I'm really just getting sick of Browser Bars and add ins to "help your browser". I think it is very ironic that Google Chrome's excellent interface is just one souped up text box that you type stuff into, with a smattering of buttons for favorites. Browser bars are just stupid.... unless someone pays me to write one.
Apple's core market is not just the delivery of a commodity computer and a commodity operating system. It is the end to end receipt of a solution. People that buy Apples buy them because you will get good service out of their store, and you will get solid hardware that works.
There is a reasonable premium to be charged for that and I don't think arguing Mac on price is alone is really indicative of the kind of market people have. Some people are willing to pay a good premium for a good experience. I for one have had an absolutely excellent experience with Macintoshes. I tell myself the same thing as I tell everyone else. If you want the best possible consumer experience, and you don't mind paying more, just go and buy a Macintosh. It's the simplicity of experience, that people pay more for.
I will have to say, that I don't have the money, so right now I'm running a home built dual Opteron with yesterday's CPUs (Opteron 270s), using Windows Vista Business on one drive and Linux on another... but, hey, if I did have the money, I'd buy the Mac.
To me this is the ugly downside of free trade and I think that the downside is rearing its head in gradually skyrocketing defense costs. Right now our defense industry is essentially subsidizing what little domestic manufacturing we have left, and at enormous expense. Before, we could leverage consumer manufacturing to have a capable military, or really, any massive federal construction project - such a big nuclear buildout. Now, we can't.
It's really funny, but it seemed like the nanotubes themselves were pretty hard to make not too long ago. Then, as of last year, I find they are down to $150/kg and are working their way into all sorts of consumer applications.
I did some research and we are all wrong. You are right on the dates, for sure, but I'm still right that it is the loss of a military technology applied to the construction of reactor vessels.
It's just that, its not actually the armor, as I claimed. Its the naval gun barrels. The reason the Japanese have a plant that can do it is that they are basically using the same stuff they used to make the 18" guns on the Yamato for make the reactor vessel in one piece. It makes sense, as you figure a gun barrel has to contain some fairly massive pressures in it.
Prior designs used in our existing nuclear reactors were two piece designs welded together and are therefor considered not as safe for modern designs.
I can't find the source for this but I think, and I could be wrong, that US guns were made at the Washington Naval Yard, and that, it was switched over to missile production in the 1950s, and ultimately privatized off. So its doubtful any of that specialized equipment survives in the USA.
Still, there's no reason someone could not make the equipment to make a reactor vessel. It's really just a chicken and egg situation.
No. We stopped doing heavy armour on warships better than 50 years ago (the last battleship was commissioned in the late 40's).
That's the thing... see, the question really is, have we and when. The problem that I keep coming back to is the Nimitz class aircraft carrier, and, its predecessor, USS Enterprise. Enterprise is said to have an 8" armor belt... not battleship grade for sure, but, something. I agree that today's ships aren't built that way, but was the cutoff at the end of WWII, or was it really more like the 1970s.
I generally agree that environmentalists have screwed the planet pretty good on nuclear power, but I think charging them with the crime of driving some steelworks out of business might be a bit off.
I think the deal is really more that steelworks that could make really thick plates just aren't used that much anymore, and I'd bet principally because the world's warships don't use thick steel plates. While, granted, I would feel a lot safer behind a very thick armor belt as found in an Iowa class battleship, than in a different ship, current naval protection doctrine eschews passive protection in favor of active protection. Instead of armouring ships, you build loads of anti-missile system, electronic warfare, and you also try to avoid detection.
But once Navy's made that switch, they didn't need the uber thick plates, and really, they were the only really big customers. Other people that use armor of some kind, such as tanks, tend to layer it up with different things - like composites.
Without the military driving the creation of foot thick plates, who really needs to do it? I really do try and think, just why I would a foot thick steel plate...
