There are no absolutes. Maybe you actually had a good history teacher. I guess I find it funny that students would find anything wrong with your example? Maybe it comes for the fact that Canada lacked a Blitz or Pearl Harbor. BTW as an American I can tell you that from what I know of WWII history that Canada did more than it's fair share in WWII. For a nation with such a small population it is most impressive. I fear that all too often Canadians in WWII where lumped under British. It is a shame IMHO. Canada seems to often just get lost first in Britain's shadow and then in the US's. Canada should be proud of it's WWII vets. Now Hockey on the other hand sucks! Why in the name of heaven does does Florida have a professional hockey team! It is as dumb as the Swiss surfing team! I blame Canada for that!
It really is a shame but frankly the US does or at least did a terrible job teaching WWII history in our schools. I think my High school American history class spend three days on it. I think it was the Japanese attacked Peal Harbor, D Day, drop the Atomic bomb... and that was it.
Of course we are lucky in a way. The big lesson to be learned from WWII was that it was caused by an unjust peace and an unfinished WWI. That is why the Western Allies didn't go out of their way to punish Germany and Japan at the end of the war. The Marshal Plan, UN, and NATO are all proof that at least somebody did actually learn from history. In the end that is probably why there wasn't a WWIII. Of course you are right we may soon forget those lessons on a flurry of revisionist history.
I wonder how many people today will look back and the Korean war and say that was a bad idea? Just comparing North and South Korea should be enough one would thing. Oh and yes I know it took too long for South Korea to get that democracy thing down but they have.
I tend to agree but frankly we already have runaway propaganda in our history books. It doesn't matter if the propaganda is that all the Native Americans where a peace loving noble people or that the White man was under obligation to bring civilization the the less people of the planet. BTW I am part Native American so no playing the racist card allowed. We need to teach people to understand the past and not to try to use it to teach our agendas. Once people understand why these people thought that this or that was a good idea we can finally start to learn from it.
"Maybe racism played a roll; German-American and Japanese-American citizens certainly weren't treated the same." On the west coast you are correct however some German-Americans where also put into camps as where some Italian-Americans. Don't get me wrong because the treatment of Japanese Americans was unfair but part of the story does often get left out. During the attack on Pearl Harbor a Japanese pilot crashed on the island of Niihau in Hawaii. Three Japanese Americans aided that pilot in several of the people of the island where killed before the pilot was killed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_Incident
That combined with the shelling of Long Beach by a Japanese submarine cause a lot of fear and mistrust in Hawaii and on the West Coast of the US. Was it fair and just? Not on our life. But is it more understandable in context? I think it is. BTW Japanese-Americans that where not on the west coast where not sent to camps unless they where determined to be a threat. In other words they where treated more like German-Americans and Italian-Americans. But that part of history is almost never taught! I guess it might be seen as justifying putting the Japanese in camps by some people. Again I feel that it just a case of wanting to feel superior after all we would never allow our fears to make us act unjustly now would we?
History education as a whole is terrible and really all too often is used to teach an agenda.
A great example is the Atomic bombing of Japan. A good friend of mine went to a very good college. When she told me about what she was taught about WWII was was shocked. It seems that the the US was racist and that is why we nuked Japan and that we treated the Germans with much more respect.
When I asked her about the Batan death march she had never heard of it. When I asked her about the rape of Nanking. She had never heard of such a thing. When I asked her about the threats to kill all the POWs in Japan if the US invaded she never heard of that. But she did tell me that they told here Japan was willing to surrender before we dropped the bomb if we would have promised them that they could keep their emperor. "BTW that is a myth. The goal of negotiations was to prevent the occupation of Japan and not to just preserve the status of the Emperor". It doesn't matter it is all slanted. The teacher brought in a old woman that was a child when the bomb was dropped... That will help bring balance.
Truth is that with the exception of Japan and Germany in WWII the villains tended to not be as bad as history teaches and the heroes then to not be as pure. Notice that I left Italy out. Frankly they where just your average tin pot dictatorship and not really all that evil. The just fell in with a bad crowd. Oh and yes Stalin was just as bad as history says. Heck the only reason that Germany really lost on the Russian front was because Hitler was the on person on the planet that treated the Russians worse that Stalin did!
I get the feeling that all too often History is taught as a way to make use feel superior to those that went before us. Frankly that is a dangerous and stupid thing to do. I would love to see a history class about the atomic bombing where they actually tried to teach the students to understand why Truman thought dropping the bomb was a good idea. What information he had and what was going on at the time. Maybe then we could actually start learning form history instead twisting it to make us feel so much more enlightened than the historical figures from that past.
