And it won't work now. That is unless some strange aliens come along and start chopping everyone's head off saying that "THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE" and then you have to have connery come through a portal from the other side of the galaxy to save our asses. But then, the odds of that happening are probably pretty slim, don't you think?
Before I left Canada to come and work here in Africa for a few years I backed up all my stuff (writing, digital photos ect...) put them on a couple cdrs, and got a safety deposit box. The surprising thing was that the boxes in the bank vault barely fit the cds. I guess they don't have many people putting cds in safety deposit boxes. This was a few years ago now, so maybe they have changed that. Ofcourse the real cool part is getting that funky looking safety deposit key. You can pretend you're a mobster and have a few million stashed away for a rainy day...err not really, just some useless files from uni. But a man can dream can't he???...
Its got the wind up, a rechargable battery, and solar cell on top. Frankly the thing is awsome, and is near indestructable. However, it is also made in China, like most other things in the world. Since I am in Kenya, if it broke, I'm quite sure that it would not be fixable. I would have to buy a new one. I got this radio through an NGO I worked with. In the field I saw dozens of freeplay radios that had the hand crank broken! They were just sitting in a store room gathering dust. Also about price, I think they come out to around $40 each, in quantity. Anyway, I don't really see why people are against the handcrank computer. If they could have even 1 per SCHOOL, that would be a great achievement. If a student could even just send one email a month to a penpal, or do some simple research, that would be a giant leap.
I have worked with Interactive radio instruction programs and from what I have seen, the innovation that the windup computer could introduce would be nothing but a good thing. Radio is last century's technology, its time to move into the future (though it may bruise a few radio egos). IMO
Do you not like this thing we humans have invented called 'civilization'? Name a problem in human history that was once thought unsolvable or impossible - and we have solved it. If humans are capable of causing the extinction of thousands of species of animals, we are surely capable of causing weather changes by such things as deforestation and billions of tons of pollutants into the atmosphere. Your view is just fatalistic.
I'm working in Kenya right now. They have massive deforestation here, with only 1.5% tree cover. Right now in the north of the country there are about 5 million people who are starving (or will be in a few weeks). These are the kind of disasters that will happen everywhere in the world if nothing is done. Desertification, crop failures, extreme weather, flooding. What are simple solutions? How about reducing soil erosion? Re-plant forests. Stop building massive houses on sandbars that trigger flooding. Use more friendly power generation to reduce smog and acid rain. ALL of these solutions would have immediate impacts and improve the quality of life not only for the earth but us humans as well. There is a reason why cancer rates and respiratory disorders are increasing. We are quickly poisoning ourselves, and if we don't ack NOW,it will only get worse. (cue Bladerunner opening sequence)...
For all the BAD things the US does (ie.Iraq invasion) they are undoubtably the best in the world at selling ideas. If the US could SERIOUSLY adopt more environmentally friendly ways of living/working and in industry, is there little doubt that new technologies and practices would be exported to places such as India and China? Isn't this obvious??? And why did it take disasters like Katrina to wake people up?
Call me pathetic. But I have a standing game of BGII still on my hard drive and I haven't yet finished the game! I stopped somewhere around the first level of watchers keep. I just don't want this game to end! I have started and restarted different parties around 5 or 6 times over the last few years, but have yet to actually go the distance to finish it off once and for all. I guess some games can do that to you. Its like reading a good book. You know that you will have to finish it eventually...but all the while at the back of your mind you know that there will never be another book written like it ever again.:::sigh:::
So long to the era of 2d isometric, hand drawn masterpieces of yore. I salute you!
Fry: I'm never gonna get used to the 31st century. Caffeinated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? Admiral Crunch?
Leela: Well, if you don't like that, try some Archduke Chocula.
The average temp in the arctic has risen 1.2 degress per DECADE.
Truly ignorance is bliss. Its people like yourself who make excuses like, you don't understand climate change and you think the instruments scientists are using aren't accurate. Burry your head in the sand like most people do.:::rolls eyes:::
Little nano-bots with little laser beams. Perfeerably resembling the classic blaster design from starwars. or perhaps tiny light sabres, although, the colladeral damage may be too great.
