Americans need to learn the skills required to provide profitable services to others. Then people will hire them, or they can start their own businesses.
The "no fanfare" bit - was that because Obama and Carter were Democrat? Or was there some other difference(*) that no one has noticed?
The difference is: 1) During the campaign, Trump explicitly called for a "Muslim Ban" and 2) the Trump ban caught people in the air off guard and lead to them being detained for hours under great uncertainty or unexpectedly deported.
If Trump had simply said "no new visas" instead of stranding people in handcuffs at airports, and if he did not already call for a Muslim Ban, few would care.
President of the United States is also Chief Marketing Officer of the United States. If you say stupid things and do stupid things, it makes the USA look bad. Obama, Clinton, Reagan all did a much better job than Trump, they were slick.
So elect a President who is slick, not one who is a dick...
Everyone in WWI had good trade relations with one another
Not everyone. Much of Western Europe belonged to a highly interdependent subsystem of states in which crises arose but were resolved peacefully. By contrast, economic interdependence was much shallower in most of Eastern Europe and parts of Central Europe. The Ottoman Empire, Serbia, Austria-Hungary, and several other newly independent Balkan states traded relatively little with each other. Unlike in the interdependent West, crises in this region tended to escalate to war.
It is no coincidence that World War I was sparked among the non-interdependent states in Eastern Europe. Economic ties played an important role in averting escalation to major warfare in the crises that led up to the Great War, especially in the first and second Balkan wars. These crises, however, produced the need for the more economically integrated countries, most importantly Germany and Russia, to demonstrate an increasing resolve to support their weaker, less interdependent, allies, Austria-Hungary and Serbia. Alliances tightened after Germany and Russia took turns backing down under the pressure of war in previous crises. Tighter alliances increased the leverage of Balkan allies, but only by in effect handing the foreign policies of the interdependent powers over to countries that were less well integrated into the world economy, and thus had fewer reasons not to engage in war.
If nothing is moving, increasing the frame rate should only slightly increase your bit rate, because H.264 is pretty good at predicting form past frames, especially with a GOP size of 128 frames.
My largest issue with the paper is they did not describe the depressurizing process.
They uploaded the paper in October to ArXiv and said "As of the writing of this article we are maintaining the first sample of the first element in the form of solid metallic hydrogen at liquid nitrogen temperature in a cryostat. This valuable sample may survive warming to room temperature and the DAC could be extracted from the cryostat for greatly enhanced observation and further study. Another possibility is to cool to liquid helium temperatures and slowly release the load to see if SMH is metastable."
That was months ago, what the heck happened since then?
(Boston did not blow up...)
Also note that this paper was about SOLID metallic hydrogen. Another group previously claimed creation of LIQUID metallic hydrogen at low pressures but high temperatures.
I have noticed that at least in Los Angeles, since Uber has taken hold, almost all Taxis that pick up at LAX have begun to fully support credit card operation, even American Express. I never get the "cash only" or "machine not working" excuse any more...but it shows how competition from Uber has shaken up the Taxi industry, for the better.
Also many Taxis now have an "app" with a map like Uber's, but I tried it once and watched a cab coming to pick me up stay in one place for almost one half an hour before bothering to start driving towards me...
The fact is that IBM just reported its 19th straight quarter of declining revenue. They will have zero jobs soon unless they turn it around.
IBM cognitive solutions and technology/cloud platforms divisions reported small year-over-year revenue increases. Meanwhile, global business services saw revenues sliding 4% lower, and systems sales came in 12.5% below the year-ago period.
Sony Pictures reported an operating loss of $64.9 million on revenues of $3.28 billion for the six months ending in September.
But television program production is doing OK, Sony now sees the combined movie and TV unit generating about $8 billion in revenue for the fiscal year, with an operating profit of $25 million.
Qualcomm holds patents in all kinds of things. In 5G, it holds Standards Essential Patents in the Radio Access Network (RAN), modulation & waveforms, and core networking.
