kinda off subject, but why is moses always affiliated with the jewish? I mean, christians believe in the old testament too.
Yes. But the jews don't believe in the Old Testament. They believe in the Hebrew Bible (as well as the oral law, of course). Now, there is a not so subtle difference between the Old Testament and the Hebrew Bible. The name "Old Testament" implies it has been replaced by the new shiny "New Testament" and is no longer valid. Jews don't believe that. God's convenant with Abraham has no exit clause!
Having said that it is quite confusing to see a large cathedral in Amsterdam named after the lawgiver of Israel and his brother the high priest (Moses en Aaron kerk (sp?)).
In the EU, the responsibility rests on the manufacturer to recycle goods. In practice this means that various recycling systems are set up by the manufacturers. The price for these systems are added to the goods, so in the end the customer always pays. No system that I know of involve the customer paying when disposing stuff. Sometimes there is a deposit involved (as with bottles and cars).
Or did the Germans ship it overland to North Africa, and somehow smuggle it across the Mediterranean?
Now that's a thought! The overland route through Sahara starts at Timbuktu and lands at the Mediterranean shore some eight weeks later. It was once one of the most important trade routes and made Timbuktu a rich and might city and a center of scholarship. However, the overland route was rendered obsolete by the Portuguese in the 15th century when they demonstrated that it actually was much quicker and cheaper to ship goods around Africa (who'd have thought...) and Timbuktu hasn't quite recovered yet. Camel caravans still come in with hewn slabs of salt from the mines up north, but it is not quite the same.
Now imagine the Touareg transporting Uranium for the Germans during WWII! I sense a plot for an upcoming Indiana Jones style film! (And imagine the poor camels...)
Now..as to the germans lacking in raw materials,this is not entirely right since they had the oldest european Uranium mines in Joachimstal,belgian mines in africa (after they conquered Belgium) and of course the norwegian heavy water production facility of the "Norsk Hydro" company(as norway was under their control as well).
I wasn't quite listening during the history lessons, but I missed the part where The Third Reich ruled Belgian Kongo. According to Wikipedia, the United States got a lot of uranium from Belgian Kongo during WWII http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Congo, possibly indicating the germans weren't in control there.
When it comes to so-called terrorism, under many (if not most) circumstances the only real difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is your point of view.
The most important such circumstance is if your point of view is that there is no terrorists except for in the eye of the beholder.
If, on the other hand, your definition of "terrorism" is "inducing fear by the means of violence or threat of violence against civilians and civilan targets in order to bring about political change". Such political change can include "freedom", but need not.
Generally, if you abide by the laws of war, you are not in this definition, a terrorist.
There are plenty of examples of terrorists not being freedom fighters, freedom fighters not being terrorists and freedom fighters being terrorists. And it is of course a sliding scale. Some groups perpetrate occasional acts of terrorisms, some do it all the time.
Especially since the oil windfall has the whole region swimming in money right now.
Hate to be nitpicking, but only a very small part of Terroristan is swimming in oil, and it is usually regions connected to corrupt dictators, such as their palaces (and their armed thugs). Had it been otherwise, with a somewhat more distributed ownership of the oil wealth, I guess we would not have seen this obsession with the big or small Satan.
I guest that Haitian would like to change freedom for food.
In general? I doubt it. But then, they always have the choice to vote in a dictator, if they thought he could bring food to the table. They used to be a dictature, so they know what it is like.
I haven't been to Haiti, but all poorstricken ex-dictatures I have been to seem to be happier as free countries, even if they are still poor.
While the US is not at all a small country, it is not the only one. Pretty much the rest of the world has no trade sanctions against Cuba. Sure, things get more expensive if you have to ship them from/to Europe instead from mainland US. And, yes, it would be easier for American tourists to come there than European. But Cuba should be able to compete with lower price of the workforce.
If they had skilled workers. And if they had an industry to talk about. If someone was investing in their industry.
They don't. So their export is at about $200/head.
A gyro (it's not really a gyro, is it?) would have problems telling absolute orientation. Also, it'd have to be quite sensitive to detect slow movements. If the PB contained a water level (sort of), that'd be interesting!
