Because Obama isn't a freak spawn of corporatism and Christian fundamentalism?
I'm British and a non-partisan centrist liberal. The world outside the US is very disappointed with Obama, mostly with his authoritarianism and blocking of a Palestinian state.
But the world is still a trying to recover from 8 years of Bush. And these Republican candidates, when they're not looking like cartoon characters, make Bush not seem so bad.
I exclude Ron Paul from the above description. Like him I believe in small government. I believe the state has no responsibility to adults unless they're ill beyond their control.
But you'd have to be insane to let someone who is anti-choice be President.
Medical science tells us there's no reason to believe that a young foetus is alive or human in any meaningful sense. Even if it was, if a woman chose to nurture a frail adult through bloodletting etc, we would support her right to terminate that arrangement. We would not say she is responsible for killing the frail adult.
Now Ron Paul ignores the science. And as a so-called protector of human rights passes the buck on the basic human right to self-determination knowing full well that this right will be breached. Such major flaws of logic disqualify him to be President as far as I'm concerned.
Note that I'm not saying abortion is consequence free. Medical science has its limits and cannot prove the foetus isn't worthy of protection. Certainly the Bible is no help, no matter what the religious Right say. So this is a matter of conscience.
Opera will run that in about 50MB if need be. It's designed to use spare RAM for caching which is marked for instant release if other programs request it.
I believe Firefox copied this feature too, which makes most of this discussion redundant.
Agree privatisation should not have been done, but BR was no better and probably worse.
Trains were 40s/50s stock; no heating or double glazing and no internal doors hence freezing cold; 50s heavy duty fabric seats which weren't heavy duty enough and ripped open with the foam sticking out an acute angle.. They were bloody expensive then too with the cheapest tickets roughly 75% more in real terms than what you can get now.
Usage is up 80% too, though some of that will be attributable to expensive petrol and people wanting to be green.
If I were Intel, I'd pay the Maemo/Meego community to do it. Shouldn't cost more than $25k which, for the goodwill alone, is peanuts. They also get one of the best communities in FOSS (these guys will appreciate ANY attention), hundreds of decent apps and a highly attractive platform for developers.
As well as including private debt, it excludes money that other countries owe Spain.
It is consequently misleading.
However, Spain does have a lot of private debt relative to assets following its real estate boom and bust. Domestic demand has consequently fallen. And they are stuck in the Euro hence bond rates are high..
Yes, I've been doing something similar for a while as a non-professional. I'd also have them put documents on a D: partition and get them to back up anything important once in a while. I used Norton Ghost and more recently Acronis True Image to back up the system partition.
Thing is, aren't you missing out on being paid by the hour to fix it every time?
It's notable that all those early pocket computer companies failed too. The Psion Revo was an amazing device, is still the only pocket device you can touchtype on, yet Psion left the market in 2001.
But this was an entirely different market. The geek market is half a million people at most.
Apple were aiming to create a new accessory that everybody would have.
Remember Apple first built a sexy MP3 player. At the time, competing MP3 players looked like bricks and had low storage. As a geek, I thought the original iPods with hard disks was a stupid idea - they couldn't cope with jogging and if you compressed music properly you didn't need that much space anyway.
The public didn't know and although adoption was slow, it was fast for a new life accessory.
Somehow, not that many iPods broke. Maybe Apple switched off the hard drive during any shaking. Any high profile scare stories could have killed Apple at that point though..
iPhone was the real breakthrough for Apple. Everyone already had a mobile phone and so it was the natural upgrade for the middle class. Somehow Apple got it in schools and every parent had to buy their parents one.
Interesting, although this much later article says that a venture capitalist group owning Odeon jacked up the rent on EasyCinema's first and only cinema.
However, the most profit can be made from charging what individual consumers are prepared to pay. The marginal cost of an extra cinema-goer probably is 20p, so any extra ticket sold above that price is pure profit. If you manage to sell them popcorn with the 5000% markup, kerching!
I think Gattaca should be compulsory viewing these days. It was a bit unrealistic - a government with that much power not abusing it??
And Google themselves are turning evil for much the same reason.
