Anything which won't be known to be a problem before you can cash out your options and stock isn't a problem. Someone lower on the totem pole rocking the boat by researching whether there are problems on the horizon is an immediate problem to be solved.
Even if we assume for a moment that Smoot-Hawley caused the great depression (laughable given the size of imports/exports in relation to GDP) the Versailles treaty was going to shit long before it and the great depression... France had already invaded the Ruhr 7 years earlier, initiating hyperinflation.
Sure, break all the WTO agreements and see if SA keeps buying US bonds... a country with energy and food independence can do whatever the fuck it wants with it's trade policies, the US not so much.
It helps against interference and attenuation... but competing routers aren't treated as interference. Once they can beam it tight enough that the CSMA/CA algorithm is adapted to take it into account (ie. the spec allows one router to simply shout across a competing one with a directional signal) then things will change. I don't think beam forming with 4-8 antennas will be nearly tight enough to allow that.
Get some extra wlan routers, put them at intermediate points and bridge to different channels to extend the range (repeaters make inefficient use of channel bandwidth). Not entirely trivial to setup but perfectly doable even with cheap routers.
Unless they start putting phase array antenna's on APs to tight beam data to devices there is simply no avoiding time sharing channels... still for a given time on a channel it still gets more data through it, so even in congested situations it helps.
The problem of course is that you don't necessarily know for certain the space of the gaps...and by the time you detect a collision you already fucked up part of the aggregate bandwidth (or in the case of UWB raised the noise floor). There is no protocol agnostic solution to that problem.
I imagine the final implementation will be massively ad-hoc with a huge number of specialized algorithms for each part of the spectrum specifically adapted to the common protocols for that spectrum to make sure what you think are gaps are actually gaps.
So what of base load? It's not like energy storage is an intractable problem... hell for a country like say Switzerland it's a solved problem. Now is economic energy storage for solar/wind a solved problem? No, but then neither is LFTR.
Renewable energy + energy storage + HVDC represents a huge economic risk for nuclear power... it's easily possible that in the same time scale you can scale up production of say LFTR it will have become entirely irrelevant (unless you want yet another way to make plutonium for nuclear weapons).
They haven't shipped and the device hasn't been used commercially... 3D Systems is basing their suit completely on supposition. No way in the world even the dumbest jury in Texas would judge it infringement if they simply removed the feature, no the real problem is that they are going to drag out the proceedings to run up legal costs.
Didn't work so well in the middle east and their airplanes and ground vehicles are a lot more vulnerable than what the US government has at it's disposal.
As median discretionary income drops opportunity drops opportunity will disappear. You were lucky to be born in the time you were... a kid born in the lower classes today will have to be better than you have ever been to reach the same level of wealth you did. The only reason most of the people on slashdot were able to acquire wealth was because fat american slobs were going into debt to buy shit...
The conclusion is based on statistics most of which are derived from a global economy which has allowed the US to run a continual trade deficit for half a century... or in other words, a complete fucking joke which will be obliterated entirely when the petro dollar system collapses.
Windows 7/8 and MacOS X don't put microkernels in their own memory space, they are in kernel space... basically most MMUs have two tags, kernel and user.
Which means that because there is no pressing need for it, it will devalue immensely... the fact that it will likely hold some value is not denied, that it's a very good investment for the eventuality of societal collapse is disputed. You can earn a lot more gold by stock piling non perishable necessities and taking the gold people sew into their clothes after the collapse than you can get before the collapse.
I'd start selling my guns and bullets for protection, with a semi-feudal system to keep order... you already have wealth in the form of non perishable commodities, moreover a lot of that wealth is fine grained and easy to trade (bullets make excellent currency if they are in limited supply). You'd have no pressing need for gold, but you would have a pressing need for security...
I think someone at Microsoft is too busy trying to imitate Apple and still a bit upset about Intel supporting Linux so much... Intel is the natural partner for Microsoft at this point, x86 and full backwards compatibility to PC software would give them something unique... instead they have an overpriced me-too arm tablet which is just worthless compared to the iPad and Nexus 10 (of course most premium tablets have the same problem, but Microsoft had an alternative and blew it).
A patent mine field... I'd rather see say a wide bus to tie it to a FPGA. A couple 400-800 MHz hypertransport links would be nice (there is an open HT core for FPGAs) but I'd settle for a couple 32 bit wide ports with 400-800 MHz LVDS source synchronous signalling with DMA support, with the protocol handled completely in software.
What does it matter? The trust fund always was a piddling amount of money... it's meant to cover fluctuations in receipts, Social Security is not a pension plan it's a pay as you go welfare scheme. It has always been a pay as you go welfare scheme.
Can't you see the insanity of going off on a tangent about others substituting the term climate change for global warming in reply to a poster using the term global warming? The person doing the substitution is you... and predominantly people like you... personally I believe it has become more common after surfacestations imploded and outright denialism of warming became a bit too silly.
The conflict isn't about land, the land (and half of Jeruzalem, something never offered) is a necessary symbol to have any chance for the hatred to subside a bit.
Sure, they never really liked Jews... but ethnic cleansing through terror and apartheid did stoke the fires just a tad.
You really have to take into account potential reduction in costs for any technology meant to compete with photovoltaics (not saying this doesn't have that potential).
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Anything which won't be known to be a problem before you can cash out your options and stock isn't a problem. Someone lower on the totem pole rocking the boat by researching whether there are problems on the horizon is an immediate problem to be solved.
