First off, as an aside, we aren't giving the Chinese money for nothing. They are giving us product in return. We keep the benefit of that product forever. Even if it's a toy that helps in child development. The lower cost screwdriver may allow you to live in a better house.
More importantly, the money isn't gone forever. You seem to believe that we will never be able to offer anything the Chinese would ever want. That's just basically false. They are buying stuff from us like airplanes, construction equipment, entertainment, and high tech stuff. Even though they have 1.3 billion people, they still cannot and never will be able to make *everything* they would ever want. It's basically defeatist to say the Chinese won't want anything we can make. How does Germany have a trade surplus with China? Germans buy nearly as much stuff per capita from China as Americans.. yet they are consistent with a trade surplus with China. That's because Germans have figured out what Chinese want to buy and they are selling to them. China gets a lot of its machinery from Germany. Germany doesn't have tariffs on China and it does robust trade two ways.
We are going to put tariffs on imports? That will not help the economy. It won't help anyone.
Products will get more expensive for people who have money and incomes today. If we forcefully bring manufacturing jobs back here, it means that workers and business owners have to pay extra for goods due to the salaries of the workers in those jobs.
I mean, we have 90 million people not working today of which only about 20 million can probably work -- maybe even less. The rest are either too young, students, disabled, or old.
So we are going to put that 20 million to work, by paying $10 for a screwdriver instead of $5? By paying $300 for a phone that may cost only $200 today?
From the perspective of an income earner isn't that worse than being taxed and having a portion of the tax go towards welfare for the unemployed?
The advantage of giving someone welfare over paying them to do unnecessary work is that the person on welfare would have time to learn new skills plus you lose the overhead costs. And yes if someone or something else can do my work more efficiently then my work is by definition unnecessary.
The remote console needs a display. For my (and I am sure many others) IoT device to be viable it needs to have the touchscreen display cost under $10. Get it done using a robot.
How about getting the price of a 7 inch display down to under $10.. then I would be impressed. There is the raspberry pi Zero for $5.. yay impressed. But how can it be used without a display? Even for many IoT type stuff, displays need to be cheap.
Maybe he would return if our prison system focused on rehabilitation rather than abuse and over-revenge without any regard to the fact that released prisoners are angrier, less remorseful, and more evil? Maybe he would return if the prosecutors saw the justice system as something other than a game they must win?
Why would anyone subject themselves or anyone else to our justice and prison system? Why would anyone subject anyone besides the worst violent criminals to it? It doesn't do anything but further scramble the criminal mind.
Every car needs to allow its audio to be interrupted by emergency vehicles. I mean what happens when there are level 4 or 5 autonomous vehicles? They will need to recognize and pull over when they see flashing lights approaching or hear sirens. Non-autonomous cars can have the same sensors built on the outside to detect emergency vehicles and when it detects an emergency vehicle it should reduce volumes to a reasonable level and maybe say "emergency vehicle approaching from behind".
Honesty in the sense of always telling the truth is no virtue. Just because you tell the truth doesn't mean you are a good person. It just means you aren't too worried about consequences.. either out of stupidity or because you possess a large amount of power.
Yes I have known about this -- thats why I am strongly in favor of nuclear fusion and cheapening solar energy research so we can detox the atmosphere. But the problem is that generating fuel from atmospheric, algae, or plant sources will be more expensive than opening a valve on a pipe stuck the ground until we actually run out of oil which may take hundreds of years.
People will always choose the cheapest alternative.
We can come up with cheap ways to generate electricity.. but we also need a better way to store it. Unless we can fit a fusion reactor inside a car (not foreseeable) or allow nuclear fission based RTGs (formerly used in space probes) in vehicles (good luck getting the DMV to approve that).
We still don't have batteries! I'm serious I forgot to buy some at Safeway the other day.
No well seriously, we don't have batteries that can enable us to replace gasoline. We need to improve capacity at least 4x, if not 10x.
Some say the answer is Lithium-Air batteries.. but then hardly anyone is doing any research on order-of-magnitude battery technology improvement.. let alone Lithium Air. Whoever is doing research on new battery concept has virtually no funding. The ones getting slight funding are the people working on incremental updates.
We need companies like Tesla, Google, Apple, Samsung, Panasonic to get serious in funding a foundation or institute that researches advanced battery concepts. Battery research funding budget should be in the billions not thousand.
Pop culture? Seriously? Apparently we are willing to pay more and more for moral degradation and the promotion of selfishness. Have we no shame? Anyway, I'm glad there's someone out there making money off it. What a great contribution to the world and all of humanity you have made, Mr. Iovine. If not to the world, at least yourself. That oughta be worth something.
