Nope.
First, losing parts of manufacturing to nations that free trade and have free money is NOT an issue. The money values change and then things will straighten up. China is not doing that. They have their money pegged to ours AND have trade barriers against the vast majority of goods.
Second, this deal is going through FINANCED MOSTLY BY AMERICAN AND TEXAN GOV. The Chinese got in on a small amount of financing on this.
Third, the Chinese plants are WELL KNOWN FOR BEING HORRIBLE. THey break down ALL THE TIME. There are American made plants that are great quality. Likewise, multiple companies out of EU as well. Sadly, GE makes theirs in China. But these 3rd party parts are PURE JUNK.
Right now, China is targetting America by tying their Yuan to the dollar. BUT, once they feel that we are down enough, then they will go after EU by tying to the Euro.
As somebody pointed out, this does not scale. In the end, if somebody is really wanting multiple systems, then they can simple create a dvd with multiple types on it. There is another solution though. Back in the late 80's/early 90's, the unix world was concerned about how a companies could create binaries for multiple systems. The best solution, though not implemented, was to compile to a universal binary, and then trans-compile this to a different arch. In light of all the work that has taken place on Java and now parrot, it may make far more sense to do that. With that approach, it would be possible to have various compilers go to a single arch, and then create a new back-end on compilers to take it to various archs.
Assume that there are more tubes up there (and most likely there are). These are perfect for starts of mines. That means that commercial space has a place to go. Basically, this is an opportunity to lower the costs to future exploration that I suspect that Bigelow and other billionares will take advantage of. Combine that with a hotel, and I think that Bigelow, musk and others will be all over it.
Bigelow is supposedly working on digging to bury his BA-330s. I wonder if he has considered a way to get something like even the sundancer down there. In addition, unless this is at the pole, it will mean that nuclear power will be required (or an incredible amount of energy storage). TO be honest, I would think that having a small nuclear reactor would be great so that temps would be easy to maintain.
But the problem is that all sorts of ppl are out working diligently to get 7 installed on systems, fighting configuration, checking how much is exposed to the net, finding out what apps are broken, etc. Basically, it will be a year before these ppl pull their head out of their system and are actually able to play with another OS.
Actually, that was for the fools on AOL, etc. Others of us working in the industry back in the 80's, had "free" connections. Of course, it was to either a university, OR to a high tech company. And when I started, I could not get on the speedy modems of 300, or even the 110. I was restricted to 75 baud. Besides the modem for a 300 was over 1K, which back then WAS a lot of money.
Actually, china and America are exporting close to the same amount. The largest exporter is currently EU. My guess is that if China decided to go after America, then EU would step in as would Americans. Whats more, if China ever decides to kill exports to America, watch China's economy collapse. Right now, America can come up MUCH quicker into production, than China could EVER sell elsewhere.
The idea is for NASA to have a heavy launch and then do it at least once every 2 months, but better would be once a month. As to light to medium, that is what EELV, SpaceX, SS3, etc are doing. What is needed is for NASA to stimulate the space business so that commercial flights take off, which would ultimately lead to needing heavy launch needs. Obama/Dems/NASA HAVE the ability to do this stimulus with relatively LITTLE money. We will see if they will the right thing.
Another useful source on this is check out wiki on the 1962 border war. In many ways, it is just like today. China is claiming certain resources, building up military on their border and then telling India that it is nothing.
China is also doing more than just military exercises on the Indian front. They have been fairly quietly moving a number of missiles into place. Also, they have put a couple of their nuclear Ballistic missile and attack subs into the Indian Ocean. With China working hard to make friendly with Pakistan and Bangladesh, China is about to put a chokehold on India when they need to.
Also google for China, India and Brahmputra. China has been quietly getting ready to build a dam on one of India's and Bangladesh's major source of waters. China has denied it all along and even now, when they are moving nearly 1/2 million ppl that are on the banks of the Brahmputra, they are STILL claiming that they will not dam it. The real issue is that this river provides water to the eastern side of India, and then move much, if not all of the water to the yellow river.
Roughly, China is in a game of chess with western friendly nations. They can do more of this simply because Western resources are tied up with AQ. The only good news on this is that China WAS quietly helping AQ has now managed to piss off AQ and OBL has now sworn to attack China's western regions.
The NSA has produced MANY reports saying this. Sadly, many ppl do not take it serious because they claim that it is part of the American gov. So, this was spun off to allow an independent look at it. And now, fools are claiming that they should not be the ones doing it.
