Seriously. Don't you think there's a cost to all this? Do you really think a republic like the US could do something like this?
Are you really saying that most of these technologies are there because the govenment has forced them? I doubt it. There are many other countries with these techologies. Don't forget, China seens to embracing capitalism at the moment. This is why many of these things exist. Their economy is picking up.
The reasons for why these technologies exist or not is more to do with demand, population, density, etc. Not authoritive goverments.
Out of those 10 things, only two have a good case for your point: Free hemming and daily banking. The rest don't really have anything to do with cheap labour.
With the exception of dirt streets you can find all that in most American cities too. Granted the sewage in the streets is mainly from homeless people just going wherever it's convenient but it's there.
Hardly. The problem is much worse compared to the US or any 1st world country.
We tend to focus on stuff like how many homes have Internet, or how many homes have cable instead of talking about ways to help the homeless and poor.
Who's we? I think you'll find the US gov is still more interested in getting people into homes than making sure everyone has a net connection. And the reason people focus on net connections is because pretty much everyone already has basic housing etc. Unlike in China, who's situation is obviously worse.
Err... I never said flash media would never take off. It already has. I said they won't be replacing CDs, DVDs, and such any time soon. Perhaps you need to go down to your local store and compare the price of blanks CDs to flash media?
New innovation is automatically boring because idiot can't get past scratch-proof claim due to taking it too literally.
Come on, we all know nothing can ever be truly scratch-proof. So why bother pretending that this thing is useless because it doesn't live up to impossible expectations?
Oh great. Another complete idiot who things that a logo with a little professionalism means the end of the world.
Fine. You can stick with your complex, crappy, pencil-sketch logos that have nothing to do with communities or grass-roots efforts.
If anything, this wave of professionalism that seems to be sweeping through some parts of the OSS community (FireFox etc), just goes to show the strength that the community has; it's no longer a just a small group of nerds bumming around any more.
The OpenBDS puffer fish is a good mascot, but a poor logo. It's not simple (infact it seems to change), and doesn't really symbolise anything, with the possible exception of security.
Fun? I though NetBSD was about secure computer systems that run on many platforms? Why would they want a symbol that promotes fun? Are they going to change into an entertainment company? Aren't the mascots supposed to be the "fun" side of a organisations symbolism?
Well, my interpretation, apart from that it's a revision of an old logo, is that it the flag represents teamwork (as another poster said) and also dominance or pioneering. Which is fitting since one of NetBSD goals is to run on any platforms.
As for the meaning of orange, orange does not symbolise warning per se. It's just that it's used as a warning color because it's bright. Orange can mean warmth, invigorating, stimulating, strength, energy, "energy of red and the happiness of yellow", etc. Do a google search of the meanings of colors, and you will find many different meanings from all sorts of cultures.
I like the logo. It's clean, simple, and has meaning, like all logos should be.
While the rest of us are talking about how small they are, you're blabbering on about how short they are.
Tom Thumb looked like a kid. His body proportions are probably similar to a child, and probably nothing like the body or skull structure of this new discovery.
Doubt it. If that was the case, then commercial newspapers would have one hell problem each time they wrote something about a company that the company didn't like.
No. I hardly ever check the URL before clicking. Checking the URL each time I clicked a link would be even more of a pain in the ass than having a PDF pop up occasionaly.
Why don't you tell us exactly why it's fundamentally wrong? If you can't, then it seems that you are just having a fear reaction because you don't understand something.
Also, how do you know that this directly affects consciousness? Have you made some sort of scientific break-through that we should know about?
And what exactly is the difference in terms of consciousness between organic tissue and silicon systems? Are you saying that because this cultured rat brain is made from the same stuff as a rat brain--rather than silicon--then it must be conscious?
In terms of ethics, I'd be more worried about people like Bush, creating wars where innocent people are killed etc. I think you have your priorities around the wrong way.
A hovercraft's skirt doesn't have to air-tight. There are many different designs. I designed an RC hovercraft which was an "open" skirt design, the inside join of the skirt was suspended a 2cm down from the main chassis. The air was feed down though the duct fan, and skirt was inflated by the same pressure that makes the thing hover, not by a seperate fan, or by filling the skirt first and then letting the air bleed out to create the main lift/air cusion.
Anyway, the Flymo lawn mowers do hover well, and they seem to be a good design, with the exception that they tend to blow the grass down, which can't help when cutting.
