Asia: In 1940, Japan occupied French Indochina (Vietnam) upon agreement with the Vichy Government, despite local Free French, and joined Axis powers Germany and Italy. These actions intensified Japan's conflict with the United States and the United Kingdom, which reacted with an oil boycott.
Also Japan declared war on Holland and the Brits to get their hands on Indonesian oil about the same time they bombed Pearl Harbor.
1) WHere do you think we will be getting the energy for hydrogen seperation?
Nuclear power. Sure its a stop gap until we figure out fusion in 500 years, but if our descendants don't figure out technological solutions for the waste then they won't be able to survive anyways.
2) How many wars have started directly because of oil supply? ANd what is the death toll for these wars as opposed to the more traditional "agression" wars?
Depends... Technically 10 of millions. Germany attacked the Soviet Union for its resources in WWII. Partially for the grain in the Ukraine and the living space, but Hitler was really keen on getting oil fiels in Kiev and in the Baku fields in the Caucasus. Even so much to dictate military strategy on it. He held back the forces going to Moscow to take the Kiev pocket in 1941 in order to secure this. Secondly the Baku fields were a major issue in the 1942 campaign with Stalingrad.
There were ideology reasons behind this, but oil was a big factor for the German invasion.
The Iraq/Iran war was over highly rich oil territory that Saddam wanted to grab. He also wanted to topple the revolutionaries in Tehran that stated they wanted to overthrow him... But mostly oil was the key objective. A few million died in that war mind you.
Iraq attacked Kuwait over a border dispute with slant drilling over the border and debts and oil production vs price issues. You know where that got us...
6) Mac OS costs more. 7) Applications on Mac OS cost more.
Result, Linux will win.
6)Mac OS is free the machine is what costs the money. 7)Does Linux have Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, and equivalent MS Office Replacements?
I know there is GIMP and OO.o, but they aren't up to par yet with the editions in which you pay money for. Sure, I'd like to use a free version of office or GIMP, but I can't right now because of compatability issues with other MS office users or Photoshop users. Until then I'll have to go with OS X since the only other choice I have is Windows.
Conclusion: All VB programmers should be shot, drawn and quartered, burned, and sent to bed without supper.
Most VB programmers I know here would ask you to hurry up and put them out of their misery.
But seriously, there should not be VB on Linux. That is not an elitist statement because I do Windows platform support for a living and we have VB programmers here, but it is mostly to add functionality to MS Apps.
The only way that VB is going to be on Linux is if Microsoft makes a VB suite for it(since no one else will), but as that is as likley as Office for Linux then this is a moot point.
So, in your post, you prove my point about the elitist attitude.
And this is coming from a guy who posts grammar corrections in his sig?;)
To do this you need to get Linux to be 100% RISK FREE. If you don't like it you need to be able to easily uninstall and your computer will be exactly the same as before you started. The first barrier to the desktop is to reduce the fear associated with change.
Isn't that what the Live CDs are for? Maybe he hasn't researched that far into this.
I don't want to have to inform the OS that I've done so, and have to "install" the software. I want to be able to compile an app and run it from my home directory. Why should I have to register it with the OS in order to do so?
Exactly!
I don't know what about the rest he said about linux, but this phrase needs to be beaten into all developers and coders around the world... with a sledghammer. Regardless of the OS, regardless of the machine... Installing software should not touch the OS. If it needs a component to be updated on the OS then it needs to notify the user and let them update the OS.
Why?
Because you as a developer do not know the OS configurations of the end user. You don't know if someone else installed something that may break or conflict when your software updates a particular file.
If you program needs a latest service pack dll, prompt the customer to upgrade to the required service pack/driver/directX/whathaveyou and reinstall.
Secondly, this usually has the bad side effect of requiring you to reboot the machine because the OS has to be updated and having to deal with uninstallations that do not work properly and leave a mess in the central program registry or leave files scatter throughout the OS.
I perfer Apple's OS X way (most of the time) in which the entire programs are encapsulated in a single icon in the applications folder and by dragging and dropping them there it installed and then throwing them in the trash it uninstalls.
