A very timely article published on New York's City Journal.
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Showing posts with label article. Show all posts
2009-09-10
Whatever happened to the work ethic?
Whatever happened to the work ethic? by Steven Malanga
A very timely article published on New York's City Journal.
A very timely article published on New York's City Journal.
2009-07-07
Desmontar o Magalhães / Disassembling the Magalhães
A edição da revista Exame que está agora nas bancas contém um artigo muito interessante (reproduzido parcialmente aqui), onde se desmonta o portátil Magalhães e se identifica a origem dos componentes do "primeiro portátil português".
Penso que este pequeno computador foi uma iniciativa importante mas que cometeu erros graves. O principal, na minha opinião, foi apostar-se num portátil e não numa plataforma, que pudesse ser instalada em qualquer portátil Intel Classmate ou outro, como o OLPC. O valor acrescentado de um portátil destes, para crianças, está nos conteúdos e não no equipamento em si.
/ This post is bilingual: Portuguese (Portugal) and English (U.S.) /
This month's edition of Exame magazine has a very interesting article (partially available here, in Portuguese), where the Magalhães laptop is disassembled and the origin of the components in the "first Portuguese laptop" is identified.
This small computer was an important initiative but committed serious mistakes. The main error, in my opinion, was the bet on a laptop instead of a platform, that could have been installed on any Intel Classmate, but also on the OLPC. The added value in a laptop like this, for children, is in the contents and not in the hardware.
Penso que este pequeno computador foi uma iniciativa importante mas que cometeu erros graves. O principal, na minha opinião, foi apostar-se num portátil e não numa plataforma, que pudesse ser instalada em qualquer portátil Intel Classmate ou outro, como o OLPC. O valor acrescentado de um portátil destes, para crianças, está nos conteúdos e não no equipamento em si.
/ This post is bilingual: Portuguese (Portugal) and English (U.S.) /
This month's edition of Exame magazine has a very interesting article (partially available here, in Portuguese), where the Magalhães laptop is disassembled and the origin of the components in the "first Portuguese laptop" is identified.
This small computer was an important initiative but committed serious mistakes. The main error, in my opinion, was the bet on a laptop instead of a platform, that could have been installed on any Intel Classmate, but also on the OLPC. The added value in a laptop like this, for children, is in the contents and not in the hardware.
2009-01-04
More cloud computing criticism
When using the cloud, don't forget to backup. Just think what would happen if one of your Google Docs just disappeared overnight?
Read more about it on the article Retro Computing and the Cloud.
Read more about it on the article Retro Computing and the Cloud.
The Price of Forgoing Basic Research
Not all research is the same. What role can academia play in the economic development of a country?
Read the business week article by Bill Buxton, Principal Scientist at Microsoft Research.
Read the business week article by Bill Buxton, Principal Scientist at Microsoft Research.
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