To answer your question for the US the Iraqi war. For Russia they downed a drone just last year with a fighter. Every time somebody says that Fighters are not needed anymore something happens that prove that idea wrong. Same with Aircraft Carriers and Tanks.
Yes I could see an F-22B with improved electronics. If they have simplified the Stealth systems of the F35 I could those being put into the F22B. You may also see an F22J, F22i, and F22k soon for Japan, Israel, and Korea.
Interesting list. I know about most of those issues except Homeopathy. The thing is that the current news system leads to extreme polarization. You do not just get to see the news subjects that you are interested in you get to see them covered the way that you want them. These days everybody gets to have their view point reinforced. I feel this leads to extreme intolerance. Every one is so sure they are right that they think that anybody that doesn't agree with them is an idiot. Republicans think the Democrats are idiots and the Democrats think the Republicans are idiots. I consider myself an extreme moderate... Some of the news you mentioned you can do nothing to really influence. SCO vs IBM? That is a court case and frankly public opinion should have nothing to do with court cases. The public should be informed so they can protect the process and change unjust laws only. The Iranian protests where all over the news. Wikileaks I have to say I am not a fan of. Some of their leaks have the same level of journalistic integrity as the National Enquirer. I feel their publishing of the unedited pager messages from 911 to been a disgusting case of Yellow Journalism. Had they just published some of the Governmental pages and sanitized some of the personal pages they would have been able to show just how bad the security of pagers really is and accomplished what arguably needed to be done. I have to say at this time I have seen nothing of real value come out of wikileaks. That is of course just my opinion.
funny but Sony supported installing Linux on earlier versions. Why not install Linux if you can? The PS3 is also a really cheap way to play with writing code for the CELL.
I think you will find GM had turbocharged cars before Saab. GM built them in the early sixties. Olds Turbo Jetfire even had water injection. Chevy also produced a turbocharged version of the Corvair Monza. The current Saabs are not all that geek worthy anymore. They have too GMed. Not like the old 900 that really was funky.
I do agree. What I was saying that just because that implementation was documented outside China it doesn't in any way decrease the probability that it was done by China. Or if they had used an implementation that was never documented in China. The targets are the big evidence in my book. What I find somewhat interesting is that they used a CRC implementation as the "fingerprint". Who writes their own CRC code anymore? I mean not since college have I written a CRC function. There are a million of them available in any number of libraries. I would love to see if they can find the original library that was used.
I do see the difference. The thing is that even if the implementation is most commonly seen in China that is also evidence. And as the grandparent post pointed out the implementation does exactly match the implementation as often taught in china. My point is that with the mobility of knowledge we have today that a match or that implementation being documented else where isn't definitive one way or the other.
And in the US anyway they really don't like drones flying around in normal airspace. In someways it is a shame because I would love to play with UAVs but the rules are pretty strict. BTW the first drone that crashes into a building, car, or park will cause such an up roar that will be the end of it.
Well how is a drone that different than a helicopter?
I also have to question this idea that cops must be "identified" from a distance. Why? I mean really do you feel that threatened by the police? Have you ever been arrested? Spent time in jail when you didn't break any law? Hey I am for requiring court orders for searches and wire tapes just like it says in the constitution. I also don't like things like traffic cameras or the system of video surveillance they have in the UK. But this level of fear seems misplaced.
Of course would you want to bet that even if it matched another implementation that it wasn't a Chinese programmer? The first deep programing book I ever read was Data Structures + algorithms = Programs. It has influenced my code style just as the fact that my first programing teacher was an old Fortran programmer. Yes I often use i for for loops to this day even though I know it is now considered bad form. So if I wrote an attack would would we say it couldn't have come from the US because some of the algorithms mach those that where taught is Switzerland?
Ever seen a light aircraft? They seem pretty fragile but can go 200 MPH. Take a look at a Pitts special sometime at an airshow. The will go more than 200 MPH in a dive and take enough Gs to flatten your eyeballs. They are covered in fabric. You make them just strong enough to take the loads but you protect them from unneeded loads unlike your car which has take your kid standing on the hood.
