The article has several good points but got a little silly calling the Chinese government "secretive". sublim/Echelon/sublim Market confusion, ha, that is competition. Communist, well maybe, but its one of the most capitalistic countries on Earth. The conclusion the article drew, that China would isolate itself, is a laugher. China is a huge chunk of the human population and is self-sufficient in every way. Immagine if every device in China was incompatible with the rest of the world, then only the bigwigs in China would be making all the money and controlling all the content, and therefore the populace. You have to understand that if it meant going back to the stone age, China would do it, just to keep the ruling class in power. The dirty politics of monopolist big communications business is on the same level as in the United States. If you follow the history of Qualcomm you will see that China has basically, ass-raped them. If China didn't have a brutal population control in place, half the world would be Chinese and we all would be outsiders. To the average Chinese, we are but a tiny part of _their_ world.
Other countries/companies create competing standards, too. If Sony doesn't want to pay royalties, they come out with a competing standard, get market share, and cross-license. Don't believe it? Next time you buy your CD+R/-R/+RW/-RW/DVD+R/-R/+RW/-RW/RAM drive you may have have to choose between Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, or now, the Chinese EVD. Remember that only about 45% of US households have a DVD player, even though they cost $39. The MPAA would love to replace this DVD standard with a more secure medium anyway.
Instead of abandoning the patent system, China is using it in a competitive way. My grandpa invented things and patented them just to have US corporations work around his patents as soon as he filed them. If you file a patent, you are screwed, if you don't file, you are screwed. I hope this TD-SCDMA is not a work around for S-CDMA, as S-CDMA was invented by someone I happen know. (I hope they pay him.)
China is its own world; kinda like a whole other planet. A lot of Chinese have never even heard of other races, let alone, seen another person from one. I have lived in China for short periods of time. While there, I felt like a Martian walking down the street, because of the excitement it would cause. When I step out to the curb, people would lock onto me with their eyes, and stare until they crashed their bike or motorcycle, two blocks away. The police would shoo me away, so then I would step into a store and the sales girls would all run away laughing. In this area, they had seen Caucasians on TV, but not in RL. Everywhere I went, they would gasp "Gwy-Lo!". Once, while passing a restaurant at night, one patron stood, pointed and yelled; it was like being Godzilla. After a few weeks, it gets old. But, I digress... Basically, the only control other countries have is to control the flow of Chinese products and hope they don't move into your major industries.
Anyway, there could not have been life yet because that was mere few hundred million years after Earth's formation
I wouldn't be too sure about that. Some scientists believe life existed prior to the formation of the moon, and they have some evidence to back it up. LINK
Risk of an American dying in a car 1 in 100. Doesn't anyone else find this number really inflated. Lets use round numbers: 300M people, divide by 100, = 3M dead Americans. Now lets divide that by an average life span of say, 75 years = 40K dead citizens per year. YIKES, jibes with stats normally thrown around.
Come to think of it, a truck travelling well over 100 MPH missed my fully loaded family van by a couple feet tonight. Of course Earth experienced something similar not long ago. How come that doesn't seem to make me feel more secure? Drunk driving should be a capital offense and we ought to spend a little to track near Earth object as well.
The surface of the moon is covered with the evidence of your astronomical odds. All we are asking for is the amount of money a single McDonalds hamburger stand makes, to fund improved detection and tracking of these objects.
I too, was looking for property in Kansas a few years ago. A silo would be my dream home. As we were driving up to one of the properties, there was a horrible stench and we started getting orange mud on our car. We passed some people frantically working with a tractor beside the road. Turns out, these MinuteMan II silos have a network of chemical lines running between them, and occaisionally a tractor cuts one open by mistake. The realestate person was very nervous and not forthcoming with details. I'm sure it was quite toxic dispite her reassurances. She was a-sweatin'. Anyway, shattered my dreams. I have a friend who used to inspect the MinuteMan II silos. The silo featured in this article housed a different type of rockets.
The "magic" you speak of is quite possible. It would not cost the government much more than five million to develop something similar to T.W.I.N.K.L.E. and since this was proposed about five years ago, they have had plenty of time to build it.
Of course, you are assuming they don't already have backdoors
(NSA_KEY)
in most people's computers already. Do I even need to mention ECHELON and CARNIVORE?
As an engineer at a leading cable modem company, I can tell you that the first request from the FBI to be able to tap anywhere, anytime was not technically feasable. Tapping into a QAM-256 link at a random point in the cable is next to impossible. To resolve the signal you have to be synchronized exactly with the cable modem and it is already syncronized to the head end. The modulation code can be updated about every 40mS as well. Just to give you an idea how tight the tolerances are, we have to compensate for expansion in the length of the cable due to the sun heating it during the day, every few minutes.
The US government has covered up a range of things; if my memory is correct: leaks of radioactive iodine in Washington, radioactive fallout in Utah, and a huge list of other crimes, but my bet is most people probably think the government will not be able to cover-up a super-eruption.
