The key isn't being broadcast. Here's what happens:
The chip is an rfid device which means when it gets close to the reader, the reader sees it. The reader encrypts a string of bits using a crypto key shared by the reader and car key and then broadcasts the encrypted bits. The car key sees the broadcast and decrypts the bits using the same crypto key. It then does something to the bits, i.e, add 5, divide by 8, whatever and then recrypts the result. The encrypted result is broadcast back to the reader which sees the encrypted result. It decrypts the result, and compares it against its version of the result. If they match, then the car starts.
At no time does the key get broadcast. The attacker just pretends to be the reader and sends several encrypted strings and looks at the results coming back and acts on that information. The attack succeeds because the attacker has access to huge processing power whereas the car key is relying on the power it can suck out of the rfid antenna. The disparity in available power drives what's feasible for the key to do in a short amount of time. If the key were substantially longer, the car key would take considerably longer to decrypt and encrypt which means you'd put your key in the ignition and nothing would happen while the car key was thinking. Not something most folks would tolerate. The attacker on the other hand, can take the encrypted bits coming out of the car key, and given enough samples, can just brute force the crypto key.
I'll bet the next level of security will entail the car supplying the car key with enough power so the embedded chip can crank a bigger crypto key.
Once Netflix has purchased a DVD, assuming it does so at full price outside of a special contract it enters, it is allowed to rent/loan that DVD out an infinite number of times.
Netflix doesn't buy the DVDs. It pays for them by using a revenue sharing agreement with the studios. From their site
We are extremely pleased that the major studios recognize NetFlix as an important distribution channel for their content," said Reed Hastings, co-founder and chief executive officer of NetFlix. "With these revenue sharing deals we can continue to deliver on our promise to provide the best movie experience possible -- giving our customers the titles they want, when they want them, and allowing them to enjoy the movies for as long as they like. The agreements also help us keep pace with our extraordinary growth, without compromising our quality of service."
The guy is talking about manufacturing video cards, not just writing a driver. In short, he's talking about putting real money on the table. If he has in fact asked nVidia and ATI to enter into a business relationship and they still demur then something else is going on.
You couldn't get card driver specs from the card manufacturers but did you approach ATI or nVidia about building a card aimed at Linux using their chips?
The inventors said that one was one of the toughest problems they tackled. They've arranged the coils so that most of the power is within a centimeter, or so, of the surface. Beyond that, the field rapidly drops off to background levels. More here.
I too got carpal and switched to dvorak. It didn't help. The problem wasn't that my fingers were moving - the problem was my wrist posture was wrong - I'd form a "V" with my knuckles higher than my wrist.
After switching to dvorak and its not helping, I strapped a sharp pencil to each of my arms. I'm not joking. The pencil point would poke me in the back of my hand whenever I forgot to hold my wrists straight. I didn't get dependent on a brace and it took me about a week to make keeping my wrists straight automatic. THAT took care of the carpal.
Moral of the story - keep your wrists flat, your back straight and you're less likely to develop carpal.
Switching to Dvorak did not speed up my typing nor did it cure my carpal. In my case, switching bought me zero benefits and makes working at someone else's keyboard a pain. Dvorak is over-hyped.
You've labeled the parent post as an utter lie and use a NY Times article to back up your assertion. Unfortunately, the Times isn't a dis-interested party - their anti-Bush stance has forced them to defend SS because Bush is attacking it - not because SS is solvent.
SS's weakness has been known from the day it started - it's a Ponzi scheme paying current beneficiaries out of current receipts. It's only managed to muddle along so far because of repeated rate increases, extending the retirement age, and an increasing working population. Those trends are coming to an end. When I become elgible in 10-15 years, my generation will transition from being the biggest sources of revenues for SSI to the biggest drain. And we'll be calling in such wonderful investments such as the Zero Coupons the Feds sold the SS Trust back in the 90's. Zeroes are a little shell game that defers the expense of a bond until the bond comes due. So not only will there be more beneficiaries asking for payouts, they'll be calling in the zeroes that funded the deficits.
