The profitable enterprise I work for did not pay for the education of the educated employees that it needs to be profitable.
Is it really self-sufficient. (Nothing exists in a vacuum... boom tish, thank you I'll be here all night).
Interestingly, I have read several of his books.Mainly when I was at uni and could read most/all of a book on a train between London and Manchester.
IMHO&FWIW, he was/is one of the few authors whose books generally make/made better films than they do/did books. I give him an A or high B for his ideas, but substantially less for the resulting story, particularly the climax/endings. For instance a synopsis of the climax of Congo could be:
'And then a volcano erupted and all the baddies died. The End (after all the publishers are only paying me for X {words,pages}."
Although I think your point is valid, but from the opposing end of it...
I held off buying a new laptop for ages because I was worried about the hardware being supported under linux (wireless in particular). I did not want to run windows, but linux.
I then ended up buying an eeepc 1000H (and installed ubuntu hardy with the kernel from array.org, sorry I could not find a linux version in Oz) because I knew that it had support for linux.
IWO, I did not upgrade my hardware until I was certain it was supported what I want to use it for. Apple certainly missed a sale because linux support seems a bit hit and miss on their macbooks. But, hey, as one of the 0.x% of of computer users what do I matter.
I agree, apart from the fact that almost a year ago Australia elected the left wing Labor party and they are continuing the previous right wing governments net censorship program. Politicians are mostly scum, left and right.
...but the bus trips are free and go near enough to where you want to go at near enough the right time. You also you live rent free, but admittedly have to keep the kinky underwear in a lead lined locked box so the landlord can only see the boring boxers.
I was told it was "thou shall not murder" rather than "thou shall not kill" by gun toting right winger christian wack-jobs. Christianity seems not to have this framework. Judging by Islamic extremists, neither does Islam. The death penalty only seems to be part of the legal code of countries with a religious majority as well.
From my own coincidentally atheist point of view, it is wrong to kill someone because if we spent all our time worrying about being killed civilization would fall apart. Well actually, we are here precisely because we are able to work, for the most part, cooperatively and not worry about killing each other.
Then again, I do wonder why I am responding to an AC...?
"If Germany saved so much by copying British ideas, why didn't they gain an economic advantage and supplant the British as the super power of the time?"
The British, French, Dutch, Belgians, Japanese, Russians and US (Hawaii, the Philipines etc) had already baggsied most of the world. The Royal Navy could pretty much landlock (other than the Baltic Sea) the Germans at will, if they so chose. This lead to an arms/battleship/dreadnought race....
So, they tried, and that lead to WW1 and then WW2. Finally they succeeded in surpassing Britain in the 1960s, thanks to said wars.
"Say for a moment that God or whatever you want to call him/her/it is real. We know the evolution of life after the big bang is as good as fact. Therefore would there not have to be a way for the two to coexist?"
If there was any evidence whatsoever for there being a god, this would be a valid point. However, as there is none, it is not.
Don't knock it. Australia has Senator On-Line received a mere 8000 votes, but an interesting concept.
http://senatoronline.com.au/
Our (well, I am British as well, but cannot vote there as I am not resident) upper house is elected of course.
"3. at the boarding gate (redundant maybe but it's still worthwhile and doesn't take much effort to show your passport with your boarding pass to make sure that the names match)."
This is because the Airline is responsible for returning you if you do not have the right documentation at the destination. And, the last time I flew back to the (c)old country a girl did lose her passport between checkin and boarding. Felt a bit guilty whinging to my fiance about disorganized people delaying us when I saw her bawling her eyes out about it.
Errm... try 20 hours minimum. The cheaper flights will be a bit longer due to out of the way stops or connecting flghts.
My first flight (when I was 6 in 1980) was London to Port Moresby (slightly closer than Sydney) via Bahrain and Hong Kong avoiding USSR airspace - 36 hours.
Done Australia/PNG to UK loads. The worst was having a holiday in South Africa and arriving back in Sydney to find I had to be in Sarasota, Florida in 4 days time (including the day and a half to get there)... ah the good old days...
