Of course it scales. America has more airports. America has more people. America has more money. All proportional. It's fine that Israel is as big as New Jersey, so you can protect Newark. There are more people in Atlanta than in Tel Aviv, so you should have no problem recruiting enough people for duty at Atlanta international.
The population of Israel is 7 million, that of the US is 300 million. If Israel has 30 airports and one major international airport, and can do this, then the US should be able to handle roughly 1200 airports and 40 major international airports.There are 700 certificated airports in the US.
How hard would it be to add sales tax based on zip code? I know that this may seem nightmarishly difficult with 50 states to cater for, each having different laws, and some authority (gasp, danger!) maintaining this database with 50 rows, but this feat of rocket science has, as usual, already been accomplished in Europe. I know, it is only 30 countries or so, but it might be able to scale up to 50 states if enough brainpower is put into this problem. Like the rocket, Europe managed to bombed London from Germany, but the US managed to reach the moon! I'm sure you can make this work!
Actually, Hamming is a bit overrated. He was a tireless self-promotor who himself named these things after himself. Really a no-no. Hamming codes and Hamming distance are fairly simple constructs and by no means the first, the last, or the most significant in the field. The real giant in the field is of course Claude Shannon, who, in my opinion, has been more important for the field of computing as a whole than even Alan Turing himself (Shannon's master thesis for instance proved how to do arbitrary boolean circuitry in hardware. 1932). Hamming is just a footnote. He found a good algorithm, and ran with it for fame and glory.
Oh bother. So you're complaining that instead of a sales tax of 7%, due to round up, it's actually 7.001% on average? Big freaking deal. I'm sure you can use this argument when they're contemplating to bring it to 9% (oh noes, 9.0015%!!!)
Not in my recollection. I was an avid Altavista user when somebody pointed me to Google. I think early 2000. I was instantly sold because Google found what I wanted. Altavista didn't come close. Nothing else did. Google's search quality was disruptive.
If by absorbing you mean killing one third, enslaving another third, leaving the last third of the population shiver in fear, then yes, the Romans did absorb the culture of people they were conquering (Gaul).
I'm not sure what kind of fairy tails you've been reading, but the Romans were the most ruthless culture of their age.
By looking at the remains of Sun, yes, we can say Oracle has learned from the Roman approach.
I'm not sure if you can actually enforce country restrictions through copyright law. Usually, it's something like the DMCA, or bans on reverse engineering that disallow you to circumvent country restrictions, but once you have bought something with a copyright on it, you can play it regardless of which country you're in. Tampering with hardware you bought might be illegal in the US, but that might be a side-effect of the weird form of corporatism that has taken hold of that country. In the rest of the world, you own what you bought. It's called capitalism.
Companies that power their business (website + internal apps) using application servers, will easily pay up for an optimized JVM. They already pay for the hardware, the operating system, the database, the application server, so why not for the JVM?
As JVMs are now monetizable, another fight will break out between Red and Blue (Oracle and IBM), this time over the speed of their JVM. IBM will start to pour more money in their JVM research, especially when Oracle is going to make running with WebSphere less comfortable.
Of course, Java for consumer or startup level dies in the process, and the inevitable future of Java as the new Cobol will become a fact. Oracle and IBM will milk this cow forever, while the rest of the world moves on.
If you let a commercial entity own the wires, they're going to be a natural monopoly and therefore need regulation. As you say: cost + x% profit. Cost will include the 7 figure salary + bonus for the CEO. If you try to reduce cost, the 7 figure salary of the CEO will stay intact, but corners are cut on maintenance. After a few years, the government (= you) will have to spend millions of dollars to fix and upgrade the wires, as all the money for that has been spent on something else.
This story has played out so many times already the past 30 years, that it's sad that people still believe in it. There's only one thing worse than a government monopoly, and that's a commercial one!
The problem here is not that the government can get access to otherwise private information under due process and suspicion of felonies. Hey, they can even get you to give up the key to the safety deposit box at your bank!
The problem is government using large scale data mining techniques to scan billions of documents without due process or any suspicion whatsoever, making the number of false positives go up and ruining lives as a matter of fact. The latter is what encryption would stop.
Uhm, it seems that the author described them as weighing their decisions carefully, not as being a random pack of mindless automata that use twitter, wikipedia and who travel in flash mobs. Give these bacteria some credit.
