Not just wikipedia, but also Intel itself: http://www.intel.com/products/processor/atom/specifications.htm
Very strange.. are you sure it's not an Atom 230?

True: calling a lot isn't too expensive in the US: it's calling a little that's (relatively) expensive. The last time I checked the cheapest plans were around $30 a month.

In Europe I've had plans for about $15 a month that allow me to call for about 250 minutes (counted in seconds, so a 15 second call is counted as a quarter minute) in the country, or more than an hour to anywhere in Europe or North America. AFAIK There's nothing comparable in the US.

I thought it sucked too, in the beginning, but the upside is the cell phone has a normal telephone number with a real area code.

Calling somebody on a cell phone costs the same as calling somebody on a land line, so the cell phone carriers can't do the scam they're pulling off in Europe, where calling a cell phone in a different country is an order of magnitude more expensive than calling a landline in that same country.

I was happy to pay to receive calls because of that (the per-minute rate is pretty low).

The point still stands; 10^26 unknown variables are really not to be argued with, and as a century of physics has shown us, are nothing to be afraid of~.

Your premise -- the one about about enough knowledge leading to a deterministic outcome of any system -- is inherently so impractical that it is unworkable: there is no system we know of that is so completely cut off from the rest of the universe that we know it to be isolated and describable completely without influence of the outside world's microstate - i.e. we need the rest of the universe's microstate to deterministically predict its path in phase space: something that no computer smaller than the universe itself is able to describe. This is true in the 'macro' world (a coin toss is straddling that border you artificially erected) as it is in the 'micro' world.

That is 20th century physics in a nutshell for you, and it's time to embrace it~.

BTW We certainly do know enough about quantum physics to rule out the 'hidden variables' model you seem to be proposing; look up the Alain Aspect experiments if you will.

and, PS you're right about computers generating pseudo-random numbers: most algorithms that use random numbers have such voracious apetites for them that generating them efficiently becomes an issue, and the only way to do that is through fairly simple algorithms (algorithms being the key word here) that are inherently pseudo-random: there's simply no time to wait for thermal/quantum noise to make its way up the observable orders of magnitude.

Now, if you'll excuse me, it's friday night and I just had a lovely bottle of wine; good night.

So in effect the situation in Sweden is now like in the US, then?
The people sued by the RIAA must have had their identities revealed to the RIAA by the ISP, right?

The mandatory part - the most expensive part for most people, though may be cheaper for you if you have the right zip code - is what people usually mean when they say 'car insurance' - and the reason it's mandatory is that most people don't have the means to pay the amount of damage they can potentially inflict with their cars; that's when insurance makes sense.

Besides, the hospital figures you're quoting seem very low; from my experience, in the US, a 3 hour emergency room visit - with no operation - will quickly run you in the $20k range. If you have to return for an operation, be prepared to multiply that. How else do you imagine healthcare spending is almost $8000/year per person in the US?

Interestingly, people not getting health insurance is one of the main reasons why getting insurance is so expensive in the first place: if you're healthy and willing/forced to gamble, there's a strong incentive not to insure yourself. This makes it more expensive to get insurance, forcing more people out of insurance.

Together with the complete bureaucratic nightmare that comes with the many types of insurance on offer - and the unwillingness to pay of the insurers (forcing even primary care physicians to hire people to just do the billing), makes the US system the most expensive by far for most people.

I'm not sure what world you live in, but here in the real world car insurance is not for your car, but for the damage you inflict on others. That insurance is there to keep you from spending the rest of your life paying off that debt you incurred because you hit a bicyclist and caused permanent injury.

The same goes for health insurance: if you hit a tree tomorrow with your car, break a few bones and rupture your kidney, you could very easily be looking at a 6-figure hospital bill.

... except that Rome had been very close to adecisively defeat by Carthage - a power, then, of comparable strength to Rome. If that would have happened, Rome would have likely become a footnote in history.

That was hardly the situation in the buildup to the Iraq war.

Actually, the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands didn't even exist until 1581, and it did NOT include what is now Belgium (the which became the Spanish Netherlands in 1581).

You are right, though, that before that, the Burgundian Netherlands were both modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands (and parts of Northern France, where Flemish was spoken until the 20th century).

In the 13th century, though, most of Holland was sparsely inhabited (they were essentially flood-planes) and 'colonized' from the south.

That only happened near the end of the 17th century - well after the start of the decline of the Dutch empire. Earlier that century, the Dutch did defeat the English at sea - three times.
So whatever advantage these guns gave, it wasn't very long-lasting.

The Spanish Armada was defeated in 1588, so maybe everybody else had caught up by the mid 17th century?