Except that Google should be found guilty, for the same reasons. Just because you don't like Microsoft and you do like Google, that's no excuse to hold them to different standards of behaviour.
Microsoft was found guilty because of how they forced the agreements, and how they tied everything together and using all of that to illegally build and maintain a monopoly market position.
Google has not been found guilty of those same practices, and they do not do those same practices. Google is not in a monopoly position; nor have they tried to force the market into putting them into a monopoly position.
So, regardless of how you think about the specific topic at hand; the simple matter is that Google has not broken the law. Android has not been advanced because Google broke the law (unlike MS Office, Windows, and Internet Explorer wrt Microsoft). While with Microsoft there were many many businesses that lined up to point to activity that Microsoft did that led to their being found guilty of Antitrust violations; that is not the case with Google - the only companies that have accused Google of Antitrust violations are Microsoft or have very demonstratable ties to Microsoft (f.e FairSearch) - it's almost as if Microsoft is trying to get convicted again of Antitrust violations by using its market position to get its partners to accuse competitors of Antitrust violations.
And there is, btw, nothing wrong (legally) with having a monopoly market position. Antitrust laws are due to when one takes advantage of that to the specific detriment of ones competitors in order to maintain ones monopoly and/or build new monopolies in other markets.
This has nothing to do with how I feel about either as a company, etc; it is solely to do with the law itself and in that respect Google has been exonerated numerous times.
good luck getting it programmed as they won't likely carry the numerous systems required to program each and every model by all the different manufacturers.
That is not how "programming of the keys" work at all. Once you get the key, it is a matter of getting the vehicle to accept it. You don't actually program the key. And with my vehicle (and it seems most others), all you need is the car itself to do it.
Someone please double check me...
http://www.ehow.com/way_570876...
It very much depends on the design of the keys. For example, my Mazda3 has to have both keys programmed at the same time with the computer. Reason I know - it was in for repair and the body shop lost the key they had so I had to drop off my remaining key; they had to get a new key and reprogram both keys and the car to match up.
Now some simpler key designs may allow for what you are saying; but the more complex designs require specialized computers.
Even if what you say is true; you still have to be able to get ahold of the various keys - and each manufacturer is different, and sometimes different from year to year and model to mode - to make it all work, with a potentially high risk of "bricking" (your access to) the vehicle if not done right.
If a competent programmer who knows SQL and C/C++, and a few other languages, maybe Java and LISP, can't learn enough NoSQL and Python in two weeks to start being productive, then NoSQL and Python are bad platforms and languages. A newcomer will not learn all the quirks, tricks, and libraries in 2 weeks, but doesn't have to. Don't have to know half of the typical bloated language to do useful work in it. As for the cloud, someone experienced with system administration ought to be able to pick up enough to make some good use of it in less than a week.
In his example the issue is not necessary NoSQL or Python, it's how they are used by the other stuff (e.g OpenStack). Learning Python is the easy part; figuring out how everything inter-relates in OpenStack is the hard part.
My car is 15 years old and has a chip in the key to make it uncopyable, the easy solution to not paying for replacements is don't lose your key.
My 2005 Mazda3 does too; but as of a few years ago the manufacturers were required to allow third parties to produce and program the chip keys. So they started using FOBS instead, which is what my 2010 Grand Caravan has.
And yet Microsoft isn't allowed to tell manufacturers that they can't call a computer a Windows PC if they set Yahoo!Acer as the default search engine. Of course this is A-OK because it's Microsoft on the other side of the equation.
Difference there is Microsoft was found guilty of Antitrust violations. Google has not, and every antitrust accusation that has been levied against them has been proven to be wrong.
Expanding coverage is not free for the carrier. Or are you expecting the state to nationalize the towers and fund their maintenance through income tax?
I wasn't talking about coverage. I was talking about SMS/Text. SMS/Text is limited to 160 characters because that is the free space in the Control Messages already sent/received from all cell phones in the system. The routing/etc are also near zero cost. SMS/Text is 99.9999% pure profit for the carriers.
