the morons at the Pentagon who want to put an incredibly expensive target into space which their soldiers will depend on and which can be cheaply taken out by anyone with access to what the commercialization of space folks have learned in the past decade
As far as I know Ahmed hasn't figured out how to get a car-bomb into geosynchronous orbit yet.
Ahh but the beauty of this plan is that the satellite is also a giant LASER. Here, let's share 10MW with that chinese anti-satellite facility ZAP ooo look deep fried...
No, I was just using metaphor to point out WHY we can't all get along. This world consists of those who want to fuck, and those who get fucked (even if they don't want to be). THAT is why we can't get along.
IT's a strap with a magnet glued on that vibrates in front of a length of copper wire. There's no magic, and the reference to the Tacoma Narrows bridge is just hype. Everyone knows that stuff moves in the wind. So if you cause a magnet to move in front of a wire, you will induce an e.m.f., which gives you voltage. The real science is probably how much tension you put in the strap, because you want it to move but not too much.
The U.S. is the bigger market, therefore it can negotiate trade agreements that are in its favor.
Not for long. Soon India and China will be the bigger markets. Their economies are growing at phenomenal rates, and will soon be able to afford more complex (and expensive) goods on an unprecedented scale: 3 billion people.
That said, I'd prefer that any developed country not have immigration rules in place at all, other than to block convicted felons.
I agree with opening up borders (my, what a huge redistribution of labor and talent we would have), but convicted felons? What? Even if they have served their time? If you think they are going to do it again, why do you let them out of jail? And if you let them out of jail, don't you think they deserve a 2nd chance at a normal life?
So nice of you to spend your time making it an even crappier place then. Imperialist fucks like you have no shame.
Nigeria - and in fact most african nations - fared a LOT better during the colonial era, standard of living-wise. Yet they whined about how they were being "exploited". So now they have self rule and have turned into thief dens and shitholes, and still there are idiots like you that try to blame this on "imperialists"? Get real, you cannot run a nation by robbing its people blind.
No, it can't. That argument was perhaps valid before the internet days. But now EVERYONE knows where P2P and torrent sites are, and how to use them. Anyone who can't find a cracked version in under 2 minutes is brain dead.
Since the eye candy is off-loaded to the GPU it doesn't take CPU time, so it is officially safe to ignore the rest of your post as ill-informed.
Since the poster said "processor time" and not "CPU time", and since the GPU is also a processor, it's safe to ignore you as a nit-picker who has no clue about what he's talking about. If I tie up the GPU with eye candy and need the GPU for something else at the same time, my system will run slower.
WHAT? Operating systems ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BREAK THINGS no matter how "new" they are. Microsoft has had DECADES of experience writing operating systems, Microsoft has INTIMATE knowledge of computer components and how they work, directly from chip makers and motherboard manufacturers, in fact at times Microsoft even has the clout to DICTATE which direction technology will progress. And yet they still manage to "break things"?
Give me a break (yes, it's redundant). For all you stick your tongue up Microsoft's corporate backside, you are not getting a free laptop. So please stop being a "gullible consumer" and stop accepting the "fact" that operating systems are supposed to break things when new. That's simply untrue, and Microsoft doesn't deserve to be "cut some slack".
IANAL however my understanding is that international law and treaties trumps domestic laws every time. Congress had no business passing a law that went against an international treaty. The US first should have withdrawn from the WTO. You can't have it both ways. However the American attitude is the usual "who is going to stop us" that has been prevalent since the '90s.
The Romans thought the same, once upon a time. Keep building up that animosity, America.
For $100Bn, it would probably be cheaper to "bring democracy to" Antigua. They should be careful what they wish for, soon those foreign online gambling organizations will find themselves with links to Al Qaeda they never knew they had. I also hear they are seeking to build nuclear weapons.
It promotes science when everyone suddenly has to find a way to work around the patent.
No, that is a silly statement. You think that progress is finding out a hundred different ways of doing the SAME THING? No, progress is finding out how to do something NEW.
You are merely falling into the Broken Window fallacy.
If people get paid for inventions, then they are more likely to continue to invent
But if people get paid even more for patent trolling, they are more likely to continue patent trolling.
How easy is it to invent something completely new, research it, manufacture it, market it, and try to profit from it? Now compare this to doing a bit of research, slightly modifying an existing process in a fairly obvious manner, patenting it, quietly waiting for a few years for big corps to adopt this fairly obvious advance, and then suing the crap out of everyone?
The basic idea behind patents is sound. However we MUST take into account the REALITY of the situation - patents are NOT helping progress, they are obstructing it. The world has changed. Now you can't be expected to become rich just by inventing something. You have to also figure out how to APPLY it.
"intellectual property" laws are selectively applied against foreign competition
Just another form of protectionism, in a world that has demonstrated rapid advances in technology where protectionism is not applied. God bless America, because nobody else is.
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the morons at the Pentagon who want to put an incredibly expensive target into space which their soldiers will depend on and which can be cheaply taken out by anyone with access to what the commercialization of space folks have learned in the past decade
As far as I know Ahmed hasn't figured out how to get a car-bomb into geosynchronous orbit yet.
Ahh but the beauty of this plan is that the satellite is also a giant LASER. Here, let's share 10MW with that chinese anti-satellite facility ZAP ooo look deep fried...
No, I was just using metaphor to point out WHY we can't all get along. This world consists of those who want to fuck, and those who get fucked (even if they don't want to be). THAT is why we can't get along.
