So youre saying that just because they are involved in tech stuff they deserver the ability and excuse to not pay the same taxes as everyone else (should be)?
That's what I just said, wasn't it.
That short minded and really really stupid.
Please give a reason before making a dumb statement like this.
If thats the case then I am developing tech in my home and I shouldnt have to pay taxes either, but youre not so you should have to pay them, and pay more each year to fill in the gaps left by others who dont pay their taxes. Doesnt sound too fair does it?
If you have results to show, then I think it is fair for you to pay less tax because you're advancing human capability and knowledge, which will ultimately benefit everyone.
Science and technology is the only way to make the pie bigger (and it doesn't do this by paying taxes), if any firm deserves a break it's the tech firms.
Source code is only useful if you can be certain that the compiled code comes from the source code you reviewed, similarly design diagram is only useful if you are certain the actual hardware follows the diagram given to you; and this will need to be checked for every unit you bought.
30 cents is 1.8 RMB, it won't even buy you breakfast in China. China can certainly use more robots, then it will be just in the same place as the US, no more cheap labor advantage.
Robotic arms are: a. Expensive, so it couldn't be used for everything; b. Dangerous, so it can't be mixed with human workers; c. Takes a long time to customize, so unfit for small product runs.
And does everything pretty well, Baxter and its descendants are built to replace Humans. If Humans are cheap, learning quick and adapt to change fast, we just need to build the robot to be cheaper, learning quicker and adapt to change faster, I don't see why Robots cannot be built to do this given the advances we already had.
Not in my case. Bought W510, big disappointment, it overheats badly after a year, it also has random BSOD when walking up from a new dock. Now I switched to Dell M6600, and it has done pretty well so far, no overheating whatsoever and no random BSOD. Dell's metal casing also feels good (No I didn't drop it and don't plan to, I'm not sure that's a good assessment method for quality)
Of course Dell doesn't beat Thinkpad on everything, there're things I miss from Thinkpad:
a. System Update: I don't understand why Dell doesn't have something similar, very convenient tool
b. Fingerprint scanner: Dell's only work 50% of the time, it also doesn't boot the machine so I had to press power button
c. Thinkpad's dock: Big and solid, Dell's dock is very small, but on the other hand it's cheap, universal and give the laptop plenty of room to dissipate heat.
Overall I'm very satisfied with Dell's high end laptop would buy them again in the future, they are not as convenient as Thinkpad but I value stability much more than convenience.
Throwing words like PR, fucking or clueless around just to cover up your baseless claim is pathetic, and good use of kitchen analogs, that'll solve everything (not).
It's in AviationWeek but behind a paywall, you can find the link in SpaceX website, for actual Chinese launch price you can check the PDF from FAA which you probably already have seen: LM4B=$50M, LM3B=$60M, LM3A=$50M, considering the payload capability of LM3A/3B/4B, I think the statement is not far fetched.
Of course your price for Atlas V is correct, so yeah the price difference is that big, yet.
I'm interested in reading how:
1. Smaller engines are cheaper to develop and build than big engines
2. SpaceX had to use more complex/heavier/expenise plumbing system and thrust structure.
From my reading, they're using 9 engines because this is the engine they developed for Falcon-1, which is a small rocket, by reusing it they get Falcon-9 ready fast and cheap, so it's more like "making applepie out of apples".
And there is the hope that once SpaceX gets the reusable rocket working, the cost would really go down a lot. They just tested the first staging reusable prototype a few days ago, so they're actively working on it.
nor better, they just copied the technology from foreign HST manufacturers, same as the manned space program where they're copying Russian hardware. Trust me the Wal-Mart stuff are the good stuff produced by China, the Chinese export industry has fairly good quality since the foreign market has more strict consumer protection laws, if you think the things in Wal-Mart are bad, you don't want to know what's in China's domestic market. The progress China is making is nothing new, Taiwan, S. Korean and other Asian countries did the same in the 1970s and 1980s, this is no different except in a larger scale.
like since you have never been to one. In your imagination, socialist countries are equivalent to paradise, this is understandable given the problems you're facing, but I'm sorry to say your belief is incorrect. I don't know much about Cuba, but in the other so-called socialist countries, there're tons of people like you, and a lot of them don't even have roof over their head. On top of this, they're oppressed by the dictator and his cronies.
