If there's a great depression going on throughout the world, where the hell are people finding the scratch to piss away on electronic devices that will be stuck in a walled garden and bricked in less than a decade?
DECADE? You're joking right??? This will be outdated in a couple of years maximum! And I am being optimist!
This sounds to me ideal for industry and, of course, more nuclear reactors. If they have another meltdown, then it won't matter as much due to the exclusion zone around the Fukushima site.
Er, I'm no expert, but the very fact that the specific reactor was damaged from an earthquake, doesn't mean that the area is (geologically) unsafe for future reactors?
By the way, going with colloquial definitions also means that you have large swaths of political spectrum uncovered - if "communism" is USSR/China/Cuba/..., and "socialism" is what you now have in Greece, then what do you call guys such as real democratic socialists (those who want cooperative ownership of industry, but true democracy unlike USSR), or Luxembourgists and other non-Leninist, democratic Marxists, or anarcho-syndicalists and libertarian socialists? All these groups have far more in common between each other, and in the traditional scale that I'm using, they would all be properly called socialist.
I am unaware of those theories. I've never heard of them. Are you sure they exist now? I am aware of some people called "4th internationalists" or "Trotskysts" but their impact is below minimal. They received well below 0.1%. Nobody knows them, I don't even know how officially name their party. Apart from them there are some parties claim to be communist. But all of them receive around 0.2%. So, in western bloc, these have no name at all. We can call them collectively "left-wingers"
No, I didn't misunderstood you for American. The American Coward talking some nonsense about large intestines is probably an American.
In Europe, some countries, like the Scandinabian ones, have strong welfare systems. They have private enterprises, but they are strongly regulated, and workers have many rights, unheard to Americans. Critical industry, like power grid, defense, are owned by the state. I would call them 'mixed economies'.
In western bloc, christian democrats vs. socialists are like republicans vs. democrats in America. They both support capitalism, but socialists are milder.
When I said that "socialists" in Europe have nothing to do with Marxism/Leninism, I meant that "socialists" here support private enterprise, diminish the role of the state, support the freedom of enterprise, support lower taxes on the rich and have unfavorable laws for workers.
For example, my country, Greece, has a "socialist" government but it destroys social welfare. New taxes are announced every day. Taxable income is 462€. That is enough only for the rent. All public companies are sold to rich people for modest prices. Moderately paid public servants saw their income being cut by 25% last year. VAT has risen to 23% and may go to 25%.
People here perceive socialists as completely identical to right-wingers. They may even call them right-wingers. Strangely, no one says Greece is a socialist country, not even the socialists who rule it.
When we say "communism" we mean something like the USSR. Those things you said, about stateless and classless society, are complete unheard to the westerners. They might sound somewhat romantic, utopian.
Oh, dear! Being European, let me tell you how political beliefs are classified: Those who call themselves "right-wingers", are actually far-right nationalists. Those who call themselves "christian democrats" are actually neo-libertarians right-wingers. Those who call themselves "socialists" or "social democrats" are actually right-wingers Those who call themselves "left-wingers" are opportunistic parties, hoping to catch some votes here and there. Those who call themselves "communists" are communists who want socialism. Those who call themselves "revolutionaries" or "anarchists" or "anti-authoritarians" are radical left-wingers.
You might find it insane, but people like Dominique Strauss Kahn, who spent $3000 per day on his hotel at NY, are indeed called "socialists" in Europe. I really don't know why. When we say "socialism" here, it has NOTHING to do with Marxism-Lenninism or the socialism of the USSR or the Maoism of PRC. We call that "communism" here.
It says: "The Pavegen floor tiles flex a slight 5 millimeters when stepped on, capturing kinetic energy which is either stored in lithium polymer batteries beneath its surface or converted into 2.1 watt-hours of electricity and distributed throughout surrounding lights"
It is 2.1Wh per step. And if you see the photo, it's a tile every 100 or so, it's green with a bubble thing in the center. Nobody will walk over it, except for kids.
