I lament that they were never popular anywhere in Europe (or rather - IBM PCs were so much rarer here back then) and their weight, probably, means that every time I almost convinced myself to get one shipping costs stopped me;/
It's a case of "supply and demand" and...no competition. None true competition at all.
Because when you do get it (like it happened in PL few years back) prices start to fall quite rapidly. At this point honestly I don't even care anymore how much I pay for a sms, it's something around $2 per month (in prepaid on top of that) unlimited (for all intents and purposes) texting. I even seem to remember that one of the biggest virtual prepaid operators made them totally free, no conditions at all, when sent to any number in its parent "physical" operator...but you don't care anymore at some point.
Helps also that I don't have to recharge account at all to keep it alive and can set up, for a small fee, two free numbers (any network), one for a month, one (both at the same time) for 24h.
But it wasn't always that good - when we had a virtual "tetrapoly" (hope that's a word...). I'm even hopefull that prepaid prices of data transfers will rapidly fall soon, that's the only thing left...
Uhm, that was my point. They DO have great chipset for the Atom - and it's great "mostly thanks to low power usage" (because surely it's capable enough, even with 1gb ram limit, imho)
However Intel keeps it for high-margin MIDs, leaving netbooks with the fate of "old, craptastic, power-hungry chipset"
X-series had its place in a world without netbooks.
But now...it's extremelly hard to justify spending the asking price (especially since in my part of the woods it costs not 3x netbook price, but 4x; and that's X-61, X-200 isn't even available yet), when the only real distinguishing feature for me is Trackpoint and a bit better (in comparison to some great netbooks) keyboard (I don't even want a tablet)
Especially since it seems to be deliberate move not to cannibalise "proper" X-series sales.
Oh well...I guess I have no choice but to find some used X-4x...
And I can still stand by what I've said - you're defeating the purpose of Last.fm in gambling the stats like that; it's not "what my Last.fm library should look like", but "what I listen to". The idea is to reflect also how your musical habits change over time (which DOES influence recommendations/etc.). And if a band releases a single earlier...well, it seems like the purpose in that is actually popularising this particular song, isn't it? What's next? Inflating numbers of new albums/supressing the old ones so they'll have even presence?...
They had a chance at having a netbook so good that nobody would come even close - if only it had X-series-like formfactor (clit!) with option for sensibly shaped, beefy battery. Hell, I'd pay two times the typical asking price for netbook.
Instead...we have just another, uninspiring, ordinary netbook from them - the S10.
And I'm starting to see people working on netbooks with mouse attached (and carried all the time) just so they can be useable; it was a bit funny when most people with 15" laptops carried a mouse with them all the time, now it's simply sad and pathetic. Lenovo could be so much better here...
Oh well, I guess we can only thank marketroids at Lenovo for spoiling what could be the best truly portable laptop available...;/ (it's hard to count regular X-series...they're totally overkill hardware spec-wise (so also price-wise) and underperforming battery-wise in comparison with potential of Atom platform...but hey, higher price margins! Higher short term profits!)
OTOH they did bought place infested with people used both to p2p downloading and to new forms of promotion/legit distribution channels, and whose musical taste doesn't reflect current radio charts at all.
One would thought they knew what they were buying...so who knows.
Oh, I just understood "...any time I need to even up my numbers..." as having some playcount target as a goal/etc.
But...it also does show repeatedly played songs in Currently listening...at least for me, and for the past 4 years... (which I actually don't like...I would prefer if it group them)
It does properly count repeated playings of one song at least for 4 years (I often listen to something like that...if some "new" (to me) song grabs me totally)
BTW, you are aware that by artificially inflating playcount/library you're defeating the purpose of Last.fm? Recommendations both for you and on the whole site (if a lot of people would do that) suffer...for some totally unimportant number in your profile.
Which also massively helps already better, IMHO, approach to categorising music (Pandora has manual one where trained monekys describe properties of artist/track, Last.fm takes notice of partially overlapping user libraries/etc.) - whole world is there to build database (plus one doesn't have to actually listen to the radio to build it) Which in turn makes it even better, and...
GERMAN camps... (if you insist on using only the nationality). Or, even better, Nazi German camps/etc. Eventually, with the addition "in Poland" (though a) not all were there b) technically this wasn't Polish territory back then)
Sure, you might know the difference. You might know what you're talking about. But a lot of people reading your post might get really silly ideas.
Problem is even bigger - our only data point shows us the place FEW BILLION YEARS after formation of first life here; which greatly affected the environment (presence of free oxygen, carbon cycle in the atmosphere regulating global climate, and so on...).
