1000 dollar to take out a 100 million dollar plane and you think thats expensive??? Its this kind of thinking which leads to the US spending 500 billion a year in Iraq and the insurgents still kick American butt by spending 500 thousand a year. Asymmetric thinking is the way to go. Hell 1000 dollar is even less than what the 9 11 folks spent on flight lessons.
This discovery has more applications has more applications as a sabotage weapon than for hydrogen powered cars. Nowadays Aluminium is used at a lot of places especially in airplanes precisely because it is lightweight and wont get oxidised to Alumina other than a thin surface layer. If we could develop a way to add the Gallium suspension to a paint anyone wanting to sabotage a plane could just paint it with Gallium paint and in a few months the wings will fall off. If the saboteurs are really lucky it will fall off in battle. Or think of a nation like Iraq fighting an US invasion. They have no air force to speak off but if they can use anti aircraft shells to saturate their airspace with Gallium vapour the Us planes coming in to bomb them would soon be losing wings on a regular basis
One thing on your sources - unless you translated them from Russian they have been produced by Western official agencies and are suspect.
On Cyprus if you check the recent history you will see that when Britain withdrew from Cyprus Turkey asked Britain to return Cyprus to them as it had been part of Turkish empire and Britain only had a mandate on it due to a Turkish defeat in the 19th century. At the same time Greek terrorists started a bombing campaign to force unification with Greece. As a result a final decision was made to make it independent with right of the Turkish Cypriots as well as the Greek Cypriots guaranteed through a power sharing structure. To guarantee this a Treaty of Guarantee was signed which specifically said that if either side tried to take over completely it was the responsibility of the guarantor powers Britain, Turkey and Greece to intervene militarily. Then the Greeks became a military dictatorship and the Greek officers posted in Cyprus did a coup to try and force unification with Greece. They arrested their own Greek Cypriot prime minister Archbishop Makarios as he was not willing to commit genocide against the Turkish Cypriots. Turkey at that time pleaded with Britain to intervene as a Guarantor power but Britain was too busy so Turkey invaded to stop the massacres of Turkish civilians which was taking place. This was perfectly legal under the Treaty of Guarantee. After the invasion Turkey was willing to withdraw as long as power was shared between Greeks and Turks. But the Greek Cypriot side would not agree and the EU helped them by imposing a total economic blockade on the North. This has caused so much pain in the North that finally the North agreed to an unconditional surrender and unification with the South as long as they could join the EU and as a result the blockade would be lifted. This was one of the reasons South Cyprus had given to EU- they had specifically said if EU admits us in the North will be so eager to join EU they will agree to reunification. However once the EU guaranteed the admission of Cyprus when the referendum was held South Cyprus rejected reunification while North Cyprus overwhelmingly accepted it. So the net result is South Cyprus cheated the EU and the EU is still punishing North Cyprus through an economic blockade. I used to live in Cyprus and I know that its not just a few youth- the present generation of Greek Cypriots is very racist and they feel some kind of glee that they are in the EU but they managed to keep North Cyprus out of it. The older generation which grew up under power sharing are not that racist. As for Turkey's own admission to EU that is a separate issue but again South Cyprus is playing a spoiler role there. I frankly beleive the EU does not need these problem nations like Cyprus and Estonia and they should be expelled.
Well Stalin was a Georgian and the Bolshevik party grew mostly out of the Baltic states to begin with and spread to Russia proper later so why are the Estonians pissed at Russians for Stalin's actions? And what does Stalin have to do with denying civil right to people even whose grandfathers were not alive when Stalin was. And frankly the gulags have been overdramatized in western media. The term is used to cover with a wide brush a lot of differnet kinds of things all the way from new cities set up in Siberia to exploit the Oil, mining towns, siberian training bases to prisons for common criminals to resettlement colonies of ethnic groups (while this might be questionable the aim was if the entire country becomes mixed in ethnicity it wont break up into parts. At least the Russians did not fight brutal civil wars like the US and UK to force subnations to stay when they wanted to leave). All of these places had high death rates due to the nature of frontier life but casualties were pretty high amongst the homesteaders in the American west too. There were a few political prisoners mostly the result of Stalin's paranoia about coups which was not helped by the west pouring in millions of dollars to ferment coups.