So let me sum up: Slashmydots wanted to figure out how to extricate Bing services from Windows. Anonymous Coward recommended installing SUSE, and ShanghaiBill recommended running Windows in a virtual machine. But it turns out that this will probably require buying another copy of Windows. So if I know I'm going to have to buy a retail Windows license to replace the OEM Windows license that shipped on the machine, how do I go about getting a refund on the OEM license that is useless to me?
(1) Call the manufacturer, and (2) as they'll most likely refuse, call Microsoft. There's a rebate program that is suppose to refund you the OEM license cost should you not want Windows on the machine. Most manufacturers refuse to do the reimbursement at which point you have to go to Microsoft. It's not an easy thing - you have to be persistent - but it is achievable. It's also not going to cover the price of the retail license as the OEM license is heavily discounted. I think it's typically a $100 check.
...it's not like the carriers don't make it hard to get a dumb-phone or feature-phone. You have all of a selection of 0-5 in a store carrying 60 some phones.
And no, the store doesn't get to decide what to carry. Corporate does; which is why you get insane things like stores in the Washing D.C metro area carrying all phones with cameras when 50% of the working population (a fluke of the W.D.C area) isn't allowed to have a camera (let alone a camera phone) at their desk at work.
So Corporate has decided to sell Smartphones instead of feature phones; and they have made it really hard to get anything less. No wonder that's what shows up in the statistics.
Now I do quite agree that smartphones do have some good features - I switched my Motorola v180 for a NexusOne specifically for the contacts, calendaring, and data synchronization features - anything else being gravy, and no I didn't (and still don't) want a data plan. I'm happy using it with WiFi only for all data.
There's a reason Microsoft Office is the industry standard, and not iWork.
It's called the Microsoft Marketing machinery.
MS typically markets to CEO types and get them to force the organization to use the MS products. They also introduce subtle differences.
Back in 1994 WordPerfect and Quattro Pro was the kind of the Productivity suite. Then MS released Win'95 and in the process convinced Novell to implement their Win'95 version using new APIs in Win'95 (namespaces) then pulled the new APIs at the last moment (only to later release them) setting Novell's Win'95 version back 6 months. (http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20041115070558892).
No, MS didn't gain market share because they really had a superior product, but because they manipulated the market into using their inferior product. It was also well known that you could import WordPerfect and QuattroPro documents into MS Office equivalents, but that the conversion back was not very good - so it was essentially a one-way conversion. So the CEO got a copy of Word, imported the WordPerfect document, and then everyone working with them needed it too because of incompatibility issues.
We know that a plane disappeared when transitioning between airspaces controlled by different, somewhat antagonistic governments. We know that the plane's transponder was shut off at just this moment, requiring knowledge of the route and the procedures to turn off the transponder. We know that the plane continued to fly for some time based on the engine reporting systems the parties disabling the transponder neglected to turn off.
That's all we know.
We know an approximate distance from the satellite that the engine reporting systems reached before not reporting anymore. We think that, several days later, indications of the cockpit voice and data recorders were picked up in the vicinity of a very, very deep part of the ocean, a place that is close to, but not exactly where the engine reporting systems last reported the plane's position.
This is more conjecture based on data from the system - possibly accurate, possibly not - as they invented a whole new method of interpretting the data to determine this information. It has yet to be proven a valid method of interpretation.
For all we know, it could (i) be at the bottom of the ocean, or (ii) be shutdown, hidden by a nefrarious force (f.e Al Quaida or similar group; or even a not-so-nefrarious force - North Korea, etc.). Problem is, we won't know until it shows up again - either being found in the ocean, as wreckage on an island or in the jungles of SWA/SEA, or an Al Quaida like group flying it into a building, or some where else.
They are probably bound by a clause in their ToS that says they can't sue Comcast and must instead submit to arbitration.
