In the old days transatlantic flights involved a stopover in the Azores isles, about halfway between Europe and N. America. If you really can afford to have MIG 23 in the garage you'll probably get to places quicker stopping over for fuel than waiting for a Boeing 747.
why didn't any of the tens of billions of older stars in this galaxy get lucky?
Maybe they did get lucky but on other galaxies. It could happen that ours only has us and other galaxies are overpopulated. I'm sure there's a valid statistical distribution for that.
All those nice products from the 90's are probably correctly priced but still lack the 5" (or 7 "or 9") screen, a valid web browser and wi-fi. Last time I looked, reading PDFs on a Palm machine was not that practical. Even if there was a 7" screen Palm Tungsten it would be a bit on the primitive side when compared to a Linux tablet, especially if the operating system is loaded from a SD card.
I enjoyed using the Palm machines back in the day, but this is a different story and certainly better value for money than buying obsolete PDAs in used condition.
I'm calling some Indian friends so they can bring some next time they drop by:)
People have missed the point that wealthy populations aren't the intended customers. Don't expect to order one of these from Dell or Amazon.
and just why exactly should a student in the UK "have to" pay £300 for a laptop PC if the guys in India can build a useful linux tablet for a small fraction of that price?
[...]No one with any knowledge about the subject is disputing that climates change. The disputed points are that human-produced carbon dioxide is or is not a significant factor[...]
At the risk of writing the asshat post of the month here, I'd say that these news about the Everest are very significant for the politics of this climate change matter: if the governments of that region (representing more than 2 000 000 000 people) assume that it is the human factor that is causing the climate change that is depleting their drinking water resources, their position at the negotiating table with the other governments is likely to change.
As an exercise of rhetoric, it is all very fine and dandy that the developing countries say that their present day pollution should not count towards negotiated limits in the way that England didn't have such limits during the XIX century... but now if the damage is visible in the medium turn and directly in the territories and population of India and China, then let's see if they will take the driver's seat in negotiations and mitigating the effects of their pollution.
[...]pretty decent at speaking English, good English is not universal and lot's of people (me included) are not really comfortable speaking it (due to lack of practice and horrible, horrible accent)
I don't know... my experience is that english spoken by swedes & danes sounds clearer than what they speak here in London.
Since I don't have my own business I don't know how it happens in real life and what they don't show in the movies: If a business owner is approached by Mafia#1 who asks for protection money and some other day Mafia#2 does the same, does the business owner phone the Mafia#1 and let them sort it out?
I opened my RSS feed reader and... woah! earthquake in Canada! and below the title "1 person likes this" and a big smiley. there's some really crazy people out there..
I'll try to answer that: by the time companies realised that email would be relevant for mainstream users (ie: non-geeks), the cat was out of the bag. Everybody knew that it was not reasonable to get a monthly bill with a price per email sent, received, roaming and additional perks like spam filtering and additional aliases.
SMS, on the other hand, were invented by the mobile telcos in an environment suitable for billing users for everything. The telcos were clever enough to turn short messages into a very profitable thing. More recently I was surprised to see Apple make money on applications that would normally be freeware or mini-services that would be made available for free on websites.
Good on them, I guess. For me (and the elderly South Koreans) email is still the real thing.
nope. I read "Bloatload of software" and some of my interest in the product went away...
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My laptop is 7.5 pounds and it's got a 17" widescreen and a full keyboard + number pad. I've brought it to work with me most every day for the past 3 years and have never suffered a hernia or exhaustion or even noticed it.
You get what you get, and when it's getting long in the tooth you sell it on ebay and start over again. I've been doing it for a few years now and there is always something a bit better taking up less space than the generation before.
Right now I have a 17" laptop that rarely moves from the desk, has a nice keyboard, decent screen and its power saving mode is good enough for my CPU needs. If I wanted a desktop that likewise rarely turned on its fans, I'd have to pick hardware that really is not that mainstream and I suspect that it would not be cheaper than a purpose built laptop machine.
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and iranian cleric blames western women for not dressing modestly.
