Either they choose to control the population in a rational manner or mother nature will do it for them. Mother nature's solution are generally a lot less "comfortable" though : droughts, plagues, earthquakes etc........ The other standard solution is Civil War..
Off note: Scotland doesn't have a problem with rain, thats why I left....
Hold on a minute guys, didn't you see that "documentary" with Sigourney Weaver about space lizards......
That damned thing gave me nightmares. It was intelligent, spat acid and produced the kind of offspring that you don't want running around your garden.......
I love Gigers work, I just hope that Elon doesn't bring any of his creatures home.....
That must be one of the first times that I have seen a B&O design that I really didn't care for. The leather strap and the grill make it look "retro" but without having any sex appeal
No IT in this article, I did see a lot of marketing though.
I understand that "Amazon" sales help El Reg pay the bills but FFS at least try and present the articles on a basis that would hold at least a modicum of interest for the El Reg readership.
I click on these top ten lists hoping to achieve a little more that what I would expect from a "Currys" shop sales assistant. Yes, I could go and research each of them individually myself but then what puprose would El Reg serve at that point !!!!!!!!!!
If I have understood correctly the movements are only temporary. It is quicker on for half a cycle and slower for the other, thereby averaging its speed to that of the speed of light.
I see this as being the same as any given point on the outside of a wheel, for half of a revolution that point is travelling faster than the axle but the same point travels slower on the second half of the rotation.
The importance being that no part of any object can arrive any quicker than any other part of the object for the same distance travelled.
I am not a physician so I could be completely and utterely wrong, corrections are welcome.
I don't understand the intended market, is it just for Apple owners ? Thunderbolt is obviously not a mass market interface, so why not include USB 3 or ethernet ports ?
Seems like a strange, very limited, marketing choice, by adding at least one of the other two interfaces the market would be far greater....
Thats a hell of a lot of computing power, I wonder what the contract requirements really are !
1 : Build network of undetectable zombies that are capable of knocking out all major data centres within 5 minutes.
2 : Create an algorithm which can decrypt any coded message within 30 minutes.
3 : Create a supercomputer capable of reprogramming all of the goverments computers just in case we fuck things up.....
4 : Ensure that if we get hacked that a media message will automatically inform world and all about the mischevious nature of Anonymous and then randomly select a script kiddie that can be extradited to the States rapidly.
500 Million , thats a lot of wonga for a project that might not even have any positive outcome......
Do a quick google on the yearly percentage of increase of these countries debts, in relation to their GDP, and you will quickly realise how their systems will eventually fail as well.
Do not become disillusioned by the temporary growths of these countries, they are not sustainable..
The bankers all over are pushing us for more debt, one day those debts will have to be paid.
Where do you believe the money will come from to make the payback ? Capitilism is not a magic purse .
Debts will have to be paid in one way or the other .....
Re: And capitalism falls like all the others @J.A.B
The first steps in resolving problems are to understand that they exist ( point them out), define what they "really" are and then start to begin the process of finding a solutions.
If no one speaks about what really is going on then no solution can ever be found. it's not about having any kind of "high-value skill" its about bringing things out into the open.
What the governments are failing to admit is that capitalism has reached it's limits. "Eternal Growth", Only an utter fool could believe that such a system has any future.
As one of the other commentards mentioned, we have reached a point where we have to sustain ourselves on "No growth". We have to think deeply and honestly and look for solutions where an equitable society can be maintained on a realistic business model. Wealth has to be distributed in a different manner. The banks can't be trusted, shareholders have become far too greedy, politicians should be held accountable for their actions.
Society needs to change, our current political models are flawed, it's time that the current politicians stepped down and allowed for rational thinkers to step up and take control.
Communism doesn't work, Capitalism doesn't either, why can't we find some kind of happy medium between the two ?
The wealthy have become too wealthy,the industrialists too powerfull, the politicians too scared to take the lead. The standard solution is "war" but I refuse to be part of someone else's fuck ups.
Putting aside the graphics capabilities, these games are the foundation of all the games that we have today, Adventure, Simulation, RPG, Platform.
