For use. Most software in the world is developed for someone to actually run on a system and produce some resulting data. You don't have to code something that's for sale to the public to write useful code. In fact, sometimes I'm inclined to think that the most useful end-user code in the world isn't made for wide distribution. Libraries are another story...
I'm a radical moderate. I think we're spending a little too much, so you might call me a conservative. I think we're legislating too much, so you might call me a liberal or libertarian. I think certain things we spend too much on. I think other things that the government really should consider their fiscal responsibility are woefully underfunded to support things the private sector should do. "We" in this case is the people of the US, with me being one of "us".
Public roads are not a bad idea, but why so much construction when the ones we have are in dangerous disrepair? Promoting the public health isn't a bad way to spend public money, but public research on genes, proteins, and the safety and efficacy of low-margin but useful drugs would pay much higher returns than insuring people at public expense to buy only high-margin patented treatments. Why don't we have two sets of rail for every four lanes of interstate if we really want to cut down on energy imports? Why do we imprison so many non-violent drug offenders rather than educating and treating users and training those tempted to deal for real careers that pay a living wage?
Our school teachers get paid less than they should, but it's not as bad as the teachers' unions like to claim. The many levels of administration, though, would never be tolerated in private business. Every school in Illinois needs a principal, a district school board, a district superintendent, a regional superintendent, a regional board, a state education agency, and then a separate state board just to encourage high school students to go to college? Really? I think a local school district that has a principal in every school, a district board, and then regional and state oversight above all that could probably find a better use for a quarter million dollars a year than a superintendent.
Why are we still as public bodies at the state and federal levels underwriting private phone and cable companies that are established and failing to deliver as promised? Why isn't that money instead going to research more alternatives and fund more startup firms and industries to compete with the incumbents who have been allowed to squander their monopolies,tax breaks, and incentive payments?
If we really want banks not to fail due to bad loans, why don't we punish banks that make bad loans and move those mortgages that are still valuable to their intact competition? "Too big to fail" is a fallacy of epic proportions. Those banks still had assets, and those assets could have been bought out of bankruptcy by other banks or investors if the banks really failed. Most of the banks that came close to failing still aren't lending what the credit markets need, so a collapse of available credit is not really an excuse, is it? Putting the bank bailout money into the Small Business Administration's loan programs would have probably cut down on the credit crisis much better.
Perhaps the most important issue in US politics right now, though, is the one nobody seems to mention. The only executive administration since Truman or maybe Eisenhower to keep more executive secrets, classify more documents, and claim more national security exemptions than GWB is that of BHO. The Republicans abused executive power, and now the Democrats who complained and claimed they wanted an open and truthful government are being even more closed.
I think it's time for a transparency movement even more than a liberal or conservative movement. We can't be in charge of holding "our" government accountable if they refuse to let us know how they are governing and we allow that.
I really doubt the Jesus of the Bible was a capital-'S' "Socialist". He wasn't a statist socialist. He was encouraging not rocking the secular boat too much and reaching out to recruit more souls to faith. He encouraged his followers to share with those who needed, but not to take from those who had. It really is much more like the optional communism of the Hippy movement or like the Kibbutz farms in Israel. Those who have should willingly give to those who have not. Stealing is still a sin even in the Gospels. I'm not sure how you would read forceful nation-state redistribution of wealth into the New Testament as a believer or reading it as literature.
Are you referring to "point-contact devices" as in working on similar principles to cat's whisker or crystal-crystal rectifiers? Are we talking going back to the really nice clear and low-power function of pre-transistor devices, but with reliability and economies of scale those devices never achieved?
There is one solution that's legal. You could get a dual C band dish or a C and K band, or a K and Ku band with a non-branded digital receiver and pay a satellite channel clearinghouse for channels rather than a satellite service with integrated packages of receiver and set station lists.
You'll pay more. It won't be as convenient. You'll have a positioning delay as your dish tracks to the different distribution satellites instead of a dedicated customer feed satellite like with Dish Network or Direct TV. You'll have to pay for installation and support on a consulting basis because you won't have the dedicated support staff of a subscriber-based company like Dish Network or Direct TV. You'll have increasingly uncommon equipment to keep maintained at your own expense.
