To a Southerner, Briton, Jamaican or Australian they definitely have an accent. It's impossible to speak without an accent. You're confusing "no accent" with the General American accent. It's considered as neutral of an American accent as you can have, and is widely used in broadcasting. It is, nevertheless, an accent.
I'm surprised DHS hasn't said no to this. They're worried about critical infrastructure, including power utilities, being compromised by outside attackers.
I wish. Their only real interest is in playing security theater by getting tough about the size of the hairpins grandma is wearing when she boards the plane. Actual threats are too tough for them to deal with.
Specify a desired conclusion and you can always find a way to play with the numbers to arrive at that conclusion. Creative bookkeeping is alive and well. Better to trust late night infomercials.
I understand what you mean, and I presume you're no bigot, so it is best to leave out the Caucasian part. Obviously there are many Americans, and other Anglophones, who speak Standard English and are not Caucasians. Ironically, Indians are considered Caucasian.
go back to when you were private and cared about product/customer rather than investors and their growth projections.
Much as I generally agree with you, Blackberry has been losing money at an increasing rate for some time. Privately held companies (of the real kind, not the private equity scam variety) can afford to take more of a long term view, being freed from the shackles of the self-important and absurdly overpaid idiots called stock analysts. Nevertheless, even privately held companies need some prospect of making a profit.
Unleash the Red Army. Ok, that was done, but it didn't last long. Given their track record, I've no doubt that they would've finished off the Imperial Japanese forces. And given their track record, they would have killed a lot more civilians than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings did. We would also have had a communist Japan and South Korea, to the delight of the inhabitants there, and with more fun in the Cold War.
US leadership was and is The single most bloodthirsty entity ever to have occurred on this side of the Universe. You can drink any cool-aid you want but that is a fact, you can check the list of illegal aggressions by the US.
The Nazi invasion of the USSR killed over 30 million people. The Japanese invasion of China killed between 20 and 35 million. The Rape of Nanjing alone killed more people than in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. What are you smoking?
Tantalum... still the gold standard for miniature components.
Hardly. I use MLCC's where I used to use tantulum, and have for about 10 years. If I really need high capacitance, solid electrolyte aluminum's are quite reliable.
The arming mechanisms are only supposed to work when you arm the bomb! That was not done. Wisely, the USAF decided that an airplane crash should not cause a nuclear explosion, hence the requirement to arm the bombs before detonation. The intent was right, but the execution was a close run thing.
It would've been some ironical justice for what was done to innocent children and women in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I think all U.S nuclear weapons should on completion have been pointed straight upwards and fired immediately. It would've been the most appropriate use.
Ok, but what should we have done to avenge the millions killed by the Imperial Japanese forces, wiped out every last man, women and child in Japan? Thankfully the US leadership was not as vengeful and bloodthirsty as you.
When 5 of the 6 arming mechanisms on a 3.8Mt bomb activate when they're not supposed to, it doesn't take an advanced knowledge of statistics to realize it was pretty close. Hopefully they went back to the drawing board on that one.
If you need better stability than Y5V, but still need high values in a reasonable size, X5R is good. I haven't used tantalum in 10 years. For electrolytics I find solid electrolyte aluminums are fine for most stuff, and can always be shunted with a ceramic if need be. I've even used these kinds of parts in military designs.
What's the point of these kinds of laws? Just like drugs, these resources will make their way to whomever wants to buy them. Where there's a market, there's a way.
That might be a problem if they were banning these minerals, but they're not. At most they're discouraging the use of them when they're obtained from certain dubious sources. All of those minerals are available elsewhere in the world though, so at most you'll see a small increase in price. That won't be enough to make it worth most companies while to smuggle them.
Ultimately what would be nice is if "blood free" sources of some of these minerals could be established in, for example, the Congo. Coltan (for tantalum) can literally be dug out of the ground with a shovel there, so it's a good way for some poor folks to make a buck.
P.S. Who is still using tantalum capacitors and why? I haven't designed one in in years. Between the high capacitance ceramics and the solid electrolyte aluminum capacitors available these days, I don't see the use of tantalum.
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To a Southerner, Briton, Jamaican or Australian they definitely have an accent. It's impossible to speak without an accent. You're confusing "no accent" with the General American accent. It's considered as neutral of an American accent as you can have, and is widely used in broadcasting. It is, nevertheless, an accent.
I'm surprised DHS hasn't said no to this. They're worried about critical infrastructure, including power utilities, being compromised by outside attackers.
I wish. Their only real interest is in playing security theater by getting tough about the size of the hairpins grandma is wearing when she boards the plane. Actual threats are too tough for them to deal with.
If it'll help stop offshoring, I'll happily swear that Genghis Khan has been reincarnated, and his hordes are now using computers instead of ponies.
