I don't think that tariffs will help specifically, but if China would stop forcing an exchange rate with their currency then the problem would, to an extent, fix itself as China's currency becomes more expensive.
What we really need to do, IMHO, is to recognize the somewhat confrontational relationship we actually have with China, and to stop sending proprietary processes to China for manufacture. That might mean that China still makes the plastics and the PCB, but the parts get shipped here for soldering and final assembly. The best way to reduce the speed of knockoff copying is to not engage in manufacture in a place that essentially encourages knockoff copying. Sure, it'll still happen, but it'll take longer, especially when new devices eventually come out where the processes have changed and can't be instantly replicated in that environment.
I would figure avionics control cabling wouldn't be located that close to the passengers, and that it might instead be under the floor, but I could be wrong...
I don't give a damn about that once we are landed; that's a fairly short duration and if it helps people pull up the curb at the right time then that's fine.
...is the use of devices like Bluetooth mice and other short-range radio devices that don't communicate to a distance more than a few feet. I want to be able to use Bluetooth headphones and Bluetooth mice on a plane where getting tangled up with wires is a very unappealing prospect.
I'm not too worried about cell phones acting as such, as we'll be too high and going too fast to make that do any good (plus I don't want a plane full of chatterboxes), and I'm not terribly worried about wifi, as either the airline will provide a means for it or else they won't. The only time that for me, wifi might be useful is if I'm travelling with a group that's split up and we want to share text communication or else want to collaborate on documents. Then something ad-hoc might actually make sense.
Generally at the beginning, when one starts voluntarily aggregating it.
It's one thing to write a journal, it's another to maintain data when not required to. The stuff I keep organized are either all required (taxes and other mandated record keeping) or things that are part of collections that I don't want to buy in redundancy (movies, books, music), or things that need records to ensure reliability and functionality (auto and house maintenance).
Pictures we take are usually sorted just by date, and we occasionally browse through them, like a normal photo album. The only major exception to that is when we were house-hunting, and those pictures were functional records. Most of those house photos have been archived or deleted, unless we saw something cool that we'd want to do to our house.
I have red hair and my wife has red hair. I can tell you that skin gashes and getting jabbed friggin' hurts, and since I like working on old cars I get a lot of that kind of damage to my hands and arms, and I've never liked needles. I'll definitely never be an intravenous drug user or tattoo junkie.
Both of us have somewhat thin hair. I wonder if those redheads with really thick hair might have something different enough going on to where their pain receptors are not as sensitive.
Worse than that, it's why I don't trust anyone to host anything for me that I don't also have a copy of and a way to use that copy.
My wife wanted to get a subscription service for a Netflix-type movie service, given how much space 1600 titles take up with their packaging on our shelves. Thing is, they certainly don't have everything we have, and worse, if they choose to drop some titles or if their license ends, the titles are no longer available.
I think that relying on others like that is not a good idea.
Man is powerful because of his intelligence. The stupid should be left behind, to make room for the next stage of human evolution.
If it worked that way I might agree with you, but unfortunately generations upon generations exist without demonstrating this, and ultimately they act as a burden on progress because they don't understand it or what kinds of benefits can be found from it.
If you ever posted something (e.g. a newbie question) to a forum, or participated in some public event then we have Google to make sure that it will be instantly available to anyone who types your name into a search bar, until the planet is destroyed by man's inability to etc. etc.
How about thinking before asking questions and researching before asking questions?
There are also these things called handles, aliases, nicknames, etc, that one can use when subscribing to many different forums. They offer a bit of a veil of anonymity.
Scientists working on a safety and security related fields apparently need a legal safe-harbor from the government and industry.
I guess what bothers me about this is that normally the contents of the paper are justification enough to keep the lawyers away, as the paper is written by someone who's put a lot of time an research into the conclusion reached and by definition of putting it in a scientific paper, has cited sources, studies, and facts to back up the argument and ensure that no libel charge could stand.