Now the only other files that should be on the system were the preferences in which are fairly easy to trash if you want to clean up in the/(username)/library/preferences folder/
However there are a few programs that do of course require you to install something to the system folders (when you get the prompt for the admin password) which I don't mind too much, but I'd rather they not.
Misty: "On no! It's Jessie and James from teem Racketeer!" Jessie: "We are here to put a stop to your open source with the power of love and monolopy!" Ash: "I call on you BeeEssDeemon!" BeeEssDeemon: "Bee ess dee! Bee ess dee!" Ash: "Use BSD License attack!" James: "Call forth Flamewaramon! Use 'No GPL license is better' counter attack!" Ash: "But you forgot! BeeEssDeemon has resistance to all moderation and instantly gets 5+ while Flarewamon will get -1 troll!" *big explosion with Team Racketeer flying off into the sky with comedic effect*
You mean the part of the US population that will die of old age in 5-10 years?
Just kidding... But strangly enough the figured for 2005 for 65 and older were 65 years and over: 12.4% (male 15,298,676/female 21,397,228) (2005 est.) From ye old CIA Factbook
Growing? Do you know how long we ignored various world wars before getting involved? Constant would be a better choice.
Truth be told the US wasn't ignoring either war. I always thought it was odd that people don't really the acknowledge the US mobilization before Pearl Harbor...
The draft had already been enacted in 1940.
I think the better words would be "The US people would like to be apathetic to wars overseas, but the US Government tends to be keen on the idea."
And no, I don't think FDR goaded the Japanese into attacking us, but we aren't entirley innocent when it comes to international war before that time.
Remember, we used the explosion of USS Main to declare war on Spain in 1898 which was most likley a boiler malfunction.
As in the other TLD worlds, creativity has served to enhance and extend the web experience beyond many's expectations..mobi should be no different, and constraining.mobi with policy weakens its potential. Let the free market and competing ideas dictate the policy.
What about.gov and.edu?
Those TLDs aren't market solutions. Remember regulation is always a market solution because the market has choose (or is willing) to let it be regulated.
Although, I've always wanted my own government agency webpage...
Everquest and SWG and Ultima Online are still being played by people who were there at launch.
Ultima Online is a bitter shallow shell of its former self. At least I am bitter about it... I played since 1997-2000. The changes after Renaissance made the game not Ultima Online anymore.
I don't really know anyone how would still play that game unless they have a large investment into that.
I wish Richard G would get his original vision on for a new MMOG similar to UO.
I agree totally as well. Although it really isn't feasible with the current government budget spending...
But if the government spent 100billion dollars in order to get figer to the curb of every home in America, I'd say it is well spent.
Basically, what the Fed have to do is build the infrastructure and then sell chunks of to private companies. Might be a while... South Korea is looking better every day.
They're much more likely to LOSE game revenue to freely available (or cracked) software than anything else.
If Sony relased their own SDK then they'd have better controls over copy protection with homebrew apps.
If people crack the PSP on their own code then they'll probaly won't have a concern whether or not it can be used to play copied games which it will most likely be used for.
Take the XBox for example... The mod chips allow you to run linux and copied games. Had microsoft provided their own utility in the Xbox to run unsigned software, but at the same time look out for xbox copywrited games then they would cut down on mod chip sales for the legit purposes and make the purpose of the mod chips an exclusive "illegal" activity. Hence easier to crack down on it...
So the moral of the story would be people are going to do it anyways so you might as well fight fire with fire with something that is more managable.
Capitalism is a self correcting system by itself, it is just not instantanious.
True... However this is very dangerous when it leads to public suffering.
Take the Great Depression in the 1930's. This of course was because of "total free market" situation without very little government intervention that just went "boom".
Technically, the failure of free market capitalism in the States lead to Fascism in Europe. (Yeah there are a gazillion other reasons it happened, but without the depressions and the economic failure of the Weimar Republic the NASDAP would have never come to power without the Socialists/Stalinists splitting the vote with the Christian Democrats), but if there is not a safty net then the people will not tolerate 10 years of economic depression until the market corrects itself.
Had FDR not stepped in then chances are there would have been more revolt risk in the US with either Right Wing or Left Wing extremists.
