I was half his age reading schematics, wiring and soldering circuits from scratch by 10, at a time before abundant large scale integrated circuits. I never got invited to the White House (for that).
I got suspended in the 11th grade for "trying to blow up the chemistry lab" by testing a copper chloride sample under a Bunsen burner, not because I was doing it wrong, but because it wasn't part of the lesson plan that day. To spite the teacher, I got a perfect score on the final up from a D- for failure to do homework.
I want my fucking $15 million.
I am a wage-slave. I have my own food. I can quit my job at will, and nobody will harm me. I am free to find another job, and will because I am worth the money it takes to wage-slave me.
yea but wondering what's the cost to benefit for refining regular sewage under eg. thermal depolymerization, if some fuel can be produced as an end (ahem) product. Any real studies on crapolene?
old news; the stockpile already polluted with animal proteins has been found to be useless for humans. Pussies! make some goddamn decent HUMAN DNA strains and quit beating around the "Bush." This research is a cover-up. Tinfoil hat firmly between head, buttocks, and nuts on this one.
These statistics indicate people are significantly safer in states that have the right to carry concealed.
Copied here:
CARRYING CONCEALED FIREARMS (CCW) STATISTICS
Violent crime rates are highest overall in states with laws severely limiting or prohibiting the carrying of concealed firearms for self-defense. (FBI Uniform Crime Reports, 1992) -
The total Violent Crime Rate is 26% higher in the restrictive states (798.3 per 100,000 pop.) than in the less restrictive states (631.6 per 100,000).
The Homicide Rate is 49% higher in the restrictive states (10.1 per 100,000) than in the states with less restrictive CCW laws (6.8 per 100,000).
The Robbery Rate is 58% higher in the restrictive states (289.7 per 100,000) than in the less restrictive states (183.1 per 100,000).
The Aggravated Assault Rate is 15% higher in the restrictive states (455.9 per 100,000) than in the less restrictive states (398.3 per 100,000). Using the most recent FBI data (1992), homicide trends in the 17 states with less restrictive CCW laws compare favorably against national trends, and almost all CCW permittees are law-abiding.
Since adopting CCW (1987), Florida's homicide rate has fallen 21% while the U.S. rate has risen 12%. From start-up 10/1/87 2/28/94 (over 6 yrs.) Florida issued 204,108 permits; only 17 (0.008%) were revoked because permittees later committed crimes (not necessarily violent) in which guns were present (not necessarily used).
Of 14,000 CCW licensees in Oregon, only 4 (0.03%) were convicted of the criminal (not necessarily violent) use or possession of a firearm. Americans use firearms for self-defense more than 2.1 million times annually.
By contrast, there are about 579,000 violent crimes committed annually with firearms of all types. Seventy percent of violent crimes are committed by 7% of criminals, including repeat offenders, many of whom the courts place on probation after conviction, and felons that are paroled before serving their full time behind bars.
Two-thirds of self-protective firearms uses are with handguns.
99.9% of self-defense firearms uses do not result in fatal shootings of criminals, an important factor ignored in certain "studies" that are used to claim that guns are more often misused than used for self-protection. Of incarcerated felons surveyed by the Department of Justice, 34% have been driven away, wounded, or captured by armed citizens; 40% have decided against committing crimes for fear their would-be victims were armed.
OTHER CCW FACTS
With adoption of CCW by Arizona, Tennessee and Wyoming in early 1994, 19 states have CCW laws requiring the issuance of permits to carry concealed firearms for self-defense to citizens who meet fair and reasonable state standards. Vermont, which ranks near the bottom in violent crime rates year-in and year-out, allows firearms to be carried concealed without a permit.
In recent years NRA successfully fought for the adoption of favorable CCW laws now on the books in Florida (1987), Idaho (1990, amended 1991), Mississippi (1990), Montana (1991), and Oregon (1990). In recent legislative sessions, proposals for similar CCW laws have progressed in Alaska, Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
Anti-gun forces oppose CCW with a variety of arguments, ranging from deliberate misrepresentations of commonly available crime data to "studies" pretending to show that private ownership of firearms leads to death and injury rather than providing protection to the owner.
1. Firearms ownership opponents claim that "violent crime" went up in Florida since that state enacted CCW legislation in 1987, a misleading statement for multiple reasons:
Florida's homicide rate has declined 21% since adopting CCW in1987.
