No, they haven't. Very few people used a dating site called "badoo", and the first relevant social network was Facebook. Myspace wasn't even a thing over here.
I think mass protests were largely local events. The 19 and 20 of december of 2001 we had massive protests (much smaller than the current ones) that ended with then-president De La Rua resigning. Those protests were held in Buenos Aires and only 1 channel was showing them until people called the other news networks about how big it was and they were shit because they weren't showing them. Hours later all channels were covering these events. Once that happened, the protests replicated all over the country, but at a much smaller scale.
This is different now: people are able to communicate directly, without the media filters. The protests started all over the country at the same time. 12 years ago that would have been just impossible since much less people had internet access back then.
THAT is the power of people communicating with each other. Regardless of FBI nosiness or not.
Those date sims include dating children, and they even have manga and video games about child rape ("lolicon"), murder ("guro"), and even books of photos of little girls in bikinis ("U-15 idols", U meaning UNDER and 15 meaning 15yo.) amazon.co.jp and search U-15 if you don't believe. And try U-12 if you want to be shocked even more. BTW: There's also U-3.
Revenue Increase US$ 62.570 billion (2012) Operating income US$ 12.179 billion (2012) Net income US$ 6.203 billion (2012)
Pretty sure "internet is cheap". It's "consumer" ISPs that charge you ridiculous numbers. Datacenter-side, prices are silly. And if you don't know anything about inter-ISP traffic, don't read up on "peering agreements" because knowing that "big" ISPs interconnect with each other for free (as in $0) will piss you off real bad. That's right: ISPs pass traffic to each other for free, and they charge you for that. This is an obvious extreme simplification, but the point is: data is free, the only "costs" the larger ISPs have are capital (equipment) and operating (salaries), and I'm pretty sure their biggest spending is in advertising.
hahaha lol. replacement for chavez? stop reading the right wing papers, dude. argentina is broke, chavez was keeping us in welfare. cristina doesn't have a cent now, and no one to finance her. chavez had oil, we have nothing.
Argentina tried to buy 5 nVidia TESLA units. We bought 4 and when we ordered the 5th (a public university here in Argentina) the US export controls kicked in. They had to send someone to the US to explain why they wanted "so much computing power".
We were developing a UHD 3D video codec.
(We as in Argentina. I have no participation in that).
Argentina is not China, Russia, and has never been an enemy, or at war, with USA.
"unlimited everything" is not true, and the service is NOT available everywhere except "most cities and towns" (there are plenty of spots with no coverage even in freeways), and in a lot of cities you get a lot of dropped calls since, well, "for most people, it works. so the problem is not us, it's you".
Last point and click I played was Syberia I and II about a decade ago (breathtaking graphics and a great story), and The Moment Of Silence (not so bad). I'm reading that Syberia III started development last year!
I'm a hobby microcontroller programmer. I've made stuff with PICs that runs flawlessly. Written in C and assembly. One is a fan controller (switches 5 different relays and shows the output on a 7-segment display), and it's been running for probably 8 years non stop (well, the fan stops but the controller never does). Another project was a simple "street block counter" for taxis, which I sold to a friend and he's made hundreds if not thousands of them (i should have asked more money!).
And tens of little projects that more or less work as supposed.
For all those projects, it's easy to validate all inputs and outputs, and follow all code. Since they're simple to understand. Right now my project is a weather station with ethernet and data logging. It's simple on the outside but it's so hard when you realize how much sanitizing you need for all values, and when you test it for different values of VDD and start getting weird readings, and when you deal with a memory chip which can (and will) be interrupted mid-write with a power outage and your data will be corrupted. It's really incredibly hard how you find more and more potential flaws after just a few hundred lines of code (and reasoning).
So while i understand your point, comparing java to a few small systems isn't really fair. Java is a huge monster with a target painted on its back. No system is really secure, and even Mac OS (which was claimed "secure") was proved to be as flawed as anything else. Mac OS used to be something no one cared about, but now that it's gaining a user base, it's being targeted more and more. It's the same with java. And it could be the same with any other language, tool (PDF), OS, SCADA, PLC, anything.
Any system that accepts uncontrolled (by the user) inputs is subject to exploiting.