In the end, it does not matter what happens HERE. What matters is what Obama and the current pols (dems) as well as the entire western/western friendly gov. will do.
the Chinese hackers doing this are mostly motivated by ultranationalist impulses. they are self-starting, they are not command and control from the central government. if they discover any informational gems, the desire to report this to the government is also completely voluntary and desirable from an individual nationalistic point of view. if useful enough, such hackers can be brought into the fold and become a genuine command and control tool of the government, but this is at the late stage of things
You are missing some VERY important parts to this. It is not just a crime to crack in China, but it is a death sentence if you are caught. OTH, Chinese gov. quietly rescinded that IFF the crackers will do only western citizens/countries/companies and then share the information with the gov.
This is an issue between China and the United States,
Actually, this is NOT an issue between China and America. It is an issue between China and the west. China is not just trying to undermine America, it is the entire west. That includes all countries that are west friendly. For example, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and India are slowly being intimidated. China is now pointing 1000's of missiles at Taiwan. In addition, they have started a new build-up of Missiles, and general military along the Indian border and is trying to lay claim to land that was decided over 100 years ago. They have started to grab water resources and are laying claim to areas of India that rich in natural resources. They did the same thing in 62 just before they attacked. This time, they have 8-10 ICBM launching subs as well as a quickly increasing number of missiles on that border.
Within the next decade, possibly 5 years, China is about to get VERY aggressive.
Numerous studies have been done and prove that the energy into it will be worse than what it is for any fossil fuel. Right now, the amount of energy on a cap is low, BUT with more RD work, that will change. OTH, the costs of hydrogen and oil will only continue upwards.
this will hold but a FRACTION of the energy that a regular battery powered bus will. It will only move several miles on a charge. Assume that the caps cost 20x for same amount of energy (they are not; they are less than 10X). But in this case, the bus will ONLY go several miles at most. OTH, electric buses are designed to go minimum 60 miles, which is at least 20x. So, worse case situation, the cap and battery costs the same (really not likely). The BIG difference is that the cap can be used easily for braking AND will last a lifetime. Batteries can not be used for braking AND will need to be replaced every couple of years.
For buses, and even metro trains, this is the right way to go.
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Nope.
First, losing parts of manufacturing to nations that free trade and have free money is NOT an issue. The money values change and then things will straighten up. China is not doing that. They have their money pegged to ours AND have trade barriers against the vast majority of goods.
Second, this deal is going through FINANCED MOSTLY BY AMERICAN AND TEXAN GOV. The Chinese got in on a small amount of financing on this.
Third, the Chinese plants are WELL KNOWN FOR BEING HORRIBLE. THey break down ALL THE TIME. There are American made plants that are great quality. Likewise, multiple companies out of EU as well. Sadly, GE makes theirs in China. But these 3rd party parts are PURE JUNK.
GE has been making wind plants in China all along. Oddly, it is EU companies that produce their wind generators in the states.
Right now, China is targetting America by tying their Yuan to the dollar. BUT, once they feel that we are down enough, then they will go after EU by tying to the Euro.
GE produces those wind generators IN CHINA, NOT in WESTERN NATIONS.
They are the ones that transferred that tech to them.
thought you were going to say that they installed a dual boot with windows.
It does not matter what in, but make it something that YOU enjoy.
As somebody pointed out, this does not scale. In the end, if somebody is really wanting multiple systems, then they can simple create a dvd with multiple types on it. There is another solution though. Back in the late 80's/early 90's, the unix world was concerned about how a companies could create binaries for multiple systems. The best solution, though not implemented, was to compile to a universal binary, and then trans-compile this to a different arch. In light of all the work that has taken place on Java and now parrot, it may make far more sense to do that. With that approach, it would be possible to have various compilers go to a single arch, and then create a new back-end on compilers to take it to various archs.
Assume that there are more tubes up there (and most likely there are). These are perfect for starts of mines. That means that commercial space has a place to go. Basically, this is an opportunity to lower the costs to future exploration that I suspect that Bigelow and other billionares will take advantage of. Combine that with a hotel, and I think that Bigelow, musk and others will be all over it.
Bigelow is supposedly working on digging to bury his BA-330s. I wonder if he has considered a way to get something like even the sundancer down there. In addition, unless this is at the pole, it will mean that nuclear power will be required (or an incredible amount of energy storage). TO be honest, I would think that having a small nuclear reactor would be great so that temps would be easy to maintain.
Window's 8 will fix all those issues, once Mac and Linux develop the solutions.
But the problem is that all sorts of ppl are out working diligently to get 7 installed on systems, fighting configuration, checking how much is exposed to the net, finding out what apps are broken, etc. Basically, it will be a year before these ppl pull their head out of their system and are actually able to play with another OS.
it worked for God. Miracles CAN happen, when you apply yourself.
