No, it's not us Europeans. Being such limp-wrists, we decided not to do anything and instead to watch as the cheeseburger-munching obese Americans gorge themselves to death on fast food.
I do! Except I was poor and could only afford the TS1000 at first, and not the super-duper expensive 16K RAM pack that had to be scotch taped to the edge connector to prevent it from falling off...
My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 (TS1000 here in the USA). 1K of RAM (800-odd bytes free for programs and data), a monochrome display, a membrane keyboard, a 1KHz Zilog Z80 processor... I loved it. Taught myself BASIC by reading, reading, reading... mostly simple game listings from the UK mag C&VG (Computer and Video Games). Years later in a fit of pique I took an axe to it and tossed the remnants to the winds.
You know, the more I think about your comment the more angry I become. How dare you? Do you bandy allegations of racism around very often? By tossing it around for the smallest offence (and I'm still not sure what aspect of my post offended you since it was a statement of fact), you dilute its power when it is actually called for.
I have a pal who works in their sales in Europe... you're right. They have major supply chain and quality problems. I've gotten relatively lucky myself, though.
India is mostly an agrarian society. Sure, there is some industrialization, but what percentage of the population is employed in industry, services, versus agriculture? THAT is the point. As is the fact that it is NOT an OECD member, and this was an OECD report (dumbass):
OECD MEMBER COUNTRIES
Twenty countries originally signed the Convention on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on 14 December 1960. Since then a further ten countries have become members of the Organisation. The Member countries of the Organisation and the dates on which they deposited their instruments of ratification are:
AUSTRALIA: 7 June 1971
AUSTRIA: 29 September 1961
BELGIUM: 13 September 1961
CANADA: 10 April 1961
CZECH REPUBLIC: 21 December 1995
DENMARK: 30 May 1961
FINLAND: 28 January 1969
FRANCE: 7 August 1961
GERMANY: 27 September 1961
GREECE: 27 September 1961
HUNGARY: 7 May 1996
ICELAND: 5 June 1961
IRELAND: 17 August 1961
ITALY: 29 March 1962
JAPAN: 28 April 1964
KOREA: 12 December 1996
LUXEMBOURG: 7 December 1961
MEXICO: 18 May 1994
NETHERLANDS: 13 November 1961
NEW ZEALAND: 29 May 1973
NORWAY: 4 July 1961
POLAND: 22 November 1996
PORTUGAL: 4 August 1961
SLOVAK REPUBLIC: 14 December 2000
SPAIN: 3 August 1961
SWEDEN: 28 September 1961
SWITZERLAND: 28 September 1961
TURKEY: 2 August 1961
UNITED KINGDOM: 2 May 1961
UNITED STATES: 12 April 1961
It would appear that you are the one without a clue. Oh, and BTW, I didn't use a calculator where I went to school.
Mate of mine who works as a PM at their Dublin location is getting laid off this month too, along with a bunch of others... quite a decent severance package there too. He isn't worried, the IT market in Ireland has picked up a lot in the past year.
Yes, in Ireland Bertie Ahern (Prime Minister) of Fianna Fail just announced that he is, and always has been, a socialist, surprising the hell out of all of us!!! That must be what the tax-cutting and decimation of the healthcare system in the 80s by his party was all about.
Your math is off, idiot. US population = 280 million. German population (largest EU state) = 82 million. 280 divided by 82 is a hell of a lot less than 30, dumbass. Hint - it's closer to 3 than it is to 30.
1/3 as much, expressed as a percentage of GDP. I think your post proves the point that you haven't received a good education, dumbass. A better measure than overall GDP (using your own idiotic argument against you) would be GDP *per capita*. And more than a few countries beat the USA at that measure.
Is India in the OECD? This is an OECD study, and I thought the OECD is mostly composed of industrialized countries, something India is not. Console yourself with the fact that your former colonial masters (Great Britain) were excluded too, due to the required information being unavailable, I believe.
