Here in Argentina (one of the few countries that will participate (if everything keeps going as said) in the OLPC program) there are many many childrens with water, food, etc, but no money for computers, even no money for books, so they just live as their parents lived, with minimmun education, and stay practically without contact with the modern world (no cable tv, no internet, no e-mail, no e-documents, no electronic entertainment). Now... what do you have to say about the idea of giving this children a laptop for free and the idea of becoming something more than what their parents ever dreamed?
Well this is just what I was talking about... I agree that Ahmadinejad is some kind of religius-fanatic for the way he talks/write, but I believe in the peaceful goal of their nuclear initiative. Do you think their only way of getting nuclear weapons is by starting a nuclear program with nuclear reactors like the one at Brushehr? If they want nuclear weapons they can buy them, they can develop them secretly, etc.. I think there must be a way to let Iran have nuclear energy plants, but for the Bush administration and people like you, there's no other way than ordering them to stop ALL nuclear activity impending the progress of their electric infrastructure. Nuclear seems to be the way to cheap and clean energy, something any country should be able to achieve. Developed nations should encourage the adoption of alternative energy sources instead of discouraging them and opossing irrationaly.
As much as I seem a troll to you, I think you are the kind of short minded paranoid people I'm talking about (the one that abounds now a days).
So, now you can continue modding me down, or calling me troll, I don't care, I'm just expressing what I believe.
I heard Bush speech this week, and my opinion is still the same. He's the most stupid president ever, he coudn't even REPLY DECENTLY any question from the press.
When they asked about what's next no Iraq... He more or less answered "We will see what's the best", clearly no idea, he ended the question with "if i didn't think we were gonna win, I wouldn't have sent our troops there"....... sooo ?... what a great answer to all our doubts
When they asked about any changes in equal right for homosexual couples marriages and stuff... He ended talking about the baby of the vice-president......... How can he just ignore all the questions like that??????
Finally when they asked about Iran... He just said, "I would like to tell the people of iran, that they president could do best"... "We are going to isolate Iran until the cease all nuclear activity"...
WON'T HE AND HIS FRIENDS FOR ONE USE THEIR REPUBLICANS-ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE-STUPID-BRAINS, and just come out with a plan for iran to let them use their nuclear program for peacefull purposes, like ENERGY for their country???
Wouldn't that put and end to this problem? They just wan't ENERGY, the problem is that Bush and his fellows doesn't care a shit, the only words his sub-developed inteligence lead him to say is "STOP ALL NUCLEAR ACTIVITY" without even considering an option.
In my opinion this politic of "no nuclear energy unless we AMERICA are ok with it" is just another demostration of the ignorance of your leader.
PD: Bush, idiot, AMERICA IS A CONTINENT, not your country, you have Latin America, Central America and North America, all them together form AMERICA, i'm just sick of hearing it.
By the way, this week we had one of these freak ocurrences where I live (Rosario, Argentina), we had an ice storm with ice-balls ranging from 5cm to approx. tennis balls with strong winds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJvmlbMS9X0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZa-4VJFcyI). Lots of cars lost their windshields and almost every bulding in the city looking north-west has its windows brokens.
Before Safari became the first browser to render it correctly, how did they rendered it for reference? Does the W3C has their own browser or something like a css renderer, or it was just created with an imaging aplication ?
I was surprised that almost noneone mentioned MIRANDA because it's a great IM. I started using it a couple days ago and IMHO is the best one i tried so far, and when i say the best, this are the things that i find important
- It connects to MSN, ICQ, AIM, Jabber, Yahoo, IRC, etc (plugins) - It's Open Source -> Free - It has a pretty decent GUI - I can use and see images from MSN contacts - Very good file transfer - IT ONLY USES 700K of RAM when minimized!!:) - It has about 500 plug-ins to add great functions - etc...
so there you have it, i think it's one of the best IM out there. www.miranda-im.org
Of course!! What did you think they where using on the Nebuchadnezzar ??? Obviosly that was a cluster of XBox's 360 with Negroponte's OLPC LCD screens running Free60
It's patetic what Netscape turned into. The website is some kind of news/portal site, with nothing interesting just bullshit like "How to Handle an Angry Woman" or "Top searches: American Idol", and hidden between all that "All New Netscape Browser 8.0", it is a shame (not to mention it's firefox with other GUI). I think it's time for Netscape to dissappear and leave their browser as the legend it was years ago not the piece of crap it's today.
