"Most of the "backbone" Russian institutions like the KGB and the military (in particular) were significantly weakened, and all manner of social ills began to rear their ugly head."
This guided by US economists of the Chicago monetarist school, sent over to "help" turn Russia capitalist.
The same shit was first tried in South America, and is now being applied in the middle east. In all places the overall effect have been very negative for the masses, but highly positive for a small percentage (that you are as likely to find in Miami or Monaco as in their home nation).
Given that post-soviet Russia was basically guided into much the same shock treatment that Iraq has been going thru in recent years by US economists sent over to "help" a former enemy become capitalist, it should not be a surprise. There is a religion masking as science out of Chicago called neo-classical/monetarist economics that is the source.
Yep, seen it regarding various topics on both Boingboing and Arstechnica. In both cases the accounts will appear, dump a crapload of text and then not be used again until the next time the topic shows up. No attempts at entering a dialog with the commenter will get a response.
Still, i find myself thinking of the Dune reference volume where the seat of the empire was tracked all the way back to Alexander the great, with a stop in London and Washington before heading into space.
as long as you do not speak up against wall street, bend over so TSA can stuff their arm up your insides and limits "whoever" to the wall street appointed options.
Correlation, causation and all that but somewhat interesting.
The main thing to think about is that if one consider the surface area of USA, a person living there can travel from winter to summer and back again without ever showing a passport, encountering someone not speaking english, or accepting payment in dollars.
I would not say that most leaders have that much more of a foresight. Still, the "cost of prosperity" can be to high. Problem is that there is no set water mark for what, and so we are back at square one.
Been seeing it around a local wharf as well. Workers built close to have a short commute. But now they are complaining about the noise and such. The wharf has doubled or tripled in size since the houses where built tho...
I think there have been actual teardowns of the Apple products that looked at the various components and found the costs of them totaled up to the $200 region.
I think one possible issue is that a lot of the companies involved as phone manufacturers, not computer manufacturers. As such, they are used to (at least in USA) have the carriers act as intermediaries. The carriers absorb the upfront cost, and spread it out over the contract years.
"So typically problems with fluid flow models come from making too many simplifications, having incorrect initial conditions, or making bad assumptions"
Sounds like what is plaguing economic thinking as well...
the knowledge economy do not work, as the ease of knowledge distribution works against it. End result is a continual stack of draconian laws to try and counteract that, eroding all respect for law in he process.
I wonder how much Apple gets away with by using the same internals for pad, pod and phone. Got to be some very nice bulk deals there. The others seems to have been stuck with Tegra because of some Google choice rather then being allowed to pick their own poison. Archos seems to be the first company to not use Tegra on a honeycomb tablet, and they are late to the game (but seems willing to update to ICS on existing products rather then try to sell yet another design as seen with ASUS and their transformer prime).
USB and Bluetooth covers that. Hell, seems one of the most used keyboards on android tablets right now is the Apple Bluetooth keyboard because it is slim and easy to pack.
And yes, one may wonder why people bother as then they are basically using a laptop...
Or to put it in a different way, people are not willing to spend more on a lesser known quantity. Lets face it, Apple have become very well known the last couple of years...
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"Most of the "backbone" Russian institutions like the KGB and the military (in particular) were significantly weakened, and all manner of social ills began to rear their ugly head."
This guided by US economists of the Chicago monetarist school, sent over to "help" turn Russia capitalist.
The same shit was first tried in South America, and is now being applied in the middle east. In all places the overall effect have been very negative for the masses, but highly positive for a small percentage (that you are as likely to find in Miami or Monaco as in their home nation).
Given that post-soviet Russia was basically guided into much the same shock treatment that Iraq has been going thru in recent years by US economists sent over to "help" a former enemy become capitalist, it should not be a surprise. There is a religion masking as science out of Chicago called neo-classical/monetarist economics that is the source.
Yep, seen it regarding various topics on both Boingboing and Arstechnica. In both cases the accounts will appear, dump a crapload of text and then not be used again until the next time the topic shows up. No attempts at entering a dialog with the commenter will get a response.
Is that some kind of Decepticon?
Dunno, how much do a laser led draw these days?
Hmm, i wonder when i can ping my pants from my phone to get their location after a lively night out.
Ideally, nobody...
Still, i find myself thinking of the Dune reference volume where the seat of the empire was tracked all the way back to Alexander the great, with a stop in London and Washington before heading into space.
as long as you do not speak up against wall street, bend over so TSA can stuff their arm up your insides and limits "whoever" to the wall street appointed options.
With the irony being that it was a comment on USSR...
On that note: http://boingboing.net/2011/03/08/passport-ownership-p.html
Correlation, causation and all that but somewhat interesting.
The main thing to think about is that if one consider the surface area of USA, a person living there can travel from winter to summer and back again without ever showing a passport, encountering someone not speaking english, or accepting payment in dollars.
Why am i reminded of "There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader."?
I would not say that most leaders have that much more of a foresight. Still, the "cost of prosperity" can be to high. Problem is that there is no set water mark for what, and so we are back at square one.
Been seeing it around a local wharf as well. Workers built close to have a short commute. But now they are complaining about the noise and such. The wharf has doubled or tripled in size since the houses where built tho...
I think there have been actual teardowns of the Apple products that looked at the various components and found the costs of them totaled up to the $200 region.
I think one possible issue is that a lot of the companies involved as phone manufacturers, not computer manufacturers. As such, they are used to (at least in USA) have the carriers act as intermediaries. The carriers absorb the upfront cost, and spread it out over the contract years.
http://armdevices.net/2011/12/06/ice-cream-sandwich-preview-on-archos-g9/
looks plenty snappy to me.
"So typically problems with fluid flow models come from making too many simplifications, having incorrect initial conditions, or making bad assumptions"
Sounds like what is plaguing economic thinking as well...
the knowledge economy do not work, as the ease of knowledge distribution works against it. End result is a continual stack of draconian laws to try and counteract that, eroding all respect for law in he process.
I wonder how much Apple gets away with by using the same internals for pad, pod and phone. Got to be some very nice bulk deals there. The others seems to have been stuck with Tegra because of some Google choice rather then being allowed to pick their own poison. Archos seems to be the first company to not use Tegra on a honeycomb tablet, and they are late to the game (but seems willing to update to ICS on existing products rather then try to sell yet another design as seen with ASUS and their transformer prime).
The streak7 is a older design. Not even sure it has Market access, as i think Samsung did a fair bit of arm twisting to get that into the Galaxy Tab.
USB and Bluetooth covers that. Hell, seems one of the most used keyboards on android tablets right now is the Apple Bluetooth keyboard because it is slim and easy to pack.
And yes, one may wonder why people bother as then they are basically using a laptop...
Or to put it in a different way, people are not willing to spend more on a lesser known quantity. Lets face it, Apple have become very well known the last couple of years...
The thing about ads is that viewers/readers/listeners are not the customer, they are the product.
I wonder if we will see racetrack vs memristor benchmarks in the future, with the attendant flamewars...
IBM, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, all seem to hold technical patents of some sort or other.
Supposedly Alice in wonderland was written to demonstrate what insanity would come out of irrational numbers.