But you fail to see that whatever computer she creates may not compete with the OLPC at all. The OLPC is aimed at underdeveloped countries and is a non for profit effort, whereas this new computer could be aimed at the general American market (open market). They are completely two different kinds of markets, and it can even be argued that one of them is not a market.
Aahh yahoo sucks anyways. I find it stupid that, even after I have *already* opened an account, entered a darn captcha to verify that the guy who opens the account is indeed a person and then, logged in into such verified account, the darn games pages asks me to solve ANOTHER annoying captcha just for the sake of it... if they at least used recaptcha... but seriously have you seen Yahoo's captchas? sometimes it's impossible to understand them... and why ask for them to already authenticated users???
Lol I immediatly thought the same. Deffinitely this guy's hell punishment should be looking for the cause of a network failure due to one of the computers failing over a 100 clients ring.
This guy just babbled techspeak without knowing what he is talking about...
So instead of doing "cp file/usb" and then later unmounting the usb and having to wait, you can "cp file/usb; sync" and the writing will be done immediately. When you later decide to unmount the usb stick, it should happen immediately.
And what happens to the people using Ubuntu or other graphical operating system which do not know (or care) how to "cp file;sync" in a terminal? this is something that should be automatic for the desktop. And, another asked how is a program suppose to guess if the flash is a usb drive, I think it is pretty safe to assume that, if suddenly a new USB flash drive is found in the system and the user starts copying files, then that IS a removable drive.
I've noticed that on the same computer, with the same flash drive, Linux does a much faster job with file transfers than Windows
I would be interested in knowing what linux do you use because with the one I use (Ubuntu) I usually have problems after copying some files (about say 1.5MB) to a flash thumb drive because it takes a loooong time to write it and even when I have waited more than 10 minutes and click the "unmount" option it just throws and error saying that the device is in use and can not be unmounted (after it, the device seems mounted in the user interface but is inaccessible via terminal) and if I remove the drive, the information is lost.
Whereas in windows I lick "remove hardware safetly" and after about one minute it tells me that I can remove it safe and everything works fine...
What I find amazing is that not only did they took the picture but they hotlinked it instead of downloading a copy and hosting it.
Now, for the legal implications, it could be argued that hotlinking is not distribution or any kind of copyright violation. It is similar to what it is sometimes discussed here in slashdot, if it is in the internet it is available. When you "hotlink" you are not copying or distributing the data, you are just adding a link to such image (see the html source, a href=... source.jpg). I do not find anything illegal in that. Of course it might still not be ethical.
Completely kill the fun and independence of the open road for human fun....
Sure, just as photography killed the fun of painting your own landscapes and typewriting prevents you from handwriting a letter to your loved ones (that's, the guys who leave in the upper floors of your basement).
Seriously, technology is about choice and automatic driving technology is going to remove the necessity of driving while leaving you the choice of it. There surely is still going to be people wanting to drive in their lamborghinis at 250KPH and they will be able to do it, but after they finished and they wanted to go to London city centre to buy a starbucks they will not have to think about parking and other driving troubles.
Now, about the forecast, It is very good to see that the self driving cars will be just in time for when Duke Nukem Forever is released (as we will be able to play it while in the car)... and just about when we get our flying cars!
I love reading science fiction, specifically Asimov, Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke science fiction. Unfortunately such writings are getting old in their "fiction" side (some things are more like sad reality now). Does anyone know of any good science fiction authors writing these days? I am looking for science fiction and not SciFi or fantasy...
It is too hard to find good Science Fiction these days..
If you want to debate capitalism vs. whatever system you'd like to replace it with (I notice you didn't offer an alternative), then we probably need to look at the broader effects of each system rather than one case where you don't like what happened.
Hehehe, I never said capitalism was bad or had to be replaced, I just stated that such was the effect of capitalism.
But anyhow, you're saying that in your view Intel is the bad guy?
Not in this issue at least. As a lot of people have said, the people at the OLPC project do not want to commercialize the product in first world country. I am sorry but the product (the small computer with all the nice bells and whistles) does NOT cost $400 and although there are some good souls who would pay 2x the price to help a poor child, captialism just does not work like that.
If OLPC is really a beneficial project, then Intel's entry into the low-cost laptop market should be no threat to OLPC.