Roosevelt was able to pass SSI legislation because he knew damn well he wouldn't be around to clean up the mess he'd created. Most/. readers, however, will be around to witness what FDR wrought and it isn't going to be very pretty. Watch for terms like "Consensual Euthanasia" and "dead weight baby boomers" to start circulating. You'll see front page stories (even on the NYT if it's still around) extolling the Eskimo's way of death.
3M's Post Its came out of that kind of program. 3M has had a policy in place for ages that encourages employees to spend a bit of their time on something other than their assigned tasks.
What the official timeline doesn't make very clear is it took quite a bit of effort on the part of some folks within 3M to get 3M to market the notes. Notice the large gap in the timeline between initial samples and the product hitting the shelves. It was pretty bizarre - corporate secretaries were hooked on them and yet the product's backers couldn't convince corporate HQ to sell them.
I don't watch TV so when Comcast started pitching Internet service, I was an especially hard sell. They wanted $60/month and Pac Bell was going for $27/month. Just wasn't worth it.
One day I got a call and they offered me $20/month for 6 months and $20 install. The cost to try wasn't too bad so I bit. This month, the promo period ended and my bill went up to $60. I picked up the phone and told the clerk, "drop the price or I drop the service." She said she couldn't do anything so I said, "OK, I understand. Please cancel the service." At that point, she transfered me to someone who had negotiating authority. We dickered around for a bit and I settled at $30/month, or 50% of the posted price.
What I think is happening is Comcast doesn't know what the market will bear and is willing to dicker to figure that out. I'm getting ready to call Comcast back because Pac Bell came back and offered me DSL for $20 if I buy their long distance service from them. The only place I've found that faster than DSL matters is downloading video. But all too often, if everyone is going after the same video and nobody is using bit torrent, the speed advantage vanishes. Besides, $120 per year savings will buy me and my sweetie a nice night out.
it's now over 30 years since they first said we had enough oil left for maybe another 30 years if we were lucky.
Hmmm. The actual 1970 forecasts were we'd be out of oil by 1985. The Club Of Rome was using these new fangled computers to run their models and "Heck! The Computer Said It Was True So It Must Be!" was the common mentality. Nevermind the models were just a bunch of linear equations with no feedback mechanisms. And nevermind that in 1962, Lorenz had demonstrated with his little 8 bit Super Bee computer that forecasting non-linear systems far into the future was a mug's game.
I actually rtfa (gasp!) and wonder why I bothered. The Nasa press release repeats the author's claim but gives absolutely no details that enable anyone to make a reasonable conclusion as to the claim's veracity. You know, things like, are we talking about observed motion or some guy's model spit this prediction out. The article doesn't say nor does it link to a paper or preprint.
This idea first popped up in sci.geo.earthquakes shortly after the quake. At the time I figured that for the earth to slow down, the mass would have to move away from the earth's center to lower its angular momentum. The question that raised was "how do you measure a mass shift like that?" The TOPEX data aren't that precise as they're limited to around an inch or so of resolution and require multiple passes to get that accurate. The Grace data are even less precise. An alternative would be to be continually measuring the earth's rotation using an atomic clock and notice a sudden shift the day of the quake. Or maybe someone noticed some anomaly in the GPS network. Whether any of these methods, or some other methods, were employed the article doesn't say.
It's typical NASA self promotion with no substance.
Sheet aluminum is much more expensive than sheet steel.
For example, Mcmaster-Carr is quoting $215.13 for a 4'x 4' sheet of.019 1100 aluminum. A 4x4 sheet of.019 Galvanized carbon steel goes for $31.17. That's about 1/7th the cost of aluminum.
Enjoy it for now, because it's probably going away soon.
Unless content producers who aren't affiliated with the MPAA or RIAA start using it.
I'm thinking of my son fresh out of film school. It's an ideal way for him to put his portfolio up on the net without getting hammered by bandwidth charges. He's made some awfully funny movies that very few folks would get to see if he relied on normal distribution methods.
Your suspicion is understandable but the development went up years ago back when plastic plumbing was just taking off.
My best friend owns one of the top plumbing outfits around here. He routinely does the more difficult jobs in Pebble Beach and Big Sur. He also does the bread and butter work in the less expensive areas where cost is the paramount consideration. Years ago, he won a bid on an apartment complex in Marina, a town next to the old Fort Ord land.
