... I don't know... it will be available in a shop near me in a few weeks. I still have time to think if I am going to buy one, or wait some more until I'll be able to find highdef videos around here. Still, it's a pity that cute bunch of processors is not very useful for text processing since it does not involve much floating point math, otherwise I'd certainly be one proud owner of a PS3.
shouldn't you compare oranges with oranges ? PS3 is... how many times more expensive and more capable than Wii ? The number of sold consoles does not say much... I think it's more interesting to know how much money were spent to buy those consoles... anyway, PS2 still dominates the sales, if I remember well.
wish I had mod points to put "Reasonable +1" on this post.
I also wish there was possible to start a suit against these morons that shout "danger, we're all gonna die" in the crowded room filled with nuclear weapons, standing armies and half-educated idealists with a death-wish called Earth.
... "6 of them waiting to take the job" ? You must have your office be far away from the HR department or way to high;) in the hierarchy to be bothered with details, otherwise you'd know that there are not that much replacements waiting to be hired, and you also would know that replacing somebody that has a passable knowledge of the setup of the shop is a big PITA.
well, there at least are some Fine Manuals to read. Except probably MSOffice, MS does not bother to put much documentation in their install disks unless you pay for a MSDN account... but I might be wrong, haven't used MSWindows much since the time of 98SE
One of the counter-arguments for OLPC was that the entire country needed to be wired so internet could be provided.
... well, the entire country is wired, except maybe the Danube Delta where it's kind of hard to dig cables, and where it's not wired, you can get wireless. I could not find a place where I could not get online, via either coaxial cable (cable TV companies offering internet connection), FTP or wireless (think Zapp, which gives a nice connection coupled with crappy customer service).
The Romanian President knows that the Romanian government is using mostly OpenOffice, and it's servers are mostly on Linux. He also has a history of provoking people to say something stupid. I guess that was deliberate, and aimed at making Gates look like a fool. Kudos to the MS PR people for being aware of this and training him well.
Human Action is destroying us. Don't drink the anti-global-warming koolaid from a couple of discredited scientists.
Well, I see among those that do not buy into AGW some thousands scientists with a couple of drab web pages that they must spend 20$ per month for them and a few journalists. Besides them is the dreaded "industry" that spends hundreds of millions on researching carbon sequestration or capture and storage, the only method that might work without ruining either the environment or the economy.
On the other hand there are multimillion U$D ONGs that can afford to hire expensive PR companies and that have produced nothing since their foundation but poverty, human misery and poor science and stand only to gain from creating panic about anything that would shame their victims into donating. Want to talk about evil "industry" ? Look at the industry specializing in fear.
It sounds like you will agree that there is substantial global warming and that this global warming will cause massive economic disasters, at a minimum, in terms of terrible agricultural failures. But you disagree about the causes.
The only thing that would produce terrible agricultural failures would be further to increase the price of fuel, pesticides and fertilizers. We must find alternatives to oil and coal whether or not we "belive" in AGW, but fueling the panic would only result in witch hunts and half-thought solutions such as sending food to the "poor third world countries" thereby bankrupting their farmers instead of limiting protectionism, or banning completely the use of DDT (including indoor spraying) and permitting only patented and more expensive pesticides.
I bet there will be some "Anonymous Cowards" ready to shame me with arguments. No, "we need to save the fluffy penguins and the cute baby seals" is not an argument. Penguins and seals got a respite because we have oil byproducts to use instead of seal fur and penguin feathers. We can afford to cultivate only a small part of the agricultural land that what was used 70 years ago and thus have a smaller environmental footprint because we use machines, fertilizers and pesticides. We cut less trees because we have this polluting insulated wires to send information across instead of printing it on paper and these pesky paints to lengthen the live of planks and these dangerous plastics to replace most stuff that we would have to collect by going in the pure and beneficent outdoors and starting killing innocent beavers or majestic sequoias.
Want to "save the environment" ? Get studying and be the engineer that will invent the engine that works with tap water or will make hydroponics economically viable. Do you fancy anthropomorphism and fear you might harm Gaia ? Think it this way, Gaia just entered puberty, has acne, started menstruating and feels like s*** most of the time, but in the near future will become an adult able to reproduce and turn some dead pieces of rock outside her orbit into living anthropomorphic personalizations resembling herself. Then imagine for a second that we are the only hope Gaia might have in case some other dead piece of rock will pay a close visit, or in case some other similar event will happen.
Want to see tragedies and catastrophes ? Take the time to investigate how your grand-grandparents (no need to go any further back in time) were living before the use of oil and coal became widespread. You will see exactly what will happen if the panic the Anthropogenic Global Warming prophets and zealots spread gets a hold on us, and we won't have time to find other ways to store and transport energy before what's left of the oil, natural methane and coal get used up.
