"but we don't have the ability to do whatever we want with the software on those computers."
I've never in my life felt in any way restricted as to what OS I put on my computer. I've never felt that my ability to do with it what I want was under seige but in the smartphone world it feels like all the scummiest corporate characters in the world are reaching out to put their slimy hands on your phone.
Apple wants to parent you and tell you what you can and can't do with your phone. Verizon and the other big phone companies want to install hooks that prevent you from using free market apps, that force you to use their tools/marketplaces so you have to see and purchase what they want you to purchase. They also want to kill net neutrality so they will have complete control over the airwaves so they can squish competitors at will. You will see their ads. You will buy from their stores. You will be limited in what you can do on your phone!
There is a constant war going on between these evil companies and us (apple being only mildly evil). They've subverted Android and are locking it down. The Nexus One is dead. They're killing net neutrality. We're losing.
In comparison you know what my computer feels like to me? Utter freedom. Microsoft looks like a positive saint in comparison to these people and Windows OS...a bastion of openness. I can put whatever I want on my PC. No one reaches out and fights me for control. It is mine. Exactly how i want it to be.
So they want who you are, who you know, where you are, what programs you're using, and the ability to do whatever they want on your phone. I dunno, that seems like a lot of access to me. What don't they want? I have to admit that I balked at giving that much access for skype, even though they are a "trusted" company in my eyes. (Trusted means big and unlikely to screw me over.)
Here's the official list of what they want:
Your personal information read contact data, write contact data
Your location coarse (network-based) location
Network communication full internet access
Your accounts act as an account authenticator, manage the accounts list, use the authentication credentials of an account
Storage modify/delete SD card contents
Hardware controls change your audio settings, record audio
phone calls read phone state and identify
system tools modify global system settings, prevent phone from sleeping, retrieve running applications, write sync settings
I'm happy to hear the verdict, but it always strikes me as sad how we only seem to win the most obvious of court cases these days. I mean, who in their right mind would think it is not OK to videotape in public, or that we needed to "protect" the police from video cameras?!
From the stupid fucken judiciary that hasn't outlawed torture yet (despite it being on the books), who let the government get away with warrantless wiretapping, assassinations of american citizens, and who thinks its ok for an $80,000 per song downloaded verdict....
I'm happy with this verdict, but overall I'm still massively frustrated.
And do you think the cost of those books comes from the trees that are cut down to make the pages? If you move the books to an ipad/computer, the only way you save any money is if you factor in pirating. The vast majority of the costs of those books is in paying the publisher and in paying the author. So you will still end up paying 80% or 90% of what you do now (assuming the publishers give you ANY discount for an electronic version) AND you won't be able to sell your books when you're done with them! Oh yeah... lots of costs savings there....
Actually the additional way you could save money is in the classes where a specific book isn't required and a good wiki will do (i'm thinking of programming and maybe some engineering courses.) Also if open source books take off, that could be interesting but that's pretty much the same thing as a wiki except with a different format.... but then, it doesn't take an ipad to do any of that...
Students need a personal computer to do school work. Tyipcally students today get laptops because of the portability, cost, and the need to do work on campus. So it's not a hard assumption to say that the students will already have a laptop, so why the hell do they also need a proprietary, sole source ipad??? Ah, I got it, all students have an extra $800 sitting around burning a hole in their pocket and are dying to give it to Jobs.
A tablet is useful for receiving information, reading books, surfing the internet and the like, but it sucks for input. Students on the other hand need to do things. They need to write reports, use excel, complete project assignment, etc. This is seriously a stupid discussion because a laptop can do the exact same thing but is much more functional and may not even cost any more. If a laptop can do superset of what an ipad can do, and a student needs a laptop, in a constrained budget situation why would you even consider getting an ipad?
And as for calling the ipad a "superlight package"... well, maybe you've never actually held one...
McCain did best in the categories in the college drop-out category ("some college") by only losing by 4 points, but got "pretty handily" beat in the college educated level by an 8 points.
Wait. You're supposed to read the articles here? I was under the impression that that was against the rules. If you read the articles before commenting... isn't that kind of like cheating??
"Except then the GOP gets a stump to stand upon. This is where C-SPAN causes a problem; all the rhetoric during a filibuster would be good for Republican PR, they could use the filibuster time to motivate their base, etc."
