Why do you think paper fans for the troops will be cheaper than airconditioning the troops? With the nano-paper, the micro-motors to drive them, and the advanced cloaking device on the side facing the enemy, it may well cost more.
That fails to explain why there are colder outer planets with significant atmosphere that have orders of magnitutude more violence.
Lol wut? The atmospheres of the outer, "colder" planets are quite unlike those of the Earth. A lot of factors can explain the "more violent" weather -- composition, energy, tidal effects from massive satellites, energy output from the planet involved (Jupiter outputs much more energy than it gets from the Sun), effects due to faster rotation, etc -- the outer, "colder" planets' atmospheres are nothing like that of the Earth.
Anyways, yours is a non-argument -- "hotter" and "more violence" in this context are only meaningful when talking about Earth, we're comparing "relative" violence of the same atmosphere, not some absolute "violence" measure valid across all bodies of fluid that wrap a planet.
In my village, we don't have big rigs passing through, and most streets have an overpass or an underpass, so traffic is smooth like a baby's bottom. Except for the ripples caused in my well-being by the unknown carbon footprint of my shoes.
Why you so angry, AngryDeuce? I drive an electric bicycle, powered by electricity produced at Fukushima, only eat hydroponically home-grown tomatoes that have fallen from the branch, and I love the prettier liberals with adult love after they shave and shower. That makes for a satisfying life, knowing that I contribute to overcoming the global warming, eat healthy and have fun.
My only worry on the issue is the carbon footprint of my shoes, that's why I am asking about it.
I walk to my shop every day and I am really, really worried how much I contribute to the global warming. Someone should get a grant and research that as well, because I won't be able to sleep otherwise.
Yep, you're right, I did not perceive the genius at first, I just lazily looked at the picture. In fact, there is no bridge, the structure sustains itself by its own momentum, gravlevitating or whatever. Good luck building that kind of structure without Unobtainium and at only the small price I quoted in my previous post. A 80-km tall bridge won't be much harder.
It could have something to do with the price tag of maglev tech, which is a little over a brazillion gazillion trillion million dollars per mile of tracks, one way. And I am not even touching the 80 mile high bridge that will have to support it. I'd say at this stage both projects look equally practical.
He could have patented the thing he implemented and released over telnet in 1991 when I first tried it. Basically, the concept of a message from a resource that contained links to other resources, a server that delivered that message from the said resource over a simple protocol, and the format of the message and the mechanism of the said message's generation being transparent to the caller of the resource. With a computer, over the internet. In his articles at the time there was a lot written about different ways of displaying the said message. More than enough to cover all of the WWW as we know it.
They were, but it was ages ago. They copied cars, toys, electronic devices and what not in the 50s and the 60s, there were even tons of jokes about it. That began changing in the 70s. Of course, it doesn't happen anymore, now that everyone from IT to agriculture relies on IP laws. In fact, you can see a lot of Japanese TV shows that ridicule the Chinese for copying Japanese products unskillfully.
Awwell, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Yes, it can, except in bad weather. When there is a thunderstorm, the robotic car is prone to rear-end other vehicles and then use its manipulators to bury the evidence.
Nope, that's not what happened, believe an old fag who was a small nut in the effort when much younger. SU leadership were only interested in copying military designs and building hobby facilities to produce them for the army. Mass-producing for the economy as a whole, for commercial distribution was never-ever a goal. Hence, economies of scale did not happen and there was never enough payout to sustain the effort.
For a wildly successful recent example, you need to look no further than Japan, Taiwan or Korea. In those places commercialization of the "theft" was the main goal and even gov't sponsored copycat production became eventually a private and commercial enterprise. There, things went very, very differently than they did in the Soviet bloc. Japan was very liberal in enforcement up until the 80s, but is now as strict an "IP" heaven as any other place, you don't even get fair use there. Korea and Taiwan are on the road to becoming more protective too. All three countries now produce a lot of everything -- from basic research to new commercial designs, etc.
Of course, there is a lot of detail and variation in the process that I'm glossing over, but there's no doubt at all that a competitive and smartly managed sector can use copying as a springboard. This is especially true if they can access large monopoly rents in the worldwide markets due to IP laws, and those can sustain them long enough.
Not really. An expert is someone who has an authoritative knowledge about his area of expertise, i.e. someone who could probably stand in court and defend a case in patent law. On slashdot most are opinionated laypeople informed to a smaller or larger degree on the subject. Also, I hereby refuse to discuss the expertitude of the dude from TFA.
Say what you will about Chinas abuse of IP, it's not improving the standard of living for the average citizen.
Really? Chinese were better off under Mao, when the average citizen was chasing the sparrows out of the rice fields? You obviously haven't been to China of 20 or 30 years ago.
