But isn't one of the problems (for cache, temp files and so on) the speed to access data on a flash memory, or lack thereof as compared to traditionnal HD?
You must remember (know ?) one thing: the EU current political system has been carefully designed to allow people who shouldn't have that power in the first place - the Commission - have the first and final say in crafting EU's laws (the 'directives').
The Commission mostly present itself as a legislative power, and when they make the various countries' legislatures pass laws that never would had gone through on the local level, the Executive branch moan that it's not their faults but that of big bad ol' EU.
They conveniently forget that the Commission is made-up of people designated by the various Executive powers and from then on are mostly unnaccountable for whatever they do. The 'check and balance' with the parliament is mostly a joke.
Seems I hit a raw nerve there. Guys, that comment was meant as a jest.
That said, considering the number of times I've met people with very high education (I'm talking PHDs here) who were just wages' slaves, I'd say medical doctors are often a bit too quick to complain about their long studies/comparatively low income.
Though you'll note the OP didn't reply either way.
Ah, but the idea here is preciselly to kick out the accumulated trash to have a brand new UI.
For the record, as I'm using linux only boxes and there's no way in hell I'm ever going to install W$, I'll not use this software.
That said, I think it's a good idea which I hope will be implemented in linux's WP. As a side note, I can't help but think that saying an interface that's just tabs accessed commands' icons' blocks requires a steep learning curve is just being full of... brown stuff.
Well, I'd tend to say you just have to do your homework: i.e. get informed before you buy on what you buy. I tend to think about the vast majority of people owning an ipod brainless zombies. There are those who honestly prefer it, but the former just followed the loudest marketing trend (and loudest by so very much I don't know if we can even consider there's been any marketing from others companies).
Consumer electronics do grow old pretty quickly, but I found it has a lot to do with the way you treat them. My GSM phone had the same battery life when I stopped using it as it did when I got it (actually it still did when I turned it on again one year after turning it off), same for the player. As for them getting dirty, each always has it's own case.
As for the monthly cost, I factor that in (and the iphone is in no way better).
That point is actually very interesting as seen from Japan. I was surprised, but when I got my cell phone here (sony-ericson, the only one to have an interface in English and a clickwheel) I found out I could either have a monthly plan of about 3300 or 3700 yens for the same plan. The catch? The cheapest one included a one year plan, whereas I could cancel the other one whenever I wished - I'm unclear as to whether I'd have had to return the phone.
Let see, within the last 6 years, I changed phone once, and that only because I moved from Europe to Japan. Both phones had an upfront cost of 0 plus 1 year contracts.
My current MP3 player cost me about 140$, and I'm considering buying a new one at about 7000 yens (that's around 60$). Both have a FM transmitter integrated (premium feature for me), where you need to buy one for any ipod if you want it.
As for any kind of pda, I'd only have 2 uses for it (reading ebook, but that's pretty unconfortable, and using an app to learn/review kanjis), and nothing worth more than 20000-25000 yens.
Bottom line: I consider Apple's products to have nice interface - but that's only the hardware part: apart from the wheel itself, the ipod has nothing on the competition (and yes, I did test it a bit. I expected much better after all the hype). I expect this new touchscreen to be nice as well.
Nevertheless, when all's said and done, to me that advantage is far from overweighting the inconveniences (price, closed standards and so on).
Well, actually a cell phone CAN be somekind of fashion statement.
Back when they weren't so ubiquitous, I remember seeing people using one that turned out to be a fake.
So I don't doubt for a second there'll be plenty of people buying it to make themselves look cool.
For the record, I won't, for various reason, buy one (nor any other Apple goods, for that matter).
I'm a linux user - have been for I don't how many years. Loath as I am to admit such, for once M$ seem to have had a good idea.
Everything I read in the article about this new UI screams 'interesting/high potential'. I really am eager to try out such an interface, but not to the point of using W$ (what a nightmare). Of course the ability to customise your UI's icons however you see fit in OOffice is a nice workaround, but if we could do that with the added advantage of tabs...
Anybody knows if there's any equivalent under linux, especially in vector graphics/presentation categories?