I think this is because so much money is wasted on utter shite in the USA. Really nice buildings, loads of computers, field trips that teach little to nothing, etc. Fuck all that! Pay your teachers well and ensure that they do their jobs. That's how most of the rest of us manage it; shitty school buildings don't matter, shitty teachers do.
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It isn't "Linux" enough at all -- it's BSD-based, so it's UNIX-like or BSD-like. Nothing to do with Linux.
No, it's not us Europeans. Being such limp-wrists, we decided not to do anything and instead to watch as the cheeseburger-munching obese Americans gorge themselves to death on fast food.
I do! Except I was poor and could only afford the TS1000 at first, and not the super-duper expensive 16K RAM pack that had to be scotch taped to the edge connector to prevent it from falling off...
My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 (TS1000 here in the USA). 1K of RAM (800-odd bytes free for programs and data), a monochrome display, a membrane keyboard, a 1KHz Zilog Z80 processor... I loved it. Taught myself BASIC by reading, reading, reading... mostly simple game listings from the UK mag C&VG (Computer and Video Games). Years later in a fit of pique I took an axe to it and tossed the remnants to the winds.
The iSeries scales up to be quite a large and powerful system... I think it qualifies depending on configuration as midrange or low-end mainframe.
michaeldot, i don't know jack about graphics -- would you explain this for me? it sounds interesting... thanks!
You didn't RTFA, did you? They clearly explain and illustrate this new BIOS layer, with diagrams even.
You know, the more I think about your comment the more angry I become. How dare you? Do you bandy allegations of racism around very often? By tossing it around for the smallest offence (and I'm still not sure what aspect of my post offended you since it was a statement of fact), you dilute its power when it is actually called for.
Racist? They're my former colonial masters too. I fail to see how mentioning that fact makes me racist.
I have a pal who works in their sales in Europe... you're right. They have major supply chain and quality problems. I've gotten relatively lucky myself, though.
Facing the same issue with both a PB 17 and a G3/600 iBook... $250 all told to replace both batteries. It sucks.
jeez, 400 mhz and 128mb ram? you're pushing it there a bit. glad it's faster though.
Have you tried resetting the PMU? All apologies if you have.
Damn! You almost had them with your skilled troll attempt -- oh wait, nah, ya didn't.
God that character is annoying. On the other hand, that ad campaign provided source material for the latest NetZero campaign, which isn't bad.
Mate of mine who works as a PM at their Dublin location is getting laid off this month too, along with a bunch of others... quite a decent severance package there too. He isn't worried, the IT market in Ireland has picked up a lot in the past year.
40 virgins? That's an Mujahadeen/martyr thing, isn't it... are you sure you're not from Rotterdam? ;-)
Yes, in Ireland Bertie Ahern (Prime Minister) of Fianna Fail just announced that he is, and always has been, a socialist, surprising the hell out of all of us!!! That must be what the tax-cutting and decimation of the healthcare system in the 80s by his party was all about.
Your math is off, idiot. US population = 280 million. German population (largest EU state) = 82 million. 280 divided by 82 is a hell of a lot less than 30, dumbass. Hint - it's closer to 3 than it is to 30.
1/3 as much, expressed as a percentage of GDP. I think your post proves the point that you haven't received a good education, dumbass. A better measure than overall GDP (using your own idiotic argument against you) would be GDP *per capita*. And more than a few countries beat the USA at that measure.
Keep telling yourself that, dumbass. There are so many holes in your self-deluding arguments I won't even bother pointing them out.
Is India in the OECD? This is an OECD study, and I thought the OECD is mostly composed of industrialized countries, something India is not. Console yourself with the fact that your former colonial masters (Great Britain) were excluded too, due to the required information being unavailable, I believe.
I think this is because so much money is wasted on utter shite in the USA. Really nice buildings, loads of computers, field trips that teach little to nothing, etc. Fuck all that! Pay your teachers well and ensure that they do their jobs. That's how most of the rest of us manage it; shitty school buildings don't matter, shitty teachers do.