maybe something good could accidentally come from it?
Only if the money slated for nuclear is diverted to sources which make sense like wind and solar, which even when paired with batteries are now cheaper than coal, let alone nuclear.
Huh. I coulda sworn mine had the crank. On the other hand, maybe they only promised it for later delivery and I barely used it after a few days experimenting, since it was so limited, and eventually tossed it along with a lot of other eWaste.
Many many years ago, I bought an OLPC, actually a pair, one for me, the other they sent to Africa or some other place. I do not remember the year even vaguely. I do remember it had a crank to windup and charge the battery. I bought the two because (from memory) the purpose of the laptop was strictly limited:
* Carry all textbooks on one laptop, instead of having to walk miles to school and back with a heavy backpack.
* Have modern eBook textbooks, not fifth generation hand-me-downs which had been written in a different language for a different country. This was certainly important for indoctrination in local history and culture, but it even applied to math textbooks, whose examples could well use cultural aspects which were literally foreign.
* Be rechargeable with that windup crank for kids whose homes had no electricity.
* Use a screen to read those books instead of having to stop using them after dark or by candles or oil lamps.
In particular, I had never heard that they were meant to teach computer science. It might have been a nice side effect, but I did not think it was any kind of a primary goal. The primary goal was to help young children learn.
That assumes that such a plan can exist. Why do you assume that it does?
I don't, and you don't understand the argument. Their business plan is simply not viable and they should fuck off and someone with a viable business plan should use the space they were wasting.
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.
That's interesting to know. I never spent a lot of time with NeXTStep, though I have played with it a little bit. I think I have a VM for an x86 version around here somewhere, but it was a little crashy in a way that the 68k machines weren't and I don't know which piece's fault that is. I spent more time with OS X, but not a whole lot, so I didn't get that far into it.
Just fall backwards, mouth open.
As long as some little bitch keeps modding down my factual posts
Fight on, fight on, dear old Muncie
Fight on, hoist the gold and blue
You'll be tattered, torn, and hurtin'
Once the Munce is done with you
All the extraneous bullshit Microsoft added to the start menu is always lurking in memory for performance reasons.
Fear of facts is a sign of cowardice
School issued devices often don't permit installing arbitrary apps, only those on the approved list.
Most iPhone owners didn't buy them outright. They got them "free" with their plan. Consequently out in the real world I commonly see people with old iPhones with cracked screens. They can't afford to replace them, we don't have an Apple store anywhere near here, etc.
The tariff revenues are needed to cover the tax cuts for the wealthy instituted at the same time, so no.
No one gets sick on Wednesdays.
