Everyone knows that microwave energy is a waste of money. You're better off waiting for fusion energy anyways. There's no chance that the microwave will miss and start a fire either. And one or two of the things can power an entire city for 50 years with no pollution or anything.
Here they don't care what you do. They have a policy in place so they "can" get you, but they really don't care. If you start using ridiculous amounts of bandwith, they will cut you off. But you have to be like, hosting an anonymous ftp that gets slashdotted for that to happen. Also if you are sending spam they cut you off. They don't care about your computer, just their network. And if you muck around they cut you off at the switch level. Its as simple as that.
I think this would be a great idea. Make a set of rules that is fair for everyboydy. Then have a policing organization that checks to see if anyone is breaking the rules and cuts them off from the net. Sending spam? cut off. Site spreading viruses? cut off.
I see two problems. The first problem is that when the organization is created they will almost immediately cut off more than half of the net. Even though you and me might be left connected, the internet is pretty useless when you shrink its size dramatically. The people who are cut off probably wont bother to fix either, they'll just complain and complain expecting others to change instead of themselves.
The second problem is that there is no body to trust to run this sort of thing. Whoever is in charge will act in their own best interest. They will shut down web sites they don't agree with. They will allow spammers through who pay them off.
I like the net the way it is. Self policing. Look at slashdot as the example. Trolls want to take advantage of the system, so we have mod points. There is no law or police. The users work together to police each other and keep things running smoothly. Just like driving on a real highway, if you are careful you can avoid accidents no matter how bad the other drivers are. You just have to watch out when someone tries to crash into you on purpose. And even then you can still avoid them if you have a good car and good skills. Let those who do crash crash and let them clean up their own mess.
+10. That is the #1 problem in this country. Parents are not bringing up their children. They let public school and television do all the work. Instead of doing it themselves they just complain when pop culture and schools do a poor job.
Home schooling is no better either. What you get there are socially inept children who are coddled and shielded from the real world.
With college retention rates in the terrible state they are, it is obvious. Kids in the US are not being raised in a fashion which allows them to get by in the real world.
I think the #1 factor in this is that many families have both parents working, so nobody is home to raise the children. I'm no anti-woman type. It doesn't matter if the mom or the dad stays home, but it has to be one of the two. The other problem is of course, divorce. Divorce is happening because people who were raised poorly are getting married.
So, what prevents one parent from staying home? Money, duh. They need more money. The income of one person cannot support the family of 4 unless you have a really good job. The problem though, is not inflation or unemployment or anything, although those factors contribute. The problem is consumerism. People buy things for the sake of buying things. They buy things they don't need. *cough* SUVs *cough*. In general people are trying to live at a higher standard of living than they can afford.
Why don't they stop doing that and be more frugal/intelligent and raise their children properly? Corporations. Advertising. Consumerism. Big corporations are the root of all the trouble. This CD episode is simply a direct example of the larger problem. You can see it plain as day. Corporations trying to turn children into consumers. Consumers who will live above their means. Consumers who will allow their children to be raised the same way.
Google is the shining example of real Adam Smith capitalism at work. These megacorps need to change or leave in order to save our society.
Do you agree, or do you think I'm taking it too far? I actually think I may have... oh well. I'll submit anyway, no point in putting all that typing to waste.
It is my understanding that in South Korea they have tons and tons more MMOs than we do. And while many of them are the same glorified chat rooms that we (don't) enjoy some of them are quite amazing. They have forced roleplaying. They have lists of characters predefined in a great story and you apply to take the roles of one you really like. People actually role play. This role playing cancels out the negatives of the treadmill style gameplay. Camping the fields for items != game. Heck, its as close as you can get to playing D+D without getting a bunch of bums in your friend's basement.
