oops sorry!

umm...

Google is Evil and Adobe is LaZy!!!

The U.S. Department of Defense uses Flash/Flex as solutions for a number of their coordination tools, especially for mapping and data visualization.

Not kidding. Looks like a simplified real deal command-and-conquer RTS app.

Flash is pretty much the go to guy for easy-to-build rich GUIs, which even AAA game titles (Like Starcraft II, Streetfighter IV, etc) use Flash for their GUIs via Scaleform technology.

Obligatory XKCD Strip: http://xkcd.com/553 Pirate Bay

How about building computers that are meant to last instead of being meant to be thrown away and "recycled" after 3 years?

They don't make computers the way they used to. Older 486s and Pentium 1s were sturdier and lasted longer.

Goddam culture of waste. Green my ass.

oh, and Nokia Plan S:

Do:

Nokia Plan A, Nokia Plan B, Nokia Plan C, Nokia Plan D, Nokia Plan E, Nokia Plan ES, Nokia Plan ET, Nokia Plan F, Nokia Plan G, Nokia Plan H, Nokia Plan I, Nokia Plan J, Nokia Plan K, Nokia Plan L, Nokia Plan M, Nokia Plan O, Nokia Plan P, Nokia Plan Q, Nokia Plan R, Nokia Plan S, Nokia Plan T, Nokia Plan V, Nokia Plan W, Nokia Plan X, Nokia Plan XP, Nokia Plan Y, Nokia Plan Z, Nokia Plan 0, Nokia Plan 2, Nokia Plan 5, Nokia Plan 9, Nokia Plan 10

Profit!

Of course. -> http://NokiaPlanA.com

Looks like they got taken out by Little Bobby Tables...

http://xkcd.com/327

So the solution to not having enough bandwidth is to chew up more bandwidth by pre-loading content which you might not need?

Only in Wikipedia do you have administrators outright declare that the actual games which *ARE* the game bundle itself (The Humble Indie Bundle -> the subject of the Wikipedia article) to be of low importance and distracting to the article.

In that case you should try Good Old Games -> download all the games you bought DRM-free, back up the installer files, re-install anytime you want, re-download anytime you want.

http://gog.com

No need for an internet connection and authentication once you've downloaded the installer files, unlike Steam.

Hi. Just reminding everyone that the current default OLPC OS now allows dual-booting to Fedora+Gnome aside from initially booting into the kid-oriented Fedora+Sugar desktop environment, making it suitable for more traditional uses by older users as well as being capable dev machines.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3 Will be posting this multiple times here (please don't mod as redundant) as Slashdotters really need to be made aware of this fact.

Hi. Just reminding everyone that the current default OLPC OS now allows dual-booting to Fedora+Gnome aside from initially booting into the kid-oriented Fedora+Sugar desktop environment, making it suitable for more traditional uses by older users as well as being capable dev machines.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3 Will be posting this multiple times here (please don't mod as redundant) as Slashdotters really need to be made aware of this fact.

Hi. Just reminding everyone that the current default OLPC OS now allows dual-booting to Fedora+Gnome aside from initially booting into the kid-oriented Fedora+Sugar desktop environment, making it suitable for more traditional uses by older users as well as being capable dev machines.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3 Will be posting this multiple times here (please don't mod as redundant) as Slashdotters really need to be made aware of this fact.

Didn't this concept already win top vaporware /worst concept awards for a few years?

DigiScents iSmell

Mod parent up please. Straight from source.

Very interesting info, especially the one on ARM having been pursued for years.

AFAIK, on the Linux side, one thing OLPC did was go out of the way to customize the firmware that MS worked on *to be able* to dual boot to Linux, since the firmware of the Windows version MS worked on was made to be able to boot only Windows and not Linux.

On the Windows side too, it wasn't "selling out" on OLPC's part. Governments requested that the units be able to run windows, and one of the tenets of OLPC is the open hackability & ownership of the hardware by buyers, so OLPC complied. They bought them, they own them, they can do with the units what they want.

This is a big contrast to most corporate hardware/device manufacturers today which dictate what you can or cannot run on your own device that you bought, even going so far as to sue customers under the DMCA and treat them like criminals.