Sorry bud, but the fact is even without the Rosenbergs and Co. the Soviets could, and would have developed the nukes. Besides having brilliant scientists like Sakharov, they also had scientists of the German nuke project (useful ones like Zippe, rather than Heisenberg) as well as their uranium supplies. The USA had the bomb in 1945 all right. But who cares? The USSR also built the first ICBM (R-7) and they didn't exactly win the Cold War did they?
At the time, they were strictly an American technology. It was only later that treasonous Americans and Brits sold the secrets to the Communists.
I've seen this argument time and again. It seems like some people think the Soviet scientists were stupid and keep repeating about some isolated incident. You think their scientists could not have independently developed nuclear weapons if they wanted to? I'll give you some hints: the Soviets had the Zippe centrifuge decades before the West, which is only now switching to it for production of nuclear fuels. The Soviets also managed to independently invent the Hydrogen bomb, known as the Teller-Ulam design in the USA and Sakharov's Third Idea in Russia. Granted, it could take longer, but it could be done.
What do you do when missiles are fired from those apartment buildings, but when you come there, there are no uniformed enemy combatants, only "civilians", who all just shrug and say that they didn't see or hear anything, nuh-huh...
You think this didn't happen with IRA or the Basques? That they don't melt into the general population? The reason the Israelis resort to such tactics is because there are more Palestanians than Israelis, unlike the other two cases where these are minorities. Hence the situation in Israel is more akin to e.g. Uganda than those countries. In countries where there are minorities, investigation, tracking, following leads, i.e. general police work actually does the capturing work.
Actually, DAT initially had digital out. They removed that from DAT due to pressures from you can guess who: the music recording industry. After that you could only get DAT with digital out if you bought expensive studio level equipment. There DAT was a success, but never in the consumer market. It was also taxed to hell.
As for removing PS2 compatibility from the PS3, that was a cost cutting move since they still are bleeding money from every hardware sale. They removed the Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer GPU (basically every PS3 used to include near complete PS2 hardware inside). As bad as it is to lose features, it is worse to go bankrupt.
Intel recently announced it was making the Atom CPU core available for SoCs made in TSMC. NVIDIA has dealings with TSMC, as they only do design and outsource manufacturing. So theoretically NVIDIA could just use an Atom core as a base and slap a GPU on it, much like they did with Tegra with an ARM core.
So you think MD was superior, then diss ATRAC? ATRAC was the sound codec used in MD, because MD had way less storage space than a CD, sound had to be compressed somehow to fit an hour's worth of sound in it. Their problem was not having ATRAC support in their Walkman, the problem was not having MP3 support.
Know any doctor with tens of thousands of patients? I don't. I suspect it was either a hospital or, even more likely, insurance company clerical worker.
Just don't store anything client side then. I see nothing that doctors do that needs to be stored in the client side. Text medical records? Google Docs does it way beyond anything needed for that. X-rays? Google maps can visualize high-resolution images. None of those apps are client side. Just add password login and SSL encryption and you're done.
Yes, reading that it was more expensive than an LCD panel gave me quite a bit of pause, thinking this may end up as yet another dead end technology. Flexible surfaces may make it a keeper in the long term though.
You also need to use a light with a regular book. IMO that is not enough of an obstacle. I think one reason the light isn't included is because it would drain the battery down (as well as make the device more expensive).
IMO the Kindle makes little sense for newspapers. You can get better mileage with the web. People are usually only interested in some stories, not all. Searching and dynamic page update are important in such an application. I think it makes sense for books though. A book is heavier, has more pages so eyestrain is a bigger problem, e-ink display starts to shine with such an application. You may think it is senseless to own specific book reading hardware, but I thought in the past it was senseless to own a standalone MP3 player when a cellphone would play MP3s as well, and look how wrong I was. Form factor and easier to use controls were a winner. In the end it depends on the whole ecosystem, and Bezos seems to be following the iPod business model to a T. I agree he has to allow people to read non DRM materials (people should be able to add and remove PDFs to a Kindle without 3rd party intervention at least, and WTF is it with buying "cheap" classics when Project Guttenberg has them for FREE?)
IMO it is more akin the invention of the reusable lightbulb replacing disposable candles. But sometimes progress goes the other way around: replacement of handkerchiefs with tissue paper.
We already had something which was much like this at a point: it was called slavery. It didn't mean free citizens stopped having things to do though. Fact is, the robots will still have to be supervised, fixed, someone will have to input orders, and some people may not have the money to own robots for a certain task. Someone will have to do creative tasks (unless robots can do those too). Some people may want to work just for the heck of it. Its not like people do not have hobbies now. If it gets cheap enough, eventually there will be free bread and circus for everyone I guess, society may grow weak and sedated as the Romans did, but alas that is life.
