We were talking about networks-transparency, not "integration" or some other thing you mention. So what the hell are you blathering about?
And OS X is not the Holy Grail of OS'es. Sure, it's nice, but it's not some Uber-OS some Mac-heads make it out to be.
What kind of shortfalls do you see in KDE's "integration"? Or how about "utility"? Please co tell, I'm just dying to know! And how does KDE lag behind Windows in "integration"?
Yeah right. It doesn't take a rocket-scientist to tell that France and the French aren't exactly hip right now in USA. What is that BS about "freedom fries" and "axis of weasel" about? Sure, you might not stand by if France was invaded, but the fact is that Americans don't really like the French right now.
Speaks volumes for their critical thinking skills, especially after we've spent the last 60 years (and countless billions of dollars) keeping them from becoming Soviet sattelite states. I'd like to think that kind of devotion to another's well-being ought to earn some small amount of trust and respect.
In short: "we helped you in the past, therefore you should trust and respect us!". And we did. For a long time. But GWB ruined it all. Or are you suggesting that we must "respect" and "trust" you, no matter how shitty things you try to pull?
trust and respect are earned. And for decades, you did earn it, and we gave it to you. But your recent actions have shown that you do not deserve trust nor respect. If you want to earn our trust and respect, try to act acordingly, instead of whining "you should trust and respect us, since we helped you long ago!". Instead of relying on your past actions, rely on your current and upcoming actions. Sadly, with GWB at the helm, I just don't see that happening, quite the contrary.
Does USA "trust" and "respect" France? After all, they helped you during your independence-war. No? Then stop your whining!
The purpose of the site is to get information to VOTERS. If you are a "non USian" (God, I hate that term. Take it back to K5 where it came from and let it die), you are not the intended audience.
But why go through the trouble of actively blocking non-americans from seeing it? I mean, if I create a website about some Finnish thing, and the site is in Finnish, I guess it's obvious that the target-audience are the Finns, right? But that doesn't mean that I would try to actively block foreigners from even seeing my website. And why should I?
Yeah, can you believe the US is actually making Iraq and Afganistan endure elections now? Geez, it's bad enough those bastards inflict that misery on their own people.
I think OP referred to stuff like ousting of democratically elected president of Chile and replacing him with General Pinochet. Or ousting the democrating regime of Iran, and replacing it with Shah. Or the attempted coup at Venezuela (again, to ous a democratically elected president). Or supporting Saddam Hussein, so he could wage his war against Iran (that war was a Good Thing (tm) since USA hated Iran because they dared to oust the US-backed puppet-regime).
especially after we've spent the last 60 years (and countless billions of dollars) keeping them from becoming Soviet sattelite states.
Ah, the old "Hey! we helped you in the past! Therefore you are eternally our bitches and you have to do whatever we tell you to do untill the end of time!"-argument.
I'd like to think that kind of devotion to another's well-being ought to earn some small amount of trust and respect.
You HAD our trust and respect. Hell, Europeans admired USA for decades! Europe and USA were really friendly towards each other during the Clinton-administration, and that was just few years ago! Too bad GWB managed to flush all that down the toilet with his "either you are our bithces, or you are against us"-bullshit coupled with his "pre-emptive self-defence"-crap.
By outright calling Nintendo childish you are neglecting, perhaps on purpose or perhaps through ignorance, things like Metroid Prime and Eternal Darkness, and imperiously discounting things like Zelda: Wind Waker, which despite its appearance is absolutely awesome, and the Pikmin games, which are really cool in a way few other games are. Perhaps you've just been listening to too many XBox fanboys.
Oh boo-fucking-hoo! Did I just insult you and your family by calling Nintendo childish? Well, they are. GameCube (espesially the oh-so-cute pink version) looks like it's straight from "My Little Pony". And quite many of the Nintendo-games ARE childish! Super Mario XVII, Pokemon, Pokemon Blue, Pokemon Red, Yet More Pokemon, It's the Pokemons again, Pokemons ad infinitum!
Sure, there are more "serious" games available as well. And I never said there aren't. But as a an outside observer, it seems that those kid-games are more dominant at Nintendo than with those other game-systems.
