A) It teaches people how to use unfamiliar hardware/software. Chances are the thing you are going to be running at your job is not going to be the thing you studied in university for.
B) It teaches kids how to not make mistakes in coding. Make a big enough mistake and the entire system goes down. Compilers are also a lot less fault tolerant.
C) It teaches kids how computers actually work by pealing back layers of abstraction. Think about it, has the average person under 20 ever used a CLI? For anything? I think the closest people come these days to actually using a CLI is typing in something on the Windows "Run" dialog.
D) It puts things in perspective. It shows how you don't need a Core i7 to play games, that a graphics card with 100 times the memory of the entire computer isn't required to make art, etc.
E) Its fun. The old computers had a lot more easter eggs built in and little tiny quirks. These days you get a Dell/HP/Gateway/Acer/Asus/etc slap Windows/Linux/OS X on it and its the same as any other Windows/Linux/OS X box, but the old computers all had little things different, some things were frustrating of course, but when you don't have to do it for any too serious of work, it can be kinda fun digging out the old Commodore 64.
Other than North Korea/Iran the rest of the nuclear powers are all close allies with the US with the possible exception of China which neither side would attack because they are too valuable of trade partners.
Look at the Treaty of Versailles
The Rhineland will become a demilitarized zone administered by Great Britain and France jointly.
German armed forces will number no more than 100,000 troops, and conscription will be abolished.
Enlisted men will be retained for at least 12 years; officers to be retained for at least 25 years.
German naval forces will be limited to 15,000 men, 6 battleships (no more than 10,000 tons displacement each), 6 cruisers (no more than 6,000 tons displacement each), 6 destroyers (no more than 800 tons displacement each) and 12 torpedo boats (no more than 200 tons displacement each). No submarines are to be included.
The manufacture, import, and export of weapons and poison gas is prohibited.
Armed aircraft, tanks and armoured cars are prohibited.
Blockades on ships are prohibited.
Restrictions on the manufacture of machine guns (e.g. the Maxim machine gun) and rifles (e.g. Gewehr 98 rifles).
Because of these restrictions, the Germans were pissed because they could not defend their country which was surrounded by hostile powers. Because of this, they turned to extreme nationalism and the Nazi party which lead to WWII.
Have you actually ever studied any of this? The Cold War was between, essentially, the Soviet Block and everyone else (primarily the US and NATO allies). This wasn't about anything that happened in WWII, it was about the communist totalitarians running the USSR looking to forcibly model the rest of the world in the same fashion. It was the deterrent threat of an unwinnable nuclear war that ended that horrible regime.
The Cold War was basically caused because the USSR managed to reverse engineer the atomic bomb which in turn scared the US based on an absurd notion of a huge Soviet Empire, of course ignoring the fact that Communism can never scale properly. So they fought a bunch of proxy wars to mask the problems of the Soviet economic system being nearly impossible to maintain in peace time because it all revolved around the government which needed war as a way to increase production without having to innovate which was nearly impossible in a communist state. Had the USSR never gotten the atomic bomb, why would the US really care that various third-world insignificant countries like Vietnam and Korea?
Why would Japan have attacked the west if it was allowed to defend itself with the proper amount of battleships? Why would Germany gone to extreme nationalism if it could maintain a proper armed forces? It wouldn't have, the results of WWI shaped WWII more than any socio-political differences ever could.
The US doesn't threaten them because they are allies, the moment Pakistan stops cooperating with the "war on terror" the media and government will be just as hostile to them as we are to Iran.
Appeasement didn't work because Germany was trying to expand its borders, not simply maintain a military. Iran is not trying to expand its rule, Iran just wants to have a larger military force. In fact, treaties from WWI that prevented Germany from having a strong military force was the very reason Hitler could rise to power it was also the thing that pissed off Japan.
Yeah, we could nuke them and bomb them but what would that accomplish? There will be another nuclear country, what do we do then? Eventually, if we keep up that strategy we end up with a country either too big to bomb or a country with enough bombs to destroy the US just like the Soviet Union. Diplomacy is the only reliable way to diffuse situations like this. Yeah, nuking Iran would buy us a decade possibly but eventually the US is going to have to realize that the west/Russia simply can't have a nuclear monopoly, it is impossible. If we could do it in the 1940s, chances are 3rd world countries can do it in 2010, even better when the 3rd world country is owned by a virtual dictator.
War breeds more war, diplomacy can keep peace. Look at WWI which bred WWII which bred the Cold War which helped breed many of the current conflicts. And I'm sure if you looked further you could see that there were conflicts which caused WWI
Sure, but honestly? This is a pretty stupid move by Iran, first announce a nuclear reactor coming online for "peaceful" purposes then announce this? About the only worse thing they could have announced was a new ICBM.
