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MIT developing $100 laptops for children
MIT developing $100 laptops for children04/04/2005 07:27 PM In a rural Cambodian village where the homes lack electricity, the
nighttime darkness is pierced by the glow from laptops that children
bring from school.
The students were equipped with notebook computers by a foundation run
by MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte and his wife Elaine.
"When the kids bring them home and open them up, it's the
brightest light source in the home," said Negroponte.
"Parents love it."
Negroponte and some MIT colleagues are hard at work on a project they
hope will brighten the lives and prospects of hundreds of millions of
developing world kids. It's a grand idea and a daunting challenge: to
create rugged, Internet- and multimedia-capable laptop computers at a
cost of $100 apiece.The laptops would be mass-produced in orders of no
smaller than 1 million units and bought by governments, which would
distribute them.
Developing 64-bit Applications12/22/2004 12:59 AM Mac OS X Tiger breaks the limitations of 32-bit computing and allows
developers to create command-line applications, servers, and
computation engines that can work with mind-blowing amounts of memory.
Previous versions of Mac OS X have been able to take advantage of more
than 4GB of system memory when running on a G5-equipped Mac, but each
application was still subject to the 4GB limit imposed by a 32-bit
address space. Tiger obliterates that restriction and allows
applications to access a 64-bit address space when running on the
PowerPC G5. Better yet, this support comes with no compromise in the
ability to run current 32-bit applications.
Laptops for all
Laptops for all07/23/2004 02:35 AM USA Today Jul 23 2004 6:26AM GMT
Developing in OpenGL Using Makefiles04/01/2005 09:56 PM Ma
cDevCenter.com: “When I was in college, I was furnished with
a terminal to access the mainframe and used vi and makefiles to
develop software. And I liked it! The days of coding on mainframes and
PDP-11s may be long gone, but the methodology of software development
is still pretty much the same.”
Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom03/14/2005 05:54 PM Jumping the gun a tad, Amazon.co.uk are listing my new O'Reilly book,
"Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom". Pre-order it now - it's out in
April. I'm told I'll have the cover art next week, so start your bets
now:...
Linux in the Developing World
Linux in the Developing World12/05/2003 10:10 AM Norsemann writes "Peter Spotts of the Christian Science Monitor has
some very interesting things to say about the latest wave of Linux
adoptions throughout ...
Developing Dashboard Widgets12/19/2004 03:25 PM Apple
Developer Connection: “Widgets are quick to develop and easy
to deploy, and they can leverage all of Tiger’s advanced
technologies. Widgets are perfect for working with small amounts of
data or interacting with other applications, both on your desktop and
across the web.”
AOL Developing New Registration Process
AOL Developing New Registration Process08/04/2004 10:14 PM America Online is testing a new user interface for the AOL
registration process called "Prelude". Prelude has been distributed to
several thousands testers, but, according to AOL, is not an indication
that there is any new client software on its way. Despite
disassociating Prelude from any major development efforts, AOL does
have some tricks hidden up its sleeve. Fanfare, a next-generation alternative to the
classic AOL client software for AOL for Broadband members, is
currently being undergoing development.
Developing Custom PHP Extensions
Developing Custom PHP Extensions03/11/2003 01:22 AM Well i'm pleased to say that i've just learned to write my first PHP
extension, thanks to the above link. It accepts parameters, does some
processing and spits out the results. The latest php manual has an
extensive Extending PHP
section which is pretty good.
I've never had the time to learn how to write PHP extensions before
this. The only free time i have to learn this is at home, where i
don't have a Linux box, but i do have VC++. It's really really painful
because i haven't coded in C for about 2 years, but you don't forget
your roots.
I've been saying for years that we can port ADOdb to C if we really need the
speed. Now i can do it, if we are all willing to endure constant bugs
for a couple of months. Might even drive me crazy, C is no longer easy
for me (err, when was it ever easy...).
Now that i'm in the mood, how do i write a cross-platform extension?
"zeldman.doody"
Developing with Core Data
Developing with Core Data04/05/2005 02:11 AM Apple
Developer Connection: “Core Data, new in Tiger, completes
the Cocoa vision for building well-factored applications based on the
Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern by providing a strong, flexible,
and powerful data model framework.”
Apple Developing Numbers?
Apple Developing Numbers?06/17/2005 04:54 PM
AppleInsider reports that Apple has requested a standard character
mark for "Numbers" and is currently working on a spreadsheet
application to possibl...
Developing WBT with the 'ADDIE-M' ISD Model12/23/2002 05:51 AM Today's demanding eLearning development enviornment has left many
development teams befuddled while trying to satisfy several
initiatives and standards to make government and industry eLearning
more efficient (508 Accessibility, SCORM). Not having a formal
planning process representative of these requirements can be the means
to end of any web-based training application. The process for web
application development is well suited for integration with the
Instructional Design ADDIE-M model.
Laptops and Servers02/01/2005 09:44 PM It just dawned on me that in a desk-side box, heat is not a major
problem because it’s got a room to cool it off, usually without too
many other computers in it. Laptops, however, are like back-room
“mainframe” servers in that heat is a big deal. In the one case
you’re worried about your users’ gonads and in the other your HVAC
budget, but the problem is the same. Right now, the heat budget is a
big concern for the guys at Sun who design our biggest servers. It’s
no secret that our throughput
computing initiative is partly about this: lower clock speeds,
more cores, thread-level
parallelism. Am I predicting that laptops with SPARC processors
will be leaping off the shelves next quarter? I wouldn’t go that
far. But I am smelling converging design spaces.
News source: CNN.com