Check out Uve Rick's EV conversion calculator page. I've been building an EV, for what was to be a 40 mile one way where I could charge up for the return commute. Since I now work from home most time, due to the demise of my former employer, haven't had much time to finish up; also I'd recommend not doing what I did, and try to build an ultimate supercar. A simple conversion can run about $6000; fewer moving parts ( like one in the motor ), never needs oil or coolant, cost of travel per mile is mostly in the lead, which isn't that bad. An interesting development in CrFeLi Batteries is actually available in mass production and more cost effective than gasoline, gets 100k charge cycles, and for the same weight in lead gets similar range as ICE. A good set of these will run $6000 but would be good for the life of the vehicle. Almost there really, the end of the ICE era.
Because you can be a little bit free, but not a little bit pregnant. Freedom has its limits, and we like to feel we control them. In the UK, you like to think you control them. In France they like to think they exist, and in some sense that is freedom, for if you are dead or don't exist, then you are only free from the bounds of freedom. Really, freedom doesn't exist in the absolute sense, truth is absolute, therefore it must exist in the false sense. So you see, if we think we are free, we are wrong, but if we feel we are free, we don't care.
Didn't know about the %51 thing, but saw a sign in a bar in San Antonio a couple years back, and it was no joke.
The joke's on California though...
After reading up on Calfornia SB 1152, which basically says they'll be forcing retailers to thumbprint ammo purchases and keep records for 2 years, ( based on Los Angeles city ordinance creeping its way across the entire republic... ) wondering if Texas will please invade the state, I'll lay down my arms, and should, my AR doesn't even have a detachable magazine, and sure thing the Texans would pack the real deal. CCW Permit in Cali? They don't even give those to COPS! Ohh but if you are the biggest anti-gun lobby ( Feinstien & Boxer ), you can and do have a CCW.
Hi-class gents club in California? No cigar(ette) smoking indoors, and in my hometown, you can't smoke OUTSIDE! Just around the corner in Santa Cruz, if you are a hairy armpit lumberjack female, you can walk around topless in public. But they give out drivers licenses to illegal aliens, and jam up the freeways with car pool lanes that nobody uses cutting utilization potential of the roads by %33, and let cats marry dogs in SF, a city that funds open pot fields.
Well, you missed the "History of the World: Part I", M. Brooks! What were the missing 5 commandments? Well, there was at least a couple missing commandments depending on who you ask, there is a problem with the 10 count.
First of all you are talking about trade. Trade deficits are bad. They help them more then they help us.
Obviously, and my point was to compare and contrast the trade deficit with Israel with other countries around the world which are far far greater, and so much so, that the statement you made that Israel is taking so much charity that it negatively impacts us is absolute drivel. To quote you " If instead of giving billions of dollars to israel we spend those dollars right here in the US maybe we would have invented those cool things. Maybe we would have manufactured those things. maybe American companies would be selling shit to israel providing jobs of Americans."
Quite clearly your idea is that we are giving away billions of dollars to Isreal in charity, but then you call it manufacturing then you think we should sell shit to Israel. We do - we sold 6 billion $ worth of shit to Isreal, and bought 12. That is trade. There is a deficit, there is a significant deficit with the entire world. I showed the deficit with Israel is miniscule in comparison to the rest of the world, and can hardly be called charity.
I am talking about us foreign aid. Not trade. Foreign aid is charity given by the US because people are destitute, starving or because we feel somehow justified in giving our money away.
Liar. You just said if those gadgets were manufactured here in the good 'ol us, yada yada, and if we made them by our shit instead of the other way around, etc etc, so you are talking about trade.
Furthermore if you were talking about foreign aid, this chart shows exactly how much assistance does flow to Israel, about $.5B total from all donor countries not just US. Israel by the way is a DAC II country since being rescheduled out of DAC I in 1997, one in a transition out of being a developing country, other DAC II countries Aruba, Bahamas, Bermuda, Brunei, Cayman Islands, Chinese Taipei, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, French Polynesia, Gibraltar, Hong Kong China, Israel, Korea, Kuwait, Libya, Macao, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Qatar, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Virgin Islands (UK), all assistance DAC I and II took a total $190.7B in 2001 about $10B was assistance from the US, so Israel took %0.2 in mostly program funding such as scholarships and technology cooperatives, which would equate to about $26million from US . Blaming that figure for the state of the US economy is just plain idiotic garbage. The DAC I countries took most of the actual charity assistance, as opposed to program assistance, charity including used clothes, food, etc. These countries include Poland, former Soviet blocks, eastern europe, China, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippinens, Malaysia, Viet Nam, Mongolia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Tunisia, and Peru.
