Yes, the environment is in trouble. World energy supplies are not. These are not contradictory concepts.
Here is the problem. There are alternatives to oil but none of them have the same cost/unit energy ratio. Biofuels take a lot of energy to produce, as does tarsands ect... Although we're not going to be left with nothing when the oil runs out, the energy returned per unit energy invested will be reduced increasing the price.
Take Canadian tarsands as an example, it take an immense amount of energy per barrel but due to fairly large deposits of natural gas nearby the canadian oil sands it's moot since they use the gas to make the synthetic crude. They are currently planning to switch to nuclear to split the oil sand since the gov is starting to grumble about the "free" gas provided to make the crude. Basically the Provincial gov subsidizes synthetic crude by allowing the oil comapanies to burn gas for free. Even with this subsidy it's $0.30 USD exstraction cost per unit as opposed to $0.049 USD for saudi crude. If you factored in the market price of the gas it's be 0.60 per unit.
Wouldn't the perception of scarcity just make the oil producers' resources all the more valuable? Yes and No, Long term investors would drop you like a rock while short term looters will then come in. Your country will then be looted for all it's worth and your economy will collapse because peripheral investment will tank. OPEC members do not wish to see this. Basically preditcting higher reserves gets you the ability to produce more (OPEC allows only a % of your reserve/year) as well and allow some extra time to convert your economy before the oil runs out. Stating a hort term peak will result in drastic down rating of your countries credit, and investment recommendations, and of new investments.
So it's paid for by a group whose absolute life and livelihood depend on getting the right answers. Seems like the ones I'd want paying for it...
Of course, if I were OPEC, I think I'd prefer the doom and gloom scenario, because then I could raise prices through the roof...
OPEC countries would have their economy collapse. A portion of the worth of oil is the speculation market which will nose dive if the reserves are shown to be low. They may jack up prices but it would essentially collapse all the economies due to lack of confidence. Investment into those countries will dwindle since oil is the primary reason to invest there. Long term returns will dwindle while short term exploitation may not pan out as well. Having a finite deadline of profitability is not good for business.
Never buy a sony console at launch, there are always bugs. I had to replace both my original playstation one and two. However, this really isnt that big a deal, 196 games out of a library of three thousand or more games isnt so bad, and I bet sony will eventually fix most of these issues in an update , or it will be fixed in a later revision of the hardware unfortunately for early adopters (like the ability to read cd-r and dvd-r disks and adding progressive scan was in the playstation 2).
expand this to include all consoles. The NES had huge issues with v 1.00 as did the xbox, ps2, xbox 360. There are others but they didn't get as much press.
On the other hand, World of Warcraft is one of the most popular games on the planet.
Game makers are fully aware that every console of this gen will have a network connection. With the PS3 it's wireless (read: easy to set up) and free (read: no need to convince mom to part with more $$$). The final reason most people didn't play online was that the game makers by and large didn't support online play. Mostly they didn't support it because the other two issues made it unlikely to draw a big audience. Chicken? Egg? Doesn't matter. It didn't work.
Think of how many game have already announced network support. This gen will be different.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (13.44 million) -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best_selling _computer_and_video_games#Sony_PlayStation_2 World of Warcraft (8+ million) -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best_selling _computer_and_video_games#PC_2 The Sims (16.08 million) [2] -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best_selling _computer_and_video_games#PC_2
Remember GTA and the sims are almost 2 completely seperate demographics but WOW and almost every online game is the same demographic. Online play is "nice" to try but not many stick around for it. Not according to the numbers. Future games may want a online component but it may not change the utilization rate. I know as geeks we hate to hear it but anecdotal evidence in my social group (mostly geeks) and from the install base it does seem liek online play is not a major draw. It's that "15 year old with unlimited time" factor that deters most.