Nobody knows when it will erupt. I believe the guy believes the site is stable. I assure you, after it goes off, whenever that is, lots of geology textbooks will need to be updated.
So what are the chances a near Earth astroid will hit the caldera?
It is sad when there are so few choices for Windows content delivery these days. It is a sad day every day when nearly all delivery methods are the spawn of villans from world domination cabals. This is what we have come to. The head of these companies down to the contracted foreign programmers should all be ashamed of themselves. Is this what is takes to survive in the corporate world these days? I certainly hope that this downturn reflects people's will to avoid infecting their computers with this crap.
So now I'll have to restrict my copies to just the pre-1990 series. Or better yet, move on to printing stock certificates.
At one point we were about to start our Susan B. Anthony line, but then the right-wingers killed the dollar coins. It cost the gov four cents to make, and we, being privately owned were able to cut the cost to less than 3 cents. Now they're coming back with a tan, but they're as rare as two-dollar bills and most clerks reject them out-of-hand.
Oh, and yes, old change machines do accept single-sided xerox copies. Xerox is just not as patriotic as HP.
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Always dreamed of working in electronics but lived in Salt Lake City. First job, garbageman Need I say more.
Skip a few years.
Worked on a team with some of the coolest people on the planet in, Santa Cruz CA. Living in a place that has trees, beaches, geeks. (trees are a big plus) This fun and successful team designed a product so good, the owners of the company decided they would never need another one.(or design team)
1995: Followed the lead guy to a cable modem startup. (this is before the Web was a household term) Being an internet junky, I jumped at the chance. WhooHooo! what a ride. Being an engineer for a tiny startup which actually survived the bubble. 16 hour days, 7 days a week, working with a close team of geniuses, feining the "startup life", people with sleeping bags under the desk. watching it grow. watching the product of your work revolutionize communications. countless people addicted to your pet. becoming a paper-multimillionaire. driving the curviest, most leathal mountain road in the country 18 times per week in a sports car. All the while, married to an understanding mail-order bride, "Go make money".
Just when I think life can get no better, I get surprised.
Ever wonder how many naturally occuring computer viri are out there. With all these cosmic rays, overheated hardware, flakey harddrives and software bugs it would be amazing we haven't run into a little 512 byte virus, yet. Eventually, computers will become self aware:^)
One of the systems I worked on had checksums on the data ever point in the system. It was checked in hardware every time it crossed a bus or was stored. This improved the reliability considerably.
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The article has several good points but got a little silly calling the Chinese government "secretive". sublim/Echelon/sublim Market confusion, ha, that is competition. Communist, well maybe, but its one of the most capitalistic countries on Earth. The conclusion the article drew, that China would isolate itself, is a laugher. China is a huge chunk of the human population and is self-sufficient in every way. Immagine if every device in China was incompatible with the rest of the world, then only the bigwigs in China would be making all the money and controlling all the content, and therefore the populace. You have to understand that if it meant going back to the stone age, China would do it, just to keep the ruling class in power. The dirty politics of monopolist big communications business is on the same level as in the United States. If you follow the history of Qualcomm you will see that China has basically, ass-raped them. If China didn't have a brutal population control in place, half the world would be Chinese and we all would be outsiders. To the average Chinese, we are but a tiny part of _their_ world.
Other countries/companies create competing standards, too. If Sony doesn't want to pay royalties, they come out with a competing standard, get market share, and cross-license. Don't believe it? Next time you buy your CD+R/-R/+RW/-RW/DVD+R/-R/+RW/-RW/RAM drive you may have have to choose between Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, or now, the Chinese EVD. Remember that only about 45% of US households have a DVD player, even though they cost $39. The MPAA would love to replace this DVD standard with a more secure medium anyway.
Instead of abandoning the patent system, China is using it in a competitive way. My grandpa invented things and patented them just to have US corporations work around his patents as soon as he filed them. If you file a patent, you are screwed, if you don't file, you are screwed. I hope this TD-SCDMA is not a work around for S-CDMA, as S-CDMA was invented by someone I happen know. (I hope they pay him.)
China is its own world; kinda like a whole other planet. A lot of Chinese have never even heard of other races, let alone, seen another person from one. I have lived in China for short periods of time. While there, I felt like a Martian walking down the street, because of the excitement it would cause. When I step out to the curb, people would lock onto me with their eyes, and stare until they crashed their bike or motorcycle, two blocks away. The police would shoo me away, so then I would step into a store and the sales girls would all run away laughing. In this area, they had seen Caucasians on TV, but not in RL. Everywhere I went, they would gasp "Gwy-Lo!". Once, while passing a restaurant at night, one patron stood, pointed and yelled; it was like being Godzilla. After a few weeks, it gets old. But, I digress... Basically, the only control other countries have is to control the flow of Chinese products and hope they don't move into your major industries.
