Environmentalism is wrong because it holds nature, not man, as the standard of value.
The problem is, what the smeg do we do when there's arn't any more tree's producing oxygen for us, and everyone living under 10 meters above sea level neads a scuba gear to get into their house?
If we realy want to screw the planet, won't we just endup being the borg?
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i can send/recive e-mail messages on my phone. BTCellnet just chop up any message > 160 chars into multipul sms mesages (i cant recive any attatchments though)
what ever happened to the great US tech thing where they get all the good gadgets first?
I wonder if they have sold the rights to the name to M$ or sold a licence to them....
If it was me I'd ask for 1 cent per unit sold, or I'll see you in court.
Who wouldn' want to bleed microsoft?:-))
The main (imhp) problem is that the Internet has for a long time (to long if you ask me) been America bias.
However the majority of English language game development happens in Europe (UK).
The culture seems from this side of the pond to be, "Europe? Didn?t we win a war for you...where are you again?"
That?s not to say that all Americans are like this, I?d hate to tar everyone with the same brush (I feel a large flame about to hit me!).
It seems as though Americans are brought up with a superiority complex
American English? Is this just an excuse to miss spell any word you like? That?s just like having Canadian French and French French, French is French no matter where you are.
Maps show America in the middle, and chop up other counties to make it fit (damn that?s really annoying)
Disregard of any international agreement, even when they?ve signed up to them (Kyoto, the anti ballistic missile defence treaty)
Hollywood's blatant disregard of real history
Saving Private Ryan
U-571
Pearl Harbour
The Patriot
Unfortunately for most people in Europe there aren?t a vast majority of DSL lines yet most people are on dial up links (at home). So if you think you have it bad over in the US just be glad you don't have to download 650Mb via a 56Kb link!!!!
we have good bandwidth in europe to, well until around 9 am est, then we have to crawl along because for some strange reason all our bandwidth starts to dry up. I just can't fathom the reason why?
Any sujestions............
If some major event happened, such as a prolonged period of solar flares, a nut case exploding loads of nuclear weapons in the upper atmosphere etc. (you basic large doses of EM) that ends up frying most if not all our electronics, where would we start trying to rebuild?
If only earth bound systems where affected, it would mean no air travel (no radar, no fly by wire), very few new cars working (fried internal computers), large ships e.g. super tankers running aground (again no radar/sonar/ computer control engines), non of the newer telephone networks working (most new telephone switches are just big boxes of electronics and not mechanical like the old ones), westernised hospitals (those that use electronics) loosing patients hand over fist as their monitors etc fail and after a few months large chunks of metal falling out of space as satellites that require orbit corrections from earth fall down (US DoD spy sats usually have plutonium power plants). In general we would probably experience a planet wide collapse of government and more than likely anarchy.
After which....
You can't access anything that has been stored on a computer ever! All your computers are dead for a start. All your hard disks are fried. Your tapes, floppies and CDs are useless because the devices used to read them are also fried. Would it be possible to rebuild to the current state of play, more to the question would you want to?
If we had to start again would the first new generation of computers be like Colossus and ENIAC (valves etc.) or would we skip straight back into silicon or some other new fangled material?
When we get back up again, how long before we have a 2/3GL to code in, and would you have to / want to (all you sadists) code your base OS in binary?
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The problem is, what the smeg do we do when there's arn't any more tree's producing oxygen for us, and everyone living under 10 meters above sea level neads a scuba gear to get into their house?
If we realy want to screw the planet, won't we just endup being the borg?
i can send/recive e-mail messages on my phone. BTCellnet just chop up any message > 160 chars into multipul sms mesages (i cant recive any attatchments though)
what ever happened to the great US tech thing where they get all the good gadgets first?
I wonder if they have sold the rights to the name to M$ or sold a licence to them.... :-))
If it was me I'd ask for 1 cent per unit sold, or I'll see you in court.
Who wouldn' want to bleed microsoft?
I was being sarcastic when I asked for suggestions!!!
The main (imhp) problem is that the Internet has for a long time (to long if you ask me) been America bias.
However the majority of English language game development happens in Europe (UK).
The culture seems from this side of the pond to be, "Europe? Didn?t we win a war for you...where are you again?"
That?s not to say that all Americans are like this, I?d hate to tar everyone with the same brush (I feel a large flame about to hit me!).
It seems as though Americans are brought up with a superiority complex
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American English? Is this just an excuse to miss spell any word you like? That?s just like having Canadian French and French French, French is French no matter where you are.
-
Maps show America in the middle, and chop up other counties to make it fit (damn that?s really annoying)
-
Disregard of any international agreement, even when they?ve signed up to them (Kyoto, the anti ballistic missile defence treaty)
-
Hollywood's blatant disregard of real history
-
Saving Private Ryan
- U-571
- Pearl Harbour
- The Patriot
Unfortunately for most people in Europe there aren?t a vast majority of DSL lines yet most people are on dial up links (at home). So if you think you have it bad over in the US just be glad you don't have to download 650Mb via a 56Kb link!!!!we have good bandwidth in europe to, well until around 9 am est, then we have to crawl along because for some strange reason all our bandwidth starts to dry up. I just can't fathom the reason why?
Any sujestions............
If some major event happened, such as a prolonged period of solar flares, a nut case exploding loads of nuclear weapons in the upper atmosphere etc. (you basic large doses of EM) that ends up frying most if not all our electronics, where would we start trying to rebuild?
If only earth bound systems where affected, it would mean no air travel (no radar, no fly by wire), very few new cars working (fried internal computers), large ships e.g. super tankers running aground (again no radar/sonar/ computer control engines), non of the newer telephone networks working (most new telephone switches are just big boxes of electronics and not mechanical like the old ones), westernised hospitals (those that use electronics) loosing patients hand over fist as their monitors etc fail and after a few months large chunks of metal falling out of space as satellites that require orbit corrections from earth fall down (US DoD spy sats usually have plutonium power plants). In general we would probably experience a planet wide collapse of government and more than likely anarchy.
After which....
You can't access anything that has been stored on a computer ever! All your computers are dead for a start. All your hard disks are fried. Your tapes, floppies and CDs are useless because the devices used to read them are also fried. Would it be possible to rebuild to the current state of play, more to the question would you want to?
If we had to start again would the first new generation of computers be like Colossus and ENIAC (valves etc.) or would we skip straight back into silicon or some other new fangled material?
When we get back up again, how long before we have a 2/3GL to code in, and would you have to / want to (all you sadists) code your base OS in binary?
I ponder on.............