In RAN, centimetre wave (10GHz-30GHz) and millimetre wave (30GHz-300GHz) radio, beam steering or beamforming techniques, and massive MIMO IP are held by Nokia, Ericsson and Qualcomm.
In modulation, 5G requires non-orthogonal transmission schemes, rather than the OFDM of LTE-Advanced. Some schemes under consideration include Filter-Bank Multi-Carrier (FBMC) transmission, Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier (UFMC) transmission and Generalised Frequency-Division Multiplexing (GFDM).
In networking technologies, Network function virtualisation (NFV) and software defined networks (SDN), Inter-Node Coordination and backhaul, Access Link Integration, Self Organising Network (SON) technology, Context Aware Networking, Information Centric Networking, not to mention good old WiFi. Nokia, Qualcomm, Cisco, Intel and Ericsson are the top IP holders.
The IEEE, like most SDOs do now, require RAND licensing of standards essential patents (SEPs). However the meaning of RAND has been changing over time (as companies discovered new ways to game the system, and SDOs responded).
That leaves Apple as the holdout supporting only codecs that require payment of a royalty to a patent pool.
Alternative, that leaves Apple as the holdout of supporting a codec whose intellectual property is not well understood, and might infringe on some submarine patents waiting to surface...
A car costs $300-$400 per month until you pay it off (especially if you include maintenance), that tends to be more than my typical business travel car rental.
My household has a single (gasoline) vehicle, the few times we really need a second car for around the town we use Uber, still cheaper than owning a second car.
"That's why when you last saw a movie on CBS or TBS, you didn't see fringing lines where-ever there was movement."
Indeed, no fringing lines on movement, but since most people leave motion interpolation on by default, they can see all kinds of weird things within 24p original material...
The claim is "they can express all colors at any level of brightness".
Currently every shipping consumer television (inorganic LED or OLED) can only display the DCI-P3 color primaries, making the entire color gamut a triangle substantially smaller than "all colors".
Newer sets are able to receive color information in a container based on ITU-R Rec. 2020 color primaries, however no sets can actually display the colors outside of DCI-P3 but inside ITU-R Rec. 2020. Moreover, even the gamut of Rec. 2020 is not "all colors."
To have a container for all colors with three primaries, you have to have color primaries that are not realizable, such as the CIE 1931 XYZ space or the ACES color space.
However no one has yet invented a display system that can display colors that are not realizable, because they are not realizable.
No system can display "all colors" additively, unless you use a system with color primaries based on all of the monochromatic colors (i.e. much more than three primaries - thousands). Four or five color primaries added together can get close. Allowing subtraction as well as addition of color primaries can help, but that is difficult to realize.
ATSC A/53 was adopted by the FCC as the US digital TV broadcasting system in 1996.
At the time, there was no standard method to carry 1080p60 10-bit production video. HD Serial Digital Interface (HD-SDI) topped out at 1.5 Gbps.
It wasn't until 1998 that SMPTE standardized 372M Dual link HD-SDI that could have even carried 1080p60. SMPTE 424M that could carry 1080p60 uncompressed in a single 3 Gbps SDI link did not show up until 2005.
When I've had Mechanical Turk do work, I have had many workers from the US, but also some from Europe and many from India. So plenty of workers are outside the US minimum wage zone.
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Americans need to learn the skills required to provide profitable services to others. Then people will hire them, or they can start their own businesses.
This is, in practice, Christians. (Muslims are the majority, other religions are almost non-existent in the given countries.)
There are about 30,000 Bahai's and 25,000 Zoroastrians in Iran. Probably 400,000 African indigenous religious followers in Sudan.
There are about 300,000 Iranian-born Americans.
The "no fanfare" bit - was that because Obama and Carter were Democrat? Or was there some other difference(*) that no one has noticed?