Nobody has ever convinced me that giving charity to israel is justified. They are not destitute, they are not starving, they don't need our help and they give us back nothing in return.
Well actually, Israel invested about $3B in the US last year. And they bought a lot of our crap, about half as much as we bought of theirs, so they are running with the pack. If you want to blame someone for the state of the US due to misplaced funding and manufacturing, look all over the freaking world; the world should love us, we buy everything and ship nothing. Don't blame Israel for that.
Um, you might want to read up on how much we "give" China, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, pretty much the whole world. IMHO, the stipulation that we give Israel more than it is worth, without making the same statements about other countries is a classic ruse.
For example, China, we "gave" $152 Billion and "took" $28 Billion in 2003. That is a $123 Billion trade deficit at a 5.4:1 ratio in favor of China.
We "gave" France $29 Billion and took $17 Billion for a deficit of $12 Billion.
We "gave" Gaza strip 1 million, and "took" 0.
we "gave" Iraq $4.5 Billion, and freedom, and "took" 300 Million for a deficit of 4.2 Billion.
We "gave" Indonesia a trade deficit of $7 Billion.
Japan, a deficit of $65 Billion with roughly 2:1 ratio.
United Arab Emirates, we actually had surplus trade at $2.3 Billion, they bought more of our shit than we of theirs. Same with Vatican City at $2.3B.
United Kingdom, $8.7 Billion deficit.
Vietnam, we "gave" 4.5 and "took" 1.3, for a deficit of 3.2 Billion.
Western Europe in general, we "gave" 266 and "took" 164 Billion Dollars, for a deficit of $101,000,000,000 at 1.6:1
Israel? we "gave" $12.7 and "took" $6.8 Billion, for a deficit of 5.8B. at about 1.8:1 . I don't really see this as any particularly special giving, especially when compared to China's ratio, and the point of the previous post, though rather winded, was that there is a lot of hi-tech benefit when compared to purely perishable goods and materials that many other countries "force" us to consume, which, with reference to the original artical context, points out is also strategic.
So, really, what we should do, is globally increase our exports, and continue technological partnership with Israel.
Doesn't "calculus" mean "small stone", as in holding up a small stone at arms length to measure a mountain? Hence the differential, something shrinkingly small, has a relative value when compared to something observed, and that value is more exact as the smallness increases since your arm's length stays the same... more poetic than counting stones at least.
Anti-intellectualism is another serious problem, I agree; that's something fundamental in our culture that we really need to fix, but I confess I have no idea how.
If more nerds would join the NRA, less nerds would be threatened by anti-intellectualism. Nerds would enjoy the same stature as say, jocks, surfers, and even stoners, all of whom are categorically more likely to aquire guns by the time they are 18. Male nerds might even get laid if females thought they could offer protection. Unfortunately, nerds typically become nerds because they are lesser physical beings, and this can be compensated with by technological adjuncts such as firearms. Of course this begs the question since, if nerds didn't have the psycho-sexual impetus to exceed intellectually, then we'd have no nerds to do the smart stuff, which we are currently sending offshore anyway; so this is really a polititco-darwinism of Pol Pot proportions.
I use a surjective mapping of names to machines and bijective mapping of names to IP numbers as I have one PC with two names depending on which network interface I am using, eg. lap2 for wired and wlap2 for wireless. This is to keep DHCP, which is hard wired for MAC id, in sync with my DNS server. In some cases havoc will ensue if I call a machine by the wrong name as it gets into a state of, er, cognitive dissonance. So, not only do I have to keep my machines separated, some of the machines are not separate machines.
Doh! My facts are fine, get yours. See Deering's 1995 SIGGRAPH paper, now part of Java3D, outlined as follows:
http://www.angelfire.com/space2/dineshshikhare/com pression/geomComp.html
This was the first paper on Geometry Compression.
