It must really suck to have ADHD that is so bad that you can't read an entire paragraph, because I did not solely lay the blame on Europeans I also blamed the Nigerians factions and the corrupt governments they support. With that said you would have to be an ignorant fool to not lay some blame on the Europeans for what is going on in Africa right now.
but realistally he needs to get his head out of the clouds and back on the ground. It would be a lot better for him to turn his efforts to making a light weight and reliable tractor. One that is easy to build, cheap to own, and easy to fix. Once nigeria starts feeding it's people then they can think about flying.
Comments like this are why slashdot needs an +1 ignorant modifier. Nigeria's problems are not caused by lack of agricultural technology. There is wide spread ethnic and religious tension that has been going on for decades. Like most of Africa's countries there are factions within Nigeria that were created by European colonialism. These factions are still at conflict today and keep Nigeria from being able to progress due to lack of national unity. Religious conflict between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria also have played a large role in keeping Nigeria from progressing.
Combine the internal conflict between factions with corrupt governments who misappropriate foreign aid and run up the national debt and you end up with a large portion of the populations suffering and starving. No amount of cheap reliable tractors are going to solve Nigeria's agricultural problems. Combine your logic with what the real causes of starvation in Nigeria are and this guy should give up what he loves to do and what? become a politician? Because it is going to take effective leadership for a country like Nigeria to feed its people not tractors.
Leave the doors open? You do realize that HD porn will probably be the first thing viewed with such technology? Still want to have an open door policy?
Really? Apple hardware isn't just overpriced PC hardware? Funny cause I just purchased a dual quad core xeon workstation from dell for UNDER $900. You can't even get a dual core Apple workstation for that price.
Yeah, if they were a C++ programmer or programmer in a real language on a mini or mainframe
I love when people talk about real languages. Please define what a real language is. I am not a web developer in fact I all of the work I have ever done was c, c++, backend php development, and some php internals. We are rapidly approaching a point where a very large percentage of applications will be able to be written in scripting languages (BE AFRAID!!) because of the amount of system resources available to the average person. Is this a good thing? I don't know, but at some point writing applications in the real languages isn't going to make economic sense.
A real impact that isn't going to lead to war, IF everything we are being told about global warming comes to fruition it will not be in our life time. Human overpopulation has a far greater chance of leading to war than global warming, if someone were to convince everyone in the world to stop procreating so damn much that might be worthy but global warming? I don't think so.
So should we give the Nobel Peace Prize to NASA scientists who track meteors in outer space as well. If we are hit with a meteor it could be equally catastrophic and people will be equally as likely to kill their neighbor to save themselves.
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".
What Al Gore is doing is important but based on those standards how does Al Gore win the peace prize?
Look at the list of former Nobel Peace Prize Winners many of these people risked their lives or personal fortunes in endeavors that made the world a more peaceful place. Al Gore made a film about Global warming and crusades for the cause. Talk about cheapening the award.
I never said he was JUST a drug addict but he is popular enough that an introduction isn't really necessary. The fact remains that he was definitely a drug addict and was said to be mentally ill.
* 1960 - The first working laser was demonstrated in May by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories.
* 1961 - First human spaceflight to orbit the Earth: Yuri Gagarin, Vostok 1.
* 1962 - First trans-Atlantic satellite broadcast via the Telstar satellite.
* 1962 - The first computer video game, Spacewar!, is invented.
* 1963 - The first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom 2 is launched.
* 1963 - Touch-Tone telephones introduced.
* 1964 - The first successful Minicomputer, Digital Equipment Corporation's 12-bit PDP-8, is marketed.
* 1965 - Sony markets the CV-2000, the first home video tape recorder.
* 1966 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 10, which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
* 1967 - First heart transplantation operation.
* 1967 - PAL and SECAM broadcast color TV systems start publicly transmitting in Europe.
* 1968 - First humans to leave Earth's gravity influence and orbit another world: Apollo 8.
* 1968 - The first public demonstration of the computer mouse, the paper paradigm Graphical user interface, video conferencing, teleconferencing, email, and hypertext.
* 1969 - Arpanet, the research-oriented prototype of the Internet, was introduced.
* 1969 - First humans to walk on the Moon: Apollo 11.
* 1969 - CCD invented at AT&T Bell Labs, used as the electronic imager in still and video cameras.
