How can you claim to be making a mobile device if it does not have mobile broadband? This thing yearning for a mobile internet connection so bad. The only reason that I can think of is that Steve is waiting to deploy this on Verizon's coming LTE network.
This is the same Clinton that voted to authorise the executive branch to declare war against a country that had never threatened the United States? So I guess un-constitutional war is OK but naked people in video games is a no no.
You Americans need to get out of your comfortable chairs and stand for something again. It is sad to see the country that fought of the British empire due to high taxation behave in this manner.
Well, that is not exactly true...
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The largest party in sweden would be the social democrats, the second largest party are Moderaterna, the liberal party would be the third largest. And your placement of the parties on an american left-right-scale is not entirely true either.
- Social Democrates, pragmatic power party with an emphasis on a large welfare state and a regulated labour market. - Moderates, previously somewhat conservative that now have triangulated the social democrates more or less totally. - Peoples Party - Liberals, Social-liberal party that now could be placed to the right of the moderates.
Since there are seven major parties in sweden instead of two large coalitions like in the United States I find it hard to compare them to either the democrats or the republicans. For example it is hard to find any great amount protectionism in any of the parties platforms, but all favour a welfare state with socialized medicine for example. So you are over-simplifying things a bit too much!:)
The normal local taxrate in Sweden is about 30-32%. Then if your income is over N you have to pay 20% of that to the state and if your salary is larger than M you pay 5% of that as well. N and M change according to inflation and such, but what you define as middle class usually break at least the first.
The total tax rate on income in sweden is about 60% as the employeer must pay taxes for each employee as well. But this is hidden for the employees as it is payes by the employer.
Internet access got a big push in sweden because of de-regulation! When we had the state monopoly on telephone services, and most internet acess was through dialup, we were told that a flat-rate system was totally impossible in sweden. Ten years later, after de-regulation, it has been introduced. Of course almost noone uses dialup anymore but you get the point.
It is also important that sweden has been a consensus-country and it was agreed upon that internet access was relevant so through tax brakes and the deregulation a fiercly competivite market was created which all consumers benefit from today.
I have bee reading Slashdot since the beginning, as my uid shows, and I feel the opposite way. That is, in the beginning the readers, or at least the commentators, on slashdot had a libertarian slant. But during the last few years more and more statist and socialist ideas have come to dominate.
This truley saddens my as I live in a country that has been totally dominated by socialist ideas for all its democratic life and I would not recommend it to anyone seeking liberty or freedom.
I was mostly speaking of the french political elite which does seem to have no idea what they are doing. I would recommend them to read Frédéric Bastiat;)
Perhaps the "government" has a need, but I seriously question if the people need or even want this service. Would have been better to set fire to all of the tax payer money. At least then we would have gotten some heat during the winter.
The question was why MY comment was moderated as a flamebait. Where did I show racism in comment? I just pointed out that the united states is not the most racist country in the western world and to suggest that is wrong. I clearly demonstrated one country that has more inherent racism than the united states. I am however not saying that the united states has had and still has serious problems with racism, most of it coming from the morally corrupt institution of slavery and the treatment of black people after the ending of slavery.
Also, it's almost impossible to find work in sweden with an arabic or african name even if you are educated at one of the state universitys. The are examples of people sending houndreds of applications and not even getting a letter back saying that they are being considered for the position. When these people emigrate i britian, canada, usa they find employement almost instantly.
So stop moderating things as flamebait just because it doesn't fit your world view. I though the readers of slashdot liked freedom of expression, or does that only apply when it's the "correct" expression?
Then you havn't exprienced a real racist country in the western world. Like a country where labour unionist stop foreigners from going to work and screams "GO HOME! GO HOME!".
Fair enough, it might be more microcontrollers than microprocessors. I was a bit unprecise when I wrote the comment.
Software in cars? What do you call airbags, anti-lock brakes, traction control, which are all controlled by software, if not hard real-time! The move towards drive-by-wire would not be easy without hard real-time software as well. Fly-by-wire as implemented in Airbus airplanes are all hard real-time. Then we have GSM/3G communication networks, all using real-time software, further we have computer that control processes in steel mills and such.
But the number of applications using real-time software have also increased, but not perhaps as much as for "normal" applications.
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How can you claim to be making a mobile device if it does not have mobile broadband? This thing yearning for a mobile internet connection so bad. The only reason that I can think of is that Steve is waiting to deploy this on Verizon's coming LTE network.
That's GSM's fault, not the phone's.
In what way is that "GSM"'s fault?
Please explain what socialism has to due to the enormous growth in broadband in Sweden after the de-regulation of the telecom industry?
Also, this is a private company providing the service.
Cisco is behind the telecom giant Ericsson here, they already have a blade system delivered to Telstra:
http://www.ericsson.com/solutions/news/2008/q4/081121_telstras_network.shtml
Cisco, behind old and boring telecom? :)
This is the same Clinton that voted to authorise the executive branch to declare war against a country that had never threatened the United States? So I guess un-constitutional war is OK but naked people in video games is a no no.