To save costs he picked up some plastic pipe from an outfit he had never dealt with but was offering him a really good price on the pipe. Long story short, the pipes started failing about 6 months after the apartments had been occupied - they were all splitting wherever the stress was greatest. The pipe company went tits up as the problem was popping up all around the country. My friend was adequately insured so he didn't lose money replacing the bum pipes but it did cost him as he couldn't take any new work during the time his men were tearing out old pipes. This happened about 12-14 years ago just about the time plastic plumbing was beginning to come on strong.
My friend's experience with the bum pipes circulated and set plastic plumbing back a few years around here. The development didn't want the grief the apartment house owner in Marina had had and so the developer specified metal pipe instead. It is ironic that their schedule got bit by the lead solder but then it's not the first time that a solution to one problem raised another.
I hired a contractor to remodel my kitchen a few years back. I did some of the easier jobs such as wire the switches and plumb the sink drains. I was putting together a list of parts I'd need for the sink when the contractor told me the following story about a new development on the north side of town.
The plumbing inspection happens before the sheetrock goes up so any plumbing errors are easy to spot and repair. The permit inspector was on the last house where the plumbers were just cleaning up. The inspector spotted a discarded solder can and picked it up. As he handed over the empty to one of the plumbers, the inspector said,
"Boy that solder is really good stuff!" To which the plumber said, "Yeah, it's a little more expensive but it flows really smoothly." The inspector replied, "It must be the lead that makes it flow so smoothly. But you know, it's too bad that you're not allowed to use lead solder any more. You're going to have to start over." And with that, the inspector ticketed every house in the subdivision.
The projects I've seen go down the tubes tended to be poorly focused. Conversely, the successful ones had a set of clearly stated goals and you could see how a particular piece of code was designed to move towards that goal.
The lack of focus made testing difficult because it wasn't particularly clear what the testing metrics should be. A library system I know of was so overwhelmingly bloated trying to meet a variety of interoperability specs that when the testers saw some 2 megabytes of data cross the lan to handle a single checkout/checkin transaction, they didn't realize they had a problem.
Another salient feature of successful projects I've worked on is technical competence. The managers of the successful projects tended to be ex-coders and had a feel for what made sense vs what didn't. The bloated projects were run by people from all manner of backgrounds and hence, didn't have the cut-to-the-quick feel when something was going awry. One time, I was working on an air defense project for a country in the middle east and the project manager started getting antsy when he saw all his developers waiting on the compiler. We were using the machine we were going to deliver the product on and it was having a tough time just compiling code for some 12 developers. He sat down and wrote a bare-bones air defense system that did nothing more than establish a client server relationship and had the client simulate the required number of radar contacts per second while the server did nothing more than ack said contacts. The machine couldn't handle a load as simple as that which led to some back and forth with the hardware company until they upgraded the hardware to handle the problem. Had he not had the tech background, he wouldn't have realized that there was a problem until it was too late.
The number of projects failing now will probably rise because Moore's Law isn't there anymore to bail over-speced projects out. The code written today won't run any better on tomorrow's machines primarily because it doesn't look like tomorrow's machines are going to be much faster. Knocking that crutch out from underneath projects will tumble more than a few projects.
Don't think your customers are as dumb - it's bad for your business. It's a lesson the U.S. learned back in the 60's when the old Jim Crow laws were in effect. Jim Crow policies just pissed folks off, a lesson you're may learn first hand.
Reserving the no-dead-pixel policy to Korea only has got to be one of the stupidest PR moves I've seen in a LONG time. In the old days a manufacturer might have gotten away with a ploy like this. But now with sites like/. where prime customers congregate from all over the world, there's no way in hell a manufacturer can treat similar buyers differently. Especially, when you're selling into a market with lots of suppliers. Dumb, just plain dumb.
I'll buy some other brand before I'll agree to be treated as a second class customer.