Jetlag is not that bad. How many times have you had a good night out followed by 1-3 hours sleep before being in work? It is not *that* much different. Just make sure you don't go to bed until at least ~21:30. Going to work the day or day after you arrive, IOW do not take a day off to recuperate, helps achieve this.
No, the US (and Australia for that matter) has the most ridiculous system where pedestrians and vehicles can both have green lights when crossing each other's paths.
"The intent of the strike was to protect Imperial Japan's advance into Malaya and the Dutch East Indies -- for their natural resources such as oil and rubber - by neutralizing the U.S. Pacific Fleet."
"In 1940, under the Export Control Act, the U.S. halted shipments of airplanes, parts, machine tools, and aviation gasoline, which Japan saw as an unfriendly act.[6] Nevertheless, the U.S. continued to export oil to Japan, in part because it was understood in Washington cutting off oil exports would be an extreme step, given Japanese dependence on U.S. oil exports, likely to be taken as a provocation by Japan. In the summer of 1941, after Japanese expansion into French Indochina, the U.S. ceased oil exports to Japan, in part because of new American restrictions on domestic oil consumption."
Do you think the USA would be "forced" to do something if the oil producers they relied on refused to sell them oil?
That is not what I said. WWI did not start for economic, i.e. "You have something I want and I am going to take it", reasons. It was a chain of alliances/treaties triggered off.
NOTE: I do not support the selling of weapons to anyone and I am making no moral judgments with the below.
World War 1 - The upper-class of Europe gets a bit excitable and millions of people die, although in the long run (after WW2) it effectively removed the European upper-class from power which is a good thing. It had nothing to do with economics whatsoever.
World War 2 - Effectively two wars:
1) Europe - an extension of WW1. Basically, caused by different power bases/ideals vying for the power vacuum left by the removal of the upper-class in Germany, Russia, Austria and a weakening of it elsewhere.
2) The Pacific - Japan, the only non-white skinned empire and great power had limited resources, i.e. steel and oil. The other (white skinned) powers (British Empire, US, Dutch & French) refused to supply the Japanese. This left them two options:
i) Give up on their imperial and economic ambitions.
or
ii) Take it from someone
Their hands were forced into the second option and the entire reason for Pearl Harbor was to knock out the US long enough so they could grab the oil in the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) and, hopefully, become strong enough before the US had a chance to re-arm. If the US had not had a colony^M^M^M^M^M^Mterritory called The Philippines, Pearl Harbor would not have been necessary at all.
The entire Pacific war was forced by the other powers refusing to sell the means to make an economy work (and make war), oil & steel, to the Japanese.
I am not justifying any of the actions of any of the governments at the time, just stating happened.
"A 10 FPS difference is not worth drivers that seem to need reinstalling every reboot (thanks NVIDIA)."
Let me guess, you use Ubuntu and have the restricted drivers installed?
I haven't looked at this for 1 or 2 years, but the restricted drivers (including the nvidia drivers) are copied to a ram disk mounted somewhere in the kernel module directory tree (can't remember where) at boot time (no idea why).
So, if you have the restricted drivers installed and then install the nvidia drivers from nvidia's website (from a NVIDIAxxxxxx.run file) the files will be installed to a ram disk, which of course disappears, along with the files you have installed there, on reboot.
IOW, this is not nvidia's fault.
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The profitable enterprise I work for did not pay for the education of the educated employees that it needs to be profitable. Is it really self-sufficient. (Nothing exists in a vacuum... boom tish, thank you I'll be here all night).
Interestingly, I have read several of his books.Mainly when I was at uni and could read most/all of a book on a train between London and Manchester.
IMHO&FWIW, he was/is one of the few authors whose books generally make/made better films than they do/did books. I give him an A or high B for his ideas, but substantially less for the resulting story, particularly the climax/endings. For instance a synopsis of the climax of Congo could be:
'And then a volcano erupted and all the baddies died. The End (after all the publishers are only paying me for X {words,pages}."