Yep everyone is greedy including people that want everything for nothing. Honestly I would love to see software patents go away. Hardware patents not so much. My company spent years and a lot of money to develop a new device for our market. The other company in our market held a virtual monopoly with a different device. Not because of patents but because they had run every other company out of business. Our new device had a lot of new features and we patented a few of them. We have made a good number of sales and our competitor has already copied a few of the innovations that we didn't patent because they where obvious to us. Had we not had the protection of the patents we would not have made the investment. Even then it is a high risk for us. The customer gets a choice now between our product and our competitors and our competitors improved their product because of our competition.
There are a lot of not for profits. Some do have a good deal of money and pay their people very well. Others are manned by dedicated people that work for a lot less than they could other places. It really all depends. I some how thing the NRA pays some it's workers really well.
Well for one thing power companies go way out of their way to keep hospitals up. Also I did work in Hospital IT. Guess what? The back up gen set didn't have the power to handle the AC!. We had be in the the machine room ready to do a power down on the System 38 if the temp got to high. That was just during a test! During a real power outage we where to shut down the S38 to keep the lab system on the DG Eclipse up and running. Yes it was a long time ago.
Except we are not ending manned space flight or ending paying for manned space flight for that matter. We are just ending our ability to do it ourselves.
And frankly I wonder just what would happen if we got another geologist on the moon and or got a biologist to mars.
Maybe because it is the one campaign promise he has kept. And the one that least of the people never believed he would. Of course that is normal for politicians of both parties.
If you can dock with it you can hit it. Really the only technical problem is a big enough booster which we have.
Blasting it would be STUPID. It would make things worse not better. The space junk could take out large numbers of other sats and what is worse could make Geosync useless!
If anything we would want to boost it out of geosync.
1 Is correct. 2 Is correct but doesn't matter since it only takes one anti-sat weapon to take it out.
The best answer is 3 It would be a terrible idea blast it. because it would put a lot of orbital debris in to Geosync exactly where we don't need them and where they will stay for a very long time
Frankly if we could just launch a satellite that would put it in a Mylar bag that would fix the problem. Block the antenna and the solar cells. Not that it would be easy. Honestly the best thing is for this thing to loose it's ability to track the sun and die from lack of power. That or if we could use a laser to fry the solar cells without destroying them.
ChromeOS is like a toaster that is as big as a toaster overn and will only toast white bread to the perfect medium. Useful I guess for a tiny selection of people that are to dumb to use a dial and have very limited wants. Of course when every other company offers toasters with dials and slots that can handle beagles for the same price or less they company that made the Whitebread Wonder Toaster will be left wondering why they have a lot of unsold products. Their only hope at that time is to find the wizard in the black turtle neck to explain the the masses why they only want medium toasted white bread. Once they do that will make a good living again.
No as someone already posted it is not. It uses Power. I believe three cores each supporting two threads but I could be wrong on that. Odds are that they are only using the Power cores to feed the GPU and using the GPU to do the heavy lifting. Honestly that would be a benifit of using the dev kit for the PS3 as well. They would have access to not just the cores but also the GPU.
A Pollywell reactor may be cheaper and easier than an a-bomb. Plus they could just have gotten lucky. I will admit that the odds are really slime to none but it is possible.
Everything is a trade off but their is no significant benefit to not allowing Apps. The original iPhone and iPod Touch had that limit and it was swiftly removed.
With proper design you could gain 99.99% of the benefits you describer we several times the functionality. The story was why Google should stop working on Chrome. The answer is that it is limited and will have a microscopic market.
So one is going to have to learn a totally different way to do everything and then deal with a new set of problems. Which is why IBM is still selling ZSystems running DB2:) That being said I have not used much in the way of key-value database in a complex application. Frankly it sounds like a real pain.
defrag is a windows thing. the rest I don't do with my Android phone. A web app only OS is not a requirement to accomplish those goals and odds are you will still need to apply updates to your Chrome OS device for security fixes and such.
So in a world that does not exists where we have universal faster than ram access network speeds? Well yea I but you forget CPUs that can run javascript faster than native x86 code to that world as well. But that world doesn't exist.
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There are no absolutes. Maybe you actually had a good history teacher.
I guess I find it funny that students would find anything wrong with your example? Maybe it comes for the fact that Canada lacked a Blitz or Pearl Harbor.
BTW as an American I can tell you that from what I know of WWII history that Canada did more than it's fair share in WWII. For a nation with such a small population it is most impressive. I fear that all too often Canadians in WWII where lumped under British.