Even if this is so, China will have copied everything worth copying in the next 15-20 years. Once China catches up, they'll have no choice - they'll either have to begin inventing things on their own, or stall. If they are smart, they'll avoid the "IP" trap of the Western economies and begin inventing in a more liberal IP regime that will make them more efficient. But efficient or not, they will begin to invent.
In the meantime, the part of the world that came up with the "intellectual property" concept will have spent even more valuable resources on enforcing the unenforceable instead of a sensible reform that will create an environment, allowing the use of those same resources for more R&D. I'll let you guess who will be better off in the end.
As to the "thieving", you should remember that US was involved in a large-scale theft of "intellectual property" from the rest of the world until the harmonization of copyright laws post WWII. Which harmonization happened because at that time US authors asked the US government for it. The same thing will eventually happen in China, when they amass enough "intellectual property" they want to make money from. Give them another 20 years.
Obviously it isn't a judged to be a huge threat to Apple. If it becomes one, action will be taken swiftly -- the USTR can wield the Super 301 at any time.
I guess most people just don't bump into gangs of crooks, and those unlucky to do so do it under circumstances that are against them. In my case, this was my first "real" fight in 20 years, I do the martial art as a form of exercise. Also, I imagine if there were three or four of them that big and armed, I'd be in deeper shit if I tried to fight.
Even easier and not so exotic, I'll always bet on a thug who is used to violence against a regular guy with a gun. The thug wins because he has advantage in ruthlessness. I have a reasonably good command of a martial art, yet I got surprised this year in the street by a guy roughly twice my size who tried to mug me. I took one in the teeth just because I just refused to believe what was happening. In the end he wasn't really successful and is probably still productively employed in a brick prison factory, but my mouth hurt for a week after our meeting.
I maybe watching too many movies too. These "conspiracy to commit..." charges are justified by some vague "threat of cyber warfare" and are usually based only on some forum postings or other expression of stupid, but generally well-meaning young people.
Yet those charges tend to carry stiff jail sentences and large penalties, most of the time quite disproportional to the actual damage done. The more I look at those farce actions of the police/governments about "internet crimes", the more they look to me like a solution in search of a problem.
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Why do you think paper fans for the troops will be cheaper than airconditioning the troops? With the nano-paper, the micro-motors to drive them, and the advanced cloaking device on the side facing the enemy, it may well cost more.
The parent was asking about fusion, of course .... heheheh. I guess I lose.
Possibly nukular, but not thermo-nukular. The parent was asking about fission, your scientific abstract is discussing fission.
culinarily, as they are not sweet
Good tomatoes are sweet, if you grow them properly.
That fails to explain why there are colder outer planets with significant atmosphere that have orders of magnitutude more violence.
Lol wut? The atmospheres of the outer, "colder" planets are quite unlike those of the Earth. A lot of factors can explain the "more violent" weather -- composition, energy, tidal effects from massive satellites, energy output from the planet involved (Jupiter outputs much more energy than it gets from the Sun), effects due to faster rotation, etc -- the outer, "colder" planets' atmospheres are nothing like that of the Earth.
Anyways, yours is a non-argument -- "hotter" and "more violence" in this context are only meaningful when talking about Earth, we're comparing "relative" violence of the same atmosphere, not some absolute "violence" measure valid across all bodies of fluid that wrap a planet.
In my village, we don't have big rigs passing through, and most streets have an overpass or an underpass, so traffic is smooth like a baby's bottom. Except for the ripples caused in my well-being by the unknown carbon footprint of my shoes.
Why you so angry, AngryDeuce? I drive an electric bicycle, powered by electricity produced at Fukushima, only eat hydroponically home-grown tomatoes that have fallen from the branch, and I love the prettier liberals with adult love after they shave and shower. That makes for a satisfying life, knowing that I contribute to overcoming the global warming, eat healthy and have fun.
My only worry on the issue is the carbon footprint of my shoes, that's why I am asking about it.
What's the carbon footprint of a plant? It's negative right?
Wrong. The plant's carbon footprint is only "negative" when photosynthesis happens, and not all the time even then.
I walk to my shop every day and I am really, really worried how much I contribute to the global warming. Someone should get a grant and research that as well, because I won't be able to sleep otherwise.
Yep, you're right, I did not perceive the genius at first, I just lazily looked at the picture. In fact, there is no bridge, the structure sustains itself by its own momentum, gravlevitating or whatever. Good luck building that kind of structure without Unobtainium and at only the small price I quoted in my previous post. A 80-km tall bridge won't be much harder.
It could have something to do with the price tag of maglev tech, which is a little over a brazillion gazillion trillion million dollars per mile of tracks, one way. And I am not even touching the 80 mile high bridge that will have to support it. I'd say at this stage both projects look equally practical.
