BS. Even though I live in EU (well, in one of backward and corrupt new memberstates...but it shows what MS accomplishes when given free reign) there are still "IE-only" webpages. Of some administration usually. ".doc-only" too.
Heck, even the software required to run a company (tax related, provided "free") is available only for Windows. And it's made with my money. And there was quite vast campaign of criticism when the plans for "windows-only" were acknowledged. In any normal place it would be enough.
But here, where MS for a long time could do anything, people don't see a problem; "but...everybody has Windows!". Waste of resources, mindset provoking lack of security (about this tax app: specs weren't realesed, because that would "compromise the security of encryption used in the system"), stiffening of innovation (we're quite backward and not-innovative, only copy) is what you get then.
I'm constantly amased that EU is willing to take this so far.
You didn't live under communism. You simply lived under evolved stalinism, which only claimed to be "communist". But hey, you learn something new every day...
Telecoms in few european countries abusing their monopoly (btw, even though such telecoms operate withing the borders of one, relatively small country, they got fines comparable to MS fine)
I'm genuinely curious, how do you manage to ignore that the fact of abusing monopoly constitutes breaking the law? And that in most (all?) modern legal systems if one starts to behave semi-nice when his hands are looked at, it doesn't nullify recent wrongdoings.
Aside from ingoring the obvious, you have few facts off; EU didn't told anything about bundling browsers, the investigation just started. The money from MS fines is pocket change to EU. EU primiarily "witch hunts" companies based in...EU.
1) EU fines levied on MS for abusing the market are pocket change in comparison to EU budget or budgets of most of EU countries (I'd guess they are even smaller than productivity/innovation losses due to their practices)
2) EU fines primarily (both in number of cases and fines amounts) companies based in...EU! Surprise, surprise... (US media just doesn't report on it, why would they?)
Look, I know recent biology and chemistry graduates who were forced to go through Fortran. Obviously "they hated it" doesn't mean anything, everybody would.
The thing is...generally it was just a filler for them, "this weird, useless thing we all have to pass and nobody knows why". They focused only on how to pass the dreaded course, not on how to understand/learn programming. Not only they don't have any idea now how to program (nvm that majority are quite computer illiterate...), they even didn't know that during/right after the course!
Using something like Python would greatly help in much larger number of them actually having a clue.
From your description and from trying it out I seem to have an impression that it's not really different from Google Search features. Have you tried it semi-recently? It also has autocompletion/suggestion and related searches.
Airports simply need buffer zones around them for security, noise, etc. The problem is that many environmentalists are totally out of touch with reality; since they saw those areas as excellent locations for wildlife habitats, they pushed laws to that effect, on top of ones establishing buffer zones.
A shame, really...those people have generally quite likeable world view, but once in a while there's something like this... (other notable idiocies beeing anti-nuclear and wanting to turn all major rivers into concrete waterways for energy generation (well, tbh they don't realise that what they want would require turning rivers into concrete waterways...))
Exactly my point, that's why "pseudo". I don't want to see them back, I don't want to be reminded by another thing how many people around me can be described as "douche".
Yeah, that seems more practical when you're in the wild. Especially since the tech is already there - not only mechanical watches are able to wind themselves up, there were also some quartz ones obtaining their power that way.
In the meantime - carrying a phone like Nokia 1208 (ubercheap, standby mode of almost 2 weeks, with the biggest compatible batter probably 3) isn't a big problem when you want to be sure it's working...
Interesting...the holsters disappeared from here long time ago. They were only somewhat popular at the very beginning of cellphone availability...mostly as a pseudo status symbol.
I wasn't talking about 1549, just general idiocy of establishing "Federally protected wetlands" in drainage basins for the airfield itself, for example.
