Remember that most teachers aren't eligible for social security benefits when looking at that benefits package, and that median teacher is also working during the summer. Median teacher salary in the US is around $56K and is dropping. So are the benefits packages.
Actually, the reason why space missions are launched from places closer to the equator is that missions are cheaper there: money near the equator is moving at a higher percentage of escape velocity than money at the poles. That's why the tax havens are frequently in those latitudes.
Using twice as much? maybe. Wasting twice as much? Consumers maybe, but not most industries. For most of them wasting fuel is just sending profits up the smokestack.
If the target is far away, it could easily avoid the cloud of flak. The missile would have to fire for quite some time to gain useful delta-V, during which it is easy to track and getting hot so that it will continue to be easy to track even after it turns off thrust. It could ditch the first (hot) stage and coast, but the target could plan on not being anywhere near that path. So the missile would probably be...
Really, the way to win a space battle is ignore the ships and destroy whatever big dumb object it is they are trying to protect. City, giant space station, whatever. It can't get out of the way, and if you accelerate your ammo to better than 0.1 c it won't see your ammo coming either.
Add another variable to the Fermi Paradox: every species must be bogged down with religious/class/ethnic/football hooligan drama, otherwise one of them would have shown up at our doorstep by now.
What gets me is when the author is painstaking in attention to detail in describing realistic ship movements in a 0 G vacuum, including relativistic effects, but then describes maneuverability as somehow being tied to a ship's "speed". It's another carryover from ships that maneuver via control surfaces that interact with the environment, and thus feels natural. But in a 0 G vacuum it doesn't matter at all whether it is ship A that just finished accelerating and ship B is "sitting still" or vice versa. Both situations are completely equivalent unless there is something else nearby, like a planet, that adds gravity or an obstacle to the situation.
My thoughts exactly. My old crockpot is extremely nerd friendly: add a STC-1000 temperature controller and a small pump ($40 total) and it's a sous vide rig. New crockpots would have to have their controls gutted or bypassed to be controlled by something as simple as a relay.
You buy phones like others do, because it's a symbol that's always visible. You aren't going to be lugging pots around or inviting every friend/acquaintance/colleague/boss in your kitchen to see them.
But the only way for something to be always visible is to instagram/pinterist/facebook it... which is what people would do with these appliances. And when they are actually physically in the same room as their friends they would be conspicuously on their phones and talking about the sous vide rig they are adjusting the temperature on or what groceries their refrigerator has just ordered to be delivered by drone. Did anyone who bought a Nest thermostat not saturate the web with their experiences with it?
Early adopters talk about the stuff they buy. A lot. That's enough to get these products into the market.
1. Keep the process of sponsoring H1-Bs roughly the same, but slightly more expensive.
2. Once the recruit has the visa, he can work wherever he wants. The paperwork is the same whether he stays with his sponsor, goes to their biggest competitor, or goes to work at a coffee cart.
3. Ban the other legal shenanigans that would quickly ensue in attempts to lock the visa to the sponsoring company.
If the sponsor wants the worker to stay, they will have to pay them a high enough rate to keep them there.
They never made much of a secret of loving Dieter Rams's work, and Dieter Rams himself approves of Apple's design philosophy. Apple didn't copy their teacher, they learned from him.
True for other industries as well. An HIV drug (Fuzeon) upended the market for the starting materials used to make it: to produce it would mean using up more than the entire world supply of the correctly manufactured amino acids. So they started a new company to make amino acids, then lots of companies in Asia started making amino acids. End result: Fmoc amino acids got cheaper.
Each CNC probably only does certain features on each iphone/macbook body. Also: at over 10 million macbooks (I don't know how many of those are CNC'd) per year, 1M was probably an estimate of the number for the launch.
Keep a pool of about two months worth of patents that might meet the bar of being granted. Then reject the rest.
I don't understand what that means; I'm not certain you do either. First of all, til SCOTUS or the USPTO say otherwise, all patent applications either meet the requirements or don't. How exactly is the USPTO supposed to play favorites? Hire a contractor to pick "good" patents"? Plus there's the other problem: unless you get about 147 other countries to go along with this plan, PCT patents applied for through WIPO internationally are enforceable in the US.
The priority date is the date the application is filed, not the day the patent is granted. This would just create a huge backlog of submarine patents that would come back to bite people later. That or everyone would just file with WIPO first.
How did you phrase the claim? Regardless, it varies a lot from one section to the next based on the job market for the applicants. Biology/Pharma/Biotech/O-chem has had huge layoffs over the last 15 years, so there are plenty of PhDs with years of industrial experience, patent writing experience and perhaps a JD for each examiner position that opens up. Software and engineering, not so much.
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1) most teachers still work at the school over the summer, if they didn't the median salary figures would be much lower
2) bullshit. 6 hrs in school, 4 hrs afterschool/at home for the teachers I know.
3) Yep, job security is still better than the private sector.
4) Full pension - but remember to subtract social security, which most teachers aren't eligible for.