Keep in mind, this is just what I've heard about SK MMOs, I haven't actually seen a game like this. However, if it is untrue, it SHOULD exist. Set up an MMO world that plays like D+D. Heck, it could even be the freakin' forgotten realms. Then when people sign up either put them in parties or have them sign up in parties. Find a time each week they can play. For continuities sake make it so they have to start and stop at an inn. Hire dungeon masters to handle all the gameplay. It will be just like real D+D. You can make it episodic. And you will constantly come across people in other parties and your plots can intermingle. The mere presence of a DM assigned to your party will force role playing and remove treadmilling. Sure, you have to pay the DMs, but you can just charge more for the game since it is so high quality. And you can charge a per-campaign basis. You could even set a pricing model based on how often you want to play. If you want the DM there every night, more money. Once a week, average money.
Just take the idea and run with it. I've got to go to work:)
While I mostly agree that watching people play video games is generally not fun, there are exceptions.
For example, I can't stand playing Final Fantasy games anymore. But watching someone else play is great. I get all the plot without putting in any of the effort.
Also, watching fighting games can be awesome. Lots of ooohs and aaahs when people pull off crazy stuff or weird things happen.
Lastly its always fun to watch stuff like Mario Party because it's crazy go nuts.
Also, Dance Dance Revolution is the major exception. It was designed for spectators and players combined.
Watch out for embedded guys. Lots of embedded devices have backdoors that the developers can just walk right through. For example take any embedded linux device. The developer who made it most likely set a default root password that is the same on every one of those devices. If he gets ahold of yours and he's not a good guy your fscked.
Hmmmm, maybe I should get a job at a company that makes security systems... It would be cool when I get kidnapped by burglars to take part in their movie plot-like crime.
The one problem I see is this. You get virussed and your pc starts spamming. You get cut off. Good, that's what you deserve. Your ISP will reconnect you , but if you send spam again you get cut off again. How can you clean out your pc without downloading some cleaning software from the net?
This pretty much forces users to take one of 4 paths 1) reinstall 2) buy software at the store 3) switch to linux (same as 1 really) 4) find another net connected computer
4 is easy for people like/.ers, but almost impossible for average folk, like my parents. 2 really shouldn't be encouraged, ever. 1 and 3 are daunting tasks for the average person also. So what your really doing by cutting them off is permanently cutting them off.
I think what has to be done is this. Don't cut them off entirely. Just force them to a page hosted by your ISP that helps them fix their problem. Provide some cleaning software. Maybe some harsh informative words. You know, that sort of thing. Until they fix up just route all the mail they spew out to/dev/null.
Large size dimishes gameplay possibilities. Sure, the XboX is not a portable system, you aren't supposed to play it while you are walking around. But you are going to transport it. Bring it over to your friends house who has a bigger TV. In order to play that halo thing you people like so much I'm pretty sure you need to get more than one of these things in the same place at the same time. The gamecube definitely excels in this area because it is a party system. four players, lan gaming, it has a handle. The cube was made so that you and all your friends can get together and play 16 player mario kart. If you don't have friends adn you sit all alone playing single player games in your house, then yes, who cares about size of the console. But if you need to lay down the blue sparks...
I somewhat agree with the judge. On one hand, installing software on your computer without informing the user is worm/virus material and is ALREADY illegal. But stupid users installing Kazaa deserve what they get. Lets increase the selection pressure on technological darwinism. So instead of making a new law for spyware lets just persecute these assholes under existing virus law.
I used to be able to play games like Final Fantasy 6. And I still think that FF6 is the best one of them all. I love the plot and the music and everything. But I just can't go back and play it anymore. The game has no intellectual stimulation for me. It's just a leveling treadmill. Push buttons to continue the plot. Imagine if you went to see LOTR and they made you figure out a correct button sequence to make the movie continue playing?
I'm tired of fancy graphics. I'm tired of treadmills. Nowadays I live only for the kind of action that a zelda game or a quality fps can provide. Either skill based gameplay where the best gamer wins. Or lots and lots of riddles and puzzles to solve, by thinking.
oh yeah, tell me about it. I barely post my e-mail anywhere dangerous or open and I get relatively few spam. Until recently I got 0 spam, but now I get 1 every other day or so. Thunderbird cleans those out. Everytime I tell people to be more careful with their address they tell me they can't do that. Oh well, your loss.
