Why do they emphazise so much, that this laptop is for kids? The machine will be able to read books, communicate, and record writing, and these features are also useful for grown-ups. Also, it will be targetted towards education, but there is no need to wait a generation to have more knowledgeable people? I mean, if a adult farmer can learn about solar power now, then that leads to more solar power in general.
There are some reasons to have mostly kids use the laptops; 1) limited supply/access, if a town only has one or two of these laptops, the "ROI" may be greater if the kids use it, because they have longer left to live! If the programs name, "OLPC", has any root in the realistic expectations, then there will be plenty of time during a 24h day for everyone.
2) The adults may not have the basic language- or computer skills required to operate the laptop.
I think the project is a great idea, and I agree that one needs to focus on a specific matter, otherwise it will just become a lot of nice words.
1) You use a portable USB recorder to record an audio file.
2) You insert the USB recorder into the Linux Appliance
3) The Linux Appliance finds the newly recorded file, probably transcodes it, then uploads it to a web server
4) ???
5) Profit!
I can't believe this isn't a software problem...
I can transfer music wirelessly vie BlueTooth (albeit at 40kBps). I can store almost 1 GB of music, which is not a lot, but adequate. I can download podc... eh.. netcasts via 3G internet on the go. I am sure I can buy music wirelessly too (some mobile shops exist in Norway), but I don't like DRM:) The music automatically fades out when I receive a call. I can listen to FM radio with RDS (station names). I can share music without DRM using BlueTooth, or infrared. It has an alarm clock. I can't believe it's Sony. It's the future!
Try Flip3D when you have 20 windows open, and you'll get an obscured stack of windows that you have to travel through one by one, including the desktop (weirdly, Flip3D puts the desktop in there as a window too).
I am unqualified to speak, having a total of about 30h mac experience, of which most was on some horribly-configured IE-only web terminals. Still I have to ask: is it possible to get a meaningful one-screen overview of 20 windows with Exposé, on anything less than a monster 30" LCD? I can't imagine how it would be possible.
I haven't RTFA, and I am assuming the Chinese only temporarily blinded the US sattellites. If that is the case, then your analogy is flawed. Staying with the "fishing" ships, it would be like if someone in the US put up a giant, directed radio jammer, and pointed it to these boats. Sending radio signals or light into international waters/space is, AFAIK, not regulated (i am not implying that they are the same thing).
I agree that creating jobs is nice for the economy, but if the goal was creating useless jobs; we might as well go back to sending snail-mail and using typewriters. I can't see that the existing staff couldn't perform the install at a slower pace.
I download all the Ubuntus and try them on my HP dv5000 (I know; not a fantastic machine by any means).
I'll ditch Windows when it supports Sleep mode and WiFi out of the box, or with an effort comparable to that of installing drivers on Windows.
The LiveCD installer is a good idea, in every way, except it makes the boot look really slow. It's great to be able to "test drive" it:)
Every time a security issue is posted, we get this advice about using an unprivileged user. It is, however, far from the end-all of security issues - even running as a normal luser, a program can hide from that user. And it has access to all of that users data. One advance would be rigid separation between applications; Microsoft currently considers the desktop the "security boundary", and doesn't do much to isolate applications. Applications are also written carelessly with regards to buffer overflows in local input vectors, such as textboxes. Therefore, anything on the desktop has pretty much access to anything else running there, given some light hacking.
Allowing per-application access control is kludgily achieved by running apps as another user; this is counter-intuitive in todays world, where there is an 1:1 relationship between logged in users and computers. Separating applications, and assigning access rights with some granularity, is really difficult. But if web-apps don't take over the world, one would need another leap in separation, like protected mode was to real mode.
"Without BDNF in the circuit, an animal can't learn that a social stimulus is threatening and respond appropriately," explained Nestler.
I hope nobody thinks this is a good thing...
Still, it's strange that the BDNF-enable gene ssurvived natural selection. If the mice avoid social situations, it would be hard to reproduce.
OSX86 is going to need lots of CPU cycles just to decrypt (whetever) the code. It needs to either 1) sacrifice or optimize other code 2) increase power of hw. I would never even use a cracked version of OSX now, because the code is intentionally (well, knowingly anyway) slowed down by the "DRM" stuff.
Please release an evluation version of your mighty OS for VMWare Player! It will be too slow for real use, but it will let people (including me) try out OSX and maybe i will like it.
Intels customer base only are OEM manufacturers that target the business market. They still get credit for being more stable, which I don't understand because all my AMD machines - from a K6-II 333Mhz, over 2xAMD MP 2400+ to a couple of AMD64 (2400+ to 3400+) just run perfectly fine.
I run my Athlon 2600 CPU at stock speed, and i have to keep it 0.1V above standard voltage for it to be stable. This is either a result of too much Folding or a bad motherboard. I think most AMDs are stable though.
Most public transportation have a human driver / conductor. Not all people whould trust a computer with their lives (not after using windows 98 anyway).
well, it's late now but here is an http://home.no/fa2001/inter.mp3mp3 if anyone cares. the quality is poor; 32kbps, 16kHz, but it's only 6MB (my mp3 player didn't have space for more)
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Why do they emphazise so much, that this laptop is for kids? The machine will be able to read books, communicate, and record writing, and these features are also useful for grown-ups. Also, it will be targetted towards education, but there is no need to wait a generation to have more knowledgeable people? I mean, if a adult farmer can learn about solar power now, then that leads to more solar power in general.