Disclaimer: I don't own any consoles. The games don't appeal to me. I'm more in to strategy and simulations, and consoles suck donkey-balls there.
It's funny to see people react when someone calls Nintendo childish. "I guess I hit pretty close to mark to get her all riled up like that, huh kid?"
And how many of these have you bought for an 8-10 year old child?
Then don't buy it for that kid. Give him etch-a-sketch instead.
Do you think the criteria for an adult purchase is different than that of a child's purchase? Do you think the primary audience for a portable game system is children or adults?
looking at some of the comments on/. and elsewhere, adults seems to be a HUGE market for portable game-machines! And with devices like PSP, it might become even more adult-oriented activity. Why should portable game-machines be meant for kids only? Because Nintento is dominant there, and they focus more on childish games like Pokemon and it's numerous offsprings?
Both of those cars are in street trim. When they go racing, you can be sure that they are properly equipped, including large spoilers.
And those Civics with huge wings are not driven on racetracks, but on ordinary streets. So what's your point?
why not allow them to make their own choices in how to modify them as well?
Of course they are allowed to put those wings on their cars. Just like rest of us are allowed to comment on them. And I merely pointed out that the "Those wings make the cars handle better! They are needed!"-comments are utter bullshit. If BMW M5 doesn't need one, Honda Civic sure as hell doesn't need one!
Does putting neon in a computer case make it run any faster?
No. And people are free to do so. And other people are free to say that it looks stupid (and it does). So what's your point?
Also, I don't know what you consider 'high speed', but wings can be effective at as little as 60mph.
Yeah, they propably drag down the vehicle, reducing it's top-speed and acceleration while having neglible effect on it's handling.
The TDP AMD quotes is not comparable to the figure Intel releases. What AMD does is to publish a figure for an entire family of CPU's. They are basically telling MoBo and heatsink-manufacturers to design their products so that they can handle a CPU with that TDP. The actual TDP of the CPU is significantly lower than the figure AMD says.
Basically, they say that "in some time in the future we might release a CPU that has this TDP. We advise you to prepare for it, by designing your products accordingly. Our current lineup is nowhere near that figure, however".
And like it was already pointed out. If G5 is so cool, why do they top out at just 2.5GHz, and that's with frigging liquid-cooling? Yes yes, I know: "They do it so make it silent". Couldn't it also just be that the G5 runs so hot, that it needs huge cooling-system?
Why do you expect to have privacy in a PUBLIC place? I mean, those cameras are on public places (where everyone can see you, cameras or no cameras) or on private property (who are you to tell the owner of that place what they can do on their own property?
Furthermore a lot of automobile companies (Opel, Volkswagen among them) used Peugeots Diesel-motor technology, since it is among the best engineered Dieselmotors.
Ford uses Peugeot's diesel-engines, but VW's TDI is made by Volkswagen (more precisely, it's originally an Audi-engine and VW got it from there (VW owns Audi)).
A rear spoiler on a front wheel drive car still makes sense, it possibley makse *more* sense.
If BMW M5 or Audi RS6 don't need humungous wings, I fail to see why some ricer needs one in his econobox-Civic. So to comment on your post: those wings DO NOT make any sense! Formula 1-car might need one, but those ricers sure as hell don't NEED one! Their cars are not going to get even close to speeds where that wing would have any meaningful impact. And since those wings are just slapped on the car, it's questionable that do they provide any advantages at all, even at high speeds.
If REAL performance-cars can manage just fine without humungous wings, why do those Civics need one?
Try an IBM ThinkPad R Series R51, $1299; 14 inch display. Comes with CDRW and DVD player. Weighs 5.7-6.0lbs. Yeah, with the cdrom, would you believe it?
it has crappy integrated vid-card, nowhere near the Radeon 9200 iBook has. Hell, the hi-end version of the R-series has Radeon 7500, which still isn't anywhere near the vid-card the iBook has (but is still alot better than the Intel Extreme Graphics 2 found on the model you quoted).