The sound effects and graphics were a lot less important than game-play, and most of these games had excellent game-play. In part I believe it is because they left quite a lot for your own imagination, everything was not as spoon-fed as it is today.
Well something I do know is that no-one in my entourage will be part of that 30 Million in 2012.
I no longer hear any chit-chat or am asked any advice about buying personal laptops anymore. It's almost as if Joe Public has lost his interest, laptops in general seem have lost their appeal. Professionals still care but their companies provide the corporate Latitudes and Thinkpads , not the Ultrabooks.
I wonder who the target market is and who it was that was "Thrilled with the reception of their Ultrabook" ?
>The average man in the street couldn't care less.
This is probably very true but then again we are reading this article on a "Techie" website and the majority of readers here are "techies" of some sort or the other who know that in the world of IT, "semantics" are extremely import.
Malware is in general not very destructive it's usually annoying.. ( This is an example)
Trojans on the other hand can be extremely destructive depending on their nature.
Not all payloads have the same effect. Someone stealing your personal information is one thing, someone modifiying/destroying information or taking complete control is another.
This article was another of those "scary" ones where we are supposed to rush out and buy and AntiVirus solution in order to protect ourselves. Complete bullshit - you protect yourself by not downloading apps that can't be trusted and if none can be found then tough luck don't use any at all..
Semantics really does give us something to bother about.
Wouldn't it be more correct to call this Malware rather than a trojan ?
In my book a trojan is a program designed to give control of your machine to a 3rd party in one way or another but definately not just to steal personal data.
There must be literally thousands of apps that request access to the Phonebook and each obviously has the potential to do the same thing : ie steal your contact information. So whats new here.
Mcafee - Lets be honest this is a report coming from someone with a vested interest.
Yes , I agree any fool can follow a recipe and this is exactly why any self respecting engineer would not be interested. There is very little need, other than minor organisational skills, for the usage of the "la matiere grise".
Good food creation, in my opinion requires a completely different skill set and I would find it difficult to relate a rational/logical approach within that particular environment.
I would relate kitchen/culinary skills as belonging to a more artistic, less Cartesian world, hence my surprise to see so much interest from an engineering crowd, unless of course the Marketing dept read El Reg too.
Apperently there is a larger ratio of Gordon Ramseys than Bill Gates types on this site than I imagined.
So are all you Gordon Ramsey types actually buying these kitchen items and really do have a serious interest in kitchen gadgetry........
I work in a large corporate envirnment with a large IT staff, about 98% male and I do not believe that I have ever heard any of them talking "Kitchen Talk". Obvioulsy my company is by no means representative of the El Reg readership....
And I suppose that it is your wife that repairs the cars, does the heavy gardening, does the tiling in the bathroom, the electrical work etc.....
In general I do the heavy stuff and she does the light stuff, my wife is not a Gorrilla. There is nothing misogynist or sexist it is simply a matter of physics.
I am not great at cooking, it simply doesn't interest me. By concertrating on the techy side of life , it keeps me in a job, keeps the car repair/gardening/maintenance bills down and thereby allows us more expenditure for good food, which the wife happily prepares ( She likes cooking , I don't ).
I imagine it is much the same scenario for most people.
>It might also impress your girlfriend, if you ever get one.
That says more about you that it does about me by the way.
More gadgets in the kitchen - are you sure about that ?
>Most of us actually have more gadgets in the kitchen than anywhere else in the house
Did you really mean, most of our "Wives/Girlfriends/Mothers" actually have more gadgets in the kitchen?
I would presume that the male members of El Reg have more gadgets of the "IT Kind" or "tools/gadgets" in their garages. I am surmising that the percentage of "male" El Reg readers is probably around the 90% mark.
Rather than encrypt or obfuscate, wouldn't it be more subtle to fill your phone full of semi "false" information.
For example, changing your friends names to "Judges names" or Police Chief names, having a couple of images of well known lawyers or politicians ( easily scanned from the web) why not photoshop yourself along with them ....
A North Korean nuclear submarine was just surfacing of the south east coast of Newfoundland at exactly the same moment as large passenger boat was crossing the area.
The Italian passenger boat captain jumped ship quickly in order to verify the provenance of the strange noise, the ship may have been listing severely at this point, facts are still not clear..
