Yep. If anything they should be making a tidy profit on each unit. Don't forget the largest cost component on a notebook is still the screen - here only 12.1". Similarly specced Celery/AMD 600-MHz notebooks are on the bottom-feeder end of the notebook food chain at this point. Here are the specs from their press release:
The PaceBook comes with a Transmeta Crusoe 600MHz processor, 4MB SMI Lynx graphics controller, 128MB SDRAM, 20GB HDD, 12.1" XGA TFT-LCD display with Windows ME or Windows 2000 OS. Optional accessories include CD-RW/DVD-ROM, wireless infrared remote control and CCD camera.
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Re:NITROGEN WARNING is similar to TCP/IP warning
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Even more hilarious is the DHMO.org website. A thinly veiled crack at the MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) phenomenon... even though I'm an ex-environmental lawyer I found it funny.
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Yes, I got the joke - most of us Americans (me included, even though I speak a little French) are regrettably monolingual. However, as you probably already know, the U.S. Government agencies involved in espionage & counterterrorism (NSA, CIA, FBI, et al.) are the largest employers in the U.S. (if not the whole world) of trained linguists and translators. Everything from French to Arabic, Persian and Urdu. After all, once you break the code, you have to understand the underlying message. And let's not forget the WWII Navaho code-talkers.... I wonder if they have any other "secret" languages up their sleeves?
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I saw back in the mid-eighties in high school. The video instructor (Stan Smith maybe?) claimed that by merely repeatedly watching the "perfect form" displayed by the tennis players on the video (Stan Smith, Billie Jean King, et al.), then slowly practicing that form yourself, you could improve your game dramatically. I forget what he called it but it was something like "neuro-muscular programming" or muscle memory training. Maybe it really works... I didn't really see any improvement though, but it might take a lot more than the measly amount of time & effort I put into it.
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What will happen as society worldwide becomes more automated, is what has already happened in the more technologically advanced societies - people will reduce their birthrates to (or slightly below) the natural replacement rate of approx. 2 children per couple. Unless a massive technological singularity takes place (like the rapid development and deployment of a nanotech "replicator") there will be no massive displacement of human labor, just gradual, incremental inroads. With less need for massive amounts of manual labor, fewer people can be more intensively trained & educated, and work in the fewer remaining skilled positions, directing or tasking the automatons. Also, as the pool of "menial" laborers shrinks - even though most tasks can be automated, it will become a "prestige" item to have actual human craftsmanship involved - their wages will increase. Look at how much plumbers, butlers, gardeners, "sanitation engineers" etc. are getting paid nowadays, not to mention artists and athletes, and just extrapolate into the future.
Not everybody needs to be programmers, even today. As systems get simpler and more robust more people will be able to use them with minimal formal training (think GUI/speech/gestural recognition, pictures of food on McD's POS terminals, etc.). Plus, look at how fast the current primitive technology has taken hold. When everybody's Grandma is on the 'Net without even blinking, then we'll know it's time to wheel out the fully automated solutions to just about everything.
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Maybe they should film the Matrix sequels...
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...using this as a video filter. They might turn out cheaper & actually on time (they could just use stunt doubles for the most part).
Just have to substitute that funky green Matrix font for plain old ASCII....
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Thanks for admitting the duplicate story at least. (at Altavista's Planned Patent Lawsuits by CmdrTaco on Wed January 17, 11:34 AM CDT ). Why does this seem to happen so often? Editor overload (not enough cooks), duplication of efforts (too many cooks), interface problems with viewing the submissions queue (it was a only a week-old story), or what?
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BZZT! Wrong! The QT Java classes use native calls to the QT runtime. It only works on Mac and Windoze. Did you even read through the tutorial? Here is a direct quote:
QuickTime for Java is both an API and an application framework. As an API, it provides Java developers access to the rich wealth of multimedia capabilities in Quicktime previously available only to C/C++ and Pascal programmers. It enables access to QuickTime's native runtime libraries which provide support for different forms of media (images, audio, and movies), timing services, media capture, complex compositing, visual effects, and custom controllers. QuickTime for Java has many other benefits as well. Since the API relies on native libraries to perform its complex and time-consuming tasks, it is extremely fast. It is also cross-platform- it will run on all platforms that support QuickTime (Macintosh, Windows NT, Windows 95, and Windows 98).
