Posts by Spongebob 10 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Feb 2011
I worked on a Stock-Exchange system and I can tell you well-qualified engineers took their time to do it correctly. It was done in C++ and Cobol on Solaris and VMS, but it could also have been done in Delphi by these people, because they would not fear hacking a kernel or using FPGAs, if really necessary.
Not everybody is as incompetent as LSE.
..are creations of USG. The first by Bell Labs, the second grew in the Signal Corps (Bill Hewlett) and after that from lots of USG electronics work in aircraft, Radar and radios. All the killtech had to be tested and HP was happy to supply high-end gear for that.
Then Dave Packard was Deputy Secretary of Defense for a few years during the Vietnam war. That surely didn't hurt in the later HP efforts to sell into the Aerospace/Defense sector. Agilent is still big in the aerospace/defense/intelligence business (directly or by selling expensive measurement devices to contractors). NASA needed HP also for quite a few things.
HP is considered the "seed of Silicon Valley". So the Pentagon seeded Silicon Valley.
Mrs Thatcher's simpleton ideology apparently bears fruit throughout the western world. Why listen to anybody else than beancounters and barristers ? After all, "it's all about money, isn't it?".
The Decline Of The Western World at the Hands Of Beancounters.
Picture of an explosive bean.
Strategic Plan: Replace Oil by Electricity
Challenges: Profiteers of Oil + War (Exxon, Lockheed, Boeing, BP)
Solution: Convert the Profiteers of Oil into Electric Energy/Technology Providers
Details: Use Electric Cars with Overhead Lines (OHL) to replace Oil-propelled cars. Replace oil heatings with Electric Heatings (already practised widely in France). Electricity comes from Nuclear Power.
Details of Electric Cars and Operational Concept: Cars will primarily be powered by OHLs, but have a short-range energy store like a small battery (range up to 20 miles), a generator-motor-flywheel, or a pressurized-air energy store. This means that OHL coverage must not be complete, but can be rather spotty. The recharge rate of the automotive energy store should be in the order of 150kW or more. Cars would normally connect to the OHL/electric grid after driving a few miles from home (e.g. on the highway), recharge the energy store and then drive a few more miles without an OHL. At the destination, short strips of OHL would be above employer's, supermarket's, government office's parking lots to allow recharging the small energy store.
About 30 % of american highways and significant portions of the other road network must be equipped with OHLs.
Details of Economic Concept, Cars and OHL: General Motors, Ford and Chrysler would team up with GE to build the cars and energy stores. Large Public Construction Projects will build the OHL lines throughout the country. OHL Whip technology and power management will be developed in a National R&D project including companies like Microsoft, Lockheed, Boeing and General Electric (GE).
Details of Economic Concept, Nuclear Generation: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop, Westinghouse and GE to retool for the building of 700 nuclear reactors. Initiate R&D programs for breeders like CANDU and THTR Thorium/U238 breeders. Leverage Sandia and Los Alamos to speed up the design process.
Details of Economic Concept, Power Generation and Network Operations: Exxon, Shell, BP will collect capital for building 700 1GW-class reactors and the corresponding high-voltage, direct-current electricity grid. After building the reactors, they will operate them. Close cooperation with the technology companies (former defense contractors) to Design For Safety, Security and Economic Operation and Maintenance.
All of this will create Jobs For Americans In America and Reduce the Need For Oil Wars. Go for it !
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