There was another issue with tablets before. If a device is too heavy it fails in a lot of usage scenarios. Compare the weight of the iPad with the Microsoft tablet devices. The iPad still has one issue: it has low precision input compared to a regular pencil. It is a minor issue for the usage scenarios they propose, which consist of consuming content, however this still leaves content creation off the table.
The first attempts at stealth aircraft during WWII used wood as a construction material. One example would be the Horten brothers air wings. Wood absorbs radar waves to a large degree reducing RCS. You can also use composite materials to manufacture such aircraft. Many people have the facilities to construct either. The issue is the engine and the control systems.
Systems which use bullets to knock down aircraft are useless if the aircraft is flying high enough. This is one reason why we use missiles after all. Another fact is that any system which destroys its sensors and guidance on each use will be expensive. These systems may be cost effective against even more expensive manned bombers or fighters, but they are not cost effective against cheap mass produced drones. In that case you will need something else like the laser defense systems currently in development.
All victories are transitory. IE also 'won' over Netscape Navigator, yet now it is losing market share to its successor. Windows Mobile used to be smartphone market leader and now they have less share than even RIM.
Ah, but HAL is Clippy version two! Just look at his statements: "I'm sorry Dave. I can't do that Dave. Would you like a nice cup of tea Dave?" No HAL, I just want to open the damned airlock.
The UK lost most of its car industry. If you check it out you will see most car companies left over the world are highly protected by the state. Be it in Germany, France, or Japan. The simple truth is that it is extremely hard to survive in the sector without state support. One of the exceptions is probably Ford.
The UK has lost a lot of its industrial capacity. I do not know if they thought they were going to be the next Switzerland or whatever. They are more likely going to become the next Italy.
Taiwan has a similar culture compared to China. The country is mostly ran by Chinese ex-pats or their descendants. They also were known for cheap low quality products until the Taiwanese government started pushing for quality in the 1990's. Today they have companies like TSMC (which manufactures the GPUs for NVIDIA and AMD), ASUS, HTC. Part of the reason for Japan's descent in the consumer goods market was that the Japanese lost the race in electronics manufacturing to Taiwan and Korea. Sony is one example. They used to be leaders in consumer electronics. Then they bought Columbia TriStar and lost touch with their customers. Sony is now a content company through and through. Read the profile of their current CEO and you will see what I mean.
The Japanese have large military aircraft. Like the protracted C-X. Just not large civilian aircraft. They do manufacture a lot of aircraft components (e.g. composites) for Boeing though.
That makes no sense. The Indian space program is much behind the Chinese space program. The Indians have a large population and some highly educated people but their infrastructure is very poor even by Chinese standards. They are also resource constrained.
AFAIK the Chinese flew a LOX/LH2 upper stage engine before the Russians did. Shenzhou is more advanced than Soyuz. Their problem is their technological development is very uneven.
The Japanese economy has not "recovered" but they invented blue/green/violet/white LEDs. One of the greatest electronics inventions of the past decades. They introduced hybrid cars. Robotic assembly and other advanced machine tools. They also got a substantial piece of the worldwide entertainment market.
The Japanese have been attempting to hold onto their industrial capacity and keep unemployment low. This comes with a share of benefits and issues.
You still have to comply with the laws of the countries you overfly. If Europe and the US add environmental standards which the Chinese cannot comply with, they cannot fly those planes to those routes. If their planes can only fly inside of China their market will be much smaller. This is already happening with the Russian airplanes which had Russian engines.
Ask Brazil and Argentina how that stimulus spending worked for them in the 1960s. If you print more money you increase inflation. Simple as that. If you are doing stimulus spending on useless projects like moving your capital to Brasilia do not be surprised to see your growth rates go down eventually as the economy is burdened with the new debt.
The Chinese government controls key infrastructure like transportation, energy, telecoms. They invest in these sectors to lower the barriers for economic development. The US builds baseball parks and pays people to buy new cars.
All of Microsoft's competitors were scrappy. It was the beginning of the home computer business. But Microsoft were the ones who got the sweetheart deal with IBM. Same thing with Intel. Motorola did better processor designs at the time. But the Intel 8088 was cheaper so...
There are two issues with Oracle. One is that they did not issue a clear statement shortly after the merger about which products would be sustained and cut, and shelved things without giving prior notice or indication of alternative strategy (one example of this is OpenSolaris). The other is that Larry Ellison does not seem to know how to play along with FLOSS developers. In fact Oracle use actively hostile tactics of buying out the competition and shriveling the R&D on it until the product becomes unviable. You only need to remember what happened to MySQL not so long ago.
I have nothing against Oracle employees. I have known more than a few and some are even quite competent. But Larry is Larry.