Specify a desired conclusion and you can always find a way to play with the numbers to arrive at that conclusion. Creative bookkeeping is alive and well. Better to trust late night infomercials.
I understand what you mean, and I presume you're no bigot, so it is best to leave out the Caucasian part. Obviously there are many Americans, and other Anglophones, who speak Standard English and are not Caucasians. Ironically, Indians are considered Caucasian.
Of course everyone has an accent, but it's reasonable to ask for someone who speaks Standard English:
Standard English ... refers to whatever form of the English language is accepted as a national norm in an Anglophone country.
While that varies from one Anglophone country to another, I can't think of any variety of Standard English that I have trouble understanding.
You should credit Winston Churchill for that joke.
By buying Blackberry, Microsoft will be able to drive an even larger portion of the smartphone market into the ground.
go back to when you were private and cared about product/customer rather than investors and their growth projections.
Much as I generally agree with you, Blackberry has been losing money at an increasing rate for some time. Privately held companies (of the real kind, not the private equity scam variety) can afford to take more of a long term view, being freed from the shackles of the self-important and absurdly overpaid idiots called stock analysts. Nevertheless, even privately held companies need some prospect of making a profit.
So with both Chinese and American gear unacceptable, where do you buy your networking equipment? Seriously.
I miss the Cold War, when there were competing systems instead of a race to the bottom.
Oh indeed, the United Kingdom does not exist.
Not in any meaningful sense, anyway.
That assertion would have more credibility if you could cite even one inaccuracy in what was written. Bluster doesn't hide ignorance very well.
The military still doesn't.
Actionable strategic plans only.
Unleash the Red Army. Ok, that was done, but it didn't last long. Given their track record, I've no doubt that they would've finished off the Imperial Japanese forces. And given their track record, they would have killed a lot more civilians than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings did. We would also have had a communist Japan and South Korea, to the delight of the inhabitants there, and with more fun in the Cold War.
My "rushed" judgement is that it's not right to use nuclear weapons on innocent civilians.
Regardless of whether it prevents more civilian deaths than it causes? Because that was probably the case.
Japanese killed millions of Americans?
Can you read? Where did I say Americans?
US leadership was and is The single most bloodthirsty entity ever to have occurred on this side of the Universe. You can drink any cool-aid you want but that is a fact, you can check the list of illegal aggressions by the US.
The Nazi invasion of the USSR killed over 30 million people. The Japanese invasion of China killed between 20 and 35 million. The Rape of Nanjing alone killed more people than in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. What are you smoking?
Tantalum ... still the gold standard for miniature components.
Hardly. I use MLCC's where I used to use tantulum, and have for about 10 years. If I really need high capacitance, solid electrolyte aluminum's are quite reliable.
The arming mechanisms are only supposed to work when you arm the bomb! That was not done. Wisely, the USAF decided that an airplane crash should not cause a nuclear explosion, hence the requirement to arm the bombs before detonation. The intent was right, but the execution was a close run thing.
It would've been some ironical justice for what was done to innocent children and women in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I think all U.S nuclear weapons should on completion have been pointed straight upwards and fired immediately. It would've been the most appropriate use.
Ok, but what should we have done to avenge the millions killed by the Imperial Japanese forces, wiped out every last man, women and child in Japan? Thankfully the US leadership was not as vengeful and bloodthirsty as you.
When 5 of the 6 arming mechanisms on a 3.8Mt bomb activate when they're not supposed to, it doesn't take an advanced knowledge of statistics to realize it was pretty close. Hopefully they went back to the drawing board on that one.
Burkina Faso is not the only poor country. For example, think Nigeria with all its oil.
If you need better stability than Y5V, but still need high values in a reasonable size, X5R is good. I haven't used tantalum in 10 years. For electrolytics I find solid electrolyte aluminums are fine for most stuff, and can always be shunted with a ceramic if need be. I've even used these kinds of parts in military designs.
What's the point of these kinds of laws? Just like drugs, these resources will make their way to whomever wants to buy them. Where there's a market, there's a way.
That might be a problem if they were banning these minerals, but they're not. At most they're discouraging the use of them when they're obtained from certain dubious sources. All of those minerals are available elsewhere in the world though, so at most you'll see a small increase in price. That won't be enough to make it worth most companies while to smuggle them.
Ultimately what would be nice is if "blood free" sources of some of these minerals could be established in, for example, the Congo. Coltan (for tantalum) can literally be dug out of the ground with a shovel there, so it's a good way for some poor folks to make a buck.
P.S. Who is still using tantalum capacitors and why? I haven't designed one in in years. Between the high capacitance ceramics and the solid electrolyte aluminum capacitors available these days, I don't see the use of tantalum.
How can people forget Dmitri Mendeleev? That table of his has become mighty popular.