Yeah, right! The thing is, that if you live in the troubled Europe part, you can't even support yourself with TWO salaries, working all day. Whereas, in financially healthy part, you can support your whole family.
Newsflash: Europe is not a country, it is a continent, with many different countries, some more developed some less. Some dominating and some dominated.
And, as long as it isn't too obtrusive in the UI, I won't really complain about it.
A single pixel, bit or char with an advertisement is IMMENSELY obtrusive to me. Ads in an OS? Really? Why not spam also? Probably they would make a partnership with YouPorn, why not?
I was one of these kids. But the learning curve of BASIC, despite smooth, is quite short also. In short time I reached a dead-end. There was nothing more and what was there was slow beyond usefulness. All knowledge I gathered was insufficient to do something serious, and useless as Pascal, C or assembly I learned later had nothing to do in syntax or style of BASIC.
Even Pascal, which was relatively easy it was a pain in the ass with its annoying pedantic-ness and over-protectionism. C, while steeper, did what I wanted to do, without questioning it all the time (like Pascal did) and it was worth every millisecond I spent learning it. After I passed over the learning curve I could code efficiently and get things done.
That story reminds me our story in Greece. "Buy more weapons or Turks will invade you" arms dealers told us. And we bought tanks, airplanes, submarines, until we reached half a trillion dollars debt, we practically bankrupt and we became slaves of our lenders. Life became so unbearable that I had to emigrate.
Solution would be mutual agreements between the US, Russia and China for controlling weapons - both to cut down costs and to enable such great technology as nuclear fusion to be used in production for the good of the people.
They did use steam engines to open large temple doors. It was a matter of priorities, and gods were given precedence. That is the same with fusion. The first fusion bomb was made I think in late 40's or early 50's. They all said we'll be capable to have energy for civilian purposes in some 40 years. It didn't happen. Just because gov't (both American and Soviet, the latter produced a 200Mt bomb!!) preferred allocate funds for making bigger and bigger bombs (as if fission bombs were not strong enough) rather than producing clean energy.
I'm not pacifist, ok? But I'm pissed off when great discoveries are first given priority to the military rather to the well being of the people.
King's Quest I and II were made that way at the '80s, not on DVD of course, but on 5.25 floppy. It was a immensely stupid idea, thankfully KQ3 run on plain DOS. What an evil mind could think such a thing!
I think single-tasking and rebooting to play a game is not the way forward.
LOAD and STORE aren't single cycle instructions on any RISC I know of. Lots of RISC designs also have multicycle floating point instructions. A lot of second or third generation RISCs added a MULTIPLY instruction and they were multiple cycle.
Idk for computer processors, but Texas Instruments had some older DSP that could load, store, add, multiply and add-and-multiply in single cycle (TMS320C30 for example). Modern models ('C67xx, 'DM642) may not compute in single cycle but do not block execution - flow continues, and when data is ready it appears at the registers. Even conditional jump is single-cycle as it continues to flow, and 4 clocks later executes the jump (you can fill with NOPs if you please)
Actually it is less than single cycle if you take into account that you can execute (by hand) multiple instructions per clock (granted that you don't use the same resource).
Direct costs of the war in Iraq were $800B, by the time all direct and indirect costs are accounted for (interest, injured and wounded, veteran care and pay), it could hit $4T.
They say that was is business, but I fail to see what kind of businessman would invest $4tn in a high risk bid to control some oil, a control that IF it is gained, may be lost in a regime change, something that seems to get frequent in Middle East.
No, slow progress is not that useful, if it is outpaced by others. Because with or without DARPA progress will be made and solar cell efficiency will continue to increase. That would be a chance to accelerate it.
But I don't care that much. I've seen trillions of stories in Slashdot about huge capacity batteries of bizarre materials, huge capacity storage media for the masses, etc, etc, but never seen these discoveries to bear fruit.
It's not "Ultra" HD, they should use "Very" HD for 4K then they can use "Ultra" for 8K. Now they have to start calling the next ones XSUHDTV (eXtra Super Ultra) etc..
See suggestions for USB 4.0, 5.0, etc.