The North Korean submarine commander admitted to having heard a loud "thud" just as he was surfacing and had thought that they had simply hit a large whale. Apparently he was also surprised to learn that the impact had accidently set of one of their "test" missiles which unfortunately punctured the hull of the passenger ship.
Due to a possible translation misunderstanding it is not yet clear which of the submarine's "incidents" actually happend first..
Latest reports suggest that despite the unfortunate drowning of the Cabin <del>Slaves</del> Crew, Captains of both vessels have been rescued and are currently in the process of helping the police identify the dead.
The "Professor" was not available for interview at the time of the outgoing press.
The worldbank.org cites India as having about 250 Million of it's people livining on under $1.25 per day. Basically these people have problems eating every day.
The Gartner group cite that there will be an explosion in India of the number of Mobile phones, telephones and gadgets in general.
Obviously we are not talking about the same sectorts here.
So what can we presume from this
* This Indian wealth division gap is further increasing.
* The caste system is stronger than ever.
* The Indian governement still have a lot of "thinking" to do.
* M Ghandi fought for nothing..
Big business and goverments are happy to see India as a new market to feed from and at the same time are capable of completely ignoring how they are adding to it's strife.
* Fibre Optics ( FTTH) is becoming a reality for a lot of people. Think about the progress we have seen in the last 10 years.
* Millions of people are currently using P2P, Torrents and Streaming ( albeit illegally) already which proves that technology is already capable. I agree that it needs improved a little though.
* The internet is full of numpties that do not know the difference between a Modem and a Codec. Don't expect them to be able to do much more than simply select their movies. The majority of people are actually honest, so they wont even bother trying to burn copies for themselves. Big business will probably make some kind of "background streaming/downloading device" available which would resolve the bad connection problems.
* Business models evolve and as soon as they can remove the physical media from the equation, they will.
* Youtube is not a brilliant example but it is an example of how films can be distributed to the masses already. I watch the long duration films on a regular basis and the quality is more than acceptable.
Today the DVD or BD physical format will be available, tommorrow there will only be the virtual format. After that you are Pwned my friend, Pwned.......
Now that the said donor has one less kidney, renal failure, a a little bit cash( not including the new medical fees), it would be ineresting to hear how important he feels that an Ipad/Iphone really is.
The sad part is that this is what "marketing" is really all about, drumming up a frenzy of "wanton desire" for a product that has no intrisic value. It really is pretty damned sad that the human being can be reduced to such a level.....
You could easilly replace ipad/iphone by any product that teenagers want or that is seen as the "HipThang".
Believe it or not, I do actually care. Why because in relation to some of my posts, either there is a whole bunch of sheep out there that are still learning to chew or I am completely of the wall. I am convinced that the latter is not true.
Therefore it means that percentage wise there are several possible conclusions that I can surmise:
* Liberal and rational thinkers are very few and far between.
* Liberal and rational thinkers don't actually use the Green button.
* The simple minded sheep are far more numerous amongst the El Reg forums than I had previously thought. ( This is scary because they work or have a serious interest in IT).
* The simple minded sheep have a very small capacity for thinking out of the box and that is not an advantage within our industry. As the rest of us have to repair the damage.
* The simple minded sheep collectively are stronger because of their numbers, within a democracy this is very scary. El Reg will eventually cater to them because that's whats bring in the dollars. ( And then I will be forced to read/follow one of the lesser sites, lol)
So those damned Thumbs Down users, the ones that don't actually leave comments, are a worrying figure.
[Yes, I know that simple minded sheep is an oxymoron but it enhances the image]
The problem here lies in the fact that the posts that have the most downvoting very seldom have any direct replies. This make it impossible to know what exactly you or anyone else actually does agree with.
Quite often I see cases where there are more downvotes than there are upvotes, go figure...... This thread was one of them....or at least it was when I started reading it.
Re: Probably going to sound like a new age person here
I completely understand your point of view but there are a few points that I would like to make.
Computers and most other modern gadgets were built by generations that did not have access to these items within the classroom. It did not stop that generation from becoming very effecient with these tools at a later stage.