It is a shame IMHO. Canada seems to often just get lost first in Britain's shadow and then in the US's. Canada should be proud of it's WWII vets.
Now Hockey on the other hand sucks! Why in the name of heaven does does Florida have a professional hockey team! It is as dumb as the Swiss surfing team! I blame Canada for that!
It really is a shame but frankly the US does or at least did a terrible job teaching WWII history in our schools. I think my High school American history class spend three days on it. I think it was the Japanese attacked Peal Harbor, D Day, drop the Atomic bomb... and that was it.
Of course we are lucky in a way. The big lesson to be learned from WWII was that it was caused by an unjust peace and an unfinished WWI.
That is why the Western Allies didn't go out of their way to punish Germany and Japan at the end of the war. The Marshal Plan, UN, and NATO are all proof that at least somebody did actually learn from history.
In the end that is probably why there wasn't a WWIII.
Of course you are right we may soon forget those lessons on a flurry of revisionist history.
I wonder how many people today will look back and the Korean war and say that was a bad idea?
Just comparing North and South Korea should be enough one would thing.
Oh and yes I know it took too long for South Korea to get that democracy thing down but they have.
I tend to agree but frankly we already have runaway propaganda in our history books. It doesn't matter if the propaganda is that all the Native Americans where a peace loving noble people or that the White man was under obligation to bring civilization the the less people of the planet. BTW I am part Native American so no playing the racist card allowed.
We need to teach people to understand the past and not to try to use it to teach our agendas. Once people understand why these people thought that this or that was a good idea we can finally start to learn from it.
"Maybe racism played a roll; German-American and Japanese-American citizens certainly weren't treated the same."
On the west coast you are correct however some German-Americans where also put into camps as where some Italian-Americans.
Don't get me wrong because the treatment of Japanese Americans was unfair but part of the story does often get left out.
During the attack on Pearl Harbor a Japanese pilot crashed on the island of Niihau in Hawaii. Three Japanese Americans aided that pilot in several of the people of the island where killed before the pilot was killed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_Incident
That combined with the shelling of Long Beach by a Japanese submarine cause a lot of fear and mistrust in Hawaii and on the West Coast of the US. Was it fair and just? Not on our life. But is it more understandable in context?
I think it is. BTW Japanese-Americans that where not on the west coast where not sent to camps unless they where determined to be a threat. In other words they where treated more like German-Americans and Italian-Americans. But that part of history is almost never taught! I guess it might be seen as justifying putting the Japanese in camps by some people. Again I feel that it just a case of wanting to feel superior after all we would never allow our fears to make us act unjustly now would we?
History education as a whole is terrible and really all too often is used to teach an agenda.
A great example is the Atomic bombing of Japan. A good friend of mine went to a very good college. When she told me about what she was taught about WWII was was shocked.
It seems that the the US was racist and that is why we nuked Japan and that we treated the Germans with much more respect.
When I asked her about the Batan death march she had never heard of it.
When I asked her about the rape of Nanking. She had never heard of such a thing.
When I asked her about the threats to kill all the POWs in Japan if the US invaded she never heard of that.
But she did tell me that they told here Japan was willing to surrender before we dropped the bomb if we would have promised them that they could keep their emperor. "BTW that is a myth. The goal of negotiations was to prevent the occupation of Japan and not to just preserve the status of the Emperor".
It doesn't matter it is all slanted.
The teacher brought in a old woman that was a child when the bomb was dropped... That will help bring balance.
Truth is that with the exception of Japan and Germany in WWII the villains tended to not be as bad as history teaches and the heroes then to not be as pure. Notice that I left Italy out. Frankly they where just your average tin pot dictatorship and not really all that evil. The just fell in with a bad crowd. Oh and yes Stalin was just as bad as history says. Heck the only reason that Germany really lost on the Russian front was because Hitler was the on person on the planet that treated the Russians worse that Stalin did!
I get the feeling that all too often History is taught as a way to make use feel superior to those that went before us. Frankly that is a dangerous and stupid thing to do.
I would love to see a history class about the atomic bombing where they actually tried to teach the students to understand why Truman thought dropping the bomb was a good idea. What information he had and what was going on at the time.
Maybe then we could actually start learning form history instead twisting it to make us feel so much more enlightened than the historical figures from that past.
So Wikileaks yet again shows the all the style in integrity of the National Enquirer.
But hey I bet they get more donations from this.
Yep everyone is greedy including people that want everything for nothing.
Honestly I would love to see software patents go away. Hardware patents not so much.
