You also invented the software patent. Well done! So the US tech giants can operate freely in countries they are worth toilet paper, but the other way around is hardly possible due to litigation and legal costs and need for a "treasure chest".
Well they took California from Mexico or Spain and so on, some islands like Hawaii, Cuba and Philippines, and before that most of the US itself from the natives? The US just didn't have much time to do much more. After World War 2 the era of major countries fighting each other to grab territories was mostly over. You don't get to invade random countries like playing Risk when there are mass media, satellites and nuclear weapons around the world.
So you use some dodgy fire sale on Amazon, used hardware (plus shipping), a web store's pricing glitch and a piece of hardware that doesn't meet the requirement? (a powered hub is needed)
Floppies were somewhat easier because you could give them or give them back. For instance it would have made possible to hand your work to the teacher by giving the floppy. Well, in the late 90s floppies got unusable because the floppy and drive manufacturers stopped doing quality controls.
I used the feature to share games to myself because I had made the mistake to create two accounts. Now the directory just sits on a dead hard drive, I don't want to have to set it up again. I miss my collection of DOS and Windows 9x games : to run the game, go to the directory and launch the.exe, even if the game is not installed.
Misleading : it has no disc drive, but it has a disk drive - that's what an internal HDD is, and what an external HDD is too. Memory card is another physical media so that's quite a lot of physical media (add built-in flash too) compared to some consoles of the 90s that only had actual ROM, CD-ROM drive and tiny SRAM for non volatile writes.
Do tech support on cell phones? Decent idea but what about if you never used Android 2.3, or iOS, or the Samsung or over interface overlay? They're all unalike and you will end up with the obsolete smartphone, the low ram smartphone, the smartphone loaded with spyware, the scratched to hell screen, the kid using software keyboard on 3.5", using dad's or mom's smartphone (and reading their sex related or private messages)
Free monitors tend to be VGA only : CRT, 1280x1024 LCD and the cheap wide monitors (in fact some narrow ones do have DVI, but the cheap wides never do)
That makes the Pis incompatible with them. Although a HDMI TV may be increasingly common.
There's a 32bit UEFI and linux distros seem to not support that, unless that recently changed. Some people warn about the flash storage : easily a huge bottleneck, when it's criminally slow. Thus you may need to look for a recognisable brand, or a recent eMMC standard, or storage benchmarks. These products look very interesting but it may be worth to be wary. "2nd gen" product with 2GB RAM and fast enough storage shall be better.
As a rule of thumb I say there's a 10 kph difference between a slow bike and a fast bike i.e. if you're doing 20 kph on a slow one you'd be doing 30 kph on a faster one. There is a huge difference with wheel size, loss in bearings, tire pressure, brake effectiveness etc.
These countries (barring Libya that doesn't belong in the list and perhaps even isn't a country anymore) are sadistic dictatorships. They're rich, but how about *you* go there and work as a construction worker 72 hour a week for third-world pay?
As for Turkey that's a country where Syrian guerillas operate and they're in some sort of war with the Kurds again.
Let's say everyone stops washing its own dishes ; instead, everyone will do next door neighbor's dishes and be billed for it, let's say for $100 a month. 10 million households do this, so the GDP has increased for $1 billion a month, or $12 billion a year. Yet not anything new was done. Perhaps that explains the "service economy":).
It's just a big rocket, right? Fire comes out of the bottom and it goes up. It is big so it can launch bigger stuff at once. Looks like the Saturn V over again. Boring but practical.
Here's an idea : why not launch single use, single module space stations? with the people inside. No resupply : astronauts do their space stuff, and when the life support runs out they get out and come back on Earth. Experiments may continue to run unattended. There may be another, small return capsule for whatever products/samples. When you're done, deorbit the fucker let it burn and crash.
You will have expanded one super-heavy launcher, rather than a hundred launches for assembly, repair, supply, crew transfer ; and the station itself doesn't have to support all these things.
So, 600000 people getting in Germany is a big problem and a huge burden on that country, but somehow it would be fair if they all stayed in say Bulgaria? That is weird.
Why would war break out if the EU is dissolved? That's like pretending the US and Canada might fight a war if they're not integrated in the NAFTA. Well no it won't happen, and it won't happen in (most of) Europe for the same reasons : war would mean economic ruin, would not be supported by the population and is ultimately prevented by nuclear weapons.
In fact, EU membership is now almost synonymous with NATO membership, esp. after enlargement and then France joining in in 2009. So NATO is good for peace, right? I don't think so. NATO just means do as the US tells to. The US is responsible for that whole mess in the first place, by causing a decade of Iraqi civil war, which is still going on. Then Europe supported the US in extending war to Libya and Syria, for whatever crazy geopolitical reasons. Which means that Europe now causes war, not prevent it.
In other news, a 35W chip is faster than a 4.5W chip and a 125W chip is faster than a 15W one. Who knew! Compare to a VIA C7 instead and you'll see it's not entirely terrible.
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But since you killed millions in the cold war that evens it out, right? Thank you for the millions refugees in/from the Middle East too.
You also invented the software patent. Well done! So the US tech giants can operate freely in countries they are worth toilet paper, but the other way around is hardly possible due to litigation and legal costs and need for a "treasure chest".
Well they took California from Mexico or Spain and so on, some islands like Hawaii, Cuba and Philippines, and before that most of the US itself from the natives?