How is 120 fps going to be better if you can't even distinguish it?
Same people want Quake 3 to run at at an average 300fps! It means that when you hit high poly regions in the game then the fps won't dip down to 12fps where you can actually notice it in really detailed rooms.
The higher the average the fewer times you reach a level of bad frame rates.
I'm not sure if he meant average FPS though.
Still the higher the better regardless of if the eye can see it because you can squeeze more polygons into the frame.
The author is completely right about the stress level of Trauma Center.
AARRRGH! I can't get past Episode 2 Suregery 2
With the little invisible nodes that you have to ultra sound and then pinch and then cut and drain... Anyone know any good strategy guides or walk throughs? I almost threw my DS too.
It's a harsh world. Sensitivity and political correctness will only take you so far in dealing with it.
I dunno... I think the President of Iran could have used a bit more tact lately. Now since he wasn't politically correct, Israel will most likely be dropping smart bombs on their fledgling nuclear facilities.
Case in point, you may look better to your own people/supporters when you aren't politically correct...
But when you piss other people off that are more powerful than you then they tend to "throw chairs" in your general direction. If you are the most powerful nation, you still have to keep in mind if you piss off the entire world they'll start to gang up on you.
I'm not saying that I support political correctness one way or another, but it is just the nature of global politics.
Can anyone point me towards a good open-ended rpg game?
They may be a bit dated, but Fallout 1 and 2 still beat most other games in open endedness. Heck... You can be good, bad, or even ugly (mutant!)
Fallout 2 can sink 100 hours of your time and you may have not done anything... And technically you can beat the game in 10 minutes if you by pass all of that.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_2
Also Japan declared war on Holland and the Brits to get their hands on Indonesian oil about the same time they bombed Pearl Harbor.
1) WHere do you think we will be getting the energy for hydrogen seperation?
Nuclear power. Sure its a stop gap until we figure out fusion in 500 years, but if our descendants don't figure out technological solutions for the waste then they won't be able to survive anyways.
2) How many wars have started directly because of oil supply? ANd what is the death toll for these wars as opposed to the more traditional "agression" wars?
Depends... Technically 10 of millions. Germany attacked the Soviet Union for its resources in WWII. Partially for the grain in the Ukraine and the living space, but Hitler was really keen on getting oil fiels in Kiev and in the Baku fields in the Caucasus. Even so much to dictate military strategy on it. He held back the forces going to Moscow to take the Kiev pocket in 1941 in order to secure this. Secondly the Baku fields were a major issue in the 1942 campaign with Stalingrad.
There were ideology reasons behind this, but oil was a big factor for the German invasion.
The Iraq/Iran war was over highly rich oil territory that Saddam wanted to grab. He also wanted to topple the revolutionaries in Tehran that stated they wanted to overthrow him... But mostly oil was the key objective. A few million died in that war mind you.
Iraq attacked Kuwait over a border dispute with slant drilling over the border and debts and oil production vs price issues. You know where that got us...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_war
6) Mac OS costs more.
7) Applications on Mac OS cost more.
Result, Linux will win.
6)Mac OS is free the machine is what costs the money.
7)Does Linux have Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, and equivalent MS Office Replacements?
I know there is GIMP and OO.o, but they aren't up to par yet with the editions in which you pay money for. Sure, I'd like to use a free version of office or GIMP, but I can't right now because of compatability issues with other MS office users or Photoshop users. Until then I'll have to go with OS X since the only other choice I have is Windows.
Conclusion: All VB programmers should be shot, drawn and quartered, burned, and sent to bed without supper.
;)
Most VB programmers I know here would ask you to hurry up and put them out of their misery.
But seriously, there should not be VB on Linux. That is not an elitist statement because I do Windows platform support for a living and we have VB programmers here, but it is mostly to add functionality to MS Apps.
The only way that VB is going to be on Linux is if Microsoft makes a VB suite for it(since no one else will), but as that is as likley as Office for Linux then this is a moot point.
So, in your post, you prove my point about the elitist attitude.
And this is coming from a guy who posts grammar corrections in his sig?
Isn't that what the Live CDs are for? Maybe he hasn't researched that far into this.