Ok, really Iran? If you really want to be credible, you have to stop announcing military things when you have a "civilian" project going. So first off you make a nuclear reactor come online. No problem there, then on the same day you announce that you've upgraded your weaponry... I really, really want to believe that Iran just wants to use the energy for peaceful purposes... But with timing like this... it isn't going to make the west trust you anymore Iran.
They are two different classes, yes, but the iPhone has a lot of developer focus, the N900 has a few hobbyist developers. Of course you "can" do more for the N900... but only if you want to code it yourself.
In all honesty, just get a Droid, root it and be done with it. Better hardware and better support than the N900.
The N900 was a great idea with a terrible implementation, no ability to buy it subsidized in the US at launch from any major carrier, low amount of apps, etc.
Nokia should have just made the N900 with Android and made it be pre-rooted, it would be a lot more useful.
But new tech rarely takes off, what happens is that someone comes up with new tech and then someone else makes it worthwhile to use. Ever heard of the IXI? It was the first MP3 player, but it didn't take off until Apple and a few other companies took that idea and made it be worthwhile. Ford didn't make the first car, but he refined it. While its true that most everything Google has done was done before, the ideas weren't fully developed until Google took over.
...Except for the fact when Google audits the broken code and finds the person responsible for putting it in they are out a job, and my guess is, stable employment with a decent paycheck and benefits is better than a quick $3K.
Yeah, but Google is reputable, you -know- that their $3K is going to be genuine. Good luck suing J. Random Blackhat when the money he pays you turns out to be stolen/fraudulent or never arrives.
So? Does it really matter? People really over-analyze things, I'm sure that other people really think that everyone is watching your Twitter feed, the thing is, its all lost in the shuffle, just because someone -can- doesn't mean that someone will. I -could- go look at people's homes in Japan, that doesn't mean I will, just like someone -could- stalk someone using Twitter, but lets face it, no one cares you aren't suddenly so important that someone will spend time looking at your house.
Unless you are the president or a singer or actor. No one cares.
Um, so you have the right to not have the exterior of your building viewed by anyone? I don't honestly see how that is any sort of right. Explain to me this "right" not to have pictures taken of your building? If Google came on your private land to take pictures, that is a problem, but you have no expectation and no right to privacy with the outside of your building. Don't like it? Build a fence or something.
...No it doesn't, it simply says that the federal government isn't going to press charges, which is probably a good thing because:
A) Any fines paid would most likely go to the federal government which thus basically cannibalizes state funds for federal funds
B) Its a civil matter
By having this case go to civil court, the victims could get monitory compensation and its simply the proper place to have a trial on something like this. Its not a criminal matter, its fraud and a breach of contract.
Before everyone gets outraged, the fact that the fed won't file charges on it doesn't mean the case is dropped. In fact, I think that the fact that the feds aren't filing charges is really the right thing to do, the goal wasn't criminal, its a civil matter and thus should be settled in civil court with such charges of fraud, breach of contract, etc.
Anytime you have the government mandating things on private vehicles you have the ability for abuse, not to mention that it has the possibility for accidents.
Within five minutes of starting the car, the interlock will order the driver to pull over and restart the car. For longer rides, drivers will be required at random times to stop the car and restart. Maccarone said this feature is intended to prevent drivers from drinking after they start the car.
Just what you really wanted to happen in traffic, is some idiot having to pull over to the side of the road because he can't drive because the BAC monitor required him to restart.
Not to mention that it raises the possibility of entrapment, an undercover cop wants someone to move their friends car, so they do it and then they get them there.
Yes there is such a thing as negative publicity because consoles aren't open, the ESRB is full of BS and so are retailers. You can develop a 360, PS3, Wii game all you want, but you aren't going to be able to release it without Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo's OK, and if you manage to piss off the ESRB enough to "earn" an adult rating, stores like Walmart, Target, Gamestop, etc. won't stock it.
Right, because the states with a state religion of Atheism have done soooo much better at promoting peace. Everything's just great when it comes to human rights in China and the USSR!
Yes I voted, and no none of those leaders I voted for got in (well, aside from a few local elections) and yes, the people who I voted for would have opposed the wars from the start.
Not to mention that a lot of the problems aren't with elected officials but rather the unelected "advisers" or bureaucrats.
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Ignore the 2 reasons part, I don't know what I was thinking when I typed that part up...
Yes, it makes perfect sense for two reasons.
A) It teaches people how to use unfamiliar hardware/software. Chances are the thing you are going to be running at your job is not going to be the thing you studied in university for.