He could have patented the thing he implemented and released over telnet in 1991 when I first tried it. Basically, the concept of a message from a resource that contained links to other resources, a server that delivered that message from the said resource over a simple protocol, and the format of the message and the mechanism of the said message's generation being transparent to the caller of the resource. With a computer, over the internet. In his articles at the time there was a lot written about different ways of displaying the said message. More than enough to cover all of the WWW as we know it.
They were, but it was ages ago. They copied cars, toys, electronic devices and what not in the 50s and the 60s, there were even tons of jokes about it. That began changing in the 70s. Of course, it doesn't happen anymore, now that everyone from IT to agriculture relies on IP laws. In fact, you can see a lot of Japanese TV shows that ridicule the Chinese for copying Japanese products unskillfully. Awwell, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Yes, it can, except in bad weather. When there is a thunderstorm, the robotic car is prone to rear-end other vehicles and then use its manipulators to bury the evidence.
Nope, that's not what happened, believe an old fag who was a small nut in the effort when much younger. SU leadership were only interested in copying military designs and building hobby facilities to produce them for the army. Mass-producing for the economy as a whole, for commercial distribution was never-ever a goal. Hence, economies of scale did not happen and there was never enough payout to sustain the effort.
For a wildly successful recent example, you need to look no further than Japan, Taiwan or Korea. In those places commercialization of the "theft" was the main goal and even gov't sponsored copycat production became eventually a private and commercial enterprise. There, things went very, very differently than they did in the Soviet bloc. Japan was very liberal in enforcement up until the 80s, but is now as strict an "IP" heaven as any other place, you don't even get fair use there. Korea and Taiwan are on the road to becoming more protective too. All three countries now produce a lot of everything -- from basic research to new commercial designs, etc.
Of course, there is a lot of detail and variation in the process that I'm glossing over, but there's no doubt at all that a competitive and smartly managed sector can use copying as a springboard. This is especially true if they can access large monopoly rents in the worldwide markets due to IP laws, and those can sustain them long enough.
Not really. An expert is someone who has an authoritative knowledge about his area of expertise, i.e. someone who could probably stand in court and defend a case in patent law. On slashdot most are opinionated laypeople informed to a smaller or larger degree on the subject. Also, I hereby refuse to discuss the expertitude of the dude from TFA.
Say what you will about Chinas abuse of IP, it's not improving the standard of living for the average citizen.
Really? Chinese were better off under Mao, when the average citizen was chasing the sparrows out of the rice fields? You obviously haven't been to China of 20 or 30 years ago.
Even if this is so, China will have copied everything worth copying in the next 15-20 years. Once China catches up, they'll have no choice - they'll either have to begin inventing things on their own, or stall. If they are smart, they'll avoid the "IP" trap of the Western economies and begin inventing in a more liberal IP regime that will make them more efficient. But efficient or not, they will begin to invent.
In the meantime, the part of the world that came up with the "intellectual property" concept will have spent even more valuable resources on enforcing the unenforceable instead of a sensible reform that will create an environment, allowing the use of those same resources for more R&D. I'll let you guess who will be better off in the end.
As to the "thieving", you should remember that US was involved in a large-scale theft of "intellectual property" from the rest of the world until the harmonization of copyright laws post WWII. Which harmonization happened because at that time US authors asked the US government for it. The same thing will eventually happen in China, when they amass enough "intellectual property" they want to make money from. Give them another 20 years.
Obviously it isn't a judged to be a huge threat to Apple. If it becomes one, action will be taken swiftly -- the USTR can wield the Super 301 at any time.
Because there are no self-propelled Taliban soldiers where the drone aircraft flies. Yet.
I guess most people just don't bump into gangs of crooks, and those unlucky to do so do it under circumstances that are against them. In my case, this was my first "real" fight in 20 years, I do the martial art as a form of exercise. Also, I imagine if there were three or four of them that big and armed, I'd be in deeper shit if I tried to fight.
Even easier and not so exotic, I'll always bet on a thug who is used to violence against a regular guy with a gun. The thug wins because he has advantage in ruthlessness. I have a reasonably good command of a martial art, yet I got surprised this year in the street by a guy roughly twice my size who tried to mug me. I took one in the teeth just because I just refused to believe what was happening. In the end he wasn't really successful and is probably still productively employed in a brick prison factory, but my mouth hurt for a week after our meeting.
LEGO is probably paying something, otherwise I agree.
I maybe watching too many movies too. These "conspiracy to commit..." charges are justified by some vague "threat of cyber warfare" and are usually based only on some forum postings or other expression of stupid, but generally well-meaning young people.
Yet those charges tend to carry stiff jail sentences and large penalties, most of the time quite disproportional to the actual damage done. The more I look at those farce actions of the police/governments about "internet crimes", the more they look to me like a solution in search of a problem.