I'm still torn as to whether or not to pay for winex. I tried using the free/cvs version and it kind of worked. Of course, I didn't actually get any games to work correctly, not even simple ones, so it didn't work at all. First off, if I pay for winex and I get version 4.0 can I just never pay again and keep using 4 forever? I mean, as long as there aren't any games that come out for windows that I want (very very few lately) it shouldn't be a problem right? Also, is there a computer limit on winex? If I pay for version 4 once can I install it on 3 linux boxes without paying 3 times?
All I really want to do is to play Steam and all of the mods and stuff that go along with it, in linux. If I can do it for a really low one time fee and never pay again, then I think this is a good deal.
I don't know about everyone else, but I have two programs, xmms and mplayer. mplayer has never failed to play, absolutely perfectly, any video file I ever throw at it. Which is more than I can say for any windows video player. Likewise xmms does not fail to play any audio file I ever throw at it. If yours doesn't, maybe you didn't choose the right options at compile-time or maybe you are using a binary distro that didn't add those things in for you. Either compile them yourself from source or use a source based distro like gentoo or lunar linux. However I do have a friend who runs debian and his mplayer/xmms is as good as mine. Maybe you just don't have the codecs installed or something?
Sure, you can't talk to people who only have POTS.
Sure, its designed to be used with online games.
But really, its just IRC with voice. I talk to people in Australia with it all the time, for free. You can turn the bitrate down and even talk to people with dial-up. I usually just use gaim to tell someone "hey, join the teamspeak server, let's talk".
Also, this way I don't have to remember phone numbers.
Get all of the service packs, hotfixes and critical updates and put them on a CD. Install windows with no net connection. Install all the hotfixes and updates. Install a firewall program like sygate or zonealarm. Better yet, be behind some network level security like a real firewall or a proxy or something. THEN connect the net connection.
All of those norton/symantec anti-virus programs are bullshit. Up until last week I was a dual-booter. I ran completely standard windows XP but I had every windows update in existence. I didn't use Outlook or IE. Actually I used IE for one purpose, Windows Update. I set the windows update to notify me when there were changes, but not install them automatically. My computer is at a college. A LAN with hundreds and hundreds of machines directly connected by ethernet. Possibly the most dangerous place it can possibly be. I only got a virus once when I installed with the net connection on and tried to race the clock to windows update.
There's a reason that I stopped using windows altogether last week:)
There is a very very good one shot anime called "Voices from a Distant Star" aka "Hoshi no Koe". The entire plot of this one episode OAV is the slowness of interstellar communication.
In addition to that, this anime is grade A production quality, and the entire thing was made by a single person in his house with his computer and other animation supplies. One guy. The original voice actors were him and his wife. It's available on DVD in the US, I highly reccomend it.
Oh yeah, as for terraforming. I ask myself one question whenever ethics are involved. Who will get hurt? For example, it is not ethical to do shoddy work if you are a contractor. Why? because you are potentially hurting people. What if that roof caves in? no good. Depending on how and why we terraform mars it may or may not be ethical. If you can do it without harming anybody who isn't consciously making a sacrifice, then it is all good. As for changing people, you are almost certain to hurt someone doing that, so its probably less ethical.
Star Trek fucking sucks ass. I still, to this day, cannot understand why other geeks think it is so awesome. If you like Star Trek, you'll love all the soap operas on weekday afternoons. They are the same damn show. Ok, sure they aren't wearing alien costumes and uniforms, but changing the setting to outer space does not a sci-fi show make.
This law is probably going to read something like this...
If you make spyware you pay fines or get sued or go to jail or something. Obvious loophole included.
