You're the first that I can think of to suggest (and you did say it out right) that MS Windows might actually have a better security model than Unix. Can you direct me to follow up your train of thought?
I'm currently doing a Bachelor of Education, so I'll try explain what it could be -- I don't know OLPC's educational philosophy. Its all about constructivism; if it is 'pure' constructivism then the students decide what the problem is and solve it with the tools available, for more moderated constructivism the 'teacher' gives a goal, explains the use of the tools, then sets the students off to solve the problem "just like in real life." How this relates to the software, I'm afraid I haven't experienced it. I should probably try get it, I think.
Mostly he's making a lot of noise, with actions that seem to be going to follow through, but are still at the token stage. The only critics I've seen are anachists and die-hard Howard fans; the rest are mumbling and grumbling that he can't be popular forever. He seems a little like Obama (as I see it) but with a race issue hounding after him.
So we have an AlphaBeta!, or perhaps a Beta Unstable. Having been a good/.er, When does Vista move to Testing? (or do I have that mixed up? argh! And that it is why you don't take drugs from strangers kids).
Outside of tech savy people, yes. (This unfortunately, unbelievably includes engineers; they have been the most voracious defenders of Microsoft products I have ever seen. I thought they were supposed to have critical thinking ingrained in them from year 1 of their degree?) Now, even stay at home mothers are saying 'I know it would be best to not get the latest Window[sic]..." I mean, they don't even grasp the name of the product and they believe it to be bad. It is (probably a little unfairly) a given. btw, the end of the sentence is "... but that is all you can buy now."
P.S. I'm pro OSS, tending to Debian-based systems.
In all fairness, my experience it has been bloated, not unstable; it is missing obvious features yet has particular features that are nice but are done better, more efficiently elsewhere. It is like comparing Textpad to Kate. Textpad has some nice features, but Kate does most of what Textpad does, but more efficiently. I'll never pay for Textpad, because it is not quite good enough... but it is a reasonably useful if that is your only option you have (I'm just learning programming and this is my own experiences -- completely anecdotal).
Yes, I'm going to have to accede the point to you. There are better ways than current hybrids and likely the solution is not another type of car.
I would like to see a scaled up modification of this idea (not necessarily the implementation) ULTRA.
If we could make owning a car a hobby like fly fishing and have these things at our beck and call it would be fantastic. For longer trips more traditional mass transport would be utilised in my imagination.
Actually I did. I moved from 95 to Me and had a good experience!!! It was XP that sent me in search of a better OS. My problem is deciding which I'm going to stick with...
:) I agree that we don't have 'the' green car available. I was more referring to the dismissive nature of the original answer regarding the intent, and would rather they continue to encourage civilisation as a whole to strive to reduce the impact society/individuals have on the ecology of this planet than look at the 'big picture' working on the premise that effectively we are mites on an elephant. Which is true.
Was not intending to be flame bait-ish at all... apologies.
Wether or not G.W. is the bane of human existence has no bearing on the sensibility of striving for minimal environmental impact and increase in efficiency and effectiveness of using energy.
No, I read books. And the aforementioned maligned companies only use the length of the screen, and a 5 word width. My 'idea' is revolutionary because it uses the width of the screen! I admittedly did misspeak as the pages can have more than one screen of info, however it should be in screen sized chunks. People would rather a book be thick, rather than tall; they too should be around 2 - 3 (avg)palm lengths tall, but can be wider than a palm is long. More than that and people tend to turn off.
I'd love to be able to make money off software too, but for the fact it just seems wrong to charge for something that is infinitely reproducible. For my service and effort, sure. But that decreases on average for every copy made. Give me the ability to transfer >$1AUD with no fees, I'll pay for every song I would then download, 8$ per movie. Few, if any, media files are worth more in the current environment. What, your going to sulk and 'not create'? I'll live.
Its like garbage, if there are plenty of bins around more people put the rubbish in the bin. My 3km street has no bin, there is mounds of rubbish lying around. Moral of the story; make it convenient and inexpensive, and most people will be reasonable.
OTH, technically it isn't moral to copy someone else's work with no benefit to them. Thus, I don't 'pirate'.
The only thing I could see worth noting is the long scroll page without much content -- just links to other pages.
1. A page should only one screen (doesn't include the browsers menus and tool bars etc....) worth of information. (There are exceptions such as a lot of text based info which should be broken up roughly every screen anyway.)
2. A menu system should be universal to all pages, like what you have on the first page.
3. Whitespace is good, except when you have too much.
4. It should be obvious what link is meant for which pic.
Other wise, I'd have said it is simple therefore not too bad. I wouldn't personally have your colour combinations, but that is a preference and it still is a good look. Should I mention you have got further than I have as I don't have any content to display therefore no website?? Ah my sig lives again.
If I am making a reasonable living, then *shrug*. If I catch them red-handed, i'd apply the five points of the law... but I'm not doing too badly, so I wouldn't bust me gut over it.
Referencing the engine, yes they do, but you need at the very least to have a primitive stethoscope to hear it. A laser should be able to detect the vibrations. Unless the electric field is stationary, in which case I am wrong and you are right. Actually the cooling pumps would be producing the sound if nothing else did.
Haiku in particular does seem like there is a decent amount of work being done. If I was more confident (or had another computer) about bug testing, I think I'd be running it.
What font do you recommend? I find it easy to read, even your examples of where it supposedly doesn't work, but if you can suggest a better font I'm up for improving readability.
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You're the first that I can think of to suggest (and you did say it out right) that MS Windows might actually have a better security model than Unix. Can you direct me to follow up your train of thought?
KDE4 requires dual core?
