We really don't need another web browser, or another word processor, email client. The various niches have mostly been filled. What we're seeing with "clouds" are just an attempt to optimise costs. A cloud is just a mainframe people, built on TCP/IP instead of 3270 protocols.
So until architectures make a radical change we can expect IT & development jobs to become obsolete.
If quantum, Bio computing or more likely at the moment 3D printing come along with a major change it may restart growth, but till then all we'll get are bubbles like Apple or Facebook.
It's unlikely spying is a real rational concern for Iran,
WTF? Don't be ridiculous.
It's about the capability it provides. Can they for example deliver a nuclear warhead to Europe? They claim about 2000km, just short of Europe but that is probably a deliberate underestimate. You do not want people knowing your capabilities, you want them overconfident, underestimating you.
So if they do attack you, you can drop a conventional missile on top of Rome, and mention that the next one will be nuclear. You do not want them believing you have the capability to hit their cities knowing you have a nuclear programme in the works. That invites preemptive attack. If they know you don't have nuclear weapons that threat is ineffective and you get invaded.
It's absolutely crucial that your opponents not know your capabilities one way or another.
You can convert your gas car to CNG, though this may be expensive depending on the regulations and install a home filling compressor which can fill the car over night from the domestic NG supply.
The if you want to be green you persuade your local sewage treatment plant to produce biogas for domestic consumers and you use that.
OECD data for Germany with it's "superb high speed, world class rail network" shows that less than 10% of passenger miles are by train, for example. The story of superb European mass transit networks saving the planet from big oil/ greenhouse gases/traffic congestion is nothing more than a childish myth. The networks couldn't cope with a substantial move from the car to mass transit. Germans like their cars, as do the French, Italians, British... Like Americans, you will get their cars off of them over Iranians cold dead bodies.
Whether money is used or not is mostly irrelevant, it's also irrelevant whether businesses are illegal or not. The giving of food aid will cause resources to be reallocated. That's the purpose of any economic system, centrally planned or market based. Lots of food aid will cause resources to be directed away from local agriculture, because look, lots of free food aid. It will increase the countries susceptibility to climate problems and hasten the collapse of the government.
So we send more food to North Korea, the military and elites get bigger rations.
While the exact food supplied as aid may not be going to the military/elites the food aid would allow them to divert other supplies elsewhere.
Food aid is a great idea though, it is one of the most economically damaging things you can do to a country. Start dumping cheap/free food on their markets, put all the local farmers out of business. Farmers and families become disgruntled, have no income or work. The land degrades and the country becomes completely dependant on external aid. The next step is to provide weapons to the groups of ex farmers.
I mean by that, you put some shit in a barrel, keep it warm and the gas bubbles out as micro organisms digest the organic material in the fluid. You take the water, CO2 and hydrogen sulphide out of the gas and you can burn it in an engine.
It's so that when the other side say but what did you do about Natural Gas, they can say, we invented the Internet, we invented Natural Gas. etc. Plus they get to show how wonderful they are to be investing in R&D... Even if that R&D means going out and buying a Honda & blowing the rest of the tax money on beer, coke and hookers.
They automatically switch from CNG to gas when the CNG runs out. You can also already get home filling compressors which will fill the vehicle at home from the domestic supply.
Thing is, you should probably look up "petrodollar" and "dollar hegemony" to understand how America's world dominance is tied to oil.
Since it has been possible. They are no SLRs but for something which you always carry about with you they can produce very good results. Their N series are generally superb camera phones. Very good lenses, very good sensors and very good software. The N8 which has to be a year old now has for example a 12mp sensor, carl zeiss lenses. MS define the hardware for WP and Nokia moving faster than Microsoft, it explains why Symbian is still around.
Slashdot Mirror
That's OK. iPad is still in the rapid growth phase.
Really? You think so?
https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:AAPL
A big yawn there.
Pretty scary if one of these things was chasing you down.
Nothing a baseball bat wouldn't fix.
Don't worry you'll see fairly soon.
We really don't need another web browser, or another word processor, email client. The various niches have mostly been filled. What we're seeing with "clouds" are just an attempt to optimise costs. A cloud is just a mainframe people, built on TCP/IP instead of 3270 protocols.
So until architectures make a radical change we can expect IT & development jobs to become obsolete.
If quantum, Bio computing or more likely at the moment 3D printing come along with a major change it may restart growth, but till then all we'll get are bubbles like Apple or Facebook.
It's unlikely spying is a real rational concern for Iran,
WTF? Don't be ridiculous.
It's about the capability it provides. Can they for example deliver a nuclear warhead to Europe? They claim about 2000km, just short of Europe but that is probably a deliberate underestimate. You do not want people knowing your capabilities, you want them overconfident, underestimating you.
So if they do attack you, you can drop a conventional missile on top of Rome, and mention that the next one will be nuclear. You do not want them believing you have the capability to hit their cities knowing you have a nuclear programme in the works. That invites preemptive attack. If they know you don't have nuclear weapons that threat is ineffective and you get invaded.