Like in case of Detroit Metro Airport's runway 9R-27L, almost directly across Middlebelt Rd. from a 650m x 415m wetland/flood basin. Notice all the vegetation. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Detroit+Metro+Airport+runway+9R-27L&sll=37.579413,-95.712891&sspn=33.830346,56.162109&ie=UTF8&cd=1&ll=42.202423,-83.326921&spn=0.015546,0.027423&t=k&z=15 Scroll north to see more wetlands. Quoting one buddy: Catch a pic at the right time of day, to be determined by the frickin' birds, and there's hundreds/thousands of waterfowl on that thing or browsing the surrounding fields...some of which are directly under the flight path. This is the same airport that claims it has no deer within the fence, so therefore no danger of deer on the runway, but drive by the sound abatement berms on the south end early some morning and you'll see herds of them at the edge of the woods. There's a 12+ foot fence the airport managers say keeps 'em out, but no one bothered to tell the deer that.
Or look at main Cyprus airfield http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=34.879876,33.620825&spn=0.050133,0.061197&t=h&z=14 just to the north-west was a large salt lake and all around were about half-a-dozen smaller salt lakes. These mostly dry up in summer (except for a couple of small ones) but are in various degrees of wetness during the winter, when they are the predilected home for thousands of wading birds, from the size of a moorhen up to swans and flamingos. They are also internationally recognised and protected nature reserves. It is a common sight in winter to see flocks of hundreds of flamingos transiting between the lakes, right across the flight paths of the aircraft and they aren't the size of a sparrow, either. Aircraft are often sitting on the end of the runway waiting for clearance for takeoff while "hostile" birds bugger off. Bird strikes are common in winter with perhaps 2 or 3/year requiring aircraft to return after takeoff either because of engine failure (rare), Pitot tubes spearing birds, cockpit glass cracked, control surfaces damaged, flaps unable to close etc. So far, no major accidents have occurred but it is a catastrophe waiting to happen. The white areas are dried salt lakes and the greenish-grey and blue-green areas are wet ones. As you can see, the runway has lakes a few metres from it, on either side!
Though I wonder what upcoming ARM netbooks will bring; with existing official Debian ARM port, be might even see the one true desktop Linux distro that you mention, Ubuntu...
IMHO it's not that we (yeah, I'm from so called "Eastern Europe") focus on mathematics and hard science, it's just that, from what I see, athletes/etc. are put on a smaller pedestal
(perhaps partly because of economic considerations...celebrities here simply aren't worth that much as a product; means also that for larger percentage of "would-be celebrities" the only future is as a bouncer or whore, etc.)
AMD would end up with even better value on low-end if the cheap AMD system was built on a mobo with integrated GFX...which is good enough for everything except recent GFX-intensive games.
Yeah, there are always Nvidia chipsets...but for some reason motherboards with them are definitely more expensive (at least where I shop) than comparable ones (both with AMD and Nv chipsets) for AMD platform.
These animals haven't developed anything even resembling civilization, even the most advanced of them. And we've already made contact with just about all of them. None of them really cared too much, or attempted to communicate in any meaningful way. That's why they're called "animals" and not "sentient, intelligent beings".
And how are you "sure" of any of those things? Now, we know that of course...for vast majority of human evolution (and, mostly, also now) we simply viewed animals as source of food, threat or ignored them (because that would leave resources to former two categories), a case of survivor bias. Generally we didn't try to make "contact", not in a way that wouldn't be meaningful only to us. We were even perfectly capable of doing the same thing with other humans that are different enough. (observe people communicating with unknown to you language, from vastly different culture while trying to forget about common pursuits - how many of things they do seem more than instincts?) Do you even have workable definition of "sentience"? Many people would like to hear it...
You should hope any being sufficiently more advanced from us won't have the same approach. And that we, while making such contact, won't be that anthropocentric at this point.
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BS. Even though I live in EU (well, in one of backward and corrupt new memberstates...but it shows what MS accomplishes when given free reign) there are still "IE-only" webpages. Of some administration usually. ".doc-only" too.
Heck, even the software required to run a company (tax related, provided "free") is available only for Windows. And it's made with my money. And there was quite vast campaign of criticism when the plans for "windows-only" were acknowledged. In any normal place it would be enough.
But here, where MS for a long time could do anything, people don't see a problem; "but...everybody has Windows!". Waste of resources, mindset provoking lack of security (about this tax app: specs weren't realesed, because that would "compromise the security of encryption used in the system"), stiffening of innovation (we're quite backward and not-innovative, only copy) is what you get then.
