If you think that is bad, I heard DARPA created a special computer network for the military too. I think it was designed to survive a nuclear attack. After reading this article and the one about the computer network, I've really come to dislike DARPA. If you ask me, DARPA should not waste their time working on such projects for the military. They should stick to peaceful things like autonomous vehicles capable of traveling over the desert alone.
DARPA is a branch of the military.
It's as if you are suggesting that the Pentagon stops dealing with war and stuff and start working on global warming...
Please get a clue.
Just because we import more than we export to China does not mean that our exports are unprofitable, quite the contrary.
Btw, are all the products that are shipped from China considered imports? In that case any electronic device etc that is produced by an American firm in China is considered an import? This by itself skews the trade deficit as from my naive perspective most of the money that americans pay for these "imported" goods go back to american companies/tax to the state etc. Of course I guess a big portion goes to chinese investors and the goverment too, but not all of it and I am guessing not even the most of it. Of course the obvious drawback is that american jobs are lost, yet american money may not be lost (just redistributed to the rich).
Can anybody who knows better give an answer to my question?
On the other hand. if you instead of spending your time playing VG's you spend it studying, working, reading an educational book, socializing with fun or interesing people, the benefits would far surpass the whatever skills these ppl claim you acquire.
I dont know about you, but personally I would rather get used to the idea of having a 9/11 once every 2-4 of years, than give away my real freedoms, not the ones advocated by our Texan Overlord.
Hell, I will ever risk my life and I would bare with the risk of having my kid becoming the victim of a pedofile than allowing those shady people to go through all our personal data (general pornography statistics my arse, google hold on there).
It is one of the most interesting aspects of the ww2 in Europe and Africa. Check out the role of Charles De Gaulle. And btw if for some reason you have not seen it yet, check out Casablanca the movie.
Long before we travel to the stars, we should be capable to "terraform" deserts (would you like a California-like Sahara?). Inhabit the poles, build huge artificial islands, efficiently utilize the energy and food resources of the oceans (remember Sea Quest?), build huge underwater cities, increase the average height of city buildings to something like 500 meters tall. Of course we would be already using renewable energy or cold fusion and most likely genetic engineering in agriculture will have solved any food shortages.
All these should happen long before we have huge "warp-driven" ships and planet-wide force fields... and would increase earth's capacity substantially.
What were the exact keywords this web site was trying to manipulate?
If it was simply "BMW Germany" then the whole deal is stupid as they would probably rank number 1 or 2 anyway. In the worst case number 1 perhaps being a high profile German retailer. If it was just BMW, then I don't see the point why the mother company would have such a big interest in surpassing a more popular BMW site, say BMW US. Obviously the US market is much larger and its language more accesible than the german one, and letting it ranking first is most likely good for the business.
On the other hand, if they were google bombing words like: "most reliable", car, "best car", safest, fastest, coolest whatever, then those mofos did deserve to be ranked down to google oblivion.
Cognitive radio is a concept very related to this discussion.
I googled a little about SDR and cognitive radio and came across some interesting paragraphs.
Short Definition of SDR: Software defined radios are making it possible to change waveform properties and applications while operating in the field via the addition or upgrade of software. For SDRs, reprogramming or upgrading a single radio or a radio network takes about as much effort as upgrading a computer's operating system or program options.
US Army interest : For its part, the U.S. Navy is likely to be the largest consumer of software defined radios with the military's Joint Tactical Radio System Initiative (JTRS) radios following closely behind. For the Navy, the software-based Digital Modular Radio (DMR) is replacing a roomful of radios with a single rack of DMRs. The DMR is a four-channel, full-duplex system that is essentially four radios in one. Currently operating on submarines and surface ships around the world, the DMR (AN/USC-61) is successfully demonstrating the viability of software defined radios on active duty.