The difference is: 1) During the campaign, Trump explicitly called for a "Muslim Ban" and 2) the Trump ban caught people in the air off guard and lead to them being detained for hours under great uncertainty or unexpectedly deported.
If Trump had simply said "no new visas" instead of stranding people in handcuffs at airports, and if he did not already call for a Muslim Ban, few would care.
President of the United States is also Chief Marketing Officer of the United States. If you say stupid things and do stupid things, it makes the USA look bad. Obama, Clinton, Reagan all did a much better job than Trump, they were slick.
So elect a President who is slick, not one who is a dick...
Everyone in WWI had good trade relations with one another
Not everyone. Much of Western Europe belonged to a highly interdependent subsystem of states in which crises arose but were resolved peacefully. By contrast, economic interdependence was much shallower in most of Eastern Europe and parts of Central Europe. The Ottoman Empire, Serbia, Austria-Hungary, and several other newly independent Balkan states traded relatively little with each other. Unlike in the interdependent West, crises in this region tended to escalate to war.
It is no coincidence that World War I was sparked among the non-interdependent states in Eastern Europe. Economic ties played an important role in averting escalation to major warfare in the crises that led up to the Great War, especially in the first and second Balkan wars. These crises, however, produced the need for the more economically integrated countries, most importantly Germany and Russia, to demonstrate an increasing resolve to support their weaker, less interdependent, allies, Austria-Hungary and Serbia. Alliances tightened after Germany and Russia took turns backing down under the pressure of war in previous crises. Tighter alliances increased the leverage of Balkan allies, but only by in effect handing the foreign policies of the interdependent powers over to countries that were less well integrated into the world economy, and thus had fewer reasons not to engage in war.
Oracle co-founder Bob Miner is the son of Iranian immigrants. But I don't think that is who you are thinking of.
If nothing is moving, increasing the frame rate should only slightly increase your bit rate, because H.264 is pretty good at predicting form past frames, especially with a GOP size of 128 frames.
My largest issue with the paper is they did not describe the depressurizing process.
They uploaded the paper in October to ArXiv and said "As of the writing of this article we are maintaining the first sample of the first element in the form of solid metallic hydrogen at liquid nitrogen temperature in a cryostat. This valuable sample may survive warming to room temperature and the DAC could be extracted from the cryostat for greatly enhanced observation and further study. Another possibility is to cool to liquid helium temperatures and slowly release the load to see if SMH is metastable."
That was months ago, what the heck happened since then?
(Boston did not blow up...)
Also note that this paper was about SOLID metallic hydrogen. Another group previously claimed creation of LIQUID metallic hydrogen at low pressures but high temperatures.
I have noticed that at least in Los Angeles, since Uber has taken hold, almost all Taxis that pick up at LAX have begun to fully support credit card operation, even American Express. I never get the "cash only" or "machine not working" excuse any more...but it shows how competition from Uber has shaken up the Taxi industry, for the better.
Also many Taxis now have an "app" with a map like Uber's, but I tried it once and watched a cab coming to pick me up stay in one place for almost one half an hour before bothering to start driving towards me...
The fact is that IBM just reported its 19th straight quarter of declining revenue. They will have zero jobs soon unless they turn it around.
IBM cognitive solutions and technology/cloud platforms divisions reported small year-over-year revenue increases. Meanwhile, global business services saw revenues sliding 4% lower, and systems sales came in 12.5% below the year-ago period.
BTW if you are in Vegas, drive up to the Apex Solar Plant, and you will easily see the Hyperloop One test track.
Sony Pictures reported an operating loss of $64.9 million on revenues of $3.28 billion for the six months ending in September.
But television program production is doing OK, Sony now sees the combined movie and TV unit generating about $8 billion in revenue for the fiscal year, with an operating profit of $25 million.
You are correct that the H.265 intellectual property situation is also unclear...
Qualcomm holds patents in all kinds of things. In 5G, it holds Standards Essential Patents in the Radio Access Network (RAN), modulation & waveforms, and core networking.
