Something better will come out for less money next year
Surely, as we see the trend of Eee PC prices going down with each new model, this will happen most definitely. We can be sure that Asus will release a cheaper and not-so-beefed-up model for the folks that are waiting for the $200 model.
No, his (hypothetical) grandma is not "wise". My (actual) grandparents, 70, upgraded themselves to broadband after using a connection in my aunt's appartment and seeing a subway ad for Verizon's $15/mo 768k "broadband". They're hooked on the net ever since. My grandma googles for traditional medicine; grandpa reads news on Russian websites (they moved into US 6 years ago and their English is still in the "needs improvement" phase). They also use odnoklassniki.ru, a Russian social networking resource akin to classmates.com and have found some of their classmates they haven't seen for more years than I've lived. I got them Skype and a webcam, and they have found friends and relatives in Israel and Germany (where fast networks are more widespread), so they Skype them. They exchange photos with overseas friends, something they didn't use to do with snail mail.
All this was not available to them, because accessing these resources on a dialup connection was enough of a torture. Learning how to use all the resources is difficult enough, so add painful waiting on top to make the experience miserable.
The moral ? The internet really is for everyone. It's not a 'new' or 'special' thing anymore, it's at least as important media as newspapers and TV, as important a carrier as the telephone or snail mail. Depriving oneself of all the resources is, erm, not quite reasonable (if you can afford it). And yes, they do use the webcam on Skype calls - ever tried that on Dialup ?
On the other hand, I have a 20-year-old friend living 1.4 miles away from them who can't get DSL in her area and whose family uses dial-up AOL. She likes it and doesn't feel like anything is wrong. I just don't talk to her about it, it's like talking to a Bush supporter.
I have been to Kansas recently, and they have massive wind farms along the I-70. Check out at http://www.kansasenergy.org/wind_projects.htm, I can't find pics now, but they look really cool. And yeah, intercepting all replies:
Kansas is flat
There is nothing in Kansas
There is nothing in Kansas, except cows, hay and polls
Delaware doesn't look that bad after all ! (although I've never been there =)
Kansas is populated, and yes, by people
My girlfriend lives there for now, and, last but not least..
It's about the choice. How can less choice be a good thing ? So if tomorrow Walmart announces that they are no longer selling red T-shirts, are you people going to start flaming about how black ones are more practical anyway ?
While I prefer widescreen for using Cubase, I definitely can understand people wanting 4:3. Maybe they just like it that way.
Here: Ros = Rossiya (Russia); Svyaz = ommunications; and the wholse mumblejumble stands for
"Russian Mass Media, Communications and Cultural Legacy Protection Service"=Rossvyazohrankultura
As you have said, ther was Mercury's perihilion precession, as well as the ultimate MichelsonMorley experiment that started it all decades before. By the time the Theory of Relativity arrived, there was already enough of experimental data and unexplained phenomena that it predicted correctly, so it was verified experimentally immediately after its appearance.
Yeah, sure, Brezhnev killed 'millions'... Do your HW before posting.
"A research by VTsIOM showed that 31% Russian people would like to live during Brezhnev's era rather than any other period of Russian history during the 20th century" http://www.rosbalt.ru/2007/04/25/294470.html
Mod parent up, there's some fuzzy math involved. The GP confused MPG(miles/gallon) and GPM(gallons/mile). Unless, of course, the GP was really interested in miles per tons of gallon, or something like that (in which case, the computation is still wrong). If you do the reverse computation from "Prius: 11 gal/ton mile", you will obtain that Prius runs at 1/11 mpg with a 1 ton load, or 4/11 mpg with normal load. At this point, one might as well use the fuel to heat up a steam engine =)
How is the GP troll and the parent is not ? Please mod down everyone who combines the words "US", "democracy" and "protect" in one centence (whoops, I just did).
I like how 200Mhz is "slow" for everyone. I mean, not so long (6 years) ago I had a 200Mhz Pentium II running windows 98. Now guess what - it did web browsing, video playing, basic gaming (CS, Starcraft) just fine. It wasn't slow at what it was doing. Now I don't really understand why technologies that perform well on 200Mhz processor should be something complicated to implement. The tasks are not that much different.
Yummy ! The complaint generator is a cute technological marvel. Here is what I just sent them:
Here is my complaint about PTC with regards to your recent attacks against gaming industry.
May I be cynical for a bit? I hope you don't mind, but with Parents Television Council's latest barrage of snippy politics, I can't resist the urge to make a few cynical comments. It is worth noting at the outset that contrary to my personal preferences, I'm thinking about what's best for all of us. My conclusion is that what's best for all of us is for me to look into the future and consider what will happen if we let Parents Television Council make today's oppressiveness look like grade-school work compared to what it has planned for the future. Even though Parents Television Council presents a public face that avoids overt nonrepresentationalism, it sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest clodpolls nab the biggest prizes. Parents Television Council promises that if we give it and its bedfellows additional powers, it'll guard us from the most quixotic apostates I've ever seen. My question, however is, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Who will guard the guards?