Yes, I know. But that the first mover fails is not always a sign of the idea being bad. Maybe the the technology is ready now (faster WLAN, longer range, better battery life). Maybe it takes another combination with other hardware or software to make it a hit. A screen all by itself is quite useless.
A wireless screen for the Mac mini (or other desktop). Imagine that you have a Mac with screen, keyboard and mouse on your desk. You pick up the screen, which nicely slides out of the stand that charges it, and walk away, around the office or your flat or whatever, now using the same computer as a tablet Mac. You sit down in the couch, and it is a remote control to your Airport Express.
The screen itself has no real processing power or storage. Not more than is required to run some remote desktop client. Maybe it can serve as a remote BT hub for other peripherals (let's say a headset and a webcam, and suddenly it is a videophone).
Maybe it can be used on its own without an owning computer, like a screen for a iPod photo or iPod video.
Now, if they did this, a natural next would be a battery pack for the Mac mini, allowing me to have a "computer brick" in my backpack, and a really sleek tablet mac in my hand that'd punch a whole lot more power than those PC tablets.
And no, that's not the same as a PowerBook -- anyone tried typing standing up away from a desk?
Of course, this is all just wishful thinking, but some parts of it just might come true. Please?
The traditional way of killing weeds is by tilling. Tilling adds to erosion and releases carbon into the atmosphere. With Roundup, you can cut down on tilling, or stop tilling altogether.
I have no idea which is worse, tilling or Roundup, and it probably depends on the soil and climate, but it goes to show that these things are complicated.
And, of course, Roundup-resistant mutations will pop up. But that in itself is not an argument against Roundup as such anymore than antibiotic resistance is an argument against the use of antibiotics. It is an argument against *indiscriminate* use, but there are indeed lots of poisons that we use since a long time that are beneficial for us, used with moderation.
It seems obvious that it is a good idea for the EU to switch to daylight saving time all at the same time. So obvious that EU had to adopt a directive saying so nine times. The seventh time they got the date defined in a unique way. The eighth time they defined the hour. The nineth time they finally figured out that they had to define the hour and the time zone to make the switch (otherwise Britain and France are out of synch for one hour).
So it is has already been practiced, switching rules. Go ahead.
When air conditioning wasn't readily available people were smart enough to build houses that didn't need them. In fact, in parts of the world people still know how to. That's an area where the US could use some technology transfer from, let's say, Mali.
Lotus Notes is part of this transition, and my guess is that with the release after the upcoming release (R7 is currently in public beta) the Notes client as we know it ceases to exist and is replaced by something that is based on Eclipse.
Although your dream loses its point when you stop and consider that you could just get an iBook for that kind of money...
Yes and no. Obviously Apple has to supply the parts (or support the scheme if the parts are third party) for this to be worthwhile, and if they do, there is no reason the combination would be more expensive than an iBook.
Laptops are clumsy in some situations (they are difficult to use well while standing up away from a desk, they are less than comfortable when couch-surfing (and burn your balls, mind you!) and are more difficult to upgrade. With my dream above, you can upgrade the parts separately.
Internal or external power supply? (and a fantasy)
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It is kind of difficult to tell from the pictures. An external power supply (like laptops have) would make a lot of sense. Also it would make the following wishful thinking slightly more realistic:
Imagine a mac mini. Add a battery pack. Add wireless option. Throw it in your backpack. Add wireless screen (sort of like a tablet PC but just enough computing power to be a remote desktop client...for the mac mini you have in your back ack). In your home office, add a dock, and a real screen, keyboard and mouse. And so on.
This is insightful, almost. Most of these things you don't need a computer for, and gets more complicated with a computer.
Voice dialer for the phone? Well, there are phones that do voice dialing. There are also phones with big buttons for people who don't see well, with pictures of the grand kids for people who don't remember phone numbers well, etc.
Replacing a looking glass lamp with a scanner and a PC also seems like overengineering to me.
Alarm buttons, medical sensors that report to your doctor etc all exist, without interference of your grand-dads computer.