Which can be challenged in court - outside of arbitration - and most likely won't be upheld (IANAL, but that has occurred in other domains, e.g employment contracts).
And don't forget you'll have to go to the dealer to get it; no more going to Home Depot/Lowes/Ace or any hardware store and making a copy of the key. You might be able to find something that will work at an automotive store but good luck getting it programmed as they won't likely carry the numerous systems required to program each and every model by all the different manufacturers.
"Whatever the market will bear" is the soul of modern capitalism, and the USA has little enough competition in many markets that there is no regulating force. This is partly an effect of endemic corruption enshrined in law and partly an effect of low population densities. Australia has lower, but there are areas no attempt is made to cover.
With regard to cell service...it's mostly because people don't understand it should be FREE and is pure profit for the carriers.
Maybe those companies think that Linux is somehow a bad platform to develop to. In that case it would be Linux's fault.
Microsoft is very reluctant to develop for anything non-Microsoft as that would mean people wouldn't need Windows; so anything that does not drive business to the entire Microsoft eco-system typically gets ignored by Microsoft. They're finally getting around to releasing Office for Android in some form - even then, it's not as functional as what they have on Windows.
As to Adobe...They could easy port it to Linux if they desired. My guess is they don't get enough requests because the majority of people they target are either Mac people or locked into Corporate environments where Windows or Mac are the only options. So, go bug them about delivering it on Linux and get a lot of others to do so as well. Make them see a market for it and you'll probably get it.
Same goes for AutoDesk (which I know uses Qt as a base for their development) and any other proprietary company. Valve getting behind Debian like this for SteamOS is probably going to start a good push for other companies to do the same kind of thing - especially if they get out an evangelize how easy/difficult it has been for them to do so.
They can develop and product based on Android and load it with whatever they want - Windows Store, Ovi Store, etc - and call it anything but Android and Google won't care - even if they also develop products based on Android that are fully Android certified which they do call Android.
the whole crux of this issue as stated in tfs and tfa is that google forces mfrs to do one or the other, but not both!!!!
They can do both, but the cannot call both Android. It would be like producing a copy of the Windows Source code using one of the Research Licenses, compiling it, then trying to distribute as Windows without Microsoft's permission. It may the same source code, but the product is not necessarily the same.
that's the whole point. does sammy make a cyanogen phone? nope. Does HTC? Does Moto? nope. because according to the google agreement the manufacturers can't build any non-google android phones. similarly, they can't explore new phone strategies, like a phone that was partly subsidized by the carrier or ad supported. they can only do the one thing that google tells them to do, and that's monopolistic.
No, they cannot develop a phone based on Android and call it Android without passing certain criteria, of which the Google tools are one. They can develop and product based on Android and load it with whatever they want - Windows Store, Ovi Store, etc - and call it anything but Android and Google won't care - even if they also develop products based on Android that are fully Android certified which they do call Android.
And, that is perfectly legal as Google owns the Android trademarks and can license them as they like in order to protect the "brand" represented by the Trademark.
So none of the VM providers really support using a VM directly from a hard disk partition. Yes, I looked into it when I wanted to convert my Thinkpad T61p over to Linux and try to keep the Windows License. They all kinda support it, but they also tell you "Don't do this".
Some VM providers will allow enough to pass through from the host for the Windows system to continue using the OEM license; but it is far easier and more reliable to just get another Windows License Key and use that instead - then you just reinstall into a standard VM environment, use the license, and you're done. And really, that's the only place that Windows belongs.
Yes, metamaterials. The problem is that the bandwidth is quite narrow as far as I know, covering a broad spectrum of frequency is far from trivial. Here the rule of thumb is that the structures in meta materials have to be smaller than the wavelength, they're supposed to affect. Photonic crystals also have to be created with a very specific bandgap.
