"Acquire an economy"? They have an economy; it might not be as strong as more developed nations, but it's a lot better off than any other country in central America.
Costa Rica has shown itself to be a pretty enlightened country, more so, can be argued, than the US, especially in environmental policies. Doesn't surprise me that much that they're the first nation to extend a national program of free access.
As much as I love arguing politics--for hours at a time, as long-suffering acquaintances could attest--every "discussion" area for politics I've seen online seems to degenerate into a few loud and presumably unstable individuals screaming about their point of view. I decided a while ago that I like my internet politically neutral.
o all you americans, please stop complaining about the cost of living, We canucks have it bad here. Our dollar sucks, our gas is high and are taxes are rediculous. Ottawa is concidered the Silicon Valley of the north, its an attractive city and rent and the cost of living is quite reasonable and the cultural and entertainment events are astounding
Is it me, or did those two sentences contradict each other? Your taxes are ridiculous because you have strong social programs; do you know how much we're expected to spend on medicine, even when we have insurance? Your gas prices may be high, but you have good transportation systems. I spent some time in Toronto last month; if you factor in prices and how much the canadian dollar is worse, the prices are about the same as you'd pay in Manhattan. A meal in a good restaurant was actually a little cheaper.
I don't know if I'd have the willpower to stay on a project for seven years..I'd just reach a point where I'd figure it'd just be easier to dual boot...
Isn't it great that something which might be considered one of the pivotal moments in human history is going to be plastered with disney ads? I for one am sick of what should be public works forming "partnerships" with private sector companies. I'll tell you what; just increase everyone's taxes another 100 dollars or so. I'd rather pay a little extra to keep the corporate world restricted to earth.
Firstly, how can you steal something that's free? Secondly, IBM usually seems to prefer working from scratch, and I can't see why this would be any different...
Granted, we should think of what we do, but if you try to extrapolate every future event, you become paralyzed. Bill Joy was right in that nanotech could become dangerous; it taps into evolutionary systematics, which is a universal force. But our current response to these kinds of things is to instantly stop doing them. Look at genetic engineering; a lot of people have a vague opposition to changing our genetic structure. They come up with non-arguments like "well people will want to choose the color of their children's eyes". So? How will this bring down civilization? Another thing is space travel. NASA went to the moon in a few short years; in the decades since then they've done nothing of similar scale or ambition. Every mission has to be planned out years in advance, every variable worked out, every possible risk eliminated before we go foreward. The result is costs so high that nothing worthwhile gets done. Every worthwhile scientific endeavour we have has been turned over to the accountants.
As far as I'm concerned, let's keep pushing the boundaries as much as we can. So we might run into troubles down the road; big deal. I for one would rather have an uncertain yet possibly exciting future than a dull, secure one. Nanotech might kill us, but it also might also introduce us to a new and better way of doing things. Let's keep stretching the boundaries of thought and human existence; I mean, that's what we're here for.
I don't have anything against demonstrations in general, but I don't think they're a particularly effective method of change, and with something as complex as the DMCA, I don't think you're going to be able to come up with a short, chantable slogan to describe your position on it.
I think their OS share is a little smaller than that, like 70-80, and with the exception of Office and IE for macs, I can't recall any of their software that runs on any non-MS OS. As for the PR thing, a little good PR might help them a little; it would at least give their lawyers something to work with regarding their business practices. But they have a habit of gleefully shooting themselves in the foot again and again in their bizarre inability to come to grips with reality over the trial. Remember when they "integrated" the OS and browser in the middle of it? I mean, they must want to annoy the judge.
Because you may end up having to live there on day.
I'd love to, but I doubt it will happen. I mean, NASA went from performing miracles overnight a la the moon landing, to working on geological time. I mean, they're launching an unmanned solar sail in 10 years? Then how long do we wait to get something practical from it? Then how long until the rest of us get anything from it?
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The new Lara model is definitely hot, but I couldn't help notice the gun boo-boos here...image 1 and image 3 show Lara with her finger on the trigger. You always, always, always keep the finger off of a trigger unless it's pointed at something you want to shoot.
Actually, I wasn't paying attention to that part of the picture...
OK, OK, I know, I'm being nitpicky. But fess up, how many of you nitpicked Hackerswhile you were watching it?:)
Following the same logic, not when Angelina Jolie was on the screen I didn't...
I've seen it hit NT machines...actually, if it only affected 98 then you'd think it wouldn't have a huge impact on businesses. Not that NT is the greatest OS in the world, but it's immeasurably better than 98.
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Wouldn't the export restrictions on the P2 make it hard to open it up too much?
"Acquire an economy"? They have an economy; it might not be as strong as more developed nations, but it's a lot better off than any other country in central America.
Costa Rica has shown itself to be a pretty enlightened country, more so, can be argued, than the US, especially in environmental policies. Doesn't surprise me that much that they're the first nation to extend a national program of free access.
I'll reiterate; I like my internet politically neutral. You can have your internet any way that you like.
