Frankly, Xcode is awesome. Xcode 4 is more awesome still. I guess if you were raised up on MSVC++, it could feel less awesome, but it works great for me and hundreds of thousand of other developers.
See, I must disagree. The only successful tablet that you can buy is from Apple. Everybody and their mother put their toe in the tablet water, mainly to benefit the shareholders by appearing to take some action, but nobody other than Archos has a decently priced tablet yet, and the Archos sucks.
The tablet race only has one runner in it, and a guy in a wheelchair, and about sixty thousand ghosts who appear to move no more swiftly than a piece of fluff in a light breeze.
With Linux the OS supports itself. Teach the kids how to use man and apropos and ls and cd, and they can take care of the rest themselves. This is how I learned Unix when I was a kid.
My point was, for the usual desktop things, an old PC works fine. If they need tons of CPU horsepower because they figured out a possible cure for AIDS, then they can dump that problem off somewhere that has the horsepower to deal with the problem.
This is a good point. When dealing with any attorney, remember that their first duty is not to their client, it is to the court. They all swear this when they pass the bar.
Well, if Sugar on a Stick already exists, why are they fucking around with hardware?
In a lot of poor areas, power is still available. There are a nearly infinite number of used, but still fully capable computers out there. Maybe the OLPC project should be helping schools generate power and shipping them used computers by the palate.
OLPC jumped the shark when they bowed down to MS. How are kids supposed to learn unbounded when they have to deal with Windows? They are making users out of these kids, when they should be making explorers out of them.
The speed of the core doesn't really matter that much for rural learning. If these kids need to do galactic simulations, the OLPC project can pitch in and buy some time on a big service like EC2.
OLPC should be a Linux distro that runs on any major architecture, and is slim enough that you can throw it on a used computer from 1998 and run it without issue. It should also run on the glut of shitty quality me-too tablets that have been "announced" since the iPad came out.
What they need is something made of metal, with a metal screen protector, that opens up to expose a solar panel. That way the kids can prop the thing up in the window while they are outside playing, and when they get home it is all charged up and ready to go. Make it waterproof and you have a real winner.
I have tested out all kinds of Windows machines, and like everybody else on the planet, noticed that newer versions of Windows run slower on identical hardware!
If you'd care to show me that this isn't so somehow, I'd be delighted to look at your evidence. But as it stands, you have really only a feeling to go on, and that feeling may be the result of a need to mentally compensate for the fact that you spent a few hundred bucks on Windows 7 instead of something useful.
Oooh, yeah, MS is afraid of getting punished. Right.
Here's how MS operates: They do whatever the fuck they want, and then use power-lawyers to drag any court case on for years. Meanwhile they are still making big bucks. Then they get "grassroots" organizations to pay off congresscritters (in the USA at least) and eventually most of these cases lead nowhere.
Seriously, do you think they are afraid of *possible* consequences which would likely cost little money, when there are *actual* profits to be made in the meanwhile?
Another option would be to only allow value changes once per day. Then high frequency traders would be put out of a job and their manipulations would be for naught.
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"There is a reason why the laws are created by the society as whole and not a single person or a group with single interest."
Since when? Most of the laws created since I have been alive have been created by groups with single interests, who get them passed by graft.
Disobeying an unjust law is patriotic.
Frankly, Xcode is awesome. Xcode 4 is more awesome still. I guess if you were raised up on MSVC++, it could feel less awesome, but it works great for me and hundreds of thousand of other developers.
See, I must disagree. The only successful tablet that you can buy is from Apple. Everybody and their mother put their toe in the tablet water, mainly to benefit the shareholders by appearing to take some action, but nobody other than Archos has a decently priced tablet yet, and the Archos sucks.
The tablet race only has one runner in it, and a guy in a wheelchair, and about sixty thousand ghosts who appear to move no more swiftly than a piece of fluff in a light breeze.
In this case, it wasn't "consumers" who wanted Windows on the XO, it was Microsoft and their local lobbyists.
Windows is a maintenance nightmare. These kids would end up as part of a botnet faster than you can say Ballmer.
Windows CE is not the same as Windows x86.
Try again.
With Linux the OS supports itself. Teach the kids how to use man and apropos and ls and cd, and they can take care of the rest themselves. This is how I learned Unix when I was a kid.
