Also, anything the US can do now to interfere with the Internet, it can do only once.
The next day after such sabotage, the Internet layout will start changing to prevent that happening again, including projects to deploy extra fibers to workaround North America.
I see what you mean, but think about the following:
Article says: Thus, the boiled potato or other similarly treated vegetables could provide an immediate, environmental friendly and inexpensive solution to many of the low power energy needs in areas of the world lacking access to electrical infrastructure.
So that means they have the means to plant and they're well enough to be able to use an edible vegetable for energy.
Plus, they have no problems spending material for producing fire needed for cooking the energy-potatoes. That means they're not in stone-age absolute despair.
Why not producing biofuel and using that to power a generator instead?
Really, government investment will be necessary in any case. Even with such low-tech potato solution it's not cents per village, as even that requires material, training, support... The potato-thing is not _that_ cheap once you take the whole thing into account.
So, instead, I think that more should invested in order to provide a better and longer-term energy solution, which in turn will make the village even more viable economically. With decent energy source, people may eventually have satellite internet (and if you have that, you may have things like remote education etc), they may produce things they were unable before, and the place may develop itself.
The potato-thing cannot provide enough energy for that.
People say a lot about combating poverty, but often we hear solutions that - frankly - merely attack the symptoms providing some short-term half-assed-because-it's-superficially-cheap solution.
But will anyone in the developing countries know or care about this?
The problem is what does mean a "developing country"?
Really, people apply that term from places with reasonable life quality (but considered "developing" for some reason) to places lacking a funcional government and where famine is widespread.
In the not-so "developing countries" people won't care since - unless it's a desolate area - even the poorest houses are connected to the power grid.
The lack or presence of a software in Debian does not mean anything about its quality.
Unfortunately there are are people, among the Debian devel, who are more political assholes than proper developers.
An example of utter garbage present in Debian is pdns (the software itself collapses after running for few hours, even minutes, depending on your load). Yet, each new Debian release contains a new version of that software. -- And that's not the only case.
This looks more an internal power struggle. Why should any other country be involved?
The article says the champaign claims that UAE "a rogue state and gateway for Iran", while it's conveniently forgotten that before 2003 there was already Al-Qaeda money in transit there.
The sheik-whatever seems to be playing the US fears towards Iran too, that's very convenient.
Most worrying, is the fact the presence of "regime change" referring to the attempt of that sheik's return, while expecting support from the US (since he's sympathetic to that country). Sounds familiar?
Nowhere in the article I could see the wishes of UAE's people being considered. But that's a minor detail, it seems.
As for mentioning Engels in the original post as a communist with a vision on ecology, let's not forget the guy inspired the USSR, and see what they've done to nature, the Aral sea, Chernobyl, and other such things
http://unimaps.com/aral-sea/aral-pic.gif
I may be mistaken, but I don't think that Engels has much to do with that.
In the case of Chernobyl accident, it was caused by lax security precautions. I don't think it's directly comparable with overexploitation of natural resources.
But you're right about USSR, there was no care about sustainability. The case of Aral sea is famous, but there are a lot of other impressive examples.
One of those was the overexploitation of forests in what is today's Belarus.
I've been told that the tree cutters had such a "who cares" attitude (communism didn't exactly rewarded efficiency) that they cut the trees about 1m above the soil because it was too much work to cut lower.
Nowadays in Belarus you can see vast plains covered with grass where, few decades ago, were forests.
Sourceforge offers free services for developers and works fine for me. The free support is adequate.
I think that the problem is that Google has a terrible support for their services.
My experience with them is that when things go wrong, you're screwed (unless you pay, it seems).
Also, everyone says "java" skills, j2ee etc but has no idea what, for example, the term "object-relational impedance mismatch" might mean.
For a moment I though you were joking mixing expressions from different fields.
I remember asking the trainees (studying electronic engineering, mind you) for a flux capacitor and things like that in the past.
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Also, anything the US can do now to interfere with the Internet, it can do only once.
The next day after such sabotage, the Internet layout will start changing to prevent that happening again, including projects to deploy extra fibers to workaround North America.
I know. Anyone would think they had invented the internet, or the computer.
Yeah, thanks. I thank the chinese for the gunpowder too.
But that doesn't give you americans the right to behave as if the Internet was yours.
Price: $139.95 :(
I don't have any PCI board which could justify such investiment.
+1 Insightful but most people here don't have the knowledge to know what you're talking about.
Somalia: East Africa, Indian Ocean
Sahara: North Africa, Mediterranean Sea
I see what you mean, but think about the following:
Article says:
Thus, the boiled potato or other similarly treated vegetables could provide an immediate, environmental friendly and inexpensive solution to many of the low power energy needs in areas of the world lacking access to electrical infrastructure.