By introducing computers into the classroom I feel that we are creating a dependance which is very difficult to remove. The elementary skills of Reading, Writing, aRithmetic can be applied in all and almost every occasion within life. Computers are only useful within very limited conditions.
Please don't get me wrong, I have been in IT for more than 20 years and I completely understand the role that computers and IT have to play but I also understand that the only reason I became any good at computing was because I was taught the elementary skills correctly. If I had been subjected to a computer at a very young age my computing skills may have developed but I would probably lacked in others.
In my point of view , I feel that computers make us dependant wheres the basic skills help us to remain independant.
Would all the "Thumbs Down Crowd" please stand up and speak your minds. It's one thing to have the courage to click that red button it's another to explain why.
Fine, you do not agree with a comment, thats your perogative but it would greatly advance us all to understand why ! You may have something to offer which would change our minds and bring us out of the dark.
Debate and discussion require at least two parties, it's what makes them interesting and is also what is necassary in order that both parties can eventually evolve.
It takes just a little bit of courage to stand up and speaks one's mind or make a proposition and it is necassary to accept that sometimes you will fail. But to simply stand at the back and naysay relegates you to the level of a sheep.
I would rather read an article that I didn't agree with than see those Thumbs Down counters adding up.
The multitude of studies and scientific reports is giving us the impression, be it true or false, that the planet is changing quicker that we are capable of evolving. I am not convinced that this is fact. People are scared and the governements and "funding researchers" are happy to play along with this idea.
We can all make a multitide of hypotheses concerning the future but at the end of the day the "Black Swan" will arrive and prove us all wrong. We are trying to predict the unpredictable and people need to realise the difference between what is fact and what is scaremongering. The journalists are as much to blame as the scientists.
I see it too often in our Regional/European meetings, Managers hunched over their laptops "whilst" someone is giving a presentation. Ok sometimes the presentations are boring but when you have an alternative choice...
I have no experience of the classroom but I can imagine that given the same choice a kid will easilly be distracted and will prefer his laptop, which has games and social media on it, than a lecture from a teacher.
Are kids also allowed to take laptops into exams, if not then why are they in the classroom.
I would be interested too hear the rationalisations for allowing PCs onto the school desktop. ( University excepted - and don't come up with the "It replaces the heavy books argument, please").
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Oops - Share Price gonna take a tumble, again.
Won't anyone think about the
childreninvestors.Re: Solution is obvious
Officialy they do but then how do you explain the population explosion .... from 600 million to 1.3 Billion people , that is a lot of "mistakes"...
Solution is obvious
Why don't they just stop breeding.
Either they choose to control the population in a rational manner or mother nature will do it for them. Mother nature's solution are generally a lot less "comfortable" though : droughts, plagues, earthquakes etc........ The other standard solution is Civil War..
Off note: Scotland doesn't have a problem with rain, thats why I left....
Sanity Check
Hold on a minute guys, didn't you see that "documentary" with Sigourney Weaver about space lizards......
That damned thing gave me nightmares. It was intelligent, spat acid and produced the kind of offspring that you don't want running around your garden.......
I love Gigers work, I just hope that Elon doesn't bring any of his creatures home.....
MAQBAGTFOOH
Make a quick buck and get the f**k out of here.
A resumé of todays stock market.
Beautiful aesthetics ????
That must be one of the first times that I have seen a B&O design that I really didn't care for. The leather strap and the grill make it look "retro" but without having any sex appeal
Bland and Overpriced.
Let's hope for a snowball effect
I know that this won't stop publicity/tracking completely but it does appear to be a step in the right direction.
Beware, beware the ides of March
I wonder if this is a heads up for anyone considering entering into the dark realms of the Facebook IPO.
PS : ( It's actually May but let's not get all pedantic ...... not that any commentards have that problem........)
Get ready for the smart move
And will these sneaky Russians also offer a paid service which will exclude you from their Denial Of Service attacks.
El Reg, another Amazon Window
No IT in this article, I did see a lot of marketing though.
I understand that "Amazon" sales help El Reg pay the bills but FFS at least try and present the articles on a basis that would hold at least a modicum of interest for the El Reg readership.
