This is like when a car company discovers a flaw in their vehicle which affects 1/10,000 by causing a large, fiery explosion, but their bean counters tell them it is cheaper to pay off the families than recall all of the vehicles for a service. Just because it saves money doesn't mean it is the right thing to do, and often any form of monetary compensation isn't sufficient for the loss caused.
How about no tax *except* sales tax? That way you get taxed based on how extravagant a lifestyle you lead. Oh, and Wall St. transactions can have the same tax rate as everything else...
And we do see many more today than we did 10 years ago. If a similar growth rate continues, it will be pretty normal. Where I live tons of people use solar water heaters, even if they aren't using PV.
In colder conditions Lithium batteries *don't* discharge themselves. The reaction actually gets weaker and they stay at their charge level longer. On the other hand, if you leave the heater on in your car overnight, well, I could see that causing the battery to discharge itself...
If the materials were a little cheaper, we might want to consider doing our construction up there. Particularly now that we're getting all the CNC/3D printing tech up and running.
If we could stick into the Earth-Moon L4/L5 points it could sit there for a few million years without any sci-fi hardware. The difficulty is getting it there in the first place.
I think the reason there isn't any demand for orbital construction is because there isn't enough materials. If we could get that sorted, the construction opportunities will follow.
Why rewrite to something that is modular and well designed? Because it is impossible to add any new features to the old system without inadvertently breaking everything else.
Oh, don't mind me, I don't even live in the US. It's just that your attacks on Obama about the debt ceiling are something which is quite Fox-educated Republicanesque and I'd hate for people to be misinformed. What's happening now in that respect is nothing compared to what has happened in the past, and people didn't seem to have a huge problem with it then, which makes me think the reason it is getting all blown up is because somebody (cough Republicans cough) turned on the fan.
Personally, I don't think your presidents even have very much power over what their policies are. Perhaps upon inauguration they are shown secret footage of the JFK assassination to get them to toe the line or something, I'm not sure. It seems that each president is given just a little bit of leeway to make changes that will mollify their support base while enraging the opposition, and get stopped hard when they try to do anything bigger. Look at Obama's abject failure when he tried to close down Guantanamo.
I'd say that Clinton was actually more of a fiscal conservative than anybody else has/had been for quite a while. Hell, he actually balanced his budgets, despite not having the support of Congress. The trouble was that he got rid of the Glass-Steagall Act, which has blown up rather nastily 10 years later with the US banking crisis triggering a global financial crisis.
But the main policies of taking from the middle classes and giving to the corporations and their rich proprietors just seems to keep on rolling through, I agree.
You might want to research your info a bit before you start spewing Fox talking points.
If you'd bothered to check when a Republican last balanced a budget, you would find that it was in 1957 under Eisenhower. Obama, in his last term, increased the debt/GDP by ~10%. If you look at Reagan and Bush Jr, both of them had terms that increased the debt/GDP by over 25%.
Don't believe me? Google "which republican president balanced a budget?". You might learn something.
Microsoft is arguing that as a 'means plus function' patent, it isn't specific enough because it doesn't specifically give an algorithm. Surely if this goes through it will invalidate the vast majority of software patents?
All that slowing down peoples' lines will do is give them more time to find stuff to download before the old stuff is finished. In the end the same amount of data is going to go through the pipes, unless their line was completely saturated 100% of the time.
TI has a working implementation of FRAM, they use it in their ultra-low-power MCUs.
FRAM Technology Overview Welcome to the future of embedded memory
As the world demands faster and higher performance in every application, new memory technology is needed to enable smarter solutions. FRAM from Texas Instruments provides unified memory with dynamic partitioning and memory access speeds 100 times faster than flash. FRAM is also capable of zero power state retention in all power modes, which means that writes are guaranteed, even in the event of a power loss. And with a write endurance of over 100 trillion cycles, EEPROM is no longer required. All of this is possible at less than 100A/MHz active power consumption – a first for the semiconductor industry.
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This is like when a car company discovers a flaw in their vehicle which affects 1/10,000 by causing a large, fiery explosion, but their bean counters tell them it is cheaper to pay off the families than recall all of the vehicles for a service. Just because it saves money doesn't mean it is the right thing to do, and often any form of monetary compensation isn't sufficient for the loss caused.
Try Kubuntu. You might like it.
How about no tax *except* sales tax? That way you get taxed based on how extravagant a lifestyle you lead. Oh, and Wall St. transactions can have the same tax rate as everything else...
