After years of military budget cuts in Europe, and now that the U.S. wants to decrease their "investment" in European security by closing bases, the best thing the Europeans have to counter Iran would be talk to them...endlessly, with that whiny upper-crust Euro attitude. The Iranians will be driven senseless and beg for Europe to lay off. I just hope they don't turn that awesome weapon on the U.S.
And some words for you: volume and change. If you have a large enough application in the sense that you need millions of the things, and the application set in stone forever more, then ASICs are fine. If you ever intend to change it, or your run is small, FPGAs are a better choice.
Yeah, yer right, the world has gotten so much safer in the years since WWII. Why in a few more years, we'll be singing kumbaya world-wide. Chinese territorial claims will go away when they realize the insanity of them. Islam will solve its civil war started in the 600s, and it will decide to let the rest of the infidels live in peace. India and Pakistan will snuggle bunnies and agree to divide Kashmir. Iran will stop trying to nuclearize the middle east and the the Muslim countries will welcome Israeli investment. Decreasing oil supplies will make everyone decide to work together. Water, sheesh, our world is made of water, once every country realizes this, their water claims will be abandoned.
The future's so bright, we'll all be wearing shades.
A hoax? From the scientific community? Maybe you could lay off the magic mushrooms for a bit.
I'm a scientist. We live or die by how well our theories explain the natural world. You seem to be suggesting that there's a cabal of scientists who are for various reasons trumpeting "the hoax" for precisely what? Our reward system would make any of us fabulously rich if only we could conclusively prove man-made warming is wrong. It hasn't happened.
And that's the rub. Can anyone conclusively prove that we aren't forcing the world to warm? But that only leads to the real point. If we do not know, why should we conduct an experiment for which there's no turning back?
This somewhat reminds me, and here I'm betraying my own bias, of the controversy over smoking. Does it cause lung cancer or not? It took years and many "scientists" on the take form the tobacco industry to swear it didn't before it was finally resolved. And it wasn't resolved within the scientific community (they were adamant that it did), it was resolved when the public finally decided whom to believe.
So we have the current debate? It will not be resolved by scientists, per se. Most have already decided. It will be resolved by the public and what they can see with their own eyes. But then if we have turned the world into one with a runaway greenhouse effect, does it matter? Do you feel lucky? Should we wager the planet on, "Gee, I don't think it could happen" when most scientists are telling you it could?
I tend to agree with the others that the problems with education are more myriad than funding, although if the other problems were fixed, more funding would help.
Teachers' union. They prevent any sort of accountability.
Parents. Oy! If parents are not interested in education, how can we expect their spawn to be?
The 60's Me Generation. They gave science and engineering a bad name.
Organized Sports. High Schools and Universities have let Sports run amok over the academic life of kids.
Gadgets. No self-respecting kid today is without a cell-phone lest their valuable ideas not get spewed instantaneously to their friends; they might even have time to read books if they weren't playing brain-dead games...in one eye and out the other.
Computers for school and TV after school and the Gadgets. All deprive students of focused thought for long periods of time. Kids now demand the instant feedback or mindless information these devices give them. It's no wonder they cannot do math, they don't have the mental stamina to think for a day on a math problem, much less a week or months. As a consequence their young minds never achieve the depth of thought necessary for science.
Not to my eyes, I see the mainstream media as hyping Ron Paul every chance they get.
Oh, and by the way, cutting the military to $0 means you only halve the deficit...at least until the rest of the world figures out we've dropped our panties and those nice foreigners decide to get while the getting is good.
So he's going to destroy NASA and free up their money for private industry incentives? So this would be the government picking winners and losers in private industries devoted to going to the moon? And this is considered free enterprise?
One thing to realize about Newt is that he's basically a loose cannon on the rolling deck of a wooden ship of about 1850. His "solutions" were baked about that time as well. Actually this goes for the entire Republican field. Obama is caught in that golden time when Roosevelt invented the New Deal and created the seeds that would make it grow into unsustainability. The worst of these dinosaurs is Ron Paul who thinks he can base a $15 Trillion dollar economy on a gold standard with about $500 billion in Fort Knox (and that's being generous with Fort Knox) and defend America with a few ships, a few planes, and healthy dose of kumbaya.
"a) give it back to investors (dividends)" Why? If the company were not growing and their share price not rising substantially, I could see why they'd be remiss in not giving dividends. In the current climate, though, and especially when a company can go from saint to dog in a year, their cash hoard makes a lot of sense.
Since corporations acquired citizen's rights like contributing to political campaigns and such. Take those away and we'll stop pulling C. Everett Koop faces on them, we promise.
Imagine the poor Apple executives watching their loot pile up. They look around, see your slashdot post and say to each other, "Gee, we should cut our prices by half and we'd still make a profit...Holy Shazzam, Batman, what were we thinking!"
It probably didn't have self-destruct because weight is a premium for those UAVs given all the flight controls, engine, fuel, spying electronics and hardware. And it isn't as simple as packing it with C4, that only happens in the movies. A single detonation, unless it is really large, will only scatter the good bits around.
