It wasn't always a shithole and some people in various first world countries helped to become that way but of course how many know that?
The Russians, Chinese and North Koreans also helped of course.
It's people like you who ensure that the idea "Africa is a shithole" becomes fact even if it wasn't true to start with because your low expectations cause you to fail to act or cause your governments to do deals with the bad guys "because it's a shithole anyway and it doesn't matter". In the nicest and most polite sense: stuff you.
Dictators keep power with force, actually. They are respected as in fear. They may once have been seen as a better alternative but now that they entrenched they don't.
The US is a paradise on earth by comparison. I was born in Zimbabwe and I've been to America and it's pretty obvious why people try to emigrate. They emigrate to South Africa, get sent back and try again. Paradise is having a chance to earn a living.
Minefield has been usable for months and the penalty of whatever is still wrong with it is considerably less for me that the penalty of dealing with what's wrong in 3.6 so I naturally use it all the time.
Actually I have Chrome too and nowadays I find that it works less well than Minefield does, marginally, on the sites I need to access.
So top whining and get used to software *never* being perfect and the honesty of open source where the bugzilla (invented for Mozilla) is there for everyone to see.
The physics is fun but the birds have character because of the sounds and I like that most - they're not precisely cute either which is also nice because soppy cuteness can be revolting:-) Other games often lack this kind of appeal as it's harder to describe than fps and explosions. If I was going to rant it would be about how brain dead and boring multi-million dollar games seem to be *because* the money drives out the personality.
The N8 has very good battery life in my experience, for a smartphone anyhow but don't imagine that dual-core is off the radar for any manufacturer. It is an advantage to have two slower cores over 1 fast one in terms of battery life and they can all see it.
Symbian^3 also needs a GPU and has very good power management and doesn't support older hardware... oh, but wait, this is Slashdot....Symbian bad and old fashioned and hopeless...Android good.....
A couple of sensors 9 inches apart can cover an area within a radius of 980ft. That's why it is special - because you don't need one sensor for every space.
Because Zimbabwe is "dollarised" already - we use the US dollar because we couldn't control our own currency. I have a 500 billion Zim dollar note that is more valuable as toilet paper. That's why it's obvious that it is USD 15 million,.
Symbian's got an incredibly robust and excellent kernel. Complain about the UI if you want but it has a lot to teach Linux about robustness, power management and being light on resources.
This just shows how clueless this entire "OS" pissing contest is. The issues that people have are all about about user interfaces and whether or not you have a 1Ghz processor FFS.
Although everyone "slags off" Symbian (really the S60 UI) and declares "Android forever" and all that crap. it has a microkernel OS with File Servers and the rest - EKA2.
If you are in an office job like me then good broadband at home could make a difference to the energy crisis - 2 of 7 people in my team in the office, the rest at home. This means that 5 of us didn't use any fossil fuels to travel in to work.
Knowledge workers could all do this. The more bandwidth there is, the more we'll be able to make the experience as good as being in the same place.
I'm in London but I've worked from South Africa once for a while and there was really no difference except network speed from the guy working in Norwich. So that means that you should be able to have a property that isn't in the middle of the city just so you can go to work every day.
Don't think it can do anything about water though:-)
I know what you mean. In your circumstance you don't like the way C++ does things behind your back and is difficult to evaluate. It is a case of the people who know C++ trying to use it for everything.
I've seen people writing software that went into sensitive installations with C++, not realising that the STL they were using wasn't thread safe. Their code experienced mysterious problems and they couldn't solve it or change STLs. I found out what the problem was but it wasn't much help because I was brought in after the work was done. So it was a disaster.
But that happens because people get used to not thinking about the details and imagining that the language will always save them.
Cities exist because they are more economic than everyone being scattered about. If you try to reverse that in every way, then you are undoing the whole point of the concentration. Enjoy where you are, it's not all that great living in urtban areas.
It takes an unusual amount of hand-eye-co-ordination to throw Surface-to-Air missiles at things that far away though. Most natives would need years of training to do it even when they are not legally blind.
In the case of South Africa it has bought them a high GDP per capita (for a developing nation), strong diversified economy and very good infrastructure. i.e. they may not be at the end of the journey but they have plenty to hope for. It did not happen overnight though.
I has been available for years on my desktop and I don't use it. I communicate with people all over the world every hour of the day - I've tried it and given up bothering. It is on my existing phone (not an iPhone) but I don't use it.
And nobody else has either and they've had it on their phones for years. In fact since IM I actually make fewer voice calls.
.... so that some other crony capitalists can take over space flight, technology only developed because of the huge public expenditure on space in general through the military and NASA, and sell it back to the public.
Wow.
This isn't about "NASA is bad" as much as it's about Obamas new friends getting to feed at the trough. In the end it's still the American taxpayer paying. Fortunately I'm not one.
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It wasn't always a shithole and some people in various first world countries helped to become that way but of course how many know that?
The Russians, Chinese and North Koreans also helped of course.
It's people like you who ensure that the idea "Africa is a shithole" becomes fact even if it wasn't true to start with because your low expectations cause you to fail to act or cause your governments to do deals with the bad guys "because it's a shithole anyway and it doesn't matter". In the nicest and most polite sense: stuff you.