I click on these top ten lists hoping to achieve a little more that what I would expect from a "Currys" shop sales assistant. Yes, I could go and research each of them individually myself but then what puprose would El Reg serve at that point !!!!!!!!!!
Re: No Ethernet or USB 3 ???
First of all I was not "whinging", I mereley mentioned the fact the it seems limiting to have only a Thunderbolt port.
If you think a little harder you would realise that the addition of ethernet would also give your other computers/colleagues access to the same drive.
Not a sustainable movement - Does it count ?
If I have understood correctly the movements are only temporary. It is quicker on for half a cycle and slower for the other, thereby averaging its speed to that of the speed of light.
I see this as being the same as any given point on the outside of a wheel, for half of a revolution that point is travelling faster than the axle but the same point travels slower on the second half of the rotation.
The importance being that no part of any object can arrive any quicker than any other part of the object for the same distance travelled.
I am not a physician so I could be completely and utterely wrong, corrections are welcome.
Re: No Ethernet or USB 3 ???
Yes I agree that 1Gb Ethernet would be kinda slow compared to Thunderbolt or USB3 but it would have opened the market a little more.
No Ethernet or USB 3 ???
I don't understand the intended market, is it just for Apple owners ? Thunderbolt is obviously not a mass market interface, so why not include USB 3 or ethernet ports ?
Seems like a strange, very limited, marketing choice, by adding at least one of the other two interfaces the market would be far greater....
Half a billion dollars
Thats a hell of a lot of computing power, I wonder what the contract requirements really are !
1 : Build network of undetectable zombies that are capable of knocking out all major data centres within 5 minutes.
2 : Create an algorithm which can decrypt any coded message within 30 minutes.
3 : Create a supercomputer capable of reprogramming all of the goverments computers just in case we fuck things up.....
4 : Ensure that if we get hacked that a media message will automatically inform world and all about the mischevious nature of Anonymous and then randomly select a script kiddie that can be extradited to the States rapidly.
500 Million , thats a lot of wonga for a project that might not even have any positive outcome......
Re: Not True
Are they really flourishing ?
Do a quick google on the yearly percentage of increase of these countries debts, in relation to their GDP, and you will quickly realise how their systems will eventually fail as well.
Do not become disillusioned by the temporary growths of these countries, they are not sustainable..
The bankers all over are pushing us for more debt, one day those debts will have to be paid.
Where do you believe the money will come from to make the payback ? Capitilism is not a magic purse .
Debts will have to be paid in one way or the other .....
Re: And capitalism falls like all the others @J.A.B
The first steps in resolving problems are to understand that they exist ( point them out), define what they "really" are and then start to begin the process of finding a solutions.
If no one speaks about what really is going on then no solution can ever be found. it's not about having any kind of "high-value skill" its about bringing things out into the open.
And capitalism falls like all the others
What the governments are failing to admit is that capitalism has reached it's limits. "Eternal Growth", Only an utter fool could believe that such a system has any future.
As one of the other commentards mentioned, we have reached a point where we have to sustain ourselves on "No growth". We have to think deeply and honestly and look for solutions where an equitable society can be maintained on a realistic business model. Wealth has to be distributed in a different manner. The banks can't be trusted, shareholders have become far too greedy, politicians should be held accountable for their actions.
Society needs to change, our current political models are flawed, it's time that the current politicians stepped down and allowed for rational thinkers to step up and take control.
Communism doesn't work, Capitalism doesn't either, why can't we find some kind of happy medium between the two ?
The wealthy have become too wealthy,the industrialists too powerfull, the politicians too scared to take the lead. The standard solution is "war" but I refuse to be part of someone else's fuck ups.
Shaping the gaming industry
Putting aside the graphics capabilities, these games are the foundation of all the games that we have today, Adventure, Simulation, RPG, Platform.
The sound effects and graphics were a lot less important than game-play, and most of these games had excellent game-play. In part I believe it is because they left quite a lot for your own imagination, everything was not as spoon-fed as it is today.
30 Million in 2012
Well something I do know is that no-one in my entourage will be part of that 30 Million in 2012.