Consumers mostly dont know, or even give a flying shit about those things. The issues are cost and availability, clearly this xmas is about early adopters - next xmas will be telling. Me i'm buying a wii, but my record isn't great have a dreamcast and a saturn.,/i>
I agree 100%. I plan on getting a PS3 but not until the first hardware revision. At that point I'm more likely to get one wihtout defectes )xbox 360 overheatign issues, PS2 disc read error, NES piss poor first gen copper contacts ect..). also by that time the price will fall from 699CND to 599CND. As well FXIII will problably be out as well as MGS4. Basically this price point and and current launch titles are to feed the early adopters who need to show off their dick size. The real battle is about 10 mo later.
... because today is not like yesterday. For example, online game play wasn't as important when the Dreamcast was released. Also, sales were sluggish from the beginning as people held their money for the PS2 launch which was not the case with the 360.
The PS3 might still dominate, but it's not likely to be for the exact same reasons as in the past.
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actually, it still doesn't. People like occasional online play and some really enjoy it (inclusing almost anyone here). But it's not a mainstream feature. Xbox live still isn't in a majority of the Xbox install base and most people don't like the "beat up by surly 15 year old" scenario onlineplay ussually entails.
I find I'm very impressed with the graphics. Not for the big things liek flashy effects and shading/anti aliasing/ect... but it's consistancy. Little touches like seeing the area ahead or the richness and lushness of the enviroments make a bigger difference. I can ignore the jagies but random things in FFX like the terrible design of some of the puzzle rooms. I think it's the effort they put into the little things and not the technical merits that really show in this title.
It's really simple and sorta lame that a dozen people have the same reply for me... hello! I wasn't alive 100 or so years ago when that happened, but you can be sure that those who were DID know when it happened.
Secondly, I didn't make it explicit in my post, but come on here! What are the odds that TWO commercial planes full of hundreds of people would BOTH be struck by lightning on the SAME DAY and crash into two buildings right next to each other, COLLAPSING BOTH OF THEM? It's probably a mathematical impossiblity, and you can be sure that there'd be a huge cry of "God is punishing us!" way louder than the one we already got.
Besides that as others have pointed out 911 is a very convenient number to remember.
You don't grasps lightning storms well do you? A bad electrical storm may strike more then one plane, it may be unlikely for any particular person to be struck twice but dozens get struck yearly, if two planes flew through a storm they may get struck and both crash. But the point of the Article and our posts is that we all work under terrible assumptions and confirmation bias affects us a lot. We remembered that event nto because it was important or unique or even had a escpecially huge death toll. We remember it because it's recent and it's been used as propaganda for the current admin a lot.
Take out a seat of government, and destabilise the national treasury, Wall Street (If America), etc. The stock market and economy will collapse, bringing on a great spread of idlemobs and crime, etc. The instability eventually leads to the point where a country crumbles.
The first part has been done a few times, various politicians and event he US prez. It caused soem disruption but it was generally business as ussual. The national treasury and the stock market takes a lot to disrupt in a irrevocable way. At most you disturb it briefly and make the papers (see 911). If you did it all at once, maybe but no gov on earth could orchastrate that. There is also too much middle class inertia. It's still too many meals betewwn suburanite and revolutionary to have any sort of act even plausible to disrupt it.
But I'm pretty sure if it happened on the same day and dropped both towers it'd be every bit as famous as the one we had.
Then tell me what was the date of the great san fransisco earth quake? do so without looking it up. It's only memorable because we have a huge species spanning problem with confirmation bias, distorted sense of risk, and we're in general gullable and stupid. Just see how a marketting partment made santa part of chirstmas and Diamonds part of engagements. The current American administration have sold the US on terrorism. Just as Diamonds have no traditional link to engagements and santa had a almost nil attachment to christmas; Terrorism has no link to you safety.
You're more likely to be killed by a car accident than terrorism. You can take steps to reduce the odds, but they will always be there. With few exceptions though, the other drivers are not trying to kill you. Your car, the weather, or whatever it is causes the accident is not an intelligent being that "has it in for you".
