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Posts by Trevor_Pott
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World's cheapest tablet just got CHEAPER
Re: Well Said
They aren't all going to be intelligent enough to benefit from the tablets. I fear you miss the point. These tablets are simply not going to benefit every child. They aren't meant to. They are there to be a resource for the small percentage of children that are bright and curious enough to take advantage of what they offer.
No country - not India nor Canada - has a surefire way of identifying, isolating and nurturing genius. The best any of them can do is give geniuses the tools to make something of themselves, and in doing so elevate the communities they inhabit.
These tablets are not a 1:1 cure for poverty. They are a cheap (for a government) shotgun approach to knowledge dispensation with the aim that a rising tide will lift all boats. Capture the imagination of the bright sparks, feed their hungry minds and watch them find solutions to the problems around them that we ourselves would never have thought of.
This is a strategic play, not a tactical one.
Bunging sandwiches at poor people solves their hunger today. Plunking a coal plant and some wires near a village provides emergency relief to today's</I. electricity problem, it does nothing to solve the longer term issues that made that region so poor int he first place, or solve the pollution, etc issues that come attendant with today's technologies.
These tablets will nurture the young minds of the future, to solve tomorrow's problems with a point of view that nobody currently has. Orthogonal solutions are born of necessity and these kids will have <i>necessity. A tablet can be charged from a solar panel, or even a hand crank. An encyclopedia can be downloaded as an offline app.
Kids who are starving for knowledge will find a way to use this new tool they've been given to fill the void.
Yes, India has tactical issues that need solving, but this is a strategic investment in their future. It's a damned good one, and it will produce exceptional results. Not for every child, but for their society as a whole.
Re: Well Said
You can get access to the full-blown PC at the library, school, etc. They don't have to be one-a-home devices to change the world. Access to the knowledge of the net...that does.
Gods you guys are negative. Me. I am saying you are negative. About something involving tablets. That's got to win some sort of prize.
I don't care how "outdated" the tablet is, this promises to put access to the internet's full trove of knowledge in the hands of every child in the most populous nation on Earth. Just getting these kids access to Wikipedia is enough to spark an imagination, fuel a curious mind or give someone a means to finding the information they need to help themselves advance their station.
When I was a child my access to the world larger than my school, schoolbus and immediate neighbourhood was a much beloved and cherished Encarta 1994 CD. I read, watched and listed to every single one of the entries on that CD. It opened my mind to possibilities I never would have considered, left exposed to just my local school system alone.
Combined with the early pre-web internet (BBSes and IRC baby!) I had discovered a new world that defined the rest of my life.
There are over a billion people in India and growing rapidly. Over a seventh of all humanities geniuses belong to that country. The entrepreneurs, engineers, doctors and artists of an entire generation will have early access to inspiration and education because of this simple, subsidized, outdated piece of equipment that you so haughtily sneer at.
It isn't a full-blown PC designed for productivity and with the software to allow these kids to really make their dreams come true. Access to those will still be needed, separate and independent of these tablets.
What this represents, however, is unlimited access to information. The answers to virtually any question thee kids could possibly have is in their pocket, at their fingertips 24 hours a day. If the answer isn't there, then the knowledge required to conduct experiments to obtain the answer is in that one little device..
That's amazing. Kudos to India.
Feminist Software Foundation gets grumpy with GitHub … or does it?
You seem to be positing a hypothetical scenario in which a man is not wrong. Such a scenario cannot exist.
Yeah, but at first, nobody believed that Amazing Grace had a working compiler. She had to fight like a caged rat to convince people. That makes all compilers symbolic of the oppressive patriarchy's refusal to place trust and faith in female professionals.
Microsoft yanks Surface 2 DIM SCREEN of DEATH fix in update snafu
I think the dichotomy is that you view general purpose PCs becoming mainframes: things that require large companies to buy. I don't. SMBs will still need general purpose computers. Many home users will as well. Yes, they'll move back up in price from the $400 range, but I don't see them going much higher than $2500 for the entry level stuff. Workstation-class systems will still be workstation-class systems and I just can't see that changing any time soon.
When I compare that to smallish virtual cluster - say three nodes + software - that is getting into $30K. That is where I see your "lathe." That's where a business needs to exist even to play the game.
The problem with tablets and other CE tat "killing the PC" is that you can't kill demand. As high as demand for CE tat will be (and frankly, all signs are that tablet demand is levelling out in the first world). Maybe the OS won't be OSX or Windows. Maybe it will be a hybrid like ChromeOS or maybe the full-time dev I'm hoping to be able to hire to work on the ReactOS project will tip the scales and that will take off. Maybe a lot of things...but I don't see the general purpose PC dying.
What I do see is a choice: Microsoft and Apple can choose to own that market or not. It's theirs to throw away. No, the market won't show growth. But the productivity endpoint market will still sit there, being a good little earner for decades to come.
...just like making screwdrivers.
Anywho, cheers and have a good holiday season!
Re: what to buy
@Goat Jam, Again, i disagree with you.
You're right, I did not understand your use of gentrification in this context. That said, I still think you're incorrect.
Will purpose-build computers outsell general-purpose PCs? Absolutely. They always have. (See: embedded computing.) There is a new purpose-built PC: the consumptive tablet. It doesn't invalidate the need for general-purpose PCs. Nothing does, or ever will.
General purpose PCs are a professional tool. They are required by professionals of many stripes to build the things that companies need. 10 years, 20, 50, 100 years from now this will still bee true. No matter how narrowly tailored and purpose-build the individual computing devices of the future are.
Your pessimism ia also evident here. At some point you cannot create "one device per task" and charge the hoi polloi for a different widget for everything. The trend is to pay the milled masses ever less: eventually you end up with a set of life gizmos that are "minimum must haves" which cost more than the disposable income of the average wage earner. That can't last: no economy can support that.
Either the market will solve the problem (ha!) by "reinventing" (or more accurately re-popularizing) the general purpose computing platform) or governments will intervene.
In the meantime and between time, selling professional productivity tools (upgradable, powerful general purpose computer, operating systems and applications) is still a hundred-of-millions-of-units-per-year market, even if it is contracting at current. It will stabilize, not evaporate, and abse number of these general-use PCs will sell every year.
They are no different than any household appliance. The explosive growth of washing machine sales levelled out a decade or two after their introduction, but holy amazeballs, batman, you can still buy the smeggling things! Indeed, the washing machines available today are even significantly advanced over the units on available 20 years ago.
Imagine that.
Just because selling power drills is the current growth market doesn't mean everyone is going to rush to throw out their 512-piece manual tool set, or that manufacturers will stop making hammers, screwdrivers or ratchets.
Oddly enough, both screwdriver sets and power drills sell just fine.
