Engineering applications needs high performance computing on a regular basis: geophysics (offshore oil, 4D seismic,...), materials science (MD,...), and others. There's also academical problems.
I've seen a lot of new HPC centers being built or getting new equipment in the last few years (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). From small CUDA clusters to heavy duty Cray systems (not in Rio, but nearby).
Do you think that jet turbines, or manufacturing, as a whole is something "mature, minimally skilled"? It takes a lot of skill to use special welds, operate machinery designed for competitive grain growth for turbine blades, and so on. I don't know why people look at factories with prejudice.
Is there any difference between a corporate takeover of the government and a government takeover of enterprises? The end result is the same.
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Thank you for making this clear.
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I'm not American therefore I might be misunderstanding something but as far as I know those censorship mechanisms in America were always created by industry associations (like MPAA and the Movie Picture Production Code). This way, I can't see how people are ignoring the US Constitution.
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Just the fact people doesn't know other publishers outside the voluntary control means the control has some efficacy, probably by making commercially nonviable to be outside of it. This is, in practice, censorship, isn't it?
it will also be possible for the US and China to both be first world nations
I don't know if this is really the correct answer. I'm Brazilian and this used to be a question discussed by our economists in the 70s (it's uncommon today, since economical discussion is more based on orthodox knowledge).
Take Celso Furtado O Mito do Desenvolvimento Econômico (The Myth of Economical Development, in English - I don't think there's a translation available):
1) The myth of economic development versus the need natural resources for economic processes: it's a myth to think that economic development, and its benefits, will some day reach everyone in the world if the model of economic development does not change. For instance, there are not sufficient natural resources available for every person in the world if one considers the economic model on which economy was based in the 1970s and is also based currently, i.e. the model where consumerism and individualism are the base for corporate actions. For instance, if every person had money to buy a car, our cities would be completely frozen. The critics on the myths of economic development were based on a report for the Club of Rome, which is summarized in Abstract of The limits to Growth: a report to The Club of Rome;
2) About poverty: in countries that do not have "central" economies (countries that are not the base for giant corporations), at most 10% of population could reach the level of wealth achieved by people in the richest countries. Peripheral economies, which would not create an independent and more complete economy, would continue to be poor countries, with increasing differences between poor and rich people inside this societies;
3) About the World economic superstructure: The world superstructure of capitalist economy (mainly IMF and GATT, which originated WTO (World Trade Organization) would, on the one hand, increase control over the world economy, also increasing freedom for capital's flows and for big corporations' actions, and, on the other hand, would decrease the number of possible options available for governments, mainly for poor country's governments. This is the kind of development that has been taking place for the last 30 years.
My home country used to grow at China-like rates in the 70s and used the same technology acquisition technique (locally known as "import substitution"). The local regional aircraft company (Embraer) was founded on technology transfer agreements with American and Italian companies. It's now a competitor in the regional aircraft market and may generate unemployment in places like Canada, which is the another competitor.
If a emerging power grows faster than it's internal market (like in all export-driven growth) then it's not a zero-sum game - it can potentially be a negative-sum game. Someone's going to lose jobs and market share so the companies from the emerging market can grow. People doesn't care when it happens in less prestigious economy sectors, like textiles. But it's going to happen not only on this kind of industry but also in high tech too - like software in India, and so on. The freed resources like people and capital can maybe create another kind of industry and do innovation but I don't think something that is bound to happen.
The Liberal Democratic Party ruled Japan for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election, except for an 11-month period from 1993 to 1994.
This doesn't sounds like regular party changes to me.
The 5fth Fleet is stationed on Bahrain. Why do you believe that Iran controls all of the Strait of Hormuz?
I'm pretty sure the United States would have a lot of trouble fighting another stone age country, because that is what Iran would become if it engages Israel, the US or one if it's allies.
I did not write the original comment. It was also cited by other people here in Slashdot, a few other times. Google it if you don't believe. I particularly don't care, since I most read than write here - but the bug does exists or, at least, used to.
It may have other requisites for reproducing which I may not know. I used to run Chrome in a Windows 7, 64 bits, environment.
Joe, thank you for sharing your story in this discussion. It must have been very rough to be there. (I'm feeling like a selfish asshole after hearing a few personal stories in the last few days).
I know it's not much and I'm probably in other continent but if you ever need some help, you can contact me at my username at acm dot org.
Thermal imaging cameras are not normally believable, but normally a thermistor-equipped probe style temperature sensor can be used to trace "cold spots".
The ghost of a FLIR hitman will be on your doorstep tonight.
I wasn't talking about automatic target recognition.
The exactly wording in the original post is "telling friend from foe" and that's exactly what IFF is supposed to do without any kind of human intervention. If I was being too strict with my interpretation I'm sorry, it's hard for me to understand nuances when speaking English.
I, too, don't believe we reached the point where an UAV can do everything a manned aircraft cans but I think we're approaching this point but in an asymptotically way. Manned flight is expensive and dangerous. But there's a few roles that will be for a long time exclusive for human pilots, although this roles will, I believe, be fewer in the far future.
I have no strong opinions on this point. I'm just a skeptic and a pessimist: since it did not work before, I'm not really believing it's going to work now, if something doesn't fundamentally changed the landscape.
I always feels like people are trying to build a fancy IBM3270 and are thinking that they invented something new.
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But enough to put a dent on legal enterprises :)
I don't know if this is true.
Weather modeling is still done on supercomputers.
Engineering applications needs high performance computing on a regular basis: geophysics (offshore oil, 4D seismic, ...), materials science (MD, ...), and others. There's also academical problems.
I've seen a lot of new HPC centers being built or getting new equipment in the last few years (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). From small CUDA clusters to heavy duty Cray systems (not in Rio, but nearby).