Speaking of Cyprus that is another black mark on the EUs record. To allow in a country which kept on saying admit us in admit us in and the Turks will agree to a solution as they want in too and when EU agreed to let them in they turn around and reject a very fair Annan plan and leave the Turkish Cypriots in the lurch is just a sign of what kind of a country Cyprus is. Its a really racist place. If you are not white dont go out alone to the beach as you are liable to be set upon by gangs of youth who will beat you up all the time calling you Bloody Turk! (apparently the Greek education system teaches the kids that if you are not white you are a Turk and its OK to beat up the Turks) Its a sad day when the EU is so desperate to expand that it is admitting bad apples like Cyprus and Estonia.
Or maybe that now it is Bush's US a nod and a wink is coming from US. Since when does having a democratic elected president become a crime. Since when that President put the interests of his own country above those of US Multinationals. Luckily Bush will never be accused of putting the interests of US over Halliburton so the corporate media will never attack him as a dictator even if he says to the rest of the world My way or the highway
Yeah I read the wikipedia piece. All I see is British Royal Navy, Danish and Swedish volunteers and anti communist russians fighting Communist Russians so yeah I repeat what I said Estonia was an artifical state created by western world powers in order to create a nuisance for Russia and yes they are doing a very good job of being a nuisance.
The comparison with latinos in the US is a false comparison. Latinos born in the US are US citizens no matter what language they speak. They are not forced to undergo citizenship tests. That the EU would admit such a country which discriminates against a large minority is a sad reflection on the EU but then again having lived both in US and Europe I do know that Europeans are a lot more racist than Americans are. And since when is Estonia an independent country? It has never been independent in its history. Till WW1 it was part of the Russian empire. After WW1 a lot of artificial countries were created in order to punish the Germans and the Communists who had left the war early. Look at what happened to the artificial Czechoslovakia, East Prussia, Yugoslavia etc. Just drawing lines on a map does not a country make. Amongst the Baltic states only the Lithunians have ever been a real independent country. Estonia was a creation of politics. Just speaking a language does not make a separate nation. India has more than 800 languages and 8000 dialects Would you suggest India should be 800 countires? And yes most of the areas of India speaking even the non official languages are bigger than Estonia. Basically a country which collaborated with the Nazis wants to go back to its fascist past and it is inconvenient to have statues around reminding people that last time they tried to be good little Nazis the Russians kicked their butt. The insecurity of the Estonians manifests in their persecution of the Russian minority. What would the world say if Scotland was to put conditions on English residents of Scotland that they have to learn Scottish or be treated as illegal immigrants? Europe has a very murky past. There have been lots of wars and atrocities and lots of populations have moved around. To enforce language based citizenship wont work and is against the spirit of the EU. Also a common bugaboo of the fascist apologists is Stalin sent people to Siberia. Yes Stalin sent people to Siberia but it was to staff the industries which had been packed up and moved beyond the Urals to protect them from the Germans. This has been always considered a marvel of logistics and strategy as if Stalin had not moved the industries when the Germans captured them WW2 would be pretty much over with only the mopping up of USA left to do for the Nazis. So how can you compliment a leader for a great decision moving the factories and criticize him for moving the workers for those factories?
I see when the CIA pays street thugs to protest against a legitimate election and get it overturned its called an Orange revolution. Maybe Orange is for the color of the Euro notes handed out by CIA operatives to fund it. But when people protest the removal of war memorials commemorating millions of soldiers who died fighting the Nazis and protecting Estonia its Russian agents? How would you react if somehow a Latino president comes to power and orders the demolition of the Alamo as it represents Yankee colonialization of traditional Mexican lands?
