Vietnam is building a relationship based on the same failed hyper-capitalism that globalists are getting hammered for. Wonder where PayLess shoes gets their entire inventory from? Along with most of the lower priced junk at Wallyworld? Vietnam has been where China farms out stuff even China does not want to do. Same slave labor practices, but less known than it's neighbor. As for Africa, China is already learning the hard way that tribalism and regional conflict based on religion is making a mess out of their efforts. Even in North Korea, there is a famous ghost city and bridge to nowhere to North Korea's side that China built, but nobody uses. For the Chinese government, it's more about the centralized planning building things that aren't needed, while in Africa, they are needed but will not pay the bribes to make it happen for anyone but the political elite. All for show, but no significant changes.
I find it no surprise the left leaning media has difficulty dealing with this shooting. What is lost here is that violence can come from anyone at anytime, regardless of politics or beliefs. Lately, too much has been made of the left or the right to blame for people going nuts with guns. We as people should not be become so safe spaced in our ideals that we forget the realities of the world around us are still very much there, even if choosing to live and work in a part of the country that embraces those beliefs. If we choose liberty over safety, there is a daily responsibility to accept the weakness of the human condition, and be responsible for that freedom, or we get treated like a bunch of children and have no liberty. That is the polarizing forces at work in the USA as of right now. The gun debate is only a small part of a much larger and more challenging social polarization in place right now.
Maybe, but I suspect maybe not. The electromagnetic spectrum (which includes light frequencies) has particular characteristics that do not change much with increases in frequencies, closed system or not. I seem to remember the original 'Red Book' standard for CDs (when 14 bit audio was used in early pressings) that required a bit of eq due to quantization distortion (similar to the LP record) to compensate for the bandwidth restrictions until 16 bit audio came along. Shift that distortion and signal/noise/distance factor into a cable instead of the distance between a CD and a read head, and you got what the discovery was. Old school tech to the rescue again.
It did. Figure the damage became catastrophic at max q, typical for first stage and interstage failures. Long ago, during the first space age, engineers trying to lighten up the second and subsequent stages, either minimized or entirely uninstalled vibration dampening or ruggedizing in the fuel and/or turbo pump systems, with many failures the end result. It's not really known, (for proprietary reasons) if the Space X vehicle, in an effort to either slash costs or try new performance ideas, made this classic boob or not until some of the vehicle is recovered. Seems everything old is new again on/. today.
Actually, perhaps the article should perhaps correctly use the term 'concertmaster' (in orchestras, usually the first violin player), who also synchronizes the bow movements of the bowed instruments in the orchestra. Scanning the article linked, it seems most of what USCD is trying is a digital version of what is known in the analog world (particularly FM radio) as pre-emphasis. This principle has been known in the analog world for about 80 years, so it's kind of a shock that these techniques are not better known in the digital world. I think that this is actually perhaps a form of laziness, given the very high bandwidth and signal to noise ratios possible with digital that are not as much of an issue until very long distances are involved. I don't use that term loosely, as I've held an FCC commercial license for over 30 years, so basic engineering stuff like this coming out of a lab is a bit shocking. Perhaps a bit of old school techniques need to be applied to modern communications to get more out of them.
This treatment, while promising, sounds like a finer targeted version of what used to be used in hard to treat and violent psych. patients years ago.
What bugs me about this is it's like jump starting a car with a dying battery. There is nothing organic that is happening that will improve with time, and eventually the circuits eventually burn out and the disease continues it's progress. Degenerating tissue cannot sustain the signals needed for functioning indefinitely, despite numerous kick starts. It's not realistic to think of this like a pacemaker, which is effective on heart tissue which is fairly simple in nature to keep alive and contracting versus brain tissue which is still not fully understood at the macro functioning levels. Sort of like pushing more and more power down a failing speaker wire that needs replacement or repair instead of hooking it to the wall socket from time to time to clear the signal path. That's the real challenge facing research into brain disorders. First discover how the circuitry works, then see if treatment at the organic level is possible. I am not sure if that'll happen in my lifetime, but it's a start...
I think that if they can get muscle wires working well enough, this suit has plenty of potential in either hard or soft form. For soldiers, it could automate the manual marching process and do much for endurance, but has limitations in combat situations if it's called on to do things the human body couldn't do well. It still would need some sort of power generation while in use to keep that system running as long as the human does.