You Americans need to get out of your comfortable chairs and stand for something again. It is sad to see the country that fought of the British empire due to high taxation behave in this manner.
The largest party in sweden would be the social democrats, the second largest party are Moderaterna, the liberal party would be the third largest. And your placement of the parties on an american left-right-scale is not entirely true either.
:)
- Social Democrates, pragmatic power party with an emphasis on a large welfare state and a regulated labour market.
- Moderates, previously somewhat conservative that now have triangulated the social democrates more or less totally.
- Peoples Party - Liberals, Social-liberal party that now could be placed to the right of the moderates.
Since there are seven major parties in sweden instead of two large coalitions like in the United States I find it hard to compare them to either the democrats or the republicans. For example it is hard to find any great amount protectionism in any of the parties platforms, but all favour a welfare state with socialized medicine for example. So you are over-simplifying things a bit too much!
The normal local taxrate in Sweden is about 30-32%. Then if your income is over N you have to pay 20% of that to the state and if your salary is larger than M you pay 5% of that as well. N and M change according to inflation and such, but what you define as middle class usually break at least the first.
The total tax rate on income in sweden is about 60% as the employeer must pay taxes for each employee as well. But this is hidden for the employees as it is payes by the employer.
Internet access got a big push in sweden because of de-regulation! When we had the state monopoly on telephone services, and most internet acess was through dialup, we were told that a flat-rate system was totally impossible in sweden. Ten years later, after de-regulation, it has been introduced. Of course almost noone uses dialup anymore but you get the point.
It is also important that sweden has been a consensus-country and it was agreed upon that internet access was relevant so through tax brakes and the deregulation a fiercly competivite market was created which all consumers benefit from today.
Oh, so where is this magic "third way" that you are talking about? :)
I have bee reading Slashdot since the beginning, as my uid shows, and I feel the opposite way. That is, in the beginning the readers, or at least the commentators, on slashdot had a libertarian slant. But during the last few years more and more statist and socialist ideas have come to dominate.
This truley saddens my as I live in a country that has been totally dominated by socialist ideas for all its democratic life and I would not recommend it to anyone seeking liberty or freedom.
I really like that you are moderated as a troll for saying something outside of the Slashdot-groupthink of Sweden. :)
We must put pressure on our politicians to legislate against the dumping of ice by glaciers, this cannot be tolerated anymore!
Tell that to Bodström. :D
Yeah, that is true
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I was mostly speaking of the french political elite which does seem to have no idea what they are doing. I would recommend them to read Frédéric Bastiat
Why did you put liberal in a quotation? Since when is running a search engine a basic government service ?
Perhaps the "government" has a need, but I seriously question if the people need or even want this service. Would have been better to set fire to all of the tax payer money. At least then we would have gotten some heat during the winter.
Please do not confuse the whole continent with the backward looking french. :)
When has a government ever provided a service like this that is better and cheaper than what the market would have produced?
.. they don't understand the words "market" and "forces".
I guess the thought of someone having a different opinion than you makes you scared. :)
"Just because the US government is a proponent of a position does not mean that it is wrong."
:D
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The question was why MY comment was moderated as a flamebait. Where did I show racism in comment? I just pointed out that the united states is not the most racist country in the western world and to suggest that is wrong. I clearly demonstrated one country that has more inherent racism than the united states. I am however not saying that the united states has had and still has serious problems with racism, most of it coming from the morally corrupt institution of slavery and the treatment of black people after the ending of slavery.
Why is is moderated as a flame bait?
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This is exactly what happend in sweden to latvian construction workers. See http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/21/news/laval
Also, it's almost impossible to find work in sweden with an arabic or african name even if you are educated at one of the state universitys. The are examples of people sending houndreds of applications and not even getting a letter back saying that they are being considered for the position. When these people emigrate i britian, canada, usa they find employement almost instantly.
So stop moderating things as flamebait just because it doesn't fit your world view. I though the readers of slashdot liked freedom of expression, or does that only apply when it's the "correct" expression?
Then you havn't exprienced a real racist country in the western world. Like a country where labour unionist stop foreigners from going to work and screams "GO HOME! GO HOME!".
Doubt you will read this though but..
Fair enough, it might be more microcontrollers than microprocessors. I was a bit unprecise when I wrote the comment.
Software in cars? What do you call airbags, anti-lock brakes, traction control, which are all controlled by software, if not hard real-time! The move towards drive-by-wire would not be easy without hard real-time software as well. Fly-by-wire as implemented in Airbus airplanes are all hard real-time. Then we have GSM/3G communication networks, all using real-time software, further we have computer that control processes in steel mills and such.
But the number of applications using real-time software have also increased, but not perhaps as much as for "normal" applications.