I no longer hear any chit-chat or am asked any advice about buying personal laptops anymore. It's almost as if Joe Public has lost his interest, laptops in general seem have lost their appeal. Professionals still care but their companies provide the corporate Latitudes and Thinkpads , not the Ultrabooks.
I wonder who the target market is and who it was that was "Thrilled with the reception of their Ultrabook" ?
Re: @ Silverburn
As much as I love Sprungli - 12 Layers - Ouch .....
Re: Snickers
The Sassenachs, just can't help themselves can they, lol...
Mines the one with "You'll never take our Freedom".
Re: NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
In Geneva there are several "Chocolatiers" on the main street, they are institutuions here, let's hope they stand up to this outrage....
In fact I might just pop into one of them on my way back from lunch, just in case.........
Some Good , Some Bad
Switching of Language (I really hope this will work without rebooting or playing with the registry.)
ISO/VHD Mount - Definately good.
VPN Client ( Hope it works with Cisco)
There is also a lot of guff in that list, in reality there is not that many new options for the end user.
I won't mention the bad as it is all relative to the user and platform ( Tiles - hint hint)
Mail, Calendar etc are now called Apps, lol.
Re: Articles like this...
>The average man in the street couldn't care less.
This is probably very true but then again we are reading this article on a "Techie" website and the majority of readers here are "techies" of some sort or the other who know that in the world of IT, "semantics" are extremely import.
Re: Articles like this...
It's simple really,
Malware is in general not very destructive it's usually annoying.. ( This is an example)
Trojans on the other hand can be extremely destructive depending on their nature.
Not all payloads have the same effect. Someone stealing your personal information is one thing, someone modifiying/destroying information or taking complete control is another.
This article was another of those "scary" ones where we are supposed to rush out and buy and AntiVirus solution in order to protect ourselves. Complete bullshit - you protect yourself by not downloading apps that can't be trusted and if none can be found then tough luck don't use any at all..
Semantics really does give us something to bother about.
No a trojan
Wouldn't it be more correct to call this Malware rather than a trojan ?
In my book a trojan is a program designed to give control of your machine to a 3rd party in one way or another but definately not just to steal personal data.
There must be literally thousands of apps that request access to the Phonebook and each obviously has the potential to do the same thing : ie steal your contact information. So whats new here.
Mcafee - Lets be honest this is a report coming from someone with a vested interest.
Re: talking "Kitchen Talk".
Yes , I agree any fool can follow a recipe and this is exactly why any self respecting engineer would not be interested. There is very little need, other than minor organisational skills, for the usage of the "la matiere grise".
Good food creation, in my opinion requires a completely different skill set and I would find it difficult to relate a rational/logical approach within that particular environment.
I would relate kitchen/culinary skills as belonging to a more artistic, less Cartesian world, hence my surprise to see so much interest from an engineering crowd, unless of course the Marketing dept read El Reg too.
Re: Learn to hack food, Khaptain.
Apperently there is a larger ratio of Gordon Ramseys than Bill Gates types on this site than I imagined.
So are all you Gordon Ramsey types actually buying these kitchen items and really do have a serious interest in kitchen gadgetry........
I work in a large corporate envirnment with a large IT staff, about 98% male and I do not believe that I have ever heard any of them talking "Kitchen Talk". Obvioulsy my company is by no means representative of the El Reg readership....
I bow down to my Kitchen Bod overlords.....
Re: Learn to hack food, Khaptain.
And I suppose that it is your wife that repairs the cars, does the heavy gardening, does the tiling in the bathroom, the electrical work etc.....
In general I do the heavy stuff and she does the light stuff, my wife is not a Gorrilla. There is nothing misogynist or sexist it is simply a matter of physics.
I am not great at cooking, it simply doesn't interest me. By concertrating on the techy side of life , it keeps me in a job, keeps the car repair/gardening/maintenance bills down and thereby allows us more expenditure for good food, which the wife happily prepares ( She likes cooking , I don't ).
I imagine it is much the same scenario for most people.
>It might also impress your girlfriend, if you ever get one.
That says more about you that it does about me by the way.
More gadgets in the kitchen - are you sure about that ?
>Most of us actually have more gadgets in the kitchen than anywhere else in the house
Did you really mean, most of our "Wives/Girlfriends/Mothers" actually have more gadgets in the kitchen?
