So if, like you say, "Nokia offers several great devices which should compete with the iPhone at half the price", why do they feel the need to copy it?
OTOH strike that - the demo doesn't show it can do multi-touch, so it must be better than the iPhone anyway.
It doesn't matter how many times you say it, or how many left-wing websites you quote, Al Gore tried to steal the election in 2000 and failed. Granted, if you change enough rules, Gore could have pulled it out, but that would not really be fair, would it? You can't change the rules AFTER the election to favor one side over another. Fortunately, the US Supreme Court decided that it wouldn't be legal, either. IOW you'll keep ignoring the illegally disenfranchised voters and other iregularities in Florida .
If you think Hillary Clinton won't abuse any power, then you have forgotten the flurry of Executive Orders that her husband issued during the last 90 days of his presidency. http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/c-execorder s.html Bill Clinton abused the use of Executive more than any other president. Oh, did he?
Despite uncontradicted statements attributed to Rush Limbaugh that Mr. Clinton issued more executive orders than any prior president, his numbers are at the low end for recent presidents, despite questions about content. Mr. Clinton has averaged 45.8 executive orders a year, the least among the last eight presidents except for Mr. Bush, who averaged 42 per year.
Well, unlike the Probe Ministries (whose mission is to reclaim the primacy of Christian thought and values in Western culture through media, education, and literature) this is obviously a biased source.
Windows can't compete with a 1 Mhz computer made in 1992 with 38,911 BASIC BYTES FREE
READY.
[] Yeah, if you plug an SD-Card reader into the C64, and then a DSP-board onto that reader which then accesses the SD-Cards, completely bypassing anything original to the C64. I'm to lazy to check whether you can still use the 10MBit Ethernet card at the same time.
It's amusing to see somebody like you acknowledge the equivalence of a Chomskyite position with a US Government position. You can turn in your secret Chomskyite decoder ring at the door as you leave.
Them were confusing times. All the 'Support the NLF' loonies splintered into a whole bunch of factions when China invaded Vietnam after Vietnam invaded Cambodia. Maoists and various weird factions scattered all over the spectrum, trying to figure out what 'the line' was. And again another [bleep] doesn't understand what I am saying. The American Government supported Pol Pot before he came to power, while he was in power, and after he was kicked out of power, because he was anti-VC. The "support" Chomsky gave was saying the Pol Pot probably didn't kill as many people as others claimed, because (among other things) those numbers counted the victims of American bombings of Cambodia as victims of the Khmer Rouge. You can stuff your "Conservative America never does wrong" attitude where the sun doesn't shine.
How can you be clear on what he said when you don't quote everything. Says the guy who quoted less than me. Face it, you are wrong. Changing your argument that instead of the ball he suddenly meant the bat- which is an even dumber argument - won't save you.
It also explains why so many of the Holocaust Jews ended up in Israel. Many of them didn't want to go an live in some Middle Eastern desert. They were Europeans and would much have preferred to go to the US, Canada or perhaps some other European country. They were being deliberately channelled into Palestine to build up the numbers. And then there are the Jews from countries like Iraq and Egypt (to name just two). In the early 1950s Israel did everything to gow tension between them and their Mulim neighbors, they even staged attacks on them to drive them to Israel. Look for the "Lavon Affair". Also http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/ameu_iraqjew s.html
Muslims game everything for their benefit. It is written down in their scriptures. It is also written in their scriptures "not to take christians and jews as friends", "to fight them until they submit" ("islam" means "submission" BTW), "to terrorise them wherever they are", and so forth and so on. All of islam is an endless litany of hate incomprehensible to someone who is not muslim or who has not had extensive dealings with muslims. If you go here, http://www.faithfreedom.org/ you will learn more than you ever wanted to know about islam.
Wow, that sounds almost as bad as things like:
10And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
11And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
Or
19But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.
...
21And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
Or how about this little story of a raid
17That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
...
24Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
32Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
33And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
34And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
35Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
3So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
4And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
6And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
7But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
And on and on. Now here's a good one:
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Not enough?
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder
Chomsky backed the Pol Pot regime earlier, and for a longer period of time, than just about any other Western intellectual. That alone makes him a brilliant thinker. And US government did it even longer. They must be smarter than him.