In my experience being married to an MIT grad who's in aerospace/mechanical engineering type work, the underrepresentation of women in her workplace comes in part from conflicts of parenthood and what it can do to one's career, and in part from the field already being dominated by men, causing a corporate culture that's offputting without being outright illegal toward women. Tromping around military bases for testing in godforsaken parts of the US is probably easier for men who are encouraged to be macho and to follow the example of the military even though they're really just geeks, while women, generally not encouraged to deal with the military and generally prohibited from combat roles, don't have the same sense or kinship to macho culture.
I assume that other "macho" careers also suffer from this kind of inherent condition.
When my wife graduated from MIT, there was a big push by an offshore oil drilling company (don't know which one) to recruit female engineers to work on those platforms. They were not having a lot of success, but those who did go would essentially pay off their very expensive tuition in a year or two at most if they took the job.
Had the job not been so incredibly isolating around fairly rough men in addition to the dangerous conditions then it might have been easier to get women into the field. But, I think that the heightened concern for sexual assault in such an isolated environment was too much for many of these 22 year old women to risk.
1) put lots of (mostly) men down in holes in the ground.
2) Give them powered machinery that predominately runs on diesel power.
3) Fail to properly ventilate the hole in the ground (citation: all of the major mining disasters in the US in recent memory have cited poor ventilation and air circulation).
4) Act surprised when combustion gas fumes and particulates demonstrate being bad for said men?
5) Profit!
I guess we figured out the "???" step...
I understand the importance of mining. I understand also that the direct cost of what we purchase as finished products is based in part on extraction costs of those raw materials that go into finished products, but I have a hard time believing that minor increases in extraction costs because of safety and equipment improvements would massively increase the costs of finished products, and honestly, I'd be willing to pay a little more for something if it means I'm not at least mildly culpable in killing people in order to get it.
I don't think the Mayan calendar referred to this year as the end of the world, just as the end of an era. The Mayan culture resurging and taking over would certainly be a startling way to begin the next era...
Same can be said for the Romans, the Byzantines, Mongols, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, and every other major collapsed empire that had thousands upon thousands in cities that were lost to time or to diaspora.
If my descendants live in a country that is no longer the United States of America, even if they live in the same geographical area as I live now or anywhere else within the extant borders, they're no longer Americans. Their nation and culture define that encompassing label, and if that nation or culture goes away, then the label no longer applies.
The Yucatan is apparently highly sensitive to water reductions, a hypothesis supported by current data, and that means that reduced tropical storm action was likely enough to trigger the downfall of the Mayans, thanks to a quickly-depleting water supply.
With the massive increase in severe tropical storms, the Yucatan will have some of the wettest weather in history, The Mayans will reemerge, and will take over the Americas again!
I've been playing with discussion forum software and reader software since Blue Wave let me download qwk packets from Fidonet nodes. I also used a newsgroup reader on a Dynix server hosted through the library, and I've used newsgroup readers on Windows, FreeBSD, and Linux.
I still think that server-side software using push-pull for text communication (ie, not based on file sharing) has many, many advantages, especially when everything is designed to be platform independent. I don't have to install custom software on to a computer to do something that's simple and intuitive. My beef with many web application developers is that they pick stupid browser-dependent extensions. Locking into proprietary methods only causes headaches.
Sometimes security sacrifices are made in exchange for learning about the attackers. Could this possibly have been an example of this? I know that Nortel is common tech in business and local government, but would this penetration be dangerous to military or defense development?
I have seen web apps that worked quite well. They were all customer service logging apps though. Essentially database pull/push things.
The best ones were all server-side though.
Come to think of it, Slashdot is also a web app in a way, and it used to be pretty much all server-side. Now there's some client-side, but it works fairly well.
It's certainly not impossible to write good web apps, but it requires more capabilities and insight than your average programming mill of a school will churn out. It's easy to code something that functions, it's hard to code something that functions well, intuitively, and reliably. That's always held true though, since the earliest days of computer applications that weren't solely for computer developers.
More energy research? But how will that impact our fossil-fuel overlords?!
On a serious note, my only real hope is that either patents won't be granted, or else they'll be granted and licensed at essentially no charge to American companies for the advances, and that companies would have to compete based on their efficiency and ability.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think that tariffs will help specifically, but if China would stop forcing an exchange rate with their currency then the problem would, to an extent, fix itself as China's currency becomes more expensive.
