No kidding. I remember the solar water heater fad in the 1980s. It ended up pretty soon once the owners realized the maintenance costs and that it didn't work for all the hot water they actually required.
Try sustaining yourself with no energy at all. The fact is all modern societies need the extra power per capita to have elevated productivity and hence higher standards of living. But sure keep ignoring that while driving your SUV.
TMI is still operating. Just not the reactor that melt down. As for Chernobyl had not the EU injected massive amounts of money into Ukraine to shut the remaining reactor down it would still be operational as well. God knows they have enough issues getting cheap natural gas from their friendly neighbor Russia.
The French decided in the 1970s that the answer to stop that was to go nuclear and the result was the cheapest electricity in Europe. Not to mention they are a net electricity exporter.
Natural gas is not the answer and never will be. It is expensive and the price of it keeps floating. The only cheap methods of generating energy in bulk are coal and nuclear depending on the location. Natural gas power plants only get built because they are cheap to construct. But the energy they generate gets expensive in the long run.
Of course our short minded idiotic leaders can be on natural gas all they want. Or even worse the renewables scam which is one of the major causes of the huge public/private debt in the PIIGS countries which had to follow the Germans in their nonsense.
B&W computers? Let me count them. Apple Macintosh back when even the Atari 800 had color. NeXT computer. Another B&W screen. Melting computers: starting from at least the Apple III.
There problems are arquitectural and modular. It is easier to write a back end or front end for CLANG and it has better API support for integration into IDEs. That is by design. GCC was written at a time when that was not a consideration although it could have been. I guess RMS was never a big fan of programming in C/C++ otherwise Emacs might have had an extensions for that at a point...
So that Apple could instead earn money by forcing you to pay for a patent license of work someone else did? That would be rich. Fact is the first OSI approved open-source licenses which gave such patent cross-licensing as the GPLv3 came from corporations like IBM namely their Eclipse Public License. Which other third party vendors find perfectly fine to use. I doubt there is an IDE with more third-party extensions (including paid extensions) than Eclipse.
The answer was fairly obvious. Plainly overpriced hardware, glued together parts (good luck decoupling the monitor on your desktop), plus Steve Jobs quirks like high res black and white screens over low res color screens, or his penchant for fanless computers even if it meant reduced lifetime or melting components, etc.
There are libraries for C as well like ATLAS for the Intel MKL. MPI implementations are usually written in C. You are just invoking a C library from inside python.
I agree that it is easier to write a prototype in python for such an application but I haven't had great experiences writing large python programs...
Russia has a larger landmass than the US so their missiles do not need to have the same range to achieve global coverage. Yes the Russians still have large amounts of ancient liquid fueled rockets in silos but those are proposed to be replaced with the RS-24 Yars missile which is operational and in production since 2010. The US did have a plan for the road mobile Midgetman missile at one point in the 1980s but it was canceled for budgetary reasons.
With silos the only questions are how accurate and how big is your number weapon. Once you had MIRV to the mix the silos become extremely vulnerable. While this is forbidden under current treaties all the major powers have retained MIRV capability on all their main nuclear weapon systems.
I believe the estimates of the number of DF-31 missiles are inaccurate. Then again the Chinese don't like to mass produce systems which they believe are still works in progress. If the DF-31A has the speculated range I doubt they wouldn't start mass production of it. China actually has pretty advanced nuclear fuel separation and refining capabilities so they would be able to ramp up production if they wanted to.
The food stamps program began as a farming subsidy. It was all in the name of maintaining enough food production capacity in the US such that even in the case of embargo or restraint of trade the US could carry on feeding itself. At least it was sold that way. Regarding the welfare state I think that is less of a problem than the rampant tax evasion done since the start of globalization. It is little surprising the US federal government can no longer collect enough taxes. We keep hearing the cases of Apple and Google but they are just the tip of the iceberg. The vast displacement of industries towards Asia, together with the relevant know-how and tooling, is going to hurt if any major conflict does materialize and I believe it will sooner or later. We have been hearing the talk about how this century is headed towards a multi-polar world similar to the XIXth century. Which had many quite costly regional wars. Including the collapses of the Ottoman and Chinese Empires which had been bulwarks for centuries. There was a push by some on the right about making the US the sole superpower but they only ended up bankrupting the US quicker. It is simply not possible when you neither have a large enough population, and you are basically exporting your mass production capabilities elsewhere. How can you produce the high technology weapons needed to fight a modern war without the relevant industrial talent?
The lack of giant tech programs is just another sign of the myopic view of current rulers. If one proposes a Moon base in a political campaign the result will be derision and laughter. A society of people with college level educated people does not necessarily mean these will be technically literate people. Many of these will just have a piece of paper which says they do not even have a basic aptitude for mathematics let alone scientific thinking.
The Ohios need to be replaced. The hulls can only be used for so long. The oldest of them is over 30 years old already. Any replacement will need to be done using modern manufacturing processes and techniques. So there is talk about modifying the more modern Virginia submarine class to suit that role.
