Drop Vista and install Linux and you can save a few bucks, scale down the screen size and maybe eliminate a few usb ports and some other stuff, mass produce it and you could have a full on pc capable of running even windows vista for probably under 300 bucks.
Unfortunately, that also includes the full power consumption and the full fragility of a hi-tech environment laptop, neither of which are features useful in the OLPC's target market.
I can't stand camera phones. I've never used them, and whenever I go to buy a new phone they've all got cameras attached.
The sticking point for me is transferring files to something useful. I know someone who couldn't figure out how to transfer a photo from her phone to her camera, so she took a photo of the phone's screen! Technology is supposed to make your life easier, is it not?
I know some carriers will sell you phones that automatically upload your photos and such (at a cost, no doubt), but I'll stick with my USB SD card reader and separate camera and phone, thank you very much.
Yes, in some cases, depending on how liberally you want to define "invent".
But in most cases, certain prepared foods have ethnic origins. It's a cultural matter, not an IP matter.
Much like sayings: We know that Einstein said "God does not play dice with the universe." We can say that he 'invented' that phrase.
However, "Don't squat with your spurs on" is a Texan saying. We don't know who was the first to say it, and that person wasn't famous for having said it (except, perhaps, locally), but the saying was popular in Texas before it was popular elsewhere (if it was). Therefore, we ascribe it to its cultural heritage (even if, perhaps, the person who coined it wasn't even from Texas!).
no ordinary people pay any attention to these kind of useless propaganda any more.
Really? Then why has there been no revolution yet?
Even the well-educated, usually skeptical university students don't know who the "Tank Man" was, nor do they know about the 1989 massacre in Tianannmen square (intentionally misspelled), where the "Tank Man" incident took place.
What is needed is more than just "[not] pay[ing] any attention" to propaganda. What is needed is free speech, to uncover the things that propagandists are hiding, and that won't come without a fight.
If only [wikipedia.org] there was a chemical that's in almost all soaps one could test for, proving it isn't soap, and therefore not soap, and as such, worth testing! If only...:)
Just because it looks like soap and contains dangerous material doesn't mean it doesn't contain soap.
Actual terrorists are rare and almost every action taken to detect or prevent terrorist acts has a very high false positive rate that makes it useless for the purpose.
Depends on what your purpose is.
The goal of the military-industrial(-congressional) complex is simply to get bigger. What better excuse than "we need more resources to reduce the number of false positives"?
Soap gets tested because it's quite easy to disguise a dangerous substance as soap.
I was going to say the same thing (and make the comparison of hiding heroin in a crate of coffee grounds to throw off the drug dogs), but the fact is that if you know that something is going to come back positive, whether or not it contains anything dangerous, then there's no real point to testing it (except to support a charge of DWB).
It will always test positive, therefore it's a good place to hide drugs, therefore they should test it, but it will always test positive. It's a catch-22 for the police.
The first step in establishing a dictatorship is to define an enemy, preferably one that you know either cannot or will not defend itself. Like terrorism? I'd consider this insightful, not flamebait; it's precisely the same thing that came to my mind.
It doesn't necessarily imply that Bush is trying to become a dictator; it merely points out that Bush's War on Terrorism falls within the definition of "dictatorship" provided by GPP.
If this means that the given definition of "dictatorship" is flawed, then the solution is to amend the definition, not to call the observation flamebait. Science. It works, bitches.
In my last marriage, my ex-'s ring didn't last very long. Six-months to be exact - so diamonds aren't forever. If this new substance can ensure the santity of marriage, I'm all for it!
Use a bigger test sample. Larger diamonds are more resilient in matrimonial tests, as are a greater quantity of diamonds, though to a lesser extent.
For years many OSS and Firefox proponents have claimed that MS crippled the web and killed innovation with IE. Now that the IE monopoly is crumbling whats changed?
It means that the internet is still broken for us non-IE users, but at least we have some cute extensions to amuse us.
Nice trick to annoy people into reading through the ad-filled multipage version.
I don't know about anyone else, but I got a flash-based popup on the second page. I suspect it's to give you an interactive experience, so you too can share in their hatred of "those running, jumping, spinning, swirling, flashing, dancing, popping, peeling, and just generally irritating rich-media Web ads."
It looks like people are finally starting to get it.
