Diablos... yo usaba ese mismo Slackware, eran 100 floppies de 1.44mb Espero que algun dia tu pais lo liberen...
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So cuba is microsoft friendly... do you guys play world of warcraft too and have playestation 3 or xbox360?
someone should give this guy (Raul Castro) a medal:
1st he brings Cellular use the masses (at $400/usd a month) but hey its progress, before that cubans had to lift a seashelll to simulate talking over the phone or use two cans and a string...
2nd he brings the internet over... Cuba has been in the information age using BBS's till now... using a couple of Galacticomm's Digiboards and Major BBS and a couple of CDTowers, some pr0n cd's you get the idea...
And now he is ridding the country of Microsoft Software... I wish Obama did that... ban microsoft and let apple take over...
sigh...
I dont think the extreme liking to gaming could be called addiction. Addiction in its self is a very powerful disease.
People that become addicted to something do it mainly because they have trouble finding pleasures naturally.
Most drugs, attack a point in the brain that produces a chemical called Dopamine. Dopamine, is the brain's response to inject this into itself to produce "pleasure", this happens normally when you do something or are experiencing something that gives you pleasure. This could be sex, or enjoying a surprise party or doing something you really like, like walking or hiking or playing video games.
When people use drugs or any other means to produce that pleasure externally, the brain adjusts to it, and stops producing Dopamine, and this is what causes that withdrawal that forces you to continue doing said activity, may it be drinking, smoking, sex or drugs (which are the main components that people get addicted to).
Unless a person is using video games to substitute a pleasure reward for the brain, that is made externally people are not really addicted to video games. People like this are the ones who earn a page in the tabloids, when they pass out or die of exhaustion while playing a video game.
For some of us its easy to fight these urges. I can go to a bar have 7 long islands and maybe go home "happy" but it doesnt drive me to drink excesively. Same happened with playing WoW, I used to play it a lot, because I enjoyed the game, but it never was a substitute for my other ways of finding pleasure, like watching a movie with my wife or doing a trip. Everybody is different, so this applies to everyone differently.
I wish people would stop calling obsecing to video games Addiction. Addiction is a disease and unless there is clinical proof that said individual is using it to add more emotion to his life, it shouldnt be used as a term to denote something you like doing to the extreme.
Apple has been how long out? 20, 30 yrs or more? Including the time jobs was part of apple, and the time he came back, can we think that the company has gotten or learned how to be successful? The company, engineers, shareholders should know by now what makes Apple great and in the abscence of Steve Jobs and in the control of his successor Apple should continue having the vision Steve Jobs and his crew have had on it.
The same way this works for Apple, it should work for Microsoft, except I hope they influx a new vision so that their business model in the desktop environment trully evolves.
Its an interesting question to wonder if Apple will be able to evolve after Steve Jobs steps down the same way Microsoft will evolve positively after Bill Gates has stepped down.
Personally I think Steve Jobs is going to die working in Apple, they day he steps down will be when his body is found dead. Not meaning I want him to die... but that is what I think where the end of Jobs will be.
I have all my domains hosted there... so the domains i have most traffic on the email accounts are all hosted on the gmail servwers just because they are more accessible, but they all use their yourname.com domains. I think its a great tool.
This really saddens me... THE USofA seems obfuscated in ridding the world of the Pirate Bay... They should rid the world of Cocaine, Drug Dealers and blow the freaking farms in colombia... They should invade the freaking country and blow it all up.
So if they want to rid us of TPB why can't they just pass a law that all ISP's in the US block out the servers of TPB, make it non reachable.
I think getting the world rid of drugs is easier and more constructive than ridding it of TPB.
The main appeal of a game like World of Warcraft is the story behind every nook, character or issue in the game. Back when wow was just "the old world" it was a different blend of graphics, an interesting story that by the time you get to lvl 70, you see why the alliance is fighting the horde and why the horde is not at all that much "evil".
I play a game for the story and background it had. Vanguard had all the uuuuh ooooh ahhh a game can have... better graphics, a world so huge you would get lost... in the end it sucked.
