Posts by L.B. 61 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Oct 2011
Just about every electronic device made these days has a computer in it, many will have little arm cores.
So while they are counting Apple media devices; why not count all the web enabled televisions, phones, games consoles, and NAS boxes.
remember the vast pollution created extracting those highly toxic metals out of the ground that are needed to make those batteries, and massive amount of resources needed to to mine the ore and refine it.
Also the fact that most electricity is generated by coal, oil, gas and nuclear (no specific order implied).
The levels of respiratory disease caused by tailpipe fumes is utterly irrelevant compared to smoking tobacco (or any other organic weeds), which kills millions every year.
There is a 5.56 NATO (aka: .223 Remington ) cartrige that is "mostly" plastic, and it has been around for a few years. The base is still brass (about 6mm for the bolt/ejector) but the rest is a plastic, with a standard 69 - 70 grain* bullet up front.
They shoot exactly like regular 5.56 NATO ammo, they are just a little cheaper to make (less metal) and lighter to carry. The brass case of a 5.56mm cartridge makes up approx 30-50% of the total weight.
* "grain" there are 7000 to a lb (pound).
...why haven't MIPS got their act together.
They have had 64bit cores since the 90's, it was not that long ago that SGI were still making workstations with them.
Though they may just be waiting for the Chinese to do all the work for them, they have new MIPS derived coresboth 32bit & 64bit. They have versions for embedded to servers and they are already quite low wattage (4cores @ 1GHz using about ~15W using 65nm chips).
When the Chinese are manufacturing these by the billion Intel, AMD, and ARM could be in trouble.
For those unaware of any of this try looking up "Loongson" and "Godson".
They have absolutely no comprehension of what they are ranting about, and have no idea what could be done differently.
They complain about capitalism yet totally rely on it for their Starbucks coffee, pizza delivery and smart phones, without realising they are total hypocrites.
If they had any real sense of what the world was like, they would stop buy produce that is made in china by factory workers who are treated more like slave labour compared to the conditions of western workers.
Yet most are sponging off society complaining how unfair it is – they're nothing but parasites.
Under no circumstances can a tube driver be called a skilled worker.
It may require some knowledge that you or I don't have, but that is true of almost every occupation be it a street cleaner or security guard all the way up to lawyers, accountants and surgeons.
It takes a course of just few weeks to take a pleb off the street and fully train them as a tube driver. For people with a little intelligence that course could probably be done in as many days.
Skilled work takes many weeks to get just the basics, and months and more often years to master. In some jobs you never stop learning.
I agree with everything you wrote, but the same "entitlement" issues apply to the UK and most of the Europe.
In fact I would say it's even worse in the UK; particularly with those people who went to great effort in avoided getting an education, then expect the state to just hand them loads of money to live in houses that people who actually work for a living could not afford.
All because they are a poor, “hard done by” waist of space.
A British based company is making very low end tablets for India, the Indian gov. are going to subsidise them, but the cost of manufacture was stated in the region of £35.
The device shown may look a bit clinky conpared with a Galaxy, but the designers specificaly built it with the Indian market in mind, so it has 2 full sized USB ports for starters making it possible to use standard USB sticks or as the guy showed, add a full keyboad/mouse to make it a postable PC, not just a tablet.
They didn't say what CPU (just hinted it was slow by most standards) and ran Android 2.something, but for £35 what do you expect.
Anyway from that; I would not be so sure that a "book-read" from Amazon was not making a profit.
I pay £20.50 a month to Sky (just enternatment +discovery packs), and for that I get:
SkyOne (aka The Simpsons Chanel), SkyAtlantic, Living, Syfi, FX, Alabi, an dozen or so Discovery channels, with the +1Hour options of all of those and the ITV's, Channel 4 & 5, and Film4. There are lots of other channels that get used now and then (Comedy Central, Halmark,etc...), basically not bad value.
There are also lots of radio channels and the picture quality is usally better than freeview.
For the £12 TAX I get:
Repeats of Dad's Army, New Tricks, Dr Who (I cannot think of anything else I've watched for about 4 years). PLus a hugh mass off utter crap designed for the consumption of the dumbest members society, with the likes of Eastenders, Holby, Celebrity(Dancing,Skating,Crapping in the woods...) and CGI Dino-twaddle. Plus a news service that is about on par with FoxNews with its in depth reporting or wahtever advertising was passed its way and re-reporting what was on SkyNews the day before.
A complete wast of money!
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