I would put Brazil, South Korea, South Africa, Japan in that list. South Korea had several programs which indicate they want to have the capability. The problem is their missile program is not advanced enough. Brazil started working on it decades ago when it was still a military dictatorship. South Africa actually tested a nuclear device once and then gave up on further development. Japan everyone knows they could do it. They even separate their own plutonium. But for historical reasons they have refrained on it.
Germany is one of those NATO countries that hosts US nuclear warheads on its soil so they do not need to do that.
Apple has set a new standard in lifespan & reliability
Even if you guys keep repeating this BS it does not make it any more true. I am still using my Samsung Galaxy Tab which dates from around the time of the 1st iPad.
Keep deluding yourself that glued together devices will have better lifespan.
Never had a brownout? Or a voltage spike? I had one a couple years back which blew up a low of lights and a bunch of equipment. Once you start allowing highly variable power sources into the grid, especially if you have feed-in tariffs, it becomes much harder to manage an electrical grid.
It also means the power company needs to spend money on peaking plants like natural gas fired power plants which may spend most of their time idle not generating any useful power while you still need to pay off the capital investments to build them. Not to mention that turbines have crap efficiency if you keep spooling them up and down all the time.
The Chinese spoken language varies a lot but the written language does not. At worst you get traditional Chinese in some parts of Southern China or Taiwan.
No. It is State Capitalism which is a system proposed in Das Capital. 'Socialism' in that sense refers to a variety of supposed intermediate systems between capitalism and 'Communism'.
Dostoyevski was a terrorist, who was caught, convicted by court, and sent to Gulag, where he spent 7 years, was re-educated, realized the mistakes of his youth, and went on to become one of the greatest writers in Russias history.
You forgot to mention this happened when the Tsars were in power. People forget the Soviet Communist Party did not invent the Gulag system.
What is wrong with giving scholarships to poor students without considering their race. As used to happen and should still happen instead of this politically correct BS.
I think that should not be a problem. The problem is when these generators introduce spikes in the energy grid which then makes the grid a lot more expensive to operate.
A lot of those applications in github are someone's pet project but not high profile projects. Someone thought it might be useful for someone else and put it there but it doesn't mean it is. Had you ever seen the source code of software built to order i.e. 'enterprise applications' you would realize there is software of much worse quality than even what gets into github out there.
Tests, design documents, specs depend on the situation. Specs only make sense when you are aiming for interoperability. Design documents make little sense when doing spiral development since the design is not fixed. Tests make sense however and most projects I see include tests from runtime checks to static analysis and more. Of course you are not going to bother doing that for a page of python or perl script.
OpenOffice was started as StarOffice and hence began as a closed source software product from a German software house called StarDivision. So I find your comment interesting to say the least.
I have been involved in open source projects with steering boards which work just fine. You do need a clear delegation of competencies at the core level. You also need for those responsible for husbanding the project to know the code in-depth in order to judge contributions. However you are completely wrong if you think you need hermetic leadership or that there is a clear guided path to get anywhere. Linus himself called his task 'herding cats' for a reason. In open source projects code often develops organically and I see nothing wrong with that.
Competency is something that manifests itself naturally in any open source project because it is trivial for someone more competent than the original developers to fork it if they are doing a poor job at the time but they project itself still has some merit. If no one shows up and their work still stinks perhaps the project does not have a significant enough user base that warrants quality programmers to begin with.
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I would put Brazil, South Korea, South Africa, Japan in that list. South Korea had several programs which indicate they want to have the capability. The problem is their missile program is not advanced enough. Brazil started working on it decades ago when it was still a military dictatorship. South Africa actually tested a nuclear device once and then gave up on further development. Japan everyone knows they could do it. They even separate their own plutonium. But for historical reasons they have refrained on it.
Germany is one of those NATO countries that hosts US nuclear warheads on its soil so they do not need to do that.
Syria's case is totally different. Syria is not invading its neighbors. It is getting invaded.