Compression is achived by encoding geometry using
generalised triangle strips and by using
lossy techniques to encode vertex coordinates, colour
and vertex normals.
This work is now a part of Java3dwups!
At least there is some hope that a rogue group in (or outside) mozilla will add a patch to support X3D natively.
I've got XP_IDL_X3D up for grabs. Like I said in another thread, the spec was wiley, and these were done outside the box, so, don't really know if they comply with the current truth, conversely, I suppose that would be a Good Thing if a mozilla implementation came through, strange attractors and all.
I admit the "discussion" with ctxspy was over the edge, except for the content, and apologize as did he/she; name calling is a two-way one-way street.
I suppose for EDA, when there are widespread EDA chips and IP contained within, one would find similar roadblocks to exchange as are found in 3D. X3D has about the best defined credo for exchange so far and adheres to web standards, however ISO is not the only standards org, W3C for example could use a 3D format, and without IE and mozilla native implementations, why go there. I tried with some powers that be for mozilla, and the answer back was the software needed to work in IE; chickens and eggs.
Plugins are just not going to enable multiple namespaces within a single document, which you should be able to do by theory with SVG, MathML, XHTML, why dammit not X3D? Because in short the leading vendors of X3D are still thinking in terms of plugins, and not able to integrate with mozilla for IP restrictions, whether they are internal or dependency driven, and not able to integrate with IE for the fact they don't work at Microsoft, who in turn don't really care about the given format and don't see X3D as a case to sway chip vendors away proprietary interfaces that they already pay for.
Unfortunately, Microsoft has a patent on series of single bits files. Sun had prior claims to a discrete container for boolean modules, and now they just work better together.
But your's were ever so clever, you must really know what you are talking about.
I'm not going to bother countering your 'counterpoints' considering most were just reiterations of what I said or implied, and the new information you introduced has absolutely nothing to do with your original comments.
Good, but, no, my follow up post both supports my original and counters whatever outlandish statements you made in reponse, and is drawn from direct experience with all parties involved, not some jounalists interperetation of some marketing spokesman's PR rehashed on/.
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I was half his age reading schematics, wiring and soldering circuits from scratch by 10, at a time before abundant large scale integrated circuits. I never got invited to the White House (for that). I got suspended in the 11th grade for "trying to blow up the chemistry lab" by testing a copper chloride sample under a Bunsen burner, not because I was doing it wrong, but because it wasn't part of the lesson plan that day. To spite the teacher, I got a perfect score on the final up from a D- for failure to do homework. I want my fucking $15 million.
I am a wage-slave. I have my own food. I can quit my job at will, and nobody will harm me. I am free to find another job, and will because I am worth the money it takes to wage-slave me.
factory forgot to set BIOS memory hole remapping. unfortunately we'll have to reboot to fix it.
yea but wondering what's the cost to benefit for refining regular sewage under eg. thermal depolymerization, if some fuel can be produced as an end (ahem) product. Any real studies on crapolene?
old news; the stockpile already polluted with animal proteins has been found to be useless for humans. Pussies! make some goddamn decent HUMAN DNA strains and quit beating around the "Bush." This research is a cover-up. Tinfoil hat firmly between head, buttocks, and nuts on this one.
These statistics indicate people are significantly safer in states that have the right to carry concealed.
Copied here:
CARRYING CONCEALED FIREARMS (CCW) STATISTICS
Violent crime rates are highest overall in states with laws severely limiting or prohibiting the carrying of concealed firearms for self-defense. (FBI Uniform Crime Reports, 1992) -
The total Violent Crime Rate is 26% higher in the restrictive states (798.3 per 100,000 pop.) than in the less restrictive states (631.6 per 100,000).
The Homicide Rate is 49% higher in the restrictive states (10.1 per 100,000) than in the states with less restrictive CCW laws (6.8 per 100,000).
The Robbery Rate is 58% higher in the restrictive states (289.7 per 100,000) than in the less restrictive states (183.1 per 100,000).
The Aggravated Assault Rate is 15% higher in the restrictive states (455.9 per 100,000) than in the less restrictive states (398.3 per 100,000). Using the most recent FBI data (1992), homicide trends in the 17 states with less restrictive CCW laws compare favorably against national trends, and almost all CCW permittees are law-abiding.