Although I think your point is valid, but from the opposing end of it... I held off buying a new laptop for ages because I was worried about the hardware being supported under linux (wireless in particular). I did not want to run windows, but linux. I then ended up buying an eeepc 1000H (and installed ubuntu hardy with the kernel from array.org, sorry I could not find a linux version in Oz) because I knew that it had support for linux. IWO, I did not upgrade my hardware until I was certain it was supported what I want to use it for. Apple certainly missed a sale because linux support seems a bit hit and miss on their macbooks. But, hey, as one of the 0.x% of of computer users what do I matter.
"Checkmate. I win." No, you do not. It might be for evaluation/comparison against a non-US developed solution to the same problem.
I agree, apart from the fact that almost a year ago Australia elected the left wing Labor party and they are continuing the previous right wing governments net censorship program. Politicians are mostly scum, left and right.
...but the bus trips are free and go near enough to where you want to go at near enough the right time. You also you live rent free, but admittedly have to keep the kinky underwear in a lead lined locked box so the landlord can only see the boring boxers.
I was told it was "thou shall not murder" rather than "thou shall not kill" by gun toting right winger christian wack-jobs. Christianity seems not to have this framework. Judging by Islamic extremists, neither does Islam. The death penalty only seems to be part of the legal code of countries with a religious majority as well. From my own coincidentally atheist point of view, it is wrong to kill someone because if we spent all our time worrying about being killed civilization would fall apart. Well actually, we are here precisely because we are able to work, for the most part, cooperatively and not worry about killing each other. Then again, I do wonder why I am responding to an AC...?
"If Germany saved so much by copying British ideas, why didn't they gain an economic advantage and supplant the British as the super power of the time?" The British, French, Dutch, Belgians, Japanese, Russians and US (Hawaii, the Philipines etc) had already baggsied most of the world. The Royal Navy could pretty much landlock (other than the Baltic Sea) the Germans at will, if they so chose. This lead to an arms/battleship/dreadnought race.... So, they tried, and that lead to WW1 and then WW2. Finally they succeeded in surpassing Britain in the 1960s, thanks to said wars.
"Say for a moment that God or whatever you want to call him/her/it is real. We know the evolution of life after the big bang is as good as fact. Therefore would there not have to be a way for the two to coexist?"
If there was any evidence whatsoever for there being a god, this would be a valid point. However, as there is none, it is not.
In Australia you do. No, I am not kidding!
Probably still uses email too.
Chile? Not Turkey?
Errm... So you can keep your PC off at home and then wake it up remotely when you need/want to?
It's not just the software. There many government employee drones to retrain as well. Do not underestimate this part of the cost.
"Ok, in that case, can I have you bank account details and PIN codes?"
Don't knock it. Australia has Senator On-Line received a mere 8000 votes, but an interesting concept. http://senatoronline.com.au/ Our (well, I am British as well, but cannot vote there as I am not resident) upper house is elected of course.
"3. at the boarding gate (redundant maybe but it's still worthwhile and doesn't take much effort to show your passport with your boarding pass to make sure that the names match)."
This is because the Airline is responsible for returning you if you do not have the right documentation at the destination. And, the last time I flew back to the (c)old country a girl did lose her passport between checkin and boarding. Felt a bit guilty whinging to my fiance about disorganized people delaying us when I saw her bawling her eyes out about it.
"8-12 hour trip" "London-Sydney"
Errm... try 20 hours minimum. The cheaper flights will be a bit longer due to out of the way stops or connecting flghts.
My first flight (when I was 6 in 1980) was London to Port Moresby (slightly closer than Sydney) via Bahrain and Hong Kong avoiding USSR airspace - 36 hours.
Done Australia/PNG to UK loads. The worst was having a holiday in South Africa and arriving back in Sydney to find I had to be in Sarasota, Florida in 4 days time (including the day and a half to get there)... ah the good old days...
