If this the case, why majority of air lined do not use Russian made aircrafts?
Safety has nothing to do with government. It is as good as safety protocols and rigorousness of safety clearance process. In all cases of space shuttle disasters blame is on government not contractors who made the shuttle.
The NASA management decided that Discovery was safe to launch not engineers. With Columbia it was similar. There was no inherent problem with design of the shuttle that caused disintegration during reentry.
Point is simple.
They want OLPC to run windows so some one can load pirated M$ software: XP, Office etc.
Once it happen they can attack OPLC project as source for piracy spread and demand them to pay fee for potential infringement of their intellectual property.
This should finally allow for Classmate an M$ blessed product to be free of competition and allow spread of M$ software in developing countries.
This is BS.
I saw XP running on Celeron 466MHz with 192MB or ram.
I wasn't fast but it was OK.
I am typing this on 1GHz Pentium III which is plenty for XP
"Not quite what you'd think!, 10/31/2007
By NWAshopper, AR Read all reviews by this reviewer
Value for price paid: 1 out of 5
Meets Expectations: 1 out of 5
Buyers beware! Don't let the low cost of this computer sway your credit card. This computer doesn't have the power to run Windows XP!!! This is a decent buy for the tech smart who are looking for ITX Hardware on the cheap. DO NOT BUY. You will be very dissapointed!"
Last laptop I bought come with recovery CD which is not identical to Windows XP home.
When it crapped losing some system files I was unable to use the CD and run recovery console.
I used Knoppix, and some 10 minutes later after coping files system files from backup on external hard drive and repairing crapped NTFS I was able to run it again.
However it took me some time to even figure out what was wrong with the system, since it will reboot itself and flash error message for 1/10s due to moronic default setting: "restart after error message".
"Also face it; there's no way computers with an OS other than Windows is going to be sold by default, because everyone expects and is familiar with Windows and understands Windows applications."
Check your second line. OS X is not Windows and computers with it are sold as default system. There are called Macs.
Coal appears to be worse than nuclear According to http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html "For comparison, according to NCRP Reports No. 92 and No. 95, population exposure from operation of 1000-MWe nuclear and coal-fired power plants amounts to 490 person-rem/year for coal plants and 4.8 person-rem/year for nuclear plants. Thus, the population effective dose equivalent from coal plants is 100 times that from nuclear plants. For the complete nuclear fuel cycle, from mining to reactor operation to waste disposal, the radiation dose is cited as 136 person-rem/year; the equivalent dose for coal use, from mining to power plant operation to waste disposal, is not listed in this report and is probably unknown."
"All the plastic we've ever made is still with us"
Nope.
Some of them are biodegradable, in addition without UV stabilizers all plastics will eventually degrade to low molecular weight compounds. It just takes much longer than paper.
Have ever seen any plastic product made in '50 exposed to environment?
It is degraded.
"Polycarbonate cannot be used instead of polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, etc."
It depends on a use. For containers, siding it can. Possibly also there are many other uses. Major obstacle is the cost. PE, PP and PVC are high tonnage low cost and typically low performance polymers (excluding UHMWPE).
"The US got rich and powerfull because of just one reason: SLAVES"
Thats not true. US got rich and powerful because of just one reason: Immigrants
Einstein, Fermi, Teller, Bohr, Carnegie, Chaplin and thousands of others who could find land of free and fulfill their dreams.
Apparently government is against legal immigration especially of highly educated people (BS,MS, PhD).
Try to immigrate to US legally.
There is three ways:
1 simple.
Marry US citizen. No problem here as long as you can get to the country and find somebody who want to marry you. If you are married already, well you have a tough luck. Only divorce can help.
Even if you get married you can not work legally for 2 years.
That helps welfare and Social Security a lot.
2. Invest at least 0.5 M$ and hire 6 US citizens, not very easy for every one.
3. Through the family,
as long if you are not from Philippines because you have to wait 15 years or Mexico (13 years)to be able to apply for permanent residence. For other countries something like 5 years, Off course for all that time you have to wait in your country or be in on your family support since there are no worker visas available.
4. Through employment,
not possible since there is no worker visas available and there is about 500 000 people waiting in line for permanent residence with only 100 000 permanent resident cards a year. Wait again 5 years If you add family members to people waiting in line the number will double and waiting time appears like 10 years.
Good luck to all legal immigrants!
Now you know why people immigrate illegally.
And rest of the world.
I am legally in US; I earned PhD here and trying to get permanent residence since 2000. It is not even near yet.
According to the processing dates I have to wait at least 4 more years.
Sometimes I think that is better to be illegal immigrant since everybody appears to care about illegal immigrants.
The people of US are welcoming but government is not and is doing everything to make immigration difficult and painful.
This is not stated correctly. GC needs to be in process for one year or immigration petition must be approved in order to get extensions beyond 6 years.
No, not everybody else but only aliens who do not have an H-1B and due shortage will not be able to get it for a year. If you are a citizen or permanent resident you are qualified.
There is no way you going to be able to buy Conroe next month. Maybe for Xmas, when 25% of intel production is going to be Conroe.
And the reatail price is going to higher due to inavailability.
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If this the case, why majority of air lined do not use Russian made aircrafts? Safety has nothing to do with government. It is as good as safety protocols and rigorousness of safety clearance process. In all cases of space shuttle disasters blame is on government not contractors who made the shuttle. The NASA management decided that Discovery was safe to launch not engineers. With Columbia it was similar. There was no inherent problem with design of the shuttle that caused disintegration during reentry.