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If banks did not have fractional reserves, how could they ever loan money?
There was another issue with tablets before. If a device is too heavy it fails in a lot of usage scenarios. Compare the weight of the iPad with the Microsoft tablet devices. The iPad still has one issue: it has low precision input compared to a regular pencil. It is a minor issue for the usage scenarios they propose, which consist of consuming content, however this still leaves content creation off the table.
Systems which use bullets to knock down aircraft are useless if the aircraft is flying high enough. This is one reason why we use missiles after all. Another fact is that any system which destroys its sensors and guidance on each use will be expensive. These systems may be cost effective against even more expensive manned bombers or fighters, but they are not cost effective against cheap mass produced drones. In that case you will need something else like the laser defense systems currently in development.
Try running the Windows 95 version of X-Com Apocalypse on Windows 7 and tell me how well it runs...
All victories are transitory. IE also 'won' over Netscape Navigator, yet now it is losing market share to its successor. Windows Mobile used to be smartphone market leader and now they have less share than even RIM.
Ah, but HAL is Clippy version two! Just look at his statements: "I'm sorry Dave. I can't do that Dave. Would you like a nice cup of tea Dave?" No HAL, I just want to open the damned airlock.
You write their number with a pen on a piece of paper.
The UK lost most of its car industry. If you check it out you will see most car companies left over the world are highly protected by the state. Be it in Germany, France, or Japan. The simple truth is that it is extremely hard to survive in the sector without state support. One of the exceptions is probably Ford.
He also came up with the Z-buffer. That is the visibility algorithm used in graphic cards today.
The UK has lost a lot of its industrial capacity. I do not know if they thought they were going to be the next Switzerland or whatever. They are more likely going to become the next Italy.
Taiwan has a similar culture compared to China. The country is mostly ran by Chinese ex-pats or their descendants. They also were known for cheap low quality products until the Taiwanese government started pushing for quality in the 1990's. Today they have companies like TSMC (which manufactures the GPUs for NVIDIA and AMD), ASUS, HTC. Part of the reason for Japan's descent in the consumer goods market was that the Japanese lost the race in electronics manufacturing to Taiwan and Korea. Sony is one example. They used to be leaders in consumer electronics. Then they bought Columbia TriStar and lost touch with their customers. Sony is now a content company through and through. Read the profile of their current CEO and you will see what I mean.
The Japanese have large military aircraft. Like the protracted C-X. Just not large civilian aircraft. They do manufacture a lot of aircraft components (e.g. composites) for Boeing though.
That makes no sense. The Indian space program is much behind the Chinese space program. The Indians have a large population and some highly educated people but their infrastructure is very poor even by Chinese standards. They are also resource constrained.
AFAIK the Chinese flew a LOX/LH2 upper stage engine before the Russians did. Shenzhou is more advanced than Soyuz. Their problem is their technological development is very uneven.
The Japanese have been attempting to hold onto their industrial capacity and keep unemployment low. This comes with a share of benefits and issues.
Korean cars are still crap. At least compared to Japanese or German cars. Samsung displays and semiconductor products are great.
You still have to comply with the laws of the countries you overfly. If Europe and the US add environmental standards which the Chinese cannot comply with, they cannot fly those planes to those routes. If their planes can only fly inside of China their market will be much smaller. This is already happening with the Russian airplanes which had Russian engines.
The Chinese government controls key infrastructure like transportation, energy, telecoms. They invest in these sectors to lower the barriers for economic development. The US builds baseball parks and pays people to buy new cars.
All of Microsoft's competitors were scrappy. It was the beginning of the home computer business. But Microsoft were the ones who got the sweetheart deal with IBM. Same thing with Intel. Motorola did better processor designs at the time. But the Intel 8088 was cheaper so...
A lot of us have realized a long time ago that you have to pick the right language for the job, not the other way around.
Shutting down the operating system and doing absolutely nothing at all.
Because it isn't theft is it? It is copying, or industrial espionage, or whatever. Not theft.
SUSE still use RPM. The RedHat Packaging Manager.
There are two issues with Oracle. One is that they did not issue a clear statement shortly after the merger about which products would be sustained and cut, and shelved things without giving prior notice or indication of alternative strategy (one example of this is OpenSolaris). The other is that Larry Ellison does not seem to know how to play along with FLOSS developers. In fact Oracle use actively hostile tactics of buying out the competition and shriveling the R&D on it until the product becomes unviable. You only need to remember what happened to MySQL not so long ago.
I have nothing against Oracle employees. I have known more than a few and some are even quite competent. But Larry is Larry.
LibreOffice looks much the same as OpenOffice.
The king is dead, long live the king.