So the hell what? Let the democrats motivate their base also! Present your arguments and then turn around and fight for them! It would be damn nice to get back to the days of the progressives actually fighting for their politics instead of just rolling over and playing dead.
Nothing in a PCB is getting much below 45% the speed of light, inner layer or no. FR4 is about the crappiest dielectric out there and it has a dielectric of ~4.2ish which leads to a velocity of propagation of 49% the speed of light.
Just realize what this is: This is the latest fishing attempt on trying to find an argument that gains traction with the "dumb masses" out there to make them all select something against our common good.
Net neutrality is so obviously the right way to go that they're having a hard time coming up with a real argument against. At this point all they can do is talk derisively about it on fox news, but even the smallest honest debate shows how obviously net neutrality needs to be mandated.
Call out bullshit on these arguments whenever you can to as wide an audience as you can! Only behind the "Citizen's United" supreme court decision (which screwed us all), I think this is the second most important free speech issue of our generation!
Windchill is a human problem not a cellphone problem. It effects us because we're trying to maintain a higher temperature than the air temperature (98 deg vs -2 in this case). Your cell phone will not get below -2 degrees no matter what the windchill is.
Think of it like a heatsink. If a heatsink is cooling a processor, the more air you can push toward it the better, but there was no heat source, the heatsink will not drop below ambient temperature no matter how much air you push over it!
Or, yet another way to think about it... Airflow/windchill only increases the rate at which a person or heatsink's temperature moves toward ambient. Once you've achieved ambient temperature, airflow/windchill ceases to matter.
... i'm sorry, but where is the political information NOT mostly bogus? Please.
TV news? There's only enough time for sound bites and political press statements. That's like getting your product information from advertising agencies because that's exactly what sound bite and press statements are. When's the last time you saw a TV news station actually do real fact finding or challenge the BS that has become main-steam in politics today?
Newspapers? Whenever I've actually read them they don't really seem that much more informative than the internet articles I read, plus I can look up more information on google in a flash to answer my mental questions regarding facts and statistics.
Radio? LOL
The internet is a sea of information and it is up to the user to swim (judge information based upon the source's trustworthiness) or stay in the kiddie pool in corporate piss, political spin piss, or just flat out "I can't handle differing opinions" piss.
I, for one, have no desire to go back to the kiddie pool. Power to the people!
??? Was there supposed to be a "/s" after that post?
Math is a tool. I'm an engineer for a living and while I thought math was pretty easy compared to most kids, I didn't like it until they start treating like a tool. Unfortunately that pretty much only happened in college.
Just like spelling is boring as hell, arithmetic is also boring, and just like punctuation and sentence structure are boring (fuck off grammar Nazis), math and language PROCESS is also boring as hell. If you want to make language or math interesting, teach people to apply it!
And yet the only thing crazier than that bio is the idea that North Korea, a country insanely rigorous about information control, has the wherewithal to pull this off. The amount of computers they have with solid internet connections is probably less than 100.
Next thing you'll tell me is that their super collider is almost complete and any day now they'll finish their quantum computer.
There's a third option that doesn't seem at all bad. The smaller independent radio stations can form a co-op where each station pays their own independent fees but together they will do more than $25k per year. That way everyone wins.
Yes this sucks, but I don't think it is really as limiting as the doomsayers believe.
I would say the exact same thing about J.R.R. Tolkien... but they opened doors that are breath-taking. Just because Columbus arrived in America first doesn't mean he was the best sailor.
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p.s. The Columbus comment was just to make a point and doesn't need to be deconstructed for historical accuracy
The problem with a tire tax is that people would run their tires longer and longer long past the time they're unsafe to drive on just to save some money. I don't want people with bald tires sliding in the rain and blowing out on the freeways for this solution. The tire tax sounds good the first time you hear it, but really isn't a good idea.
You'd also have tire companies creating tires that last for a super long time at the expense of safety (wouldn't grip the road as well).
So if you read the actual report (located here: http://financecommission.dot.gov/ they specify the real reason they are pushing for the GPS based system is for traffic shaping. With a GPS system they have the ability to create toll roads and fees that are based upon WHEN you are driving on the roads and which roads you are driving on. This allows for the more "efficient" use of the roadways (and a tax system that is much harder for people to organize complaints about). This is the advantage over the fuel based tax system.
Personally I hate this idea. I'm a hardcore liberial and this grates on me for two reasons:
First this offers way to much opportunity to be abused. This is complete big brother stuff and after the policies of the last guy who we just kicked out of office and the new guy who isn't doing enough to stamp out those invasion of freedom policies, this really gives me the willies.