So Samsung Marketing, tell you how to escape being branded as a no account bumbling bunch of fools who cost the company millions in sales - blame the press. Just issue a press release saying that the no dead pixel policy is worldwide and that any reports to the contrary were in error. Nobody will think twice about it. On the other hand, leave the policy as Korean only and watch what happens to your sales when you push people to the back of the bus.
A year before the dot com bust, Sony bought the display rights to Silicon Light's GLV technology. GLV is a reflective grid that can dynamically steer laser light onto a wall. They were talking about 1080p x 1920 real resolution back then. Native 1080i x 1920 alone is still rare and as far as I know, no display technology available today is delivering 1080p.
The GLV itself isn't tough to build so I'm curious what the hang up was in getting GLV displays to market. Do lasers die young or did Sony just buy it to kill a competing technology?
He admits in the article that he doesn't know where he's going with the new venture which means he probably hasn't got venture capital.
I wouldn't be surprised if he was laid off as the San Jose Mercury shrinks back. More people, especially in the Valley, are getting their news from the net instead of from paper and newspapers are shrinking as a result.
Hmmm. Making claims like yours ignores the fact that there are creative and talented people everywhere. We certainly don't have a lock on creative talent. Some examples:
Sony Trinitron - invented here; built in Japan. Not because Japanese labor was cheaper but because Japanese engineers solved some of the problems Ernest Lawrence considered "mere engineering" and ignored. None of the American TV companies could build the Trinitron so it ended up in Sony's hands.
How about VCR's? Invented here but it took an Asian mind to figure out how to make it manufacturable.
Blue Leds? That took 20 years of Japanese research and is a pure Japanese product.
Your criticism of your "book-bright" team member can be equally applied to plenty of American students as well. The trap the U.S. fell into over the past 50 years was complacency. In 1948 we manufactured 80% of the world's goods. We sat around smug and self-satisfied while the rest of the world rebuilt from the devastation of WWII. Around the mid-70's Japan became a serious competitor. Around the mid 80's Korea and Taiwan joined the fray and in the 90's China has kicked in. Meanwhile, you still hear Americans making excuses like "sure, they can copy but they can't create." It was bullshit then and it's bullshit now.
My son graduated from a private American high school with an A average, earned 5's on all five of his AP courses, SAT's in the mid 1400's. He ended up going to UC Berkeley.
Last year, he took a Quantum Mechanics class. At the course's beginning, the prof said the pace would be harsh but he figured most students would cope. Mid-terms showed otherwise. My son earned a 75% on the mid-term. He was depressed until he found out the class average was in the 40's. That made him feel better until he found out that his house mates aced the test. His house mates are from Singapore and Taiwan.
When he asked them how they had managed to ace the mid term, they all shrugged their shoulders and said they'd seen the material in high school. They had seen the material in high school for multiple reasons. The typical Taiwanese goes to school 220 days out of a year instead of 180 here in California. The school days are longer, typically 8-5 instead of 8:30 to 2:30 here. The elementary teachers have strong math skills as opposed to our elemetary teachers. Parents in Asia expect more from their children than American parents do and the end results are Asian children have been trouncing American children academically for the past 20 years.
In case you're wondering about the source of all the facts cited above, here are the citations.
The story isn't completely grim however. The United States is nothing if not adaptable. The alternative school movement in the U.S. has made an opening for schools like this one, this one and KIPP schools to function. As the existence and efficacy of these kinds of options becomes more commonly recognized, American education will shift.
Whoever came up with "click through" must not have read Donald Duck cartoons as a kid. I remember a cartoon where Uncle Scrooge wanted to save some money painting his barn (of course he had a barn, he was Uncle Scrooge who had everything.) He hits on the idea of selling the barn's side as a billboard but his potential advertiser wants to know how many people drive by before the advertiser plunks down the money. The advertiser installs a rubber tube to count traffic like the kind that would cause the bell to ring when you pulled in to buy gas and the 5 guys would come out to wash your windshield, fill your tank, check your tires and oil. I guess I'm dating myself here aren't I...
Anyhow, to run up his numbers, Scrooge spends several hours driving in circles over the counter.
If the Google guys had just bothered to read the comics when they were kids, they would have known about the pitfalls of paying for clicks. There are plenty of Uncle Scrooge wannabees out there.
