Yup, I also don't understand why people just thinks Apple might suddenly sell a tablet, a PDA or something that's already invented. They already told countless times that there'll be no Apple PDA in the near future and I don't believe they'll get a tablet of their own when everybody elses tablet are just not selling!
If it is to be only a smart-display (like the Philips-one) then there's nothing new (Microsoft talked about these electronics years ago) but if on the other hand it has basic processing and storage capabilities it might just be a hybrid smartdisplay-PDA: near the WiFi range it would use the desktop/laptop horse-power, when out of range it would use its own cpu and storage then stuff would sync easily.
I really don't know... I've been reading too many news about the chinese's (and asians in general) space program ambitions and it is becoming too Sci-Fi too be true.
First the human space flight (nothing special), then moon landing (not special, either), then moon base (beginning to sound bluff) and now Mars base?
Well, personaly I do think that we need to invest more in space exploration/colonization so we can begin to take the advantages of some technologies(like cold fusion -> H3) as soon as we arrive and mine the moon, for example. But I don't believe we will achive all this in the next, say, 30, 40 years.
However, I think this is a good way to pressure other nations to join the race and forget about little wars (around pretolleum, gas, and stuff like that). Money spent in space exploration may be considered badly spent by some but it is unarguably much better spent than in wars!
Actualy axim x5 is 320x240 as anyother ppc device out there. Another drawback is its *HUGE* size! axim is everything but portable! I'm currently a ipaq H3850 user and I trying to go palm because they smaller, lighter (physicaly and 'softwarly';P) But I have to agree that for +/-$250 it is a good device
Of course there is viewsonic v35 and ipaq 1910. Those are light but the major problem is the OS. Tungsten|T
How old is US? Was that democracy what I saw in the old western movies? If your democracy worked so well why did the civil war happen? well, NKorean government might also call their own regime a democracy, who cares!?
How can your infere that our democracies might collapse just basing in some decades of History? Actual USA won't ever be a dictatorship because before it can happen another secession war will break. The EU model is built to prevent tiranies in the future that's why (inlong term analisis) it is a federal model like yours.
What is that culture that dominates the world that you're talking about?
Reasonably thinking American culture is still a mixture (not a melting pot) of cultures. The most proeminent is the European branch culture that you have (the other should be the african culture).
I always find it funny when I hear americans (not all, not most of them, some of them) talking about their superior way of life and culture. I think you're problem is that you actually can't find a historical existence for america because everything that really cares for you is imported either from Europe or Africa (yes, the Amerindian culture where exterminated by You, and I'm not acusing you , I'm just reminding you, because everyone makes mistakes)
Finally, and to end this as well as I can I should remember that nor we are closed in our own land nor you are alone to rule the future of our planet. OUR planet, not mine, not yours, OUR and for OUR children that in a century might not even know what america (= USA) or europe is.
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Yup, I also don't understand why people just thinks Apple might suddenly sell a tablet, a PDA or something that's already invented. They already told countless times that there'll be no Apple PDA in the near future and I don't believe they'll get a tablet of their own when everybody elses tablet are just not selling!
If it is to be only a smart-display (like the Philips-one) then there's nothing new (Microsoft talked about these electronics years ago) but if on the other hand it has basic processing and storage capabilities it might just be a hybrid smartdisplay-PDA: near the WiFi range it would use the desktop/laptop horse-power, when out of range it would use its own cpu and storage then stuff would sync easily.
...everyone is going to buy the 15GB model iPod, judging by the response of here. May be this is the real strategy.
I really don't know... I've been reading too many news about the chinese's (and asians in general) space program ambitions and it is becoming too Sci-Fi too be true.
First the human space flight (nothing special), then moon landing (not special, either), then moon base (beginning to sound bluff) and now Mars base?
Well, personaly I do think that we need to invest more in space exploration/colonization so we can begin to take the advantages of some technologies(like cold fusion -> H3) as soon as we arrive and mine the moon, for example. But I don't believe we will achive all this in the next, say, 30, 40 years.
However, I think this is a good way to pressure other nations to join the race and forget about little wars (around pretolleum, gas, and stuff like that). Money spent in space exploration may be considered badly spent by some but it is unarguably much better spent than in wars!
Actualy axim x5 is 320x240 as anyother ppc device out there. Another drawback is its *HUGE* size! axim is everything but portable! I'm currently a ipaq H3850 user and I trying to go palm because they smaller, lighter (physicaly and 'softwarly' ;P) But I have to agree that for +/-$250 it is a good device
Of course there is viewsonic v35 and ipaq 1910. Those are light but the major problem is the OS. Tungsten|T
How old is US? Was that democracy what I saw in the old western movies? If your democracy worked so well why did the civil war happen? well, NKorean government might also call their own regime a democracy, who cares!? How can your infere that our democracies might collapse just basing in some decades of History? Actual USA won't ever be a dictatorship because before it can happen another secession war will break. The EU model is built to prevent tiranies in the future that's why (inlong term analisis) it is a federal model like yours.
Well flamewar is a flamewar, here it goes:
What is that culture that dominates the world that you're talking about?
Reasonably thinking American culture is still a mixture (not a melting pot) of cultures. The most proeminent is the European branch culture that you have (the other should be the african culture).
I always find it funny when I hear americans (not all, not most of them, some of them) talking about their superior way of life and culture. I think you're problem is that you actually can't find a historical existence for america because everything that really cares for you is imported either from Europe or Africa (yes, the Amerindian culture where exterminated by You, and I'm not acusing you , I'm just reminding you, because everyone makes mistakes)
Finally, and to end this as well as I can I should remember that nor we are closed in our own land nor you are alone to rule the future of our planet. OUR planet, not mine, not yours, OUR and for OUR children that in a century might not even know what america (= USA) or europe is.