This is all political posturing at best motivated by some poll taken in a coal district. There's NO way this administration would ever actually do anything to support coal. Anyone connected to coal or coal mining who supports Obama would be about as foolish as a gay guy supporting Pat Buchanan.
Are there classes at the Learning Annex that I can take where I can learn to become cold and insensitive, while at the same time becoming an expert in everybody else's life so that I can tell them how to manage their affairs?
Sounds like you already did, because you are demanding that people be allowed to make slaves of airline ticket agents. How many people do you think have some really good reason for the lady to not have a break, or did you even think about that?
Which one of us will be first to make the web site to sell shakes made of ground up weeds and household plants that claim to balance the bacteria in your blood? I'm sure that shark cartiledge will be useful for this, along with rhino horn powder.
I am obviously a superior human, because I have bacteria type r2-d2. All other humans with that bacteria type should join me, and then we can enslave those inferior humans who only have the thx-1138 bacteria type.
Of course, the world is older now, and possibly less active on the whole, or the hot spot under Yellowstone could just be cooling off. "Past performance is not a predictor... blah blah blah":-)
No, its just saving up for the mother of all humanity dooming eruptions.
Every time Ubuntu pushes out an update to the kernel, my nVidia poops the bed and my X server conks back to 800x600. So I guess if you include stupid updates as part of the security process, Vista would be more secure.
There's a difference between "Mom is sick. Get up here when you can make it" and "Mom is dying you need to get up here NOW." It can quickly change from one moment to the next.
Well then, that's why you need to make an effort to go up and see her. If you could make the last minute effort to go and see her before she kicks off, why could you not go before she could here you say goodbye.
Also, I certainly hope you never face this "lack of planning" in your own life.
Which really means to say, that you hope that I do. Fortunately, I tell my loved ones that I love them pretty much every day. I keep a relationship open with my family and I've chosen to live near them so that I can see them.
Again, don't take it out on an airline attendant because you didn't make those choices. All she did was go on a break, that she's schedule to take anyway, whereas the lady's need to turn her mother's death into a drama is because the lady made a set of decisions over the course of her life that put her in that position.
If you really want something to last 10,000 years, build it, then throw it away. It will get buried in the landfill and will sit there for all eternity.
In the future our ancestors will be happily discovering that a reasonable percentage of the stuff we've thrown away will still be repairable and made workable.
Indeed, 10,000 year old watches will be so common in the future that its probable that the clock won't even be worth a post on some future slashdot when it is unearthed.
Perhaps if more people stopped to consider the future that far in advance, our odds would improve. And perhaps the mere existence of such a clock would encourage a few to do so.
Ah that's crazy. Any year now, the Yellowstone supervolcano is going to blow, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. The world will be plunged into a dark ice ages, and that will be the end of us.
Ponzi scammers rely on people not making immediate withdrawals. If you invested with Bernie Madoff, then closed your account after a year or two, you made a -ton- of money, because Bernie always paid people withdrawing right up until the thing collapsed. It's all the people that sit in the system, that get screwed.
You are right, its unusual for the Fed to just flat out create money, but they are doing it now and at a pretty good clip. That's their job.
The problem isn't the Fed. The Fed is doing what it is supposed to do, being the lender of last resort to keep the money supply from collapsing. IT's the people crawling up to Fed looking for dough that's the problem, first the banks, then the insurers, and now the US gov't.
Cry me a river Sophie! There is quite a chance that the national debt will mean nothing at all to any of us or our grand children. This is the old right wing scare tactic and nothing more.
In case you haven't realized, there's not enough people to buy t-bills to finance the debt at a rate the government can live with, so the federal reserve is printing money to buy up to about a 300B worth in addition to the trillion dollars worth it already holds. So we're printing money to pay for things, and, that's the kind of crap third world countries do. The only reason we can get away with it is because the dollar is the reserve currency of the world and now everyone has to pretend that the dollar is still worth the same as it was before, even though the Fed is printing away, otherwise, they lose all of their stuff.