Um you must not travel much. Contrary to popular belief the world is NOT overpopulated. Infact I am sure it could handle 10 or 20 billion. Extreme poverty and man made disasters are the real causes of so much misery present in the world today.
As hibernation tech increases you can bet many will pay millions for it, and why not? All we need now is some megacorp to set up a freezing station on the moon to store all those human popsicles and they will be billionaires.
I doubt you would be so quick to condemn someone to death rather than hibernation if it was your life on the line.
A problem at our office here in Nairobi is not only black-outs...but power surges. A standard UPS just doesn't cut it, if the voltage is too low they don't recharge. So basically, one must be self-sufficient, which means you need a surge protector, UPS, voltage regulator, generator, and throw in an inverter system if you have the $$$:)
If you consider that a decent generator able to sustain an office of a dozen or so computers can set you back up to $10K...
I like to compare working in a developing county much like space travel, you have to bring everything with you because you never know what might happen. Don't even get me started on the woes of trying to get decent internet access!;)
From my experience living/working in both Nigeria and Kenya it has surprised me greatly at the needs/uses people really have for high tech devices.
Most people who can afford it (and even some who can't) have a cell-phone. Sometimes I suspect it is more of a status symbol than anything because just because most people can afford to buy a cell-phone...few can afford to buy the air-time needed to actually make use of it. Regardless, landline phone are pretty much usesless in this part of the world.
Computers on the other hand are (I think) still a tool for the rich. Those who do have access to computers mostly use them for email, and not much more at the moment. Infact most people I know are much faster typers on their cell phones to sent text msges than they are on a regular keyboard.
IMO any device that is so called "stripped-down" or is missing parts is doomed to fail. People are just as intelligent here as anywhere... it is just that most are extremely poor and lack the education to make use of such things.
One last thought. We have the technology now to give people computers, power them with solar power, generators, even a treadmill... the greater problem is giving people a reason to want to use these things. Why does a subsistance farmer need a word processor? Implementation is easy, its the long term sustainabily that is the hard part.
I'm not too sure about allure, but if you are anything like the common spy (or covert operative, black-op...ect), reading a newspaper is a great disguise.
Tip: For added camouflage, poke little 'eye' holes through one side and be rendered practically invisible!
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And it won't work now. That is unless some strange aliens come along and start chopping everyone's head off saying that "THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE" and then you have to have connery come through a portal from the other side of the galaxy to save our asses. But then, the odds of that happening are probably pretty slim, don't you think?
Because people such as yourself don't want to know the truth. My advice, don't even read the article, just go to your church instead. :/
Perhaps we should get into the habit of backing up all our data on the latest technology every few years. Floppy > cd > dvd > ??? Usb? just kidding...
Before I left Canada to come and work here in Africa for a few years I backed up all my stuff (writing, digital photos ect...) put them on a couple cdrs, and got a safety deposit box. The surprising thing was that the boxes in the bank vault barely fit the cds. I guess they don't have many people putting cds in safety deposit boxes. This was a few years ago now, so maybe they have changed that. Ofcourse the real cool part is getting that funky looking safety deposit key. You can pretend you're a mobster and have a few million stashed away for a rainy day...err not really, just some useless files from uni. But a man can dream can't he???...
Its got the wind up, a rechargable battery, and solar cell on top. Frankly the thing is awsome, and is near indestructable. However, it is also made in China, like most other things in the world. Since I am in Kenya, if it broke, I'm quite sure that it would not be fixable. I would have to buy a new one. I got this radio through an NGO I worked with. In the field I saw dozens of freeplay radios that had the hand crank broken! They were just sitting in a store room gathering dust. Also about price, I think they come out to around $40 each, in quantity. Anyway, I don't really see why people are against the handcrank computer. If they could have even 1 per SCHOOL, that would be a great achievement. If a student could even just send one email a month to a penpal, or do some simple research, that would be a giant leap. I have worked with Interactive radio instruction programs and from what I have seen, the innovation that the windup computer could introduce would be nothing but a good thing. Radio is last century's technology, its time to move into the future (though it may bruise a few radio egos). IMO
Do you not like this thing we humans have invented called 'civilization'? Name a problem in human history that was once thought unsolvable or impossible - and we have solved it. If humans are capable of causing the extinction of thousands of species of animals, we are surely capable of causing weather changes by such things as deforestation and billions of tons of pollutants into the atmosphere. Your view is just fatalistic.