I suppose dinosaurs died because they were to busy passing the blame on who is guilty for the Yucatan meteorite and did not have time to reproduce.
Remember that in Europe and US the trend towards complete deforestation, and terminal poisoning of rivers and arable land happened only after oil and coal began to be exploited on a large scale.
I meant:
Remember that in Europe and US the trend towards complete deforestation, and terminal poisoning of rivers and arable land was reversed after oil and coal began to be exploited on a large scale.
If industry weren't inherently geared against the environment, they wouldn't have to be so agressive.
Please, explain this to me: is the industry making money out of purposefully damaging the environment? Is somebody paying the industry to damage the environment ? Otherwise, what you wrote does not make sense. What do you mean by aggressive? Aggressive as in repeating that they do not destroy the environment on purpose? that they do not hate Gaia? that they are not in the pay of Captain Pollution?
Please, remember that before coal was exploited, forests were cut everywhere. England got to using coal when was left without exploitable forests. Remember that oil is used in so many products that replacing it with "sustainable" sources of hydrocarbons would mean cultivating every inch of available farmland, and turning every acre of forest into a tree farm. Remember that in Europe and US the trend towards complete deforestation, and terminal poisoning of rivers and arable land happened only after oil and coal began to be exploited on a large scale. We are better off because we use oil and coal.
CO2 emissions seem to be a problem. [ I used the word seem because I an not qualified enough to ascertain if this is true, and while their arguments seem to have value, the AGW activists employed argumentum ad hominem way to often in the past to hold any credibility with me. ] If the AGW witch hunters keep asking for money (and complain loudly not enough is given to them), and propose outlandish schemes such as seeding the ocean with iron or putting sun-shades in space, the energy industry seems to be already investing in research on carbon sequestration.
The human population that can survive in the naive green "sustainable" way most AGW activists support is about 0. What do you propose to do with the excess population?
Let's wait now for the Un-Environmental Activities Committee, lead by Joseph McGore. They might have solutions.
[not a lawyer disclaimer] I have looked over the Geneva conventions, but could not find anything relevant on how civilians caught bearing arms should be treated. According to older laws of the war, they could have been shot on the spot, with a minimum of formalities. The same conventions are also not very clear on what should or can be done with soldiers that surrender then change their minds.
I guess imprisoning insurgents instead of executing them on the field is quite merciful. [/ not a lawyer disclaimer ]
back on topic:
Unless you never raised rabbits, you can still afford to believe that they are cute fluffy things... I wonder what kind of steel they need to use to make the cages for giant rabbits. This might be a scheme to undermine the NK military industry.
well, I can tell you from first hand experience, there was nothing free in Communism.
Want to imagine rather accurately what Communism meant ? Picture yourself Microsoft bought McDonalds, WallMart, GM, and Pepsico, expropriated your neighbourhood in exchange for shares in the company and asks you rent for your own house, then forbid everything else. You have to work for Microsoft, and you have to buy from Microsoft. In theory you are a shareholder, but do not have enough shares to have a vote. You don't get the dividends directly, and they are spent without you being asked on what they should be spent on.
GPL is not Communism, but libertarianism, and, IMHO, RMS is no Commie... only a sentimental Libertarian.
... we can't communicate predictably and effectively with the guys across the pond... it's only in B-rated films that the hero plugs in the big computer, a couple of lights blink and, presto, he talks with the 3-eyed alien.
would you find that owning a customs station is sweet ? Even one with thick walls ? Bran was a customs station, barrack for a small garrison and early-invasion-detection installation (as in : what is on fire up there ?).
I wish I had points to mod this "Anonymous Coward" up.
I don't understand a thing: why would the oil companies be against acknowledging "Anthropogenic Global Warming" ? Oil is used for lots of commodities: oil companies do not make money by pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, but by selling oil or derivatives, and if there will be less demand for fuel, then they will make and sell something else.
About solar activity: while looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar-cycle-dat a.png I could not fail but notice something: it might be in the category of weather not climate, but I remember that where I live, in '84-'86 (fewer sun spots in the chart) small cars were forbidden from driving during the winter because because of high snow and cold, while in '88 and '89 the winter were very mild (I had bought skates and had no natural ice to skate on), the winter of '95-'96 lasted for 6 month, from October to April, while in 2000 I saw 20 degrees Celsius in December in the bloody mountains:( . It fits the chart pretty well.
Anyway, more dangerous than global warming is starting a panic.