Of course not! they are two completely different "markets" (if you want to call the poor Africans or Americans [from the south of the American Continent that is]) a market... which suerly do not pay a lot.
They could have sold them for a small profit margin and use those profits to help the poor kids but they decided not to do it. That is where Intel comes into play. They might just want to profit in the market as the Eee has been doing since it was released.
Thats what happens when you leave the wonders of "capitalism" do their job. Everybody wants a piece of the $$$$$ and after they see that there is market for something they will try to milk the cow!!
To the editors, the source of such research is not the "University of Liverpool" but the John Moore's University (wich happens to be located in Liverpool also) as the article states in the first paragraph:
Professor Gareth Stratton and a team at John Moore's University in Liverpool
There are 3 Universities in Liverpool, UK. One is The University of Liverpool (recently renamed just University of Liverpool), secondly you have Jhon Moore's University and third is the Hope University.
Some of the worst offenders are musicians and bands that think having a arty web site will add something
Haha, that reminded me, some months ago I visited the page of a fellow slashdotter because I was interested in whatever he was advertising with his signature (with a link to his homepage) but after trying to guess wtf was the front page about I left bitterly.
I found outstanding that in 2007 you can still find pages in which each "option" of the homepage menu is depicted as an image which is *supposed* to represent whatever option the designer thought it will represent. The result is a terrible homepage with a bunch of images like collage in which you can not find whatever you are looking for.
In a similar issue, I am currently administrating the homepage of certain company, this company had a design done by certain designer, but the design is incomplete. Of course now, they need to add several other functionalities to such site but the "style" of the design was not made for that and anything you add seems like a terrible patch. I have already told them that if they want a good looking page, they should 1. Tell ME what is the functionality they want 2. Let me write the specifications of the pages and then 3. Send such specifications to the graphic designer so that he can make a design that considers all those options. But meh, they dont want to pay for a designer again...
I agree, whoever discovered the child porn in this guys computer didnt make anything wrong. He turned on the computer, made a few tests to see if the DVD writer worked in the computer and found some kind of files.
Then, because he thought that such files were a no no, he told to the police, whatever the police do next is not his problem.
He could have been looking at someones last vacation pictures or last modified word document. As you state, what would be wrong is to COPY them or worst, distribute them.
If the guy had child porn in his PC he should be punished and used to get the providers.
As I stated in a story before (what's the deal with so many eBook related stories in slashdot recently?), YOU may not need an ebook reader. For you daily needs, the properties of an ebook reader might not be useful at all but there is people that would benefit a lot from an ebook reader.
The main idea of an ebook reader is to carry lots (and i mean lots as in 1GB) of "rich text" (text and images) in an object the size of a real book. If you only need to carry one store every say, 2 weeks (thats how long I take to read a book), then a stanard book is good for you, but if you need to access to that 1GB of media in one day and you can not, or do not want to carry 500kg of dead trees then you certainly would benefit from an ebook reader.
In the later case you would have to choose between an ebook reader or a laptop, and this is when the e-paper comes into play, providing better display quality (for reading) and less power requirements (giving more battery time). If you are able to connect your device throughout that one day then you certainly may prefer a laptop however if you do not have access to the mains (you might be in a 10 hours flight, or in the middle of Eygipt, or in the middle of the rainforest in the lacandona forest [yes, that is a factual example], etc) then you would like a device that provides you with the *most* possible battery time.
I do not know how difficult it would be but, implementing a charging mechanism similar to the XO laptop or by shaking the device (or better yet, just shaking the battery) would also be beneficial for those cases.
While I won't buy M$, most people will, including grandpas and grandmas who don't know Mario from Halo.
And there is where you are wrong, grandmas and grandpas will *never* play halo! god, just make a test and give your grandma or other people over 50 a PS2 or Xbox 360 control, and you will see what I mean. Even if the game is very simple they will be scared. My mother and uncle had lots of problems playing SNES mario kart and Pilot Wings (but yet, they liked it) because of the number of buttons!