Here in Greece we have some volcanos that are easily accessible by the public and in fact some schools go there regularly. Last time I heard children went to either to the island of Nisyros or Santorini. There are plenty of holes to the ground that lava is visible. You can drop your hard drive there. Don't breath over the holes, I heard they smell terribly of brimstone. Don't fall inside. PS: Santorini is a great island to go to the summer, so perhaps you can combine those two activities.
Consumer ones are not so great. Why bother? For some 85 euros ($120) you can buy an SSD that nearly saturates SATA 6Gb/s (like OCZ Agility 3). And seek on RAM drives is not something brilliant. It is on par with fast SSDs, possibly due to slow controller.
Professional are another story, but they are prohibitively expensive even for the über-super-hyper-high-end-enthusiast.
Indeed. And I am 100% ok with that. Actually I'm not only ok, I want to stay that way.
The more GNU/Linux/OSS is approaching the desktop market, more and more is becoming bloated with useless gimmicks (KDE4), try to impress and radically "innovate" by stupid ways (Gnome3), push releases prematurely (idk, is KDE4.x stable yet? I would rate 4.3 as alpha), change user interface all the time needlessly just to say "look we've done something!" (Gnome3, inspired by the Prince of Incompatibility Gates whose each version of Widows is moving elements to different places), abusing their role to become famous (I have two different apps in my start menu who are called "Image Viewer", as if they are the ONLY one image viewer ever created), blatantly and stupidly inflating versions to give false impressions (linux kernel recently (2.6.39->3.0->3.1), Firefox 3.5->4.0->5.0 -- are they copying Chrome?), try to assess roles that aren't given to them (I think KDE tries to become an OS by itself), etc etc.
I want to say that the more desktop-oriented Linux becomes, the more idiot-proof tries to be. The more idiot-proof tries to be, the more bloated, cumbersome, and inefficient becomes. Traditionally unix was powerful by simplicity. I quit kde and gnome due to their "innovations" and constant messing with my system. I certainly prefer the simplistic xfce which does the job done.
I am confused about Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation. No, Linux kernel was not successful because of Android. You got it backwards.
Wikimedia Foundation is non-profit. Apache Software Foundation is non-profit. BTW, apart from http server, the foundation also now has OpenOffice. The PHP Group is non-profit. Python Software Foundation is non-profit. Perl is developed by hobbyists. Ruby is developed by hobbyists. Internet Systems Consortium (BIND) is non-profit. PostgreSQL Global Development Group is non-profit. (but mysql is) X.Org Foundation is non-profit. Khronos Group (OpenGL) is non-profit.
Oh, GNU is non-profit. Some widely used software is apart from base system, the gcc, gdb, glibc, gimp, GTK+ library (but QT is), gpg, etc. I'm sure I'm missing many.
I don't get what you mean that "Gnome and KDE have not made it into the consumer market". 90% of Linux users use them (I don't).
All these projects and immensely used in academia. I remember when I studied computer engineering, the only closed-source piece of software we used was MATLAB at the signal processing lab and scientific computation lab. The later is now switching to SciLab.
The network infrastructure and main servers of my university also run on GNU software.
Since I just graduated, I have no experience on computer industry but I am aware that it is successful in many applications like Supercomputing or embedded systems.
And since Solitaire was ported to linux, windows has lost it's major element.
BTW I had installed Linux at my parents and at my sister. Feedback was hugely positive. My sister who works in a bank who have windows was immensely content that I fixed her computer so not to crash every 5'. I really don't understand why your grandma doesn't do Linux. Perhaps you could tell me why?
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I used DOS for nearly 10 years and I've never been hacked!
Not even when I put a null-modem cable on the serial port!
You've never been to YouTube, right?
Kindle (plain) is at $79 on .com and £89 on .co.uk
That's ridiculous!
If there's a great depression going on throughout the world, where the hell are people finding the scratch to piss away on electronic devices that will be stuck in a walled garden and bricked in less than a decade?
DECADE? You're joking right??? This will be outdated in a couple of years maximum! And I am being optimist!
This sounds to me ideal for industry and, of course, more nuclear reactors. If they have another meltdown, then it won't matter as much due to the exclusion zone around the Fukushima site.
Er, I'm no expert, but the very fact that the specific reactor was damaged from an earthquake, doesn't mean that the area is (geologically) unsafe for future reactors?
