A smoke detector has one job, it needs to do this flawlessly, so smoke detectors are very very simple and are designed to have a near zero failure rate......adding anything to the basic device will make it more complex and more likely to fail... a cloud based smoke detector is all very well until your house is on fire...
Homeschooling assumes you have enough education to teach your kids, or enough money to pay for someone else to do so, and enough time or money to spend the time to do this, and that you actually already care and actively participate in your child's education
All of this means that these statistics probably do not apply to you...
Would that be TCP/IP (invented by Americans in the USA more than 40 years ago)
or the Web invented in Switzerland 20 years ago by a Brit....?
The USA was innovative but that was in the past and most of the innovation is now imported...
I think you will find that many of the inventions over the last 20 years that you think are American, were invented by others, by privileged Americans who bypassed the poor state run system, or by naturalised Americans who did not have to suffer the education system at all...
You cite a series of international companies that are based in the USA, who employ many people in many countries and where the innovation is driven by people across the world...
You refer to technologies that were invented in the USA (and other countries) mostly more than 30 years ago, and much of the recent innovation has been international
What have people in the USA actually invented themselves recently....?
They have attempted to use a single interface on small mobile phones, tablets, Home PC's, General business workstations, Servers, High end workstations, etc.etc.. and failed because it is most likely impossible to make a single interface that will comfortably accommodate all these environments
What they have ended up with is an interface that will only satisfy some of the customers on some of these devices... and so will shrink their market share not grow it as they hoped
So in the USA if the government cannot agree a budget they just stop...?
In the UK the defeat of a supply bill (one that concerns the spending of money) automatically requires the resignation of the government or dissolution of Parliament, much like a non-confidence vote, since a government that cannot spend money is hamstrung. i.e Since the Government cannot agree on what to spend money they leave it to the will of the people....
Put American kids in a Korean class.... and watch them suffer!
If your teachers cannot discipline you and your parents don't and don't push you in a subject then you have no motivation to do well...In Korea you are pushed by parents, teachers, and classmates to excel...it's cool to be good at maths, it's not cool to be a slacker...
Portability - HFC's are Better than Petrol/Gas, Batteries are not High Energy - HFC's Better than Petrol/Gas, Batteries are gaining Low Tech - One moving part in an engine, as opposed to modern fossil fuel engines which are hugely complex Out of Sight - Depends where they are put, like fossil plants they can be put out of the way but often are not....
In the 1980's I could have used this thing called the Internet (in fact I did)... it has been around since at least 1969...it was not very accessible, had less on it, and most people did not have a connection but it was there
You may be thinking of the WorldWideWeb which is built on top of the internet, that only started in the 1990's....
I don't want to "Learn" Metro! I just want to use my computer!
If the interface is not obvious then it is getting in the way, and Metro (or whatever it is called this week) just gets in the way
The Start button was a faster than the program manager the Search in the start menu was often faster than using the Start menu Metro is in all cases slower...
I don't want to run windows, use windows etc... I want to use the programs that run on it....!
...remember that the current government is a coalition so the main party who most if not all of these ministers belong to were voted for by less than 25% on the voting population...
It seems that the less of a mandate a government has the more and more radically they change things....
The commonly used filter in the UK already blocks sites as Porn that have nothing whatsoever to do with it...but the filter software is run by a private company that has no interest in being accurate and is only accountable to their customers (the ISP's) not to the public....
Corporations should not have copyright... give it to a person, that might be the CEO but at least assign it to a real person
Similar to Patents it should be from N years of first publication (not creation) in *any* medium (no different copyright for new medium), but they have limited rights before that
This gives the creator control, and rights from when they can reasonably start to reap the rewards..but also gives them enough time to make it ready (none of this complaining about different time to markets)
How could it reach the Supreme Court when no-one knew about it... until he blew the whistle on the NSA no-one was able to ask the Supreme Court to investigate if it was unconstitutional because it was Top Secret and they were not allowed to know...
It depends what you mean by guaranteed civil rights... We don't have a (written) constitution that guarantees this but we do have a body of legislation that does the same thing (possibly better?)
Your constitution guarantees freedom of speech (which ours does not explicitly) but you have more legislation that removes this in some (many) circumstances
..and ignored the requirement for greater security (iPads have only recently been certified for IL3 and not above) and the fact that a large majority of the software the government uses is Windows only and/or custom and will not run on an iPad at all...
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A VM is by definition running on a host that can skew what the VM sees and so is intrinsicly insecure ...
A smoke detector has one job, it needs to do this flawlessly, so smoke detectors are very very simple and are designed to have a near zero failure rate ... ...adding anything to the basic device will make it more complex and more likely to fail ... a cloud based smoke detector is all very well until your house is on fire ...
Homeschooling assumes you have enough education to teach your kids, or enough money to pay for someone else to do so, and enough time or money to spend the time to do this, and that you actually already care and actively participate in your child's education
All of this means that these statistics probably do not apply to you ...