What we really need to do, IMHO, is to recognize the somewhat confrontational relationship we actually have with China, and to stop sending proprietary processes to China for manufacture. That might mean that China still makes the plastics and the PCB, but the parts get shipped here for soldering and final assembly. The best way to reduce the speed of knockoff copying is to not engage in manufacture in a place that essentially encourages knockoff copying. Sure, it'll still happen, but it'll take longer, especially when new devices eventually come out where the processes have changed and can't be instantly replicated in that environment.
I would figure avionics control cabling wouldn't be located that close to the passengers, and that it might instead be under the floor, but I could be wrong...
I don't give a damn about that once we are landed; that's a fairly short duration and if it helps people pull up the curb at the right time then that's fine.
...is the use of devices like Bluetooth mice and other short-range radio devices that don't communicate to a distance more than a few feet. I want to be able to use Bluetooth headphones and Bluetooth mice on a plane where getting tangled up with wires is a very unappealing prospect.
I'm not too worried about cell phones acting as such, as we'll be too high and going too fast to make that do any good (plus I don't want a plane full of chatterboxes), and I'm not terribly worried about wifi, as either the airline will provide a means for it or else they won't. The only time that for me, wifi might be useful is if I'm travelling with a group that's split up and we want to share text communication or else want to collaborate on documents. Then something ad-hoc might actually make sense.
That's about it.
Generally at the beginning, when one starts voluntarily aggregating it.
It's one thing to write a journal, it's another to maintain data when not required to. The stuff I keep organized are either all required (taxes and other mandated record keeping) or things that are part of collections that I don't want to buy in redundancy (movies, books, music), or things that need records to ensure reliability and functionality (auto and house maintenance).
Pictures we take are usually sorted just by date, and we occasionally browse through them, like a normal photo album. The only major exception to that is when we were house-hunting, and those pictures were functional records. Most of those house photos have been archived or deleted, unless we saw something cool that we'd want to do to our house.
Essentially. Not broke per se, just not multibillionaires.
I think that a lot of people will put an awful lot of work in for a shot at money. It worked for the X-prize foundation, after all.
Of course, I don't think Bill Gates would be one of the richest men in the world if Microsoft had adopted the same policy as Google did with Chrome...
I have red hair and my wife has red hair. I can tell you that skin gashes and getting jabbed friggin' hurts, and since I like working on old cars I get a lot of that kind of damage to my hands and arms, and I've never liked needles. I'll definitely never be an intravenous drug user or tattoo junkie.
Both of us have somewhat thin hair. I wonder if those redheads with really thick hair might have something different enough going on to where their pain receptors are not as sensitive.
Worse than that, it's why I don't trust anyone to host anything for me that I don't also have a copy of and a way to use that copy.
My wife wanted to get a subscription service for a Netflix-type movie service, given how much space 1600 titles take up with their packaging on our shelves. Thing is, they certainly don't have everything we have, and worse, if they choose to drop some titles or if their license ends, the titles are no longer available.
I think that relying on others like that is not a good idea.
If it worked that way I might agree with you, but unfortunately generations upon generations exist without demonstrating this, and ultimately they act as a burden on progress because they don't understand it or what kinds of benefits can be found from it.
More like needing the radiation equivalent of a Catalytic Converter...
If one knows that some undesirable trait will manifest, look at ways to mitigate that undesirable trait.
Or, use that trait beneficially. If the act of dropping out of warp releases a fuckton of energy, find a way to harness that energy.
How about thinking before asking questions and researching before asking questions?
There are also these things called handles, aliases, nicknames, etc, that one can use when subscribing to many different forums. They offer a bit of a veil of anonymity.
I guess what bothers me about this is that normally the contents of the paper are justification enough to keep the lawyers away, as the paper is written by someone who's put a lot of time an research into the conclusion reached and by definition of putting it in a scientific paper, has cited sources, studies, and facts to back up the argument and ensure that no libel charge could stand.
This flies in the face of that.