Slashdot Mirror
The chip is an rfid device which means when it gets close to the reader, the reader sees it. The reader encrypts a string of bits using a crypto key shared by the reader and car key and then broadcasts the encrypted bits. The car key sees the broadcast and decrypts the bits using the same crypto key. It then does something to the bits, i.e, add 5, divide by 8, whatever and then recrypts the result. The encrypted result is broadcast back to the reader which sees the encrypted result. It decrypts the result, and compares it against its version of the result. If they match, then the car starts.
At no time does the key get broadcast. The attacker just pretends to be the reader and sends several encrypted strings and looks at the results coming back and acts on that information. The attack succeeds because the attacker has access to huge processing power whereas the car key is relying on the power it can suck out of the rfid antenna. The disparity in available power drives what's feasible for the key to do in a short amount of time. If the key were substantially longer, the car key would take considerably longer to decrypt and encrypt which means you'd put your key in the ignition and nothing would happen while the car key was thinking. Not something most folks would tolerate. The attacker on the other hand, can take the encrypted bits coming out of the car key, and given enough samples, can just brute force the crypto key.
I'll bet the next level of security will entail the car supplying the car key with enough power so the embedded chip can crank a bigger crypto key.
Netflix doesn't buy the DVDs. It pays for them by using a revenue sharing agreement with the studios. From their site
The guy is talking about manufacturing video cards, not just writing a driver. In short, he's talking about putting real money on the table. If he has in fact asked nVidia and ATI to enter into a business relationship and they still demur then something else is going on.
You couldn't get card driver specs from the card manufacturers but did you approach ATI or nVidia about building a card aimed at Linux using their chips?
The "chess" program was actually Alice.
The inventors said that one was one of the toughest problems they tackled. They've arranged the coils so that most of the power is within a centimeter, or so, of the surface. Beyond that, the field rapidly drops off to background levels. More here.
After switching to dvorak and its not helping, I strapped a sharp pencil to each of my arms. I'm not joking. The pencil point would poke me in the back of my hand whenever I forgot to hold my wrists straight. I didn't get dependent on a brace and it took me about a week to make keeping my wrists straight automatic. THAT took care of the carpal.
Moral of the story - keep your wrists flat, your back straight and you're less likely to develop carpal.
Switching to Dvorak did not speed up my typing nor did it cure my carpal. In my case, switching bought me zero benefits and makes working at someone else's keyboard a pain. Dvorak is over-hyped.
SS's weakness has been known from the day it started - it's a Ponzi scheme paying current beneficiaries out of current receipts. It's only managed to muddle along so far because of repeated rate increases, extending the retirement age, and an increasing working population. Those trends are coming to an end. When I become elgible in 10-15 years, my generation will transition from being the biggest sources of revenues for SSI to the biggest drain. And we'll be calling in such wonderful investments such as the Zero Coupons the Feds sold the SS Trust back in the 90's. Zeroes are a little shell game that defers the expense of a bond until the bond comes due. So not only will there be more beneficiaries asking for payouts, they'll be calling in the zeroes that funded the deficits.
Roosevelt was able to pass SSI legislation because he knew damn well he wouldn't be around to clean up the mess he'd created. Most /. readers, however, will be around to witness what FDR wrought and it isn't going to be very pretty. Watch for terms like "Consensual Euthanasia" and "dead weight baby boomers" to start circulating. You'll see front page stories (even on the NYT if it's still around) extolling the Eskimo's way of death.
What the official timeline doesn't make very clear is it took quite a bit of effort on the part of some folks within 3M to get 3M to market the notes. Notice the large gap in the timeline between initial samples and the product hitting the shelves. It was pretty bizarre - corporate secretaries were hooked on them and yet the product's backers couldn't convince corporate HQ to sell them.
One day I got a call and they offered me $20/month for 6 months and $20 install. The cost to try wasn't too bad so I bit. This month, the promo period ended and my bill went up to $60. I picked up the phone and told the clerk, "drop the price or I drop the service." She said she couldn't do anything so I said, "OK, I understand. Please cancel the service." At that point, she transfered me to someone who had negotiating authority. We dickered around for a bit and I settled at $30/month, or 50% of the posted price.