Not all games are made to satisfy everybody, and while wow is not perfect, its a damn good example of what to do in order to become #1 (or achieve 10 million subscribers).
I bought AoC for my GF to play. For the hecvk of it... but i dont think its going to take our attention from wow. I dont knopw yet because we havent played it. But I doubt it. I think WAR is going to be more of a challenge for WoW than it is AoC. The other thing I like about Blizzard Games is that they all run natively on macs. Why can't other mmo companies develop their games in OpenGL like Blizzard does, and to have that tiny 10% nook of the mac market is anyways like 1 mill or 2 mill players in the pocket.
I think if you only played till level 6, you missed about 99.9% of the world wow has to offer. When you get to lvl 65 or 68, lay out your critics, and it will be more balanced and objective, till then, you are just criticizing a book by its cover.
The included copy of Leopard was out of the shrinkwrap, but there's no way to install it -- it shows up in Startup Disk but it won't restart, and it's not recognized at boot. I wonder how from a legal stand point of view this will stand not only to apple but to consumers. What is the purpose of including an OS that is being forced to work on a hardware it was not made for and then, leaves consumers stuck if they need to re-install.
This computer not only should leave a bad taste on apple, with an unauthorized modification of their product experience.
To the Joe Schmoe of users, it will prove a disappointing experience because they will be buying a product that because runs OSX they will think it will run like a true mac and it wont, proving to be a disappointment and it will ruin what owning a mac should trully be.
Is it me or almost everyone that has an ipod 60G 5th Gen, is waiting for the touches to go up to 64Gb before dumping a wad of cash on one of them. My Gf is so sure I will do that, that she is already expecting it and promised me not to complain If I go ahead and do it. How else is in this same boat?
My x-wife played Wow over 4,335 HOURS in one year.. Tell me that isn't an addiction. So she played half a year of wow... do the math, maybe it is because you sucked in bed?
That could only explain why she played half the time wow... now if you had said she played, 8760 hrs, then yeah i think that would be an addiction.
Still letting go of a chick that plays the game is kind of lame. Did she beat you at pvp too?
Microsoft: Mommy Mommy... EU: What is wrong? Microsoft: Google is trying to take over the world, and he doesn't let me play with his toys! Waaaaaaaaahhh!!!! EU: Shut up and go to your room, you got plenty of toys to play with, XP, Vista, Zune... Microsoft: But Maa!! I want total world domainance!!! EU: Im tired of this shit, go to your room, you are grounded!
The SP1 release candidate will have to be uninstalled before applying the final code in 2008, Microsoft warned as it also issued an odd caution on the subject. "After you uninstall Service Pack for Windows (KB936330), we recommend that you wait at least one hour before you try to install the final release of Windows Vista SP1," another support document read.
And if you dont wait exactly 1hr, what happens? Does it explode in a gigantic muchroom cloud? I can see a lot of people now waiting with a Chronograph patiently till one hour has gone by so they can install Vista SP1.
It's a US territory, hence, customs/culture are similar, but the prices are higher than San Francisco, people are somewhat bias against US mainlanders, and the weather is a just as good as Miami. Save your money and goto Central America....
I beg to differ with you... We have very different customs from anyone in the 50 states... The prices are not higher than San Francisco, prices are mainly similar as in Maryland or New York.
The people are not biased against US Mainlanders. People do not agree with the Bush administration and if we could vote for President candidates I guarantee you he wouldn't have served that second term. People in PR are not biased against anyone, those that live in the island worry about their own issues, and if you come over to visit you will see regardless where you are from, people treat you nicely, without any leeryness and they are pretty open minded in terms of politics, religion and other thoughts.
Weather is as nice as Miami, only better. Beaches are beautiful, the food is great, lots of sazón, good drinks... beautiful women...