What these people is buying and will buy is the Wii, with that game about the sports (golf, bowling, tennis etc) and Wii play. Seriously, Wii play is ridiculously simple and boring (for hardcore or even some non hardcore gamers as me) but for these people, they ARE very funny and entertaining, and they CAN play it.
to burn a little to have the reason you came to work for the past 5 years be labeled
I do not have any sources to cite, but one of the things I clearly remember about Longhorn is that sometime around the first 2 or 3 years they realized that the windows they were doing was really terrible and therefore they had to start all over again (didnt they fired lots of the previous people working on Vista?).
Anyways, I still think Vista is just an amalgam of whatever technologies they had more or less available and others they could make functional just in time to release the OS.
Vista is very very very much like Windows ME, which IIRC, when they were implementing it, they said it would have a lot of bells and whistles and, as they could not finish it in time they just used Win98SE and stuck some UI changes. (and two years later they made XP available).
But grand parent has a point, people who is trying to buy the Wii is people who will NEVER ever buy a Xbox or Playstation 3 (grandpas, grandmas, Joe Average without 50 fingers, etc). The fact that they can not get the Wii at this time only means that they will wait until sometime next year or later to get it. Maybe their impulse will not be very strong after christmass, but once they play it again in their friends or relative's house, they *will* like it again.
In all seriousness, I think the BEST gift you can give to someone this (and every other) christmass is TIME. Really give them some of your time, talk with them, instead of wasting those 30 minutes looking for some useless gift, invite them a juice/coffee/pint/tequila/ or some food and just talk with them. Go out to do something together (no, cinema does not count, and is overrated;-).
This holiday is about loving your family, go be with them, instead of working extra hours to buy them plastic crap you won't even remember in two years! Ah crap, i just read that part of your message... but anyway I have already written mine so, although redundant I think people should be reminded twice or more to do it:)
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But you fail to see that whatever computer she creates may not compete with the OLPC at all. The OLPC is aimed at underdeveloped countries and is a non for profit effort, whereas this new computer could be aimed at the general American market (open market). They are completely two different kinds of markets, and it can even be argued that one of them is not a market.
Agree, Mary Lou is one of the persons who I believe deserve a slashdot interview. She and that cryptologist lady.
Aahh yahoo sucks anyways. I find it stupid that, even after I have *already* opened an account, entered a darn captcha to verify that the guy who opens the account is indeed a person and then, logged in into such verified account, the darn games pages asks me to solve ANOTHER annoying captcha just for the sake of it... if they at least used recaptcha... but seriously have you seen Yahoo's captchas? sometimes it's impossible to understand them... and why ask for them to already authenticated users???
Lol I immediatly thought the same. Deffinitely this guy's hell punishment should be looking for the cause of a network failure due to one of the computers failing over a 100 clients ring.
This guy just babbled techspeak without knowing what he is talking about...
So instead of doing "cp file /usb" and then later unmounting the usb and having to wait, you can "cp file /usb; sync" and the writing will be done immediately. When you later decide to unmount the usb stick, it should happen immediately.
And what happens to the people using Ubuntu or other graphical operating system which do not know (or care) how to "cp file;sync" in a terminal? this is something that should be automatic for the desktop. And, another asked how is a program suppose to guess if the flash is a usb drive, I think it is pretty safe to assume that, if suddenly a new USB flash drive is found in the system and the user starts copying files, then that IS a removable drive.
I've noticed that on the same computer, with the same flash drive, Linux does a much faster job with file transfers than Windows
I would be interested in knowing what linux do you use because with the one I use (Ubuntu) I usually have problems after copying some files (about say 1.5MB) to a flash thumb drive because it takes a loooong time to write it and even when I have waited more than 10 minutes and click the "unmount" option it just throws and error saying that the device is in use and can not be unmounted (after it, the device seems mounted in the user interface but is inaccessible via terminal) and if I remove the drive, the information is lost.
Whereas in windows I lick "remove hardware safetly" and after about one minute it tells me that I can remove it safe and everything works fine...
What I find amazing is that not only did they took the picture but they hotlinked it instead of downloading a copy and hosting it.
Now, for the legal implications, it could be argued that hotlinking is not distribution or any kind of copyright violation. It is similar to what it is sometimes discussed here in slashdot, if it is in the internet it is available. When you "hotlink" you are not copying or distributing the data, you are just adding a link to such image (see the html source, a href=... source.jpg). I do not find anything illegal in that. Of course it might still not be ethical.
