This again?!! C'mon, Obama got the peace prize because he gave people of the U.S. and the entire world "hope" for the future. And he's done a damn good job, so far (IMO and of many others.) From wikianswers
According to Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland, "He got the prize because he has been able to change the international climate... Some people say, and I understand it, isn't it premature? Too early? Well, I'd say then that it could be too late to respond three years from now. It is now that we have the opportunity to respond - all of us."
Jagland highlighted that the Committee was especially influenced by a speech Obama gave to reach out to the Muslim world in Cairo in June 2009, as well as the president's efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation and climate change, and Obama's support for using established international bodies such as the United Nations to pursue foreign policy goals.
Some believe that Barack Obama has not done anything to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Here are some opinions from Answers.com contributors who believe that Obama should not have won the Prize:
There has been no intervention on a huge scale by Obama. He has not curtailed any aggressive actions by any foreign state, or even his own. In fact he has increased military actions against the Taliban in Afghanistan. He has not been long on the international circuit and has no international reputation as a peacemaker.
In the past, winners have spent many years of dedicated service to achieve the honour, or have used high office for the furtherance of peace. President Obama has done neither of these.
Obama himself has stated that he does not feel he deserved the award, and that it must be spiritually shared by all the other nominees, but also not "as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations," and "as a call to action --- a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century." He plans to donate the full US$1.4 million monetary award to charity.
Jagland shrugged off the question of whether "the committee feared being labeled naive for accepting a young politician's promises at face value", stating that "no one could deny that 'the international climate' had suddenly improved, and that Mr. Obama was the main reason... 'We want to embrace the message that he stands for.'"
The Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang has later reported that Inger-Marie Ytterhorn, who represented the right-wing populist Progress Party on the committee, led the way in objecting to the choice of Obama because she questioned his ability to keep his promises. It also said the representative of the Conservative Party, Kaci Kullmann Five, and Aagot Valle, the representative of the Socialist Left, had objections. The choice for Obama was however strongly supported by committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland and Sissel Roenbeck, both representatives of the Labour Party.
In his will, Alfred Nobel left little to guide those who award the prize. Besides directing that it be awarded by a committee appointed by the Norwegian parliament (though Nobel was a Swede), Nobel said only that it should be given to the person who "...shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
By October 2009, when the prize was awarded to him after less than nine months in office, few would argue that President Obama had qualified for the Nobel Peace Prize -- or any other -- even under such nebulous terms. Indeed, the announcement was something of a surprise in most circles, including the president's own. Obama himself is quoted as saying, "I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments." It should
Answering my own question here. Opera syncs between devices (Settings / Opera Link).
Downloaded Firefox on the tablet last night and it works well, looks like a tossup between the two browsers right now. I'll wait and see what happens when Opera releases their new version in a month or so.
I'm a 'casual' user. I use an ICS 4.0.3 rooted tablet, and never could get Chrome working, just read here that it only works for higher OS's, that explains why Chrome is unusable for me. I'm using Dolphin on my 2.2 smartphone, and Opera on the tablet with no problems except... How can you easily back up the bookmarks on Opera??? (Dolphin does backups with no hassle)
There's no easy method that I can see, if anyone here knows a way I'd appreciate learning how. A couple of weeks ago I googled for it, and found a convoluted way of doing it using ''ES File Explorer''. Guess I'll be trying out Firefox (and have 4 different browsers on this tablet).
cd burners were also readily available at the time.
Yes, though they had them, the average home computer owner did'nt have them as standard like they are today in computers. Too expensive then. And forget dvd r/w disk drives with 5gb disks. (I'm talking'late 90's) And no small backup hd drives either. I hate to sound like a GOMLawn neckbeard here, but you kids with your low cost external 3tb harddrives just don't know how good you got it today!:-)
Interesting. Not the crab racing part, the bit about 7of9's Jeri Ryan divorcing her husband Jack because he wanted to see her having sex with other guys in clubs. What. A. Fool. !!!
