There's really no need to defend anything against Dvorak's claims. The guy is an attention whore; if you really want to cut him down just make a comparison between things he has predicted and things that have happened (particularly involving apple).
Well built solar panels can last quite a bit longer than 7 years. Many consumer grade solar panels have 10 year warranties, and many of the older panels made 40 years ago are still in operation.
I had already been a fan of Jon Stewart for some time before he took over the chair at The Daily Show; but I must admit, it took him and the writing staff a year or so to become consistently funny.
The show was often painfully bad for the first season.
"The free nations of the world use jails to incarcerate criminals. Nations that are not free use jails to incarcerate dissidents."
Um, yes. And they are criminals because of the government's definition of laws. The implementation of, for instance, the US government and legal system directly puts people in jail. I'm not saying this isn't a good thing, I'm just saying that enforcing any legal system which hands down punishments requires force.
The rest of your post basically confuses the pseudo-communist dictatorships which have existed with communism.
Any non-trivial government can only be implemented through coercion and force. The most 'free' nations in the world _still_ need jails to enforce it's laws. As Tolstoy said 'Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us' (paraphrased, and where Tolstoy's violence is 'some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.)
I don't really see a reason why communism requires a totalitarian dictatorship; it is true that most communist societies have had one but I'd argue that most aren't (or weren't) communist, they were/are more purely totalitarian than anything.
Disclaimer: I am not a communist.
Video games lock you within their world of possibility. They give you an extremely limited range of things to manipulate.
On the other hand when a child goes outside and plays they are not nearly as limited.
The jump from playing outside to playing crappy video games isn't even comparable to the jump from playing crappy video games to playing realistic ones.
When I see someone playing Frogger, Ms Pac Man, Asteroids, etc I don't really think they are using their imagination any more than someone playing GTA3 or any other modern game...
I can tell you that when I'm playing, say, donkey kong I'm not imagining that I am a guy jumping over barrels. I'm concentrating on when exactly to hit the jump button, when to climb a ladder and when to wait, etc.
Face it, 99% of video games are not in any way educational. If you want a kid to use his imagination buy them a book, not a game console.
"But significant roadblocks still remain between today's unveiling and the fulfillment of Ryumin's boast. The actual first test flights of the vehicle, perhaps about 2010, will require funding levels that the Russian government has so far been unable to provide."
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No it isn't. I can make claims without any factual basis too! Weeee this is fun.
There's really no need to defend anything against Dvorak's claims. The guy is an attention whore; if you really want to cut him down just make a comparison between things he has predicted and things that have happened (particularly involving apple).
That just moves the problem to the perl/python/whatever interpreter -- could the interpreter itself be hacked?
Near where I live there are dozens of fatalities per year involving gas guzzling vehicles. They may be unsafe on highways!
The article you reference shows it was a loose brake line; how is this specific to solar technology?
-1 troll.
Well built solar panels can last quite a bit longer than 7 years. Many consumer grade solar panels have 10 year warranties, and many of the older panels made 40 years ago are still in operation.
Look, we all know that PHP is broken and a huge waste of time.
PGP on the other hand is a different matter.
Um, actually the US does sell a lot of weapons.
Related link:
http://www.fas.org/asmp/fast_facts.htm
I had already been a fan of Jon Stewart for some time before he took over the chair at The Daily Show; but I must admit, it took him and the writing staff a year or so to become consistently funny. The show was often painfully bad for the first season.
... I think I have been trolled. Outlook Express vs Sendmail? hmm.
Sendmail is known to be a piece of shit. There are several more secure and elegant mail servers. (not to mention that sendmail != linux)
Yeah, it's just like when they began using tracking ankle bracelets on criminals on probation, now we're all wearing them!
Oh wait, there is a legal basis.
Except arrays are NOT pointers.
They syntatically behave in a similar fashion under certain circumstances, but not all.
"The free nations of the world use jails to incarcerate criminals. Nations that are not free use jails to incarcerate dissidents." Um, yes. And they are criminals because of the government's definition of laws. The implementation of, for instance, the US government and legal system directly puts people in jail. I'm not saying this isn't a good thing, I'm just saying that enforcing any legal system which hands down punishments requires force. The rest of your post basically confuses the pseudo-communist dictatorships which have existed with communism.
Any non-trivial government can only be implemented through coercion and force. The most 'free' nations in the world _still_ need jails to enforce it's laws. As Tolstoy said 'Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us' (paraphrased, and where Tolstoy's violence is 'some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.) I don't really see a reason why communism requires a totalitarian dictatorship; it is true that most communist societies have had one but I'd argue that most aren't (or weren't) communist, they were/are more purely totalitarian than anything. Disclaimer: I am not a communist.
I think it's self-defeating for a totalitarian dictatorship.. For communism I don't really see the problem.
USA Today: The television show stuck in a newspaper's body.
Yes, and they were right.
Video games lock you within their world of possibility. They give you an extremely limited range of things to manipulate.
On the other hand when a child goes outside and plays they are not nearly as limited.
The jump from playing outside to playing crappy video games isn't even comparable to the jump from playing crappy video games to playing realistic ones.
When I see someone playing Frogger, Ms Pac Man, Asteroids, etc I don't really think they are using their imagination any more than someone playing GTA3 or any other modern game...
I can tell you that when I'm playing, say, donkey kong I'm not imagining that I am a guy jumping over barrels. I'm concentrating on when exactly to hit the jump button, when to climb a ladder and when to wait, etc.
Face it, 99% of video games are not in any way educational. If you want a kid to use his imagination buy them a book, not a game console.
How about instead of sitting around thinking about how to make your computer pretty you do something with it.
Write some code or something. Jesus, computers aren't fashion accessories (excepting Apple metrosexuals).
Good idea!
Wait, no, that's dumb.
I'm just going to venture a guess here:
You've never lived in a country without widespread indoor plumbing.
"one finds them very very sexualy potent well into their adult life"
Well into their adult life? Many African nations have life expectancies in the 40s. So I guess well into adult life would be what, 30?
Because CG still sucks.
Did you read the article??
"But significant roadblocks still remain between today's unveiling and the fulfillment of Ryumin's boast. The actual first test flights of the vehicle, perhaps about 2010, will require funding levels that the Russian government has so far been unable to provide."
Baaaaaamooooo.