E-mail is a killer app even for the elderly, though. When your fingers get stiff (like from arthritis and stuff, not from rigor mortis), usually you can still type (not fast maybe, but still). When your eyesight gets poor, and you can't read letters anymore, you can always jack up the text size in the e-mail program. And grand-kids who can't be bothered to send letters do send e-mail to their grandparents!
Or at least that's the way it works for my 85 yo grand-uncle.
I can think of other applications that could make good use of being computerized though: In Sweden there is (or used to be, at least) a speech morning paper service. That is, select parts of the news paper is read out on radio and recorded by special purpose receivers during the night, for the benefit of the elderly with poor eye-sight.
Obviously, there are a number of ways this can be done better and cheaper with a PC.
"Let me have men about me that are fat, / Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights. / Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. / He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous"
Corridorwatch has this to say about passenger rail: Passenger rail hasn't worked anywhere in the world except in dense urban districts -- That ain't Trans-Texas pardner! And that's too bad since this is the only forward thinking transportation element in Corridor plan.
This is blatantly not true. Modern highspeed trains connect major cities throughout the world, except for the Americas and Africa, it seems (though I'm unsure about the latter). And between the cities what do you have? Sparsely populated countryside.
Between many major European cities train competes well, especially on distances below 700 km (trains usually lands you in the city center, and involves a minimum of hassle boarding and leaving, while aircrafts, well...).
Actually trains don't have to be hightech to be useful. The majority of the Indian railroad system is extremely basic, but highly functional and makes travel in India a delight.
Personally, I'd love to see the Nintendo technologies meshed with Apple and Motorola. To me both Apple and Nintendo, lean towards highly usable, simple technology with high build quality.
Zigbee is designed for a very specific application (switching, censors, controllers, etc.). And by this list, you can see that it was specifically designed to meet the needs of that application.
Censors and controllers get their own networking technology! What will they think of next? Accountants and payroll clerks to use new networking technology dubbed Zilch?
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kinda off subject, but why is moses always affiliated with the jewish? I mean, christians believe in the old testament too.
Yes. But the jews don't believe in the Old Testament. They believe in the Hebrew Bible (as well as the oral law, of course). Now, there is a not so subtle difference between the Old Testament and the Hebrew Bible. The name "Old Testament" implies it has been replaced by the new shiny "New Testament" and is no longer valid. Jews don't believe that. God's convenant with Abraham has no exit clause!
Having said that it is quite confusing to see a large cathedral in Amsterdam named after the lawgiver of Israel and his brother the high priest (Moses en Aaron kerk (sp?)).
In the EU, the responsibility rests on the manufacturer to recycle goods. In practice this means that various recycling systems are set up by the manufacturers. The price for these systems are added to the goods, so in the end the customer always pays. No system that I know of involve the customer paying when disposing stuff. Sometimes there is a deposit involved (as with bottles and cars).
Or did the Germans ship it overland to North Africa, and somehow smuggle it across the Mediterranean?
Now that's a thought! The overland route through Sahara starts at Timbuktu and lands at the Mediterranean shore some eight weeks later. It was once one of the most important trade routes and made Timbuktu a rich and might city and a center of scholarship. However, the overland route was rendered obsolete by the Portuguese in the 15th century when they demonstrated that it actually was much quicker and cheaper to ship goods around Africa (who'd have thought...) and Timbuktu hasn't quite recovered yet. Camel caravans still come in with hewn slabs of salt from the mines up north, but it is not quite the same.
Now imagine the Touareg transporting Uranium for the Germans during WWII! I sense a plot for an upcoming Indiana Jones style film! (And imagine the poor camels...)
Now..as to the germans lacking in raw materials ,this is not entirely right since they had the oldest european Uranium mines in Joachimstal ,belgian mines in africa (after they conquered Belgium) and of course the norwegian heavy water production facility of the "Norsk Hydro" company(as norway was under their control as well).
I wasn't quite listening during the history lessons, but I missed the part where The Third Reich ruled Belgian Kongo. According to Wikipedia, the United States got a lot of uranium from Belgian Kongo during WWII http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Congo, possibly indicating the germans weren't in control there.