Yeah, that happened 15 years ago, mp3s had only been out a short time then. Napster was like the old wild west, dangerous, ilegal, threats of jail if caught... Good times.
Yeah, I could imagine that the Napster client was quite swiss cheese what it comes to security.
Yep, turns out Napster was full of exploitable holes, only 'real' computer nerds knew those tricks then. That guy could've done worse, if he'd wanted to, formatted the drive or something. I got my computer "spanked" instead. A post above reminds me that is was a kind of half-assed music collection I had, lots of half songs from being knocked offline. I swear, kids today don't know how rough we had it back in the nineties!
I wonder whether it taught you a lesson about backups...
I had an iomega drive with a few 100mb disks, had already given it to a friend's wife for her business (she still has it). That's about the best there was then. I think it was 900 songs I lost then, no way to easily backup 2gigs then. You lose in life sometimes, but there's a happy ending. Now I have over 10,000 mp3s (mostly ripped from my local library's CD collection), backed up to a couple of 64gb flashdrives and 32gb micro sdcards. I've learned the 3 B's of computing by now. Backup, backup, backup!:-)
Back then I was talking about it with a guy who knew computing well. He looks at me gravely and says, "That's a bad site.". That's all he said about it. About a month later I terminated someone trying to upload a rare Beatles song I had, at 33kps he was killing my bandwidth / download, whch I explained to him. He got even by remotely altering my Win98 settings that made the screen resolution unusable. I spent weeks trying to figure out and undo what he did. I finally had to run the restore disks, wiping the 8gb hard drive and lost all those songs.:-( Taught me a lesson about Napster, and not to use it again.
I was impressed by the force of impact that that protective wall absorbed. 10 years ago the carnage from an event like this crash would have been huge. That no one was killed (afaik) says a lot about the safety measures that have been implemented. Just need to make that fence a little bit higher maybe?
Toddler proof is damned good to know, even if I'll never use that info. Thank you.
They aren't totally toddler-proof. If bashed against a hard enough surface the screen glass will shatter into really sharp shards flying everywhere. These aren't made of safety glass like a car's windows are. For that reason alone you might want to apply a tough clear screen protector on it. Best Buy sells good ones for $20, cheaper on Amazon.
Wow Dutchwhizzman, that's one hell of an informative reply there! I'll be saving it for when I do upgrade, thanks. One day, down the road, I'll do it up right.
For now, it serves my needs, with the $40 RadioShack infra-red wireless headphones (Gawd, I am cheap!) hooked in for night use (so others in my house can sleep). What you detailed is the right way to do it up, one day....:^)
If you aren't a 'music purist', you don't need much nowadays to have a very good sound system. Several years ago I bought a Curtis brand 5.1. dvd system (300 watts) for $60 new. I'm listening to my music on it rigt now, and it sounds great. I could really piss off my neighbors if I cranked it up and pulled out the sock I plug the bass port! All I did was run a wire adaptor (1/8" to two rca jacks) from rhe device playing the Mp3s to the dvd's amp, routing it through an A/B multi-switch from Radio Shack. The 5 little cube speakers sound clearer and better than those huge expensive speakers from 20 years ago, thanks to the powerful tiny magnets that are made so cheaply today.This setup is not anything fancy, but it doesn't need to be, it just has to work and sound good.
The guy with this cheap-o tablet can use the stock player for music outputting and lite internet browsing. It's not even worth going to the trouble of rooting and installing any software to. Leave the electric plugged into it 24/7, and enjoy it as a capable mp3 player.
You can put a bow on a pig, but it'll still be a pig.
Thank you, I now feel much better having paid 11 dollars more for a 1ghz Arnova/Archos 1ghz A10 chip tablet, ICS 4.0, HDMI out tablet that gets maybe 5/6 hours of battery. (If it lasts at least a year it will have been worth it.)
Seriously, your tab's way underpowered for what you want to do. It doesn't get market/playstore, that's a security problem right there since you're forced to get apps not from outside the android playstore. No HDMI/USB port.
