I drop my Eee a lot more than I do any other laptop I've ever had. I even throw it, open and on, onto the sofa or bed. I never used to drop my previous laptop, an iBook; I was very careful with it. The one time I accidentally pulled it off the desk I felt sick, thinking I might have just cost myself a couple of days work and £1000. When I first dropped my Eee (4ft onto concrete) I was interested to see how it fared, rather than worried. The iBook cost over 4x as much and has a shiny case and a hard drive. It's really very refreshing to have a computer which is very cheap and has no moving parts (other than the fan). I feel no need for a special padded bag or to give it any more consideration than I would a paper book.
People are careful not to drop their laptops for the same reason they're careful not to drop Faberge eggs - they're expensive and delicate. The Eee is neither expensive nor delicate.
The total debt is only a couple of trillion. It would merely be devalued not entirely written off, so it might only cost them a few hundred billion if they chose to dump the lot and tank the value of the dollar. That wouldn't destroy the Chinese economy. If you don't think superpowers are willing to spend hundreds of billions on playing power games you're demonstrably wrong - the figures involved are comparable to the cost to the US of a year in Iraq.
As for the debt disappearing - nope. The debt would be the same in dollars and the US would have dollars to pay for it. The debt would be worth less to the Chinese, but worth the same to the US. It most certainly would not disappear.
Judging by the button icons appearing in that video, gameplay looks like it consists of "press circle when the circle icon appears on screen". The facial movement when she's talking in the tape recorder looks distinctly average too - her top lip and cheeks don't move as they should.
I thought I recognised that rear wheel-arch on the second video. I knew it as an old Vauxhall (a GM brand in the UK) Frontera, it's also know as a first-generation Isuzu MU Wizard. When it was sold as the Frontera it was a deathtrap too.
Again, someone has to be willing to trade them Euros for the Dollars. Who would buy such huge sums of dollars to help tank the US economy and thereby hurt themselves? Remember, the US mortgage crisis caused FOREIGN banks to collapse.
Currency speculators. They don't care if the US economy, the Euro economy or any other economy goes tits up as long as they get rich. In fact, there's lots of money to be made from central banks trying to prop up the value of their currency, so currency speculators love to see a currency - any currency - collapse in value. George Soros made $1bn in a day from the UK government when they were trying to prop up the pound.
I'm playing CoD 4 at the moment too. I don't find the nametag appearing very often, perhaps I do it a bit further from the containers (and it is usually containers) than you. Because of the flow of the game I get a chance to use it regularly with the container in the corner by the crashed helicopter in Countdown - the angles are just right, but the distance can be a bit far sometimes.
The buildings on Crash are awesome for leaping out of windows, circling round and stabbing people in the back. Never really use the prone tactic - it's a press-and-hold thing on the PS3 so isn't very quick to do and lying prone in most places leaves me more vulnerable than I'd like.
Java is the language we are discussing, so the page is relevant. Try reading beyond the title of the page, to the first few sentences, where you were directed. Specifically, the second sentence.
I wonder if you know what "syntax" actually means, as the similarities are obvious. Ask yourself this: Does Java code look like Lisp code? Like Pascal? Like Forth? Like Basic? Like assembly? No, it looks like C/C++, because it was designed with a C/C++-derived syntax.
Did you read the post you replied to? It is modular, but in this instance they don't have a spare 'Lego brick' so they have to repair the one that's there. It's analogous to opening up one of your Lego Mindstorms sensors.
While war does indeed stimulate technology that's really not a good enough reason to kill hundreds of thousands of people. If you did want to start a war in order to boost technological progress, you should start a war with a technologically advanced enemy power, not invade random desert nations with a feeble military.
I believe what Google is looking to accomplish is to trade on their brand name in an attempt to further dislodge Internet Explorer.
I think that's part of it, but given they're developing a new Javascript engine and including Gears, I think they also want to push Gears as the next client-side platform. They're trying to compete with Silverlight and Flash as well as boosting their brand. Ecmascript (Javascript) 4.0 seems to be dead in the water, so Gears looks like the best way to get AJAX/DHTML beyond the limits imposed by the lack of threads in 3.0. Web UIs are already becoming slow as the client tries to do more. Gears lets you have a thread for UI and one for processing, or at least a usable approximation of that, so you can actually do stuff that takes more than fraction of a second and still have a responsive UI.
They're not building the whole thing, but it's a bit more than just a rebranding. They're using Webkit (Safari, Konqueror) rather than Gecko (Firefox), but adding a new Javascript engine and UI, and building in Google Gears.
It'll never happen that all schools are equal. You can put as much money as you like into schools in bad areas but a bright, well behaved kid surrounded my badly behaved morons won't have the same start in life as a bright, well behaved kid surrounded by bright, well behaved kids. Not that every kid in a bad area is a badly behaved moron or every kid in a good area is bright and well behaved, but the proportions of each vary widely.
As to proof, I'd accept bank statements, electoral roll, utility bills etc. It would be impractical, unnecessary and intrusive to perform surveillance on everybody, but if there are reasonable grounds for suspicion then there should be powers to investigate.
A school place is far from trivial, it can significantly affect a child's success in life and people regularly choose to live near the schools they prefer. The bank thing is easy to forge - after opening my accounts, I've never had a bank verify I live where I claim to have moved to. They just accept whatever address I claim to live at. I could produce a bank statement addressed to my friend's house in a couple of weeks if I had the need.