How is it questionable? What a frail attempt at discrediting my factual statements. Which of my statements is provably false? Are you saying Philips did not invent kinetic scrolling on a touchscreen before Apple? Just google it. Are you saying the myOrigo phone didnt have landscape/portrait mode switching? Again, google it.. you'll see many old articles reviewing that phone.
Check the dates on any of the ideas or inventions I listed.
Forgot to mention also stealing their stealing of the fingerprint authentication idea from Motorola. I feel like that is pretty significant. What did Motorola get for that?
Finger scrolling on a touchscreen --- Stolen from IBM, US Patent 6278443 Kinetic scrolling on a touchscreen -- Stolen from Philips Magnetic connector -- Stolen from Japanese appliance manufacturer Landscape/portrait mode change based on phone orientation -- Stolen from the touchscreen myOrigo phone made in Finland Browser Task switcher look & feel -- Stolen from Nokia Large touchscreen phone idea -- stolen from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
That's not mentioning the wholesale lifting of the idea of cell phones, smartphones, and apps from Motorola, Blackberry, and others.
I am a big proponent of Universal Basic Income. But the more I think about it, the more likely it is that automation will actually create more jobs than deplete them --especially for the educated. Humans have yet to colonize the planets and space. If manual labor is automated, we can focus more on building better homes, better architecture, colonizing space, educating ourselves in the sciences and in philosophy. There WILL be jobs in all these areas. There is no technology that depleted jobs. The calculator didn't deplete accountant or mathematician jobs. AutoCAD didn't make the engineer obsolete. The backhoe didn't eliminate the ditch digger's job. It helped us build more roads. You still need someone to decide how wide the road should be, you still needed someone to drive the backhoe. If the backhoe is automated we will be able to build roads and canals in the deserts of the would. We could build solar or nuclear powered desalination plants. We could irrigate the Sahara desert. We could build housing, schools, nursing homes, hospitals. You are telling me that wouldn't create jobs? We still have millennia ahead of us in terms of what we can do just in the solar system. The only danger is that willfully uneducated people -- people with no desire to investigate and learn anything will get in power.
I do fear the rise of the willfully uneducated masses whose selfish emotion biased opinions will rule. I hope I am wrong about the educated population depleting, and maybe all humans will be motivated to participate in learning.
Apple patented magnetic connectors which Japanese appliance manufacturers had been doing for years. The Japanese had been putting magnetic connectors on Rice Cookers, Toasters, and Irons for a few years, then Apple patented the idea of putting using it on a laptop.
In the early 90s, IBM had patented finger scrolling web pages on touchscreen monitors. Apple filed for a patent on finger scrolling on a touchscreen only smartphone display and got it.
My suggestion is that someone patent the idea of putting magnetic connectors on a laptop that contains an ultra high resolution screen or more than 2 TB of SSD.
I can prove that in 2005 (two years before the iPhone launched) I stated on slashdot that touchscreen phones with large displays would sell. Needless to say everyone thought it was a dumb idea, except maybe Steve Jobs. âhttp://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=163341&cid=13644457â
I am still waiting for my check from Apple and Samsung.
Umm this would be really profitable for dentists for two teasons:
1. It doesn't prevent cavities. A steady stream of customers is guaranteed. 2. It involves installing a micro-sponge. Did you think they would do it for free?
No it means what that person actually has a high ethical standard for what should be patentable. Just because an idea is slightly new or unique doesn't mean it deserves to stifle up the industry with a 20 year monopoly. Just because you are the first to see a customer need for something doesn't mean someone else wouldn't have also come up with the same thing within a year or two. The only reason patents are handed out by the government is to enable progress in the "useful arts".. so I am not sure that patenting any and every slightly unique idea is going do that.
The raspberry pi is $29 without a keyboard, mouse, or monitor. Why the fuck are displays so fucking expensive? Someone needs to figure out how to produce them dirt cheap. We need a 10x price reduction in the cost of displays. Maybe OLEDs will provide that path?
I havent thought about it, but I feel like maybe such an orbit is possible at least temporarily if there are multiple influencing bodies synchronized exactly or the weight distribution of the thing being orbited was a certain way.
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No, it won't leave America forever.
First off, as an aside, we aren't giving the Chinese money for nothing. They are giving us product in return. We keep the benefit of that product forever. Even if it's a toy that helps in child development. The lower cost screwdriver may allow you to live in a better house.
