Well, I don't belive in that more weapons are the solution on how to stop wars. I would assume that LESS weapons is it. Thought then you will still have problems with crime syndicates and so on, I don't know how to solve that, except giving everyone decent lives.
I haven't read the book 1984, nor did I know the communism of USSR where spreading and that they forced more people to join. Also I guess I'm quite much for communism as in that everyone should be given similair lifes and benefits, but of the liberal kind and not the authoritan which might had been the case of USSR. http://www.politicalcompass.org/ (I'm from Sweden, born 79.)
Oh, which you already knew it seems:D
Well, it's true that we managed to avoid it, mostly because of pure luck I guess, you people solved the war for us before it hit us. Anyway Sweden wasn't rich during early 20th centrury, we did become rich after WWII but that was probably to a huge extent because the rest of europe had taken a huge hit and we hadn't. Also we had a lot more military back then when we have now, now it's more or less nothing and all resources are spent on coorporative exercises and UN-work and stuff like that in other countries instread of protecting our own. But no matter how much military resources we would spend we would still lose to the nazis or soviet in the end, we are a small country and they where huge. Thought Finland is even smaller and actually managed to keep the russians back! A major feat of theirs I guess. Also I've got the impression that we indeed have no nukes but that we could get them if there was a need quite fast.
Our economy suck, we have lost a lot since the 70s and companies are moving away from us to, also we waste a huge amount of the knowledge from immigrants by not giving them jobs on what they are trained for. Foreign people got no job at all or shit jobs even thought they have had good training in the home countries.
So what will happen if everyone get nukes then? (I guess we already know, US paranoia will hit and there will be wars anyway.) And in that way does nukes protects against terrorists which are already in your country and fights on your streets?
But your points are very good ones, and I would probably have argued a lot more different and been much more nationalistic if the nazis or ussr had every invaded us. I guess we swedes are a little ignorant and trust that everything will be fine just because we haven't been in any war for the last 200 years. It's easy to argue that if we don't have any military, don't pose a treat to anyone, that noone will get upset and therefor not invade us.
I guess chances are the next war might be a religious one thought, like so many have been before that one. I for one does not welcome our muhammedian overlords:D (Belive whatever you want and do whatever you want but don't try to forcefeed someone else your bullshit.)
I don't know what will have happened but I saw a TV-show about the clean up work at Tjernobyl a few days ago.
For instance I think they mentioned that there where 1 tone of plutonium and that since 1 mcg could kill a human that would be sufficient to kill 100 million people (thought that would never work since not only humans would get it into their bodies), thought that doesn't measure up so I guess it might had been 100 kg instead. (Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm to lazy to google for details. I guess it wasn't 1mg to kill a human and 1000 tone?) That was a problem since the half time where 245.000 years...
Anyway, that wasn't my point, the point was that they said that Russias SS-18 would be as devastating/dangerous/.. as 100 tjernobyls, and that russia had 2700 of them. Swedish wikipedia mentions that 308 of these where still there during the cold wars end, 80 is still there today and soon there will only be 40 remaining until 2020. (Numbers like those makes me wonder how much war and protection against it actually cost globaly, what a waste.)
Isn't it quite obvious that Russia are only trying to tell USA to not play this "omg we need missile protections here, here and here" all around it?
As we all know the USA can't be trusted, so I understand them =P
I guess if they do start to drill for oil at the.. whatever the north pole are called;D USA already have their reason, to protect and save Canada, or whatever excuse will be made up.
Stop beeing an ass and everyone will be fine. =P (Not directed against the parent, but to whatever country, people, person,..)
The way of nimh? Am I the only one who prefers nimh over li-ion? Mostly so because I can get them in AA/AAA/whatever thought. Also I like to know that they don't drop a lot in capacity.
If uses file checksums on all files so yes, you will know if something is wrong, and if I use its raid functionallity it will be fixed without you doing anything if I remember right. Don't quote me on the last part thought =P (except when telling me I'm wrong;D)
What about Linux, itself was probably considered "too late" or such at the time "Everything's been invented/done".
It was! And then it was copied to the Linux os/environment. Because people just seems to want what they already have instead of try to invent something new and better.
Imho FSF have managed to become way uglier with their tactics than Microsoft, well done by them...
This whole shit, story and everything are so lame I couldn't care less. FSF is a joke.
Sure, hate patents if you want to, I do, but don't make up shit like this to affect Microsoft afterward and in some weird way they couldn't predict or handle somehow.