Another problem is that metamaterials are matter, a magnetic field by itself isn't matter and can only change the polarity of electromagnetic waves, which won't do much. Now you could say that you manipulate the matter around with with said magnetic field, make the former "energy field" into an "energy-matter-field", which raises a problem in space, since space isn't known for its high density of matter. Then you'd have to emit matter and keep it in place around your ship. Thank god Star Trek also invented replicators, eh?
Which is why frequency matters (no pun intended).
The basics of it is that all matter can be repelled using the correct frequency. So by varying the frequency of the magnetic field you can repel various kinds of matter; which of course means that the magnetic shields are not full proof - somethings will be able to get through them if they don't resonate significantly enough with respect to any of the frequencies employed.
Pretty sure the military is our biggest spending item. Especially over the last 30 years that has seen our debt go from $1T to $16T.
Ironically, every Republican president since 1980 has at least doubled the national debt.
Reagan - from $1T to $3T
Bush Sr - from $3T to $6T
Bush Jr - from $5T to $11T
But somehow Democrats are the tax & spend party. Which is actually fiscally responsible from a government point of view.
Sources please. From what I am aware, Obama entered office with around $8T in debt, not $11T. Even so, don't look at the timeline (1980 to 2008) or the amounts. You also conveniently skipped Clinton who had a full Republican congress nearly his entire 8 years in office.
I couldn't be less interested in debating religion here. I only bring up what Christ taught on the subject because Card professes to be a Christian, making it relevant to the topic at hand. If you want to get into a deep philosophical debate, this is the wrong venue.
Card is a Mormon...for him Christ is not the Christian Savior or Jewish Messiah, but just another prophet,
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Except that Google should be found guilty, for the same reasons. Just because you don't like Microsoft and you do like Google, that's no excuse to hold them to different standards of behaviour.
Microsoft was found guilty because of how they forced the agreements, and how they tied everything together and using all of that to illegally build and maintain a monopoly market position.
Google has not been found guilty of those same practices, and they do not do those same practices. Google is not in a monopoly position; nor have they tried to force the market into putting them into a monopoly position.
So, regardless of how you think about the specific topic at hand; the simple matter is that Google has not broken the law. Android has not been advanced because Google broke the law (unlike MS Office, Windows, and Internet Explorer wrt Microsoft). While with Microsoft there were many many businesses that lined up to point to activity that Microsoft did that led to their being found guilty of Antitrust violations; that is not the case with Google - the only companies that have accused Google of Antitrust violations are Microsoft or have very demonstratable ties to Microsoft (f.e FairSearch) - it's almost as if Microsoft is trying to get convicted again of Antitrust violations by using its market position to get its partners to accuse competitors of Antitrust violations.
And there is, btw, nothing wrong (legally) with having a monopoly market position. Antitrust laws are due to when one takes advantage of that to the specific detriment of ones competitors in order to maintain ones monopoly and/or build new monopolies in other markets.
This has nothing to do with how I feel about either as a company, etc; it is solely to do with the law itself and in that respect Google has been exonerated numerous times.
good luck getting it programmed as they won't likely carry the numerous systems required to program each and every model by all the different manufacturers.
That is not how "programming of the keys" work at all. Once you get the key, it is a matter of getting the vehicle to accept it. You don't actually program the key. And with my vehicle (and it seems most others), all you need is the car itself to do it. Someone please double check me... http://www.ehow.com/way_570876...
It very much depends on the design of the keys. For example, my Mazda3 has to have both keys programmed at the same time with the computer. Reason I know - it was in for repair and the body shop lost the key they had so I had to drop off my remaining key; they had to get a new key and reprogram both keys and the car to match up.
Now some simpler key designs may allow for what you are saying; but the more complex designs require specialized computers.
Even if what you say is true; you still have to be able to get ahold of the various keys - and each manufacturer is different, and sometimes different from year to year and model to mode - to make it all work, with a potentially high risk of "bricking" (your access to) the vehicle if not done right.
