Globally, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting richer.
But if the both the rich and poor get richer at 5% per year, the gap between them widens each year.
Moreover, the richer you are, the fewer children you have (especially since 1960), so the poor become a greater proportion of the population w.r.t. the few rich.
The rich getting richer may be a requirement for the poor to get richer as well, as the rich often are responsible for technological advancements and capital to help the poor get richer.
As opposes to Zimbabwe, where massive farm nationalization by the government has lead to the country producing less than half the food its people need.
Indian agricultural overproduction and lack of distribution, though, is government caused as well. They overpay farmers to produce, and much grain spoils in storage because of low prices. India is starting to reform though.
Gun-type uranium weapons are simple enough that testing is not needed. Nor are computers required for design. See "Little Boy" for an example of a weapon that was deployed before being tested. You may wish to test the neutron generator though if you want to be sure.
The first computer "bug" was found by Lieutenant Grace Murray Hopper while she was on Navy active duty in 1945.
A moth found trapped between points at Relay #70, Panel F, of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1945. The operators affixed the moth to the computer log, with the entry: "First actual case of bug being found". They put out the word that they had "debugged" the machine, thus introducing the term "debugging a computer program".
In 1988, the log, with the moth still taped by the entry, was in the Naval Surface Warfare Center Computer Museum at Dahlgren, Virginia.
The Mark II and the bug predated the ENIAC, which was formally dedicated at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania on February 15, 1946.
More importantly, I think one has to keep in mind that people are rational actors given their experience and organic motivations, not just money. Drugs and sex are potent motivators, and people rationally seek them out! And if you don't know about compound interest, you won't invest.
This doesn't make any sense to me. You would think in a low-density population, you could exploit TDMA to give extra empty timeslots away to increase average end-user bandwidth in underutilized cells.
But can you give away extra codes in CDMA to better utilize underutilized cells?
The problem is that China will undoubtedly face the choice between "velvet" and "violent" democratic revolution, especially once GDP per capita rises about $6000/yr. With nearly 10% growth rate, the timeframe on this is probably closer than we think (~5 years out).
What might happen is that the dangerously high growth rate will make Chinese wake up to the possibility of democracy, but it will take an economic implosion (provided probably by the failure of the state-run bank system and bizarrely pegged Yuan) to push the people over the edge to revolution.
With nukes at risk, this ought to be at least as "interesting" as the end of the Soviet Union. The question is when pushed to the edge, what will the Chinese Communist Party do? Wag the Dog and invade Taiwan?
While the resolution might be the same, it is true that DVDs are generally compressed better than SDTV both in terms of overall bitrate and also in terms of encoding quality. SDTV is usually encoded "on-the-fly," DVD encoding is a multi-pass slow non-real-time process that can do a better job.
On the other hand, over-the-air SDTV is generally better than DBS SDTV, because DBS will drop down to 2-3 Mbps whereas over-the-air SDTV is 4-5 Mbps.
Over-the-air standard-definition DTV is generally done at higher bitrates than DBS compression.
You don't really need a DTV television to watch standard-definition DTV, you can just buy a DTV receiver and hook it into your analog TV. Some will even downconvert high-definition TV to your analog TV set. Both will look better than analog TV.
If you want to watch high-definition TV and see all the detail, you will need a television set with HD resolution, which will be pricey ($1500 and up).
I watch HD DTV with a separate DTV reciever and an unused computer monitor. Most DTV receivers will have an RGB/VGA output. No, it isn't like my friend's 65 inch projection HD display, but cool to watch anyway.
Many over-the-air DTV broadcasters will have multiple standard-definition vidoe feeds per TV channel. Public television stations do this a lot, sometimes having four different video feeds per television channel during the day, and going down to one standard-def and one hi-def feed during prime-time.
For example, some PBS member stations will run a multicast with PBS Kids (kids shows) and PBS You (continuing education), along with their regular local standard-def video stream on their DTV channel during the day.
If you are serious about receiving over-the-air DTV transmissions and don't have an external antenna, you will want this: The Silver Sensor directional antenna. It is the standard in use by broadcaster labs for in-building reception. You should get a long length of coax so you can point the thing out your window, sometimes you need to get a reflection off of a neighboring building if you are not line-of-sight from the transmitter. Keep poking it around until you get a usable signal.
The United States now has an operational *manned* space port...seeing how nobody is going to be launching from anywhere else in the US for a year or so.
Earth rotation is of no value to range of sub-orbital launches, because while you do get additional free velocity from the earth rotating, the earth keeps rotating during your flight as well, negating any range advantage.
It helps in getting to orbit, because all you care about it velocity, not where you are going to land.
The funny thing is what if, in highly developed countries like the US, a fully-privatized education system actually creates a more educated populace than a socialized monopoly government operated system?
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Globally, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting richer.
But if the both the rich and poor get richer at 5% per year, the gap between them widens each year.
Moreover, the richer you are, the fewer children you have (especially since 1960), so the poor become a greater proportion of the population w.r.t. the few rich.
The rich getting richer may be a requirement for the poor to get richer as well, as the rich often are responsible for technological advancements and capital to help the poor get richer.
As opposes to Zimbabwe, where massive farm nationalization by the government has lead to the country producing less than half the food its people need.
Indian agricultural overproduction and lack of distribution, though, is government caused as well. They overpay farmers to produce, and much grain spoils in storage because of low prices. India is starting to reform though.