Hell, that vid-card spanked by GeForce 4MX, and MX is alot crappier than the 9200 is! I wouldn't be surprised if the vid-card on the iBook is order of magnitude more powerful than the one in the R-series is!
So, comparing the $1.299 iBook to thew $1.299 R-series, we can see that the iBook has ALOT more powerful vid-card, twice as much HD-space (60GB vs. 30GB) and a FireWire-port. iBook IS a kick-ass machine for the amount of money you pay for it!
I wasn't blathering, it was just your zealot apple mind garbling the english.
Apple-zealot? Funny, considering that I don't own any Apple hardware. I don't care that much for Mac OS X (I have used it for total of about 10 minutes) and I have been arguing with Apple-fans on Slashdot on numerous occasions (IIRC last time was when I said "Apple-quality" is not what it's made out to be)
While I agree with your main point, I want to nitpick with your statement about the Pentium-M, because obviously you aren't fully aware of those.
Huh? I said that Pentium-M is a good chip, but you don't usually find those in low-end machines. You then spend your entire post telling the exact same thing I said in my original post! So how exactly am I "not aware of [Pentium-M]". Well, I didn't mention Pentium-M's Celeron-variant, but it too (naturally) is not as good as real Pentium-M is.
To re-iterate my point: Pentium-M is a good chip. But you usually can't find one in $1000 laptop (if you can, they hace skimped on something else). Those $1000 x86-machines usually have Celeron's in them (until recently the P4-variant, in the future Pentium-M variant). And Celerons (espesially the P4-variants) are not that good.
How am I "mixing facts up"? I said these are low-end machines (and around $1000, they are), and I said equivalent x86-machines would have a Celeron in them. You then say that "You mix facts up, Celerons go to low-end machines". Huh? Isn't that what I just said??
A Latitude D800/Wide Aspect/Centrino (starting at ~$1400) for $2000 would wipe the floor with this thing. Not to mention equivilant battery life.
So, a x86-laptop that is twice as expensive, would "wipe the floor with the iBook"? Uh-huh. I sure hope it would, since it's TWICE AS EXPENSIVE! And D800's wieght starts a 7 lbs, whereas iBook weights 5.9 pounds (the 14" model). So it's heavier. And looking at their measurements, it's bulkiers as well (D800 is thicker, wider and deeper). And, AFAIK, iBook has better vid-card (Radeon 9200 vs. GeForce FX Go 5200). And the Dell ships wuith a frigging CD-ROM as standard, you have to pay extra for DVD! Not to mention that the Dell looks cheap.
These are "low-end" consumer laptops. Equivalent x86-machines would have something like 2GHz Celeron in them. And I assume I don't have to tell you how much Celerons suck? And what about the size of the laptop? Battery-life? I think iBook would beat that lowly Celeron-laptop quite easily in those things.
So, smaller laptop with longer battery-life, AND better CPU (Pentium-M is good, but those aren't usually in low-end machines)? Sounds like a good deal to me!
1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
Does this case fulfill either of those two things? In my opinion: no. Well, of course there was the joke about people from India speaking with funny accent. And guess what? It's true. Is it stereotyping if it's true?
And besides, this isn't about RACE. Indians don't have funny accent because of their race, their accent is due to other things. If I make fun of Americans (for example), am I being a "racist"?
Gee... Oak Ridge Nuclear Labs spouting the safety of nuclear power. What a big surprise.
Nuclear power IS safe. Chernobyl was by far the worst nuclear accident in the world. And it was caused by technicians trying everything they could do to cause it. And in the end, it's effects on mortality-rates in Ukraine were pretty modest (I read one report that put the figure around 0.14% increase).
If Nuclear Power is so unsafe, why haven't we seen lots and lots of accidents around the world? We had Three-Mile Island in USA, a relatively minor accident. And the absolute worst accident in the world was not really an accident, and the reactor was inherintly unsfe (unlike western reactors) and it too didn't cause that much casualties. Why isn't France a nuclear wasteland, considering that they get majority of their power from nuclear reactors?
And, like it was pointed out to you, the Oak Ridge study was based on EPA statistics, so I think we can safely say that you were "0wn3d" (to use the parlance of our times).