Second this rewards the people who drive big gas guzzlers and hurts people who drive super fuel efficient vehicles. That just seems stupid.
Now arguments for the plan... think electric vehicles. They are looking like they might actually become something feasible for our roadways. Our roads are funded in large part by fuel taxes here the government would be left out in the cold if they don't change the tax code (which of course they'll do).
The second argument for GPS taxing was mentioned eariler and that's for traffic shaping. This seems like a poor way to implement this. The government wants to use our pocketbook to influence our driving habbits but this just seems like a poor way to do it. If they worked more on standardizing real time traffic information over the airwaves so private GPS systems can easily tap into that information, people would do their optimization on their own. The government should make this easy by setting the standard for tracking and sharing with all vehicles with the right electronics. Nobody wants to sit in traffic so as long as the information was available the problem is mostly solved.
Just sharing information on real time traffic would help tremendously, but i'm sure it wouldn't effect rush hour traffic. The question you should ask is would GPS taxing help rush hour traffic also? How much in taxes/tolls would you have to be charged before you would change your driving habits? $1 a mile? $2 a mile? This seems like the GPS tax would either have no effect or be a massively high tax that would actually get people to carpool or get companies to shift their working hours but at the expense of a massive tax burden. Neither one of these options is really a good thing.
The funny thing I found in the report is that they rated the public's acceptance of raising the gas tax as a 2 out of 5, but they failed to have an equal rating for the GPS tax! If they think raising the gas tax is bad, just wait until they try to implement a GPS based driving tax. Can you think of anything else that would light a fire under the butts of all the radicals in the country at the same time???? I can't. Environmentalists, anti government right wingers, anti big brother liberals, libertarians... i mean EVERYONE who's willing to stand up and yell at someone would be on the list against this thing. Talk about a crazy idea. I don't know what these guys are smoking, but this is going nowhere.
This makes no sense dude... if China sells their stuff here they would still have to pay the $40 licensing fees. You can not evade the US patent system by manufacturing stuff overseas and then importing it back to the US. It doesn't work like that.
China's stuff is so much cheaper because employees there get paid 1/10 what they do in the US.
I don't think I'd say China is "cooperating extensively," or else they'd crack down on the massive theft of American IP/piracy and would trade "dollar for dollar," instead of the huge deficit America is incurring.
Oh, so NOW someone on slashdot wants enforcement of IP and piracy laws......
you know... this is a very good point, that this is a huge part of what made me discount all "conservatives" as schmucks the 8 years bush was running our country into the ground. Conservatives (at least in marketing) claim to be for a number of fundamental things, such as a smaller government, less government in our business, a balanced budget, lower taxes, etc... and they just took these ideas and pissed them into the wind and changed their ideals to support bush and his skewed vision of the world.
I'm a hardcore liberal but I can respect conservatives... REAL conservatives... not the losers who believe they're playing a sports game and always cheer for their side no matter what they do. If you have honor and integrity you should be able to stand up and say "wait a second, that's stupid, I'm pissed off you're spying on ME" or "I'm willing to trade away some of my security in order to keep the freedoms my country stands for" or even "I want lower taxes, but damn it I want a balanced budget first!"
Did you mean "the RESISTANCE of the cord is nothing compared to the impedance of the transmission mechanism"? Impedance is ideally lossless... the reduction in current comes from capacitance and inductance which only store and redirect current instead of turning it into heat like resistance does.
And your nitpick doesn't make any sense either. Just because one part of a transmission line is super conducting doesn't mean it all is. It's like switching between different resistance cables in your power transfer... what happens in one part of the line doesn't mean anything about the rest of the wire.
The real problem with the efficiency of super conducting cables is the cost that goes into keeping them cool. You have to count that massive expenditure of energy against it when doing efficiency calculations.
In the end, 2gravey is right, copper is one hell of a good conductor (the only material that I know is better is silver, and it's not better by much) so its rarely possible to improve on a good copper wire other than to make it a thicker copper wire.
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"but we don't have the ability to do whatever we want with the software on those computers."
I've never in my life felt in any way restricted as to what OS I put on my computer. I've never felt that my ability to do with it what I want was under seige but in the smartphone world it feels like all the scummiest corporate characters in the world are reaching out to put their slimy hands on your phone.
