The big mac index was originally an humorous attempt at creating an index that would work like an international currencies. The main argument being that the price of the burger is constantly readjusted in order that people can buy it at a reasonnable price.
I attempted at being moderated "funny" but if you think about it, it may be a better indicator than the number of hours worked. A chinese and an american may not value the same their hours of work or free time. But a burger is a burger (this quantity of bread, meat, salad) and is closer to a neutral "value unit".
But, well, it is also true that comparisons between American, European, Japanese, Chinese markets require much more complex factors than price or a humorous big mac index. One could also argue that they bought comparatively more expensive DVD readers and that it compensates for the cheaper DVDs, or that those that can buy a DVD reader are the richer 10% of the population and that they could afford a 15$ DVD, etc...
According to the big mac index, a 1$ DVD is ~1 chinese big mac. A 15$ DVD is at 4 US big macs. It is not a x15 ratio but still a good x4. A resonnable price for chinese market would then be 4$...
But the European patent office still accept them as though it should not. Nobody tried to enforce one yet, but the status of european software patent is in a gray area.
That the earlier you, the earlier you arrive. Whatever the traffic is. Of course, maybe if you leave at 6 you'll be home at 7 where you could have left at 6:30 and be home at 7:10, but there will never be a situation when leaving later will make you arrive earlier.
The earlier you leave, the more time you will spend with your kids and wife. The "it costs you time" argument is true only if you consider that you can trade family time for work time the way you want.
Speaking of that... Don't you feel it is paradoxical that the free circulation and sharing of child-pornography generates profit for child-porn makers whereas the free circulation and sharing of songs throws Madonna in the street ?
"The software is taking too long, it's missing too many features because they're paranoid about getting it right"
"The software was rushed out the door, it's too buggy."
Well, normal software companies tend to chose one of these. But Microsoft has enough developpers to fullfill both objectives.
We used to have something at the end of our Bill of Rights here in France that said "When the government violate these rights, insurrection is for the people and every part of the people, the most sacred right and the most essential duty"
Block politics if you want, porn if you can recognize it, history as you want to rewrite it.
Still.
Learn science, learn to believe in facts, not ideology. Learn to observe to gather facts. Learn psychology, learn how slogans, ideas are forced into one mind.
Those who still ignore they belong in a democracy will be quick to see it?
Last week demonstrators (some from Greenpeace) opposed the construction of a last generation power plant at Cherbourg, saying that the only viable solution is in solar and wind energy. That and wood-burning too. Sigh, we lack pragmatic ecologists.
Or maybe, with 70% of our electricity coming from a nuclear source, they are begining to promote the "next step".
In the meantime, scientists measure a raise in the temperatures. And some believe it will impair the productivity of the only economy that matters : the world economy.
I've been interested in this technology, I have read quite a bit about it. Apparently, the goal is to ignite the missile propellant, which is poorly armored and already at a decent temperature. The missile's head, on the contrary, is too hard to explode with a laser due to armor (and armor-piercing-armor). Considering most missiles and intercontinental missiles use their fuel in the first minutes of flight, travelling the rest of the distance in 'ballistic mode' (dude it's falling!) this weapon is only effective if you can hit the missile when only a few (hundred) kilometers away from its launching point.
I believe that in this test they will launch a missile near the jumbo and that their objective is to put it on a satellite fleet to be able to hit anywhere in the world.
While I'll give a thumb up to this new tech, it may be worth of note that russians have already started to develop a protection from it : now on their recent missiles, it takes only 30 seconds to use all the fuel, reducing drastically the "window of effectiveness" of the evil Freedom Overwhelming Orbital Laser.
What saddens me is that I forsee the time, maybe in 10 years when the Powers that Be will promote the new innovation : the file format that allows you to do what you want with it! the XML of multimedia! Simple, usable everywhere, you can copy it, transfer it, transform it, slice it ! It's easy! Thanks to the new WMP3 ! Praise Redmond's engineers for bringing your media in 2010!
