It is worth remembering that the German V2 research became the basis for manned space exploration both in the US and in the Soviet Union. Eventual space cooperation led to better arms reduction treaties
The research also became the basis for the nuclear arms buildup in the first place. If you can put a man into controlled orbit, you can also put a warhead wherever you want it.
Exactly. I would be much more comfortable if the NSA were in charge of something like this. They have a much better track record, and proven experience in providing security advice to the private sector.
PSN is really just a huge botnet that Sony uses to crack encryption of all sorts.
Sony manufactured every device connected to PSN. They don't need a botnet as they have the proven manufacturing capability to build the hardware necessary.
Militarily if you combined the armies of North and South Korea it would be the *second* largest by active personnel behind China...
That's like saying the Germans and the British in WW2 had a huge combined military.
The only reason why the Korean militaries are that large is because they are strategically sized against each other. If Korea was unified, you would probably see massive reductions in troop counts.
When the US was in a civil war, we had an enormous combined military... because there were two of them fighting each other.
China probably doesn't care all that much about whether Korea is unified. What China does care about is a stable government with whoever shares their border. If the NK government fell, there would be millions of refugees crossing into China almost immediately.
Don't forget the take over of several American industries through "stimulus" funds and the takeover of banks through TARP. Never in the history of America has the POTUS fired the CEO of a major corporation until this president came along.
They didn't have to take the stimulus funds. And they didn't need to engage in the problems that led to needing the stimulus funds.
Plenty of smaller banks stayed out of the subprime and mortgage securities scam market and sailed nicely through the aftermath without needing TARP funds. Quite a few of the banks that did accept the money repaid it practically overnight so that they wouldn't have to deal with extra federal oversight.
Ford (unlike GM and Chrysler) didn't accept the stimulus funds, and so were able to fix things their own way. If you accept huge amounts of government funding to avoid collapse, then you better expect there will be an equivalent amount of government oversight and input into how you do things. And that includes the government firing management (who were responsible for the bad decisions to begin with).
If you're the largest shareholder in a company, you get the most say in how things are run, and who runs it. Doesn't matter if you as a shareholder are an individual, a mutual fund, a pension fund, or the government.
Also, if you really think you're up to the task of writing an algorithm, the place to start is reading up on all of the various SIGGRAPH research papers on image composition analysis and video processing.
You can't just run a 2D video through an algorithm and magically get a 3D video.
You have to run the video through a compositing program (think Photoshop for video) and use that to chop and mask each scene and introduce parallax effects. Then (if your compositing program supports 3D space) you output the streams from two different virtual cameras so that you have 2 final videos that are synced and are from two different angles (one for each eye). At that point, it's trivial to encode them to whichever 3D video container format you want to deliver as your final output.
If you really want to learn how to do this, try it first using stills with Photoshop or the Gimp. Once you understand what's involved for creating a believable 3D scene out of a 2D image, you're ready to start learning how to use a video compositing app to do the same thing.
I think what the GP meant is that since 4G isn't widespread, and there are differing network technologies that aren't completely settled yet, Apple was smart (in terms of what's better for their sales numbers) in not shipping a 4G unit because:
1) If a substantial portion (if not majority) of their customers can't use the 4G feature, Apple would get backlash for selling it. 2) It's a feature they'll be able to market as differentiating from their older devices once released. 3) They can wait for 4G network types to become more standardized, reducing design and manufacturing costs. 4) 4G is bad for battery time, and smartphones already suffer poorly in this regard.
For consumers, yes a 4G iPhone on the market now would be beneficial, but only for the user savvy enough to know why 4G is a good thing and only if they'll actually be able to use it. For everyone else, it's a meaningless feature on the side of the box.
Because the USA as the biggest "intellectual property" content producers has the most to lose from that content being uncontrollably disseminated.
It's as simple as that. With the general decline of manufacturing and other tangible economic output, US political leaders are betting hard on the only real global competitive advantage we have left: ideas, media, content, and other forms of intellectual property.
You asked why you should pay $3k when you can get the components for $200 + $100. I pointed out that you can't actually get the components for that little.