So. Are people irrational or not? Maybe not. Terrorists, if successful, can destabilize the whole society. It hasn't happened yet, but in theory, left unchecked, it could. OTOH, lightning strike incidence can be looked up in an actuarial table, and is not likely to increase very much.
While I often agree with Schneir on a lot of things, I disagree that the actions of intelligent beings (the terrorists) can be fairly compared to the random acts of nature. Human beings are probably "programmed" to respond differently to intelligent threats. That sounds like a successful survival strategy to me.
How exactly can any small dedicated group destabilize a country? A large well armed group can take over a country or plunge it into civil war but a small group can at most cause some loss of life. The tools needed to truly destabilize a country are far beyond most countries. A single nuke would not do it. What evidence do you have or what logical reasoning do you have that any combination of groups could destabilize a country short of a civil war?
From some articles I read about valad, they say he did those horrible things to invading armies and brigands. The negative stories were spread by the turks who tried to invade.
FF VII had a terrible translation. Most wrote off the story towards the end as "just being japanese". But I thought it made sense after reading some translations and the writtin addendums square released.
I would personally trade my current 6mbps/768kbps line for even a 1.5mbit line if it were symmetric. When rsync finds 8 gigs of new non-comrpessible data to upload to my off-site backup, 768k just doesn't cut it.
1.5mbit is that much better?
I think you need your head examined.:)
Roughly x2. Which means his 8 gig upload will take 5.5h and not 12h. A significant savings.
No, actually I thought "This is one of the worst movies I've seen all year. I can't believe this got good reviews" and the four other people I saw it with all agreed. Between the wooden acting, gratuitous gross-out scenes, and hamfisted symbolism that assumes the audience is retarded, it was just an overall bad time. Innocent, popcorn storytelling is one thing--shitty moviemaking is another.
"It's not about being brave, Jimmy." *groans*
Give me the 1933 classic instead any day.
I was thinking "Wow, first date and she has her hand in my pants." what was the movie about?
It's an interesting question. Why can't older adults learn new terms with fixed meanings? Does the fear of computers have an impact on long-term human memory or something? People rarely mistake a truck for a city bus, even though both have engines and wheels and travel on roads. SImilarly, if you show a person a hard drive and a memory dimm they will not mistake one for the other unless they have very bad eyesight or have neurological problems. But many of them mix the terms up all the time. I'm really perplexed by this. But then again I am also perplexed by people's inability to understand the concept of directory trees and 'virtual object permanence'.
The same reason people don't know the difference between a gram negative bacteria and a gram positive one. It's outside of their interests and they just don't want to learn.
In Latin America many of the most popular TV shows are never meant to last year after year. They have a story arc that they are going to tell and they are progressing to that particular end. If the show is popular they might add more filler in the middle, if it isn't they might trim it, but it was born in order to die. This is very liberating for the writers because they can kill characters off or have them get married without worrying about the long term consequences for the show, since it is going to end anyhow. Also, there is a new one hour episode every night. I thought that the first season of 24 was a great showcase of how this format could work in the US, but then they had to go and have multiple seasons...
Anyhow, I've often thought that LotR would have make a very good novela, broadcast once a week for an hour, and intend to last maybe a year, and by that I mean about 50 episodes, not 20.
that was always the shittiest part of american TV. They have a series go on and on until it sucks then it gets cancelled. Good series should have story arcs and onces finished perhaps leave it at that. Jap shows are liek that often. From cartoons to manga. Limited run with a definite series. they may throw in a sequel prequel but it's a fintie story and I think it works much better then running a series until it gets cancelled.
Doesn't that depend on how they use the magnets? If the entire payload is magnetically suspended -- levitated, if you will -- and there is no contact with a track, that would reduce stress greatly.
It reduces variances in the amount of force on the ring but it doesn't reduce the netforce. You need to push with enough force to redirect the object into a cicle and also excelerate it into escape veolicity. This needs to be a hell of a strong structure.
