The government likes this war on terrorism so they will keep it going so they can do in the name of anti-terrorism whatever they like to do. Its like the neverending war from orwell's 1984.
i saw it yesterday and was really dissapointed. next time please try less military parade and more of a storyline. it could be sooo good and they just fcked it up. what a pitty:(
>Memories must be preserved some how. DRM laden technology will prevent it.
Actually, DRM will only destroy unwanted knowledge. Its like information with expiry date. Authorities will make sure that just the most popular and wanted knowledge will get replicated.
It is certainly a nice product this mac mini. However I think there are some better alternatives for many people. For example I am looking for the next Intel Pine Trail platform (due out in January) which will give me enough CPU power (OK, its not great but enough for web server/filesharing and other basic stuff) with even much less energy consumption. I will buy some nice case, put there 2.5" hdd (or SDD to keep things even more cool&quiet&fast+maybe some 2.5"/3.5" for occasionally read data), some memory, maybe some quality network card is an option (if the pine trail mobo will not include some intel low-cpu-utilisation network card). Install my favourite linux distribution (OSX is nice but I don't see a need for it on a small server) and I am done. This will be fanless and with SSD it will be completely silent.
No I do not - but you can provide some links with reasonable data to convince me:)
However, there are several problems with ramping up capacity in the states.
Where would you get all the money to build the factories? More debt? That is not really a brilliant idea right now because there have been already too much money printed.
And forget about semiconductor producing factories and all the high tech stuff. Its expensive and takes a while to build.
Where would you get all the workers for example for jeans factories? I highly doubt that US workers could produce jeans for 4$ like they do in china. Thus such product prices would be unbearable. There would be labor shortages as well and salaries will rise. So there is no chance to make jeans for 10$ either.
I really can't imagine where would you get all the raw materials for building the factories. There would be huge shortages, prices of commodities will skyrocket.
And after all China would be mad and could start selling dollars so that the states would be bankrupt shortly after.
All in all I don't see a point in building additional factories in a recession like environment. Its a nice dream but it is not 1940ies anymore and also the economy is far more global then it was in those days.
of course....and touchscreen phones will never catch on
what troll would suggest using touchscreen on desktops anyway?
it is supposed to be used on tablets. like notebooks with touchscreen capabilities so you can read books and magazines comfortably. or use tablets as remote controls for media centers. Its more intuitive to use tablet then some remote control with too many buttons.
they develop a model and use it with great results (=earn money) until the next cycle begins and they have to re-evaluate their model and change it so it works for another cycle.
i would say move on to the next article but this slashdot discussion and especially this rare topic on slashdot is very interesting. thanks to all for responses:)
oh really?
so you're the guy who can develop mines, factories and can hire and train all the people that would create all of the required industries that could support huge USA import needs in a year?
well, you should run for a president! (courage and big mouth is sometimes all you need!:)
china was building this for years. and they have the cheap and abundant labour USA doesn't. Good luck finding people who would work 12 hours a day for couple of dollars.
I think that Man is not stuck on earth forever. There are still huge reserves of metals and other rare elements which we will need to have when moving to other planets but maybe its better to wait until technology gets better and more efficient.
Next decades will be focused on resources more than ever. This will of course cause drop in standard of living as you have written. Stuff won't be as cheap. There won't be today's cheap (and abused) labour from china because china is done with focusing on exports and will start to develop itself with all the dollars it accumulated (and is now buying loads of commodities with them).
who would launch such thing? almost bankrupt USA certainly not. It would take many years and shitloads of money to build some infrastructure for getting those rare minerals from space. And worst would be that after all minerals would be way overpriced to be used by anyone.
lol, you have no idea how does the world function these days. so you propose USA should stop importing stuff from china (e.g. stop exporting dollars as you said). ehm okey... and where would you get all your clothes from? electronics? etc... you cannot build all the missing factories in a day or a year.
things are not as simple as you might think they are
I use mozilla browsers for years now. FF 3.5 crashes just occasionally, I can survive with this. However I can't survive with occasional lag like 3 seconds till I can scroll down, or wait a minute to get all my tabs opened so I can start browsing. Therefore I conclude FF is crap.
I like chrome - but bring some extensions to it!
Please please please. Let it be done as soon as possible. Ffox is really very unresponsive piece of software. It wastes my time and makes me angry. I use lots of tabs and it is unbearable - for example trying to load 50 tabs at startup is a pain. I don't care about memory, memory is cheap - but I can't buy 10Ghz processor to run my browser.