You should look up the US's debt (I don't know exactly how many trillions). If any other country had such a debt (and I'm speaking relatively to the size of that country's economy), the Argentina's economic collapse would look like a slight bump.
The truth is, as long as the world has to pay for its oil in usd, everything is just peachy for the US - I don't remember which economist it was who said he'd get a good laugh each time he heard that the US got to pay their debt in their own currency.
Interesting little fact: a few months before Iraq was attacked, Hussein had stated he was going to stop selling the oil in usd and go for the euro...
As was said in previous post, if you think a lone person can farm enough items/gold by himself to earn mor than $1M, you're living in fantasyland.
There's no way in hell this guy wasn't a front for a farming organisation/company of some sort.
So, violation of his visa + caught = get out. Such laws are the same in pretty much all modern countries - which you're completely entitled to discuss, but that's an altogether different subject.
Actually, the way 'democracies' work right now (I'm talking about the supposedly real ones here, like western countries and so on) ensure that the persons in power are much more power hungry than most anybody else.
This kind of people should't be allowed to have any power. Ever.
money is a token which should amount to the sum of the value of goods in the economy.
That's correct, and ultimately money represent the amount of work invested in producing whatever good (I'm deliberately ignoring currencies' markets and so on here, for simplification sake). That amount of work is time invested (that of those involved in the production, including production of basic raw materials).
So, since everything is mostly made up of work (time invested) and very little of the initial raw materials, and since it has a monetary value, you can easily look at it as time solidified. Hence money is time solidified.
Now about inflation; don't believe the recent hype, it isn't all that bad: inflation is the process through which money is created (you make a loan, which you'll pay with your future (at the time of the loan) work. Once again, time solidified, but this time (sorry), it's future time.
The standard method to control how much (total) loans are made is through the interest rates. Low, money flows freely, lots of loans are mad, and the inflation tends to be high (which can be a good thing for the average Joe, as that means he won't need to give back as much money, in absolute value - the same reasoning applies to companies whose business isn't to lend money). When they're high, the inflation will be low (extreme case, deflation). Money then flows much slower, and it's the money lenders who're having a good time.
So, not quite as simple as saying 'inflation is bad, bad, bad!'
You're assuming that, except for "wealth" that has been created, everything stays the same.
You've created nothing, you just converted Time (yours) into money (solidified Time, in essence).
It's far from worthless, but it's quite different from creating 'wealth' (in the stricter, Semantics'sense of the word, creating wealth is impossible).
Well, you're getting to the core of it, I think (though you may have to take other parameters into account, such as the credits duration and what it's used for).
That said, such kind of law would go directly against the interest of the aforementionned businesses which, inherently, have deep pockets. Guess who they're talking to, inviting onto luxuries boat, financing the electoral campaign...
Currently, I have both Ubuntu and Mandriva 2006 on my box, and I keep mainly using Mdv despite its many issues.
It's amazing the difference some details can make: my environment of choice is Windowmaker, and Mandriva is, as far as I know, the only distrib that integrates it properly (read recent release and menu consistent with the distrib witout having to set it up). I know many will say Windowmaker is a thing of the past, but at least you can switch between virtual desktop using the wheel.
If you want to do that in Gnome Ubuntu, you have to switch from metacity to openbox, but then trying to use the update manager crashes the system.
Not to mention that I like having a control center you can start up with one click/command. Since it's gpl, I still don't understand why nobody (except PCLinuxOS which is a spin-off anyway) has grabbed it yet. It may need some tweaking to do so, but I feel it'd fit perfectly well in a distro such as Ubuntu.
Remember, basically what you possess is, in one form or another, Time solidified - I'm oversimplifying here to quikly get to the gist.
When you're employed, you're selling your own Time, which gets to be converted in hard currencies. You then use those to support yourself and your close ones (food and so on). Whenever you buy a long lasting item (car, pc, you name it...) you essentially convert your 'cristalized time' from currency to item.
Now here is the fun thing: when you buy something on credit, you do exactly the same thing, but you're using future Time instead of past Time.
But here is the catch: what is the cost of currency (basically, the overhead of converting Future Time into money). That's credit's rate. Whenever they're low, that means Future Time is cheap. In that case, money tends to flows freely, with a high level of enterprise work and you can see a quick overall growth. When they're high, Future Time is expensive, everything slows down, including growth.
