as soon as they start up bittorrent. Even if the connection is fully encrypted.
Of course Azarus-Vuze isn't exactly subtle, since it gets all of that other stuff. The first time I tried bittorent tonight, they waited 15 minutes before shutting my connection off. The second time they did it in maybe 10 seconds. And didn't turn it on again for half an hour.
Also, long before this they've been rewriting packet. The news that says they've been shutting off connections isn't the half of it.
I tried downloading Ubuntu over bittorent a couple of weeks ago - and it failed the checksums hundreds of times until I gave up!! Got that? Garbage in the packets!
Come on, I can't be the only one! Lets hear from you. Comcast in San Francisco!
Teaching teens to use commercial software is important occupational training - if the OLPC does both then it can address more than one kind of education need. The classmate system, with its low cost library of a large number of applications filled this need.
I only hope that this is the start of an OLPC with expanded flash space so that it can have all of the packages that the classmate has PLUS the full set of OLPC software.
they just outlawed facebook - or the thai equivalent to facebook?
I remember reading that something like 2/3 of Koreans have the equivalent to a facebook page, and I bet social networking sites are popular in thailand too.
Because their governments make poor decisions. Also, from what I heard from a friend of mine who used to work at a manufacturing company, Intel uses (highly illegal, in the US) strong arm tactics. His company responded to threats by Intel (that they better buy their multisourced chips from Intel, otherwise their single sourced chip orders wouldn't be filled), by resesigning their product to use NO Intel chips.
Bribes and threats. That's what Intel probably has going for it in the 3rd world. No doubt those MIT nerds aren't up to that level of the game. So they'll fail.
You shouldn't need a F**king kit and a F**king soldering iron to change a battery.
And no, it's not in any sense a win to save 1/3 of centimeter to make changing batteries take an hour, and require elecronics experience, over popping batteries in and out easily like every other battery operated appliance.
I have NEVER said to myself, "If only my cell phone was 1/3 of a centimeter thinner" or "If only I had 1/3 of a centimeter more pocket space!" And neither has anyone else. Consumer elecronics are already smaller than they have to be.
There's no better reason for the IPod and IPhone to have batteries that are hard to replace than for cameras to have batteries that are hard to replace. It's not a F**king heart pacemaker!
Well Apple should get over insulting the intelligence of the public by assuming that we're all so shallow that we're willing put up with hundreds of dollars extra expense and weeks without the use of a phone or music player, just to save a useless 1/3 of centimeter on the width.
Offer models with replaceable batteries. Everyone with an IO over room temperature will prefer them.
My point, which has been modded "troll" every time it's been mentioned, is that not having replaceable batteries, in even one of their many models, is the most egregious example of planned obsolescence in history.
They're denying you the possibility of having a machine that keeps working, just because they're absolutely relying on the stream cash coming from overpaid yuppies who buy a new machine every time a battery wears out. If you can't justify buying a new machine every year, then you're not someone apple wants as a customer.
That said, I just looked it up, and Microsoft is playing the same game.
It's as if the idea of taking a battery out of a case is technology that hasn't been invented yet.
Does anyone doubt that Apple doesn't have hundreds of marketing drones checking their Slashdot accounts for moderation points whenever their products are mentioned?
I dared to point out what the "no battery" design means - that always gets me modded down.
How did he decide that consumers want a toy that can barely hold a few CDs at low quality and play movies too small to see instead of a useful music player that can hold a real, large collection of high quality sound? Yeah, Apple has the inflated prices to capture the over-paid shallow socialite market with machines that lack replaceable batteries because replacing batteries instead of buying a new machine every few months is for serfs and proles, eh.
Players with 80 gig drives are for people who like music. Apple's players and phones are for people who think it's a necessary accessory to show they have money to waste. Movies on a 1/2 inch screen, of course, there was always a big demand for that, in a player that can hold all of two whole low quality movies.
I wonder if this works the opposite way, and with drawbacks.
Perhaps far from stopping the nerve from signaling, capsaicin deadens the nerve by making it signal so often that it depletes chemicals needed to replenish after each signal. So with capsaicin, you WOULD get the neuronal changes, and possibly worse than before.
And if it does work by overworking the signaling mechanism (which is NOT passively electrical like a wire), then perhaps using a local will simply prevent the capsaicin from having any effect, or delay the pain it causes until after the local has worn off.
Why the hell is Wolfram or anyone else wasting any effort on this problem. It is useless isn't it? Or does that flake Steven Wolfram have some delusion that the universe is a 2,3 machine that is somehow simulating physics or something?
Just fine if you want a hog of a machine with pretty 3d fading windows that take 1 gb of RAM.
