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Caching. Without that Google, it's services and the whole of the internet would be sloooooooooooooooooow and boring one
Yes, you are right. With the development of Google we have similar seen development of Open Source technologies too. Google offers a convenience to a lot of users. They don't force themselves upon users. That is why they seem to be popular with both general crowd(solely for convenience) and technical
I'm looking forward to languages that integrate completely with an IDE, and leave simple character representation (ASCII e.a.) behind.
Wait no longer, www.alice.org is already there.
Not to mention, how many of them are passing themselves off as "Researchers" doing interesting research on those "Gamers".
Not actually, he said "Linux is bloated" not "Linux is obsolete". There is a hell a lot of difference between bloated and obsolete. The bloated software never become obsolete. You have an excellent example, sorry, two excellent examples floating around.
Well, it is present as a required reading in many US schools, I suppose.
No wonder, how they got the Apple's 1984 advertisement properly. If it had not been in their textbooks, do you think Apple would be where it is today?
You probably are right. I have heard Negroponte a couple of times and have had the impression. I also have a couple of facts to illustrate that his vision is not shared by prominent people.
Also I tend to trust Ivan KrstiÄ more than Negroponte. Those were the guys who sweated it out to bring OLPC. It was sad to see all the tech guys back off the project.
One more thing, If you beat your drums before you have something, you are basically full filling your ego, nothing else. OLPC did that from the first day.
It was also called 100 dollar laptop. Is it available for 100 dollars yet?
One Tab for your Internal Wiki. Another one for wikipedia.
You can also highlight a particular word in your internal wiki, do a right click and search wikipedia (if your search is set so). The search term automatically open the wikipedia content in a new tab. How amazing. Isn't it?
Is it only me wondering how did this article ever made it to
HAM? You guys are suggesting our fellow muslims to eat pork? You have any idea how insulting the very thought is!
Who was the one, who did not understand this joke and modded it as Informative? Funny Crowd.
Yeah and you can also calculate what once is blue moon is.
Or if you want it in Python, where readability counts.
python -c "import time;print time.asctime(time.localtime(1234567890))"
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberrys!" -- Monty Python and the Holy Grail