So these other countries must be doing this in huge quantities to be on this list. It's rather impressive really. As a Chilean, I can tell you howit works there. It's not so much about buying discs on the street. The thing is that Chile made the mistake of signing a Free Trade Agreement with the US. What this has effectively amounted to is that the US Intellectual Property has precedence over Chilean IP. This list is just a way to strongarm the goverment, bending over to US interests and taking them in the butt until getting a bloody pink sock.
Geothermal is probably the only case where I don't know of any major objections As an example, I know some objections the greens put against geothermals in Chile since the 60's. Basically it reduces to "it's pretty, and any machine is evil" or "there is danger for the almost extinct Andean rat", or just plain NIMBY. Big Oil and the tourism industry somehow seem happy about this (nobody is even allowed to think they may be funding these 'greens').
Chile has hundreds of these sites, and ZERO geothermal energy plants, no major oil or natural gas deposits, and an unusually long geography. Potential big hydro sites are too far from where the power is needed, and greens also opposed to them. They're pretty much opposed to everything, they push for a Zero-Development utopia.
Discussion about nuclear energy was explicitly taken out of the current Chilean administration just to please the greens, even now when there is an energy crisis.
My country now is safe from development and from the 20th century.
The best thing to do would be to raise the requirements for classes, thus forcing people to have to study more. We're talking about IIT here (IIT as in India Tech, not Illinois Institute of Technology), I don't think it is possible to raise the requirements further. And as another guy replied to you, given the strong selection pressure, their stress levels are already too high (we're talking about admitting a few hundred out of *millions* of applicants).
and require participation in an extra-curricular activity as a requirement for graduation. Agreed. Though I don't expect too many changes in their social behavior.
Aside from foobar2000, you can try QMP (http://www.quinnware.com/). It comes with some bells and whistles, but most things are easily disabled if you don't want them, like the media library or Gracenote stuff.
Not in the US. (translated from spanish, link to google translation... don't fear that IP mumber:) ). It's awkward, though. And useful only for 'simple' returns...
I know you can't use WBM to read USENET posts (google is the only choice I know of)...
I recall that on 9/11, many news outlets pointed to alt.nostradamus (or something like that). There were a couple of posts of the sort "the world is coming to an end". Of course, being this alt.nostradamus, nobody paid attention to them. The second post was in the fisrt week of september, in reply to replies to the first post. The purpose of the second post was to correct the date from "11 days from now" to "september 11". Again, nobody took serious note of that. Until 9/11. This guy replied something like "I told you so". Thousands of replies ensued: "We'll nuke your terrorist asses"...
Funny that I can't find those posts in Google Groups. Probably I should make a new tinfoil hat.
There you go... Just in case you missed my earlier post. Not that I understand the paper, but I know how to look for them fast. I'm going to give it a second read anyway.
It's going to be dual core, everybody knows that... So if one core (a "Pentium IV" core) is the mirror image of the other, why don't call the other core "VI muitneP"?? Well, VIIV is much more appealing than "VI muitnePPentium IV" (the first P is supposed to be backwards)...
the file transfers can be terribly slow 0.5 kbs the help documentation blames it on firewalls nat routers... and also claims the transfer wouldnt be possible by other means -not true in the slightest as my mac using friend uses ichat to connect to my aim client on the pc and file transfers are quick.
It's weird... for me, it works backwards. Skype's file transfer works really good (in a University network). Usually, the firewall doesn't allow file transfers via MSN Messenger, that's why I use Skype (and in the process, I've "converted" quite a few friends:) ).
Also, my productivity plummeted to an all-time low.
I have both Firefox (0.8 because I can't get TabBrowser Extensions to work on 0.9) and IE
Have you tried doing a clean install? Yes, many of the extensions had to be rebuilt to work on 0.9.x... but for me TBE works like a charm... ff even automagically found an update for it (FWIW, that's the only time I've seen the auto-updater working as it should).
Microsoft includes Mozilla and IE in its default Windows install. This is something we would NEVER expect any other company to do. See the Nissan/Mazda example above.
But, AFAIK, Nissan was not declared a monopoly, nor it behaves as a monopoly. I get your point, but I think the example you gave wasn't the right one.
Cheers...
PS: I almost wrote "monopole" instead of monopoly. Today I'm overloaded with physics...
No, they won't (well, who knows?:)). But in soccer there is no "*instant* tv replay" for referees, as in the NFL or in rugby. Robots might win, but they will be disqualified after the game.
I think the human players will win by rolling around the ground clutching their knees to draw penalty shots.
You're right, but robots can have ultra-sentitive detectors so when a player comes near, the robot mysteriously falls, rolls on the floor and some fake blood comes out of its structure.
Also, robots can have more "eyes" than humans, so they can foul/spit/punch humans and be sure that no referee was watching.
I tried Skype yesterday in my win2k box (I left my tinfoil hat for a while, but monitored the installed files), before there was a linux version available. I tried it on dial-up with a friend in Germany, and the quality was pretty decent (I am in S.America, so the packets are routed via the US). Maybe not the best (I haven't tried other software), but useful, at least for me. YMMV.
About the spyware thing... Maybe in this beta versions it comes spyware free... spybot/ad-aware detect nothing, maybe skype itself is the spyware. Who knows for sure? What if they really want to do serious, legal, non-(adware+spyware) business? Maybe that partnership with Siemens Mobile they claim to have is for real.
I for one am sick of all these subatomic particles breaking the rules.
I know you meant this as a joke. But, seriously, are particles breaking the rules? Do we know all the rules of subatomic particle physics? This reminds me of 'forbidden' transitions in quantum physics.