You read that right. Vista home basic requires 512 MB, but the Aero gui require 1 GB of Ram. That's a first in history. The damn windows gui requires 1 GB of ram. Thinking back to when Windows was brand spanking new GUI on top of DOS, and required 256K of RAM, I would say "Bill Gates must be rolling over in his grave" except, you know, for the fact that he isn't.
Yes, I noticed that. The 1000 and the 1500 both come with XP, but the neither the 1400 nor the 1700 do.
Anyway I bought the 1000 because it's the same as the Inspiron 1501, and it seems relatively easy to install Ubuntu on the 1501.
I'm hoping to get 64 bit Gutsy working, and use the machine for development.
Buy I need windows to run Office Accounting.
No point buying Dell's Linux machine. You pay a premium for the privilege of having free software you could download yourself for nothing, and no copy of Windows.
If I bought the Linux version (which is based on more expensive hardware anyway) I would have had to shell out $500 more for an equivalent machine.
I just bought a Dell. They sell the same laptops as "small business" machines that they sell for the consumer market, for about $200 less if you count the service contract - in basic black instead of shiny mac colors, and XP is one of the features they're pushing. They know businesses don't want Vista that will break their programs with those new security features.
You know, if you write an OS that refuses to run any programs at all, then you're perfectly secure.
that they can get MS bloatware working on the OLPC.
Imagine trying to start MS Office Accounting 2007. It installs SQL-Server as a service just so it can run. That brings my boot time to something like 4 minutes on my 1 GB memory, Pentium-M machine. My machine thrashes just booting! I'm sure the rest of MS Office is just as bloated.
Trying to run my copy of XP in a virtual machine under linux makes the machine thrash for 15 minutes before settling down to running REALLY slowly. They're attempting the impossible, no worries.
So far, M-Theory is not really a Theory, but rather an untested hypothesis. Once the evidence rolls in I will change my tune, but until then I consider it to be little more than idle speculation.
And Cosmology is all untested hypothesis - it's not a science, though it plays one on TV.
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as soon as they start up bittorrent. Even if the connection is fully encrypted.
Of course Azarus-Vuze isn't exactly subtle, since it gets all of that other stuff. The first time I tried bittorent tonight, they waited 15 minutes before shutting my connection off. The second time they did it in maybe 10 seconds. And didn't turn it on again for half an hour.
Also, long before this they've been rewriting packet. The news that says they've been shutting off connections isn't the half of it.
I tried downloading Ubuntu over bittorent a couple of weeks ago - and it failed the checksums hundreds of times until I gave up!! Got that? Garbage in the packets!
Come on, I can't be the only one! Lets hear from you. Comcast in San Francisco!
Teaching teens to use commercial software is important occupational training - if the OLPC does both then it can address more than one kind of education need. The classmate system, with its low cost library of a large number of applications filled this need.
I only hope that this is the start of an OLPC with expanded flash space so that it can have all of the packages that the classmate has PLUS the full set of OLPC software.
So homeland security MUST hate Comcast, they can't easily spy on file-sharing if everyone encrypts.
I would guess THAT must be the real pressure to end this.
they just outlawed facebook - or the thai equivalent to facebook?
I remember reading that something like 2/3 of Koreans have the equivalent to a facebook page, and I bet social networking sites are popular in thailand too.
Because their governments make poor decisions. Also, from what I heard from a friend of mine who used to work at a manufacturing company, Intel uses (highly illegal, in the US) strong arm tactics. His company responded to threats by Intel (that they better buy their multisourced chips from Intel, otherwise their single sourced chip orders wouldn't be filled), by resesigning their product to use NO Intel chips.
Bribes and threats. That's what Intel probably has going for it in the 3rd world. No doubt those MIT nerds aren't up to that level of the game. So they'll fail.
You shouldn't need a F**king kit and a F**king soldering iron to change a battery.
And no, it's not in any sense a win to save 1/3 of centimeter to make changing batteries take an hour, and require elecronics experience, over popping batteries in and out easily like every other battery operated appliance.
I have NEVER said to myself, "If only my cell phone was 1/3 of a centimeter thinner" or "If only I had 1/3 of a centimeter more pocket space!" And neither has anyone else. Consumer elecronics are already smaller than they have to be.
There's no better reason for the IPod and IPhone to have batteries that are hard to replace than for cameras to have batteries that are hard to replace. It's not a F**king heart pacemaker!
Well Apple should get over insulting the intelligence of the public by assuming that we're all so shallow that we're willing put up with hundreds of dollars extra expense and weeks without the use of a phone or music player, just to save a useless 1/3 of centimeter on the width.
Offer models with replaceable batteries. Everyone with an IO over room temperature will prefer them.