Thanks for the Fedora OLPC link, I think I have just skipped this one. Unfortunately Singapore is a bit far (both in distance and in budget) for me but I will surely read the publications prompted by this conference.
The "Getting Involved" page is, in my opinion, very frustrating. I heard about this project through news about the softs supposedly developed by the MIT, that would include IM, file sharing and email working in a P2P fashion. I didn't manage to find any information about such pieces of soft. If you want to help, they ask you to translate or fix bugs in Abiword or Firefox.
Please be sure that my intent is not to troll, I am genuinely interested in it, so please take this as a constructive cricisism, but I fail to see a "OLPC community", they seem to redirect you to the GTK community or the Mozilla community, that seems odd to me.
I'll go through the Fedora OLPC pages, I think this may finally lead me to where the "community" lurks, thanks !
Yeah, that website I visited, and it prompted my questions. Take their "job offers for instance. There is only three lines of text in their page:
OLPC is looking for a few great people.
We plan to have a OLPC summer intern program; details will be found here shortly.
We are also looking for a someone to lead the effort around system management. In this case, the system is global, and huge in scale.
Wow, that was informative. Well, to make it short, I have crawled their website and it really lacks information. Apparently they plan using a Red Hat distribution (contrary to recent Negroponte declarations) and the only advice they give to people that want to help is : go and fix bugs in Fedora Core !
While I ackowledge the achievement of a robot that 'learns' to walk faster, I am disapointed that it has no balance. In the video it only hangs to a rigid tube, it can't fall on the side, hence the cheap leg structure.
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I am sure that a lot more funds are spent toward oil-finding than pyramids-finding.
Also we consume less pyramids than oil. That makes finding them a lesser strategical objective.
God Bless George W. Bush. God Bless America.
Good thing He hasn't the right to vote...
... how a 300$ card can fit in a 100$ PC ?
Overheating leading to data corruption? Since when is this a flaw in chip design?
Since a normal temperature of functionning is written in the specifications of the hip
The big mac index was originally an humorous attempt at creating an index that would work like an international currencies. The main argument being that the price of the burger is constantly readjusted in order that people can buy it at a reasonnable price.
I attempted at being moderated "funny" but if you think about it, it may be a better indicator than the number of hours worked. A chinese and an american may not value the same their hours of work or free time. But a burger is a burger (this quantity of bread, meat, salad) and is closer to a neutral "value unit".
But, well, it is also true that comparisons between American, European, Japanese, Chinese markets require much more complex factors than price or a humorous big mac index. One could also argue that they bought comparatively more expensive DVD readers and that it compensates for the cheaper DVDs, or that those that can buy a DVD reader are the richer 10% of the population and that they could afford a 15$ DVD, etc...
After all, grues and bats are related, aren't they ?
According to the big mac index, a 1$ DVD is ~1 chinese big mac. A 15$ DVD is at 4 US big macs. It is not a x15 ratio but still a good x4. A resonnable price for chinese market would then be 4$...
But the European patent office still accept them as though it should not. Nobody tried to enforce one yet, but the status of european software patent is in a gray area.
That the earlier you, the earlier you arrive. Whatever the traffic is. Of course, maybe if you leave at 6 you'll be home at 7 where you could have left at 6:30 and be home at 7:10, but there will never be a situation when leaving later will make you arrive earlier.
The earlier you leave, the more time you will spend with your kids and wife. The "it costs you time" argument is true only if you consider that you can trade family time for work time the way you want.
Speaking of that... Don't you feel it is paradoxical that the free circulation and sharing of child-pornography generates profit for child-porn makers whereas the free circulation and sharing of songs throws Madonna in the street ?
"The software is taking too long, it's missing too many features because they're paranoid about getting it right"
"The software was rushed out the door, it's too buggy."
Well, normal software companies tend to chose one of these. But Microsoft has enough developpers to fullfill both objectives.