Keeping an eye on an adversary is not goading them. During the cold war, the U.S. and Russia routinely ran planes close to each other's borders to peer in. We know why both were doing it and neither side considered it goading, and that was from the paranoid Russians who recently tried to blame their satellite screwup on fancy American radar.
Muslims believe a lot of things. In particular, part of their theology is the Allah is so 'other' that he has no direct contact with the world, hence his need for gofers like Gabriel. Frankly, I think this is cheating. And anyhow, if Allah is so fucking powerful, let him take care of the unbelievers and leave us unbelievers free from the believers.
Maybe. However, I used to work in the machine tool industry back when GM and Ford ruled U.S. auto production. There were a lot of problems. But one stands out in my mind related to me by a coworker. It took them half a day to move one of our controllers in a small cabinet from outside to deep inside the plant. Do you know why? Every time they crossed a particular shop's boundary, the union shop steward for the new shop had to be consulted. After the discussion, it was allowed to move further. And when they got it there, they needed the screwdriver union guy to unbox it, it being in union rules that any unboxing had to be done by a trained union person.
Given management screwups, gov. tax policy etc., it is no secret why manufacturers moved out of America.
Apple insinuated no such thing, if you'd bother reading the article. The problem is that in the U.S., there are no longer the density of manufacturing capacity. It isn't a bunch of ants gluing glass panels all day, it's the screw manufacturer down the street, it's the engineering firm on the next block, etc. It is also the government subsidizing a company to expand a wing on their plant in the hopes of landing the Apple contract. The contract manufacturers have figured out how to get economies of scale they couldn't hope to get in the U.S. or Europe...with Chinese government assistance.
China can do this because they so many people with different skill levels and are willing to use state funds to grease the skids. The article stated it would increase Apple's costs by 25% to pay American wages (somewhat blithely, I might add, I doubt it is that slick).
100? I'll guess it more like 5 once the robots are built to automate the line. We'll need an engineer to service the robots, a logistics person to schedule incoming and outgoing, two people to run the fork lifts at either end, and an MBA to twiddle his dick and wonder how to move it all to China.
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After years of military budget cuts in Europe, and now that the U.S. wants to decrease their "investment" in European security by closing bases, the best thing the Europeans have to counter Iran would be talk to them...endlessly, with that whiny upper-crust Euro attitude. The Iranians will be driven senseless and beg for Europe to lay off. I just hope they don't turn that awesome weapon on the U.S.
Hey, maybe you could write Putin a memo, he's clearly not gotten the first one.
And some words for you: volume and change. If you have a large enough application in the sense that you need millions of the things, and the application set in stone forever more, then ASICs are fine. If you ever intend to change it, or your run is small, FPGAs are a better choice.
Yeah, yer right, the world has gotten so much safer in the years since WWII. Why in a few more years, we'll be singing kumbaya world-wide. Chinese territorial claims will go away when they realize the insanity of them. Islam will solve its civil war started in the 600s, and it will decide to let the rest of the infidels live in peace. India and Pakistan will snuggle bunnies and agree to divide Kashmir. Iran will stop trying to nuclearize the middle east and the the Muslim countries will welcome Israeli investment. Decreasing oil supplies will make everyone decide to work together. Water, sheesh, our world is made of water, once every country realizes this, their water claims will be abandoned.
The future's so bright, we'll all be wearing shades.
A hoax? From the scientific community? Maybe you could lay off the magic mushrooms for a bit.
I'm a scientist. We live or die by how well our theories explain the natural world. You seem to be suggesting that there's a cabal of scientists who are for various reasons trumpeting "the hoax" for precisely what? Our reward system would make any of us fabulously rich if only we could conclusively prove man-made warming is wrong. It hasn't happened.
And that's the rub. Can anyone conclusively prove that we aren't forcing the world to warm? But that only leads to the real point. If we do not know, why should we conduct an experiment for which there's no turning back?
This somewhat reminds me, and here I'm betraying my own bias, of the controversy over smoking. Does it cause lung cancer or not? It took years and many "scientists" on the take form the tobacco industry to swear it didn't before it was finally resolved. And it wasn't resolved within the scientific community (they were adamant that it did), it was resolved when the public finally decided whom to believe.
So we have the current debate? It will not be resolved by scientists, per se. Most have already decided. It will be resolved by the public and what they can see with their own eyes. But then if we have turned the world into one with a runaway greenhouse effect, does it matter? Do you feel lucky? Should we wager the planet on, "Gee, I don't think it could happen" when most scientists are telling you it could?
Well, it depends. Right now, we're conducting a planet wide experiment of which no one knows the outcome.
(1) The increase in greenhouse gases is handled by the system that is the Earth.
(2) The increase in greenhouse gases overwhelms the system that is the Earth.
Now, the question is: Well, do you feel lucky, Punk?
If the ice caps over LAND melt, it is a disaster. Over water the result is 0.
I tend to agree with the others that the problems with education are more myriad than funding, although if the other problems were fixed, more funding would help.
Teachers' union. They prevent any sort of accountability.
Parents. Oy! If parents are not interested in education, how can we expect their spawn to be?
The 60's Me Generation. They gave science and engineering a bad name.
