"US fared worse because we had regulations that encouraged sub-prime mortgages."
Not really. US had a bubble because a shadow banking system was allowed to appear. And even that was not a hard requirement, there was a bubble in commercial real estate as well. Paul Krugman (as usual) has a nice article with citations and sources: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/sep/30/slump-goes-why/
US also doesn't have any regulations that _require_ banks to give out subprime loans. And yes, I know about the CRA.
It's mostly unrelated to taxes - they are still low and last year we even qualified for a tax cut (which was only large enough to finance a small end-of-year party, but still).
Anyway, I can get essentially zero taxes in some offshore areas. So taxes alone are not the whole story.
There are various kinds of compliance and you're building a strawman here. I won't argue that it's imperative to comply with the core specification requirements.
To use your analogy, IE9's non-compliance is more like incorrect wording in the 'About' dialog box.
I (or to be precise, my company) will participate in this project.
I worked at the power station and had a tour of control and reactor rooms. Also, I can say that people there have distinctly non-USSR attitude to their duties. Chernobyl has taught us that nuclear power can be dangerous.
As for capital investments, yes they are required. It was a problem here as well. However, right now they are not a problem - deficit spending and large projects are what's needed for the local economy.
It also happens at Samotlor in Russia. But it's just putting off inevitable. You won't be able to scale production (because oil diffuses too slow), and it WILL run out eventually.
"In fact, wake me up when you find one single nuclear power generation program that has been able to break even on its own, without piggybacking a nuclear weaponry sector behind it to absorb the costs."
"Yes, many children get vaccines, and as such, rare reactions may occur. But Autism is not a rare reaction to vaccines that with a big enough sample size you might find some that are affected. Autism is not caused by vaccines. Your line of thinking in the first two sentences is what caused this stupid decision: "Oh, well, there's always the chance that this poor little girl is the 1 in gazillion to have autism due to vaccines"."
I think GP is talking about other adverse reactions to vaccines (which do happen).
"Russians have always been operating a policy of "use 1, save 1"."
Not really, Russian oil production has peaked. There's still a lot of oil in Siberia, but it's not easily accessible. It just won't be possible to sustain demand with it, it'll be hard even to replace the declining production of existing oil fields.
"From personal observation and observation of professionals in the oil industry longer than I've been alive; dry holes refill and may be retapped in the same place and perform as a NEW oil well does."
Not really. They 'refill' mostly because some oil migrates closer to the well. Yes, it sometimes happen if geology is right. No, it can't sustain the demand.
"Wow. Talk about speculative. Enough biodiesel to power every motor vehicle on the planet? "
Most of personal cars will, probably, be electric. It's technologically possible even now (see: Nissan Leaf, GM Volt). So biodiesel will be used mostly be used for large vehicles like trucks, tractors, buses, etc.
Right now, market is basically over-supplied. There's no competition between consumers, everyone can pretty much get all required fuel. Once there's a competition between consumers for limited supplies, price will immediately skyrocket.
USA still has _great_ climate for business. There's no VAT, _very_ low taxes for a first-world country, fairly simple financial accounting rules, etc.
Contrary to the believes that Obama somehow makes USA unfit for business, it's still quite attractive to do business there.
However, the piece about lawyers is true. I'm a co-owner of a fairly small US company, and we've already spent more on lawyers then on rent for our offices. I also live in Ukraine and I own a company here, and so far I've spent less than $1000 on lawyers' fees.
There's no real animation support for SVG and its renderers are dog-slow.
You see, vector model of SVG is not really suitable for morphing and keyframe animation. In SVG, pictures are composed of polygons, which are composed of vertices connected by edges.
Suppose that we have a picture of two adjacent triangles (a square with one diagonal).
Then in SVG it will be represented as 4 vertices and 2 triangles composed from these vertices. These triangles are separate and are not dependent on each other.
Flash uses completely different way to represent data: as a plane divided into sections. So to get this picture you start with a plane (frame surface), and divide it into two adjacent areas. The diagonal line is represented not as a line from point A to point B, but as an element dividing two areas.