As for creativity and innovation coming from socialist countries, seriously? The one thing socialist fails miserably is innovation, since it requires freedom of thinking, freedom of communication, which is lacking in these authoritarian countries. Give me one thing a socialist country has innovated in the recent news, can you think of even one thing?
BTW, socialist countries are big on inheritance of power, Romney is nothing comparing to how Kim gives the country to his son or how Castro gives the country to his brother.
PS: All the word "socialist" in my posting should be quoted, these so-called socialist countries are far from the ideal of socialism and communism. I'm not a believer of capitalism, I believe in "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need", but authoritarian dictatorship is not the way to achieve this.
to a socialist country then? There're not many socialist countries left last time I checked, Cuba is probably the only one that is even close to socialism ideology. The problem with socialist countries are they tend to be dictatorships where laws do not matter, sure the dictator can pass legislation that favor individuals, but there's no check and balance to make sure the legislation is actually implemented, it's just a piece of paper to serve propaganda purposes.
It's used to manage the GSM/whatever protocol stack, which is time critical. The RTOS runs on baseband processor, which is separated from the application processor which runs the fancy UI and other non time critical stuff.
It's the difference between 19th century capitalism and today's, same economic system, but vastly different in terms of consumer protection, worker's rights, etc.
It's the only way to compete with China's cheap labor. It's strange that when robotic manufacturing and military robots come up as a topic in/., tons of people worry about it will take away jobs or laugh at it; but when topic like this comes up they run around scared.
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no long-term planning either. Call it bottom-up design, self-organize, whatever, the fact is that how Nature does things and it works.
So youre saying that just because they are involved in tech stuff they deserver the ability and excuse to not pay the same taxes as everyone else (should be)?
That's what I just said, wasn't it.
That short minded and really really stupid.
Please give a reason before making a dumb statement like this.
If thats the case then I am developing tech in my home and I shouldnt have to pay taxes either, but youre not so you should have to pay them, and pay more each year to fill in the gaps left by others who dont pay their taxes. Doesnt sound too fair does it?
If you have results to show, then I think it is fair for you to pay less tax because you're advancing human capability and knowledge, which will ultimately benefit everyone.
Science and technology is the only way to make the pie bigger (and it doesn't do this by paying taxes), if any firm deserves a break it's the tech firms.
Source code is only useful if you can be certain that the compiled code comes from the source code you reviewed, similarly design diagram is only useful if you are certain the actual hardware follows the diagram given to you; and this will need to be checked for every unit you bought.
China's total tax burden is the 2nd highest in the world.
30 cents is 1.8 RMB, it won't even buy you breakfast in China. China can certainly use more robots, then it will be just in the same place as the US, no more cheap labor advantage.
I don't see a single equation or number...
Robotic arms are: a. Expensive, so it couldn't be used for everything; b. Dangerous, so it can't be mixed with human workers; c. Takes a long time to customize, so unfit for small product runs.
And does everything pretty well, Baxter and its descendants are built to replace Humans. If Humans are cheap, learning quick and adapt to change fast, we just need to build the robot to be cheaper, learning quicker and adapt to change faster, I don't see why Robots cannot be built to do this given the advances we already had.
China and US electricity prices are not that different
It won't be like Bigelow BA 2100, they're looking for an ISS module, not another ISS. Other sources say the module will only be about 1 ton.
Not in my case. Bought W510, big disappointment, it overheats badly after a year, it also has random BSOD when walking up from a new dock. Now I switched to Dell M6600, and it has done pretty well so far, no overheating whatsoever and no random BSOD. Dell's metal casing also feels good (No I didn't drop it and don't plan to, I'm not sure that's a good assessment method for quality)
Of course Dell doesn't beat Thinkpad on everything, there're things I miss from Thinkpad:
a. System Update: I don't understand why Dell doesn't have something similar, very convenient tool
b. Fingerprint scanner: Dell's only work 50% of the time, it also doesn't boot the machine so I had to press power button
c. Thinkpad's dock: Big and solid, Dell's dock is very small, but on the other hand it's cheap, universal and give the laptop plenty of room to dissipate heat.