I would presume that the male members of El Reg have more gadgets of the "IT Kind" or "tools/gadgets" in their garages. I am surmising that the percentage of "male" El Reg readers is probably around the 90% mark.
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Re: LEAD THE WAY IRAN
Then go and live in Iran.
Easy Solution
Rather than encrypt or obfuscate, wouldn't it be more subtle to fill your phone full of semi "false" information.
For example, changing your friends names to "Judges names" or Police Chief names, having a couple of images of well known lawyers or politicians ( easily scanned from the web) why not photoshop yourself along with them ....
you get the idea..
Reports just coming in
Well who would have thunk it.
A North Korean nuclear submarine was just surfacing of the south east coast of Newfoundland at exactly the same moment as large passenger boat was crossing the area.
The Italian passenger boat captain jumped ship quickly in order to verify the provenance of the strange noise, the ship may have been listing severely at this point, facts are still not clear..
The North Korean submarine commander admitted to having heard a loud "thud" just as he was surfacing and had thought that they had simply hit a large whale. Apparently he was also surprised to learn that the impact had accidently set of one of their "test" missiles which unfortunately punctured the hull of the passenger ship.
Due to a possible translation misunderstanding it is not yet clear which of the submarine's "incidents" actually happend first..
Latest reports suggest that despite the unfortunate drowning of the Cabin <del>Slaves</del> Crew, Captains of both vessels have been rescued and are currently in the process of helping the police identify the dead.
The "Professor" was not available for interview at the time of the outgoing press.
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Dear El Reg
Have you run out of "The 10 Most [insert whatever here"] ideas. That article appears to have been poorly thrown together in a last minute effort.
To quote from the mighty Cleese - "That Parrot is dead".
The worldbank.org cites India as having about 250 Million of it's people livining on under $1.25 per day. Basically these people have problems eating every day.
The Gartner group cite that there will be an explosion in India of the number of Mobile phones, telephones and gadgets in general.
Obviously we are not talking about the same sectorts here.
So what can we presume from this
* This Indian wealth division gap is further increasing.
* The caste system is stronger than ever.
* The Indian governement still have a lot of "thinking" to do.
* M Ghandi fought for nothing..
Big business and goverments are happy to see India as a new market to feed from and at the same time are capable of completely ignoring how they are adding to it's strife.
Re: Control Freaks
Couple of points you didnt mention.
* Fibre Optics ( FTTH) is becoming a reality for a lot of people. Think about the progress we have seen in the last 10 years.
* Millions of people are currently using P2P, Torrents and Streaming ( albeit illegally) already which proves that technology is already capable. I agree that it needs improved a little though.
* The internet is full of numpties that do not know the difference between a Modem and a Codec. Don't expect them to be able to do much more than simply select their movies. The majority of people are actually honest, so they wont even bother trying to burn copies for themselves. Big business will probably make some kind of "background streaming/downloading device" available which would resolve the bad connection problems.
* Business models evolve and as soon as they can remove the physical media from the equation, they will.
* Youtube is not a brilliant example but it is an example of how films can be distributed to the masses already. I watch the long duration films on a regular basis and the quality is more than acceptable.
Control Freaks
Today the DVD or BD physical format will be available, tommorrow there will only be the virtual format. After that you are Pwned my friend, Pwned.......
One kidney less
Now that the said donor has one less kidney, renal failure, a a little bit cash( not including the new medical fees), it would be ineresting to hear how important he feels that an Ipad/Iphone really is.
The sad part is that this is what "marketing" is really all about, drumming up a frenzy of "wanton desire" for a product that has no intrisic value. It really is pretty damned sad that the human being can be reduced to such a level.....
You could easilly replace ipad/iphone by any product that teenagers want or that is seen as the "HipThang".
Re: Thumbs Down Crowd
Believe it or not, I do actually care. Why because in relation to some of my posts, either there is a whole bunch of sheep out there that are still learning to chew or I am completely of the wall. I am convinced that the latter is not true.
Therefore it means that percentage wise there are several possible conclusions that I can surmise:
* Liberal and rational thinkers are very few and far between.