I fail to see how the altered versions are "what the movies were supposed to be". Sure, I can understand altering the SFX (they can do alot more advanced stuff today that they could do back when SW was originally released). But what about changes to the storyline? like Greedo shooting first. If they wanted to, they could have made Greedo shoot first in the theatrical release. But they didn't. There was no REAL reason to change that scene, apart from Lucas's desire to pussify Solo. If they wanted Greedo to shoot first, they could have done so right from the beginning.
b) You mean to say that there was a mini ice-age as recently as the mid-1700s. Does this mean that we are still in one? I'd say we listen to the climatologists on this one, who say no.
as to satellite data.... this site clearly states that "Unlike the surface-based temperatures, global temperature measurements of the Earth's lower atmosphere obtained from satellites reveal no definitive warming trend over the past two decades. The slight trend that is in the data actually appears to be downward.". How do you explain that?
Your data is just wrong for b, d and e
Well, you failed to address my point D at all (apart from saying "your data is wrong"). Am I supposed to just say "yes, you are right, my mistake". And I countered your arguments regarding B, C and E. And you failed to even mention my other points.
First, there is plenty of hard evidence. Thermometers around the world, satellite data, and much soft evidence like receding glaciers and retreating sea ice points quite clearly to global warming being real.
Few points: a) Is the warming caused by humans? And not by the sun for example? b) Did you know that we are still recovering from the previous ice-age? And that means (naturally) that temperature rises towards the "normal" temperature. c) They showed a documentary here few weeks ago about global warming. After studying the glaciers in Sweden, they noticed that they haven't got any smaller. Sure, the size does change a bit every year, but they have been more or less stable in the big picture. d) They also showed that while temperature has risen a bit in urban areas, there has been no rise in the wilderness e) IIRC the satellite-readouts showed that the Earth is getting cooler, not warmer. But then again, my data is from few years back
And GNOME is definitely the more professional and efficiently designed
What makes GNOME "more professional and efficient"? Seriously?
Comparing how "professional" they are.... For example, KDE-folks were aware that people disliked the default style (Keramik). But they were unwilling to change it in a minor release, since change like that would significantly affect the look 'n feel of the UI. They are changing it in 3.4 though, but only after alot of forethought.
GNOME, on the other hand, had not problems changing their entire filemanagement-style in a minor release. They went from browsing to spatial filemanagement. And that is a huge change! They also changed their fileselector and god knows what other things!
KDE tends to be more conservative with disruptive changes like that. And to me, that feels like they are concerned about their enterprise-users who don't want disruptive changed in a minor release. Disruptive changes are for major releases.
As to "efficiency"... KDE seems to be way ahead of GNOME. Everything in KDE is a Kpart that can be embedded in to other apps. Take a look at Kontact. All those apps (Kmail, Korganizer etc.) are standalone apps that can be ran separately or as part of larger whole (Kontact). Stuff like that simply doesn't happen in GNOME. Evolution and Kontact are more or less comparable. But Evolution is one lumbering mass of an app, whereas Kontact is simply a framework os using separate apps stogether (in true UNIX-style).
What KDE needs is more sensible defaults and refined UI. But those are relatively minor superficial things when compared to the more fundamental changes that wait GNOME.
Well, you were the one making those moronic "In USA we have life, liberty and property, unlike those in Europe"-comments.
Its provisions for 'social security' aka welfare-rights are radically different in kind from the rights guaranteed in the US constitution.
And, of couse, you automatically assume that the US Constitution is somehow superior?
My right to free speech is the right to be free from government censorship/penalty for speaking my mind.
Untill FBI comes along, that is?
Welfare rights, OTOH, are rights to goods, not to freedom of action.
"Welfare rights" are rights to certain set of services, no matter what your economic or social status might be. They do not say that "you have the right to a state-sponsored car". They do say something like "you have the right to educate yourself". So they ARE "freedom of action". Your means of educating yourself (for example) are not held back by your financial status.
Where is this freedom for those doctors, other healthcare providers, and taxpayers footing the burden?