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Vietnam is building a relationship based on the same failed hyper-capitalism that globalists are getting hammered for. Wonder where PayLess shoes gets their entire inventory from? Along with most of the lower priced junk at Wallyworld? Vietnam has been where China farms out stuff even China does not want to do. Same slave labor practices, but less known than it's neighbor. As for Africa, China is already learning the hard way that tribalism and regional conflict based on religion is making a mess out of their efforts. Even in North Korea, there is a famous ghost city and bridge to nowhere to North Korea's side that China built, but nobody uses. For the Chinese government, it's more about the centralized planning building things that aren't needed, while in Africa, they are needed but will not pay the bribes to make it happen for anyone but the political elite. All for show, but no significant changes.
I find it no surprise the left leaning media has difficulty dealing with this shooting. What is lost here is that violence can come from anyone at anytime, regardless of politics or beliefs. Lately, too much has been made of the left or the right to blame for people going nuts with guns. We as people should not be become so safe spaced in our ideals that we forget the realities of the world around us are still very much there, even if choosing to live and work in a part of the country that embraces those beliefs. If we choose liberty over safety, there is a daily responsibility to accept the weakness of the human condition, and be responsible for that freedom, or we get treated like a bunch of children and have no liberty. That is the polarizing forces at work in the USA as of right now. The gun debate is only a small part of a much larger and more challenging social polarization in place right now.
and don't forget copper thieves that mistake optic line for what they are trying to steal.
Maybe, but I suspect maybe not. The electromagnetic spectrum (which includes light frequencies) has particular characteristics that do not change much with increases in frequencies, closed system or not. I seem to remember the original 'Red Book' standard for CDs (when 14 bit audio was used in early pressings) that required a bit of eq due to quantization distortion (similar to the LP record) to compensate for the bandwidth restrictions until 16 bit audio came along. Shift that distortion and signal/noise/distance factor into a cable instead of the distance between a CD and a read head, and you got what the discovery was. Old school tech to the rescue again.
It did. Figure the damage became catastrophic at max q, typical for first stage and interstage failures. Long ago, during the first space age, engineers trying to lighten up the second and subsequent stages, either minimized or entirely uninstalled vibration dampening or ruggedizing in the fuel and/or turbo pump systems, with many failures the end result. It's not really known, (for proprietary reasons) if the Space X vehicle, in an effort to either slash costs or try new performance ideas, made this classic boob or not until some of the vehicle is recovered. Seems everything old is new again on /. today.
Actually, perhaps the article should perhaps correctly use the term 'concertmaster' (in orchestras, usually the first violin player), who also synchronizes the bow movements of the bowed instruments in the orchestra. Scanning the article linked, it seems most of what USCD is trying is a digital version of what is known in the analog world (particularly FM radio) as pre-emphasis. This principle has been known in the analog world for about 80 years, so it's kind of a shock that these techniques are not better known in the digital world. I think that this is actually perhaps a form of laziness, given the very high bandwidth and signal to noise ratios possible with digital that are not as much of an issue until very long distances are involved. I don't use that term loosely, as I've held an FCC commercial license for over 30 years, so basic engineering stuff like this coming out of a lab is a bit shocking. Perhaps a bit of old school techniques need to be applied to modern communications to get more out of them.
This treatment, while promising, sounds like a finer targeted version of what used to be used in hard to treat and violent psych. patients years ago. What bugs me about this is it's like jump starting a car with a dying battery. There is nothing organic that is happening that will improve with time, and eventually the circuits eventually burn out and the disease continues it's progress. Degenerating tissue cannot sustain the signals needed for functioning indefinitely, despite numerous kick starts. It's not realistic to think of this like a pacemaker, which is effective on heart tissue which is fairly simple in nature to keep alive and contracting versus brain tissue which is still not fully understood at the macro functioning levels. Sort of like pushing more and more power down a failing speaker wire that needs replacement or repair instead of hooking it to the wall socket from time to time to clear the signal path. That's the real challenge facing research into brain disorders. First discover how the circuitry works, then see if treatment at the organic level is possible. I am not sure if that'll happen in my lifetime, but it's a start...
I think that if they can get muscle wires working well enough, this suit has plenty of potential in either hard or soft form. For soldiers, it could automate the manual marching process and do much for endurance, but has limitations in combat situations if it's called on to do things the human body couldn't do well. It still would need some sort of power generation while in use to keep that system running as long as the human does.