Except that this story from the BBC from months earlier already documented the police killing people. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7194744.stm Yes it is good that they reported this but the fact that Kenya police where killing people was already documented by the BBC so it isn't exactly some big leak that they broke. Still it is a good thing but not earth shattering or even really new but a continuation of an already published story.
I loved the move but the plot has been done to death. My wife pointed out it was that it was a typical romance novel as well as a typical 70s western. The Romance novel was "man pretends to be something else, man falls in love with woman why pretending to be something that he is not, woman finds out and gets mad, man becomes what he pretended to be and they live happily ever after." Also you the Western theme of white man falls in love with chief's daughter. So yea the plot is your typical white man's guilt vs the noble savage.
As to it being a retelling of the story of Native Americans? Not in any but the only most superficial kindergarten way. The variability within the tribes means that there isn't really one Native American story at all. The myth of the noble savage is just that a myth. Some tribes where every bit as nasty as the worst of the white men of the time. Many of the tribes had no problem with rape and slavery as methods of control and domination and some used theft as way of life. They had not trouble take what they wanted from other tribes by force. Their culture was totally at odds with what we consider right. Other tribes where much closer to the ideal you see in the movies.
Back to why do we like this movie? It is a good movie and a good work of fiction so why not like it. If you want deep meaning from a movie or if you find deep meaning from a movie you really need to stop going to movies and pick up a good ten or twenty good books instead. Movies are a few hour emotional quick trip and not the path to enlightenment. Even the best of them like Schindler's list are not that deep when you think about. How deep is the concept that actively saving innocent people's lives even at the risk of your own is a good thing?
What has Wikileaks done so big? I ask because I have not seen anything earth shattering on it and a lot that is nothing but tabloid press level junk. Just some examples would be nice.
Not really. They are too expensive for power production. Because they are on ships and subs they are very hard to refuel so they use a totaly differn't fuel cycle. From what I have "read" most us navy reactors use enriched uranium for fuel combined with burnable poisons. As the fuel gets used up so do the poisons so the power output stays about the same for the life of the core which is supposed to be greater than 20 years. For power reactors it is much easier to refuel so there is no need for the expensive and specialized fuel that is used in a navy reactor.
Well the rate of construction was always pretty low and they where still trying out new ideas all the time. Even conventional plants tended to be one offs at that time. You are right though when the number of reactors built is high. The Navy did exactly that with subs. All of the Skipjack, Permit, Sturgeon, George Washington, Ethan Allen, and Lafayette class subs use the same reactor design. There was a a few one offs in that time to try new ideas but the vast majority where standardized reactors. The Navy then went with two reactors one for attack subs and a different one for SSBNs. I will make on correction to your statment. that is why Nuke Plants where so expensive. The new nuke plants are being planed to use a standardized family for reactors.
No don't. Odds are that is also illegal. 1. Pay for support. 2. When you pay for custom software make it FOSS. 3. Pay to have features added to FOSS that you may need.
So a typical day on slashdot? Wow 270 million. Or on tenth of the coffee budget of Microsoft I wonder if Microsoft will just pay them off and buy the patent and then use it to attack others. If I was Microsoft and lost my faith that I had a soul that is what I would do.
Running as a socialist in the US makes you a fringe whack job. Libertarian... The way people behave on slashdot shows that Libertarian's ideas will not work. Actually I am annoyed just how many people confuse capitalism with democracy in the US. It is possible to have a democratic socialist system. I don't think that a pure socialist system could ever work well in the US but they can and in other countries and they are pretty free as far as rights go.
The problem is that none of the other parties are really anything but fringe whack jobs. The only ones that where not totally out there where Nader and Perot and I am being generous with that statment. Of course we did have one president from a "third" party with a pretty radical agenda. They where trying to completely change race relations in the US. It was a reall mess when they one but in the long run it was for the best.
You think so? Your copyright laws last just as long and where passed several years before they where in the US. Also how do you feel about your country protecting and refusing to extradite a confessed and convinced child rapist that jumped bail for what 20 plus years? How about the Rainbow Warrior? Or the Three strikes and you are kicked off the Internet law? please the only statment I can agree with the one about being pretentious.