The US has been demanding Argentina (and pretty much all of latin america) to sign a FTA with them. Now germany wants the same thing.
The problem? The US has trade barriers: they don't allow Argentina to sell LEMONS to the US. Germany is a little more subtle: they subsidize the fuck out of their farmers. Argentina's main export are grains and we're trying to develop an industry. It wouldn't be wise for us to sign an FTA with either. Germany only wants to flood Argentina with their manufactured goods and they don't mind buying manufactured goods from us... which we don't have! But we do have plenty of grains, that they aren't interested in buying.
Chile is the only exception: they have NO industry, pretty much everything there is imported. Their exports are huge (copper and lithium are abundant there, and they have excellent mining). Colombia, i think, has an FTA with the US too. But that's only because they sold their soul to the US to help them combat the FARC (which means: the US forced colombia to accept their help, which has proved useless during the past 20 years).
Free market and free trade is just bullshit. It can never be free when the big guy is setting the rules.
The US has been eating their own dog food (anti-communism) for the last 50 years. They have been SO brainwashed against communism that even thinking of building a power plant or public road is now seen as the big red menace.
Spending in defense, on the other hand, is not only patriotic, it's also money that goes to private companies which is a very capitalistic way of spending your money. So technically they are being keynesian without being too communist.
The problem is, people are used to that reasoning. And they think the government shouldn't "spend" money. Everything private is better and more efficient. The government is slow and wasteful.
Yet, a private company doesn't have neither the interest or funds to take on a huge work like the US highway system. The US is what it is now because of the highways. A private company wouldn't have built a road to nowhere, but government does. Even if it seems like a bad idea, 20 years later it proved to be one of the best strategic moves ever. A private company would just build a straight line between NY and california because that would be the most profitable.
Oh, you americans are soooo innovative and creative, and special.
So much, you had to steal Von Braun from the nazis to make your useless rockets work. So much, Intel had to recruit former soviet engineers that came up with the idea of a superscalar processor. So much, you had to get a guy from Argentina to help you figure out coronary bypass. So much, your best movies (Harry Potter series, LOTR, The dark knight...) are written and directed by foreigners (british! new zealanders!) So much, THAT FUCKING GOOGLE WAS CO-FOUNDED BY A RUSSIAN.
I could keep adding examples all night, but it won't matter. You are just stupid. You are a redneck with a degree. You have to be a complete tool to think "they do NOT have the exposure to the same innovations that somebody raised here has". How can you be just oh-so-fucking-stupid? Have you ever even set foot outside the US? Did you know down here we also have things like, cars, and roads, and vaccines and cell phones?
OK, add to the list "the big technocentric south east asia" and "the parts of india that speak english". What else should I say not to hurt your political sensitiveness? Ah yes, Israel, how could I forget them. And Turkey. And everyhwere else in the world! In fact MORE people in the world can buy an iPhone than they can buy a bottle of Coca-Cola. And that was my fucking point, douchebag.
Yes it is cheaper, and you don't need to stick it up your ass. If you just bring your phone, working (with your sim card), customs won't give you trouble.
now if you bring a dozen of them in their pretty little boxes is a different story.
You think you have it bad with taxes? Come to Argentina...
Anyway, I think you're right. Gradiente wants money from Apple, but maybe Apple has found that the Brazilian legal system is not as friendly to them as the US and European are. Less bullshit and even less appeals. So Apple can't exploit it like they do in USA.
And they are too proud to pay. They think they're entitled to it because they are the "i" company. Fuck them, they sue anyone who uses a rounded edge. Let them suffer on this one for a while.
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No, they haven't. Very few people used a dating site called "badoo", and the first relevant social network was Facebook. Myspace wasn't even a thing over here.
windows 8 took away windows transparency and shit. I liked it, but they decided flat is the new cool. so that makes it LESS bloated in a way.
I think mass protests were largely local events. The 19 and 20 of december of 2001 we had massive protests (much smaller than the current ones) that ended with then-president De La Rua resigning. Those protests were held in Buenos Aires and only 1 channel was showing them until people called the other news networks about how big it was and they were shit because they weren't showing them. Hours later all channels were covering these events. Once that happened, the protests replicated all over the country, but at a much smaller scale.