I also hate that switching is not automatic. Earlier if I tyoed in something in the search box and click on news it would search the text already typed in in news search and show the results. Now if I click news whatever I had typed in disappears and it shows the default news page and I have to type it in again.
How about Google Apple and AMD joining hands to combat WINTEL. They could even pull in Sony and IBM on their side as tehy compete with Microsoft on XBoxes and with Intel on Cell processors. Then we would have 2 big behemoths of equal size. As for the useless services divisions that IBM has it is already getting rid of Global services so it will be techies vs techies. Sigh Daydreams....
I think I disagree with you on that people who are naturally curious and also have the time to spare on finding out what is under the hoods of an OS are indeed rare. The reason is most people have lives outside of computers and if their jobs are not computer related (they may still use a computer for email, document preparation and research) the computer is not really an important thing for them. I mean I use my microwave everyday and couldnt survive without it but I dont care about how it works on the inside. On the other hand being in the software profession I do care about how computers work and whether I can fine tune my environment. But then again I am a programmer , for the vast majority of people who are not the Operating System is a non issue . This is the problem with technomorphic forums like/. People on this site think computers and technology is the center point of peoples lives- its not. Sure in todays world we cant live without computers but we cant live without electricity either. I dont see electrical engineers spending a major part of their recreation time evangelizing a particular kind of turbine over another. Who cares as long as you get the electricity and similarly who cares as long as you can get on the net. IE is as good as Firefox for getting on the net and for certain crappy sites that dont bother having a non aspx option its even better. So I think its best if people stop wasting time evangelizing about Linux. The common man or woman is never going to use it as a first choice.(Sure your aunt or uncle might use it if you install it for them and install firefox but they dont care. Next computer they buy they will go back to Windows or whatever else comes pre-installed). Instead time is better spent on actually creating better applications which run on multiple OSs. With virtual machine based platforms the emphasis should be on new cool applications not what plumbing it runs on top off
O cmon you would need IT support staff irrespective of whether you use Windows or Linux. Isnt the entire OSS model built on free software and paid services. If you go ahead and create an OS so stable it needs no IT support and then also sell it for free where exactly are you going to get the money to pay the rent? Not everyone is sitting in their parent basement or their professors lab hacking away in bliss . Some people need to pay for a few things like say food, internet access and maybe a place to sleep?
If you are talking about OLPC since when are kids naive users? Kids are the most computer savvy people in any country. I am sure kids in third world country villages will be better programmers than your typical corporate suit within 6 months of getting their OLPCs. But the point is most of the market for Operating Systems is corporate suits whose main job is not programming. They use the computer as a tool and not as the be all end all of their existence. For this most common type of user Windows just makes more sense than Linux
This is an intellectually corrupt argument. The Linux fanbase has no qualms claiming downloading=using when everyone knows only a fraction of people who download a free linux distribution use it - even amongst those who use Linux a large number have it installed on secondary partitions as they want to keep their primary windows platform while playing around with Linux to get geek cred. If we started counting users of linux vs users of windows based on primary operating system used then the usage of windows in a single big city like SF would dwarf the worldwide usage of Linux. Linux is a good system for students and hands on people who like to and have the capacity to change the system to meet their needs but face the facts it never was, never was meant to be and never will be a mass market operating system used by the naive users.
AMDs master stroke was to locate engineering in Austin so with smaller salaries and expenses they got comparable chips which they could sell cheaper . In other words outsourcing to cheaper areas.