Please go the Chrome way and do the multi-processing ASAP - forget the UI, it's absolutely unimportant.
the thing is you can play crysis on 99$ card if you lower details just a bit and have use i think decent resolution of 1280x1024. For full details on 1080p resolution you would need something like 200$. So why would anybody buy 500$ card except for some 3d designer for fast rendering? That was the question this story is about. games are currently lagging behind ultrahighend hardware.
when joe sixpack starts investing and the bubble just starts to grow, there is still a good oportunity in investing but you have to be there early. nothing wrong with growing bubbles until they peak - and i don't see signs of gold peaking yet. china is buying big time and other countries as well.
i don't have a problem with gold's price being set by demand/supply based on investors needs without actual usage as an industrial metal. you can buy silver if you like the industrial part of precious metals.
and back to the gold is money argument. i said that because i was talking about deflation. in that kind of environment money is the king and therefore if gold is money then gold is king too. its just as simple as that. and believe me, you can always trade gold - just look at the history.
i dont think it would be more logical to invest in oil. i am not sure about oil's fundamentals anymore. there is a huge push for solar and other power sources. its also a political thing. considering technical analysis, oil is in a strong downtrend and catching falling knives is considered dangerous. oil was a big big bubble and it crashed badly, the recovery might take a long while. on the other hand gold is in a bull run (just look at the chart). but ok, some contrarian perspective is always good and oil could bounce - but nobody can be sure at this time.
this is so weird. talking gold investing on slashdot? i like gold but this mainstream attention is driving me crazy - there is a bubble in every market and i can't figure out how much time in this gold bull run we have. i guess its still not considered normal for people to hold gold as an investment like it is with the stock market (or was).
concerning inflation - i am not so sure about predicting the outcome. much wealth was wiped out and printing some trillions might not be enough to cause enough inflation. however, in the case of deflation which is happening now (and gold is doing fine) i wouldn't worry about gold either becouse gold is actually money.
is it or will it be possible to use this controller (or some clone - are there any?) on PCs or other consoles?
it might take time for games to start supporting this..
can i emulate wii on pc and use this controller?
This is the distant future but we are living in the present. Its a great idea and cloud services will run games, media stuff or anything else in the future for sure. games are the hardest nuts to crack - we don't have sufficient hardware and most importantly network capabilities to be able to offer this service with quality comparable to any game console. the main point would be the lag I would say plus bandwidth will be too much. The other factor is that this economy needs to profit from hardware - its not the right time for this.
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now just take a beowulf cluster of these and ... what would you do?
The government likes this war on terrorism so they will keep it going so they can do in the name of anti-terrorism whatever they like to do. Its like the neverending war from orwell's 1984.
i saw it yesterday and was really dissapointed. next time please try less military parade and more of a storyline. it could be sooo good and they just fcked it up. what a pitty :(
it takes many years to build a mine...
>Memories must be preserved some how. DRM laden technology will prevent it. Actually, DRM will only destroy unwanted knowledge. Its like information with expiry date. Authorities will make sure that just the most popular and wanted knowledge will get replicated.
you won't hear it but the actual data is probably a little corrupted
It is certainly a nice product this mac mini. However I think there are some better alternatives for many people. For example I am looking for the next Intel Pine Trail platform (due out in January) which will give me enough CPU power (OK, its not great but enough for web server/filesharing and other basic stuff) with even much less energy consumption. I will buy some nice case, put there 2.5" hdd (or SDD to keep things even more cool&quiet&fast+maybe some 2.5"/3.5" for occasionally read data), some memory, maybe some quality network card is an option (if the pine trail mobo will not include some intel low-cpu-utilisation network card). Install my favourite linux distribution (OSX is nice but I don't see a need for it on a small server) and I am done. This will be fanless and with SSD it will be completely silent.
No I do not - but you can provide some links with reasonable data to convince me :)
However, there are several problems with ramping up capacity in the states.
Where would you get all the money to build the factories? More debt? That is not really a brilliant idea right now because there have been already too much money printed.
And forget about semiconductor producing factories and all the high tech stuff. Its expensive and takes a while to build.
Where would you get all the workers for example for jeans factories? I highly doubt that US workers could produce jeans for 4$ like they do in china. Thus such product prices would be unbearable. There would be labor shortages as well and salaries will rise. So there is no chance to make jeans for 10$ either.
I really can't imagine where would you get all the raw materials for building the factories. There would be huge shortages, prices of commodities will skyrocket.
And after all China would be mad and could start selling dollars so that the states would be bankrupt shortly after.
