Ive been in US for 3 years, now both converting my visa to H1B and runnig green card process in parallel. I have to say, for a country almost fully populated by immigrants, the approach to immigration is surprisingly tiresome and convoluted.
If my company wasnt paying me so well, and going out of their way to keep me here i would have given up a long time ago.
>>Apple could potentially hire someone to design replacement microprocessors and build them at TSMC
One does not simply "hire someone to design replacement microprocessors".
Years of institutional knowledge, team experience, wealth of libraries and design tricks, professional relationships between key people and many other factors make this ambition vary hard to fulfill. It's possible, but it takes years - having a ton of cash to throw at the problem helps, but does not substitute for time.
Not quite, or more precisely it very much depends on what do you want to use it for. Just one dumb example with far reaching implications - for the life of me, i cannot change my Sonos channels from my Linux machines, i actually keep a cheap chinese tablet for it.
if you did an objective comparison today of what is the easiest and best OS to run on your desktop/laptop for most people today, I truly believe Linux would come out on top.
Run, yes, but the point of computers for people is not running an OS - they actually want to use the damn things.
It evades missile detection systems primarily because it's not flying a rocket powered ICBM trajectory. And by going so fast, ground based radars would have a hard time tracking it. US does not have any "fast" cruise missiles in their arsenal right now, the bet was made on stealth instead ( AGM-129 ). China, Russia, and India have supersonic missiles in their arsenal, and hypersonics under development.
And no, nothing prevents cruise missiles from carrying nuclear warheads, most of them are designed for it. It's just much easier to shoot down subsonic cruise missiles than it is ICBMs that come in at hypersonic velocities.
The only system to be derived from it is a much faster cruise missile. Nothing more, nothing less. Considering that the rest of the worlds advanced militaries already employ supersonic cruise missiles, and hypersonic ones like BrahMos-2 are in development, its the logical step.
Sort of a success yes, at least it will not set off orbital and ground based ICBM detection systems - which is the ultimate goal for hypersonic missiles. Capability of aborting the strike, and oh, hitting the target would be nice to have too, of course.
There is another ( well actually there is a third one as well ) less publicized lander project at NASA, check out the flight videos at http://nasa.gov/roboticlander
Coincidentally, it just did a successful untethered test flight today, see http://twitter.com/nasamightyeagle
>>I suppose whether Android counts depends on whether you consider it a console.
Vizio just brought the $100 android powered GoogleTV unit to market. How is that not a console ?
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Sounds like year of the Linux Desktop to me !
Thats a tricky one to get out of. The only way to save face is to crash convincingly enough breaking some bones and the zune.
Ive been in US for 3 years, now both converting my visa to H1B and runnig green card process in parallel. I have to say, for a country almost fully populated by immigrants, the approach to immigration is surprisingly tiresome and convoluted.
If my company wasnt paying me so well, and going out of their way to keep me here i would have given up a long time ago.
>>Apple could potentially hire someone to design replacement microprocessors and build them at TSMC
One does not simply "hire someone to design replacement microprocessors".
Years of institutional knowledge, team experience, wealth of libraries and design tricks, professional relationships between key people and many other factors make this ambition vary hard to fulfill. It's possible, but it takes years - having a ton of cash to throw at the problem helps, but does not substitute for time.
Not quite, or more precisely it very much depends on what do you want to use it for. Just one dumb example with far reaching implications - for the life of me, i cannot change my Sonos channels from my Linux machines, i actually keep a cheap chinese tablet for it.
Polaroid abuses patients ?!? Who goes to Polaroid with their livers problems, anyway ?
Weeelll, its no paradise on this side either. The communist government of Debian has watched over me using this device called "popcontest" for years.
if you did an objective comparison today of what is the easiest and best OS to run on your desktop/laptop for most people today, I truly believe Linux would come out on top.
Run, yes, but the point of computers for people is not running an OS - they actually want to use the damn things.
(trusted means your credit card is on file with Apple)
I have one of these, bought it at Safeway for online shopping.
Also, comparing a well tuned video device driver versus the (usually) hastily written Linux one is a poor comparison.
I read this as : Linux is not for critics, because hastily written graphics drivers that mostly suck is what you get with it ?
Actually. Solomonian solution would permit both of them to have 2 rounded corners, and gray finish.
You still dont get it. Anonymous didnt post your details online, Sony did. Or more precisely, you gave them to Sony and Sony is careless with them.
It evades missile detection systems primarily because it's not flying a rocket powered ICBM trajectory. And by going so fast, ground based radars would have a hard time tracking it. US does not have any "fast" cruise missiles in their arsenal right now, the bet was made on stealth instead ( AGM-129 ). China, Russia, and India have supersonic missiles in their arsenal, and hypersonics under development.
And no, nothing prevents cruise missiles from carrying nuclear warheads, most of them are designed for it. It's just much easier to shoot down subsonic cruise missiles than it is ICBMs that come in at hypersonic velocities.
The only system to be derived from it is a much faster cruise missile. Nothing more, nothing less. Considering that the rest of the worlds advanced militaries already employ supersonic cruise missiles, and hypersonic ones like BrahMos-2 are in development, its the logical step.
Sort of a success yes, at least it will not set off orbital and ground based ICBM detection systems - which is the ultimate goal for hypersonic missiles. Capability of aborting the strike, and oh, hitting the target would be nice to have too, of course.
Considering that this things is meant for delivering warheads in a non-alarming manner .. New York to London is an interesting route.
I'd move to Vancouver from SF in a heartbeat if they sold beer in the grocery stores. As it is, thats a dealbreaker.
Care to calculate the voltage drop on that cable ?
How does your browser calculate remaining download time?
Mine does it ok, but some people get approximately this experience:
http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/windows-time-dialog.jpg
Sorry, .gov webmasters .. the correct link is http://www.nasa.gov/roboticlander
There is another ( well actually there is a third one as well ) less publicized lander project at NASA, check out the flight videos at http://nasa.gov/roboticlander
Coincidentally, it just did a successful untethered test flight today, see http://twitter.com/nasamightyeagle
Microsoft has more VPs and execs than that, so adjust your numbers.
Mod parent up. This is very much like Manna.
>>I suppose whether Android counts depends on whether you consider it a console.
Vizio just brought the $100 android powered GoogleTV unit to market. How is that not a console ?
That page got 19 errors, 17 warnings in W3C validator while claiming to be HTML5 ( a standard that is not finalized yet ) Clearly, it's not valid.