I'd say it's more likely that the government itself wanted the Middle East - most likely Iran - to be certain of the existence of the possibility that nukes will be aimed at them. ... At the same time, the government wanted to be discreet about it. A front-page spread on every newspaper in the country blaring "NUKES ARE POINTED AT IRAN" would not be a good way to subtly remind Iran that America hasn't forgotten its nuclear stockpile.
If so, why not just a subtle reminder that we have two super carriers sitting a few hundred miles away, each with nuclear weapons aboard.
Guess what, we have been eliminating the nuclear stock pile. It takes time do so. Dismantling a nuke isn't as easy as taking apart a computer. Besides, as wiki shows, the stockpiles have been decreasing. US Nuclear Stockpile Russian Nuclear Stockpile
A group of effective submarines could make a carrier battle group ineffective. In a war against a major enemy, carriers will probably be useless unless their air, submarine and missile forces can be neutralized. They primarily for show and wars of aggression against far weaker enemies.
Just a casual glance at WWII pretty much disproves everything you claim about what a carrier is for and what it is useless against. What was it that took out the Japanese carriers in WWII? Oh yeah, carriers. Not submarines.
I can think of one, possibly two upsides to software as a service.
1) Software provider has an 'incentive' to ensure the product is bug free or that the bugs get fixed quickly. With shrink-wrap software, they have your money and are providing fixes for free.
2) This is an accounting style advantage. Say, you have the option to pay $300 for a software suite up front, or $5/month for as long as you use it. Most of us would go with the $300. Except, what if the $5 gives you free upgrades forever? Now, what if it was $1.50/month? Here we start getting into a grayer area about it being cheaper to pay per month than up front, due to about how much money you could make off of the base cost in interest on investments.
Americans like to buy Chinese stuff with their greenbacks
Not really, it's just hard to find stuff that ISN'T made in China.
but refuse to honor them when the Chinese attempt to purchase anything of value.
Two responses come to mind:
We're glad to sell the stuff. Just not companies. Cars come to mind.
We'll sell them something of value when they finally sell us something of value.
I also believe the plan to make people pay per kilometer of car use is a scam at best (some IT company pushing a ridiculously expensive project that will keep them busy for years), an Orwellian system at worst (it involves tracking every car on the road). It can be, and is in fact being, done much simpler by having a tax on gasoline.
Here's an even easier way, at least in how it could be done in the U.S. We periodically have to report the mileage on the car to the state. This is checked during emissions inspections (once every two years), and reported to the state. It doesn't involve tracking us at all. Background: The miles are important as some states charge a property tax on vehicles based on value, and higher mileage vehicles are worth less. It also helps keep people from rolling back the odometer, something that used to be a problem at times.
Any chance your new IT director has enough "street cred" (sorry, can't think of a better term), to convince enough of the right people to consolidate and eliminate the old servers? I'd think that a modern server could replace at least 10 P2 machines and consume far less power.
Write up a paper/memo/whatever and send it to the guys who pay for the power over the possible cost reductions in power. Write up a whatever and send it to the guys who pay for the replacement parts and management of the aging servers on the costs of managing 50 P2s over one larger server.
If at that point they don't get together and work (apply pressure) to reduce the number, your company is full of idiots.
It makes a lot more sense when you look at the cost of the computers over the past 20-30 years. In the 80's, a low end desktop cost $3,000. Today, you can get a high end desktop for that cost. Mainframes used to have seven figure prices. Today, you can get them for six figures. As the price of the mainframe came down, their advantage has grown, especially when you take into account the ease of maintaining redundancy on a single mainframe vs. tens (or more) of servers.
Basically, mainframes are cheaper for base load computing power today, while server are better for incremental upgrades.
However, if those more efficient servers cost twice as much to purchase per unit of work, not to mention the energy used in manufacturing, the savings are reduced.
You give a great example there, but even wit H.264, the HD 720P is below broadcast quality. First off, most of it is low motion, which further reduces the necessary bandwidth. Try putting in some more fast moving stuff and it will break down (think sports). There is some artifacting at about 1:03 into it, that would not be tolerable in Broadcast. (I used to work in TV, I got used to this.) At 1:59, in the lower left and right there are some more problems. I also see some more at about 2:20 with the open blue blocking. At 2:23, the color is having problems with all the red and artifacts I see that should not be there. I noticed a few other things, but those are the highlights that would be intolerable in broadcast. Further, that was completely pre-compressed, where they could optimize the compression and still they had those problems.
Sorry, but H264 isn't up to MPEG2 at those low bit rates just yet.
not necessarily- the iphone is really a lot of available components repackaged together- apple didn't invent the touchscreen or the media player or the cellphone, they just redesigned it- in fact when you look at the component list there are a whole lot of off the shelf pieces in it- if they really want to tighten down patenting and make something that can't or won't be copied they need to do something completely proprietary or stop whining, this is why patent law and copyright has become such a joke.