I'm working in Kenya right now. They have massive deforestation here, with only 1.5% tree cover. Right now in the north of the country there are about 5 million people who are starving (or will be in a few weeks). These are the kind of disasters that will happen everywhere in the world if nothing is done. Desertification, crop failures, extreme weather, flooding. What are simple solutions? How about reducing soil erosion? Re-plant forests. Stop building massive houses on sandbars that trigger flooding. Use more friendly power generation to reduce smog and acid rain. ALL of these solutions would have immediate impacts and improve the quality of life not only for the earth but us humans as well. There is a reason why cancer rates and respiratory disorders are increasing. We are quickly poisoning ourselves, and if we don't ack NOW,it will only get worse. (cue Bladerunner opening sequence)...
For all the BAD things the US does (ie.Iraq invasion) they are undoubtably the best in the world at selling ideas. If the US could SERIOUSLY adopt more environmentally friendly ways of living/working and in industry, is there little doubt that new technologies and practices would be exported to places such as India and China? Isn't this obvious??? And why did it take disasters like Katrina to wake people up?
Call me pathetic. But I have a standing game of BGII still on my hard drive and I haven't yet finished the game! I stopped somewhere around the first level of watchers keep. I just don't want this game to end! I have started and restarted different parties around 5 or 6 times over the last few years, but have yet to actually go the distance to finish it off once and for all. I guess some games can do that to you. Its like reading a good book. You know that you will have to finish it eventually...but all the while at the back of your mind you know that there will never be another book written like it ever again. :::sigh:::
So long to the era of 2d isometric, hand drawn masterpieces of yore. I salute you!
But do you eat mushrooms? Know where they come from?...
Fry: I'm never gonna get used to the 31st century. Caffeinated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? Admiral Crunch? Leela: Well, if you don't like that, try some Archduke Chocula.
come on mod him up, he is only speaking the truth.
Whatever you do, don't buy coastal property ;/
The average temp in the arctic has risen 1.2 degress per DECADE. Truly ignorance is bliss. Its people like yourself who make excuses like, you don't understand climate change and you think the instruments scientists are using aren't accurate. Burry your head in the sand like most people do. :::rolls eyes:::
No need for reloads or respawn points
Patrol in your hummer for hours/days on end until you get randomly blown up. Game over.
Little nano-bots with little laser beams. Perfeerably resembling the classic blaster design from starwars. or perhaps tiny light sabres, although, the colladeral damage may be too great.
As hibernation tech increases you can bet many will pay millions for it, and why not? All we need now is some megacorp to set up a freezing station on the moon to store all those human popsicles and they will be billionaires.
I doubt you would be so quick to condemn someone to death rather than hibernation if it was your life on the line.
I like to compare working in a developing county much like space travel, you have to bring everything with you because you never know what might happen. Don't even get me started on the woes of trying to get decent internet access! ;)
Most people who can afford it (and even some who can't) have a cell-phone. Sometimes I suspect it is more of a status symbol than anything because just because most people can afford to buy a cell-phone...few can afford to buy the air-time needed to actually make use of it. Regardless, landline phone are pretty much usesless in this part of the world.
Computers on the other hand are (I think) still a tool for the rich. Those who do have access to computers mostly use them for email, and not much more at the moment. Infact most people I know are much faster typers on their cell phones to sent text msges than they are on a regular keyboard.
IMO any device that is so called "stripped-down" or is missing parts is doomed to fail. People are just as intelligent here as anywhere... it is just that most are extremely poor and lack the education to make use of such things.
One last thought. We have the technology now to give people computers, power them with solar power, generators, even a treadmill... the greater problem is giving people a reason to want to use these things. Why does a subsistance farmer need a word processor? Implementation is easy, its the long term sustainabily that is the hard part.
Tip: For added camouflage, poke little 'eye' holes through one side and be rendered practically invisible!
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