Wow. If I am reading your comment right, you are trying to say that Americans are not good workers, based on your experience with American consultants. Consultants.
Also, this point: "* Think they know better than you".
Well, yes. I should hope you are hireing consultants that know more than your employees. What is the purpose of spending money on their consulting if you could just ask Joe down in Marketing and get a similarly educated answer?
It's not bad workers. It's bad managers that make being a good worker impossible.
Perhaps we need a campaign like "Look for the Union Label"...
From what I've seen, products engineered 100% in the US should have significantly better quality, why not point that out?
I'm not really against Chinese outsourcing, but if there IS a quality difference in the end product, then that information could be vital to consumers.
Not that we have the best engineering consistently, but I've never seen a product made in the US released with such poor quality as some of the imports I've seen.
except people would then stop buying those items marked as 100% american. If you haven't noticed most american non luxury products are the the lower end of the market. American cars, american electronics, american cloths all take a back seat to europe in relation to quality and a back seat to asia for price and often quality too. This is due to exstensive short sighted, quarter driven managers and senior executives and a cultures based on working long but not good or hard. your guys at the top tend to be lawyers and ex marketing their top guys are PHD engineers and it shows.
I support dropping trade barriers with Canada. Canada is an ethical trade partner, unlike China. I would drop just about all barriers with Canada & the EU.
You technically did. But the Bush admin have been lobbied by a lot of people to start shit with canada. From the cattle ban on dicey scientific grounds to soft wood lumber (all trades bodies point to the US being wrong).
It'll be huge for porn. They already do choose your own camera angle. They can now do it with higher definition. See that $5 whore and her meth teeth in 1080p with 5.1 surround to truly capture what it's like to be seedy and cheap all from the comforts of home. See every pimple, needle mark, ruise, and wrinkle.
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Yes, the environment is in trouble. World energy supplies are not. These are not contradictory concepts.
Here is the problem. There are alternatives to oil but none of them have the same cost/unit energy ratio. Biofuels take a lot of energy to produce, as does tarsands ect... Although we're not going to be left with nothing when the oil runs out, the energy returned per unit energy invested will be reduced increasing the price.
Take Canadian tarsands as an example, it take an immense amount of energy per barrel but due to fairly large deposits of natural gas nearby the canadian oil sands it's moot since they use the gas to make the synthetic crude. They are currently planning to switch to nuclear to split the oil sand since the gov is starting to grumble about the "free" gas provided to make the crude. Basically the Provincial gov subsidizes synthetic crude by allowing the oil comapanies to burn gas for free. Even with this subsidy it's $0.30 USD exstraction cost per unit as opposed to $0.049 USD for saudi crude. If you factored in the market price of the gas it's be 0.60 per unit.
Wouldn't the perception of scarcity just make the oil producers' resources all the more valuable? /year) as well and allow some extra time to convert your economy before the oil runs out. Stating a hort term peak will result in drastic down rating of your countries credit, and investment recommendations, and of new investments.
Yes and No,
Long term investors would drop you like a rock while short term looters will then come in. Your country will then be looted for all it's worth and your economy will collapse because peripheral investment will tank. OPEC members do not wish to see this. Basically preditcting higher reserves gets you the ability to produce more (OPEC allows only a % of your reserve
So it's paid for by a group whose absolute life and livelihood depend on getting the right answers. Seems like the ones I'd want paying for it...
Of course, if I were OPEC, I think I'd prefer the doom and gloom scenario, because then I could raise prices through the roof...
OPEC countries would have their economy collapse. A portion of the worth of oil is the speculation market which will nose dive if the reserves are shown to be low. They may jack up prices but it would essentially collapse all the economies due to lack of confidence. Investment into those countries will dwindle since oil is the primary reason to invest there. Long term returns will dwindle while short term exploitation may not pan out as well. Having a finite deadline of profitability is not good for business.