5) Or getting put in jail because the kids said you had group sex with them when you didn't
Remember that most teachers aren't eligible for social security benefits when looking at that benefits package, and that median teacher is also working during the summer. Median teacher salary in the US is around $56K and is dropping. So are the benefits packages.
Is that 4a) worry that the gubmint will take our 3D printed guns, or 4b) H1b visa holders are taking the 3D gun printing jobs?
Until they have to head to the next county for a forest fire and then run their pumps all day.
Actually, the reason why space missions are launched from places closer to the equator is that missions are cheaper there: money near the equator is moving at a higher percentage of escape velocity than money at the poles. That's why the tax havens are frequently in those latitudes.
Using twice as much? maybe. Wasting twice as much? Consumers maybe, but not most industries. For most of them wasting fuel is just sending profits up the smokestack.
They get a port and eventually direct access to the gas market for Europe. Not a bad haul.
The Republicans will argue against any course of action Obama commits to, full stop. It doesn't matter what the action is, just who is authorizing it.
Really, the way to win a space battle is ignore the ships and destroy whatever big dumb object it is they are trying to protect. City, giant space station, whatever. It can't get out of the way, and if you accelerate your ammo to better than 0.1 c it won't see your ammo coming either.
Add another variable to the Fermi Paradox: every species must be bogged down with religious/class/ethnic/football hooligan drama, otherwise one of them would have shown up at our doorstep by now.
What gets me is when the author is painstaking in attention to detail in describing realistic ship movements in a 0 G vacuum, including relativistic effects, but then describes maneuverability as somehow being tied to a ship's "speed". It's another carryover from ships that maneuver via control surfaces that interact with the environment, and thus feels natural. But in a 0 G vacuum it doesn't matter at all whether it is ship A that just finished accelerating and ship B is "sitting still" or vice versa. Both situations are completely equivalent unless there is something else nearby, like a planet, that adds gravity or an obstacle to the situation.
My thoughts exactly. My old crockpot is extremely nerd friendly: add a STC-1000 temperature controller and a small pump ($40 total) and it's a sous vide rig. New crockpots would have to have their controls gutted or bypassed to be controlled by something as simple as a relay.
Nope.
You buy phones like others do, because it's a symbol that's always visible. You aren't going to be lugging pots around or inviting every friend/acquaintance/colleague/boss in your kitchen to see them.
But the only way for something to be always visible is to instagram/pinterist/facebook it ... which is what people would do with these appliances. And when they are actually physically in the same room as their friends they would be conspicuously on their phones and talking about the sous vide rig they are adjusting the temperature on or what groceries their refrigerator has just ordered to be delivered by drone. Did anyone who bought a Nest thermostat not saturate the web with their experiences with it?
Early adopters talk about the stuff they buy. A lot. That's enough to get these products into the market.
Um, 14 years then, 20 years now.
How to fix the H1-B problem:
1. Keep the process of sponsoring H1-Bs roughly the same, but slightly more expensive.
2. Once the recruit has the visa, he can work wherever he wants. The paperwork is the same whether he stays with his sponsor, goes to their biggest competitor, or goes to work at a coffee cart.
3. Ban the other legal shenanigans that would quickly ensue in attempts to lock the visa to the sponsoring company.
If the sponsor wants the worker to stay, they will have to pay them a high enough rate to keep them there.
Seconded.
8 gigs of ram is pretty much 8 gigs of ram unless you are a benchmark fetishist or have demands that exceed those of 95% of the market.
They never made much of a secret of loving Dieter Rams's work, and Dieter Rams himself approves of Apple's design philosophy. Apple didn't copy their teacher, they learned from him.
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Each CNC probably only does certain features on each iphone/macbook body. Also: at over 10 million macbooks (I don't know how many of those are CNC'd) per year, 1M was probably an estimate of the number for the launch.
Psst ... you're trolling too hard. Your fur is showing.
Keep a pool of about two months worth of patents that might meet the bar of being granted. Then reject the rest.
I don't understand what that means; I'm not certain you do either. First of all, til SCOTUS or the USPTO say otherwise, all patent applications either meet the requirements or don't. How exactly is the USPTO supposed to play favorites? Hire a contractor to pick "good" patents"? Plus there's the other problem: unless you get about 147 other countries to go along with this plan, PCT patents applied for through WIPO internationally are enforceable in the US.
Legal, but the traffic is not appreciated by many ISPs. For a while Google banned home servers.
The priority date is the date the application is filed, not the day the patent is granted. This would just create a huge backlog of submarine patents that would come back to bite people later. That or everyone would just file with WIPO first.
How did you phrase the claim? Regardless, it varies a lot from one section to the next based on the job market for the applicants. Biology/Pharma/Biotech/O-chem has had huge layoffs over the last 15 years, so there are plenty of PhDs with years of industrial experience, patent writing experience and perhaps a JD for each examiner position that opens up. Software and engineering, not so much.