Unrelated question: what connector would you use to feed them 3D at 50/60 Hz (so really, 100/120 Hz) at the native resolution?
IBM T221 uses a weird scheme of four DVI links, back then when there was no DisplayPort. The latter is at version 1.2, with bandwith something less than 20gbps. Just wait for the next version...
Yes, many. Google for "medical displays". Eizo has produced a 36.4 for $40-50k, Barco also, etc.
Still IBM T221 can still be sold on eBay or in higher quantities and better prices on Chinese Taobao (you will need an intermediary agent). They cost less than a $1k including complex cabling. Viewsonic is just a rebranded IBM.
Yeah, because any granny or grandpa, any farmer or fisherman, any plumper or electrician in Poland with voting rights, cares about closed platforms or proprietary software or patent trolls.
Education Probably this is very true. The military expenses are extremely disproportionate to the country's wealth. On the other hand, the presence of the US 7th fleet, and the build-up of more than a million SK soldiers on the border, doesn't help easing north korean's fears.
Food Isn't that the case in many countries? Can you compare the wealth of eastern Chinese cities like Shanghai to the poor western agricultural areas who farmers still use primitive tools for farming? Or in Russia, do you compare the income of a person living in Moscow and one living in Caucasus?
Pluralism When media are politically controlled, we can't talk about independent journalism and democracy.
Freedom In HK there are no free elections for administration. There is a big council of "wise" people who chose leaders. But the site you gave me shows how HK has efficient free market oriented economy, essentially how capitalistic it is. For example low government spending in HK is not a true indicator of freedom. To the contrary, it means that the state does not offer many social services like free health and free education. As for labor freedom, it's clearly for the side of capitalists. I'm annoyed how such word are used. They connect the word "freedom" with the ability to fire someone easily without justification and little compensation. Article says: "labor productivity far exceeding the low minimum wage" -- doesn't that mean that there is extreme exploitation and unfairness? Rule of Law describes how state protects (big) property and trade. That's not freedom to the interest of people.
Education Probably there are cheaper universities in the US. But in a world superpower where top universities fees amount to half a million for undergraduate studies only, you can't judge a poor developing country for asking students to bring fuel for heating.
Food I'm sure NK might have instructed journalists to edit out images that are unflattering but judging from the fact that Western journalists are so highly critical of NK, I can assume that BBC or CNN would not accept to play a game of glorifying NK or even showing an unrealistically good images. Countless images of mourning north koreans were transmitted at Kim-il-sung's death. I can see their clothing and physical appearance is comparable to Greek standards.
Indoctrination I have no good understanding in Canada educational system, cultivation of nationalism etc, but I feel disturbed to watch such an animosity between Alberta vs. Quebec. For fuck's shake, just because you have different language? Anyway, even if what you say stands true for Canada, certainly doesn't for the US, unless there is a group that is so vocal that shadows other's views. I'm mean that "Freedom of speech" or "god bless america" or "pray for our troops" is getting comical. I especially hate when they shouting at me "THIS IS AMERICA" when they knew I'm Greek. Is it EVERYWHERE America?
Pluralism My experience with my country is that mass media run the country elections. In most recent elections here, just a few months ago, a far-left party (I'd call them moderate, but foreign press call them far) was ahead in the polls. The regime media threw such a dirt on it, that even that I didn't vote for it, I was outraged. Regime journalists even said that there would be "a nuclear disaster". There were even protests in Athens against two regime TV-stations. At the end, they managed to suppress it to below 30%, losing first place by the conservative right-wing party, but with huge disparity among ages -- young and mid-aged people voted massively for the far-left and old people for the right-wing. If mass media can affect that much the electoral outcome, can this be labeled as democracy? As for the US -- no, the power of the government is not infinite. People's reaction to such repressive legislation and especially the support of greatly respected organizations (Wikipedia) was so strong that politicians stepped back. That also happened in the EU, when while many member-states have endorsed ACTA, the EU centrally rejected it.
Colonialism and the Free World Is that the way you used this term?? I don't know what to say! I first head this term when NATO was waging war on Yugoslavia. I looked once in a wikipedia article listing US wars since WW2. What has US to do with freedom?