* Liberal and rational thinkers don't actually use the Green button.
* The simple minded sheep are far more numerous amongst the El Reg forums than I had previously thought. ( This is scary because they work or have a serious interest in IT).
* The simple minded sheep have a very small capacity for thinking out of the box and that is not an advantage within our industry. As the rest of us have to repair the damage.
* The simple minded sheep collectively are stronger because of their numbers, within a democracy this is very scary. El Reg will eventually cater to them because that's whats bring in the dollars. ( And then I will be forced to read/follow one of the lesser sites, lol)
So those damned Thumbs Down users, the ones that don't actually leave comments, are a worrying figure.
[Yes, I know that simple minded sheep is an oxymoron but it enhances the image]
Re: @Khaptain: Minor nit
I agree, I should not have tarred all journalists with the same brush but it is difficult to know who the truly objective ones are.
Objective journalists are a rarer species than the truly objective scientists these days.
Re: Thumbs Down Crowd
The problem here lies in the fact that the posts that have the most downvoting very seldom have any direct replies. This make it impossible to know what exactly you or anyone else actually does agree with.
Quite often I see cases where there are more downvotes than there are upvotes, go figure...... This thread was one of them....or at least it was when I started reading it.
Re: Probably going to sound like a new age person here
I completely understand your point of view but there are a few points that I would like to make.
Computers and most other modern gadgets were built by generations that did not have access to these items within the classroom. It did not stop that generation from becoming very effecient with these tools at a later stage.
By introducing computers into the classroom I feel that we are creating a dependance which is very difficult to remove. The elementary skills of Reading, Writing, aRithmetic can be applied in all and almost every occasion within life. Computers are only useful within very limited conditions.
Please don't get me wrong, I have been in IT for more than 20 years and I completely understand the role that computers and IT have to play but I also understand that the only reason I became any good at computing was because I was taught the elementary skills correctly. If I had been subjected to a computer at a very young age my computing skills may have developed but I would probably lacked in others.
In my point of view , I feel that computers make us dependant wheres the basic skills help us to remain independant.
Re: Playbook or ereader would be just as useful
eReader to replace books -- Smart thinking.
Laptops for those at "home" or unable to attend -- Smart thinking.
Playbook for multimedia -- Not too bad.....
Good to see some pragmatic thoughts
Thumbs Down Crowd
Would all the "Thumbs Down Crowd" please stand up and speak your minds. It's one thing to have the courage to click that red button it's another to explain why.
Fine, you do not agree with a comment, thats your perogative but it would greatly advance us all to understand why ! You may have something to offer which would change our minds and bring us out of the dark.
Debate and discussion require at least two parties, it's what makes them interesting and is also what is necassary in order that both parties can eventually evolve.
It takes just a little bit of courage to stand up and speaks one's mind or make a proposition and it is necassary to accept that sometimes you will fail. But to simply stand at the back and naysay relegates you to the level of a sheep.
I would rather read an article that I didn't agree with than see those Thumbs Down counters adding up.
Water Sports at work, lol
I hope that they washed all of the coffee cups as well.
The multitude of studies and scientific reports is giving us the impression, be it true or false, that the planet is changing quicker that we are capable of evolving. I am not convinced that this is fact. People are scared and the governements and "funding researchers" are happy to play along with this idea.
We can all make a multitide of hypotheses concerning the future but at the end of the day the "Black Swan" will arrive and prove us all wrong. We are trying to predict the unpredictable and people need to realise the difference between what is fact and what is scaremongering. The journalists are as much to blame as the scientists.
PCs in the classroom.
I see it too often in our Regional/European meetings, Managers hunched over their laptops "whilst" someone is giving a presentation. Ok sometimes the presentations are boring but when you have an alternative choice...
I have no experience of the classroom but I can imagine that given the same choice a kid will easilly be distracted and will prefer his laptop, which has games and social media on it, than a lecture from a teacher.
Are kids also allowed to take laptops into exams, if not then why are they in the classroom.
I would be interested too hear the rationalisations for allowing PCs onto the school desktop. ( University excepted - and don't come up with the "It replaces the heavy books argument, please").
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