Taiwan follows the goverment that the US and the West supported. It is not as if that government was somehow more legitimate than the PRC. You do realize that Taiwan's government (KMT) began life as a Soviet backed communist party and that the PRC's roots (CCP) were at least home grown? No I suspect you were not aware of that. The state department will confirm: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/18902.htm
You of course know that from 1949 until 1992 Taiwan claimed that there was only one China. I don't see what your issue is in substituting one fantasy for another.
I believe it is a herbivore/carnivore thing. Pooping at the moment a tiger bites your butt is probably a favorable genetic response to predation. If you feed your four year old passenger more meat and less fruit and vegetables the stops will be less frequent.
Maybe Google realized that selling ads in China was a little like peddling refrigerators to eskimos ^h^h^h^h^h^h indigenous peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic. The real money is selling Chinese products to the rest of the world. Google will act duly repentant to the Chinese Geovernment and proceed unhindered with business that is aligned with the interests of the Chinese Government.
There are tons of software solutions out there for document management that can push documents through approval workflows, etc., that meet all standards for process control and accountability.
Not true. Companies that sell safety-related equipment to the nuclear power industry agree to keep documentation for the life of the plant 40 to 60 years. If you don't do it with paper you have to demonstrate that your system is equivalent. None will cut the mustard for that long time frame since the hardware and software changes. Microfiche and aperture cards (35mm film mounted on punch cards) seemed like a good solution 35 years ago, and we are digitizing those records because we can't buy printers any longer. Digitizing supplements, but doesn't replace, the hard copy.
The iPad will succeed or fail based on its merits. The features that some people cite as missing will keep those people from buying one and being unhappy with it. The features it has will make some people very happy. Past tablet PCs may have failed because the OS was not committed to one interface, it tried to be more than just Windows. Trying to be more than an iPod seems like a lot lower bar to hurdle. My guess is that the iPad is just a means for Apple to learn how to do the interface right before they put it on a MacBook.
Let's see what questions do you, as Ryobi's lawyer, ask the plaintiff on cross examination: "Could you explain the safety warnings on page 23 of the manual? What! You don't know what warnings are on page 23? You expect us to believe you read the manual? You read ALL of the manual? Do you speak and read French? How about Spanish? Japanese? German? You just told us that you read ALL of the manual, but now you are telling us that you did not understand fully 80% of it."... After having demonstrated that the plaintiff didn't know what was in the manual with any degree of accuracy you continue. "What certification do you hold in the use of power tools? What accredited training programs have you completed in the use of power tools? Don't you think that you should have taken some sort of refresher since your 7th grade shop class?" And in the tradition of shows like Perry Mason... "Isn't a fact, sir, that you were born without a thumb on your right hand - that as a young man you attempted to hitchhike across the USA only to be thwarted by your lack of an opposable digit, that you bought a table saw because while you desparately wanted to be a dress designer you were unable to hold scissors, and that this trial is just a means for you to finance your bid to get on 'Project Runway' " Yeah, the jurys love that stuff!
Be careful on throwing around certain terms. "Losslessly encoded music" does not assure quality, it applies only to post sampling processing. CD sampling is at 44kHz and is filtered so that nothing above 20kHz is sampled. A tiny bit of audio information is lost in the process, although dogs might contend that the sampling rate is too low. If I "losslessly encode" music that is sampled at 5 Khz the recording will be undeniably distorted from the original music, and inferior to a very lossy MP3 sampled at 44 kHz with the same data rate, but it will be a 100% accurate representation of my sampled data. Everything else you say is spot on.
This will never lead to the Klingon style cloaking device since the negative index of refraction reverse shifts the doppler affect - that will make it suitable only for stationary applications.
The key word being IF. Doesn't that kind of remove the comment from the realm of insightful?
The media are owned by people who buy the politicians, why would they want to rat them out?
If you cool air you get condensation - that's a lot of wasted energy. Oil can be much closer to the CPU operating temperature, perhaps within 30 degrees, air has to be cooled to a much lower temperature, frequently below the outdoor temperature, for the same cooling affect. With oil all you may have to do is run it through a radiator except in particularly warm locations. Chilled water should not be required. Cooling air will usually require refrigeration which can easily cost ten times as much. I don't agree with any of your conclusions on the infrastructure costs Oil cooling makes top access close to mandatory and this limits density severely.
I am a little surprised that someone has not gone with a phase change solution for cooling - the cooling effect is an order of magnitude better, and bubbles rise more quickly than oil's convection. The only trick is designing the heat sinks so they shed bubbles easily.
Get a really powerful computer. Write a program that simulates a billion monkeys typing on a billion typewriters...
Moore's law says this will soon be the cheaper method
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It would be our problem! At least that's what I remember from one of my childhood bedtime stories.
You of course know that from 1949 until 1992 Taiwan claimed that there was only one China. I don't see what your issue is in substituting one fantasy for another.
A lot, possibly the majority, of items marked "Made in Taiwan" are simply transshipped from the mainland.