Err... I can't draw for crap, yet I created this highly detailed model of an RC car.
Drawing freehand and creating a model with 3D modeling software are completly different things.
Hell, next thing you'll be telling us is that all computer graphic designers are good drawers aswell.
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Are you really saying that most of these technologies are there because the govenment has forced them? I doubt it. There are many other countries with these techologies. Don't forget, China seens to embracing capitalism at the moment. This is why many of these things exist. Their economy is picking up.
The reasons for why these technologies exist or not is more to do with demand, population, density, etc. Not authoritive goverments.
Out of those 10 things, only two have a good case for your point: Free hemming and daily banking. The rest don't really have anything to do with cheap labour.
Hardly. The problem is much worse compared to the US or any 1st world country.
We tend to focus on stuff like how many homes have Internet, or how many homes have cable instead of talking about ways to help the homeless and poor.
Who's we? I think you'll find the US gov is still more interested in getting people into homes than making sure everyone has a net connection. And the reason people focus on net connections is because pretty much everyone already has basic housing etc. Unlike in China, who's situation is obviously worse.
Not with cameras they won't. Not sure if they have them in China where they have these lights, but that's the solution.
Here's the obvious, but missing link to the Thunderbird homepage.
Err... I never said flash media would never take off. It already has. I said they won't be replacing CDs, DVDs, and such any time soon. Perhaps you need to go down to your local store and compare the price of blanks CDs to flash media?
Not going to happen any time soon: Cost.
New innovation is automatically boring because idiot can't get past scratch-proof claim due to taking it too literally.
Come on, we all know nothing can ever be truly scratch-proof. So why bother pretending that this thing is useless because it doesn't live up to impossible expectations?
Fine. You can stick with your complex, crappy, pencil-sketch logos that have nothing to do with communities or grass-roots efforts.
If anything, this wave of professionalism that seems to be sweeping through some parts of the OSS community (FireFox etc), just goes to show the strength that the community has; it's no longer a just a small group of nerds bumming around any more.
Fun? I though NetBSD was about secure computer systems that run on many platforms? Why would they want a symbol that promotes fun? Are they going to change into an entertainment company? Aren't the mascots supposed to be the "fun" side of a organisations symbolism?
As for the meaning of orange, orange does not symbolise warning per se. It's just that it's used as a warning color because it's bright. Orange can mean warmth, invigorating, stimulating, strength, energy, "energy of red and the happiness of yellow", etc. Do a google search of the meanings of colors, and you will find many different meanings from all sorts of cultures.
I like the logo. It's clean, simple, and has meaning, like all logos should be.
Tom Thumb looked like a kid. His body proportions are probably similar to a child, and probably nothing like the body or skull structure of this new discovery.
Doubt it. If that was the case, then commercial newspapers would have one hell problem each time they wrote something about a company that the company didn't like.
This is totaly different. The girl was obviously referencing the games themselves, and not using those names to describe something else.
Well, it must be you that is the brainless one if you assume that only brainless people want easy to use software.
Thanks for that.
No. I hardly ever check the URL before clicking. Checking the URL each time I clicked a link would be even more of a pain in the ass than having a PDF pop up occasionaly.
Please don't link to PDFs without warning. It's a pain in the ass.
Also, how do you know that this directly affects consciousness? Have you made some sort of scientific break-through that we should know about?
And what exactly is the difference in terms of consciousness between organic tissue and silicon systems? Are you saying that because this cultured rat brain is made from the same stuff as a rat brain--rather than silicon--then it must be conscious?
In terms of ethics, I'd be more worried about people like Bush, creating wars where innocent people are killed etc. I think you have your priorities around the wrong way.
Although you're being sarcastic, it isn't as far from the truth as you think it is.
Anyway, the Flymo lawn mowers do hover well, and they seem to be a good design, with the exception that they tend to blow the grass down, which can't help when cutting.
No. He's poking fun at slashdoters: "Lucas has never done anything worthwhile, have you seen the prequels?"
Probably right there. But I suspect that may change a bit, since now days you can design things without needing to draw.
I'm not sure sarcasm is the right word. Unless you're implying that computer graphic designers are always good drawers? In which case, that's false.
Drawing freehand and creating a model with 3D modeling software are completly different things.
Hell, next thing you'll be telling us is that all computer graphic designers are good drawers aswell.