I don't want to have to inform the OS that I've done so, and have to "install" the software. I want to be able to compile an app and run it from my home directory. Why should I have to register it with the OS in order to do so?
/(username)/library/preferences folder/
Exactly!
I don't know what about the rest he said about linux, but this phrase needs to be beaten into all developers and coders around the world... with a sledghammer. Regardless of the OS, regardless of the machine... Installing software should not touch the OS. If it needs a component to be updated on the OS then it needs to notify the user and let them update the OS.
Why?
Because you as a developer do not know the OS configurations of the end user. You don't know if someone else installed something that may break or conflict when your software updates a particular file.
If you program needs a latest service pack dll, prompt the customer to upgrade to the required service pack/driver/directX/whathaveyou and reinstall.
Secondly, this usually has the bad side effect of requiring you to reboot the machine because the OS has to be updated and having to deal with uninstallations that do not work properly and leave a mess in the central program registry or leave files scatter throughout the OS.
I perfer Apple's OS X way (most of the time) in which the entire programs are encapsulated in a single icon in the applications folder and by dragging and dropping them there it installed and then throwing them in the trash it uninstalls.
Now the only other files that should be on the system were the preferences in which are fairly easy to trash if you want to clean up in the
However there are a few programs that do of course require you to install something to the system folders (when you get the prompt for the admin password) which I don't mind too much, but I'd rather they not.
Shareholders own and manage the company, not employees. If employees dont like it they can leave.
That is an unhealthy attitude for a stockholder to have if they want the company to be around long enough to make a decent return on their investment.
why not just go watch Wing Commander again? Or wait, you might not be able to tell that movie sucked too.
Wing Commander is one of the few movies that made me physically ill afterwards and vow never to watch another video game movie again.
A velvet cage is still a cage.
Its still better than sleeping in the iron one.
Misty: "On no! It's Jessie and James from teem Racketeer!"
Jessie: "We are here to put a stop to your open source with the power of love and monolopy!"
Ash: "I call on you BeeEssDeemon!"
BeeEssDeemon: "Bee ess dee! Bee ess dee!"
Ash: "Use BSD License attack!"
James: "Call forth Flamewaramon! Use 'No GPL license is better' counter attack!"
Ash: "But you forgot! BeeEssDeemon has resistance to all moderation and instantly gets 5+ while Flarewamon will get -1 troll!"
*big explosion with Team Racketeer flying off into the sky with comedic effect*
And no I don't watch that much Pokemon.
9,200,000 viewers
You mean the part of the US population that will die of old age in 5-10 years?
Just kidding... But strangly enough the figured for 2005 for 65 and older were 65 years and over: 12.4% (male 15,298,676/female 21,397,228) (2005 est.) From ye old CIA Factbook
Growing? Do you know how long we ignored various world wars before getting involved? Constant would be a better choice.
Truth be told the US wasn't ignoring either war. I always thought it was odd that people don't really the acknowledge the US mobilization before Pearl Harbor...
The draft had already been enacted in 1940.
I think the better words would be "The US people would like to be apathetic to wars overseas, but the US Government tends to be keen on the idea."
And no, I don't think FDR goaded the Japanese into attacking us, but we aren't entirley innocent when it comes to international war before that time.
Remember, we used the explosion of USS Main to declare war on Spain in 1898 which was most likley a boiler malfunction.
As in the other TLD worlds, creativity has served to enhance and extend the web experience beyond many's expectations. .mobi should be no different, and constraining .mobi with policy weakens its potential. Let the free market and competing ideas dictate the policy.
.gov and .edu?
What about
Those TLDs aren't market solutions. Remember regulation is always a market solution because the market has choose (or is willing) to let it be regulated.
Although, I've always wanted my own government agency webpage...
Everquest and SWG and Ultima Online are still being played by people who were there at launch.
Ultima Online is a bitter shallow shell of its former self. At least I am bitter about it... I played since 1997-2000. The changes after Renaissance made the game not Ultima Online anymore.
I don't really know anyone how would still play that game unless they have a large investment into that.
I wish Richard G would get his original vision on for a new MMOG similar to UO.
