That and lack of flash support, love it or hate it, a lot of sites have yet to upgrade to html5 for video, so we are stuck with flash. Unless Apple has struck a deal with Adobe to allow flash on the tablet, there are going to be a lot of web sites that aren't accessible from the tablet.
but if the rumors of it running the iPhone OS are true, I will pass. Not being able to easily load whatever software I want on to the thing is a big turnoff. Not to mention the class of programs that can run on the iPhone OS are pretty limited(I doubt Apple will release XCode for the tablet....)
I've been out of the PC building loop for years since I moved to a mac, and while I still plan to keep a mac laptop, I am studying scientific computing in grad school starting in April and was looking to buy a beefy linux machine. These CPUs look really interesting, but I was hoping not to have to buy a tower to house it in. Do these things run alright in a mini-case? Any suggestions on a good small case to house one of these in?
Not to mention that if you leave two robots alone together they will do nothing but bang each other all day long, no useful science can come out of that, not to mention they will have no way to feed those little robolings on Mars.
The reason they made bad loans is because the government "encouraged" them to make loans that helped create employment, regardless of whether or not the loans could ever be realistically paid back. The EXACT same thing is happening right now in China. They are so desperate to create employment that they do pretty much the same thing, strong-arm the banks into giving loans for businesses who will probably never be able to pay them back. It's working right now because the economy keeps on growing, but that will not go on forever, no matter how much China wants to fabricate the data to say that it will.
As per Japan's public sector, while nominally it wasn't there, the Japanese government had huge influence on how the economy developed, much as China does. While nominally their governments are different, in actuality the differences are pretty slim.
The doomsday predictions have already come true in large measure. American manufacturing is devastated, leaving millions of Americans out of the job at this moment. There is a new underclass of working poor and outright unemployed in the US due mainly to Chinese competition. Not prediction, but fact.
True, but only because China is keeping its currency weak. As we saw with Japan, you cannot keep a currency weak forever, if you are participating in massive amounts of trade, forces both inside and out are going to cause the currency to appreciate significantly and China will be forced to make a painful and abrupt transition away from an export driven economy, and along with that will have a banking crisis that will make the one in the US right now look like childs play. China has been following Japan's formula to the T, right down to the bad loans. Right now in China you can get a loan for anything that creates jobs, regardless of whether or not you will ever be able to pay that loan back. China makes announcements saying they are tightening down lending, but the political pressures are too much to do anything meaningful.
All nations have to deal with aging demographics. The population pyramid scheme can't continue forever, it simply gets too crowded. China is dealing with it; Americans still seem confused by it and think maybe the solution is massive immigration, or that it's just something wrong with how Social Security is managed.
Actually there are a lot of countries that are getting younger, Latin America, India, and most of the middle east for example. And China is not dealing with it, they are basically just sitting back and hoping that 8% growth continues on forever, which it will not. China has yet to announce any sort of social security program, which to me indicates that the governments finances are a mess. Of course nobody can scrutinize those finances, so we really do have no idea how China will deal with the aging problem. Right now a lot of Chinese couples retirement plan is to have their kid support them, which gives them even more impetus to have male and not female babies, skewing the lopsided sex ratio even farther.
China will not be the dominant economic power in the world in the coming century, my money is on India. Their democracy is far from perfect, but its infinitely better than what China has.
No I didn't, Japan didn't stop growing because it ran out of people(though that certainly is a risk in the future), it stopped growing because it's economic model, the EXACT same model China is using, works really well you are playing catch-up, but tends to fall apart really quickly once you are about equal with your competitors. China is heading for a crash much like Japan in the near future. Also, although China's population is 10x that of Japan, they are actually facing a very similar demographic challenge, the average age of the Chinese is increasing and the one-child per family policy is going to come back to bite them in the ass eventually when there are more retirees than there are workers.
In addition, China is facing a demographic challenge that the Japanese are not facing, namely a shortage of women. By 2020 there will be massive social unrest in China as thousands of men who cannot find brides start becoming really aggressive. What I find hilarious about the situation is the fact that China actively discourages homosexuality. Hell, if I were running a country where there were on average 120 males to every 100 females, I would be out there promoting homosexuality like crazy, if more men were gay then they wouldn't riot about not being able to find a woman:P
and you could find this exact same article, just substitute China for Japan. And yet 25 years later very few Japanese have won nobel prizes, Japan is a leader in a few select fields, but is a far cry from what people were saying it would be by now. This despite spending massive amounts of money on R&D and whatnot. Time will tell if this holds true for China as well, but I think it's important not to extrapolate too much on a very limited data set.