Lol.. He wasn't talking about the power of a nuke. He was talking about the weight of one. As in the 500kg of steel would be about the weight of a warhead. So anyone who could do that with a 500k steel ball could likely do it with a nuclear capable warhead also. And this idea of dual use is why and what needs to be looked at respectively. Too bad for your argument that what he said was "a 500 Kg steel ball in orbit, which would make a weaponas good as a nuke, and a cleaner one." He was clearly not talking about how someone "could likely do it with a nuclear capable warhead also", but about the steel ball itself.
Not to mention that a a warhead in space alone is pretty useless (unless if you want to create an EMP).
Typical slashdot. First most games are produced by teams, not individuals.
Houses are build by teams, should I pay a license fee for every person who visits my house ? No, you pay the guys who build your house according to their hourly rate, doesn't really matter if it's one guy or tens or hundreds. I'm sure the producers of the games would let you install it on as many computers as you liked, if you payed them for their full time. But you only pay them about 2 man-hours worth.
I've seen the point argued back and forth on Slashdot. The anti-cert people say that there's little value in a cert that can be crammed for... The problem is more that you have to cram for those tests, if only because some questions have to be answered in a way most sane persons would never do. And most of the others make you remember stuff that in the unlikely event that you should ever need to know, you will have forgotten anyway.
I make a bolt in Michigan. It ends up in a stop sign in a supermarket parking lot in Boise, ID. It uses X units of energy for manufacture and transport and produces Y units of pollution. I make the same bolt in the PRC instead and its manufacture and transport to that stop sign in Boise takes 9X units of energy and produces 4Y units of pollution. How, exactly, does Purchasing Power Parity enter into it at all?
PPP enters once you pretend GDP has anything to do with efficiency, not to mention anything like quality of life. Because you can inflate GDP with inflation. Anyway, even if you keep PPP out, rank 39 isn't that good either.
The PRC is now the workshop for the world. We've collectively outsourced a lot of our manufacturing there and it's dirty, inefficient production that often has to be transported long distances. We can reduce PRC pollution much more cheaply than we can reduce 1st world pollution because the PRC production centers often don't even do the cheap stuff that results in a great deal of bang for the buck. Not if you include the fact that "you" produce 20X CO2 while driving to the place where you make the bolt, and the Chinese only 5X - if he is one of the few with a car, else its about 0.01X.
Notice how the 'religious conflicts' section is only a small subset? Notice how the 'religious conflicts' section is selected subset of actual religious conflicts? Notice how it also doesn't say anything about the wars where a fraction (whatever the size) of combatants fought mostly because they were told "God is on our side" - and on all sides of the conflict too? Heck, he specifically excludes WW2, where one of the state leaders was seen as a descendant of gods by most of his people, which obviously had some cause in how the war went, even if that wasn't the reason for it.
Hmmm so let me get this straight, you can make an incorrect statement "the temperature on Earth has been rising for over a century" and demand Mars data to correlate to that. When I show your initial premise was wrong you ignore that and still demand mars data
I must say... NICE!
But here I will do some of your dirty work for you: Before you use dust storms as an excuse consider that weather is driven by the sun on earth and though the makeup of the martian atmosphere differers the same hold true there.
Actually, it does. Let me explain. To model something, you need quality data. To have quality data, you need to have good data correction algorithms to adjust for variation. When the scientists will not produce the source code, then the data correction algorithm is closed-sourced, which has material effect on the climate model.
Yeah, and to ride a horse, you need a horse, and a horse needs gras, and for gras to grow you need wind to pollinate the grass. So yes, you need wind to ride a horse.
"Well, the temperature on Earth has been rising for over a century"
REALLY! I could have sworn there was this period between 1950 and 1975 when it was decreasing.. Oh yea, There was (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling)... See This (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/DSC N4904-nas-a.6_crop.jpg) Its called 30 years of sustained cooling. I repeat: Where is your Mars data? [Tumbeling tumbleweeds, not even crickets chirping] Thought so.
I know it's hip to hate Fox News... But the actual article describes the people denying global warming is man made as a "fringe group" and includes quotes from British researchers pointing out that it really doesn't matter on a global scale. I know it's hip to defend Fox News... But the article you claim is the "actual article" is a "Times" peace from today, and thus can not be the article Hanson mentioned in his message from yesterday. Now the "Media Matters" article names the original Fox piece:
During the "Political Grapevine" segment of the August 10 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, guest host and chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle reported that NASA was forced "to admit it was wrong when it said that 1998 was the hottest year on record".
