It's a big draw for clueless people. It would take Superman to tell the difference between lossless audio and a modern codec with a decent bitrate. I would be surprised if you can prove that a single person has ever…
>Makes perfect sense. Maybe so. And as I said, that makes me sad. People who work hard to develop full-featured and high-quality software fail to make headway, but people who cynically manipulate others to lock them in…
Linux can do whatever it damn well pleases. You can take Linux and turn it into the most feature-poor "easy-to-use" toy on the planet, as Google has demonstrated. The UI has little to do with the underlying technology.…
Firstly, no it isn't. The fact that they need an Internet connection is just one of Chrome OS's many problems. Secondly, I never claimed Chromebooks don't work offline. I claimed they are nearly useless offline, which…
Why does the Chrome OS team do anything the Chrome OS team does? They decided the best idea for low-end hardware is to run everything as a web app. They decided to make it practically useless without an Internet…
It's not at all controversial that there's a strong genetic component to personality. There are people who like to pretend otherwise, but it's very well-established science.
I've long held that, if we want computers in the classroom at all, we should steer well clear of any modern gee-whiz gadgets. A modern Commodore 64 clone would teach vastly more about computers than an iPad and would…
It's a big draw for clueless people. It would take Superman to tell the difference between lossless audio and a modern codec with a decent bitrate. I would be surprised if you can prove that a single person has ever…
>Makes perfect sense. Maybe so. And as I said, that makes me sad. People who work hard to develop full-featured and high-quality software fail to make headway, but people who cynically manipulate others to lock them in…
Linux can do whatever it damn well pleases. You can take Linux and turn it into the most feature-poor "easy-to-use" toy on the planet, as Google has demonstrated. The UI has little to do with the underlying technology.…
Firstly, no it isn't. The fact that they need an Internet connection is just one of Chrome OS's many problems. Secondly, I never claimed Chromebooks don't work offline. I claimed they are nearly useless offline, which…
Why does the Chrome OS team do anything the Chrome OS team does? They decided the best idea for low-end hardware is to run everything as a web app. They decided to make it practically useless without an Internet…
It's not at all controversial that there's a strong genetic component to personality. There are people who like to pretend otherwise, but it's very well-established science.
I've long held that, if we want computers in the classroom at all, we should steer well clear of any modern gee-whiz gadgets. A modern Commodore 64 clone would teach vastly more about computers than an iPad and would…