I am more concerned about the universe being 46 billion light years in all directions. That means we are in the center of the universe and that is a fact we can never tell religious wackos. Even in the milky way we know we we are not in the center but along the arm.
More likely we can only see 46 billion light years. That becomes the horizon we can't see beyond.
Apple was buying chips from Qualcomm that used ericdons tech. Qualcomm already pays ericson for the patent. Now Apple has to pay twice for the same product
Ah but there are times when relative numbers make better sense than absolute numbers.
However both should be given next to each other. Very few people realize we have a 4 trillion dollar budget and then worry about 5 million dollar spendin while ignoring 100 billion in spending.
That is like counting pennies and then eating out at five star restaurants every night
Only when done wrong. There are dozens of solar farms near me and I barely see them. The great thing about solar farms is 50 foot of trees at the edge of the property completely hides them from ground level.
The government got a first generation of the next generation of ships for $4.4 billion
The zumwalt does things no other vessel can do. It will be the platform from which the rail gun will be mounted. Need to fire faster? reroute power from propulsion to the rail gun. Need to go faster? ramp up the generators to 110% and cut off primary power to secondary systems. Yep it can do that. from the control room, which looks more like nasa mission control than the helm of a bridge.
I actually support the zumwalt. not because it is an awesome ship. but because it is using new technology and new concepts like being totally electric. You do have to push boundaries.
now the real waste is the F-35. To slow and easily out maneuvered in close air combat. BVR stealth is useless in the Close air support role, etc. An upgrade to the F-16 is needed, but they tacked on too much. For the $400 billion we have currently spent the Navy could have built an entire carrier battlegroup.(Ford class carriers are $14 billion)
Windows 10 auto downloaded to our work computers. However due to a glitch in Windows X it won't install and the installer crashes every time.
The work machines are just remote terminals. Only a couple of people need actual desktop. ( we use Remote Desktop to keep sessions and work across days/ desks. And it makes life easier for backups)
Many us bases actually are closed. the USA is constantly closing bases, and let's look at Japan, which had the real USA occupation force in it.
In 50 years japan went from an aggressive industrial country to pacifists the USA military occupation allowed japan to focus their resources not on military but on infrastructure, and production. allowing japanese companies to grow at massive rates.
Actual us military occupation boosts the local country. what normally happens is a partial occupation where we try to let the country become self sufficient to early (like Iraq) in the interest of letting the country stay sovereign.
Those countries always collapse into chaos.
The USA is mess and very egotistical. however can you imagine a world where putin's military was in control? Look at Crimera do you know about the armed rebels fighting the russian army there? The Tartars are pissed to be back under Russian control.
Except any basic fiscal analysis of airbus's patent will reveal that it won't ever happen. They added 30% to the weight of the aircraft. That weight will lower the number of passengers which will in turn cost more to operate.
With planes going to carbon fiber as aluminum is to heavy adding weight to a plane is useless.
All patents should only be granted to actual products produced within the first 5 years of the patents life.
Every county gets to make it's own laws. in NY that is generally how it is handled at the state level, however each county can add it's own fees to cover court and processing costs.
So you pay your fine and then another $30-$100 to cover the cost of court.
It is why gun laws are so poorly defined, and enforced. every county has it's own gun laws. not just state, but county.
The Big difference between Siri and Cortana, is you can manually enter information for Cortana to watch for and keep you updated on. Siri only can add new reminders, not even calendar entries.
That said i won't use either. maybe if i lived out of my car but in the real world talking to someone takes twice as long as writing an email.
I will settle for one that just synchronizes across all devices. like biology i prefer a mixed os lifestyle, even if I have a mac book and iPhone, My tablets are android just to be safe.
At the moment I manually deleted and re-add chrome bookmarks to Safari every once in a while. This keeps all those fairly close in sync. I have to do the same for contacts, too. fortunately I use google calendar, and gmail already so those stay in sync.
it gets better. They think closed captioning actually equals the scene on the screen.
Apparently they have never watched a movie with closed captioning or subtitles before. I have not yet seen one that was even 70% accurate to what was actually said, or done.
Part of that is simple wording you can't write out every line of dialog as fast as it is said. So they chop up the dialog to make it fit in the time they have. per scene.
It gets better. Adverts use in 30-50% of current bandwidth. By blocking add on the network the mobile company saves precious bandwidth instead of using data caps.
1). Companies are cheap personal data was the cheapest easiest solution to identifying users. Then companies realized they could sell that data to make more money too.
2) never assign to malice what can be adequately assigned to stupidity and greed
Trump recently stated he wanted to build a database of Muslims. Just like hitter had all Jews marked so he knew who was a Jew. Once you start down that path you are just a few steps away from rounding them up and mass exterminating them.
Right now everything trump says is suspect. He wants to build a fascist country and his most die hard supporters are the gun toting red necks.
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I am more concerned about the universe being 46 billion light years in all directions. That means we are in the center of the universe and that is a fact we can never tell religious wackos. Even in the milky way we know we we are not in the center but along the arm.
More likely we can only see 46 billion light years. That becomes the horizon we can't see beyond.
Not everyone has enough for a nest egg of safety.
When 75% of your income goes to rent the cheapest place you can find you aren't going to have a lot left overto live on.
large uncontrolled budget, with unlimited spending increases, and zero common fiscal sense.
A typical republican budget plan. The democrats at least pretend to justify their spending with increased in taxes.
Until we elect fiscally intelligent people(like you can spend more than you make) nothing will change.
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Apple was buying chips from Qualcomm that used ericdons tech. Qualcomm already pays ericson for the patent. Now Apple has to pay twice for the same product
Ah but there are times when relative numbers make better sense than absolute numbers.
