Lagging behind?
I can honestly say I don't know a single person that uses MSN or ICQ (I know a few who used to use ICQ a few years ago). But I know at least 30 people who use Skype almost every day.
That's probably one of the major problems of western society today. Science should not have to bvow to economics. It should be the other way around. Science and exploration are the major goals of humanity as a whole, that's what humans do. The rest of our society, including economics, is actually there to enable more science, period.
Looks nice, but it's still an iPOS underneath
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Would have been cooler if it had been done with a better device, like a cowon iaudio x5, or an iriver or creative DAP.
We're humans, we explore, we expand, we advance. Scientific advance is the uttmost and single goal of our existence. The whole global economy is simply there to support the advance of the human race, and the increase of our knowledge database as a whole.
To stop wondering, stop asking question, stop persuing new answers and frontiers is to stop being human.
Back during the apollo program, getting to the moon first was considered such a worthwhile goal that losing one in ten flights with all hands was considered acceptable risk.
No way would something with a 10% chance of catastrophic failure per launch get the necessary approval today. Maybe that's sad, maybe that's good, but that's the way it is.
Lunar regolith has a very high concentration (well, relativ to terrestrial rocks) of Helium3, which may well become an obscenely valuable fuel for fusion reactors in a few years(or decades? centuries? ever?).
Also, if we ever want to get into asteroid mining, the moons shallower gravity well would be a nice starting point.
This doesn't mean a thing, apart from the US being the only country with a non-functional VoIP network in a few years. Same as they are now with mobile phones.
The future of VoIP is not companies like Vonage offering the service like conventional phones, but free VoIP services like Skype (which is european based incidently) who couldn't care less about what the US G'dubyament decides.
Also, who's going to stop people from just using Skype privately?
Is an original oil painting more beautiful than a copy? No, it's the same picture. But the value of the original is higher. The difference in value comes from the possibility of detecting the uniqueness of the original. If the copy was a true identical copy, their values would also be identical.
Seriously, i wonder wyh these games enjoy such great success. I remember getting my first one, Alien Breed 3D, back on the Amiga. I played it for a couple of hours, then switched back to something more interesting. Over the years, I've had a couple of goes at about ten or so more modern ones, but apart from the graphics, nothing ever changes. No FPS has ever been able to fascinate me like i.e. Civ I-III or a good RPG.
well, sir, I live in switzerland, I was born here, and can probably be considered a typical swiss guy. And as that typical swiss guy, I must tell you that the general opinion towards the US' gun policy is: "funny, but in a tragic kind of way". It is correct that almost every male between 18 and 50 is forced to have an assault rifle with ammuniton at home in switzerland. It is also a fact, that every gun holder has to practice the use of his gun once a year, or pay a rather large fee. Nonetheless, carrying a gun when you are not rewuired to by law is widely considered embarrassing. Hell, I even find it embarassing to carry my gun when I'm doing my yearly military service. By most of the population, guns are seen for what the are: necessary evil for people working in security, and phallic compensation for those who carry them volontarily. Please do not compare the numbers of government enforced guns possesions, with actual private gun purcheses, which are quite rare in Switzerland. The US is obsessed with guns, and you should know that most of the civilized world is laughing at you, and waiting for you to grow up.
You don't have the worlds largest GNP, and you're not the leading edge in science or economics any more. Except for your oversized bloated miliary you're just an average western industrial nation. And one that's heading down the drain at that.
So stop acting like you were still the world leaders, and grow up.
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Lagging behind? I can honestly say I don't know a single person that uses MSN or ICQ (I know a few who used to use ICQ a few years ago). But I know at least 30 people who use Skype almost every day.
I let it download for alomst a minute, and it was still hardly at 10%. Probably too many nerds trying to get it.
That's probably one of the major problems of western society today. Science should not have to bvow to economics. It should be the other way around. Science and exploration are the major goals of humanity as a whole, that's what humans do. The rest of our society, including economics, is actually there to enable more science, period.
Would have been cooler if it had been done with a better device, like a cowon iaudio x5, or an iriver or creative DAP.
If it's installed itself without my consent, then it's going bye-bye the next time I run ad-aware, Spybot and Hi-Jack this.
We're humans, we explore, we expand, we advance. Scientific advance is the uttmost and single goal of our existence. The whole global economy is simply there to support the advance of the human race, and the increase of our knowledge database as a whole. To stop wondering, stop asking question, stop persuing new answers and frontiers is to stop being human.
Back during the apollo program, getting to the moon first was considered such a worthwhile goal that losing one in ten flights with all hands was considered acceptable risk. No way would something with a 10% chance of catastrophic failure per launch get the necessary approval today. Maybe that's sad, maybe that's good, but that's the way it is.
Lunar regolith has a very high concentration (well, relativ to terrestrial rocks) of Helium3, which may well become an obscenely valuable fuel for fusion reactors in a few years(or decades? centuries? ever?). Also, if we ever want to get into asteroid mining, the moons shallower gravity well would be a nice starting point.
This doesn't mean a thing, apart from the US being the only country with a non-functional VoIP network in a few years. Same as they are now with mobile phones. The future of VoIP is not companies like Vonage offering the service like conventional phones, but free VoIP services like Skype (which is european based incidently) who couldn't care less about what the US G'dubyament decides. Also, who's going to stop people from just using Skype privately?
Is an original oil painting more beautiful than a copy? No, it's the same picture. But the value of the original is higher. The difference in value comes from the possibility of detecting the uniqueness of the original. If the copy was a true identical copy, their values would also be identical.
Seriously, i wonder wyh these games enjoy such great success. I remember getting my first one, Alien Breed 3D, back on the Amiga. I played it for a couple of hours, then switched back to something more interesting. Over the years, I've had a couple of goes at about ten or so more modern ones, but apart from the graphics, nothing ever changes. No FPS has ever been able to fascinate me like i.e. Civ I-III or a good RPG.
Haha, right on. Bay of Pigs anyone? Somalia?
That really does sound very French-like.
well, sir, I live in switzerland, I was born here, and can probably be considered a typical swiss guy. And as that typical swiss guy, I must tell you that the general opinion towards the US' gun policy is: "funny, but in a tragic kind of way". It is correct that almost every male between 18 and 50 is forced to have an assault rifle with ammuniton at home in switzerland. It is also a fact, that every gun holder has to practice the use of his gun once a year, or pay a rather large fee. Nonetheless, carrying a gun when you are not rewuired to by law is widely considered embarrassing. Hell, I even find it embarassing to carry my gun when I'm doing my yearly military service. By most of the population, guns are seen for what the are: necessary evil for people working in security, and phallic compensation for those who carry them volontarily. Please do not compare the numbers of government enforced guns possesions, with actual private gun purcheses, which are quite rare in Switzerland. The US is obsessed with guns, and you should know that most of the civilized world is laughing at you, and waiting for you to grow up.
You don't have the worlds largest GNP, and you're not the leading edge in science or economics any more. Except for your oversized bloated miliary you're just an average western industrial nation. And one that's heading down the drain at that. So stop acting like you were still the world leaders, and grow up.