I know the shape of the SR-71, the name of the design bureau, and the name of the chief designer. Am I liable for treason in the US because these were state secrets in the 1970s? No because I only learned of it after it was declassified. Duh.
Not really. They could have contacted the iPhone mockup designer only recently in order to get evidence for the trial. Or they could have got the evidence from discovery in the other zillion court cases Apple is dragging them through all over the world.
The judge allowed Apple to present their little biased before and after iPhone slides so why shouldn't Samsung be able to refute those? Apple hired an ex-Sony Japanese designer and asked them to make a "Sony like" design and you think that isn't problematic in terms of design patent infringement?
Ah, heck, get any number of PDAs with touchscreens from the 90s which the iPhone looks similar to. There were also plenty of candy bar cellphones done before 2005 by Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and others. The LG Prada was launched prior to the iPhone was even made public and the iPhone looks much like it. I do not know when they started the LG Prada design but I doubt it was done in a day either.
Duh. A company buys a load of chips and screens from Samsung. How the heck are you supposed to figure out the case design for that? If Apple did not say it was for a cellphone you could even think the components were to be used in a portable game console.
Officially there was no K9. AMD eventually skipped that number because of the dog jokes. However before work was started on K10 they used to have a K9 design by called Greyhound in the pipeline. Supposedly Greyhound was cancelled.
You cannot destroy the whole area but you can destroy the majority of the world population. However modern weapons are thermonuclear using fission boosted fusion rather than pure fission devices.
That did not stop other countries from pursuing centrifuge technology. Frankly the US is late to the game. They were so obsessed with that mentality that after the technology was developed by Germans in the Soviet Union and the Soviets released the main German developer back to the West it expanded to other countries without the US ever investing in it because of those so called proliferation concerns. The US only built their centrifuge cascades after Pakistan had theirs for years. The result was more expensive separation for the US than those states nothing else.
The fact is the US, Japan and South Korea worked on laser isotope separation. That line of research (AVLIS) was canceled in the US. Meanwhile in Australia a country which has large uranium reserves and is the leading exporter of uranium despite not having nuclear reactors or being a nuclear weapon state developed SILEX. SILEX is a working laser isotope separation technology which can separate uranium at a low cost. The Australian Government got cold feet and dumped this SILEX research which achieved results on a shoe string budget into the arms of the US Government. There it has been languishing for decades already. Meanwhile the original Australian research company applied the process to silicon separation to produce the high purity silicon wafers used in SOI silicon chip manufacturing and worked on entering other markets which require isotope separation of non-uranium materials.
Enriching uranium is also used to make power reactor fuel. How do you verify? You inspect the tanks to see if there are traces of a high enough concentration of U-235. Reactor grade fuel has 5% U-235 while weapons grade fuel has 85% although you can make one with 20% concentration.
Yeah. I don't understand how the other poster did it either. I only had 1GB of HD space at the time. Then again it was common to use lower bit rates. 128kbps was seen as a luxury and often the MP3s were in 96kbps. VBR was often not supported properly in the early days either.
No you use Vim or Emacs. Notepad does not handle large files well. In fact old versions of Notepad did not even allow opening very large text files. You had to use Wordpad or something else. Or even better split your code into smaller files. Not only will you recompile the project faster when you do a minor change but if you name the files sensibly it will actually be easier to find what you want.
China is in the wrong continent to start a war with the US and their Navy is not up to the task. Even if they did have a powerful navy it would be hard to invade a 312M people nation a continent away. It is much more likely that the opposite would happen no to mention that the US has many troops stationed in South Korea and Japan plus they could attempt to carry.kr,.jp,.tw into the war. The Chinese are probably more concerned with that than anything else.
Columbus promised spices but found gold instead. The issue with current space exploration is that transportation costs have traditionally been so high that even if you found platinum for free in space it would be too expensive to carry back to Earth compared with mining it on Earth to begin with.
Try reading about ITAR and the Space Systems Loral mess to figure out why there are people against collaborating with China in any level on space technology. The collaborations with Russia are sort of different because they are much more advanced regarding space technology so the technology migrates both ways. Some would say it has mostly migrated from Russia to the US. The fact is the Russians are better at some things and worse in others compared with currently available US launch technology. Russia is the world leader in staged combustion engine design, hall effect thrusters, aluminum-lithium tanks, etc. The US is better at doing avionics, solar cells, liquid hydrogen engines, etc.
AFAIK the oxidizer rich combustion is to reduce soot buildup which can otherwise clog the LOX/Kerosene engine. The problem is diminished in LOX/LH2 staged combustion engines such as the SSME because that fuel doesn't have carbon in it. I have heard they use special alloys and coatings in the RD-180 but I do not know the details.
Did not happen with Russia why do you think it will happen with China? In fact with Russia there was a lot of space technology which was imported into Europe like the Snecma PPS1350 engine.
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I know the shape of the SR-71, the name of the design bureau, and the name of the chief designer. Am I liable for treason in the US because these were state secrets in the 1970s? No because I only learned of it after it was declassified. Duh.
Not really. They could have contacted the iPhone mockup designer only recently in order to get evidence for the trial. Or they could have got the evidence from discovery in the other zillion court cases Apple is dragging them through all over the world.
