1. Manipulate asteroid into orbit around the earth 2. Mine asteroid 3. Build solar cells in space, which also happens to be the best market for extremely efficient solar cells. 4. Profit!
"The decision to make a non-MMO game after the success of WoW is very puzzling."
No, its not. See, WoW didn't become a success by simply being a good game, just as blizzard didn't become huge by simply making good games. Before WoW was made, blizzard made an insanely popular RTS with memorable characters, good graphics and very balanced game play. This is essentially the same stuff as you'd want in a MMO-game, so War3 became a huge hype machine for WoW. So why fix it if it isn't broken?
First they release Starcraft, and then they release World of Starcraft. By using the combined hype generated by both starcraft and WoW, they CAN top WoW. If they tried to make a new MMO-game right now with no additional hype other than "we also made WoW", it would certainly not top WoW.
So why don't we get this stuff preinstalled on linux? Arent software developers interested in paying to get their trials on Linux machines? I can see how there is now market for it right now, but it seems like people don't think this will happen in the future either?
Now, I'm sure lots of people here don't want the usual Dell-crap, but I know I wouldnt mind if it made my computer 50 usd cheaper, and I can imagine many current windowsusers feel the same way. As long as its fair trials and not just utter crap.
Well, if you both are mulattos but not aware of that, there's a pretty decent chance that your child might be darker than either of you. Genes are funny that way.
I'd say more than 30 years, but on the other hand, it will be made out of carbon nano-tubes. I think anything with nano-tubes in it is worth waiting for.
Well, thats true, it doesnt have to be a democracy. It just helps a lot, because democracies tend to make the basic needs of ordinary people the highest priority.
True, not everyone live on a farm, infact, even in underdeveloped countries more people tend to live in cities. But if the economy as whole is based heavily on agriculture, what happens to the farmers will also happen to city dwellers.
Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't most third world countries depend on agriculture products as exports? So if agriculture products become more expensive, the food they buy is more expensive, but they will also have more money with which they can buy the expensive food.
If a farmer gets 100% of his income from agriculture, and 90% of his expenses are from buying agriculture products, he will still make a bit more profit if the market for agriculture products go up.
Anyway, this is all pointless, because in the end even the poorest country with the most infertile soil will have enough food for everyone if its a well run democracy that actually has a policy to bring food to everyone. If it isnt, well, then people might starve even if the country has both the money and soil to get food.
If they start selling them in sweden before the end of the summer, I'll get one. When it comes to laptops, dell is as good as any other company, and if I can get one that's guaranteed to work with linux, then thats just perfect. I think they will be slightly cheaper than windows versions, but I'll get one even if they are not.
That sounds like a good idea. Too bad a system like that would only work most of the time since there would probably be lots of software on the net that wasn't included, especially new stuff that simply had not been added yet. I can envision the slogan now: Ubuntu, it usually works!
Who can say with absolute certainty that global warming is happening? Hmm... Anyone who has temperature data from across the world for the last 100 years. Can you get more certain?
Now you may speculate what causes it and what effect it will have, but you cant seriously question the fact that it is happening.
Its not the cold or heat itself that kills, its the bacteria and viruses that spread with it. Very few people freeze to death, lots die from the flu and diseases spread by mosquitoes.
A warmer climate would definitely spread diseases in Europe that are normally very rare here, as both microbes and large animals migrate. Everything from snakebites to sunburns could cause problems, not because they are bigger issues than the ones related to cold, but because the people are not adapted to them. Here in Stockholm, -20 degrees Celsius is mostly just a cause for annoyance, but if it would strike Madrid, people would die like flies. Sure, in due time, people would adapt. But after how many deaths?
Yes, but we also have the italians, known for their mass surrenders in WWII, switching sides as soon as wars go bad and in the renaissance, fighting "battles" that were more like theatrical shows than real battles.
So we have French that tend to overestimate themselves, Brits that never surrender, Germans with a desire for world domination and Italians who simply join the other side when you need them to fight. Seems like a pretty average fighting force when combined.
Hmm, where is the porn on this map? It feels like it should be a gigantic wasteland between the blogs and myspace or something. Or maybe porn is like the air of the internet: Present everywhere, but thinner in some places?
Well, I touch my LCD too, and it still seems to be fine. If the people at your office touch them regularly and they still havent gotten any permanent damage, then whats the problem?
"I wanna add a new route to the system... go to the command line. Wanna add a host/ip mapping... edit %windir/system32/drivers/etc/hosts"
You don't need the command line for that. Yes, the registry is annoying, but I dont need to edit it every time I try to install a dowloaded app. In ubuntu, I have yet to find an app outside Synaptic that didnt need a lot of command line typing to work.