Even if we assume for a moment that Smoot-Hawley caused the great depression (laughable given the size of imports/exports in relation to GDP) the Versailles treaty was going to shit long before it and the great depression ... France had already invaded the Ruhr 7 years earlier, initiating hyperinflation.
Sure, break all the WTO agreements and see if SA keeps buying US bonds ... a country with energy and food independence can do whatever the fuck it wants with it's trade policies, the US not so much.
It helps against interference and attenuation ... but competing routers aren't treated as interference. Once they can beam it tight enough that the CSMA/CA algorithm is adapted to take it into account (ie. the spec allows one router to simply shout across a competing one with a directional signal) then things will change. I don't think beam forming with 4-8 antennas will be nearly tight enough to allow that.
Get some extra wlan routers, put them at intermediate points and bridge to different channels to extend the range (repeaters make inefficient use of channel bandwidth). Not entirely trivial to setup but perfectly doable even with cheap routers.
Unless they start putting phase array antenna's on APs to tight beam data to devices there is simply no avoiding time sharing channels... still for a given time on a channel it still gets more data through it, so even in congested situations it helps.
The problem of course is that you don't necessarily know for certain the space of the gaps ...and by the time you detect a collision you already fucked up part of the aggregate bandwidth (or in the case of UWB raised the noise floor). There is no protocol agnostic solution to that problem.
I imagine the final implementation will be massively ad-hoc with a huge number of specialized algorithms for each part of the spectrum specifically adapted to the common protocols for that spectrum to make sure what you think are gaps are actually gaps.
So what of base load? It's not like energy storage is an intractable problem ... hell for a country like say Switzerland it's a solved problem. Now is economic energy storage for solar/wind a solved problem? No, but then neither is LFTR.
Renewable energy + energy storage + HVDC represents a huge economic risk for nuclear power ... it's easily possible that in the same time scale you can scale up production of say LFTR it will have become entirely irrelevant (unless you want yet another way to make plutonium for nuclear weapons).
AFAICS the only thing liquid sodium reactors have ever done well consistently is having expensive to clean up leaks.
They haven't shipped and the device hasn't been used commercially ... 3D Systems is basing their suit completely on supposition. No way in the world even the dumbest jury in Texas would judge it infringement if they simply removed the feature, no the real problem is that they are going to drag out the proceedings to run up legal costs.
They didn't get the idea independently, it's just that stereolithography is really old already.
The real patents have expired and that patent on using weak points to allow breaking off the supports should never have been granted.
Didn't work so well in the middle east and their airplanes and ground vehicles are a lot more vulnerable than what the US government has at it's disposal.
As median discretionary income drops opportunity drops opportunity will disappear. You were lucky to be born in the time you were ... a kid born in the lower classes today will have to be better than you have ever been to reach the same level of wealth you did. The only reason most of the people on slashdot were able to acquire wealth was because fat american slobs were going into debt to buy shit ...
The conclusion is based on statistics most of which are derived from a global economy which has allowed the US to run a continual trade deficit for half a century ... or in other words, a complete fucking joke which will be obliterated entirely when the petro dollar system collapses.
Windows 7/8 and MacOS X don't put microkernels in their own memory space, they are in kernel space ... basically most MMUs have two tags, kernel and user.
Which means that because there is no pressing need for it, it will devalue immensely ... the fact that it will likely hold some value is not denied, that it's a very good investment for the eventuality of societal collapse is disputed. You can earn a lot more gold by stock piling non perishable necessities and taking the gold people sew into their clothes after the collapse than you can get before the collapse.
I'd start selling my guns and bullets for protection, with a semi-feudal system to keep order ... you already have wealth in the form of non perishable commodities, moreover a lot of that wealth is fine grained and easy to trade (bullets make excellent currency if they are in limited supply). You'd have no pressing need for gold, but you would have a pressing need for security ...
In that case low diversity presents a danger.
I think someone at Microsoft is too busy trying to imitate Apple and still a bit upset about Intel supporting Linux so much ... Intel is the natural partner for Microsoft at this point, x86 and full backwards compatibility to PC software would give them something unique ... instead they have an overpriced me-too arm tablet which is just worthless compared to the iPad and Nexus 10 (of course most premium tablets have the same problem, but Microsoft had an alternative and blew it).
With a tagged TLB while you're at it so you can have a microkernel with drivers in their own memory space without a huge performance penalty.
A patent mine field ... I'd rather see say a wide bus to tie it to a FPGA. A couple 400-800 MHz hypertransport links would be nice (there is an open HT core for FPGAs) but I'd settle for a couple 32 bit wide ports with 400-800 MHz LVDS source synchronous signalling with DMA support, with the protocol handled completely in software.
What does it matter? The trust fund always was a piddling amount of money ... it's meant to cover fluctuations in receipts, Social Security is not a pension plan it's a pay as you go welfare scheme. It has always been a pay as you go welfare scheme.
Can't you see the insanity of going off on a tangent about others substituting the term climate change for global warming in reply to a poster using the term global warming? The person doing the substitution is you ... and predominantly people like you ... personally I believe it has become more common after surfacestations imploded and outright denialism of warming became a bit too silly.
The conflict isn't about land, the land (and half of Jeruzalem, something never offered) is a necessary symbol to have any chance for the hatred to subside a bit.
Sure, they never really liked Jews ... but ethnic cleansing through terror and apartheid did stoke the fires just a tad.
You really have to take into account potential reduction in costs for any technology meant to compete with photovoltaics (not saying this doesn't have that potential).