More importantly, the money isn't gone forever. You seem to believe that we will never be able to offer anything the Chinese would ever want. That's just basically false. They are buying stuff from us like airplanes, construction equipment, entertainment, and high tech stuff. Even though they have 1.3 billion people, they still cannot and never will be able to make *everything* they would ever want. It's basically defeatist to say the Chinese won't want anything we can make. How does Germany have a trade surplus with China? Germans buy nearly as much stuff per capita from China as Americans .. yet they are consistent with a trade surplus with China. That's because Germans have figured out what Chinese want to buy and they are selling to them. China gets a lot of its machinery from Germany. Germany doesn't have tariffs on China and it does robust trade two ways.
We are going to put tariffs on imports? That will not help the economy. It won't help anyone.
Products will get more expensive for people who have money and incomes today. If we forcefully bring manufacturing jobs back here, it means that workers and business owners have to pay extra for goods due to the salaries of the workers in those jobs.
I mean, we have 90 million people not working today of which only about 20 million can probably work -- maybe even less. The rest are either too young, students, disabled, or old.
So we are going to put that 20 million to work, by paying $10 for a screwdriver instead of $5? By paying $300 for a phone that may cost only $200 today?
From the perspective of an income earner isn't that worse than being taxed and having a portion of the tax go towards welfare for the unemployed?
The advantage of giving someone welfare over paying them to do unnecessary work is that the person on welfare would have time to learn new skills plus you lose the overhead costs. And yes if someone or something else can do my work more efficiently then my work is by definition unnecessary.
The remote console needs a display. For my (and I am sure many others) IoT device to be viable it needs to have the touchscreen display cost under $10. Get it done using a robot.
How about getting the price of a 7 inch display down to under $10 .. then I would be impressed. There is the raspberry pi Zero for $5 .. yay impressed. But how can it be used without a display? Even for many IoT type stuff, displays need to be cheap.
Unless you are in the 99.999% of species that went extinct.
Maybe he would return if our prison system focused on rehabilitation rather than abuse and over-revenge without any regard to the fact that released prisoners are angrier, less remorseful, and more evil?
Maybe he would return if the prosecutors saw the justice system as something other than a game they must win?
Why would anyone subject themselves or anyone else to our justice and prison system? Why would anyone subject anyone besides the worst violent criminals to it? It doesn't do anything but further scramble the criminal mind.
Tesla's safety record makes your crude joke fall flat.
Every car needs to allow its audio to be interrupted by emergency vehicles. I mean what happens when there are level 4 or 5 autonomous vehicles? They will need to recognize and pull over when they see flashing lights approaching or hear sirens. Non-autonomous cars can have the same sensors built on the outside to detect emergency vehicles and when it detects an emergency vehicle it should reduce volumes to a reasonable level
and maybe say "emergency vehicle approaching from behind".
Honesty in the sense of always telling the truth is no virtue. Just because you tell the truth doesn't mean you are a good person. It just means you aren't too worried about consequences .. either out of stupidity or because you possess a large amount of power.
Yes I have known about this -- thats why I am strongly in favor of nuclear fusion and cheapening solar energy research so we can detox the atmosphere.
But the problem is that generating fuel from atmospheric, algae, or plant sources will be more expensive than opening a valve on a pipe stuck the ground until we actually run out of oil which may take hundreds of years.
People will always choose the cheapest alternative.
We can come up with cheap ways to generate electricity .. but we also need a better way to store it. Unless we can fit a fusion reactor inside a car (not foreseeable) or allow nuclear fission based RTGs (formerly used in space probes) in vehicles (good luck getting the DMV to approve that).
We still don't have batteries! I'm serious I forgot to buy some at Safeway the other day.
No well seriously, we don't have batteries that can enable us to replace gasoline. We need to improve capacity at least 4x, if not 10x.
Some say the answer is Lithium-Air batteries .. but then hardly anyone is doing any research on order-of-magnitude battery technology improvement .. let alone Lithium Air. Whoever is doing research on new battery concept has virtually no funding. The ones getting slight funding are the people working on incremental updates.
We need companies like Tesla, Google, Apple, Samsung, Panasonic to get serious in funding a foundation or institute that researches advanced battery concepts. Battery research funding budget should be in the billions not thousand.
Pop culture? Seriously? Apparently we are willing to pay more and more for moral degradation and the promotion of selfishness. Have we no shame? Anyway, I'm glad there's someone out there making money off it. What a great contribution to the world and all of humanity you have made, Mr. Iovine. If not to the world, at least yourself. That oughta be worth something.
The thinking people of the world have failed.