Since adopting CCW (1987), Florida's homicide rate has fallen 21% while the U.S. rate has risen 12%. From start-up 10/1/87 2/28/94 (over 6 yrs.) Florida issued 204,108 permits; only 17 (0.008%) were revoked because permittees later committed crimes (not necessarily violent) in which guns were present (not necessarily used).
Of 14,000 CCW licensees in Oregon, only 4 (0.03%) were convicted of the criminal (not necessarily violent) use or possession of a firearm. Americans use firearms for self-defense more than 2.1 million times annually.
By contrast, there are about 579,000 violent crimes committed annually with firearms of all types. Seventy percent of violent crimes are committed by 7% of criminals, including repeat offenders, many of whom the courts place on probation after conviction, and felons that are paroled before serving their full time behind bars.
Two-thirds of self-protective firearms uses are with handguns.
99.9% of self-defense firearms uses do not result in fatal shootings of criminals, an important factor ignored in certain "studies" that are used to claim that guns are more often misused than used for self-protection. Of incarcerated felons surveyed by the Department of Justice, 34% have been driven away, wounded, or captured by armed citizens; 40% have decided against committing crimes for fear their would-be victims were armed.
OTHER CCW FACTS
With adoption of CCW by Arizona, Tennessee and Wyoming in early 1994, 19 states have CCW laws requiring the issuance of permits to carry concealed firearms for self-defense to citizens who meet fair and reasonable state standards. Vermont, which ranks near the bottom in violent crime rates year-in and year-out, allows firearms to be carried concealed without a permit.
In recent years NRA successfully fought for the adoption of favorable CCW laws now on the books in Florida (1987), Idaho (1990, amended 1991), Mississippi (1990), Montana (1991), and Oregon (1990). In recent legislative sessions, proposals for similar CCW laws have progressed in Alaska, Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
Anti-gun forces oppose CCW with a variety of arguments, ranging from deliberate misrepresentations of commonly available crime data to "studies" pretending to show that private ownership of firearms leads to death and injury rather than providing protection to the owner.
1. Firearms ownership opponents claim that "violent crime" went up in Florida since that state enacted CCW legislation in 1987, a misleading statement for multiple reasons:
Florida's homicide rate has declined 21% since adopting CCW in1987.
No co
Check out Uve Rick's EV conversion calculator page. I've been building an EV, for what was to be a 40 mile one way where I could charge up for the return commute. Since I now work from home most time, due to the demise of my former employer, haven't had much time to finish up; also I'd recommend not doing what I did, and try to build an ultimate supercar. A simple conversion can run about $6000; fewer moving parts ( like one in the motor ), never needs oil or coolant, cost of travel per mile is mostly in the lead, which isn't that bad. An interesting development in CrFeLi Batteries is actually available in mass production and more cost effective than gasoline, gets 100k charge cycles, and for the same weight in lead gets similar range as ICE. A good set of these will run $6000 but would be good for the life of the vehicle. Almost there really, the end of the ICE era.
Because you can be a little bit free, but not a little bit pregnant. Freedom has its limits, and we like to feel we control them. In the UK, you like to think you control them. In France they like to think they exist, and in some sense that is freedom, for if you are dead or don't exist, then you are only free from the bounds of freedom. Really, freedom doesn't exist in the absolute sense, truth is absolute, therefore it must exist in the false sense. So you see, if we think we are free, we are wrong, but if we feel we are free, we don't care.
Teach them how to write Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, and Offensive email to the board of directors. They might get modded down.
The joke's on California though... After reading up on Calfornia SB 1152, which basically says they'll be forcing retailers to thumbprint ammo purchases and keep records for 2 years, ( based on Los Angeles city ordinance creeping its way across the entire republic... ) wondering if Texas will please invade the state, I'll lay down my arms, and should, my AR doesn't even have a detachable magazine, and sure thing the Texans would pack the real deal. CCW Permit in Cali? They don't even give those to COPS! Ohh but if you are the biggest anti-gun lobby ( Feinstien & Boxer ), you can and do have a CCW.
Hi-class gents club in California? No cigar(ette) smoking indoors, and in my hometown, you can't smoke OUTSIDE! Just around the corner in Santa Cruz, if you are a hairy armpit lumberjack female, you can walk around topless in public. But they give out drivers licenses to illegal aliens, and jam up the freeways with car pool lanes that nobody uses cutting utilization potential of the roads by %33, and let cats marry dogs in SF, a city that funds open pot fields.