What *I* call free country? It's difficult question. Not NK certainly. Though I agree with socialist model of economy, I do not with agree with it's governance. Decisions should be made from the base, in a direct democracy style. Maybe the country best matches my ideals is Cuba, though it needs to get rid of the retrograde mentality of using state power to scatter dissidence.
Conservatism Probably you're right. I hope that no president in the US would have the view that there is "legitimate rape" because that sounds way too conservative even for NK, Iran and SA combined. The political conservatism of NK is no worse than religious conservatism of the US or SA. LGBT and women's rights are a rather new thing for the Free World indeed. Adultery was a punishable act in many countries (including Greece) not too far ago. It still is in SK. I mean, the UK even discarded the war effort of Alan Touring (who deciphered the Nazi's Enigma), ignored his great contribution to the theory of computation, and charged him for homosexuality, chemically castrating him, thing that many think it caused his suicide. Is that an act of Free World? It's like executing Einstein for peeing in the pool.
Food The very fact that NK was willing to exchange nuclear weapons for food, certainly shows lack of food. But what I can't accept is the 700kcal figure Carter said. That figure is nearly the amount white non-slav non-jew prisoners in Nazi concentration camps were being given. And after I have watched numerous news and interviews from NK, from even from BBC and CNN, they certainly don't look like that.
Education Paying $5000/yr in Canada is something possible. But paying $45,000/yr for 4 years in the US, that is $360k total, is unthinkable to me how they could be ever paid out. Certainly wages in the US are higher than here. But, really, you have just graduated, and owe like half a million?
Indoctrination Name me a SINGLE country in the world that doesn't do that. I am actually scared that Americans look alike as if all of them have the exact same opinions, strongly formulated yet ignoring very basic facts. But let me judge my own country who I guess it's Free World: We are taught Christianity from Primary school to High school. Isn't that indoctrination? We are barely taught Evolution. We are brainwashed with strong nationalistic views, of our superiority, spreading the civilization, blah, blah, blah. A basic function of any educational system in any country in the history is to maintain the current system in power.
Pluralism I never said it exists in NK. It doesn't. I just mentioned that it's ironic that the US scream about democracy in NK while having as a major ally the Saudi Arabia, which does not have even these basic elections of pre-approved candidates, even for the lowest ranks. I'm sure that many political movements exist in the US. But, just like in the NK, no one threatens the system. Western-style democracies allow some freedom of expression when the system is not threatened. But when it is, it imposes a dictatorship or a direct war. The US use of Napalm bombers in Greek Civil war (first use of Napalm-B was in Greece) or their support in the "Colonel's Junta" of 1967 shows that the only thing that matters Free World is that business and money flow. I mean you just said that both parties in the US represent financial interests and you are still talking about democracy? And that is far beyond bandit-style corruption we have here.
China Taiwan may claim mainland China, but chances of this having any real impact, is next to zero. Taiwan (but not PRC) also claims Mongolia. Anyway, since the reforms of Deng Xiaoping made PRC essentially a free market, the US have no strong reason to support Taiwan. There is no reasonable doubt that Taiwan has any future on mainland China (or Mongolia), and it seems that it has understood that since it elects reunification-friendly presidents.
Colonialism No you can't forgive the centuries-long occupation of African or Asian countries by the colonial powers, just because 50 years have passed. And the UK did not let free its colonies because it started to believe in Free World idea, but it either could not keep them, or promised them freedom for exchange help in the WW2 war effort. But even if we say it's forgiven, tell me, did the UK belong to Free World in pre-WW2 era, when it was "British Empire"?
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Yeah, right!
The thing is, that if you live in the troubled Europe part, you can't even support yourself with TWO salaries, working all day.
Whereas, in financially healthy part, you can support your whole family.
Newsflash: Europe is not a country, it is a continent, with many different countries, some more developed some less. Some dominating and some dominated.
He was a troll and Linus was unprofessional. I can't see why not both can be happening.
And, as long as it isn't too obtrusive in the UI, I won't really complain about it.