By the way, going with colloquial definitions also means that you have large swaths of political spectrum uncovered - if "communism" is USSR/China/Cuba/..., and "socialism" is what you now have in Greece, then what do you call guys such as real democratic socialists (those who want cooperative ownership of industry, but true democracy unlike USSR), or Luxembourgists and other non-Leninist, democratic Marxists, or anarcho-syndicalists and libertarian socialists? All these groups have far more in common between each other, and in the traditional scale that I'm using, they would all be properly called socialist.
I am unaware of those theories. I've never heard of them. Are you sure they exist now?
I am aware of some people called "4th internationalists" or "Trotskysts" but their impact is below minimal. They received well below 0.1%. Nobody knows them, I don't even know how officially name their party. Apart from them there are some parties claim to be communist. But all of them receive around 0.2%.
So, in western bloc, these have no name at all. We can call them collectively "left-wingers"
Have you studies political sciences?
No, I didn't misunderstood you for American. The American Coward talking some nonsense about large intestines is probably an American.
In Europe, some countries, like the Scandinabian ones, have strong welfare systems.
They have private enterprises, but they are strongly regulated, and workers have many rights, unheard to Americans.
Critical industry, like power grid, defense, are owned by the state.
I would call them 'mixed economies'.
In western bloc, christian democrats vs. socialists are like republicans vs. democrats in America.
They both support capitalism, but socialists are milder.
When I said that "socialists" in Europe have nothing to do with Marxism/Leninism, I meant that "socialists" here support private enterprise,
diminish the role of the state, support the freedom of enterprise, support lower taxes on the rich and have unfavorable laws for workers.
For example, my country, Greece, has a "socialist" government but it destroys social welfare. New taxes are announced every day.
Taxable income is 462€. That is enough only for the rent. All public companies are sold to rich people for modest prices.
Moderately paid public servants saw their income being cut by 25% last year. VAT has risen to 23% and may go to 25%.
People here perceive socialists as completely identical to right-wingers. They may even call them right-wingers.
Strangely, no one says Greece is a socialist country, not even the socialists who rule it.
When we say "communism" we mean something like the USSR.
Those things you said, about stateless and classless society, are complete unheard to the westerners. They might sound somewhat romantic, utopian.
Human freedom was substantially curtailed, just like a communist state
That actually reminds me of American foreign policy of the past decades on Latin America...
Oh, dear!
Being European, let me tell you how political beliefs are classified:
Those who call themselves "right-wingers", are actually far-right nationalists.
Those who call themselves "christian democrats" are actually neo-libertarians right-wingers.
Those who call themselves "socialists" or "social democrats" are actually right-wingers
Those who call themselves "left-wingers" are opportunistic parties, hoping to catch some votes here and there.
Those who call themselves "communists" are communists who want socialism.
Those who call themselves "revolutionaries" or "anarchists" or "anti-authoritarians" are radical left-wingers.
You might find it insane, but people like Dominique Strauss Kahn, who spent $3000 per day on his hotel at NY, are indeed called "socialists" in Europe.
I really don't know why.
When we say "socialism" here, it has NOTHING to do with Marxism-Lenninism or the socialism of the USSR or the Maoism of PRC.
We call that "communism" here.
Compared to my old computer's ISA 8bit, it sounds great!
No!
It says: "The Pavegen floor tiles flex a slight 5 millimeters when stepped on, capturing kinetic energy which is either stored in lithium polymer batteries beneath its surface or converted into 2.1 watt-hours of electricity and distributed throughout surrounding lights"
It is 2.1Wh per step.
And if you see the photo, it's a tile every 100 or so, it's green with a bubble thing in the center. Nobody will walk over it, except for kids.
This is gonna be a failure...
I don't get it. Pounds measure mass, while Newtons measure force.
The metric equivalent of pound is the kg.
As for 2.1W, if you look carefully, it says "2.1 watt-hours" (obviously per step)
I think that Imperial System unit "lb" is called "pound" which is also the currency of the UK.
So it is 20,000 GBP.
You seem to assume that the drive is working. If so, then yes.