You're right, they didn't invent the touchscreen, media player or cell phone. You're wrong when you say they use off the shelf pieces. What they did is design and write the software for an improved touchscreen for a cellphone, they did not use one already in existence. If I design an improved piece of software and hardware, I should be the one to control how it is used. They wrote their own software to put a full web browser in the phone, they didn't use someone else's. They combines all three things you mention in a way now one else has done before.
A quote from your link:
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A rough guide to the ages at which the sub-topics of arithmetics and algebra are taught in the *United States* is as follows
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Yes, that really helps. I posted the information in a neutral tone, because you wanted names. I gave them to you. You wanted information, I gave it to you, I was not trying to pick a fight. Now, back on topic.
In the U.S., the topics ARE what the levels are called. I didn't take 300 math or 200 math, I took Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry and Calculus, that is what we called the math classes. In 8th grade, I was taking Geometry. Most students don't usually take it until 10th or 11th grade. We don't use numbering systems in most schools in the U.S., we call them by the topics. Also, calling it 9th grade math or 10th grade math doesn't mean anything because you could very easily have a 9th grader taking trigonometry and a 10th grader taking algebra in the same school because the 9th grader picks up the math faster than the 10th grader. Some 12th graders may not even get to Calculus. So, what does "12th grade math"/"300 math" mean?
If that were so, we wouldn't need Tent City, Arizona. It's an embarrassment prison for people who commit petty crimes for the "thrill" of it. Face it, people who have a good education still commit crime.
Sorry, but I don't remember "lying about your product" being part of Capitalism. Claiming something you make was made by someone else to a higher degree of quality definitely is not "truth in advertising".
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I'd say it's more likely that the government itself wanted the Middle East - most likely Iran - to be certain of the existence of the possibility that nukes will be aimed at them.
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At the same time, the government wanted to be discreet about it. A front-page spread on every newspaper in the country blaring "NUKES ARE POINTED AT IRAN" would not be a good way to subtly remind Iran that America hasn't forgotten its nuclear stockpile.
If so, why not just a subtle reminder that we have two super carriers sitting a few hundred miles away, each with nuclear weapons aboard.
Guess what, we have been eliminating the nuclear stock pile. It takes time do so. Dismantling a nuke isn't as easy as taking apart a computer. Besides, as wiki shows, the stockpiles have been decreasing.
US Nuclear Stockpile
Russian Nuclear Stockpile
Ever hear of Chechnya?
Of course we've been moving nukes around on planes. How else would we get them to the nuclear weapon decommissioning center?
The Chevy Volt is supposed to come out in two flavors. Gasoline/E85 and Diesel/BioDiesel. http://www.chevrolet.com/electriccar/
If there is one, hopefully the lawyers won't walk away with most of the "award".
That's class action lawsuits. This is a one on one. The lawyers will probably get 10-20%
A group of effective submarines could make a carrier battle group ineffective. In a war against a major enemy, carriers will probably be useless unless their air, submarine and missile forces can be neutralized. They primarily for show and wars of aggression against far weaker enemies.
Just a casual glance at WWII pretty much disproves everything you claim about what a carrier is for and what it is useless against. What was it that took out the Japanese carriers in WWII? Oh yeah, carriers. Not submarines.
I can think of one, possibly two upsides to software as a service.
1) Software provider has an 'incentive' to ensure the product is bug free or that the bugs get fixed quickly. With shrink-wrap software, they have your money and are providing fixes for free.
2) This is an accounting style advantage. Say, you have the option to pay $300 for a software suite up front, or $5/month for as long as you use it. Most of us would go with the $300. Except, what if the $5 gives you free upgrades forever? Now, what if it was $1.50/month? Here we start getting into a grayer area about it being cheaper to pay per month than up front, due to about how much money you could make off of the base cost in interest on investments.
Americans like to buy Chinese stuff with their greenbacks
Not really, it's just hard to find stuff that ISN'T made in China.
but refuse to honor them when the Chinese attempt to purchase anything of value.
Two responses come to mind:
We're glad to sell the stuff. Just not companies. Cars come to mind.
We'll sell them something of value when they finally sell us something of value.
Come now, this is Ohio, not Chicago.
I also believe the plan to make people pay per kilometer of car use is a scam at best (some IT company pushing a ridiculously expensive project that will keep them busy for years), an Orwellian system at worst (it involves tracking every car on the road). It can be, and is in fact being, done much simpler by having a tax on gasoline.
