That practice of subsidized exports is called "dumping" and tends to continue only until domestic production in the importing area ends, and then the price is jacked up to make up for the losses.
Basically, we're trying to win in the long term at the expense of the short term, instead of the opposite.
Daniel Hood's Fanuilh series - Fanuilh, Wizard's Heir, and Beggar's Banquet are also available as an omnibus called A Familiar Dragon and are quite satisfying - if you like mysteries, these are a compelling twist on the genre. If you like fantasy, well... you'll like fantasy and mysteries when you finish this series.
I recommend an obscure genre author named named Thorarinn Gunnarsson; his Make Way for Dragons! (Yes, the bang is part of the title) is a particularly brilliant work, blending high fantasy with slice-of-life drama and mixing it all together with some marvelous jokes. Later works in the series are a bit more high fantasy, but as they all include a character or two from Earth, they were really more like the first wave of urban fantasy. His characterization is excellent, and when he wants, he can set quite the scene - a lot of authors are capable of only one of the two. It's a slow starter, but the pace builds consistently and evenly to a satisfying climax; having read this book years before How to Train Your Dragon came out, the climactic battle in that one had me immediately flashing back to this book. (I suspect someone on the production team may have read this book, and found inspiration, but I can't say for certain.)
You also find out later in the series what happens when you give a distressingly bright mechanical engineer access to copious magical power and training.;-)
Another particularly intriguing fantasy novel is The Dark Lord of Derkholm and its sequel, Year of the Gryphon. The two narratives are separated by years, and while I could follow the plot when I read them out of order, the characters are much more compelling if you read them as they were meant. Once again, brilliant characterization and solid world building.
Actually, that's the doctrine on winning the Global War On Terror(TM) that's slowly moving up the food chain, if you follow political science journals.
So what happens when Google can be bankrupted by fines by not blocking thing A by country 1, or by blocking A, country 2 starts with the crippling fines?
It's a hypothetical at the moment, and I'm sure it will be complicated in practice, but a situation like this is not out of the question.
It means they have employees in the country that can be arrested or otherwise abused if Google doesn't comply. They're very diplomatic about it, but all of this content blocking is really done under duress.
I'll see if I can't find a bit more information about this guy from my professor.
Also - pre-adaptation? It's entirely possible that there's a recessive mutation in a regulatory gene; some people lack the entire gene complex or a significant portion, and others have it intact, but deactivated.
I figure once gene sequencing makes it mainstream, we may be able to elucidate this quickly and without drama. We may also be able to find drugs that reactivate a dormant night-vision complex, or supply the missing components.
I had a biology professor who studied with someone who had a tapetum lucidum, which was great fun when they were working on a field survey in the desert at night -- the guy almost got shot as an aggressive coyote until he got close enough for the others to see his outline. Fortunately, the professor wasn't a trigger happy sort of person.
Anecdotal reports in that class suggested that humans were selectively bred for lousy night vision; those whose eyes glowed in the dark were burned as witches or lynched as werewolves or whatever during the middle ages. Also, physics suggests that increasing light sensitivity by using a tapetum lucidum comes at a cost to resolving power and angular resolution.
Antimatter triggered fission is brick-simple and relatively trivial. Antimatter triggered fusion is... harder.
Laser-initiated fusion is possible as well, perhaps replacing all your large high power equipment with a flux compression ("bomb-pumped") generator. (This is distinct from a "bomb pumped laser", which is a term referring to an x-ray laser powered by an atomic explosion)
The pure-fusion bombs spoken of by NicknamesAreStupid are also known in a few publications as "fourth generation nuclear weapons"; all that I've read were unclassified and linked to/suggested by my sci-fi authors' resource of choice, Atomic Rockets. Some of the conclusions worth noting? Deuterium-tritium reactions are by far the easiest to ignite, and therefore the only feasible reaction for these, and release substantially all of their energy in the form of neutron radiation. The good: It couples very efficiently to metallic armor, letting you get by with a smaller bomb. The bad: While there are no fission byproducts, neutron activation of nearby materials will leave behind a glowing crater, though specific neutron energy levels suggest the total level of fallout will be smaller than a conventional nuke's ground burst. The ugly: The politics. You just fielded and used a neutron bomb. Also ugly is what happens if a tank clad in depleted uranium armor is near the target point - you may have just accidentally forced fission in thirty tons of tank armor. I don't even want to think about the explosive yield of that; if you're curious, go read about the difference between a lead tamper and a depleted uranium tamper. Start at the second paragraph of the "design" section. Let's also consider that Tsar Bomba only weighed 30 tons, including the primary and fusion stages and superstructure.
TL;DR
your ten kiloton planned clean detonation may trigger a fifty megaton, unplanned and dirty detonation.