In RAN, centimetre wave (10GHz-30GHz) and millimetre wave (30GHz-300GHz) radio, beam steering or beamforming techniques, and massive MIMO IP are held by Nokia, Ericsson and Qualcomm.
In modulation, 5G requires non-orthogonal transmission schemes, rather than the OFDM of LTE-Advanced. Some schemes under consideration include Filter-Bank Multi-Carrier (FBMC) transmission, Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier (UFMC) transmission and Generalised Frequency-Division Multiplexing (GFDM).
In networking technologies, Network function virtualisation (NFV) and software defined networks (SDN), Inter-Node Coordination and backhaul, Access Link Integration, Self Organising Network (SON) technology, Context Aware Networking, Information Centric Networking, not to mention good old WiFi. Nokia, Qualcomm, Cisco, Intel and Ericsson are the top IP holders.
The IEEE, like most SDOs do now, require RAND licensing of standards essential patents (SEPs). However the meaning of RAND has been changing over time (as companies discovered new ways to game the system, and SDOs responded).
That leaves Apple as the holdout supporting only codecs that require payment of a royalty to a patent pool.
Alternative, that leaves Apple as the holdout of supporting a codec whose intellectual property is not well understood, and might infringe on some submarine patents waiting to surface...
A car costs $300-$400 per month until you pay it off (especially if you include maintenance), that tends to be more than my typical business travel car rental.
My household has a single (gasoline) vehicle, the few times we really need a second car for around the town we use Uber, still cheaper than owning a second car.
Getting Linux to run under Windows is like paying a call girl to hold the Fleshlight for you.
Perhaps, but it combines an attractive user interface with picking up fewer viruses...
"That's why when you last saw a movie on CBS or TBS, you didn't see fringing lines where-ever there was movement."
Indeed, no fringing lines on movement, but since most people leave motion interpolation on by default, they can see all kinds of weird things within 24p original material...
The claim is "they can express all colors at any level of brightness".
Currently every shipping consumer television (inorganic LED or OLED) can only display the DCI-P3 color primaries, making the entire color gamut a triangle substantially smaller than "all colors".
Newer sets are able to receive color information in a container based on ITU-R Rec. 2020 color primaries, however no sets can actually display the colors outside of DCI-P3 but inside ITU-R Rec. 2020. Moreover, even the gamut of Rec. 2020 is not "all colors."
To have a container for all colors with three primaries, you have to have color primaries that are not realizable, such as the CIE 1931 XYZ space or the ACES color space.
However no one has yet invented a display system that can display colors that are not realizable, because they are not realizable.
No system can display "all colors" additively, unless you use a system with color primaries based on all of the monochromatic colors (i.e. much more than three primaries - thousands). Four or five color primaries added together can get close. Allowing subtraction as well as addition of color primaries can help, but that is difficult to realize.
ATSC A/53 was adopted by the FCC as the US digital TV broadcasting system in 1996.
At the time, there was no standard method to carry 1080p60 10-bit production video. HD Serial Digital Interface (HD-SDI) topped out at 1.5 Gbps.
It wasn't until 1998 that SMPTE standardized 372M Dual link HD-SDI that could have even carried 1080p60. SMPTE 424M that could carry 1080p60 uncompressed in a single 3 Gbps SDI link did not show up until 2005.
Vandenberg AFB is forecast to have 50% chance of precipitation Saturday, 80% Sunday and 60% Monday.
Iran has a legal (and regulated) market for kidneys. Donating a kidney is a mild risk, but frankly less of a risk than many professions.
Any business which cannot pay a living wage deserves to fail
So that means that any worker who cannot produce enough to earn a "living wage" deserves to be unemployed?
When I've had Mechanical Turk do work, I have had many workers from the US, but also some from Europe and many from India. So plenty of workers are outside the US minimum wage zone.