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I drop my Eee a lot more than I do any other laptop I've ever had. I even throw it, open and on, onto the sofa or bed. I never used to drop my previous laptop, an iBook; I was very careful with it. The one time I accidentally pulled it off the desk I felt sick, thinking I might have just cost myself a couple of days work and £1000. When I first dropped my Eee (4ft onto concrete) I was interested to see how it fared, rather than worried. The iBook cost over 4x as much and has a shiny case and a hard drive. It's really very refreshing to have a computer which is very cheap and has no moving parts (other than the fan). I feel no need for a special padded bag or to give it any more consideration than I would a paper book. People are careful not to drop their laptops for the same reason they're careful not to drop Faberge eggs - they're expensive and delicate. The Eee is neither expensive nor delicate.
I agree, shocking Canadian grammar - not a single "eh" to be seen.
I stand corrected. I'd never seen a UMD till I googled it just now. They're huge. 1.8GB is nice though.
The total debt is only a couple of trillion. It would merely be devalued not entirely written off, so it might only cost them a few hundred billion if they chose to dump the lot and tank the value of the dollar. That wouldn't destroy the Chinese economy. If you don't think superpowers are willing to spend hundreds of billions on playing power games you're demonstrably wrong - the figures involved are comparable to the cost to the US of a year in Iraq.
As for the debt disappearing - nope. The debt would be the same in dollars and the US would have dollars to pay for it. The debt would be worth less to the Chinese, but worth the same to the US. It most certainly would not disappear.
These days, we still stick a card into our Nintendo/Sony portable to play a game.
Judging by the button icons appearing in that video, gameplay looks like it consists of "press circle when the circle icon appears on screen". The facial movement when she's talking in the tape recorder looks distinctly average too - her top lip and cheeks don't move as they should.
I thought I recognised that rear wheel-arch on the second video. I knew it as an old Vauxhall (a GM brand in the UK) Frontera, it's also know as a first-generation Isuzu MU Wizard. When it was sold as the Frontera it was a deathtrap too.
Has it never occurred to you that that may be a price they are willing to pay?
Currency speculators. They don't care if the US economy, the Euro economy or any other economy goes tits up as long as they get rich. In fact, there's lots of money to be made from central banks trying to prop up the value of their currency, so currency speculators love to see a currency - any currency - collapse in value. George Soros made $1bn in a day from the UK government when they were trying to prop up the pound.
I'm playing CoD 4 at the moment too. I don't find the nametag appearing very often, perhaps I do it a bit further from the containers (and it is usually containers) than you. Because of the flow of the game I get a chance to use it regularly with the container in the corner by the crashed helicopter in Countdown - the angles are just right, but the distance can be a bit far sometimes.
The buildings on Crash are awesome for leaping out of windows, circling round and stabbing people in the back. Never really use the prone tactic - it's a press-and-hold thing on the PS3 so isn't very quick to do and lying prone in most places leaves me more vulnerable than I'd like.
Java is the language we are discussing, so the page is relevant. Try reading beyond the title of the page, to the first few sentences, where you were directed. Specifically, the second sentence.
I wonder if you know what "syntax" actually means, as the similarities are obvious. Ask yourself this: Does Java code look like Lisp code? Like Pascal? Like Forth? Like Basic? Like assembly? No, it looks like C/C++, because it was designed with a C/C++-derived syntax.
A bad fork, almost by definition, won't get used much so people won't hear about it.
Did you read the post you replied to? It is modular, but in this instance they don't have a spare 'Lego brick' so they have to repair the one that's there. It's analogous to opening up one of your Lego Mindstorms sensors.
The kid was unconscious, not dead, when he was pulled out. He died later in hospital.
Conversations develop. I don't know, perhaps you think Airbus planes are immune because it was Boeings on September 11th. *sigh*
The insult was uncalled for though, I apologise for that.
Learning the syntax of a new language is the easy part.
I did read the thread. I was being sarcastic. Here's the non-sarcastic version:
Trains are trains. They've already bombed trains. You're a fucking douchebag for making a meaningless distinction.
Al Quaeda have bombed trains in Madrid and London. Oh, but they weren't high speed trains, so that's irrelevant I guess.
While war does indeed stimulate technology that's really not a good enough reason to kill hundreds of thousands of people. If you did want to start a war in order to boost technological progress, you should start a war with a technologically advanced enemy power, not invade random desert nations with a feeble military.
I think that's part of it, but given they're developing a new Javascript engine and including Gears, I think they also want to push Gears as the next client-side platform. They're trying to compete with Silverlight and Flash as well as boosting their brand. Ecmascript (Javascript) 4.0 seems to be dead in the water, so Gears looks like the best way to get AJAX/DHTML beyond the limits imposed by the lack of threads in 3.0. Web UIs are already becoming slow as the client tries to do more. Gears lets you have a thread for UI and one for processing, or at least a usable approximation of that, so you can actually do stuff that takes more than fraction of a second and still have a responsive UI.
They're not building the whole thing, but it's a bit more than just a rebranding. They're using Webkit (Safari, Konqueror) rather than Gecko (Firefox), but adding a new Javascript engine and UI, and building in Google Gears.
Funny how the actual copper who turned up managed to jump in and pull the kid out, eh?
It'll never happen that all schools are equal. You can put as much money as you like into schools in bad areas but a bright, well behaved kid surrounded my badly behaved morons won't have the same start in life as a bright, well behaved kid surrounded by bright, well behaved kids. Not that every kid in a bad area is a badly behaved moron or every kid in a good area is bright and well behaved, but the proportions of each vary widely.
As to proof, I'd accept bank statements, electoral roll, utility bills etc. It would be impractical, unnecessary and intrusive to perform surveillance on everybody, but if there are reasonable grounds for suspicion then there should be powers to investigate.
A school place is far from trivial, it can significantly affect a child's success in life and people regularly choose to live near the schools they prefer. The bank thing is easy to forge - after opening my accounts, I've never had a bank verify I live where I claim to have moved to. They just accept whatever address I claim to live at. I could produce a bank statement addressed to my friend's house in a couple of weeks if I had the need.