When the US courted Saddam in 1983, they hadn't declared war yet to Iraq. That the US made a 180 turn and attacked him 10 years later is then irrelevant to your point: as at the time Saddam used nerve gas, Iraq was an ally and not an enemy. Same goes for instance to Chili/Nicaragua, etc., where political prisoners were detained and executed with the express approval of the US.
And obviously in the fiftees and early sixties, when the tax rate was 91% for everything earned above $400K, the country went bust because all rich people left and the economy contracted.
As a European scientist (luckily working in the commercial sector), I have for many years been surprised at the level of funding Spanish science has. Where in the Netherlands we had to fight for every nickel the past decade and longer, it seemed that well-funded Spanish research initiatives were popping up all over the place. I could understand that Spain had some catching up to do, but the funding was, let's say, a bit over the top.
Of course, the same holds for the rest of your list. Spain has been riding the real-estate bubble like no other country, and definitely needs to take a good look at its economy to see where the money is supposed to come from other than selling houses to eachother.
Cutting healthcare results in less healthy population, [...] results in a less productive workforce
Are you sure? Does any cut in healthcare result in a less productive workforce. What if you take pensioners, and deny them the most expensive treatments? Would that result in a less productive workforce? Would that lead to a less healthy population?
Yes, this is moral quicksand, and I'm not suggesting to do exactly this, but the assertion that any amount thrown into healthcare is important for the economy is completely bogus. First letting people retire when they are still very productive and then keeping them alive forever does not make good economic sense. Education is a better drain to throw money in.
Honestly, I'd rather give my kids a good education than the joy of seeing me live past ninety.
19th century Britain? Are you sure? The century of Dickens, of Oliver Twist? The century where massive amounts of people were transported to Australia because the prisons were overflowing. That century?
how do you ensure that (a) the pizza gets to the door, (b) that the correct pizza is delivered, and (c) that payment is recieved?
Wow, challenging engineering problems, all three of them. Let's try some possible solutions for this that does not involve a humanoid robot that passes the Turing test: (a) call that the pizza delivery car is outside waiting with pizza, (b) just put the right pizza in (and chargeback if it doesn't), and (c) credit cards. This is just one of the possibilities, I am sure there are others.
You're switching cause and effect. The US is spread out because of subsidies to a car-based economy, not the other way around. General Motors has killed public transport every chance they got, and now your country has lost the ability to use more efficient methods of transport.
Ah come on. If it's not torrents, it's either porn or spam. That's about 99% of all http traffic right there. That some people use it for completely unrelated stuff is irrelevant at this scale. I'd say ban it.
You may convey a Combined Work under terms of your choice that, taken together, effectively do not restrict modification of the portions of the Library contained in the Combined Work and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications, if you also do each of the following:
Emphasis mine. Effectively, you can create a combined work as long as you allow reverse engineering for debugging purposes. This is sufficient to make LGPL dead in the water for many US based companies.
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The population of Israel is 7 million, that of the US is 300 million. If Israel has 30 airports and one major international airport, and can do this, then the US should be able to handle roughly 1200 airports and 40 major international airports.There are 700 certificated airports in the US.
How hard would it be to add sales tax based on zip code? I know that this may seem nightmarishly difficult with 50 states to cater for, each having different laws, and some authority (gasp, danger!) maintaining this database with 50 rows, but this feat of rocket science has, as usual, already been accomplished in Europe. I know, it is only 30 countries or so, but it might be able to scale up to 50 states if enough brainpower is put into this problem. Like the rocket, Europe managed to bombed London from Germany, but the US managed to reach the moon! I'm sure you can make this work!
Actually, Hamming is a bit overrated. He was a tireless self-promotor who himself named these things after himself. Really a no-no. Hamming codes and Hamming distance are fairly simple constructs and by no means the first, the last, or the most significant in the field. The real giant in the field is of course Claude Shannon, who, in my opinion, has been more important for the field of computing as a whole than even Alan Turing himself (Shannon's master thesis for instance proved how to do arbitrary boolean circuitry in hardware. 1932). Hamming is just a footnote. He found a good algorithm, and ran with it for fame and glory.
Oh bother. So you're complaining that instead of a sales tax of 7%, due to round up, it's actually 7.001% on average? Big freaking deal. I'm sure you can use this argument when they're contemplating to bring it to 9% (oh noes, 9.0015%!!!)
Not in my recollection. I was an avid Altavista user when somebody pointed me to Google. I think early 2000. I was instantly sold because Google found what I wanted. Altavista didn't come close. Nothing else did. Google's search quality was disruptive.
