I use Windows Mobile devices since 2004 and I love them - they are very versatile. Never had the problems you mentioned so maybe your device is broken or you have installed a lot of crappy software on it.
I personally don't care, since you are not tied to this store to get applications for Windows Mobile. This is not Apple where you have to jailbreak the device to install software from anywhere.
So basically you say that you can't close tax holes because tax holes won't be closed. That is only a sign that noone really wanted to close tax holes in first place, they were just talking about it in the hope to collect votes.
If the government really wanted to close the tax holes, they would do it. Nothing hinders them to hire lawyers to find all tax holes themselves, nothing hinders them ignoring lobbyists and nothing hinders them to write a sensible tax code without holes themselves. Well, nothing except greed, actually.
Actually, wrong. It would lead to more jobs. Why? Let me explain. Only large companies can afford large scale tax evasion. Because of that smaller local companies cannot compete with large companies (they cannot evade taxes) and go out of business. If large companies cannot evade taxes, smaller local companies suddenly become more competitive and that will actually create jobs.
Small and medium sized businesses are pretty much the backbone of the economy and provide most jobs by percentage, so rising their competitiveness is a very good idea.
You forgot one small thing: corporate executives are in most cases just employees. It is not their money. But it's okay, most corporate executives forget that themselves.
You also forgot another small thing: most countries with low taxes have a piss-poor infrastructure and a piss-poor population. There is not much money to earn there. And that is why corporations still do a lot of business in countries where taxes are high.
That might be, but GP talks about things that should have been taught at the high school already. As GP said, most of those things should be mastered by the age of 10 and the rest by the age of 15. It is not rocket science.
The test was only to look whether the energy won of the spin of the turbine in a shutdown process is enough to drive the cooling pumps for the time the backup diesel generators are starting (they need about a minute to go to full power). The test was fully approved and the reactor had adequate cooling for all time. To be absolutely correct, since according to the test plan additional water pumps were activated, the reactor was cooled much better than usual. The presence of so much water, which is a neutron absorber, together with the xenon poisoning, caused the reaction to slow down so much, that all control rods had to be pulled to sustain the reaction at all. If the crew would let the control rods in the reactor, the reactor would have shut down at this low power level.
The problem is, that at this point, only cooling water and the xenon poisoning were controlling the reaction. After the test was done (and it came out that the spin of the shutting down turbine is not enough to power the cooling pumps) a SCRAM was ordered. The control rods were inserted slowly, the water was displaced with graphite tips, reaction spiked suddenly and everything went boom.
Current user manual for RBMK reactor forbids operating the reactor at a power lower than AFAIR 700MW thermal because at low power the reactor could not be controlled anymore (as you could see from the discription above). The older user manual which was current at the time before the accident, never had that restriction (although, as I mentioned, after the accident at the Leningrad power plant, the problem was known but ignored by the authorities).
You should read more current technical reports. Back then IAEA received misinformation and blatant lies from the soviet government. All blame was shifted on the operators because of the "Communist Tech Cannot Fail" - syndrom.
Now we know, that although the operator shouldn't have altered the test programme in his own initiative, the crew actions never went against the reactor user manual (which I have also read - Russian is my native tongue).
Also, it wasn't reactor overheat which caused the rows to bend, it was a runaway reaction because graphite rod tips dispaced cooling water. Water is a much better neutron absorber than graphit, so when the water was displaced with the graphit, the reaction spiked twentyfold within three seconds and THAT caused the core to overheat. Because the control rod insertion mechanism was quite slow, the control rod tubes were warped at that second and that, in turn, caused the control rods to struck in their position, further boosting the reaction. Two seconds later it went boom.
1) The main reason for the Chernobyl disaster was a bad reactor plant design. A SCRAM should never ever bring the reactor to explosion. After the disaster, the control rods were heavily modified. Also, the control team never did anything against the reactor user manual.
2) This problem with the design was known a couple of years before the Chernobyl accident. Both the reactors of Leningrad nuclear power plant and of the Ignalina nuclear power plant, reactors of the same type, had serious accidents of the same type (SCRAM caused a nearly runaway reaction). At this point the problem became known, the designers were informed of it and even got some recommendations how to redesign the control rods to avoid this kind of problems in the future. The designers decided that since they were very important, well-known and highly-decorated scientists, they don't have to listen to "common people". The result is known.
3) There were some other nuclear accidents in the USSR. The most prominent is Mayak.
Nonetheless USSR was one of the nuclear reactor pioneers. The first commercial nuclear power plant was a soviet one. And there were some decent reactors like the current VVER line.