My point was, for the usual desktop things, an old PC works fine. If they need tons of CPU horsepower because they figured out a possible cure for AIDS, then they can dump that problem off somewhere that has the horsepower to deal with the problem.
So build me a house using nothing but a piece of pocket lint and an expired bus transfer ticket.
A good workman has the right tools.
This is a good point. When dealing with any attorney, remember that their first duty is not to their client, it is to the court. They all swear this when they pass the bar.
Well, if Sugar on a Stick already exists, why are they fucking around with hardware?
In a lot of poor areas, power is still available. There are a nearly infinite number of used, but still fully capable computers out there. Maybe the OLPC project should be helping schools generate power and shipping them used computers by the palate.
OLPC jumped the shark when they bowed down to MS. How are kids supposed to learn unbounded when they have to deal with Windows? They are making users out of these kids, when they should be making explorers out of them.
The speed of the core doesn't really matter that much for rural learning. If these kids need to do galactic simulations, the OLPC project can pitch in and buy some time on a big service like EC2.
OLPC should be a Linux distro that runs on any major architecture, and is slim enough that you can throw it on a used computer from 1998 and run it without issue. It should also run on the glut of shitty quality me-too tablets that have been "announced" since the iPad came out.
What they need is something made of metal, with a metal screen protector, that opens up to expose a solar panel. That way the kids can prop the thing up in the window while they are outside playing, and when they get home it is all charged up and ready to go. Make it waterproof and you have a real winner.
I have tested out all kinds of Windows machines, and like everybody else on the planet, noticed that newer versions of Windows run slower on identical hardware!
If you'd care to show me that this isn't so somehow, I'd be delighted to look at your evidence. But as it stands, you have really only a feeling to go on, and that feeling may be the result of a need to mentally compensate for the fact that you spent a few hundred bucks on Windows 7 instead of something useful.
So will they cave in and make it Windows compatible?
Seems to me that a nice low-power ARM OLPC would be a lot more useful in a low-tech environment. The battery would last longer anyway.
I just think you are lying.
So, Windows 7 64 bit "feels" faster than Windows XP 32 bit?
Uh-uh.
Oooh, yeah, MS is afraid of getting punished. Right.
Here's how MS operates: They do whatever the fuck they want, and then use power-lawyers to drag any court case on for years. Meanwhile they are still making big bucks. Then they get "grassroots" organizations to pay off congresscritters (in the USA at least) and eventually most of these cases lead nowhere.
Seriously, do you think they are afraid of *possible* consequences which would likely cost little money, when there are *actual* profits to be made in the meanwhile?
"on a dual core 64-bit Athlon with 6 GB of RAM, Win7 is faster than XP is"
No, no it's not. Not even slightly. Unless you are comparing XP32 to Win7 64 bit.
I mean, it might feel plenty fast, but that is just subjective. Overhead for almost all operations have increased for Win7.
I guess you missed out on all the old DOS games that quit working when Windows 7 came out.
How about all the 16 bit Windows 3.1 apps that don't work under 64 bit Windows?
Trolling must be good fun, eh?
Advanced users got away from Windows years ago. In the modern world, Windows Power User is as powerful an insult as Slack Jawed Dolt.
I have a 2002 Powerbook G4 that runs 10.5 just fine. It runs the latest Safari, and I think you're full of it.
Besides, why not just stick with 10.4? Is there anything wrong with it?
If you apply the same reasoning you did to your Mac, to your 2002 PC, you should sell it for $30 because it won't run Windows 7.
Sure, it's valuable to them. However there are more important things than the value that traders get from split-second manipulations.
Such as the stability of the entire economy.
I bet I can take better care of your land than you do. Also, some guy beat me up once, so I have a right to take your land.
Reasoning like that will allow anybody to take anybody elses' land. It's fucking retarded.
Use, "hikers.". Sure. Keep telling yourself and everybody else they were hikers, I'm suee you will eventually believe it.
Hikers do not scout out the border regions of Iraq and Iran. Undercover spies do.
Another option would be to only allow value changes once per day. Then high frequency traders would be put out of a job and their manipulations would be for naught.
Even on my Mac Pro, the fans go into afterburner mode with flash video playing. I should mount it to the back of a semi-truck and go racing.