Jetlag is not that bad. How many times have you had a good night out followed by 1-3 hours sleep before being in work? It is not *that* much different. Just make sure you don't go to bed until at least ~21:30. Going to work the day or day after you arrive, IOW do not take a day off to recuperate, helps achieve this.
No, the US (and Australia for that matter) has the most ridiculous system where pedestrians and vehicles can both have green lights when crossing each other's paths.
"Natural processes are more or less balanced"
That is a rather large assumption and probably untrue, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Age, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Life_cycle etc etc etc.
"If you are "not justifying any of the actions ..." then how come you say Japan was "forced" to attack Pearl Harbour?"
Because... they did not want to "Give up on their imperial and economic ambitions.", therefore they were forced to "Take it [oil] from someone".
I am not justifying their actions, particularly as in the short to medium term they proved to have disastrous consequences.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
"The intent of the strike was to protect Imperial Japan's advance into Malaya and the Dutch East Indies -- for their natural resources such as oil and rubber - by neutralizing the U.S. Pacific Fleet."
"In 1940, under the Export Control Act, the U.S. halted shipments of airplanes, parts, machine tools, and aviation gasoline, which Japan saw as an unfriendly act.[6] Nevertheless, the U.S. continued to export oil to Japan, in part because it was understood in Washington cutting off oil exports would be an extreme step, given Japanese dependence on U.S. oil exports, likely to be taken as a provocation by Japan. In the summer of 1941, after Japanese expansion into French Indochina, the U.S. ceased oil exports to Japan, in part because of new American restrictions on domestic oil consumption."
Do you think the USA would be "forced" to do something if the oil producers they relied on refused to sell them oil?
That is not what I said. WWI did not start for economic, i.e. "You have something I want and I am going to take it", reasons. It was a chain of alliances/treaties triggered off.
"We had two world wars!!!"
NOTE: I do not support the selling of weapons to anyone and I am making no moral judgments with the below.
World War 1 - The upper-class of Europe gets a bit excitable and millions of people die, although in the long run (after WW2) it effectively removed the European upper-class from power which is a good thing. It had nothing to do with economics whatsoever.
World War 2 - Effectively two wars:
1) Europe - an extension of WW1. Basically, caused by different power bases/ideals vying for the power vacuum left by the removal of the upper-class in Germany, Russia, Austria and a weakening of it elsewhere.
2) The Pacific - Japan, the only non-white skinned empire and great power had limited resources, i.e. steel and oil. The other (white skinned) powers (British Empire, US, Dutch & French) refused to supply the Japanese. This left them two options:
i) Give up on their imperial and economic ambitions.
or
ii) Take it from someone
Their hands were forced into the second option and the entire reason for Pearl Harbor was to knock out the US long enough so they could grab the oil in the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) and, hopefully, become strong enough before the US had a chance to re-arm. If the US had not had a colony^M^M^M^M^M^Mterritory called The Philippines, Pearl Harbor would not have been necessary at all.
The entire Pacific war was forced by the other powers refusing to sell the means to make an economy work (and make war), oil & steel, to the Japanese.
I am not justifying any of the actions of any of the governments at the time, just stating happened.
nvidia module is probably not loaded at boot time. I guess the nvidia installer loads it when the driver is installed.
See:
http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#head-6cb9442ef3215e7aa8e2e1a13c73a7819a9e9890
"A 10 FPS difference is not worth drivers that seem to need reinstalling every reboot (thanks NVIDIA)." Let me guess, you use Ubuntu and have the restricted drivers installed? I haven't looked at this for 1 or 2 years, but the restricted drivers (including the nvidia drivers) are copied to a ram disk mounted somewhere in the kernel module directory tree (can't remember where) at boot time (no idea why). So, if you have the restricted drivers installed and then install the nvidia drivers from nvidia's website (from a NVIDIAxxxxxx.run file) the files will be installed to a ram disk, which of course disappears, along with the files you have installed there, on reboot. IOW, this is not nvidia's fault.