What's new in the article? All this was announced at the conference in Germany in January!!! Why is Slashdot even posting this? The only interesting thing is that the hype has made AMD's share go up 10 % in the last 2 sessions:)
Well lot of equipment including military equipment which lead very violent lives have electronics in them (wonder how F18 can pull many Gs and not break their computers) so its definitely possible to have electronics in a gun. The second hand gun market is the root cause of most gun problems and I wouldnt be sorry to see it die. The only legitimate reason for a second hand gun market is to buy antique guns one can no longer buy new and this proposal doesnt affect antique guns. A gun os a necessity and people who need a gun for protection should be able to pony up the money to buy a new gun. About guys who like to shoot and have multiple active weapons I couldnt give a rats ass. Gun possession is meant to level the playing field between all people . If a bunch of people spend a lot of time training and get better than the rest of us with guns the very purpose of the 2nd amendment gets defeated. Remember its not GOD but Mr Colt who made us equal. In fact I am in favour of requiring every citizen to own a gun and carry it concealed. It would end muggings, racist bullying and police brutality all in one sweep. Next why would you want to hve your friend shoot your gun let him buy his own. Sharing of guns is like sharing of condoms. Both are for protection but when you start sharing you increase the danger. Next it would very much deter criminals. They wont be able to use or sell any guns they find or steal so they wont break into cars and homes to steal guns. Also if you pull a gun on an intruder or mugger and they somehow get it off you they cant use it against you. Also if they buy a legitimate gun and use it in a crime its very easy to track them as noone else could have fired the gun. So if they throw away the gun but the cops find it they are pretty much convicted. If they do steal the gun and try to crack it the guns could be set to slag their firing chambers on detecting tampering. A melted gun is just a piece of metal no more harmfull than a paperweight. After the first few times noone would bother stealing guns. You dont have to cut your hand open to put in an rfid. They are so small they can be injected into your palm by pressure injection without even using a needle. You wont feel any pain. Even if you did - what kind of a pussy would not put up with a little pain to gain the right to self defense?
I think you misunderstood. The guns are not to be programmable as that is too easy to hack. They are to be keyed to a single rfid so when gun collectors buy a gun they dont get the rfid. They can have the gun but they cant fire it. If they need a gun for protection they can buy a new one at the gunshop. Basically it will kill the second hand gun market. Frankly I dont see a need for people to fire guns they cant afford to buy new. A gun is a necessity and people should be willing to pay enough for a new gun.
Why not require anyone who buys a gun to put a small rfid in his palm and key the gun to not fire if it doesnt detect the rfid. Nowadays rfids are so small it should be almost painless to inject one at the gun shop and pretty much unnoticeable. Gun manufacturers should like this as it means no sharing of guns so more gun sales. No extra steps in firing just pick up the gun and fire. No problem of lost or stolen guns or kids getting into the gun safe. If u want your wife to also be able to use the gun just have a duplicate rfid like most cars have only 2 keys. Hell you could even log who fired the last shot and simplify gun crime investigation. The only loser is the second hand gun market and the second hand gun market is used mostly by criminals or collectors. Collectors dont need to fire their guns.
The reason the jury got pissed at McDonald was it was discovered that McDonalds coffee had a very bad taste and McDonalds was deliberately serving boiling hot coffee to hide the taste. Normal hot coffee would not have burnt the woman
In further investigation it was found this effect is present only in the new fifth generation iPods when the red light is on. Apple has denied plans for world domination by sending signals to iPods to control peoples minds. "Ridiculous", said an Apple spokesman "Our brain control waves are on a totally different wavelenth than the heart stopping killer waves" Inestigators have also come across reports of a single iPod mini going around turning off the waves
No he doesnt. Schools are funded by local taxes so unless he lives in my neighbourhood he is not susnsidizing schools for me or or my children. Besides people without kids have a lot more time to use Museums, national parks and other commonly funded stuff so I am subsidizing his recreation as well as his retirement. The remark about social security being bankrupt is totally crap. Social security is only going to run into a deficit in 2042 and it will never ever be bankrupt. So it may pay less than it does now but whatever it pays that is money coming out of the pocket of our children to support this leech on society. BTW I dont believe you should have children for social security or tax purposes. What I say is if you are not going to have children because you admit to yourself that you dont have the capacity of raising them you should be humble about it not crow about it and be decent enough to refuse social security and medicare payments. But with the entitlement mentality even a millionaire does not refuse his 300 dollar social security paycheck in modern America. I say abolish social security and let children take care of their parents in their old age. This has the positive side effect of parents never ever abusing their kids as they know if the kids are pissed the parents are going to spend their retirement in misery.