I wouldn't say that CAD or Video editing is niche programs. You can buy them at BestBuy at least TurboCad so I would say they are actually very common. Same with Photoshop. It all depends on if you can get enough people with talent motivated to write the code. Closed source programs do this with money. Closed source programing is a lot like venture capital. Somebody invests in the development up front with the hope that they will make the money back with a profit. The customers pay for a finished product that does what they need it to do. With open source the companies "could" pay less but take a higher risk that they might never get the product they are paying for. Closed source is nothing but a way to spread the cost of development over all the users. My prediction is that for some areas the skill level required to user base is too small to support the FOSS model. CAD/CAM is a great example of that market. It seems that Video Editing is another but that may change.
Yes they are but cross plane cranks are not a kluge. The cross plane reduces vibration and makes it easier to fit a tuned exhaust on any thing but a single seater. The flat plane gives you a lighter crank and it is easier to make. It will be rev easier but lets be honest most road going V-8s will be turn under 5000 RPM most of the time "probably under 3000" and most will have a red line under 7000 RPM. So for those motors a 90 degree cranks better balance is a better choice.
Have you ever heard of the Cosworth DFV? The Esprit V8 was a a good case of not having the money to build a proper crank. That really was two I4s made into a V8 just like the Nova. I didn't know that the 308 used a flat crank but the only Ferrari's that really interested me where the 12s and the Dino's which where not really Ferrari's but where still very interesting. So yes I missed that they where a flat crank V8s.
The copyright law was extended because of pressure from Europe. It was Victor Hugo that really pushed for it. You guys have the three strikes and banned from the internet laws going in effect. And I will not go into how a country in Europe refused to extradite a rich man that was a confessed child rapist. Maybe you should take a closer look at your own laws before you get too smug. Oh and the restrictions on video games and freedom of political speech as well.
Okay. The Z-28s didn't come with a big block and a 4 banger rear end ever from the factory. The original z-28s came with a 302 because IROC cars where limited to five liters and the orignal z where built for IROC racing. The later Zs from the 70s tended to have 350s in them. Those cars all had 10 or 12 bolt rear ends and where pretty heavy duty. Some may have come with big blocks in the early 70s but buy the 80s they had small blocks. The Z-28s from the 80s with the weak rear ends ONLY came with small blocks. If you had a Z-28 with a big block in 86 odds are it had a small block 5.7 liter v8. If you had a big block z28 and you had the rear end lock up then it wasn't matained correctly because a 10 or 12 bolt rear end will take more abuse than you can imagine and could take just about anything a stock big block could dish out except for drag racing with slicks.
No? I4s have a flat plane crank. Real V8s have a 90deg crank and that gives them the proper balance. The only reason to use a flat plane crank in a V8 is if you can not make a 90 deg crank. Yes they sound interesting but the only flat plane crank V8 I ever heard of is the old Nova made from two Offy's.
Actually they don't use them in cars anymore. Only trucks and boats. It really isn't the enthusiasts buying them. If you need a big truck that runs of gas and not diesel then the Big block is the only game in town. They are also popular in many racing classes both car and boat. There are also so people that where fitting them to aircraft as well to replace big radials for crop dusters and other large airfcraft motors that are very expensive. The Rat really is a good motor and I doubt that we have seen the last of them. Truth is that GM will probably keep the tooling and restart the line in a few years to make replacement blocks and parts when they get low. Same as they do for the old small block chevy which is different from the new LS.
huh???? Inline sixes re nice engines but they will be heavier and the cranks will never be as string as a V6 or V8 crank. They do tend to be smooth running but just why do you think they will have more power and higher reliability than a V engine? If they are DOHC then they should be a little more reliable than a V since it will have fewer parts but if they are both OHV engines then the V could be slightly more reliable since the crank and the cam will suffer less stress since they are shorter. V-6 or I-6 are not always going to be more powerful or more reliable it will all depend on the motor. The old Ford 4.6 I6 is about as reliable as a stone axe. It was a low power heavy duty motor so of course it will run until the end of time. The I6 in the Jag was not reliable mainly because of the electrics but made a lot of power. The Buick 3.8 is another motor that was pretty reliable as well and that is a V-6. Reliablity and power depend on a lot more than if it is an inline or a V-6.