Whether or not Microsoft in particular chooses to keep a hand in the productivity computing market is an open question, and that is exactly where evangelism and grassroots movements come in. It is by demonstrating not only that a passionate market remains that we can show them with minor investment (and resolving their mistakes) that there is still money to be made here.
Ultimately, that's the goal: making money.
Tablets, wearable computing, the internet of things and so forth are and devices, not or devices. They are complimentary to your general purpose productivity computer, not replacements for it.
Not everyone needs a digital productivity tool. Not everyone needs a screwdriver set either. But hundreds of millions still do, and someone will keep addressing that market.
Re: what to buy
With the exception of the Empire of Sadness, I don't really get angry at anyone. Even people I consider to be the worst humans on the planet - various warlords, the government of Burma, Dick Cheney, General Alexander, etc - elicit more of a sadness than anger.
I can count on one hand the number of posts in which I was actually angry while I wrote it. Frustrated at things that refuse to install? Sure. But that's transient. In fact, writing comments helps those sorts of frustrations dissipate.
Passion is not anger. Nor is zeal. Telling me to be passionate about things is like telling a fish not to swim of a human not to breathe. It is simply a part of my personality. It can not be disabled.
Additionally, I also disagree with you that I am in way asking Microsoft to cater to "frontiersmen." Quite the opposite: I rather loudly insist they continue to cater to the entrenched gentry instead of going out and chasing after rogues and renegades.
You and I see the world in very different ways, I expect.
Re: what to buy
I disagree with your thesis. People being angry over Microsoft's actions has indeed caused changes. The thing is, in order to cause changes you need to be angry everywhere. You need the common man to say "no". You need pros, partners and more to stand up and say "no."
Getting Microsoft to change requires a constant drumbeat of change. Everywhere they turn they need to see opposition to hostile choices and unpopular "features." We wield the only power Microsoft cares about: our own wallets.
Some of us, however, also wield influence. That influence can take the form of direct purchasing power by being a decision maker somewhere important. It can be in the form of being a regulator (or influencing a regulator) or it could be in the form of being a respected individual in authority with a following.
Alternately, that influence can come from the power of arguments; or from biting sarcasm, barely repressed rage, etc...tailor your text to your audience. There are tens of thousands of readers of El Reg's comments section. There are over 9 million readers of the site itself. Add in Social media amplification through Twitter, writing for SearchVMware and other sites...my angry ranting has reach.
Our options are more than "accept what's on the plate or walk away from the table." They always have been. Changing the course of the beast is a long, miserable, thankless task, but it is a possible one. (If only just barely).
The beauty of it - for me, anyways - is that it doesn't take up much of my time. I'm a writer. Rattling off a few thousand words in a thread takes me a matter of a few minutes. It lets me vent some steam and even try to put ideas that are rattling around in my head into an organized form. It's like an alpha test lab for some article writing.
I thrive on the challenges brought forth by other commenters. Sometimes they point out quite legitimate flaws in my logic. Other times they are completely irrational. Either way, attacking the problem in different ways - using different tones, different words, different styles of logical argumentation or emotional appeal - allows me to test drive writing concepts on real live people.
If you think for a moment that I get angry writing in the comments, you're mistaken. Oh, I'm often furious at the Empire of Sadness for making my life miserable, but that would be the case whether or not I skewered some hapless nerf herder in the wild text fields.
Instead, I get to vent. To let the pressure off. It helps, especially when I am trying to do something miserable. Like Install the Windows Azure Pack in it's entirety in 4 hours. And components for one of the critical items won't download. Because cocks. (Thanks Microsoft!)
So whilst I'm busy inventing new curse words in three or four different languages trying to get the damned widget to work, taking two or three minutes out to rip off a comment like this one provides me an odd sort of Zen. I don't expect that you'll understand it - it's a quirk of my psychology, not yours - but I hope that (one day) you learn to accept it.
Re: With Surfaces potentially going under Christmas trees this season....
Again, any devices shipping with Lithium battery packs in the volumes achieved by the iPad will have some units that do this. Boeing airplanes do this.
That Microsoft hasn't' had a surface spontaneously combust is merely an indication that they've shipped a pitiful amount of them, nothing more. All sorts of consumer - or even professional, industrial and military - electronics that ships with lithium packs have had the same self-immolation issues over the years.
That isn't bad design. It isn't bad engineering. (Well, Boeing...) It's bad quality control and razor-thin manufacturing margins. The only problem with attacking Apple for that is that Microsoft's kit is made by the same companies on the same bloody lines. (Actually, IIRC, Apple has the best QA in the business and some of the highest wages for the assemblers.)
There are lots of reasons to lay into Apple. That isn't one.
Re: what to buy
Uh, you're berating me for "riding the Microsoft train"? The fuck, what?
Dude, I give more to open source than I do in federal taxes and I am building out my company in the hopes that 2014 will see one - maybe two - full time dev positions payed for by my company to advance the technologies needed to move more and more of my customers aware from Microsoft.
...what are you on about?
"What's my experience?"
I am the systems administrator for a photo lab that owns the profesisonal photography market for western Canada. There are some 4000 pro photographers whom I deal with through them and a few dozen that are large enough to require the IT services of my consulting company directly.
I have worked with these people on damned near every kind of portable endpoint imaginable. From 17" notebooks that were workstation-class (I.E. they plugged into La Cie monitors back in the grey room and needed to do full DDC/CI communication to get automated calibration) to tablets to OQO devices, portable servers, mini-racks on wheels and everything in between.
If there's an off-the-shelf solution for the photographic industry, I've used it. If there's a custom solution, I've designed it. A good chunk of the non-Adobe hardware - and software - that gets built for professional photographers has had my personal input involved.
I give zero fucks about fanboyishness. I don't care who makes the widget, the software or so on and so forth. I don't care if the solution is a tablet, a notebook, a PC or a server rack. What I care about is that when my photographers go into the field they have tools that work. These have to be tools the photographers understand, that are unbelievably reliable and they have to be cheap. (Photographers - with rare exceptions - don't have money to spend on IT.)
Tablets just haven't passed muster so far. We've trailed hundreds over the past decade with dozens of companies. Including both Surfaces. They aren't good enough yet. They certainly don't handle the requirements of things like Flow, SchoolDays, PDI, ROES, KPDP2 or other industry standard software. In some cases it's a screen res issue. In others it is a requirement to pin the CPU at the redline for an hour.
Lightroom is one of those things that came down to "usability." Nobody could see the damned screen well enough to get the quality they wanted out of the thing. Worse, calibrating the screen to get it to match the lab's paper output profile exactly is a miserable, protracted bitch. (Put this up against the panel in the new ASUS utlrabooks and you'll see what I mean.)
Storage is also an issue. You just can't shoot volume to the thing. You aren't getting a single team into Flow on that bloody thing, let alone doing an entire school. I could go on. Suffice it to say that "my experience" in this regard is...extensive.
More to the point, it is the experience of multiple professional photographers who have made the call, not me.
