Just dont think about leaving them around while on holiday in Thailand. You may wake up to a sore rear-end, an enormous phone-bill, and some very confused contacts...
Nokia have been releasing these godawful concepts for at least the last 6 years - none of them have yet seen the light of day.
Possibly the closest was a nasty blue clamshell that motorola released circa 2001 - they never repeated that mistake...
Dr. Hawking further elaborated on his suggestion that the space colonies include 10 women for every man:
"Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature."
That wasnt a report - it was an article. Additionally, it wasnt written by amnesty international, it just so happens to be on their website. Like I said - go read the referenced article.
I love the way people get agressive when they are blatantly wrong. Have I struck a nerve?
"We found the weapons of mass destruction." said American President George W Bush on May 29.
I wouldnt put to much weight on quotes from war-mongering politicians. The article you mention also deliberately misquotes both Amnesty International.
Additionally, the figures provided by Human Rights Watch (which was actually 290,000 come from the Kurds in Northern Iraq (hardly an unbias source), who have been at war with Iraq for over 20 years. When they sided with Iran in the decade long Iran-Iraq war, they included the death-toll for that war as a part of the calculation for genocide.
Finally, all the United Nations did was quote the HRW figure.
That only leaves one organisation on your list - the U.S state department - who quite frankly have their own agenda.
If you cannot tell spin from fact, especially if the sources of your information are far from reliable, censored, and just downright misleading, you are more of a fool than you think:)
Maybe you should look at a more reputable resource as the original poster provided.
Amnesty International reports the death toll under saddam as just over 17,000.
I think you will find that is LESS than those slaughtered by "friendly" forces during the illegal invasion of Iraq...
If it is a couple of "small, esoteric display bugs" that they already know about, and they are not related to a hardware issue, then give me one good reason why they shouldn't fix them before rolling out their software?
The reason they would roll it out is because they do not care about the quality of their product. They just want to make a quick buck.
The size of the project itself is irrelevant - as I mentioned, it is just sloppy development techniques that result in unmanageable software.
That is the biggest load of rubbish I have heared in my entire life.
Software SHOULD NEVER BE SHIPPED WITH KNOWN BUGS.
Sloppy development techniques, and over-ambitious per-release feature-lists are the only reason for extensive known buglists.
From my perspective, hardware incompatibilities are the only reason to have a known buglist - but this should be related to hardware issues only - and not issues caused by the software itself.
It is people like youself who give small, efficient development houses a bad name.
How on earth can you people complain about $0.99 a download? There are a lot of people that need to get paid out of each track sold, and bear in mind the razor thin profit margins apple themselves must be taking.
Here in the UK, we are paying £0.79 ($1.44) for EXACTLY the same music from iTunes. Now THAT is a ripoff.
For years "Free" ISPs have been offsetting their costs via advertising, and branded browsers. And "Free" web-based proxies dynamically modify browser contents to include inline advertisements.
If the combination of two or more prior ideas constitutes a patent, mine is: "Using a mouse to navigate" a "browser which is dynamically modifed when connecting to a wireless access point".
I find this comment to be hateful - not to mention the fact that it is inciting war against a peaceful nation. I urge the moderators to remove this comment immediately, or I will be forced to take legal action.
What a brilliant article! So good in fact, I've registered and posted for the first time in many years of my slashdot reading because of it.
I have a mitac AMD64 "Desktop Replacement" laptop. which has been having horrible trouble overheating. It basically means that I have been unable to play any great games, as the CPU would inevitably overheat (hitting 90'C according to mobmeter), causing the laptop to crash just as gaming was getting interesting. By implementing the techniques shown here, I can keep my CPU running at the maximum speed, yet a LOT cooler - meaning the laptop isnt crashing!. Its now running rock-solid, and I can finally play games!!!!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Guild Wars here I come!
Anyway - THERE is the true value of this article to me - an extra 10% battery life may not be worth all that much, but killing monsters sure as hell is!
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Just dont think about leaving them around while on holiday in Thailand.
You may wake up to a sore rear-end, an enormous phone-bill, and some very confused contacts...