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1000 dollar to take out a 100 million dollar plane and you think thats expensive??? Its this kind of thinking which leads to the US spending 500 billion a year in Iraq and the insurgents still kick American butt by spending 500 thousand a year. Asymmetric thinking is the way to go. Hell 1000 dollar is even less than what the 9 11 folks spent on flight lessons.
This discovery has more applications has more applications as a sabotage weapon than for hydrogen powered cars. Nowadays Aluminium is used at a lot of places especially in airplanes precisely because it is lightweight and wont get oxidised to Alumina other than a thin surface layer. If we could develop a way to add the Gallium suspension to a paint anyone wanting to sabotage a plane could just paint it with Gallium paint and in a few months the wings will fall off. If the saboteurs are really lucky it will fall off in battle. Or think of a nation like Iraq fighting an US invasion. They have no air force to speak off but if they can use anti aircraft shells to saturate their airspace with Gallium vapour the Us planes coming in to bomb them would soon be losing wings on a regular basis
One thing on your sources - unless you translated them from Russian they have been produced by Western official agencies and are suspect.
On Cyprus if you check the recent history you will see that when Britain withdrew from Cyprus Turkey asked Britain to return Cyprus to them as it had been part of Turkish empire and Britain only had a mandate on it due to a Turkish defeat in the 19th century. At the same time Greek terrorists started a bombing campaign to force unification with Greece. As a result a final decision was made to make it independent with right of the Turkish Cypriots as well as the Greek Cypriots guaranteed through a power sharing structure. To guarantee this a Treaty of Guarantee was signed which specifically said that if either side tried to take over completely it was the responsibility of the guarantor powers Britain, Turkey and Greece to intervene militarily. Then the Greeks became a military dictatorship and the Greek officers posted in Cyprus did a coup to try and force unification with Greece. They arrested their own Greek Cypriot prime minister Archbishop Makarios as he was not willing to commit genocide against the Turkish Cypriots. Turkey at that time pleaded with Britain to intervene as a Guarantor power but Britain was too busy so Turkey invaded to stop the massacres of Turkish civilians which was taking place. This was perfectly legal under the Treaty of Guarantee. After the invasion Turkey was willing to withdraw as long as power was shared between Greeks and Turks. But the Greek Cypriot side would not agree and the EU helped them by imposing a total economic blockade on the North. This has caused so much pain in the North that finally the North agreed to an unconditional surrender and unification with the South as long as they could join the EU and as a result the blockade would be lifted. This was one of the reasons South Cyprus had given to EU- they had specifically said if EU admits us in the North will be so eager to join EU they will agree to reunification. However once the EU guaranteed the admission of Cyprus when the referendum was held South Cyprus rejected reunification while North Cyprus overwhelmingly accepted it. So the net result is South Cyprus cheated the EU and the EU is still punishing North Cyprus through an economic blockade. I used to live in Cyprus and I know that its not just a few youth- the present generation of Greek Cypriots is very racist and they feel some kind of glee that they are in the EU but they managed to keep North Cyprus out of it. The older generation which grew up under power sharing are not that racist. As for Turkey's own admission to EU that is a separate issue but again South Cyprus is playing a spoiler role there. I frankly beleive the EU does not need these problem nations like Cyprus and Estonia and they should be expelled.
Well Stalin was a Georgian and the Bolshevik party grew mostly out of the Baltic states to begin with and spread to Russia proper later so why are the Estonians pissed at Russians for Stalin's actions? And what does Stalin have to do with denying civil right to people even whose grandfathers were not alive when Stalin was. And frankly the gulags have been overdramatized in western media. The term is used to cover with a wide brush a lot of differnet kinds of things all the way from new cities set up in Siberia to exploit the Oil, mining towns, siberian training bases to prisons for common criminals to resettlement colonies of ethnic groups (while this might be questionable the aim was if the entire country becomes mixed in ethnicity it wont break up into parts. At least the Russians did not fight brutal civil wars like the US and UK to force subnations to stay when they wanted to leave). All of these places had high death rates due to the nature of frontier life but casualties were pretty high amongst the homesteaders in the American west too. There were a few political prisoners mostly the result of Stalin's paranoia about coups which was not helped by the west pouring in millions of dollars to ferment coups.