Dictators keep power with force, actually. They are respected as in fear. They may once have been seen as a better alternative but now that they entrenched they don't.
The US is a paradise on earth by comparison. I was born in Zimbabwe and I've been to America and it's pretty obvious why people try to emigrate. They emigrate to South Africa, get sent back and try again. Paradise is having a chance to earn a living.
Minefield has been usable for months and the penalty of whatever is still wrong with it is considerably less for me that the penalty of dealing with what's wrong in 3.6 so I naturally use it all the time.
Actually I have Chrome too and nowadays I find that it works less well than Minefield does, marginally, on the sites I need to access.
So top whining and get used to software *never* being perfect and the honesty of open source where the bugzilla (invented for Mozilla) is there for everyone to see.
The physics is fun but the birds have character because of the sounds and I like that most - they're not precisely cute either which is also nice because soppy cuteness can be revolting :-) Other games often lack this kind of appeal as it's harder to describe than fps and explosions. If I was going to rant it would be about how brain dead and boring multi-million dollar games seem to be *because* the money drives out the personality.
Better to be a pussy than a sad loser doing it for free :-)
The N8 has very good battery life in my experience, for a smartphone anyhow but don't imagine that dual-core is off the radar for any manufacturer. It is an advantage to have two slower cores over 1 fast one in terms of battery life and they can all see it.
No that's just the age of the N8's version of webkit. Try Opera for example or, when it comes out, try the 7.3 version of the browser
Symbian^3 also needs a GPU and has very good power management and doesn't support older hardware ... oh, but wait, this is Slashdot....Symbian bad and old fashioned and hopeless...Android good.....
A couple of sensors 9 inches apart can cover an area within a radius of 980ft. That's why it is special - because you don't need one sensor for every space.
Because Zimbabwe is "dollarised" already - we use the US dollar because we couldn't control our own currency. I have a 500 billion Zim dollar note that is more valuable as toilet paper. That's why it's obvious that it is USD 15 million,.
It runs on X86 too.
Symbian's got an incredibly robust and excellent kernel. Complain about the UI if you want but it has a lot to teach Linux about robustness, power management and being light on resources.
This just shows how clueless this entire "OS" pissing contest is. The issues that people have are all about about user interfaces and whether or not you have a 1Ghz processor FFS.
performance
Although everyone "slags off" Symbian (really the S60 UI) and declares "Android forever" and all that crap. it has a microkernel OS with File Servers and the rest - EKA2.
http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/47/04700252/0470025247.pdf
It's out there on hundreds of millions of devices too, and whatever you might say about the UIs ontop of it, it is pretty good in itself.
If you are in an office job like me then good broadband at home could make a difference to the energy crisis - 2 of 7 people in my team in the office, the rest at home. This means that 5 of us didn't use any fossil fuels to travel in to work.
Knowledge workers could all do this. The more bandwidth there is, the more we'll be able to make the experience as good as being in the same place.
I'm in London but I've worked from South Africa once for a while and there was really no difference except network speed from the guy working in Norwich. So that means that you should be able to have a property that isn't in the middle of the city just so you can go to work every day.
Don't think it can do anything about water though :-)
I know what you mean. In your circumstance you don't like the way C++ does things behind your back and is difficult to evaluate. It is a case of the people who know C++ trying to use it for everything.
I've seen people writing software that went into sensitive installations with C++, not realising that the STL they were using wasn't thread safe. Their code experienced mysterious problems and they couldn't solve it or change STLs. I found out what the problem was but it wasn't much help because I was brought in after the work was done. So it was a disaster.
But that happens because people get used to not thinking about the details and imagining that the language will always save them.
Cities exist because they are more economic than everyone being scattered about. If you try to reverse that in every way, then you are undoing the whole point of the concentration. Enjoy where you are, it's not all that great living in urtban areas.
It takes an unusual amount of hand-eye-co-ordination to throw Surface-to-Air missiles at things that far away though. Most natives would need years of training to do it even when they are not legally blind.
Because, unlike you, they aren't homophonic.
In the case of South Africa it has bought them a high GDP per capita (for a developing nation), strong diversified economy and very good infrastructure. i.e. they may not be at the end of the journey but they have plenty to hope for. It did not happen overnight though.
Are citizens allowed to buy nuclear weapons as a result of this?
I has been available for years on my desktop and I don't use it. I communicate with people all over the world every hour of the day - I've tried it and given up bothering. It is on my existing phone (not an iPhone) but I don't use it.
And nobody else has either and they've had it on their phones for years. In fact since IM I actually make fewer voice calls.
It's a gimmick.
Not it isn't. :-) There's nothing to it except being useful which video calling isn't.
There are a lot of people to cure or help and no money to cure them with. Hence it's much more important to invest in wealth creation than charity.
I've seen your proposed way of doing things and it didn't work well for us:
A Zimbabwean.
.... so that some other crony capitalists can take over space flight, technology only developed because of the huge public expenditure on space in general through the military and NASA, and sell it back to the public.
Wow.
This isn't about "NASA is bad" as much as it's about Obamas new friends getting to feed at the trough. In the end it's still the American taxpayer paying. Fortunately I'm not one.