A single pixel, bit or char with an advertisement is IMMENSELY obtrusive to me.
Ads in an OS? Really? Why not spam also? Probably they would make a partnership with YouPorn, why not?
I must admit in efficient, rational, workable UIs like Gnome 2
Fixed it for ya!
I was one of these kids. But the learning curve of BASIC, despite smooth, is quite short also. In short time I reached a dead-end. There was nothing more and what was there was slow beyond usefulness. All knowledge I gathered was insufficient to do something serious, and useless as Pascal, C or assembly I learned later had nothing to do in syntax or style of BASIC.
Even Pascal, which was relatively easy it was a pain in the ass with its annoying pedantic-ness and over-protectionism.
C, while steeper, did what I wanted to do, without questioning it all the time (like Pascal did) and it was worth every millisecond I spent learning it. After I passed over the learning curve I could code efficiently and get things done.
There is no need to permanently lock it. An hour would be enough.
They can keep their virginity after sex? How? Oral?
That story reminds me our story in Greece. "Buy more weapons or Turks will invade you" arms dealers told us. And we bought tanks, airplanes, submarines, until we reached half a trillion dollars debt, we practically bankrupt and we became slaves of our lenders. Life became so unbearable that I had to emigrate.
Solution would be mutual agreements between the US, Russia and China for controlling weapons - both to cut down costs and to enable such great technology as nuclear fusion to be used in production for the good of the people.
They did use steam engines to open large temple doors. It was a matter of priorities, and gods were given precedence.
That is the same with fusion. The first fusion bomb was made I think in late 40's or early 50's. They all said we'll be capable to have energy for civilian purposes in some 40 years. It didn't happen. Just because gov't (both American and Soviet, the latter produced a 200Mt bomb!!) preferred allocate funds for making bigger and bigger bombs (as if fission bombs were not strong enough) rather than producing clean energy.
I'm not pacifist, ok? But I'm pissed off when great discoveries are first given priority to the military rather to the well being of the people.
King's Quest I and II were made that way at the '80s, not on DVD of course, but on 5.25 floppy. It was a immensely stupid idea, thankfully KQ3 run on plain DOS. What an evil mind could think such a thing!
I think single-tasking and rebooting to play a game is not the way forward.
LOAD and STORE aren't single cycle instructions on any RISC I know of. Lots of RISC designs also have multicycle floating point instructions. A lot of second or third generation RISCs added a MULTIPLY instruction and they were multiple cycle.
Idk for computer processors, but Texas Instruments had some older DSP that could load, store, add, multiply and add-and-multiply in single cycle (TMS320C30 for example). Modern models ('C67xx, 'DM642) may not compute in single cycle but do not block execution - flow continues, and when data is ready it appears at the registers. Even conditional jump is single-cycle as it continues to flow, and 4 clocks later executes the jump (you can fill with NOPs if you please)
Actually it is less than single cycle if you take into account that you can execute (by hand) multiple instructions per clock (granted that you don't use the same resource).
Direct costs of the war in Iraq were $800B, by the time all direct and indirect costs are accounted for (interest, injured and wounded, veteran care and pay), it could hit $4T.
They say that was is business, but I fail to see what kind of businessman would invest $4tn in a high risk bid to control some oil, a control that IF it is gained, may be lost in a regime change, something that seems to get frequent in Middle East.
No, slow progress is not that useful, if it is outpaced by others. Because with or without DARPA progress will be made and solar cell efficiency will continue to increase. That would be a chance to accelerate it.
But I don't care that much. I've seen trillions of stories in Slashdot about huge capacity batteries of bizarre materials, huge capacity storage media for the masses, etc, etc, but never seen these discoveries to bear fruit.
Oh... Where is Mafia when you need it? Good old times...
By 2030 humanity will have mastered nuclear fusion.
Problem solved.
Any other additions or changes not currently implemented by the GNOME team can be easily applied with only one click at the GNOME Extensions website
Uhm... No! Not even for basic things that are taken for granted in normal desktop environments.