This gives a lot of advantage, Flash player can easily and smoothly animate scenes. There's no risk of ugly 'hole' effects caused by numerically instable algorithms or incorrect processing of self-intersections.
"Video overlay is up to the browser, but compositing is certainly possible."
Not really. It's possible to have other items over the "video" tag, but effects like 'fade in' are going to be difficult.
"Support is there. Including the ability to generate audio from code. Which lacking feature do you feel is necessary?"
Not really. There's no programmatic access to live audio stream. There are some proposed extensions: http://ajaxian.com/archives/amazing-audio-sampling-in-javascript-with-firefox but nothing standard so far.
"There is no reason why a Javascript app cannot interpret it. You're probably got me on performance, but that does not stop one from implementing said features."
I'm talking about AS3, it has optional typing to speed up JIT. So far, it works much better than most JavaScript JITs.
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"Don't forget that Mandriva was in negotiations to get Russian state contracts. To me it looks like the Russians will simply sack Mandriva."
Uhm. For Russian speakers the word "Mandriva" sounds threateningly close to a slang word for "vagina".
Are you trying to signal that you've bombed a dam?
Get him! He's a terrorist!
PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise#Organisation
I believe, that a crude but working plutonium implosion weapon can be fairly easy modeled even on a fairly modest supercomputer.
Precision manufacturing? Yes, but it's also much more accessible now (think laser cutting).
That's not really true as well.
CRA does not encourage subprime lending, it just requires banks to use the same criteria for (the same) loans from different neighborhoods.
"US fared worse because we had regulations that encouraged sub-prime mortgages."
Not really. US had a bubble because a shadow banking system was allowed to appear. And even that was not a hard requirement, there was a bubble in commercial real estate as well. Paul Krugman (as usual) has a nice article with citations and sources: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/sep/30/slump-goes-why/
US also doesn't have any regulations that _require_ banks to give out subprime loans. And yes, I know about the CRA.
"The Conservatives have talk radio and Fox News." .....
And NYTimes, and WSJ, and Forbes, and
"The Liberals have the rest."
MSNBC and ComedyCentral?
How come movie industry hasn't died after the invention of VHS tapes?
It's mostly unrelated to taxes - they are still low and last year we even qualified for a tax cut (which was only large enough to finance a small end-of-year party, but still).
Anyway, I can get essentially zero taxes in some offshore areas. So taxes alone are not the whole story.
"Are you a coder? You don't sound like one."
Yes, I am.
There are various kinds of compliance and you're building a strawman here. I won't argue that it's imperative to comply with the core specification requirements.
To use your analogy, IE9's non-compliance is more like incorrect wording in the 'About' dialog box.
That's misleading. IE9 gets something like 96/100 in the Acid3 test.
That's absolutely OK for most practical purposes.
I (or to be precise, my company) will participate in this project.
I worked at the power station and had a tour of control and reactor rooms. Also, I can say that people there have distinctly non-USSR attitude to their duties. Chernobyl has taught us that nuclear power can be dangerous.
As for capital investments, yes they are required. It was a problem here as well. However, right now they are not a problem - deficit spending and large projects are what's needed for the local economy.
It also happens at Samotlor in Russia. But it's just putting off inevitable. You won't be able to scale production (because oil diffuses too slow), and it WILL run out eventually.
" New LWRs are now so costly and slow that they save 2–20× less carbon, 20–40× slower, than micropower and efficient end-use."
WTF?
"In fact, wake me up when you find one single nuclear power generation program that has been able to break even on its own, without piggybacking a nuclear weaponry sector behind it to absorb the costs."
Uhm... How about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmelnitskiy_Nuclear_Power_Plant ? It's now being expanded because it's profitable to export electricity.
It's not a whole 'program', of course.
"Let's also keep in mind that the only reason oil is approaching "peak" is that we aren't continuing to drill."
We are.
