This has been around for ages! I saw it used on a program in the uk called Grand Designs about a year ago!
Correctomundo. I saw this on Beyond 2000 about ten years ago. And for the benefit of all the smart alecs talking about 'windows,' windows aren't much use in the centre of a building. And before you make another smart alec remark about 'skylights,' they aren't much use when there's another floor above you.
The attempted racist humor is getting very old, IMHO. Without normal inhibitions when posting anonymously, I guess a much larger percentage of the population is RACIST that I previously thought.
I'll second that. Most./ers don't even seem to be ashamed of their ignorance. I'm sick of reading about how technology should be kept out of Africa 'until they get their running water sorted out' or some other bogus argument. What the hell do these people know about Kenya or any other African country for that matter? Sheesh! There's nothing 'offtopic' about it.
If the website guy is correct and Vader forcechokes Padme, who dies giving birth, it contradicts Return of the Jedi when Leia tells Luke she vaguely remembers her mother, being sad and all that stuff.
Other people have replied to you and said that she was talking about her adoptive mother on Alderaan, but that's incorrect. Luke specifically asked her about her biological mother. Leia's response was that she only recalled images and feelings. Sounds to me like her 'memories' came through the Force, so it's possible that Leia was able to remember the sensations that her mother was feeling prior to birth.
If the prices are high, that no only indicates that the providers are looking for return of their investments into the infrastructure but it also indicates that there is not enough public demand for the technology itself. If the broad public would demand a cheaper service and actually use it, I am pretty sure it would exist.
Doesn't quite work like that. When demand goes down, prices go down as providers try to attract more customers. When demand goes up, prices go up because providers can get away with charging more.
Electronic music is more popular in Europe than it is in America. In general, Americans prefer guitar bands and rock and roll. In general, Europeans prefer a more electronic flavour to their music. Do you understand the meaning of "in general?" Some people in the US associate electronic dance music with the gay scene. Do you understand the meaning of "some people?"
digital music is great. Where would we be without it? Those techno clubs just wouldn't be the same.
I think I'd better explain something for the US audience. In America there was a bit of a backlash against 'disco' music and a trend was started of going 'back to basics' with guitar bands, and 'rock and roll' became an almost theological icon of all that is good about hometown America.
This did not happen in Europe. 'Disco' music just kept on evolving into the next thing, and the modern sound of electronic music came to the fore as European bands adopted it and experimented with it.
Today, for some unfathomable reason, electronic music is associated by Americans with the gay scene. In Europe, electronic music is pretty much mainstream. Harder core Trance is found predominantly in the nightclubs, on compilation CDs, and on dance-oriented radio shows hosted by superstar DJs like Boy George, Paul Oakenfold, and Judge Jules, but mainstream Euro pop music has a noticably higher content of electronic sounds. Even American-based artists who want to market their wares in Europe frequently bring out 'electronicised' remixes of their songs to cater for that market.
Quite right. Back in the good old days there was never any bad music played on mechanical instruments, was there? Back in my day we had real music and we had to listen to it through scratchy vinyl recordings. Never did us a bit of harm. And that was after we'd walked six miles across the fields barefoot to get home from school....
Web-based apps with the functionality of a desktop app are the next big thing. Macromedia has been pushing this big time. Speaking of Macromedia, if Google had implemented this in Flash they would have overcome the browser issues at a single stroke. That said, this is an incredibly cool tool and I tip my hat to Google.
As has been mentioned before- if your salary is a dollar a day or less, who's going to spend four months salary on a laptop? With intermittent power access to boot? I think these things should be marketed to the group at which they're really pointed- lower-middle class and lower class westerners. And upper-middle class people in first world countries. Maybe.
Good to see this sort of nonsense finally being modded flamebait. Some people in the west still can't seem to get it into their heads that there's more to the developing world than famine and deserts. They have seven days in the week, they have a middle class, they have cities, doctors, lawyers, educators, cars, motorways, and all that good stuff. If I see another half-baked "let them sort out the water supply first before using IT" post that gets modded insightful I swear I will scream!