Those doctors are free to work in private hospitals for example (and many of them do). They are not forced to work in some public hospitals in any shape or form. AFAIK Finland doesn't spend that much of it's GDP on healthcare when compared to other countries.
Where is the freedom and equality for this minority?
What freedoms are you referring to? There are plenty of achievers in Finland. Plenty of people start their own businesses and succeed.
next time remind me to slam your Finlands 'national service' conscription thing. Freedom my ass.
How is that different from (for example) paying taxes? You are required to pay taxes even in your beloved USA. Does that make you less free?
And lets talk about military facts for a while, shall we? Let's assume Finland moved to all-volunteer professional army. Now, size of that army would be radically smaller than it is now (about 300.000). My guesstimate would be around 20.000 - 30.000. Now, the border between the Enemy (Russia) and Finland is about 1.340 kilometers long. How do you defend a border that long with just 30.000 men while having some kind of strategic reserve at your disposal? Answer: you don't. It's very easy to talk from USA and say "you should do things differently". You are not a tiny country living next to a behemoth that has tried to invade you several times during your history! Professional army would not work in a country like Finland. That is a fact.
But, if you are too much of a pussy to serve, you are free to do civil service instead. But still, overwhelming majority of men serve willingly. And some women volunteer to serve as well.
I find it rather surprising that you are trying to paint Finland as some kind of oppressive state. We don't have Patriot-act. Secret Police doesn't snoop what books we borrow from libraries. Secret Police doesn't confiscate hard-drives that contain "undesireable" info.
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We were talking about networks-transparency, not "integration" or some other thing you mention. So what the hell are you blathering about?
And OS X is not the Holy Grail of OS'es. Sure, it's nice, but it's not some Uber-OS some Mac-heads make it out to be.
What kind of shortfalls do you see in KDE's "integration"? Or how about "utility"? Please co tell, I'm just dying to know! And how does KDE lag behind Windows in "integration"?
Yeah right. It doesn't take a rocket-scientist to tell that France and the French aren't exactly hip right now in USA. What is that BS about "freedom fries" and "axis of weasel" about? Sure, you might not stand by if France was invaded, but the fact is that Americans don't really like the French right now.
In short: "we helped you in the past, therefore you should trust and respect us!". And we did. For a long time. But GWB ruined it all. Or are you suggesting that we must "respect" and "trust" you, no matter how shitty things you try to pull?
trust and respect are earned. And for decades, you did earn it, and we gave it to you. But your recent actions have shown that you do not deserve trust nor respect. If you want to earn our trust and respect, try to act acordingly, instead of whining "you should trust and respect us, since we helped you long ago!". Instead of relying on your past actions, rely on your current and upcoming actions. Sadly, with GWB at the helm, I just don't see that happening, quite the contrary.
Does USA "trust" and "respect" France? After all, they helped you during your independence-war. No? Then stop your whining!
But why go through the trouble of actively blocking non-americans from seeing it? I mean, if I create a website about some Finnish thing, and the site is in Finnish, I guess it's obvious that the target-audience are the Finns, right? But that doesn't mean that I would try to actively block foreigners from even seeing my website. And why should I?
I think OP referred to stuff like ousting of democratically elected president of Chile and replacing him with General Pinochet. Or ousting the democrating regime of Iran, and replacing it with Shah. Or the attempted coup at Venezuela (again, to ous a democratically elected president). Or supporting Saddam Hussein, so he could wage his war against Iran (that war was a Good Thing (tm) since USA hated Iran because they dared to oust the US-backed puppet-regime).
Ah, the old "Hey! we helped you in the past! Therefore you are eternally our bitches and you have to do whatever we tell you to do untill the end of time!"-argument.
You HAD our trust and respect. Hell, Europeans admired USA for decades! Europe and USA were really friendly towards each other during the Clinton-administration, and that was just few years ago! Too bad GWB managed to flush all that down the toilet with his "either you are our bithces, or you are against us"-bullshit coupled with his "pre-emptive self-defence"-crap.