Anyway, there could not have been life yet because that was mere few hundred million years after Earth's formation
I wouldn't be too sure about that. Some scientists believe life existed prior to the formation of the moon, and they have some evidence to back it up. LINK
Risk of an American dying in a car 1 in 100. Doesn't anyone else find this number really inflated. Lets use round numbers: 300M people, divide by 100, = 3M dead Americans. Now lets divide that by an average life span of say, 75 years = 40K dead citizens per year. YIKES, jibes with stats normally thrown around.
Come to think of it, a truck travelling well over 100 MPH missed my fully loaded family van by a couple feet tonight. Of course Earth experienced something similar not long ago. How come that doesn't seem to make me feel more secure? Drunk driving should be a capital offense and we ought to spend a little to track near Earth object as well.
The surface of the moon is covered with the evidence of your astronomical odds. All we are asking for is the amount of money a single McDonalds hamburger stand makes, to fund improved detection and tracking of these objects.
I too, was looking for property in Kansas a few years ago. A silo would be my dream home. As we were driving up to one of the properties, there was a horrible stench and we started getting orange mud on our car. We passed some people frantically working with a tractor beside the road. Turns out, these MinuteMan II silos have a network of chemical lines running between them, and occaisionally a tractor cuts one open by mistake. The realestate person was very nervous and not forthcoming with details. I'm sure it was quite toxic dispite her reassurances. She was a-sweatin'. Anyway, shattered my dreams. I have a friend who used to inspect the MinuteMan II silos. The silo featured in this article housed a different type of rockets.
The "magic" you speak of is quite possible. It would not cost the government much more than five million to develop something similar to T.W.I.N.K.L.E. and since this was proposed about five years ago, they have had plenty of time to build it.
Of course, you are assuming they don't already have backdoors (NSA_KEY) in most people's computers already. Do I even need to mention ECHELON and CARNIVORE?
As an engineer at a leading cable modem company, I can tell you that the first request from the FBI to be able to tap anywhere, anytime was not technically feasable. Tapping into a QAM-256 link at a random point in the cable is next to impossible. To resolve the signal you have to be synchronized exactly with the cable modem and it is already syncronized to the head end. The modulation code can be updated about every 40mS as well. Just to give you an idea how tight the tolerances are, we have to compensate for expansion in the length of the cable due to the sun heating it during the day, every few minutes.
CALEA is in the PacketCable spec, which is the VoIP over cable. is the standards organisation for North America. Euro-DOCSIS specs are usually a close copy to the DOCSIS specs with a few minor differences like 8MHz bands instead of 6MHz bands we enjoy.
The US government has covered up a range of things; if my memory is correct: leaks of radioactive iodine in Washington, radioactive fallout in Utah, and a huge list of other crimes, but my bet is most people probably think the government will not be able to cover-up a super-eruption. Nobody knows when it will erupt. I believe the guy believes the site is stable. I assure you, after it goes off, whenever that is, lots of geology textbooks will need to be updated. So what are the chances a near Earth astroid will hit the caldera?
Forget motorized wipers, way too heavy and bulky. Use muscle wire instead.
It is sad when there are so few choices for Windows content delivery these days. It is a sad day every day when nearly all delivery methods are the spawn of villans from world domination cabals. This is what we have come to. The head of these companies down to the contracted foreign programmers should all be ashamed of themselves. Is this what is takes to survive in the corporate world these days? I certainly hope that this downturn reflects people's will to avoid infecting their computers with this crap.
At one point we were about to start our Susan B. Anthony line, but then the right-wingers killed the dollar coins. It cost the gov four cents to make, and we, being privately owned were able to cut the cost to less than 3 cents. Now they're coming back with a tan, but they're as rare as two-dollar bills and most clerks reject them out-of-hand. Oh, and yes, old change machines do accept single-sided xerox copies. Xerox is just not as patriotic as HP.
Skip a few years.
Worked on a team with some of the coolest people on the planet in, Santa Cruz CA. Living in a place that has trees, beaches, geeks. (trees are a big plus) This fun and successful team designed a product so good, the owners of the company decided they would never need another one.(or design team)
1995: Followed the lead guy to a cable modem startup. (this is before the Web was a household term) Being an internet junky, I jumped at the chance. WhooHooo! what a ride. Being an engineer for a tiny startup which actually survived the bubble. 16 hour days, 7 days a week, working with a close team of geniuses, feining the "startup life", people with sleeping bags under the desk. watching it grow. watching the product of your work revolutionize communications. countless people addicted to your pet. becoming a paper-multimillionaire. driving the curviest, most leathal mountain road in the country 18 times per week in a sports car. All the while, married to an understanding mail-order bride, "Go make money".
Just when I think life can get no better, I get surprised.
By the way, we are hiring.
Ever wonder how many naturally occuring computer viri are out there. With all these cosmic rays, overheated hardware, flakey harddrives and software bugs it would be amazing we haven't run into a little 512 byte virus, yet. Eventually, computers will become self aware :^)
One of the systems I worked on had checksums on the data ever point in the system. It was checked in hardware every time it crossed a bus or was stored. This improved the reliability considerably.
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