This is fantastic. How dare an opponent's "information" be spread. American democracy is built on the prevention of open dialog and the containing of messages that opposes one's own propaganda.
Splitting up articles into tiny chunks in the new big thing for web editors these days since it increases PVs, and thus they can charge advertisers more.
If the real server went offline May 2, does that mean the "spooky" fake servers would only have been getting traffic after May 2, so in the last two weeks, or were they getting traffic over the last six months? If so, how did that happen?
So what you're saying is that OLPC exists for the sake of Linux.
No.
Linux exists for the sake of the community.
XP exists for the sake of Microsoft.
The hardware in the OLPC exists for the sake of the hardware manufacturers. People make things, they trade them with other people, and civilization is better for it. Whether or not XP exists for Microsoft or Linux exists for commmunity shouldn't make a difference unless you're hijacking the project's goals to say that OLPC is to getting Linux into the hands of third worlders, which I don't recall ever being the point.
Mod this man up. It's exactly as Negroponte said in the article, people seem to think the point of the project is to support FOSS and not get laptops to kids.
OLPC isn't here to promote Linux, it's to get technology into the hands of the underprivileged.
Anyone else find the security aspect of this a bit frightful? They want a database which will track our browsing habits, constant updates to the Mozilla servers, and integration with the OS?
Firefox starts to sound like the next big brother.
For some midtail companies like you describe, it's a problem. However, it doesn't work that way with all brands.
Major brands, like Coke and P&G, make Walmart bend to their wishes. Sales of Coke at Walmart are a drop in the bucket for Coke, but if Walmart were to carry only Pepsi, they'd lose customers who came in there expecting to buy their Coke. The result? Both Coke and Pepsi don't drop their prices.
Take a company like Proctor and Gamble as well. A large percentage of P&G sales go to Walmart, yet they don't account for much of Walmart's sales. At the same time, Walmart can't price gouge P&G, because people expect to be able to find P&G products there.
Am I supposed to feel sorry for the music labels? The article wanks them off and swallows every last drop.
Tough shit if they have to do business with a smart retailer- if people wanted to pay $16 for CDs at Tower Records and Music Land, those places would still be in business.
RIAA, wake up to the internet already. There's a reason iTunes sells songs and Amazon sells lots of books- they can have a huge catalog without the need for retail space, you don't have to pay that $3.89 retail overhead charge to stock independent artists that only five people want to hear.
This is the way all brick and mortar is going- stores are a convenience. They keep the latest and biggest in stock and you can pick up and buy something there immediately. Otherwise, you go to the net and buy it for cheaper. The problem is their model, not Walmart.
Screw civilization, it's time to go back to being hunters and gatherers. Man things were awesome then, what with all the hunting and the gathering. And the even more hunting and the gathering. And life sucking.
Processor speed and HD aren't a big deal to me. They're the specs of my current laptop. I have a mac mini hooked up up to a big external drive that I use as a wireless server at home to store my stuff on.
I suppose it's true enough what the OP said about it not working as a main system, considering that I do have a second PC for storage.
Thanks for that link! That sounds like a good plan.
Yeah. I know there's office for Mac but there are compatibility issues, program quirks, and my courses use a lot of books on how to do stuff in Excel which are written for Windows.
I'm interested in the air but not for OSX. I travel a lot, so the lightweight thing is cool. The deficiencies aren't a big deal. I can't remember the last time I used my current laptop's ethernet port, and the DVD player lies fallow most of the time. Why swap disks when I can download what I want to watch?
The problem with the Air is that I don't know how I'd install XP on it, and I need XP for proper MS Office utils.
Sony's taking a loss on the console and expects to make it up when someone buys software. For every researcher that buys a PS3, Sony loses a lot of money, since that person won't buy software to help Sony make up the difference.
I am currently living in Japan but looking forward to going back to the US once my school term is over. The lack of Wild Cherry Pepsi here is atrocious and I could never again live in a country without it.
I would have never thought that a site which copied another site's idea but translated it for a local market would do better than a site not designed for that market.
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Someone inside Skype is trying to send a message.
I'm glad to hear that the university students are standing up for their rights and taking action.
This is fantastic. How dare an opponent's "information" be spread. American democracy is built on the prevention of open dialog and the containing of messages that opposes one's own propaganda.
"TPM will absolutely piracy of gameplay. Also, 640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Splitting up articles into tiny chunks in the new big thing for web editors these days since it increases PVs, and thus they can charge advertisers more.