I'm thinking that even with the 'flight friendly' version since it has the Swiss Army logo on it, the TSA goons will simply suspect it has a blade and take it away anyway.
Well, then that means they'll probably confiscate my brother's backpack, or all this luggage, simply because they have the Victorinox logo on it!
when you ask non-partisan analysts and think-tanks who specialize in tax they'll tell you that even the very bottom 1% pay at least 15% of their income in various taxes on property, utilities, retail sales
Property, Utilities, and Retail Sales are NOT taxed at the Federal level, and so have nothing to do with the Federal deficit. You can't argue that because people are paying sales tax to their local municipality and state that they're somehow making up for not paying their share of Federal taxes. The Federal and local governments don't share one big pot of tax money.
I personally know of an example where two businesses (one owned by a family member) are on opposing sides of the same street. They have the same Zip+4, but one of the businesses is within city limits (population 1.3 million), the other is in the unincorporated county. They have different sales tax rates. For both of them, their mailing address is a 3rd suburb city located nearby (population 200k) .
Postal mailing addresses (City + Zip) do NOT reflect actual municipality boundaries. The municipality that goes on your mailing address is the one that matches the post office the USPS has decided services your physical location. So, since their mail is routed through one of the suburb's post offices, the physical mailing address for both businesses is that suburb, even though neither of them is within that suburb.
The children's clothing exemption from sales tax applies at least to Ontario and British Columbia. Considering I live relatively close to the other US border, is it surprising that I don't know the details of your tax laws? I was merely providing an example of an existing tax law that is almost impossible to enforce or monitor from a technology standpoint using a simple location lookup database.
Zip code's not enough. The item type itself will cause different tax rates. For example, clothes vs. housewares may have different sales tax rates. Carbonated beverages often have additional taxes that other products don't.
Furthermore, how the item will be used can vary how it is taxed. An example being Canada, where clothes bought for dependent children are tax exempt, but not clothes bought for oneself. You have to declare at the register how the tax will be applied. While this may seem extraordinary, it does happen in the US as well. Off the top of my head, I know that the sales tax for California is different for food sold as groceries vs. food sold for immediate consumption (on or off premises). Ordering a sandwich at Subway's "toasted" (aka heated) triggers a different tax rate at the register.
These arbitrary taxation systems exist at all levels of government (Federal, State, County, Municipality) and often there are further breakdowns for special economic zones or redevelopment areas.
Oh, and zip code lookup isn't enough. Zip codes are defined by the Postal Service and do not necessarily respect county and city borders. I have family members living within the city limits of one of the 10 largest cities in the US, yet their official zip code and street address belong to a neighboring suburb city (pop ~200,000). I guarantee a zip code lookup would result in the wrong tax rate.
Finally, in a zip-code lookup, which tax rate applies? Where the seller has their headquarters, where the distribution facility is, the purchaser's billing address, or the delivery address? They could all be in the state and easily still have different tax rates.
Wasn't Doom3 in OpenGL? OpenGL had real-time stereoscopic rendering before DirectX did. I remember doing hardware stereoscopy on my NVidia quadro in 99-00 era.
It should be noted that many modern dSLRs will give you the large LCD-screen preview as well, since so many people buy dSLRs but want point-and-click features.
Any cataloging system (library or otherwise) will eventually rot if there is no-one to own and maintain it, ensuring that the data matches the real world.
This is why retailers have monthly inventories. No matter how good your system is, if it's not physically attached to the objects being tracked (and sometime even then) then discrepancies between the physical objects and the catalog will creep into place until it reaches the same out-of-date situation the submitter finds themselves in now.
Also, the cost of a Windows license for a small shop like that would pay for itself probably 3 times over if they had to even try to get some kind of professional support for the Linux box even once.
A Windows license doesn't magically come with professional support. And honestly, if you need professional support for a server *NIX is going to cost you the same as an equally competant Windows admin.
If you can't handle management of a web server in-house with qualified staff, you should move to a hosted solution. It will cost less regardless of OS choice.
The best math teachers I had encouraged calculators because they were focusing on the theory. And by golly the kids learned far more and the teacher focused on teaching rather than rote mechanical operations to drill things in by memorization.