A real notebook - or in the worst case one of those awful ultrabooks - is the best tool for a professional photographer today. Surface is a wretched compromise that makes nobody happy and iDroidTat is consumptive, not productive.
That's my take on the matter, informed from what I believe to be a large enough sample size - and a wide enough body of professional experience - to be relevant. Y'all can lay into me over not "understanding" the subtleties of any number of fields, but IT support for professional photographers is my turf.
Re: The Surface 2 good news story from 2-3 days ago not reported on The Reg...
"almost all other cheap Android tablets are useless and will be broken by the end of January."
[Citation needed]
"However [Surface's] sales are growing, "
[Citation needed]
"the majority of users who have purchased one (The Surface RT / 2) use it as a combined tablet and laptop replacement ideal for work like editing documents, presentations, emails and ease of access to you files on the full size USB port."
[Citation needed]
T"he surface is the most innovation and distinct tablet in the market currently,"
[Citation needed, should contain reviews from a number of sources addressing everything from ease of use to user satisfaction, adoption rate to ecosystem size, developer response to hardware reliability]
"ok some parts of windows RT have a few rough edges however that is progressing as can be seen in the 8.1 upgrade."
[Citation needed, general opinion seems to be that 8.1 was "not good enough." You have to do a lot to prove otherwise.]
"The Reg from the get go have been trying to blacken the Surface and Windows RT from the start, this article is more of the same....."
Bullshit. We aren't trying to "blacken" the Surface or Windows RT at all. I think you'll find that most of us don't care one way or another about the Surface (except for Tim Anderson, he loves it) and even fewer care about Windows RT at all (except for me, I think it's the biggest missed opportunity in modern computing and I lament the mismangement of what could have been the saviour of modern endpoint computing. I love RT. I hate how it was handled.)
You have a lot of proving your statements to do here. Get to it.
Re: The Surface 2 good news story from 2-3 days ago not reported on The Reg...
I'll publish something nice about Surface when something nice about surface exists to be published...and proof of that crosses my desk.
Re: Are all their employees chiefs?
"Testers?" That would imply that Microsoft products are potentially imperfect as designed. Clearly you don't understand Redmondian culture. Take "not invented here" mix with 30% total planetary arrogance, whip on medium for 15 minutes and serve using sharks with frikkin plasma beams attacked to their frikkin tails.
Re: With Surfaces potentially going under Christmas trees this season....
The iPad has sold so many units that - statistically speaking - we'd see a few breached lithium cells by now.
Microsoft has accomplished the feat of burning their users without a manufacturing defect or battery-puncturing user-error. +1 those guys.
Re: 2000?
From experience, Lightroom is pretty miserable on a Surface anyways...
It's CLOUD WAR says Larry Ellison: parachute in the sales team
Oracle sale pitch
"We won't lock you in (and turn the knobs on you every time revenue takes a dip) this time! Honest! Love us? We were such good friends before!"
COW a-BUNG HER, dude! 'Secret Santa' Bill Gates buys lass a HEIFER
That's actually a rather thoughtful gift. I rather like it. Nicely done, Mr. Gates. As for the lady involved...I think she took a totally unexpected brush with uber-wealth quite well. Better than I might have in her place. Nice little holiday story all around.
Ask Santa to give you our pricey certs for Christmas, says Oracle
If someone gifted me something I'd be grateful they thought of me. They'd be on my nice list because the thought really is the thing that counts. I'd even try to take the exam, see if I could make their monetary expenditure worthwhile.
...but I don't think there's much call for Oracle anything in the world I inhabit. Indeed, I think the relevance of Oracle to the world at large is shrinking. The margins may be going up - squeal, hostages, squeal! - but they are the core of their own little niche. The rest of the world has adapted to exist without them, and - I think - we are happier for it.
Oracle: Our figures say hardware has flatlined, but we assure you it hasn't
Screw Oracle
and the boat they sank on the way in.
Bah! No NSA-proof Euro cloud gang. Cloud computing standards will 'aid data portability'
Except that - by and large - the US legal system is entirely complicit in the destruction of the rights of natural persons, especially any semblance of privacy. The EU may be bureaucratic, but it has a far higher chance of standing up for the average guy than anything American.
Drawers full of different chargers? The IEC has a one-plug-to-rule-them-all
Re: Forget Apple
Small bug in your calculation. My Alienware MX18 has a 220W PSU...
XMAS SPACEWALK planned to fix ISS's dicky cooling gear
Re: Ssshhhh.....
Correction: falling tin can. Technically, things in orbit are constantly falling towards the earth. They're just doing so whilst going sideways fast enough not to hit it.
Yes, you ARE a member of a global technology elite
Re: IT Pros who can't code?
Define "can code." I can write applications in about 4 different languages. Maybe 5. I know enough of the fundementals of coding that if I had a yen to, I could learn (almost*) any other language and go from there. "Not knowing the language" is usually a matter of "not knowing the built-in functions" and having to look up bits of syntax.
That said, I can debug in languages I can't code in. This is because you can identify the syntax from context and teh googlz will tell you what you need to know about the functions in use. I write primarily in PHP, and ASP but can cheerily debug PERL, Python or C/C++/C# without too much difficulty.
Yet I'm not a developer. I wouldn't say I "can code" in a professional fashion. I can write you an application. It will probably be shite and a real developer will laugh at it, but it will do what it needs to do for now. It's the kind of thing that would be used for prototyping and working out workflow bugs, but if you are going to trust your business to it then madre de dios get a real developer.
Would I count as "can code?" The ability to take a POST from an HTML page, do some string manipulation in PHP and then bung it into a MySQL database shouldn't count as coding, any more than scratching awkward signs on the sidewalk in chalk is "writing."
"Coding" should include training in bit banging, assembler, catching buffer overflows, null pointer errors, input sanitisation, code optimisation...hell, just learning to make SQL queries that are even a close to optimal is an art of itself.
Real programmers need to grok the difference between O(n log n) and O(log2 n) sorting, I (shamefully) had to look it up because I couldn't remember what the "Big O" for bubble sort was.
What I know is the developer equivalent of "how to change your car's oil." That's a hell of a long way from being the developer equivalent of a proper mechanic or - more "elite" - the developer equivalent of a proper engineer.
Yet it seems to me they'd count me among those who "know how to code". That's not right, I think. Binary is the improper database field to contain the full spectrum of options required to cover "can they code?"
*LISP and I are unlikely to ever be friends. Bash scripting is another one of those things that I requires a lot of time with books.
Striking Amazonians warn: Don't rely on us for Christmas pressies
Re: Speed test started "AMAZON WINS!"
And real, living, breathing, thinking, feeling, hoping, dreaming, loving, caring, laughing, crying human beings everywhere lose.
Re: Fair play to them.
mmeier, it's not that "agents of the union" have found their way onto El Reg, it's that you're a douche.