There is a Microsoft store for Windows Mobile apps now? I had Windows Mobile devices for years, but never heard of that one - always downloaded WM apps from the author's sites or WM app sites.
In terms of turnover, maybe, because current games are almost like movies. But neither in terms of game amount nor in terms of game studio/publisher amount. Remember the rate at which games came out 15-20 years ago.
Aw come on, it's not SMD soldering. I also feared soldering anything before I had to do it at my current working place. An engineer colleague saw what I was doing, said that it was all wrong and took 10 minutes to teach me. It is actually pretty easy, as long as you've got a decent soldering iron.
replacing the backlight isn't that difficult - at least for hp omnibook 510. i had to carefully open the plastic thingy around the old ccfl, cut the connectors, solder them to the new one and put it again into that plastic thingy.
You must remember, that Judaism is pretty old - it goes back for about 2500-3000 years. The laws of this religion were made for one important goal: surviving of a large tribe of people in a particular piece of land. Since the crowd is stupid and don't think long term, the only way to force them to respect survival laws is to make them believe they came from their god.
This special thing, that pigs should not be eat, is not about fridges but about food concurrency. Sheep, cows and goats feed grass. Pigs eat everything people eat so they are compete with people for food (there was not so much food waste back then). And that is a bad idea. In other places the situation was different, pigs could be fed with acorns, but there weren't that many oaks in ancient Israel (partially because many deserts, partially because of massive deforestation for ship building).
Intel is not punished for being successfull but for breaking the law. Since Intel is a pretty large company which can afford lawyers who can evaluate company actions beforehand, you can safely say that Intel willingly broke the law.
But maybe in your opinion, laissez-faire is the way of life and Al Capone was also punished for being successfull.
HTC Touch Pro 2 is pretty much what you describe. I currently own a HTC Touch HD which is pretty much all that except full keyboard (don't need it). Touch Pro 2 is the same but with a keyboard and a somewhat smaller screen (3.6" 800x480 vs 3.8" 800x480).
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I use Windows Mobile devices since 2004 and I love them - they are very versatile. Never had the problems you mentioned so maybe your device is broken or you have installed a lot of crappy software on it.
Skype for Windows Mobile works fine over UMTS.
Reading this I am starting to wonder how I managed to get software for my windows mobile devices all these years since I got an XDA in 2004.
I personally don't care, since you are not tied to this store to get applications for Windows Mobile. This is not Apple where you have to jailbreak the device to install software from anywhere.
So basically you say that you can't close tax holes because tax holes won't be closed. That is only a sign that noone really wanted to close tax holes in first place, they were just talking about it in the hope to collect votes.
If the government really wanted to close the tax holes, they would do it. Nothing hinders them to hire lawyers to find all tax holes themselves, nothing hinders them ignoring lobbyists and nothing hinders them to write a sensible tax code without holes themselves. Well, nothing except greed, actually.
Actually, wrong. It would lead to more jobs. Why? Let me explain.
Only large companies can afford large scale tax evasion. Because of that smaller local companies cannot compete with large companies (they cannot evade taxes) and go out of business. If large companies cannot evade taxes, smaller local companies suddenly become more competitive and that will actually create jobs.
Small and medium sized businesses are pretty much the backbone of the economy and provide most jobs by percentage, so rising their competitiveness is a very good idea.
You forgot one small thing: corporate executives are in most cases just employees. It is not their money.
But it's okay, most corporate executives forget that themselves.
You also forgot another small thing: most countries with low taxes have a piss-poor infrastructure and a piss-poor population. There is not much money to earn there. And that is why corporations still do a lot of business in countries where taxes are high.
That might be, but GP talks about things that should have been taught at the high school already. As GP said, most of those things should be mastered by the age of 10 and the rest by the age of 15. It is not rocket science.
Not at all.
The test was only to look whether the energy won of the spin of the turbine in a shutdown process is enough to drive the cooling pumps for the time the backup diesel generators are starting (they need about a minute to go to full power). The test was fully approved and the reactor had adequate cooling for all time. To be absolutely correct, since according to the test plan additional water pumps were activated, the reactor was cooled much better than usual. The presence of so much water, which is a neutron absorber, together with the xenon poisoning, caused the reaction to slow down so much, that all control rods had to be pulled to sustain the reaction at all. If the crew would let the control rods in the reactor, the reactor would have shut down at this low power level.
The problem is, that at this point, only cooling water and the xenon poisoning were controlling the reaction. After the test was done (and it came out that the spin of the shutting down turbine is not enough to power the cooling pumps) a SCRAM was ordered. The control rods were inserted slowly, the water was displaced with graphite tips, reaction spiked suddenly and everything went boom.