However both should be given next to each other. Very few people realize we have a 4 trillion dollar budget and then worry about 5 million dollar spendin while ignoring 100 billion in spending.
That is like counting pennies and then eating out at five star restaurants every night
Only when done wrong. There are dozens of solar farms near me and I barely see them. The great thing about solar farms is 50 foot of trees at the edge of the property completely hides them from ground level.
They are crooks, do false positives matter?
only those who care about innocents worry about false positives.
The government got a first generation of the next generation of ships for $4.4 billion
The zumwalt does things no other vessel can do. It will be the platform from which the rail gun will be mounted. Need to fire faster? reroute power from propulsion to the rail gun. Need to go faster? ramp up the generators to 110% and cut off primary power to secondary systems. Yep it can do that. from the control room, which looks more like nasa mission control than the helm of a bridge.
I actually support the zumwalt. not because it is an awesome ship. but because it is using new technology and new concepts like being totally electric. You do have to push boundaries.
now the real waste is the F-35. To slow and easily out maneuvered in close air combat. BVR stealth is useless in the Close air support role, etc. An upgrade to the F-16 is needed, but they tacked on too much. For the $400 billion we have currently spent the Navy could have built an entire carrier battlegroup.(Ford class carriers are $14 billion)
Windows 10 auto downloaded to our work computers. However due to a glitch in Windows X it won't install and the installer crashes every time.
The work machines are just remote terminals. Only a couple of people need actual desktop. ( we use Remote Desktop to keep sessions and work across days/ desks. And it makes life easier for backups)
on a brad new device? windows 10 isn't 6 months old yet.
My 2009 macbook doesn't have any issues and i use it every day.
The difference is most stores stock a variety of apples. You only get one type of banana.
Banana's like coffee only grow in certain parts of the world and don't transplant easy. Apples grow in lots of places each with different flavors.
Many us bases actually are closed. the USA is constantly closing bases, and let's look at Japan, which had the real USA occupation force in it.
In 50 years japan went from an aggressive industrial country to pacifists the USA military occupation allowed japan to focus their resources not on military but on infrastructure, and production. allowing japanese companies to grow at massive rates.
Actual us military occupation boosts the local country. what normally happens is a partial occupation where we try to let the country become self sufficient to early (like Iraq) in the interest of letting the country stay sovereign.
Those countries always collapse into chaos.
The USA is mess and very egotistical. however can you imagine a world where putin's military was in control? Look at Crimera do you know about the armed rebels fighting the russian army there? The Tartars are pissed to be back under Russian control.
It is not a great solution. What happens when you don't live at ground level but on the second , third or 100th floor?
It doesn't factor in altitude.
At least in gps you could add altitude easily enough.
Except any basic fiscal analysis of airbus's patent will reveal that it won't ever happen. They added 30% to the weight of the aircraft. That weight will lower the number of passengers which will in turn cost more to operate.
With planes going to carbon fiber as aluminum is to heavy adding weight to a plane is useless.
All patents should only be granted to actual products produced within the first 5 years of the patents life.
Every county gets to make it's own laws. in NY that is generally how it is handled at the state level, however each county can add it's own fees to cover court and processing costs.
So you pay your fine and then another $30-$100 to cover the cost of court.
It is why gun laws are so poorly defined, and enforced. every county has it's own gun laws. not just state, but county.
because Siri sucks?
The Big difference between Siri and Cortana, is you can manually enter information for Cortana to watch for and keep you updated on. Siri only can add new reminders, not even calendar entries.
That said i won't use either. maybe if i lived out of my car but in the real world talking to someone takes twice as long as writing an email.
I will settle for one that just synchronizes across all devices. like biology i prefer a mixed os lifestyle, even if I have a mac book and iPhone, My tablets are android just to be safe.
At the moment I manually deleted and re-add chrome bookmarks to Safari every once in a while. This keeps all those fairly close in sync. I have to do the same for contacts, too. fortunately I use google calendar, and gmail already so those stay in sync.
it gets better. They think closed captioning actually equals the scene on the screen.
Apparently they have never watched a movie with closed captioning or subtitles before. I have not yet seen one that was even 70% accurate to what was actually said, or done.
Part of that is simple wording you can't write out every line of dialog as fast as it is said. So they chop up the dialog to make it fit in the time they have. per scene.
Ah I wondered why I couldn't get beyond some coins.
Might have to play on chrome and see if I can win it.
It gets better. Adverts use in 30-50% of current bandwidth. By blocking add on the network the mobile company saves precious bandwidth instead of using data caps.
Datacaps will kill internet advertisers.
1). Companies are cheap personal data was the cheapest easiest solution to identifying users. Then companies realized they could sell that data to make more money too.
2) never assign to malice what can be adequately assigned to stupidity and greed
Here is the issue with that
In China a once in a million year type event happens 1,300 times a year
Even a false positive rate of .0001% is 13 things to check out daily.
No one gets false positives that low.
Trump recently stated he wanted to build a database of Muslims. Just like hitter had all Jews marked so he knew who was a Jew. Once you start down that path you are just a few steps away from rounding them up and mass exterminating them.
Right now everything trump says is suspect. He wants to build a fascist country and his most die hard supporters are the gun toting red necks.
Even Hillary looks sane compared to that.
Since when has that ever not been the case?
Seriously when? the only way to legally challenge a bad law is by being the victim of it being used against you.
Do you not know how this country works? It is why we have innocent until proven guilty so we can challenge bad laws.
businesses switched to windows XP. about the time windows 7 came out.