I wouldn't cry a tear for these dollar holders overseas those. By and large these people are holding dollars in an attempt to keep their currencies relative to the dollar so they can export more junk to the USA. Like the Chinese, Japanese, you name it.
So what the Gov't is doing, in the big picture, is to take advantage of the fact that our trading partners are trying to use our own currency to screw us, and are instead using that to go buy massive amounts of stuff with it.
Meanwhile, the those of us that save have to run the risks of having all of our assets getting wiped out because of defacto dollar devaluation. What really sucks is that dickering over exchange rates is absolutely the worst way to mediate trade. It would be so much simpler just to set up quotas and tarriffs and have some protectionism, then it would be to screw up the entire money system of the world.
No, the big deal is that the Federal Reserve Bank is using its lender of last resort power to buy treasuries directly from the government. Partially because the government has so many to sell, partially to shift some of the TARP costs back to the Fed where it arguably belongs and partially to manipulate the price of Treasuries so that the US Gov't gets a better rate.
It really is circus economics. Essentially the Central Bank of the United States is printing money to finance the operations of the United States Government. It's the sort of crap that third world countries do. It's appalling that federal spending is so out of control that we have reached this point.
Immigration is not the same as protectionism. Immigration is a good thing for the USA because we tap into the best and brightest of the world and bring them to the USA. We want smart people coming to the USA. The problem is our policies are stacked in favor of third world countries as a sort of welfare, and not towards building up the USA with the best and brightest. Thus you could say, if someone wants to sell goods in the USA, get on a plane, come over to the USA, become a citizen, and start selling.
being gay isn't a personal preference, it's genetic
IT doesn't matter. If you don't want gay stuff on your computer, then, you shouldn't have to get it. Just have a switch, no gay stuff. It would be just like focusing a search for books about the weather, except, that, its always no gay stuff.
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I'm really just getting sick of Browser Bars and add ins to "help your browser". I think it is very ironic that Google Chrome's excellent interface is just one souped up text box that you type stuff into, with a smattering of buttons for favorites. Browser bars are just stupid.... unless someone pays me to write one.
Apple's core market is not just the delivery of a commodity computer and a commodity operating system. It is the end to end receipt of a solution. People that buy Apples buy them because you will get good service out of their store, and you will get solid hardware that works.
There is a reasonable premium to be charged for that and I don't think arguing Mac on price is alone is really indicative of the kind of market people have. Some people are willing to pay a good premium for a good experience. I for one have had an absolutely excellent experience with Macintoshes. I tell myself the same thing as I tell everyone else. If you want the best possible consumer experience, and you don't mind paying more, just go and buy a Macintosh. It's the simplicity of experience, that people pay more for.
I will have to say, that I don't have the money, so right now I'm running a home built dual Opteron with yesterday's CPUs (Opteron 270s), using Windows Vista Business on one drive and Linux on another... but, hey, if I did have the money, I'd buy the Mac.
To me this is the ugly downside of free trade and I think that the downside is rearing its head in gradually skyrocketing defense costs. Right now our defense industry is essentially subsidizing what little domestic manufacturing we have left, and at enormous expense. Before, we could leverage consumer manufacturing to have a capable military, or really, any massive federal construction project - such a big nuclear buildout. Now, we can't.
It's really funny, but it seemed like the nanotubes themselves were pretty hard to make not too long ago. Then, as of last year, I find they are down to $150/kg and are working their way into all sorts of consumer applications.
I did some research and we are all wrong. You are right on the dates, for sure, but I'm still right that it is the loss of a military technology applied to the construction of reactor vessels.
It's just that, its not actually the armor, as I claimed. Its the naval gun barrels. The reason the Japanese have a plant that can do it is that they are basically using the same stuff they used to make the 18" guns on the Yamato for make the reactor vessel in one piece. It makes sense, as you figure a gun barrel has to contain some fairly massive pressures in it.
Prior designs used in our existing nuclear reactors were two piece designs welded together and are therefor considered not as safe for modern designs.