On the bright side, you can get a few free satellite channels. You'll also be able to get free audio distribution channels for syndicated shows in extra audio channels of the video channels sometimes. You won't have to do business with someone also wanting to sell you Internet access. You'll just have a lot of cons to get the few pros.
Well, I can't see how your explanation is off-topic, so I'm assuming a mod even more ignorant about physics than myself.
I last studied physics 20 years ago and then only very basic physics. What I'm getting is probably a wrong impression, but I'd like to be corrected and learn something.
What I understand of this on a very basic level is that if you take a fast-moving object from a 3D space and confine it to a 2D space or take a fast-moving object from a 2D space and confine it to a 1D space, you measure more mass and less motion because of the confinement. Meanwhile, no change in mass has necessarily taken place and wouldn't without a huge input of energy, but the measurement relationships may be useful to model actual relativistic phenomena because the mathematics are similar in the two situations. How terribly naive of a reading is that, and how would you better explain it to me?
Iraqis hurting Iraqis is not only a possible outcome of self-government. To some extent it is a necessary outcome of self-government. A US pullout will not put a complete stop to crime. Even if the crimes are not politically motivated or (para)military in nature, some level of crime and of law enforcement response will continue in any country. Nowhere on Earth is Eden.
For one, unlike in game consoles, Microsoft is not a core hardware provider in the PC space. They only sell peripherals and software. They go after the commodity OS market.
Apple is a hardware and software vendor. They don't want the commodity OS market on commodity hardware, and have fought hard not to allow OS X to be used on commodity hardware. They have a limited breadth, deep stack market with high margins. That's the way they like it. Setting up a central software market for the Mac lets them bring the type of control of experience they've leveraged on the iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, and iPad to the Mac. It also allows them to expose their core software market to many smaller vendors in one place, and for Apple itself to have some level of quality control over third-party software.
For Microsoft, letting everyone develop and distribute lets them hold on to the widespread use they worked so hard (legally and illegally) to get. For Apple, having control over the quality of third-party apps and offering third-party vendors things like Apple DRM, Apple-sponsored marketing, Apple-paid distribution, and Apple endorsements in exchange for a payment of tribute lets them consolidate control over their most powerful differentiator: nearly identical user experience across applications.
Honestly, I think if Apple mishandles this it'll be disastrous for the Mac. If they execute the plan well, though, it could be a huge strength for them. It's a high-stakes, moderate risk play with huge payoff potential.
What's more, the centralized application repository is popular and familiar among Linux users. We're quite used to making the decision between a fully vendor-supported repository, a third-party repository, and stuff we install ourselves and must update ourselves. Since OS X is a high-end desktop Unix with its own custom user interface (with the option of X), using long-time Linux and BSD software distribution methods makes sense to me. Let's just hope they execute it well and fairly.
I don't think you realize where the grain silos, elevators, barges, warehouses, and trucks really are. Sure, if there was a major catastrophe you wouldn't have bananas in Kansas or Illinois, but you'd have hogs, cattle, wheat, corn, soy, and chickens enough that hadn't already been shipped to the metropolitan areas.
General Mills has one of its biggest plants in a town of under 20,000 right on the Mississippi River in Missouri. DOT Foods is the largest independent grocery and food service redistribution company in the US, and they are based in a town of fewer than two thousand people in rural Illinois. Bunge, Cargill, ADM, and Monsanto have plants all over small and medium towns in the Midwest. Texas and Missouri are the number one and two beef cattle producers in the country, and those steers don't live in condos and lofts.
Given the rise of cell phones, I'm not sure why we don't go back to just 23 channels rather than 40 anyway. Is the CB spectrum really crowded enough to still need 40 channels somewhere?
I'm surprised no MS fanboys have mentioned Unix as a "primitive tool" from New Jersey. I guess MS fanboys after about Windows 3.1 no longer know anything about Unix, though, and just know XP, Vista, and 7 vs. Linux and OS X. They might be vaguely aware that Solaris or AIX exists and that Irix and HP-UX have existed.
The need for rapid communications was less when travel was slower, but the Roman empire still stretched all the way to the modern UK. Faster capital to outpost and outpost to capital communications would have been handy, because although travel was slow the organizations of the time still covered vast territories.