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Huh? SunOS (up through 4.x at least) was pretty strictly BSD-derived (e.g. 'ps auxww; shutdown -now'), although I believe System V style utilities were an installable option (under/usr/5bin). Whenever Sun pulled the Solaris name-change (SunOS 5.x = Solaris 2.x) is when they went to full System V (SVID) & POSIX compliance (e.g. 'ps -ef; shutdown -g0 -y -i6') although binaries under/usr/ucb retain the BSD semantics.
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I remember back when the original Mac "superdrive" was a 1.44 MB auto-inject/eject floppy drive that would read and write Mac and PC format HD floppies (it was "super" compared to the 400/800KB DD Mac-only drives that were its predecessors). Now we get 4.7GB per disc - super-schweet! You've come a long way, baby...
My only caveat - does the DVD authoring include CSS-free and region-free options? Can you rip & copy DVD's with it? I'd hate for something this cool to be locked into the MPAA's riduculous regime....
#include "disclaim.h"
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Yep. Judging from his website though, he is heavily into Macs (and, as the cliche goes, so are many creative/artistic folks). Of course if Apple ever saw the light and put out an x86 MacOS X box w/AMD inside (as is oft rumored, but would probably only happen over Jobs' dead body).... can we say "slam dunk?"
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Hm. I can blow a few holes in your theories pretty quickly (despite the fact that I'm a pretty WASPy Anglophile myself). Your English examples are all also countries with great expanses of navigable waters - long coastlines, with great harbors, and many inland rivers. (After all the Brits did have the world's best navy & merchant fleet for almost 200 years). Thus transporting food & redistributing capital, even with 18th century technology (ships & wagons), was pretty easy. Whereas most of the poorest African nations, are totally landlocked and drought-stricken to boot. I think the natural resources and historical factional conflicts of these nations are more relevant factors than the nationality of the imperialists who "discovered" them. As in most places worldwide, the national boundaries (drawn mostly by those imperialists) in Africa are pretty arbitrary, which also leads to conflict.
As far as your other examples go: I don't think there are too many starving Indonesians these days (though many are apparently still beaten with canes). Cambodia was fairly well off until the whole Pol Pot debacle, and they are coming back around now along with Vietnam & the rest of SE Asia. Liberia is coastal, but until the recent strife it was seen as pretty decent - plus it was formed by freed African-American slaves from the U.S. (former English colonies) so I don't think it fits in with your theory. Also, S. Africa & Zimbabwe have a strong Dutch (Afrikaans) & Portuguese influence; Egypt was variously inhabited by folks from Greece & the Roman Empire (remember Cleopatra?), as well as France; French also settled parts of the US (Louisiana) and Canada (Quebec). Not to mention the huge Spanish influence in North and especially Central and South America, the Philippines, etc.
Finally, you could say that in some of your examples, the countries involved only truly blossomed after getting fed up with the Brits and kicking them out (USA, India, etc.). Maybe that's what you meant by "rule themselves, and become proud, self sufficient countries"?
I do agree with your "lining pockets" comment though. That's one of the main reasons food and financial aid is not helping those who need it the most.
#include "disclaim.h"
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I seem to remember something from Psych 101 (it was 13 years ago so don't be surprised if I'm wrong) about a study of human wake/sleep patterns. What they did was shut volunteers up into a cave with no outside lighting and no clocks. They all fell into an approx. 25-hour wake/sleep cycle. Supposedly this explains why it is always easier to stay up late & sleep later than it is to both go to sleep & wake up earlier (so maybe jet lag is also worse when flying east than west). I always wondered if that meant the Earth's rotation had sped up (e.g. via a Deep Impact type event, but grazing the surface) at some point in the past. How would we ever find out? If we ever get fossils cloned like in Jurassic Park maybe....