We'll soon be in the age of aborting perfectly health foetuses because they have addiction genes, or cancer genes. And people want to trust Google et al on not selling this information to potential employees or health insurers?
It seems every DRM can be got around, except for those copying the MW2 model and proprietary console media.
Indeed, the more difficult the DRM to crack, the more credibility to be gained from cracking it.
So what should games publishers do? In order to maximise profit, they should do what they are doing. Keep producing endless COD clones with MW2 server model, wait for a proprietary console and keep whining.
Maemo still has a great community updating the OS, building new apps etc. I just bought an N900 for £100 (same cost as a 2nd hand iPod) and I love it.
I'm inclined to believe if Apple had made these, they'd have sold a hundred million.
Anyway, there are 2 separate FOSS projects now: Maemo/Mer and Tizen. Tizen especially is trying to build an HTML5 front-end much like WebOS. Both WebOS and Maemo are based on real Linux (unlike Android). If Tizen can merge the two projects, allow the result to run Maemo and Debian apps with cross-compiling for Android apps, they might just have a competitor.
Windows Phone is in another world - they'll get almost no cross-development from these Linux based competitors. They're relying entirely on tying in with their XBoxen.
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I think you misunderstood my comment but I agree with your points.
Sad but true.
However, there were probablysubmissions with a more skeptical/balanced introduction. Else just starve them of the oxygen of publicity,
Because Obama isn't a freak spawn of corporatism and Christian fundamentalism?
I'm British and a non-partisan centrist liberal. The world outside the US is very disappointed with Obama, mostly with his authoritarianism and blocking of a Palestinian state.
But the world is still a trying to recover from 8 years of Bush. And these Republican candidates, when they're not looking like cartoon characters, make Bush not seem so bad.
I exclude Ron Paul from the above description. Like him I believe in small government. I believe the state has no responsibility to adults unless they're ill beyond their control.
But you'd have to be insane to let someone who is anti-choice be President.
Medical science tells us there's no reason to believe that a young foetus is alive or human in any meaningful sense. Even if it was, if a woman chose to nurture a frail adult through bloodletting etc, we would support her right to terminate that arrangement. We would not say she is responsible for killing the frail adult.
Now Ron Paul ignores the science. And as a so-called protector of human rights passes the buck on the basic human right to self-determination knowing full well that this right will be breached. Such major flaws of logic disqualify him to be President as far as I'm concerned.
Note that I'm not saying abortion is consequence free. Medical science has its limits and cannot prove the foetus isn't worthy of protection. Certainly the Bible is no help, no matter what the religious Right say. So this is a matter of conscience.
Indeed. Why is this obviously oil-funded advertorial on Slashdot?
Do they use Speex?
Maemo and Meego are still going strong.
http://talk.maemo.org/index.php
I'd be interested to know how the latest Opera runs.
Opera will run that in about 50MB if need be. It's designed to use spare RAM for caching which is marked for instant release if other programs request it.
I believe Firefox copied this feature too, which makes most of this discussion redundant.
Also, 11.61 is out. :)
Google Ireland accounts for most of Google's revenues.
It pays most of that out to Bermuda to dodge taxes:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/google-tax-cut/google-terminal.html
Yes, Psion 5MXs were astonishingly good. The keyboards were twice as good as anything since.
This N900 I'm writing on is the only usable PDA since.
Any evidence the "fickleness" is genetic?
Or that the blind hasn't been broken in any anti-depressant trials for that matter...
Agree privatisation should not have been done, but BR was no better and probably worse.
Trains were 40s/50s stock; no heating or double glazing and no internal doors hence freezing cold; 50s heavy duty fabric seats which weren't heavy duty enough and ripped open with the foam sticking out an acute angle..
They were bloody expensive then too with the cheapest tickets roughly 75% more in real terms than what you can get now.
Usage is up 80% too, though some of that will be attributable to expensive petrol and people wanting to be green.
If I were Intel, I'd pay the Maemo/Meego community to do it. Shouldn't cost more than $25k which, for the goodwill alone, is peanuts. They also get one of the best communities in FOSS (these guys will appreciate ANY attention), hundreds of decent apps and a highly attractive platform for developers.