My law would look like this: If you get spyware on your computer, you are no longer allowed to use a computer.
The logic is that you need a license to drive because driving poses a risk to others. Well, I think the rest of this paragraph is implied so I wont bother typing it. Catch my drift?
That is one huge freakin' fraud. Even if those wireless cards were super expensive and fancy, lets say $200 to be insanse. 74000 * 200 is only $14.8 million. They claimed $24 million! Nobody noticed this? The fact they haven't left the loading dock is more insane.
By your logic Barichello should win... but he doesn't. In fact he is 20 points behind Schumi. He's only 10 points ahead of Button. Barichello and MS both drive ferrari, if it was all car they would have about the same number of points. But Schumacher always wins because he is that much better. No matter who you put in Barichello's car they will lose. That is how you know he is so good. If you think not, then why don't you go and race him and we'll see who is faster?
I am a big fan of xterm. But I also use aterm for some of its added features like transparency and such. The only thing my terminals are missing is tabs. I often quickly fill my screen real estate with too many terms. I tried to emerge multi-aterm but this project is at version.1 and doesn't even support things like the home and end keys. I know about screen, but that is not quite what I'm after. I would like to have my terminals to have tabs the way the ion window manager has tabs. That would be super cool. I don't want to actually use ion though, I'm an xfce4 man right now with no plans to change especially with the new stuff coming soon.
You manage everything from way up high with a map of the earth down to exactly how many bullets a soldier carries and how many steps they take. Does it get more detailed than that?
The Ferrari 360 costs a minimun of $160,000. Now imagine that there are thousands of collectors who want the Enzo Ferrari. That's where the money comes from. Winning F1 means your car is the best car in the world. But the technology from the fastest car in the world into a car that you can buy, and rich people will be all over it in a second. And F1 is rediculously popular everywhere except for the US. But US popularity is increasing while decreasing elsewhere because of Schumacher.
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Everyone knows that microwave energy is a waste of money. You're better off waiting for fusion energy anyways. There's no chance that the microwave will miss and start a fire either. And one or two of the things can power an entire city for 50 years with no pollution or anything.
Here they don't care what you do. They have a policy in place so they "can" get you, but they really don't care. If you start using ridiculous amounts of bandwith, they will cut you off. But you have to be like, hosting an anonymous ftp that gets slashdotted for that to happen. Also if you are sending spam they cut you off. They don't care about your computer, just their network. And if you muck around they cut you off at the switch level. Its as simple as that.
I think this would be a great idea. Make a set of rules that is fair for everyboydy. Then have a policing organization that checks to see if anyone is breaking the rules and cuts them off from the net. Sending spam? cut off. Site spreading viruses? cut off.
I see two problems. The first problem is that when the organization is created they will almost immediately cut off more than half of the net. Even though you and me might be left connected, the internet is pretty useless when you shrink its size dramatically. The people who are cut off probably wont bother to fix either, they'll just complain and complain expecting others to change instead of themselves.
The second problem is that there is no body to trust to run this sort of thing. Whoever is in charge will act in their own best interest. They will shut down web sites they don't agree with. They will allow spammers through who pay them off.
I like the net the way it is. Self policing. Look at slashdot as the example. Trolls want to take advantage of the system, so we have mod points. There is no law or police. The users work together to police each other and keep things running smoothly. Just like driving on a real highway, if you are careful you can avoid accidents no matter how bad the other drivers are. You just have to watch out when someone tries to crash into you on purpose. And even then you can still avoid them if you have a good car and good skills. Let those who do crash crash and let them clean up their own mess.
+10. That is the #1 problem in this country. Parents are not bringing up their children. They let public school and television do all the work. Instead of doing it themselves they just complain when pop culture and schools do a poor job.
Home schooling is no better either. What you get there are socially inept children who are coddled and shielded from the real world.
With college retention rates in the terrible state they are, it is obvious. Kids in the US are not being raised in a fashion which allows them to get by in the real world.