Do you think their goal was to quietly support piracy without drawing attention? The Pirate Bay is to Sweden what the Beer Hall Putsch was to pre-WWII Germany. Its a revolution that turns into a way for a political movement to get attention. (Note that its not the politics thats similar, but the methods)
Of course they want people to know what they do: Software Piracy. They also want to draw attention, so they need a defiant name. And finally, they want support, so they need a name thats romantic or even heroic. Can you think of a better name than the Pirate Bay? It was anything but a poor choice.
And yes, they are indeed asking for lawsuits, its all a part of the plan.
Electronic voting is not pointless because elections are only every few years, its the other way around. Elections are only every few years because electronic voting has not been implemented. It would allow citizens to choose on what level they want to participate in the democracy. As a start, we could simply drop regular elections and let voters switch party whenever they wanted to. That would change a thing or two, I believe.
And you cannot look at the distances for the vast majority. Democracy has to cater to minorities aswell, and a tiny minority probably lives over an hour away from the polling station. For them, it would be very unfair if some people could change their vote whenever they wanted, which is part of the reason why most of the world use such indirect systems.
"Child prostitution doesn't really happen to the extent that us farangs think"
Really? I guess all the pedophiles go to thailand for the sun, and all the thai childporn ending up in europe is actually from america?
Thailand is a very popular choise for pedophiles, and that sexual child abuse is not a very common crime even in thailand doesnt change the fact that its much more common than in other countries.
"India was four positions down on last year to 44th, suffering from weak infrastructure and a very low level of individual usage of personal computers and the internet."
44th, not 4th, and they say exactly the same thing you do.
Its funny that he compares to japan when talking about immigration. Japan is one of the most closed countries in the world when it comes to immigration, its a silly example. I really don't see how the USA could be considered anything more than average when it comes to openness for immigrants. Sure, the USA receives a lot of well educated and ambitious immigrants, more so than any other country, but thats because the USA has a reputation of being a good place to make money and "become someone", not the other way around.
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1. Manipulate asteroid into orbit around the earth
2. Mine asteroid
3. Build solar cells in space, which also happens to be the best market for extremely efficient solar cells.
4. Profit!
"The decision to make a non-MMO game after the success of WoW is very puzzling."
No, its not. See, WoW didn't become a success by simply being a good game, just as blizzard didn't become huge by simply making good games. Before WoW was made, blizzard made an insanely popular RTS with memorable characters, good graphics and very balanced game play. This is essentially the same stuff as you'd want in a MMO-game, so War3 became a huge hype machine for WoW. So why fix it if it isn't broken?
First they release Starcraft, and then they release World of Starcraft. By using the combined hype generated by both starcraft and WoW, they CAN top WoW. If they tried to make a new MMO-game right now with no additional hype other than "we also made WoW", it would certainly not top WoW.
Actually, there are social networking sites about as old as livejournal, so I'd say they belong to the same fad.
So why don't we get this stuff preinstalled on linux? Arent software developers interested in paying to get their trials on Linux machines? I can see how there is now market for it right now, but it seems like people don't think this will happen in the future either?
Now, I'm sure lots of people here don't want the usual Dell-crap, but I know I wouldnt mind if it made my computer 50 usd cheaper, and I can imagine many current windowsusers feel the same way. As long as its fair trials and not just utter crap.
Well, if you both are mulattos but not aware of that, there's a pretty decent chance that your child might be darker than either of you. Genes are funny that way.
I'd say more than 30 years, but on the other hand, it will be made out of carbon nano-tubes. I think anything with nano-tubes in it is worth waiting for.
Well, thats true, it doesnt have to be a democracy. It just helps a lot, because democracies tend to make the basic needs of ordinary people the highest priority.
True, not everyone live on a farm, infact, even in underdeveloped countries more people tend to live in cities. But if the economy as whole is based heavily on agriculture, what happens to the farmers will also happen to city dwellers.
Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't most third world countries depend on agriculture products as exports? So if agriculture products become more expensive, the food they buy is more expensive, but they will also have more money with which they can buy the expensive food.
If a farmer gets 100% of his income from agriculture, and 90% of his expenses are from buying agriculture products, he will still make a bit more profit if the market for agriculture products go up.
Anyway, this is all pointless, because in the end even the poorest country with the most infertile soil will have enough food for everyone if its a well run democracy that actually has a policy to bring food to everyone. If it isnt, well, then people might starve even if the country has both the money and soil to get food.