If a competent programmer who knows SQL and C/C++, and a few other languages, maybe Java and LISP, can't learn enough NoSQL and Python in two weeks to start being productive, then NoSQL and Python are bad platforms and languages. A newcomer will not learn all the quirks, tricks, and libraries in 2 weeks, but doesn't have to. Don't have to know half of the typical bloated language to do useful work in it. As for the cloud, someone experienced with system administration ought to be able to pick up enough to make some good use of it in less than a week.
In his example the issue is not necessary NoSQL or Python, it's how they are used by the other stuff (e.g OpenStack). Learning Python is the easy part; figuring out how everything inter-relates in OpenStack is the hard part.
And yet the NoSQL vendors are generally finding that SQL describes what they want to do without a problem...
My car is 15 years old and has a chip in the key to make it uncopyable, the easy solution to not paying for replacements is don't lose your key.
My 2005 Mazda3 does too; but as of a few years ago the manufacturers were required to allow third parties to produce and program the chip keys. So they started using FOBS instead, which is what my 2010 Grand Caravan has.
And yet Microsoft isn't allowed to tell manufacturers that they can't call a computer a Windows PC if they set Yahoo!Acer as the default search engine. Of course this is A-OK because it's Microsoft on the other side of the equation.
Difference there is Microsoft was found guilty of Antitrust violations. Google has not, and every antitrust accusation that has been levied against them has been proven to be wrong.
Expanding coverage is not free for the carrier. Or are you expecting the state to nationalize the towers and fund their maintenance through income tax?
I wasn't talking about coverage. I was talking about SMS/Text. SMS/Text is limited to 160 characters because that is the free space in the Control Messages already sent/received from all cell phones in the system. The routing/etc are also near zero cost. SMS/Text is 99.9999% pure profit for the carriers.
So let me sum up: Slashmydots wanted to figure out how to extricate Bing services from Windows. Anonymous Coward recommended installing SUSE, and ShanghaiBill recommended running Windows in a virtual machine. But it turns out that this will probably require buying another copy of Windows. So if I know I'm going to have to buy a retail Windows license to replace the OEM Windows license that shipped on the machine, how do I go about getting a refund on the OEM license that is useless to me?
(1) Call the manufacturer, and (2) as they'll most likely refuse, call Microsoft. There's a rebate program that is suppose to refund you the OEM license cost should you not want Windows on the machine. Most manufacturers refuse to do the reimbursement at which point you have to go to Microsoft. It's not an easy thing - you have to be persistent - but it is achievable. It's also not going to cover the price of the retail license as the OEM license is heavily discounted. I think it's typically a $100 check.
...it's not like the carriers don't make it hard to get a dumb-phone or feature-phone. You have all of a selection of 0-5 in a store carrying 60 some phones.
And no, the store doesn't get to decide what to carry. Corporate does; which is why you get insane things like stores in the Washing D.C metro area carrying all phones with cameras when 50% of the working population (a fluke of the W.D.C area) isn't allowed to have a camera (let alone a camera phone) at their desk at work.
So Corporate has decided to sell Smartphones instead of feature phones; and they have made it really hard to get anything less. No wonder that's what shows up in the statistics.
Now I do quite agree that smartphones do have some good features - I switched my Motorola v180 for a NexusOne specifically for the contacts, calendaring, and data synchronization features - anything else being gravy, and no I didn't (and still don't) want a data plan. I'm happy using it with WiFi only for all data.
There's a reason Microsoft Office is the industry standard, and not iWork.
It's called the Microsoft Marketing machinery.
MS typically markets to CEO types and get them to force the organization to use the MS products. They also introduce subtle differences.
Back in 1994 WordPerfect and Quattro Pro was the kind of the Productivity suite. Then MS released Win'95 and in the process convinced Novell to implement their Win'95 version using new APIs in Win'95 (namespaces) then pulled the new APIs at the last moment (only to later release them) setting Novell's Win'95 version back 6 months. (http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20041115070558892).