I hope they sue, someone notice how redicilous it is and that they lose a hell of a lot to Microsoft.
Well, some people did, thought they couldn't try the new OS because it took so long for it to get released so they mostly got a very expensive PPC Linux machine..
But you forgot that the terrorists will get hold of this new harddrive technology and beat the shit out of USA!
Just like they did with the PS2s!
Don't ask me how you bomb someone with harddrives thought, fill them with explosives and use as grenades? Strap them around your body?
Americans are a weird people, stop beliving that everyone else are terrorists, and that technology only come from the USA and that noone else can invent/use it. If they want some encryption method WHY go after harddrives?!! Are that the easiest way? What's wrong with gpg and aes?
Ok, I'm from the Amigaside and just remember that people tried to make coldfire cards aswell and that it would be m68k compatible(?) so I thought it was the logical follow up.
Gamecube where PPC aswell (but you seem to be very knowledgable so you already know that;D), it's sad that everything Amiga just fucked up =p, to bad there never where any A\Box. Atleast Genesi kind of succed.
I think the 66MHz 486 at part of the computer club could play regular (128kbps..) mp3s using winamp in Windows. But it might have had better specs, but I don't think so.
Anyway my Amiga1200 with 68030@50MHz and no FPU could only play mp3s decently in 22kHz mono (also 8bit because it didn't had better sound than that):(, using mpega. Atleast I don't think I used 11kHz, not 100% sure there either =P
I guess, maybe, but that also well explained to me why people might hate their ex;)
I guess it's true with life in general, that it's better to have LIVED even if everything didn't turned out as expected/good, some things probably did. And for those people where it didn't, I feel sad for them.
Do people really expect lifelong relationships? I thought one where supposed to get a lot back, if one doesn't one might rather quit it immediatly.
Also regarding time I watched some TV program about it and how hormones worked and I got the impression that the first "fall in love" part only lasted for two years or whatever it was, but then it stops and people who stay rather do so because they have become so good friends and like eachother that way. But still, what do I know =P, some peoples attention only stays for a month or so aswell but I guess that is when they realize they really aren't in love at all only horny. If I remeber it right sex lead to stronger bondage somehow aswell.
I'd never understod this hate-your-ex-thing? The person where part of your life for some time but you have decided to hate it and want to erase it from it? Better never get a partner then at all if you are going to hate the person once it doesn't work longer.
But then I'm a regular slashdot visitor and don't have any exs so what do I know.
In Sweden this used to be the case, like 10 years ago, you could buy a phone for say 3500 sek or you could sign up for 24 months at 150 sek / month cost and get the phone for free. Similair cost in the end but then you needed to get a subscription somewhere anyway so it didn't mattered that much. Of course they had you locked in for 24 months thought.
Anyway this isn't the case today, a "cash card" phone with operator lock will maybe be like 200 sek cheaper, but stores ask for 350 sek or something to unlock them so there really are not much use for them.
A subscription phone isn't much cheaper at all, maybe 200 sek or so there aswell, thought nowadays the monthly fee for a subscription is much lower and what they offer instead is like "get 2400 sek of on the phone price and pay 100 sek more per month for two years". So then it doesn't really get any cheaper but you don't have to pay the full price for the phone at the same time.
What do suck is all these "omg get Brand XYZ phone for only 595 sek!" when in fact that is what you pay directly with extra expensive subscription for x amounts of month. They should make that illegal and always provide the total cost in ads instead since it's a major pain to compare phone prices when you have to look thru all the subscribers and cost and so on and calculate it yourself. Also on PAL TV which we use the subscription details are so small they can't be read for the 1 second they are shown..
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Well, I don't belive in that more weapons are the solution on how to stop wars. I would assume that LESS weapons is it. Thought then you will still have problems with crime syndicates and so on, I don't know how to solve that, except giving everyone decent lives.
:D
:D
I haven't read the book 1984, nor did I know the communism of USSR where spreading and that they forced more people to join. Also I guess I'm quite much for communism as in that everyone should be given similair lifes and benefits, but of the liberal kind and not the authoritan which might had been the case of USSR.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/
(I'm from Sweden, born 79.)
Oh, which you already knew it seems
Well, it's true that we managed to avoid it, mostly because of pure luck I guess, you people solved the war for us before it hit us. Anyway Sweden wasn't rich during early 20th centrury, we did become rich after WWII but that was probably to a huge extent because the rest of europe had taken a huge hit and we hadn't. Also we had a lot more military back then when we have now, now it's more or less nothing and all resources are spent on coorporative exercises and UN-work and stuff like that in other countries instread of protecting our own.
