Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a tax cheat. His defence: "everyone was doing it. why pick on me?" Laughable from the legal point of view. From the moral point of view the answer to his question is: "Because you are the biggest tax cheat of them all. You stole billions" Yet he managed to buy a lot of influence in the West with the money he stole. Now everyone is accusing Russia for the lack of democracy
When shuttles are grounded it would be only natural of NASA to give russians some money to build more Soyuzes and Progresses especially considering that they can do it on the cheap. But, no, Department of State said: evil Russkies are building a nuclear power plant in Iran, so NASA is prohibited from expanding the cooperation with Russia beyond the original ISS contract
OK OK I see plentry of comments that this thing does not hold a candle to Apple. Here are my reasons why "hand assembled cool looking x86 clone" is better than a Mac.
A Mac will cost you twice as much.
A Mac will need to boot OS before you can do anything with it.
The coolest Mac Cube is no longer being made.
You can play _games_ on an x86. Is it not what a living room toy is supposed to do?
You can turn it into a PVR
You can impress your friends with your über haXor skillz by showing off this box. Everyone knows Apple makes dumbed down boxes that an average Joe Sixpack and his dog can use.
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China's Gobi desert is much closer
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a tax cheat. His defence: "everyone was doing it. why pick on me?" Laughable from the legal point of view. From the moral point of view the answer to his question is: "Because you are the biggest tax cheat of them all. You stole billions" Yet he managed to buy a lot of influence in the West with the money he stole. Now everyone is accusing Russia for the lack of democracy
That's Comrade Torvalds, you insensitive clod!
Hurray IBM!
Oh, wait, did they not sell their PC business to a Chinese comany recenly? I, for one, welcome our new Chinese IT overlords
When shuttles are grounded it would be only natural of NASA to give russians some money to build more Soyuzes and Progresses especially considering that they can do it on the cheap. But, no, Department of State said: evil Russkies are building a nuclear power plant in Iran, so NASA is prohibited from expanding the cooperation with Russia beyond the original ISS contract
http://www.google.com/press/intl-zeitgeist.html Only them put "thesis writing" into top 10.