Intel decided Meego wasn't going anywhere without Nokia. Therefore they jumped in with Samsung. Whether Tizen will run Meego apps is anyone's guess.
Nobody seems to have a problem with the N9, apart from the lack of apps.
Oh wait, that's another fork - Harmattan.
Awesome. Wish people were happier about referring to therapists - those who drag it out make much more money than those who are effective.
Hopefully you get good real life karma from it too!
As well as including private debt, it excludes money that other countries owe Spain.
It is consequently misleading.
However, Spain does have a lot of private debt relative to assets following its real estate boom and bust. Domestic demand has consequently fallen. And they are stuck in the Euro hence bond rates are high..
Yes, I've been doing something similar for a while as a non-professional. I'd also have them put documents on a D: partition and get them to back up anything important once in a while.
I used Norton Ghost and more recently Acronis True Image to back up the system partition.
Thing is, aren't you missing out on being paid by the hour to fix it every time?
It's notable that all those early pocket computer companies failed too. The Psion Revo was an amazing device, is still the only pocket device you can touchtype on, yet Psion left the market in 2001.
But this was an entirely different market. The geek market is half a million people at most.
Apple were aiming to create a new accessory that everybody would have.
Remember Apple first built a sexy MP3 player. At the time, competing MP3 players looked like bricks and had low storage. As a geek, I thought the original iPods with hard disks was a stupid idea - they couldn't cope with jogging and if you compressed music properly you didn't need that much space anyway.
The public didn't know and although adoption was slow, it was fast for a new life accessory.
Somehow, not that many iPods broke. Maybe Apple switched off the hard drive during any shaking. Any high profile scare stories could have killed Apple at that point though..
iPhone was the real breakthrough for Apple. Everyone already had a mobile phone and so it was the natural upgrade for the middle class. Somehow Apple got it in schools and every parent had to buy their parents one.
Nah, just that Stelios claimed to have got enough studios on board and so the real reasons for abandoning the venture haven't been disclosed.
Interesting, although this much later article says that a venture capitalist group owning Odeon jacked up the rent on EasyCinema's first and only cinema.
However, the most profit can be made from charging what individual consumers are prepared to pay. The marginal cost of an extra cinema-goer probably is 20p, so any extra ticket sold above that price is pure profit. If you manage to sell them popcorn with the 5000% markup, kerching!
So I'm surprised EasyGroup gave up that easily.
I think Gattaca should be compulsory viewing these days. It was a bit unrealistic - a government with that much power not abusing it??
And Google themselves are turning evil for much the same reason.
We'll soon be in the age of aborting perfectly health foetuses because they have addiction genes, or cancer genes. And people want to trust Google et al on not selling this information to potential employees or health insurers?
It seems every DRM can be got around, except for those copying the MW2 model and proprietary console media.
Indeed, the more difficult the DRM to crack, the more credibility to be gained from cracking it.
So what should games publishers do? In order to maximise profit, they should do what they are doing. Keep producing endless COD clones with MW2 server model, wait for a proprietary console and keep whining.
At least indie developers are doing well.
Like you wouldn't believe. We have TWO laws which can rewrite the constitution without any debate in Parliament... thanks to Blair.
We are roughly in the constitutional state of soon-to-be-Nazi Germany.
Luckily, the current administration is unlikely to abolish elections and Blair's party, under a new leader, doesn't seem likely to get in.
Maemo still has a great community updating the OS, building new apps etc. I just bought an N900 for £100 (same cost as a 2nd hand iPod) and I love it.
I'm inclined to believe if Apple had made these, they'd have sold a hundred million.
Anyway, there are 2 separate FOSS projects now: Maemo/Mer and Tizen. Tizen especially is trying to build an HTML5 front-end much like WebOS. Both WebOS and Maemo are based on real Linux (unlike Android). If Tizen can merge the two projects, allow the result to run Maemo and Debian apps with cross-compiling for Android apps, they might just have a competitor.
Windows Phone is in another world - they'll get almost no cross-development from these Linux based competitors. They're relying entirely on tying in with their XBoxen.