Depends on your particular plan (unlimited text vs. sufficient data), access to Wi-Fi, and how frequently your friends send images or media over iMessage. I have a friend who turned of iMessage to reduce data usage.
Do you know why your submissions are all marked [dead]?
Mine started to do that a couple of days ago and I'm trying to figure out why. Looking at your submission history it looks like it is permanent for you.
Really? That's a bit unnerving, and I can't understand why. It would certainly account for a lack of traction, and the fact that the same stuff gets submitted later and attracts comments....
So to answer your question: I didn't know and I have no idea.
Just looking at your submissions, they are not marked Dead as far as I can see....
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I can't speak for him, but since he didn't answer, I'll tell you what we do in Rwanda.
We educate homeless illiterate kids. In Rwanda, getting your way around a computer is a respected skill and none of those kids have ever touched a computer before.
We are trying to give them basic computer skills such as: finding your way online, e-mail usage, searching, file management...there is a ton of simple things like that. We all take them for granted because we use computers every day of our lives.
Imagine that you're illiterate and you see this shiny thing that looks like a magic box filled with random symbols. You heard about it before, you heard older men say that it's really powerful and that everybody respects individuals who can operate The Computer. So now you're in front of it. You touched the keyboard for the first time. It's filled with weird symbols, and this shinny thing has weird unearthly colors and glyphs that you cannot make sense of. It's unknown and above all, really frightening.
After a couple of months, when their literacy becomes "good enough" and when they can figure out how to do basic computer tasks on their own (or figure out a solution from online sources) we seek funding to send them to boarding school so they get off the streets.
This is a difficult transition for those kids, they completely lack self-respect and will be surrounded with kids from rich families that have had a massive advantage over them. But now, they consider themselves a Computer User. A person that can figure out the powerful machine, so their feeling of self-worth rises dramatically and they fare much, much better in the new school environment.
And that's it. Nothing really innovative, just teaching homeless street kids some computer skills so they can feel better about themselves and find their way in school.
Play games, have fun, use them as aides in study, as a diary/calendars, some basic tinkering skills, with ad-hoc wifi even micro networks for voice and chat - that is off the top of my head. You will be surprised how little computing power and stable internet you need to be a full digital citizen of the world.
A phone line, 100mhz pentium and 8mb of RAM did it for me in 1998 :)
Unfortunately it shows the 32gb version as $150 more expensive than the US version (at 449AUD or 426.51USD at today's rate). Plus they charge more for postage.
I think your maths is wrong. I just paid $399 + $34.91 sales tax for the 32 GB model here in California. $426.51 means you get it for about $7 less. Enjoy it!
I think I should have clarified that this was for Australia. Yes, I can buy the US version and I probably will but the fact that Google is using dodgy regional pricing irks me.
Quicksilver is back under development - the latest version is 1.1.2, and the last commit at their repo[1] was five days ago... Not on fire, but there is stuff happening.
Also, you may like Moom[2] for window management - sucky name, but the feature set makes up for it ;)
Presumably the complaint is the article is shamelessly pandering to twenty-something college educated people who are already aware of America's shortcomings.
The article isn't at all meant to persuade anybody, it exists to pat people on the back who already believe those "10 Things Most American's Don't know". But not the reader obviously. The reader is too cool, it's those other Americans who are uninformed and stupid, you see.
Because it's not a new idea, just an idea that's time may be coming. Ubuntu is definitely out ahead on this one conceptually, but iOS devices are inching their way closer and closer to desktop-class software and performance... by the time Ubuntu ships something, Apple may already be there.