I believe it is a herbivore/carnivore thing. Pooping at the moment a tiger bites your butt is probably a favorable genetic response to predation. If you feed your four year old passenger more meat and less fruit and vegetables the stops will be less frequent.
What is this "lowest common denominator" of which you speak?
... back when the government couldn't afford massive buildings full of employees ...
What makes you think the Government can afford the things that it spends money on?
You forgot the part about US $upport for international IP enforcement in the same vein as our current "War on Drugs". Your tax dollars at work!
I wouldn't mind jumping through extra hoops to make sure the other people on the road are better trained.
Until you actually had to.
Maybe Google realized that selling ads in China was a little like peddling refrigerators to eskimos ^h^h^h^h^h^h indigenous peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic. The real money is selling Chinese products to the rest of the world. Google will act duly repentant to the Chinese Geovernment and proceed unhindered with business that is aligned with the interests of the Chinese Government.
These lab tests always seem to fail in the real world.
Until they succeed.
It was a wallaby
That's what he wants you to think.
Better Liars? Wouldn't a better liar be one who is not capable of lying and getting away with it?
Maybe it's because most leaders are psychopaths, so they have absolute no problem telling lies at all.
Let's just hope they are merely sociopaths!
What size cement overshoes does Facebook wear?
It could save a lot of anal probing.
There are tons of software solutions out there for document management that can push documents through approval workflows, etc., that meet all standards for process control and accountability.
Not true. Companies that sell safety-related equipment to the nuclear power industry agree to keep documentation for the life of the plant 40 to 60 years. If you don't do it with paper you have to demonstrate that your system is equivalent. None will cut the mustard for that long time frame since the hardware and software changes. Microfiche and aperture cards (35mm film mounted on punch cards) seemed like a good solution 35 years ago, and we are digitizing those records because we can't buy printers any longer. Digitizing supplements, but doesn't replace, the hard copy.
The iPad will succeed or fail based on its merits. The features that some people cite as missing will keep those people from buying one and being unhappy with it. The features it has will make some people very happy. Past tablet PCs may have failed because the OS was not committed to one interface, it tried to be more than just Windows. Trying to be more than an iPod seems like a lot lower bar to hurdle. My guess is that the iPad is just a means for Apple to learn how to do the interface right before they put it on a MacBook.
So ... are you a sociopath, or did you just not read the F'ing Article?
Let's see what questions do you, as Ryobi's lawyer, ask the plaintiff on cross examination: "Could you explain the safety warnings on page 23 of the manual? What! You don't know what warnings are on page 23? You expect us to believe you read the manual? You read ALL of the manual? Do you speak and read French? How about Spanish? Japanese? German? You just told us that you read ALL of the manual, but now you are telling us that you did not understand fully 80% of it." ... After having demonstrated that the plaintiff didn't know what was in the manual with any degree of accuracy you continue. "What certification do you hold in the use of power tools? What accredited training programs have you completed in the use of power tools? Don't you think that you should have taken some sort of refresher since your 7th grade shop class?" And in the tradition of shows like Perry Mason ... "Isn't a fact, sir, that you were born without a thumb on your right hand - that as a young man you attempted to hitchhike across the USA only to be thwarted by your lack of an opposable digit, that you bought a table saw because while you desparately wanted to be a dress designer you were unable to hold scissors, and that this trial is just a means for you to finance your bid to get on 'Project Runway' " Yeah, the jurys love that stuff!
Be careful on throwing around certain terms. "Losslessly encoded music" does not assure quality, it applies only to post sampling processing. CD sampling is at 44kHz and is filtered so that nothing above 20kHz is sampled. A tiny bit of audio information is lost in the process, although dogs might contend that the sampling rate is too low. If I "losslessly encode" music that is sampled at 5 Khz the recording will be undeniably distorted from the original music, and inferior to a very lossy MP3 sampled at 44 kHz with the same data rate, but it will be a 100% accurate representation of my sampled data. Everything else you say is spot on.
This will never lead to the Klingon style cloaking device since the negative index of refraction reverse shifts the doppler affect - that will make it suitable only for stationary applications.
The key word being IF. Doesn't that kind of remove the comment from the realm of insightful? The media are owned by people who buy the politicians, why would they want to rat them out?
If you cool air you get condensation - that's a lot of wasted energy. Oil can be much closer to the CPU operating temperature, perhaps within 30 degrees, air has to be cooled to a much lower temperature, frequently below the outdoor temperature, for the same cooling affect. With oil all you may have to do is run it through a radiator except in particularly warm locations. Chilled water should not be required. Cooling air will usually require refrigeration which can easily cost ten times as much. I don't agree with any of your conclusions on the infrastructure costs Oil cooling makes top access close to mandatory and this limits density severely. I am a little surprised that someone has not gone with a phase change solution for cooling - the cooling effect is an order of magnitude better, and bubbles rise more quickly than oil's convection. The only trick is designing the heat sinks so they shed bubbles easily.
Get a really powerful computer. Write a program that simulates a billion monkeys typing on a billion typewriters ...
Moore's law says this will soon be the cheaper method