Oh boo-fucking-hoo! Did I just insult you and your family by calling Nintendo childish? Well, they are. GameCube (espesially the oh-so-cute pink version) looks like it's straight from "My Little Pony". And quite many of the Nintendo-games ARE childish! Super Mario XVII, Pokemon, Pokemon Blue, Pokemon Red, Yet More Pokemon, It's the Pokemons again, Pokemons ad infinitum!
Sure, there are more "serious" games available as well. And I never said there aren't. But as a an outside observer, it seems that those kid-games are more dominant at Nintendo than with those other game-systems.
Disclaimer: I don't own any consoles. The games don't appeal to me. I'm more in to strategy and simulations, and consoles suck donkey-balls there.
It's funny to see people react when someone calls Nintendo childish. "I guess I hit pretty close to mark to get her all riled up like that, huh kid?"
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Then don't buy it for that kid. Give him etch-a-sketch instead.
looking at some of the comments on
And those Civics with huge wings are not driven on racetracks, but on ordinary streets. So what's your point?
Of course they are allowed to put those wings on their cars. Just like rest of us are allowed to comment on them. And I merely pointed out that the "Those wings make the cars handle better! They are needed!"-comments are utter bullshit. If BMW M5 doesn't need one, Honda Civic sure as hell doesn't need one!
No. And people are free to do so. And other people are free to say that it looks stupid (and it does). So what's your point?
Yeah, they propably drag down the vehicle, reducing it's top-speed and acceleration while having neglible effect on it's handling.
The TDP AMD quotes is not comparable to the figure Intel releases. What AMD does is to publish a figure for an entire family of CPU's. They are basically telling MoBo and heatsink-manufacturers to design their products so that they can handle a CPU with that TDP. The actual TDP of the CPU is significantly lower than the figure AMD says.
Basically, they say that "in some time in the future we might release a CPU that has this TDP. We advise you to prepare for it, by designing your products accordingly. Our current lineup is nowhere near that figure, however".
And like it was already pointed out. If G5 is so cool, why do they top out at just 2.5GHz, and that's with frigging liquid-cooling? Yes yes, I know: "They do it so make it silent". Couldn't it also just be that the G5 runs so hot, that it needs huge cooling-system?
Why do you expect to have privacy in a PUBLIC place? I mean, those cameras are on public places (where everyone can see you, cameras or no cameras) or on private property (who are you to tell the owner of that place what they can do on their own property?
Ford uses Peugeot's diesel-engines, but VW's TDI is made by Volkswagen (more precisely, it's originally an Audi-engine and VW got it from there (VW owns Audi)).
If BMW M5 or Audi RS6 don't need humungous wings, I fail to see why some ricer needs one in his econobox-Civic. So to comment on your post: those wings DO NOT make any sense! Formula 1-car might need one, but those ricers sure as hell don't NEED one! Their cars are not going to get even close to speeds where that wing would have any meaningful impact. And since those wings are just slapped on the car, it's questionable that do they provide any advantages at all, even at high speeds.
If REAL performance-cars can manage just fine without humungous wings, why do those Civics need one?
it has crappy integrated vid-card, nowhere near the Radeon 9200 iBook has. Hell, the hi-end version of the R-series has Radeon 7500, which still isn't anywhere near the vid-card the iBook has (but is still alot better than the Intel Extreme Graphics 2 found on the model you quoted).
Hell, that vid-card spanked by GeForce 4MX, and MX is alot crappier than the 9200 is! I wouldn't be surprised if the vid-card on the iBook is order of magnitude more powerful than the one in the R-series is!
So, comparing the $1.299 iBook to thew $1.299 R-series, we can see that the iBook has ALOT more powerful vid-card, twice as much HD-space (60GB vs. 30GB) and a FireWire-port. iBook IS a kick-ass machine for the amount of money you pay for it!
Apple-zealot? Funny, considering that I don't own any Apple hardware. I don't care that much for Mac OS X (I have used it for total of about 10 minutes) and I have been arguing with Apple-fans on Slashdot on numerous occasions (IIRC last time was when I said "Apple-quality" is not what it's made out to be)
Huh? I said that Pentium-M is a good chip, but you don't usually find those in low-end machines. You then spend your entire post telling the exact same thing I said in my original post! So how exactly am I "not aware of [Pentium-M]". Well, I didn't mention Pentium-M's Celeron-variant, but it too (naturally) is not as good as real Pentium-M is.