If one is feeling creative, one could attach a large phenolic heat shield to the business end of one's kinetic-kill rod.
On the other hand, one can realize that before phenolic ablative heat shields were used, "hot metal" heat shields were the order of the day, and they simply relied on the ability of large pieces of metal to absorb huge amounts of heat before melting or boiling; the hot shield could then be jettisoned wholesale from the payload to be protected so that it didn't radiatively heat your space probe to its failure point.
I have no idea about the dynamics of temperature in hypervelocity impacts, but it seems reasonable that you'd lose some penetration and gain some blast radius if your projectile was white-hot at impact and about to boil anyway.
This sounds distressingly like the story of the CrunchPad, the iPad-preceeding tablet scheduled to sell for $150 that later became the JooJoo and sold for $600, after the manufacturing partner told TechCrunch that they would be moving on with the project on their own.
While it's true the manufacturing team did a great deal of work on making the CrunchPad something manufacturable, they got a lot of work done for them by TechCrunch.
Oh hey - the CrunchPad. TechCrunch made the look-and-feel of it publicly known before either of the products in question were launched, so I think that qualifies as prior art.
I was all set to build my next gaming rig around Nvidia's rumored ARM chips - after being locked out from making Intel compatible chipsets, rumor had it they first considered building an x86 processor in house, then decided to build an ARM chip because they could be more awesome.
Well, shit, what now?
Buy an AMD/ATI box? maybe, but Bulldozer kinda sucks.
Hope Intel can pull their head out of their ass regarding graphics? Not holding my breath.
Nvidia's ARM on Nvidia chipset? Actually, that sounds kinda exciting.
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That practice of subsidized exports is called "dumping" and tends to continue only until domestic production in the importing area ends, and then the price is jacked up to make up for the losses.
Basically, we're trying to win in the long term at the expense of the short term, instead of the opposite.
Daniel Hood's Fanuilh series - Fanuilh, Wizard's Heir, and Beggar's Banquet are also available as an omnibus called A Familiar Dragon and are quite satisfying - if you like mysteries, these are a compelling twist on the genre. If you like fantasy, well... you'll like fantasy and mysteries when you finish this series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hood#Fanuilh_series
I recommend an obscure genre author named named Thorarinn Gunnarsson; his Make Way for Dragons! (Yes, the bang is part of the title) is a particularly brilliant work, blending high fantasy with slice-of-life drama and mixing it all together with some marvelous jokes. Later works in the series are a bit more high fantasy, but as they all include a character or two from Earth, they were really more like the first wave of urban fantasy. His characterization is excellent, and when he wants, he can set quite the scene - a lot of authors are capable of only one of the two. It's a slow starter, but the pace builds consistently and evenly to a satisfying climax; having read this book years before How to Train Your Dragon came out, the climactic battle in that one had me immediately flashing back to this book. (I suspect someone on the production team may have read this book, and found inspiration, but I can't say for certain.)
;-)
You also find out later in the series what happens when you give a distressingly bright mechanical engineer access to copious magical power and training.
Another particularly intriguing fantasy novel is The Dark Lord of Derkholm and its sequel, Year of the Gryphon. The two narratives are separated by years, and while I could follow the plot when I read them out of order, the characters are much more compelling if you read them as they were meant. Once again, brilliant characterization and solid world building.
I'm not trying to excuse his behavior, just felt it was necessary to point out his relevant failings.
Growing old is chronological, but Edward clearly did not grow up.
This is 2012. Access to the Internet is ensconced by the U.N. as a basic human right.
Didn't you read the article? It's outright illegal to lay your own cable in some of these places.
You know who lives out in the sticks at one person per hundred square miles?
The people that grow our food.
Actually, that's the doctrine on winning the Global War On Terror(TM) that's slowly moving up the food chain, if you follow political science journals.
So what happens when Google can be bankrupted by fines by not blocking thing A by country 1, or by blocking A, country 2 starts with the crippling fines?
It's a hypothetical at the moment, and I'm sure it will be complicated in practice, but a situation like this is not out of the question.
Then He lacks imagination and subtlety.
It means they have employees in the country that can be arrested or otherwise abused if Google doesn't comply. They're very diplomatic about it, but all of this content blocking is really done under duress.
Then they just stopped playing in the realm of legalities and insults, and started committing acts of war.
We have a different set of rules for that.
I should have been more clear that was speculation on his part, I suppose.
I'll see if I can't find a bit more information about this guy from my professor.
Also - pre-adaptation? It's entirely possible that there's a recessive mutation in a regulatory gene; some people lack the entire gene complex or a significant portion, and others have it intact, but deactivated.