Actually, that was for the fools on AOL, etc. Others of us working in the industry back in the 80's, had "free" connections. Of course, it was to either a university, OR to a high tech company. And when I started, I could not get on the speedy modems of 300, or even the 110. I was restricted to 75 baud. Besides the modem for a 300 was over 1K, which back then WAS a lot of money.
had they released it several days ahead of 7.
Actually, china and America are exporting close to the same amount. The largest exporter is currently EU. My guess is that if China decided to go after America, then EU would step in as would Americans. Whats more, if China ever decides to kill exports to America, watch China's economy collapse. Right now, America can come up MUCH quicker into production, than China could EVER sell elsewhere.
Hmmm. I think that the 35 billion is for BOTH Ares I and V, NOT ares I.
The idea is for NASA to have a heavy launch and then do it at least once every 2 months, but better would be once a month. As to light to medium, that is what EELV, SpaceX, SS3, etc are doing. What is needed is for NASA to stimulate the space business so that commercial flights take off, which would ultimately lead to needing heavy launch needs. Obama/Dems/NASA HAVE the ability to do this stimulus with relatively LITTLE money. We will see if they will the right thing.
ol dick would NEVER put jobs ahead of NASA lives. Nah. Never. hehehehehehehe
As the saying goes, google is your friend.
Another useful source on this is check out wiki on the 1962 border war. In many ways, it is just like today. China is claiming certain resources, building up military on their border and then telling India that it is nothing. China is also doing more than just military exercises on the Indian front. They have been fairly quietly moving a number of missiles into place. Also, they have put a couple of their nuclear Ballistic missile and attack subs into the Indian Ocean. With China working hard to make friendly with Pakistan and Bangladesh, China is about to put a chokehold on India when they need to.
Also google for China, India and Brahmputra. China has been quietly getting ready to build a dam on one of India's and Bangladesh's major source of waters. China has denied it all along and even now, when they are moving nearly 1/2 million ppl that are on the banks of the Brahmputra, they are STILL claiming that they will not dam it. The real issue is that this river provides water to the eastern side of India, and then move much, if not all of the water to the yellow river.
Roughly, China is in a game of chess with western friendly nations. They can do more of this simply because Western resources are tied up with AQ. The only good news on this is that China WAS quietly helping AQ has now managed to piss off AQ and OBL has now sworn to attack China's western regions.
The NSA has produced MANY reports saying this. Sadly, many ppl do not take it serious because they claim that it is part of the American gov. So, this was spun off to allow an independent look at it. And now, fools are claiming that they should not be the ones doing it.
In the end, it does not matter what happens HERE. What matters is what Obama and the current pols (dems) as well as the entire western/western friendly gov. will do.
the Chinese hackers doing this are mostly motivated by ultranationalist impulses. they are self-starting, they are not command and control from the central government. if they discover any informational gems, the desire to report this to the government is also completely voluntary and desirable from an individual nationalistic point of view. if useful enough, such hackers can be brought into the fold and become a genuine command and control tool of the government, but this is at the late stage of things
You are missing some VERY important parts to this. It is not just a crime to crack in China, but it is a death sentence if you are caught. OTH, Chinese gov. quietly rescinded that IFF the crackers will do only western citizens/countries/companies and then share the information with the gov.
This is an issue between China and the United States,
Actually, this is NOT an issue between China and America. It is an issue between China and the west. China is not just trying to undermine America, it is the entire west. That includes all countries that are west friendly. For example, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and India are slowly being intimidated. China is now pointing 1000's of missiles at Taiwan. In addition, they have started a new build-up of Missiles, and general military along the Indian border and is trying to lay claim to land that was decided over 100 years ago. They have started to grab water resources and are laying claim to areas of India that rich in natural resources. They did the same thing in 62 just before they attacked. This time, they have 8-10 ICBM launching subs as well as a quickly increasing number of missiles on that border.
Within the next decade, possibly 5 years, China is about to get VERY aggressive.
Hopefully, the bulk will come from there. My guess is that doing so would speed up the decision to an over night one.
Numerous studies have been done and prove that the energy into it will be worse than what it is for any fossil fuel. Right now, the amount of energy on a cap is low, BUT with more RD work, that will change. OTH, the costs of hydrogen and oil will only continue upwards.
this will hold but a FRACTION of the energy that a regular battery powered bus will. It will only move several miles on a charge. Assume that the caps cost 20x for same amount of energy (they are not; they are less than 10X). But in this case, the bus will ONLY go several miles at most. OTH, electric buses are designed to go minimum 60 miles, which is at least 20x. So, worse case situation, the cap and battery costs the same (really not likely). The BIG difference is that the cap can be used easily for braking AND will last a lifetime. Batteries can not be used for braking AND will need to be replaced every couple of years.
For buses, and even metro trains, this is the right way to go.