The telegraph, besides only being needed by a large, spread-out population, requires quite a bit of cooperation between those groups at each end. A radio or radio telegraph once understood would make more sense for rebuilding a civilization than a wired telegraph, because you'd want to be able to do certain things with it a wired telegraph system can't do: move it around, locate and contact people you haven't already built a telegraph line to, maintain only the endpoints rather than the whole distance of the wires, and save the metal from the wires for other things.
The hard part would be showing it to someone in one of these wonder-filled civilizations that would appreciate it rather than being burned for witchcraft in, say, most of Europe during the Dark Ages.
Apparently the solenoid, light, or speaker is a separate exercise. I guess his "telegraph" works by putting your tongue against the ends of the wires to sense the voltage or something.
I agree. Most of what they do though to get their credentials is in medical school and in field training. Only a small part of it is in a traditional college atmosphere like many other fields use almost exclusively. The premed cert or undergraduate degree for an MD is just the beginning.
The undergraduate portion of an MD's education is mostly just qualifying that person to get into medical school. It's the specialist school, the clinicals, the internship, the residency, and the board exams that make someone an doctor. It's not the premed certificate.
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There are trends that have gone on for years in the magazine publishing industry. One is that if Newsweek puts a bear on the cover, the stock market is going to go up. The other is that if PC World pans your technology, it's about to take off.
Personally, I find the rights of self-defense and community defense both inalienable, as are all the basic human rights only codified and not granted in the Bill of Rights.
My point is that when it comes to organizing a militia, common interest and self-interest are the same or nearly the same, because we as individuals have to be that militia and can't leave it to others. If you are only taking care of your immediate self-interests against an organized enemy, then there's no point in fighting, because you'll be run right over. You can only protect your self interests by protecting the interests of your neighbors, too.
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For use. Most software in the world is developed for someone to actually run on a system and produce some resulting data. You don't have to code something that's for sale to the public to write useful code. In fact, sometimes I'm inclined to think that the most useful end-user code in the world isn't made for wide distribution. Libraries are another story...
I'm a radical moderate. I think we're spending a little too much, so you might call me a conservative. I think we're legislating too much, so you might call me a liberal or libertarian. I think certain things we spend too much on. I think other things that the government really should consider their fiscal responsibility are woefully underfunded to support things the private sector should do. "We" in this case is the people of the US, with me being one of "us".
Public roads are not a bad idea, but why so much construction when the ones we have are in dangerous disrepair? Promoting the public health isn't a bad way to spend public money, but public research on genes, proteins, and the safety and efficacy of low-margin but useful drugs would pay much higher returns than insuring people at public expense to buy only high-margin patented treatments. Why don't we have two sets of rail for every four lanes of interstate if we really want to cut down on energy imports? Why do we imprison so many non-violent drug offenders rather than educating and treating users and training those tempted to deal for real careers that pay a living wage?
Our school teachers get paid less than they should, but it's not as bad as the teachers' unions like to claim. The many levels of administration, though, would never be tolerated in private business. Every school in Illinois needs a principal, a district school board, a district superintendent, a regional superintendent, a regional board, a state education agency, and then a separate state board just to encourage high school students to go to college? Really? I think a local school district that has a principal in every school, a district board, and then regional and state oversight above all that could probably find a better use for a quarter million dollars a year than a superintendent.
Why are we still as public bodies at the state and federal levels underwriting private phone and cable companies that are established and failing to deliver as promised? Why isn't that money instead going to research more alternatives and fund more startup firms and industries to compete with the incumbents who have been allowed to squander their monopolies,tax breaks, and incentive payments?
If we really want banks not to fail due to bad loans, why don't we punish banks that make bad loans and move those mortgages that are still valuable to their intact competition? "Too big to fail" is a fallacy of epic proportions. Those banks still had assets, and those assets could have been bought out of bankruptcy by other banks or investors if the banks really failed. Most of the banks that came close to failing still aren't lending what the credit markets need, so a collapse of available credit is not really an excuse, is it? Putting the bank bailout money into the Small Business Administration's loan programs would have probably cut down on the credit crisis much better.