The big difference between walking and talking to someone beside you is that:
They are in the same environment you are, and if need be, can stop you from doing something stupid.
Since they are in the same environment as you they tend to lull the conversation when you are at a physical location(eg an intersection) where you need to concentrate on not dying.
Your partner on the cell phone may very well be sitting in their house eating nachos and may start to engage you in a very involving conversation right as you pull up to the intersection, thus your concentration may not be where it needs to be.
Those seem like good odds on paper till you realize that the army has access to massive amounts of weaponry that can nullify any numerical disadvantage they may have pretty damn quickly. Packs of knife wielding peasants really don't hold up very well against modern bombers.
How come when I type "backdoor entry" into google, I don't get any sites related to this attack, just massive amounts of material on anal sex. It's a cover up I tell you!
They aren't missing a lot. They have outsourced the entire thing to India and on the rare occasion I did have a question the "support" I got was totally worthless. It was apparent that they didn't even understand the most basic of commands. I opened about 4 tickets and solved all of them on my own. After that I didn't even bother with it. Not worth a damn dime.
No I played the North American version, the difficulty of the game was pretty random. If you got unlucky even a fully leveled up group can go down to a group of 9 undead as you get to just sit there and watch as your 500+ hp fighters go down. But yeah, I do wish they would update the original so that the racial traits of the weapons would actually work. That would make leveling up vs. giants in the earth fiends lair infinitely easier.
The remakes are also MUCH easier than the original. Some of them even go so far as to get rid of the x # of magic points per level and go with the now-standard "each spell costs x mp" system. Some also modify combat so that if you assign your character to attack an enemy that is now dead they will attack another enemy instead of just attacking the air. They also toned down the difficulty level in general, I played a few of the remakes and I don't think I can recall getting a game over once. For starters, 9 ghouls/ghasts/whatevers can no longer take down a healthy party if they surprise you, they seemed to have lowered the probability of getting paralyzed significantly.... I beat the original once and have never even attempted to do so again, even beating it once was just plain luck(managed to have a thief run away from the zombie dragon with 10 hp, Chaos never cast cure4 etc)... you have to be pretty hardcore to replay it without save states or game genie.
Thats usually a very good indication that the site uses Windows to store your information and thus should be avoided. Windows is the only major OS that is still so primitive that it still has trouble handling special characters, real operating systems moved beyond that years ago.
Wow, I didn't resort to childish insults, but you alas you lack such maturity. Why would the hijackers make up something like that? For giggles? Why would they crash the plane before reaching their target? For kicks? By your standard of "proof" we cannot prove anything because there were not witnesses. There aren't witnesses to a lot of plane crashes and yet we can figure out what happened. Ditto for murders.
By the way, you oh so conveniently switched your argument from the passengers as a group(and no evidence they staged a revolt other than a vague phone call), and I quote:
United Airlines Flight 93: We have o objective proof of any kind that the passengers staged any kind of revolt, save a vague phone call.
to an argument that says we cannot prove which passengers staged the revolt. Bravo! Bravo! You win the slashdot argument award, ie prove I'm right no matter how much I have to change my definition of right.
Could you please at least consult wikipedia before saying stuff like this? Directly from the wiki:
Another hijacker responded, "No. Not yet. When they all come, we finish it off."
The hijackers were in fact aware that the passengers were revolting and trying to get into the cockpit. Read the damned article if you don't believe me.
Actually we do have evidence that the passengers of flight 93 tried to break into the cockpit, namely the flight recorders record the hijackers discussing the revolt.
Part of the problem is that there is essentially no punishment(in most cases lots of rewards) for doing so. The Chinese government will make sure you are well taken care of if you help a Chinese company(and lets face it, though nominally capitalist the state essentially still "owns" all enterprises in China, you cannot get rich there if the state doesn't want you to be rich). Until significant sanctions are levied against China for this kind of stunt they will continue only to get more brazen with their violations of international law and trade agreements.
Finally the proof I have been waiting for, Llamas really are EVIL! Sure they may look cute standing there chewing cud, but the FBI is on to their secret plot to hijack airliners and crash them into alpaca farms.
Keep up the good work boys!
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That and lack of flash support, love it or hate it, a lot of sites have yet to upgrade to html5 for video, so we are stuck with flash. Unless Apple has struck a deal with Adobe to allow flash on the tablet, there are going to be a lot of web sites that aren't accessible from the tablet.
but if the rumors of it running the iPhone OS are true, I will pass. Not being able to easily load whatever software I want on to the thing is a big turnoff. Not to mention the class of programs that can run on the iPhone OS are pretty limited(I doubt Apple will release XCode for the tablet....)