No, MS didn't gain market share because they really had a superior product, but because they manipulated the market into using their inferior product. It was also well known that you could import WordPerfect and QuattroPro documents into MS Office equivalents, but that the conversion back was not very good - so it was essentially a one-way conversion. So the CEO got a copy of Word, imported the WordPerfect document, and then everyone working with them needed it too because of incompatibility issues.
We know that a plane disappeared when transitioning between airspaces controlled by different, somewhat antagonistic governments. We know that the plane's transponder was shut off at just this moment, requiring knowledge of the route and the procedures to turn off the transponder. We know that the plane continued to fly for some time based on the engine reporting systems the parties disabling the transponder neglected to turn off.
That's all we know.
We know an approximate distance from the satellite that the engine reporting systems reached before not reporting anymore. We think that, several days later, indications of the cockpit voice and data recorders were picked up in the vicinity of a very, very deep part of the ocean, a place that is close to, but not exactly where the engine reporting systems last reported the plane's position.
This is more conjecture based on data from the system - possibly accurate, possibly not - as they invented a whole new method of interpretting the data to determine this information. It has yet to be proven a valid method of interpretation.
For all we know, it could (i) be at the bottom of the ocean, or (ii) be shutdown, hidden by a nefrarious force (f.e Al Quaida or similar group; or even a not-so-nefrarious force - North Korea, etc.). Problem is, we won't know until it shows up again - either being found in the ocean, as wreckage on an island or in the jungles of SWA/SEA, or an Al Quaida like group flying it into a building, or some where else.
They are probably bound by a clause in their ToS that says they can't sue Comcast and must instead submit to arbitration.
Which can be challenged in court - outside of arbitration - and most likely won't be upheld (IANAL, but that has occurred in other domains, e.g employment contracts).
I thought most "keyless keys" actually has a small key clipped to it (or inside it), which will open the door.
My 2010 Dodge Grand Caravan does - but it only opens the driver's door.
some of these new replacements are $500.
And don't forget you'll have to go to the dealer to get it; no more going to Home Depot/Lowes/Ace or any hardware store and making a copy of the key. You might be able to find something that will work at an automotive store but good luck getting it programmed as they won't likely carry the numerous systems required to program each and every model by all the different manufacturers.
The cost of SMS's are largely superficial
"Whatever the market will bear" is the soul of modern capitalism, and the USA has little enough competition in many markets that there is no regulating force. This is partly an effect of endemic corruption enshrined in law and partly an effect of low population densities. Australia has lower, but there are areas no attempt is made to cover.
With regard to cell service...it's mostly because people don't understand it should be FREE and is pure profit for the carriers.
Maybe those companies think that Linux is somehow a bad platform to develop to. In that case it would be Linux's fault.
Microsoft is very reluctant to develop for anything non-Microsoft as that would mean people wouldn't need Windows; so anything that does not drive business to the entire Microsoft eco-system typically gets ignored by Microsoft. They're finally getting around to releasing Office for Android in some form - even then, it's not as functional as what they have on Windows.
As to Adobe...They could easy port it to Linux if they desired. My guess is they don't get enough requests because the majority of people they target are either Mac people or locked into Corporate environments where Windows or Mac are the only options. So, go bug them about delivering it on Linux and get a lot of others to do so as well. Make them see a market for it and you'll probably get it.
Same goes for AutoDesk (which I know uses Qt as a base for their development) and any other proprietary company. Valve getting behind Debian like this for SteamOS is probably going to start a good push for other companies to do the same kind of thing - especially if they get out an evangelize how easy/difficult it has been for them to do so.
If I am not mistaken, Win8 - and WinPhone8 - support OpenGL as the Direct3D/etc APIs were too power hungry....
