And toxic, through the skin, like lead... It is also pyrophoric meaning it can catch fire !! Excellent idea ! It will also remind both of you of the waste laid out in Iraq and Kosovo thanks to anti-tank DU shells.
Receiving a bad part is good evidence of a faulty manufacturing process around the time of purchase, but maybe they had improved after that? Even great manufacturers go through bad patches : IBM (disks), Sony, Apple, etc. Usually the situation corrects itself or the company doesn't stay in business.
What's up with the flamebait moderation? This is a serious query. I have had enough of virtualising, trying to run Wine or rebooting just to test a web site.
I they provided a version for either O/S I would definitely install it, if only for web design testing. I'm tired of rebooting or running IE in a VM (wasting 100s of MB of memory in the process).
Microsoft had a version of IE for OS/X and used to have one for Solaris, so it's not impossible.
In the case of US government and in particular the NSF, the "gold" is attributed on merit via peer review. The politicians don't look at it too much in my experience. That seems very reasonable.
By moral society he probably meant a society were social progress was at least a possibility. While the situation of women and african-americans was not good in the 50s and 60s it certainly improved a great deal in that period.
So Libertarianism is a nice utopia in other words. There is no continuous path from the current situation to a reasonable approximation of Libertarianism. The education question is a prime example.
Therefore, just like communism, it would require a revolution to implement libertarianism. Just like communism, the revolution would lose its purpose halfway through and True Libertarianism would never see the light of day. We would end up with a fascist-like dictatorship like in Chile.
In many countries where speaking of communism is not anathema, people still speak of it exactly in the same way you speak of Libertarianism. It's uncanny.
Per se it's not that important, it's easy to turn voltage into current and vice-versa.
The important bit was that valves cannot be shrunk, whereas the size of transistors have been shrinking in size regularly. Somebody even called it a law or something:-)
Pharmas don't do any basic research. Trust me I know. All basic research in pharmacology, physiology and medicine is done at university. Pharmas then buy the patents or hires the researchers or boths if anything come out.
Microsoft does have an impressive research lab, particularly in maths and computer vision, but they tend to do applied research as well. I'm still waiting for a Fields medal to come out of Microsoft.
It is much much much easier to get into a European university than any American one. The tuition costs are much lower for a start. Good universities might be hard to get into academically but it's not the financial aspect that stops you.
I think it's not as simple as you make it. Few people are actually capable of thinking for themselves regarding all aspects of their lives. Some are very creative like artists or scientists. Does it mean they need to starve like in centuries pasts? Only business-minded people have the right to live? With the current system of shared responsibility, the US boasts the largest proportion of creative people in the history of mankind, and it shows. In spite of all its faults, people still want to live there.
The new deal ushered a more egalitarian era of tremendous wealth that culminated in the 50s and 60s, which the US is still riding right now. It's disingenuous at best to say the New Deal was a disaster. No one can say with certainty that a better result would have been achieved without it.
We are looking at history versus dogma here. When markets are allowed to run unchecked we also have Enron-like disasters and people who lose *all* of their savings.
For all its military might, the US cannot take on the world anymore. It might have in the late 40s when it was the sole nuclear power, but it's too late now.
The new weapon is the global economy but everybody is wielding it.
Look at Russia. It is trying to re-conquer its old empire, but I think it won't go far. The threat of economic hardships will stop it.
But for the US to crush the Japanese they had to declare war. Their was a very powerful isolationist movement at the time in the US, led by people like Charles Lindbergh, who thought the war in the Pacific and in Europe were none of their business. Some kind of outrage was necessary to spur the opinion into entering the war.
Also records show that Japan had intended to declare war hours before the attack, but unexpected administrative delays at the embassy caused the declaration of war to arrive too late.
FDR's action in WWII are well documented, but in my opinion he has nothing to be ashamed of. He made all the right decisions in my opinion. If the USA had not acted to enter the war quickly, they would have been facing a very powerful enemy in both Europe and Asia in short order.
FDR played his hand to manipulate the opinion, this is true, but he had a reasonable plan and had to act. Contrast that to Iraq and discuss.
Correct, Rome took more than a 1000 years to fall completely. At any point in time from the point of view of any individual things were probably looking just fine.
As I understand it, SOX (Sarbannes-Oxley) is just a records-keeping law: accounting information must be retained for at least 5 years to allow for forensic research in case of fraud. How is that impacting companies wanting to do research ?
That Nobel prize is one of the weirdest ever awarded. When Penzias and Wilson did their discovery in the mid-sixties they though their communication antenna had bugs. Only when they had tripled-checked everything did they publish their finding : a 3K isotropic radiation everywhere they pointed their antenna. They did not know what it meant. Others interpreted their results for them, but did not get to share the Nobel prize.
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And toxic, through the skin, like lead... It is also pyrophoric meaning it can catch fire !! Excellent idea ! It will also remind both of you of the waste laid out in Iraq and Kosovo thanks to anti-tank DU shells.