Well, you missed the "History of the World: Part I", M. Brooks! What were the missing 5 commandments? Well, there was at least a couple missing commandments depending on who you ask, there is a problem with the 10 count.
... in /etc/passwd. They can each have their own passwords, logs should get their unames. Just a thought... I'm sure this breaks in some scenarios.
You are completely screwed.
First of all you are talking about trade. Trade deficits are bad. They help them more then they help us.
Obviously, and my point was to compare and contrast the trade deficit with Israel with other countries around the world which are far far greater, and so much so, that the statement you made that Israel is taking so much charity that it negatively impacts us is absolute drivel. To quote you " If instead of giving billions of dollars to israel we spend those dollars right here in the US maybe we would have invented those cool things. Maybe we would have manufactured those things. maybe American companies would be selling shit to israel providing jobs of Americans."
Quite clearly your idea is that we are giving away billions of dollars to Isreal in charity, but then you call it manufacturing then you think we should sell shit to Israel. We do - we sold 6 billion $ worth of shit to Isreal, and bought 12. That is trade. There is a deficit, there is a significant deficit with the entire world. I showed the deficit with Israel is miniscule in comparison to the rest of the world, and can hardly be called charity.
I am talking about us foreign aid. Not trade. Foreign aid is charity given by the US because people are destitute, starving or because we feel somehow justified in giving our money away.
Liar. You just said if those gadgets were manufactured here in the good 'ol us, yada yada, and if we made them by our shit instead of the other way around, etc etc, so you are talking about trade.
Furthermore if you were talking about foreign aid, this chart shows exactly how much assistance does flow to Israel, about $.5B total from all donor countries not just US. Israel by the way is a DAC II country since being rescheduled out of DAC I in 1997, one in a transition out of being a developing country, other DAC II countries Aruba, Bahamas, Bermuda, Brunei, Cayman Islands, Chinese Taipei, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, French Polynesia, Gibraltar, Hong Kong China, Israel, Korea, Kuwait, Libya, Macao, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Qatar, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Virgin Islands (UK), all assistance DAC I and II took a total $190.7B in 2001 about $10B was assistance from the US, so Israel took %0.2 in mostly program funding such as scholarships and technology cooperatives, which would equate to about $26million from US . Blaming that figure for the state of the US economy is just plain idiotic garbage. The DAC I countries took most of the actual charity assistance, as opposed to program assistance, charity including used clothes, food, etc. These countries include Poland, former Soviet blocks, eastern europe, China, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippinens, Malaysia, Viet Nam, Mongolia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Tunisia, and Peru.
Nobody has ever convinced me that giving charity to israel is justified. They are not destitute, they are not starving, they don't need our help and they give us back nothing in return.
Well actually, Israel invested about $3B in the US last year. And they bought a lot of our crap, about half as much as we bought of theirs, so they are running with the pack. If you want to blame someone for the state of the US due to misplaced funding and manufacturing, look all over the freaking world; the world should love us, we buy everything and ship nothing. Don't blame Israel for that.
For example, China, we "gave" $152 Billion and "took" $28 Billion in 2003. That is a $123 Billion trade deficit at a 5.4:1 ratio in favor of China.
We "gave" France $29 Billion and took $17 Billion for a deficit of $12 Billion.
We "gave" Gaza strip 1 million, and "took" 0.
we "gave" Iraq $4.5 Billion, and freedom, and "took" 300 Million for a deficit of 4.2 Billion.
We "gave" Indonesia a trade deficit of $7 Billion.
Japan, a deficit of $65 Billion with roughly 2:1 ratio.
United Arab Emirates, we actually had surplus trade at $2.3 Billion, they bought more of our shit than we of theirs. Same with Vatican City at $2.3B.
United Kingdom, $8.7 Billion deficit.
Vietnam, we "gave" 4.5 and "took" 1.3, for a deficit of 3.2 Billion.
Western Europe in general, we "gave" 266 and "took" 164 Billion Dollars, for a deficit of $101,000,000,000 at 1.6:1
Israel? we "gave" $12.7 and "took" $6.8 Billion, for a deficit of 5.8B. at about 1.8:1 . I don't really see this as any particularly special giving, especially when compared to China's ratio, and the point of the previous post, though rather winded, was that there is a lot of hi-tech benefit when compared to purely perishable goods and materials that many other countries "force" us to consume, which, with reference to the original artical context, points out is also strategic.