Maybe you'd attract a few less downvotes if you weren't always out to screw the average guy.
Kiwi inventor's court win rains on Apple's parade
Re: Why not dryPhone?
This is the internet. You're not allowed to be rational here.
Factories are too DULL for Google's robo-dreams: Behold the GATAMAMs
Re: Google Rover
If Google sell me an actual, factual, working robot butler then I am their loyal evangelist until the end of time.
NSA alleges 'BIOS plot to destroy PCs'
A true patriot ignores everything except that which makes the current power elite look good.
Re: @Trevor_Potts
You mean like these drones?
I never said it was a highly militarized border, only that it was a militarized border. It is not one of trust. It is one where drones track you and men with guns prevent you from driving (or flying) across as you choose. It as once the world's longest undefended border. In my youth. Now it's not. Simple as.
And yes, to me, that's militarized. Maybe it's not to you, but you've had so much kool-aid who the fuck knows how you interpret things? "Other borders are more militarized this this doesn't count" would be my guess. It seems to be the kind of logic you've been employing this far.
As for "they'll help your reading comprehension", no I don't mean "it'll". I was referring to the voices in your head. Do they come in via transmitter? CONFORM. CONSUME. OBEY. Seems about right.
Maybe if you have to put up with being hauled into the room with the overly bright lights and the condescending people with loaded guns every time you cross the border you'd see things differently. Maybe not.
Re: @tom dial
No, those people with sand and more sand aren't worth worrying about. Yes, they killed some people> It was tragic. Futile attempts to prevent this from recurring are not an acceptable excuse for giving up our rights.
That our countries have organisations whose mission it is to conduct clandestine operations doesn't mean they should have those organisations or that if we must have said organisations that they should be given the kinds of panopticon powers that they have obtained.
That you are unable to comprehend how both regular abuses of power (everything from NSA operatives using their access to track lovers to the IRS targeting political opponents) and elected representatives not bowing to the overwhleming will of the people makes a democracy is pretty fucking sad. The people in charge aren't listening to those who elected them and many are abusing their privileges. This seems perfectly okay by you, business as normal, no need to question it or demand change.
Shut up and like it, eh?
It doesn't matter how many extrajudicial killings there have been. One is too much. One torture is too much. One abuse of power that occurs without consequence to those performing the abuse is too much.
You propose to not only allow those in power to keep their privileges, but to heap upon them more? For what? The 9/11 boogyman?
You have allowed yourself to buy into the propaganda. For reasons incomprehensible you actually seem to thing those in charge of the US are "the good guys." They aren't. They're people, no different form most of us. (Well, actually, statistically you'd find a far higher percentage of sociopaths in the halls of power, but let's set that to one side for a moment.)
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. They have too much power and they use for ill far too often. I do not want them having that power over me. Plain and simple.
I don't find it okay for them to have the power of dragnet surveillance at all. No discussion about "appropriate use" is possible because no appropriate use of dragnet surveillance is possible.
I have no issue with targeted surveillance, but that is a world away from the shit going on now.
Hitting the kool-aid a little hard there, aren't you?
Re: @tom dial
You don't seem to get it. Any situation in which our metadata is being collected in a dragnet fashion is unacceptable. It doesn't matter if it's the FBI, GCHQ, the NSA, the RCMP or the fucking IRS. If you want to investigate a person then you get a fucking warrant for that person and that's that.
You do not trawl through data looking for "suspicious patterns" and use that as justification to trawl through the data! You do not keep a lifetime's worth of metadata (or even a year's worth!) and go back in time to peer through someone's life and find every minor mistake they ever made based on some broken suspicion that a cranky neighbor had that might be leaving our more than the maximum number of bags of garbage.
You keep talking as though it is okay for us to give up our rights. That it is inevitable and that it is an acceptable and natural consequence of...what, exactly? Protection from the boogyman?
Whether the breach today is the FBI or tomorrow the IRS it makes no nevermind. Human beings in positions of power over other human beings abuse that power. It doesn't matter which agency they belong to. The more power you give them to peer into our lives the more harm they will do. The totality of human history is a fucking testament to this fact!
Noone can be trusted with the kind of power represented by unfettered access to our metadata, let alone the communications data in full. Noone.
Any use of technological assets to collect information about an individual must be narrowly targeted, only records relevant to the narrow warrant collected and retained and the entire process carefully reviewed by independent civil rights organisations. (Rotated out so as to prevent regulatory capture.)
The NSA has already been seen to give information to the DEA and then tell them to lie about the source. How long before their databases are used to raid journalists, a practice already underway? You argue that agencies are isolated and that evidence of malfeasance in one isn't evidence that it will occur in another.
I say that the totality of human history says that absolute power corrupts absolutely, and given that the US government in general has thrown out the presumption of innocence as regards proles I think the NSA - and any other TLA - need to prove their innocence. After all, we don't have the means to investigate their guilt. It's all hush-hush tip-top super secret stuff that proles aren't allowed to see.
No TLA cna be trusted with our privacy. No amount of bureaucracy can make dragnets okay. Nothing can justify dragnets. is that clear enough? Or are there more predictable bits of apologist newsspeak you'd like to trot out?
You mean the militarized border partrolled by drones? It hasn't been "the world's longest undefended border" for some years now. Also, In case you hadn't noticed, Canadians have to present passports and go through all manner of security theater today that we didn't have to 20 years ago. Things have changed, buddy.
I do understand entirely how the conservative assholes currently in charge of our nation have sold us down the river, but that doesn't make America our friend. It just means America has co-opted out leadership. America is very much the enemy of the Canadian people. Just ask anyone who has had their livelihood destroyed by the US refusing to abide by NAFTA while simultaneously using any minor Canadian oversight of that same treaty as a an excuse for extortionate economic protectionism.
Participation in things like "five eyes" is not exactly with the consent of the Canadian people. It is largely against the will of the people but often done to ensure our survival. Not from the threat of the Muslim boogyman...but from that of America.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. (Try reading it slowly, maybe they'll help your comprehension.)
America is not Canada's friend. It is our master. The slave is never friends with one who would purport to own them.
@tom dial
"Cost effective" is not a consideration. Our freedoms are not for sale at any price, certainly not as protection against boogymen. Regardless of how large their sticks.
And frankly, yes, I do view the US as a tyranny. As an example: 95% of her people support mandatory background checks on guns. That cannot make it through government. The same amount support restrictions on automatic firearms. *crickets*
The US government murders civilians without trial - their own, as well as civilians. It uses the IRS against political opponents, attacks the freedom of the press, suppresses dissent with violence and imprisons people in perpetuity without trial.
That you have patriotism wrapped up in that nation doesn't change the fact that their so-called "democracy" is a sham, the republic is broken and they are treating both their own citizens and their allies with contempt and outright hostility.
