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Submission + - OLPC News: OLPC Give 1 Get 1 Program: XO-1 Laptop (olpcnews.com)

Submitted by

wayan

on Sunday September 23, 2007 @09:09PM

wayan writes: "Oh My God! The event every geek has dreamed about for the last year is now here: OLPC XO laptop sales will start November 12th with promised delivery by Christmas in a Buy 1 Get 1 program from OLPC. $399 buys a XO laptop for you and one for a child in the developing world — Nicholas Negroponte's way to keep OLPC demand going when he's not getting government orders to fill Quanta's production line."

Comment Re:Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert (Score 1) 571

by Chimera512 on Monday September 17, 2007 @08:55AM (#20634933) Attached to: Fantasy Author Robert Jordan Passes Away

good to hear since I hadn't the stomach for 11 after 10 did nothing but catch up subplots or start new ones, from what I remember. Sad he's died though, my first girlfriend got me into those books back in high school. They were good when you're not expecting high-grade fantasy and are just watching the characters, It's clearly ridiculous in places.

Submission + - Wikipedia Banned at College

Submitted by

Zatoichi007

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @02:54PM

Zatoichi007 writes: "The NYT is reporting that Wikipedia is now being banned as a source for research at Middlebury College. It seems that the last straw for the college occured when students in a Japanese history class wrongly asserted that the Jesuits aided in the Shambara Rebellion, using Wikipedia as the reference point. Is Wikipedia a valid source for "serious" research or just a starting point to find out what might be interesting about a particular topic?"

Submission + - Numbers not looking good for PS3

Submitted by Engineer Chris on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @02:53PM

Engineer Chris writes: An interesting look at some of the numbers behind console sales, and it's not looking good for Sony.

"The three points of the triangle are cost, installed base and games. If you don't have two of them, the third will never happen, and if you do have two, the third will come for free. Basically it is a feedback loop, you will excel at all three and ramp up the numbers or you will be in a death spiral quicker than you can say comprehensive Blu-Ray crack. There is no middle ground."

Submission + - Vista Performance Monitor - it's actually good!

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @02:21PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "This is the first in a small series of articles covering a few of the more useful features of Windows Vista that you may not be familiar with (or even know about). There are are some nice little tools tucked away in Vista, and the first one that I will discuss is the Reliability Monitor. Full article here"

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