Do you think that jet turbines, or manufacturing, as a whole is something "mature, minimally skilled"? It takes a lot of skill to use special welds, operate machinery designed for competitive grain growth for turbine blades, and so on. I don't know why people look at factories with prejudice.
Is there any difference between a corporate takeover of the government and a government takeover of enterprises? The end result is the same.
Thank you for making this clear.
I'm not American therefore I might be misunderstanding something but as far as I know those censorship mechanisms in America were always created by industry associations (like MPAA and the Movie Picture Production Code). This way, I can't see how people are ignoring the US Constitution.
Just the fact people doesn't know other publishers outside the voluntary control means the control has some efficacy, probably by making commercially nonviable to be outside of it. This is, in practice, censorship, isn't it?
Which telco?
Or it could be just the Flying Spaghetti Monster doing it for the lulz?
it will also be possible for the US and China to both be first world nations
I don't know if this is really the correct answer. I'm Brazilian and this used to be a question discussed by our economists in the 70s (it's uncommon today, since economical discussion is more based on orthodox knowledge).
Take Celso Furtado O Mito do Desenvolvimento Econômico (The Myth of Economical Development, in English - I don't think there's a translation available):
1) The myth of economic development versus the need natural resources for economic processes: it's a myth to think that economic development, and its benefits, will some day reach everyone in the world if the model of economic development does not change. For instance, there are not sufficient natural resources available for every person in the world if one considers the economic model on which economy was based in the 1970s and is also based currently, i.e. the model where consumerism and individualism are the base for corporate actions. For instance, if every person had money to buy a car, our cities would be completely frozen. The critics on the myths of economic development were based on a report for the Club of Rome, which is summarized in Abstract of The limits to Growth: a report to The Club of Rome;
2) About poverty: in countries that do not have "central" economies (countries that are not the base for giant corporations), at most 10% of population could reach the level of wealth achieved by people in the richest countries. Peripheral economies, which would not create an independent and more complete economy, would continue to be poor countries, with increasing differences between poor and rich people inside this societies;
3) About the World economic superstructure: The world superstructure of capitalist economy (mainly IMF and GATT, which originated WTO (World Trade Organization) would, on the one hand, increase control over the world economy, also increasing freedom for capital's flows and for big corporations' actions, and, on the other hand, would decrease the number of possible options available for governments, mainly for poor country's governments. This is the kind of development that has been taking place for the last 30 years.
(From Wikipedia).
My home country used to grow at China-like rates in the 70s and used the same technology acquisition technique (locally known as "import substitution"). The local regional aircraft company (Embraer) was founded on technology transfer agreements with American and Italian companies. It's now a competitor in the regional aircraft market and may generate unemployment in places like Canada, which is the another competitor.
If a emerging power grows faster than it's internal market (like in all export-driven growth) then it's not a zero-sum game - it can potentially be a negative-sum game. Someone's going to lose jobs and market share so the companies from the emerging market can grow. People doesn't care when it happens in less prestigious economy sectors, like textiles. But it's going to happen not only on this kind of industry but also in high tech too - like software in India, and so on. The freed resources like people and capital can maybe create another kind of industry and do innovation but I don't think something that is bound to happen.
The Liberal Democratic Party ruled Japan for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election, except for an 11-month period from 1993 to 1994.
This doesn't sounds like regular party changes to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_(System_on_Chip)
Of course, I'm no geneticist, and I'm just talking out my ass here, but given enough time and effort, I think it is possible.
In short, you know nothing about a subject besides what you learned in a sci fi movie but you "think it is possible."
Have you ever tried a career in management? :)
The 5fth Fleet is stationed on Bahrain. Why do you believe that Iran controls all of the Strait of Hormuz?
I'm pretty sure the United States would have a lot of trouble fighting another stone age country, because that is what Iran would become if it engages Israel, the US or one if it's allies.
I did not write the original comment. It was also cited by other people here in Slashdot, a few other times. Google it if you don't believe. I particularly don't care, since I most read than write here - but the bug does exists or, at least, used to.
It may have other requisites for reproducing which I may not know. I used to run Chrome in a Windows 7, 64 bits, environment.
It wasn't working for a long, long time. I don't have Chrome right here to test if it was corrected.
Joe, thank you for sharing your story in this discussion. It must have been very rough to be there. (I'm feeling like a selfish asshole after hearing a few personal stories in the last few days).
I know it's not much and I'm probably in other continent but if you ever need some help, you can contact me at my username at acm dot org.
A French man just called and told me that polywater also has memory!
I'm starting to sell polywater based homeopathy next week.
Thermal imaging cameras are not normally believable, but normally a thermistor-equipped probe style temperature sensor can be used to trace "cold spots".
The ghost of a FLIR hitman will be on your doorstep tonight.
but there's also a lot of soft evidence for them
Where?
Point taken.
I wasn't talking about automatic target recognition.
The exactly wording in the original post is "telling friend from foe" and that's exactly what IFF is supposed to do without any kind of human intervention. If I was being too strict with my interpretation I'm sorry, it's hard for me to understand nuances when speaking English.
I, too, don't believe we reached the point where an UAV can do everything a manned aircraft cans but I think we're approaching this point but in an asymptotically way. Manned flight is expensive and dangerous. But there's a few roles that will be for a long time exclusive for human pilots, although this roles will, I believe, be fewer in the far future.
Why a UAV IFF system would be different in functioning than one from a manned aircraft? If a stealth aircraft can do it, so can a UAV do it too.
I have no strong opinions on this point. I'm just a skeptic and a pessimist: since it did not work before, I'm not really believing it's going to work now, if something doesn't fundamentally changed the landscape.
I always feels like people are trying to build a fancy IBM3270 and are thinking that they invented something new.
If this aircraft has a similar set of requirements it may just be a case of convergent evolution.