It's not "Ultra" HD, they should use "Very" HD for 4K then they can use "Ultra" for 8K. Now they have to start calling the next ones XSUHDTV (eXtra Super Ultra) etc ..
See suggestions for USB 4.0, 5.0, etc.
Unrelated question: what connector would you use to feed them 3D at 50/60 Hz (so really, 100/120 Hz) at the native resolution?
IBM T221 uses a weird scheme of four DVI links, back then when there was no DisplayPort. The latter is at version 1.2, with bandwith something less than 20gbps.
Just wait for the next version...
Yes, many. Google for "medical displays".
Eizo has produced a 36.4 for $40-50k, Barco also, etc.
Still IBM T221 can still be sold on eBay or in higher quantities and better prices on Chinese Taobao (you will need an intermediary agent).
They cost less than a $1k including complex cabling.
Viewsonic is just a rebranded IBM.
I hope they'd drop the minor version by then... It's getting ridiculous...
Yeah, because any granny or grandpa, any farmer or fisherman, any plumper or electrician in Poland with voting rights, cares about closed platforms or proprietary software or patent trolls.
The fastest way to print text in DOS is to write directly to the VGA video memory at B800:0000
Education
Probably this is very true. The military expenses are extremely disproportionate to the country's wealth. On the other hand, the presence of the US 7th fleet, and the build-up of more than a million SK soldiers on the border, doesn't help easing north korean's fears.
Food
Isn't that the case in many countries? Can you compare the wealth of eastern Chinese cities like Shanghai to the poor western agricultural areas who farmers still use primitive tools for farming? Or in Russia, do you compare the income of a person living in Moscow and one living in Caucasus?
Pluralism
When media are politically controlled, we can't talk about independent journalism and democracy.
Freedom
In HK there are no free elections for administration. There is a big council of "wise" people who chose leaders.
But the site you gave me shows how HK has efficient free market oriented economy, essentially how capitalistic it is.
For example low government spending in HK is not a true indicator of freedom. To the contrary, it means that the state does not offer
many social services like free health and free education. As for labor freedom, it's clearly for the side of capitalists.
I'm annoyed how such word are used. They connect the word "freedom" with the ability to fire someone easily without justification and little compensation.
Article says: "labor productivity far exceeding the low minimum wage" -- doesn't that mean that there is extreme exploitation and unfairness?
Rule of Law describes how state protects (big) property and trade. That's not freedom to the interest of people.
Education
Probably there are cheaper universities in the US. But in a world superpower where top universities fees amount to half a million for undergraduate studies only, you can't judge a poor developing country for asking students to bring fuel for heating.
Food
I'm sure NK might have instructed journalists to edit out images that are unflattering but judging from the fact that Western journalists are so highly critical of NK, I can assume that BBC or CNN would not accept to play a game of glorifying NK or even showing an unrealistically good images. Countless images of mourning north koreans were transmitted at Kim-il-sung's death. I can see their clothing and physical appearance is comparable to Greek standards.
Indoctrination
I have no good understanding in Canada educational system, cultivation of nationalism etc, but I feel disturbed to watch such an animosity between Alberta vs. Quebec. For fuck's shake, just because you have different language?
Anyway, even if what you say stands true for Canada, certainly doesn't for the US, unless there is a group that is so vocal that shadows other's views. I'm mean that "Freedom of speech" or "god bless america" or "pray for our troops" is getting comical. I especially hate when they shouting at me "THIS IS AMERICA" when they knew I'm Greek. Is it EVERYWHERE America?
Pluralism
My experience with my country is that mass media run the country elections. In most recent elections here, just a few months ago, a far-left party (I'd call them moderate, but foreign press call them far) was ahead in the polls. The regime media threw such a dirt on it, that even that I didn't vote for it, I was outraged. Regime journalists even said that there would be "a nuclear disaster". There were even protests in Athens against two regime TV-stations. At the end, they managed to suppress it to below 30%, losing first place by the conservative right-wing party, but with huge disparity among ages -- young and mid-aged people voted massively for the far-left and old people for the right-wing. If mass media can affect that much the electoral outcome, can this be labeled as democracy?