Ah, but if he has more money, he may buy more expensive shoes. Also, if he keeps his money at a bank, the bank will reinvest that money by lending it to someone else. Or did you think the bank just sits on money deposited there? Banks have but a small fraction of total deposits available in the form of tangible cash.
I do not know the whole world, but I live in a country which is a net paper exporter, and most paper is from planted eucalyptus trees. While you may argue about the environmental impact of eucalyptus planting, the fact is nearly any other wood is too valuable to use for paper. It is used for other purposes instead. Heck, hemp can be used to make high quality paper, and isn't used as much as eucalyptus because its considered to be too expensive, even when used in a rotation scheme with other crops.
FWIW, ball ammo is made to knock down an opponent rather than pierce armor. A pistol is not a replacement for a rifle (the WWI era equivalent of a musket). The longer barrel of a rifle also means a higher muzzle velocity. Compare that Colt 1911A1 pistol with a Nosin-Nagant or Mauser rifle available around the same time as the Colt for e.g.
PS: The army is also interested in an all electric tank (weapon, defensive systems), while the navy is interested in electric powered weapons as well (railguns). Such investments should improve research for pure electric or hybrid transportation, but the tap on investment is a mere drip.
The $1 trillion in spending in the Iraq war isn't seemingly helping as much as investment in WWII. But then again, with the Bush administration forcing the military to fund research programs for immediate needs, rather than doing long term research when they want to, had to cause that. I guess in their minds the jet engine (ok that was the British), radar (uh British again), aircraft carriers, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, ICBMs, ARPAnet were pointless wastes of time too. The typical problem of late has been nearsightedness, and Obama isn't improving on that front as much as he should. The military would probably fund investments in alternative fusion and nanotechnology research if they could, but they are hamstrung by policy from above.
Some high income professions in fact require increased spending. If you are a salesman, or even an executive in a large company, it is often expected you wear a suit and have a luxury car (perhaps even with a driver). Sometimes the company in question actually pays for these things (e.g. the car with driver can be perceived as granting more time and security for said executive) but other times it does not. You may spend more on lunches, and other things that rack up the bills.
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Sorry bud, but the fact is even without the Rosenbergs and Co. the Soviets could, and would have developed the nukes. Besides having brilliant scientists like Sakharov, they also had scientists of the German nuke project (useful ones like Zippe, rather than Heisenberg) as well as their uranium supplies. The USA had the bomb in 1945 all right. But who cares? The USSR also built the first ICBM (R-7) and they didn't exactly win the Cold War did they?
Global Hawk is not like a Predator UAV. It flys at 60000 ft and doesn't have a Gary Powers for a pilot.
At the time, they were strictly an American technology. It was only later that treasonous Americans and Brits sold the secrets to the Communists.
I've seen this argument time and again. It seems like some people think the Soviet scientists were stupid and keep repeating about some isolated incident. You think their scientists could not have independently developed nuclear weapons if they wanted to? I'll give you some hints: the Soviets had the Zippe centrifuge decades before the West, which is only now switching to it for production of nuclear fuels. The Soviets also managed to independently invent the Hydrogen bomb, known as the Teller-Ulam design in the USA and Sakharov's Third Idea in Russia. Granted, it could take longer, but it could be done.
What do you do when missiles are fired from those apartment buildings, but when you come there, there are no uniformed enemy combatants, only "civilians", who all just shrug and say that they didn't see or hear anything, nuh-huh...
You think this didn't happen with IRA or the Basques? That they don't melt into the general population? The reason the Israelis resort to such tactics is because there are more Palestanians than Israelis, unlike the other two cases where these are minorities. Hence the situation in Israel is more akin to e.g. Uganda than those countries. In countries where there are minorities, investigation, tracking, following leads, i.e. general police work actually does the capturing work.
As for removing PS2 compatibility from the PS3, that was a cost cutting move since they still are bleeding money from every hardware sale. They removed the Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer GPU (basically every PS3 used to include near complete PS2 hardware inside). As bad as it is to lose features, it is worse to go bankrupt.
Intel recently announced it was making the Atom CPU core available for SoCs made in TSMC. NVIDIA has dealings with TSMC, as they only do design and outsource manufacturing. So theoretically NVIDIA could just use an Atom core as a base and slap a GPU on it, much like they did with Tegra with an ARM core.
Actually, in South Korea its even faster to build a nuclear power plant, for some reason.
So you think MD was superior, then diss ATRAC? ATRAC was the sound codec used in MD, because MD had way less storage space than a CD, sound had to be compressed somehow to fit an hour's worth of sound in it. Their problem was not having ATRAC support in their Walkman, the problem was not having MP3 support.