You are thinking of Methylene Blue. Which was used against malaria until people rejected it for turning their urine green.
Completely kill the fun and independence of the open road for human fun. ...
Sure, just as photography killed the fun of painting your own landscapes and typewriting prevents you from handwriting a letter to your loved ones (that's, the guys who leave in the upper floors of your basement).
Seriously, technology is about choice and automatic driving technology is going to remove the necessity of driving while leaving you the choice of it. There surely is still going to be people wanting to drive in their lamborghinis at 250KPH and they will be able to do it, but after they finished and they wanted to go to London city centre to buy a starbucks they will not have to think about parking and other driving troubles.
Now, about the forecast, It is very good to see that the self driving cars will be just in time for when Duke Nukem Forever is released (as we will be able to play it while in the car)... and just about when we get our flying cars!
I love reading science fiction, specifically Asimov, Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke science fiction. Unfortunately such writings are getting old in their "fiction" side (some things are more like sad reality now). Does anyone know of any good science fiction authors writing these days? I am looking for science fiction and not SciFi or fantasy...
It is too hard to find good Science Fiction these days..
Any chance to get a port of a Linux SIP application for the DS??? (can be console based!)
If you want to debate capitalism vs. whatever system you'd like to replace it with (I notice you didn't offer an alternative), then we probably need to look at the broader effects of each system rather than one case where you don't like what happened.
Hehehe, I never said capitalism was bad or had to be replaced, I just stated that such was the effect of capitalism.
But anyhow, you're saying that in your view Intel is the bad guy?
Not in this issue at least. As a lot of people have said, the people at the OLPC project do not want to commercialize the product in first world country. I am sorry but the product (the small computer with all the nice bells and whistles) does NOT cost $400 and although there are some good souls who would pay 2x the price to help a poor child, captialism just does not work like that.
If OLPC is really a beneficial project, then Intel's entry into the low-cost laptop market should be no threat to OLPC.
Of course not! they are two completely different "markets" (if you want to call the poor Africans or Americans [from the south of the American Continent that is]) a market... which suerly do not pay a lot.
They could have sold them for a small profit margin and use those profits to help the poor kids but they decided not to do it. That is where Intel comes into play. They might just want to profit in the market as the Eee has been doing since it was released.
Thats what happens when you leave the wonders of "capitalism" do their job. Everybody wants a piece of the $$$$$ and after they see that there is market for something they will try to milk the cow!!
To the editors, the source of such research is not the "University of Liverpool" but the John Moore's University (wich happens to be located in Liverpool also) as the article states in the first paragraph:
Professor Gareth Stratton and a team at John Moore's University in Liverpool
There are 3 Universities in Liverpool, UK. One is The University of Liverpool (recently renamed just University of Liverpool), secondly you have Jhon Moore's University and third is the Hope University.
Some of the worst offenders are musicians and bands that think having a arty web site will add something
Haha, that reminded me, some months ago I visited the page of a fellow slashdotter because I was interested in whatever he was advertising with his signature (with a link to his homepage) but after trying to guess wtf was the front page about I left bitterly.
I found outstanding that in 2007 you can still find pages in which each "option" of the homepage menu is depicted as an image which is *supposed* to represent whatever option the designer thought it will represent. The result is a terrible homepage with a bunch of images like collage in which you can not find whatever you are looking for.
In a similar issue, I am currently administrating the homepage of certain company, this company had a design done by certain designer, but the design is incomplete. Of course now, they need to add several other functionalities to such site but the "style" of the design was not made for that and anything you add seems like a terrible patch. I have already told them that if they want a good looking page, they should 1. Tell ME what is the functionality they want 2. Let me write the specifications of the pages and then 3. Send such specifications to the graphic designer so that he can make a design that considers all those options. But meh, they dont want to pay for a designer again...
by PhearoX (1187921) Alter Relationship on 09:11 AM December 23rd, 2007
Chuck is a fool to file suit unless this book reaches the point of slander.
Please, we should observe a minute of silence for Mr. PhearoX. As, calling Chuck Norris a fool was his last action in this world.
RIP
Linux. The OS even bricks can run.
;-)
The guys at netBSD would get really mad about that... of course if netBSD was still alive
I agree, whoever discovered the child porn in this guys computer didnt make anything wrong. He turned on the computer, made a few tests to see if the DVD writer worked in the computer and found some kind of files.