There are some reasons to have mostly kids use the laptops; 1) limited supply/access, if a town only has one or two of these laptops, the "ROI" may be greater if the kids use it, because they have longer left to live! If the programs name, "OLPC", has any root in the realistic expectations, then there will be plenty of time during a 24h day for everyone.
2) The adults may not have the basic language- or computer skills required to operate the laptop.
I think the project is a great idea, and I agree that one needs to focus on a specific matter, otherwise it will just become a lot of nice words.
1) You use a portable USB recorder to record an audio file. 2) You insert the USB recorder into the Linux Appliance 3) The Linux Appliance finds the newly recorded file, probably transcodes it, then uploads it to a web server 4) ??? 5) Profit! I can't believe this isn't a software problem...
Can I have my home as a CS:Source map now, please ?
Seriously though, I don't see many uses for this isolated tech. It is, however, necessary to have something like this in 'intelligent' robots.
WD Caviar® SE16I D=159
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http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?Drive
Oh, it plays videos too, but that's really painful to watch for anything but "The Simpsons"
I can transfer music wirelessly vie BlueTooth (albeit at 40kBps). I can store almost 1 GB of music, which is not a lot, but adequate. I can download podc... eh.. netcasts via 3G internet on the go. I am sure I can buy music wirelessly too (some mobile shops exist in Norway), but I don't like DRM:) The music automatically fades out when I receive a call. I can listen to FM radio with RDS (station names). I can share music without DRM using BlueTooth, or infrared. It has an alarm clock. I can't believe it's Sony. It's the future!
Try Flip3D when you have 20 windows open, and you'll get an obscured stack of windows that you have to travel through one by one, including the desktop (weirdly, Flip3D puts the desktop in there as a window too).
I am unqualified to speak, having a total of about 30h mac experience, of which most was on some horribly-configured IE-only web terminals. Still I have to ask: is it possible to get a meaningful one-screen overview of 20 windows with Exposé, on anything less than a monster 30" LCD? I can't imagine how it would be possible.
I haven't RTFA, and I am assuming the Chinese only temporarily blinded the US sattellites. If that is the case, then your analogy is flawed. Staying with the "fishing" ships, it would be like if someone in the US put up a giant, directed radio jammer, and pointed it to these boats. Sending radio signals or light into international waters/space is, AFAIK, not regulated (i am not implying that they are the same thing).
I agree that creating jobs is nice for the economy, but if the goal was creating useless jobs; we might as well go back to sending snail-mail and using typewriters. I can't see that the existing staff couldn't perform the install at a slower pace.
I download all the Ubuntus and try them on my HP dv5000 (I know; not a fantastic machine by any means). I'll ditch Windows when it supports Sleep mode and WiFi out of the box, or with an effort comparable to that of installing drivers on Windows. The LiveCD installer is a good idea, in every way, except it makes the boot look really slow. It's great to be able to "test drive" it:)
Actually, you don't need it on Windows either, if you use a firewall and/or common sense.
No, he didn't
Every time a security issue is posted, we get this advice about using an unprivileged user. It is, however, far from the end-all of security issues - even running as a normal luser, a program can hide from that user. And it has access to all of that users data. One advance would be rigid separation between applications; Microsoft currently considers the desktop the "security boundary", and doesn't do much to isolate applications. Applications are also written carelessly with regards to buffer overflows in local input vectors, such as textboxes. Therefore, anything on the desktop has pretty much access to anything else running there, given some light hacking.
Allowing per-application access control is kludgily achieved by running apps as another user; this is counter-intuitive in todays world, where there is an 1:1 relationship between logged in users and computers. Separating applications, and assigning access rights with some granularity, is really difficult. But if web-apps don't take over the world, one would need another leap in separation, like protected mode was to real mode.
"Without BDNF in the circuit, an animal can't learn that a social stimulus is threatening and respond appropriately," explained Nestler. I hope nobody thinks this is a good thing... Still, it's strange that the BDNF-enable gene ssurvived natural selection. If the mice avoid social situations, it would be hard to reproduce.
Now there will be 100k more files, of which 99k are called hello.jpg ;)
Can they do PoE on that;)
What kind of browser plugin does it use for video and audio?
OSX86 is going to need lots of CPU cycles just to decrypt (whetever) the code. It needs to either 1) sacrifice or optimize other code 2) increase power of hw. I would never even use a cracked version of OSX now, because the code is intentionally (well, knowingly anyway) slowed down by the "DRM" stuff.
Please release an evluation version of your mighty OS for VMWare Player! It will be too slow for real use, but it will let people (including me) try out OSX and maybe i will like it.
DNS can be worked around. What is important is the assignment of IP addresses.
Intels customer base only are OEM manufacturers that target the business market. They still get credit for being more stable, which I don't understand because all my AMD machines - from a K6-II 333Mhz, over 2xAMD MP 2400+ to a couple of AMD64 (2400+ to 3400+) just run perfectly fine. I run my Athlon 2600 CPU at stock speed, and i have to keep it 0.1V above standard voltage for it to be stable. This is either a result of too much Folding or a bad motherboard. I think most AMDs are stable though.
That's the dumbest metaphor ever
Most public transportation have a human driver / conductor. Not all people whould trust a computer with their lives (not after using windows 98 anyway).
When it says 200MHz in BIOS it should be running at 200MHZ!
well, it's late now but here is an http://home.no/fa2001/inter.mp3mp3 if anyone cares. the quality is poor; 32kbps, 16kHz, but it's only 6MB (my mp3 player didn't have space for more)