Actually parenthood grows on you. Your kids and other people's kids are not the same thing at all. I hated initially taking care of my eldest but now I love it.
Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme. It has worked perennially since the 1930s. It only requires the proportion of active workers and retiree to be roughly constant.
Experience shows that even smart people typically underestimate what is required for a self-funded retirement.
Not the only one, France is one other exception : +0.5% for 2008. France has highly subsidised early childhood care, it accounts for over 2% of the GDP.
And in the case of Google, if they make less profit, it doesn't really matter that much. It only cuts their ability to make poor business decisions like overpriced acquisitions.
Being good value for money for an employer has often little to do with how "hard" people work. I'd take a happy, efficient, clear thinking dad over any youngster with no perspective and who think they are smarter than everybody else. Besides, over about 45h a week for long periods, productivity goes way down.
(1) the kids raised by your co-workers will one day pay for your retirement (2) co-workers with a happy and stress-free family life are much more efficient at their jobs. (3) your salary isn't actually lower. The shareholders make that investment, not you.
Most of the code in question is tremendously useful for running Linux as a server in a mac client environment. This is not trivial or insignificant to my mind.
Regarding Apple's contribution with Objective-C, they did much more than the bare minimum. It is easy and recommended to replace the Apple compiler with the stock GCC version. Objective-C in gcc is well-maintained and AFAIK Apple is still contributing.
Your assessment of Apple's outsourcing politics is correct up to a point : all US companies are also outsourcing like crazy. As if Google, Microsoft, IBM, etal weren't doing it:-) I think there are still jobs in the US.
Like it or not, IT in the US or West in general is slowly but surely going the way of heavy industry. At the more global scale, there are very positive side-effects to the whole world getting richer rather than a selected few, such as more peace and less hunger to start with.
The days of dogfighting with the US are probably mostly over for the time being because the enemies with similar capabilities are all nuclear powers. Pretty quickly a conflict with them would likely escalate.
However proxy wars or raids like a possible Iran-Israel or India-Pakistan would probably see some dogfights.
If the US airforce suddenly converted en masse to drones it would simply be without any dogfighting capacity. Your assertion that current or even next generation drones can dogfight better than manned aircraft is incorrect. Potentially yes, currently no.
The US has done very little dogfighting in wars since Vietnam because it has been excellent historically at maintaining air superiority, and also its enemies have been rather weak in the air. However in Vietnam it wasn't so clear cut for a while.
The US army (navy, airforce etc) is geared towards fighting a modern war against a well-equipped enemy. It hasn't fought these wars because it's been too good at it. However it cannot drop its guard without consequences.
Good luck to Psystar, they will need it. Given the current state of copyright their fight is probably not going to pan out well. They may have very little to lose though: at worst they will simply go bankrupt, and at best they might crack an interesting nut.
I'm wondering why Apple did not make it much harder to install OS/X on non-Apple hardware : DRM, magic useless piece of hardware, etc. Surely that would not cost more than a few cents per machine and a trivial amount of software development. Are they really so greedy? Did they want to have their day in court about their concept of copyright?
However, even though I'm typing this on Apple hardware, I think Apple needs some reminders that they cannot simply ride the cheap commodity hardware wave like any old PC maker without giving anything back. At least align their price to something more reasonable than they are now.
I'm not much of a fanboi, but Apple contributed a few interesting things to OSS, used today in most Linux distributions :
- the Objective-C front-end to GCC, essential to GNUStep - Bonjour (aka Rendez-Vous), although most distributions have switched to Avahi. - Lots of patches to konqueror's back end (the same as Safari) - Darwin, by itself quite significant and in particular allowed the development of the hfs+ driver in Linux.
You are speaking from inexperience. It is quite feasible to do an internship in the US, it involves a lot less hassle than is commonly believed. Usually I manage to get one or two of my students in the US for 6-9 months every year. The paperwork is never the issue.
That's potentially. Right now drones are itty bitty things with props, meant for long times in the air essentially for surveillance.
Dogfighting requires situation awareness that is very difficult to achieve in a drone. One big problem is image throughput and controller display. It's not an unsolvable problem but it would cost a lot right now.
On the other hand, dogfighting is a rare occurrence in modern wars. I don't think there were even one instance in Iraq. I think the F-14 did dogfighting in anger exactly twice in its entire career with the US Navy (a lot more in the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s, of course).
This is not absurd, this is the simple truth. The US have bombed more countries in the second half of the 20th century than all other countries combined, including China, the USSR and Nazi Germany.
Most of the really damaging wars until today have been land wars involving invasion. You need to come via neighbouring nations to get that, i.e. Canada and Mexico in the case of the US. In the last 200 years I think the US did come to some grief via these two nations.
Today this is unlikely. However the US still continues to police the world in its favour, just like old colonial powers used to do. I'm not sure this is mandated anymore.
What is surprising is how much the US continues to openly favour outright military action to softer options. The former is more expensive and creates more enemies than the latter and it can be argued, in the case of Iraq and others that it is sometime spectacularly counter-productive. Essentially 9/11 is blowback from former US foreign actions.
In that light the effectiveness of the US military is very much opened to debate.
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So, after all you *can* be sued for choosing microsoft :-)
Actually parenthood grows on you. Your kids and other people's kids are not the same thing at all. I hated initially taking care of my eldest but now I love it.
Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme. It has worked perennially since the 1930s. It only requires the proportion of active workers and retiree to be roughly constant.
Experience shows that even smart people typically underestimate what is required for a self-funded retirement.
Not the only one, France is one other exception : +0.5% for 2008. France has highly subsidised early childhood care, it accounts for over 2% of the GDP.
Oh, don't worry, most men don't like smart women either.
