1. Thanks to Bush, though the debt has increased in dollars, it has dropped by 800 Billion Euros in the same period. What's that you say? A good thing the trade deficit means we've been trading dollars for euros and such all along? Since most debt is recycled anyway when due, those dollars aren't the same dollars--we bought and buy good money now for bad money later. Not such a bad trade, if you're an American, I say.
2. The dollar is not at it's weakest level versus the other major currencies. This isn't even English--what is it you're trying to say exactly? The dollar is at its weakest level ever? Uh... no. Weakening? Uh... I guess. Nothing to cry about though, unless you really want to pay that 3.4 trillion in 2005 dollars.
If in the process you sap the middle class, you will end up going back to 1900 America or modern day Mexico. I guess we'll still survive but it would be cool to have prosperity.
4. That's actually $90 a barrel, which holds about 55 gallons... so I think you mean the $1.64 a gallon oil. Nice shot in the dark though. And by the way, we don't buy Iranian oil--so we'll just go ahead and call a spade a spade: the Iranians are funding the terrorists.
5. Moral high ground? We still hold the moral high ground. We hold it because we seek to provide security, health care, economic development, and opportunity while our enemies seek the opposite.
More specifically, we seek to provide those things for ourselves, by plundering foreign resources. Now while that is arguably not moral high ground, who cares-- it might not be too bad for the U.S. It will enjoy increased prosperity at the cost of a little bit of blowback.
There are so many things that could have gone wrong. The Bowden cable might have been loose. The fuel filter might have caught some dirt if the fuel tank was low. The idle air control might have failed due to a number of reasons, such as the failure of the air flow sensor-- note that the engines were basically idle on approach. I don't think it was the ECU, since they probably have a bunch of redundant ones.
- less energy consumption
- less load on various blood processing organs
- better performance
- lightweight
... they might be on to something here. If they did arms too, and there was no loss of motor control... like that guy said in response to someone asking "why," why not?
At 4000 pages, it's probably really redundant, e.g. they printed a few pages worth of boilerplate for a bunch of torrent files on the site or something. That's kind of how patents work too, and once you figure out the list comprehension it's pretty quick to read.
What sucks is that Intel's fab tech is becoming very hard to catch up to, so there are almost no competitive alternatives. I don't understand why they couldn't just give the new Penryn chips to OLPC either...
Mesh network is a software feature, could be provided by OS. E-book mode isn't a significant perk. Battery life is, but it should be able to enter some strong power-saving mode, shouldn't it?
The problem is that power saving is connected to the first two items. The XO mesh can forward packets while the motherboard is sleeping. Arguably, this can be done if the Classmate adopts the same Marvell radio and firmware. Similarly, e-book mode can also run without the motherboard awake, because the framebuffer is powered independently. I'm not sure if any of the G1G1 people tried it but I think the e-book battery life should be around 24hr.
Yeah, no kidding. You should see what a good size lathe motor does to metal, even from a dead stop, when something gets stuck:) Better not be too close.
I'm afraid that the main negative effect of RP's ideas would come from paring down the empire-building machinery that has taken root in the government. This would probably cause a drastic decrease in quality of life, as prices of imported resources and goods go up. There is a good reason that we want to be "over there," as RP puts it-- it lets us steal resources, blowback be damned.
Instead, it's the design of the manufacturing systems that determines how cheap and reliably we can make the thing.
Yes, but building the manufacturing systems is *expensive*. It is nearly hand-made machinery with ridiculous tolerances and materials. Having the design won't do you much good without the industrial base to support the building.
The laptop was recent, but he limited the memory use and throttled down the CPU to 1GHz. So it still had fancy instructions and a much bigger cache, bus, etc.
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You should let yourself think through this a little deeper. What if the rush hour toll was $100? How much is being alone worth to you?
Just have everyone telecommute to the central office. Problem solved!
There are so many things that could have gone wrong. The Bowden cable might have been loose. The fuel filter might have caught some dirt if the fuel tank was low. The idle air control might have failed due to a number of reasons, such as the failure of the air flow sensor-- note that the engines were basically idle on approach. I don't think it was the ECU, since they probably have a bunch of redundant ones.
"You'd be fools to ignore the Boolean anti-binary least-square approach!"
I might be going out on a limb here, but that was freaking great :)
So:
... they might be on to something here. If they did arms too, and there was no loss of motor control... like that guy said in response to someone asking "why," why not?
- less energy consumption
- less load on various blood processing organs
- better performance
- lightweight
At 4000 pages, it's probably really redundant, e.g. they printed a few pages worth of boilerplate for a bunch of torrent files on the site or something. That's kind of how patents work too, and once you figure out the list comprehension it's pretty quick to read.
Are you being sarcastic? Of course it will work!
*rimshot*
King Harald, is that you?
They probably used Diebold's Integrated Exit Polling system.
What sucks is that Intel's fab tech is becoming very hard to catch up to, so there are almost no competitive alternatives. I don't understand why they couldn't just give the new Penryn chips to OLPC either...
Maybe I shouldn't throw out my DB25 cables just yet :)
LoL... mod up!
Mesh network is a software feature, could be provided by OS. E-book mode isn't a significant perk. Battery life is, but it should be able to enter some strong power-saving mode, shouldn't it?
The problem is that power saving is connected to the first two items. The XO mesh can forward packets while the motherboard is sleeping. Arguably, this can be done if the Classmate adopts the same Marvell radio and firmware. Similarly, e-book mode can also run without the motherboard awake, because the framebuffer is powered independently. I'm not sure if any of the G1G1 people tried it but I think the e-book battery life should be around 24hr.
Somehow your post reminded me of the difficulties with determining Ron Paul's popularity ;)
some Congresscritter doesn't read this... or they'll slash the project's budget 16.22 times!
Surely you meant to bring up the mobile-ITX form factor, which is half the size ;)
Yeah, no kidding. You should see what a good size lathe motor does to metal, even from a dead stop, when something gets stuck :) Better not be too close.
The constitutional view supports a strong national defense, so if anything DoD's budget should increase.
I'm afraid that the main negative effect of RP's ideas would come from paring down the empire-building machinery that has taken root in the government. This would probably cause a drastic decrease in quality of life, as prices of imported resources and goods go up. There is a good reason that we want to be "over there," as RP puts it-- it lets us steal resources, blowback be damned.
Instead, it's the design of the manufacturing systems that determines how cheap and reliably we can make the thing.
Yes, but building the manufacturing systems is *expensive*. It is nearly hand-made machinery with ridiculous tolerances and materials. Having the design won't do you much good without the industrial base to support the building.
Better block Wikipedia from those rogue nations, or they might get ahold of Newton's laws!
The laptop was recent, but he limited the memory use and throttled down the CPU to 1GHz. So it still had fancy instructions and a much bigger cache, bus, etc.
Just aim at cornfield near you :)