Hommattiin tässä Petrille vähän aikaa sitten hieno läppäri jossa tuli vakioasennettuna Windows Vista, ja kyllä tämä uusi Windows on sitten hieno! On käyttöliittymä jossa ainakin 16 triljoonaa väriä ja 3D -ikkunat ja valikot pulpahtelee todella hienosti esiin kun niitä klikkaa. Ja höysteenä on toki ainakin 7-kanavaiset digitaaliset sursuraround -ääniefektit jotka hivelee korvia. Ja sitten vittusaatana mikään aiemmin käytetyistä ohjelmista ei sitten oikeasti toimikaan kun siinä läppärissä tuli joku vatun Windows 64 bit edition eikä 32 bittinen jota meitin vanhat ohjelmat ehkä tukisi.
Ja jos joku ohjelma sattuukin vahingossa toimimaan, toimii se perkeleen hitaasti kun Vistan uudet hienosti pulpahtelevat ikkunoinnit ja animaatiot sun muu sälä syö kaiken konetehon mitä koneesta irtoaa ja vielä vähän lisää. Noh, jotenkin maailmantalouden pyörät täytyy pitää liikkeessä, ja mikä onkaan parempi tapa edesauttaa tätä kuin kehittää ensin uusi tehosyöppö käyttis, ja lopettaa sitten tuki vanhalle. Ihmiset ovat sitten pakotettuja ostamaan uudenkarheita tietokoneita, jotka jaksavat pyörittää tätä uutta uljasta tuotosta juuri ja juuri yhtä hyvin kuin vanha kone edellistä käyttistä.
Kyllä teknologinen kehitys on sitten hienoa ja autuaaksitekevää!
Same in English: We just became Windows Vista users. Now only thing we need is a nuclear powered PC that might have just enough juice to smoothly run it %#"#%!!!
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
The Best Place on Earth presents: "Everybody wants to live here!"
Our hometown Vancouver has consistently claimed top positions in various livability surveys. Largely this is thanks to the spectacular natural settings that surround Vancouver; the mountains, the ocean and the wilderness. Indeed, there are number of beaches, provincial parks and skiing slopes amidst the majestic mountains, that have so far been easily accessible to the residents of the city.
For past few years, provincial and municipal leaders have aggressively been marketing Vancouver and BC to the world, in hopes that hundreds of thousands more people would be attracted to move here. It has been projected that by 2020 almost million more people will have moved here, bringing the total population of the area to over 3 million.
The most visible part of the marketing campaign is the 2010 winter olympics that were aggressively bid for by Vancouver and eventually won. Getting the olympics has then contributed to the ongoing unprecedented residential construction boom and to the expectations, that "everyone" indeed is going to come to live here.
It is clear that the provincial leaders have managed to convince the general population that the olympics are the best thing that have ever happened to the city and that it will be nothing but positive to have "everyone" to move here. However, there has not been a word what kind of impact the increasing population really will have on the quality of life here.
To enlighten at least those few people that happen to wander to this site, I will post a series of pictures over next several weeks, illustrating the actual impact on life in the city, once "everybody" has moved here. I can already reveal that while there will be more and more people living here, there won't be more beaches, more roads or more wilderness available for the additional people to enjoy...
For past few years, provincial and municipal leaders have aggressively been marketing Vancouver and BC to the world, in hopes that hundreds of thousands more people would be attracted to move here. It has been projected that by 2020 almost million more people will have moved here, bringing the total population of the area to over 3 million.
The most visible part of the marketing campaign is the 2010 winter olympics that were aggressively bid for by Vancouver and eventually won. Getting the olympics has then contributed to the ongoing unprecedented residential construction boom and to the expectations, that "everyone" indeed is going to come to live here.
It is clear that the provincial leaders have managed to convince the general population that the olympics are the best thing that have ever happened to the city and that it will be nothing but positive to have "everyone" to move here. However, there has not been a word what kind of impact the increasing population really will have on the quality of life here.
To enlighten at least those few people that happen to wander to this site, I will post a series of pictures over next several weeks, illustrating the actual impact on life in the city, once "everybody" has moved here. I can already reveal that while there will be more and more people living here, there won't be more beaches, more roads or more wilderness available for the additional people to enjoy...
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