Speaking of Cyprus that is another black mark on the EUs record. To allow in a country which kept on saying admit us in admit us in and the Turks will agree to a solution as they want in too and when EU agreed to let them in they turn around and reject a very fair Annan plan and leave the Turkish Cypriots in the lurch is just a sign of what kind of a country Cyprus is. Its a really racist place. If you are not white dont go out alone to the beach as you are liable to be set upon by gangs of youth who will beat you up all the time calling you Bloody Turk! (apparently the Greek education system teaches the kids that if you are not white you are a Turk and its OK to beat up the Turks) Its a sad day when the EU is so desperate to expand that it is admitting bad apples like Cyprus and Estonia.
Or maybe that now it is Bush's US a nod and a wink is coming from US. Since when does having a democratic elected president become a crime. Since when that President put the interests of his own country above those of US Multinationals. Luckily Bush will never be accused of putting the interests of US over Halliburton so the corporate media will never attack him as a dictator even if he says to the rest of the world My way or the highway
Yeah I read the wikipedia piece. All I see is British Royal Navy, Danish and Swedish volunteers and anti communist russians fighting Communist Russians so yeah I repeat what I said Estonia was an artifical state created by western world powers in order to create a nuisance for Russia and yes they are doing a very good job of being a nuisance.
The comparison with latinos in the US is a false comparison. Latinos born in the US are US citizens no matter what language they speak. They are not forced to undergo citizenship tests. That the EU would admit such a country which discriminates against a large minority is a sad reflection on the EU but then again having lived both in US and Europe I do know that Europeans are a lot more racist than Americans are. And since when is Estonia an independent country? It has never been independent in its history. Till WW1 it was part of the Russian empire. After WW1 a lot of artificial countries were created in order to punish the Germans and the Communists who had left the war early. Look at what happened to the artificial Czechoslovakia, East Prussia, Yugoslavia etc. Just drawing lines on a map does not a country make. Amongst the Baltic states only the Lithunians have ever been a real independent country. Estonia was a creation of politics. Just speaking a language does not make a separate nation. India has more than 800 languages and 8000 dialects Would you suggest India should be 800 countires? And yes most of the areas of India speaking even the non official languages are bigger than Estonia. Basically a country which collaborated with the Nazis wants to go back to its fascist past and it is inconvenient to have statues around reminding people that last time they tried to be good little Nazis the Russians kicked their butt. The insecurity of the Estonians manifests in their persecution of the Russian minority. What would the world say if Scotland was to put conditions on English residents of Scotland that they have to learn Scottish or be treated as illegal immigrants? Europe has a very murky past. There have been lots of wars and atrocities and lots of populations have moved around. To enforce language based citizenship wont work and is against the spirit of the EU. Also a common bugaboo of the fascist apologists is Stalin sent people to Siberia. Yes Stalin sent people to Siberia but it was to staff the industries which had been packed up and moved beyond the Urals to protect them from the Germans. This has been always considered a marvel of logistics and strategy as if Stalin had not moved the industries when the Germans captured them WW2 would be pretty much over with only the mopping up of USA left to do for the Nazis. So how can you compliment a leader for a great decision moving the factories and criticize him for moving the workers for those factories?
I see when the CIA pays street thugs to protest against a legitimate election and get it overturned its called an Orange revolution. Maybe Orange is for the color of the Euro notes handed out by CIA operatives to fund it. But when people protest the removal of war memorials commemorating millions of soldiers who died fighting the Nazis and protecting Estonia its Russian agents? How would you react if somehow a Latino president comes to power and orders the demolition of the Alamo as it represents Yankee colonialization of traditional Mexican lands?
