Moving stuff that you knew where it was to somewhere you have to hunt for it, as Microsoft does with every new program and operating system, is as hostile as you can get. It's not just hostile, it's downright mean. Try looking for/etc/inittab in a recent version of Ubuntu...
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Well, Slashdot, I am ok with seeing this on the front page, because it is so nerdy that it makes up for being irrelevant.
Agreed. I found it painfully amusing as well. But if a larf is worthy of the front page then karma should be awarded for comments modded funny. At least be consistent.
but the geeks can display their supple sensibilities and well-modulated emotions on their Facebook pages, blogs, text messages and Twitter feeds... I would call myself a geek, but I avoid using all those things like the plague. The only thing one could make a case that I use is a blog (/.). You're probably an actual geek. Media services consumers are just... well, consumers. They say, "look at me, I'm on teh internet!" whereas the real geek says "Do not bother the man behind the curtain, he's busy making all this shit run".
Slashdot pays in "goods and services".....it's a barter system. In return for contributing to the community, they provide a place for you to contribute and poorly editted summaries on which to comment (since no one really reads the articles, the comments *MUST* be about the summaries). Reminds me of the old internet ethic, 'If you take from the internet, give back to the internet.' Then AOL let their users online and it became 'If you pay AOL, everyone on the internet owes you everything for free.' I liked the first version better.
With Linux, a person could make some money installing drivers, software, printers, etc. for people. Or helping n00bs when they screw up. For example, I was called in to fix the server of a n00b screwed over by trying to make it more secure. He'd learned somewhere that chmod 640 was a secure permission setting, so he ran, as root, chmod -R 640/But note the difference. One person is making money fixing crap software, and the other person is making money increasing the functionality of the system. Or simply restoring the functionality of the system when they totally hose it. The argument could be made that some people would be better off with Windows precisely because it constrains what you can do. I suppose the counterargument is that if you're a n00b learning linux, don't do your learning on a production server. K'ching for me, but an expensive lesson for the n00b.
A lot of people have just wasted a vast amount of time contributing software to this device. Maybe not. Thanks to the magic of the GPL, Sugar Labs is free to take it and run with it completely independently of Necroponte and his OLPC project. Furthermore, they intend to extend it beyond the XO: "A second goal is to create versions of Sugar that run on multiple operating systems and on multiple hardware platforms. It should be "simple" to install Sugar everywhere. Specifically, it means packaging for every distribution and every virtual machine--removing hardware-related dependencies wherever possible."
Hello Earthlings, my name Zorbo, I'm from the planet sh388wg32 in what you call the Andromeda galaxy and I think the time has come to reveal ourselves to you. The reason I am contacting you now is that we have some Good News for you creatures, the all powerful creator of everything (Zippin52, praise be His name) has a plan for you and everyone you know!!! Can I take a little of your time to explain why we're all imperfect and need saving in His forgiveness??! Don't listen to Zorbo! Everyone knows that Zippen26 is the true Zippen! Zippen52 is the Anti-Zippen! Shame on you Zorbo, trying to fool these naive earthlings! All praise Zippen26!
I've been tremendously disappointed by the entire project- the goals were wonderful, the hardware ended up pretty nice, the software has ended up pretty meh, but the overall project seems to be run by pie-in-the-sky idealists, Open Source fanatics and others for whom the real world is a place they only visit from time to time. No, it's run by fans of Constructivist learning theory.
Accommodation can be understood as the mechanism by which failure leads to learning: when we act on the expectation that the world operates in one way and it violates our expectations, we often fail, but by accommodating this new experience and reframing our model of the way the world works, we learn from the experience of failure, or others' failure. Thanks to the mechanism of accomodation, taking a half assed approach to everything provides tremendous opportunities for learning. Using pre-established military type logistics applied to distribution would be... well, cheating. How are they going to learn about distribution that way?
Excellent. With my army of genetically altered supermen, I will take over the universe! Hopefully no goody two-shoes starship captain will capture us and maroon us on an inhospitable planet somewhere thus compelling us to seek vengeance when he drops by years later.