With that I must disagree. Examples of complex applications that are better than the FOSS programs in that segment. SolidWorks, ProE, and AutoCAD for 3d CAD. FinalCut for Video Editing. And PhotoShop for extreme high end graphics work. Those are the ones I know off the top of my head. Then you have OpenOffice VS Office but I have not used any version of Office since Office 2000 so I have only what I have heard to go on. Don't dismiss Closed Source. I love FOSS but I wouldn't trade any FOSS cad system for Solid Works.
That is good. I never said that Firefox was the best browser only that it was a great browser. Opera is also really good but just not as good as Firefox to me. Choice is good.
But people buy into it. I want a warning label that voteing for this chowder head causes cancer. I have as much proof as he has. Same for the Mayor of SF. Really people this is just too much.
You are correct. I don't have my Linux box with me. Yes DeVeDe is so simple to use for putting stuff on a DVD that it becomes elegant. I think it is one of the great overlooked gems of FOSS.
I think Intel is crippling it to keep from killing higher margin notebook sales. From AnandTech "The integrated GMA 3150 graphics hasn’t been used by Intel before, it’s a 45nm shrink of the GMA 3100. It’s technically a DX9 GPU running at 400MHz, however as you’ll soon see - you can’t really play any games on this platform. The GPU only offers hardware acceleration for MPEG-2 video, H.264 and VC-1 aren’t accelerated."
No H.264 or VC-1 hardware support means poor performance. Then add this. "Max output resolution is also limited. The best you can get over a digital connection (HDMI/DVI) is 1366 x 768, over analog VGA you can do 2048 x 1536 (only 1400 x 1050 on the N450). It’s a curious coincidence, Poulsbo also had a 1366 x 768 digital output limitation. " What??? No 1080p support over HDMI? Well so much for a media PC.
AMD/ATI or Via+Nvidia really need to start pushing Intel in this market. I would love to see a good ARM solution because I do think it is a better platform for Netbooks and Nettops than Intel. The big problem is getting full Flash performance out of it and that is only a software issue.
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Except that this story from the BBC from months earlier already documented the police killing people.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7194744.stm
Yes it is good that they reported this but the fact that Kenya police where killing people was already documented by the BBC so it isn't exactly some big leak that they broke.
Still it is a good thing but not earth shattering or even really new but a continuation of an already published story.
It was in many ways "A Man Called Horse"
I loved the move but the plot has been done to death.
My wife pointed out it was that it was a typical romance novel as well as a typical 70s western.
The Romance novel was "man pretends to be something else, man falls in love with woman why pretending to be something that he is not, woman finds out and gets mad, man becomes what he pretended to be and they live happily ever after."
Also you the Western theme of white man falls in love with chief's daughter.
So yea the plot is your typical white man's guilt vs the noble savage.
As to it being a retelling of the story of Native Americans? Not in any but the only most superficial kindergarten way.
The variability within the tribes means that there isn't really one Native American story at all. The myth of the noble savage is just that a myth. Some tribes where every bit as nasty as the worst of the white men of the time. Many of the tribes had no problem with rape and slavery as methods of control and domination and some used theft as way of life. They had not trouble take what they wanted from other tribes by force. Their culture was totally at odds with what we consider right. Other tribes where much closer to the ideal you see in the movies.
Back to why do we like this movie? It is a good movie and a good work of fiction so why not like it. If you want deep meaning from a movie or if you find deep meaning from a movie you really need to stop going to movies and pick up a good ten or twenty good books instead. Movies are a few hour emotional quick trip and not the path to enlightenment. Even the best of them like Schindler's list are not that deep when you think about. How deep is the concept that actively saving innocent people's lives even at the risk of your own is a good thing?
What has Wikileaks done so big? I ask because I have not seen anything earth shattering on it and a lot that is nothing but tabloid press level junk. Just some examples would be nice.
Not really. They are too expensive for power production.
Because they are on ships and subs they are very hard to refuel so they use a totaly differn't fuel cycle.
From what I have "read" most us navy reactors use enriched uranium for fuel combined with burnable poisons. As the fuel gets used up so do the poisons so the power output stays about the same for the life of the core which is supposed to be greater than 20 years. For power reactors it is much easier to refuel so there is no need for the expensive and specialized fuel that is used in a navy reactor.