If you add up enough un-classified details, you can end up with a "big picture" that would be considered classified information.
back in the '30s there were a couple of UK journalists that compiled an almost complete list of German officers and where were they stationed. They used for sources only the mondene pages. I can't remember exact the details now...
Arrogance is in top 5: "kids are supposed to be able to do it, so me, a PhD in *****, should do better... [5 minutes pass]... hullo, Help Desk ? I just pressed a key and all my work dissapeared. You bastards, you certainly did something to my computer: come here and fix it".
Most users don't like the mouse training, don't want to listen when you show them how the interface works and what to do first when they use unfamiliar software, just expect it to work by magic. CLI or GUI ? It does not matter. What's important is the attitude of the user.
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shouldn't you compare oranges with oranges ? PS3 is ... how many times more expensive and more capable than Wii ? The number of sold consoles does not say much ... I think it's more interesting to know how much money were spent to buy those consoles ... anyway, PS2 still dominates the sales, if I remember well.
wish I had mod points to put "Reasonable +1" on this post.
I also wish there was possible to start a suit against these morons that shout "danger, we're all gonna die" in the crowded room filled with nuclear weapons, standing armies and half-educated idealists with a death-wish called Earth.
They should have used computer models, then hire AlGore.
well, there at least are some Fine Manuals to read. Except probably MSOffice, MS does not bother to put much documentation in their install disks unless you pay for a MSDN account ... but I might be wrong, haven't used MSWindows much since the time of 98SE
do not be so certain. Then, as now, there were lots of women in the army. Not in combat posts, but cooking etc.
I hear that the Romanian Prime Minister asked Bill Gates about OLPC ... the P. and P.M. must have been acting in concert to make fun of Bill Gates.
The Romanian President knows that the Romanian government is using mostly OpenOffice, and it's servers are mostly on Linux. He also has a history of provoking people to say something stupid. I guess that was deliberate, and aimed at making Gates look like a fool. Kudos to the MS PR people for being aware of this and training him well.
so, you are unable to use man, grep, find, ls, ln, cat, less ? You probably are able to pay somebody to do your work, then.
I forgot: baby penguins and baby seals might like it warmer.
Well, I see among those that do not buy into AGW some thousands scientists with a couple of drab web pages that they must spend 20$ per month for them and a few journalists. Besides them is the dreaded "industry" that spends hundreds of millions on researching carbon sequestration or capture and storage, the only method that might work without ruining either the environment or the economy.
On the other hand there are multimillion U$D ONGs that can afford to hire expensive PR companies and that have produced nothing since their foundation but poverty, human misery and poor science and stand only to gain from creating panic about anything that would shame their victims into donating. Want to talk about evil "industry" ? Look at the industry specializing in fear.
The only thing that would produce terrible agricultural failures would be further to increase the price of fuel, pesticides and fertilizers. We must find alternatives to oil and coal whether or not we "belive" in AGW, but fueling the panic would only result in witch hunts and half-thought solutions such as sending food to the "poor third world countries" thereby bankrupting their farmers instead of limiting protectionism, or banning completely the use of DDT (including indoor spraying) and permitting only patented and more expensive pesticides.
I bet there will be some "Anonymous Cowards" ready to shame me with arguments. No, "we need to save the fluffy penguins and the cute baby seals" is not an argument. Penguins and seals got a respite because we have oil byproducts to use instead of seal fur and penguin feathers. We can afford to cultivate only a small part of the agricultural land that what was used 70 years ago and thus have a smaller environmental footprint because we use machines, fertilizers and pesticides. We cut less trees because we have this polluting insulated wires to send information across instead of printing it on paper and these pesky paints to lengthen the live of planks and these dangerous plastics to replace most stuff that we would have to collect by going in the pure and beneficent outdoors and starting killing innocent beavers or majestic sequoias.
Want to "save the environment" ? Get studying and be the engineer that will invent the engine that works with tap water or will make hydroponics economically viable. Do you fancy anthropomorphism and fear you might harm Gaia ? Think it this way, Gaia just entered puberty, has acne, started menstruating and feels like s*** most of the time, but in the near future will become an adult able to reproduce and turn some dead pieces of rock outside her orbit into living anthropomorphic personalizations resembling herself. Then imagine for a second that we are the only hope Gaia might have in case some other dead piece of rock will pay a close visit, or in case some other similar event will happen.
Want to see tragedies and catastrophes ? Take the time to investigate how your grand-grandparents (no need to go any further back in time) were living before the use of oil and coal became widespread. You will see exactly what will happen if the panic the Anthropogenic Global Warming prophets and zealots spread gets a hold on us, and we won't have time to find other ways to store and transport energy before what's left of the oil, natural methane and coal get used up.