I think you will find that the Aerospace industry used those materials before the bike makers did. Ti? SR-71, F-4, F-111, and F-14 all used a good amount of it and I believe it was used in jet engines before that. For the F-4 you are talking about the late 1950s. Carbon Fiber? I think the F-15 used it for it's airbrake or it may have been Boron back in the late 1960s early 1970s. Yes large composite structures are just now making it into airliners but that is normal. In Aerospace you try out new stuff First in drones and missiles. If they fail in testing... well they almost always fail in testing but nobody gets killed. Second in high performance military aircraft. High cost is not a big issue and if they break in flight you have the hope that nobody will get killed. If someone does get killed you may get a small story on the news. Third is on airliners and military transports. If they fail you make headline news and stay on the news for days..... and face a lot of time in court. Finally you use it on manned space flight. If that fails nobody ever forgets, you are on the news for weeks, the president makes speeches, and you will end up in front of congress and in the courts.
What software? The only software that I buy these days is stuff that will not run on a netbook at all. Games like FSX and TurboCAD. Most home users tend to use web stuff, Quicken, maybe games, maybe Office but more and more people I know are going to OpenOffice because it is free. I am not saying that there isn't a market for Windows 7 netbooks but I think you are missing just how much software developers would love a new platform. Let's say that we start to see ARM+Linux netbooks start to take off. Adobe will offer an inexpensive update to Phototshop Elements for those people and make some money. Quicken will offer a new version of QuickBooks for those people.
I think the iPhone, Palm Pre, and Android have shown users that they don't have to use windows and their old software anymore. Going to a new platform can give them new tools. It has show developers that they can charge very little for a program but make good money. Add in that an ARM+Linux netbook could cost less than a Windows machine and run longer and do more and you may have enough motivation to get people to change. The problem is that everybody seems to be stuck thinking that Computer==Windows. Maybe smartbooks or tablets well be different enough that they will not make that leap. A big help would be an app store. Hey since they don't have optical drives it will be the way that most people will put software on them.
But look at the benefits. We should also supply them with all the chips and soda they can drink. If not hey will just play basketball and lift weights all day. So which is better when they get out? A bunch of felons that are now your typical fat blobish dnd players or a do want them all buff and pumped up and in great shape?
Could be the area. Where I live there is no real mass transit. But I have been stuck in traffic for what seems like forever with boom boom boom going off. Or worse at a 7-11 and they park their cars but leave the stereo blasting. I don't have kids but I can just imagine taking a 3 year old with me to get some milk and them hearing that!
The problem of social crusaders only crops up when people ignore the unspoken rules of society and good manners. A good example are car stereo sound laws. It seems stupid to have to pass a law but not a week goes by when I do not hear a car stereo blasting so loud that I can hear it in my car with the windows up, ac one, and my stereo on. It is only when too many people act like idiots that people start to support laws to enforce manners and common sense.
Car Stereos I think win the rude device award. If I can hear your stereo in my car with the windows up, ac on, and over my stereo it is TOO freaking loud. Throw in playing songs with R rated lyrics so loud that you can not escape the strings of profanities and you have a recipe for bad manners.
I am sure that they could handle it. I am not sure that they want it yet. As long as things seem to be improving or has the hope of improving I think the Chinese people will wait. The heart of Chinese culture has always seemed to me to be pragmatism. And to be honest I don't see any way for a revolution to work. For a revolution to work the people in power need to be weak or they need to feel that winning has a higher cost than not winning. I don't think the powers that be in China fit in any of those categories. Just my opinion but I don't think things in China are bad enough or good enough for a revolution to happen yet.
Ever said that it was a way I wanted to live but sometimes you have to look at it from a different point of view. If you got beat every day and worked 16 hours a day you will think that a new master that doesn't beat you and works you only 12 hours a day is a hero.
In the not too distant future you had war lords ruling large areas of China and western governments doing their best to treat China like a colony, after that you had the Japanese invasion, then you had the revolution leading up to the terror of the cultural revolution. China has almost no history of human rights of freedom in the last 100 plus years. Way to many people mistake my statements with approval. I do not approval of the actions of the Chinese government. I was stating that the risk to benefit ratio makes a revolution just not worth it for the Chinese people at this time. As to your statment on trade. I feel giving china the benefit of our trade was one of the worst ideas ever.