Never buy a sony console at launch, there are always bugs. I had to replace both my original playstation one and two. However, this really isnt that big a deal, 196 games out of a library of three thousand or more games isnt so bad, and I bet sony will eventually fix most of these issues in an update , or it will be fixed in a later revision of the hardware unfortunately for early adopters (like the ability to read cd-r and dvd-r disks and adding progressive scan was in the playstation 2).
expand this to include all consoles. The NES had huge issues with v 1.00 as did the xbox, ps2, xbox 360. There are others but they didn't get as much press.
On the other hand, World of Warcraft is one of the most popular games on the planet.
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Game makers are fully aware that every console of this gen will have a network connection. With the PS3 it's wireless (read: easy to set up) and free (read: no need to convince mom to part with more $$$). The final reason most people didn't play online was that the game makers by and large didn't support online play. Mostly they didn't support it because the other two issues made it unlikely to draw a big audience. Chicken? Egg? Doesn't matter. It didn't work.
Think of how many game have already announced network support. This gen will be different.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (13.44 million)
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best_sellin
World of Warcraft (8+ million)
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best_sellin
The Sims (16.08 million) [2]
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best_sellin
Remember GTA and the sims are almost 2 completely seperate demographics but WOW and almost every online game is the same demographic. Online play is "nice" to try but not many stick around for it. Not according to the numbers. Future games may want a online component but it may not change the utilization rate. I know as geeks we hate to hear it but anecdotal evidence in my social group (mostly geeks) and from the install base it does seem liek online play is not a major draw. It's that "15 year old with unlimited time" factor that deters most.
Consumers mostly dont know, or even give a flying shit about those things. The issues are cost and availability, clearly this xmas is about early adopters - next xmas will be telling. Me i'm buying a wii, but my record isn't great have a dreamcast and a saturn.,/i>
I agree 100%. I plan on getting a PS3 but not until the first hardware revision. At that point I'm more likely to get one wihtout defectes )xbox 360 overheatign issues, PS2 disc read error, NES piss poor first gen copper contacts ect..). also by that time the price will fall from 699CND to 599CND. As well FXIII will problably be out as well as MGS4. Basically this price point and and current launch titles are to feed the early adopters who need to show off their dick size. The real battle is about 10 mo later.
... because today is not like yesterday. For example, online game play wasn't as important when the Dreamcast was released. Also, sales were sluggish from the beginning as people held their money for the PS2 launch which was not the case with the 360.
The PS3 might still dominate, but it's not likely to be for the exact same reasons as in the past.
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actually, it still doesn't. People like occasional online play and some really enjoy it (inclusing almost anyone here). But it's not a mainstream feature. Xbox live still isn't in a majority of the Xbox install base and most people don't like the "beat up by surly 15 year old" scenario onlineplay ussually entails.
I find I'm very impressed with the graphics. Not for the big things liek flashy effects and shading/anti aliasing/ect... but it's consistancy. Little touches like seeing the area ahead or the richness and lushness of the enviroments make a bigger difference. I can ignore the jagies but random things in FFX like the terrible design of some of the puzzle rooms. I think it's the effort they put into the little things and not the technical merits that really show in this title.
It's really simple and sorta lame that a dozen people have the same reply for me... hello! I wasn't alive 100 or so years ago when that happened, but you can be sure that those who were DID know when it happened.
Secondly, I didn't make it explicit in my post, but come on here! What are the odds that TWO commercial planes full of hundreds of people would BOTH be struck by lightning on the SAME DAY and crash into two buildings right next to each other, COLLAPSING BOTH OF THEM? It's probably a mathematical impossiblity, and you can be sure that there'd be a huge cry of "God is punishing us!" way louder than the one we already got.
Besides that as others have pointed out 911 is a very convenient number to remember.