The embryo is human, but not an actualized human being in the sense of possessing the qualities we value as significant in human beings (mind, not genetics). It's simpler to say that it's not a person. Personhood is an important legal concept, since it is to persons that rights attach. Cells don't have rights, Homo sapiens or otherwise, which is a good thing, or else it could be argued that we shouldn't try to 'murder' cancer cells.
Where I work we have a couple of shared hosting servers which run two apaches, one for php4 and one for php5. It's a bit of a pita, but it works, and for us is easier than forcing clients at gunpoint to upgrade their php4 applications.
Unless there is a really compelling reason to add a third apache/php, I don't think we'll be quick to adopt this version. The better OO support in php5 made it something we wanted just for the stuff we write, but there doesn't seem to be much in php6 that is that exciting.
The Koran has greater consistency than the Bible, but there is still sufficient inconsistency to allow cherry picking quotes to support whatever perspective you want. The impression I came away with was that the theme of retribution was primarily divine in nature, that is, if you don't do as you're told, God will git ya. It even addresses the problem of people not obeying, yet prospering. Don't worry about it, they'll get their punishment after they die. I certainly didn't get the impression that world conquest was being advocated.
That said, in looking for a translation, I wanted one which was from as neutral as possible a source to avoid bias, so chose The Koran Interpreted, Arthur J. Arberry, translator. For interest sake, I may try and get ahold of a copy of the official Saudi translation to see how much of a difference there is.
Also non-Muslims should be aware that while the Koran is primary, the Hadith writings are also extremely important to Muslims, and any understanding of Islam is incomplete if all you have read is the Koran. To complicate matters further, different sects have different Hadiths.
Exactly. Orwell posited a future where government censorship was just a juiced version of what was going on in 1948. Countries could control everything that those within their borders would see and hear. He did not anticipate the internet or Slashdot. Yay Slashdot!
But boo Digg. We have always been at war with Digg.
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// Once Micky Mouse ceases to be profitable, we will have established what the limit is. // I expect it may wind up being something like a thousand years.
actually the whole almost dieing out thing just reeks of a total lack of intelligent design
Might have been just a bit of tweaking. You go for bipedalism and bigger brain with high hopes of something great emerging, and all you get is bipedal apes with big brains shrieking at each other and throwing feces. So you wipe out all but the brightest of them hoping to push the brainy thing, and lo, complex behaviours emerge shortly after, like art, and religion, and stuff, which seems like progress until you realize that now you have bipedal, big brained apes with art and religion and state level civilizations shrieking and throwing feces at one another.
The interface needs to be reworked for smaller displays, and I'm sure some features could be cut. I think an optimized, properly designed KDE 4.1 could run reasonably well on the XO.
Yes, it was KDE 4 that I tried, because I'd read that it was more efficient than KDE 3. And I think you're right about optimization -- it might not take a lot to have something useable on an XO level machine, almost there, but for now XFCE is the better choice for anyone looking for an alternative to Sugar.
Yea like I am going to make the effort to think all the way across the room when I could just think at the remote next to me.
Have you actually tried thinking? It's one the last things I want to do when I'm relaxing in front of the tube. I'll use the remote the good old fashioned way, thank you very much, and save the telekinesis for something worth the effort, like making women's clothes fall off.
But if it were slightly more powerful, you might see a KDE build optimized for it, or maybe even a toned-down version of Windows.
You can run kde on the xo now, I know because I've done it. Ok, maybe 'run' isn't quite the right word, but still worth installing for the apps which can run under xfce. xfce is significantly faster than kde on the xo, and subjectively seems faster than sugar (haven't formally tested).
If kde is sluggish on the xo, I wouldn't be optimistic about XP being 'crisp' to use Negroponte's term. I look forward to reading accounts of actual tests.
Yours sounds sufficiently hooped to warrant a keyboard replacement. Too bad we can't get parts except through cannibalization, esp. since they're so cheap . They could probably sell them to people in developed nations for a 400% markup. I'm guessing you'd probably pay $20 for a new keyboard.
I wasn't aware that the Geek was ever the intended market.
I don't think it was intended, it just worked out that way due to their choosing Linux and getting funky with Python. You can geek along their groove, or you can jump ship to ubuntu, or whatever. It is irresistibly geeky, whether they intended it to be so or not.
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Occasionally clickykeyboards.com will have an 84 key Model M Space Saver in stock. Not today sadly.