I have to say, not because I was born there, that PR is as good as any other Latin American country (Central, South America or Mexico), we are just different from Latin America, because we are trully bilingual, use the Dollar and we are chepaer than other latin american countries. So going to Puerto Rico is a lot different from going to any State, or other US Territory because we hold our Culture and Customs close and you can see it if you visit the mainland and do some tourism. I have been to Central and South America, and they are beautiful places to go, but Puerto Rico is different just like those countries are different from the USA.
Sometimes I think that anything that is part of the USA is like being assimilated by the Borgs.
Puerto Rico can be a US territory, but not in a million years you can assimilate or compare Puerto Rico, their people and our culture and customs to those of anyone in the world, in that sense we will always be independent from any country that is assimilated into the USA... or ahem "conquered" by the USA.
The Arecibo telescope is distinguished by its enormous size: the main collecting dish is 305 m in diameter, constructed inside the depression left by a karst sinkhole. The dish is the largest curved focusing dish on Earth, giving Arecibo the largest electromagnetic-wave gathering capacity. The Arecibo telescope's dish surface is made of 38,778 perforated aluminum panels, each measuring about 1 m by 2 m (3 ft by 6 ft), supported by a mesh of steel cables.
It is a spherical reflector (as opposed to a parabolic reflector). This form is due to the method used to aim the telescope: the telescope's dish is fixed in place, but the receiver at its focal point is repositioned to intercept signals reflected from different directions by the spherical dish surface. The receiver is located on a 900-ton platform which is suspended 150 m (450 ft) in the air above the dish by 18 cables running from three reinforced concrete towers, one of which is 110 m (365 ft) high and the other two of which are 80 m (265 ft) high (the tops of the three towers are at the same elevation). The platform has a 93 m long rotating bow-shaped track called the azimuth arm on which receiving antennae, secondary and tertiary reflectors are mounted. This allows the telescope to observe any region of the sky within a forty degree cone of visibility about the local zenith (between -1 and 38 degrees of declination). Puerto Rico's location near the equator allows Arecibo to view all of the planets in the solar system, though the round trip light time to objects beyond Saturn is longer than the time the telescope can track it, preventing radar observations of more distant objects.
The construction of the Arecibo telescope was initiated by Professor William E. Gordon of Cornell University, who originally intended to use it for the study of Earth's ionosphere. Originally, a fixed parabolic reflector was envisioned, pointing in a fixed direction with a 150 m (500 ft) tower to hold equipment at the focus. This design would have had a very limited use for other potential areas of research, such as planetary science and radio astronomy, which require the ability to point at different positions in the sky and to track those positions for an extended period as Earth rotates. Ward Low of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) pointed out this flaw, and put Gordon in touch with the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory (AFCRL) in Boston, Massachusetts where a group headed by Phil Blacksmith was working on spherical reflectors and another group was studying the propagation of radio waves in and through the upper atmosphere. Cornell University proposed the project to ARPA in the summer of 1958 and a contract was signed between the AFCRL and the University in November of 1959. Cornell University published a request for proposals (RFP) asking for a design to support a feed moving along a spherical surface 435 feet (133 m) above the stationary reflector. The RFP suggested a tripod or a tower in the center to support the feed. George Doundoulakis, director of research for the antenna design company General Bronze Corp in Garden City, N.Y. received the RFP from Cornell and studied it with his brother, Helias Doundoulakis, a civil engineer.
The two brothers thought of a more efficient way to suspend the feed, and finally designed the cable suspension system that was used in final construction. U.S. Patent office granted Helias Doundoulakis patent No. 3,273,156 on Sept. 13, 1966 with the title "Radio Telescope having a scanning feed supported by a cable suspension over a stationary reflector".
Construction began in the summer of 1960, with the official opening taking place on November 1, 1963. As the primary dish is spherical, its focus is along a line rather than at a single point (as would be the case for
The museum is not a necesary item when you go up there... the sellout is just the amazing view and like you said the drive there is very nice.
I bet you don't know what other plants they have in that greenhouse...;)
But I don't blame them not being able to show you how they work. I mean they are located on the antenna suspended over the dish... and other parts as well.