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Great synchronicity - the Despair Calendar ad....
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...showed up when I clicked to this page. Coincidence? I think not...
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Slashdot Mirror
The PaceBook comes with a Transmeta Crusoe 600MHz processor, 4MB SMI Lynx graphics controller, 128MB SDRAM, 20GB HDD, 12.1" XGA TFT-LCD display with Windows ME or Windows 2000 OS. Optional accessories include CD-RW/DVD-ROM, wireless infrared remote control and CCD camera.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Even more hilarious is the DHMO.org website. A thinly veiled crack at the MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) phenomenon... even though I'm an ex-environmental lawyer I found it funny.
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I don't know, sounds a bit 'Big Brother' -ish to me.
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DejaGoogs.
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Yes, I got the joke - most of us Americans (me included, even though I speak a little French) are regrettably monolingual. However, as you probably already know, the U.S. Government agencies involved in espionage & counterterrorism (NSA, CIA, FBI, et al.) are the largest employers in the U.S. (if not the whole world) of trained linguists and translators. Everything from French to Arabic, Persian and Urdu. After all, once you break the code, you have to understand the underlying message. And let's not forget the WWII Navaho code-talkers.... I wonder if they have any other "secret" languages up their sleeves?
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I saw back in the mid-eighties in high school. The video instructor (Stan Smith maybe?) claimed that by merely repeatedly watching the "perfect form" displayed by the tennis players on the video (Stan Smith, Billie Jean King, et al.), then slowly practicing that form yourself, you could improve your game dramatically. I forget what he called it but it was something like "neuro-muscular programming" or muscle memory training. Maybe it really works... I didn't really see any improvement though, but it might take a lot more than the measly amount of time & effort I put into it.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
What will happen as society worldwide becomes more automated, is what has already happened in the more technologically advanced societies - people will reduce their birthrates to (or slightly below) the natural replacement rate of approx. 2 children per couple. Unless a massive technological singularity takes place (like the rapid development and deployment of a nanotech "replicator") there will be no massive displacement of human labor, just gradual, incremental inroads. With less need for massive amounts of manual labor, fewer people can be more intensively trained & educated, and work in the fewer remaining skilled positions, directing or tasking the automatons. Also, as the pool of "menial" laborers shrinks - even though most tasks can be automated, it will become a "prestige" item to have actual human craftsmanship involved - their wages will increase. Look at how much plumbers, butlers, gardeners, "sanitation engineers" etc. are getting paid nowadays, not to mention artists and athletes, and just extrapolate into the future. Not everybody needs to be programmers, even today. As systems get simpler and more robust more people will be able to use them with minimal formal training (think GUI/speech/gestural recognition, pictures of food on McD's POS terminals, etc.). Plus, look at how fast the current primitive technology has taken hold. When everybody's Grandma is on the 'Net without even blinking, then we'll know it's time to wheel out the fully automated solutions to just about everything.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
...using this as a video filter. They might turn out cheaper & actually on time (they could just use stunt doubles for the most part). Just have to substitute that funky green Matrix font for plain old ASCII....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Thanks for admitting the duplicate story at least. (at Altavista's Planned Patent Lawsuits by CmdrTaco on Wed January 17, 11:34 AM CDT ). Why does this seem to happen so often? Editor overload (not enough cooks), duplication of efforts (too many cooks), interface problems with viewing the submissions queue (it was a only a week-old story), or what?
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"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
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"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
You mean like that Jamiroquai video?
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Any mirrors out there?
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Not necessarily. See e.g. the Jains. Although it is debatable whether a purely chemically synthesized substance is/has "life".
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Here's a pretty well-known brand name for a PM 133 mobo: Asus. ASUS CUV4X-V. The reviewer probably got the PM133 eval. board straight from VIA.
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Sorry, it was a direct cut-n-paste quote from his website, www.woz.org.