I think the #1 factor in this is that many families have both parents working, so nobody is home to raise the children. I'm no anti-woman type. It doesn't matter if the mom or the dad stays home, but it has to be one of the two. The other problem is of course, divorce. Divorce is happening because people who were raised poorly are getting married.
So, what prevents one parent from staying home? Money, duh. They need more money. The income of one person cannot support the family of 4 unless you have a really good job. The problem though, is not inflation or unemployment or anything, although those factors contribute. The problem is consumerism. People buy things for the sake of buying things. They buy things they don't need. *cough* SUVs *cough*. In general people are trying to live at a higher standard of living than they can afford.
Why don't they stop doing that and be more frugal/intelligent and raise their children properly? Corporations. Advertising. Consumerism. Big corporations are the root of all the trouble. This CD episode is simply a direct example of the larger problem. You can see it plain as day. Corporations trying to turn children into consumers. Consumers who will live above their means. Consumers who will allow their children to be raised the same way.
Google is the shining example of real Adam Smith capitalism at work. These megacorps need to change or leave in order to save our society.
Do you agree, or do you think I'm taking it too far? I actually think I may have... oh well. I'll submit anyway, no point in putting all that typing to waste.
It is my understanding that in South Korea they have tons and tons more MMOs than we do. And while many of them are the same glorified chat rooms that we (don't) enjoy some of them are quite amazing. They have forced roleplaying. They have lists of characters predefined in a great story and you apply to take the roles of one you really like. People actually role play. This role playing cancels out the negatives of the treadmill style gameplay. Camping the fields for items != game. Heck, its as close as you can get to playing D+D without getting a bunch of bums in your friend's basement.
:)
Keep in mind, this is just what I've heard about SK MMOs, I haven't actually seen a game like this. However, if it is untrue, it SHOULD exist. Set up an MMO world that plays like D+D. Heck, it could even be the freakin' forgotten realms. Then when people sign up either put them in parties or have them sign up in parties. Find a time each week they can play. For continuities sake make it so they have to start and stop at an inn. Hire dungeon masters to handle all the gameplay. It will be just like real D+D. You can make it episodic. And you will constantly come across people in other parties and your plots can intermingle. The mere presence of a DM assigned to your party will force role playing and remove treadmilling. Sure, you have to pay the DMs, but you can just charge more for the game since it is so high quality. And you can charge a per-campaign basis. You could even set a pricing model based on how often you want to play. If you want the DM there every night, more money. Once a week, average money.
Just take the idea and run with it. I've got to go to work
While I mostly agree that watching people play video games is generally not fun, there are exceptions.
For example, I can't stand playing Final Fantasy games anymore. But watching someone else play is great. I get all the plot without putting in any of the effort.
Also, watching fighting games can be awesome. Lots of ooohs and aaahs when people pull off crazy stuff or weird things happen.
Lastly its always fun to watch stuff like Mario Party because it's crazy go nuts.
Also, Dance Dance Revolution is the major exception. It was designed for spectators and players combined.
WAAAAY ahead of you. I've been in since the beta, look for me, same names as on slashdot. And everywhere else on the net for that matter.
Watch out for embedded guys. Lots of embedded devices have backdoors that the developers can just walk right through. For example take any embedded linux device. The developer who made it most likely set a default root password that is the same on every one of those devices. If he gets ahold of yours and he's not a good guy your fscked.
Hmmmm, maybe I should get a job at a company that makes security systems... It would be cool when I get kidnapped by burglars to take part in their movie plot-like crime.
The one problem I see is this. You get virussed and your pc starts spamming. You get cut off. Good, that's what you deserve. Your ISP will reconnect you , but if you send spam again you get cut off again. How can you clean out your pc without downloading some cleaning software from the net?
/.ers, but almost impossible for average folk, like my parents. 2 really shouldn't be encouraged, ever. 1 and 3 are daunting tasks for the average person also. So what your really doing by cutting them off is permanently cutting them off.
