When I was in college a few years back, almost every prof was working on research products for the military. This means that the military is effectively paying stipends to a small army of grad students. When you add in things like the research that Lockheed and the such are doing (and funding), the military is in fact doing exactly what you are suggesting what it does. Most of the cost of all of those high end weapons is R&D, and when you get down to it, R&D dollars is paying some grad student somewhere to sit down and do research.
Considering that Brazil have had lots of hyperinflation in the past, and that the Real is seeing very high inflation right now, inflation is the last reason why you would want to hold Reals instead of dollars.
A cruise missile that blows up in another country leaves quite a bit in the US - the GPS technology that was developed to guide that missile can also guide you home when you are driving, the material science research done allows you to build more fuel efficient jets and cars, so on and so forth. Chances are, the current roll out of UAVs will mean much faster wireless tech coming down the pike.
It should be noted that the Chinese government never guaranteed rights like absolute free speech to its citizens. In theory, there are a lot of things that people not not allowed to say, and aside from that, they are allowed to say what they want. In reality, obviously, there is no such protection, but even in theory, the protections are quite weak.
Most of the computing was American. Yes, Turing did some cool stuff in the UK, but the stuff that would one day lead to computers (ENIAC and so forth) were all American.
Books can last that long. They usually don't. The average library throws out a large number of books every day. Most of the books thrown out are usually not very old. Also, storing and organizing the books are not cheap, neither is shipping them from branch to branch.
You know, there are entire markets and trillions of dollars devoted to betting on this stuff, and those markets say that it is more or less peachy. Feel free to bet against them if you like.
Different colored light can be compensated for easily in software. With good metering, even sharp lights isn't that big of a issue. The 3D nature of the human face and camera noise are probably the biggest issues, but noise is being dealt with in cameras (albeit slowly), and 3D nature of the human face doesn't fuck with a picture that much.
As soon as you figure out who the "Yanks" actually are. Hint: The average Brit is much more likely to be English then the average American is to be a Yank.
Not that we care, mind you. But the people in glass houses should try to throw less rocks.
Predictions are hard. There are a large number of extremely iconic companies that have failed in the past. How do you know that Exxon won't be one of them?
Abe Lincoln's actions to shut down rebel organizing in Maryland was quite dubious legally. If the internet kill switch existed in his day, he would certainly have used it.
We do have a system like that here in California. It is not working extremely well as the people just keep voting in spending increases while voting down tax increases.
Well, the 7900GT is also several years old. For example, the 9400 GT (the best video card that you can find in a netbook) perform at around 50% the power of a 7900GT. When you consider that the PSP will have far lower resolution, it doesn't seem unreasonable that the PSP will be able to feel more powerful on the graphics front, even if it may or may not actually be.
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When I was in college a few years back, almost every prof was working on research products for the military. This means that the military is effectively paying stipends to a small army of grad students. When you add in things like the research that Lockheed and the such are doing (and funding), the military is in fact doing exactly what you are suggesting what it does. Most of the cost of all of those high end weapons is R&D, and when you get down to it, R&D dollars is paying some grad student somewhere to sit down and do research.
On the other hand, it would give you an iron clad way to get out of any other false accursations.....
Remember, in a world with zero privacy, no one would ever be wrongfully prosecuted.
It is part of the LTE spec, which both AT&T and Verizon is rolling out.
Reals also have a rather high interest rate - everyone knows that inflation is high.....
Considering that Brazil have had lots of hyperinflation in the past, and that the Real is seeing very high inflation right now, inflation is the last reason why you would want to hold Reals instead of dollars.
A cruise missile that blows up in another country leaves quite a bit in the US - the GPS technology that was developed to guide that missile can also guide you home when you are driving, the material science research done allows you to build more fuel efficient jets and cars, so on and so forth. Chances are, the current roll out of UAVs will mean much faster wireless tech coming down the pike.
It should be noted that the Chinese government never guaranteed rights like absolute free speech to its citizens. In theory, there are a lot of things that people not not allowed to say, and aside from that, they are allowed to say what they want. In reality, obviously, there is no such protection, but even in theory, the protections are quite weak.
Most of the computing was American. Yes, Turing did some cool stuff in the UK, but the stuff that would one day lead to computers (ENIAC and so forth) were all American.
Massive corruption and profiteering. Early US history is hardly classified information.
Nov 11 is a holiday in most of the western world, as it is based on the ending of WWI in 11/11/1918.
Books can last that long. They usually don't. The average library throws out a large number of books every day. Most of the books thrown out are usually not very old. Also, storing and organizing the books are not cheap, neither is shipping them from branch to branch.
libraries are not cheap. It is probably cheaper to lend them the e reader then to maintain the stacks of books.
You know, there are entire markets and trillions of dollars devoted to betting on this stuff, and those markets say that it is more or less peachy. Feel free to bet against them if you like.
Different colored light can be compensated for easily in software. With good metering, even sharp lights isn't that big of a issue. The 3D nature of the human face and camera noise are probably the biggest issues, but noise is being dealt with in cameras (albeit slowly), and 3D nature of the human face doesn't fuck with a picture that much.
More importantly, if a human can do it, then it is possible to write a program to do the same.
As soon as you figure out who the "Yanks" actually are. Hint: The average Brit is much more likely to be English then the average American is to be a Yank.
Not that we care, mind you. But the people in glass houses should try to throw less rocks.
Tungsten is pretty close. You need a pretty precise tub of water and scale to tell the two apart that way.
Predictions are hard. There are a large number of extremely iconic companies that have failed in the past. How do you know that Exxon won't be one of them?
Japan, ROC, HK, Macau, Malaysia/Singapore/India and most of the commonwealth that went independent.
Abe Lincoln's actions to shut down rebel organizing in Maryland was quite dubious legally. If the internet kill switch existed in his day, he would certainly have used it.
Well, that ship's sailed a very long time ago. The first president to ram a bill though congress that banned sedition and revolution was John Adams.
We do have a system like that here in California. It is not working extremely well as the people just keep voting in spending increases while voting down tax increases.
The formal definition is for Turing machines, which was infinite storage.
Well, the 7900GT is also several years old. For example, the 9400 GT (the best video card that you can find in a netbook) perform at around 50% the power of a 7900GT. When you consider that the PSP will have far lower resolution, it doesn't seem unreasonable that the PSP will be able to feel more powerful on the graphics front, even if it may or may not actually be.
A quick wikipedia search will tell you that the Ares V plan on having a payload of 188000Kg, or about 6 times more.