'd suggest and EBAY search for an X60T. They are quite inexpensive at this point or if you have lots of money, go for the newest one. I wonder what an i7 does to battery life though....
Feel free to ping me directly if you want to work on pen-tablet-art software for Linux. I love this platform and am sticking with it. I don't know if the rest of the world will join us though.