Peru's government has announced they want 260,000 OLCPs [CC] and a Mexican billionaire by the name of Carlos Slim has also asked for 50,000 that he wishes to distribute in Mexico.
In other news Colombia has proposed to help the OLPC organisation respond to the increased demand by manufacturing hundreds of thousands of OLPC laptops and shipping them to the USA, thereby only letting the non-profit organisation take care of the worldwide distribution of the laptops.
Either the supply is low, or the demand is high. I would say that the supply of the 80GB Zunes has been limited so that the "news" articles can hype "it's sold out".
I completely fail to see how this is newsworthy. I mean we get automatically noticed of Firefox updates, so why oh why post about a minor update on the front page of Slashdot?
Won't Apple just read the code and release updates keeping the program from working?
Yeah, because until now Apple had no idea at all how that anySIM thing worked. Now that they'll be able to access the source, they'll like instantly know how to prevent the hack from working.
You see that's as if makers of cutting pliers published the plans of their products, then car makers would as soon know how to prevent thieves from cutting the wires of a car in order to steal it.
Traditional libraries are long dead in a pretty significant percentage of the US.
I was joking, geez. I love how people like you jump on any opportunity they can to say something actually insightful just for the sake of being insightful even tho their comment is hardly related to the comment they're replying to. And I'm the one troll..
and are now subject to being fired despite a decade or more of exemplary service.
Awesome idea! Do away with your best hires because of some silly policy, and wait for foreign space agencies to hire them for their uncommon expertise, experience and insight! If there's something that we've learn during the past years, it's that loyalty and malleability are far more important than competence anyways!
Number of cellphones : half the number of humans Number of women : half the number of humans
Let's see, men can hardly give them pleasure for more than 10 minutes, and we hardly can be arsed to listen to them unless an instance of giving them barely 10 minutes of pleasure hasn't occurred yet. Cellphones can vibrate on demand for hours on end, and women enjoy talking to them for hours too!
Let's face it, we are obsoleted by our technology, and now that there is one cell phone available for every single woman, they no more have a reason to let us live! It's only a matter of time before their collective intelligence realises this and decides to do away with us and for good! We are doomed!! Our only hope of survival is to kill them one by one before they kill us all! WHY ARE YOU STILL SITTING ON YOUR DAMN CHAIR, GET UP AND GO KILL YOUR GIRLFRIEND BEFORE SHE KILLS YOU!!!
Oh, well, that's for the ones among us who have one, of course.. meh.
Yay! That means it's gonna be even easier to make things like that "miserable failure" meme happen! Now excuse me while I write a script that automatically "mods up" my sites and "mods down" sites I don't like using various anonymous proxies!
Sending a geologist on Apollo 17 did NOT really seem to make signif difference.
Exactly, because sending a trained professional who knows just which kind of samples (i.e. precise minerals, because astronauts were trained by geologists on the ground to know what to look for) he's looking for and having a robot pick random pebbles yields exactly the same results. If it had made a significant difference you wouldn't know about it anyways, unless you would read reports concerning the stones brought back from the moon, which one can safely bet you have not.
Here's what you should do, go into a mountain with a geology teacher from your local college, you pick 20 lbs of rocks with a blindfold on and you let the geology teacher pick 20 lbs of carefully handpicked samples, and compare.
This being said I agree that sending robots is better than sending humans, because even if humans are better they're not worth it.
Besides the Ares V has a larger lift capacity than the Saturn V anyway.
Yeah, and you know what's funny? The fact that it will have taken the USA over 50 years to make something more powerful than the Saturn V. The Saturn V lifted off in 1967, the Ares V is scheduled to lift off in 2018.
Sure in the end we'll get something better than a Saturn V, but if we had kept on making and improving Saturn Vs the way we did with B-52s we wouldn't be developing the Ares V.
Offtopic, but I'd definitely change that name unless it was intentionally rude:)
Rest assured that it was purely intentional. Turns out it's a great way for people to remember about it. Maybe I should work in marketing, although I'm pretty sure there are limits to how successful you can get by renaming every product you're trying to promote into references to genital and gastrointestinal organs.