Apple wants to parent you and tell you what you can and can't do with your phone. Verizon and the other big phone companies want to install hooks that prevent you from using free market apps, that force you to use their tools/marketplaces so you have to see and purchase what they want you to purchase. They also want to kill net neutrality so they will have complete control over the airwaves so they can squish competitors at will. You will see their ads. You will buy from their stores. You will be limited in what you can do on your phone!
There is a constant war going on between these evil companies and us (apple being only mildly evil). They've subverted Android and are locking it down. The Nexus One is dead. They're killing net neutrality. We're losing.
In comparison you know what my computer feels like to me? Utter freedom. Microsoft looks like a positive saint in comparison to these people and Windows OS...a bastion of openness. I can put whatever I want on my PC. No one reaches out and fights me for control. It is mine. Exactly how i want it to be.
My phone is nothing like my computer.
I just wish it was.
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So they want who you are, who you know, where you are, what programs you're using, and the ability to do whatever they want on your phone. I dunno, that seems like a lot of access to me. What don't they want? I have to admit that I balked at giving that much access for skype, even though they are a "trusted" company in my eyes. (Trusted means big and unlikely to screw me over.)
Here's the official list of what they want:
Your personal information
read contact data, write contact data
Your location
coarse (network-based) location
Network communication
full internet access
Your accounts
act as an account authenticator, manage the accounts list, use the authentication credentials of an account
Storage
modify/delete SD card contents
Hardware controls
change your audio settings, record audio
phone calls
read phone state and identify
system tools
modify global system settings, prevent phone from sleeping, retrieve running applications, write sync settings
I'm happy to hear the verdict, but it always strikes me as sad how we only seem to win the most obvious of court cases these days. I mean, who in their right mind would think it is not OK to videotape in public, or that we needed to "protect" the police from video cameras?!
From the stupid fucken judiciary that hasn't outlawed torture yet (despite it being on the books), who let the government get away with warrantless wiretapping, assassinations of american citizens, and who thinks its ok for an $80,000 per song downloaded verdict....
I'm happy with this verdict, but overall I'm still massively frustrated.
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And do you think the cost of those books comes from the trees that are cut down to make the pages? If you move the books to an ipad/computer, the only way you save any money is if you factor in pirating. The vast majority of the costs of those books is in paying the publisher and in paying the author. So you will still end up paying 80% or 90% of what you do now (assuming the publishers give you ANY discount for an electronic version) AND you won't be able to sell your books when you're done with them! Oh yeah... lots of costs savings there....
Actually the additional way you could save money is in the classes where a specific book isn't required and a good wiki will do (i'm thinking of programming and maybe some engineering courses.) Also if open source books take off, that could be interesting but that's pretty much the same thing as a wiki except with a different format. ... but then, it doesn't take an ipad to do any of that...
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Not buying it.
Students need a personal computer to do school work. Tyipcally students today get laptops because of the portability, cost, and the need to do work on campus. So it's not a hard assumption to say that the students will already have a laptop, so why the hell do they also need a proprietary, sole source ipad??? Ah, I got it, all students have an extra $800 sitting around burning a hole in their pocket and are dying to give it to Jobs.
A tablet is useful for receiving information, reading books, surfing the internet and the like, but it sucks for input. Students on the other hand need to do things. They need to write reports, use excel, complete project assignment, etc. This is seriously a stupid discussion because a laptop can do the exact same thing but is much more functional and may not even cost any more. If a laptop can do superset of what an ipad can do, and a student needs a laptop, in a constrained budget situation why would you even consider getting an ipad?
And as for calling the ipad a "superlight package"... well, maybe you've never actually held one...
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Nope. In every education catagory, Obama beat McCain.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/exit-polls.html
McCain did best in the categories in the college drop-out category ("some college") by only losing by 4 points, but got "pretty handily" beat in the college educated level by an 8 points.
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Did you mean bible "thumping" evangelical volunteers?
The bible bashing evangelicals sound like a fun group if you ask me.....
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Wait. You're supposed to read the articles here? I was under the impression that that was against the rules. If you read the articles before commenting ... isn't that kind of like cheating??
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"Except then the GOP gets a stump to stand upon. This is where C-SPAN causes a problem; all the rhetoric during a filibuster would be good for Republican PR, they could use the filibuster time to motivate their base, etc."