In my experience being married to an MIT grad who's in aerospace/mechanical engineering type work, the underrepresentation of women in her workplace comes in part from conflicts of parenthood and what it can do to one's career, and in part from the field already being dominated by men, causing a corporate culture that's offputting without being outright illegal toward women. Tromping around military bases for testing in godforsaken parts of the US is probably easier for men who are encouraged to be macho and to follow the example of the military even though they're really just geeks, while women, generally not encouraged to deal with the military and generally prohibited from combat roles, don't have the same sense or kinship to macho culture.
I assume that other "macho" careers also suffer from this kind of inherent condition.
When my wife graduated from MIT, there was a big push by an offshore oil drilling company (don't know which one) to recruit female engineers to work on those platforms. They were not having a lot of success, but those who did go would essentially pay off their very expensive tuition in a year or two at most if they took the job.
Had the job not been so incredibly isolating around fairly rough men in addition to the dangerous conditions then it might have been easier to get women into the field. But, I think that the heightened concern for sexual assault in such an isolated environment was too much for many of these 22 year old women to risk.
1) put lots of (mostly) men down in holes in the ground.
2) Give them powered machinery that predominately runs on diesel power.
3) Fail to properly ventilate the hole in the ground (citation: all of the major mining disasters in the US in recent memory have cited poor ventilation and air circulation).
4) Act surprised when combustion gas fumes and particulates demonstrate being bad for said men?
5) Profit!
I guess we figured out the "???" step...
I understand the importance of mining. I understand also that the direct cost of what we purchase as finished products is based in part on extraction costs of those raw materials that go into finished products, but I have a hard time believing that minor increases in extraction costs because of safety and equipment improvements would massively increase the costs of finished products, and honestly, I'd be willing to pay a little more for something if it means I'm not at least mildly culpable in killing people in order to get it.
I don't think the Mayan calendar referred to this year as the end of the world, just as the end of an era. The Mayan culture resurging and taking over would certainly be a startling way to begin the next era...
Same can be said for the Romans, the Byzantines, Mongols, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, and every other major collapsed empire that had thousands upon thousands in cities that were lost to time or to diaspora.
If my descendants live in a country that is no longer the United States of America, even if they live in the same geographical area as I live now or anywhere else within the extant borders, they're no longer Americans. Their nation and culture define that encompassing label, and if that nation or culture goes away, then the label no longer applies.
From the article:
With the massive increase in severe tropical storms, the Yucatan will have some of the wettest weather in history, The Mayans will reemerge, and will take over the Americas again!
Not the South normally expected to rise...
I guess metrosexuals, hipsters, emo kids, and several other groups were never in any danger in the first place...
I've been playing with discussion forum software and reader software since Blue Wave let me download qwk packets from Fidonet nodes. I also used a newsgroup reader on a Dynix server hosted through the library, and I've used newsgroup readers on Windows, FreeBSD, and Linux.
I still think that server-side software using push-pull for text communication (ie, not based on file sharing) has many, many advantages, especially when everything is designed to be platform independent. I don't have to install custom software on to a computer to do something that's simple and intuitive. My beef with many web application developers is that they pick stupid browser-dependent extensions. Locking into proprietary methods only causes headaches.
Sometimes security sacrifices are made in exchange for learning about the attackers. Could this possibly have been an example of this? I know that Nortel is common tech in business and local government, but would this penetration be dangerous to military or defense development?
I have seen web apps that worked quite well. They were all customer service logging apps though. Essentially database pull/push things.
The best ones were all server-side though.
Come to think of it, Slashdot is also a web app in a way, and it used to be pretty much all server-side. Now there's some client-side, but it works fairly well.
It's certainly not impossible to write good web apps, but it requires more capabilities and insight than your average programming mill of a school will churn out. It's easy to code something that functions, it's hard to code something that functions well, intuitively, and reliably. That's always held true though, since the earliest days of computer applications that weren't solely for computer developers.
Irrevelant. High end consumers will still want it.
I personally would be able to see a slight difference as my screen is 100".
Like I said, it'd start with high-end consumers.
More energy research? But how will that impact our fossil-fuel overlords?!
On a serious note, my only real hope is that either patents won't be granted, or else they'll be granted and licensed at essentially no charge to American companies for the advances, and that companies would have to compete based on their efficiency and ability.
Of course, I'm probably living in a pipe dream.