I also hate that switching is not automatic. Earlier if I tyoed in something in the search box and click on news it would search the text already typed in in news search and show the results. Now if I click news whatever I had typed in disappears and it shows the default news page and I have to type it in again.
How about Google Apple and AMD joining hands to combat WINTEL. They could even pull in Sony and IBM on their side as tehy compete with Microsoft on XBoxes and with Intel on Cell processors. Then we would have 2 big behemoths of equal size. As for the useless services divisions that IBM has it is already getting rid of Global services so it will be techies vs techies. Sigh Daydreams....
Did nobody else notice the iGoogle link on the top right hand corner? Doesnt Apple have trademarks on anything starting with a small i?
I think I disagree with you on that people who are naturally curious and also have the time to spare on finding out what is under the hoods of an OS are indeed rare. The reason is most people have lives outside of computers and if their jobs are not computer related (they may still use a computer for email, document preparation and research) the computer is not really an important thing for them. I mean I use my microwave everyday and couldnt survive without it but I dont care about how it works on the inside. On the other hand being in the software profession I do care about how computers work and whether I can fine tune my environment. But then again I am a programmer , for the vast majority of people who are not the Operating System is a non issue . This is the problem with technomorphic forums like /. People on this site think computers and technology is the center point of peoples lives- its not. Sure in todays world we cant live without computers but we cant live without electricity either. I dont see electrical engineers spending a major part of their recreation time evangelizing a particular kind of turbine over another. Who cares as long as you get the electricity and similarly who cares as long as you can get on the net. IE is as good as Firefox for getting on the net and for certain crappy sites that dont bother having a non aspx option its even better.
So I think its best if people stop wasting time evangelizing about Linux. The common man or woman is never going to use it as a first choice.(Sure your aunt or uncle might use it if you install it for them and install firefox but they dont care. Next computer they buy they will go back to Windows or whatever else comes pre-installed). Instead time is better spent on actually creating better applications which run on multiple OSs. With virtual machine based platforms the emphasis should be on new cool applications not what plumbing it runs on top off
O cmon you would need IT support staff irrespective of whether you use Windows or Linux. Isnt the entire OSS model built on free software and paid services. If you go ahead and create an OS so stable it needs no IT support and then also sell it for free where exactly are you going to get the money to pay the rent? Not everyone is sitting in their parent basement or their professors lab hacking away in bliss . Some people need to pay for a few things like say food, internet access and maybe a place to sleep?
If you are talking about OLPC since when are kids naive users? Kids are the most computer savvy people in any country. I am sure kids in third world country villages will be better programmers than your typical corporate suit within 6 months of getting their OLPCs. But the point is most of the market for Operating Systems is corporate suits whose main job is not programming. They use the computer as a tool and not as the be all end all of their existence. For this most common type of user Windows just makes more sense than Linux
This is an intellectually corrupt argument. The Linux fanbase has no qualms claiming downloading=using when everyone knows only a fraction of people who download a free linux distribution use it - even amongst those who use Linux a large number have it installed on secondary partitions as they want to keep their primary windows platform while playing around with Linux to get geek cred.
If we started counting users of linux vs users of windows based on primary operating system used then the usage of windows in a single big city like SF would dwarf the worldwide usage of Linux.
Linux is a good system for students and hands on people who like to and have the capacity to change the system to meet their needs but face the facts it never was, never was meant to be and never will be a mass market operating system used by the naive users.
AMDs master stroke was to locate engineering in Austin so with smaller salaries and expenses they got comparable chips which they could sell cheaper . In other words outsourcing to cheaper areas.