I agree. There are many articles in which they make no secret of their fondness for free markets, but they don't do the US Republican thing of applying it across the board. The Economist openly discusses ways of doing business that do not fall into the free market model on a regular basis. However there are some issues, like Hugo Chavez and Venezuela, where the authors do seem to show almost vitriolic hatred for the man; but these are the exceptions to the rule.
I remember them saluting the Taliban as they rolled into Kabul, bringing "order" and "stability" to the region. They brought Osama, too. And no apologies from the Economist for cheerleading the thugs.
using tax dollars for something outside of the scope of government.
Since when was essential infrastructure outside the role of government?
What the market fundamentalists can't seem to get into their heads is that what we do in a reasonably civilised or advanced society is we all throw a bit of money into the pot and use it to provide essential services. Why is this a problem?
Really, comparing this to car dealerships is scraping the bottom of the barrel of excuses to denounce another worthy initiative.
Actually, the market DOES build roads. They are Toll roads and Turn pikes. and are built using private funding only.
I think the parent poster was referring to the vast majority of roads which, in the US, are funded by taxation. And before anyone gives me the 'gas taxes pay for that' rebuttal, petrol taxes only cover a third of the cost of road building and maintenance. The rest comes from direct taxation.
For all the talk about how the private car is a symbol of America's free market enterprising spirit, it only transformed the country after Uncle Sam built the interstates.
If you want it, you pay for it. Don't force anyone else to pay who doesn't want to. I've got enough bills to pay without funding your addiction to/.
Quite right. Let's put toll booths on all freeway on-ramps, and charge a small fortune for every time the fire department or police department are required. After all, most people don't use these services most of the time, why should I have to pay for something I never use? I am the only person in the world who counts anyway. ME ME ME ME ME ME.....
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I remember it on Beyond 2000. I loved that show, always filled me with excitement about the future and the possibilities. And the music was great.
Plenty of ignorant and inaccurate Flash bashing going on here. Standard Rebuttal.
See my journal. Idiot. How you got an insightful mod is beyond me. You haven't got a fucking clue what you're talking about.
Er, Porsche is a German manufacturer.
Jeez! Lighten up!
Manufacturer of spontaneously-combusting household furniture today announced that they would be charging customers for fire extinguishers.
This did not happen in Europe. 'Disco' music just kept on evolving into the next thing, and the modern sound of electronic music came to the fore as European bands adopted it and experimented with it.
Today, for some unfathomable reason, electronic music is associated by Americans with the gay scene. In Europe, electronic music is pretty much mainstream. Harder core Trance is found predominantly in the nightclubs, on compilation CDs, and on dance-oriented radio shows hosted by superstar DJs like Boy George, Paul Oakenfold, and Judge Jules, but mainstream Euro pop music has a noticably higher content of electronic sounds. Even American-based artists who want to market their wares in Europe frequently bring out 'electronicised' remixes of their songs to cater for that market.
I'd have awarded that title to Kraftwerk. Jean Michel Jarre did some impressive stuff, but it was never mainstream chart music.
Web-based apps with the functionality of a desktop app are the next big thing. Macromedia has been pushing this big time. Speaking of Macromedia, if Google had implemented this in Flash they would have overcome the browser issues at a single stroke. That said, this is an incredibly cool tool and I tip my hat to Google.
What did the Republicans in congress do about terrorism before 9/11? Complain about the Democrats wanting to spend more money fighting terrorism.
I agree. There are many articles in which they make no secret of their fondness for free markets, but they don't do the US Republican thing of applying it across the board. The Economist openly discusses ways of doing business that do not fall into the free market model on a regular basis. However there are some issues, like Hugo Chavez and Venezuela, where the authors do seem to show almost vitriolic hatred for the man; but these are the exceptions to the rule.
What the market fundamentalists can't seem to get into their heads is that what we do in a reasonably civilised or advanced society is we all throw a bit of money into the pot and use it to provide essential services. Why is this a problem?
Really, comparing this to car dealerships is scraping the bottom of the barrel of excuses to denounce another worthy initiative.
For all the talk about how the private car is a symbol of America's free market enterprising spirit, it only transformed the country after Uncle Sam built the interstates.