When it comes to so-called terrorism, under many (if not most) circumstances the only real difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is your point of view.
The most important such circumstance is if your point of view is that there is no terrorists except for in the eye of the beholder.
If, on the other hand, your definition of "terrorism" is "inducing fear by the means of violence or threat of violence against civilians and civilan targets in order to bring about political change". Such political change can include "freedom", but need not.
Generally, if you abide by the laws of war, you are not in this definition, a terrorist.
There are plenty of examples of terrorists not being freedom fighters, freedom fighters not being terrorists and freedom fighters being terrorists. And it is of course a sliding scale. Some groups perpetrate occasional acts of terrorisms, some do it all the time.
Especially since the oil windfall has the whole region swimming in money right now.
Hate to be nitpicking, but only a very small part of Terroristan is swimming in oil, and it is usually regions connected to corrupt dictators, such as their palaces (and their armed thugs). Had it been otherwise, with a somewhat more distributed ownership of the oil wealth, I guess we would not have seen this obsession with the big or small Satan.
I guest that Haitian would like to change freedom for food.
In general? I doubt it. But then, they always have the choice to vote in a dictator, if they thought he could bring food to the table. They used to be a dictature, so they know what it is like.
I haven't been to Haiti, but all poorstricken ex-dictatures I have been to seem to be happier as free countries, even if they are still poor.
While the US is not at all a small country, it is not the only one. Pretty much the rest of the world has no trade sanctions against Cuba. Sure, things get more expensive if you have to ship them from/to Europe instead from mainland US. And, yes, it would be easier for American tourists to come there than European. But Cuba should be able to compete with lower price of the workforce.
If they had skilled workers. And if they had an industry to talk about. If someone was investing in their industry.
They don't. So their export is at about $200/head.
The free as in speach surely doesn't appeal to Fidelito.
A gyro (it's not really a gyro, is it?) would have problems telling absolute orientation. Also, it'd have to be quite sensitive to detect slow movements. If the PB contained a water level (sort of), that'd be interesting!
Yes, I know. But that the first mover fails is not always a sign of the idea being bad. Maybe the the technology is ready now (faster WLAN, longer range, better battery life). Maybe it takes another combination with other hardware or software to make it a hit. A screen all by itself is quite useless.
I hope Apple works it out.
(Or, I'd wish it to be.)
A wireless screen for the Mac mini (or other desktop). Imagine that you have a Mac with screen, keyboard and mouse on your desk. You pick up the screen, which nicely slides out of the stand that charges it, and walk away, around the office or your flat or whatever, now using the same computer as a tablet Mac. You sit down in the couch, and it is a remote control to your Airport Express.
The screen itself has no real processing power or storage. Not more than is required to run some remote desktop client. Maybe it can serve as a remote BT hub for other peripherals (let's say a headset and a webcam, and suddenly it is a videophone).
Maybe it can be used on its own without an owning computer, like a screen for a iPod photo or iPod video.
Now, if they did this, a natural next would be a battery pack for the Mac mini, allowing me to have a "computer brick" in my backpack, and a really sleek tablet mac in my hand that'd punch a whole lot more power than those PC tablets.
And no, that's not the same as a PowerBook -- anyone tried typing standing up away from a desk?
Of course, this is all just wishful thinking, but some parts of it just might come true. Please?
The traditional way of killing weeds is by tilling. Tilling adds to erosion and releases carbon into the atmosphere. With Roundup, you can cut down on tilling, or stop tilling altogether.
I have no idea which is worse, tilling or Roundup, and it probably depends on the soil and climate, but it goes to show that these things are complicated.
And, of course, Roundup-resistant mutations will pop up. But that in itself is not an argument against Roundup as such anymore than antibiotic resistance is an argument against the use of antibiotics. It is an argument against *indiscriminate* use, but there are indeed lots of poisons that we use since a long time that are beneficial for us, used with moderation.
It seems obvious that it is a good idea for the EU to switch to daylight saving time all at the same time. So obvious that EU had to adopt a directive saying so nine times. The seventh time they got the date defined in a unique way. The eighth time they defined the hour. The nineth time they finally figured out that they had to define the hour and the time zone to make the switch (otherwise Britain and France are out of synch for one hour).