Leave it plugged into electric, fill up a 32 gb sdcard with Mp3s and use it as a hard wired mp3 player plugged into your stereo/amplifier. Copy any video files to the card. Then just go and buy a more capable tablet/laptop. Accept that this tablet's best suited for cruising the internet with, and a music player.
I see my mistake. I misunderstood the transcript. You spoke of Beserk as an example of violent games. Still, I did own all the Zork games (and bought the guides) on the C64. Amazing work, never did finish those games to completion. One day I may revisit them, if just to meet that 'lady'...
I think it's reasonable to presume that video games have helped to reduce violence,
Reading this story's transcript, Mr Volk tends to lean towards your view. He does note that violent crime has actually decreased from the time that lead was removed from gasoline. Also it's around the time of the first 'violent' video game, when he created "Beserk"...
Robin Miller: Tell me this, which nobody has successfully answered: Are video games causing the violence or is it just that some of the violent people are attracted to the violent video games?
William Volk: Yeah, the answer to that is yes. What I mean by that is, yeah, it is possible that some of these people are influenced by video games, but generally the reason why these people may have played video games is because they are interested in violence in general. You know, they are into what they are into, and video games are there. It may be found when they do the studies. I hope they look into this, when they do the studies that has been recommended, they may find that video games actually reduce violence because they allow people to blow off steam that they normally wouldn’t have a way of doing so.
So in case it would have been bigger and we noticed it let's say a few weeks/a month/a year ahead of impact. Could we have done anything? Do we have any plans for such events?
On WCBS-TV NY early news this morning they played a telephone interview with a scientist (his name I don't know), who said it was to small to be noticed or tracked, and that it was probably about the size of a loaf of bread.
Lies and damn lies, as anyone who played Left 4 Dead knows full well.
"I can't get over how FAST they all are, it's not even fair. I'm calling zombie bullshit on that, you know? They're not...ALLOWED to be so fast." - Zoey
Well if you are a zombie 'purist', then the only true zombies are George Romero's version. Dumb, slow, easily fooled, can't talk... The only way for them to get you was by surprise, turn a corner and they're right there! Before you can recover from the fright... too late, you're zombie food.
I haven't played this Left4Dead, but it sounds like they've broken Romero's unwritten zombie rules. I don't think I like this trend. Nope, don't like it one bit. These kids today shouldn't be messin' with 'the classics'. T'aint right, I tells ya'.
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http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_Barack_Obama_win_the_Nobel_Peace_Prize
According to Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland, "He got the prize because he has been able to change the international climate... Some people say, and I understand it, isn't it premature? Too early? Well, I'd say then that it could be too late to respond three years from now. It is now that we have the opportunity to respond - all of us."
Jagland highlighted that the Committee was especially influenced by a speech Obama gave to reach out to the Muslim world in Cairo in June 2009, as well as the president's efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation and climate change, and Obama's support for using established international bodies such as the United Nations to pursue foreign policy goals.
Some believe that Barack Obama has not done anything to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Here are some opinions from Answers.com contributors who believe that Obama should not have won the Prize:
There has been no intervention on a huge scale by Obama. He has not curtailed any aggressive actions by any foreign state, or even his own. In fact he has increased military actions against the Taliban in Afghanistan. He has not been long on the international circuit and has no international reputation as a peacemaker.
In the past, winners have spent many years of dedicated service to achieve the honour, or have used high office for the furtherance of peace. President Obama has done neither of these.
Obama himself has stated that he does not feel he deserved the award, and that it must be spiritually shared by all the other nominees, but also not "as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations," and "as a call to action --- a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century." He plans to donate the full US$1.4 million monetary award to charity.
Jagland shrugged off the question of whether "the committee feared being labeled naive for accepting a young politician's promises at face value", stating that "no one could deny that 'the international climate' had suddenly improved, and that Mr. Obama was the main reason... 'We want to embrace the message that he stands for.'"
The Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang has later reported that Inger-Marie Ytterhorn, who represented the right-wing populist Progress Party on the committee, led the way in objecting to the choice of Obama because she questioned his ability to keep his promises. It also said the representative of the Conservative Party, Kaci Kullmann Five, and Aagot Valle, the representative of the Socialist Left, had objections. The choice for Obama was however strongly supported by committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland and Sissel Roenbeck, both representatives of the Labour Party.
