First, because never was that easy to publish a book. On Amazon and Lulu, one can just submit pretty much anything and sell, no matter how crap it is. On more traditional publishers, people like Versita and De Gruyter has options for publishing peer-reviewed, high-quality books, essentially for free (taking the payments from the sales, instead of the author in advance). On Versita, one can even let the books be accessed for free for the PDFs, while a printed copy would cost.
Second, because a lot of languages had no such privileges, and yet, they prevailed for some time. C was not an academic project, but it conquered academia, for it was the most sensible approach to what it was proposed. Python needed several years to get the status it got. And so we go.
Exporting manufactured goods is what makes Germany what it is, and the shift of them from US to anywhere else, well.... see the lower class of the two countries and then we talk.
Get two or three raspberry PI, and copy the same data (a linux distro + everything needed to read the files) in a dozen or so different SD cards, from different brands. Data redundancy should keep you safe, and having more than one hardware, too. Add a cheap screen (although Raspberry can output RCA), and you are good to go.
Yes, the air car - http://www.mdi.lu/english/ . No one wants this car released, because it's essentially maintenance-free. From car repair shops to electric energy / oil companies, everybody wants this idea dead, especially because it takes the production of the energy out of the hands of the powers that be.
For a petrol vehicle, you need, well, petrol. Which fuels governments policies, wars, big money, you name it. For electricity, even though it's simpler, the mass provider are still the Big Guys (R).
For compressed air, one can it quite easily: from oil to electricity to a cow pushing a mill's lever, compressed air is not that hard. And this removes CONTROL. Can you imagine, every small group of people, able to produce their own energy? Afghan rebels turning wind power into fuel to their cars? Small villages in north korea able to move their vehicles with water mills powered with monsoon rains? It's chaos!
Actually, how much of the weight can you shave off a SUV by taking one of those monster engines out? When I read the headline, I thought: "meh, stupidest idea ever, SUV is too heavy". But then I started to think that removing the engine, gearbox, cardan/axle etc etc, might be just enough to have tons of batteries, one engine attached directly to each wheel (or just two of them) and a small engine (think of the bmw diesel engine for the mini cooper, or even better, some small airplane/boat engine, tuned to work in one rpm regime at maximum efficiency).
Except it is not. A car IS a form of overcompensation. Go ahead, go to any place that sells the hummer, (as an extreme example of the effect) and ask why on earth people buy that. I can't see many of hummer's buyers getting one for cargo, mechanical excellence, low-maintenance or any rational argument.
Although they are centuries ahead of the current crop of american cars, the same happens with european models. No one buys a rolls-royce because it is maintenance-free (although they almost are). Or a ferrari because the brakes are so good that it makes it a safe car (which it isn't, but you get the point).
SUVs are the mid-class american version of the hummer, compensation-wise.
The opposite is much more probable: after trying one of those crappy 200 bucks android 2.3 tablets, people just got an ipad1 for cheap and are happier with it.
Please explain "lots". I just came from media market, and there was the ipad3, the ipad2, the very nice samsung ones, a couple of cheaper android ones, and ZERO windows tablets. To be honest, the closest thing I've seen to a windows 7 tablet was a thinkpad with pen support and that was able to fold the screen all the way down. Battery life was about 3 hours in a good day, it is 1 inch thick and weighs 2kg.
Find something wrong with it, and fix it. Or just enjoy the goddamn summer and go get some girls. Even if you fail, you will not regret in the future. But the "wasting my youth and summer" part... well.
Exactly - which basically rules out the comment of the AC. If he is talking about the PowerPC macs of the 90s, perhaps he is right. But this was not true before and is not true today.
Actually, I find them quite useful. Like having the windows showing up their contents even when in miniature mode in mac os, or that bad copy of aero in win vista/7, when it works.
I cannot think how start menu on win7 is useful at all, unless when it is set to look like winXP, the new versions are terrible.
I don't know what you mean with gimmicky. Application windows (or cards) can be perfectly dealt by using openGL surfaces, for example, if the "window/card" subsystem does so. Being the hardware capable - and this one is, - it is just a matter of letting OpenGL perform the matrix transformations and show the card reduced.
Which is pretty much what MacOS and some Linux window systems do.
Don't get me wrong. I would not want another. I just said that the nature of the wars created by those who have interest on them has changed. One with less risks, with invented enemies. I wonder how long it will take for them to run out of imaginary enemies before they turn into the "aliens".
It seems that after the end of the cold war, the US ran out of real enemies and won't bother touching China. So they invented cheaper enemies - iraq, iran, the goat-herders in afghanistan, the usual. Easier to deal, cheaper, and more money to the warlords. I mean, come on, the money they were spending during cold war with research and development, now they spend in guns. Simpler, faster, easier to hide.
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I beg to disagree.
First, because never was that easy to publish a book. On Amazon and Lulu, one can just submit pretty much anything and sell, no matter how crap it is. On more traditional publishers, people like Versita and De Gruyter has options for publishing peer-reviewed, high-quality books, essentially for free (taking the payments from the sales, instead of the author in advance). On Versita, one can even let the books be accessed for free for the PDFs, while a printed copy would cost.
Second, because a lot of languages had no such privileges, and yet, they prevailed for some time. C was not an academic project, but it conquered academia, for it was the most sensible approach to what it was proposed. Python needed several years to get the status it got. And so we go.