Well the rate of construction was always pretty low and they where still trying out new ideas all the time. Even conventional plants tended to be one offs at that time.
You are right though when the number of reactors built is high. The Navy did exactly that with subs.
All of the Skipjack, Permit, Sturgeon, George Washington, Ethan Allen, and Lafayette class subs use the same reactor design. There was a a few one offs in that time to try new ideas but the vast majority where standardized reactors. The Navy then went with two reactors one for attack subs and a different one for SSBNs.
I will make on correction to your statment. that is why Nuke Plants where so expensive. The new nuke plants are being planed to use a standardized family for reactors.
No don't. Odds are that is also illegal.
1. Pay for support.
2. When you pay for custom software make it FOSS.
3. Pay to have features added to FOSS that you may need.
So a typical day on slashdot?
Wow 270 million. Or on tenth of the coffee budget of Microsoft I wonder if Microsoft will just pay them off and buy the patent and then use it to attack others.
If I was Microsoft and lost my faith that I had a soul that is what I would do.
Running as a socialist in the US makes you a fringe whack job.
Libertarian... The way people behave on slashdot shows that Libertarian's ideas will not work.
Actually I am annoyed just how many people confuse capitalism with democracy in the US. It is possible to have a democratic socialist system. I don't think that a pure socialist system could ever work well in the US but they can and in other countries and they are pretty free as far as rights go.
The problem is that none of the other parties are really anything but fringe whack jobs. The only ones that where not totally out there where Nader and Perot and I am being generous with that statment. Of course we did have one president from a "third" party with a pretty radical agenda. They where trying to completely change race relations in the US. It was a reall mess when they one but in the long run it was for the best.
You think so?
Your copyright laws last just as long and where passed several years before they where in the US.
Also how do you feel about your country protecting and refusing to extradite a confessed and convinced child rapist that jumped bail for what 20 plus years?
How about the Rainbow Warrior?
Or the Three strikes and you are kicked off the Internet law?
please the only statment I can agree with the one about being pretentious.
No he doesn't only the support techs here do.
I wouldn't say that CAD or Video editing is niche programs. You can buy them at BestBuy at least TurboCad so I would say they are actually very common.
Same with Photoshop.
It all depends on if you can get enough people with talent motivated to write the code. Closed source programs do this with money.
Closed source programing is a lot like venture capital. Somebody invests in the development up front with the hope that they will make the money back with a profit.
The customers pay for a finished product that does what they need it to do.
With open source the companies "could" pay less but take a higher risk that they might never get the product they are paying for.
Closed source is nothing but a way to spread the cost of development over all the users.
My prediction is that for some areas the skill level required to user base is too small to support the FOSS model. CAD/CAM is a great example of that market. It seems that Video Editing is another but that may change.
Yes they are but cross plane cranks are not a kluge.
The cross plane reduces vibration and makes it easier to fit a tuned exhaust on any thing but a single seater.
The flat plane gives you a lighter crank and it is easier to make. It will be rev easier but lets be honest most road going V-8s will be turn under 5000 RPM most of the time "probably under 3000" and most will have a red line under 7000 RPM. So for those motors a 90 degree cranks better balance is a better choice.
I don't drink coffee.
Have you ever heard of the Cosworth DFV?
The Esprit V8 was a a good case of not having the money to build a proper crank. That really was two I4s made into a V8 just like the Nova.
I didn't know that the 308 used a flat crank but the only Ferrari's that really interested me where the 12s and the Dino's which where not really Ferrari's but where still very interesting. So yes I missed that they where a flat crank V8s.
The copyright law was extended because of pressure from Europe. It was Victor Hugo that really pushed for it.
You guys have the three strikes and banned from the internet laws going in effect.
And I will not go into how a country in Europe refused to extradite a rich man that was a confessed child rapist.
Maybe you should take a closer look at your own laws before you get too smug.
Oh and the restrictions on video games and freedom of political speech as well.
Okay. The Z-28s didn't come with a big block and a 4 banger rear end ever from the factory.
The original z-28s came with a 302 because IROC cars where limited to five liters and the orignal z where built for IROC racing. The later Zs from the 70s tended to have 350s in them. Those cars all had 10 or 12 bolt rear ends and where pretty heavy duty. Some may have come with big blocks in the early 70s but buy the 80s they had small blocks.
