Another thing they did on internal combustion cars was to add the electric starter and electric lights. That removed the major advantage of going electric in the first place.
Getting off the Euro and devaluing is not a good option. Since most of the debt is to foreign lenders and denominated in Euros if you go on your own currency and devalue it you only increase the size of the hole. The only realistic option is either a partial or a total default. Which is what is happening in Greece. Now that could be combined with leaving the Euro to increase competitiveness, but there is little chance just leaving the Euro would solve anything.
Nah this is all about trade protectionism pure and simple. I still remember the US tariffs on Japanese NEC SX supercomputers to protect Cray which eventually went bankrupt anyway.
They can do the same thing the Japanese did in the 1990s. They start buying up US media companies, industries, with that debt. In fact they are in the process of doing this. The thing is they are more interested in acquiring the brand and processes or the resources. They have been buying a lot of mining companies. For the manufacturing companies they buy they usually just pack the equipment and send it back to China. The mines are put in standing reserve so they can push the prices of resources higher.
CPU manufacturing is still done in the west. Why? Patents, commerce barriers on exporting leading edge lithography tools to China. The rest has moved to Asia a long time ago. DRAM and Flash is nearly all South Korean. The other chips are designed in the US, Europe, or Asia, but nearly invariably manufactured in Asia in companies like TSMC. The motherboards are assembled in China. The computers are assembled in China too.
You know who else got invaded economically in the 1920-30s? Germany. They had this huge debt to pay from the Versailles treaty. Eventually they realized it would be cheaper to go to war with everyone else to avoid paying the debt.
All the computer manufacturers use chips made in Taiwan. Have a NVIDIA or ATI GPU? Taiwan. Have a Realtek audio or network chip? Taiwan. The list goes on.
Most computer manufacturers use the Chinese factories of Taiwanese companies (e.g. Foxconn, Quanta, Compal) to assemble their PCs. This includes HP, Dell, Apple and others.
It is a lot more complicated than a railgun or coilgun, suffers from erosion issues nonetheless, so what is the advantage? That it sounds like something out of a Dilbert story?
Holywood? Back in the early 90s they were using Silicon Graphics workstation running IRIX then they moved to Windows NT and Linux. I am fairly certain a lot of them moved to MacOS X workstations after those became available like a decade ago but this is more of a recent development than you think it is. You might just as well be using Windows. The heavy lifting server workloads are done using Linux. Had Adobe ported their software suite for Linux over half of the Apple workstation market would implode overnight.
He is talking bullshit. You can dual-boot Windows and Linux on the same machine just like you have been able to do since like forever. I do this in the PC I built from components a couple of months back as well as on my Acer laptop. The difference is that instead of using GRUB you are often forced to use the UEFI BIOS bootloader if you use Windows 7 or later. You can run VMWare just fine either on Linux or on Windows. The only advantage he has is that he can boot in MacOS X as well but that is due to Apple not allowing you to run MacOS X on 3rd party hardware. They enforce that with their software license. But why should I want to run MacOS X anyway? There are multimedia apps for Windows as well. Like the entire Adobe suite, or all the Autodesk products. There are so much more games for Windows it isn't funny. Plus Linux is a lot better suited for high-end software development and server loads than MacOS X will ever be. I get enough headaches from using 2 different environments. I have little desire to use 3 different environments. Rebooting kills productivity and VMWare is not perfect.
The US did provide support during WWII to China with efforts like the Flying Tigers but ultimately there were logistics issues trying to support China in its war against the Japanese given that the Japanese controlled most of the Pacific back then.
I am fine with GMOs like golden rice. They basically added some genes to enable production of beta carotene on rice. Sweet potatoes already had beta carotene but they cost a lot more to grow. I am more skittish with the pesticide resistant genes since with horizontal gene transfer the resistance may pass to weeds and make the pesticide basically useless.
The Germans sold a lot of their tank inventory all over Europe and elsewhere after the Cold War ended. They have like a fifth of the tanks they used to have.
How about using augmented reality so the person collecting the blood can see the vein the same way the robot can and have annotations for the best spot instead of having the robot also do the decision of where to actually jab?
In my experience the Chinese don't try that hard to block information from coming out. At least it is nothing like back in the Cold War. We have photo leaks all the time. One of their TV channels keeps showing military propaganda where you see their military programs. Quite often there are even official publications about the high profile programs which are going on. The only thing is these publications can only be purchased in China and are in Chinese so there are not a lot of people who can actually read them.
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I prefer to have the pilot in the transport plane. This way if it crashes they die too. It is a pretty good way to convince them to fly properly.
Oh I suspect they would ship alright. It would just take so long for them to ship the phones that by that time the specs would be run of the mill.
Not necessarily since Ford was not able to increase the total money supply in the system. That is what causes inflation.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-01-25/
Here is a quote from Euripedes a writer from Ancient Greece where they had polygamy:
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.
Another thing they did on internal combustion cars was to add the electric starter and electric lights. That removed the major advantage of going electric in the first place.
They need something to store 4k stereoscopic movies.