Really... we should patent "patenging: a way to prohibit everyone including me from requesting a patent for anything" and it would be the end of these unsane stupid story.
Don't you have the feeling that voting as it is today is not usefull anymore?
If so, how is possible that someone like Bush got re-elected..... I think that the voting system as it is today isn't just usefull anymore, at the end the results are ALLWAYS the wrong choice (Bush in USA, Menem or Kirchner in my country (Argentina)).
Our countries have too many ignorant (or stupid) inhabitants to keep this voting system going. I don't know how but it should be reformed, because in the end democracy is hurting itself trought the ignorance of the ones who vote, the ones who supposedly enjoy it just keep ruinning it in a vicius cicle, and each one a worst one.
That characteristic of quantum mechanincs was something i never understood... Doesn't it matter the distance between the coupled photons? This only works with a couple (2 photons) or can be done with n photons ?
As I was reading the article I was amazed to read that this happened 2.2 billion light-years away == 2.2 billion years ago. So I was thinking, that suppouse that we could find a way to travel faster than light and maybe teletransport us anywhere in a reasonable ammount of time..... How are we going to know where we should go if what we are able to see are things that are not there anymore ? (I mean not in the place we see them, and maybe they doesn't exist anymore) We could try to calculate the new coordinates of things, or simulate how things would be arround there now, but that is and will be far away from being usefull. (try simulating the whole galaxy 2 billions of years in the future) Errors in calculations due to inexactitude would mean inmense distances beacuse of the magnitude of the travel distances we are talking about.
So the places that we decide to go would always be wrong, and it would be very dangerous because it would be easy to appear in the wrong place (inside a planet, too close to a black hole, etc.) or it would be really easy to hit something at that speeds since there would be no alert, no radars, beacuse of travelling faster than light.
Are we doomed to travel at sub-light-speeds and never be able to reach that very very far places in considerable time? (I know Einstein says so)
I guess that following the way you think, if you want to Send an SMS message, you will go and buy a good Pager or whatever was the name of those things. Your argument is pointless, it's just a matter of time because this things will continue to converge and became smaller, cheaper and better with time.
40MB per hour? I think you mean 400MB per hour...... unless the bitrate is really really low. Maybe an MP3 of one hour would fit in 40MB at 128kb but not video. Correct me if i'm wrong please.
So if they want to prohibit everything that can reproduce sound or video they have to prohibit every aviable storage medium, from ZIP 100MB disks to Compact Flash memory, and even HARD DISKs...
IMHO i think this whole thing is too stupid, there will allways be a way to save analog or binary data. They wont go home by home checking for storage mediums and like allways happened, we will find a new way to record and copy music and videos.
I cant believe the music and movie industry hasnt figured this out yet, but it just a matter of time they understand they wont ever finish piracy by prohibiting or sueing.
Some day..... i hope..... in a near future..... they will realize they wont go anywhere acting like this, and understand that they have to compete with piracy as companies do with each other, the one that ends earning money is the one that gives you a better product or service.
" If bands can generate fame and get better performance gigs by distributing free copies of their songs, there's no need for them to sign away their rights to a record company. "
Do you know how much money costs to get out a decent CD with 12 songs ??
Bands just doesn't spit high-quality-produced-cds/mp3-albums in their home garage from one day to another, it takes months and MONEY in a profesional studio, sometime with producers. Record companys have the instalations, or the money to afford the album production cost, it's not just a distribution issue. So i don't think that erradicating records companys is a good thing for artists. Everytime i found an album that is outstanding i generally buy it, althought i donwloaded it, so i think that besides the stupid law suits against p2p users, music industry, or at least small record labels should go on as they are today, helping promote and financing new talents into making high-quality albums.