What I think is happening is Comcast doesn't know what the market will bear and is willing to dicker to figure that out. I'm getting ready to call Comcast back because Pac Bell came back and offered me DSL for $20 if I buy their long distance service from them. The only place I've found that faster than DSL matters is downloading video. But all too often, if everyone is going after the same video and nobody is using bit torrent, the speed advantage vanishes. Besides, $120 per year savings will buy me and my sweetie a nice night out.
Hmmm. The actual 1970 forecasts were we'd be out of oil by 1985. The Club Of Rome was using these new fangled computers to run their models and "Heck! The Computer Said It Was True So It Must Be!" was the common mentality. Nevermind the models were just a bunch of linear equations with no feedback mechanisms. And nevermind that in 1962, Lorenz had demonstrated with his little 8 bit Super Bee computer that forecasting non-linear systems far into the future was a mug's game.
This idea first popped up in sci.geo.earthquakes shortly after the quake. At the time I figured that for the earth to slow down, the mass would have to move away from the earth's center to lower its angular momentum. The question that raised was "how do you measure a mass shift like that?" The TOPEX data aren't that precise as they're limited to around an inch or so of resolution and require multiple passes to get that accurate. The Grace data are even less precise. An alternative would be to be continually measuring the earth's rotation using an atomic clock and notice a sudden shift the day of the quake. Or maybe someone noticed some anomaly in the GPS network. Whether any of these methods, or some other methods, were employed the article doesn't say.
It's typical NASA self promotion with no substance.
For example, Mcmaster-Carr is quoting $215.13 for a 4'x 4' sheet of .019 1100 aluminum. A 4x4 sheet of .019 Galvanized carbon steel goes for $31.17. That's about 1/7th the cost of aluminum.
Unless content producers who aren't affiliated with the MPAA or RIAA start using it.
I'm thinking of my son fresh out of film school. It's an ideal way for him to put his portfolio up on the net without getting hammered by bandwidth charges. He's made some awfully funny movies that very few folks would get to see if he relied on normal distribution methods.
My best friend owns one of the top plumbing outfits around here. He routinely does the more difficult jobs in Pebble Beach and Big Sur. He also does the bread and butter work in the less expensive areas where cost is the paramount consideration. Years ago, he won a bid on an apartment complex in Marina, a town next to the old Fort Ord land.
To save costs he picked up some plastic pipe from an outfit he had never dealt with but was offering him a really good price on the pipe. Long story short, the pipes started failing about 6 months after the apartments had been occupied - they were all splitting wherever the stress was greatest. The pipe company went tits up as the problem was popping up all around the country. My friend was adequately insured so he didn't lose money replacing the bum pipes but it did cost him as he couldn't take any new work during the time his men were tearing out old pipes. This happened about 12-14 years ago just about the time plastic plumbing was beginning to come on strong.
My friend's experience with the bum pipes circulated and set plastic plumbing back a few years around here. The development didn't want the grief the apartment house owner in Marina had had and so the developer specified metal pipe instead. It is ironic that their schedule got bit by the lead solder but then it's not the first time that a solution to one problem raised another.
The lack of focus made testing difficult because it wasn't particularly clear what the testing metrics should be. A library system I know of was so overwhelmingly bloated trying to meet a variety of interoperability specs that when the testers saw some 2 megabytes of data cross the lan to handle a single checkout/checkin transaction, they didn't realize they had a problem.
Another salient feature of successful projects I've worked on is technical competence. The managers of the successful projects tended to be ex-coders and had a feel for what made sense vs what didn't. The bloated projects were run by people from all manner of backgrounds and hence, didn't have the cut-to-the-quick feel when something was going awry. One time, I was working on an air defense project for a country in the middle east and the project manager started getting antsy when he saw all his developers waiting on the compiler. We were using the machine we were going to deliver the product on and it was having a tough time just compiling code for some 12 developers. He sat down and wrote a bare-bones air defense system that did nothing more than establish a client server relationship and had the client simulate the required number of radar contacts per second while the server did nothing more than ack said contacts. The machine couldn't handle a load as simple as that which led to some back and forth with the hardware company until they upgraded the hardware to handle the problem. Had he not had the tech background, he wouldn't have realized that there was a problem until it was too late.