#include "disclaim.h"
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Huh? SunOS (up through 4.x at least) was pretty strictly BSD-derived (e.g. 'ps auxww; shutdown -now'), although I believe System V style utilities were an installable option (under /usr/5bin). Whenever Sun pulled the Solaris name-change (SunOS 5.x = Solaris 2.x) is when they went to full System V (SVID) & POSIX compliance (e.g. 'ps -ef; shutdown -g0 -y -i6') although binaries under /usr/ucb retain the BSD semantics.
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"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I don't know if pencil is such a hot idea (unless you pat everyone down for erasers).
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Forget that! Buy something like an Apex where you can bypass CSS and go Region-Free!
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I remember back when the original Mac "superdrive" was a 1.44 MB auto-inject/eject floppy drive that would read and write Mac and PC format HD floppies (it was "super" compared to the 400/800KB DD Mac-only drives that were its predecessors). Now we get 4.7GB per disc - super-schweet! You've come a long way, baby...
My only caveat - does the DVD authoring include CSS-free and region-free options? Can you rip & copy DVD's with it? I'd hate for something this cool to be locked into the MPAA's riduculous regime....
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"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
You have it exactly in reverse. "KernKraft400" by Zombie Nation. See http://www.zombienation.org/.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Yep. Judging from his website though, he is heavily into Macs (and, as the cliche goes, so are many creative/artistic folks). Of course if Apple ever saw the light and put out an x86 MacOS X box w/AMD inside (as is oft rumored, but would probably only happen over Jobs' dead body).... can we say "slam dunk?"
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"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
"I wanna be your.... Sledgehammer!"
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Hm. I can blow a few holes in your theories pretty quickly (despite the fact that I'm a pretty WASPy Anglophile myself). Your English examples are all also countries with great expanses of navigable waters - long coastlines, with great harbors, and many inland rivers. (After all the Brits did have the world's best navy & merchant fleet for almost 200 years). Thus transporting food & redistributing capital, even with 18th century technology (ships & wagons), was pretty easy. Whereas most of the poorest African nations, are totally landlocked and drought-stricken to boot. I think the natural resources and historical factional conflicts of these nations are more relevant factors than the nationality of the imperialists who "discovered" them. As in most places worldwide, the national boundaries (drawn mostly by those imperialists) in Africa are pretty arbitrary, which also leads to conflict.
As far as your other examples go: I don't think there are too many starving Indonesians these days (though many are apparently still beaten with canes). Cambodia was fairly well off until the whole Pol Pot debacle, and they are coming back around now along with Vietnam & the rest of SE Asia. Liberia is coastal, but until the recent strife it was seen as pretty decent - plus it was formed by freed African-American slaves from the U.S. (former English colonies) so I don't think it fits in with your theory. Also, S. Africa & Zimbabwe have a strong Dutch (Afrikaans) & Portuguese influence; Egypt was variously inhabited by folks from Greece & the Roman Empire (remember Cleopatra?), as well as France; French also settled parts of the US (Louisiana) and Canada (Quebec). Not to mention the huge Spanish influence in North and especially Central and South America, the Philippines, etc.
Finally, you could say that in some of your examples, the countries involved only truly blossomed after getting fed up with the Brits and kicking them out (USA, India, etc.). Maybe that's what you meant by "rule themselves, and become proud, self sufficient countries"?
I do agree with your "lining pockets" comment though. That's one of the main reasons food and financial aid is not helping those who need it the most.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I seem to remember something from Psych 101 (it was 13 years ago so don't be surprised if I'm wrong) about a study of human wake/sleep patterns. What they did was shut volunteers up into a cave with no outside lighting and no clocks. They all fell into an approx. 25-hour wake/sleep cycle. Supposedly this explains why it is always easier to stay up late & sleep later than it is to both go to sleep & wake up earlier (so maybe jet lag is also worse when flying east than west). I always wondered if that meant the Earth's rotation had sped up (e.g. via a Deep Impact type event, but grazing the surface) at some point in the past. How would we ever find out? If we ever get fossils cloned like in Jurassic Park maybe....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
...showed up when I clicked to this page. Coincidence? I think not...
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