This is different now: people are able to communicate directly, without the media filters. The protests started all over the country at the same time. 12 years ago that would have been just impossible since much less people had internet access back then.
THAT is the power of people communicating with each other. Regardless of FBI nosiness or not.
Nice troll, but most people here are familiar only with facebook, and the odd one who uses Twitter.
Those date sims include dating children, and they even have manga and video games about child rape ("lolicon"), murder ("guro"), and even books of photos of little girls in bikinis ("U-15 idols", U meaning UNDER and 15 meaning 15yo.) amazon.co.jp and search U-15 if you don't believe. And try U-12 if you want to be shocked even more. BTW: There's also U-3.
So yeah, I'm not saying either extreme is better.
the majority of people in the WORLD doesn't use facebook (alleged: 1 billion people out of 7 billion)
Protests against the government of Argentina last night, largely organized via Facebook and other social networks:
http://clarincomhd.tumblr.com/image/48316699321
Does this give you a sense of scale, about the level of communication people can have on Facebook?
and in terms of garbage games, the PS2 is the king.
i mean how many japanese date games can you have (hint: over half their catalog, or about 10000 games is exactly that)
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast
Revenue Increase US$ 62.570 billion (2012)
Operating income US$ 12.179 billion (2012)
Net income US$ 6.203 billion (2012)
Pretty sure "internet is cheap". It's "consumer" ISPs that charge you ridiculous numbers. Datacenter-side, prices are silly. And if you don't know anything about inter-ISP traffic, don't read up on "peering agreements" because knowing that "big" ISPs interconnect with each other for free (as in $0) will piss you off real bad. That's right: ISPs pass traffic to each other for free, and they charge you for that. This is an obvious extreme simplification, but the point is: data is free, the only "costs" the larger ISPs have are capital (equipment) and operating (salaries), and I'm pretty sure their biggest spending is in advertising.
hahaha lol. replacement for chavez? stop reading the right wing papers, dude. argentina is broke, chavez was keeping us in welfare. cristina doesn't have a cent now, and no one to finance her. chavez had oil, we have nothing.
The US has decided to remain neutral in the Malvinas affair in the past few years. Which is just about as close to an "ally" as we can get.
Argentina tried to buy 5 nVidia TESLA units. We bought 4 and when we ordered the 5th (a public university here in Argentina) the US export controls kicked in. They had to send someone to the US to explain why they wanted "so much computing power".
We were developing a UHD 3D video codec.
(We as in Argentina. I have no participation in that).
Argentina is not China, Russia, and has never been an enemy, or at war, with USA.
"unlimited everything" is not true, and the service is NOT available everywhere except "most cities and towns" (there are plenty of spots with no coverage even in freeways), and in a lot of cities you get a lot of dropped calls since, well, "for most people, it works. so the problem is not us, it's you".
Last point and click I played was Syberia I and II about a decade ago (breathtaking graphics and a great story), and The Moment Of Silence (not so bad). I'm reading that Syberia III started development last year!
A=220 I=5 D=1 T=4
Lots of places refuse to accept the new ARS 100 bill with the face of Eva.
I'm a hobby microcontroller programmer. I've made stuff with PICs that runs flawlessly. Written in C and assembly. One is a fan controller (switches 5 different relays and shows the output on a 7-segment display), and it's been running for probably 8 years non stop (well, the fan stops but the controller never does).
Another project was a simple "street block counter" for taxis, which I sold to a friend and he's made hundreds if not thousands of them (i should have asked more money!).
And tens of little projects that more or less work as supposed.
For all those projects, it's easy to validate all inputs and outputs, and follow all code. Since they're simple to understand. Right now my project is a weather station with ethernet and data logging. It's simple on the outside but it's so hard when you realize how much sanitizing you need for all values, and when you test it for different values of VDD and start getting weird readings, and when you deal with a memory chip which can (and will) be interrupted mid-write with a power outage and your data will be corrupted. It's really incredibly hard how you find more and more potential flaws after just a few hundred lines of code (and reasoning).