Nokia have been releasing these godawful concepts for at least the last 6 years - none of them have yet seen the light of day. Possibly the closest was a nasty blue clamshell that motorola released circa 2001 - they never repeated that mistake...
.... then a paper will be published on how coffee is a primary cause of cirrhosis
Dr. Hawking further elaborated on his suggestion that the space colonies include 10 women for every man:
"Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature."
That wasnt a report - it was an article.
Additionally, it wasnt written by amnesty international, it just so happens to be on their website.
Like I said - go read the referenced article.
I love the way people get agressive when they are blatantly wrong. Have I struck a nerve?
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"We found the weapons of mass destruction." said American President George W Bush on May 29.
:)
I wouldnt put to much weight on quotes from war-mongering politicians. The article you mention also deliberately misquotes both Amnesty International. Additionally, the figures provided by Human Rights Watch (which was actually 290,000 come from the Kurds in Northern Iraq (hardly an unbias source), who have been at war with Iraq for over 20 years. When they sided with Iran in the decade long Iran-Iraq war, they included the death-toll for that war as a part of the calculation for genocide.
Finally, all the United Nations did was quote the HRW figure.
That only leaves one organisation on your list - the U.S state department - who quite frankly have their own agenda.
If you cannot tell spin from fact, especially if the sources of your information are far from reliable, censored, and just downright misleading, you are more of a fool than you think
I believe "pwned" is the correct expression
Maybe you should look at a more reputable resource as the original poster provided. Amnesty International reports the death toll under saddam as just over 17,000. I think you will find that is LESS than those slaughtered by "friendly" forces during the illegal invasion of Iraq...
And I think that sounds like the spin prior to the war in Iraq.
If it is a couple of "small, esoteric display bugs" that they already know about, and they are not related to a hardware issue, then give me one good reason why they shouldn't fix them before rolling out their software?
The reason they would roll it out is because they do not care about the quality of their product. They just want to make a quick buck.
The size of the project itself is irrelevant - as I mentioned, it is just sloppy development techniques that result in unmanageable software.
That is the biggest load of rubbish I have heared in my entire life. Software SHOULD NEVER BE SHIPPED WITH KNOWN BUGS. Sloppy development techniques, and over-ambitious per-release feature-lists are the only reason for extensive known buglists. From my perspective, hardware incompatibilities are the only reason to have a known buglist - but this should be related to hardware issues only - and not issues caused by the software itself. It is people like youself who give small, efficient development houses a bad name.
.... is it compatible with all those plugins i bought from http://www.sinulate.com/
How on earth can you people complain about $0.99 a download?
There are a lot of people that need to get paid out of each track sold, and bear in mind the razor thin profit margins apple themselves must be taking.
Here in the UK, we are paying £0.79 ($1.44) for EXACTLY the same music from iTunes.
Now THAT is a ripoff.
Is that patentable?
For years "Free" ISPs have been offsetting their costs via advertising, and branded browsers.
And "Free" web-based proxies dynamically modify browser contents to include inline advertisements.
If the combination of two or more prior ideas constitutes a patent, mine is:
"Using a mouse to navigate" a "browser which is dynamically modifed when connecting to a wireless access point".
What a farce.
Software patents are a complete joke.
I really fail to see the interest in this article.
Its just a remote control Tank - I have seen many in gadget shops.
I find this comment to be hateful - not to mention the fact that it is inciting war against a peaceful nation.
I urge the moderators to remove this comment immediately, or I will be forced to take legal action.
What a brilliant article!
So good in fact, I've registered and posted for the first time in many years of my slashdot reading because of it.
I have a mitac AMD64 "Desktop Replacement" laptop. which has been having horrible trouble overheating. It basically means that I have been unable to play any great games, as the CPU would inevitably overheat (hitting 90'C according to mobmeter), causing the laptop to crash just as gaming was getting interesting.
By implementing the techniques shown here, I can keep my CPU running at the maximum speed, yet a LOT cooler - meaning the laptop isnt crashing!. Its now running rock-solid, and I can finally play games!!!!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Guild Wars here I come!
Anyway - THERE is the true value of this article to me - an extra 10% battery life may not be worth all that much, but killing monsters sure as hell is!