First case seems good, doesn't it? One thing though, it does result in inflation which is the dearth of anybody whose business is to lend money in one form or another.
Yes, _that_ is pretty much the all point of 'fashion' (paying high prices for junk you wouldn't touch with a stick if it came at half price without the 'fashionable' tag).
But war IS a profitable endeavor. Problem is, in Roman times the profit reached every ROMAN citizen.
US's war follow the same profile, but for the average US citizen, the "profit" is mostly used to keep things more or less as they were - standards-of-living wise. Those who really profit from them are very few (friends and members of the current US government).
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But isn't one of the problems (for cache, temp files and so on) the speed to access data on a flash memory, or lack thereof as compared to traditionnal HD?
The Commission mostly present itself as a legislative power, and when they make the various countries' legislatures pass laws that never would had gone through on the local level, the Executive branch moan that it's not their faults but that of big bad ol' EU.
They conveniently forget that the Commission is made-up of people designated by the various Executive powers and from then on are mostly unnaccountable for whatever they do. The 'check and balance' with the parliament is mostly a joke.
Seems I hit a raw nerve there. Guys, that comment was meant as a jest.
That said, considering the number of times I've met people with very high education (I'm talking PHDs here) who were just wages' slaves, I'd say medical doctors are often a bit too quick to complain about their long studies/comparatively low income.
Though you'll note the OP didn't reply either way.
You became a doctor to make money?
'Three-dimensional characters'?
Dude, you've got to tell us what you've been smoking when you were reading these books.
For the record, as I'm using linux only boxes and there's no way in hell I'm ever going to install W$, I'll not use this software.
That said, I think it's a good idea which I hope will be implemented in linux's WP. As a side note, I can't help but think that saying an interface that's just tabs accessed commands' icons' blocks requires a steep learning curve is just being full of... brown stuff.
Consumer electronics do grow old pretty quickly, but I found it has a lot to do with the way you treat them. My GSM phone had the same battery life when I stopped using it as it did when I got it (actually it still did when I turned it on again one year after turning it off), same for the player. As for them getting dirty, each always has it's own case.
As for the monthly cost, I factor that in (and the iphone is in no way better).
That point is actually very interesting as seen from Japan. I was surprised, but when I got my cell phone here (sony-ericson, the only one to have an interface in English and a clickwheel) I found out I could either have a monthly plan of about 3300 or 3700 yens for the same plan. The catch? The cheapest one included a one year plan, whereas I could cancel the other one whenever I wished - I'm unclear as to whether I'd have had to return the phone.
Europe's providers really are conniving bastards
My current MP3 player cost me about 140$, and I'm considering buying a new one at about 7000 yens (that's around 60$). Both have a FM transmitter integrated (premium feature for me), where you need to buy one for any ipod if you want it. As for any kind of pda, I'd only have 2 uses for it (reading ebook, but that's pretty unconfortable, and using an app to learn/review kanjis), and nothing worth more than 20000-25000 yens.
Bottom line: I consider Apple's products to have nice interface - but that's only the hardware part: apart from the wheel itself, the ipod has nothing on the competition (and yes, I did test it a bit. I expected much better after all the hype). I expect this new touchscreen to be nice as well.
Nevertheless, when all's said and done, to me that advantage is far from overweighting the inconveniences (price, closed standards and so on).
Back when they weren't so ubiquitous, I remember seeing people using one that turned out to be a fake. So I don't doubt for a second there'll be plenty of people buying it to make themselves look cool.
For the record, I won't, for various reason, buy one (nor any other Apple goods, for that matter).
I'm a linux user - have been for I don't how many years. Loath as I am to admit such, for once M$ seem to have had a good idea.
Everything I read in the article about this new UI screams 'interesting/high potential'. I really am eager to try out such an interface, but not to the point of using W$ (what a nightmare). Of course the ability to customise your UI's icons however you see fit in OOffice is a nice workaround, but if we could do that with the added advantage of tabs...
Anybody knows if there's any equivalent under linux, especially in vector graphics/presentation categories?