Nice thought but it keeps happening again and again. The good thing is thing is that currently things in China are better than they where during the Cultural Revolution.
Why would they revolt? The have it better now than anytime in their history. Sure a few may come to the US and the EU but they will see the improvements that they have been making over time and expect them to continue.
Not to mention that they are proud that went from being a third world nation to a super power in a generation. I don't like the way things work in China but if you look back to how they worked before I think you will see that a DOS and great firewall are progress compared to the cultural revolution.
In that case the Palm Pre is more useful than the iPhone. The Pre's OS is every bit as polished as the iPhone plus it multitasks well. The card interface is great. Useful is more than polished. Take Android vs iPhone. The UI on the iPhone is slightly more polished than that of android but I can get an Android phone on a number of carriers. I can not get an iPhone on any carrier but AT@T in the US. I can expand the memory on most Android phones by getting a bigger microSD card. With the iPhone I am stuck with what I buy. With most Android devices I can replace that battery if I want I can not with the iPhone. With Android I can multitask which I can not do on the iPhone. I have both an iPod Touch and an Android phone. They are both very useful I also have access to a Pre. The UI on the Pre is a delight to use and if it had the number of quality apps as the iPhone I would say that it is better. I expect now that Pre offers native plugins that we will see the apps start to rapidly improve. Android 2.1 is very close to the iPhone in UI quality. The only down side I see to Android is that there are too many shipping versions of the OS right now. Polished just means that it is pretty and works well. It doesn't mean that it has an all inclusive feature set or the economics to be useful. A prime example was the Apple Lisa vs the PC. The Lisa was a lot more polished but the PC was a lot more useful.
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To answer your question for the US the Iraqi war. For Russia they downed a drone just last year with a fighter.
Every time somebody says that Fighters are not needed anymore something happens that prove that idea wrong.
Same with Aircraft Carriers and Tanks.
Yes I could see an F-22B with improved electronics. If they have simplified the Stealth systems of the F35 I could those being put into the F22B. You may also see an F22J, F22i, and F22k soon for Japan, Israel, and Korea.
Interesting list.
I know about most of those issues except Homeopathy.
The thing is that the current news system leads to extreme polarization. You do not just get to see the news subjects that you are interested in you get to see them covered the way that you want them. These days everybody gets to have their view point reinforced.
I feel this leads to extreme intolerance. Every one is so sure they are right that they think that anybody that doesn't agree with them is an idiot.
Republicans think the Democrats are idiots and the Democrats think the Republicans are idiots. I consider myself an extreme moderate...
Some of the news you mentioned you can do nothing to really influence. SCO vs IBM? That is a court case and frankly public opinion should have nothing to do with court cases. The public should be informed so they can protect the process and change unjust laws only.
The Iranian protests where all over the news.
Wikileaks I have to say I am not a fan of. Some of their leaks have the same level of journalistic integrity as the National Enquirer. I feel their publishing of the unedited pager messages from 911 to been a disgusting case of Yellow Journalism.
Had they just published some of the Governmental pages and sanitized some of the personal pages they would have been able to show just how bad the security of pagers really is and accomplished what arguably needed to be done.
I have to say at this time I have seen nothing of real value come out of wikileaks.
That is of course just my opinion.
funny but Sony supported installing Linux on earlier versions.
Why not install Linux if you can? The PS3 is also a really cheap way to play with writing code for the CELL.
I think you will find GM had turbocharged cars before Saab. GM built them in the early sixties. Olds Turbo Jetfire even had water injection. Chevy also produced a turbocharged version of the Corvair Monza. The current Saabs are not all that geek worthy anymore. They have too GMed. Not like the old 900 that really was funky.
I do agree. What I was saying that just because that implementation was documented outside China it doesn't in any way decrease the probability that it was done by China.
Or if they had used an implementation that was never documented in China.