If the real server went offline May 2, does that mean the "spooky" fake servers would only have been getting traffic after May 2, so in the last two weeks, or were they getting traffic over the last six months? If so, how did that happen?
No.
Linux exists for the sake of the community.
XP exists for the sake of Microsoft.
The hardware in the OLPC exists for the sake of the hardware manufacturers. People make things, they trade them with other people, and civilization is better for it. Whether or not XP exists for Microsoft or Linux exists for commmunity shouldn't make a difference unless you're hijacking the project's goals to say that OLPC is to getting Linux into the hands of third worlders, which I don't recall ever being the point.Microsoft evangelists keep spinning it that way, but it's a lie.
So what you're saying is that OLPC exists for the sake of Linux.Mod this man up. It's exactly as Negroponte said in the article, people seem to think the point of the project is to support FOSS and not get laptops to kids. OLPC isn't here to promote Linux, it's to get technology into the hands of the underprivileged.
"a violent crime [that] is also 100 percent preventable." thanks, welcome to the world of grand theft auto.
"it was Dawkins people were worshipping."
Mister Dawkins, my daughter is deathly ill. Could you please heal her? [waves his hand] Oh, thank you sir. Praise be to the flying spaghetti monster!
How will James Bond villains get paid now?
Anyone else find the security aspect of this a bit frightful? They want a database which will track our browsing habits, constant updates to the Mozilla servers, and integration with the OS?
Firefox starts to sound like the next big brother.
For some midtail companies like you describe, it's a problem. However, it doesn't work that way with all brands.
Major brands, like Coke and P&G, make Walmart bend to their wishes. Sales of Coke at Walmart are a drop in the bucket for Coke, but if Walmart were to carry only Pepsi, they'd lose customers who came in there expecting to buy their Coke. The result? Both Coke and Pepsi don't drop their prices.
Take a company like Proctor and Gamble as well. A large percentage of P&G sales go to Walmart, yet they don't account for much of Walmart's sales. At the same time, Walmart can't price gouge P&G, because people expect to be able to find P&G products there.
Am I supposed to feel sorry for the music labels? The article wanks them off and swallows every last drop.
Tough shit if they have to do business with a smart retailer- if people wanted to pay $16 for CDs at Tower Records and Music Land, those places would still be in business.
RIAA, wake up to the internet already. There's a reason iTunes sells songs and Amazon sells lots of books- they can have a huge catalog without the need for retail space, you don't have to pay that $3.89 retail overhead charge to stock independent artists that only five people want to hear.
This is the way all brick and mortar is going- stores are a convenience. They keep the latest and biggest in stock and you can pick up and buy something there immediately. Otherwise, you go to the net and buy it for cheaper. The problem is their model, not Walmart.
Screw civilization, it's time to go back to being hunters and gatherers. Man things were awesome then, what with all the hunting and the gathering. And the even more hunting and the gathering. And life sucking.
Yeah, that's true enough. Wonder if I can eliminate OSX, haha. I had no idea you could put a bootable copy of Windows on a USB key.
Processor speed and HD aren't a big deal to me. They're the specs of my current laptop. I have a mac mini hooked up up to a big external drive that I use as a wireless server at home to store my stuff on.
I suppose it's true enough what the OP said about it not working as a main system, considering that I do have a second PC for storage.
Thanks for that link! That sounds like a good plan.
Yeah. I know there's office for Mac but there are compatibility issues, program quirks, and my courses use a lot of books on how to do stuff in Excel which are written for Windows.
I'm interested in the air but not for OSX. I travel a lot, so the lightweight thing is cool. The deficiencies aren't a big deal. I can't remember the last time I used my current laptop's ethernet port, and the DVD player lies fallow most of the time. Why swap disks when I can download what I want to watch?
The problem with the Air is that I don't know how I'd install XP on it, and I need XP for proper MS Office utils.
I'd rather spend the extra watt on a constant fan that risk damaging the CPU in cooling/heating/cooling/heating cycles.
BREAKING NEWS STORY: Comments posted on a slashdot thread earlier today indicate its readers are a bunch of humorless, whiny fags.
Sony's taking a loss on the console and expects to make it up when someone buys software. For every researcher that buys a PS3, Sony loses a lot of money, since that person won't buy software to help Sony make up the difference.
Research: helping to bankrupt SCE.
I am currently living in Japan but looking forward to going back to the US once my school term is over. The lack of Wild Cherry Pepsi here is atrocious and I could never again live in a country without it.
I would have never thought that a site which copied another site's idea but translated it for a local market would do better than a site not designed for that market.