Point is simple. They want OLPC to run windows so some one can load pirated M$ software: XP, Office etc. Once it happen they can attack OPLC project as source for piracy spread and demand them to pay fee for potential infringement of their intellectual property. This should finally allow for Classmate an M$ blessed product to be free of competition and allow spread of M$ software in developing countries.
Polish programmer keyboard uses right Alt key rather than shift.
This is BS. I saw XP running on Celeron 466MHz with 192MB or ram. I wasn't fast but it was OK. I am typing this on 1GHz Pentium III which is plenty for XP "Not quite what you'd think!, 10/31/2007 By NWAshopper, AR Read all reviews by this reviewer Value for price paid: 1 out of 5 Meets Expectations: 1 out of 5 Buyers beware! Don't let the low cost of this computer sway your credit card. This computer doesn't have the power to run Windows XP!!! This is a decent buy for the tech smart who are looking for ITX Hardware on the cheap. DO NOT BUY. You will be very dissapointed!"
Poland had highest causalities as percentage of population. Japan is not even in the same league http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:WorldWarII-DeathsByCountry-Barchart.png
Last laptop I bought come with recovery CD which is not identical to Windows XP home. When it crapped losing some system files I was unable to use the CD and run recovery console. I used Knoppix, and some 10 minutes later after coping files system files from backup on external hard drive and repairing crapped NTFS I was able to run it again. However it took me some time to even figure out what was wrong with the system, since it will reboot itself and flash error message for 1/10s due to moronic default setting: "restart after error message".
"Also face it; there's no way computers with an OS other than Windows is going to be sold by default, because everyone expects and is familiar with Windows and understands Windows applications." Check your second line. OS X is not Windows and computers with it are sold as default system. There are called Macs.
I disagree IPod isaudi recording device. In addition, coping is recoding and since data is translated to audio, one can say it is audio recording.
Coal appears to be worse than nuclear
According to http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html
"For comparison, according to NCRP Reports No. 92 and No. 95, population exposure from operation of 1000-MWe nuclear and coal-fired power plants amounts to 490 person-rem/year for coal plants and 4.8 person-rem/year for nuclear plants. Thus, the population effective dose equivalent from coal plants is 100 times that from nuclear plants. For the complete nuclear fuel cycle, from mining to reactor operation to waste disposal, the radiation dose is cited as 136 person-rem/year; the equivalent dose for coal use, from mining to power plant operation to waste disposal, is not listed in this report and is probably unknown."
"All the plastic we've ever made is still with us" Nope. Some of them are biodegradable, in addition without UV stabilizers all plastics will eventually degrade to low molecular weight compounds. It just takes much longer than paper. Have ever seen any plastic product made in '50 exposed to environment? It is degraded.
Cation source could be limited, thus they may end up as HCl of HF
I disagree. PC is used in headlights, bulletproof glass, glasses, light optics etc. Check wiki for more.
"Polycarbonate cannot be used instead of polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, etc." It depends on a use. For containers, siding it can. Possibly also there are many other uses. Major obstacle is the cost. PE, PP and PVC are high tonnage low cost and typically low performance polymers (excluding UHMWPE).
"The US got rich and powerfull because of just one reason: SLAVES" Thats not true. US got rich and powerful because of just one reason: Immigrants Einstein, Fermi, Teller, Bohr, Carnegie, Chaplin and thousands of others who could find land of free and fulfill their dreams.
H1-B's are very reluctant because if they resign or got fired they will have to be on a plane back home next day.
It can not survive high temperature. Service temperature of most of epoxies is 200C.
Apparently government is against legal immigration especially of highly educated people (BS,MS, PhD). Try to immigrate to US legally. There is three ways: 1 simple. Marry US citizen. No problem here as long as you can get to the country and find somebody who want to marry you. If you are married already, well you have a tough luck. Only divorce can help. Even if you get married you can not work legally for 2 years. That helps welfare and Social Security a lot. 2. Invest at least 0.5 M$ and hire 6 US citizens, not very easy for every one. 3. Through the family, as long if you are not from Philippines because you have to wait 15 years or Mexico (13 years)to be able to apply for permanent residence. For other countries something like 5 years, Off course for all that time you have to wait in your country or be in on your family support since there are no worker visas available. 4. Through employment, not possible since there is no worker visas available and there is about 500 000 people waiting in line for permanent residence with only 100 000 permanent resident cards a year. Wait again 5 years If you add family members to people waiting in line the number will double and waiting time appears like 10 years. Good luck to all legal immigrants! Now you know why people immigrate illegally.
You could get x2 3600+ for much less with virtualy the same performance as x2 3800+ here it costs $133 http://www.xpcgear.com/ado3600cubox.html
And rest of the world. I am legally in US; I earned PhD here and trying to get permanent residence since 2000. It is not even near yet. According to the processing dates I have to wait at least 4 more years. Sometimes I think that is better to be illegal immigrant since everybody appears to care about illegal immigrants. The people of US are welcoming but government is not and is doing everything to make immigration difficult and painful.
Actually, there is no grace period. Theoreticaly H1B worker who lost the job should live US immidietaly.
This is not stated correctly. GC needs to be in process for one year or immigration petition must be approved in order to get extensions beyond 6 years.
No, not everybody else but only aliens who do not have an H-1B and due shortage will not be able to get it for a year. If you are a citizen or permanent resident you are qualified.
Due to shortage of H-1B that may be not possible in near future. Try J-1 instead.
Profve it. Show the link which Conroe has lower power requirement that AMD AM2 x2 3800, 35W. As far as I know Conroe TPD is 65W.
There is no way you going to be able to buy Conroe next month. Maybe for Xmas, when 25% of intel production is going to be Conroe. And the reatail price is going to higher due to inavailability.