So that means they have the means to plant and they're well enough to be able to use an edible vegetable for energy.
Plus, they have no problems spending material for producing fire needed for cooking the energy-potatoes. That means they're not in stone-age absolute despair.
Why not producing biofuel and using that to power a generator instead?
Really, government investment will be necessary in any case. Even with such low-tech potato solution it's not cents per village, as even that requires material, training, support... The potato-thing is not _that_ cheap once you take the whole thing into account.
So, instead, I think that more should invested in order to provide a better and longer-term energy solution, which in turn will make the village even more viable economically. With decent energy source, people may eventually have satellite internet (and if you have that, you may have things like remote education etc), they may produce things they were unable before, and the place may develop itself.
The potato-thing cannot provide enough energy for that.
People say a lot about combating poverty, but often we hear solutions that - frankly - merely attack the symptoms providing some short-term half-assed-because-it's-superficially-cheap solution.
Well, if all you value is money... Then I guess you're right.
They import people to be poor, er, I mean to do the work the Saudis don't want to.
Well, not that much different from US, Canada, Europe and some other so-called developed places, right?
But will anyone in the developing countries know or care about this?
The problem is what does mean a "developing country"?
Really, people apply that term from places with reasonable life quality (but considered "developing" for some reason) to places lacking a funcional government and where famine is widespread.
In the not-so "developing countries" people won't care since - unless it's a desolate area - even the poorest houses are connected to the power grid.
3) was not included in the Debain repos, despite there being a willing maintainer, because of poor code quality- see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515130
The lack or presence of a software in Debian does not mean anything about its quality.
Unfortunately there are are people, among the Debian devel, who are more political assholes than proper developers.
An example of utter garbage present in Debian is pdns (the software itself collapses after running for few hours, even minutes, depending on your load). Yet, each new Debian release contains a new version of that software. -- And that's not the only case.
this will make your computer go from a leaf blower to a vacuum cleaner.
There's a Flash version for VAX?!
looks ugly?, just remove it.
I tried, but it asked me to login in my "google account" in order to do that.
This looks more an internal power struggle. Why should any other country be involved?
The article says the champaign claims that UAE "a rogue state and gateway for Iran", while it's conveniently forgotten that before 2003 there was already Al-Qaeda money in transit there.
The sheik-whatever seems to be playing the US fears towards Iran too, that's very convenient.
Most worrying, is the fact the presence of "regime change" referring to the attempt of that sheik's return, while expecting support from the US (since he's sympathetic to that country). Sounds familiar?
Nowhere in the article I could see the wishes of UAE's people being considered. But that's a minor detail, it seems.
Here, a lego plotter for you.
What about this?
Amiga had a tradition of animation and color fonts since the 1980s.
As for mentioning Engels in the original post as a communist with a vision on ecology, let's not forget the guy inspired the USSR, and see what they've done to nature, the Aral sea, Chernobyl, and other such things
http://unimaps.com/aral-sea/aral-pic.gif
I may be mistaken, but I don't think that Engels has much to do with that.
In the case of Chernobyl accident, it was caused by lax security precautions. I don't think it's directly comparable with overexploitation of natural resources.
But you're right about USSR, there was no care about sustainability. The case of Aral sea is famous, but there are a lot of other impressive examples.
One of those was the overexploitation of forests in what is today's Belarus.
I've been told that the tree cutters had such a "who cares" attitude (communism didn't exactly rewarded efficiency) that they cut the trees about 1m above the soil because it was too much work to cut lower.
Nowadays in Belarus you can see vast plains covered with grass where, few decades ago, were forests.
Sourceforge offers free services for developers and works fine for me. The free support is adequate.
I think that the problem is that Google has a terrible support for their services.
My experience with them is that when things go wrong, you're screwed (unless you pay, it seems).
NOOOOOOOOOOOO! "GOTO" is EEEEEEVILLLLLLLLLL!
while (1) { print "FUCK"; }
Busy loop is evil too, DOS lover.
There's a US?!
Si senor, hay Estados Unidos!
but (nearly) all good computer professionals are musicians.
Then I'm doomed. Even my fart is off tune.
Also, everyone says "java" skills, j2ee etc but has no idea what, for example, the term "object-relational impedance mismatch" might mean.
For a moment I though you were joking mixing expressions from different fields.
I remember asking the trainees (studying electronic engineering, mind you) for a flux capacitor and things like that in the past.
This is bad news for one reason. Competition. There are only 2 major players in discreet graphics right now and that is horrible for the consumer.
What about VIA and Matrox?
VP8 uses *more* power to decode, not less.
That's interesting.
Does it use more power because of lack of hardware decoder, or you say that because VP8 is more complex to decode?
He probably meant VGA.
People from Wallonia will disagree.