Perhaps the most important issue in US politics right now, though, is the one nobody seems to mention. The only executive administration since Truman or maybe Eisenhower to keep more executive secrets, classify more documents, and claim more national security exemptions than GWB is that of BHO. The Republicans abused executive power, and now the Democrats who complained and claimed they wanted an open and truthful government are being even more closed.
I think it's time for a transparency movement even more than a liberal or conservative movement. We can't be in charge of holding "our" government accountable if they refuse to let us know how they are governing and we allow that.
I really doubt the Jesus of the Bible was a capital-'S' "Socialist". He wasn't a statist socialist. He was encouraging not rocking the secular boat too much and reaching out to recruit more souls to faith. He encouraged his followers to share with those who needed, but not to take from those who had. It really is much more like the optional communism of the Hippy movement or like the Kibbutz farms in Israel. Those who have should willingly give to those who have not. Stealing is still a sin even in the Gospels. I'm not sure how you would read forceful nation-state redistribution of wealth into the New Testament as a believer or reading it as literature.
Are you referring to "point-contact devices" as in working on similar principles to cat's whisker or crystal-crystal rectifiers? Are we talking going back to the really nice clear and low-power function of pre-transistor devices, but with reliability and economies of scale those devices never achieved?
There is one solution that's legal. You could get a dual C band dish or a C and K band, or a K and Ku band with a non-branded digital receiver and pay a satellite channel clearinghouse for channels rather than a satellite service with integrated packages of receiver and set station lists.
You'll pay more. It won't be as convenient. You'll have a positioning delay as your dish tracks to the different distribution satellites instead of a dedicated customer feed satellite like with Dish Network or Direct TV. You'll have to pay for installation and support on a consulting basis because you won't have the dedicated support staff of a subscriber-based company like Dish Network or Direct TV. You'll have increasingly uncommon equipment to keep maintained at your own expense.
On the bright side, you can get a few free satellite channels. You'll also be able to get free audio distribution channels for syndicated shows in extra audio channels of the video channels sometimes. You won't have to do business with someone also wanting to sell you Internet access. You'll just have a lot of cons to get the few pros.
Well, I can't see how your explanation is off-topic, so I'm assuming a mod even more ignorant about physics than myself.
I last studied physics 20 years ago and then only very basic physics. What I'm getting is probably a wrong impression, but I'd like to be corrected and learn something.
What I understand of this on a very basic level is that if you take a fast-moving object from a 3D space and confine it to a 2D space or take a fast-moving object from a 2D space and confine it to a 1D space, you measure more mass and less motion because of the confinement. Meanwhile, no change in mass has necessarily taken place and wouldn't without a huge input of energy, but the measurement relationships may be useful to model actual relativistic phenomena because the mathematics are similar in the two situations. How terribly naive of a reading is that, and how would you better explain it to me?
Democracy doesn't guarantee the people get what they want or even what they need, but it does a good job of giving them what they deserve.
Iraqis hurting Iraqis is not only a possible outcome of self-government. To some extent it is a necessary outcome of self-government. A US pullout will not put a complete stop to crime. Even if the crimes are not politically motivated or (para)military in nature, some level of crime and of law enforcement response will continue in any country. Nowhere on Earth is Eden.
They target two different parts of the market.
For one, unlike in game consoles, Microsoft is not a core hardware provider in the PC space. They only sell peripherals and software. They go after the commodity OS market.
Apple is a hardware and software vendor. They don't want the commodity OS market on commodity hardware, and have fought hard not to allow OS X to be used on commodity hardware. They have a limited breadth, deep stack market with high margins. That's the way they like it. Setting up a central software market for the Mac lets them bring the type of control of experience they've leveraged on the iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, and iPad to the Mac. It also allows them to expose their core software market to many smaller vendors in one place, and for Apple itself to have some level of quality control over third-party software.
For Microsoft, letting everyone develop and distribute lets them hold on to the widespread use they worked so hard (legally and illegally) to get. For Apple, having control over the quality of third-party apps and offering third-party vendors things like Apple DRM, Apple-sponsored marketing, Apple-paid distribution, and Apple endorsements in exchange for a payment of tribute lets them consolidate control over their most powerful differentiator: nearly identical user experience across applications.