How is it questionable? What a frail attempt at discrediting my factual statements. Which of my statements is provably false? Are you saying Philips did not invent kinetic scrolling on a touchscreen before Apple? Just google it. Are you saying the myOrigo phone didnt have landscape/portrait mode switching? Again, google it .. you'll see many old articles reviewing that phone.
Check the dates on any of the ideas or inventions I listed.
Forgot to mention also stealing their stealing of the fingerprint authentication idea from Motorola. I feel like that is pretty significant. What did Motorola get for that?
Finger scrolling on a touchscreen --- Stolen from IBM, US Patent 6278443
Kinetic scrolling on a touchscreen -- Stolen from Philips
Magnetic connector -- Stolen from Japanese appliance manufacturer
Landscape/portrait mode change based on phone orientation -- Stolen from the touchscreen myOrigo phone made in Finland
Browser Task switcher look & feel -- Stolen from Nokia
Large touchscreen phone idea -- stolen from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
That's not mentioning the wholesale lifting of the idea of cell phones, smartphones, and apps from Motorola, Blackberry, and others.
I am a big proponent of Universal Basic Income. But the more I think about it, the more likely it is that automation will actually create more jobs than deplete them --especially for the educated. Humans have yet to colonize the planets and space. If manual labor is automated, we can focus more on building better homes, better architecture, colonizing space, educating ourselves in the sciences and in philosophy. There WILL be jobs in all these areas. There is no technology that depleted jobs. The calculator didn't deplete accountant or mathematician jobs. AutoCAD didn't make the engineer obsolete. The backhoe didn't eliminate the ditch digger's job. It helped us build more roads. You still need someone to decide how wide the road should be, you still needed someone to drive the backhoe. If the backhoe is automated we will be able to build roads and canals in the deserts of the would. We could build solar or nuclear powered desalination plants. We could irrigate the Sahara desert. We could build housing, schools, nursing homes, hospitals. You are telling me that wouldn't create jobs? We still have millennia ahead of us in terms of what we can do just in the solar system. The only danger is that willfully uneducated people -- people with no desire to investigate and learn anything will get in power.
I do fear the rise of the willfully uneducated masses whose selfish emotion biased opinions will rule. I hope I am wrong about the educated population depleting, and maybe all humans will be motivated to participate in learning.
Apple patented magnetic connectors which Japanese appliance manufacturers had been doing for years. The Japanese had been putting magnetic connectors on Rice Cookers, Toasters, and Irons for a few years, then Apple patented the idea of putting using it on a laptop.
In the early 90s, IBM had patented finger scrolling web pages on touchscreen monitors. Apple filed for a patent on finger scrolling on a touchscreen only smartphone display and got it.
My suggestion is that someone patent the idea of putting magnetic connectors on a laptop that contains an ultra high resolution screen or more than 2 TB of SSD.
I can prove that in 2005 (two years before the iPhone launched) I stated on slashdot that touchscreen phones with large displays would sell. Needless to say everyone thought it was a dumb idea, except maybe Steve Jobs. âhttp://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=163341&cid=13644457â
I am still waiting for my check from Apple and Samsung.
Umm this would be really profitable for dentists for two teasons:
1. It doesn't prevent cavities. A steady stream of customers is guaranteed.
2. It involves installing a micro-sponge. Did you think they would do it for free?
I will install it in my fusion energy powered level 5 autonomous flying car so I can watch a movie on my way to the Spaceport.
No it means what that person actually has a high ethical standard for what should be patentable. Just because an idea is slightly new or unique doesn't mean it deserves to stifle up the industry with a 20 year monopoly. Just because you are the first to see a customer need for something doesn't mean someone else wouldn't have also come up with the same thing within a year or two. The only reason patents are handed out by the government is to enable progress in the "useful arts" .. so I am not sure that patenting any and every slightly unique idea is going do that.
It can't do x86 win64 apps. It can only run 32 bit x86 windows applications. That makes it useless. Who is going to run 32 bit autocad? LOL.
Wow I failed at basic logic. The tape has to go on the side not at the bottom obviously.
Get some black tape and stick a strip across the bottom of your monitor. There now you can stop crying cause you just got a 16x10 monitor.
You might want to move the icons dock to the side.
The raspberry pi is $29 without a keyboard, mouse, or monitor. Why the fuck are displays so fucking expensive? Someone needs to figure out how to produce them dirt cheap. We need a 10x price reduction in the cost of displays. Maybe OLEDs will provide that path?
I havent thought about it, but I feel like maybe such an orbit is possible at least temporarily if there are multiple influencing bodies synchronized exactly or the weight distribution of the thing being orbited was a certain way.