The number of projects failing now will probably rise because Moore's Law isn't there anymore to bail over-speced projects out. The code written today won't run any better on tomorrow's machines primarily because it doesn't look like tomorrow's machines are going to be much faster. Knocking that crutch out from underneath projects will tumble more than a few projects.
Reserving the no-dead-pixel policy to Korea only has got to be one of the stupidest PR moves I've seen in a LONG time. In the old days a manufacturer might have gotten away with a ploy like this. But now with sites like /. where prime customers congregate from all over the world, there's no way in hell a manufacturer can treat similar buyers differently. Especially, when you're selling into a market with lots of suppliers. Dumb, just plain dumb.
I'll buy some other brand before I'll agree to be treated as a second class customer.
So Samsung Marketing, tell you how to escape being branded as a no account bumbling bunch of fools who cost the company millions in sales - blame the press. Just issue a press release saying that the no dead pixel policy is worldwide and that any reports to the contrary were in error. Nobody will think twice about it. On the other hand, leave the policy as Korean only and watch what happens to your sales when you push people to the back of the bus.
And after you've destroyed your space ship what are you going to do?
Which model Sharp do you have? A lot of LCDs are advertised as being able to deliver 1080 x 1920 but their native resolution is usually below that.
The GLV itself isn't tough to build so I'm curious what the hang up was in getting GLV displays to market. Do lasers die young or did Sony just buy it to kill a competing technology?
I wouldn't be surprised if he was laid off as the San Jose Mercury shrinks back. More people, especially in the Valley, are getting their news from the net instead of from paper and newspapers are shrinking as a result.
Sony Trinitron - invented here; built in Japan. Not because Japanese labor was cheaper but because Japanese engineers solved some of the problems Ernest Lawrence considered "mere engineering" and ignored. None of the American TV companies could build the Trinitron so it ended up in Sony's hands.
How about VCR's? Invented here but it took an Asian mind to figure out how to make it manufacturable.
Blue Leds? That took 20 years of Japanese research and is a pure Japanese product.
Your criticism of your "book-bright" team member can be equally applied to plenty of American students as well. The trap the U.S. fell into over the past 50 years was complacency. In 1948 we manufactured 80% of the world's goods. We sat around smug and self-satisfied while the rest of the world rebuilt from the devastation of WWII. Around the mid-70's Japan became a serious competitor. Around the mid 80's Korea and Taiwan joined the fray and in the 90's China has kicked in. Meanwhile, you still hear Americans making excuses like "sure, they can copy but they can't create." It was bullshit then and it's bullshit now.
Last year, he took a Quantum Mechanics class. At the course's beginning, the prof said the pace would be harsh but he figured most students would cope. Mid-terms showed otherwise. My son earned a 75% on the mid-term. He was depressed until he found out the class average was in the 40's. That made him feel better until he found out that his house mates aced the test. His house mates are from Singapore and Taiwan.
When he asked them how they had managed to ace the mid term, they all shrugged their shoulders and said they'd seen the material in high school. They had seen the material in high school for multiple reasons. The typical Taiwanese goes to school 220 days out of a year instead of 180 here in California. The school days are longer, typically 8-5 instead of 8:30 to 2:30 here. The elementary teachers have strong math skills as opposed to our elemetary teachers. Parents in Asia expect more from their children than American parents do and the end results are Asian children have been trouncing American children academically for the past 20 years.
In case you're wondering about the source of all the facts cited above, here are the citations.
The story isn't completely grim however. The United States is nothing if not adaptable. The alternative school movement in the U.S. has made an opening for schools like this one, this one and KIPP schools to function. As the existence and efficacy of these kinds of options becomes more commonly recognized, American education will shift.
Anyhow, to run up his numbers, Scrooge spends several hours driving in circles over the counter.
If the Google guys had just bothered to read the comics when they were kids, they would have known about the pitfalls of paying for clicks. There are plenty of Uncle Scrooge wannabees out there.