The funding for this, doesnt come from the PR Goverment. It comes from US Federal Grants... so unless the US releases more money there is nothing the PR government can do. Besides their hands are tied with the IBU and other shit...
So its costing 6 billion per month... damn... which is 72billion per year...
And how much the radar has per year? 8.8million? like i said... stop the war and a lot of people will have homes, a cure for cancer will be found and we can save a radar and a couple of whales...
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Diablos... yo usaba ese mismo Slackware, eran 100 floppies de 1.44mb Espero que algun dia tu pais lo liberen... --- So cuba is microsoft friendly... do you guys play world of warcraft too and have playestation 3 or xbox360?
please this is american propaganda... they are prolly using windows 2.0, or maybe windows 3.1 and they are tired of not being able to multitask...
someone should give this guy (Raul Castro) a medal: 1st he brings Cellular use the masses (at $400/usd a month) but hey its progress, before that cubans had to lift a seashelll to simulate talking over the phone or use two cans and a string... 2nd he brings the internet over... Cuba has been in the information age using BBS's till now... using a couple of Galacticomm's Digiboards and Major BBS and a couple of CDTowers, some pr0n cd's you get the idea... And now he is ridding the country of Microsoft Software... I wish Obama did that... ban microsoft and let apple take over... sigh...
People that become addicted to something do it mainly because they have trouble finding pleasures naturally.
Most drugs, attack a point in the brain that produces a chemical called Dopamine. Dopamine, is the brain's response to inject this into itself to produce "pleasure", this happens normally when you do something or are experiencing something that gives you pleasure. This could be sex, or enjoying a surprise party or doing something you really like, like walking or hiking or playing video games.
When people use drugs or any other means to produce that pleasure externally, the brain adjusts to it, and stops producing Dopamine, and this is what causes that withdrawal that forces you to continue doing said activity, may it be drinking, smoking, sex or drugs (which are the main components that people get addicted to).
Unless a person is using video games to substitute a pleasure reward for the brain, that is made externally people are not really addicted to video games. People like this are the ones who earn a page in the tabloids, when they pass out or die of exhaustion while playing a video game.
For some of us its easy to fight these urges. I can go to a bar have 7 long islands and maybe go home "happy" but it doesnt drive me to drink excesively. Same happened with playing WoW, I used to play it a lot, because I enjoyed the game, but it never was a substitute for my other ways of finding pleasure, like watching a movie with my wife or doing a trip. Everybody is different, so this applies to everyone differently.
I wish people would stop calling obsecing to video games Addiction. Addiction is a disease and unless there is clinical proof that said individual is using it to add more emotion to his life, it shouldnt be used as a term to denote something you like doing to the extreme.
Apple has been how long out? 20, 30 yrs or more? Including the time jobs was part of apple, and the time he came back, can we think that the company has gotten or learned how to be successful? The company, engineers, shareholders should know by now what makes Apple great and in the abscence of Steve Jobs and in the control of his successor Apple should continue having the vision Steve Jobs and his crew have had on it. The same way this works for Apple, it should work for Microsoft, except I hope they influx a new vision so that their business model in the desktop environment trully evolves. Its an interesting question to wonder if Apple will be able to evolve after Steve Jobs steps down the same way Microsoft will evolve positively after Bill Gates has stepped down. Personally I think Steve Jobs is going to die working in Apple, they day he steps down will be when his body is found dead. Not meaning I want him to die... but that is what I think where the end of Jobs will be.
I have all my domains hosted there... so the domains i have most traffic on the email accounts are all hosted on the gmail servwers just because they are more accessible, but they all use their yourname.com domains. I think its a great tool.
This really saddens me... THE USofA seems obfuscated in ridding the world of the Pirate Bay... They should rid the world of Cocaine, Drug Dealers and blow the freaking farms in colombia... They should invade the freaking country and blow it all up. So if they want to rid us of TPB why can't they just pass a law that all ISP's in the US block out the servers of TPB, make it non reachable. I think getting the world rid of drugs is easier and more constructive than ridding it of TPB.