To re-iterate my point: Pentium-M is a good chip. But you usually can't find one in $1000 laptop (if you can, they hace skimped on something else). Those $1000 x86-machines usually have Celeron's in them (until recently the P4-variant, in the future Pentium-M variant). And Celerons (espesially the P4-variants) are not that good.
Is this really that difficult to understand?
How am I "mixing facts up"? I said these are low-end machines (and around $1000, they are), and I said equivalent x86-machines would have a Celeron in them. You then say that "You mix facts up, Celerons go to low-end machines". Huh? Isn't that what I just said??
So, a x86-laptop that is twice as expensive, would "wipe the floor with the iBook"? Uh-huh. I sure hope it would, since it's TWICE AS EXPENSIVE! And D800's wieght starts a 7 lbs, whereas iBook weights 5.9 pounds (the 14" model). So it's heavier. And looking at their measurements, it's bulkiers as well (D800 is thicker, wider and deeper). And, AFAIK, iBook has better vid-card (Radeon 9200 vs. GeForce FX Go 5200). And the Dell ships wuith a frigging CD-ROM as standard, you have to pay extra for DVD! Not to mention that the Dell looks cheap.
So what the hell are you blathering about?
These are "low-end" consumer laptops. Equivalent x86-machines would have something like 2GHz Celeron in them. And I assume I don't have to tell you how much Celerons suck? And what about the size of the laptop? Battery-life? I think iBook would beat that lowly Celeron-laptop quite easily in those things.
So, smaller laptop with longer battery-life, AND better CPU (Pentium-M is good, but those aren't usually in low-end machines)? Sounds like a good deal to me!
Racism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (rszm)
n.
1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
Does this case fulfill either of those two things? In my opinion: no. Well, of course there was the joke about people from India speaking with funny accent. And guess what? It's true. Is it stereotyping if it's true?
And besides, this isn't about RACE. Indians don't have funny accent because of their race, their accent is due to other things. If I make fun of Americans (for example), am I being a "racist"?
Nuclear power IS safe. Chernobyl was by far the worst nuclear accident in the world. And it was caused by technicians trying everything they could do to cause it. And in the end, it's effects on mortality-rates in Ukraine were pretty modest (I read one report that put the figure around 0.14% increase).
If Nuclear Power is so unsafe, why haven't we seen lots and lots of accidents around the world? We had Three-Mile Island in USA, a relatively minor accident. And the absolute worst accident in the world was not really an accident, and the reactor was inherintly unsfe (unlike western reactors) and it too didn't cause that much casualties. Why isn't France a nuclear wasteland, considering that they get majority of their power from nuclear reactors?
And, like it was pointed out to you, the Oak Ridge study was based on EPA statistics, so I think we can safely say that you were "0wn3d" (to use the parlance of our times).
I fail to see how the altered versions are "what the movies were supposed to be". Sure, I can understand altering the SFX (they can do alot more advanced stuff today that they could do back when SW was originally released). But what about changes to the storyline? like Greedo shooting first. If they wanted to, they could have made Greedo shoot first in the theatrical release. But they didn't. There was no REAL reason to change that scene, apart from Lucas's desire to pussify Solo. If they wanted Greedo to shoot first, they could have done so right from the beginning.
And there was a warmer period of time in the 1000 - 1150 when temperatures were on average one centigrade above the levels we have now. Was that warming caused by humans as well? How do you explain it?
Well, a study conducted in Innsbruck University shows that glaciers in the Alps have been retreating since 1850! Was there human-caused greenhouse-effect back in 1850? And most of the retreating took place before 1965! Again: how do you explain that?
as to satellite data.... this site clearly states that "Unlike the surface-based temperatures, global temperature measurements of the Earth's lower atmosphere obtained from satellites reveal no definitive warming trend over the past two decades. The slight trend that is in the data actually appears to be downward.". How do you explain that?