B) It teaches kids how to not make mistakes in coding. Make a big enough mistake and the entire system goes down. Compilers are also a lot less fault tolerant.
C) It teaches kids how computers actually work by pealing back layers of abstraction. Think about it, has the average person under 20 ever used a CLI? For anything? I think the closest people come these days to actually using a CLI is typing in something on the Windows "Run" dialog.
D) It puts things in perspective. It shows how you don't need a Core i7 to play games, that a graphics card with 100 times the memory of the entire computer isn't required to make art, etc.
E) Its fun. The old computers had a lot more easter eggs built in and little tiny quirks. These days you get a Dell/HP/Gateway/Acer/Asus/etc slap Windows/Linux/OS X on it and its the same as any other Windows/Linux/OS X box, but the old computers all had little things different, some things were frustrating of course, but when you don't have to do it for any too serious of work, it can be kinda fun digging out the old Commodore 64.
Read the Wikipedia article, they even show a picture of the transmitter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76
Yes, Lexmark still sells printers and yes, their printers still cost less than their ink cartridges. And yes, their drivers are as crappy as ever.
This is rather stupid, yes, lets just put our national identity on servers owned by governments hostile to us... Makes perfect sense right?
Look at the Treaty of Versailles
The Rhineland will become a demilitarized zone administered by Great Britain and France jointly. German armed forces will number no more than 100,000 troops, and conscription will be abolished. Enlisted men will be retained for at least 12 years; officers to be retained for at least 25 years. German naval forces will be limited to 15,000 men, 6 battleships (no more than 10,000 tons displacement each), 6 cruisers (no more than 6,000 tons displacement each), 6 destroyers (no more than 800 tons displacement each) and 12 torpedo boats (no more than 200 tons displacement each). No submarines are to be included. The manufacture, import, and export of weapons and poison gas is prohibited. Armed aircraft, tanks and armoured cars are prohibited. Blockades on ships are prohibited. Restrictions on the manufacture of machine guns (e.g. the Maxim machine gun) and rifles (e.g. Gewehr 98 rifles).
Because of these restrictions, the Germans were pissed because they could not defend their country which was surrounded by hostile powers. Because of this, they turned to extreme nationalism and the Nazi party which lead to WWII.
Have you actually ever studied any of this? The Cold War was between, essentially, the Soviet Block and everyone else (primarily the US and NATO allies). This wasn't about anything that happened in WWII, it was about the communist totalitarians running the USSR looking to forcibly model the rest of the world in the same fashion. It was the deterrent threat of an unwinnable nuclear war that ended that horrible regime.
The Cold War was basically caused because the USSR managed to reverse engineer the atomic bomb which in turn scared the US based on an absurd notion of a huge Soviet Empire, of course ignoring the fact that Communism can never scale properly. So they fought a bunch of proxy wars to mask the problems of the Soviet economic system being nearly impossible to maintain in peace time because it all revolved around the government which needed war as a way to increase production without having to innovate which was nearly impossible in a communist state. Had the USSR never gotten the atomic bomb, why would the US really care that various third-world insignificant countries like Vietnam and Korea?
Why would Japan have attacked the west if it was allowed to defend itself with the proper amount of battleships? Why would Germany gone to extreme nationalism if it could maintain a proper armed forces? It wouldn't have, the results of WWI shaped WWII more than any socio-political differences ever could.
The US doesn't threaten them because they are allies, the moment Pakistan stops cooperating with the "war on terror" the media and government will be just as hostile to them as we are to Iran.
Appeasement didn't work because Germany was trying to expand its borders, not simply maintain a military. Iran is not trying to expand its rule, Iran just wants to have a larger military force. In fact, treaties from WWI that prevented Germany from having a strong military force was the very reason Hitler could rise to power it was also the thing that pissed off Japan.
Its not an ICBM though, its just a medium range missile that almost every country has.
Yeah, we could nuke them and bomb them but what would that accomplish? There will be another nuclear country, what do we do then? Eventually, if we keep up that strategy we end up with a country either too big to bomb or a country with enough bombs to destroy the US just like the Soviet Union. Diplomacy is the only reliable way to diffuse situations like this. Yeah, nuking Iran would buy us a decade possibly but eventually the US is going to have to realize that the west/Russia simply can't have a nuclear monopoly, it is impossible. If we could do it in the 1940s, chances are 3rd world countries can do it in 2010, even better when the 3rd world country is owned by a virtual dictator.