All in all I don't see a point in building additional factories in a recession like environment. Its a nice dream but it is not 1940ies anymore and also the economy is far more global then it was in those days.
of course....and touchscreen phones will never catch on what troll would suggest using touchscreen on desktops anyway? it is supposed to be used on tablets. like notebooks with touchscreen capabilities so you can read books and magazines comfortably. or use tablets as remote controls for media centers. Its more intuitive to use tablet then some remote control with too many buttons.
they develop a model and use it with great results (=earn money) until the next cycle begins and they have to re-evaluate their model and change it so it works for another cycle. i would say move on to the next article but this slashdot discussion and especially this rare topic on slashdot is very interesting. thanks to all for responses :)
oh really? so you're the guy who can develop mines, factories and can hire and train all the people that would create all of the required industries that could support huge USA import needs in a year? well, you should run for a president! (courage and big mouth is sometimes all you need! :)
china was building this for years. and they have the cheap and abundant labour USA doesn't. Good luck finding people who would work 12 hours a day for couple of dollars.
I think that Man is not stuck on earth forever. There are still huge reserves of metals and other rare elements which we will need to have when moving to other planets but maybe its better to wait until technology gets better and more efficient. Next decades will be focused on resources more than ever. This will of course cause drop in standard of living as you have written. Stuff won't be as cheap. There won't be today's cheap (and abused) labour from china because china is done with focusing on exports and will start to develop itself with all the dollars it accumulated (and is now buying loads of commodities with them).
who would launch such thing? almost bankrupt USA certainly not. It would take many years and shitloads of money to build some infrastructure for getting those rare minerals from space. And worst would be that after all minerals would be way overpriced to be used by anyone.
lol, you have no idea how does the world function these days. so you propose USA should stop importing stuff from china (e.g. stop exporting dollars as you said). ehm okey... and where would you get all your clothes from? electronics? etc... you cannot build all the missing factories in a day or a year. things are not as simple as you might think they are
forget performance when you load all the tabs and run all the extensions in one thread.
I use mozilla browsers for years now. FF 3.5 crashes just occasionally, I can survive with this. However I can't survive with occasional lag like 3 seconds till I can scroll down, or wait a minute to get all my tabs opened so I can start browsing. Therefore I conclude FF is crap. I like chrome - but bring some extensions to it!
nice advertisement move you apple fanboy-thieves :)
Please please please. Let it be done as soon as possible. Ffox is really very unresponsive piece of software. It wastes my time and makes me angry. I use lots of tabs and it is unbearable - for example trying to load 50 tabs at startup is a pain. I don't care about memory, memory is cheap - but I can't buy 10Ghz processor to run my browser. Please go the Chrome way and do the multi-processing ASAP - forget the UI, it's absolutely unimportant.
You can see those zombie ants in Planet Earth documentary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(TV_series)#8._.22Jungles.22
the thing is you can play crysis on 99$ card if you lower details just a bit and have use i think decent resolution of 1280x1024. For full details on 1080p resolution you would need something like 200$. So why would anybody buy 500$ card except for some 3d designer for fast rendering? That was the question this story is about. games are currently lagging behind ultrahighend hardware.
when joe sixpack starts investing and the bubble just starts to grow, there is still a good oportunity in investing but you have to be there early. nothing wrong with growing bubbles until they peak - and i don't see signs of gold peaking yet. china is buying big time and other countries as well. i don't have a problem with gold's price being set by demand/supply based on investors needs without actual usage as an industrial metal. you can buy silver if you like the industrial part of precious metals. and back to the gold is money argument. i said that because i was talking about deflation. in that kind of environment money is the king and therefore if gold is money then gold is king too. its just as simple as that. and believe me, you can always trade gold - just look at the history. i dont think it would be more logical to invest in oil. i am not sure about oil's fundamentals anymore. there is a huge push for solar and other power sources. its also a political thing. considering technical analysis, oil is in a strong downtrend and catching falling knives is considered dangerous. oil was a big big bubble and it crashed badly, the recovery might take a long while. on the other hand gold is in a bull run (just look at the chart). but ok, some contrarian perspective is always good and oil could bounce - but nobody can be sure at this time.
this is so weird. talking gold investing on slashdot? i like gold but this mainstream attention is driving me crazy - there is a bubble in every market and i can't figure out how much time in this gold bull run we have. i guess its still not considered normal for people to hold gold as an investment like it is with the stock market (or was). concerning inflation - i am not so sure about predicting the outcome. much wealth was wiped out and printing some trillions might not be enough to cause enough inflation. however, in the case of deflation which is happening now (and gold is doing fine) i wouldn't worry about gold either becouse gold is actually money.
is it or will it be possible to use this controller (or some clone - are there any?) on PCs or other consoles? it might take time for games to start supporting this.. can i emulate wii on pc and use this controller?
based on the comments posted here it could be suggested that there is some link between geekiness and obesity :)
This is the distant future but we are living in the present. Its a great idea and cloud services will run games, media stuff or anything else in the future for sure. games are the hardest nuts to crack - we don't have sufficient hardware and most importantly network capabilities to be able to offer this service with quality comparable to any game console. the main point would be the lag I would say plus bandwidth will be too much. The other factor is that this economy needs to profit from hardware - its not the right time for this.