I've been out of the PC building loop for years since I moved to a mac, and while I still plan to keep a mac laptop, I am studying scientific computing in grad school starting in April and was looking to buy a beefy linux machine. These CPUs look really interesting, but I was hoping not to have to buy a tower to house it in. Do these things run alright in a mini-case? Any suggestions on a good small case to house one of these in?
Not to mention that if you leave two robots alone together they will do nothing but bang each other all day long, no useful science can come out of that, not to mention they will have no way to feed those little robolings on Mars.
The reason they made bad loans is because the government "encouraged" them to make loans that helped create employment, regardless of whether or not the loans could ever be realistically paid back. The EXACT same thing is happening right now in China. They are so desperate to create employment that they do pretty much the same thing, strong-arm the banks into giving loans for businesses who will probably never be able to pay them back. It's working right now because the economy keeps on growing, but that will not go on forever, no matter how much China wants to fabricate the data to say that it will.
As per Japan's public sector, while nominally it wasn't there, the Japanese government had huge influence on how the economy developed, much as China does. While nominally their governments are different, in actuality the differences are pretty slim.
The doomsday predictions have already come true in large measure. American manufacturing is devastated, leaving millions of Americans out of the job at this moment. There is a new underclass of working poor and outright unemployed in the US due mainly to Chinese competition. Not prediction, but fact.
True, but only because China is keeping its currency weak. As we saw with Japan, you cannot keep a currency weak forever, if you are participating in massive amounts of trade, forces both inside and out are going to cause the currency to appreciate significantly and China will be forced to make a painful and abrupt transition away from an export driven economy, and along with that will have a banking crisis that will make the one in the US right now look like childs play. China has been following Japan's formula to the T, right down to the bad loans. Right now in China you can get a loan for anything that creates jobs, regardless of whether or not you will ever be able to pay that loan back. China makes announcements saying they are tightening down lending, but the political pressures are too much to do anything meaningful.
All nations have to deal with aging demographics. The population pyramid scheme can't continue forever, it simply gets too crowded. China is dealing with it; Americans still seem confused by it and think maybe the solution is massive immigration, or that it's just something wrong with how Social Security is managed.
Actually there are a lot of countries that are getting younger, Latin America, India, and most of the middle east for example. And China is not dealing with it, they are basically just sitting back and hoping that 8% growth continues on forever, which it will not. China has yet to announce any sort of social security program, which to me indicates that the governments finances are a mess. Of course nobody can scrutinize those finances, so we really do have no idea how China will deal with the aging problem. Right now a lot of Chinese couples retirement plan is to have their kid support them, which gives them even more impetus to have male and not female babies, skewing the lopsided sex ratio even farther.
China will not be the dominant economic power in the world in the coming century, my money is on India. Their democracy is far from perfect, but its infinitely better than what China has.
I think you forgot that China is 10 Japans
:P
No I didn't, Japan didn't stop growing because it ran out of people(though that certainly is a risk in the future), it stopped growing because it's economic model, the EXACT same model China is using, works really well you are playing catch-up, but tends to fall apart really quickly once you are about equal with your competitors. China is heading for a crash much like Japan in the near future. Also, although China's population is 10x that of Japan, they are actually facing a very similar demographic challenge, the average age of the Chinese is increasing and the one-child per family policy is going to come back to bite them in the ass eventually when there are more retirees than there are workers.
In addition, China is facing a demographic challenge that the Japanese are not facing, namely a shortage of women. By 2020 there will be massive social unrest in China as thousands of men who cannot find brides start becoming really aggressive. What I find hilarious about the situation is the fact that China actively discourages homosexuality. Hell, if I were running a country where there were on average 120 males to every 100 females, I would be out there promoting homosexuality like crazy, if more men were gay then they wouldn't riot about not being able to find a woman
and you could find this exact same article, just substitute China for Japan. And yet 25 years later very few Japanese have won nobel prizes, Japan is a leader in a few select fields, but is a far cry from what people were saying it would be by now. This despite spending massive amounts of money on R&D and whatnot. Time will tell if this holds true for China as well, but I think it's important not to extrapolate too much on a very limited data set.
Unless you're a girl? Then you're all good.
I have been on a greyhound bus, I would put a couple of more caveats on that one....