Here's an even easier way, at least in how it could be done in the U.S. We periodically have to report the mileage on the car to the state. This is checked during emissions inspections (once every two years), and reported to the state. It doesn't involve tracking us at all. Background: The miles are important as some states charge a property tax on vehicles based on value, and higher mileage vehicles are worth less. It also helps keep people from rolling back the odometer, something that used to be a problem at times.
Any chance your new IT director has enough "street cred" (sorry, can't think of a better term), to convince enough of the right people to consolidate and eliminate the old servers? I'd think that a modern server could replace at least 10 P2 machines and consume far less power.
Write up a paper/memo/whatever and send it to the guys who pay for the power over the possible cost reductions in power. Write up a whatever and send it to the guys who pay for the replacement parts and management of the aging servers on the costs of managing 50 P2s over one larger server.
If at that point they don't get together and work (apply pressure) to reduce the number, your company is full of idiots.
It makes a lot more sense when you look at the cost of the computers over the past 20-30 years. In the 80's, a low end desktop cost $3,000. Today, you can get a high end desktop for that cost. Mainframes used to have seven figure prices. Today, you can get them for six figures. As the price of the mainframe came down, their advantage has grown, especially when you take into account the ease of maintaining redundancy on a single mainframe vs. tens (or more) of servers.
Basically, mainframes are cheaper for base load computing power today, while server are better for incremental upgrades.
However, if those more efficient servers cost twice as much to purchase per unit of work, not to mention the energy used in manufacturing, the savings are reduced.
PLEASE tell me you smacked him upside the head good for that.
Woops, ok, 19.4mbps for ATSC.
You give a great example there, but even wit H.264, the HD 720P is below broadcast quality. First off, most of it is low motion, which further reduces the necessary bandwidth. Try putting in some more fast moving stuff and it will break down (think sports). There is some artifacting at about 1:03 into it, that would not be tolerable in Broadcast. (I used to work in TV, I got used to this.) At 1:59, in the lower left and right there are some more problems. I also see some more at about 2:20 with the open blue blocking. At 2:23, the color is having problems with all the red and artifacts I see that should not be there. I noticed a few other things, but those are the highlights that would be intolerable in broadcast. Further, that was completely pre-compressed, where they could optimize the compression and still they had those problems.
Sorry, but H264 isn't up to MPEG2 at those low bit rates just yet.
???? An HDTV signal eats up 20.4mbps Say, roughly 50 on a GigE.
not necessarily- the iphone is really a lot of available components repackaged together- apple didn't invent the touchscreen or the media player or the cellphone, they just redesigned it- in fact when you look at the component list there are a whole lot of off the shelf pieces in it- if they really want to tighten down patenting and make something that can't or won't be copied they need to do something completely proprietary or stop whining, this is why patent law and copyright has become such a joke.
You're right, they didn't invent the touchscreen, media player or cell phone. You're wrong when you say they use off the shelf pieces. What they did is design and write the software for an improved touchscreen for a cellphone, they did not use one already in existence. If I design an improved piece of software and hardware, I should be the one to control how it is used. They wrote their own software to put a full web browser in the phone, they didn't use someone else's. They combines all three things you mention in a way now one else has done before.
A quote from your link:
"""
A rough guide to the ages at which the sub-topics of arithmetics and algebra are taught in the *United States* is as follows
"""
Yes, that really helps. I posted the information in a neutral tone, because you wanted names. I gave them to you. You wanted information, I gave it to you, I was not trying to pick a fight. Now, back on topic.
In the U.S., the topics ARE what the levels are called. I didn't take 300 math or 200 math, I took Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry and Calculus, that is what we called the math classes. In 8th grade, I was taking Geometry. Most students don't usually take it until 10th or 11th grade. We don't use numbering systems in most schools in the U.S., we call them by the topics. Also, calling it 9th grade math or 10th grade math doesn't mean anything because you could very easily have a 9th grader taking trigonometry and a 10th grader taking algebra in the same school because the 9th grader picks up the math faster than the 10th grader. Some 12th graders may not even get to Calculus. So, what does "12th grade math"/"300 math" mean?
If that were so, we wouldn't need Tent City, Arizona. It's an embarrassment prison for people who commit petty crimes for the "thrill" of it. Face it, people who have a good education still commit crime.
Ok, here's terms for you.n #Content_and_age_levels
Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_educatio
The huge fluctuations in temperature differential are the main causes of the ever increasing stomr activity in the Atlantic and Pacific.
BWAHAHAHA. Have you SEEN the hurricane projections and reality lately? What active hurricane season?
Sorry, but I don't remember "lying about your product" being part of Capitalism. Claiming something you make was made by someone else to a higher degree of quality definitely is not "truth in advertising".
Haven't you heard about those exploding counterfeit cell phone batteries? The ones that Sony DIDN'T make.