So it is has already been practiced, switching rules. Go ahead.
When air conditioning wasn't readily available people were smart enough to build houses that didn't need them. In fact, in parts of the world people still know how to. That's an area where the US could use some technology transfer from, let's say, Mali.
Lotus Notes is part of this transition, and my guess is that with the release after the upcoming release (R7 is currently in public beta) the Notes client as we know it ceases to exist and is replaced by something that is based on Eclipse.
Just "cease to exist" would be just fine, by me.
Maybe Tunisia heading the UN Human Rights Committe?
The french Pages Jaunes (yellow pages) have had this for years: http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/pj.cgi. It is extremely handy.
Although your dream loses its point when you stop and consider that you could just get an iBook for that kind of money...
Yes and no. Obviously Apple has to supply the parts (or support the scheme if the parts are third party) for this to be worthwhile, and if they do, there is no reason the combination would be more expensive than an iBook.
Laptops are clumsy in some situations (they are difficult to use well while standing up away from a desk, they are less than comfortable when couch-surfing (and burn your balls, mind you!) and are more difficult to upgrade. With my dream above, you can upgrade the parts separately.
It is kind of difficult to tell from the pictures. An external power supply (like laptops have) would make a lot of sense. Also it would make the following wishful thinking slightly more realistic:
Imagine a mac mini. Add a battery pack. Add wireless option. Throw it in your backpack. Add wireless screen (sort of like a tablet PC but just enough computing power to be a remote desktop client...for the mac mini you have in your back ack). In your home office, add a dock, and a real screen, keyboard and mouse. And so on.
In my dreams, at least.
This is insightful, almost. Most of these things you don't need a computer for, and gets more complicated with a computer.
Voice dialer for the phone? Well, there are phones that do voice dialing. There are also phones with big buttons for people who don't see well, with pictures of the grand kids for people who don't remember phone numbers well, etc.
Replacing a looking glass lamp with a scanner and a PC also seems like overengineering to me.
Alarm buttons, medical sensors that report to your doctor etc all exist, without interference of your grand-dads computer.
E-mail is a killer app even for the elderly, though. When your fingers get stiff (like from arthritis and stuff, not from rigor mortis), usually you can still type (not fast maybe, but still). When your eyesight gets poor, and you can't read letters anymore, you can always jack up the text size in the e-mail program. And grand-kids who can't be bothered to send letters do send e-mail to their grandparents!
Or at least that's the way it works for my 85 yo grand-uncle.
I can think of other applications that could make good use of being computerized though: In Sweden there is (or used to be, at least) a speech morning paper service. That is, select parts of the news paper is read out on radio and recorded by special purpose receivers during the night, for the benefit of the elderly with poor eye-sight.
Obviously, there are a number of ways this can be done better and cheaper with a PC.
"Let me have men about me that are fat, / Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights. / Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. / He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous"
Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2.
Corridorwatch has this to say about passenger rail:
Passenger rail hasn't worked anywhere in the world except in dense urban districts -- That ain't Trans-Texas pardner! And that's too bad since this is the only forward thinking transportation element in Corridor plan.
This is blatantly not true. Modern highspeed trains connect major cities throughout the world, except for the Americas and Africa, it seems (though I'm unsure about the latter). And between the cities what do you have? Sparsely populated countryside.
Between many major European cities train competes well, especially on distances below 700 km (trains usually lands you in the city center, and involves a minimum of hassle boarding and leaving, while aircrafts, well...).
Actually trains don't have to be hightech to be useful. The majority of the Indian railroad system is extremely basic, but highly functional and makes travel in India a delight.
Personally, I'd love to see the Nintendo technologies meshed with Apple and Motorola. To me both Apple and Nintendo, lean towards highly usable, simple technology with high build quality.
Nintendo + Nokia = True
Zigbee is designed for a very specific application (switching, censors, controllers, etc.). And by this list, you can see that it was specifically designed to meet the needs of that application.
Censors and controllers get their own networking technology! What will they think of next? Accountants and payroll clerks to use new networking technology dubbed Zilch?