If you want to trust your old age to a robotic minder then all power to you. By the time you need it, it may or may not available though.
I agree for the stress levels, but I'm not sure about the productivity :-)
And in the case of Google, if they make less profit, it doesn't really matter that much. It only cuts their ability to make poor business decisions like overpriced acquisitions.
Being good value for money for an employer has often little to do with how "hard" people work. I'd take a happy, efficient, clear thinking dad over any youngster with no perspective and who think they are smarter than everybody else. Besides, over about 45h a week for long periods, productivity goes way down.
But that's just me and my business.
Because
(1) the kids raised by your co-workers will one day pay for your retirement
(2) co-workers with a happy and stress-free family life are much more efficient at their jobs.
(3) your salary isn't actually lower. The shareholders make that investment, not you.
Do you actually have kids ?
Intel is currently very good at releasing specs for their 3D hardware.
So God it only a thought experiment, then?
Most of the code in question is tremendously useful for running Linux as a server in a mac client environment. This is not trivial or insignificant to my mind.
Regarding Apple's contribution with Objective-C, they did much more than the bare minimum. It is easy and recommended to replace the Apple compiler with the stock GCC version. Objective-C in gcc is well-maintained and AFAIK Apple is still contributing.
Your assessment of Apple's outsourcing politics is correct up to a point : all US companies are also outsourcing like crazy. As if Google, Microsoft, IBM, etal weren't doing it :-) I think there are still jobs in the US.
Like it or not, IT in the US or West in general is slowly but surely going the way of heavy industry. At the more global scale, there are very positive side-effects to the whole world getting richer rather than a selected few, such as more peace and less hunger to start with.
Now yes, then no. With the Navy the cat was it for dogfighting. Note that the Phoenix was never used in war.
The days of dogfighting with the US are probably mostly over for the time being because the enemies with similar capabilities are all nuclear powers. Pretty quickly a conflict with them would likely escalate.
However proxy wars or raids like a possible Iran-Israel or India-Pakistan would probably see some dogfights.
Still, this drone cannot survive an encounter with just about any kind of fighter, or even a well-aimed SAM. It is not meant for it.
This does not compute.
If the US airforce suddenly converted en masse to drones it would simply be without any dogfighting capacity. Your assertion that current or even next generation drones can dogfight better than manned aircraft is incorrect. Potentially yes, currently no.
The US has done very little dogfighting in wars since Vietnam because it has been excellent historically at maintaining air superiority, and also its enemies have been rather weak in the air. However in Vietnam it wasn't so clear cut for a while.
The US army (navy, airforce etc) is geared towards fighting a modern war against a well-equipped enemy. It hasn't fought these wars because it's been too good at it. However it cannot drop its guard without consequences.
Good luck to Psystar, they will need it. Given the current state of copyright their fight is probably not going to pan out well. They may have very little to lose though: at worst they will simply go bankrupt, and at best they might crack an interesting nut.
I'm wondering why Apple did not make it much harder to install OS/X on non-Apple hardware : DRM, magic useless piece of hardware, etc. Surely that would not cost more than a few cents per machine and a trivial amount of software development. Are they really so greedy? Did they want to have their day in court about their concept of copyright?
However, even though I'm typing this on Apple hardware, I think Apple needs some reminders that they cannot simply ride the cheap commodity hardware wave like any old PC maker without giving anything back. At least align their price to something more reasonable than they are now.
I'm not much of a fanboi, but Apple contributed a few interesting things to OSS, used today in most Linux distributions :
- the Objective-C front-end to GCC, essential to GNUStep
- Bonjour (aka Rendez-Vous), although most distributions have switched to Avahi.
- Lots of patches to konqueror's back end (the same as Safari)
- Darwin, by itself quite significant and in particular allowed the development of the hfs+ driver in Linux.
There are other examples.
No, gravity is a name for a fact of nature (there exists a force that pulls you and every massive object towards the centre of the Earth).
Newton's and Einstein's are two different theories that predict the behaviour of this phenomenon, neither being completely correct.
Newton's theory supposes a force field that implies infinite propagation speed for gravitation, which is not consistent with observation.
We already know that Einstein's General Theory of Gravitation (GRT) is not completely correct because it is not consistent with Quantum Theory.
Even the religions that say that an omnipotent being does not exist?
You are speaking from inexperience. It is quite feasible to do an internship in the US, it involves a lot less hassle than is commonly believed. Usually I manage to get one or two of my students in the US for 6-9 months every year. The paperwork is never the issue.
That's potentially. Right now drones are itty bitty things with props, meant for long times in the air essentially for surveillance.
Dogfighting requires situation awareness that is very difficult to achieve in a drone. One big problem is image throughput and controller display. It's not an unsolvable problem but it would cost a lot right now.
On the other hand, dogfighting is a rare occurrence in modern wars. I don't think there were even one instance in Iraq. I think the F-14 did dogfighting in anger exactly twice in its entire career with the US Navy (a lot more in the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s, of course).
This is not absurd, this is the simple truth. The US have bombed more countries in the second half of the 20th century than all other countries combined, including China, the USSR and Nazi Germany.
Most of the really damaging wars until today have been land wars involving invasion. You need to come via neighbouring nations to get that, i.e. Canada and Mexico in the case of the US. In the last 200 years I think the US did come to some grief via these two nations.
Today this is unlikely. However the US still continues to police the world in its favour, just like old colonial powers used to do. I'm not sure this is mandated anymore.
What is surprising is how much the US continues to openly favour outright military action to softer options. The former is more expensive and creates more enemies than the latter and it can be argued, in the case of Iraq and others that it is sometime spectacularly counter-productive. Essentially 9/11 is blowback from former US foreign actions.
In that light the effectiveness of the US military is very much opened to debate.