IMO the French are the ones who have improved their submarine and SLBM technology more quickly. Technology which they may be sharing in the recent future with Brazil. While Brazil does not have any history of conflict with the US and even was part of the Allies back during WWII this is something which may affect the power balance and needs to be considered. Plus the UKs budgetary issues may push them further towards either the US or the French for their defense purposes and as of late the inclination has been growing more towards France than the other way around. The reasons are fairly obvious.
You are wrong in several counts. Topol-M and several other more recent designs are built specifically with counter-measures against ABM systems which cannot be easily retrofitted into Minuteman III. Remember the spirals over Norway? Not to mention that Minuteman III is silo based and hence highly vulnerable to a preemptive attack while Topol-M is road mobile.
IMO the main deterrent the US has today is Trident. Minuteman is mainly useful as a deterrent against states which have embryonic or non-existent missile forces.
As for China they do have solid ICBMs. DF-31, DF-31A, and quite likely the DF-41 missile which by some sources is claimed to be presently on service. The launchers have been spotted several times. Some even claim they already have active battalions with it. The JL-2 naval ICBM is a derivative of the DF-31. Their ICBM had some initial problems as can be seen with their success rate for the KT-1 satellite, launcher which is basically the exact same missile, used for peaceful purposes. Although one of the missions may in fact by as an ASAT weapon system.
The main problem the Chinese have is their submarines are not silent enough to operate in areas where the US Navy has deep surveillance platforms deployed. This means they seldom leave port. But they have several of them and they have not quit trying to improve on the acoustics.
Then there is the automation of business processes, we should know since we are the ones doing it, which is eliminating a lot of jobs. The prospect is that eventually those people will find less repetitive jobs but what is happening so far is certainly... not great.
Ah but you do not need to spend the money where you made it. That is the beauty of it. Remember that yatch Steve Jobs ordered on demand? Others are buying property all over the world. This in turn is inflating property prices in capital cities even when we are in the middle of a housing crash.
The number of employees keeps decreasing when you offshore all your production abroad and outsource the helpdesk to some place in India.
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No kidding. I remember the solar water heater fad in the 1980s. It ended up pretty soon once the owners realized the maintenance costs and that it didn't work for all the hot water they actually required.
Try sustaining yourself with no energy at all. The fact is all modern societies need the extra power per capita to have elevated productivity and hence higher standards of living. But sure keep ignoring that while driving your SUV.
Stupid politicians everywhere. Or grandstanding. Probably both.
TMI is still operating. Just not the reactor that melt down. As for Chernobyl had not the EU injected massive amounts of money into Ukraine to shut the remaining reactor down it would still be operational as well. God knows they have enough issues getting cheap natural gas from their friendly neighbor Russia.
The French decided in the 1970s that the answer to stop that was to go nuclear and the result was the cheapest electricity in Europe. Not to mention they are a net electricity exporter.
Natural gas is not the answer and never will be. It is expensive and the price of it keeps floating. The only cheap methods of generating energy in bulk are coal and nuclear depending on the location. Natural gas power plants only get built because they are cheap to construct. But the energy they generate gets expensive in the long run.
Of course our short minded idiotic leaders can be on natural gas all they want. Or even worse the renewables scam which is one of the major causes of the huge public/private debt in the PIIGS countries which had to follow the Germans in their nonsense.
You clearly forgot our robotic overlords...
It wasn't a string of incompetent CEOs. It was just one. Hector Ruiz.
Now Jaguar gets all the major console wins. Which was pretty sweet.
No kidding. Last time I mentioned AMD's Bobcat (predecessor to Jaguar) as viable in its segment against Atom I got downmodded here at Slashdot.
B&W computers? Let me count them. Apple Macintosh back when even the Atari 800 had color. NeXT computer. Another B&W screen. Melting computers: starting from at least the Apple III.
There problems are arquitectural and modular. It is easier to write a back end or front end for CLANG and it has better API support for integration into IDEs. That is by design. GCC was written at a time when that was not a consideration although it could have been. I guess RMS was never a big fan of programming in C/C++ otherwise Emacs might have had an extensions for that at a point...
So that Apple could instead earn money by forcing you to pay for a patent license of work someone else did? That would be rich. Fact is the first OSI approved open-source licenses which gave such patent cross-licensing as the GPLv3 came from corporations like IBM namely their Eclipse Public License. Which other third party vendors find perfectly fine to use. I doubt there is an IDE with more third-party extensions (including paid extensions) than Eclipse.
Apple "created" clang by hiring the LLVM creator. It was started in academia.
The answer was fairly obvious. Plainly overpriced hardware, glued together parts (good luck decoupling the monitor on your desktop), plus Steve Jobs quirks like high res black and white screens over low res color screens, or his penchant for fanless computers even if it meant reduced lifetime or melting components, etc.
There was a time when Apple users did not pay for upgrades and they still never got over 10% market share.