It's absolutely crucial that your opponents not know your capabilities one way or another.
http://www.hanvon.com/en/products/ebook/products-C920.html
And.... sales of B&W e-ink readers plummet... Not suitable for first person shootemups.
I still prefer real paper and the prices for ebooks are still far too high but is handy to have a library at my fingertips to choose from.
You can't sell your read books on ebay or pass them on to friends. Big disadvantage.
They mean specifically that people cannot identify experts in the area of economics
You mean like Paul Krugman?
Lets put it this way. The Dunning-Kruger effect is what defines the fundamental difference between Keynesian economists and Austrian economists.
How is anyone else supposed to understand?
My personal suggestion is to raise the voting age to the retirement age.
Chill. Entropy wins every time.
The Titanic sank because of hubris.
Not an uncommon problem.
Seems like it would make a good fireball thrower.
Or paint aerosol to mark individual protestors.
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/iq-and-motivation/
So what the guy is really saying is that Chrome users are obsessive compulsives and I.E. users are normal.
You can convert your gas car to CNG, though this may be expensive depending on the regulations and install a home filling compressor which can fill the car over night from the domestic NG supply.
The if you want to be green you persuade your local sewage treatment plant to produce biogas for domestic consumers and you use that.
I would like to thank you for financing my lifestyle and very comfortable retirement.
OECD data for Germany with it's "superb high speed, world class rail network" shows that less than 10% of passenger miles are by train, for example. ... Like Americans, you will get their cars off of them over Iranians cold dead bodies.
The story of superb European mass transit networks saving the planet from big oil/ greenhouse gases/traffic congestion is nothing more than a childish myth. The networks couldn't cope with a substantial move from the car to mass transit.
Germans like their cars, as do the French, Italians, British
Don't believe me? Go look it up yourself:
http://www.oecd.org/document/0,3746,en_2649_201185_46462759_1_1_1_1,00.html
Lots of handy stats there.
Aid to the people is a good thing
I completely agree, didn't I just say that?
Whether money is used or not is mostly irrelevant, it's also irrelevant whether businesses are illegal or not. The giving of food aid will cause resources to be reallocated. That's the purpose of any economic system, centrally planned or market based. Lots of food aid will cause resources to be directed away from local agriculture, because look, lots of free food aid. It will increase the countries susceptibility to climate problems and hasten the collapse of the government.
So we send more food to North Korea, the military and elites get bigger rations.
While the exact food supplied as aid may not be going to the military/elites the food aid would allow them to divert other supplies elsewhere.
Food aid is a great idea though, it is one of the most economically damaging things you can do to a country. Start dumping cheap/free food on their markets, put all the local farmers out of business. Farmers and families become disgruntled, have no income or work. The land degrades and the country becomes completely dependant on external aid. The next step is to provide weapons to the groups of ex farmers.
This is supposed to be an accident?
They are drooling over the ability to control.
You may want to compare EROEI before coming to a conclusion on the benefits of one or the other as a fuel.
http://www.autoobserver.com/2011/03/brc-fuelmaker-again-selling-phill-home-cng-fuel-station.html
Costs $3.5k to install so on top of a conversion you have to be doing some milage to make it worthwhile. Taxis possibly.
They are cutting production at the moment.
e.g.
http://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/blog/2012/01/chesapeake-cutting-natural-gas.html
Prices will hit bottom round about now. Sure they'll re-open wells but only as a result of demand.
I mean by that, you put some shit in a barrel, keep it warm and the gas bubbles out as micro organisms digest the organic material in the fluid. You take the water, CO2 and hydrogen sulphide out of the gas and you can burn it in an engine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogas
Have to be seen to have been doing something.
It's so that when the other side say but what did you do about Natural Gas, they can say, we invented the Internet, we invented Natural Gas. etc. Plus they get to show how wonderful they are to be investing in R&D... Even if that R&D means going out and buying a Honda & blowing the rest of the tax money on beer, coke and hookers.
Re civic: just checked it's still on the market.
They automatically switch from CNG to gas when the CNG runs out. You can also already get home filling compressors which will fill the vehicle at home from the domestic supply.
Thing is, you should probably look up "petrodollar" and "dollar hegemony" to understand how America's world dominance is tied to oil.
You can buy NG futures instead. They are almost giving the stuff away at the moment.
Also. Home filling systems already exist for CNG vehicles which already exist in the auto market.
This is from 2005...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgcNJWaO_Fw
So... not sure what the research is all about. You can buy conversion kits for most modern vehicles as well.
Since it has been possible. They are no SLRs but for something which you always carry about with you they can produce very good results. Their N series are generally superb camera phones. Very good lenses, very good sensors and very good software. The N8 which has to be a year old now has for example a 12mp sensor, carl zeiss lenses.
MS define the hardware for WP and Nokia moving faster than Microsoft, it explains why Symbian is still around.