Actually, the problem with OLPC is that the project is not capitalist enough.
OLPC is making exactly the same elitist mistakes that torpedoed the NeXT computer - which you could only buy on campus, and only from colleges that would hire a support group to fix the oh-so cool magnesium cased turkey when it broke.
If they really wanted to make OLPC cheap and ubiquitous, it needs to be sold to whoever wants to buy it. Instead, for all practical purposes the only "customers", the ones who shell out the bucks for this, are socialist third world bureaucracies.
By just selling it to whoever wants it, the economies of scale will make the $100/unit goal.
Of course, part of the deal of the consortium to precisely avoid selling to everyone so as to not compete with more expensive commercial offerings...
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Where the character played by Lukas Haas is originally a rabid republican, until the doctors find that he has a tumor in his head. Once the tumor is removed, he's instantly converted (back) into a left-wing liberal - just like his entire family.
Actually, they removed his *entire* brain and he instantly converted into a left-wing liberal.
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If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you...
The cult of global warming is no different than any other religion and will broach no questions regarding its dogma.
The *real* scandal IMHO is the temperature sensors used to gather the temperature data - monitoring stations next to air conditioner exhaust vents, in the middle of concrete parking lots in Arizona, attached to the side of brick buildings, etc.
No wonder the NASA Global Warming King doesn't want bloggers to snoop at the special hockey stick formula used to justify me giving up my SUV...
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If you can't get it right the first time, skydiving isn't for you...
Perhaps the PS3 will come with a Blu-Ray reader standard but include a 'knoppix' style Linux Blu-ray disk? Then real Linux fans could buy the expensive 60Gb optional disk drive...
the first thing that comes to mind is to run the the Apple (e.g. MACH) microkernel on one processor and MAC OS X in the other... should help with Tiger's terrible benchmarks...
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Uh, like Nazi Germany in 1942? trying to take Stalingrad?
Using up 85% of their capital on this purchase doesn't leave much room for error - if it doesn't work, Microsoft is going to melt away.
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OLPC is making exactly the same elitist mistakes that torpedoed the NeXT computer - which you could only buy on campus, and only from colleges that would hire a support group to fix the oh-so cool magnesium cased turkey when it broke.
If they really wanted to make OLPC cheap and ubiquitous, it needs to be sold to whoever wants to buy it. Instead, for all practical purposes the only "customers", the ones who shell out the bucks for this, are socialist third world bureaucracies. By just selling it to whoever wants it, the economies of scale will make the $100/unit goal.
Of course, part of the deal of the consortium to precisely avoid selling to everyone so as to not compete with more expensive commercial offerings...
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Sorry, I've run out of clever bylines. Maybe next week...
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Actually, they removed his *entire* brain and he instantly converted into a left-wing liberal.
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Thats because the moderators supplement their income giving blowjobs under the pier...
The *real* scandal IMHO is the temperature sensors used to gather the temperature data - monitoring stations next to air conditioner exhaust vents, in the middle of concrete parking lots in Arizona, attached to the side of brick buildings, etc.
No wonder the NASA Global Warming King doesn't want bloggers to snoop at the special hockey stick formula used to justify me giving up my SUV...
If you can't get it right the first time, skydiving isn't for you...
Yes.
didn't I just see DJ_hacK0rZ on the AOL IRC offer up this same database for $200, or $2000 if it includes credit card *and* social security numbers?
Of course, Microsoft has been sliding downhill since Windows 98 Second Edition!
Perhaps the PS3 will come with a Blu-Ray reader standard but include a 'knoppix' style Linux Blu-ray disk? Then real Linux fans could buy the expensive 60Gb optional disk drive...
how ironic. now disk speed is important. i guess this wasn't important when the mac mini came out with its obsolete 4200RPM drives...
the first thing that comes to mind is to run the the Apple (e.g. MACH) microkernel on one processor and MAC OS X in the other... should help with Tiger's terrible benchmarks...
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