Organized Sports. High Schools and Universities have let Sports run amok over the academic life of kids.
Gadgets. No self-respecting kid today is without a cell-phone lest their valuable ideas not get spewed instantaneously to their friends; they might even have time to read books if they weren't playing brain-dead games...in one eye and out the other.
Computers for school and TV after school and the Gadgets. All deprive students of focused thought for long periods of time. Kids now demand the instant feedback or mindless information these devices give them. It's no wonder they cannot do math, they don't have the mental stamina to think for a day on a math problem, much less a week or months. As a consequence their young minds never achieve the depth of thought necessary for science.
Not to my eyes, I see the mainstream media as hyping Ron Paul every chance they get.
Oh, and by the way, cutting the military to $0 means you only halve the deficit...at least until the rest of the world figures out we've dropped our panties and those nice foreigners decide to get while the getting is good.
So he's going to destroy NASA and free up their money for private industry incentives? So this would be the government picking winners and losers in private industries devoted to going to the moon? And this is considered free enterprise?
One thing to realize about Newt is that he's basically a loose cannon on the rolling deck of a wooden ship of about 1850. His "solutions" were baked about that time as well. Actually this goes for the entire Republican field. Obama is caught in that golden time when Roosevelt invented the New Deal and created the seeds that would make it grow into unsustainability. The worst of these dinosaurs is Ron Paul who thinks he can base a $15 Trillion dollar economy on a gold standard with about $500 billion in Fort Knox (and that's being generous with Fort Knox) and defend America with a few ships, a few planes, and healthy dose of kumbaya.
He also stole a box of raisins.
"a) give it back to investors (dividends)" Why? If the company were not growing and their share price not rising substantially, I could see why they'd be remiss in not giving dividends. In the current climate, though, and especially when a company can go from saint to dog in a year, their cash hoard makes a lot of sense.
Since corporations acquired citizen's rights like contributing to political campaigns and such. Take those away and we'll stop pulling C. Everett Koop faces on them, we promise.
Imagine the poor Apple executives watching their loot pile up. They look around, see your slashdot post and say to each other, "Gee, we should cut our prices by half and we'd still make a profit...Holy Shazzam, Batman, what were we thinking!"
One's Arab, one's Persian. One's 20% Sunni, one's 90% Shi'ite. One's fighting a civil war, one's trying to keep one from breaking out.
It probably didn't have self-destruct because weight is a premium for those UAVs given all the flight controls, engine, fuel, spying electronics and hardware. And it isn't as simple as packing it with C4, that only happens in the movies. A single detonation, unless it is really large, will only scatter the good bits around.
Keeping an eye on an adversary is not goading them. During the cold war, the U.S. and Russia routinely ran planes close to each other's borders to peer in. We know why both were doing it and neither side considered it goading, and that was from the paranoid Russians who recently tried to blame their satellite screwup on fancy American radar.
Damnit, now I have a hunger for spaghetti that won't go away unless I make some...damnit, damnit, damnit...
Wow, man, that is so deep, I gotta get another bong hit...
Muslims believe a lot of things. In particular, part of their theology is the Allah is so 'other' that he has no direct contact with the world, hence his need for gofers like Gabriel. Frankly, I think this is cheating. And anyhow, if Allah is so fucking powerful, let him take care of the unbelievers and leave us unbelievers free from the believers.
You mean when the Muslim Indonesians periodically go on pogroms against the Christian Indonesians?
Maybe. However, I used to work in the machine tool industry back when GM and Ford ruled U.S. auto production. There were a lot of problems. But one stands out in my mind related to me by a coworker. It took them half a day to move one of our controllers in a small cabinet from outside to deep inside the plant. Do you know why? Every time they crossed a particular shop's boundary, the union shop steward for the new shop had to be consulted. After the discussion, it was allowed to move further. And when they got it there, they needed the screwdriver union guy to unbox it, it being in union rules that any unboxing had to be done by a trained union person.
Given management screwups, gov. tax policy etc., it is no secret why manufacturers moved out of America.
Apple insinuated no such thing, if you'd bother reading the article. The problem is that in the U.S., there are no longer the density of manufacturing capacity. It isn't a bunch of ants gluing glass panels all day, it's the screw manufacturer down the street, it's the engineering firm on the next block, etc. It is also the government subsidizing a company to expand a wing on their plant in the hopes of landing the Apple contract. The contract manufacturers have figured out how to get economies of scale they couldn't hope to get in the U.S. or Europe...with Chinese government assistance.
China can do this because they so many people with different skill levels and are willing to use state funds to grease the skids. The article stated it would increase Apple's costs by 25% to pay American wages (somewhat blithely, I might add, I doubt it is that slick).
100? I'll guess it more like 5 once the robots are built to automate the line. We'll need an engineer to service the robots, a logistics person to schedule incoming and outgoing, two people to run the fork lifts at either end, and an MBA to twiddle his dick and wonder how to move it all to China.
"The "problem" is copyright is not respected by the youth =) Which I say Good for them!"
Yeah, let Linux be copyright free, that'll show them money-hungry rich....err....what?