I suppose dinosaurs died because they were to busy passing the blame on who is guilty for the Yucatan meteorite and did not have time to reproduce.
Google is already working on the e-book reader: it's the OLPC project.
Please, explain this to me: is the industry making money out of purposefully damaging the environment? Is somebody paying the industry to damage the environment ? Otherwise, what you wrote does not make sense. What do you mean by aggressive? Aggressive as in repeating that they do not destroy the environment on purpose? that they do not hate Gaia? that they are not in the pay of Captain Pollution?
Please, remember that before coal was exploited, forests were cut everywhere. England got to using coal when was left without exploitable forests. Remember that oil is used in so many products that replacing it with "sustainable" sources of hydrocarbons would mean cultivating every inch of available farmland, and turning every acre of forest into a tree farm. Remember that in Europe and US the trend towards complete deforestation, and terminal poisoning of rivers and arable land happened only after oil and coal began to be exploited on a large scale. We are better off because we use oil and coal.
CO2 emissions seem to be a problem. [ I used the word seem because I an not qualified enough to ascertain if this is true, and while their arguments seem to have value, the AGW activists employed argumentum ad hominem way to often in the past to hold any credibility with me. ] If the AGW witch hunters keep asking for money (and complain loudly not enough is given to them), and propose outlandish schemes such as seeding the ocean with iron or putting sun-shades in space, the energy industry seems to be already investing in research on carbon sequestration.
The human population that can survive in the naive green "sustainable" way most AGW activists support is about 0. What do you propose to do with the excess population?
Let's wait now for the Un-Environmental Activities Committee, lead by Joseph McGore. They might have solutions.
[not a lawyer disclaimer] I have looked over the Geneva conventions, but could not find anything relevant on how civilians caught bearing arms should be treated. According to older laws of the war, they could have been shot on the spot, with a minimum of formalities. The same conventions are also not very clear on what should or can be done with soldiers that surrender then change their minds.
... I wonder what kind of steel they need to use to make the cages for giant rabbits. This might be a scheme to undermine the NK military industry.
I guess imprisoning insurgents instead of executing them on the field is quite merciful.
[/ not a lawyer disclaimer ]
back on topic:
Unless you never raised rabbits, you can still afford to believe that they are cute fluffy things
well, I can tell you from first hand experience, there was nothing free in Communism.
... only a sentimental Libertarian.
Want to imagine rather accurately what Communism meant ? Picture yourself Microsoft bought McDonalds, WallMart, GM, and Pepsico, expropriated your neighbourhood in exchange for shares in the company and asks you rent for your own house, then forbid everything else. You have to work for Microsoft, and you have to buy from Microsoft. In theory you are a shareholder, but do not have enough shares to have a vote. You don't get the dividends directly, and they are spent without you being asked on what they should be spent on.
GPL is not Communism, but libertarianism, and, IMHO, RMS is no Commie
would you find that owning a customs station is sweet ? Even one with thick walls ? Bran was a customs station, barrack for a small garrison and early-invasion-detection installation (as in : what is on fire up there ?).
you get wireless, 2.4Mb/sec. when you get lucky, otherwise about 800kb+
I wish I had points to mod this "Anonymous Coward" up.
t a.png I could not fail but notice something: it might be in the category of weather not climate, but I remember that where I live, in '84-'86 (fewer sun spots in the chart) small cars were forbidden from driving during the winter because because of high snow and cold, while in '88 and '89 the winter were very mild (I had bought skates and had no natural ice to skate on), the winter of '95-'96 lasted for 6 month, from October to April, while in 2000 I saw 20 degrees Celsius in December in the bloody mountains :( . It fits the chart pretty well.
I don't understand a thing: why would the oil companies be against acknowledging "Anthropogenic Global Warming" ? Oil is used for lots of commodities: oil companies do not make money by pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, but by selling oil or derivatives, and if there will be less demand for fuel, then they will make and sell something else.
About solar activity: while looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar-cycle-da
Anyway, more dangerous than global warming is starting a panic.
yes, fear of computers is in top 10.
... [5 minutes pass] ... hullo, Help Desk ? I just pressed a key and all my work dissapeared. You bastards, you certainly did something to my computer: come here and fix it".
Arrogance is in top 5: "kids are supposed to be able to do it, so me, a PhD in *****, should do better
Most users don't like the mouse training, don't want to listen when you show them how the interface works and what to do first when they use unfamiliar software, just expect it to work by magic. CLI or GUI ? It does not matter. What's important is the attitude of the user.