Getting off the Euro and devaluing is not a good option. Since most of the debt is to foreign lenders and denominated in Euros if you go on your own currency and devalue it you only increase the size of the hole. The only realistic option is either a partial or a total default. Which is what is happening in Greece. Now that could be combined with leaving the Euro to increase competitiveness, but there is little chance just leaving the Euro would solve anything.
Nah this is all about trade protectionism pure and simple. I still remember the US tariffs on Japanese NEC SX supercomputers to protect Cray which eventually went bankrupt anyway.
They can do the same thing the Japanese did in the 1990s. They start buying up US media companies, industries, with that debt. In fact they are in the process of doing this. The thing is they are more interested in acquiring the brand and processes or the resources. They have been buying a lot of mining companies. For the manufacturing companies they buy they usually just pack the equipment and send it back to China. The mines are put in standing reserve so they can push the prices of resources higher.
CPU manufacturing is still done in the west. Why? Patents, commerce barriers on exporting leading edge lithography tools to China. The rest has moved to Asia a long time ago. DRAM and Flash is nearly all South Korean. The other chips are designed in the US, Europe, or Asia, but nearly invariably manufactured in Asia in companies like TSMC. The motherboards are assembled in China. The computers are assembled in China too.
You know who else got invaded economically in the 1920-30s? Germany. They had this huge debt to pay from the Versailles treaty. Eventually they realized it would be cheaper to go to war with everyone else to avoid paying the debt.
All the computer manufacturers use chips made in Taiwan. Have a NVIDIA or ATI GPU? Taiwan. Have a Realtek audio or network chip? Taiwan. The list goes on.
Most computer manufacturers use the Chinese factories of Taiwanese companies (e.g. Foxconn, Quanta, Compal) to assemble their PCs. This includes HP, Dell, Apple and others.
Lenovo has a factory in the US that assembles computers unlike some of these "american" computer companies.
So it all smells like trade protectionist bullshit to me.
It is a lot more complicated than a railgun or coilgun, suffers from erosion issues nonetheless, so what is the advantage? That it sounds like something out of a Dilbert story?
I am one of those 3GS users. If I had to buy a new phone right now I would either get the Samsung Galaxy S4 or the Galaxy Note II.
I have better things to do than to be in a constant upgrade treadmill.
Holywood? Back in the early 90s they were using Silicon Graphics workstation running IRIX then they moved to Windows NT and Linux. I am fairly certain a lot of them moved to MacOS X workstations after those became available like a decade ago but this is more of a recent development than you think it is. You might just as well be using Windows. The heavy lifting server workloads are done using Linux. Had Adobe ported their software suite for Linux over half of the Apple workstation market would implode overnight.
He is talking bullshit. You can dual-boot Windows and Linux on the same machine just like you have been able to do since like forever. I do this in the PC I built from components a couple of months back as well as on my Acer laptop. The difference is that instead of using GRUB you are often forced to use the UEFI BIOS bootloader if you use Windows 7 or later. You can run VMWare just fine either on Linux or on Windows. The only advantage he has is that he can boot in MacOS X as well but that is due to Apple not allowing you to run MacOS X on 3rd party hardware. They enforce that with their software license. But why should I want to run MacOS X anyway? There are multimedia apps for Windows as well. Like the entire Adobe suite, or all the Autodesk products. There are so much more games for Windows it isn't funny. Plus Linux is a lot better suited for high-end software development and server loads than MacOS X will ever be. I get enough headaches from using 2 different environments. I have little desire to use 3 different environments. Rebooting kills productivity and VMWare is not perfect.
The US did provide support during WWII to China with efforts like the Flying Tigers but ultimately there were logistics issues trying to support China in its war against the Japanese given that the Japanese controlled most of the Pacific back then.
I am fine with GMOs like golden rice. They basically added some genes to enable production of beta carotene on rice. Sweet potatoes already had beta carotene but they cost a lot more to grow. I am more skittish with the pesticide resistant genes since with horizontal gene transfer the resistance may pass to weeds and make the pesticide basically useless.
Pistols are usually designed to stop an assailant rather than outright kill someone.
Except this one is only able to fire one shot. Call me back when they can fire multiple shows using an actual "rifle" round like .308 Winchester.
Nowadays almost nobody has claims on anybody's continental territory, which makes for a lot less international warfare.
Hah. They do not actively pursue them but the claims still are there. Take Gibraltar as an instance. Or Kaliningrad for that matter.
The Germans sold a lot of their tank inventory all over Europe and elsewhere after the Cold War ended. They have like a fifth of the tanks they used to have.
How about using augmented reality so the person collecting the blood can see the vein the same way the robot can and have annotations for the best spot instead of having the robot also do the decision of where to actually jab?
In my experience the Chinese don't try that hard to block information from coming out. At least it is nothing like back in the Cold War. We have photo leaks all the time. One of their TV channels keeps showing military propaganda where you see their military programs. Quite often there are even official publications about the high profile programs which are going on. The only thing is these publications can only be purchased in China and are in Chinese so there are not a lot of people who can actually read them.