Cognitive radio: The cognitive radio, as its name implies, builds on Software-defined radio to carry a level of cognition or intelligence that permits decision-making and learned patterns of behavior. According to IEEE, the cognitive radio is a radio transmitter/receiver that is designed to intelligently detect whether a particular segment of the radio spectrum is currently in use and to jump into (or out of) the temporarily-unused spectrum very rapidly without interfering with the transmissions of other users.
From official Greek sources, actually all high ranked officials have end-to-end encryption enabled handsets.
The problem is that many officials admitted that many times they do not use this feature because of the inconvenience, since both parties have to have them enabled. The same way we do not always enable gaim encyption even though we and I our geek friends went through the trouble to set it up once.
A number of Europeon countries were involved in the slave trade. Wealthy landowners in this country were buyers but the trade was actually Europeon in origin. Just find it odd that the US gets all the blame when the slavers were African and Europeon.
Yes I realize you hold the bad Europeans in contemn for "fixing" you on Africans, but can't you at least
learn how to spell it? How seriously would you take somebody who calls u an Ammerrikon?
They've a record of human rights violations, which is definitely evil by any stretch. I mean, shooting dead protesters and imprisoning and torturing people for speaking out - this is what Google is abetting a government to hide and keep away from its own citizens.
You forgot to mention charging the families of the dead protesters for the cost of the bullets used to kill them
(Tien-an-men incident). We must admit, at least this regime takes human rights volation to the next level by innovation.
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Genius!
Interesting. I think it deserves a mod up ...
The mattel acquarious could be programmed with BASIC? And you started programming when you were 6? WTF!
If you think that is bad, I heard DARPA created a special computer network for the military too. I think it was designed to survive a nuclear attack. After reading this article and the one about the computer network, I've really come to dislike DARPA. If you ask me, DARPA should not waste their time working on such projects for the military. They should stick to peaceful things like autonomous vehicles capable of traveling over the desert alone. DARPA is a branch of the military. It's as if you are suggesting that the Pentagon stops dealing with war and stuff and start working on global warming... Please get a clue.
3: Italy - FIAT I wouldn't call FIAT a neither a national or a "national" pride ...
If I see one more post about the /. effect on the site I will start screaming!
Just because we import more than we export to China does not mean that our exports are unprofitable, quite the contrary.
Btw, are all the products that are shipped from China considered imports? In that case any electronic device etc that is produced by an American firm in China is considered an import? This by itself skews the trade deficit as from my naive perspective most of the money that americans pay for these "imported" goods go back to american companies/tax to the state etc. Of course I guess a big portion goes to chinese investors and the goverment too, but not all of it and I am guessing not even the most of it. Of course the obvious drawback is that american jobs are lost, yet american money may not be lost (just redistributed to the rich).
Can anybody who knows better give an answer to my question?
May I add that in the US you may get shot by the vice president himself. That my friends is opression!
"I always thought the easiest way to smuggle in a nuke would be to bring it in through Miami hidden in a bale of cocaine."
...
I thought it was through a smuggler underground tunnel from Tijuana
What are you doing in /. ?
Who created your simulator-building God?
On the other hand. if you instead of spending your time playing VG's you spend it studying, working, reading an educational book, socializing with fun or interesing people, the benefits would far surpass the whatever skills these ppl claim you acquire.
...)
(Not to mention the increased number of opportunities to meet chicks, unless of course you are this guy
http://media.putfile.com/PurePwnage-WoWisafeeling
I am waiting for the "man fired for reading \." article ...
Cynicism alert:
I dont know about you, but personally I would rather get used to the idea of having a 9/11 once every 2-4 of years, than give away my real freedoms, not the ones advocated by our Texan Overlord.
Hell, I will ever risk my life and I would bare with the risk of having my kid becoming the victim of a pedofile than allowing those shady people to go through all our personal data (general pornography statistics my arse, google hold on there).
I agree. Those who don't know much about WWII France checkout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_French_Forces. It is by fat the most consise, accurate and coherent short description of what happened. There are plenty of other good references but this one is shorter.