My company spent years and a lot of money to develop a new device for our market. The other company in our market held a virtual monopoly with a different device. Not because of patents but because they had run every other company out of business.
Our new device had a lot of new features and we patented a few of them. We have made a good number of sales and our competitor has already copied a few of the innovations that we didn't patent because they where obvious to us. Had we not had the protection of the patents we would not have made the investment. Even then it is a high risk for us.
The customer gets a choice now between our product and our competitors and our competitors improved their product because of our competition.
You mean like CiviCRM?
http://civicrm.org/
There are a lot of not for profits. Some do have a good deal of money and pay their people very well.
Others are manned by dedicated people that work for a lot less than they could other places.
It really all depends.
I some how thing the NRA pays some it's workers really well.
Well for one thing power companies go way out of their way to keep hospitals up. Also I did work in Hospital IT. Guess what?
The back up gen set didn't have the power to handle the AC!. We had be in the the machine room ready to do a power down on the System 38 if the temp got to high. That was just during a test!
During a real power outage we where to shut down the S38 to keep the lab system on the DG Eclipse up and running.
Yes it was a long time ago.
Except we are not ending manned space flight or ending paying for manned space flight for that matter. We are just ending our ability to do it ourselves.
And frankly I wonder just what would happen if we got another geologist on the moon and or got a biologist to mars.
Maybe because it is the one campaign promise he has kept. And the one that least of the people never believed he would.
Of course that is normal for politicians of both parties.
If you can dock with it you can hit it.
Really the only technical problem is a big enough booster which we have.
Blasting it would be STUPID. It would make things worse not better.
The space junk could take out large numbers of other sats and what is worse could make Geosync useless!
If anything we would want to boost it out of geosync.
1 Is correct.
2 Is correct but doesn't matter since it only takes one anti-sat weapon to take it out.
The best answer is 3
It would be a terrible idea blast it. because it would put a lot of orbital debris in to Geosync exactly where we don't need them and where they will stay for a very long time
Frankly if we could just launch a satellite that would put it in a Mylar bag that would fix the problem. Block the antenna and the solar cells. Not that it would be easy. Honestly the best thing is for this thing to loose it's ability to track the sun and die from lack of power.
That or if we could use a laser to fry the solar cells without destroying them.
Actually in some countries failure to secure your guns is a crime.
ChromeOS is like a toaster that is as big as a toaster overn and will only toast white bread to the perfect medium.
Useful I guess for a tiny selection of people that are to dumb to use a dial and have very limited wants.
Of course when every other company offers toasters with dials and slots that can handle beagles for the same price or less they company that made the Whitebread Wonder Toaster will be left wondering why they have a lot of unsold products.
Their only hope at that time is to find the wizard in the black turtle neck to explain the the masses why they only want medium toasted white bread. Once they do that will make a good living again.
No as someone already posted it is not. It uses Power. I believe three cores each supporting two threads but I could be wrong on that.
Odds are that they are only using the Power cores to feed the GPU and using the GPU to do the heavy lifting.
Honestly that would be a benifit of using the dev kit for the PS3 as well. They would have access to not just the cores but also the GPU.
A Pollywell reactor may be cheaper and easier than an a-bomb. Plus they could just have gotten lucky.
I will admit that the odds are really slime to none but it is possible.
I wounder if they actually funded a Polywell reactor? If so someone needs to slap around the DOE and DOD.
But they may very well have to compete with them in the Smartbook/tablet space where Chrome OS is targeted.
Everything is a trade off but their is no significant benefit to not allowing Apps. The original iPhone and iPod Touch had that limit and it was swiftly removed.
With proper design you could gain 99.99% of the benefits you describer we several times the functionality.
The story was why Google should stop working on Chrome. The answer is that it is limited and will have a microscopic market.
It is pre release. The only "local" apps are supposed to be web apps running under Gears/HTML 5.
So one is going to have to learn a totally different way to do everything and then deal with a new set of problems. :)
Which is why IBM is still selling ZSystems running DB2
That being said I have not used much in the way of key-value database in a complex application. Frankly it sounds like a real pain.
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So the ability to install native / local apps precludes this?
Huh???
defrag is a windows thing.
the rest I don't do with my Android phone.
A web app only OS is not a requirement to accomplish those goals and odds are you will still need to apply updates to your Chrome OS device for security fixes and such.
So in a world that does not exists where we have universal faster than ram access network speeds?
Well yea I but you forget CPUs that can run javascript faster than native x86 code to that world as well.
But that world doesn't exist.