In his will, Alfred Nobel left little to guide those who award the prize. Besides directing that it be awarded by a committee appointed by the Norwegian parliament (though Nobel was a Swede), Nobel said only that it should be given to the person who "...shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." By October 2009, when the prize was awarded to him after less than nine months in office, few would argue that President Obama had qualified for the Nobel Peace Prize -- or any other -- even under such nebulous terms. Indeed, the announcement was something of a surprise in most circles, including the president's own. Obama himself is quoted as saying, "I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments." It should
... and my personal favorite, the ladies have a nickname for a bra (to hold "the boys"). They call a bra the "Boulder holder"!
Downloaded Firefox on the tablet last night and it works well, looks like a tossup between the two browsers right now. I'll wait and see what happens when Opera releases their new version in a month or so.
There's no easy method that I can see, if anyone here knows a way I'd appreciate learning how. A couple of weeks ago I googled for it, and found a convoluted way of doing it using ''ES File Explorer''. Guess I'll be trying out Firefox (and have 4 different browsers on this tablet).
cd burners were also readily available at the time.
Yes, though they had them, the average home computer owner did'nt have them as standard like they are today in computers. Too expensive then. And forget dvd r/w disk drives with 5gb disks. (I'm talking'late 90's) And no small backup hd drives either. I hate to sound like a GOMLawn neckbeard here, but you kids with your low cost external 3tb harddrives just don't know how good you got it today! :-)
Interesting. Not the crab racing part, the bit about 7of9's Jeri Ryan divorcing her husband Jack because he wanted to see her having sex with other guys in clubs. What. A. Fool. !!!
Yeah, that happened 15 years ago, mp3s had only been out a short time then. Napster was like the old wild west, dangerous, ilegal, threats of jail if caught... Good times.
Yeah, I could imagine that the Napster client was quite swiss cheese what it comes to security.
Yep, turns out Napster was full of exploitable holes, only 'real' computer nerds knew those tricks then. That guy could've done worse, if he'd wanted to, formatted the drive or something. I got my computer "spanked" instead. A post above reminds me that is was a kind of half-assed music collection I had, lots of half songs from being knocked offline. I swear, kids today don't know how rough we had it back in the nineties!
I wonder whether it taught you a lesson about backups...
I had an iomega drive with a few 100mb disks, had already given it to a friend's wife for her business (she still has it). That's about the best there was then. I think it was 900 songs I lost then, no way to easily backup 2gigs then. You lose in life sometimes, but there's a happy ending. Now I have over 10,000 mp3s (mostly ripped from my local library's CD collection), backed up to a couple of 64gb flashdrives and 32gb micro sdcards. I've learned the 3 B's of computing by now. Backup, backup, backup! :-)
Back then I was talking about it with a guy who knew computing well. He looks at me gravely and says, "That's a bad site.". That's all he said about it. About a month later I terminated someone trying to upload a rare Beatles song I had, at 33kps he was killing my bandwidth / download, whch I explained to him. He got even by remotely altering my Win98 settings that made the screen resolution unusable. I spent weeks trying to figure out and undo what he did. I finally had to run the restore disks, wiping the 8gb hard drive and lost all those songs. :-( Taught me a lesson about Napster, and not to use it again.
No wonder there are crashes. What are ducks doing at a turtle race?
Um, quacking up?
(*hastily exits room*)
I was impressed by the force of impact that that protective wall absorbed. 10 years ago the carnage from an event like this crash would have been huge. That no one was killed (afaik) says a lot about the safety measures that have been implemented. Just need to make that fence a little bit higher maybe?
(*ducks!*)
Toddler proof is damned good to know, even if I'll never use that info. Thank you.