Honestly, I think if Apple mishandles this it'll be disastrous for the Mac. If they execute the plan well, though, it could be a huge strength for them. It's a high-stakes, moderate risk play with huge payoff potential.
What's more, the centralized application repository is popular and familiar among Linux users. We're quite used to making the decision between a fully vendor-supported repository, a third-party repository, and stuff we install ourselves and must update ourselves. Since OS X is a high-end desktop Unix with its own custom user interface (with the option of X), using long-time Linux and BSD software distribution methods makes sense to me. Let's just hope they execute it well and fairly.
I don't think you realize where the grain silos, elevators, barges, warehouses, and trucks really are. Sure, if there was a major catastrophe you wouldn't have bananas in Kansas or Illinois, but you'd have hogs, cattle, wheat, corn, soy, and chickens enough that hadn't already been shipped to the metropolitan areas.
General Mills has one of its biggest plants in a town of under 20,000 right on the Mississippi River in Missouri. DOT Foods is the largest independent grocery and food service redistribution company in the US, and they are based in a town of fewer than two thousand people in rural Illinois. Bunge, Cargill, ADM, and Monsanto have plants all over small and medium towns in the Midwest. Texas and Missouri are the number one and two beef cattle producers in the country, and those steers don't live in condos and lofts.
Somewhat. Frequency hopping was invented to prevent radio-steered torpedoes from being jammed by the enemy.
Given the rise of cell phones, I'm not sure why we don't go back to just 23 channels rather than 40 anyway. Is the CB spectrum really crowded enough to still need 40 channels somewhere?
I'm surprised no MS fanboys have mentioned Unix as a "primitive tool" from New Jersey. I guess MS fanboys after about Windows 3.1 no longer know anything about Unix, though, and just know XP, Vista, and 7 vs. Linux and OS X. They might be vaguely aware that Solaris or AIX exists and that Irix and HP-UX have existed.
Morse is binary. It just uses a synchronization signal rather than a fixed length character.
I'll answer the GP and the parent in one post.
The need for rapid communications was less when travel was slower, but the Roman empire still stretched all the way to the modern UK. Faster capital to outpost and outpost to capital communications would have been handy, because although travel was slow the organizations of the time still covered vast territories.
The telegraph, besides only being needed by a large, spread-out population, requires quite a bit of cooperation between those groups at each end. A radio or radio telegraph once understood would make more sense for rebuilding a civilization than a wired telegraph, because you'd want to be able to do certain things with it a wired telegraph system can't do: move it around, locate and contact people you haven't already built a telegraph line to, maintain only the endpoints rather than the whole distance of the wires, and save the metal from the wires for other things.
The hard part would be showing it to someone in one of these wonder-filled civilizations that would appreciate it rather than being burned for witchcraft in, say, most of Europe during the Dark Ages.
Winter is when we hunt and eat canned goods already canned in the fall.
Apparently the solenoid, light, or speaker is a separate exercise. I guess his "telegraph" works by putting your tongue against the ends of the wires to sense the voltage or something.
I agree. Most of what they do though to get their credentials is in medical school and in field training. Only a small part of it is in a traditional college atmosphere like many other fields use almost exclusively. The premed cert or undergraduate degree for an MD is just the beginning.
The undergraduate portion of an MD's education is mostly just qualifying that person to get into medical school. It's the specialist school, the clinicals, the internship, the residency, and the board exams that make someone an doctor. It's not the premed certificate.
There are trends that have gone on for years in the magazine publishing industry. One is that if Newsweek puts a bear on the cover, the stock market is going to go up. The other is that if PC World pans your technology, it's about to take off.
Personally, I find the rights of self-defense and community defense both inalienable, as are all the basic human rights only codified and not granted in the Bill of Rights.
If you really want to know the solution for IM apps screwing with cell towers, it isn't taking away IM apps. It's making SMS cheaper.
I really don't think in middle America 20 or 25 years ago you could have done anything about it. It was common and accepted.
My point is that when it comes to organizing a militia, common interest and self-interest are the same or nearly the same, because we as individuals have to be that militia and can't leave it to others. If you are only taking care of your immediate self-interests against an organized enemy, then there's no point in fighting, because you'll be run right over. You can only protect your self interests by protecting the interests of your neighbors, too.