But no matter how much military resources we would spend we would still lose to the nazis or soviet in the end, we are a small country and they where huge. Thought Finland is even smaller and actually managed to keep the russians back! A major feat of theirs I guess. Also I've got the impression that we indeed have no nukes but that we could get them if there was a need quite fast.
Our economy suck, we have lost a lot since the 70s and companies are moving away from us to, also we waste a huge amount of the knowledge from immigrants by not giving them jobs on what they are trained for. Foreign people got no job at all or shit jobs even thought they have had good training in the home countries.
So what will happen if everyone get nukes then? (I guess we already know, US paranoia will hit and there will be wars anyway.)
And in that way does nukes protects against terrorists which are already in your country and fights on your streets?
But your points are very good ones, and I would probably have argued a lot more different and been much more nationalistic if the nazis or ussr had every invaded us. I guess we swedes are a little ignorant and trust that everything will be fine just because we haven't been in any war for the last 200 years. It's easy to argue that if we don't have any military, don't pose a treat to anyone, that noone will get upset and therefor not invade us.
I guess chances are the next war might be a religious one thought, like so many have been before that one. I for one does not welcome our muhammedian overlords
(Belive whatever you want and do whatever you want but don't try to forcefeed someone else your bullshit.)
Thanks a lot for that post since it tells us who are the bad guy in this situation. Also it just shows how much patents sucks and are useless aswell.
I don't know what will have happened but I saw a TV-show about the clean up work at Tjernobyl a few days ago.
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For instance I think they mentioned that there where 1 tone of plutonium and that since 1 mcg could kill a human that would be sufficient to kill 100 million people (thought that would never work since not only humans would get it into their bodies), thought that doesn't measure up so I guess it might had been 100 kg instead. (Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm to lazy to google for details. I guess it wasn't 1mg to kill a human and 1000 tone?)
That was a problem since the half time where 245.000 years
Anyway, that wasn't my point, the point was that they said that Russias SS-18 would be as devastating/dangerous/.. as 100 tjernobyls, and that russia had 2700 of them.
Swedish wikipedia mentions that 308 of these where still there during the cold wars end, 80 is still there today and soon there will only be 40 remaining until 2020.
(Numbers like those makes me wonder how much war and protection against it actually cost globaly, what a waste.)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/r-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-18
Isn't it quite obvious that Russia are only trying to tell USA to not play this "omg we need missile protections here, here and here" all around it?
;D USA already have their reason, to protect and save Canada, or whatever excuse will be made up.
..)
As we all know the USA can't be trusted, so I understand them =P
I guess if they do start to drill for oil at the.. whatever the north pole are called
Stop beeing an ass and everyone will be fine. =P (Not directed against the parent, but to whatever country, people, person,
I don't know much about polictics but where does that put Iraq? Have their system changed to much over the years?
Shouldn't etanol or whatever you use be perfect? Plenty of energy and there are never any need to "recharge", just refill and there you go?
Or are nimh cars better nowadays? How does run time and "power" compare?
The way of nimh? Am I the only one who prefers nimh over li-ion? Mostly so because I can get them in AA/AAA/whatever thought. Also I like to know that they don't drop a lot in capacity.
+1
Normally slashdot are all about free speech and stuff and now we complain when we have it? What is the problem here?
Also fat people suck.
If uses file checksums on all files so yes, you will know if something is wrong, and if I use its raid functionallity it will be fixed without you doing anything if I remember right. Don't quote me on the last part thought =P (except when telling me I'm wrong ;D)
I want to troll.
What about Linux, itself was probably considered "too late" or such at the time "Everything's been invented/done".
It was! And then it was copied to the Linux os/environment. Because people just seems to want what they already have instead of try to invent something new and better.
But it's not news that people are speculating about it, the date or the features, it has been speculated for weeks now ;)
Imho FSF have managed to become way uglier with their tactics than Microsoft, well done by them ...
This whole shit, story and everything are so lame I couldn't care less. FSF is a joke.
Sure, hate patents if you want to, I do, but don't make up shit like this to affect Microsoft afterward and in some weird way they couldn't predict or handle somehow.
I hope they sue, someone notice how redicilous it is and that they lose a hell of a lot to Microsoft.
