As someone else pointed out, IP Multicast in its current implementation presents some scalability problems, probably one of the main reasons it hasn't been implemented. What crack were its designers smoking when they came up with a system so complex and difficult for implementers to understand?
Hasn't been implemented? It's been in continuous use for years on at least one large international private internet that I am aware of. The problems aren't technical, they are political and financial.
Regardless of subsidies, from what I've read on the BBC's web site, the British fishing fleet has been catching fish at unsustainable levels for decades. It seems that in every country, the fishermen say the scientists are wrong and everything is A-OK, until they catch the last fish and wonder what happened to their fisheries.
People who have a vested interest in the world moving to combat global warming (like environmental activists and so-called progressives) will claim this accelerating melting is evidence of human-caused change, and use it as an excuse to advance their agenda.
That's a major issue. For all the whining about pork, it would be a major disaster if the manned space flight program was shut down while a new vehicle was designed and constructed. All of your institutional knowledge walks out the door, never to return. Aerospace engineering never really recovered from the shutdown of Apollo. Central Florida used to have the world's most highly educated cab drivers.
It isn't that simple. The United States has obligations to its international partners in the ISS. NASA just can't pull the plug, not without consultations and negotiations with its international partners.
The electronics industry's best customers went out and spent thousands of dollars on big-screen television sets with component inputs. Now Hollywood is saying, "Fsck you, you potential copyright terrorist, buy another multi-thousand dollar television set." With any luck, that attitude will kill both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.
Hearing protection. You want to be able to hear sounds at normal volumes but attenuate any loud transient sounds, like weapons being fired. The problem with most hearing protection is that it attenuates everything.
Nobody has ever accused Montgomery County, Maryland, or its government, of being a hotbed of conservatism. It's long been a stronghold for liberal Democrats, especially the People's Republic of Takoma Park.
Don't forget the "hostile work environment" scam currently being used by Democrats and lawyers to eliminate anything in the workplace that might offend a person with extremely delicate sensibilities.
Some of us do real work. We have applications that were developed to run on OS/2, that still work reliably and quickly on "obsolete" hardware, and would be very expensive to replace with a modern system. It isn't just a matter of software, there are specialized and expensive I/O boards that would have to be redesigned for a modern bus.
Being a prostitute is not a crime. Offering sex for money is a crime.
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I can understand why. I used to work for a company that went through a great deal of trouble to pay all their bills at the last possible moment. Anything to keep a dollar in their hands as long as possible. Some companies are worse, they don't pay their bills until threatened with legal action.
So this "hardest thing was to get people to pull the trigger" is plain bullshit.
It was a serious problem in the U.S. Army during World War II. The Army found out that training troops by shooting at traditional bulls-eye targets did not adequately prepare them to shoot at real human beings in battle. It led to a complete revision of the Army's training techniques.
Although I share your skepticism about dark matter, I couldn't help thinking about the neutrino, a "hidden" particle that filled another gap in physics. It took 25 years for physicists to finally detect the neutrino.
With the right equipment, you can also detect radiation from the local oscillator in the television receiver. It doesn't matter if the display is a CRT or something else. Totalitarian governments have used this technique to find peope who listen to forbidden radio stations.
I'd like to see more games with a wider range of difficulty settings. I get frustrated with games that expect everyone to have lightning-fast reflexes and excellent hand-eye coordination. There's a reason I became a computer programmer and not a baseball player.
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Hasn't been implemented? It's been in continuous use for years on at least one large international private internet that I am aware of. The problems aren't technical, they are political and financial.
Regardless of subsidies, from what I've read on the BBC's web site, the British fishing fleet has been catching fish at unsustainable levels for decades. It seems that in every country, the fishermen say the scientists are wrong and everything is A-OK, until they catch the last fish and wonder what happened to their fisheries.
People who have a vested interest in the world moving to combat global warming (like environmental activists and so-called progressives) will claim this accelerating melting is evidence of human-caused change, and use it as an excuse to advance their agenda.
That's a major issue. For all the whining about pork, it would be a major disaster if the manned space flight program was shut down while a new vehicle was designed and constructed. All of your institutional knowledge walks out the door, never to return. Aerospace engineering never really recovered from the shutdown of Apollo. Central Florida used to have the world's most highly educated cab drivers.
It isn't that simple. The United States has obligations to its international partners in the ISS. NASA just can't pull the plug, not without consultations and negotiations with its international partners.
Rich people are eccentric, you are just crazy :-).
The electronics industry's best customers went out and spent thousands of dollars on big-screen television sets with component inputs. Now Hollywood is saying, "Fsck you, you potential copyright terrorist, buy another multi-thousand dollar television set." With any luck, that attitude will kill both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.
Medical imaging with ultrasound. I've read that they are working on 3-d displays that are easier to interpret by non-specialists.
Hearing protection. You want to be able to hear sounds at normal volumes but attenuate any loud transient sounds, like weapons being fired. The problem with most hearing protection is that it attenuates everything.
Care to try again?
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Nobody has ever accused Montgomery County, Maryland, or its government, of being a hotbed of conservatism. It's long been a stronghold for liberal Democrats, especially the People's Republic of Takoma Park.
Don't forget the "hostile work environment" scam currently being used by Democrats and lawyers to eliminate anything in the workplace that might offend a person with extremely delicate sensibilities.
Some of us do real work. We have applications that were developed to run on OS/2, that still work reliably and quickly on "obsolete" hardware, and would be very expensive to replace with a modern system. It isn't just a matter of software, there are specialized and expensive I/O boards that would have to be redesigned for a modern bus.
Being a prostitute is not a crime. Offering sex for money is a crime.
I can understand why. I used to work for a company that went through a great deal of trouble to pay all their bills at the last possible moment. Anything to keep a dollar in their hands as long as possible. Some companies are worse, they don't pay their bills until threatened with legal action.
It was a serious problem in the U.S. Army during World War II. The Army found out that training troops by shooting at traditional bulls-eye targets did not adequately prepare them to shoot at real human beings in battle. It led to a complete revision of the Army's training techniques.
See Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command by S.L.A. Marshall.
When I was in the Army, the static bulls-eye targets had been replaced with pop-up silhouettes that gave you a limited time to aim and fire.
Although I share your skepticism about dark matter, I couldn't help thinking about the neutrino, a "hidden" particle that filled another gap in physics. It took 25 years for physicists to finally detect the neutrino.
With the right equipment, you can also detect radiation from the local oscillator in the television receiver. It doesn't matter if the display is a CRT or something else. Totalitarian governments have used this technique to find peope who listen to forbidden radio stations.
A: How would you like to have 158 grains of lead implanted in your skull?
I disagree. Many bullies will go look for easier victims when confronted with a violent response.
I'd like to see more games with a wider range of difficulty settings. I get frustrated with games that expect everyone to have lightning-fast reflexes and excellent hand-eye coordination. There's a reason I became a computer programmer and not a baseball player.
See http://www.g4tv.com/icons/episodes/4174/Ralph_Baer .html.
I once paid $200 for 16 kilobytes. You could run a flight-sim on that computer if you could live with wire-frame graphics.