Therefore, contrary to what you say in your last sentence, we can't assume at all that what is suitable for the formation of life is close to what we have here...simply because conditions on early Earth, when life formed, were so vastly different (and we're not sure EXACTLY what they were...)
Actually, it's fairly safe to assume that, while current conditions on Earth are a good indication of presence of "old" organic life, they might actually hinder birth of new life (excluding memes taking over genes to such a degree that life becomes "technological")
Don't you think that one of the reasons for "weirdness" of old folks is not old age per se, but rather bitterness and frustration that comes with realisation that their end is becoming quite an immediate issue?
Together with lots of young folks around enjoying their life this might lead to fixating oneself on memories of youth, perhaps also convincing oneself that the life was better when she/he were young (so it's easier to disregard "youth festival" around). For that it's only natural to clinge to outdated social concepts...
In other words (and relating to last sentence of your post) - weirdness comes from accepting death, from not clinging to life. From not having the technological means to do that. Yet (and unfortunatelly...it might be a long time...)
If they couldn't do that, they would hardly be classified as people/intelligent beeings (anyway, whatever image of the "outside world" they have thanks to brief encounters with technological societies, it's most likely incorrect)
However that's not the point - what's important is that they have been mostly left alone by "international community"...which actually tries to protect them from outside influence (yes, that's a fairly recent development...). For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
And there are people on this planet who "waste" their time studying...ants. Often they travel great distances to do that/take significant chunk out of their life...
Also, international community somehow had agreed to not interfare with several groups of indiginous people living at the level of stone age, and it works well (though sometimes fringe fishermans or chopper sent to asses loss of life after natural distaster is spotted by them...I guess we're their own UFOs)
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I lament that they were never popular anywhere in Europe (or rather - IBM PCs were so much rarer here back then) and their weight, probably, means that every time I almost convinced myself to get one shipping costs stopped me ;/
It's a case of "supply and demand" and...no competition. None true competition at all.
Because when you do get it (like it happened in PL few years back) prices start to fall quite rapidly. At this point honestly I don't even care anymore how much I pay for a sms, it's something around $2 per month (in prepaid on top of that) unlimited (for all intents and purposes) texting. I even seem to remember that one of the biggest virtual prepaid operators made them totally free, no conditions at all, when sent to any number in its parent "physical" operator...but you don't care anymore at some point.
Helps also that I don't have to recharge account at all to keep it alive and can set up, for a small fee, two free numbers (any network), one for a month, one (both at the same time) for 24h.
But it wasn't always that good - when we had a virtual "tetrapoly" (hope that's a word...). I'm even hopefull that prepaid prices of data transfers will rapidly fall soon, that's the only thing left...
Uhm, that was my point. They DO have great chipset for the Atom - and it's great "mostly thanks to low power usage" (because surely it's capable enough, even with 1gb ram limit, imho)
However Intel keeps it for high-margin MIDs, leaving netbooks with the fate of "old, craptastic, power-hungry chipset"
The way I see it, it's great mostly thanks to low power usage.
But...Intel just had to showel old, craptastic, power-hungry chipset with Atoms used in netbooks...
X-series had its place in a world without netbooks.
But now...it's extremelly hard to justify spending the asking price (especially since in my part of the woods it costs not 3x netbook price, but 4x; and that's X-61, X-200 isn't even available yet), when the only real distinguishing feature for me is Trackpoint and a bit better (in comparison to some great netbooks) keyboard (I don't even want a tablet)
Especially since it seems to be deliberate move not to cannibalise "proper" X-series sales.
Oh well...I guess I have no choice but to find some used X-4x...
Yes, it does sound like that a bit ;P
And I can still stand by what I've said - you're defeating the purpose of Last.fm in gambling the stats like that; it's not "what my Last.fm library should look like", but "what I listen to". The idea is to reflect also how your musical habits change over time (which DOES influence recommendations/etc.). And if a band releases a single earlier...well, it seems like the purpose in that is actually popularising this particular song, isn't it? What's next? Inflating numbers of new albums/supressing the old ones so they'll have even presence?...
They had a chance at having a netbook so good that nobody would come even close - if only it had X-series-like formfactor (clit!) with option for sensibly shaped, beefy battery. Hell, I'd pay two times the typical asking price for netbook.
Instead...we have just another, uninspiring, ordinary netbook from them - the S10.
And I'm starting to see people working on netbooks with mouse attached (and carried all the time) just so they can be useable; it was a bit funny when most people with 15" laptops carried a mouse with them all the time, now it's simply sad and pathetic. Lenovo could be so much better here...
