Three years ago I was doing a SPICE simulation (SPICE uses doubles) for a radio receiver. The simulation ran into digital noise before the receiver would have, and it essentially ruined the critical part of the simulation. Software 128 bit floats is unacceptably slow.
The US only imports about 2.7% of its gross spending in terms of goods from China.
That's a dishonest way of expressing the data in the very article you cite. Chinese content is 9.3% of physical things sold in the US (that is, everything except services, which have to be local). That's a huge number, and it's mostly paid for (indirectly) by government debt rather than goods. Furthermore, that's an annual figure, indicating that every eleven years the US owes China another entire year's physical product GDP.
It isn't all bad news. By way of partial payment, we're allowing the Chinese to steal our technology and IP, too.
Banning child labor anywhere is in the range of ignorant to stupid, otherwise it is cruel and deadly.
In poor areas children work in order to earn enough to live, otherwise they die or suffer from malnutrition, disease, etc. In richer areas parents can afford to have their children invest in education. Poor people in areas rich and foolish enough to have child labor laws are in a real bind because they can't afford to support their children. Their children turn to illegal endeavors to raise money; drug sales and prostitution are particularly popular; all forms of theft, illegal dumping, and murder-for-hire are other possibilities. All this because some brain dead liberal can't stand to see children working.
I'll just handle the issue of landfill waste. Shipping it outside the atmosphere, let alone to the moon (Alice), is hideously expensive.
Let's assume your non-recyclable, non-compostable, waste comes to 1 cubic foot (compressed) a month. Set aside an area of desert for waste disposal 100 miles on a side. How long does it take for the 350 million people in the US to fill that area 1 mile deep? Answer: THREE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND YEARS.
Landfill waste problem: it is to laugh.
The US government is diluting its currency and opposing the development of energy resources. That causes electric bills to go up in numerical and real terms, respectively.
Then why don't they just seal the panel gaps when they build the car?
Production tolerances. Years ago, Consumer Reports tested a Buick and opened the passenger side door. The lower front portion of the door interfered with the body, resulting in a rather large and unsightly deformation of one or both. The door wasn't far enough away from the body to exceed production tolerances.
It's possible to get closer to a seal by doing what's done with windows: add a rubber strip. Alas, it looks lousy, wears poorly, and adds to cost.
When B. F. Goodrich T/A radials were new, high end racers that had to use "street tires" would use the T/As for racing after shaving the tread to half depth. Why? because a shallower tread means that the tread squirms less, and squirm means the thrust vectors of the friction on the contact patch aren't aligned (all pulling in the same direction). Similarly, higher tire pressure reduces squirm, improving traction as long as the contact patch isn't too badly reduced by the increased pressure.
On highways the hybrid design has no advantage over a conventional car,
I've been in a Prius carrying 3 people while it got close to 60 mpg on a highway. A lot of optimization has gone into that hybrid car, and it does give a mileage advantage at steady 40-50 mph over a conventional car.
The price difference was also an exaggeration, in the other direction. Since I don't see you giving that equal attention, the reasonable conclusion is that you're more interested in supporting your own argument and badmouthing hybrid owners than discovering the truth.
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Reading your diatribe would lead the naive reader to believe Intel's processors' benchmarks are substantially inferior to AMD's. Now that's comedy.
Three years ago I was doing a SPICE simulation (SPICE uses doubles) for a radio receiver. The simulation ran into digital noise before the receiver would have, and it essentially ruined the critical part of the simulation. Software 128 bit floats is unacceptably slow.
That's a dishonest way of expressing the data in the very article you cite. Chinese content is 9.3% of physical things sold in the US (that is, everything except services, which have to be local). That's a huge number, and it's mostly paid for (indirectly) by government debt rather than goods. Furthermore, that's an annual figure, indicating that every eleven years the US owes China another entire year's physical product GDP.
It isn't all bad news. By way of partial payment, we're allowing the Chinese to steal our technology and IP, too.
Banning child labor anywhere is in the range of ignorant to stupid, otherwise it is cruel and deadly.
In poor areas children work in order to earn enough to live, otherwise they die or suffer from malnutrition, disease, etc. In richer areas parents can afford to have their children invest in education. Poor people in areas rich and foolish enough to have child labor laws are in a real bind because they can't afford to support their children. Their children turn to illegal endeavors to raise money; drug sales and prostitution are particularly popular; all forms of theft, illegal dumping, and murder-for-hire are other possibilities. All this because some brain dead liberal can't stand to see children working.
I'll just handle the issue of landfill waste. Shipping it outside the atmosphere, let alone to the moon (Alice), is hideously expensive.
Let's assume your non-recyclable, non-compostable, waste comes to 1 cubic foot (compressed) a month. Set aside an area of desert for waste disposal 100 miles on a side. How long does it take for the 350 million people in the US to fill that area 1 mile deep? Answer: THREE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND YEARS.
Landfill waste problem: it is to laugh.
"Gore's CO2 market" is Al Gore's fraudulent and massively profitable trading of "carbon credits".
The US government is diluting its currency and opposing the development of energy resources. That causes electric bills to go up in numerical and real terms, respectively.
And if the US were serious about rights, the idea of forcibly closing coal mines would never be mentioned.
Coal can be used as a pigment.
I can't throw the man as hard. There's a good chance I won't be able to throw him at all.
It's written in transparent ink.
The "Justice" Department is Obama's tool of vengeance against those who oppose his holy proclamations.
Laws usually have many provisions, and each provision is separately vulnerable to attack.
Recreate the Carolina parakeet. The last one was killed by a damn fool ornithologist.
At a guess, it forms a eutectic at the border between the materials, and then the gold diffuses into the body of the solder.
Walk rhymes with hawk. Wok rhymes with hock.
He changed his name on entering the priesthood; he didn't want to be known as Father Dos Equis.
If you're interested in another problem with gold intermetallic compounds, look up "purple plague".
I'd guess that Cray is buying connectors from a well-established manufacturer, not fabricating their own.
Production tolerances. Years ago, Consumer Reports tested a Buick and opened the passenger side door. The lower front portion of the door interfered with the body, resulting in a rather large and unsightly deformation of one or both. The door wasn't far enough away from the body to exceed production tolerances.
It's possible to get closer to a seal by doing what's done with windows: add a rubber strip. Alas, it looks lousy, wears poorly, and adds to cost.
Turn off the engine.
The difference in improved fuel consumption over a given distance for your examples is 1:2.
When B. F. Goodrich T/A radials were new, high end racers that had to use "street tires" would use the T/As for racing after shaving the tread to half depth. Why? because a shallower tread means that the tread squirms less, and squirm means the thrust vectors of the friction on the contact patch aren't aligned (all pulling in the same direction). Similarly, higher tire pressure reduces squirm, improving traction as long as the contact patch isn't too badly reduced by the increased pressure.
I've been in a Prius carrying 3 people while it got close to 60 mpg on a highway. A lot of optimization has gone into that hybrid car, and it does give a mileage advantage at steady 40-50 mph over a conventional car.
The price difference was also an exaggeration, in the other direction. Since I don't see you giving that equal attention, the reasonable conclusion is that you're more interested in supporting your own argument and badmouthing hybrid owners than discovering the truth.