We used to have something at the end of our Bill of Rights here in France that said "When the government violate these rights, insurrection is for the people and every part of the people, the most sacred right and the most essential duty"
Block politics if you want, porn if you can recognize it, history as you want to rewrite it.
Still.
Learn science, learn to believe in facts, not ideology. Learn to observe to gather facts. Learn psychology, learn how slogans, ideas are forced into one mind.
Those who still ignore they belong in a democracy will be quick to see it?
Isn't it the role of the head of state to preserve civil liberties ? Especially those guaranteed by the Constitution ?
This group contains the geeks and nerds. [...] Prime interests: nature, medicine and the environment. This group is 53 percent female.
I had to share the pain...
Last week demonstrators (some from Greenpeace) opposed the construction of a last generation power plant at Cherbourg, saying that the only viable solution is in solar and wind energy. That and wood-burning too. Sigh, we lack pragmatic ecologists.
Or maybe, with 70% of our electricity coming from a nuclear source, they are begining to promote the "next step".
In the meantime, scientists measure a raise in the temperatures. And some believe it will impair the productivity of the only economy that matters : the world economy.
I've been interested in this technology, I have read quite a bit about it. Apparently, the goal is to ignite the missile propellant, which is poorly armored and already at a decent temperature. The missile's head, on the contrary, is too hard to explode with a laser due to armor (and armor-piercing-armor). Considering most missiles and intercontinental missiles use their fuel in the first minutes of flight, travelling the rest of the distance in 'ballistic mode' (dude it's falling!) this weapon is only effective if you can hit the missile when only a few (hundred) kilometers away from its launching point.
I believe that in this test they will launch a missile near the jumbo and that their objective is to put it on a satellite fleet to be able to hit anywhere in the world.
While I'll give a thumb up to this new tech, it may be worth of note that russians have already started to develop a protection from it : now on their recent missiles, it takes only 30 seconds to use all the fuel, reducing drastically the "window of effectiveness" of the evil Freedom Overwhelming Orbital Laser.
What saddens me is that I forsee the time, maybe in 10 years when the Powers that Be will promote the new innovation : the file format that allows you to do what you want with it! the XML of multimedia! Simple, usable everywhere, you can copy it, transfer it, transform it, slice it ! It's easy! Thanks to the new WMP3 ! Praise Redmond's engineers for bringing your media in 2010!
They will do it, you know this.
to which orbit ?
... proposing a public bet prevents you to counter argument ? Not that I care for the question but...
Just riot. If they can do that in Paris, so can you in Washington.
Thanks for the Fedora OLPC link, I think I have just skipped this one. Unfortunately Singapore is a bit far (both in distance and in budget) for me but I will surely read the publications prompted by this conference.
The "Getting Involved" page is, in my opinion, very frustrating. I heard about this project through news about the softs supposedly developed by the MIT, that would include IM, file sharing and email working in a P2P fashion. I didn't manage to find any information about such pieces of soft. If you want to help, they ask you to translate or fix bugs in Abiword or Firefox.
Please be sure that my intent is not to troll, I am genuinely interested in it, so please take this as a constructive cricisism, but I fail to see a "OLPC community", they seem to redirect you to the GTK community or the Mozilla community, that seems odd to me.
I'll go through the Fedora OLPC pages, I think this may finally lead me to where the "community" lurks, thanks !
Yeah, that website I visited, and it prompted my questions. Take their "job offers for instance. There is only three lines of text in their page:
OLPC is looking for a few great people.
We plan to have a OLPC summer intern program; details will be found here shortly.
We are also looking for a someone to lead the effort around system management. In this case, the system is global, and huge in scale.
Wow, that was informative. Well, to make it short, I have crawled their website and it really lacks information. Apparently they plan using a Red Hat distribution (contrary to recent Negroponte declarations) and the only advice they give to people that want to help is : go and fix bugs in Fedora Core !
While I ackowledge the achievement of a robot that 'learns' to walk faster, I am disapointed that it has no balance. In the video it only hangs to a rigid tube, it can't fall on the side, hence the cheap leg structure.