A lot has been written lately about the High-Definition standard wars of Blu-Ray vs HDDVD.
I only have enough money to buy a single console and HD movies player,
so I have done the math using prices from Amazon.com:
Sony PS3 (60 Gb) console: $499
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009VXAM0
Sony PS3 Blu-Ray remote $24
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M17AVO
Sony PS3 cordless Media Keyboard $65
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MFLBBK
Total: $ 589
Storage: 60GB
Full-size wireless Keyboard: Yes
Runs Linux without mod: Yes, [4, afaik] Yellowdog for PS3 , Fedora-PPC, Ubuntu-PPC, Gentoo
vs
Xbox 360 - 20Gb: $349
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000B43OY4
Xbox 360 HD-DVD player add-on: $180
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JHO4L0
Xbox 360 Media Remote: $20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000B6MLSM
Tiny clumsy Xbox rubber mini-Keyboard: $30
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UN3UDQ
Total: $579
Storage: 20GB
plays HD movies: YES, but with Bulky add-on
You fund an evil corporation which is also a convicted monopolist: YES
Runs Linux without mod?: NO
Full-size wireless keyboard: NO
Game over, Sony's PS3 wins. :)
Price difference:
Sony's $10 more expensive, big freaking deal. :)
Friday, September 14, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Another 9/11 - but in Chile
REMEMBERING SALVADOR ALLENDE, AND CHILE's own 9/11
When the new generations hear the words "September 11" they think about the attack on the twin towers in New York.But there was another September 11 as painful -if not more- for Latin Americans...
Here goes my little homage to a man who valued and kept his words till the end. A man betrayed by power-hungry criminals because the Empire up North wanted to prevent him setting a "bad example" on the region.
Last words of Salvador Allende (Spanish):
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[English translation here]
Some related reading... :
CIA acknowledges involvement in Allende's overthrow, Pinochet's rise
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/09/19/us.cia.chile.ap/
Herald Tribune: Former aide links Pinochet and son to drug trade
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/11/news/chile.php
CHILE 1964: CIA COVERT SUPPORT IN FREI ELECTION DETAILED
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20040925/index.htm
Colin Powell: U.S. "not proud" of 1973 covert action in Chile
http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2003/02/dos022003.html
Riggs bank hid Pinochet's fortune
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50222-2004Jul14.html
Tinker Bell, Pinochet and the Fairy Tale Miracle of Chile - Greg Palast
http://www.gregpalast.com/tinker-bell-pinochet-and-the-fairy-tale-miracle-of-chile-2/
Chile's privatization failures
http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=NC&pubid=962
The fall of a myth - Chile reforms its privatized Education and Social Security systems [Spanish]
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:IKZMLcmjmhoJ:www.cep.cl/Cenda/Cen_Documentos/Pub_MR/Libros/Libro_2006/Libro_2006.doc+chile+cuenta+secreta+pinochet+barings&hl=es&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ar
The Case Against Pinochet
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB125/index2.htm
New Evidence: U.S. OK'd Argentina's 'Dirty War'
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1204-01.htm
"-This is admiral Caravajal, ¡I want to speak to the President!
-This is the president speaking
After a few moment, the president's voice lashed out like a whip:
-¡What do you think, you sh*tty traitors!... ¡Take your plane up your ass!... ¡You're speaking to the President of the country. And the president, elected by the people, does not surrender!
--Salvador Allende, under siege by the military coup, in La Moneda presidental palace, Sept. 11, 1973
[From "Salvador Allende: how the white house caused his death"].
[Published by El Ateneo. ISBN 950-02-7452-3]
"History is not stopped by repression or crime. This is a stage that will be overcome. This is a hard and difficult moment: it is possible they will crush us. But tomorrow will belong to the people, will belong to the workers. Humanity advances to conquer a better life."
-Salvador Allende's last words message, from La Moneda, Sep-11-1973
(full translation at "Allende's Last Words")
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