Would love to know how people measured this effect of the tarrif, and could attribute the collapse of trade directly to it as opposed to say the markets crashing. So 66% of World trade was in goods that had this tarrif in the United States as opposed to the greater number of duty free ones that this bill put in place compared to the time period before?
Looking through you posts I can see you are well up for free trade so will not try and change your opinion, all I can see happening now is that consumers can buy outside of the local economy to get cheaper goods and eventually the local economy collapses due to workers being unemployed. No easy solution.
Taking the flipside, this is a piece of popular computer engineering that will soon be available for all to use. I wonder what else is due up, I seem to remember a lot of good stuff was done 20 odd years ago.
In fact by quoting old expired patents in comments etc it might offer protection against modern patents, especially as they are being granted for such overly broad reasons.
Thinking ahead in 20 years or so, todays overly broad patents might be the shields against patent claims of tommorrow.
This is a good move, allows you to burn backups of your CD's. For an example, Battlefield 1942 came out in the uk (maybe elsewhere) with CD's that were poorly manufactured and so have been cracking whilst in the drive etc. EA charge 7.50 UKP to replace each disc and as there are two that's an additional 15 UKP for the game on top of retail price. Not a good situation at all. Oh before you ask the copy protection on the CD's is a nightmare to get around.
The game comes with a CD key and this can be used to prevent online play which is what bf1942 is all about, ok so that doesn't prevent the warez kiddies from playing the game in single player which is like a training ground for multi player, so the CD key could have been the main form of protection for this game. Grrr
Won't put our company name on here(it is a large UK health insurance company), but we use apache and tomcat for all our large scale web apps. For example we saved huge amounts of money by fronting our legacy middleware product with an app that you call using XMLRPC and it sits on Apache and tomcat on a Sun E10k domain. For performance it handles about 30 requests per second and about 1.2 million calls a day.
The reason for this combo? It works, we tried other products and they couldn't handle the load, and when you dig deep then the parts we were using were old versions of Apache and jserv or tomcat!:)
The US awards astronaught wings to people flying above 50 miles. There is no fixed point that you go above to be in space as the atmosphere just gets thinner the higher you go. 50 miles is a boundry defined by humans as space.
So it is a space flight in the same sense that Alan Sheppard's flight was a space flight.
You are correct in that a normal airplane flying a ballistic trajectory will give you microgravity however.
As this craft lacks a vertical stabaliser I would suggest it is for yaw stablility. For a comparison take a look at http://www.astronautix.com/craft/dynasoar.htm.
If you READ the article then you can see that you actually get more than just a one hour flight, from the press release:-
"At the peak of its parabolic trajectory, passengers will experience several minutes of weightlessness and see the Earth from space. Four days of space flight orientation including centrifuge, zero-gravity and high-altitude jet flight training, as well as safety and onboard system lessons are expected to be required."
Not so sure about the complexity of the craft with ejection of the motor at burnout and deployable aerodynamic control surfaces with a 'chute for final landing, for a contrast in design for the same problem take a look at http://www.bristolspaceplanes.com/projects/ascende r.shtml
Ok this is an example from history, another question then. How many patent disputes get to a court ruling now?
The entity does not have to be a foreign government and it does not have to be a short term 'attack'.
In fact you could probably get the same result as a coordinated effort by making it profitable to use the US legal system to get self gain. Ok take this scenario, you are a competitor of a US company, part of your strategy is to stifle your US competition by the use of DMCA and software patents, your US ompetitor cannot retaliate by doing the same to you using your legal system. Now multiply this by many times and the results are the same as a coordinated attack by one entity even though no such coordination has taken place.
Oh and protect yourself by having a shell company in the US.
Just some thoughts
Making the US vulnerable to economic warfare?
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Looking at the US patent system and DMCA, it seems that maybe the US is vulnerable to econmic warfare from entities external to it's borders.
By tactical use of patents and copyright laws it would be easy for such an entity to stifle development of technology and products, thus destroying the US economy.
Just as a question, if the US becomes non competetive with the rest of the world due to DMCA, will this not destroy the profit that the DMCA backers want?
Bread and Circuses was more to distract the population from changing thier leaders whereas the DMCA backers do not get replaced by a change in governement.