My point, which has been modded "troll" every time it's been mentioned, is that not having replaceable batteries, in even one of their many models, is the most egregious example of planned obsolescence in history.
They're denying you the possibility of having a machine that keeps working, just because they're absolutely relying on the stream cash coming from overpaid yuppies who buy a new machine every time a battery wears out. If you can't justify buying a new machine every year, then you're not someone apple wants as a customer.
That said, I just looked it up, and Microsoft is playing the same game.
It's as if the idea of taking a battery out of a case is technology that hasn't been invented yet.
Does anyone doubt that Apple doesn't have hundreds of marketing drones checking their Slashdot accounts for moderation points whenever their products are mentioned?
I dared to point out what the "no battery" design means - that always gets me modded down.
Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.
How did he decide that consumers want a toy that can barely hold a few CDs at low quality and play movies too small to see instead of a useful music player that can hold a real, large collection of high quality sound? Yeah, Apple has the inflated prices to capture the over-paid shallow socialite market with machines that lack replaceable batteries because replacing batteries instead of buying a new machine every few months is for serfs and proles, eh.
Players with 80 gig drives are for people who like music. Apple's players and phones are for people who think it's a necessary accessory to show they have money to waste. Movies on a 1/2 inch screen, of course, there was always a big demand for that, in a player that can hold all of two whole low quality movies.
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Until you can download porn on the PS3, the PC's popularity is insured.
Some has a sig which reads "Ubuntu is an ancient African word for 'I can't configure Debian'."
I wonder if this works the opposite way, and with drawbacks.
Perhaps far from stopping the nerve from signaling, capsaicin deadens the nerve by making it signal so often that it depletes chemicals needed to replenish after each signal. So with capsaicin, you WOULD get the neuronal changes, and possibly worse than before.
And if it does work by overworking the signaling mechanism (which is NOT passively electrical like a wire), then perhaps using a local will simply prevent the capsaicin from having any effect, or delay the pain it causes until after the local has worn off.
Why the hell is Wolfram or anyone else wasting any effort on this problem. It is useless isn't it?
Or does that flake Steven Wolfram have some delusion that the universe is a 2,3 machine that is somehow simulating physics or something?
Just fine if you want a hog of a machine with pretty 3d fading windows that take 1 gb of RAM.
You read that right. Vista home basic requires 512 MB, but the Aero gui require 1 GB of Ram. That's a first in history. The damn windows gui requires 1 GB of ram. Thinking back to when Windows was brand spanking new GUI on top of DOS, and required 256K of RAM, I would say "Bill Gates must be rolling over in his grave" except, you know, for the fact that he isn't.
Yes, I noticed that. The 1000 and the 1500 both come with XP, but the neither the 1400 nor the 1700 do.
Anyway I bought the 1000 because it's the same as the Inspiron 1501, and it seems relatively easy to install Ubuntu on the 1501.
I'm hoping to get 64 bit Gutsy working, and use the machine for development.
Buy I need windows to run Office Accounting.
No point buying Dell's Linux machine. You pay a premium for the privilege of having free software you could download yourself for nothing, and no copy of Windows.
If I bought the Linux version (which is based on more expensive hardware anyway) I would have had to shell out $500 more for an equivalent machine.
I wonder how many people remember that MS is cooperating so that SD DVD's and Blue-Rays will play in low res or not at all.
That sure must have taken the wind out of "media edition" sales. And made everyone hate Microsoft.
Cool, my new OS will refuse to play movies for me, and won't let me copy DRMed mp3s. I'm feeling the love.
It will have XP as an option or just come with XP
I just bought a Dell. They sell the same laptops as "small business" machines that they sell for the consumer market, for about $200 less if you count the service contract - in basic black instead of shiny mac colors, and XP is one of the features they're pushing. They know businesses don't want Vista that will break their programs with those new security features.
You know, if you write an OS that refuses to run any programs at all, then you're perfectly secure.
that they can get MS bloatware working on the OLPC.
Imagine trying to start MS Office Accounting 2007. It installs SQL-Server as a service just so it can run. That brings my boot time to something like 4 minutes on my 1 GB memory, Pentium-M machine. My machine thrashes just booting! I'm sure the rest of MS Office is just as bloated.
Trying to run my copy of XP in a virtual machine under linux makes the machine thrash for 15 minutes before settling down to running REALLY slowly. They're attempting the impossible, no worries.
Vista basic doesn't even have the new GUI skin.
And the new GUI requires a fucking gigabyte of memory. That's a first in all of computing history.
And Cosmology is all untested hypothesis - it's not a science, though it plays one on TV.
if I patent the process for patenting the process for getting patents, first!
And it's got the bug. Running on XP.
Ah. Didn't look closely at the page.