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" So use your damned opera, just dont come crying to me when microsoft takes over the web with xaml and you have nowhere else to run but windows baby. "
I really don't like the idea of a handheld with 2 screens, i mean i thinks it's ugly, unpractical, and wouldn't a second screen distract your vision from the first one? Why do they need 2 screens instead of a bigger one like the PSP ? I think, that Sony as (almost everytime) design it's far far better than this 2 screen mounstrosity.
Yep, i can't wait the moment too, that humans really decide to start terraforming, or at least colonizating mars. I hope it's before actual predictions. I mean, what do we have to loose?
For ex. when America was discovered, lot of bad things happened after that, but much more good things happened too. I see it as a new chance for humanity to discover new places, advance as race and just think in the boom that this would cause to global economy, new work places, new industries, new careers, etc, lot of new things... it will be a new era. I know is not as easy as I say here, and that maybe the money should be used to solve global hunger.
But i think we can do both, we just need to make the Tobin Tax real (0,1% tax to all international transactions would be inverted to help 3rth world countries) and a USA, Japanese, Chinese, Russian or whatever other country president like Kennedy (i think it was him how was when we got the moon) that with a strong hand decides to invert on starting Mars colonization, and i don't care if USA or other string country takes the first place in this, bcuz after all i'm sure my country won't ever do it (Argentina) we are still trying to estabilize our economy and pay our international debt.
So to conclude... LET'S DO IT, MARS IS WAITING.
hehe sounds so easy.;)
a) You are the one that loose a lot by using that windoze shit that you like sooo much. (that without mentioning that you loose access to it sources)
b) V2 OS Incompativility is not the same as FreeBSD incompatibility
c) That netscape sucks it's not a reason to leave great OSs like *BSD or *nix...
d) ***
OS's that only a few people in the whole world use *** that few people doesn't seem soo few to me.
e) *** every weird OS out there *** Weird are your stupid reasons, not the OSs.
f) *** how many people want to run OpenBSD or Linux on their laptops? *** Obiously people not as Troll as you.
g) this REALLY MATTERS...
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Here in Argentina (one of the few countries that will participate (if everything keeps going as said) in the OLPC program) there are many many childrens with water, food, etc, but no money for computers, even no money for books, so they just live as their parents lived, with minimmun education, and stay practically without contact with the modern world (no cable tv, no internet, no e-mail, no e-documents, no electronic entertainment).
Now... what do you have to say about the idea of giving this children a laptop for free and the idea of becoming something more than what their parents ever dreamed?
Well this is just what I was talking about...
I agree that Ahmadinejad is some kind of religius-fanatic for the way he talks/write, but I believe in the peaceful goal of their nuclear initiative.
Do you think their only way of getting nuclear weapons is by starting a nuclear program with nuclear reactors like the one at Brushehr?
If they want nuclear weapons they can buy them, they can develop them secretly, etc..
I think there must be a way to let Iran have nuclear energy plants, but for the Bush administration and people like you, there's no other way than ordering them to stop ALL nuclear activity impending the progress of their electric infrastructure.
Nuclear seems to be the way to cheap and clean energy, something any country should be able to achieve. Developed nations should encourage the adoption of alternative energy sources instead of discouraging them and opossing irrationaly.
As much as I seem a troll to you, I think you are the kind of short minded paranoid people I'm talking about (the one that abounds now a days).
So, now you can continue modding me down, or calling me troll, I don't care, I'm just expressing what I believe.
I heard Bush speech this week, and my opinion is still the same.
He's the most stupid president ever, he coudn't even REPLY DECENTLY any question from the press.
When they asked about what's next no Iraq...
He more or less answered "We will see what's the best", clearly no idea, he ended the question with "if i didn't think we were gonna win, I wouldn't have sent our troops there"....... sooo ?... what a great answer to all our doubts
When they asked about any changes in equal right for homosexual couples marriages and stuff...
He ended talking about the baby of the vice-president.........
How can he just ignore all the questions like that??????
Finally when they asked about Iran...
He just said, "I would like to tell the people of iran, that they president could do best"...
"We are going to isolate Iran until the cease all nuclear activity"...