It is a shame that MGM tried to add elements from Star Trek or X files into Stargate. IMHO Stargate was / is better, the people seem real, the threading was getting better as well.
If MGM have any sense then they might read this on/.
It is terrible to see this effect from the DMCA. Basically it is destroying technical education in the US. Long term this could be a very bad thing and just turn the US into a nation of consumers and not producers, which will eventually destroy the market that the DMCA backers are trying to protect.
Nice for numerical solutions to problems, i.e. Computational Fluid Dynamics. Hmm seem to recall seeing a Cray YMP was 2 GFLOPS, gives a contrast doesn't it.:)
Apart from the issue that 911 started the death of the US by itself, who says that the weopen (an aircraft) can't be chartered, purchased, or by any other means aquired?
One day the US will wake up and realise it is no longer the USA.
Recently the management in the company I work for has started to talk about using Open Source software a lot more. Not because it is "better" but because it makes the bottom line look good.
I suppose the fact that the "bottom up" approach of getting OS software in has something to do with it as well. One of the few projects that went in on time and on budget used java and OS instead of MS languages and tools, the fight we had to get the go ahead for not using MS tools was unreal.
Now I have management high up wanting to move our web based systems to OS, also we want to run Linux on our mainframe. Strangely enough we now have the capacity since fronting the former proprietory middleware with an OS based XMLRPC system.:)
It's slowly changing from fighting to use OS into becomming a no brainer for the higher ups. Especially as a lot of recent licencing changes have stung our bottom line.
For example lets say they crack into your system? By law any original material on your system has a copyright owner which is you, now an intrusion into your system is reasonable justification to believe that the RIAA holds your copyrighted material illegally hence they are now fair game.
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Would love to know how people measured this effect of the tarrif, and could attribute the collapse of trade directly to it as opposed to say the markets crashing. So 66% of World trade was in goods that had this tarrif in the United States as opposed to the greater number of duty free ones that this bill put in place compared to the time period before?
Looking through you posts I can see you are well up for free trade so will not try and change your opinion, all I can see happening now is that consumers can buy outside of the local economy to get cheaper goods and eventually the local economy collapses due to workers being unemployed. No easy solution.
Oh if were gonna have a pissing contest. :)
He was joking around.
From the source you quoted.
"The Smoot-Hawley Tariff was more a consequence of the onset of the Great Depression than an initial cause."
Taking the flipside, this is a piece of popular computer engineering that will soon be available for all to use. I wonder what else is due up, I seem to remember a lot of good stuff was done 20 odd years ago.
In fact by quoting old expired patents in comments etc it might offer protection against modern patents, especially as they are being granted for such overly broad reasons.
Thinking ahead in 20 years or so, todays overly broad patents might be the shields against patent claims of tommorrow.
Just idle speculation.
Even though the Smoot-Hawley tariff was put in place eight months after the depression? More details can be found out about this myth here.
You mean active guidance like this.
This is a good move, allows you to burn backups of your CD's. For an example, Battlefield 1942 came out in the uk (maybe elsewhere) with CD's that were poorly manufactured and so have been cracking whilst in the drive etc. EA charge 7.50 UKP to replace each disc and as there are two that's an additional 15 UKP for the game on top of retail price. Not a good situation at all. Oh before you ask the copy protection on the CD's is a nightmare to get around.
The game comes with a CD key and this can be used to prevent online play which is what bf1942 is all about, ok so that doesn't prevent the warez kiddies from playing the game in single player which is like a training ground for multi player, so the CD key could have been the main form of protection for this game. Grrr
Won't put our company name on here(it is a large UK health insurance company), but we use apache and tomcat for all our large scale web apps. For example we saved huge amounts of money by fronting our legacy middleware product with an app that you call using XMLRPC and it sits on Apache and tomcat on a Sun E10k domain. For performance it handles about 30 requests per second and about 1.2 million calls a day.
:)
The reason for this combo? It works, we tried other products and they couldn't handle the load, and when you dig deep then the parts we were using were old versions of Apache and jserv or tomcat!
Thats what I was saying, the wing tips were instead of a conventional vertical stabaliser on a plane.
The microgravity scenes for Apollo 13 were filmed in microgravity aboard a set built in a plane flying ballistic trajectories.