So while i understand your point, comparing java to a few small systems isn't really fair. Java is a huge monster with a target painted on its back. No system is really secure, and even Mac OS (which was claimed "secure") was proved to be as flawed as anything else. Mac OS used to be something no one cared about, but now that it's gaining a user base, it's being targeted more and more. It's the same with java. And it could be the same with any other language, tool (PDF), OS, SCADA, PLC, anything.
Any system that accepts uncontrolled (by the user) inputs is subject to exploiting.
I'm not an american but I think i know how it goes: It's obama's fault, right?
The US has been demanding Argentina (and pretty much all of latin america) to sign a FTA with them. Now germany wants the same thing.
The problem? The US has trade barriers: they don't allow Argentina to sell LEMONS to the US. Germany is a little more subtle: they subsidize the fuck out of their farmers.
Argentina's main export are grains and we're trying to develop an industry. It wouldn't be wise for us to sign an FTA with either. Germany only wants to flood Argentina with their manufactured goods and they don't mind buying manufactured goods from us... which we don't have! But we do have plenty of grains, that they aren't interested in buying.
Chile is the only exception: they have NO industry, pretty much everything there is imported. Their exports are huge (copper and lithium are abundant there, and they have excellent mining). Colombia, i think, has an FTA with the US too. But that's only because they sold their soul to the US to help them combat the FARC (which means: the US forced colombia to accept their help, which has proved useless during the past 20 years).
Free market and free trade is just bullshit. It can never be free when the big guy is setting the rules.
Defense spending is public spending in disguise.
The US has been eating their own dog food (anti-communism) for the last 50 years. They have been SO brainwashed against communism that even thinking of building a power plant or public road is now seen as the big red menace.
Spending in defense, on the other hand, is not only patriotic, it's also money that goes to private companies which is a very capitalistic way of spending your money. So technically they are being keynesian without being too communist.
The problem is, people are used to that reasoning. And they think the government shouldn't "spend" money. Everything private is better and more efficient. The government is slow and wasteful.
Yet, a private company doesn't have neither the interest or funds to take on a huge work like the US highway system. The US is what it is now because of the highways. A private company wouldn't have built a road to nowhere, but government does. Even if it seems like a bad idea, 20 years later it proved to be one of the best strategic moves ever. A private company would just build a straight line between NY and california because that would be the most profitable.
Dude, I don't give a fuck, the people that ACTUALLY MADE THINGS WORK weren't american. Please, go fuck yourself with a cactus, please!
Oh, you americans are soooo innovative and creative, and special.
So much, you had to steal Von Braun from the nazis to make your useless rockets work.
So much, Intel had to recruit former soviet engineers that came up with the idea of a superscalar processor.
So much, you had to get a guy from Argentina to help you figure out coronary bypass.
So much, your best movies (Harry Potter series, LOTR, The dark knight...) are written and directed by foreigners (british! new zealanders!)
So much, THAT FUCKING GOOGLE WAS CO-FOUNDED BY A RUSSIAN.
I could keep adding examples all night, but it won't matter. You are just stupid. You are a redneck with a degree. You have to be a complete tool to think "they do NOT have the exposure to the same innovations that somebody raised here has". How can you be just oh-so-fucking-stupid? Have you ever even set foot outside the US? Did you know down here we also have things like, cars, and roads, and vaccines and cell phones?
Asshole.
OK, add to the list "the big technocentric south east asia" and "the parts of india that speak english".
What else should I say not to hurt your political sensitiveness? Ah yes, Israel, how could I forget them. And Turkey. And everyhwere else in the world! In fact MORE people in the world can buy an iPhone than they can buy a bottle of Coca-Cola. And that was my fucking point, douchebag.
Yes it is cheaper, and you don't need to stick it up your ass. If you just bring your phone, working (with your sim card), customs won't give you trouble.
now if you bring a dozen of them in their pretty little boxes is a different story.
You think you have it bad with taxes? Come to Argentina...
Anyway, I think you're right. Gradiente wants money from Apple, but maybe Apple has found that the Brazilian legal system is not as friendly to them as the US and European are. Less bullshit and even less appeals. So Apple can't exploit it like they do in USA.
And they are too proud to pay. They think they're entitled to it because they are the "i" company. Fuck them, they sue anyone who uses a rounded edge. Let them suffer on this one for a while.