War breeds more war, diplomacy can keep peace. Look at WWI which bred WWII which bred the Cold War which helped breed many of the current conflicts. And I'm sure if you looked further you could see that there were conflicts which caused WWI
Sure, but honestly? This is a pretty stupid move by Iran, first announce a nuclear reactor coming online for "peaceful" purposes then announce this? About the only worse thing they could have announced was a new ICBM.
Ok, really Iran? If you really want to be credible, you have to stop announcing military things when you have a "civilian" project going. So first off you make a nuclear reactor come online. No problem there, then on the same day you announce that you've upgraded your weaponry... I really, really want to believe that Iran just wants to use the energy for peaceful purposes... But with timing like this... it isn't going to make the west trust you anymore Iran.
...The fact that UAVs were the stuff of science fiction for years until they started becoming commonplace?
They are two different classes, yes, but the iPhone has a lot of developer focus, the N900 has a few hobbyist developers. Of course you "can" do more for the N900... but only if you want to code it yourself.
In all honesty, just get a Droid, root it and be done with it. Better hardware and better support than the N900.
The N900 was a great idea with a terrible implementation, no ability to buy it subsidized in the US at launch from any major carrier, low amount of apps, etc.
Nokia should have just made the N900 with Android and made it be pre-rooted, it would be a lot more useful.
But new tech rarely takes off, what happens is that someone comes up with new tech and then someone else makes it worthwhile to use. Ever heard of the IXI? It was the first MP3 player, but it didn't take off until Apple and a few other companies took that idea and made it be worthwhile. Ford didn't make the first car, but he refined it. While its true that most everything Google has done was done before, the ideas weren't fully developed until Google took over.
...Except for the fact when Google audits the broken code and finds the person responsible for putting it in they are out a job, and my guess is, stable employment with a decent paycheck and benefits is better than a quick $3K.
Yeah, but Google is reputable, you -know- that their $3K is going to be genuine. Good luck suing J. Random Blackhat when the money he pays you turns out to be stolen/fraudulent or never arrives.
Portal, at least for the PC has cheats to make it really, really easy to finish.
So? Does it really matter? People really over-analyze things, I'm sure that other people really think that everyone is watching your Twitter feed, the thing is, its all lost in the shuffle, just because someone -can- doesn't mean that someone will. I -could- go look at people's homes in Japan, that doesn't mean I will, just like someone -could- stalk someone using Twitter, but lets face it, no one cares you aren't suddenly so important that someone will spend time looking at your house.
Unless you are the president or a singer or actor. No one cares.
Um, so you have the right to not have the exterior of your building viewed by anyone? I don't honestly see how that is any sort of right. Explain to me this "right" not to have pictures taken of your building? If Google came on your private land to take pictures, that is a problem, but you have no expectation and no right to privacy with the outside of your building. Don't like it? Build a fence or something.
...No it doesn't, it simply says that the federal government isn't going to press charges, which is probably a good thing because:
A) Any fines paid would most likely go to the federal government which thus basically cannibalizes state funds for federal funds
B) Its a civil matter
By having this case go to civil court, the victims could get monitory compensation and its simply the proper place to have a trial on something like this. Its not a criminal matter, its fraud and a breach of contract.
Before everyone gets outraged, the fact that the fed won't file charges on it doesn't mean the case is dropped. In fact, I think that the fact that the feds aren't filing charges is really the right thing to do, the goal wasn't criminal, its a civil matter and thus should be settled in civil court with such charges of fraud, breach of contract, etc.
Anytime you have the government mandating things on private vehicles you have the ability for abuse, not to mention that it has the possibility for accidents.
Within five minutes of starting the car, the interlock will order the driver to pull over and restart the car. For longer rides, drivers will be required at random times to stop the car and restart. Maccarone said this feature is intended to prevent drivers from drinking after they start the car.
Just what you really wanted to happen in traffic, is some idiot having to pull over to the side of the road because he can't drive because the BAC monitor required him to restart.
Not to mention that it raises the possibility of entrapment, an undercover cop wants someone to move their friends car, so they do it and then they get them there.
Yes there is such a thing as negative publicity because consoles aren't open, the ESRB is full of BS and so are retailers. You can develop a 360, PS3, Wii game all you want, but you aren't going to be able to release it without Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo's OK, and if you manage to piss off the ESRB enough to "earn" an adult rating, stores like Walmart, Target, Gamestop, etc. won't stock it.
Right, because the states with a state religion of Atheism have done soooo much better at promoting peace. Everything's just great when it comes to human rights in China and the USSR!
Yes I voted, and no none of those leaders I voted for got in (well, aside from a few local elections) and yes, the people who I voted for would have opposed the wars from the start.
Not to mention that a lot of the problems aren't with elected officials but rather the unelected "advisers" or bureaucrats.