/dev/null.
This pretty much forces users to take one of 4 paths
1) reinstall
2) buy software at the store
3) switch to linux (same as 1 really)
4) find another net connected computer
4 is easy for people like
I think what has to be done is this. Don't cut them off entirely. Just force them to a page hosted by your ISP that helps them fix their problem. Provide some cleaning software. Maybe some harsh informative words. You know, that sort of thing. Until they fix up just route all the mail they spew out to
Large size dimishes gameplay possibilities. Sure, the XboX is not a portable system, you aren't supposed to play it while you are walking around. But you are going to transport it. Bring it over to your friends house who has a bigger TV. In order to play that halo thing you people like so much I'm pretty sure you need to get more than one of these things in the same place at the same time. The gamecube definitely excels in this area because it is a party system. four players, lan gaming, it has a handle. The cube was made so that you and all your friends can get together and play 16 player mario kart. If you don't have friends adn you sit all alone playing single player games in your house, then yes, who cares about size of the console. But if you need to lay down the blue sparks...
I somewhat agree with the judge. On one hand, installing software on your computer without informing the user is worm/virus material and is ALREADY illegal. But stupid users installing Kazaa deserve what they get. Lets increase the selection pressure on technological darwinism. So instead of making a new law for spyware lets just persecute these assholes under existing virus law.
I used to be able to play games like Final Fantasy 6. And I still think that FF6 is the best one of them all. I love the plot and the music and everything. But I just can't go back and play it anymore. The game has no intellectual stimulation for me. It's just a leveling treadmill. Push buttons to continue the plot. Imagine if you went to see LOTR and they made you figure out a correct button sequence to make the movie continue playing?
/journal.
I'm tired of fancy graphics. I'm tired of treadmills. Nowadays I live only for the kind of action that a zelda game or a quality fps can provide. Either skill based gameplay where the best gamer wins. Or lots and lots of riddles and puzzles to solve, by thinking.
I wrote about this awhile ago in my
oh yeah, tell me about it. I barely post my e-mail anywhere dangerous or open and I get relatively few spam. Until recently I got 0 spam, but now I get 1 every other day or so. Thunderbird cleans those out. Everytime I tell people to be more careful with their address they tell me they can't do that. Oh well, your loss.
I'm still torn as to whether or not to pay for winex. I tried using the free/cvs version and it kind of worked. Of course, I didn't actually get any games to work correctly, not even simple ones, so it didn't work at all. First off, if I pay for winex and I get version 4.0 can I just never pay again and keep using 4 forever? I mean, as long as there aren't any games that come out for windows that I want (very very few lately) it shouldn't be a problem right? Also, is there a computer limit on winex? If I pay for version 4 once can I install it on 3 linux boxes without paying 3 times?
All I really want to do is to play Steam and all of the mods and stuff that go along with it, in linux. If I can do it for a really low one time fee and never pay again, then I think this is a good deal.
I don't know about everyone else, but I have two programs, xmms and mplayer. mplayer has never failed to play, absolutely perfectly, any video file I ever throw at it. Which is more than I can say for any windows video player. Likewise xmms does not fail to play any audio file I ever throw at it. If yours doesn't, maybe you didn't choose the right options at compile-time or maybe you are using a binary distro that didn't add those things in for you. Either compile them yourself from source or use a source based distro like gentoo or lunar linux. However I do have a friend who runs debian and his mplayer/xmms is as good as mine. Maybe you just don't have the codecs installed or something?
Sure, you can't talk to people who only have POTS.
Sure, its designed to be used with online games.
But really, its just IRC with voice. I talk to people in Australia with it all the time, for free. You can turn the bitrate down and even talk to people with dial-up. I usually just use gaim to tell someone "hey, join the teamspeak server, let's talk".
Also, this way I don't have to remember phone numbers.