They aren't totally toddler-proof. If bashed against a hard enough surface the screen glass will shatter into really sharp shards flying everywhere. These aren't made of safety glass like a car's windows are. For that reason alone you might want to apply a tough clear screen protector on it. Best Buy sells good ones for $20, cheaper on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/top-rated/electronics/2348631011
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Tablet-Accessories/Tablet-Screen-Protection/pcmcat242000050005.c?id=pcmcat242000050005
For now, it serves my needs, with the $40 RadioShack infra-red wireless headphones (Gawd, I am cheap!) hooked in for night use (so others in my house can sleep). What you detailed is the right way to do it up, one day.... :^)
The guy with this cheap-o tablet can use the stock player for music outputting and lite internet browsing. It's not even worth going to the trouble of rooting and installing any software to. Leave the electric plugged into it 24/7, and enjoy it as a capable mp3 player.
Thank you, I now feel much better having paid 11 dollars more for a 1ghz Arnova/Archos 1ghz A10 chip tablet, ICS 4.0, HDMI out tablet that gets maybe 5/6 hours of battery. (If it lasts at least a year it will have been worth it.)
Seriously, your tab's way underpowered for what you want to do. It doesn't get market/playstore, that's a security problem right there since you're forced to get apps not from outside the android playstore. No HDMI/USB port.
Leave it plugged into electric, fill up a 32 gb sdcard with Mp3s and use it as a hard wired mp3 player plugged into your stereo/amplifier. Copy any video files to the card. Then just go and buy a more capable tablet/laptop. Accept that this tablet's best suited for cruising the internet with, and a music player.
I see my mistake. I misunderstood the transcript. You spoke of Beserk as an example of violent games. Still, I did own all the Zork games (and bought the guides) on the C64. Amazing work, never did finish those games to completion. One day I may revisit them, if just to meet that 'lady'...
Thank you Mr. Volk, for creating "Beserk", a great game, one that I played a lot in arcades back in the eighties. (Sir, you owe me many quarters!) :-)
I think it's reasonable to presume that video games have helped to reduce violence,
Reading this story's transcript, Mr Volk tends to lean towards your view. He does note that violent crime has actually decreased from the time that lead was removed from gasoline. Also it's around the time of the first 'violent' video game, when he created "Beserk"...
Robin Miller: Tell me this, which nobody has successfully answered: Are video games causing the violence or is it just that some of the violent people are attracted to the violent video games?
William Volk: Yeah, the answer to that is yes. What I mean by that is, yeah, it is possible that some of these people are influenced by video games, but generally the reason why these people may have played video games is because they are interested in violence in general. You know, they are into what they are into, and video games are there. It may be found when they do the studies. I hope they look into this, when they do the studies that has been recommended, they may find that video games actually reduce violence because they allow people to blow off steam that they normally wouldn’t have a way of doing so.
The CNN reporter duplicated the test, charging it properly, and had 96 miles to spare at the end.
So in case it would have been bigger and we noticed it let's say a few weeks/a month/a year ahead of impact. Could we have done anything? Do we have any plans for such events?
On WCBS-TV NY early news this morning they played a telephone interview with a scientist (his name I don't know), who said it was to small to be noticed or tracked, and that it was probably about the size of a loaf of bread.
Lies and damn lies, as anyone who played Left 4 Dead knows full well.
"I can't get over how FAST they all are, it's not even fair. I'm calling zombie bullshit on that, you know? They're not...ALLOWED to be so fast." - Zoey
Well if you are a zombie 'purist', then the only true zombies are George Romero's version. Dumb, slow, easily fooled, can't talk... The only way for them to get you was by surprise, turn a corner and they're right there! Before you can recover from the fright... too late, you're zombie food.
I haven't played this Left4Dead, but it sounds like they've broken Romero's unwritten zombie rules. I don't think I like this trend. Nope, don't like it one bit. These kids today shouldn't be messin' with 'the classics'. T'aint right, I tells ya'.
All they would have had to do was walk a little bit faster!
So you deviated from the right path and ended in the shithole that is Slashdot?
As a teenager I grew up in New York City. After that, and other experiences, Slashdot doesn't bother me 'that' much.
(Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger!). :-)