So, really, what we should do, is globally increase our exports, and continue technological partnership with Israel.
Oh, balance of trade.
Doesn't "calculus" mean "small stone", as in holding up a small stone at arms length to measure a mountain? Hence the differential, something shrinkingly small, has a relative value when compared to something observed, and that value is more exact as the smallness increases since your arm's length stays the same... more poetic than counting stones at least.
If more nerds would join the NRA, less nerds would be threatened by anti-intellectualism. Nerds would enjoy the same stature as say, jocks, surfers, and even stoners, all of whom are categorically more likely to aquire guns by the time they are 18. Male nerds might even get laid if females thought they could offer protection. Unfortunately, nerds typically become nerds because they are lesser physical beings, and this can be compensated with by technological adjuncts such as firearms. Of course this begs the question since, if nerds didn't have the psycho-sexual impetus to exceed intellectually, then we'd have no nerds to do the smart stuff, which we are currently sending offshore anyway; so this is really a polititco-darwinism of Pol Pot proportions.
Dyslexics of the world untie!
I use a surjective mapping of names to machines and bijective mapping of names to IP numbers as I have one PC with two names depending on which network interface I am using, eg. lap2 for wired and wlap2 for wireless. This is to keep DHCP, which is hard wired for MAC id, in sync with my DNS server. In some cases havoc will ensue if I call a machine by the wrong name as it gets into a state of, er, cognitive dissonance. So, not only do I have to keep my machines separated, some of the machines are not separate machines.
Doh! My facts are fine, get yours. See Deering's 1995 SIGGRAPH paper, now part of Java3D, outlined as follows: http://www.angelfire.com/space2/dineshshikhare/com pression/geomComp.html
This was the first paper on Geometry Compression.
Compression is achived by encoding geometry using
generalised triangle strips and by using
lossy techniques to encode vertex coordinates, colour
and vertex normals.
This work is now a part of Java3d wups!
I've got XP_IDL_X3D up for grabs. Like I said in another thread, the spec was wiley, and these were done outside the box, so, don't really know if they comply with the current truth, conversely, I suppose that would be a Good Thing if a mozilla implementation came through, strange attractors and all.
There has never been a lossy 3d geometry format
Maybe I'm out of context, but Java3D has had a lossy 3d geometry format for many years.
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/forDe velopers/java3dfaq.html#geocomp
but
I'm pretty sure if I consulted my colleagues they'd find the idea insane as I do.
In this business, we're all insane to some degree.
I suppose for EDA, when there are widespread EDA chips and IP contained within, one would find similar roadblocks to exchange as are found in 3D. X3D has about the best defined credo for exchange so far and adheres to web standards, however ISO is not the only standards org, W3C for example could use a 3D format, and without IE and mozilla native implementations, why go there. I tried with some powers that be for mozilla, and the answer back was the software needed to work in IE; chickens and eggs.
Plugins are just not going to enable multiple namespaces within a single document, which you should be able to do by theory with SVG, MathML, XHTML, why dammit not X3D? Because in short the leading vendors of X3D are still thinking in terms of plugins, and not able to integrate with mozilla for IP restrictions, whether they are internal or dependency driven, and not able to integrate with IE for the fact they don't work at Microsoft, who in turn don't really care about the given format and don't see X3D as a case to sway chip vendors away proprietary interfaces that they already pay for.
Unfortunately, Microsoft has a patent on series of single bits files. Sun had prior claims to a discrete container for boolean modules, and now they just work better together.
More background info, esp. wrt. trends in "IPR/DRM" & "downstream": http://www.upfrontezine.com/travel/cofes04.htm
But your's were ever so clever, you must really know what you are talking about.
I'm not going to bother countering your 'counterpoints' considering most were just reiterations of what I said or implied, and the new information you introduced has absolutely nothing to do with your original comments.
Good, but, no, my follow up post both supports my original and counters whatever outlandish statements you made in reponse, and is drawn from direct experience with all parties involved, not some jounalists interperetation of some marketing spokesman's PR rehashed on /.