Something You Have Never Heard Of 2.0 Released
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After about one year of development the former Something Else You Have Never Heard Of team has released Something You Have Never Heard Of. Something You Have Never Heard Of is the successor of the popular Something Else You Have Never Heard Of. Something You Have Never Heard Of calls itself the very "first Open Source application to support both Some What A Standard Maybe You Have Never Heard Of and Another Thingie You Have Never Heard Of". Something You Have Never Heard Of is based on the Some What A Standard Maybe You Have Never Heard Of/Another Thingie You Have Never Heard Of codebase, provided by the Some Project You Have Never Heard project. Also introduced with this release is SomethingElseYouHaveNeverHeardOf.net, a platform to provide the community with free That Thingie You Have Never Heard Of addresses.
Since you have called Wikipedia a "killer apps" for the $100 Laptop, I was wondering if plans have been made for a snapshot of Wikipedia to be installed on them. Is there a way to kick start coverage for third world areas?
I think you are forgetting that this whole thing is getting R&D funding, bulk discounts, etc. If a for-profit company had decided to make the same thing, it would have cost considerably more than $225. For-profit companies are still free to make competing models, but seriously I doubt they'd get it as low as the commercial version of this laptop.
Don't think of it as a $125 premium, but a subsidized laptop that is not subsidized quite as much as the version that needs to be bought in bulk by governments. The reported $100 cost is the hardware cost alone, it doesn't include everything else. $225 for a laptop is CHEAP. Dirt cheap.
People are not donating money to the project to give people who can afford it cheaper computers, but get cheap computers to people who need it.
Yes, they will. The commercial version should be around $225 and the proceed will help subsidize the $100 units. The initial units will be earmarked for the subsidized version, so the commercial version won't be out immediately.
A menu describes the meals a restaurant serves. This is, of course, irrelevant to applying intellectual right restrictions on meals. Just as someone making a mathematical model of a physical situation is irrelevant for applying intellectual right restrictions on physical phenomena.
One thing that non-scientists have a hard time grasping is that there is not one mathematical model of physical phenomena that is correct, instead there are many competing and mutually-inconsistent mathematical models that explain and predict physical phenomenal quite well... just like there can be many competing and mutually-inconsistent menus for a restaurant.
Well, yeah. Linux already has apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and such. Linux distributions already package programs like this. There would be no point to add these features to Linux as it already has them.
Last February I was at a job fare without knowing either Java or C# and just about everyone hiring programmers at the booths told me they'd hire me if I had some Java background. No one mentioned C#.
"Five Jim Davis's -- creator of that unfunny cartoon cat, where 20% of the jokes are about how Monday sucks and the rest are about how much the cat likes lasagna (and those are the punchlines!)... five Jim Davis's could spend the rest of their lives writing comedy and never, ever produce the Soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld." Link
The problem with this is that Microsoft might lose that battle. That will only give the GPL a stronger legal foundation and more people will risk depending on GPL software. There is too much to lose if they try to attack the GPL.
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After about one year of development the former Something Else You Have Never Heard Of team has released Something You Have Never Heard Of. Something You Have Never Heard Of is the successor of the popular Something Else You Have Never Heard Of. Something You Have Never Heard Of calls itself the very "first Open Source application to support both Some What A Standard Maybe You Have Never Heard Of and Another Thingie You Have Never Heard Of". Something You Have Never Heard Of is based on the Some What A Standard Maybe You Have Never Heard Of/Another Thingie You Have Never Heard Of codebase, provided by the Some Project You Have Never Heard project. Also introduced with this release is SomethingElseYouHaveNeverHeardOf.net, a platform to provide the community with free That Thingie You Have Never Heard Of addresses.
The girl in the screenshot is HOT! I can't wait until someone releases a nude patch for that game.
Since you have called Wikipedia a "killer apps" for the $100 Laptop, I was wondering if plans have been made for a snapshot of Wikipedia to be installed on them. Is there a way to kick start coverage for third world areas?
I, for one, welcome our new beta Deity.
I think you are forgetting that this whole thing is getting R&D funding, bulk discounts, etc. If a for-profit company had decided to make the same thing, it would have cost considerably more than $225. For-profit companies are still free to make competing models, but seriously I doubt they'd get it as low as the commercial version of this laptop.
Don't think of it as a $125 premium, but a subsidized laptop that is not subsidized quite as much as the version that needs to be bought in bulk by governments. The reported $100 cost is the hardware cost alone, it doesn't include everything else. $225 for a laptop is CHEAP. Dirt cheap.
People are not donating money to the project to give people who can afford it cheaper computers, but get cheap computers to people who need it.
Yes, they will. The commercial version should be around $225 and the proceed will help subsidize the $100 units. The initial units will be earmarked for the subsidized version, so the commercial version won't be out immediately.
"Yes, I've met Nicholas Negroponte, and he's a big fan of Wikipedia. He's on record stating that he'd like to see Wikipedia on the $100 laptop. My own opinion is that Wikipedia is one of the 'killer apps' for this device. --Jimbo Wales"
A menu describes the meals a restaurant serves. This is, of course, irrelevant to applying intellectual right restrictions on meals. Just as someone making a mathematical model of a physical situation is irrelevant for applying intellectual right restrictions on physical phenomena.
One thing that non-scientists have a hard time grasping is that there is not one mathematical model of physical phenomena that is correct, instead there are many competing and mutually-inconsistent mathematical models that explain and predict physical phenomenal quite well... just like there can be many competing and mutually-inconsistent menus for a restaurant.
Well, yeah. Linux already has apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and such. Linux distributions already package programs like this. There would be no point to add these features to Linux as it already has them.
You can uninstall Google Updater or turn off notifications.
Am I missing something here?
Yes, the Google Updater.
Both Trillian and Google Talk are there as optional programs.
That's horrible. I also think it would be horrible if we all added the picture of Joe Martuccio, Law Director of the Canton Law Dept, to our blogs and .sigs. http://www.cityofcanton.com/citygov/lawdept/images /martuccio2.jpg
Which is it, one-time or frequent?
Last February I was at a job fare without knowing either Java or C# and just about everyone hiring programmers at the booths told me they'd hire me if I had some Java background. No one mentioned C#.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/04/ 2150254&tid=222&tid=10
That article was later edited to add the fact that 80 games were added to the modding.
Once can be taken as an honest mistake, but twice is intentional. Stop it Zonk. Just stop it.
"Five Jim Davis's -- creator of that unfunny cartoon cat, where 20% of the jokes are about how Monday sucks and the rest are about how much the cat likes lasagna (and those are the punchlines!) ... five Jim Davis's could spend the rest of their lives writing comedy and never, ever produce the Soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld." Link
I'd love to see a *buntu with all the uncrippled media programs, sun java, and such. Something like the Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Add-On CD preinstalled.
I love that the first comment was "It's OCTOBER. It's not news anymore."
So, where did Canada move to? Hopefully somewhere warmer.
Umm, Celine Dion didn't do it for you, but this did? *blinks*
Now that the book has been on Slashdot, the new customer reviews will be objective and positive.
Father of modern heliocentric theory? BLASPHEMER!!! BURN HIM!! (Cremation will do)
The problem with this is that Microsoft might lose that battle. That will only give the GPL a stronger legal foundation and more people will risk depending on GPL software. There is too much to lose if they try to attack the GPL.
Instead of an AJAX office suite, wouldn't it make more sense to make it easy to save your OpenOffice.org documents online?