Re: [sugar] OLPC's bizarre behaviors

2008-05-23 Thread Todd Cranston-Cuebas
Thank you. This is exactly what I was getting at. Sometimes impression doesn't match reality but it really has to be managed. May open source projects flourished based on good PR and some excellent, superior technologies dwindle away when the "feelings" of the outside world are ignored. I'm not say

Re: [sugar] OLPC's bizarre behaviors

2008-05-22 Thread Todd Cranston-Cuebas
I think it's worth noting that with the announcement of the new 2.0 spec on the hardware, you're going to get even more backlash of current G1G1 participants feeling like they helped to fund and purchase a system that is basically really a serious work in progress and test bed for the new system. A

Re: View Source question

2008-05-19 Thread Todd Cranston-Cuebas
OK, I'll jump in here. Sometimes you do things for no reason other than it sells. OK, there may be limited practical application of the view source button but honestly, I fully expected to see it running and live in the XO that I received after doing the G1G1 program. It was actually a let down to

Re: New bible reading activity

2008-03-17 Thread Todd Cranston-Cuebas
Actually, I spent a good part of the weekend thinking about how I would respond to this thread. First, it's important to decide if OLPC want to be truly open. If open means sharing, collaborating, supporting, etc. then the BibleReader should definitely be included in any list of XO Activities recog

Re: Microsoft? (was Re: OLPC seeks a CEO -- who was your favorite CEO elsewhere?)

2008-03-11 Thread Todd Cranston-Cuebas
I'm waiting to hear about this one also. On the one hand the OLPC can't be shipped with the Flash plug-in but the whole project is going to go to Microsoft? Talk about moving between extremes. I'm not sure why a more balanced approach couldn't work but then again, I'm more of a supporter (bought un

Re: [sugar] New activity: Speak

2008-01-10 Thread Todd Cranston-Cuebas
Since you're writing out the wave file, it would be nice to be able to convert existing online material to stored waves that can be retrieved at a later date to provide "podcast" like capability for listening while performing some other duty that would not allow you to be hands on. Perhaps a way to