I would be grateful if Parents Television Council would take a little time from its rigorous schedule to do what needs to be done. Of course, pigs will grow wings and fly before that ever happens. Sometimes it seems dour underachievers are like a farmer who, in the spring, would work the ground, plant seeds, fertilize, and cultivate the ground for a period of time. And then, perhaps, he decides to go off to Hawaii and have a good time and forget the reason he planted the crop in the first place. Well, a farmer wouldn't do that. But Parents Television Council would lay all of society open to the predations of organized criminality if it got the chance. Parents Television Council's strictures owe much to the crusades of ethically bankrupt, mean-spirited delinquents. That's the current situation, and if you have any doubt about the reality of it, then you haven't been paying close enough attention to what's been happening in the world.
I find that I am embarrassed. Embarrassed that some people just don't realize that on the issue of resistentialism, Parents Television Council is wrong again. Sure, I consider it extremely insulting of it to encourage every sort of indiscipline and degeneracy in the name of freedom. But Parents Television Council approximates a picayunish gauleiter as far as practical action is concerned but differs in psychology, ideology and motivation. But the problems with Parents Television Council's writings don't end there. Parents Television Council must have some sort of problem with reading comprehension. That's the only explanation I can come up with as to why Parents Television Council accuses me of admitting that it does the things it does "for the children". What I actually said is that the result of Parents Television Council's proposals will not be an increase in achievement but rather a decrease in expectations. I know you're wondering why I just wrote that. I'll explain shortly, but first, I should state that Parents Television Council's cohorts remain largely silent when asked about the correlative connecting Parents Television Council to escapism. The rare times they do deign to comment they invariably skew the issue to prevent people from realizing that Parents Television Council commonly appoints ineffective people to important positions. It then ensures that these people stay in those positions because that makes it easy for Parents Television Council to challenge all I stand for. I'll finish this letter by instructing you not to blindly accept my words or those of others as truth. Investigate, discriminate, and question everything not proven. Only by doing so can you determine for yourself that our real enemy is the superstitious, antihumanist system that made Parents Television Council as malignant as it is.
LCD keys aren't as impressive and use a different technology (monochrome lcd vs. color OLED), although the "idea" is "the same". As for United Keys - never heard of them, show me the product please. They only have design concepts so far. The real achievement of Art Lebedev, though, is that his studio turned a mere concept into something one can touch, and looks kewt =)
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It's oversight. But, ironically, it helps you to make your point, assuming that the ads-on-schoolbuses system has never been activated.
Surely, as we see the trend of Eee PC prices going down with each new model, this will happen most definitely. We can be sure that Asus will release a cheaper and not-so-beefed-up model for the folks that are waiting for the $200 model.
First mentioned in Space Quest 5, where you had to drink it while travelling in the desert, now available in stores. See the website to purchase.
All this was not available to them, because accessing these resources on a dialup connection was enough of a torture. Learning how to use all the resources is difficult enough, so add painful waiting on top to make the experience miserable.
The moral ? The internet really is for everyone. It's not a 'new' or 'special' thing anymore, it's at least as important media as newspapers and TV, as important a carrier as the telephone or snail mail. Depriving oneself of all the resources is, erm, not quite reasonable (if you can afford it). And yes, they do use the webcam on Skype calls - ever tried that on Dialup ?
On the other hand, I have a 20-year-old friend living 1.4 miles away from them who can't get DSL in her area and whose family uses dial-up AOL. She likes it and doesn't feel like anything is wrong. I just don't talk to her about it, it's like talking to a Bush supporter.
I thought that we've had this kind of technology for years with eMule's p2p Kademlia...
While I prefer widescreen for using Cubase, I definitely can understand people wanting 4:3. Maybe they just like it that way.
Here: Ros = Rossiya (Russia); Svyaz = ommunications; and the wholse mumblejumble stands for "Russian Mass Media, Communications and Cultural Legacy Protection Service"=Rossvyazohrankultura
Please mod parent up ! Oh, the sweet days of Jill of the Jungle! PS: Actually, I don't quite know, since I had an ESS board instead of Creative.
As you have said, ther was Mercury's perihilion precession, as well as the ultimate MichelsonMorley experiment that started it all decades before. By the time the Theory of Relativity arrived, there was already enough of experimental data and unexplained phenomena that it predicted correctly, so it was verified experimentally immediately after its appearance.
Japanese media Unhappy today 1984
I got two bikes stolen, so I, for one, would welcome any bicycle-safe-society overlords.
Yeah, sure, Brezhnev killed 'millions'... Do your HW before posting.