Huh!? What d'ya think?
Great, provided we can store the energy and use it to electrocute the winner. In the name of preventing global warming, of course.
This has actually given me an idea to see if the same basic principle can be applied to a denser medium, ie water.
IT's a strap with a magnet glued on that vibrates in front of a length of copper wire. There's no magic, and the reference to the Tacoma Narrows bridge is just hype. Everyone knows that stuff moves in the wind. So if you cause a magnet to move in front of a wire, you will induce an e.m.f., which gives you voltage. The real science is probably how much tension you put in the strap, because you want it to move but not too much.
The U.S. is the bigger market, therefore it can negotiate trade agreements that are in its favor.
Not for long. Soon India and China will be the bigger markets. Their economies are growing at phenomenal rates, and will soon be able to afford more complex (and expensive) goods on an unprecedented scale: 3 billion people.
Yeah, well, but, why can't we all just get along?
Well we can, but first I require you remove your clothing and bend over.
I wonder why [some] westerners always come up with their pet projects and think these projects will solve third world problems.
Because the West (and more recently Japan) have clearly demonstrated themselves to be innovators.
There was not any engineering detail to go on from the video
Engineering detail? It's a strap with a magnet glued on, placed in front of a copper wire. Not much engineering there.
That said, I'd prefer that any developed country not have immigration rules in place at all, other than to block convicted felons.
I agree with opening up borders (my, what a huge redistribution of labor and talent we would have), but convicted felons? What? Even if they have served their time? If you think they are going to do it again, why do you let them out of jail? And if you let them out of jail, don't you think they deserve a 2nd chance at a normal life?
So? What the fuck are you trying to do, appeal to some sort of conscience? If you don't like it, GTFO.
You mean Rhodesia... :)
So nice of you to spend your time making it an even crappier place then. Imperialist fucks like you have no shame.
Nigeria - and in fact most african nations - fared a LOT better during the colonial era, standard of living-wise. Yet they whined about how they were being "exploited". So now they have self rule and have turned into thief dens and shitholes, and still there are idiots like you that try to blame this on "imperialists"? Get real, you cannot run a nation by robbing its people blind.
but it CAN stop casual piracy
No, it can't. That argument was perhaps valid before the internet days. But now EVERYONE knows where P2P and torrent sites are, and how to use them. Anyone who can't find a cracked version in under 2 minutes is brain dead.
The Paper Cut is going to hurt like hell.
Since the eye candy is off-loaded to the GPU it doesn't take CPU time, so it is officially safe to ignore the rest of your post as ill-informed.
Since the poster said "processor time" and not "CPU time", and since the GPU is also a processor, it's safe to ignore you as a nit-picker who has no clue about what he's talking about. If I tie up the GPU with eye candy and need the GPU for something else at the same time, my system will run slower.
For a supposedly Linux-centric site, they sure focus on Microsoft bad news more than anything else.
:P
No, we focus on Apple and Google too
Vista is nicer operating system
does not sit well with
Yes, it's new and breaks things
WHAT? Operating systems ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BREAK THINGS no matter how "new" they are. Microsoft has had DECADES of experience writing operating systems, Microsoft has INTIMATE knowledge of computer components and how they work, directly from chip makers and motherboard manufacturers, in fact at times Microsoft even has the clout to DICTATE which direction technology will progress. And yet they still manage to "break things"?
Give me a break (yes, it's redundant). For all you stick your tongue up Microsoft's corporate backside, you are not getting a free laptop. So please stop being a "gullible consumer" and stop accepting the "fact" that operating systems are supposed to break things when new. That's simply untrue, and Microsoft doesn't deserve to be "cut some slack".
IANAL however my understanding is that international law and treaties trumps domestic laws every time. Congress had no business passing a law that went against an international treaty. The US first should have withdrawn from the WTO. You can't have it both ways. However the American attitude is the usual "who is going to stop us" that has been prevalent since the '90s.
The Romans thought the same, once upon a time. Keep building up that animosity, America.
For $100Bn, it would probably be cheaper to "bring democracy to" Antigua. They should be careful what they wish for, soon those foreign online gambling organizations will find themselves with links to Al Qaeda they never knew they had. I also hear they are seeking to build nuclear weapons.
In before "troll" mod.
Well, it could spur drive makers to create a replacement technology to get round the ban.
Causing them to reinvent the wheel in a wasteful manner, instead of building on today's technology to develop tomorrow's technology.
It promotes science when everyone suddenly has to find a way to work around the patent.
No, that is a silly statement. You think that progress is finding out a hundred different ways of doing the SAME THING? No, progress is finding out how to do something NEW.
You are merely falling into the Broken Window fallacy.
If people get paid for inventions, then they are more likely to continue to invent
But if people get paid even more for patent trolling, they are more likely to continue patent trolling.
How easy is it to invent something completely new, research it, manufacture it, market it, and try to profit from it? Now compare this to doing a bit of research, slightly modifying an existing process in a fairly obvious manner, patenting it, quietly waiting for a few years for big corps to adopt this fairly obvious advance, and then suing the crap out of everyone?
The basic idea behind patents is sound. However we MUST take into account the REALITY of the situation - patents are NOT helping progress, they are obstructing it. The world has changed. Now you can't be expected to become rich just by inventing something. You have to also figure out how to APPLY it.
"intellectual property" laws are selectively applied against foreign competition
Just another form of protectionism, in a world that has demonstrated rapid advances in technology where protectionism is not applied. God bless America, because nobody else is.