Isn't Jim Clark's sailboat supposed to be fully wired? Do what he did. Unless you don't have 70 million to spend on a sailboat.
As much as I love arguing politics--for hours at a time, as long-suffering acquaintances could attest--every "discussion" area for politics I've seen online seems to degenerate into a few loud and presumably unstable individuals screaming about their point of view. I decided a while ago that I like my internet politically neutral.
o all you americans, please stop complaining about the cost of living, We canucks have it bad here. Our dollar sucks, our gas is high and are taxes are rediculous. Ottawa is concidered the Silicon Valley of the north, its an attractive city and rent and the cost of living is quite reasonable and the cultural and entertainment events are astounding
Is it me, or did those two sentences contradict each other? Your taxes are ridiculous because you have strong social programs; do you know how much we're expected to spend on medicine, even when we have insurance? Your gas prices may be high, but you have good transportation systems. I spent some time in Toronto last month; if you factor in prices and how much the canadian dollar is worse, the prices are about the same as you'd pay in Manhattan. A meal in a good restaurant was actually a little cheaper.
Clip one of these to your belt, attach a glasstr on and a keyboard and you're ready to stride out into the world.
And get hit by a bus.
I don't know if I'd have the willpower to stay on a project for seven years..I'd just reach a point where I'd figure it'd just be easier to dual boot...
right. Methinks we just stumbled across a very subtle Slash bug.
Yes, a bug called HTML. You just have to put in the appropriate formatting tags...
nope, just means I have no reason to upgrade...
I don't play 3-d games that much anymore. So I can't for the life of me think of any way rambus will negatively effect my life.
Isn't it great that something which might be considered one of the pivotal moments in human history is going to be plastered with disney ads? I for one am sick of what should be public works forming "partnerships" with private sector companies. I'll tell you what; just increase everyone's taxes another 100 dollars or so. I'd rather pay a little extra to keep the corporate world restricted to earth.
Firstly, how can you steal something that's free? Secondly, IBM usually seems to prefer working from scratch, and I can't see why this would be any different...
are you sure it's Microsoft code?
Granted, we should think of what we do, but if you try to extrapolate every future event, you become paralyzed. Bill Joy was right in that nanotech could become dangerous; it taps into evolutionary systematics, which is a universal force. But our current response to these kinds of things is to instantly stop doing them. Look at genetic engineering; a lot of people have a vague opposition to changing our genetic structure. They come up with non-arguments like "well people will want to choose the color of their children's eyes". So? How will this bring down civilization? Another thing is space travel. NASA went to the moon in a few short years; in the decades since then they've done nothing of similar scale or ambition. Every mission has to be planned out years in advance, every variable worked out, every possible risk eliminated before we go foreward. The result is costs so high that nothing worthwhile gets done. Every worthwhile scientific endeavour we have has been turned over to the accountants.
So you're saying we should just shut the forks up? :)
now that was just wrong...
As far as I'm concerned, let's keep pushing the boundaries as much as we can. So we might run into troubles down the road; big deal. I for one would rather have an uncertain yet possibly exciting future than a dull, secure one. Nanotech might kill us, but it also might also introduce us to a new and better way of doing things. Let's keep stretching the boundaries of thought and human existence; I mean, that's what we're here for.
sounds good to me; spam a few mailboxes, get frozen in carbonite...
I don't have anything against demonstrations in general, but I don't think they're a particularly effective method of change, and with something as complex as the DMCA, I don't think you're going to be able to come up with a short, chantable slogan to describe your position on it.
I think their OS share is a little smaller than that, like 70-80, and with the exception of Office and IE for macs, I can't recall any of their software that runs on any non-MS OS. As for the PR thing, a little good PR might help them a little; it would at least give their lawyers something to work with regarding their business practices. But they have a habit of gleefully shooting themselves in the foot again and again in their bizarre inability to come to grips with reality over the trial. Remember when they "integrated" the OS and browser in the middle of it? I mean, they must want to annoy the judge.
So we'll have "low end" 700 mhz chips...seems like just yesterday my 16 mhz 386 was too fast to run most existing PC games...
Because you may end up having to live there on day.
I'd love to, but I doubt it will happen. I mean, NASA went from performing miracles overnight a la the moon landing, to working on geological time. I mean, they're launching an unmanned solar sail in 10 years? Then how long do we wait to get something practical from it? Then how long until the rest of us get anything from it?
The new Lara model is definitely hot, but I couldn't help notice the gun boo-boos here...image 1 and image 3 show Lara with her finger on the trigger. You always, always, always keep the finger off of a trigger unless it's pointed at something you want to shoot.
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Actually, I wasn't paying attention to that part of the picture...
OK, OK, I know, I'm being nitpicky. But fess up, how many of you nitpicked Hackerswhile you were watching it?
Following the same logic, not when Angelina Jolie was on the screen I didn't...
I've seen it hit NT machines...actually, if it only affected 98 then you'd think it wouldn't have a huge impact on businesses. Not that NT is the greatest OS in the world, but it's immeasurably better than 98.