"A research by VTsIOM showed that 31% Russian people would like to live during Brezhnev's era rather than any other period of Russian history during the 20th century" http://www.rosbalt.ru/2007/04/25/294470.html
Mod parent up, there's some fuzzy math involved. The GP confused MPG(miles/gallon) and GPM(gallons/mile). Unless, of course, the GP was really interested in miles per tons of gallon, or something like that (in which case, the computation is still wrong). If you do the reverse computation from "Prius: 11 gal/ton mile", you will obtain that Prius runs at 1/11 mpg with a 1 ton load, or 4/11 mpg with normal load. At this point, one might as well use the fuel to heat up a steam engine =)
How is the GP troll and the parent is not ? Please mod down everyone who combines the words "US", "democracy" and "protect" in one centence (whoops, I just did).
..and then IBM would go into song industry and release a CD, titled "GiPSy Kings"
Just wanted to let you know that you used Proof by Outside the scope. I could have proven you wrong using Proof by Promiscuity, but I want to keep my geek license.
I like how 200Mhz is "slow" for everyone. I mean, not so long (6 years) ago I had a 200Mhz Pentium II running windows 98. Now guess what - it did web browsing, video playing, basic gaming (CS, Starcraft) just fine. It wasn't slow at what it was doing. Now I don't really understand why technologies that perform well on 200Mhz processor should be something complicated to implement. The tasks are not that much different.
"...costs the healthcare system $100 billion per year and $60 billion to the pharmaceutical industry"
Did they want to say brings ?
Maybe not first post, but the first time I got modded Troll ! *proud*
RIAA gets bashed on slashdot... News at 11. Frist p0st !
May I be cynical for a bit? I hope you don't mind, but with Parents Television Council's latest barrage of snippy politics, I can't resist the urge to make a few cynical comments. It is worth noting at the outset that contrary to my personal preferences, I'm thinking about what's best for all of us. My conclusion is that what's best for all of us is for me to look into the future and consider what will happen if we let Parents Television Council make today's oppressiveness look like grade-school work compared to what it has planned for the future. Even though Parents Television Council presents a public face that avoids overt nonrepresentationalism, it sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest clodpolls nab the biggest prizes. Parents Television Council promises that if we give it and its bedfellows additional powers, it'll guard us from the most quixotic apostates I've ever seen. My question, however is, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Who will guard the guards?
I would be grateful if Parents Television Council would take a little time from its rigorous schedule to do what needs to be done. Of course, pigs will grow wings and fly before that ever happens. Sometimes it seems dour underachievers are like a farmer who, in the spring, would work the ground, plant seeds, fertilize, and cultivate the ground for a period of time. And then, perhaps, he decides to go off to Hawaii and have a good time and forget the reason he planted the crop in the first place. Well, a farmer wouldn't do that. But Parents Television Council would lay all of society open to the predations of organized criminality if it got the chance. Parents Television Council's strictures owe much to the crusades of ethically bankrupt, mean-spirited delinquents. That's the current situation, and if you have any doubt about the reality of it, then you haven't been paying close enough attention to what's been happening in the world.
I find that I am embarrassed. Embarrassed that some people just don't realize that on the issue of resistentialism, Parents Television Council is wrong again. Sure, I consider it extremely insulting of it to encourage every sort of indiscipline and degeneracy in the name of freedom. But Parents Television Council approximates a picayunish gauleiter as far as practical action is concerned but differs in psychology, ideology and motivation. But the problems with Parents Television Council's writings don't end there. Parents Television Council must have some sort of problem with reading comprehension. That's the only explanation I can come up with as to why Parents Television Council accuses me of admitting that it does the things it does "for the children". What I actually said is that the result of Parents Television Council's proposals will not be an increase in achievement but rather a decrease in expectations. I know you're wondering why I just wrote that. I'll explain shortly, but first, I should state that Parents Television Council's cohorts remain largely silent when asked about the correlative connecting Parents Television Council to escapism. The rare times they do deign to comment they invariably skew the issue to prevent people from realizing that Parents Television Council commonly appoints ineffective people to important positions. It then ensures that these people stay in those positions because that makes it easy for Parents Television Council to challenge all I stand for. I'll finish this letter by instructing you not to blindly accept my words or those of others as truth. Investigate, discriminate, and question everything not proven. Only by doing so can you determine for yourself that our real enemy is the superstitious, antihumanist system that made Parents Television Council as malignant as it is.
LCD keys aren't as impressive and use a different technology (monochrome lcd vs. color OLED), although the "idea" is "the same". As for United Keys - never heard of them, show me the product please. They only have design concepts so far. The real achievement of Art Lebedev, though, is that his studio turned a mere concept into something one can touch, and looks kewt =)
Yep, as the anonymous coward above said - it actually is FOXTROT, in cyrillic