Oh well, I guess we can only thank marketroids at Lenovo for spoiling what could be the best truly portable laptop available... ;/ (it's hard to count regular X-series...they're totally overkill hardware spec-wise (so also price-wise) and underperforming battery-wise in comparison with potential of Atom platform...but hey, higher price margins! Higher short term profits!)
OTOH they did bought place infested with people used both to p2p downloading and to new forms of promotion/legit distribution channels, and whose musical taste doesn't reflect current radio charts at all.
One would thought they knew what they were buying...so who knows.
Oh, I just understood "...any time I need to even up my numbers..." as having some playcount target as a goal/etc.
But...it also does show repeatedly played songs in Currently listening...at least for me, and for the past 4 years... (which I actually don't like...I would prefer if it group them)
I, for one, would gladly exchange my 5-year old familiarity with Last.fm/audioscrobbler for your mars base.
It does properly count repeated playings of one song at least for 4 years (I often listen to something like that...if some "new" (to me) song grabs me totally)
BTW, you are aware that by artificially inflating playcount/library you're defeating the purpose of Last.fm? Recommendations both for you and on the whole site (if a lot of people would do that) suffer...for some totally unimportant number in your profile.
Which also massively helps already better, IMHO, approach to categorising music (Pandora has manual one where trained monekys describe properties of artist/track, Last.fm takes notice of partially overlapping user libraries/etc.) - whole world is there to build database (plus one doesn't have to actually listen to the radio to build it) Which in turn makes it even better, and...
There IS no more to the brain than hardware.
Now, If you'd ba saying about "computer simulation of the brain" also in your first sentence, then yes, there's more.
What about E-MU? :P (I guess this drivers covers also those cards...or will)
Just like the soviet version...
GERMAN camps... (if you insist on using only the nationality). Or, even better, Nazi German camps/etc. Eventually, with the addition "in Poland" (though a) not all were there b) technically this wasn't Polish territory back then)
Sure, you might know the difference. You might know what you're talking about. But a lot of people reading your post might get really silly ideas.
Problem is even bigger - our only data point shows us the place FEW BILLION YEARS after formation of first life here; which greatly affected the environment (presence of free oxygen, carbon cycle in the atmosphere regulating global climate, and so on...).
Therefore, contrary to what you say in your last sentence, we can't assume at all that what is suitable for the formation of life is close to what we have here...simply because conditions on early Earth, when life formed, were so vastly different (and we're not sure EXACTLY what they were...)
Actually, it's fairly safe to assume that, while current conditions on Earth are a good indication of presence of "old" organic life, they might actually hinder birth of new life (excluding memes taking over genes to such a degree that life becomes "technological")
Don't you think that one of the reasons for "weirdness" of old folks is not old age per se, but rather bitterness and frustration that comes with realisation that their end is becoming quite an immediate issue?
Together with lots of young folks around enjoying their life this might lead to fixating oneself on memories of youth, perhaps also convincing oneself that the life was better when she/he were young (so it's easier to disregard "youth festival" around). For that it's only natural to clinge to outdated social concepts...
In other words (and relating to last sentence of your post) - weirdness comes from accepting death, from not clinging to life. From not having the technological means to do that. Yet (and unfortunatelly...it might be a long time...)
hmmm...building private beowulf cluster inside of some old fridge...
Genius; pure genius...
...everything regarding cellphones? Including, in this case, sometimes annoying side effects?
This is nothing new...especially if, on any other phone, you have also kept semi-constant GPRS connection.
PS. Rearranging speaker cables/etc. eliminates the problem anyway...
Sometimes I wonder...how did people manage to get any work done on "current - 1" version of Excel ;) (obviously with less features)
The Bolsheviks/Soviets. For a time.
And they in turn were better (for...Germans) than Tzar due to lack of will to continue Russian involvement in WW1.
THIS IS PERSIAAAAAA!!! (?) (sounds better at least :p ...only only slightly incorrect ;) )
If they couldn't do that, they would hardly be classified as people/intelligent beeings (anyway, whatever image of the "outside world" they have thanks to brief encounters with technological societies, it's most likely incorrect)
However that's not the point - what's important is that they have been mostly left alone by "international community"...which actually tries to protect them from outside influence (yes, that's a fairly recent development...). For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
And there are people on this planet who "waste" their time studying...ants. Often they travel great distances to do that/take significant chunk out of their life...
Also, international community somehow had agreed to not interfare with several groups of indiginous people living at the level of stone age, and it works well (though sometimes fringe fishermans or chopper sent to asses loss of life after natural distaster is spotted by them...I guess we're their own UFOs)
Imagine that...