WON'T HE AND HIS FRIENDS FOR ONE USE THEIR REPUBLICANS-ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE-STUPID-BRAINS, and just come out with a plan for iran to let them use their nuclear program for peacefull purposes, like ENERGY for their country???
Wouldn't that put and end to this problem? They just wan't ENERGY, the problem is that Bush and his fellows doesn't care a shit, the only words his sub-developed inteligence lead him to say is "STOP ALL NUCLEAR ACTIVITY" without even considering an option.
In my opinion this politic of "no nuclear energy unless we AMERICA are ok with it" is just another demostration of the ignorance of your leader.
PD: Bush, idiot, AMERICA IS A CONTINENT, not your country, you have Latin America, Central America and North America, all them together form AMERICA, i'm just sick of hearing it.
By the way, this week we had one of these freak ocurrences where I live (Rosario, Argentina), we had an ice storm with ice-balls ranging from 5cm to approx. tennis balls with strong winds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJvmlbMS9X0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZa-4VJFcyI). Lots of cars lost their windshields and almost every bulding in the city looking north-west has its windows brokens.
Before Safari became the first browser to render it correctly, how did they rendered it for reference? Does the W3C has their own browser or something like a css renderer, or it was just created with an imaging aplication ?
I was surprised that almost noneone mentioned MIRANDA because it's a great IM.
:)
I started using it a couple days ago and IMHO is the best one i tried so far,
and when i say the best, this are the things that i find important
- It connects to MSN, ICQ, AIM, Jabber, Yahoo, IRC, etc (plugins)
- It's Open Source -> Free
- It has a pretty decent GUI
- I can use and see images from MSN contacts
- Very good file transfer
- IT ONLY USES 700K of RAM when minimized!!
- It has about 500 plug-ins to add great functions
- etc...
so there you have it, i think it's one of the best IM out there.
www.miranda-im.org
Obviosly that was a cluster of XBox's 360 with Negroponte's OLPC LCD screens running Free60
It's patetic what Netscape turned into.
The website is some kind of news/portal site, with nothing interesting just bullshit like "How to Handle an Angry Woman" or "Top searches: American Idol", and hidden between all that "All New Netscape Browser 8.0", it is a shame (not to mention it's firefox with other GUI).
I think it's time for Netscape to dissappear and leave their browser as the legend it was years ago not the piece of crap it's today.
Really... we should patent "patenging: a way to prohibit everyone including me from requesting a patent for anything" and it would be the end of these unsane stupid story.
It's incredible, but i realized noneone even mentioned a thing about the extra 87 BILLIONS about Iraq Supplemental Spending.
...
I know the Real ID license reform is a big issue, but
Are you so used to this crazy spendings by your goverment ? Or don't you care anymore ?
Don't you have the feeling that voting as it is today is not usefull anymore?
If so, how is possible that someone like Bush got re-elected.....
I think that the voting system as it is today isn't just usefull anymore, at the end the results are ALLWAYS the wrong choice (Bush in USA, Menem or Kirchner in my country (Argentina)).
Our countries have too many ignorant (or stupid) inhabitants to keep this voting system going.
I don't know how but it should be reformed, because in the end democracy is hurting itself trought the ignorance of the ones who vote, the ones who supposedly enjoy it just keep ruinning it in a vicius cicle, and each one a worst one.
That characteristic of quantum mechanincs was something i never understood...
Doesn't it matter the distance between the coupled photons?
This only works with a couple (2 photons) or can be done with n photons ?
As I was reading the article I was amazed to read that this happened 2.2 billion light-years away == 2.2 billion years ago.
So I was thinking, that suppouse that we could find a way to travel faster than light and maybe teletransport us anywhere in a reasonable ammount of time.....
How are we going to know where we should go if what we are able to see are things that are not there anymore ?
(I mean not in the place we see them, and maybe they doesn't exist anymore)
We could try to calculate the new coordinates of things, or simulate how things would be arround there now, but that is and will be far away from being usefull.