The US awards astronaught wings to people flying above 50 miles. There is no fixed point that you go above to be in space as the atmosphere just gets thinner the higher you go. 50 miles is a boundry defined by humans as space.
So it is a space flight in the same sense that Alan Sheppard's flight was a space flight.
You are correct in that a normal airplane flying a ballistic trajectory will give you microgravity however.
As this craft lacks a vertical stabaliser I would suggest it is for yaw stablility. For a comparison take a look at http://www.astronautix.com/craft/dynasoar.htm.
The X20 Dynasoar was a very similar shape.
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If you READ the article then you can see that you actually get more than just a one hour flight, from the press release
"At the peak of its parabolic trajectory, passengers will experience several minutes of weightlessness and see the Earth from space. Four days of space flight orientation including centrifuge, zero-gravity and high-altitude jet flight training, as well as safety and onboard system lessons are expected to be required."
Not so sure about the complexity of the craft with ejection of the motor at burnout and deployable aerodynamic control surfaces with a 'chute for final landing, for a contrast in design for the same problem take a look at http://www.bristolspaceplanes.com/projects/ascend
Send political spam using thier servers to Chinese citizens. I bet it will become a number one priority then. :)
Ok this is an example from history, another question then. How many patent disputes get to a court ruling now?
The entity does not have to be a foreign government and it does not have to be a short term 'attack'.
In fact you could probably get the same result as a coordinated effort by making it profitable to use the US legal system to get self gain. Ok take this scenario, you are a competitor of a US company, part of your strategy is to stifle your US competition by the use of DMCA and software patents, your US ompetitor cannot retaliate by doing the same to you using your legal system. Now multiply this by many times and the results are the same as a coordinated attack by one entity even though no such coordination has taken place.
Oh and protect yourself by having a shell company in the US.
Just some thoughts
Looking at the US patent system and DMCA, it seems that maybe the US is vulnerable to econmic warfare from entities external to it's borders.
By tactical use of patents and copyright laws it would be easy for such an entity to stifle development of technology and products, thus destroying the US economy.
Just an idea.
Just as a question, if the US becomes non competetive with the rest of the world due to DMCA, will this not destroy the profit that the DMCA backers want?
Bread and Circuses was more to distract the population from changing thier leaders whereas the DMCA backers do not get replaced by a change in governement.
Some good discussion here.
Iain
It is a shame that MGM tried to add elements from Star Trek or X files into Stargate. IMHO Stargate was / is better, the people seem real, the threading was getting better as well.
/.
If MGM have any sense then they might read this on
It is terrible to see this effect from the DMCA. Basically it is destroying technical education in the US. Long term this could be a very bad thing and just turn the US into a nation of consumers and not producers, which will eventually destroy the market that the DMCA backers are trying to protect.
Or I could be totally wrong.
Congratulations !!!!
I hope you have a very long and happy life together.
Iain
Nice for numerical solutions to problems, i.e. Computational Fluid Dynamics. Hmm seem to recall seeing a Cray YMP was 2 GFLOPS, gives a contrast doesn't it. :)
Apart from the issue that 911 started the death of the US by itself, who says that the weopen (an aircraft) can't be chartered, purchased, or by any other means aquired?
One day the US will wake up and realise it is no longer the USA.
Very sad.
Recently the management in the company I work for has started to talk about using Open Source software a lot more. Not because it is "better" but because it makes the bottom line look good.
:)
I suppose the fact that the "bottom up" approach of getting OS software in has something to do with it as well. One of the few projects that went in on time and on budget used java and OS instead of MS languages and tools, the fight we had to get the go ahead for not using MS tools was unreal.
Now I have management high up wanting to move our web based systems to OS, also we want to run Linux on our mainframe. Strangely enough we now have the capacity since fronting the former proprietory middleware with an OS based XMLRPC system.
It's slowly changing from fighting to use OS into becomming a no brainer for the higher ups. Especially as a lot of recent licencing changes have stung our bottom line.
I know it got canned, was only a what if discussion.
For example lets say they crack into your system? By law any original material on your system has a copyright owner which is you, now an intrusion into your system is reasonable justification to believe that the RIAA holds your copyrighted material illegally hence they are now fair game.