They can develop and product based on Android and load it with whatever they want - Windows Store, Ovi Store, etc - and call it anything but Android and Google won't care - even if they also develop products based on Android that are fully Android certified which they do call Android.
the whole crux of this issue as stated in tfs and tfa is that google forces mfrs to do one or the other, but not both!!!!
They can do both, but the cannot call both Android. It would be like producing a copy of the Windows Source code using one of the Research Licenses, compiling it, then trying to distribute as Windows without Microsoft's permission. It may the same source code, but the product is not necessarily the same.
Magnetic fields don't have a frequency.
No but Electro-Magnetic fields do, and they are just as useful as non-elctro-magnetic fields for this topic.
that's the whole point. does sammy make a cyanogen phone? nope. Does HTC? Does Moto? nope. because according to the google agreement the manufacturers can't build any non-google android phones. similarly, they can't explore new phone strategies, like a phone that was partly subsidized by the carrier or ad supported. they can only do the one thing that google tells them to do, and that's monopolistic.
No, they cannot develop a phone based on Android and call it Android without passing certain criteria, of which the Google tools are one. They can develop and product based on Android and load it with whatever they want - Windows Store, Ovi Store, etc - and call it anything but Android and Google won't care - even if they also develop products based on Android that are fully Android certified which they do call Android.
And, that is perfectly legal as Google owns the Android trademarks and can license them as they like in order to protect the "brand" represented by the Trademark.
So none of the VM providers really support using a VM directly from a hard disk partition. Yes, I looked into it when I wanted to convert my Thinkpad T61p over to Linux and try to keep the Windows License. They all kinda support it, but they also tell you "Don't do this".
Some VM providers will allow enough to pass through from the host for the Windows system to continue using the OEM license; but it is far easier and more reliable to just get another Windows License Key and use that instead - then you just reinstall into a standard VM environment, use the license, and you're done. And really, that's the only place that Windows belongs.
Yes, metamaterials. The problem is that the bandwidth is quite narrow as far as I know, covering a broad spectrum of frequency is far from trivial. Here the rule of thumb is that the structures in meta materials have to be smaller than the wavelength, they're supposed to affect. Photonic crystals also have to be created with a very specific bandgap. Another problem is that metamaterials are matter, a magnetic field by itself isn't matter and can only change the polarity of electromagnetic waves, which won't do much. Now you could say that you manipulate the matter around with with said magnetic field, make the former "energy field" into an "energy-matter-field", which raises a problem in space, since space isn't known for its high density of matter. Then you'd have to emit matter and keep it in place around your ship. Thank god Star Trek also invented replicators, eh?
Which is why frequency matters (no pun intended).
The basics of it is that all matter can be repelled using the correct frequency. So by varying the frequency of the magnetic field you can repel various kinds of matter; which of course means that the magnetic shields are not full proof - somethings will be able to get through them if they don't resonate significantly enough with respect to any of the frequencies employed.
I think you're confusing the Mormons with the Muslims.
No, I'm not. On the outset, Mormons pretend Christ is more than a prophet, but if you get into their doctrine, he's only a prophet.
Pretty sure the military is our biggest spending item. Especially over the last 30 years that has seen our debt go from $1T to $16T.
Ironically, every Republican president since 1980 has at least doubled the national debt.
Reagan - from $1T to $3T Bush Sr - from $3T to $6T Bush Jr - from $5T to $11T
But somehow Democrats are the tax & spend party. Which is actually fiscally responsible from a government point of view.
Sources please. From what I am aware, Obama entered office with around $8T in debt, not $11T. Even so, don't look at the timeline (1980 to 2008) or the amounts. You also conveniently skipped Clinton who had a full Republican congress nearly his entire 8 years in office.
I couldn't be less interested in debating religion here. I only bring up what Christ taught on the subject because Card professes to be a Christian, making it relevant to the topic at hand. If you want to get into a deep philosophical debate, this is the wrong venue.
Card is a Mormon...for him Christ is not the Christian Savior or Jewish Messiah, but just another prophet,