I'm constantly amased that EU is willing to take this so far.
You didn't live under communism. You simply lived under evolved stalinism, which only claimed to be "communist". But hey, you learn something new every day...
I lived under that in Poland for 6 years, FYI.
That might describe the state of affairs at your place.
There are places where, if explicitly heard/spoken, it might be taken as a warning; inspiring quite succesfull struggle to avoid it.
Telecoms in few european countries abusing their monopoly (btw, even though such telecoms operate withing the borders of one, relatively small country, they got fines comparable to MS fine)
I'm genuinely curious, how do you manage to ignore that the fact of abusing monopoly constitutes breaking the law? And that in most (all?) modern legal systems if one starts to behave semi-nice when his hands are looked at, it doesn't nullify recent wrongdoings.
Aside from ingoring the obvious, you have few facts off; EU didn't told anything about bundling browsers, the investigation just started. The money from MS fines is pocket change to EU. EU primiarily "witch hunts" companies based in...EU.
1) EU fines levied on MS for abusing the market are pocket change in comparison to EU budget or budgets of most of EU countries (I'd guess they are even smaller than productivity/innovation losses due to their practices)
2) EU fines primarily (both in number of cases and fines amounts) companies based in...EU! Surprise, surprise... (US media just doesn't report on it, why would they?)
Oh, so in your place after committing something illegal/crimes it is enough to start playing semi-nice and that's the end of the story?
Interesting...
...the chances of there being animal life out there...
Can't help but wonder...why narrow our searches like that?
But in the case of the summary/TFA...
Look, I know recent biology and chemistry graduates who were forced to go through Fortran. Obviously "they hated it" doesn't mean anything, everybody would.
The thing is...generally it was just a filler for them, "this weird, useless thing we all have to pass and nobody knows why". They focused only on how to pass the dreaded course, not on how to understand/learn programming. Not only they don't have any idea now how to program (nvm that majority are quite computer illiterate...), they even didn't know that during/right after the course!
Using something like Python would greatly help in much larger number of them actually having a clue.
I generally only have mine in my pocket if I'm travelling somewhere.
Let me rephrase that for you:
If I'm far from power outlets I generally have mine in my pocket.
Uhuh, so you would use this minimal battery recharge in a place...where there's power available.
Riiiight...
From your description and from trying it out I seem to have an impression that it's not really different from Google Search features. Have you tried it semi-recently? It also has autocompletion/suggestion and related searches.
I think you make it to complicated...
Airports simply need buffer zones around them for security, noise, etc. The problem is that many environmentalists are totally out of touch with reality; since they saw those areas as excellent locations for wildlife habitats, they pushed laws to that effect, on top of ones establishing buffer zones.
A shame, really...those people have generally quite likeable world view, but once in a while there's something like this... (other notable idiocies beeing anti-nuclear and wanting to turn all major rivers into concrete waterways for energy generation (well, tbh they don't realise that what they want would require turning rivers into concrete waterways...))
Exactly my point, that's why "pseudo". I don't want to see them back, I don't want to be reminded by another thing how many people around me can be described as "douche".
Yeah, that seems more practical when you're in the wild. Especially since the tech is already there - not only mechanical watches are able to wind themselves up, there were also some quartz ones obtaining their power that way.
In the meantime - carrying a phone like Nokia 1208 (ubercheap, standby mode of almost 2 weeks, with the biggest compatible batter probably 3) isn't a big problem when you want to be sure it's working...
Interesting...the holsters disappeared from here long time ago. They were only somewhat popular at the very beginning of cellphone availability...mostly as a pseudo status symbol.
I don't miss them at all.
Where do you put your mobile phone when not in use?
Exactly.
I wasn't talking about 1549, just general idiocy of establishing "Federally protected wetlands" in drainage basins for the airfield itself, for example.
