re: Flash + AIR on OLPC

2010-04-07 Thread Carlos Nazareno
hey guys! Good news, I was able to get in touch with John Dowdell of Adobe (email below). I'll coordinate with Reuben & Ed for the info needed by Adobe to improve Flash & AIR behavior on the XOs. *crosses fingers* -Naz "> Some stuff OLPC needs to get Flash & AIR running better on the XO-1 & 1.5:

Fwd: Server and service downtime, Thursday, April 8

2010-04-07 Thread Ed McNierney
Folks - Our data center space at MIT is being shut down and we need to move all our servers to a new server rack at the Media Lab. Chris Ball and I are planning to make the move this Thursday morning, April 8 (i.e. about 12 hours from now). This will take all our public-facing services - the

Re: A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad

2010-04-07 Thread Bastien
Martin Langhoff writes: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: >> (she had previous iPhone experience) > > That's called cheating! ;-) Especially now that the iPad secret has been revealed: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0bixcHAZo1qz8wm5o1_500.png -- Bastien __

Re: A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad

2010-04-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: > (she had previous iPhone experience) That's called cheating! ;-) m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first

A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad

2010-04-07 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Hi guys. Check out this video. It's pretty interesting in terms of computing usability for very young children: A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT4EbM7dCMs It's pretty interesting to note how the toddler took to it like a duck to water. (she had pr