The speed of sound is different depending on the medium. The speed of sound where?
Indeed, that was quite ambiguous in the summary. Whereas people here keep talking about what the speed of sound in plasma/intersolar whatever is, I think we need not to look any further the not so science-savvy author trying to give us an estimate of the speed he's talking about in layman terms, that is, the speed of sound at the sea level.
You say some complete falsehood about your product often enough, and soon enough people start to believe you.
I can completely relate to that, a while ago people started saying that this year would be the year of the Linux desktop, and years after hearing that, I finally believe it, 1999 will be the year of the Linux desktop!
Upon reading this article, two thoughts are conflicting in my head.. "Damn, turns out Google is evil..", "but wait! Google can't be evil, I mean, look at their motto!".
Truly, I'm confused, please oh wise Slashdotters, enlighten me, is Google evil or not, and why?
but we can't set up a repeatable experiment that can be falsifiable.
So that means that for example we couldn't analyse the DNA of samples of people from Asia, America and other continents and compare them and do it again with other samples of population and find the same results, just because it's all about history?
Crap.. I guess the Big Bang is not a theory either then, as it happened a long time ago and cannot be repeated..
Excuse me, could someone explain to me how "the theory that the ancestors of modern native peoples throughout the Americas came from a single source in East Asia" is not a theory, as the !atheory tag seems to point out?
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Oh I get it... because Columbia is the cocaine distributing capital of the World and will hide 1/5Kilo of drugs in the laptop? Am I right?
Yes, that's the joke.. :-/
Sorry.
"Hey, shaving with anything less than GDDR5 is like playing Warcraft on a Commodore 64."
Does it imply that playing games with less than 5 blades is like scraping your beard off with a dull hatchet?
Peru's government has announced they want 260,000 OLCPs [CC] and a Mexican billionaire by the name of Carlos Slim has also asked for 50,000 that he wishes to distribute in Mexico.
In other news Colombia has proposed to help the OLPC organisation respond to the increased demand by manufacturing hundreds of thousands of OLPC laptops and shipping them to the USA, thereby only letting the non-profit organisation take care of the worldwide distribution of the laptops.
Either the supply is low, or the demand is high. I would say that the supply of the 80GB Zunes has been limited so that the "news" articles can hype "it's sold out".
I completely fail to see how this is newsworthy. I mean we get automatically noticed of Firefox updates, so why oh why post about a minor update on the front page of Slashdot?
Won't Apple just read the code and release updates keeping the program from working?
Yeah, because until now Apple had no idea at all how that anySIM thing worked. Now that they'll be able to access the source, they'll like instantly know how to prevent the hack from working.
You see that's as if makers of cutting pliers published the plans of their products, then car makers would as soon know how to prevent thieves from cutting the wires of a car in order to steal it.
The goal is to replace traditional interfaces [...] by speech control or gesture control without modifying the applications.
If you can administrate your company's infrastructure by performing Tecktonik dance moves then count me in!
it appears that I will have no problem under the new order.
Congratulations, glad for you! Loser..
Traditional libraries are long dead in a pretty significant percentage of the US.
I was joking, geez. I love how people like you jump on any opportunity they can to say something actually insightful just for the sake of being insightful even tho their comment is hardly related to the comment they're replying to. And I'm the one troll..
Congratulations on killing traditional libraries, Carnegie Mellon University!
and are now subject to being fired despite a decade or more of exemplary service.
Awesome idea! Do away with your best hires because of some silly policy, and wait for foreign space agencies to hire them for their uncommon expertise, experience and insight! If there's something that we've learn during the past years, it's that loyalty and malleability are far more important than competence anyways!
Number of cellphones : half the number of humans
Number of women : half the number of humans
Let's see, men can hardly give them pleasure for more than 10 minutes, and we hardly can be arsed to listen to them unless an instance of giving them barely 10 minutes of pleasure hasn't occurred yet. Cellphones can vibrate on demand for hours on end, and women enjoy talking to them for hours too!