The targets are the big evidence in my book.
What I find somewhat interesting is that they used a CRC implementation as the "fingerprint".
Who writes their own CRC code anymore? I mean not since college have I written a CRC function. There are a million of them available in any number of libraries.
I would love to see if they can find the original library that was used.
I do see the difference.
The thing is that even if the implementation is most commonly seen in China that is also evidence. And as the grandparent post pointed out the implementation does exactly match the implementation as often taught in china.
My point is that with the mobility of knowledge we have today that a match or that implementation being documented else where isn't definitive one way or the other.
And in the US anyway they really don't like drones flying around in normal airspace. In someways it is a shame because I would love to play with UAVs but the rules are pretty strict.
BTW the first drone that crashes into a building, car, or park will cause such an up roar that will be the end of it.
Well how is a drone that different than a helicopter?
I also have to question this idea that cops must be "identified" from a distance. Why? I mean really do you feel that threatened by the police? Have you ever been arrested? Spent time in jail when you didn't break any law?
Hey I am for requiring court orders for searches and wire tapes just like it says in the constitution. I also don't like things like traffic cameras or the system of video surveillance they have in the UK.
But this level of fear seems misplaced.
Of course would you want to bet that even if it matched another implementation that it wasn't a Chinese programmer?
The first deep programing book I ever read was Data Structures + algorithms = Programs. It has influenced my code style just as the fact that my first programing teacher was an old Fortran programmer. Yes I often use i for for loops to this day even though I know it is now considered bad form.
So if I wrote an attack would would we say it couldn't have come from the US because some of the algorithms mach those that where taught is Switzerland?
Ever seen a light aircraft?
They seem pretty fragile but can go 200 MPH.
Take a look at a Pitts special sometime at an airshow. The will go more than 200 MPH in a dive and take enough Gs to flatten your eyeballs.
They are covered in fabric.
You make them just strong enough to take the loads but you protect them from unneeded loads unlike your car which has take your kid standing on the hood.
I think you will find that the Aerospace industry used those materials before the bike makers did. ... well they almost always fail in testing but nobody gets killed.
Ti? SR-71, F-4, F-111, and F-14 all used a good amount of it and I believe it was used in jet engines before that. For the F-4 you are talking about the late 1950s.
Carbon Fiber? I think the F-15 used it for it's airbrake or it may have been Boron back in the late 1960s early 1970s.
Yes large composite structures are just now making it into airliners but that is normal.
In Aerospace you try out new stuff
First in drones and missiles. If they fail in testing
Second in high performance military aircraft. High cost is not a big issue and if they break in flight you have the hope that nobody will get killed. If someone does get killed you may get a small story on the news.
Third is on airliners and military transports. If they fail you make headline news and stay on the news for days..... and face a lot of time in court.
Finally you use it on manned space flight. If that fails nobody ever forgets, you are on the news for weeks, the president makes speeches, and you will end up in front of congress and in the courts.
What software?
The only software that I buy these days is stuff that will not run on a netbook at all.
Games like FSX and TurboCAD.
Most home users tend to use web stuff, Quicken, maybe games, maybe Office but more and more people I know are going to OpenOffice because it is free.
I am not saying that there isn't a market for Windows 7 netbooks but I think you are missing just how much software developers would love a new platform.
Let's say that we start to see ARM+Linux netbooks start to take off. Adobe will offer an inexpensive update to Phototshop Elements for those people and make some money.
Quicken will offer a new version of QuickBooks for those people.
I think the iPhone, Palm Pre, and Android have shown users that they don't have to use windows and their old software anymore. Going to a new platform can give them new tools. It has show developers that they can charge very little for a program but make good money.
Add in that an ARM+Linux netbook could cost less than a Windows machine and run longer and do more and you may have enough motivation to get people to change.
The problem is that everybody seems to be stuck thinking that Computer==Windows. Maybe smartbooks or tablets well be different enough that they will not make that leap.
A big help would be an app store. Hey since they don't have optical drives it will be the way that most people will put software on them.
But look at the benefits.
We should also supply them with all the chips and soda they can drink.