It's because they have a 5/6/7% discount when competing against everybody else because everybody else still pays sales tax.
When that becomes a problem, it will be worth building more of them. Right now there are more than enough.
Long distance through space *and time*.
And we do see many more today than we did 10 years ago. If a similar growth rate continues, it will be pretty normal. Where I live tons of people use solar water heaters, even if they aren't using PV.
In colder conditions Lithium batteries *don't* discharge themselves. The reaction actually gets weaker and they stay at their charge level longer. On the other hand, if you leave the heater on in your car overnight, well, I could see that causing the battery to discharge itself...
I really, sincerely hope that you never attempt to reverse engineer anything.
At 125mph power steering doesn't even help that much... it's at low speed that power steering is a lifesaver.
It's a bit different when it's their job.
If the materials were a little cheaper, we might want to consider doing our construction up there. Particularly now that we're getting all the CNC/3D printing tech up and running.
If we could stick into the Earth-Moon L4/L5 points it could sit there for a few million years without any sci-fi hardware. The difficulty is getting it there in the first place.
I think the reason there isn't any demand for orbital construction is because there isn't enough materials. If we could get that sorted, the construction opportunities will follow.
Why rewrite to something that is modular and well designed? Because it is impossible to add any new features to the old system without inadvertently breaking everything else.
Oh, don't mind me, I don't even live in the US. It's just that your attacks on Obama about the debt ceiling are something which is quite Fox-educated Republicanesque and I'd hate for people to be misinformed. What's happening now in that respect is nothing compared to what has happened in the past, and people didn't seem to have a huge problem with it then, which makes me think the reason it is getting all blown up is because somebody (cough Republicans cough) turned on the fan.
Personally, I don't think your presidents even have very much power over what their policies are. Perhaps upon inauguration they are shown secret footage of the JFK assassination to get them to toe the line or something, I'm not sure. It seems that each president is given just a little bit of leeway to make changes that will mollify their support base while enraging the opposition, and get stopped hard when they try to do anything bigger. Look at Obama's abject failure when he tried to close down Guantanamo.
I'd say that Clinton was actually more of a fiscal conservative than anybody else has/had been for quite a while. Hell, he actually balanced his budgets, despite not having the support of Congress. The trouble was that he got rid of the Glass-Steagall Act, which has blown up rather nastily 10 years later with the US banking crisis triggering a global financial crisis.
But the main policies of taking from the middle classes and giving to the corporations and their rich proprietors just seems to keep on rolling through, I agree.
You might want to research your info a bit before you start spewing Fox talking points.
If you'd bothered to check when a Republican last balanced a budget, you would find that it was in 1957 under Eisenhower. Obama, in his last term, increased the debt/GDP by ~10%. If you look at Reagan and Bush Jr, both of them had terms that increased the debt/GDP by over 25%.
Don't believe me? Google "which republican president balanced a budget?". You might learn something.
I'm sorry my humour is a bit dry for some people. And no sir, whoosh to you!
That Earth would repair itself?
Microsoft is arguing that as a 'means plus function' patent, it isn't specific enough because it doesn't specifically give an algorithm. Surely if this goes through it will invalidate the vast majority of software patents?
Might I suggest he gives a shot at Robocode? If anything can give him motivation to program, making robots shoot each other will.
It has been proved that such perfect number would be odd
Well, that rules half of them out.
All that slowing down peoples' lines will do is give them more time to find stuff to download before the old stuff is finished. In the end the same amount of data is going to go through the pipes, unless their line was completely saturated 100% of the time.
The entire point being that it isn't being accessed with a 'browser' that has a Java plugin.
TI has a working implementation of FRAM, they use it in their ultra-low-power MCUs.
FRAM Technology Overview
Welcome to the future of embedded memory
As the world demands faster and higher performance in every application, new memory technology is needed to enable smarter solutions. FRAM from Texas Instruments provides unified memory with dynamic partitioning and memory access speeds 100 times faster than flash. FRAM is also capable of zero power state retention in all power modes, which means that writes are guaranteed, even in the event of a power loss. And with a write endurance of over 100 trillion cycles, EEPROM is no longer required. All of this is possible at less than 100A/MHz active power consumption – a first for the semiconductor industry.
http://www.ti.com/mcu/docs/mcuproductcontentnp.tsp?familyId=1751§ionId=95&tabId=2840&family=mcu
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