The big difference between walking and talking to someone beside you is that:
They are in the same environment you are, and if need be, can stop you from doing something stupid.
Since they are in the same environment as you they tend to lull the conversation when you are at a physical location(eg an intersection) where you need to concentrate on not dying.
Your partner on the cell phone may very well be sitting in their house eating nachos and may start to engage you in a very involving conversation right as you pull up to the intersection, thus your concentration may not be where it needs to be.
Those seem like good odds on paper till you realize that the army has access to massive amounts of weaponry that can nullify any numerical disadvantage they may have pretty damn quickly. Packs of knife wielding peasants really don't hold up very well against modern bombers.
How come when I type "backdoor entry" into google, I don't get any sites related to this attack, just massive amounts of material on anal sex. It's a cover up I tell you!
They aren't missing a lot. They have outsourced the entire thing to India and on the rare occasion I did have a question the "support" I got was totally worthless. It was apparent that they didn't even understand the most basic of commands. I opened about 4 tickets and solved all of them on my own. After that I didn't even bother with it. Not worth a damn dime.
I shudder to think what kind of mess porn in space would leave.... Nothing quite like floating around in day old cosmonaut cum...
But think, it's double the brain damage! First you get hit in the head with booze, then you drink the booze. Talk about efficiency!
But why not just build the fridge into the robot? Or perhaps some sort of beer cannon?
No I played the North American version, the difficulty of the game was pretty random. If you got unlucky even a fully leveled up group can go down to a group of 9 undead as you get to just sit there and watch as your 500+ hp fighters go down. But yeah, I do wish they would update the original so that the racial traits of the weapons would actually work. That would make leveling up vs. giants in the earth fiends lair infinitely easier.
The remakes are also MUCH easier than the original. Some of them even go so far as to get rid of the x # of magic points per level and go with the now-standard "each spell costs x mp" system. Some also modify combat so that if you assign your character to attack an enemy that is now dead they will attack another enemy instead of just attacking the air. They also toned down the difficulty level in general, I played a few of the remakes and I don't think I can recall getting a game over once. For starters, 9 ghouls/ghasts/whatevers can no longer take down a healthy party if they surprise you, they seemed to have lowered the probability of getting paralyzed significantly.... I beat the original once and have never even attempted to do so again, even beating it once was just plain luck(managed to have a thief run away from the zombie dragon with 10 hp, Chaos never cast cure4 etc)... you have to be pretty hardcore to replay it without save states or game genie.
Thats usually a very good indication that the site uses Windows to store your information and thus should be avoided. Windows is the only major OS that is still so primitive that it still has trouble handling special characters, real operating systems moved beyond that years ago.
Being thick = disproving you?
Wow, I didn't resort to childish insults, but you alas you lack such maturity. Why would the hijackers make up something like that? For giggles? Why would they crash the plane before reaching their target? For kicks? By your standard of "proof" we cannot prove anything because there were not witnesses. There aren't witnesses to a lot of plane crashes and yet we can figure out what happened. Ditto for murders.
By the way, you oh so conveniently switched your argument from the passengers as a group(and no evidence they staged a revolt other than a vague phone call), and I quote:
United Airlines Flight 93: We have o objective proof of any kind that the passengers staged any kind of revolt, save a vague phone call.
to an argument that says we cannot prove which passengers staged the revolt. Bravo! Bravo! You win the slashdot argument award, ie prove I'm right no matter how much I have to change my definition of right.
Again, congrats on the name calling!
Could you please at least consult wikipedia before saying stuff like this? Directly from the wiki:
Another hijacker responded, "No. Not yet. When they all come, we finish it off."
The hijackers were in fact aware that the passengers were revolting and trying to get into the cockpit. Read the damned article if you don't believe me.
So yeah, you don't really have a point.
Actually we do have evidence that the passengers of flight 93 tried to break into the cockpit, namely the flight recorders record the hijackers discussing the revolt.
Part of the problem is that there is essentially no punishment(in most cases lots of rewards) for doing so. The Chinese government will make sure you are well taken care of if you help a Chinese company(and lets face it, though nominally capitalist the state essentially still "owns" all enterprises in China, you cannot get rich there if the state doesn't want you to be rich). Until significant sanctions are levied against China for this kind of stunt they will continue only to get more brazen with their violations of international law and trade agreements.
Finally the proof I have been waiting for, Llamas really are EVIL! Sure they may look cute standing there chewing cud, but the FBI is on to their secret plot to hijack airliners and crash them into alpaca farms. Keep up the good work boys!