You don't grasps lightning storms well do you? A bad electrical storm may strike more then one plane, it may be unlikely for any particular person to be struck twice but dozens get struck yearly, if two planes flew through a storm they may get struck and both crash. But the point of the Article and our posts is that we all work under terrible assumptions and confirmation bias affects us a lot. We remembered that event nto because it was important or unique or even had a escpecially huge death toll. We remember it because it's recent and it's been used as propaganda for the current admin a lot.
Take out a seat of government, and destabilise the national treasury, Wall Street (If America), etc. The stock market and economy will collapse, bringing on a great spread of idlemobs and crime, etc. The instability eventually leads to the point where a country crumbles.
The first part has been done a few times, various politicians and event he US prez. It caused soem disruption but it was generally business as ussual. The national treasury and the stock market takes a lot to disrupt in a irrevocable way. At most you disturb it briefly and make the papers (see 911). If you did it all at once, maybe but no gov on earth could orchastrate that. There is also too much middle class inertia. It's still too many meals betewwn suburanite and revolutionary to have any sort of act even plausible to disrupt it.
But I'm pretty sure if it happened on the same day and dropped both towers it'd be every bit as famous as the one we had.
Then tell me what was the date of the great san fransisco earth quake? do so without looking it up. It's only memorable because we have a huge species spanning problem with confirmation bias, distorted sense of risk, and we're in general gullable and stupid. Just see how a marketting partment made santa part of chirstmas and Diamonds part of engagements. The current American administration have sold the US on terrorism. Just as Diamonds have no traditional link to engagements and santa had a almost nil attachment to christmas; Terrorism has no link to you safety.
You're more likely to be killed by a car accident than terrorism. You can take steps to reduce the odds, but they will always be there. With few exceptions though, the other drivers are not trying to kill you. Your car, the weather, or whatever it is causes the accident is not an intelligent being that "has it in for you".
So. Are people irrational or not? Maybe not. Terrorists, if successful, can destabilize the whole society. It hasn't happened yet, but in theory, left unchecked, it could. OTOH, lightning strike incidence can be looked up in an actuarial table, and is not likely to increase very much.
While I often agree with Schneir on a lot of things, I disagree that the actions of intelligent beings (the terrorists) can be fairly compared to the random acts of nature. Human beings are probably "programmed" to respond differently to intelligent threats. That sounds like a successful survival strategy to me.
How exactly can any small dedicated group destabilize a country? A large well armed group can take over a country or plunge it into civil war but a small group can at most cause some loss of life. The tools needed to truly destabilize a country are far beyond most countries. A single nuke would not do it. What evidence do you have or what logical reasoning do you have that any combination of groups could destabilize a country short of a civil war?
From some articles I read about valad, they say he did those horrible things to invading armies and brigands. The negative stories were spread by the turks who tried to invade.
FF VII had a terrible translation. Most wrote off the story towards the end as "just being japanese". But I thought it made sense after reading some translations and the writtin addendums square released.
My NES in 1985 was 250 and adjusted for inflation is 443.67.
I would personally trade my current 6mbps/768kbps line for even a 1.5mbit line if it were symmetric. When rsync finds 8 gigs of new non-comrpessible data to upload to my off-site backup, 768k just doesn't cut it.
:)
1.5mbit is that much better?
I think you need your head examined.
Roughly x2. Which means his 8 gig upload will take 5.5h and not 12h. A significant savings.
No, actually I thought "This is one of the worst movies I've seen all year. I can't believe this got good reviews" and the four other people I saw it with all agreed. Between the wooden acting, gratuitous gross-out scenes, and hamfisted symbolism that assumes the audience is retarded, it was just an overall bad time. Innocent, popcorn storytelling is one thing--shitty moviemaking is another.
"It's not about being brave, Jimmy." *groans*
Give me the 1933 classic instead any day.
I was thinking "Wow, first date and she has her hand in my pants." what was the movie about?