If not hey will just play basketball and lift weights all day.
So which is better when they get out?
A bunch of felons that are now your typical fat blobish dnd players or a do want them all buff and pumped up and in great shape?
Could be the area. Where I live there is no real mass transit. But I have been stuck in traffic for what seems like forever with boom boom boom going off. Or worse at a 7-11 and they park their cars but leave the stereo blasting. I don't have kids but I can just imagine taking a 3 year old with me to get some milk and them hearing that!
The problem of social crusaders only crops up when people ignore the unspoken rules of society and good manners. A good example are car stereo sound laws.
It seems stupid to have to pass a law but not a week goes by when I do not hear a car stereo blasting so loud that I can hear it in my car with the windows up, ac one, and my stereo on. It is only when too many people act like idiots that people start to support laws to enforce manners and common sense.
Car Stereos I think win the rude device award. If I can hear your stereo in my car with the windows up, ac on, and over my stereo it is TOO freaking loud.
Throw in playing songs with R rated lyrics so loud that you can not escape the strings of profanities and you have a recipe for bad manners.
You left out drop the price.
Really folks when a song is less than 99 cents it isn't worth my time to pirate it. If I like it I will buy it.
I am sure that they could handle it. I am not sure that they want it yet.
As long as things seem to be improving or has the hope of improving I think the Chinese people will wait. The heart of Chinese culture has always seemed to me to be pragmatism. And to be honest I don't see any way for a revolution to work. For a revolution to work the people in power need to be weak or they need to feel that winning has a higher cost than not winning.
I don't think the powers that be in China fit in any of those categories.
Just my opinion but I don't think things in China are bad enough or good enough for a revolution to happen yet.
What do you think?
Ever said that it was a way I wanted to live but sometimes you have to look at it from a different point of view.
If you got beat every day and worked 16 hours a day you will think that a new master that doesn't beat you and works you only 12 hours a day is a hero.
In the not too distant future you had war lords ruling large areas of China and western governments doing their best to treat China like a colony, after that you had the Japanese invasion, then you had the revolution leading up to the terror of the cultural revolution.
China has almost no history of human rights of freedom in the last 100 plus years.
Way to many people mistake my statements with approval. I do not approval of the actions of the Chinese government.
I was stating that the risk to benefit ratio makes a revolution just not worth it for the Chinese people at this time.
As to your statment on trade. I feel giving china the benefit of our trade was one of the worst ideas ever.
Nice thought but it keeps happening again and again. The good thing is thing is that currently things in China are better than they where during the Cultural Revolution.
Why would they revolt?
The have it better now than anytime in their history. Sure a few may come to the US and the EU but they will see the improvements that they have been making over time and expect them to continue.
Not to mention that they are proud that went from being a third world nation to a super power in a generation.
I don't like the way things work in China but if you look back to how they worked before I think you will see that a DOS and great firewall are progress compared to the cultural revolution.
In that case the Palm Pre is more useful than the iPhone.
The Pre's OS is every bit as polished as the iPhone plus it multitasks well. The card interface is great.
Useful is more than polished. Take Android vs iPhone. The UI on the iPhone is slightly more polished than that of android but I can get an Android phone on a number of carriers. I can not get an iPhone on any carrier but AT@T in the US.
I can expand the memory on most Android phones by getting a bigger microSD card. With the iPhone I am stuck with what I buy.
With most Android devices I can replace that battery if I want I can not with the iPhone.
With Android I can multitask which I can not do on the iPhone.
I have both an iPod Touch and an Android phone. They are both very useful I also have access to a Pre. The UI on the Pre is a delight to use and if it had the number of quality apps as the iPhone I would say that it is better.
I expect now that Pre offers native plugins that we will see the apps start to rapidly improve.
Android 2.1 is very close to the iPhone in UI quality. The only down side I see to Android is that there are too many shipping versions of the OS right now.
Polished just means that it is pretty and works well. It doesn't mean that it has an all inclusive feature set or the economics to be useful.
A prime example was the Apple Lisa vs the PC. The Lisa was a lot more polished but the PC was a lot more useful.