And they even have the video on that page. Any more "stop being unfair to Fox News"?
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OTOH strike that - the demo doesn't show it can do multi-touch, so it must be better than the iPhone anyway.
Because you have a harddrive but no firmware.
364 Total Executive Orders Issued, 381 Total Executive Orders Issued, too bad he hadn't more time.
Windows can't compete with a 1 Mhz computer made in 1992 with 38,911 BASIC BYTES FREE
READY.
[] Yeah, if you plug an SD-Card reader into the C64, and then a DSP-board onto that reader which then accesses the SD-Cards, completely bypassing anything original to the C64. I'm to lazy to check whether you can still use the 10MBit Ethernet card at the same time.
Them were confusing times. All the 'Support the NLF' loonies splintered into a whole bunch of factions when China invaded Vietnam after Vietnam invaded Cambodia. Maoists and various weird factions scattered all over the spectrum, trying to figure out what 'the line' was.
And again another [bleep] doesn't understand what I am saying. The American Government supported Pol Pot before he came to power, while he was in power, and after he was kicked out of power, because he was anti-VC. The "support" Chomsky gave was saying the Pol Pot probably didn't kill as many people as others claimed, because (among other things) those numbers counted the victims of American bombings of Cambodia as victims of the Khmer Rouge. You can stuff your "Conservative America never does wrong" attitude where the sun doesn't shine.
Yeah, Americans would never stoop so low - they gloriously reenact the photo op. Much more honest that way.
Muslims game everything for their benefit. It is written down in their scriptures. It is also written in their scriptures "not to take christians and jews as friends", "to fight them until they submit" ("islam" means "submission" BTW), "to terrorise them wherever they are", and so forth and so on. All of islam is an endless litany of hate incomprehensible to someone who is not muslim or who has not had extensive dealings with muslims. If you go here, http://www.faithfreedom.org/ you will learn more than you ever wanted to know about islam.
Wow, that sounds almost as bad as things like:
10And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
11And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
Or
19But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.
...
21And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
Or how about this little story of a raid
17That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
...
24Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
32Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
33And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
34And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
35Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
3So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
4And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
6And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
7But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
And on and on. Now here's a good one:
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Not enough?
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder
And US government did it even longer. They must be smarter than him.
Not to mention that a a warhead in space alone is pretty useless (unless if you want to create an EMP).
Houses are build by teams, should I pay a license fee for every person who visits my house ? No, you pay the guys who build your house according to their hourly rate, doesn't really matter if it's one guy or tens or hundreds. I'm sure the producers of the games would let you install it on as many computers as you liked, if you payed them for their full time. But you only pay them about 2 man-hours worth.
A meme that even a woman could use!
You want to look like you smell like an artificial tree?
Well, even so these guys say Jesus was a prophet, I wouldn't call them Christians.
PPP enters once you pretend GDP has anything to do with efficiency, not to mention anything like quality of life. Because you can inflate GDP with inflation. Anyway, even if you keep PPP out, rank 39 isn't that good either. The PRC is now the workshop for the world. We've collectively outsourced a lot of our manufacturing there and it's dirty, inefficient production that often has to be transported long distances. We can reduce PRC pollution much more cheaply than we can reduce 1st world pollution because the PRC production centers often don't even do the cheap stuff that results in a great deal of bang for the buck. Not if you include the fact that "you" produce 20X CO2 while driving to the place where you make the bolt, and the Chinese only 5X - if he is one of the few with a car, else its about 0.01X.
I must say... NICE!
But here I will do some of your dirty work for you: Before you use dust storms as an excuse consider that weather is driven by the sun on earth and though the makeup of the martian atmosphere differers the same hold true there.
http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/resources
http://mars.sgi.com/ops/asimet.html
So let me get this straight: you still have jack shit about Mars temperatures (I said 100 years, not a few month), and you chose to ignore the fact that it is now warmer than 100 years ago by saying "it didn't always go straight upward". Way to go!
Actually, it does. Let me explain. To model something, you need quality data. To have quality data, you need to have good data correction algorithms to adjust for variation. When the scientists will not produce the source code, then the data correction algorithm is closed-sourced, which has material effect on the climate model.
Yeah, and to ride a horse, you need a horse, and a horse needs gras, and for gras to grow you need wind to pollinate the grass. So yes, you need wind to ride a horse.