Receiving a bad part is good evidence of a faulty manufacturing process around the time of purchase, but maybe they had improved after that? Even great manufacturers go through bad patches : IBM (disks), Sony, Apple, etc. Usually the situation corrects itself or the company doesn't stay in business.
Under OS/X at least MS have the expertise to do that. They make Office of OS/X don't you know ?
What's up with the flamebait moderation? This is a serious query. I have had enough of virtualising, trying to run Wine or rebooting just to test a web site.
I they provided a version for either O/S I would definitely install it, if only for web design testing. I'm tired of rebooting or running IE in a VM (wasting 100s of MB of memory in the process).
Microsoft had a version of IE for OS/X and used to have one for Solaris, so it's not impossible.
Why? Have to actually tried ?
The GR effects are real but much weaker than those reported.
The half-life of Uranium 238 (5x10^9 years) will require some serious shortening.
And conversely AMD is being kept afloat by fundamental materials science research done at IBM.
In the case of US government and in particular the NSF, the "gold" is attributed on merit via peer review. The politicians don't look at it too much in my experience. That seems very reasonable.
By moral society he probably meant a society were social progress was at least a possibility. While the situation of women and african-americans was not good in the 50s and 60s it certainly improved a great deal in that period.
So Libertarianism is a nice utopia in other words. There is no continuous path from the current situation to a reasonable approximation of Libertarianism. The education question is a prime example.
Therefore, just like communism, it would require a revolution to implement libertarianism. Just like communism, the revolution would lose its purpose halfway through and True Libertarianism would never see the light of day. We would end up with a fascist-like dictatorship like in Chile.
In many countries where speaking of communism is not anathema, people still speak of it exactly in the same way you speak of Libertarianism. It's uncanny.
Per se it's not that important, it's easy to turn voltage into current and vice-versa.
The important bit was that valves cannot be shrunk, whereas the size of transistors have been shrinking in size regularly. Somebody even called it a law or something :-)
Pharmas don't do any basic research. Trust me I know. All basic research in pharmacology, physiology and medicine is done at university. Pharmas then buy the patents or hires the researchers or boths if anything come out.
Microsoft does have an impressive research lab, particularly in maths and computer vision, but they tend to do applied research as well. I'm still waiting for a Fields medal to come out of Microsoft.
Oil companies I don't know as much.
They do applied research but not basic one. The latter usually requires a very long lead time to fruition, which startups can't afford.
It is much much much easier to get into a European university than any American one. The tuition costs are much lower for a start. Good universities might be hard to get into academically but it's not the financial aspect that stops you.
I think it's not as simple as you make it. Few people are actually capable of thinking for themselves regarding all aspects of their lives. Some are very creative like artists or scientists. Does it mean they need to starve like in centuries pasts? Only business-minded people have the right to live? With the current system of shared responsibility, the US boasts the largest proportion of creative people in the history of mankind, and it shows. In spite of all its faults, people still want to live there.
The new deal ushered a more egalitarian era of tremendous wealth that culminated in the 50s and 60s, which the US is still riding right now. It's disingenuous at best to say the New Deal was a disaster. No one can say with certainty that a better result would have been achieved without it.
We are looking at history versus dogma here. When markets are allowed to run unchecked we also have Enron-like disasters and people who lose *all* of their savings.
For all its military might, the US cannot take on the world anymore. It might have in the late 40s when it was the sole nuclear power, but it's too late now.
The new weapon is the global economy but everybody is wielding it.
Look at Russia. It is trying to re-conquer its old empire, but I think it won't go far. The threat of economic hardships will stop it.
But for the US to crush the Japanese they had to declare war. Their was a very powerful isolationist movement at the time in the US, led by people like Charles Lindbergh, who thought the war in the Pacific and in Europe were none of their business. Some kind of outrage was necessary to spur the opinion into entering the war.
Also records show that Japan had intended to declare war hours before the attack, but unexpected administrative delays at the embassy caused the declaration of war to arrive too late.
FDR's action in WWII are well documented, but in my opinion he has nothing to be ashamed of. He made all the right decisions in my opinion. If the USA had not acted to enter the war quickly, they would have been facing a very powerful enemy in both Europe and Asia in short order.
FDR played his hand to manipulate the opinion, this is true, but he had a reasonable plan and had to act. Contrast that to Iraq and discuss.
Correct, Rome took more than a 1000 years to fall completely. At any point in time from the point of view of any individual things were probably looking just fine.
As I understand it, SOX (Sarbannes-Oxley) is just a records-keeping law: accounting information must be retained for at least 5 years to allow for forensic research in case of fraud. How is that impacting companies wanting to do research ?
This is very interesting : mod up !
That Nobel prize is one of the weirdest ever awarded. When Penzias and Wilson did their discovery in the mid-sixties they though their communication antenna had bugs. Only when they had tripled-checked everything did they publish their finding : a 3K isotropic radiation everywhere they pointed their antenna. They did not know what it meant. Others interpreted their results for them, but did not get to share the Nobel prize.
Can I have a version for Linux, or barring that, for OS/X so I might try it ? Thanks.