The Z-28s from the 80s with the weak rear ends ONLY came with small blocks. If you had a Z-28 with a big block in 86 odds are it had a small block 5.7 liter v8.
If you had a big block z28 and you had the rear end lock up then it wasn't matained correctly because a 10 or 12 bolt rear end will take more abuse than you can imagine and could take just about anything a stock big block could dish out except for drag racing with slicks.
No? I4s have a flat plane crank. Real V8s have a 90deg crank and that gives them the proper balance. The only reason to use a flat plane crank in a V8 is if you can not make a 90 deg crank.
Yes they sound interesting but the only flat plane crank V8 I ever heard of is the old Nova made from two Offy's.
Actually they don't use them in cars anymore. Only trucks and boats.
It really isn't the enthusiasts buying them. If you need a big truck that runs of gas and not diesel then the Big block is the only game in town.
They are also popular in many racing classes both car and boat. There are also so people that where fitting them to aircraft as well to replace big radials for crop dusters and other large airfcraft motors that are very expensive.
The Rat really is a good motor and I doubt that we have seen the last of them. Truth is that GM will probably keep the tooling and restart the line in a few years to make replacement blocks and parts when they get low. Same as they do for the old small block chevy which is different from the new LS.
huh????
Inline sixes re nice engines but they will be heavier and the cranks will never be as string as a V6 or V8 crank.
They do tend to be smooth running but just why do you think they will have more power and higher reliability than a V engine?
If they are DOHC then they should be a little more reliable than a V since it will have fewer parts but if they are both OHV engines then the V could be slightly more reliable since the crank and the cam will suffer less stress since they are shorter.
V-6 or I-6 are not always going to be more powerful or more reliable it will all depend on the motor.
The old Ford 4.6 I6 is about as reliable as a stone axe. It was a low power heavy duty motor so of course it will run until the end of time.
The I6 in the Jag was not reliable mainly because of the electrics but made a lot of power.
The Buick 3.8 is another motor that was pretty reliable as well and that is a V-6.
Reliablity and power depend on a lot more than if it is an inline or a V-6.
With that I must disagree.
Examples of complex applications that are better than the FOSS programs in that segment.
SolidWorks, ProE, and AutoCAD for 3d CAD.
FinalCut for Video Editing.
And PhotoShop for extreme high end graphics work. Those are the ones I know off the top of my head.
Then you have OpenOffice VS Office but I have not used any version of Office since Office 2000 so I have only what I have heard to go on.
Don't dismiss Closed Source. I love FOSS but I wouldn't trade any FOSS cad system for Solid Works.
That is good. I never said that Firefox was the best browser only that it was a great browser. Opera is also really good but just not as good as Firefox to me. Choice is good.
But people buy into it. I want a warning label that voteing for this chowder head causes cancer. I have as much proof as he has. Same for the Mayor of SF.
Really people this is just too much.
You are correct. I don't have my Linux box with me. Yes DeVeDe is so simple to use for putting stuff on a DVD that it becomes elegant.
I think it is one of the great overlooked gems of FOSS.
I think Intel is crippling it to keep from killing higher margin notebook sales.
From AnandTech
"The integrated GMA 3150 graphics hasn’t been used by Intel before, it’s a 45nm shrink of the GMA 3100. It’s technically a DX9 GPU running at 400MHz, however as you’ll soon see - you can’t really play any games on this platform. The GPU only offers hardware acceleration for MPEG-2 video, H.264 and VC-1 aren’t accelerated."
No H.264 or VC-1 hardware support means poor performance.
Then add this.
"Max output resolution is also limited. The best you can get over a digital connection (HDMI/DVI) is 1366 x 768, over analog VGA you can do 2048 x 1536 (only 1400 x 1050 on the N450). It’s a curious coincidence, Poulsbo also had a 1366 x 768 digital output limitation. "
What??? No 1080p support over HDMI?
Well so much for a media PC.
AMD/ATI or Via+Nvidia really need to start pushing Intel in this market. I would love to see a good ARM solution because I do think it is a better platform for Netbooks and Nettops than Intel. The big problem is getting full Flash performance out of it and that is only a software issue.