Like in case of Detroit Metro Airport's runway 9R-27L, almost directly across Middlebelt Rd. from a 650m x 415m wetland/flood basin. Notice all the vegetation.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Detroit+Metro+Airport+runway+9R-27L&sll=37.579413,-95.712891&sspn=33.830346,56.162109&ie=UTF8&cd=1&ll=42.202423,-83.326921&spn=0.015546,0.027423&t=k&z=15
Scroll north to see more wetlands. Quoting one buddy: Catch a pic at the right time of day, to be determined by the frickin' birds, and there's hundreds/thousands of waterfowl on that thing or browsing the surrounding fields...some of which are directly under the flight path.
This is the same airport that claims it has no deer within the fence, so therefore no danger of deer on the runway, but drive by the sound abatement berms on the south end early some morning and you'll see herds of them at the edge of the woods. There's a 12+ foot fence the airport managers say keeps 'em out, but no one bothered to tell the deer that.
Or look at main Cyprus airfield
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=34.879876,33.620825&spn=0.050133,0.061197&t=h&z=14
just to the north-west was a large salt lake and all around were about half-a-dozen smaller salt lakes. These mostly dry up in summer (except for a couple of small ones) but are in various degrees of wetness during the winter, when they are the predilected home for thousands of wading birds, from the size of a moorhen up to swans and flamingos. They are also internationally recognised and protected nature reserves. It is a common sight in winter to see flocks of hundreds of flamingos transiting between the lakes, right across the flight paths of the aircraft and they aren't the size of a sparrow, either. Aircraft are often sitting on the end of the runway waiting for clearance for takeoff while "hostile" birds bugger off. Bird strikes are common in winter with perhaps 2 or 3/year requiring aircraft to return after takeoff either because of engine failure (rare), Pitot tubes spearing birds, cockpit glass cracked, control surfaces damaged, flaps unable to close etc. So far, no major accidents have occurred but it is a catastrophe waiting to happen.
The white areas are dried salt lakes and the greenish-grey and blue-green areas are wet ones. As you can see, the runway has lakes a few metres from it, on either side!
Especially since, from what I hear, areas around many airports have been essentially turned into wetlands.
No wonder flocks of birds like the place...
Well, it seems somebody makes ARM PCs... ;>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9home
http://www.advantage6.com/products/A9home.html
http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/ - just 600 Pounds!
But yeah, I agree with you.
Though I wonder what upcoming ARM netbooks will bring; with existing official Debian ARM port, be might even see the one true desktop Linux distro that you mention, Ubuntu...
In that light it would actually be worth it for China to stall its landing as long as its practical...
IMHO it's not that we (yeah, I'm from so called "Eastern Europe") focus on mathematics and hard science, it's just that, from what I see, athletes/etc. are put on a smaller pedestal
(perhaps partly because of economic considerations...celebrities here simply aren't worth that much as a product; means also that for larger percentage of "would-be celebrities" the only future is as a bouncer or whore, etc.)
But they are still put on a pedestal...
I think that by choosing Corvette you made you car analogy inadequate (and that would be inexcusable! ;p )
You were looking for any Porsche or Audi R8...things you can actually use for daily driving.
AMD would end up with even better value on low-end if the cheap AMD system was built on a mobo with integrated GFX...which is good enough for everything except recent GFX-intensive games.
Yeah, there are always Nvidia chipsets...but for some reason motherboards with them are definitely more expensive (at least where I shop) than comparable ones (both with AMD and Nv chipsets) for AMD platform.
And you're doing this again...
These animals haven't developed anything even resembling civilization, even the most advanced of them. And we've already made contact with just about all of them. None of them really cared too much, or attempted to communicate in any meaningful way. That's why they're called "animals" and not "sentient, intelligent beings".
And how are you "sure" of any of those things? Now, we know that of course...for vast majority of human evolution (and, mostly, also now) we simply viewed animals as source of food, threat or ignored them (because that would leave resources to former two categories), a case of survivor bias. Generally we didn't try to make "contact", not in a way that wouldn't be meaningful only to us. We were even perfectly capable of doing the same thing with other humans that are different enough. (observe people communicating with unknown to you language, from vastly different culture while trying to forget about common pursuits - how many of things they do seem more than instincts?) Do you even have workable definition of "sentience"? Many people would like to hear it...
You should hope any being sufficiently more advanced from us won't have the same approach. And that we, while making such contact, won't be that anthropocentric at this point.