As for the US -- no, the power of the government is not infinite. People's reaction to such repressive legislation and especially the support of greatly respected organizations (Wikipedia) was so strong that politicians stepped back. That also happened in the EU, when while many member-states have endorsed ACTA, the EU centrally rejected it.
Colonialism and the Free World
Is that the way you used this term?? I don't know what to say! I first head this term when NATO was waging war on Yugoslavia. I looked once in a wikipedia article listing US wars since WW2. What has US to do with freedom?
What *I* call free country? It's difficult question. Not NK certainly. Though I agree with socialist model of economy, I do not with agree with it's governance. Decisions should be made from the base, in a direct democracy style. Maybe the country best matches my ideals is Cuba, though it needs to get rid of the retrograde mentality of using state power to scatter dissidence.
Conservatism
Probably you're right. I hope that no president in the US would have the view that there is "legitimate rape" because that sounds way too conservative even for NK, Iran and SA combined. The political conservatism of NK is no worse than religious conservatism of the US or SA.
LGBT and women's rights are a rather new thing for the Free World indeed. Adultery was a punishable act in many countries (including Greece) not too far ago. It still is in SK.
I mean, the UK even discarded the war effort of Alan Touring (who deciphered the Nazi's Enigma), ignored his great contribution to the theory of computation, and charged him for homosexuality, chemically castrating him, thing that many think it caused his suicide. Is that an act of Free World? It's like executing Einstein for peeing in the pool.
Food
The very fact that NK was willing to exchange nuclear weapons for food, certainly shows lack of food. But what I can't accept is the 700kcal figure Carter said. That figure is nearly the amount white non-slav non-jew prisoners in Nazi concentration camps were being given. And after I have watched numerous news and interviews from NK, from even from BBC and CNN, they certainly don't look like that.
Education
Paying $5000/yr in Canada is something possible. But paying $45,000/yr for 4 years in the US, that is $360k total, is unthinkable to me how they could be ever paid out. Certainly wages in the US are higher than here. But, really, you have just graduated, and owe like half a million?
Indoctrination
Name me a SINGLE country in the world that doesn't do that. I am actually scared that Americans look alike as if all of them have the exact same opinions, strongly formulated yet ignoring very basic facts. But let me judge my own country who I guess it's Free World: We are taught Christianity from Primary school to High school. Isn't that indoctrination? We are barely taught Evolution. We are brainwashed with strong nationalistic views, of our superiority, spreading the civilization, blah, blah, blah. A basic function of any educational system in any country in the history is to maintain the current system in power.
Pluralism
I never said it exists in NK. It doesn't. I just mentioned that it's ironic that the US scream about democracy in NK while having as a major ally the Saudi Arabia, which does not have even these basic elections of pre-approved candidates, even for the lowest ranks.
I'm sure that many political movements exist in the US. But, just like in the NK, no one threatens the system. Western-style democracies allow some freedom of expression when the system is not threatened. But when it is, it imposes a dictatorship or a direct war. The US use of Napalm bombers in Greek Civil war (first use of Napalm-B was in Greece) or their support in the "Colonel's Junta" of 1967 shows that the only thing that matters Free World is that business and money flow.
I mean you just said that both parties in the US represent financial interests and you are still talking about democracy? And that is far beyond bandit-style corruption we have here.
China
Taiwan may claim mainland China, but chances of this having any real impact, is next to zero. Taiwan (but not PRC) also claims Mongolia.
Anyway, since the reforms of Deng Xiaoping made PRC essentially a free market, the US have no strong reason to support Taiwan.
There is no reasonable doubt that Taiwan has any future on mainland China (or Mongolia), and it seems that it has understood that since it elects
reunification-friendly presidents.
Colonialism
No you can't forgive the centuries-long occupation of African or Asian countries by the colonial powers, just because 50 years have passed. And the UK did not let free its colonies because it started to believe in Free World idea, but it either could not keep them, or promised them freedom for exchange help in the WW2 war effort. But even if we say it's forgiven, tell me, did the UK belong to Free World in pre-WW2 era, when it was "British Empire"?
For you, just "Kim". Like Kim Basinger.