Construction investment costs are part of the physical overhead operational costs. They remain roughly the same regardless of how many people occupy the building and form a minimal part of the net ticket price.
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The research also became the basis for the nuclear arms buildup in the first place. If you can put a man into controlled orbit, you can also put a warhead wherever you want it.
Exactly. I would be much more comfortable if the NSA were in charge of something like this. They have a much better track record, and proven experience in providing security advice to the private sector.
Sony manufactured every device connected to PSN. They don't need a botnet as they have the proven manufacturing capability to build the hardware necessary.
That's like saying the Germans and the British in WW2 had a huge combined military.
The only reason why the Korean militaries are that large is because they are strategically sized against each other. If Korea was unified, you would probably see massive reductions in troop counts.
When the US was in a civil war, we had an enormous combined military... because there were two of them fighting each other.
China probably doesn't care all that much about whether Korea is unified. What China does care about is a stable government with whoever shares their border. If the NK government fell, there would be millions of refugees crossing into China almost immediately.
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They didn't have to take the stimulus funds. And they didn't need to engage in the problems that led to needing the stimulus funds.
Plenty of smaller banks stayed out of the subprime and mortgage securities scam market and sailed nicely through the aftermath without needing TARP funds. Quite a few of the banks that did accept the money repaid it practically overnight so that they wouldn't have to deal with extra federal oversight.
Ford (unlike GM and Chrysler) didn't accept the stimulus funds, and so were able to fix things their own way. If you accept huge amounts of government funding to avoid collapse, then you better expect there will be an equivalent amount of government oversight and input into how you do things. And that includes the government firing management (who were responsible for the bad decisions to begin with).
If you're the largest shareholder in a company, you get the most say in how things are run, and who runs it. Doesn't matter if you as a shareholder are an individual, a mutual fund, a pension fund, or the government.
Wait, I though Canada had a levy on all CDs and magnetic media (Flash as well?) so that the recording industry could get compensation for piracy?
They get compensation, and the power to block or take down sites? That seems like a bit too much of a handout to a particular industry for my tastes.
Also, if you really think you're up to the task of writing an algorithm, the place to start is reading up on all of the various SIGGRAPH research papers on image composition analysis and video processing.
You can't just run a 2D video through an algorithm and magically get a 3D video.
You have to run the video through a compositing program (think Photoshop for video) and use that to chop and mask each scene and introduce parallax effects. Then (if your compositing program supports 3D space) you output the streams from two different virtual cameras so that you have 2 final videos that are synced and are from two different angles (one for each eye). At that point, it's trivial to encode them to whichever 3D video container format you want to deliver as your final output.
If you really want to learn how to do this, try it first using stills with Photoshop or the Gimp. Once you understand what's involved for creating a believable 3D scene out of a 2D image, you're ready to start learning how to use a video compositing app to do the same thing.
Be prepared to spend a lot of time on this.
I think what the GP meant is that since 4G isn't widespread, and there are differing network technologies that aren't completely settled yet, Apple was smart (in terms of what's better for their sales numbers) in not shipping a 4G unit because:
1) If a substantial portion (if not majority) of their customers can't use the 4G feature, Apple would get backlash for selling it.
2) It's a feature they'll be able to market as differentiating from their older devices once released.
3) They can wait for 4G network types to become more standardized, reducing design and manufacturing costs.
4) 4G is bad for battery time, and smartphones already suffer poorly in this regard.
For consumers, yes a 4G iPhone on the market now would be beneficial, but only for the user savvy enough to know why 4G is a good thing and only if they'll actually be able to use it. For everyone else, it's a meaningless feature on the side of the box.
Because the USA as the biggest "intellectual property" content producers has the most to lose from that content being uncontrollably disseminated.
It's as simple as that. With the general decline of manufacturing and other tangible economic output, US political leaders are betting hard on the only real global competitive advantage we have left: ideas, media, content, and other forms of intellectual property.
You asked why you should pay $3k when you can get the components for $200 + $100. I pointed out that you can't actually get the components for that little.