(try simulating the whole galaxy 2 billions of years in the future)
Errors in calculations due to inexactitude would mean inmense distances beacuse of the magnitude of the travel distances we are talking about.
So the places that we decide to go would always be wrong, and it would be very dangerous because it would be easy to appear in the wrong place (inside a planet, too close to a black hole, etc.) or it would be really easy to hit something at that speeds since there would be no alert, no radars, beacuse of travelling faster than light.
Are we doomed to travel at sub-light-speeds and never be able to reach that very very far places in considerable time?
(I know Einstein says so)
I guess that following the way you think, if you want to Send an SMS message, you will go and buy a good Pager or whatever was the name of those things.
Your argument is pointless, it's just a matter of time because this things will continue to converge and became smaller, cheaper and better with time.
40MB per hour? I think you mean 400MB per hour...... unless the bitrate is really really low.
Maybe an MP3 of one hour would fit in 40MB at 128kb but not video.
Correct me if i'm wrong please.
By allowing only chinese written domains through the firewall maybe?
Does someone knows why the rovers usually take grey scale photos ? Why don't they take them all in color ? To save bandwith ?
Anyone knows ?
So if they want to prohibit everything that can reproduce sound or video they have to prohibit every aviable storage medium, from ZIP 100MB disks to Compact Flash memory, and even HARD DISKs...
IMHO i think this whole thing is too stupid, there will allways be a way to save analog or binary data. They wont go home by home checking for storage mediums and like allways happened, we will find a new way to record and copy music and videos.
I cant believe the music and movie industry hasnt figured this out yet, but it just a matter of time they understand they wont ever finish piracy by prohibiting or sueing.
Some day..... i hope..... in a near future..... they will realize they wont go anywhere acting like this, and understand that they have to compete with piracy as companies do with each other, the one that ends earning money is the one that gives you a better product or service.
" So use your damned opera, just dont come crying to me when microsoft takes over the web with xaml and you have nowhere else to run but windows baby. "
.......... ?
How do you dare to post such stupidity ?
Well, if you read the post under yours, you would clearly see you are not the only one.
I really don't like the idea of a handheld with 2 screens, i mean i thinks it's ugly, unpractical, and wouldn't a second screen distract your vision from the first one? Why do they need 2 screens instead of a bigger one like the PSP ?
I think, that Sony as (almost everytime) design it's far far better than this 2 screen mounstrosity.
Yep, i can't wait the moment too, that humans really decide to start terraforming, or at least colonizating mars. I hope it's before actual predictions. I mean, what do we have to loose? For ex. when America was discovered, lot of bad things happened after that, but much more good things happened too. I see it as a new chance for humanity to discover new places, advance as race and just think in the boom that this would cause to global economy, new work places, new industries, new careers, etc, lot of new things... it will be a new era. I know is not as easy as I say here, and that maybe the money should be used to solve global hunger.
;)
But i think we can do both, we just need to make the Tobin Tax real (0,1% tax to all international transactions would be inverted to help 3rth world countries) and a USA, Japanese, Chinese, Russian or whatever other country president like Kennedy (i think it was him how was when we got the moon) that with a strong hand decides to invert on starting Mars colonization, and i don't care if USA or other string country takes the first place in this, bcuz after all i'm sure my country won't ever do it (Argentina) we are still trying to estabilize our economy and pay our international debt.
So to conclude... LET'S DO IT, MARS IS WAITING.
hehe sounds so easy.
My $0,02 to it.
Amen brother :)
At least i wasn't the only one thinking that way.
Boo Hoo i have some things to tell you...
a) You are the one that loose a lot by using that windoze shit that you like sooo much. (that without mentioning that you loose access to it sources)
b) V2 OS Incompativility is not the same as FreeBSD incompatibility
c) That netscape sucks it's not a reason to leave great OSs like *BSD or *nix...
d) *** OS's that only a few people in the whole world use *** that few people doesn't seem soo few to me.
e) *** every weird OS out there *** Weird are your stupid reasons, not the OSs.
f) *** how many people want to run OpenBSD or Linux on their laptops? *** Obiously people not as Troll as you.
g) this REALLY MATTERS...
Damn Troll