So the hell what? Let the democrats motivate their base also! Present your arguments and then turn around and fight for them! It would be damn nice to get back to the days of the progressives actually fighting for their politics instead of just rolling over and playing dead.
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Nothing in a PCB is getting much below 45% the speed of light, inner layer or no. FR4 is about the crappiest dielectric out there and it has a dielectric of ~4.2ish which leads to a velocity of propagation of 49% the speed of light.
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Just realize what this is: This is the latest fishing attempt on trying to find an argument that gains traction with the "dumb masses" out there to make them all select something against our common good.
Net neutrality is so obviously the right way to go that they're having a hard time coming up with a real argument against. At this point all they can do is talk derisively about it on fox news, but even the smallest honest debate shows how obviously net neutrality needs to be mandated.
Call out bullshit on these arguments whenever you can to as wide an audience as you can! Only behind the "Citizen's United" supreme court decision (which screwed us all), I think this is the second most important free speech issue of our generation!
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Windchill is a human problem not a cellphone problem. It effects us because we're trying to maintain a higher temperature than the air temperature (98 deg vs -2 in this case). Your cell phone will not get below -2 degrees no matter what the windchill is.
Think of it like a heatsink. If a heatsink is cooling a processor, the more air you can push toward it the better, but there was no heat source, the heatsink will not drop below ambient temperature no matter how much air you push over it!
Or, yet another way to think about it... Airflow/windchill only increases the rate at which a person or heatsink's temperature moves toward ambient. Once you've achieved ambient temperature, airflow/windchill ceases to matter.
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... i'm sorry, but where is the political information NOT mostly bogus? Please.
TV news? There's only enough time for sound bites and political press statements. That's like getting your product information from advertising agencies because that's exactly what sound bite and press statements are. When's the last time you saw a TV news station actually do real fact finding or challenge the BS that has become main-steam in politics today?
Newspapers? Whenever I've actually read them they don't really seem that much more informative than the internet articles I read, plus I can look up more information on google in a flash to answer my mental questions regarding facts and statistics.
Radio? LOL
The internet is a sea of information and it is up to the user to swim (judge information based upon the source's trustworthiness) or stay in the kiddie pool in corporate piss, political spin piss, or just flat out "I can't handle differing opinions" piss.
I, for one, have no desire to go back to the kiddie pool. Power to the people!
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who do you root for?
The lawyers.
??? Was there supposed to be a "/s" after that post?
Math is a tool. I'm an engineer for a living and while I thought math was pretty easy compared to most kids, I didn't like it until they start treating like a tool. Unfortunately that pretty much only happened in college.
Just like spelling is boring as hell, arithmetic is also boring, and just like punctuation and sentence structure are boring (fuck off grammar Nazis), math and language PROCESS is also boring as hell. If you want to make language or math interesting, teach people to apply it!
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And yet the only thing crazier than that bio is the idea that North Korea, a country insanely rigorous about information control, has the wherewithal to pull this off. The amount of computers they have with solid internet connections is probably less than 100.
Next thing you'll tell me is that their super collider is almost complete and any day now they'll finish their quantum computer.
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There's a third option that doesn't seem at all bad. The smaller independent radio stations can form a co-op where each station pays their own independent fees but together they will do more than $25k per year. That way everyone wins.
Yes this sucks, but I don't think it is really as limiting as the doomsayers believe.
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I would say the exact same thing about J.R.R. Tolkien... but they opened doors that are breath-taking. Just because Columbus arrived in America first doesn't mean he was the best sailor.
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p.s. The Columbus comment was just to make a point and doesn't need to be deconstructed for historical accuracy
The problem with a tire tax is that people would run their tires longer and longer long past the time they're unsafe to drive on just to save some money. I don't want people with bald tires sliding in the rain and blowing out on the freeways for this solution. The tire tax sounds good the first time you hear it, but really isn't a good idea.
You'd also have tire companies creating tires that last for a super long time at the expense of safety (wouldn't grip the road as well).
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So if you read the actual report (located here: http://financecommission.dot.gov/ they specify the real reason they are pushing for the GPS based system is for traffic shaping. With a GPS system they have the ability to create toll roads and fees that are based upon WHEN you are driving on the roads and which roads you are driving on. This allows for the more "efficient" use of the roadways (and a tax system that is much harder for people to organize complaints about). This is the advantage over the fuel based tax system.