The truth is, as long as the world has to pay for its oil in usd, everything is just peachy for the US - I don't remember which economist it was who said he'd get a good laugh each time he heard that the US got to pay their debt in their own currency.
Interesting little fact: a few months before Iraq was attacked, Hussein had stated he was going to stop selling the oil in usd and go for the euro...
There's no way in hell this guy wasn't a front for a farming organisation/company of some sort.
So, violation of his visa + caught = get out. Such laws are the same in pretty much all modern countries - which you're completely entitled to discuss, but that's an altogether different subject.
This kind of people should't be allowed to have any power. Ever.
The one exception is, of course, the death sentence.
That's correct, and ultimately money represent the amount of work invested in producing whatever good (I'm deliberately ignoring currencies' markets and so on here, for simplification sake). That amount of work is time invested (that of those involved in the production, including production of basic raw materials).
So, since everything is mostly made up of work (time invested) and very little of the initial raw materials, and since it has a monetary value, you can easily look at it as time solidified. Hence money is time solidified.
Now about inflation; don't believe the recent hype, it isn't all that bad: inflation is the process through which money is created (you make a loan, which you'll pay with your future (at the time of the loan) work. Once again, time solidified, but this time (sorry), it's future time.
The standard method to control how much (total) loans are made is through the interest rates. Low, money flows freely, lots of loans are mad, and the inflation tends to be high (which can be a good thing for the average Joe, as that means he won't need to give back as much money, in absolute value - the same reasoning applies to companies whose business isn't to lend money). When they're high, the inflation will be low (extreme case, deflation). Money then flows much slower, and it's the money lenders who're having a good time.
So, not quite as simple as saying 'inflation is bad, bad, bad!'
You've created nothing, you just converted Time (yours) into money (solidified Time, in essence).
It's far from worthless, but it's quite different from creating 'wealth' (in the stricter, Semantics'sense of the word, creating wealth is impossible).
Yeah, it's a good reason to brush up on your Japanese - exclusive language of the manual since they don't sell oversea...
That said, such kind of law would go directly against the interest of the aforementionned businesses which, inherently, have deep pockets. Guess who they're talking to, inviting onto luxuries boat, financing the electoral campaign...
Remember INAE (I am not an economist).
Whether he'll something out before the kinks are worked out of 2007 is an entire different thing altogether
It's amazing the difference some details can make: my environment of choice is Windowmaker, and Mandriva is, as far as I know, the only distrib that integrates it properly (read recent release and menu consistent with the distrib witout having to set it up). I know many will say Windowmaker is a thing of the past, but at least you can switch between virtual desktop using the wheel.
If you want to do that in Gnome Ubuntu, you have to switch from metacity to openbox, but then trying to use the update manager crashes the system.
Not to mention that I like having a control center you can start up with one click/command. Since it's gpl, I still don't understand why nobody (except PCLinuxOS which is a spin-off anyway) has grabbed it yet. It may need some tweaking to do so, but I feel it'd fit perfectly well in a distro such as Ubuntu.
I thought it was a thinly veiled version of Chicago.
When you're employed, you're selling your own Time, which gets to be converted in hard currencies. You then use those to support yourself and your close ones (food and so on). Whenever you buy a long lasting item (car, pc, you name it...) you essentially convert your 'cristalized time' from currency to item.
Now here is the fun thing: when you buy something on credit, you do exactly the same thing, but you're using future Time instead of past Time.
But here is the catch: what is the cost of currency (basically, the overhead of converting Future Time into money). That's credit's rate. Whenever they're low, that means Future Time is cheap. In that case, money tends to flows freely, with a high level of enterprise work and you can see a quick overall growth. When they're high, Future Time is expensive, everything slows down, including growth.
First case seems good, doesn't it? One thing though, it does result in inflation which is the dearth of anybody whose business is to lend money in one form or another.
Yes, _that_ is pretty much the all point of 'fashion' (paying high prices for junk you wouldn't touch with a stick if it came at half price without the 'fashionable' tag).
I guess you guys threw that out the window quite a while ago...
US's war follow the same profile, but for the average US citizen, the "profit" is mostly used to keep things more or less as they were - standards-of-living wise. Those who really profit from them are very few (friends and members of the current US government).