Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
There is nothing in the Samsung one stopping you doing a Linux install to the SD card. You can even do a software-reset to recover the original chromeOS.
As chrome is a Linux kernel you can even run a chroot linux environment at the same time and hot key between them. https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
But since most of us here already have more PCs/laptops around the house than we have pairs of shoes. I leave mine as a nice lightweight instant-on web browsing machine - it's what its built for.
>The problem, as it has always been, is the lack of suitable teaching staff
But we have unfortunately gone from: you once saw a computer in college = you're the new CS teacher.
Which at least allowed kids to run rings around them.
Now we have: these computers were very expensive and are managed by G4S, I don't know anything about computers, I just know my job is on the lien if you do anything to them, so my job is to stop you kids touching the computers.
Another vote for the Pi is that teaching computer science/programming in schools is a disaster, it has always been a disaster and always will be a disaster.
We (40something 1st gen of BBC in schools/Vic20 at home) didn't learn anything in O level CS, we learnt by playing with the machines. The same will happen with the Pi - there will be an a official curriculum meeting the standards of "keystage Pi, subsection e, attainment level log(2)" with suitable gender neutral and culturally sensitive pictures on the cover - and it will be ignored by anyoen with a real itnerest.
The big win of the Pi, any why it isn't equivalent to just having a VM or online JS environment - is that it allows kids to play with a computer themselves, without being bound to classrooms rules or school access policies.
It's not very different from how Nasa treated Europeans when we were building Hubble,
At least they had the excuse that Hubble was basically a demilitarized spy satellite and there was a cold war on.
I know a lot of bio types have abandoned having conferences in the US because of the difficulty of getting visas for non-blonde people and the weirder outpourings of the various anti-science, anti-stem cell, anti-evolution politicians.
So being able to like Justin Beiber using only your thumbs ranks you as computer literate - while us old farts who were programming machine code at their age.
Of course if they make any breakthroughs in computers that don't need to understand logic, algebra, memory, networking, storage, filesystems, databases etc then the new kids might have a distinct advantage.
Yes but "those people" were the Nazi's the Japanese empire and the USSR - they had no ability to do any harm to the government.
Those people now are American citizens - they can do real harm to a government by not voting for them - these are the enemy you have to watch
Message to engineering staff:
Half of you are fired, the other half will be redundant in a month when the lawyers take over.
Now we need you to all concentrate on getting this revolutionary new bit of complex enterprise software out of the door.
Now CEOs will be going on a retreat to Hawaii to find out why employee moral is low.
They pulled out of china because of US political pressure and their image with their US customers - "Advertise with Google, the company that sends more users to concentration camps than any other search engine"
Standing up at a US company meeting and saying: "we are handing Europe back to Microsoft because they wont let us spy on customers there, don't be evil (tm)". Is hardly going to go down as well.