It is one of the most interesting aspects of the ww2 in Europe and Africa. Check out the role of Charles De Gaulle. And btw if for some reason you have not seen it yet, check out Casablanca the movie.
By the time it gets stable in the Fedora repositories, we will be talking about FC 15.
Seriously any idea when I will be able to yum those xGL rpms?
Long before we travel to the stars, we should be capable to "terraform" deserts (would you like a California-like Sahara?). Inhabit the poles, build huge artificial islands, efficiently utilize the energy and food resources of the oceans (remember Sea Quest?), build huge underwater cities, increase the average height of city buildings to something like 500 meters tall. Of course we would be already using renewable energy or cold fusion and most likely genetic engineering in agriculture will have solved any food shortages.
All these should happen long before we have huge "warp-driven" ships and planet-wide force fields... and would increase earth's capacity substantially.
haha good one dude. Hope you get mod up :)
What were the exact keywords this web site was trying to manipulate?
If it was simply "BMW Germany" then the whole deal is stupid as they would probably rank number 1 or 2 anyway. In the worst case number 1 perhaps being a high profile German retailer. If it was just BMW, then I don't see the point why the mother company would have such a big interest in surpassing a more popular BMW site, say BMW US. Obviously the US market is much larger and its language more accesible than the german one, and letting it ranking first is most likely good for the business.
On the other hand, if they were google bombing words like: "most reliable", car, "best car", safest, fastest, coolest whatever, then those mofos did deserve to be ranked down to google oblivion.
Cognitive radio is a concept very related to this discussion. I googled a little about SDR and cognitive radio and came across some interesting paragraphs. Short Definition of SDR: Software defined radios are making it possible to change waveform properties and applications while operating in the field via the addition or upgrade of software. For SDRs, reprogramming or upgrading a single radio or a radio network takes about as much effort as upgrading a computer's operating system or program options. US Army interest : For its part, the U.S. Navy is likely to be the largest consumer of software defined radios with the military's Joint Tactical Radio System Initiative (JTRS) radios following closely behind. For the Navy, the software-based Digital Modular Radio (DMR) is replacing a roomful of radios with a single rack of DMRs. The DMR is a four-channel, full-duplex system that is essentially four radios in one. Currently operating on submarines and surface ships around the world, the DMR (AN/USC-61) is successfully demonstrating the viability of software defined radios on active duty. Cognitive radio: The cognitive radio, as its name implies, builds on Software-defined radio to carry a level of cognition or intelligence that permits decision-making and learned patterns of behavior. According to IEEE, the cognitive radio is a radio transmitter/receiver that is designed to intelligently detect whether a particular segment of the radio spectrum is currently in use and to jump into (or out of) the temporarily-unused spectrum very rapidly without interfering with the transmissions of other users.
From official Greek sources, actually all high ranked officials have end-to-end encryption enabled handsets. The problem is that many officials admitted that many times they do not use this feature because of the inconvenience, since both parties have to have them enabled. The same way we do not always enable gaim encyption even though we and I our geek friends went through the trouble to set it up once.
I for one welcome our new avian-borg overlords
A number of Europeon countries were involved in the slave trade.
Wealthy landowners in this country were buyers but the trade was actually Europeon in origin. Just find it odd that the US gets all the blame when the slavers were African and Europeon.
Yes I realize you hold the bad Europeans in contemn for "fixing" you on Africans, but can't you at least learn how to spell it? How seriously would you take somebody who calls u an Ammerrikon?
They've a record of human rights violations, which is definitely evil by any stretch. I mean, shooting dead protesters and imprisoning and torturing people for speaking out - this is what Google is abetting a government to hide and keep away from its own citizens. You forgot to mention charging the families of the dead protesters for the cost of the bullets used to kill them (Tien-an-men incident). We must admit, at least this regime takes human rights volation to the next level by innovation.
1986, they year of Challenger and Chernobil. Oh the good old days ....