The US just didn't have much time to do much more. After World War 2 the era of major countries fighting each other to grab territories was mostly over. You don't get to invade random countries like playing Risk when there are mass media, satellites and nuclear weapons around the world.
So you use some dodgy fire sale on Amazon, used hardware (plus shipping), a web store's pricing glitch and a piece of hardware that doesn't meet the requirement? (a powered hub is needed)
VGA can do higher resolution than single link DVI
Decent specs but I wonder how it runs with 512MB just running : Android 4.x, Google Docs and one media/ad heavy web site.
What if your power supply is 500mA? Not sure if keyb + mouse + USB stick + wifi will work.
Floppies were somewhat easier because you could give them or give them back. For instance it would have made possible to hand your work to the teacher by giving the floppy. Well, in the late 90s floppies got unusable because the floppy and drive manufacturers stopped doing quality controls.
I used the feature to share games to myself because I had made the mistake to create two accounts. .exe, even if the game is not installed.
Now the directory just sits on a dead hard drive, I don't want to have to set it up again. I miss my collection of DOS and Windows 9x games : to run the game, go to the directory and launch the
Misleading : it has no disc drive, but it has a disk drive - that's what an internal HDD is, and what an external HDD is too.
Memory card is another physical media so that's quite a lot of physical media (add built-in flash too) compared to some consoles of the 90s that only had actual ROM, CD-ROM drive and tiny SRAM for non volatile writes.
Do tech support on cell phones? Decent idea but what about if you never used Android 2.3, or iOS, or the Samsung or over interface overlay? They're all unalike and you will end up with the obsolete smartphone, the low ram smartphone, the smartphone loaded with spyware, the scratched to hell screen, the kid using software keyboard on 3.5", using dad's or mom's smartphone (and reading their sex related or private messages)
I have no trouble believing you, you'd be able to do that on a PC not powerful enough to play a divx movie.
So you're back to the $200 laptop (with functioning battery)
Or have fun carting a desktop, monitor, keyboard and perhaps inverter and car/truck battery to the library.
Free monitors tend to be VGA only : CRT, 1280x1024 LCD and the cheap wide monitors (in fact some narrow ones do have DVI, but the cheap wides never do)
That makes the Pis incompatible with them. Although a HDMI TV may be increasingly common.
There's a 32bit UEFI and linux distros seem to not support that, unless that recently changed.
Some people warn about the flash storage : easily a huge bottleneck, when it's criminally slow. Thus you may need to look for a recognisable brand, or a recent eMMC standard, or storage benchmarks.
These products look very interesting but it may be worth to be wary. "2nd gen" product with 2GB RAM and fast enough storage shall be better.
As a rule of thumb I say there's a 10 kph difference between a slow bike and a fast bike i.e. if you're doing 20 kph on a slow one you'd be doing 30 kph on a faster one. There is a huge difference with wheel size, loss in bearings, tire pressure, brake effectiveness etc.
I wanted to be redundant by saying the same thing again, so as to be redundant.
These countries (barring Libya that doesn't belong in the list and perhaps even isn't a country anymore) are sadistic dictatorships. They're rich, but how about *you* go there and work as a construction worker 72 hour a week for third-world pay?
As for Turkey that's a country where Syrian guerillas operate and they're in some sort of war with the Kurds again.
Let's say everyone stops washing its own dishes ; instead, everyone will do next door neighbor's dishes and be billed for it, let's say for $100 a month. 10 million households do this, so the GDP has increased for $1 billion a month, or $12 billion a year. Yet not anything new was done. Perhaps that explains the "service economy" :).
It's just a big rocket, right? Fire comes out of the bottom and it goes up. It is big so it can launch bigger stuff at once. Looks like the Saturn V over again. Boring but practical.
Here's an idea : why not launch single use, single module space stations? with the people inside.
No resupply : astronauts do their space stuff, and when the life support runs out they get out and come back on Earth. Experiments may continue to run unattended. There may be another, small return capsule for whatever products/samples. When you're done, deorbit the fucker let it burn and crash.
You will have expanded one super-heavy launcher, rather than a hundred launches for assembly, repair, supply, crew transfer ; and the station itself doesn't have to support all these things.
Invading Libya and Syria will be cheaper than 10 billions a year? Right.
So, 600000 people getting in Germany is a big problem and a huge burden on that country, but somehow it would be fair if they all stayed in say Bulgaria? That is weird.
Why would war break out if the EU is dissolved? That's like pretending the US and Canada might fight a war if they're not integrated in the NAFTA. Well no it won't happen, and it won't happen in (most of) Europe for the same reasons : war would mean economic ruin, would not be supported by the population and is ultimately prevented by nuclear weapons.
In fact, EU membership is now almost synonymous with NATO membership, esp. after enlargement and then France joining in in 2009. So NATO is good for peace, right? I don't think so. NATO just means do as the US tells to. The US is responsible for that whole mess in the first place, by causing a decade of Iraqi civil war, which is still going on. Then Europe supported the US in extending war to Libya and Syria, for whatever crazy geopolitical reasons. Which means that Europe now causes war, not prevent it.
In other news, a 35W chip is faster than a 4.5W chip and a 125W chip is faster than a 15W one. Who knew!
Compare to a VIA C7 instead and you'll see it's not entirely terrible.
I hope Microsoft sticks around for the product where they really lead, i.e. the basic desktop mouse.