Depends on what part of the country you're talking about. New England was de facto independent by July 4, 1776. Much of the rest of the country was under foreign occupation, but we fixed that.
Canada is a country now? Really? Historically it was just a dumping ground for unrepentant Tories (tell the Francophones and First Nations we're sorry about that).
The 17th Amendment changes the US government vis-à-vis federalism, but doesn't make it any less a republic. You could eliminate the states and federalism entirely and still have a republic. Many countries, such as France, have such an arrangement.
You inadvertently put your finger on the point of this article: yet another "see, us Americans are better than most countries." But the more the Americans go on and on about how much better they are proves the point of how immature they are, like the 12 year old who insists his dad can beat anybody else's dad.
You inadvertently don't understand something called "humor".
A thousand years ago England was French so ooh la la rosbif.
Actually it was Norman, which isn't quite the same thing. The Normans spoke French but were Norsemen who'd settled in Normandy only a century or two before the Norman Conquest. Even the name "Norman" derives from "Norse".
Please explain to me why the UK is as old as the Act of Union while you did not measure the age of your country starting with the annexation of Texas or some other quaint date like that.
The Norman invasion didn't create England. England was created through the uniting of the Saxon kingdoms by Aethelstan in 927.
You consider it the same country even after the Normans trounced you, completely changed the government and aristocracy, and even started to change the language almost beyond recognition. Yeah, right.
You may call it Independence Day, but over here it's just the anniversary of when we finally got shot of those troublesome colonies started by religious fanatics.
Rationalize all you want - we beat you. As for those religious fanatics, you should have known better than to go up against them They were the same variety that beheaded your king in 1649.
I'm happy here in the UK, enjoying the thousands of years of history.
Speaking of history, you obviously didn't pay attention in class. The UK is only 306 years old (Acts of Union in 1706 and 1707). And you folks complain about Americans not understanding the difference between England/Scotland/Wales, Britain and the UK.
P.S. If you see the queen, say happy Independence Day for me.
Given that this is America's 237'th birthday, which make us 78.22 years older than the average (49.26%), should they change the name of the magazine from "The New Republic" to "The Somewhat-Older-Than-Average Republic"?
we couldn't care less if they check 'who is talking to whom'.
I don't care if they see I'm talking to a divorce lawyer or AIDS doctor. Really, the whole world can see this. The websites I visit ? Public knowledge and in no way shameful or compromising. My friends ? All of them ordinary, upstanding guys with no political interests or inclination for subversive activities. It's not like I'm one of those Muslims who are all at 5 degrees of separation to a known terrorist. My day to day location and CCTV images ? Public. My full financial data ? No problem there, I'm 100% free of any tax related problem - I have the tax code memorized (all it's 14K pages). I have nothing to hide !
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Seems like their shit does stink after all. Gotta love that haughty European hypocrisy, and their outrage over American practices. Of course I expect this sort of thing from politicians and the like, but real people are another story. Certainly not all Europeans are like this, but enough to be annoying. I'm as far as you can get from a wrap yourself in the flag and say everything about America is wonderful type, but I do get sick of "you Americans" type posts. It's especially ironic coming from Britons, considering GCHQ practices. Now we know we can add France to the list. I can't wait for the revelations about Germany though, and their vaunted privacy laws. And from the fact is stranger than fiction dept.: it'll turn out that Russia is the least guilty.
P.S. I'm definitely not defending any government's practices, rather I'm say that many practice this snoop up everyone's ass garbage and they should all be condemned.
P.P.S. Thank you Edward Snowden. It seems that you've not only helped the US, but France as well. More countries coming up.
have very early access to new process nodes and can certainly tune their design to it, and have their own specifics tweaks made
What sort of tweaks might ARM or another outfit want made to a new process? I know there is the basic "low speed but low static current" vs. "high speed but high static current" tradeoff, but it sounds like you're talking about more detailed things.
This is important; the smaller the fabrication.... the more static power used. At 22nm, you hit v_sat before threshold anyway. The sweet spot for power is actually about 130nm.
When you say sweet spot, what sort of assumptions are you making about dynamic power consumption? Simply put, the faster your part runs, the higher the dynamic power, and the less static power matters, at least when running full tilt.
Also, for a given process there are often variants, like a high speed high static power variant and a low speed low static power option. Some companies sell parts both ways. For example some of the Analog Devices Blackfin DSP models come in those two variants.
You can bet that Intel would rather that THEY were manufacturing Apple's ARM chips than TSMC.
Me too. I would love to see more merchant fab in the US. I'm tired of it going overseas, and Intel is consistently ahead of everyone else in fab tech.
This also proves what a crock comparative advantage is (with the possible exception of things like agriculture). Since the US has some of the highest labor costs in the world, we should have a comparative advantage in capital intensive industries with high value added per worker. There are few things that's more true of than fabs, but more and more fab capacity has gone overseas. You don't suppose Taiwan did something that most economists would call stupid, and engage in industrial policy, do you?
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I'll be stunned if the Swedes, Germans, or any other northern European state gets caught up in this dragnet.
You mean they're better at not getting caught?
I think you should check the small print on your mortgage agreement. Your lawn belongs to the Beijing and Shanghai loans corporation until you pay up.
Not worried. Since the loan is payable in US dollars, we can print as many as we need. Just call Uncle Ben.
That's a rather simplistic view on the Commonwealth.
Anybody around here familiar with something called "humor"?
I'd reply if I could parse that sentence.