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Chile has hundreds of these sites, and ZERO geothermal energy plants, no major oil or natural gas deposits, and an unusually long geography. Potential big hydro sites are too far from where the power is needed, and greens also opposed to them. They're pretty much opposed to everything, they push for a Zero-Development utopia.
Discussion about nuclear energy was explicitly taken out of the current Chilean administration just to please the greens, even now when there is an energy crisis.
My country now is safe from development and from the 20th century.
Gone are the days when you could pay in cash and your right to fly wouldn't have been denied because you paid with cash.
Anybody remembers PeerCast? I think it was made for situations like this :) Some people in Japan already set up some stations, but not enough...
Can somebody set up one station closer to the US, to get my fix at lunch/work? (I don't mind the language).
Aside from foobar2000, you can try QMP (http://www.quinnware.com/). It comes with some bells and whistles, but most things are easily disabled if you don't want them, like the media library or Gracenote stuff.
Can you lodge a tax return on a mobile phone?
:) ).
Not in the US. (translated from spanish, link to google translation... don't fear that IP mumber
It's awkward, though. And useful only for 'simple' returns...
Anyway, I agree with your point.
I think we're talking about the same kid. BTW, here is the ~1000 post thread:
Google Groups Link
I know you can't use WBM to read USENET posts (google is the only choice I know of)...
I recall that on 9/11, many news outlets pointed to alt.nostradamus (or something like that). There were a couple of posts of the sort "the world is coming to an end". Of course, being this alt.nostradamus, nobody paid attention to them. The second post was in the fisrt week of september, in reply to replies to the first post. The purpose of the second post was to correct the date from "11 days from now" to "september 11". Again, nobody took serious note of that. Until 9/11. This guy replied something like "I told you so". Thousands of replies ensued: "We'll nuke your terrorist asses"...
Funny that I can't find those posts in Google Groups. Probably I should make a new tinfoil hat.
There is already a Magellan project, a 2 telescope optical interferometer:
http://www.ociw.edu/magellan/
Or
http://googleglobetrotting.com/
+3000 pics so far!
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0506027/
There you go... Just in case you missed my earlier post. Not that I understand the paper, but I know how to look for them fast. I'm going to give it a second read anyway.
Cheers...
It's going to be dual core, everybody knows that... So if one core (a "Pentium IV" core) is the mirror image of the other, why don't call the other core "VI muitneP"?? Well, VIIV is much more appealing than "VI muitnePPentium IV" (the first P is supposed to be backwards)...
I'm thinking too much bull... I should go home.
the file transfers can be terribly slow 0.5 kbs the help documentation blames it on firewalls nat routers ... and also claims the transfer wouldnt be possible by other means -not true in the slightest as my mac using friend uses ichat to connect to my aim client on the pc and file transfers are quick.
:) ).
It's weird... for me, it works backwards. Skype's file transfer works really good (in a University network). Usually, the firewall doesn't allow file transfers via MSN Messenger, that's why I use Skype (and in the process, I've "converted" quite a few friends
Also, my productivity plummeted to an all-time low.
Cheers
I have both Firefox (0.8 because I can't get TabBrowser Extensions to work on 0.9) and IE
Have you tried doing a clean install? Yes, many of the extensions had to be rebuilt to work on 0.9.x... but for me TBE works like a charm... ff even automagically found an update for it (FWIW, that's the only time I've seen the auto-updater working as it should).
Cheers...
Microsoft includes Mozilla and IE in its default Windows install. This is something we would NEVER expect any other company to do. See the Nissan/Mazda example above.
But, AFAIK, Nissan was not declared a monopoly, nor it behaves as a monopoly. I get your point, but I think the example you gave wasn't the right one.
Cheers...
PS: I almost wrote "monopole" instead of monopoly. Today I'm overloaded with physics...
I don't like that the entire package had to be updated
I don't like that either. Nor the mozilla devs. So they posted a patch via an extension to be applied to ff, tb and seamonkey.
Cheers...
No, they won't (well, who knows? :)). But in soccer there is no "*instant* tv replay" for referees, as in the NFL or in rugby. Robots might win, but they will be disqualified after the game.
I think the human players will win by rolling around the ground clutching their knees to draw penalty shots.
You're right, but robots can have ultra-sentitive detectors so when a player comes near, the robot mysteriously falls, rolls on the floor and some fake blood comes out of its structure.
Also, robots can have more "eyes" than humans, so they can foul/spit/punch humans and be sure that no referee was watching.
I use Spamassassin. Surviving mail then goes through CRM-114. At least in my case, it works better than each of the filters on its own.
oops... I forgot to login :) My reply was this AC post
I tried Skype yesterday in my win2k box (I left my tinfoil hat for a while, but monitored the installed files), before there was a linux version available. I tried it on dial-up with a friend in Germany, and the quality was pretty decent (I am in S.America, so the packets are routed via the US). Maybe not the best (I haven't tried other software), but useful, at least for me. YMMV.
About the spyware thing... Maybe in this beta versions it comes spyware free... spybot/ad-aware detect nothing, maybe skype itself is the spyware. Who knows for sure? What if they really want to do serious, legal, non-(adware+spyware) business? Maybe that partnership with Siemens Mobile they claim to have is for real.
Cheers...
Anybody captured this on video? Will Scaled/CNN/Discovery/anybody release any videos of this? Photos should be nice... videos are mandatory :)
I for one am sick of all these subatomic particles breaking the rules.
I know you meant this as a joke. But, seriously, are particles breaking the rules? Do we know all the rules of subatomic particle physics? This reminds me of 'forbidden' transitions in quantum physics.
I was going to complain the same thing, until I saw the "also show potentially incompatible icons" link.
:)
Try again