Apple has set a new standard in lifespan & reliability
Even if you guys keep repeating this BS it does not make it any more true. I am still using my Samsung Galaxy Tab which dates from around the time of the 1st iPad.
Keep deluding yourself that glued together devices will have better lifespan.
Never had a brownout? Or a voltage spike? I had one a couple years back which blew up a low of lights and a bunch of equipment. Once you start allowing highly variable power sources into the grid, especially if you have feed-in tariffs, it becomes much harder to manage an electrical grid.
It also means the power company needs to spend money on peaking plants like natural gas fired power plants which may spend most of their time idle not generating any useful power while you still need to pay off the capital investments to build them. Not to mention that turbines have crap efficiency if you keep spooling them up and down all the time.
The Chinese spoken language varies a lot but the written language does not. At worst you get traditional Chinese in some parts of Southern China or Taiwan.
The Library of Congress.
This man was no terrorist as clearly the TSA inspected him before his flight... no wait!
More like a fur coat and oxygen bottle.
LessSSL is actually a better name since they are deleting code rather than adding code.
I preferred the other name I heard. Open^2SSL.
This. Plus it comes as little surprise than the unemployed and underemployed 'work less hours'.
No. It is State Capitalism which is a system proposed in Das Capital. 'Socialism' in that sense refers to a variety of supposed intermediate systems between capitalism and 'Communism'.
Supposedly the new name is the Eurasian Federation.
Dostoyevski was a terrorist, who was caught, convicted by court, and sent to Gulag, where he spent 7 years, was re-educated, realized the mistakes of his youth, and went on to become one of the greatest writers in Russias history.
You forgot to mention this happened when the Tsars were in power. People forget the Soviet Communist Party did not invent the Gulag system.
laissez-faire is an unworkable economic system because it assumes monopolistic behaviour does not exist and people are rational
Even Adam Smith knew better than that. Cue in the Ayn Randites.
Even when GOSPLAN decides the prices for you?
That was back when people still trusted the NSA to do its job properly i.e. secure US communications and decipher those of US opponents.
Today they seem to think everyone is an opponent which needs to have its communications deciphered.
What is wrong with giving scholarships to poor students without considering their race. As used to happen and should still happen instead of this politically correct BS.
I think that should not be a problem. The problem is when these generators introduce spikes in the energy grid which then makes the grid a lot more expensive to operate.
A lot of those applications in github are someone's pet project but not high profile projects. Someone thought it might be useful for someone else and put it there but it doesn't mean it is. Had you ever seen the source code of software built to order i.e. 'enterprise applications' you would realize there is software of much worse quality than even what gets into github out there.
Tests, design documents, specs depend on the situation. Specs only make sense when you are aiming for interoperability. Design documents make little sense when doing spiral development since the design is not fixed. Tests make sense however and most projects I see include tests from runtime checks to static analysis and more. Of course you are not going to bother doing that for a page of python or perl script.
OpenOffice was started as StarOffice and hence began as a closed source software product from a German software house called StarDivision. So I find your comment interesting to say the least.
I have been involved in open source projects with steering boards which work just fine. You do need a clear delegation of competencies at the core level. You also need for those responsible for husbanding the project to know the code in-depth in order to judge contributions. However you are completely wrong if you think you need hermetic leadership or that there is a clear guided path to get anywhere. Linus himself called his task 'herding cats' for a reason. In open source projects code often develops organically and I see nothing wrong with that.
Competency is something that manifests itself naturally in any open source project because it is trivial for someone more competent than the original developers to fork it if they are doing a poor job at the time but they project itself still has some merit. If no one shows up and their work still stinks perhaps the project does not have a significant enough user base that warrants quality programmers to begin with.
Actually the major problem AMD had was they bought ATI above market price just before the stock tanked with the economic crisis.
They had little choice left but to sell the fabs to ATIC after that.
Good luck running legacy Windows apps inside a cellphone.
AMD sold Adreno to Qualcomm.