The people with sand and more sand aren't the ones we need to be worried about. The ones in charge of the US government are.
@tom dial
Feeding my metadata into the machine so that I can be mistakenly Jean Charles de Menezesed based on some trial-less "guilt by association" cranked out by an algorithm is being fucking tracked.
Too tinfoil hat for you? Too bad. The burden of proof is on your government now, not those who just want to be left alone.
Or will I be targeted for tax audits because of my political group? Have my e-mails raided because I'm a journalist? Be thrown in gitmo because I work with whistleblowers?
Computer says no. Your life, thus, goes bye-bye. And you're okay with this?!?
@Hit Snooze
You're delusional. Canada is subjugated by the US. The US isn't "on our team" in any way. Were we on the same team as the US they would treat us as equals, not serfs. They do not.
Fro the record, I lobby my government strongly to distance ourselves from the US, politically, economically and militarily. I don't view the US as remotely trustworthy and I sure as hell don't view them as a Canadian ally.
Even if our government is complicit in selling the rights and freedoms of Canadians off to the US for a pat on the head, there's a fair amount of cultural difference between the two nations; far more than I am going ot get into here. Suffice ti to say that I would cheerfully accept a much lower standard of living if it meant that my country would cut ties with the USA.
After all, unlike you, I'm fully capable of understanding that the only "team" the US is on is the one where the very elite of the elite in the US win and everyone else loses. Though i can understand how you could be blind to it if you're raised amongst enough nationalism and propaganda.
@Wzrd1 Re: @Christian Berger
The comment was directed at me, personally. Where have I been plotting to kill people? I was told that I, personally, should be on one of those lists for non-conformance. Why?
You're the pro NSA scaremonger. Explain to me why I deserve to be monitored, tracked, and have my rights removed?
If you honestly believe - or worse, would encourage - that your military would turn B52 bombers, AC130 gunships, AH64 gunships, AH1 gunships, 105mm and 155mm howitzers, 120mm and 81mm mortars on their own civilian population and choose to do nothing about it then you're a fucking sociopath.
In the past 235 calendar years the US has been at peace for only 21 of them. Who cares if the US is at war? That doesn't remove from them the requirement to act with honour. After all, they're always at war. If being at war removes the requirement for them to behave we need to, as a planet, cut them the fuck off. Blockade, isolate, cease trading with, you name it.
They can't be allowed to act with impunity just because they can't seem to learn to leave others alone.
I don't fear middle easterners with sand, sticks and more sand. I fear the very real abuses of power by the very fallible humans in positions of power in the countries I actually visit.
"Security" is protection from the overreach of the people in power over you. Privacy is part and parcel of that (but extends to the right to be free from interference and snooping by other proles and companies as well.)
"Terrorists" are just a boogyman. A rock from space could fall on me too. I'm far more likely to get killed by a drunk driver or the toxic (and radioactive) emissions from a dirty coal plant. If the price of freedom (and actual security) is that every now and again we fail to stop a lunatic that we probably wouldn't have been able to stop even in the panopticon...I'll take it.
If an individual is prepared to martyr themselves in order to strike at a target there's not a whole hell of a lot you can do to stop them. Our freedoms are not an acceptable price for the obsession of some with trying.
Neither Snowden nor the NSA puts CIOs off the cloud, it's just FUD
Re: A stacked panel of NSA flunkies
It has nothing to do with them being NSA flunkies. It has everything to do with them being sociopaths ho don't give a flying fuck about anyone but themselves (and their own bank accounts.) It's very rare to those levels in society without being a complete sociopath.
So they're right: enterprise CIOs don't give fuck 1 about the NSA snooping their customers' data unless that could somehow cost them money. While possible, it is unlikely that privacy lawsuits would cost an enterprise enough to matter, though they would bankrupt small businesses.
Oddly enough, small businesses are also most likely to care about their customers enough to have ethical concerns about NSA spying.
So selection bias is definitely at work on this panel, but I doubt it's because any of the folks in question are "bought and paid for" by the NSA. They don't need to be. That's the saddest part of it all.
Google may drop Intel for own-recipe ARM: Bloomberg
Re: @Trevor
I don't think I'm overestimating anything. I think it's more than "just making the code work." Workloads as they exist - including entire segments of the application design - were tuned for x86-based systems. Bottlenecks will appear and they'll have to be identified, worked around and redesigns done.
In addition, hardware support for ARM isn't great. Each SoC is it's own little world, and a lot of what's out there (widget-wise) doesn't have ARM Linux drivers. Want to use Inifiniband to lash together your servers? You're probably going to have to get a custom driver. Want to use a Micron PCI-E flash device? Same deal.
I don't think it's impossible, or even uneconomic. I do, however, think that in the long run Google would do far better to create an ecosystem around the SoC it chooses so that others can take some of that R&D off their shoulders.
I'm not doom mongering by any means, merely being pragmatic. The bigger the ecosystem, the larger the component choice (without having to go to the mats with every vendor) and the wider the code base. Additionally, you bring up an entire generation of devs ho are designed to think around the limitations and design quirks of your chosen SoC variant instead of x86.
Really, there's no rational reason for Google to "simply switch CPU vendors" without going for the ecosystem play. For that matter, there is nothing syaing that their existing workloads even make sense given the differences in CPU to I/O balance between ARM and x86, so on and so forth.
Testing, planning, more testing, redesign, lots more testing...it's part and parcel of shifting architectures, especially when you measure your computer in acres.
Microsoft's licence riddles give Linux and pals a free ride to virtual domination
Essentials Plus is less than $5500 for 3 servers and offers everything you could possibly want, virtualisation-wise, including backups and VCSA. Look, I've been accused by some of being "the big voice of small business." I'm a cranky, pro-SMB type who is always looking to grind costs...
...but you're talking bollocks.
Item Description Qty Unit Price Total
CORE Supermicro FatTwin F627G3-F73PT+ 1 $5,304.00 $5,304.00
CPU Intel Xeon E5-2609 8 $309.00 $2,472.00
LAN Dual-port Intel X540 included 1 $0.00 $0.00
FLASH Crucial CT480M500SSD1 480GB 8 $316.99 $2,535.92
HV VMware Essentials Plus Kit 1 $5,439 $5,439.00
Even the companies I support can afford that. VMware essentials plus gives you licensing for 3 nodes - in this case hella beefy ones - and this configuration gives you an entire cold spare node for under $30K.
So what the fucking fuck are you on about?
Munich signs off on Open Source project
It takes me an average of 6 years to move a company 85% of Microsoft and 10 years to hit 100%. A decade seems reasonable. It takes time to recode applications to standard or find/wait for applications that third parties are making to to replace ones that have no open source alternative.
But the transitions get made, and the savings are considerable. Enough to hire full time developers (even in SMBs!) to contribute back to the community by taking the applications coded internally and open sourcing them.