And lets not forget the cell phone:
The first fully automatic mobile phone system, called MTA (Mobile Telephone system A), was developed by Ericsson and commercially released in Sweden in 1956. This was the first system that didn't require any kind of manual control, but had the disadvantage of a phone weight of 40 kg (88 lbs). MTB, an upgraded version with transistors, weighing 9 kg {19.8 lbs), was introduced in 1965 and used dual-tone multifrequency signaling. It had 150 customers in the beginning and 600 when it shut down in 1983.
In 1967, each mobile phone had to stay within the cell area serviced by one base station throughout the phone call. This did not provide continuity of automatic telephone service to mobile phones moving through several cell areas. In 1970 Amos E. Joel, Jr., another Bell Labs engineer,[4] invented an automatic "call handoff" system to allow mobile phones to move through several cell areas during a single conversation without loss of conversation.
Please spare me the crap, I never said ALL of the technology we enjoy today was invented in the 60s but a lot of the big breakthroughs did.
I don't want to come off as paranoid because I hate conspiracy theorists, but the technology we all enjoy today was invented in the 60's. I would not be surprised in the least if there was technology that is not available to the general public because it is top secret, is extremely costly, or a combination of both. There are very brilliant people out there that if approached with the offer of having a nearly unlimited budget, time, and the ability to pursue their field of interest would jump at the opportunity and produce technology that we could only dream of.
This IS 2000 all over again. Wait until the social networking sites that are being valued in the 2-10 billion dollar range yet only bring in a couple of mill a year in revenue start collapsing then it will really get ugly.
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What a retarded idea haven't you seen Superman launch it into the sun. Geez!!!
I CALLED IT!
Now all I have to do is setup a tech speculation blog and get some ads sponsored by Google.
Watch out Cringley I'm coming for your fan base!!
Mod parent up this is exactly what I thought when I read the article.
Why on earth would you compare MySQL with Access? I'm more of a Postgres guy myself but even Mysql deserves better than that.
It must really suck to have ADHD that is so bad that you can't read an entire paragraph, because I did not solely lay the blame on Europeans I also blamed the Nigerians factions and the corrupt governments they support. With that said you would have to be an ignorant fool to not lay some blame on the Europeans for what is going on in Africa right now.
but realistally he needs to get his head out of the clouds and back on the ground. It would be a lot better for him to turn his efforts to making a light weight and reliable tractor. One that is easy to build, cheap to own, and easy to fix. Once nigeria starts feeding it's people then they can think about flying.
Comments like this are why slashdot needs an +1 ignorant modifier. Nigeria's problems are not caused by lack of agricultural technology. There is wide spread ethnic and religious tension that has been going on for decades. Like most of Africa's countries there are factions within Nigeria that were created by European colonialism. These factions are still at conflict today and keep Nigeria from being able to progress due to lack of national unity. Religious conflict between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria also have played a large role in keeping Nigeria from progressing.
Combine the internal conflict between factions with corrupt governments who misappropriate foreign aid and run up the national debt and you end up with a large portion of the populations suffering and starving. No amount of cheap reliable tractors are going to solve Nigeria's agricultural problems. Combine your logic with what the real causes of starvation in Nigeria are and this guy should give up what he loves to do and what? become a politician? Because it is going to take effective leadership for a country like Nigeria to feed its people not tractors.
-> Joke -> 747 -> Clouds -> Birds -> Home made helicopter flying slightly over your heads -> YOU
Don't worry. It has never attained an altitude of more than seven feet. You can jump to safety in case of an Emergency.
Leave the doors open? You do realize that HD porn will probably be the first thing viewed with such technology? Still want to have an open door policy?
Oh but it gets worse... the carbon credits were purchased with money earned from investments in Big Oil. The pain!!
WRONG http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bscwfk1&s=bsd you can configure that with 2 quad core xeons.
Really? Apple hardware isn't just overpriced PC hardware? Funny cause I just purchased a dual quad core xeon workstation from dell for UNDER $900. You can't even get a dual core Apple workstation for that price.
Yeah, if they were a C++ programmer or programmer in a real language on a mini or mainframe I love when people talk about real languages. Please define what a real language is. I am not a web developer in fact I all of the work I have ever done was c, c++, backend php development, and some php internals. We are rapidly approaching a point where a very large percentage of applications will be able to be written in scripting languages (BE AFRAID!!) because of the amount of system resources available to the average person. Is this a good thing? I don't know, but at some point writing applications in the real languages isn't going to make economic sense.