I can't find the source for this but I think, and I could be wrong, that US guns were made at the Washington Naval Yard, and that, it was switched over to missile production in the 1950s, and ultimately privatized off. So its doubtful any of that specialized equipment survives in the USA.
Still, there's no reason someone could not make the equipment to make a reactor vessel. It's really just a chicken and egg situation.
No. We stopped doing heavy armour on warships better than 50 years ago (the last battleship was commissioned in the late 40's).
That's the thing... see, the question really is, have we and when. The problem that I keep coming back to is the Nimitz class aircraft carrier, and, its predecessor, USS Enterprise. Enterprise is said to have an 8" armor belt... not battleship grade for sure, but, something. I agree that today's ships aren't built that way, but was the cutoff at the end of WWII, or was it really more like the 1970s.
So, what kind of porn can you get on this thing?
I generally agree that environmentalists have screwed the planet pretty good on nuclear power, but I think charging them with the crime of driving some steelworks out of business might be a bit off.
I think the deal is really more that steelworks that could make really thick plates just aren't used that much anymore, and I'd bet principally because the world's warships don't use thick steel plates. While, granted, I would feel a lot safer behind a very thick armor belt as found in an Iowa class battleship, than in a different ship, current naval protection doctrine eschews passive protection in favor of active protection. Instead of armouring ships, you build loads of anti-missile system, electronic warfare, and you also try to avoid detection.
But once Navy's made that switch, they didn't need the uber thick plates, and really, they were the only really big customers. Other people that use armor of some kind, such as tanks, tend to layer it up with different things - like composites.
Without the military driving the creation of foot thick plates, who really needs to do it? I really do try and think, just why I would a foot thick steel plate...
This is all political posturing at best motivated by some poll taken in a coal district. There's NO way this administration would ever actually do anything to support coal. Anyone connected to coal or coal mining who supports Obama would be about as foolish as a gay guy supporting Pat Buchanan.
Are there classes at the Learning Annex that I can take where I can learn to become cold and insensitive, while at the same time becoming an expert in everybody else's life so that I can tell them how to manage their affairs?
Sounds like you already did, because you are demanding that people be allowed to make slaves of airline ticket agents. How many people do you think have some really good reason for the lady to not have a break, or did you even think about that?
Ah, but look, I have a bag of tasty sugar treats. Bacteria love sugar treats...
Which one of us will be first to make the web site to sell shakes made of ground up weeds and household plants that claim to balance the bacteria in your blood? I'm sure that shark cartiledge will be useful for this, along with rhino horn powder.
I am obviously a superior human, because I have bacteria type r2-d2. All other humans with that bacteria type should join me, and then we can enslave those inferior humans who only have the thx-1138 bacteria type.
Of course, the world is older now, and possibly less active on the whole, or the hot spot under Yellowstone could just be cooling off. "Past performance is not a predictor... blah blah blah" :-)
No, its just saving up for the mother of all humanity dooming eruptions.
Every time Ubuntu pushes out an update to the kernel, my nVidia poops the bed and my X server conks back to 800x600. So I guess if you include stupid updates as part of the security process, Vista would be more secure.
There's a difference between "Mom is sick. Get up here when you can make it" and "Mom is dying you need to get up here NOW." It can quickly change from one moment to the next.
Well then, that's why you need to make an effort to go up and see her. If you could make the last minute effort to go and see her before she kicks off, why could you not go before she could here you say goodbye.
Also, I certainly hope you never face this "lack of planning" in your own life.
Which really means to say, that you hope that I do. Fortunately, I tell my loved ones that I love them pretty much every day. I keep a relationship open with my family and I've chosen to live near them so that I can see them.
Again, don't take it out on an airline attendant because you didn't make those choices. All she did was go on a break, that she's schedule to take anyway, whereas the lady's need to turn her mother's death into a drama is because the lady made a set of decisions over the course of her life that put her in that position.