Every transition away from Microsoft that I've done helps to serve as an enabler for others. Maybe one day so many of these will have been done that a critical mass is reached and the bulk of businesses start walkung away from the chains.
Hey Microsoft marketing shill: why is a decade to slowly disentangle oneself from a vendor a bad thing? It sounds like it is being done carefully, methodically and permanently. It is taking most of my clients similar timeframes to leave the MS ecosystem, but once out, they're out! After that they never have to go back.
Is it expensive up front? Yes. But it pays for itself after one refresh cycle.. Then the next refresh cycle comes along and holy shit savings.
Microsoft is obviously paying you too much, it seems like you have so much money you've forgotten just how burdensome their licensing is on people and corporations that actually have to pay Microsoft's ransom out of their own pockets.
Let me make this perfectly simple for you - and please, do take this up the chain to your masters in Redmond - Microsoft will not be well recieved by the technology community (or by Register readers) until it makes massive changes to it's licensing regime.
We do not object to paying a fair amount for out software, despite what you and your masters think. In fact, we see value in paying for ongoing support and to have someone take various burdens of support and testing off of our hands. Microsoft's fees are absolutely in no way fair or reasonable.
The body Microsoft and I cannot be friends until the fucking fix VDI licensing. That includes the SPLA potion of the exercise.
I think a lot of people here are Microsoft Partners (I am, for one), and they are sick of 15% hike after 15% hike and the dramatic narrowing of their margins. a 50% hike in the cost of Datacenter earned Microsoft no friends, nor has the utter failure to listen to their customers, partners and end users when it comes to the design of their operating systems.
If you want to peddle your shit then you have to start listening to the people who you are demanding buy said shit.
That so many - first one, then two and now an ever accelerating amount - feel that the price of leaving the Microsoft ecosystem is one worth paying should be something that causes you and yours to sit up and take notice, not vitriol, FUD and marketing. The readers of The Register are a canny bunch; far too bright to be taken in by Microsoft's bullshit.
You have the reactions of the masses to your marketing messages. Please, go take those to the next meeting and have and honest discussion about your messages will be met. Maybe you can convince your boss that the best way to meet the marketing challenge of Munich's success is to convince the Empire of Sadness to start making licensing less horrific.
It's a hell of a lot easier to market a good product than to try to shovel shit and proclaim it gold.
Come back after the meeting and let's try this again with the modified marketing message to hand. The existing one is....awful.
Re: €30 million @Chemist 09:18
"That it costs say far less say to run Windows 7 than Windows NT on an enterprise desktop is a well established fact with widely accepted TCO figures to back it up...,.,"
You lay into someone for not providing figured in their post and then you outright lie in a comment and don't back it up? Fuck you with charging rhinoceros, covered in 2 inches of gelatinous capsaicin! And you had damned well better provide facts and figured that proove that the operating system alone provides in millions of dollars worth of productivity enhancements to all cognitive classes (as people are different in how they process information) over a deployment size of around 15000.
Live by the FUD, die by the FUD.
Re: €30 million @Chemist 09:18
Waitaminute. I need to get this straight here. Are you - the AC Microsoft shill - actually cracking? ARe you attacking someone because they didn't provide facts and figures? Despite months of you spooging made up, outdated or outright bullshit figures all over the comments section?
You live by the FUD, buddy and you die by the FUD.
Munich paid a one-time ding to buy their freedom. Would that we could all afford the cost.
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Saw this woman a couple years ago on Battery in the Financial – very striking, like something out of a movie.
Anyway, I just saw this ride parked on the street in a location that would make you say, "Well of course that's where this lady lives."
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Look for the woody with JMG monogrammed on the door…
For sale, BTW:
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I ask myself this question all the time anyway, but, man, this ride would really make me ponder the question of:
Is This Trip Really Necessary?
I can't imagine driving this rig around – perhaps in an emergency and somebody needed a lift to the hospital…
Oh, and I question whether this paint scheme / logo combo is authorized by Mattel, Inc. and/or Fiat S.p.A..
Don't know if this kind of thing works, but it's worth a shot, non?
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(You know, back in the day, we had el Markos and Marks A Lots but no Sharpies at all,* oh well.)
San Francisco is a dangerous place, full of vultures. Vultures everywhere
*Tomorrow: Daddy, what's a Plymouth?
Joshua Clements is all over this sitch down in Union Square:
"Homeland Security, A-Team van, SWAT team, mobile command post, Army Hummer, SFPD Bomb Squad, all in front of the Hilton."
This urban assault vehicle used to be a GMC, or a Chevy or a Ford or a Hummer a Jeep or maybe a Dodge – I've narrowed it down that far:
An excellent shot from The Tender, Your Daily Cut of the Loin
Come on, you can do it. Take a gander at the dollar amount of the fine for abandoning your car on the streets of San Francisco. Let's agree that dollar amount has two digits, but it is $75? $85? $88? $98? $80? $90?
This is no mere triviality - if you don't get the proper notice then you might not have to pay the fine. As to whether San Francisco can legally tow away your ride with the way the local laws are written these days, well, that's up in the air.
Can I explain why the owner was given only three days to move in light of the last year's policy change allowing seven days? No, no I cannot. Click to expand.
Are San Francisco drivers gonna get a massive refund the way it just went down South San Francisco Way with the red light cameras? [KRON's Eve Taft- why isn't she in every romcom Hollywood can produce?] No se.
I'm the first one to rain on the parade of plaintiff's attorneys with ridiculous notions of what constitutes a decent lawsuit, but this one, this one looks good.
The mise-en-scene atop Buena Vista Heights at the end of Masonic, where it's so hilly you might need an exemption to drive your SUV around.
This aging, now-woodless Willys Jeep Wagon ur-SUV needs no exemption for excessive weight as it's not close to the weight limit. (I ought to call it in to Pimp My Ride or something.) Wonder where it is now, wonder if it got towed. [Dude, where's my car? What happened to my woody?]
Anyway, we'll just have to bide our time to see what occurs with this not-yet-certified class action lawsuit. Writer Joe Eskenazi will keep us posted, I'm sure.
To Be Continued…
You might think that because you live in San Francisco, you don't need a four foot long plastic snorkel on your vehicle. But an urban snorkel mounted on the side of your Jeep would just look so boss, wouldn't it? Plus, you can save on bridge tolls.
This Jeep, spotted in the Richmond, is from Hermanos Albera in the Mission – ask and maybe they'll install one for you?


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1/2 cup mint jelly
1 lime, juiced
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 melon, cantaloupe or honey dew, peeled, cut into 8ths and thinly sliced
4 radishes, thinly sliced
1/2 seedless cucumber, thinly sliced
1/2 medium red onion, thinly slicied
Salt and pepper
Mint sprigs, for garnish
In a medium shallow bowl, whish together jelly, lime juice and olive oil. Add the melon and veggies and toss. Season salad with salt and pepper and serve with mint sprigs.