Depends on what part of the country you're talking about. New England was de facto independent by July 4, 1776. Much of the rest of the country was under foreign occupation, but we fixed that.
Canada wasn't fully sovereign until 1982.
Canada is a country now? Really? Historically it was just a dumping ground for unrepentant Tories (tell the Francophones and First Nations we're sorry about that).
The 17th Amendment changes the US government vis-à-vis federalism, but doesn't make it any less a republic. You could eliminate the states and federalism entirely and still have a republic. Many countries, such as France, have such an arrangement.
You inadvertently put your finger on the point of this article: yet another "see, us Americans are better than most countries." But the more the Americans go on and on about how much better they are proves the point of how immature they are, like the 12 year old who insists his dad can beat anybody else's dad.
You inadvertently don't understand something called "humor".
A thousand years ago England was French so ooh la la rosbif.
Actually it was Norman, which isn't quite the same thing. The Normans spoke French but were Norsemen who'd settled in Normandy only a century or two before the Norman Conquest. Even the name "Norman" derives from "Norse".
Please explain to me why the UK is as old as the Act of Union while you did not measure the age of your country starting with the annexation of Texas or some other quaint date like that.
Mentioning Texas is hitting below the belt.
The Norman invasion didn't create England. England was created through the uniting of the Saxon kingdoms by Aethelstan in 927.
You consider it the same country even after the Normans trounced you, completely changed the government and aristocracy, and even started to change the language almost beyond recognition. Yeah, right.
You may call it Independence Day, but over here it's just the anniversary of when we finally got shot of those troublesome colonies started by religious fanatics.
Rationalize all you want - we beat you. As for those religious fanatics, you should have known better than to go up against them They were the same variety that beheaded your king in 1649.
I'm happy here in the UK, enjoying the thousands of years of history.
Speaking of history, you obviously didn't pay attention in class. The UK is only 306 years old (Acts of Union in 1706 and 1707). And you folks complain about Americans not understanding the difference between England/Scotland/Wales, Britain and the UK.
P.S. If you see the queen, say happy Independence Day for me.
So he's dating it from the Act of Union in 1707 that created the United Kingdom.
Given that this is America's 237'th birthday, which make us 78.22 years older than the average (49.26%), should they change the name of the magazine from "The New Republic" to "The Somewhat-Older-Than-Average Republic"?
No, I used a synonym.
Thanks.
I'm so glad I live in a country that can't afford a massive surveillance program like this. At least I'll be spied on by everyone else.
The financial cost of surveillance has come way down, and continues to drop.
we couldn't care less if they check 'who is talking to whom'.
I don't care if they see I'm talking to a divorce lawyer or AIDS doctor. Really, the whole world can see this. The websites I visit ? Public knowledge and in no way shameful or compromising. My friends ? All of them ordinary, upstanding guys with no political interests or inclination for subversive activities. It's not like I'm one of those Muslims who are all at 5 degrees of separation to a known terrorist. My day to day location and CCTV images ? Public. My full financial data ? No problem there, I'm 100% free of any tax related problem - I have the tax code memorized (all it's 14K pages). I have nothing to hide !
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Seems like their shit does stink after all. Gotta love that haughty European hypocrisy, and their outrage over American practices. Of course I expect this sort of thing from politicians and the like, but real people are another story. Certainly not all Europeans are like this, but enough to be annoying. I'm as far as you can get from a wrap yourself in the flag and say everything about America is wonderful type, but I do get sick of "you Americans" type posts. It's especially ironic coming from Britons, considering GCHQ practices. Now we know we can add France to the list. I can't wait for the revelations about Germany though, and their vaunted privacy laws. And from the fact is stranger than fiction dept.: it'll turn out that Russia is the least guilty.
P.S. I'm definitely not defending any government's practices, rather I'm say that many practice this snoop up everyone's ass garbage and they should all be condemned.
P.P.S. Thank you Edward Snowden. It seems that you've not only helped the US, but France as well. More countries coming up.
Nothing magical about it. Chameleons have an even larger palette.
have very early access to new process nodes and can certainly tune their design to it, and have their own specifics tweaks made
What sort of tweaks might ARM or another outfit want made to a new process? I know there is the basic "low speed but low static current" vs. "high speed but high static current" tradeoff, but it sounds like you're talking about more detailed things.
if you are a regular licensee
Out of curiosity, what do you get w/ a "regular license"? Is it synthesizable RTL, netlist, or what?
This is important; the smaller the fabrication.... the more static power used.
At 22nm, you hit v_sat before threshold anyway. The sweet spot for power is actually about 130nm.
When you say sweet spot, what sort of assumptions are you making about dynamic power consumption? Simply put, the faster your part runs, the higher the dynamic power, and the less static power matters, at least when running full tilt.
Also, for a given process there are often variants, like a high speed high static power variant and a low speed low static power option. Some companies sell parts both ways. For example some of the Analog Devices Blackfin DSP models come in those two variants.
You can bet that Intel would rather that THEY were manufacturing Apple's ARM chips than TSMC.
Me too. I would love to see more merchant fab in the US. I'm tired of it going overseas, and Intel is consistently ahead of everyone else in fab tech.
This also proves what a crock comparative advantage is (with the possible exception of things like agriculture). Since the US has some of the highest labor costs in the world, we should have a comparative advantage in capital intensive industries with high value added per worker. There are few things that's more true of than fabs, but more and more fab capacity has gone overseas. You don't suppose Taiwan did something that most economists would call stupid, and engage in industrial policy, do you?