Then, because he thought that such files were a no no, he told to the police, whatever the police do next is not his problem.
He could have been looking at someones last vacation pictures or last modified word document. As you state, what would be wrong is to COPY them or worst, distribute them.
If the guy had child porn in his PC he should be punished and used to get the providers.
Just because someone comes up with a patentable idea, doesn't mean it's a GOOD idea.
Agree, you just have to take a look at the many patented perpetual motion machines.
As I stated in a story before (what's the deal with so many eBook related stories in slashdot recently?), YOU may not need an ebook reader. For you daily needs, the properties of an ebook reader might not be useful at all but there is people that would benefit a lot from an ebook reader.
The main idea of an ebook reader is to carry lots (and i mean lots as in 1GB) of "rich text" (text and images) in an object the size of a real book. If you only need to carry one store every say, 2 weeks (thats how long I take to read a book), then a stanard book is good for you, but if you need to access to that 1GB of media in one day and you can not, or do not want to carry 500kg of dead trees then you certainly would benefit from an ebook reader.
In the later case you would have to choose between an ebook reader or a laptop, and this is when the e-paper comes into play, providing better display quality (for reading) and less power requirements (giving more battery time). If you are able to connect your device throughout that one day then you certainly may prefer a laptop however if you do not have access to the mains (you might be in a 10 hours flight, or in the middle of Eygipt, or in the middle of the rainforest in the lacandona forest [yes, that is a factual example], etc) then you would like a device that provides you with the *most* possible battery time.
I do not know how difficult it would be but, implementing a charging mechanism similar to the XO laptop or by shaking the device (or better yet, just shaking the battery) would also be beneficial for those cases.
What is the sound of a supernova exploding in an empty space? ... if there is no one there to hear it?
While I won't buy M$, most people will, including grandpas and grandmas who don't know Mario from Halo.
And there is where you are wrong, grandmas and grandpas will *never* play halo! god, just make a test and give your grandma or other people over 50 a PS2 or Xbox 360 control, and you will see what I mean. Even if the game is very simple they will be scared. My mother and uncle had lots of problems playing SNES mario kart and Pilot Wings (but yet, they liked it) because of the number of buttons!
What these people is buying and will buy is the Wii, with that game about the sports (golf, bowling, tennis etc) and Wii play. Seriously, Wii play is ridiculously simple and boring (for hardcore or even some non hardcore gamers as me) but for these people, they ARE very funny and entertaining, and they CAN play it.
to burn a little to have the reason you came to work for the past 5 years be labeled
I do not have any sources to cite, but one of the things I clearly remember about Longhorn is that sometime around the first 2 or 3 years they realized that the windows they were doing was really terrible and therefore they had to start all over again (didnt they fired lots of the previous people working on Vista?).
Anyways, I still think Vista is just an amalgam of whatever technologies they had more or less available and others they could make functional just in time to release the OS.
Vista is very very very much like Windows ME, which IIRC, when they were implementing it, they said it would have a lot of bells and whistles and, as they could not finish it in time they just used Win98SE and stuck some UI changes. (and two years later they made XP available).
Lets just wait for Windows 7.
But grand parent has a point, people who is trying to buy the Wii is people who will NEVER ever buy a Xbox or Playstation 3 (grandpas, grandmas, Joe Average without 50 fingers, etc). The fact that they can not get the Wii at this time only means that they will wait until sometime next year or later to get it. Maybe their impulse will not be very strong after christmass, but once they play it again in their friends or relative's house, they *will* like it again.
Good ideas: plants, books, tools, S
;-).
:)
You are killing the trees, you bastard!!
In all seriousness, I think the BEST gift you can give to someone this (and every other) christmass is TIME. Really give them some of your time, talk with them, instead of wasting those 30 minutes looking for some useless gift, invite them a juice/coffee/pint/tequila/ or some food and just talk with them. Go out to do something together (no, cinema does not count, and is overrated
This holiday is about loving your family, go be with them, instead of working extra hours to buy them plastic crap you won't even remember in two years!
Ah crap, i just read that part of your message... but anyway I have already written mine so, although redundant I think people should be reminded twice or more to do it