This is social engineering at its worst, and the only way to stop it is to tell your friends and family right now.
I told my family and friends to buy a Mac and stop calling me at 3 in the morning.
I'm sure the robots can come up with something.
Most likely something along the lines of optical CPUs (instead of silicon) and being powered by bio-organic material.
Hrm... Self replicating flesh eating robotic spiders sound about right.
However, my hunch the first AI will most likley just use social engineering to get rid of the humans.
I agree totally as well. Although it really isn't feasible with the current government budget spending...
But if the government spent 100billion dollars in order to get figer to the curb of every home in America, I'd say it is well spent.
Basically, what the Fed have to do is build the infrastructure and then sell chunks of to private companies. Might be a while... South Korea is looking better every day.
They're much more likely to LOSE game revenue to freely available (or cracked) software than anything else.
If Sony relased their own SDK then they'd have better controls over copy protection with homebrew apps.
If people crack the PSP on their own code then they'll probaly won't have a concern whether or not it can be used to play copied games which it will most likely be used for.
Take the XBox for example... The mod chips allow you to run linux and copied games. Had microsoft provided their own utility in the Xbox to run unsigned software, but at the same time look out for xbox copywrited games then they would cut down on mod chip sales for the legit purposes and make the purpose of the mod chips an exclusive "illegal" activity. Hence easier to crack down on it...
So the moral of the story would be people are going to do it anyways so you might as well fight fire with fire with something that is more managable.
Capitalism is a self correcting system by itself, it is just not instantanious.
True... However this is very dangerous when it leads to public suffering.
Take the Great Depression in the 1930's. This of course was because of "total free market" situation without very little government intervention that just went "boom".
Technically, the failure of free market capitalism in the States lead to Fascism in Europe. (Yeah there are a gazillion other reasons it happened, but without the depressions and the economic failure of the Weimar Republic the NASDAP would have never come to power without the Socialists/Stalinists splitting the vote with the Christian Democrats), but if there is not a safty net then the people will not tolerate 10 years of economic depression until the market corrects itself.
Had FDR not stepped in then chances are there would have been more revolt risk in the US with either Right Wing or Left Wing extremists.
How is 120 fps going to be better if you can't even distinguish it?
Same people want Quake 3 to run at at an average 300fps! It means that when you hit high poly regions in the game then the fps won't dip down to 12fps where you can actually notice it in really detailed rooms.
The higher the average the fewer times you reach a level of bad frame rates.
I'm not sure if he meant average FPS though.
Still the higher the better regardless of if the eye can see it because you can squeeze more polygons into the frame.
The author is completely right about the stress level of Trauma Center.
AARRRGH! I can't get past Episode 2 Suregery 2
With the little invisible nodes that you have to ultra sound and then pinch and then cut and drain... Anyone know any good strategy guides or walk throughs? I almost threw my DS too.
So, unlike what kyle90 posted, you'd actually need 1,443 (rounded up from 1,442.25) of these Blue Gene/L to accurately model a single human brain.
What about Blue Gene/P in 2006? (Which should be 1 petaflop)
What about Blue Gene/Q with 3 petaflops?
It's a harsh world. Sensitivity and political correctness will only take you so far in dealing with it.
I dunno... I think the President of Iran could have used a bit more tact lately. Now since he wasn't politically correct, Israel will most likely be dropping smart bombs on their fledgling nuclear facilities.
Case in point, you may look better to your own people/supporters when you aren't politically correct...
But when you piss other people off that are more powerful than you then they tend to "throw chairs" in your general direction. If you are the most powerful nation, you still have to keep in mind if you piss off the entire world they'll start to gang up on you.
I'm not saying that I support political correctness one way or another, but it is just the nature of global politics.
Can anyone point me towards a good open-ended rpg game?
They may be a bit dated, but Fallout 1 and 2 still beat most other games in open endedness. Heck... You can be good, bad, or even ugly (mutant!)
Fallout 2 can sink 100 hours of your time and you may have not done anything... And technically you can beat the game in 10 minutes if you by pass all of that.
...that we can look forward to 12 peaceful years before the next round of war starts?
No it means we'll have a new war on Saturday that will drag on for another 10 years.