Well, Slashdot, I am ok with seeing this on the front page, because it is so nerdy that it makes up for being irrelevant.
Agreed. I found it painfully amusing as well. But if a larf is worthy of the front page then karma should be awarded for comments modded funny. At least be consistent.
Excellent. With my army of genetically altered supermen, I will take over the universe! Hopefully no goody two-shoes starship captain will capture us and maroon us on an inhospitable planet somewhere thus compelling us to seek vengeance when he drops by years later.
Where I work we have a couple of shared hosting servers which run two apaches, one for php4 and one for php5. It's a bit of a pita, but it works, and for us is easier than forcing clients at gunpoint to upgrade their php4 applications.
Unless there is a really compelling reason to add a third apache/php, I don't think we'll be quick to adopt this version. The better OO support in php5 made it something we wanted just for the stuff we write, but there doesn't seem to be much in php6 that is that exciting.
The Koran has greater consistency than the Bible, but there is still sufficient inconsistency to allow cherry picking quotes to support whatever perspective you want. The impression I came away with was that the theme of retribution was primarily divine in nature, that is, if you don't do as you're told, God will git ya. It even addresses the problem of people not obeying, yet prospering. Don't worry about it, they'll get their punishment after they die. I certainly didn't get the impression that world conquest was being advocated.
That said, in looking for a translation, I wanted one which was from as neutral as possible a source to avoid bias, so chose The Koran Interpreted, Arthur J. Arberry, translator. For interest sake, I may try and get ahold of a copy of the official Saudi translation to see how much of a difference there is.
Also non-Muslims should be aware that while the Koran is primary, the Hadith writings are also extremely important to Muslims, and any understanding of Islam is incomplete if all you have read is the Koran. To complicate matters further, different sects have different Hadiths.
Exactly. Orwell posited a future where government censorship was just a juiced version of what was going on in 1948. Countries could control everything that those within their borders would see and hear. He did not anticipate the internet or Slashdot. Yay Slashdot!
But boo Digg. We have always been at war with Digg.
// Term of copyright is limited, and can be expressed as a conditional run annually:
if ( about2expire(mickey_mouse) ) {
copyright_term++;
}
// Once Micky Mouse ceases to be profitable, we will have established what the limit is.
// I expect it may wind up being something like a thousand years.
Might have been just a bit of tweaking. You go for bipedalism and bigger brain with high hopes of something great emerging, and all you get is bipedal apes with big brains shrieking at each other and throwing feces. So you wipe out all but the brightest of them hoping to push the brainy thing, and lo, complex behaviours emerge shortly after, like art, and religion, and stuff, which seems like progress until you realize that now you have bipedal, big brained apes with art and religion and state level civilizations shrieking and throwing feces at one another.
I wonder what the next tweak will be.
Yes, it was KDE 4 that I tried, because I'd read that it was more efficient than KDE 3. And I think you're right about optimization -- it might not take a lot to have something useable on an XO level machine, almost there, but for now XFCE is the better choice for anyone looking for an alternative to Sugar.
Have you actually tried thinking? It's one the last things I want to do when I'm relaxing in front of the tube. I'll use the remote the good old fashioned way, thank you very much, and save the telekinesis for something worth the effort, like making women's clothes fall off.
You can run kde on the xo now, I know because I've done it. Ok, maybe 'run' isn't quite the right word, but still worth installing for the apps which can run under xfce. xfce is significantly faster than kde on the xo, and subjectively seems faster than sugar (haven't formally tested).
If kde is sluggish on the xo, I wouldn't be optimistic about XP being 'crisp' to use Negroponte's term. I look forward to reading accounts of actual tests.
Indeed. Otherwise Captain Kirk would have been totally destroyed by alien STDs.
Yours sounds sufficiently hooped to warrant a keyboard replacement. Too bad we can't get parts except through cannibalization, esp. since they're so cheap . They could probably sell them to people in developed nations for a 400% markup. I'm guessing you'd probably pay $20 for a new keyboard.
I don't think it was intended, it just worked out that way due to their choosing Linux and getting funky with Python. You can geek along their groove, or you can jump ship to ubuntu, or whatever. It is irresistibly geeky, whether they intended it to be so or not.