The main appeal of a game like World of Warcraft is the story behind every nook, character or issue in the game. Back when wow was just "the old world" it was a different blend of graphics, an interesting story that by the time you get to lvl 70, you see why the alliance is fighting the horde and why the horde is not at all that much "evil". I play a game for the story and background it had. Vanguard had all the uuuuh ooooh ahhh a game can have... better graphics, a world so huge you would get lost... in the end it sucked. Not all games are made to satisfy everybody, and while wow is not perfect, its a damn good example of what to do in order to become #1 (or achieve 10 million subscribers). I bought AoC for my GF to play. For the hecvk of it... but i dont think its going to take our attention from wow. I dont knopw yet because we havent played it. But I doubt it. I think WAR is going to be more of a challenge for WoW than it is AoC. The other thing I like about Blizzard Games is that they all run natively on macs. Why can't other mmo companies develop their games in OpenGL like Blizzard does, and to have that tiny 10% nook of the mac market is anyways like 1 mill or 2 mill players in the pocket. I think if you only played till level 6, you missed about 99.9% of the world wow has to offer. When you get to lvl 65 or 68, lay out your critics, and it will be more balanced and objective, till then, you are just criticizing a book by its cover.
Is it me or almost everyone that has an ipod 60G 5th Gen, is waiting for the touches to go up to 64Gb before dumping a wad of cash on one of them. My Gf is so sure I will do that, that she is already expecting it and promised me not to complain If I go ahead and do it. How else is in this same boat?
Frankly, if anyone could make an awesome World of Warcraft Movie, its Blizzard itself. They don't need anyone else.
It's microsoft, they are the joke in security... what did you expect...
Hackers: 1
RIAA: 0
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooo!! Hackers!!!!!!!!
Microsoft: Mommy Mommy...
EU: What is wrong?
Microsoft: Google is trying to take over the world, and he doesn't let me play with his toys!
Waaaaaaaaahhh!!!!
EU: Shut up and go to your room, you got plenty of toys to play with, XP, Vista, Zune...
Microsoft: But Maa!! I want total world domainance!!!
EU: Im tired of this shit, go to your room, you are grounded!
Cuz i ordered it about 20yrs ago!!! Finally Broadband on my island...
:P
PS. my name is Gilbert Palau
And if you dont wait exactly 1hr, what happens? Does it explode in a gigantic muchroom cloud? I can see a lot of people now waiting with a Chronograph patiently till one hour has gone by so they can install Vista SP1.
Will microsuck ever learn?
w00t?
or to 2girls1cup.com :)
I beg to differ with you... We have very different customs from anyone in the 50 states... The prices are not higher than San Francisco, prices are mainly similar as in Maryland or New York.
The people are not biased against US Mainlanders. People do not agree with the Bush administration and if we could vote for President candidates I guarantee you he wouldn't have served that second term. People in PR are not biased against anyone, those that live in the island worry about their own issues, and if you come over to visit you will see regardless where you are from, people treat you nicely, without any leeryness and they are pretty open minded in terms of politics, religion and other thoughts.
Weather is as nice as Miami, only better. Beaches are beautiful, the food is great, lots of sazón, good drinks... beautiful women...
I have to say, not because I was born there, that PR is as good as any other Latin American country (Central, South America or Mexico), we are just different from Latin America, because we are trully bilingual, use the Dollar and we are chepaer than other latin american countries. So going to Puerto Rico is a lot different from going to any State, or other US Territory because we hold our Culture and Customs close and you can see it if you visit the mainland and do some tourism. I have been to Central and South America, and they are beautiful places to go, but Puerto Rico is different just like those countries are different from the USA.
Sometimes I think that anything that is part of the USA is like being assimilated by the Borgs.
Puerto Rico can be a US territory, but not in a million years you can assimilate or compare Puerto Rico, their people and our culture and customs to those of anyone in the world, in that sense we will always be independent from any country that is assimilated into the USA... or ahem "conquered" by the USA.
so in a nutshell fuck off?