Well, some people did, thought they couldn't try the new OS because it took so long for it to get released so they mostly got a very expensive PPC Linux machine ..
But you forgot that the terrorists will get hold of this new harddrive technology and beat the shit out of USA!
Just like they did with the PS2s!
Don't ask me how you bomb someone with harddrives thought, fill them with explosives and use as grenades? Strap them around your body?
Americans are a weird people, stop beliving that everyone else are terrorists, and that technology only come from the USA and that noone else can invent/use it. If they want some encryption method WHY go after harddrives?!! Are that the easiest way? What's wrong with gpg and aes?
So you are saying the program can't be logical to use because the document format are open?
How does a good program make the format decision better?
Apple makes a lot of good stuff, but the vendor lockin suck, and in some cases they get away with releasing inferior products due to it.
Ok, I'm from the Amigaside and just remember that people tried to make coldfire cards aswell and that it would be m68k compatible(?) so I thought it was the logical follow up.
;D), it's sad that everything Amiga just fucked up =p, to bad there never where any A\Box. Atleast Genesi kind of succed.
Gamecube where PPC aswell (but you seem to be very knowledgable so you already know that
Isn't coldfire the real successor of M68k? PPC just being "something new and it's from Motorola (and IBM and Apple)".
I think the 66MHz 486 at part of the computer club could play regular (128kbps..) mp3s using winamp in Windows. But it might have had better specs, but I don't think so.
:(, using mpega.
Anyway my Amiga1200 with 68030@50MHz and no FPU could only play mp3s decently in 22kHz mono (also 8bit because it didn't had better sound than that)
Atleast I don't think I used 11kHz, not 100% sure there either =P
Maybe it's needed on x86 systems with shitty chipsets and irqs and whatever.
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The UI in Solaris got real slow when I ran a few torrents even thought they where going very slowly on my x86. But that didn't made slashdot
And an pentium 75 running win95 would do it aswell.
.. And AmigaOS where back in 85.
It would also have a multitasking operating system, something macs got 2001
I guess, maybe, but that also well explained to me why people might hate their ex ;)
I guess it's true with life in general, that it's better to have LIVED even if everything didn't turned out as expected/good, some things probably did. And for those people where it didn't, I feel sad for them.
Do people really expect lifelong relationships? I thought one where supposed to get a lot back, if one doesn't one might rather quit it immediatly.
Also regarding time I watched some TV program about it and how hormones worked and I got the impression that the first "fall in love" part only lasted for two years or whatever it was, but then it stops and people who stay rather do so because they have become so good friends and like eachother that way. But still, what do I know =P, some peoples attention only stays for a month or so aswell but I guess that is when they realize they really aren't in love at all only horny. If I remeber it right sex lead to stronger bondage somehow aswell.
I'd never understod this hate-your-ex-thing? The person where part of your life for some time but you have decided to hate it and want to erase it from it?
Better never get a partner then at all if you are going to hate the person once it doesn't work longer.
But then I'm a regular slashdot visitor and don't have any exs so what do I know.
In Sweden this used to be the case, like 10 years ago, you could buy a phone for say 3500 sek or you could sign up for 24 months at 150 sek / month cost and get the phone for free. Similair cost in the end but then you needed to get a subscription somewhere anyway so it didn't mattered that much. Of course they had you locked in for 24 months thought.
..
Anyway this isn't the case today, a "cash card" phone with operator lock will maybe be like 200 sek cheaper, but stores ask for 350 sek or something to unlock them so there really are not much use for them.
A subscription phone isn't much cheaper at all, maybe 200 sek or so there aswell, thought nowadays the monthly fee for a subscription is much lower and what they offer instead is like "get 2400 sek of on the phone price and pay 100 sek more per month for two years". So then it doesn't really get any cheaper but you don't have to pay the full price for the phone at the same time.
What do suck is all these "omg get Brand XYZ phone for only 595 sek!" when in fact that is what you pay directly with extra expensive subscription for x amounts of month. They should make that illegal and always provide the total cost in ads instead since it's a major pain to compare phone prices when you have to look thru all the subscribers and cost and so on and calculate it yourself. Also on PAL TV which we use the subscription details are so small they can't be read for the 1 second they are shown
And it would be impossible to make a phone which supports both kinds of network? ...
_ phone_standards
I didn't know much about CDMA so I looked at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mobile
Last point sucks bad.
Can't they just redesign it somehow so you can use drop in cards aswell? Or if you don't like it only buy GSM phones?