Recipe courtesy Rachael Ray
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Why Did You Go Vegan?
There are many reasons why people decide to live a plant based lifestyle. From health benefits, recovering from heart disease, religious believes to ethical reasons. Today I would like to pick your brain and find out what made you commit to the vegetarian /vegan lifestyle.
Here is a great short video of Ellen DeGeneres explaining her reasons for going vegan:
For me personally the journey started 15 years ago. I was a rebellious teenager with a stubborn attitude. I watched a quick film made by the communist government portraying how far that conventional farming has come. I believe it was suppose to impress the general population by showing images of farm animals being killed and prepared for consumption in a very fast and efficient fashion.
Well it did not impress me! I finished watching the film in tears and shouting out load that I will never eat meat again!
I have come a long way since then. Starting from eating the "starcheterian" diet based around pasta, potatoes, rice and dumplings with the occasional serving of vegetable and fruit. Moving onto super strict macrobiotic diet and overcoming an eating disorder .
Until couple years ago finally coming to the conclusion that mother nature is smart and everything my body needs and wants she will provide. Today I eat 100% plant based diet and feel the best I have ever felt on my 15 year journey. I don't deprive myself, I enjoy food. I have all the energy I need (and then some) for my very active lifestyle.
I would find it very inspiring to hear why you are a plant based eater. One of my favorite parts of Active Vegetarian – is getting to meet people all over the world.
Please connect with me in the comment section and let me know why you made the switch
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To jump in here, I originally switched to plant based eating as a combination of health and ethical reasons. It was the easiest way for me to avoid fast food.
After only a few short weeks, I found that I felt better than ever before …had more energy, and a better overall sense of wellbeing. My athletic performance has increased too.
I'll never look back
I started about a year and 5 months ago. A girl in my high school english class had the book 'Skinny Bitch'. I didnt have a book for our reading period so I asked if I could borrow it. After reading parts of it, I went out and bought it, read it and decided to take a closer look at vegetarianism.
Like Ellen, I forced myself to watch some undercover videos by PETA and read 'Slaughterhouse' by Gail Eisnitz. I felt strongly that I didnt want anything to do with this horrid reality.
It hasn't been hard for my to stick with it, and I am very glad I decided to make the change. I did it for various reasons:
My love for animals; I don't want to see anything suffer like that.
My overall health
For the environment.
I'm still on my journey and am discovering new ways to live my plant-based lifestyle. I still consume some dairy products, but my goal is to become vegan.
I want to thank you and Joe for giving me guidance and a positive outlook on living a plant-based lifestyle. You've set many things straight for me and made things simple and real.
Also, would like to recommend a book, (the new) Becoming Vegetarian by Vesanto Melina and Brenda Davis.
Very thorough guide to a healthy vegetarian diet for all age groups.
In the wee hours of January 4th of this year, I came across the documentary "Earthlings". I had to look away from some scenes and felt like crying through the whole film. Some of the sights I saw would play again in my head at various times. I was very disturbed. Later in the day I told my wife, "I'm now vegan without compromise". So far so good. I have not craved any animal products at all nor anticipate that I ever will.
It all started with Food Inc. for me, after i watched that, i watched the doc, A Beautiful Truth, which is about the healing power of the Gerson Therapy, a all natural organic, plant based diet, heavy on fresh juicing to heal disease even cancers. Those two docs as a combo one on the corruption of the food industry, another on the power of fruits and veggies, I was convinced.
Starting reading alot about, bought like 10 books (which I'm still making my way through) and started a veg blog to chronicle what I have been learning and to inform others of the benefits of this lifestyle.
I want to be 90 years old and still be able to be active. I don't want old age to be about disease and medicine, and I believe the veg diet will help me reach that goal.
– Tommy
BTW Tommy's blog http://www.switch2veggies.com is very interesting. I recommend people check it out.
Thanks for recommendation Joe!
Has anyone noticed that vegan diet affects ability to concentrate and causes "brain fog" or just the opposite? I've heard about both experience.


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Its quite true. Expatriates living in Dubai wishing to offer sponsorship to their families are not being granted visas following recent changes to Dubai family visa norms.
New Dubai monthly wage norms for visas—Dubai has announced new family visa rules for expatriates seeking to sponsor their families. This means Dubai has increased its minimum basic wage ruling to Dh 10,000.
Dubai has announced new family visa requirements by raising its minimum basic wages rules to Dh 10,000.
Earlier, the nation had a minimum requirement of basic wages of Dh 4,000 for sponsorship to their family members by Emirates in Dubai.
New ruling only for first-timers of all nationalities—For expatriates living in Dubai, offering sponsorship to their families has become quite a costly affair. Now, they have to draw a minimum pay of Dh 10,000 And it has been maintained that the new ruling will not have any effect on those wanting to renew residence visas of their families who are already staying in Dubai.
As per the detailed information available, expatriates should either draw a minimum salary of Dh10,000 or should have a pay of Dh 9,000 with accommodation.
The decision was announced by Dubai last week. Which documents are needed for a family residence visa?—
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• Copy of the applicant's valid residence visa
• Passport copies of husband and wife and children
Who are affected by new ruling—Well, all Dubai expatriates planning to bring their family members to emirate are to be covered by the new ruling. And those seeking renewal of residence visas of their family members already living in Dubai will remain unaffected.
The minimum pay limit has been raised by Dh 6,000 a week ago(prior to the new ruling, the minimum salary limit for Dubai family visas was Dh 4,000).
All nationalities are affected by this latest decision of Dubai government.
Meanwhile, it needs to be noted that Dubai immigration department may consider the number of years of employment of any expatriate before he or she is issued a UAE residence visa for family members. In addition, the grade of the concerned expatriate is also to be considered.
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Around 11 a.m., the Tunica Police Department and Tunica County Sheriff's Department were summoned to First Security Bank. Authorities ordered personnel to evacuate the building and closed Harris Street, a section of Edwards Avenue and a portion of School Street. The FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were alerted and on standby.
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- Publisher: Strategy First
- Release Date: Mar 26, 2003
- Summary: Galactic Civilizations is a space-based strategy game in which the player becomes the leader of the human civilization at the dawn of the 23rd century. The galaxy has 6 major civilizations including humans and a race is on to colonize, conquer, and dominate the galaxy using whatever means necessary. Those means include using military, technological, economic or political might to become a major power in the galaxy. Players must research new technologies, colonize and defend planets, build social improvements, build a fleet, fight wars, win elections, and gain influence in the United Planets Security council. [Strategy First]… Expand
- Developer: Stardock
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- # of players: 1 Player
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An understated, thoughtful game that is highly replayable and continually challening - the sort of game that will still be on your hard drive when all the other games you are playing right now are gathering dust on a shelf. [June 2003, p.78]
What makes Wardell's game stand out from other recent 4X space empire games is a blend of simplicity and depth.