Gun-type uranium weapons are simple enough that testing is not needed. Nor are computers required for design. See "Little Boy" for an example of a weapon that was deployed before being tested. You may wish to test the neutron generator though if you want to be sure.
My Commodore PET 2001 from circa 1980 still boots up faster than my multi-GHz PC.
Of course, they both boot up into a Microsoft product...
Can anyone actually point to skywave QRM from BPL? Or is all the intereference detected so far local only?
BTW, I find power lines locally interfering with AM broadcast mobile reception today, somehow we still live.
The first computer "bug" was found by Lieutenant Grace Murray Hopper while she was on Navy active duty in 1945.
A moth found trapped between points at Relay #70, Panel F, of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1945. The operators affixed the moth to the computer log, with the entry: "First actual case of bug being found". They put out the word that they had "debugged" the machine, thus introducing the term "debugging a computer program".
In 1988, the log, with the moth still taped by the entry, was in the Naval Surface Warfare Center Computer Museum at Dahlgren, Virginia.
Image here.
The Mark II and the bug predated the ENIAC, which was formally dedicated at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania on February 15, 1946.
More importantly, I think one has to keep in mind that people are rational actors given their experience and organic motivations, not just money. Drugs and sex are potent motivators, and people rationally seek them out! And if you don't know about compound interest, you won't invest.
I'm sure you can map social security numbers into IPv6.
Ah I see. Synchronizing the time slots of multiple TDMA cells is probably a lot tougher than assigning orthogonal CDMA codes.
How about changing African governments so they are less corrupt and more business-friendly so people can get good jobs and afford food and Internet?
This doesn't make any sense to me. You would think in a low-density population, you could exploit TDMA to give extra empty timeslots away to increase average end-user bandwidth in underutilized cells.
But can you give away extra codes in CDMA to better utilize underutilized cells?
There was an interesting exchange between the Competitive Enterprise Institute which claims Linux is unsuitable for government, business use and Julian Sanchez from the Cato Institute, who thinks government should consider OSS if it fits their needs.
The problem is that China will undoubtedly face the choice between "velvet" and "violent" democratic revolution, especially once GDP per capita rises about $6000/yr. With nearly 10% growth rate, the timeframe on this is probably closer than we think (~5 years out).
What might happen is that the dangerously high growth rate will make Chinese wake up to the possibility of democracy, but it will take an economic implosion (provided probably by the failure of the state-run bank system and bizarrely pegged Yuan) to push the people over the edge to revolution.
With nukes at risk, this ought to be at least as "interesting" as the end of the Soviet Union. The question is when pushed to the edge, what will the Chinese Communist Party do? Wag the Dog and invade Taiwan?
Yeah, not at 19.39 Mbps over-the-air. Maybe on DVCAM or the other production quality MPEG-2 formats that are 200 Mbps and up.
While the resolution might be the same, it is true that DVDs are generally compressed better than SDTV both in terms of overall bitrate and also in terms of encoding quality. SDTV is usually encoded "on-the-fly," DVD encoding is a multi-pass slow non-real-time process that can do a better job.
On the other hand, over-the-air SDTV is generally better than DBS SDTV, because DBS will drop down to 2-3 Mbps whereas over-the-air SDTV is 4-5 Mbps.
Over-the-air standard-definition DTV is generally done at higher bitrates than DBS compression.
You don't really need a DTV television to watch standard-definition DTV, you can just buy a DTV receiver and hook it into your analog TV. Some will even downconvert high-definition TV to your analog TV set. Both will look better than analog TV.
If you want to watch high-definition TV and see all the detail, you will need a television set with HD resolution, which will be pricey ($1500 and up).
I watch HD DTV with a separate DTV reciever and an unused computer monitor. Most DTV receivers will have an RGB/VGA output. No, it isn't like my friend's 65 inch projection HD display, but cool to watch anyway.
Many over-the-air DTV broadcasters will have multiple standard-definition vidoe feeds per TV channel. Public television stations do this a lot, sometimes having four different video feeds per television channel during the day, and going down to one standard-def and one hi-def feed during prime-time.
For example, some PBS member stations will run a multicast with PBS Kids (kids shows) and PBS You (continuing education), along with their regular local standard-def video stream on their DTV channel during the day.
If you are serious about receiving over-the-air DTV transmissions and don't have an external antenna, you will want this: The Silver Sensor directional antenna. It is the standard in use by broadcaster labs for in-building reception. You should get a long length of coax so you can point the thing out your window, sometimes you need to get a reflection off of a neighboring building if you are not line-of-sight from the transmitter. Keep poking it around until you get a usable signal.
Rutan said something very cryptic today: "Orbit is closer than you may think".
I bet we get an interesting surprise next year...
The United States now has an operational *manned* space port...seeing how nobody is going to be launching from anywhere else in the US for a year or so.
I sent a Gmail invite to a hotmail user on Friday, he got it, and signed up for Gmail.
So you think Saddam Hussein should be put back in power then?
Earth rotation is of no value to range of sub-orbital launches, because while you do get additional free velocity from the earth rotating, the earth keeps rotating during your flight as well, negating any range advantage.
It helps in getting to orbit, because all you care about it velocity, not where you are going to land.
Good thing the Wright Brothers didn't need to telegraph to Washington, DC, for a flight permit when the winds were good at Kitty Hawk...
Rather than be overly commercial, let me direct you to the Python Job Board. It's on there.
The funny thing is what if, in highly developed countries like the US, a fully-privatized education system actually creates a more educated populace than a socialized monopoly government operated system?