A real impact that isn't going to lead to war, IF everything we are being told about global warming comes to fruition it will not be in our life time. Human overpopulation has a far greater chance of leading to war than global warming, if someone were to convince everyone in the world to stop procreating so damn much that might be worthy but global warming? I don't think so.
So should we give the Nobel Peace Prize to NASA scientists who track meteors in outer space as well. If we are hit with a meteor it could be equally catastrophic and people will be equally as likely to kill their neighbor to save themselves.
Ok, that is nice and all but that doesn't explain how Al Gore has promoted peace/
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".
What Al Gore is doing is important but based on those standards how does Al Gore win the peace prize?
Look at the list of former Nobel Peace Prize Winners many of these people risked their lives or personal fortunes in endeavors that made the world a more peaceful place. Al Gore made a film about Global warming and crusades for the cause. Talk about cheapening the award.
haha if I could mod you up I would
I never said he was JUST a drug addict but he is popular enough that an introduction isn't really necessary. The fact remains that he was definitely a drug addict and was said to be mentally ill.
Ripped straight from wikipedia
* 1960 - The first working laser was demonstrated in May by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories.
* 1961 - First human spaceflight to orbit the Earth: Yuri Gagarin, Vostok 1.
* 1962 - First trans-Atlantic satellite broadcast via the Telstar satellite.
* 1962 - The first computer video game, Spacewar!, is invented.
* 1963 - The first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom 2 is launched.
* 1963 - Touch-Tone telephones introduced.
* 1964 - The first successful Minicomputer, Digital Equipment Corporation's 12-bit PDP-8, is marketed.
* 1965 - Sony markets the CV-2000, the first home video tape recorder.
* 1966 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 10, which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
* 1967 - First heart transplantation operation.
* 1967 - PAL and SECAM broadcast color TV systems start publicly transmitting in Europe.
* 1968 - First humans to leave Earth's gravity influence and orbit another world: Apollo 8.
* 1968 - The first public demonstration of the computer mouse, the paper paradigm Graphical user interface, video
conferencing, teleconferencing, email, and hypertext.
* 1969 - Arpanet, the research-oriented prototype of the Internet, was introduced.
* 1969 - First humans to walk on the Moon: Apollo 11.
* 1969 - CCD invented at AT&T Bell Labs, used as the electronic imager in still and video cameras.
And lets not forget the cell phone:
The first fully automatic mobile phone system, called MTA (Mobile Telephone system A), was developed by Ericsson and commercially released in Sweden in 1956. This was the first system that didn't require any kind of manual control, but had the disadvantage of a phone weight of 40 kg (88 lbs). MTB, an upgraded version with transistors, weighing 9 kg {19.8 lbs), was introduced in 1965 and used dual-tone multifrequency signaling. It had 150 customers in the beginning and 600 when it shut down in 1983.
In 1967, each mobile phone had to stay within the cell area serviced by one base station throughout the phone call. This did not provide continuity of automatic telephone service to mobile phones moving through several cell areas. In 1970 Amos E. Joel, Jr., another Bell Labs engineer,[4] invented an automatic "call handoff" system to allow mobile phones to move through several cell areas during a single conversation without loss of conversation.
Please spare me the crap, I never said ALL of the technology we enjoy today was invented in the 60s but a lot of the big breakthroughs did.
I don't want to come off as paranoid because I hate conspiracy theorists, but the technology we all enjoy today was invented in the 60's. I would not be surprised in the least if there was technology that is not available to the general public because it is top secret, is extremely costly, or a combination of both. There are very brilliant people out there that if approached with the offer of having a nearly unlimited budget, time, and the ability to pursue their field of interest would jump at the opportunity and produce technology that we could only dream of.
That said, Pictures or it didn't happen!
Why are you so sure about that?
The FBI was dumb enough to waste resources spying on:
John Kerry a future US senator.
John Lennon a drug addict who was possibly mentally ill.
Coretta Scott King the wife of civil rights leader MLK.
This is just a small sample of the people they wasted tax payer money spying on unnecessarily.
The FBI wastes resources all of the time the same way any government organization does.
I don't think you really want that. Judging by all of the other ports to the Wii it will be pretty crappy in comparison to the xbox360 version.
Wow the joke went right over your head
This IS 2000 all over again. Wait until the social networking sites that are being valued in the 2-10 billion dollar range yet only bring in a couple of mill a year in revenue start collapsing then it will really get ugly.