Current user manual for RBMK reactor forbids operating the reactor at a power lower than AFAIR 700MW thermal because at low power the reactor could not be controlled anymore (as you could see from the discription above). The older user manual which was current at the time before the accident, never had that restriction (although, as I mentioned, after the accident at the Leningrad power plant, the problem was known but ignored by the authorities).
Thanks to Pink Floyd pigs flew over the English channel in 1976 already.
You should read more current technical reports. Back then IAEA received misinformation and blatant lies from the soviet government. All blame was shifted on the operators because of the "Communist Tech Cannot Fail" - syndrom.
Now we know, that although the operator shouldn't have altered the test programme in his own initiative, the crew actions never went against the reactor user manual (which I have also read - Russian is my native tongue).
Also, it wasn't reactor overheat which caused the rows to bend, it was a runaway reaction because graphite rod tips dispaced cooling water. Water is a much better neutron absorber than graphit, so when the water was displaced with the graphit, the reaction spiked twentyfold within three seconds and THAT caused the core to overheat. Because the control rod insertion mechanism was quite slow, the control rod tubes were warped at that second and that, in turn, caused the control rods to struck in their position, further boosting the reaction. Two seconds later it went boom.
1) The main reason for the Chernobyl disaster was a bad reactor plant design. A SCRAM should never ever bring the reactor to explosion. After the disaster, the control rods were heavily modified. Also, the control team never did anything against the reactor user manual.
2) This problem with the design was known a couple of years before the Chernobyl accident. Both the reactors of Leningrad nuclear power plant and of the Ignalina nuclear power plant, reactors of the same type, had serious accidents of the same type (SCRAM caused a nearly runaway reaction). At this point the problem became known, the designers were informed of it and even got some recommendations how to redesign the control rods to avoid this kind of problems in the future. The designers decided that since they were very important, well-known and highly-decorated scientists, they don't have to listen to "common people". The result is known.
3) There were some other nuclear accidents in the USSR. The most prominent is Mayak.
Nonetheless USSR was one of the nuclear reactor pioneers. The first commercial nuclear power plant was a soviet one. And there were some decent reactors like the current VVER line.
There is a Microsoft store for Windows Mobile apps now?
I had Windows Mobile devices for years, but never heard of that one - always downloaded WM apps from the author's sites or WM app sites.
Actually, developing for Windows Mobile is nice. You have the option of using C, VB, .NET compact and also open source development kits like Lazarus.
In terms of turnover, maybe, because current games are almost like movies. But neither in terms of game amount nor in terms of game studio/publisher amount.
Remember the rate at which games came out 15-20 years ago.
Aw come on, it's not SMD soldering. I also feared soldering anything before I had to do it at my current working place. An engineer colleague saw what I was doing, said that it was all wrong and took 10 minutes to teach me.
It is actually pretty easy, as long as you've got a decent soldering iron.
replacing the backlight isn't that difficult - at least for hp omnibook 510. i had to carefully open the plastic thingy around the old ccfl, cut the connectors, solder them to the new one and put it again into that plastic thingy.
pchub.com is also a good source for notebook parts.
Maybe I can explain.
You must remember, that Judaism is pretty old - it goes back for about 2500-3000 years.
The laws of this religion were made for one important goal: surviving of a large tribe of people in a particular piece of land.
Since the crowd is stupid and don't think long term, the only way to force them to respect survival laws is to make them believe they came from their god.
This special thing, that pigs should not be eat, is not about fridges but about food concurrency. Sheep, cows and goats feed grass. Pigs eat everything people eat so they are compete with people for food (there was not so much food waste back then). And that is a bad idea. In other places the situation was different, pigs could be fed with acorns, but there weren't that many oaks in ancient Israel (partially because many deserts, partially because of massive deforestation for ship building).
Drug dealers are scum.
Wrong.
Intel is not punished for being successfull but for breaking the law. Since Intel is a pretty large company which can afford lawyers who can evaluate company actions beforehand, you can safely say that Intel willingly broke the law.
But maybe in your opinion, laissez-faire is the way of life and Al Capone was also punished for being successfull.
Bingo!
there is an old russian joke going along the lines of:
- What's the name of your cute doggie, little girl?
- Boar.
- Why's that?
- He fucks pigs.
Huh?
"Go to the devil" is probably the mildest expletive either in German and in Russian.
By the way, the word for "to fuck" in russian is "yebat'" and is indeed considered unprintable.
HTC Touch Pro 2 is pretty much what you describe. I currently own a HTC Touch HD which is pretty much all that except full keyboard (don't need it). Touch Pro 2 is the same but with a keyboard and a somewhat smaller screen (3.6" 800x480 vs 3.8" 800x480).