There are libraries for C as well like ATLAS for the Intel MKL. MPI implementations are usually written in C. You are just invoking a C library from inside python.
I agree that it is easier to write a prototype in python for such an application but I haven't had great experiences writing large python programs...
Russia has a larger landmass than the US so their missiles do not need to have the same range to achieve global coverage. Yes the Russians still have large amounts of ancient liquid fueled rockets in silos but those are proposed to be replaced with the RS-24 Yars missile which is operational and in production since 2010. The US did have a plan for the road mobile Midgetman missile at one point in the 1980s but it was canceled for budgetary reasons.
With silos the only questions are how accurate and how big is your number weapon. Once you had MIRV to the mix the silos become extremely vulnerable. While this is forbidden under current treaties all the major powers have retained MIRV capability on all their main nuclear weapon systems.
I believe the estimates of the number of DF-31 missiles are inaccurate. Then again the Chinese don't like to mass produce systems which they believe are still works in progress. If the DF-31A has the speculated range I doubt they wouldn't start mass production of it. China actually has pretty advanced nuclear fuel separation and refining capabilities so they would be able to ramp up production if they wanted to.
The food stamps program began as a farming subsidy. It was all in the name of maintaining enough food production capacity in the US such that even in the case of embargo or restraint of trade the US could carry on feeding itself. At least it was sold that way. Regarding the welfare state I think that is less of a problem than the rampant tax evasion done since the start of globalization. It is little surprising the US federal government can no longer collect enough taxes. We keep hearing the cases of Apple and Google but they are just the tip of the iceberg. The vast displacement of industries towards Asia, together with the relevant know-how and tooling, is going to hurt if any major conflict does materialize and I believe it will sooner or later. We have been hearing the talk about how this century is headed towards a multi-polar world similar to the XIXth century. Which had many quite costly regional wars. Including the collapses of the Ottoman and Chinese Empires which had been bulwarks for centuries. There was a push by some on the right about making the US the sole superpower but they only ended up bankrupting the US quicker. It is simply not possible when you neither have a large enough population, and you are basically exporting your mass production capabilities elsewhere. How can you produce the high technology weapons needed to fight a modern war without the relevant industrial talent?
The lack of giant tech programs is just another sign of the myopic view of current rulers. If one proposes a Moon base in a political campaign the result will be derision and laughter. A society of people with college level educated people does not necessarily mean these will be technically literate people. Many of these will just have a piece of paper which says they do not even have a basic aptitude for mathematics let alone scientific thinking.
The Ohios need to be replaced. The hulls can only be used for so long. The oldest of them is over 30 years old already. Any replacement will need to be done using modern manufacturing processes and techniques. So there is talk about modifying the more modern Virginia submarine class to suit that role.
IMO the French are the ones who have improved their submarine and SLBM technology more quickly. Technology which they may be sharing in the recent future with Brazil. While Brazil does not have any history of conflict with the US and even was part of the Allies back during WWII this is something which may affect the power balance and needs to be considered. Plus the UKs budgetary issues may push them further towards either the US or the French for their defense purposes and as of late the inclination has been growing more towards France than the other way around. The reasons are fairly obvious.
You are wrong in several counts. Topol-M and several other more recent designs are built specifically with counter-measures against ABM systems which cannot be easily retrofitted into Minuteman III. Remember the spirals over Norway? Not to mention that Minuteman III is silo based and hence highly vulnerable to a preemptive attack while Topol-M is road mobile.
IMO the main deterrent the US has today is Trident. Minuteman is mainly useful as a deterrent against states which have embryonic or non-existent missile forces.
As for China they do have solid ICBMs. DF-31, DF-31A, and quite likely the DF-41 missile which by some sources is claimed to be presently on service. The launchers have been spotted several times. Some even claim they already have active battalions with it. The JL-2 naval ICBM is a derivative of the DF-31. Their ICBM had some initial problems as can be seen with their success rate for the KT-1 satellite, launcher which is basically the exact same missile, used for peaceful purposes. Although one of the missions may in fact by as an ASAT weapon system.
The main problem the Chinese have is their submarines are not silent enough to operate in areas where the US Navy has deep surveillance platforms deployed. This means they seldom leave port. But they have several of them and they have not quit trying to improve on the acoustics.
Everyone in the UN Security Council should have to enter into such a verification agreement. Simple as that.
Then there is the automation of business processes, we should know since we are the ones doing it, which is eliminating a lot of jobs. The prospect is that eventually those people will find less repetitive jobs but what is happening so far is certainly... not great.
Ah but you do not need to spend the money where you made it. That is the beauty of it. Remember that yatch Steve Jobs ordered on demand? Others are buying property all over the world. This in turn is inflating property prices in capital cities even when we are in the middle of a housing crash.
The number of employees keeps decreasing when you offshore all your production abroad and outsource the helpdesk to some place in India.
Getting listed on NASDAQ however is not quite that simple.