Let's face it, we are obsoleted by our technology, and now that there is one cell phone available for every single woman, they no more have a reason to let us live! It's only a matter of time before their collective intelligence realises this and decides to do away with us and for good! We are doomed!! Our only hope of survival is to kill them one by one before they kill us all! WHY ARE YOU STILL SITTING ON YOUR DAMN CHAIR, GET UP AND GO KILL YOUR GIRLFRIEND BEFORE SHE KILLS YOU!!!
Oh, well, that's for the ones among us who have one, of course.. meh.
Yay! That means it's gonna be even easier to make things like that "miserable failure" meme happen! Now excuse me while I write a script that automatically "mods up" my sites and "mods down" sites I don't like using various anonymous proxies!
a planet that is in many ways like ours, and in other ways hellishly different, such as surface temperatures over 400C
Sounds like Canada in the springtime, in the 2080's.
Can we moderate this story "Troll"?
Definitely, this summary screams "Say it's all George Bush's fault please!". And you guys just go for it, arguing and stuff. It's sickening.
NASA is barely founded.
Wow, you're about 50 years late. Either that or you meant funded ;-)
Sending a geologist on Apollo 17 did NOT really seem to make signif difference.
Exactly, because sending a trained professional who knows just which kind of samples (i.e. precise minerals, because astronauts were trained by geologists on the ground to know what to look for) he's looking for and having a robot pick random pebbles yields exactly the same results. If it had made a significant difference you wouldn't know about it anyways, unless you would read reports concerning the stones brought back from the moon, which one can safely bet you have not.
Here's what you should do, go into a mountain with a geology teacher from your local college, you pick 20 lbs of rocks with a blindfold on and you let the geology teacher pick 20 lbs of carefully handpicked samples, and compare.
This being said I agree that sending robots is better than sending humans, because even if humans are better they're not worth it.
Besides the Ares V has a larger lift capacity than the Saturn V anyway.
Yeah, and you know what's funny? The fact that it will have taken the USA over 50 years to make something more powerful than the Saturn V. The Saturn V lifted off in 1967, the Ares V is scheduled to lift off in 2018.
Sure in the end we'll get something better than a Saturn V, but if we had kept on making and improving Saturn Vs the way we did with B-52s we wouldn't be developing the Ares V.
Offtopic, but I'd definitely change that name unless it was intentionally rude :)
Rest assured that it was purely intentional. Turns out it's a great way for people to remember about it. Maybe I should work in marketing, although I'm pretty sure there are limits to how successful you can get by renaming every product you're trying to promote into references to genital and gastrointestinal organs.
The speed of sound is different depending on the medium. The speed of sound where?
Indeed, that was quite ambiguous in the summary. Whereas people here keep talking about what the speed of sound in plasma/intersolar whatever is, I think we need not to look any further the not so science-savvy author trying to give us an estimate of the speed he's talking about in layman terms, that is, the speed of sound at the sea level.
Laptop batteries, and now cell phone batteries? Just wait until pacemaker batteries start to explode..
You say some complete falsehood about your product often enough, and soon enough people start to believe you.
I can completely relate to that, a while ago people started saying that this year would be the year of the Linux desktop, and years after hearing that, I finally believe it, 1999 will be the year of the Linux desktop!
And the CIA is evil because?..
Because they're a Corpor.. err.. crap! My communist hippie logic is failing me again..
Upon reading this article, two thoughts are conflicting in my head.. "Damn, turns out Google is evil..", "but wait! Google can't be evil, I mean, look at their motto!".
Truly, I'm confused, please oh wise Slashdotters, enlighten me, is Google evil or not, and why?
but we can't set up a repeatable experiment that can be falsifiable.
So that means that for example we couldn't analyse the DNA of samples of people from Asia, America and other continents and compare them and do it again with other samples of population and find the same results, just because it's all about history?
Crap.. I guess the Big Bang is not a theory either then, as it happened a long time ago and cannot be repeated..
Excuse me, could someone explain to me how "the theory that the ancestors of modern native peoples throughout the Americas came from a single source in East Asia" is not a theory, as the !atheory tag seems to point out?