If they start selling them in sweden before the end of the summer, I'll get one. When it comes to laptops, dell is as good as any other company, and if I can get one that's guaranteed to work with linux, then thats just perfect. I think they will be slightly cheaper than windows versions, but I'll get one even if they are not.
Solid water is always ice.
That sounds like a good idea. Too bad a system like that would only work most of the time since there would probably be lots of software on the net that wasn't included, especially new stuff that simply had not been added yet. I can envision the slogan now: Ubuntu, it usually works!
Who can say with absolute certainty that global warming is happening? Hmm... Anyone who has temperature data from across the world for the last 100 years. Can you get more certain?
Now you may speculate what causes it and what effect it will have, but you cant seriously question the fact that it is happening.
Its not the cold or heat itself that kills, its the bacteria and viruses that spread with it. Very few people freeze to death, lots die from the flu and diseases spread by mosquitoes.
A warmer climate would definitely spread diseases in Europe that are normally very rare here, as both microbes and large animals migrate. Everything from snakebites to sunburns could cause problems, not because they are bigger issues than the ones related to cold, but because the people are not adapted to them. Here in Stockholm, -20 degrees Celsius is mostly just a cause for annoyance, but if it would strike Madrid, people would die like flies. Sure, in due time, people would adapt. But after how many deaths?
Yes, but we also have the italians, known for their mass surrenders in WWII, switching sides as soon as wars go bad and in the renaissance, fighting "battles" that were more like theatrical shows than real battles.
So we have French that tend to overestimate themselves, Brits that never surrender, Germans with a desire for world domination and Italians who simply join the other side when you need them to fight. Seems like a pretty average fighting force when combined.
Hmm, where is the porn on this map? It feels like it should be a gigantic wasteland between the blogs and myspace or something. Or maybe porn is like the air of the internet: Present everywhere, but thinner in some places?
Well, I touch my LCD too, and it still seems to be fine. If the people at your office touch them regularly and they still havent gotten any permanent damage, then whats the problem?
"I wanna add a new route to the system... go to the command line.
Wanna add a host/ip mapping... edit %windir/system32/drivers/etc/hosts"
You don't need the command line for that. Yes, the registry is annoying, but I dont need to edit it every time I try to install a dowloaded app. In ubuntu, I have yet to find an app outside Synaptic that didnt need a lot of command line typing to work.
Do you think their goal was to quietly support piracy without drawing attention? The Pirate Bay is to Sweden what the Beer Hall Putsch was to pre-WWII Germany. Its a revolution that turns into a way for a political movement to get attention. (Note that its not the politics thats similar, but the methods)
Of course they want people to know what they do: Software Piracy. They also want to draw attention, so they need a defiant name. And finally, they want support, so they need a name thats romantic or even heroic. Can you think of a better name than the Pirate Bay? It was anything but a poor choice.
And yes, they are indeed asking for lawsuits, its all a part of the plan.
Electronic voting is not pointless because elections are only every few years, its the other way around. Elections are only every few years because electronic voting has not been implemented. It would allow citizens to choose on what level they want to participate in the democracy. As a start, we could simply drop regular elections and let voters switch party whenever they wanted to. That would change a thing or two, I believe.
And you cannot look at the distances for the vast majority. Democracy has to cater to minorities aswell, and a tiny minority probably lives over an hour away from the polling station. For them, it would be very unfair if some people could change their vote whenever they wanted, which is part of the reason why most of the world use such indirect systems.
"Child prostitution doesn't really happen to the extent that us farangs think"
Really? I guess all the pedophiles go to thailand for the sun, and all the thai childporn ending up in europe is actually from america?
Thailand is a very popular choise for pedophiles, and that sexual child abuse is not a very common crime even in thailand doesnt change the fact that its much more common than in other countries.
And automobile accidents is actually a big deal today, so I guess they were right too.
Ericsson and Nokia are mostly pretty high tech, wouldn't you agree?
"India was four positions down on last year to 44th, suffering from weak infrastructure and a very low level of individual usage of personal computers and the internet."
44th, not 4th, and they say exactly the same thing you do.
Its funny that he compares to japan when talking about immigration. Japan is one of the most closed countries in the world when it comes to immigration, its a silly example. I really don't see how the USA could be considered anything more than average when it comes to openness for immigrants. Sure, the USA receives a lot of well educated and ambitious immigrants, more so than any other country, but thats because the USA has a reputation of being a good place to make money and "become someone", not the other way around.
Similar things happen all the time in countries where a high percentage of the people usually vote. So no, that is not the reason.