Really, you can procure 1TB tiny form-factor SSDs for under $100? You should be making a fortune right now!
1TB huge spinning disc is nowhere near the same thing as what's being shown.
Well, then that means they'll probably confiscate my brother's backpack, or all this luggage, simply because they have the Victorinox logo on it!
You sure about that? Are you sure that there isn't a distribution center? That would constitute a physical presence as well.
Property, Utilities, and Retail Sales are NOT taxed at the Federal level, and so have nothing to do with the Federal deficit. You can't argue that because people are paying sales tax to their local municipality and state that they're somehow making up for not paying their share of Federal taxes. The Federal and local governments don't share one big pot of tax money.
I personally know of an example where two businesses (one owned by a family member) are on opposing sides of the same street. They have the same Zip+4, but one of the businesses is within city limits (population 1.3 million), the other is in the unincorporated county. They have different sales tax rates. For both of them, their mailing address is a 3rd suburb city located nearby (population 200k) .
Postal mailing addresses (City + Zip) do NOT reflect actual municipality boundaries. The municipality that goes on your mailing address is the one that matches the post office the USPS has decided services your physical location. So, since their mail is routed through one of the suburb's post offices, the physical mailing address for both businesses is that suburb, even though neither of them is within that suburb.
The children's clothing exemption from sales tax applies at least to Ontario and British Columbia. Considering I live relatively close to the other US border, is it surprising that I don't know the details of your tax laws? I was merely providing an example of an existing tax law that is almost impossible to enforce or monitor from a technology standpoint using a simple location lookup database.
Zip code's not enough. The item type itself will cause different tax rates. For example, clothes vs. housewares may have different sales tax rates. Carbonated beverages often have additional taxes that other products don't.
Furthermore, how the item will be used can vary how it is taxed. An example being Canada, where clothes bought for dependent children are tax exempt, but not clothes bought for oneself. You have to declare at the register how the tax will be applied. While this may seem extraordinary, it does happen in the US as well. Off the top of my head, I know that the sales tax for California is different for food sold as groceries vs. food sold for immediate consumption (on or off premises). Ordering a sandwich at Subway's "toasted" (aka heated) triggers a different tax rate at the register.
These arbitrary taxation systems exist at all levels of government (Federal, State, County, Municipality) and often there are further breakdowns for special economic zones or redevelopment areas.
Oh, and zip code lookup isn't enough. Zip codes are defined by the Postal Service and do not necessarily respect county and city borders. I have family members living within the city limits of one of the 10 largest cities in the US, yet their official zip code and street address belong to a neighboring suburb city (pop ~200,000). I guarantee a zip code lookup would result in the wrong tax rate.
Finally, in a zip-code lookup, which tax rate applies? Where the seller has their headquarters, where the distribution facility is, the purchaser's billing address, or the delivery address? They could all be in the state and easily still have different tax rates.
Wasn't Doom3 in OpenGL? OpenGL had real-time stereoscopic rendering before DirectX did. I remember doing hardware stereoscopy on my NVidia quadro in 99-00 era.
It should be noted that many modern dSLRs will give you the large LCD-screen preview as well, since so many people buy dSLRs but want point-and-click features.
Bingo. Mod this up.
Any cataloging system (library or otherwise) will eventually rot if there is no-one to own and maintain it, ensuring that the data matches the real world.
This is why retailers have monthly inventories. No matter how good your system is, if it's not physically attached to the objects being tracked (and sometime even then) then discrepancies between the physical objects and the catalog will creep into place until it reaches the same out-of-date situation the submitter finds themselves in now.
A Windows license doesn't magically come with professional support. And honestly, if you need professional support for a server *NIX is going to cost you the same as an equally competant Windows admin.
If you can't handle management of a web server in-house with qualified staff, you should move to a hosted solution. It will cost less regardless of OS choice.
The best math teachers I had encouraged calculators because they were focusing on the theory. And by golly the kids learned far more and the teacher focused on teaching rather than rote mechanical operations to drill things in by memorization.
Construction investment costs are part of the physical overhead operational costs. They remain roughly the same regardless of how many people occupy the building and form a minimal part of the net ticket price.