I figure once gene sequencing makes it mainstream, we may be able to elucidate this quickly and without drama. We may also be able to find drugs that reactivate a dormant night-vision complex, or supply the missing components.
I had a biology professor who studied with someone who had a tapetum lucidum, which was great fun when they were working on a field survey in the desert at night -- the guy almost got shot as an aggressive coyote until he got close enough for the others to see his outline. Fortunately, the professor wasn't a trigger happy sort of person.
Anecdotal reports in that class suggested that humans were selectively bred for lousy night vision; those whose eyes glowed in the dark were burned as witches or lynched as werewolves or whatever during the middle ages. Also, physics suggests that increasing light sensitivity by using a tapetum lucidum comes at a cost to resolving power and angular resolution.
Well, there's the bomb-pumped X-ray lasers of Project Excalibur.
Then there's the bomb-pumped particle beams of project Casaba-Howitzer, weaponized versions of the Orion Drive's nuclear "pulse units"
Also, I just found the paper I mentioned earlier on fourth-generation (pure-fusion) nuclear weapons. By the way, I suspect they would actually be an excellent choice for launching an Orion-drive starship, or even an interplanetary cruiser, as they may be clean enough for a ground launch without causing a small but noticeable global spike in cancer rates.
Antimatter triggered fission is brick-simple and relatively trivial. Antimatter triggered fusion is ... harder.
Laser-initiated fusion is possible as well, perhaps replacing all your large high power equipment with a flux compression ("bomb-pumped") generator. (This is distinct from a "bomb pumped laser", which is a term referring to an x-ray laser powered by an atomic explosion)
The pure-fusion bombs spoken of by NicknamesAreStupid are also known in a few publications as "fourth generation nuclear weapons"; all that I've read were unclassified and linked to/suggested by my sci-fi authors' resource of choice, Atomic Rockets. Some of the conclusions worth noting? Deuterium-tritium reactions are by far the easiest to ignite, and therefore the only feasible reaction for these, and release substantially all of their energy in the form of neutron radiation. The good: It couples very efficiently to metallic armor, letting you get by with a smaller bomb. The bad: While there are no fission byproducts, neutron activation of nearby materials will leave behind a glowing crater, though specific neutron energy levels suggest the total level of fallout will be smaller than a conventional nuke's ground burst. The ugly: The politics. You just fielded and used a neutron bomb. Also ugly is what happens if a tank clad in depleted uranium armor is near the target point - you may have just accidentally forced fission in thirty tons of tank armor. I don't even want to think about the explosive yield of that; if you're curious, go read about the difference between a lead tamper and a depleted uranium tamper. Start at the second paragraph of the "design" section. Let's also consider that Tsar Bomba only weighed 30 tons, including the primary and fusion stages and superstructure.
TL;DR
your ten kiloton planned clean detonation may trigger a fifty megaton, unplanned and dirty detonation.
If one is feeling creative, one could attach a large phenolic heat shield to the business end of one's kinetic-kill rod.
On the other hand, one can realize that before phenolic ablative heat shields were used, "hot metal" heat shields were the order of the day, and they simply relied on the ability of large pieces of metal to absorb huge amounts of heat before melting or boiling; the hot shield could then be jettisoned wholesale from the payload to be protected so that it didn't radiatively heat your space probe to its failure point.
I have no idea about the dynamics of temperature in hypervelocity impacts, but it seems reasonable that you'd lose some penetration and gain some blast radius if your projectile was white-hot at impact and about to boil anyway.
After eating your meatloaf of doom, will the resulting assplosion cut through sixty foot thick concrete?
This sounds distressingly like the story of the CrunchPad, the iPad-preceeding tablet scheduled to sell for $150 that later became the JooJoo and sold for $600, after the manufacturing partner told TechCrunch that they would be moving on with the project on their own.
While it's true the manufacturing team did a great deal of work on making the CrunchPad something manufacturable, they got a lot of work done for them by TechCrunch.
Oh hey - the CrunchPad. TechCrunch made the look-and-feel of it publicly known before either of the products in question were launched, so I think that qualifies as prior art.
If Windows-on-Arm takes off? I can certainly count on all the Valve ones, so most of the ones I care about.
I was all set to build my next gaming rig around Nvidia's rumored ARM chips - after being locked out from making Intel compatible chipsets, rumor had it they first considered building an x86 processor in house, then decided to build an ARM chip because they could be more awesome.
Well, shit, what now?
Buy an AMD/ATI box? maybe, but Bulldozer kinda sucks.
Hope Intel can pull their head out of their ass regarding graphics? Not holding my breath.
Nvidia's ARM on Nvidia chipset? Actually, that sounds kinda exciting.
but hey, GUESS WHAT?!
Thanks, Micro$oft.
That's why God gave us penicillin! ;)