What's new in the article? All this was announced at the conference in Germany in January!!! Why is Slashdot even posting this? The only interesting thing is that the hype has made AMD's share go up 10 % in the last 2 sessions:)
Well lot of equipment including military equipment which lead very violent lives have electronics in them (wonder how F18 can pull many Gs and not break their computers) so its definitely possible to have electronics in a gun. The second hand gun market is the root cause of most gun problems and I wouldnt be sorry to see it die. The only legitimate reason for a second hand gun market is to buy antique guns one can no longer buy new and this proposal doesnt affect antique guns. A gun os a necessity and people who need a gun for protection should be able to pony up the money to buy a new gun. About guys who like to shoot and have multiple active weapons I couldnt give a rats ass. Gun possession is meant to level the playing field between all people . If a bunch of people spend a lot of time training and get better than the rest of us with guns the very purpose of the 2nd amendment gets defeated. Remember its not GOD but Mr Colt who made us equal. In fact I am in favour of requiring every citizen to own a gun and carry it concealed. It would end muggings, racist bullying and police brutality all in one sweep. Next why would you want to hve your friend shoot your gun let him buy his own. Sharing of guns is like sharing of condoms. Both are for protection but when you start sharing you increase the danger. Next it would very much deter criminals. They wont be able to use or sell any guns they find or steal so they wont break into cars and homes to steal guns. Also if you pull a gun on an intruder or mugger and they somehow get it off you they cant use it against you. Also if they buy a legitimate gun and use it in a crime its very easy to track them as noone else could have fired the gun. So if they throw away the gun but the cops find it they are pretty much convicted. If they do steal the gun and try to crack it the guns could be set to slag their firing chambers on detecting tampering. A melted gun is just a piece of metal no more harmfull than a paperweight. After the first few times noone would bother stealing guns. You dont have to cut your hand open to put in an rfid. They are so small they can be injected into your palm by pressure injection without even using a needle. You wont feel any pain. Even if you did - what kind of a pussy would not put up with a little pain to gain the right to self defense?
I think you misunderstood. The guns are not to be programmable as that is too easy to hack. They are to be keyed to a single rfid so when gun collectors buy a gun they dont get the rfid. They can have the gun but they cant fire it. If they need a gun for protection they can buy a new one at the gunshop.
Basically it will kill the second hand gun market. Frankly I dont see a need for people to fire guns they cant afford to buy new. A gun is a necessity and people should be willing to pay enough for a new gun.
and they can buy guns from gunshops instead of the second hand market. Whats your point?
Self flagellstion That would be the Linux fanbase
Why not require anyone who buys a gun to put a small rfid in his palm and key the gun to not fire if it doesnt detect the rfid. Nowadays rfids are so small it should be almost painless to inject one at the gun shop and pretty much unnoticeable. Gun manufacturers should like this as it means no sharing of guns so more gun sales. No extra steps in firing just pick up the gun and fire. No problem of lost or stolen guns or kids getting into the gun safe. If u want your wife to also be able to use the gun just have a duplicate rfid like most cars have only 2 keys. Hell you could even log who fired the last shot and simplify gun crime investigation. The only loser is the second hand gun market and the second hand gun market is used mostly by criminals or collectors. Collectors dont need to fire their guns.
The reason the jury got pissed at McDonald was it was discovered that McDonalds coffee had a very bad taste and McDonalds was deliberately serving boiling hot coffee to hide the taste. Normal hot coffee would not have burnt the woman
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No he doesnt. Schools are funded by local taxes so unless he lives in my neighbourhood he is not susnsidizing schools for me or or my children. Besides people without kids have a lot more time to use Museums, national parks and other commonly funded stuff so I am subsidizing his recreation as well as his retirement. The remark about social security being bankrupt is totally crap. Social security is only going to run into a deficit in 2042 and it will never ever be bankrupt. So it may pay less than it does now but whatever it pays that is money coming out of the pocket of our children to support this leech on society. BTW I dont believe you should have children for social security or tax purposes. What I say is if you are not going to have children because you admit to yourself that you dont have the capacity of raising them you should be humble about it not crow about it and be decent enough to refuse social security and medicare payments. But with the entitlement mentality even a millionaire does not refuse his 300 dollar social security paycheck in modern America. I say abolish social security and let children take care of their parents in their old age. This has the positive side effect of parents never ever abusing their kids as they know if the kids are pissed the parents are going to spend their retirement in misery.