Well, you failed to address my point D at all (apart from saying "your data is wrong"). Am I supposed to just say "yes, you are right, my mistake". And I countered your arguments regarding B, C and E. And you failed to even mention my other points.
Few points:
a) Is the warming caused by humans? And not by the sun for example?
b) Did you know that we are still recovering from the previous ice-age? And that means (naturally) that temperature rises towards the "normal" temperature.
c) They showed a documentary here few weeks ago about global warming. After studying the glaciers in Sweden, they noticed that they haven't got any smaller. Sure, the size does change a bit every year, but they have been more or less stable in the big picture.
d) They also showed that while temperature has risen a bit in urban areas, there has been no rise in the wilderness
e) IIRC the satellite-readouts showed that the Earth is getting cooler, not warmer. But then again, my data is from few years back
In 3.3, the clock-applet has two tabs ("appearance" and "timezones"). So what the hell are you talking about?
What makes GNOME "more professional and efficient"? Seriously?
Comparing how "professional" they are.... For example, KDE-folks were aware that people disliked the default style (Keramik). But they were unwilling to change it in a minor release, since change like that would significantly affect the look 'n feel of the UI. They are changing it in 3.4 though, but only after alot of forethought.
GNOME, on the other hand, had not problems changing their entire filemanagement-style in a minor release. They went from browsing to spatial filemanagement. And that is a huge change! They also changed their fileselector and god knows what other things!
KDE tends to be more conservative with disruptive changes like that. And to me, that feels like they are concerned about their enterprise-users who don't want disruptive changed in a minor release. Disruptive changes are for major releases.
As to "efficiency"... KDE seems to be way ahead of GNOME. Everything in KDE is a Kpart that can be embedded in to other apps. Take a look at Kontact. All those apps (Kmail, Korganizer etc.) are standalone apps that can be ran separately or as part of larger whole (Kontact). Stuff like that simply doesn't happen in GNOME. Evolution and Kontact are more or less comparable. But Evolution is one lumbering mass of an app, whereas Kontact is simply a framework os using separate apps stogether (in true UNIX-style).
What KDE needs is more sensible defaults and refined UI. But those are relatively minor superficial things when compared to the more fundamental changes that wait GNOME.
Well, you were the one making those moronic "In USA we have life, liberty and property, unlike those in Europe"-comments.
And, of couse, you automatically assume that the US Constitution is somehow superior?
Untill FBI comes along, that is?
"Welfare rights" are rights to certain set of services, no matter what your economic or social status might be. They do not say that "you have the right to a state-sponsored car". They do say something like "you have the right to educate yourself". So they ARE "freedom of action". Your means of educating yourself (for example) are not held back by your financial status.
Those doctors are free to work in private hospitals for example (and many of them do). They are not forced to work in some public hospitals in any shape or form. AFAIK Finland doesn't spend that much of it's GDP on healthcare when compared to other countries.
What freedoms are you referring to? There are plenty of achievers in Finland. Plenty of people start their own businesses and succeed.
How is that different from (for example) paying taxes? You are required to pay taxes even in your beloved USA. Does that make you less free?
And lets talk about military facts for a while, shall we? Let's assume Finland moved to all-volunteer professional army. Now, size of that army would be radically smaller than it is now (about 300.000). My guesstimate would be around 20.000 - 30.000. Now, the border between the Enemy (Russia) and Finland is about 1.340 kilometers long. How do you defend a border that long with just 30.000 men while having some kind of strategic reserve at your disposal? Answer: you don't. It's very easy to talk from USA and say "you should do things differently". You are not a tiny country living next to a behemoth that has tried to invade you several times during your history! Professional army would not work in a country like Finland. That is a fact.
But, if you are too much of a pussy to serve, you are free to do civil service instead. But still, overwhelming majority of men serve willingly. And some women volunteer to serve as well.
I find it rather surprising that you are trying to paint Finland as some kind of oppressive state. We don't have Patriot-act. Secret Police doesn't snoop what books we borrow from libraries. Secret Police doesn't confiscate hard-drives that contain "undesireable" info.
In Freedom of the Press-ranking Finland is Nr. 1. USA is 17th. So, which is more free there?
Freedom my ass.