Know any doctor with tens of thousands of patients? I don't. I suspect it was either a hospital or, even more likely, insurance company clerical worker.
Just don't store anything client side then. I see nothing that doctors do that needs to be stored in the client side. Text medical records? Google Docs does it way beyond anything needed for that. X-rays? Google maps can visualize high-resolution images. None of those apps are client side. Just add password login and SSL encryption and you're done.
Just wait until the Japanese start having blue haired males and pink haired females. THEN things will get scary.
Grey goo, here we come.
Yes, reading that it was more expensive than an LCD panel gave me quite a bit of pause, thinking this may end up as yet another dead end technology. Flexible surfaces may make it a keeper in the long term though.
You also need to use a light with a regular book. IMO that is not enough of an obstacle. I think one reason the light isn't included is because it would drain the battery down (as well as make the device more expensive).
IMO the Kindle makes little sense for newspapers. You can get better mileage with the web. People are usually only interested in some stories, not all. Searching and dynamic page update are important in such an application. I think it makes sense for books though. A book is heavier, has more pages so eyestrain is a bigger problem, e-ink display starts to shine with such an application. You may think it is senseless to own specific book reading hardware, but I thought in the past it was senseless to own a standalone MP3 player when a cellphone would play MP3s as well, and look how wrong I was. Form factor and easier to use controls were a winner. In the end it depends on the whole ecosystem, and Bezos seems to be following the iPod business model to a T. I agree he has to allow people to read non DRM materials (people should be able to add and remove PDFs to a Kindle without 3rd party intervention at least, and WTF is it with buying "cheap" classics when Project Guttenberg has them for FREE?)
IMO it is more akin the invention of the reusable lightbulb replacing disposable candles. But sometimes progress goes the other way around: replacement of handkerchiefs with tissue paper.
We already had something which was much like this at a point: it was called slavery. It didn't mean free citizens stopped having things to do though. Fact is, the robots will still have to be supervised, fixed, someone will have to input orders, and some people may not have the money to own robots for a certain task. Someone will have to do creative tasks (unless robots can do those too). Some people may want to work just for the heck of it. Its not like people do not have hobbies now. If it gets cheap enough, eventually there will be free bread and circus for everyone I guess, society may grow weak and sedated as the Romans did, but alas that is life.
Ah, but if he has more money, he may buy more expensive shoes. Also, if he keeps his money at a bank, the bank will reinvest that money by lending it to someone else. Or did you think the bank just sits on money deposited there? Banks have but a small fraction of total deposits available in the form of tangible cash.
I do not know the whole world, but I live in a country which is a net paper exporter, and most paper is from planted eucalyptus trees. While you may argue about the environmental impact of eucalyptus planting, the fact is nearly any other wood is too valuable to use for paper. It is used for other purposes instead. Heck, hemp can be used to make high quality paper, and isn't used as much as eucalyptus because its considered to be too expensive, even when used in a rotation scheme with other crops.
FWIW, ball ammo is made to knock down an opponent rather than pierce armor. A pistol is not a replacement for a rifle (the WWI era equivalent of a musket). The longer barrel of a rifle also means a higher muzzle velocity. Compare that Colt 1911A1 pistol with a Nosin-Nagant or Mauser rifle available around the same time as the Colt for e.g.
That language would be Pig English: The new Pig Latin.
PS: The army is also interested in an all electric tank (weapon, defensive systems), while the navy is interested in electric powered weapons as well (railguns). Such investments should improve research for pure electric or hybrid transportation, but the tap on investment is a mere drip.
The $1 trillion in spending in the Iraq war isn't seemingly helping as much as investment in WWII. But then again, with the Bush administration forcing the military to fund research programs for immediate needs, rather than doing long term research when they want to, had to cause that. I guess in their minds the jet engine (ok that was the British), radar (uh British again), aircraft carriers, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, ICBMs, ARPAnet were pointless wastes of time too. The typical problem of late has been nearsightedness, and Obama isn't improving on that front as much as he should. The military would probably fund investments in alternative fusion and nanotechnology research if they could, but they are hamstrung by policy from above.
Some high income professions in fact require increased spending. If you are a salesman, or even an executive in a large company, it is often expected you wear a suit and have a luxury car (perhaps even with a driver). Sometimes the company in question actually pays for these things (e.g. the car with driver can be perceived as granting more time and security for said executive) but other times it does not. You may spend more on lunches, and other things that rack up the bills.
IIRC Nobel Prizes only were supposed to be granted to the equivalent of todays Nobel Peace Prize. None of the scientific prizes were awarded then.