This is a good point well raised.
My second programming platform was a CASIO calc (Lang was BASIC). Perfect, because you could be making random poetry generators, say, and the teacher thought you were hard at your Maths work.
This was some years ago too (I'm 30), so I'm quite sure there are some powerful little calcs out there by now.
True Geeks will find a way!
A lot of folk are saying that we're running out of stuff to put on a hardrive. Rubbish. We run out of stuff we can fit on a harddrive, then A disk of a different magnitude comes along, and we simply use it for storying thing of a different magnitude.
I already use a PC to run my Video and music collections from. But I don't (dispite having a respectable 500mb) record from TV, as it uses too much space. Poor compression from my TV card means I get about 1.5gig per hr of TV. If I record all the episodes of my favourite shows, my harddrive just vanishes (it got plenty other crap on it too). If TV card compression doesn't improve it would prob take more than a Tb to make me forget about space, and just record away from TV. But when that happens, thats what I'll be doing. And I won't be the only one. After that...?
A german friend of mine recently pointed out that the phraze "Unamerican" only rang one bell for him. Undeutch! Again, from an era best rembered but never relived.
Bingo! Well said.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge", A Einstein (and he should know
Exactly. We're already getting hugely creative and useful tools coming from India, why not afrika too. Why not deepest rural India. And the kids looking over the shoulders of the early adopters will be able to think about how to use the new found skills to earn, to solve, to develop...
Fingers crossed
What's the point of settling if (and for cowardly reasons, I'm not saying they are) you are already a company with a reputation for being a bunch of evil spyware spreading SOBs.
I mean what the 'bad publicity' going to do other than drum up more customers?
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Talk about a long campaign!
This is a good point well raised. My second programming platform was a CASIO calc (Lang was BASIC). Perfect, because you could be making random poetry generators, say, and the teacher thought you were hard at your Maths work. This was some years ago too (I'm 30), so I'm quite sure there are some powerful little calcs out there by now. True Geeks will find a way!
A lot of folk are saying that we're running out of stuff to put on a hardrive. Rubbish. We run out of stuff we can fit on a harddrive, then A disk of a different magnitude comes along, and we simply use it for storying thing of a different magnitude. I already use a PC to run my Video and music collections from. But I don't (dispite having a respectable 500mb) record from TV, as it uses too much space. Poor compression from my TV card means I get about 1.5gig per hr of TV. If I record all the episodes of my favourite shows, my harddrive just vanishes (it got plenty other crap on it too). If TV card compression doesn't improve it would prob take more than a Tb to make me forget about space, and just record away from TV. But when that happens, thats what I'll be doing. And I won't be the only one. After that...?
A german friend of mine recently pointed out that the phraze "Unamerican" only rang one bell for him. Undeutch! Again, from an era best rembered but never relived.
Good point.
Bingo! Well said. "Imagination is more important than knowledge", A Einstein (and he should know Exactly. We're already getting hugely creative and useful tools coming from India, why not afrika too. Why not deepest rural India. And the kids looking over the shoulders of the early adopters will be able to think about how to use the new found skills to earn, to solve, to develop... Fingers crossed
What's the point of settling if (and for cowardly reasons, I'm not saying they are) you are already a company with a reputation for being a bunch of evil spyware spreading SOBs. I mean what the 'bad publicity' going to do other than drum up more customers?