If you really want something to last 10,000 years, build it, then throw it away. It will get buried in the landfill and will sit there for all eternity.
In the future our ancestors will be happily discovering that a reasonable percentage of the stuff we've thrown away will still be repairable and made workable.
Indeed, 10,000 year old watches will be so common in the future that its probable that the clock won't even be worth a post on some future slashdot when it is unearthed.
Perhaps if more people stopped to consider the future that far in advance, our odds would improve. And perhaps the mere existence of such a clock would encourage a few to do so.
Ah that's crazy. Any year now, the Yellowstone supervolcano is going to blow, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. The world will be plunged into a dark ice ages, and that will be the end of us.
If the lady's mother was so damned important to her, why did she wait until her mother was so nearly dead to go visit her?
Fact is,. It's not the ticket agent's fault that the lady could not manage her own damned life. Take a break.
Ponzi scammers rely on people not making immediate withdrawals. If you invested with Bernie Madoff, then closed your account after a year or two, you made a -ton- of money, because Bernie always paid people withdrawing right up until the thing collapsed. It's all the people that sit in the system, that get screwed.
You are right, its unusual for the Fed to just flat out create money, but they are doing it now and at a pretty good clip. That's their job.
The problem isn't the Fed. The Fed is doing what it is supposed to do, being the lender of last resort to keep the money supply from collapsing. IT's the people crawling up to Fed looking for dough that's the problem, first the banks, then the insurers, and now the US gov't.
Cry me a river Sophie! There is quite a chance that the national debt will mean nothing at all to any of us or our grand children. This is the old right wing scare tactic and nothing more.
In case you haven't realized, there's not enough people to buy t-bills to finance the debt at a rate the government can live with, so the federal reserve is printing money to buy up to about a 300B worth in addition to the trillion dollars worth it already holds. So we're printing money to pay for things, and, that's the kind of crap third world countries do. The only reason we can get away with it is because the dollar is the reserve currency of the world and now everyone has to pretend that the dollar is still worth the same as it was before, even though the Fed is printing away, otherwise, they lose all of their stuff.
I wouldn't cry a tear for these dollar holders overseas those. By and large these people are holding dollars in an attempt to keep their currencies relative to the dollar so they can export more junk to the USA. Like the Chinese, Japanese, you name it.
So what the Gov't is doing, in the big picture, is to take advantage of the fact that our trading partners are trying to use our own currency to screw us, and are instead using that to go buy massive amounts of stuff with it.
Meanwhile, the those of us that save have to run the risks of having all of our assets getting wiped out because of defacto dollar devaluation. What really sucks is that dickering over exchange rates is absolutely the worst way to mediate trade. It would be so much simpler just to set up quotas and tarriffs and have some protectionism, then it would be to screw up the entire money system of the world.
No, the big deal is that the Federal Reserve Bank is using its lender of last resort power to buy treasuries directly from the government. Partially because the government has so many to sell, partially to shift some of the TARP costs back to the Fed where it arguably belongs and partially to manipulate the price of Treasuries so that the US Gov't gets a better rate.
It really is circus economics. Essentially the Central Bank of the United States is printing money to finance the operations of the United States Government. It's the sort of crap that third world countries do. It's appalling that federal spending is so out of control that we have reached this point.
Immigration is not the same as protectionism. Immigration is a good thing for the USA because we tap into the best and brightest of the world and bring them to the USA. We want smart people coming to the USA. The problem is our policies are stacked in favor of third world countries as a sort of welfare, and not towards building up the USA with the best and brightest. Thus you could say, if someone wants to sell goods in the USA, get on a plane, come over to the USA, become a citizen, and start selling.
being gay isn't a personal preference, it's genetic
IT doesn't matter. If you don't want gay stuff on your computer, then, you shouldn't have to get it. Just have a switch, no gay stuff. It would be just like focusing a search for books about the weather, except, that, its always no gay stuff.