I'm not sure what kind of fairy tails you've been reading, but the Romans were the most ruthless culture of their age. By looking at the remains of Sun, yes, we can say Oracle has learned from the Roman approach.
Maybe a bit pedantic, but the US is a Representative Democracy.
I'm not sure if you can actually enforce country restrictions through copyright law. Usually, it's something like the DMCA, or bans on reverse engineering that disallow you to circumvent country restrictions, but once you have bought something with a copyright on it, you can play it regardless of which country you're in. Tampering with hardware you bought might be illegal in the US, but that might be a side-effect of the weird form of corporatism that has taken hold of that country. In the rest of the world, you own what you bought. It's called capitalism.
Of course, Java for consumer or startup level dies in the process, and the inevitable future of Java as the new Cobol will become a fact. Oracle and IBM will milk this cow forever, while the rest of the world moves on.
If you let a commercial entity own the wires, they're going to be a natural monopoly and therefore need regulation. As you say: cost + x% profit. Cost will include the 7 figure salary + bonus for the CEO. If you try to reduce cost, the 7 figure salary of the CEO will stay intact, but corners are cut on maintenance. After a few years, the government (= you) will have to spend millions of dollars to fix and upgrade the wires, as all the money for that has been spent on something else.
This story has played out so many times already the past 30 years, that it's sad that people still believe in it. There's only one thing worse than a government monopoly, and that's a commercial one!
Six examples of local governments not inviting the US to be present in their country at the time.
The problem here is not that the government can get access to otherwise private information under due process and suspicion of felonies. Hey, they can even get you to give up the key to the safety deposit box at your bank! The problem is government using large scale data mining techniques to scan billions of documents without due process or any suspicion whatsoever, making the number of false positives go up and ruining lives as a matter of fact. The latter is what encryption would stop.
Uhm, it seems that the author described them as weighing their decisions carefully, not as being a random pack of mindless automata that use twitter, wikipedia and who travel in flash mobs. Give these bacteria some credit.
o It will repeat itself, over and over again
o It will confuse than and then
When the US courted Saddam in 1983, they hadn't declared war yet to Iraq. That the US made a 180 turn and attacked him 10 years later is then irrelevant to your point: as at the time Saddam used nerve gas, Iraq was an ally and not an enemy. Same goes for instance to Chili/Nicaragua, etc., where political prisoners were detained and executed with the express approval of the US.
And obviously in the fiftees and early sixties, when the tax rate was 91% for everything earned above $400K, the country went bust because all rich people left and the economy contracted.
Of course, the same holds for the rest of your list. Spain has been riding the real-estate bubble like no other country, and definitely needs to take a good look at its economy to see where the money is supposed to come from other than selling houses to eachother.
Are you sure? Does any cut in healthcare result in a less productive workforce. What if you take pensioners, and deny them the most expensive treatments? Would that result in a less productive workforce? Would that lead to a less healthy population?
Yes, this is moral quicksand, and I'm not suggesting to do exactly this, but the assertion that any amount thrown into healthcare is important for the economy is completely bogus. First letting people retire when they are still very productive and then keeping them alive forever does not make good economic sense. Education is a better drain to throw money in.
Honestly, I'd rather give my kids a good education than the joy of seeing me live past ninety.
19th century Britain? Are you sure? The century of Dickens, of Oliver Twist? The century where massive amounts of people were transported to Australia because the prisons were overflowing. That century?
Wow, challenging engineering problems, all three of them. Let's try some possible solutions for this that does not involve a humanoid robot that passes the Turing test: (a) call that the pizza delivery car is outside waiting with pizza, (b) just put the right pizza in (and chargeback if it doesn't), and (c) credit cards. This is just one of the possibilities, I am sure there are others.
You're switching cause and effect. The US is spread out because of subsidies to a car-based economy, not the other way around. General Motors has killed public transport every chance they got, and now your country has lost the ability to use more efficient methods of transport.
Of course. Just like buying stuff costs money, while not selling doesn't.
Ah come on. If it's not torrents, it's either porn or spam. That's about 99% of all http traffic right there. That some people use it for completely unrelated stuff is irrelevant at this scale. I'd say ban it.
Emphasis mine. Effectively, you can create a combined work as long as you allow reverse engineering for debugging purposes. This is sufficient to make LGPL dead in the water for many US based companies.
Let me google that for you . Okay, that's not fair, there's one missing piece. Let me google that for you too.