Would that be TCP/IP (invented by Americans in the USA more than 40 years ago) ....?
or the Web invented in Switzerland 20 years ago by a Brit
The USA was innovative but that was in the past and most of the innovation is now imported ...
I think you will find that many of the inventions over the last 20 years that you think are American, were invented by others, by privileged Americans who bypassed the poor state run system, or by naturalised Americans who did not have to suffer the education system at all ...
You cite a series of international companies that are based in the USA, who employ many people in many countries and where the innovation is driven by people across the world ...
You refer to technologies that were invented in the USA (and other countries) mostly more than 30 years ago, and much of the recent innovation has been international
What have people in the USA actually invented themselves recently ....?
They have attempted to use a single interface on small mobile phones, tablets, Home PC's, General business workstations, Servers, High end workstations, etc .etc .. and failed because it is most likely impossible to make a single interface that will comfortably accommodate all these environments
What they have ended up with is an interface that will only satisfy some of the customers on some of these devices ... and so will shrink their market share not grow it as they hoped
So in the USA if the government cannot agree a budget they just stop ...?
In the UK the defeat of a supply bill (one that concerns the spending of money) automatically requires the resignation of the government or dissolution of Parliament, much like a non-confidence vote, since a government that cannot spend money is hamstrung. i.e Since the Government cannot agree on what to spend money they leave it to the will of the people ....
Unless you are a Mac user, you probably have three buttons on your mouse, the middle one is disguised as a wheel....
Obligatory xkcd "https://xkcd.com/936/"
Put American kids in a Korean class .... and watch them suffer!
If your teachers cannot discipline you and your parents don't and don't push you in a subject then you have no motivation to do well ...In Korea you are pushed by parents, teachers, and classmates to excel ...it's cool to be good at maths, it's not cool to be a slacker ...
Hydrogen Fuel Cells/Modern Batteries
Portability - HFC's are Better than Petrol/Gas, Batteries are not ....
High Energy - HFC's Better than Petrol/Gas, Batteries are gaining
Low Tech - One moving part in an engine, as opposed to modern fossil fuel engines which are hugely complex
Out of Sight - Depends where they are put, like fossil plants they can be put out of the way but often are not
I have a single node, localised, single user cloud server .... also known as a PC ..
In the 1980's I could have used this thing called the Internet (in fact I did) ... it has been around since at least 1969 ...it was not very accessible, had less on it, and most people did not have a connection but it was there
You may be thinking of the WorldWideWeb which is built on top of the internet, that only started in the 1990's ....
I don't want to "Learn" Metro! I just want to use my computer!
If the interface is not obvious then it is getting in the way, and Metro (or whatever it is called this week) just gets in the way
The Start button was a faster than the program manager ...
the Search in the start menu was often faster than using the Start menu
Metro is in all cases slower
I don't want to run windows, use windows etc ... I want to use the programs that run on it ....!
It's the GPL, LGPL, and BSD licences pick the appropriate one for your business model
See all the business software written under them that are making money ...
If your business model is not compatible with the above then what you want is not Open Source ...
...remember that the current government is a coalition so the main party who most if not all of these ministers belong to were voted for by less than 25% on the voting population ...
It seems that the less of a mandate a government has the more and more radically they change things ....
The commonly used filter in the UK already blocks sites as Porn that have nothing whatsoever to do with it ...but the filter software is run by a private company that has no interest in being accurate and is only accountable to their customers (the ISP's) not to the public ....
Corporations should not have copyright ... give it to a person, that might be the CEO but at least assign it to a real person
Similar to Patents it should be from N years of first publication (not creation) in *any* medium (no different copyright for new medium), but they have limited rights before that
This gives the creator control, and rights from when they can reasonably start to reap the rewards ..but also gives them enough time to make it ready (none of this complaining about different time to markets)
How could it reach the Supreme Court when no-one knew about it ... until he blew the whistle on the NSA no-one was able to ask the Supreme Court to investigate if it was unconstitutional because it was Top Secret and they were not allowed to know ...
It depends what you mean by guaranteed civil rights ... We don't have a (written) constitution that guarantees this but we do have a body of legislation that does the same thing (possibly better?)
Your constitution guarantees freedom of speech (which ours does not explicitly) but you have more legislation that removes this in some (many) circumstances
Tandy TRS-80 runs for 20+ hours on 4 AA cells ... does that mean it that laptops have finally cought up with the 1980's !!!
Remember that in most of the western world Obama would be considered Right of Centre, and Bush Very Right of Centre ...
Like most political systems with only a few parties the parties likely to get elected are very similar (and continually go on about where they differ)
But the alternative is many parties that differ a lot, but you need a coalition to get anything done and they tend to average out ....
The boot times are mostly due to the very high security environment, pre-boot hard drive encryption and extra security software ...
..and ignored the requirement for greater security (iPads have only recently been certified for IL3 and not above) and the fact that a large majority of the software the government uses is Windows only and/or custom and will not run on an iPad at all ...
90 days is the construction time
Add to that the time to plan and prefabricate and you end up with a time similar to a conventional building ...
But it is cheaper to build (unless transportation costs are excessive)