"Because of Apple's product I had an auto accident" "Specifically, because you used it in your car, when you weren't capable of doing that and driving" "Well..Apple made the product" "And they held a gun to your head and said, use your iPod, don't drive" "No, but they made something dangerous, and sold it to me" "So, if I beat you nearly to death with my briefcase, you sue its manufacturer." "No, I sue you. But that isn't fair" "No it isn't. If you beat yourself nearly to death with your briefcase, you sue its manufacturer?" "No, I sue, um, me, uh, I don't sue anyone cause it's my fault" "So how is it Apple's fault when you use iPod in the car when you shouldn't "I'M NOT GONNA STAND AROUND AND LET YOU SUPPORT EVIL/COMMUNISM/FASCISM/MURDER/TERRORISM/etc."
Stealing is not justified by the fact that you do not like the owner.
You refuse to go to Wal-Mart? I could understand if it was because Wal-Mart isn't very nice, but I suspect you have some sort of ridiculous pseudo-moral reason.
If only self-righteousness could be converted to electricity. We'd never need fossil fuels again.
The inspector. On a very vaguely related note, I've always wondered if it was possible to manipulate a "kill -9" process into killing itself. That would be paradoxical in that to kill itself it would have to not die, or it would not complete, in which case it would not be killed and it would kill itself which would stop it from killing itself...
I disagree. If you want to learn how to program, use a IDE. Setting up makefiles and using gcc cli arguments gets in the way of actually learning the concepts and syntax.
So, you're saying that in real life armies take turns, and only do one thing at a time? Or that soldiers and vehicles move from block a to block c, without walking through b?
Marathon is the best game, period. FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE.
No, customers should not be expecting bugs on the day it comes out. Microsoft should test it comprehensively and then do a beta long enough that there are extremely few bugs, and no serious ones.
I agree, but these laptops will not improve communication.
There is no internet in those areas, and setting up an infrastructure will be much harder than giving these laptops to people. I am under the impression that the groups making these laptops wants to implement mesh, but I have my doubts about the effectiveness of that. First of all, your neighbors have to keep their laptop constantly charged for you to be able to access the internet from them. And what if they lose/break the laptop, or it has a software problem?
At most, these laptops will replace books. But unlike books, they will have problems, which the people who they are given to will be unable to fix. There is no way to set up a huge IT group to help all the people with these laptops.
This project might be helpful for people in urban areas, since an internet setup wouldn't be too hard. You'd still have the maintenance issue, though.
With your pages/toner and ebay's prices($30 printer; $10 toner; 5000 pages/toner;), it looks like $100 buys you about 40,000 pages. I just looked up the same for a cheap inkjet (slower, but color capable) and it was about 43,000. ($20 printer; $10/12 cartridges; 450 pages/cartridge;).
If you want real reliability, you pay for a mail service that with a guarantee. I trust their desire not to pay me over my diligence in making backups (I use the "hope my hard drive doesn't fail before I buy a new one" method, and it seems to work).
It really doesn't have anything to do with whether the user is a novice or enthusiast. It just means that they are using a personal computer rather than administrating a server, or using a dumb terminal.
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Isn't there a proper way to set it, with a nice GUI?
Have you spent money for such research?
"Because of Apple's product I had an auto accident"
"Specifically, because you used it in your car, when you weren't capable of doing that and driving"
"Well..Apple made the product"
"And they held a gun to your head and said, use your iPod, don't drive"
"No, but they made something dangerous, and sold it to me"
"So, if I beat you nearly to death with my briefcase, you sue its manufacturer."
"No, I sue you. But that isn't fair"
"No it isn't. If you beat yourself nearly to death with your briefcase, you sue its manufacturer?"
"No, I sue, um, me, uh, I don't sue anyone cause it's my fault"
"So how is it Apple's fault when you use iPod in the car when you shouldn't
"I'M NOT GONNA STAND AROUND AND LET YOU SUPPORT EVIL/COMMUNISM/FASCISM/MURDER/TERRORISM/etc."
Stealing is not justified by the fact that you do not like the owner.
You refuse to go to Wal-Mart? I could understand if it was because Wal-Mart isn't very nice, but I suspect you have some sort of ridiculous pseudo-moral reason.
If only self-righteousness could be converted to electricity. We'd never need fossil fuels again.
Command line interfaces are for n00bs. I use a magnet to change each byte on my hard drive.
The inspector. On a very vaguely related note, I've always wondered if it was possible to manipulate a "kill -9" process into killing itself. That would be paradoxical in that to kill itself it would have to not die, or it would not complete, in which case it would not be killed and it would kill itself which would stop it from killing itself...
Apple Pie!? That's it, I'm switching from fortran!
You are only more competent in that you know how to do things you shouldn't do manually anyway.
I disagree. If you want to learn how to program, use a IDE. Setting up makefiles and using gcc cli arguments gets in the way of actually learning the concepts and syntax.
Bah, that's nothing, I like to interpret my scripts by hand, on the fly, just to make sure I am not reliant on the Python interpreter.
So, you're saying that in real life armies take turns, and only do one thing at a time? Or that soldiers and vehicles move from block a to block c, without walking through b? Marathon is the best game, period. FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE.
Walking?
Your post is redundant: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=192866 &cid=15835640
No, customers should not be expecting bugs on the day it comes out. Microsoft should test it comprehensively and then do a beta long enough that there are extremely few bugs, and no serious ones.
Is is better than having your head tethered to your pocket.
I agree, but these laptops will not improve communication. There is no internet in those areas, and setting up an infrastructure will be much harder than giving these laptops to people. I am under the impression that the groups making these laptops wants to implement mesh, but I have my doubts about the effectiveness of that. First of all, your neighbors have to keep their laptop constantly charged for you to be able to access the internet from them. And what if they lose/break the laptop, or it has a software problem? At most, these laptops will replace books. But unlike books, they will have problems, which the people who they are given to will be unable to fix. There is no way to set up a huge IT group to help all the people with these laptops. This project might be helpful for people in urban areas, since an internet setup wouldn't be too hard. You'd still have the maintenance issue, though.
With your pages/toner and ebay's prices($30 printer; $10 toner; 5000 pages/toner;), it looks like $100 buys you about 40,000 pages. I just looked up the same for a cheap inkjet (slower, but color capable) and it was about 43,000. ($20 printer; $10/12 cartridges; 450 pages/cartridge;).
What would make me angry is not that data was lost, as that is always possible, but that it was not backed up.
If you want real reliability, you pay for a mail service that with a guarantee. I trust their desire not to pay me over my diligence in making backups (I use the "hope my hard drive doesn't fail before I buy a new one" method, and it seems to work).
It really doesn't have anything to do with whether the user is a novice or enthusiast. It just means that they are using a personal computer rather than administrating a server, or using a dumb terminal.
Think of someone of "average" intelligence. Then think... half the world is dumber than that.
Tip: Don't implicitly criticize others' intelligence with a false statement. Average is not "in the middle". That is median.
Yeah, but you really need a beowulf cluster to get enough power.
Linux from scratch is for n00bs. Real geeks write their own OS completely from scratch, in binary.
Thou shall not use a programming language that works on only one OS.
Which, even semi-important, ones are like that?
Then ban bricks!