"Now, if the government allowed drilling in certain verboten areas, we'd be further away from "peak"."
By one or two years. At most, 5 years.
"Global Warming as Catastrophe is not science. It is religion. Which is why you call us "deniers"."
Nope. We call you 'deniers' because you are repeatedly shown wrong, but yet you refuse to change your views.
That's what 'denialism' is.
"Yes, many children get vaccines, and as such, rare reactions may occur. But Autism is not a rare reaction to vaccines that with a big enough sample size you might find some that are affected. Autism is not caused by vaccines. Your line of thinking in the first two sentences is what caused this stupid decision: "Oh, well, there's always the chance that this poor little girl is the 1 in gazillion to have autism due to vaccines"."
I think GP is talking about other adverse reactions to vaccines (which do happen).
"Russians have always been operating a policy of "use 1, save 1"."
Not really, Russian oil production has peaked. There's still a lot of oil in Siberia, but it's not easily accessible. It just won't be possible to sustain demand with it, it'll be hard even to replace the declining production of existing oil fields.
70's predictions were basically correct. There was a 'peak oil' event in the USA, however it was 'fixed' by imports of foreign oil.
And it's basically correct that the USA would have run out of oil sometime in 90-s if not for imports.
"From personal observation and observation of professionals in the oil industry longer than I've been alive; dry holes refill and may be retapped in the same place and perform as a NEW oil well does."
Not really. They 'refill' mostly because some oil migrates closer to the well. Yes, it sometimes happen if geology is right. No, it can't sustain the demand.
"Wow. Talk about speculative. Enough biodiesel to power every motor vehicle on the planet? "
Most of personal cars will, probably, be electric. It's technologically possible even now (see: Nissan Leaf, GM Volt). So biodiesel will be used mostly be used for large vehicles like trucks, tractors, buses, etc.
Not really.
Right now, market is basically over-supplied. There's no competition between consumers, everyone can pretty much get all required fuel. Once there's a competition between consumers for limited supplies, price will immediately skyrocket.
Happens all the time.
USA still has _great_ climate for business. There's no VAT, _very_ low taxes for a first-world country, fairly simple financial accounting rules, etc.
Contrary to the believes that Obama somehow makes USA unfit for business, it's still quite attractive to do business there.
However, the piece about lawyers is true. I'm a co-owner of a fairly small US company, and we've already spent more on lawyers then on rent for our offices. I also live in Ukraine and I own a company here, and so far I've spent less than $1000 on lawyers' fees.
Which is a total phail.
There's no real animation support for SVG and its renderers are dog-slow.
You see, vector model of SVG is not really suitable for morphing and keyframe animation. In SVG, pictures are composed of polygons, which are composed of vertices connected by edges.
Suppose that we have a picture of two adjacent triangles (a square with one diagonal).
Then in SVG it will be represented as 4 vertices and 2 triangles composed from these vertices. These triangles are separate and are not dependent on each other.
Flash uses completely different way to represent data: as a plane divided into sections. So to get this picture you start with a plane (frame surface), and divide it into two adjacent areas. The diagonal line is represented not as a line from point A to point B, but as an element dividing two areas.
This gives a lot of advantage, Flash player can easily and smoothly animate scenes. There's no risk of ugly 'hole' effects caused by numerically instable algorithms or incorrect processing of self-intersections.
"Video overlay is up to the browser, but compositing is certainly possible."
Not really. It's possible to have other items over the "video" tag, but effects like 'fade in' are going to be difficult.
"Support is there. Including the ability to generate audio from code. Which lacking feature do you feel is necessary?"
Not really. There's no programmatic access to live audio stream. There are some proposed extensions: http://ajaxian.com/archives/amazing-audio-sampling-in-javascript-with-firefox but nothing standard so far.
"There is no reason why a Javascript app cannot interpret it. You're probably got me on performance, but that does not stop one from implementing said features."
I'm talking about AS3, it has optional typing to speed up JIT. So far, it works much better than most JavaScript JITs.