Get all of the service packs, hotfixes and critical updates and put them on a CD. Install windows with no net connection. Install all the hotfixes and updates. Install a firewall program like sygate or zonealarm. Better yet, be behind some network level security like a real firewall or a proxy or something. THEN connect the net connection.
:)
All of those norton/symantec anti-virus programs are bullshit. Up until last week I was a dual-booter. I ran completely standard windows XP but I had every windows update in existence. I didn't use Outlook or IE. Actually I used IE for one purpose, Windows Update. I set the windows update to notify me when there were changes, but not install them automatically. My computer is at a college. A LAN with hundreds and hundreds of machines directly connected by ethernet. Possibly the most dangerous place it can possibly be. I only got a virus once when I installed with the net connection on and tried to race the clock to windows update.
There's a reason that I stopped using windows altogether last week
There is a very very good one shot anime called "Voices from a Distant Star" aka "Hoshi no Koe". The entire plot of this one episode OAV is the slowness of interstellar communication.
In addition to that, this anime is grade A production quality, and the entire thing was made by a single person in his house with his computer and other animation supplies. One guy. The original voice actors were him and his wife. It's available on DVD in the US, I highly reccomend it.
Oh yeah, as for terraforming. I ask myself one question whenever ethics are involved. Who will get hurt? For example, it is not ethical to do shoddy work if you are a contractor. Why? because you are potentially hurting people. What if that roof caves in? no good. Depending on how and why we terraform mars it may or may not be ethical. If you can do it without harming anybody who isn't consciously making a sacrifice, then it is all good. As for changing people, you are almost certain to hurt someone doing that, so its probably less ethical.
Star Trek fucking sucks ass. I still, to this day, cannot understand why other geeks think it is so awesome. If you like Star Trek, you'll love all the soap operas on weekday afternoons. They are the same damn show. Ok, sure they aren't wearing alien costumes and uniforms, but changing the setting to outer space does not a sci-fi show make.
This law is probably going to read something like this...
If you make spyware you pay fines or get sued or go to jail or something. Obvious loophole included.
My law would look like this:
If you get spyware on your computer, you are no longer allowed to use a computer.
The logic is that you need a license to drive because driving poses a risk to others. Well, I think the rest of this paragraph is implied so I wont bother typing it. Catch my drift?
That is one huge freakin' fraud. Even if those wireless cards were super expensive and fancy, lets say $200 to be insanse. 74000 * 200 is only $14.8 million. They claimed $24 million! Nobody noticed this? The fact they haven't left the loading dock is more insane.
By your logic Barichello should win... but he doesn't. In fact he is 20 points behind Schumi. He's only 10 points ahead of Button. Barichello and MS both drive ferrari, if it was all car they would have about the same number of points. But Schumacher always wins because he is that much better. No matter who you put in Barichello's car they will lose. That is how you know he is so good. If you think not, then why don't you go and race him and we'll see who is faster?
I am a big fan of xterm. But I also use aterm for some of its added features like transparency and such. The only thing my terminals are missing is tabs. I often quickly fill my screen real estate with too many terms. I tried to emerge multi-aterm but this project is at version .1 and doesn't even support things like the home and end keys. I know about screen, but that is not quite what I'm after. I would like to have my terminals to have tabs the way the ion window manager has tabs. That would be super cool. I don't want to actually use ion though, I'm an xfce4 man right now with no plans to change especially with the new stuff coming soon.
You manage everything from way up high with a map of the earth down to exactly how many bullets a soldier carries and how many steps they take. Does it get more detailed than that?
The Ferrari 360 costs a minimun of $160,000. Now imagine that there are thousands of collectors who want the Enzo Ferrari. That's where the money comes from. Winning F1 means your car is the best car in the world. But the technology from the fastest car in the world into a car that you can buy, and rich people will be all over it in a second. And F1 is rediculously popular everywhere except for the US. But US popularity is increasing while decreasing elsewhere because of Schumacher.