Sorry for the Bush/Iraq reference, but whenever I hear someone say "people are finally starting to get it," I can't help but think about those people who say that "We're starting to make progress in Iraq."
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Unfortunately, that also includes the full power consumption and the full fragility of a hi-tech environment laptop, neither of which are features useful in the OLPC's target market.
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The Euro is a dollar too, isn't it?
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I can't stand camera phones. I've never used them, and whenever I go to buy a new phone they've all got cameras attached.
The sticking point for me is transferring files to something useful. I know someone who couldn't figure out how to transfer a photo from her phone to her camera, so she took a photo of the phone's screen! Technology is supposed to make your life easier, is it not?
I know some carriers will sell you phones that automatically upload your photos and such (at a cost, no doubt), but I'll stick with my USB SD card reader and separate camera and phone, thank you very much.
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No, I think that's the wine.
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Yes, in some cases, depending on how liberally you want to define "invent".
But in most cases, certain prepared foods have ethnic origins. It's a cultural matter, not an IP matter.
Much like sayings: We know that Einstein said "God does not play dice with the universe." We can say that he 'invented' that phrase.
However, "Don't squat with your spurs on" is a Texan saying. We don't know who was the first to say it, and that person wasn't famous for having said it (except, perhaps, locally), but the saying was popular in Texas before it was popular elsewhere (if it was). Therefore, we ascribe it to its cultural heritage (even if, perhaps, the person who coined it wasn't even from Texas!).
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Really? Then why has there been no revolution yet?
Even the well-educated, usually skeptical university students don't know who the "Tank Man" was, nor do they know about the 1989 massacre in Tianannmen square (intentionally misspelled), where the "Tank Man" incident took place.
What is needed is more than just "[not] pay[ing] any attention" to propaganda. What is needed is free speech, to uncover the things that propagandists are hiding, and that won't come without a fight.
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Just because it looks like soap and contains dangerous material doesn't mean it doesn't contain soap.
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Depends on what your purpose is.
The goal of the military-industrial(-congressional) complex is simply to get bigger. What better excuse than "we need more resources to reduce the number of false positives"?
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I was going to say the same thing (and make the comparison of hiding heroin in a crate of coffee grounds to throw off the drug dogs), but the fact is that if you know that something is going to come back positive, whether or not it contains anything dangerous, then there's no real point to testing it (except to support a charge of DWB).
It will always test positive, therefore it's a good place to hide drugs, therefore they should test it, but it will always test positive. It's a catch-22 for the police.
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GP post:
40% Insightful
30% Flamebait
10% Interesting
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When I made my comment, it was simply -1 Flamebait.
FYI.
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It doesn't necessarily imply that Bush is trying to become a dictator; it merely points out that Bush's War on Terrorism falls within the definition of "dictatorship" provided by GPP.
If this means that the given definition of "dictatorship" is flawed, then the solution is to amend the definition, not to call the observation flamebait. Science. It works, bitches.
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In Russia... happy!
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Use a bigger test sample. Larger diamonds are more resilient in matrimonial tests, as are a greater quantity of diamonds, though to a lesser extent.
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Depends on who you mean by "we". Argentina had a huge economic collapse, and now there's a huge usury-free "local" currency movement there.
Yes, the literally do "make more", ex nihilo .
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Yes, but also consider that the death toll on their side is two orders of magnitude higher than of U.S. soldiers.
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Let me guess, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens thinks this will make the internet go faster?
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Monkey See, Monkey Do.
This principle also works in reverse.
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It means that the internet is still broken for us non-IE users, but at least we have some cute extensions to amuse us.
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Audiophile? Nope. Not me!
I love my vinyl because of the "sound quality" of '60s and '70s music!
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Could it have anything to do with how easy it is to get Firefox in your local language?
Correct my North-American egocentrism, but aren't most of the countries listed predominantly non-English speaking?
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I don't know about anyone else, but I got a flash-based popup on the second page. I suspect it's to give you an interactive experience, so you too can share in their hatred of "those running, jumping, spinning, swirling, flashing, dancing, popping, peeling, and just generally irritating rich-media Web ads."
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Sorry for the Bush/Iraq reference, but whenever I hear someone say "people are finally starting to get it," I can't help but think about those people who say that "We're starting to make progress in Iraq."
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Did we not just have a very similar conversation?
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