Personally I hate this idea. I'm a hardcore liberial and this grates on me for two reasons:
First this offers way to much opportunity to be abused. This is complete big brother stuff and after the policies of the last guy who we just kicked out of office and the new guy who isn't doing enough to stamp out those invasion of freedom policies, this really gives me the willies.
Second this rewards the people who drive big gas guzzlers and hurts people who drive super fuel efficient vehicles. That just seems stupid.
Now arguments for the plan... think electric vehicles. They are looking like they might actually become something feasible for our roadways. Our roads are funded in large part by fuel taxes here the government would be left out in the cold if they don't change the tax code (which of course they'll do).
The second argument for GPS taxing was mentioned eariler and that's for traffic shaping. This seems like a poor way to implement this. The government wants to use our pocketbook to influence our driving habbits but this just seems like a poor way to do it. If they worked more on standardizing real time traffic information over the airwaves so private GPS systems can easily tap into that information, people would do their optimization on their own. The government should make this easy by setting the standard for tracking and sharing with all vehicles with the right electronics. Nobody wants to sit in traffic so as long as the information was available the problem is mostly solved.
Just sharing information on real time traffic would help tremendously, but i'm sure it wouldn't effect rush hour traffic. The question you should ask is would GPS taxing help rush hour traffic also? How much in taxes/tolls would you have to be charged before you would change your driving habits? $1 a mile? $2 a mile? This seems like the GPS tax would either have no effect or be a massively high tax that would actually get people to carpool or get companies to shift their working hours but at the expense of a massive tax burden. Neither one of these options is really a good thing.
The funny thing I found in the report is that they rated the public's acceptance of raising the gas tax as a 2 out of 5, but they failed to have an equal rating for the GPS tax! If they think raising the gas tax is bad, just wait until they try to implement a GPS based driving tax. Can you think of anything else that would light a fire under the butts of all the radicals in the country at the same time???? I can't. Environmentalists, anti government right wingers, anti big brother liberals, libertarians... i mean EVERYONE who's willing to stand up and yell at someone would be on the list against this thing. Talk about a crazy idea. I don't know what these guys are smoking, but this is going nowhere.
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This makes no sense dude... if China sells their stuff here they would still have to pay the $40 licensing fees. You can not evade the US patent system by manufacturing stuff overseas and then importing it back to the US. It doesn't work like that.
China's stuff is so much cheaper because employees there get paid 1/10 what they do in the US.
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I don't think I'd say China is "cooperating extensively," or else they'd crack down on the massive theft of American IP/piracy and would trade "dollar for dollar," instead of the huge deficit America is incurring.
Oh, so NOW someone on slashdot wants enforcement of IP and piracy laws......
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you know... this is a very good point, that this is a huge part of what made me discount all "conservatives" as schmucks the 8 years bush was running our country into the ground. Conservatives (at least in marketing) claim to be for a number of fundamental things, such as a smaller government, less government in our business, a balanced budget, lower taxes, etc... and they just took these ideas and pissed them into the wind and changed their ideals to support bush and his skewed vision of the world.
I'm a hardcore liberal but I can respect conservatives... REAL conservatives... not the losers who believe they're playing a sports game and always cheer for their side no matter what they do. If you have honor and integrity you should be able to stand up and say "wait a second, that's stupid, I'm pissed off you're spying on ME" or "I'm willing to trade away some of my security in order to keep the freedoms my country stands for" or even "I want lower taxes, but damn it I want a balanced budget first!"
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...and then when i run my air conditioner at my house using this same energy i can call it "atmospheric thermal replenishment"...
Why don't you try explaining how you "deplete" the climate of energy when you use what you take? In a closed system you have a net loss of zero.
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um... what?
Did you mean "the RESISTANCE of the cord is nothing compared to the impedance of the transmission mechanism"? Impedance is ideally lossless... the reduction in current comes from capacitance and inductance which only store and redirect current instead of turning it into heat like resistance does.
And your nitpick doesn't make any sense either. Just because one part of a transmission line is super conducting doesn't mean it all is. It's like switching between different resistance cables in your power transfer... what happens in one part of the line doesn't mean anything about the rest of the wire.
The real problem with the efficiency of super conducting cables is the cost that goes into keeping them cool. You have to count that massive expenditure of energy against it when doing efficiency calculations.
In the end, 2gravey is right, copper is one hell of a good conductor (the only material that I know is better is silver, and it's not better by much) so its rarely possible to improve on a good copper wire other than to make it a thicker copper wire.
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