Comment Re: pf (Score 1) 235
if it s a question about Linux, check LWN. They already have the question and the answer.
https://lwn.net/Articles/325194/
Years ago I wanted to purchase the original OLPC Give 1 Get 1 but wasn't able due to payment issues and not being in the US. I remember cursing on the 31st of December as I watched the deadlne pass.
So while this is very different from their first tablet, both in business model and openess, it still is something a bit different than most tablets offered by the competition.
<shamefull_plug> That's why we accepted to donate our kid educational software (DragonBox5+ / http://www.dragonboxapp.com/) to those who would purchase it.</shamefull_plug>
As a geek and open source user, I think there's still room for a more open platform. Especially in the educational space. Still we see that purely open initiative are hard to market/finance (think of the latest ubuntu phone). Hopefully they will be able to redo something more in the line of the first G1G1 tablets one day. As an entrepreneur, I hope to be able to give more as well.
Don't worry I understand a joke when I read it.
Jerk.
PS: what is ED ?
Try coming home and finding your house empty (!) and wife and kids gone to another country. Now that's deception. I know a few people who enjoyed this experience.
"If you're tied into the $Service world-view" any business that takes a conscious business decision like that needs to carefully look at the benefits vs the risk.
What about Google ?
Q: Have they ever closed a paying service ?
Q: If so, have they done it in a way that would make you lose your data ? Or put you in a situation where you had no alternative in reasonable time ?
I have used online paid services that have stopped working, without notification, even after the closure, kept billing me, without providing support.
I have paid solutions sometimes several 1000 $ without getting a single support answer when encountering problems.
I don't mind using a service if
* it has alternatives
* I can easily extract the data
A service is like any job or relationship. It can end at any moment. The way it ends is as important as the way it operates. I trust Google on at least ending their services properly. From my knowledge they have a good track record. Google Reader is a good example. Free, 3.5 months notice, open data, several alternatives available. I really don't understand why people complain.
Shameless plug: for those who have kids a little bit older, DragonBox is our algebra educative game. And we're preparing the Linux version: http://support.dragonboxapp.com/forums/166049-general/suggestions/2946059-release-a-version-for-pc-either-linux-or-windows
Drop us a line if you think this is interesting!
As for personal advice, for 3yo: GCompris
We, here in the U.S. of A., imprison more people than any other nation.
That's because we don't murder so many as some others, like China, where they legally murder ten times as many people as we do, per capita.
I live in a European state without death penalty. By your logic, as US legally murders way more people than we do, per capita, it should have way much less people in jail as we do, per capita.
Fail...
France and Germany have around 8 times less people per capita in jail than US. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_pri_per_cap-crime-prisoners-per-capita
Some naysayers mention that the kids on the other side of the fence did get some disease one day, even though they are nail nail-circumcised. That's because their parents let them play everywhere. They should practice playground-abstinence like my kids, and put on their preservahand gloves when they go to school.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