Here in Greece we have some volcanos that are easily accessible by the public and in fact some schools go there regularly. Last time I heard children went to either to the island of Nisyros or Santorini. There are plenty of holes to the ground that lava is visible. You can drop your hard drive there. Don't breath over the holes, I heard they smell terribly of brimstone. Don't fall inside. PS: Santorini is a great island to go to the summer, so perhaps you can combine those two activities.
Yeah, imagine how many fps will Quake II achieve!
No, specifically you, you are being paid by Apple!
Really a great way to promote capitalism: A single mother working TWO jobs!
I'm just taking next plane to America!!
There are applications where you need the sources, and others that you not.
For example, I've seen musicians releasing their sheets to the youtube's musicians-wanna-be's.
meh. I'm waiting until Linux 95.
With the current version inflation, Linux 95.0 should be out in a year or so...
Consumer ones are not so great. Why bother? For some 85 euros ($120) you can buy an SSD that nearly saturates SATA 6Gb/s (like OCZ Agility 3).
And seek on RAM drives is not something brilliant. It is on par with fast SSDs, possibly due to slow controller.
Professional are another story, but they are prohibitively expensive even for the über-super-hyper-high-end-enthusiast.
It seems it was. It was a good concept, but handwriting recognition was extremely poor
Indeed. And I am 100% ok with that. Actually I'm not only ok, I want to stay that way.
The more GNU/Linux/OSS is approaching the desktop market, more and more is becoming bloated with useless gimmicks (KDE4), try to impress and radically "innovate" by stupid ways (Gnome3), push releases prematurely (idk, is KDE4.x stable yet? I would rate 4.3 as alpha), change user interface all the time needlessly just to say "look we've done something!" (Gnome3, inspired by the Prince of Incompatibility Gates whose each version of Widows is moving elements to different places), abusing their role to become famous (I have two different apps in my start menu who are called "Image Viewer", as if they are the ONLY one image viewer ever created), blatantly and stupidly inflating versions to give false impressions (linux kernel recently (2.6.39->3.0->3.1), Firefox 3.5->4.0->5.0 -- are they copying Chrome?), try to assess roles that aren't given to them (I think KDE tries to become an OS by itself), etc etc.
I want to say that the more desktop-oriented Linux becomes, the more idiot-proof tries to be. The more idiot-proof tries to be, the more bloated, cumbersome, and inefficient becomes. Traditionally unix was powerful by simplicity. I quit kde and gnome due to their "innovations" and constant messing with my system. I certainly prefer the simplistic xfce which does the job done.
I am confused about Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation.
No, Linux kernel was not successful because of Android. You got it backwards.
Wikimedia Foundation is non-profit.
Apache Software Foundation is non-profit. BTW, apart from http server, the foundation also now has OpenOffice.
The PHP Group is non-profit.
Python Software Foundation is non-profit.
Perl is developed by hobbyists.
Ruby is developed by hobbyists.
Internet Systems Consortium (BIND) is non-profit.
PostgreSQL Global Development Group is non-profit. (but mysql is)
X.Org Foundation is non-profit.
Khronos Group (OpenGL) is non-profit.
Oh, GNU is non-profit. Some widely used software is apart from base system, the gcc, gdb, glibc, gimp, GTK+ library (but QT is), gpg, etc. I'm sure I'm missing many.
I don't get what you mean that "Gnome and KDE have not made it into the consumer market". 90% of Linux users use them (I don't).
All these projects and immensely used in academia. I remember when I studied computer engineering, the only closed-source piece of software we used was MATLAB at the signal processing lab and scientific computation lab. The later is now switching to SciLab.
The network infrastructure and main servers of my university also run on GNU software.
Since I just graduated, I have no experience on computer industry but I am aware that it is successful in many applications like Supercomputing or embedded systems.
And since Solitaire was ported to linux, windows has lost it's major element.
BTW I had installed Linux at my parents and at my sister. Feedback was hugely positive. My sister who works in a bank who have windows was immensely content that I fixed her computer so not to crash every 5'. I really don't understand why your grandma doesn't do Linux. Perhaps you could tell me why?