:) you fuck off...
no no no...
I got this from wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory , but thought it would be useful for people that don't know much about it.
General Information
The Arecibo telescope is distinguished by its enormous size: the main collecting dish is 305 m in diameter, constructed inside the depression left by a karst sinkhole. The dish is the largest curved focusing dish on Earth, giving Arecibo the largest electromagnetic-wave gathering capacity. The Arecibo telescope's dish surface is made of 38,778 perforated aluminum panels, each measuring about 1 m by 2 m (3 ft by 6 ft), supported by a mesh of steel cables.
It is a spherical reflector (as opposed to a parabolic reflector). This form is due to the method used to aim the telescope: the telescope's dish is fixed in place, but the receiver at its focal point is repositioned to intercept signals reflected from different directions by the spherical dish surface. The receiver is located on a 900-ton platform which is suspended 150 m (450 ft) in the air above the dish by 18 cables running from three reinforced concrete towers, one of which is 110 m (365 ft) high and the other two of which are 80 m (265 ft) high (the tops of the three towers are at the same elevation). The platform has a 93 m long rotating bow-shaped track called the azimuth arm on which receiving antennae, secondary and tertiary reflectors are mounted. This allows the telescope to observe any region of the sky within a forty degree cone of visibility about the local zenith (between -1 and 38 degrees of declination). Puerto Rico's location near the equator allows Arecibo to view all of the planets in the solar system, though the round trip light time to objects beyond Saturn is longer than the time the telescope can track it, preventing radar observations of more distant objects.
The construction of the Arecibo telescope was initiated by Professor William E. Gordon of Cornell University, who originally intended to use it for the study of Earth's ionosphere. Originally, a fixed parabolic reflector was envisioned, pointing in a fixed direction with a 150 m (500 ft) tower to hold equipment at the focus. This design would have had a very limited use for other potential areas of research, such as planetary science and radio astronomy, which require the ability to point at different positions in the sky and to track those positions for an extended period as Earth rotates. Ward Low of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) pointed out this flaw, and put Gordon in touch with the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory (AFCRL) in Boston, Massachusetts where a group headed by Phil Blacksmith was working on spherical reflectors and another group was studying the propagation of radio waves in and through the upper atmosphere. Cornell University proposed the project to ARPA in the summer of 1958 and a contract was signed between the AFCRL and the University in November of 1959. Cornell University published a request for proposals (RFP) asking for a design to support a feed moving along a spherical surface 435 feet (133 m) above the stationary reflector. The RFP suggested a tripod or a tower in the center to support the feed. George Doundoulakis, director of research for the antenna design company General Bronze Corp in Garden City, N.Y. received the RFP from Cornell and studied it with his brother, Helias Doundoulakis, a civil engineer.
The two brothers thought of a more efficient way to suspend the feed, and finally designed the cable suspension system that was used in final construction. U.S. Patent office granted Helias Doundoulakis patent No. 3,273,156 on Sept. 13, 1966 with the title "Radio Telescope having a scanning feed supported by a cable suspension over a stationary reflector".
Construction began in the summer of 1960, with the official opening taking place on November 1, 1963. As the primary dish is spherical, its focus is along a line rather than at a single point (as would be the case for
The museum is not a necesary item when you go up there... the sellout is just the amazing view and like you said the drive there is very nice.
;)
I bet you don't know what other plants they have in that greenhouse...
But I don't blame them not being able to show you how they work. I mean they are located on the antenna suspended over the dish... and other parts as well.
The funding for this, doesnt come from the PR Goverment. It comes from US Federal Grants... so unless the US releases more money there is nothing the PR government can do. Besides their hands are tied with the IBU and other shit...
So its costing 6 billion per month... damn... which is 72billion per year...
And how much the radar has per year? 8.8million? like i said... stop the war and a lot of people will have homes, a cure for cancer will be found and we can save a radar and a couple of whales...