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Not in Ausralia, we try to avoid pseudo-latin terms :)
I'm currently doing a Bachelor of Education, so I'll try explain what it could be -- I don't know OLPC's educational philosophy. Its all about constructivism; if it is 'pure' constructivism then the students decide what the problem is and solve it with the tools available, for more moderated constructivism the 'teacher' gives a goal, explains the use of the tools, then sets the students off to solve the problem "just like in real life." How this relates to the software, I'm afraid I haven't experienced it. I should probably try get it, I think.
Mostly he's making a lot of noise, with actions that seem to be going to follow through, but are still at the token stage. The only critics I've seen are anachists and die-hard Howard fans; the rest are mumbling and grumbling that he can't be popular forever. He seems a little like Obama (as I see it) but with a race issue hounding after him.
Like a monotreme...? The only problem we have with platypuses is they generally die before the trial.
Bloke, have you noticed the proliferation of non-alphabetic signs? Slowly, but we are returning to hieroglyphics.
Thank you for your informative post. I can now ignore what gp said simply because you alluded that gp didn't know what they were saying.
So we have an AlphaBeta!, or perhaps a Beta Unstable. Having been a good /.er, When does Vista move to Testing? (or do I have that mixed up? argh! And that it is why you don't take drugs from strangers kids).
Outside of tech savy people, yes. (This unfortunately, unbelievably includes engineers; they have been the most voracious defenders of Microsoft products I have ever seen. I thought they were supposed to have critical thinking ingrained in them from year 1 of their degree?) Now, even stay at home mothers are saying 'I know it would be best to not get the latest Window[sic]..." I mean, they don't even grasp the name of the product and they believe it to be bad. It is (probably a little unfairly) a given. btw, the end of the sentence is " ... but that is all you can buy now."
P.S. I'm pro OSS, tending to Debian-based systems.
In all fairness, my experience it has been bloated, not unstable; it is missing obvious features yet has particular features that are nice but are done better, more efficiently elsewhere. It is like comparing Textpad to Kate. Textpad has some nice features, but Kate does most of what Textpad does, but more efficiently. I'll never pay for Textpad, because it is not quite good enough... but it is a reasonably useful if that is your only option you have (I'm just learning programming and this is my own experiences -- completely anecdotal).
Yes, I'm going to have to accede the point to you. There are better ways than current hybrids and likely the solution is not another type of car.
I would like to see a scaled up modification of this idea (not necessarily the implementation) ULTRA.
If we could make owning a car a hobby like fly fishing and have these things at our beck and call it would be fantastic. For longer trips more traditional mass transport would be utilised in my imagination.
Actually I did. I moved from 95 to Me and had a good experience!!! It was XP that sent me in search of a better OS. My problem is deciding which I'm going to stick with...
:) I agree that we don't have 'the' green car available. I was more referring to the dismissive nature of the original answer regarding the intent, and would rather they continue to encourage civilisation as a whole to strive to reduce the impact society/individuals have on the ecology of this planet than look at the 'big picture' working on the premise that effectively we are mites on an elephant. Which is true.
Was not intending to be flame bait-ish at all... apologies.
Wether or not G.W. is the bane of human existence has no bearing on the sensibility of striving for minimal environmental impact and increase in efficiency and effectiveness of using energy.
Australia is a third world country??? eep!
No, I read books. And the aforementioned maligned companies only use the length of the screen, and a 5 word width. My 'idea' is revolutionary because it uses the width of the screen! I admittedly did misspeak as the pages can have more than one screen of info, however it should be in screen sized chunks. People would rather a book be thick, rather than tall; they too should be around 2 - 3 (avg)palm lengths tall, but can be wider than a palm is long. More than that and people tend to turn off.
I'd love to be able to make money off software too, but for the fact it just seems wrong to charge for something that is infinitely reproducible. For my service and effort, sure. But that decreases on average for every copy made. Give me the ability to transfer >$1AUD with no fees, I'll pay for every song I would then download, 8$ per movie. Few, if any, media files are worth more in the current environment. What, your going to sulk and 'not create'? I'll live.
Its like garbage, if there are plenty of bins around more people put the rubbish in the bin. My 3km street has no bin, there is mounds of rubbish lying around. Moral of the story; make it convenient and inexpensive, and most people will be reasonable.
OTH, technically it isn't moral to copy someone else's work with no benefit to them. Thus, I don't 'pirate'.
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1. A page should only one screen (doesn't include the browsers menus and tool bars etc....) worth of information. (There are exceptions such as a lot of text based info which should be broken up roughly every screen anyway.)
- 2. A menu system should be universal to all pages, like what you have on the first page.
- 3. Whitespace is good, except when you have too much.
- 4. It should be obvious what link is meant for which pic.
Other wise, I'd have said it is simple therefore not too bad. I wouldn't personally have your colour combinations, but that is a preference and it still is a good look. Should I mention you have got further than I have as I don't have any content to display therefore no website?? Ah my sig lives again.If I am making a reasonable living, then *shrug*. If I catch them red-handed, i'd apply the five points of the law... but I'm not doing too badly, so I wouldn't bust me gut over it.
Referencing the engine, yes they do, but you need at the very least to have a primitive stethoscope to hear it. A laser should be able to detect the vibrations. Unless the electric field is stationary, in which case I am wrong and you are right. Actually the cooling pumps would be producing the sound if nothing else did.
So you are saying, it would make a great brake?... now if only we can get approach the speed of light...
Haiku in particular does seem like there is a decent amount of work being done. If I was more confident (or had another computer) about bug testing, I think I'd be running it.
What font do you recommend? I find it easy to read, even your examples of where it supposedly doesn't work, but if you can suggest a better font I'm up for improving readability.