Gamers looking for twitch action or a strategy game with a strong emphasis on combat might be disappointed, but gamers who prefer to meticulously oversee things rather than execute them directly have something to look forward to.
Galactic Civilizations' strong AI, robust diplomacy, and variety of strategic options make it an outstanding turn-based strategy game.
If you can get past the terrible documentation and very steep learning curve, Galactic Civilizations will be not only enjoyable but also addictive.
An extremely approachable game that has a strong foundation for those who are willing to stick with it for the long haul, despite the fact that it tends to wear a bit thin at present due to the vagaries of its random events and a difficulty level that tends to be too easy or too hard, with very little middle ground for experienced players.
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DanO.May 20, 2003Returning gloriously from the ashes of its mid-90s OS/2 origins, this classic strategy game is back with a raging vengeance on the Windows platform in 2003. Replayable to the point of abusiveness and deep beyond imagination, ?GalCiv? is an achievement that goes beyond almost all the adulatory accolades that can be rightfully attached to it. Brad Wardell and his team are fully worthy of avatarhood industry-wide for the level of user input they welcome and to which they unfailingly respond. After a months-long beta period, and only a few short weeks after release, no fewer than 4 significant gameplay-enhancing subsequent releases have been provided, with a major expansion pack coming mid-summer. Wardell?s dev team has pledged a full year of ongoing support to expanding GalCiv, and one can only imagine how far this truly phenomenal game will have progressed when Stardock is done polishing it. Yes, there could be more middle ground between ?too easy? and ?too difficult?, and if you?re seeking cutting-edge 3D graphics and tons of shoot-?em-up action, then look elsewhere; but for the thinking, strategy-inclined gamer, this title can only be described as hopelessly addictive gaming nirvana and an ultra-rare treat beyond description. Recommended without a shred of reservation.… Expand
DaneApr 7, 2003This is what MOO3 Should have been! Everything I hated about MOO3 (which was everything) was fixed in this wonderful game, I love it! People who were excited about MOO3 like me and needed to fill the gap should get this, it fits jolly nicely!… Expand
JanSep 12, 2004I love this game. Was a little hard to get started, but once you've conquered that its addictive. The AI are excellent. Really challenging, and when you find one "level" to easy, there are plenty more to keep on challenging you. Every game is different. Its very customisable (create you're own ships, graphics, movies...) I just really love this game and would recommend to any strategy game player who has a little patience to get started as the rewards are great. I rarely touch any of my other computer games. Another great thing is there is a community! You get to talk to other players and sugest mprovements (there are always patches coming out to make teh game better and more challenging and they listen to the players!) An all round good game in game play, addictiveness, customisable and challenging.… Expand
JamieH.Apr 22, 2003I like this game, very easy to get into. a few anoyances though like uable to put planet jobs into a job que.
JodyK.Apr 24, 2003Wow, this one'll suck your time away. A really solid 4x game with excellent AI, a sensible interface that (gasp) actually presents information well, and a few little tools that allow you to manage a large empire without having to click through every planet. One of my favorite aspects of the game is that it de-emphasizes the necessity of combat. yes, you can certainly pursue a military path to victory, but the extensive work put in to building the trade and economic systems mean that you can also win without firing a shot, simply by building your empire into an economic juggernaught. This one has caused quite a few sleepless nights...… Collapse
SkylaG.Nov 1, 2005The game was very nice in graphics, and realism, the music really set the mood, but It only took me a measily 3 hours from start to finish to beat it, on my first game even. The same 4 or 5 zombies jump out at you the entire game... All items are found in the same type of desk or file cabinet... I grew board of the game the same night I got it.. Giving it a 5 out of 10 is being extremely nice to the game. What a waist of my money.. Next time, I will jus through my cash out the window and save myself the time.… Expand


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|Thu, 02-25-2010 - 10:28pm
This is something that has come up recently, and I always wonder about the freshness of my pantry or frozen items, and ponder what that expiration date REALLY means.
First, I totally organised my pantry again, and noticed that some of my boxed items such as Hamburger Helper, are about a year past the expiration date.
|Fri, 02-26-2010 - 12:00am
For me, "use by" means just that - use (or freeze) by that date or it will go bad. "Sell by" usually means the product remains fresh for about a week after that date. "Best by" means that the product will be at it's peak of quality before that date, but it is certainly usuable after that. As you discovered with the Tuna Helper, it lacked flavor because it was well past it's "best by" date.
To prevent bugs, freeze any rice, grains, flours, pastas, etc for a day or so to kill any potential eggs lurking in the product.
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I think things like HH and canned items can be ok just a bit after the exp date. Dairy products are not to be messed with nor fresh meat.
|Sat, 02-27-2010 - 9:43am
Actually, eating food past it's artificial expiration date is not usually a problem. I've done it all my life. Between understanding what the dates mean and using common sense to tell me if something's spoiled, I've never been sick (except once when I undercooked hamburger and decided to eat it anyway). Here are a couple of articles on the subject.
|Sat, 02-27-2010 - 1:34pm
I throw away anything that is truly "expired", meaning it says "expires by this date".
|Sat, 02-27-2010 - 3:52pm
our food bank also gives out expired foods. I check it, and either approve it for family consumption or throw it out. If it smells or looks iffy, out it goes. Our food bank gives out a ridiculous amount of junk food, cakes, cookies, muffins, etc. Wouldn't be so bad except that they freeze it until distribution day, and then thaw it. If they gave it out frozen, we'd have the option of continuing to freeze until needed or thawing for same day use. They also give out veggies that can only be used that same day or they are trash.
As for meds, a PP said that they break down and lose effectiveness after the exp date. That's not necessarily true and might lead people to believe that if it loses effectiveness, just take more. Strange things happen to meds after the exp date. They can lose effectiveness, or they can become stronger, or worse, they can become toxic. It's not a place to wonder, just dispose of it properly and buy new.
|Sat, 02-27-2010 - 4:28pm
I'm very anal about this. I don't care if its "safe" or not-out it goes if it is past the sell-by date or best-buy date, or whatever.
My MIL and I got into a HUGE fight over this-she gave my son yogurt that was 6 months past the sell-by date. She said it was fine. Luckily he didn't eat much of it.
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One Step Closer to Living in Heaven on Earth
One Step Closer to Living in Heaven on Earth - The End of Reptilian Rule over the Planet Earth and More Freedon for Humanity.
On 28th October Three Powerful Shamans who are devoted to the creation of Heaven on Earth came together. Using the Power of Three they removed all invisible parasitic beings from the Human dimension. At 4.30 PM the human beings have been freed from serving as emotional food for invisible beings and from that date The human beings can never be used again as a source of energy by other beings of any kind. Human beings are from that moment free to use their energy for their own complete and sovereign development.
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