Overall I'm very satisfied with Dell's high end laptop would buy them again in the future, they are not as convenient as Thinkpad but I value stability much more than convenience.
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r in the same package, how about that, Mr. photographer?
when you got nothing to backup your ridiculous claims and FUD, it's good to see you're at least consistent.
Throwing words like PR, fucking or clueless around just to cover up your baseless claim is pathetic, and good use of kitchen analogs, that'll solve everything (not).
It's in AviationWeek but behind a paywall, you can find the link in SpaceX website, for actual Chinese launch price you can check the PDF from FAA which you probably already have seen: LM4B=$50M, LM3B=$60M, LM3A=$50M, considering the payload capability of LM3A/3B/4B, I think the statement is not far fetched.
Of course your price for Atlas V is correct, so yeah the price difference is that big, yet.
I'm interested in reading how: 1. Smaller engines are cheaper to develop and build than big engines 2. SpaceX had to use more complex/heavier/expenise plumbing system and thrust structure. From my reading, they're using 9 engines because this is the engine they developed for Falcon-1, which is a small rocket, by reusing it they get Falcon-9 ready fast and cheap, so it's more like "making applepie out of apples".
And there is the hope that once SpaceX gets the reusable rocket working, the cost would really go down a lot. They just tested the first staging reusable prototype a few days ago, so they're actively working on it.
nor better, they just copied the technology from foreign HST manufacturers, same as the manned space program where they're copying Russian hardware. Trust me the Wal-Mart stuff are the good stuff produced by China, the Chinese export industry has fairly good quality since the foreign market has more strict consumer protection laws, if you think the things in Wal-Mart are bad, you don't want to know what's in China's domestic market. The progress China is making is nothing new, Taiwan, S. Korean and other Asian countries did the same in the 1970s and 1980s, this is no different except in a larger scale.
like since you have never been to one. In your imagination, socialist countries are equivalent to paradise, this is understandable given the problems you're facing, but I'm sorry to say your belief is incorrect. I don't know much about Cuba, but in the other so-called socialist countries, there're tons of people like you, and a lot of them don't even have roof over their head. On top of this, they're oppressed by the dictator and his cronies.
As for creativity and innovation coming from socialist countries, seriously? The one thing socialist fails miserably is innovation, since it requires freedom of thinking, freedom of communication, which is lacking in these authoritarian countries. Give me one thing a socialist country has innovated in the recent news, can you think of even one thing?
BTW, socialist countries are big on inheritance of power, Romney is nothing comparing to how Kim gives the country to his son or how Castro gives the country to his brother.
PS: All the word "socialist" in my posting should be quoted, these so-called socialist countries are far from the ideal of socialism and communism. I'm not a believer of capitalism, I believe in "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need", but authoritarian dictatorship is not the way to achieve this.
to a socialist country then? There're not many socialist countries left last time I checked, Cuba is probably the only one that is even close to socialism ideology. The problem with socialist countries are they tend to be dictatorships where laws do not matter, sure the dictator can pass legislation that favor individuals, but there's no check and balance to make sure the legislation is actually implemented, it's just a piece of paper to serve propaganda purposes.
It's used to manage the GSM/whatever protocol stack, which is time critical. The RTOS runs on baseband processor, which is separated from the application processor which runs the fancy UI and other non time critical stuff.
It's the difference between 19th century capitalism and today's, same economic system, but vastly different in terms of consumer protection, worker's rights, etc.
It's the only way to compete with China's cheap labor. It's strange that when robotic manufacturing and military robots come up as a topic in /., tons of people worry about it will take away jobs or laugh at it; but when topic like this comes up they run around scared.