The judge allowed Apple to present their little biased before and after iPhone slides so why shouldn't Samsung be able to refute those? Apple hired an ex-Sony Japanese designer and asked them to make a "Sony like" design and you think that isn't problematic in terms of design patent infringement?
Ah, heck, get any number of PDAs with touchscreens from the 90s which the iPhone looks similar to. There were also plenty of candy bar cellphones done before 2005 by Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and others. The LG Prada was launched prior to the iPhone was even made public and the iPhone looks much like it. I do not know when they started the LG Prada design but I doubt it was done in a day either.
Samsung should be able to use the same evidence Apple is using against them to defend itself. Is that so unreasonable?
Duh. A company buys a load of chips and screens from Samsung. How the heck are you supposed to figure out the case design for that? If Apple did not say it was for a cellphone you could even think the components were to be used in a portable game console.
Officially there was no K9. AMD eventually skipped that number because of the dog jokes. However before work was started on K10 they used to have a K9 design by called Greyhound in the pipeline. Supposedly Greyhound was cancelled.
What is wrong with Latin or Greek? Those names used to work fine.
I would grant a design patent to the guy which invented the cantilever chair. Not for this plastic rectangle.
Sounds like something the Indians should be working on. They have large reserves of thorium but rather small reserves or uranium in their country.
You cannot destroy the whole area but you can destroy the majority of the world population. However modern weapons are thermonuclear using fission boosted fusion rather than pure fission devices.
That did not stop other countries from pursuing centrifuge technology. Frankly the US is late to the game. They were so obsessed with that mentality that after the technology was developed by Germans in the Soviet Union and the Soviets released the main German developer back to the West it expanded to other countries without the US ever investing in it because of those so called proliferation concerns. The US only built their centrifuge cascades after Pakistan had theirs for years. The result was more expensive separation for the US than those states nothing else.
The fact is the US, Japan and South Korea worked on laser isotope separation. That line of research (AVLIS) was canceled in the US. Meanwhile in Australia a country which has large uranium reserves and is the leading exporter of uranium despite not having nuclear reactors or being a nuclear weapon state developed SILEX. SILEX is a working laser isotope separation technology which can separate uranium at a low cost. The Australian Government got cold feet and dumped this SILEX research which achieved results on a shoe string budget into the arms of the US Government. There it has been languishing for decades already. Meanwhile the original Australian research company applied the process to silicon separation to produce the high purity silicon wafers used in SOI silicon chip manufacturing and worked on entering other markets which require isotope separation of non-uranium materials.
Enriching uranium is also used to make power reactor fuel. How do you verify? You inspect the tanks to see if there are traces of a high enough concentration of U-235. Reactor grade fuel has 5% U-235 while weapons grade fuel has 85% although you can make one with 20% concentration.
Yeah. I don't understand how the other poster did it either. I only had 1GB of HD space at the time. Then again it was common to use lower bit rates. 128kbps was seen as a luxury and often the MP3s were in 96kbps. VBR was often not supported properly in the early days either.
No you use Vim or Emacs. Notepad does not handle large files well. In fact old versions of Notepad did not even allow opening very large text files. You had to use Wordpad or something else. Or even better split your code into smaller files. Not only will you recompile the project faster when you do a minor change but if you name the files sensibly it will actually be easier to find what you want.
Perhaps they are paying those Lahorian Indians by the LOC.
Since they have US, Canadian and UK versions of the software I doubt the tax rules are hardcoded.
It is much more likely that if the US had done it alone the space station would have been deorbited by now. No Space Shuttle.
China is in the wrong continent to start a war with the US and their Navy is not up to the task. Even if they did have a powerful navy it would be hard to invade a 312M people nation a continent away. It is much more likely that the opposite would happen no to mention that the US has many troops stationed in South Korea and Japan plus they could attempt to carry .kr, .jp, .tw into the war. The Chinese are probably more concerned with that than anything else.
Columbus promised spices but found gold instead. The issue with current space exploration is that transportation costs have traditionally been so high that even if you found platinum for free in space it would be too expensive to carry back to Earth compared with mining it on Earth to begin with.
Try reading about ITAR and the Space Systems Loral mess to figure out why there are people against collaborating with China in any level on space technology. The collaborations with Russia are sort of different because they are much more advanced regarding space technology so the technology migrates both ways. Some would say it has mostly migrated from Russia to the US. The fact is the Russians are better at some things and worse in others compared with currently available US launch technology. Russia is the world leader in staged combustion engine design, hall effect thrusters, aluminum-lithium tanks, etc. The US is better at doing avionics, solar cells, liquid hydrogen engines, etc.
AFAIK the oxidizer rich combustion is to reduce soot buildup which can otherwise clog the LOX/Kerosene engine. The problem is diminished in LOX/LH2 staged combustion engines such as the SSME because that fuel doesn't have carbon in it. I have heard they use special alloys and coatings in the RD-180 but I do not know the details.
Did not happen with Russia why do you think it will happen with China? In fact with Russia there was a lot of space technology which was imported into Europe like the Snecma PPS1350 engine.
They can always "fix" their demographic problem by implementing the Qin social reforms.
I guess the PRC will have to wait a bit more for their Anschluss with Taiwan.