It's an interesting question. Why can't older adults learn new terms with fixed meanings? Does the fear of computers have an impact on long-term human memory or something? People rarely mistake a truck for a city bus, even though both have engines and wheels and travel on roads. SImilarly, if you show a person a hard drive and a memory dimm they will not mistake one for the other unless they have very bad eyesight or have neurological problems. But many of them mix the terms up all the time. I'm really perplexed by this. But then again I am also perplexed by people's inability to understand the concept of directory trees and 'virtual object permanence'.
The same reason people don't know the difference between a gram negative bacteria and a gram positive one. It's outside of their interests and they just don't want to learn.
In Latin America many of the most popular TV shows are never meant to last year after year. They have a story arc that they are going to tell and they are progressing to that particular end. If the show is popular they might add more filler in the middle, if it isn't they might trim it, but it was born in order to die. This is very liberating for the writers because they can kill characters off or have them get married without worrying about the long term consequences for the show, since it is going to end anyhow. Also, there is a new one hour episode every night. I thought that the first season of 24 was a great showcase of how this format could work in the US, but then they had to go and have multiple seasons...
Anyhow, I've often thought that LotR would have make a very good novela, broadcast once a week for an hour, and intend to last maybe a year, and by that I mean about 50 episodes, not 20.
that was always the shittiest part of american TV. They have a series go on and on until it sucks then it gets cancelled. Good series should have story arcs and onces finished perhaps leave it at that. Jap shows are liek that often. From cartoons to manga. Limited run with a definite series. they may throw in a sequel prequel but it's a fintie story and I think it works much better then running a series until it gets cancelled.
Doesn't that depend on how they use the magnets? If the entire payload is magnetically suspended -- levitated, if you will -- and there is no contact with a track, that would reduce stress greatly.
It reduces variances in the amount of force on the ring but it doesn't reduce the netforce. You need to push with enough force to redirect the object into a cicle and also excelerate it into escape veolicity. This needs to be a hell of a strong structure.
I was talking about software mostly. If a company does any outsourcing they can't use the 100% made in america seal.
If there is a quality difference, people will soon start to notice--if not, no real harm done.
Thats ture, Americans are still fairly good at that and have a better reputation then say india so far.
Wow. If I am reading your comment right, you are trying to say that Americans are not good workers, based on your experience with American consultants. Consultants.
Also, this point: "* Think they know better than you".
Well, yes. I should hope you are hireing consultants that know more than your employees. What is the purpose of spending money on their consulting if you could just ask Joe down in Marketing and get a similarly educated answer?
It's not bad workers. It's bad managers that make being a good worker impossible.
Perhaps we need a campaign like "Look for the Union Label"...
From what I've seen, products engineered 100% in the US should have significantly better quality, why not point that out?
I'm not really against Chinese outsourcing, but if there IS a quality difference in the end product, then that information could be vital to consumers.
Not that we have the best engineering consistently, but I've never seen a product made in the US released with such poor quality as some of the imports I've seen.
except people would then stop buying those items marked as 100% american. If you haven't noticed most american non luxury products are the the lower end of the market. American cars, american electronics, american cloths all take a back seat to europe in relation to quality and a back seat to asia for price and often quality too. This is due to exstensive short sighted, quarter driven managers and senior executives and a cultures based on working long but not good or hard. your guys at the top tend to be lawyers and ex marketing their top guys are PHD engineers and it shows.
I support dropping trade barriers with Canada. Canada is an ethical trade partner, unlike China. I would drop just about all barriers with Canada & the EU.
You technically did. But the Bush admin have been lobbied by a lot of people to start shit with canada. From the cattle ban on dicey scientific grounds to soft wood lumber (all trades bodies point to the US being wrong).
It'll be huge for porn. They already do choose your own camera angle. They can now do it with higher definition. See that $5 whore and her meth teeth in 1080p with 5.1 surround to truly capture what it's like to be seedy and cheap all from the comforts of home. See every pimple, needle mark, ruise, and wrinkle.