With these gov't subsidized deals, though, I'm hopeful.
The article mentiones nothing about such a subsidy. It also says that $10 is the cost, which a subsidy can't change - a subsidy would just alter the selling price.
the ministry feels the price will come down dramatically considering the fact that the demand would be for one million laptops
Utter rubbish. Producing more units allows you to spread the fixed costs, but the cost can't go below the marginal cost, which is more or less the stuff mentioned by the parent (plus a battery).
Greenpeace seem to be living in cloud cookoo land, and in doing so are doing more harm than good (because what's that's happening as a result of opposition to Nuclear power is that we continue to rely on fossile fuels - maintaining the status quo).
[foil hat] Obviously that's because they've been infiltrated by undercover operatives working for teh Big Oil. [/fh]
Statistics are why we have hundred year levies to protect from floods instead of a levy large enough to protect against the largest flood that ever occurred.
Statistics are why the levies weren't built 300m tall just in case, hence consuming so many resources that the entire population of the country is barefoot and hungry.
Statistics is a last resort pseudo-science used to predict the future because people don't like the answer 'we have no idea'. If the predictions are correct, yeah statistics. If they are wrong, well there was always a small statistical chance. In other words, statistics are a rigged game akin to religion with a 'it was gods will' cop out.
I don't understand quntum mechanics. But I don't feel the need to vent my spleen on it like that.
things that don't actually cost anything to manufacture, such as software
I need some really tedious file reformatting and data entry programs writing. How nice of you to offer to do it for nothing while I nip out for a pint or ten.
The funny thing is, if someone else had written false bad things about her, it'd be just a joke - and we can't crack down on freedom of speech, oh noes11!
Yet she says something false and good about herself, and everyone wants to burn her at the stake.
I never knew about the finger - I'm surprised they didn't try and make it part of the character with a backstory to explain it (laddie, have ye ever seen a plasitron beam break its containment field...) On second thoughts, it would be a poor second to the real truth.
Unless your schoolbooks were on a computer, though, it doesn't matter.
I agree totally, 100%. Does nobody else realise that adding with a computer on the end makes a world of difference and a whole new ballgame?
For example, in the old days before web (let alone web 2.0 - showing my age now) you'd meet people in real life in a bar or something, and if someone was talking utter madcap monkey's bollocks you could play a bit of a game. You pretend to agree with them, egging them on, taking their half-baked, ill-informed pronouncements and spinning them to ever increasing levels of ludicritude. But get this - all the time you really think they're an A+ gobshite! And if the other people there would cotton on, and you'd all have a right good laugh at the dumb idiot's expense. Top craic.
Now imagine if you could do that with a computer or better yet over the internet? Wouldn't that just be totalleeee awesome? Think I could patent it?
Even if a bunch of bureaucrats had the ability to successfully direct a research programme of such a scale, every dollar you'd save from the "eevil corparashunz" would cost ten in administration.
All people are born with their rights (we hold these truths to be self-evident"..and etc),
What if they'd believed that everyone has enough to eat - would that end world hunger? You seem to have trouble distinguishing wishful thinking and exhortation from a statement of fact.
Now that's assuming that the guys who wrote it even believed in their own words. If they'd specifically stated "all white men" that'd have been more consistent with their behaviour.
As competition increases, reliability decreases. Why would this be so? It is not in the competition's vested interest for you to have a reliable connection from their competitor
How is one company able to influence the reliability of another's products and infrastructure? Sabotage? [WYACA] Perhaps Mercedes have an army of highly trained gremlins dropping sugar into the fuel tank of any BMW they see.
How can TW be responsible for some third party physically damaging cables (s)he had no right to touch?
I distinctly remember telling them to either bury them under the ground or put them them up on poles and that, while it might sound like a compromise, just running them along the gutter wasn't a smart move.
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Very impressive, Your father wasn't oil minister of somewhere, was he?
Fundamental flaw with your plan: making Y lower than X.
Brought to you by the department of the bloody obvious.
I agree. They should be trying to make it work in reverse.
Yet she says something false and good about herself, and everyone wants to burn her at the stake.
I never knew about the finger - I'm surprised they didn't try and make it part of the character with a backstory to explain it (laddie, have ye ever seen a plasitron beam break its containment field ...) On second thoughts, it would be a poor second to the real truth.
I refer the right honoourable gentleman to my previous answer.
For example, in the old days before web (let alone web 2.0 - showing my age now) you'd meet people in real life in a bar or something, and if someone was talking utter madcap monkey's bollocks you could play a bit of a game. You pretend to agree with them, egging them on, taking their half-baked, ill-informed pronouncements and spinning them to ever increasing levels of ludicritude. But get this - all the time you really think they're an A+ gobshite! And if the other people there would cotton on, and you'd all have a right good laugh at the dumb idiot's expense. Top craic.
Now imagine if you could do that with a computer or better yet over the internet? Wouldn't that just be totalleeee awesome? Think I could patent it?
Your name is an anagram of "or rotton cunt". Coincidence? I think not.
Even if a bunch of bureaucrats had the ability to successfully direct a research programme of such a scale, every dollar you'd save from the "eevil corparashunz" would cost ten in administration.
What if you oxidise Sh?
[WYACA] So what you're saying is:
1) Toyotas break down.
2) Trabants break down.
Therefore, Toyotas and Trabants are equally reliable.
Now that's assuming that the guys who wrote it even believed in their own words. If they'd specifically stated "all white men" that'd have been more consistent with their behaviour.
Ah. I thought "it" meant the registry. You don't run ls on the registry, do you...?