:)
I'm not in China, I'm in Portugal and I'm a democrat, using US standards.
I don't expect you to understand what I've write, simple consider that some people may know China better than you. What I can tell you is that I have western friends over there and, when they come here, we discuss a lot this subject.
Large story short, I stand for what I've said. There is discussion inside the party, but you cannot question its existence or the single party system. The large majority of the dissidents are democrats (in the broad sense of the word) that want a multi-party system and universal free elections, hence they are in trouble.
They prize stability over free speech. As a meter of fact they can criticise the communist party and its actions, the problem is when somebody questions the single party system and its mechanic.
Also, they are very nationalistic. They see western counties using the human rights "trick" as a way to leverage a political and economic position.
What a hell! If we cared so much about civil liberties and democracy we would not buy so much stuff from them.
By the pollution distribution I see desert areas with high concentration of this particles. Their origin may be related to small dust particles in the air.
Buzz word driven evolution. Two years ago were netbooks, last year were ebook readers and this year we have tablets. Everyone needs to get its costumed or proprietary gadget on the market, just to mark a position. I don't see market for all this stuff. Who need a cell phone (or 2), netbook, ebook reader and tablet at the same time? I predict gadjet saturation.
yeah right.
So, imagine you are in Australia, you decide to produce, lets say... Port. From your point of view you obviously have the right to use the name Port even if its based in the name of a Portuguese city and is famous because 250 years of refinement made it that way... Your contribution to that? Earn money over generations of other peoples work and not giving anything back.
Move to Portugal, Make Port over there.
1 byte per second = 1 baud (SYMBOL per second) if a symbol is represented with 8 bits.
In the case of the SMS (short message service) one symbol has 7 bits, so, for 1 message per second you get:
160 baud; 160*7=1120bps; 1120/8=140Bps.
If anyone can cast the votes he wants how can you be right about how many people have voted.
This clearly violates the one man one vote principle.
If protecting minorities is what you want, simply use the hondt method http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D'Hondt_method.
"Take video calling on the iPhone 4 for example"
Videocalls where supposed to be the killer app for 3G phones. As someone already said, this was in 2002/2003.
This was not accepted because of the same reason because SMS are popular. SMS are cheap, fast and more impersonal.
If it weren't data plans and social networking, UMTS still it would be serving voice and sms.
Despite the obvious problems with Toyota cars, one thing is shure. There is a lot of people in the US profiting and betting in the fall of the main concurrent for US disgraced auto makers. They (Toyota) are being targeted by a negative campaign.
I cannot believe that only Toyota has some sort of serious problem in their cars. Greediness and bugs are not a their exclusive. The main problem consists in being one of the most advanced producers.
As software complexity surges I'm afraid this problem will multiply elsewhere.
Right.
Pulseaudio has serious problems... I have trivial hardware and not even one, of the several apps I have, can record anything by default. S/PDIF out doesn't work. I have several users under one computer, sound only works in the first that logs in. Sound is a mess since the beginning and everyone knows that.
I think the acknowledge of problems would be a good thing, but he is an executive, what can we expect?
Ok... Thanks for you comment.
Fascism did a lot of infrastructures... Much like Nazism and its "autobans". That's not the point.
Fascism used science as a form of politics that must serve the needs of the party. Medical experiments on "inferior people", Profs of some party dogma where all accepted.
I see the point in studying efficiency on slums but, the problem is that the whole thing is presented in a way that portraits slums in a good mod.
Climate change must not be an excuse to keep billions living under the poverty line in order to keep our living standards... If science is used in that heartless way, I call it fascist.
It is Fascist.
Try to pass through a slum with a million people without sewers and see how green it is.
Science without considering human wellbeing is not a good thing.
"because the 900 was aimed at housewives. "
TROLL
The 900/901 was the next gen, but it was much better. I also saw somewhere that it has less hardware problems than a Macbook.
What the previous posters said seems right.
The saucepan seems to have a diameter compatible to the wavelength of one of the UMTS bands (~15 to ~30cm), it may resonate or focus the RF beams to a nearby tower.
Obviously this may work in this particular place, maybe at that particular time but is not a general solution.
Try to see old mails using gmail on a plain, or in a fast train, or away in an area with bad GSM/UMTS/whatever signal. Only the cloud computing people think the cloud is always there. Simpler... Try to get your old email if google doesn't want to give it to you. I know, it's SCI-FI, for now...
I can't tell you that because I never used an iPhone long enough, but I'm sure if I treated an iPhone like my 5 year old Nokia it would be dead long ago.
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:) I'm not in China, I'm in Portugal and I'm a democrat, using US standards. I don't expect you to understand what I've write, simple consider that some people may know China better than you. What I can tell you is that I have western friends over there and, when they come here, we discuss a lot this subject. Large story short, I stand for what I've said. There is discussion inside the party, but you cannot question its existence or the single party system. The large majority of the dissidents are democrats (in the broad sense of the word) that want a multi-party system and universal free elections, hence they are in trouble.