(disclaimer: I work for Versita)
Exporting manufactured goods is what makes Germany what it is, and the shift of them from US to anywhere else, well.... see the lower class of the two countries and then we talk.
Not necessary at all. You do know the classic text on this, right? Reflexions on Trusting Trust, by Ken Thompson.
Why was this modded negative? It is a reasonable question. So is it fine for the NSA to spy everything, but not china? Double value.
Get two or three raspberry PI, and copy the same data (a linux distro + everything needed to read the files) in a dozen or so different SD cards, from different brands. Data redundancy should keep you safe, and having more than one hardware, too. Add a cheap screen (although Raspberry can output RCA), and you are good to go.
Yes, the air car - http://www.mdi.lu/english/ . No one wants this car released, because it's essentially maintenance-free. From car repair shops to electric energy / oil companies, everybody wants this idea dead, especially because it takes the production of the energy out of the hands of the powers that be.
For a petrol vehicle, you need, well, petrol. Which fuels governments policies, wars, big money, you name it.
For electricity, even though it's simpler, the mass provider are still the Big Guys (R).
For compressed air, one can it quite easily: from oil to electricity to a cow pushing a mill's lever, compressed air is not that hard. And this removes CONTROL. Can you imagine, every small group of people, able to produce their own energy? Afghan rebels turning wind power into fuel to their cars? Small villages in north korea able to move their vehicles with water mills powered with monsoon rains? It's chaos!
Actually, how much of the weight can you shave off a SUV by taking one of those monster engines out? When I read the headline, I thought: "meh, stupidest idea ever, SUV is too heavy". But then I started to think that removing the engine, gearbox, cardan/axle etc etc, might be just enough to have tons of batteries, one engine attached directly to each wheel (or just two of them) and a small engine (think of the bmw diesel engine for the mini cooper, or even better, some small airplane/boat engine, tuned to work in one rpm regime at maximum efficiency).
Well played, sir.
[ I still don't like SUVs, though :-) ]
Except it is not. A car IS a form of overcompensation. Go ahead, go to any place that sells the hummer, (as an extreme example of the effect) and ask why on earth people buy that. I can't see many of hummer's buyers getting one for cargo, mechanical excellence, low-maintenance or any rational argument.
Although they are centuries ahead of the current crop of american cars, the same happens with european models. No one buys a rolls-royce because it is maintenance-free (although they almost are). Or a ferrari because the brakes are so good that it makes it a safe car (which it isn't, but you get the point).
SUVs are the mid-class american version of the hummer, compensation-wise.
Hum... You mean this? http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1699.26.8/
Please, let him know that what he is doing is wrong and that the european people do not want this. Here is his contact information: http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/degucht/contact/
Karel De Gucht
Member of the European Commission
BE-1049 Brussels
Belgium
By mail: Karel.DE-GUCHT@ec.europa.eu
By fax: (+32-02) 29 80899
The opposite is much more probable: after trying one of those crappy 200 bucks android 2.3 tablets, people just got an ipad1 for cheap and are happier with it.
If you said 1,1%, yes. Don't extrapolate your house to the world.
Please explain "lots". I just came from media market, and there was the ipad3, the ipad2, the very nice samsung ones, a couple of cheaper android ones, and ZERO windows tablets. To be honest, the closest thing I've seen to a windows 7 tablet was a thinkpad with pen support and that was able to fold the screen all the way down. Battery life was about 3 hours in a good day, it is 1 inch thick and weighs 2kg.
Find something wrong with it, and fix it. Or just enjoy the goddamn summer and go get some girls. Even if you fail, you will not regret in the future. But the "wasting my youth and summer" part... well.
I would buy a surak-class shuttle instead. Am I the only one who thinks it looks the same? [1]
[1]: http://application.denofgeek.com/images/m/75spaceships/main/surak.jpg
Exactly - which basically rules out the comment of the AC. If he is talking about the PowerPC macs of the 90s, perhaps he is right. But this was not true before and is not true today.
Really? Tell me how the similar-spec'd devices from other manufacturers are so much cheaper than the ipad, because I'm yet to see one.
Actually, I find them quite useful. Like having the windows showing up their contents even when in miniature mode in mac os, or that bad copy of aero in win vista/7, when it works.
I cannot think how start menu on win7 is useful at all, unless when it is set to look like winXP, the new versions are terrible.
I don't know what you mean with gimmicky. Application windows (or cards) can be perfectly dealt by using openGL surfaces, for example, if the "window/card" subsystem does so. Being the hardware capable - and this one is, - it is just a matter of letting OpenGL perform the matrix transformations and show the card reduced.
Which is pretty much what MacOS and some Linux window systems do.
By the way, this looks like the utopian anarchy from Ursula Le Guin on the book "the dispossessed". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed
(wikipedia has a link to the full text)
I love that song :)
I can't recommend more. Lifeproof is great.
I am quite staggered that anyone would recommend a blackberry tablet for anything.
If it is for the price, get a hp touchpad on ebay.
Don't get me wrong. I would not want another. I just said that the nature of the wars created by those who have interest on them has changed. One with less risks, with invented enemies. I wonder how long it will take for them to run out of imaginary enemies before they turn into the "aliens".
It seems that after the end of the cold war, the US ran out of real enemies and won't bother touching China. So they invented cheaper enemies - iraq, iran, the goat-herders in afghanistan, the usual. Easier to deal, cheaper, and more money to the warlords. I mean, come on, the money they were spending during cold war with research and development, now they spend in guns. Simpler, faster, easier to hide.