In the old days transatlantic flights involved a stopover in the Azores isles, about halfway between Europe and N. America. If you really can afford to have MIG 23 in the garage you'll probably get to places quicker stopping over for fuel than waiting for a Boeing 747.
As far as I know that is pretty much a US-only phenomenon. At least in most of Europe, the notion of "positive credit history" is all but unknown
I live in the UK and confirm what the other guy said. If your credit history shows a blank list, you will not get a normal mortgage.
What if squirrels had wings and shot cruise missiles out of their tail?
they would still be no match for the sharks with fricking lasers mounted on their heads...
why didn't any of the tens of billions of older stars in this galaxy get lucky?
Maybe they did get lucky but on other galaxies. It could happen that ours only has us and other galaxies are overpopulated. I'm sure there's a valid statistical distribution for that.
can't follow link, slashdotted...
Also like the tabletop gaming industry, economics is telling us there are too many companies.
what, all 3 of them?
O P Q A Z has always been and will always be the choice of champions. Spacebar, schmacebar...
I enjoyed using the Palm machines back in the day, but this is a different story and certainly better value for money than buying obsolete PDAs in used condition.
I'm calling some Indian friends so they can bring some next time they drop by :)
People have missed the point that wealthy populations aren't the intended customers. Don't expect to order one of these from Dell or Amazon.
and just why exactly should a student in the UK "have to" pay £300 for a laptop PC if the guys in India can build a useful linux tablet for a small fraction of that price?
my FUDometer just exploded. thanks a lot.
dude, sell the car and get a horse...
[...]No one with any knowledge about the subject is disputing that climates change. The disputed points are that human-produced carbon dioxide is or is not a significant factor[...]
At the risk of writing the asshat post of the month here, I'd say that these news about the Everest are very significant for the politics of this climate change matter: if the governments of that region (representing more than 2 000 000 000 people) assume that it is the human factor that is causing the climate change that is depleting their drinking water resources, their position at the negotiating table with the other governments is likely to change.
As an exercise of rhetoric, it is all very fine and dandy that the developing countries say that their present day pollution should not count towards negotiated limits in the way that England didn't have such limits during the XIX century... but now if the damage is visible in the medium turn and directly in the territories and population of India and China, then let's see if they will take the driver's seat in negotiations and mitigating the effects of their pollution.
Quite good. Have you tried listening with the vuvuzelas on?
[...]pretty decent at speaking English, good English is not universal and lot's of people (me included) are not really comfortable speaking it (due to lack of practice and horrible, horrible accent)
I don't know... my experience is that english spoken by swedes & danes sounds clearer than what they speak here in London.
a very common situation indeed.
Since I don't have my own business I don't know how it happens in real life and what they don't show in the movies: If a business owner is approached by Mafia#1 who asks for protection money and some other day Mafia#2 does the same, does the business owner phone the Mafia#1 and let them sort it out?
I opened my RSS feed reader and... woah! earthquake in Canada!
and below the title "1 person likes this" and a big smiley. there's some really crazy people out there..
SMS, on the other hand, were invented by the mobile telcos in an environment suitable for billing users for everything. The telcos were clever enough to turn short messages into a very profitable thing. More recently I was surprised to see Apple make money on applications that would normally be freeware or mini-services that would be made available for free on websites.
Good on them, I guess. For me (and the elderly South Koreans) email is still the real thing.
nope. I read "Bloatload of software" and some of my interest in the product went away...
My laptop is 7.5 pounds and it's got a 17" widescreen and a full keyboard + number pad. I've brought it to work with me most every day for the past 3 years and have never suffered a hernia or exhaustion or even noticed it.
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Right now I have a 17" laptop that rarely moves from the desk, has a nice keyboard, decent screen and its power saving mode is good enough for my CPU needs. If I wanted a desktop that likewise rarely turned on its fans, I'd have to pick hardware that really is not that mainstream and I suspect that it would not be cheaper than a purpose built laptop machine.
enough already , dudes!
any change when the whole european airspace was closed a while ago?
I think most folks understood the first version. Next time you tell the joke you can write "Jake started licking its balls". :)