They prize stability over free speech. As a meter of fact they can criticise the communist party and its actions, the problem is when somebody questions the single party system and its mechanic.
Also, they are very nationalistic. They see western counties using the human rights "trick" as a way to leverage a political and economic position.
What a hell! If we cared so much about civil liberties and democracy we would not buy so much stuff from them.
By the pollution distribution I see desert areas with high concentration of this particles. Their origin may be related to small dust particles in the air.
Buzz word driven evolution. Two years ago were netbooks, last year were ebook readers and this year we have tablets. Everyone needs to get its costumed or proprietary gadget on the market, just to mark a position. I don't see market for all this stuff. Who need a cell phone (or 2), netbook, ebook reader and tablet at the same time? I predict gadjet saturation.
I've got 30 fps. Results of 1 or 2 fps are very strange and I think they are related to non Firefox issues.
Firefox 3.6.9.
Ubuntu 10.04.1
Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz
GeForce 9400 GT (with nvidia driver)
yeah right. So, imagine you are in Australia, you decide to produce, lets say... Port. From your point of view you obviously have the right to use the name Port even if its based in the name of a Portuguese city and is famous because 250 years of refinement made it that way... Your contribution to that? Earn money over generations of other peoples work and not giving anything back. Move to Portugal, Make Port over there.
Yes, but half that energy goes to transportation, and for the most part, those transports use oil (all imported)... Hence the plan for electric cars.
1 byte per second = 1 baud (SYMBOL per second) if a symbol is represented with 8 bits.
In the case of the SMS (short message service) one symbol has 7 bits, so, for 1 message per second you get: 160 baud; 160*7=1120bps; 1120/8=140Bps.
Or simply...That area is in a rift valley (not a small thing): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa-Bonnechere_Graben
voters can apportion their votes as they wish -- all to one candidate, one to each candidate, or any combination.
According to this, there will be more ballots than voters.
If anyone can cast the votes he wants how can you be right about how many people have voted. This clearly violates the one man one vote principle. If protecting minorities is what you want, simply use the hondt method http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D'Hondt_method.
"Take video calling on the iPhone 4 for example"
Videocalls where supposed to be the killer app for 3G phones. As someone already said, this was in 2002/2003. This was not accepted because of the same reason because SMS are popular. SMS are cheap, fast and more impersonal.
If it weren't data plans and social networking, UMTS still it would be serving voice and sms.
It seems that the OS will be based on ubuntu:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/15127/ubuntus_canonical_and_google_partner_to_create_chrome
I have the netbook remix running on it and it works flawlessly.
And live a life of amusement. Maybe they have better things to do than to speculate uselessly.
Despite the obvious problems with Toyota cars, one thing is shure. There is a lot of people in the US profiting and betting in the fall of the main concurrent for US disgraced auto makers. They (Toyota) are being targeted by a negative campaign.
I cannot believe that only Toyota has some sort of serious problem in their cars. Greediness and bugs are not a their exclusive. The main problem consists in being one of the most advanced producers.
As software complexity surges I'm afraid this problem will multiply elsewhere.
I agree. Slashdot quality is clearly degrading for some time.
Right.
Pulseaudio has serious problems... I have trivial hardware and not even one, of the several apps I have, can record anything by default. S/PDIF out doesn't work. I have several users under one computer, sound only works in the first that logs in. Sound is a mess since the beginning and everyone knows that.
I think the acknowledge of problems would be a good thing, but he is an executive, what can we expect?
Ok... Thanks for you comment.
Fascism did a lot of infrastructures... Much like Nazism and its "autobans". That's not the point.
Fascism used science as a form of politics that must serve the needs of the party. Medical experiments on "inferior people", Profs of some party dogma where all accepted.
I see the point in studying efficiency on slums but, the problem is that the whole thing is presented in a way that portraits slums in a good mod.
Climate change must not be an excuse to keep billions living under the poverty line in order to keep our living standards... If science is used in that heartless way, I call it fascist.
It is Fascist. Try to pass through a slum with a million people without sewers and see how green it is. Science without considering human wellbeing is not a good thing.
Only the food industry matches it in being able to get people to pay for exactly the same stuff again and again
You forget drugs. They need to create addicts in order to make money.
"because the 900 was aimed at housewives. "
TROLL
The 900/901 was the next gen, but it was much better. I also saw somewhere that it has less hardware problems than a Macbook.
What the previous posters said seems right. The saucepan seems to have a diameter compatible to the wavelength of one of the UMTS bands (~15 to ~30cm), it may resonate or focus the RF beams to a nearby tower. Obviously this may work in this particular place, maybe at that particular time but is not a general solution.
Try to see old mails using gmail on a plain, or in a fast train, or away in an area with bad GSM/UMTS/whatever signal. Only the cloud computing people think the cloud is always there. Simpler... Try to get your old email if google doesn't want to give it to you. I know, it's SCI-FI, for now...
I can't tell you that because I never used an iPhone long enough, but I'm sure if I treated an iPhone like my 5 year old Nokia it would be dead long ago.