I've replaced the batteries and screens in iPhones and iPods with no problem, those where the "closed" devices of the last 8 years. Give it a couple weeks and people will be doing the same thing to iPads.
The iPad/iPhone/Zune/Nexus One aren't computers, they are PDAs and honestly since the Newton came out PDAs generally just aren't as storage and memory upgradable or flexible as a laptop or desktop.
Just last month I swapped out my hard disk in a MacBook Pro 5,3 and right after that had to work inside our newer HP laptop. Guess what? The MacBook was easier to get into and work on than the HP.
I've also replaced every conceivable part in MacBooks, iBooks, Powerbooks and iMacs along with every Apple "Pro" desktop of the last 15 years. I ran my Power Mac G3 233 MHz at 292 MHz for years before swapping out CPUs to get it all the way to 466 before I retired it, so don't blather on that Apple products are "locked down" because they aren't.
Re:Apple has made Microsoft look "open".
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There were third party mice for Apple back in the late 80s, you know, the "darkest days" and while I know it is always fun to ding Apple for being "closed", its just not accurate.
Well no, one of their regular old computer won't suit someone the same way an iPad does.
1. No Apple computer is a portable one piece with no moving parts. 2. No Apple computer weighs under 2 pounds 3. No Apple computer has motion sensing like iPad/iPhone has
iPad isn't an "appliance" an appliance is for doing one specific task. A mouse is a computing appliance.
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" Apple used to be a hardware company and Microsoft was a software company and all was well."
Not sure where you have been but Apple has been making and selling software for decades.
Like Reagan would say - Trust, but verify - "doveryai, no proveryai".
Is it easy to mockup warheads? Probably. I'll focus this on the US/Russia because they are the powers with the long history here.
But I think the Major Powers have a ton of intelligence information on each other, so the US/Russia have a pretty good accounting of how many strategic weapons they made. So with the inspection schemes they might be 75-85% accurate and they'll trust the other side, to a limit. From what I've read on the Cold War and the verification treaties, the Soviets always cheated and assumed the US cheated because, well, the Soviets were cheating.
Do I think that the Major Powers will always keep an ace in the hole? Absolutely. In my world view, if everyone knows about NORAD and Area 51, then there are places they don't know about and weapons they don't know about.
Despite the treaties banning nuclear weapons in space I know the Soviets had SS-9 and SS-18s tasked with putting weapons in orbit and I'm sure the US did and does the same. Not even an optimist like Obama will give up all the secrets and defenses the US has, just in case.
Plus treaties like START, SALT, Conventional Forces in Europe and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty allow for inspections of bases and counting warheads, pits and delivery devices.
Remember back during 2002-2004 there used to be posters of the US with all the WMD sites and "Who is inspecting the US?", well alot of people were inspecting the US with satellites, aircraft and even folks on the ground.
Thats what Google, FAS.org, Wikipedia or the dictionary are for.
Many/.ers are also into science fiction, gaming or were military and those abbreviations have been common in those genres and sectors of society for decades.
The abbreviations MIRV, SSBN, SLBM are not obscure and have not been obscure for at least 35 years. One doesn't have to be a "nuclear weapon fetishists" to be literate in the terminology of the devices that have been waiting to kill us for the last 50 years.
True. Theres not going to be any destruction of the world and nuclear winter was far over blown.
Will a civilization be destroyed? No, probably not. But would a civilization be terribly damaged for centuries? Yes, it would.
If the US and People's Republic exchanged 100 warheads, both civilizations and cultures would survive but it would do trillions and trillions of dollars damage to the infrastructure and probably cut GDP to a tenth of what it was pre-war.
If we are blowing warheads up in cities, I'd ballpark cutting the population of the 10-12 largest urban areas in half or two thirds.
I'm in a lesser city (Anchorage) and in a strategic exchange I'm sure we'll collect at least one warhead. We'll lose 3/4th of the city at least from a hit on the AFB or Fort.
CEP of 150 m is pretty good considering historical CEP and honestly we don't know if that is the real CEP. I've seen technical sources claiming the Mk-12 RV with GPS has a CEP of under 15 meters. In NROTC our instructor claimed that the D-5 with GPS had gotten RVs within 3 meters.
Well...Sprint showed that we could make electronic systems that could survive 100g and 0 to Mach 10 in 5 seconds, so I bet we could make submissions that can survive a reentry, after all, Apollo 13 came in at 11.037 km/s.
Naw, turn the rest of the SSBNs into SSGNs and load them with cruise missiles.
Every nuclear capable nation's capital is within Tomahawk range of the sea. The Navy could keep a few W-80 equipped Tomahawks on the SSGNs to mess up things if anyone attacked the US
The US created the triad to keep the USN and USAF from nuking each other over the budgets.
Put all the strategic nukes in the bomber fleet, keep some tactical weapons on the carriers and fast attack as cruise missiles along with the USAF and Army having some tactical weapons in the form of B-61s and 155mm artillery shells.
Thats enough of a triad to ensure the US can strike back at Russia or the PRC.
Mt St Helens isn't in a major urban area. Nor did it release a third of its energy as thermal radiation. A nuclear device will rip the center out of a major city.
We are talking about nuclear weapons. Acronyms are part of the business, its like computers and networking with RAM, CPU, NIC, Eth0, SATA, IDE, RAID-0...
OK. So, when the Nuclear Powered Strategic Missile Submarine fires a Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile with 12 conventional Multiple Independently targetable Reentry Vehicles...
They are good enough. Unclassified CEP on a Minuteman III is 150 meters, on a Trident D-5 - 90-120 m (300-400 ft) (with GPS guidance), ~120 m without GPS using the Mark 5 RV, thats close enough for hitting an enemy facility, but you are right, not good enough for hitting a palace in downtown Baghdad.
Someone with math skills, how much energy would be released from 2800 kilos coming in at 6,000 kph?
Also you can use the MIRVs or an RV to deploy more accurate submunitions at the target.
So the US puts all its nukes on B-52s/B-1Bs/B-2/Next Gen Bomber and the signatories like Russia, Ukraine, UK, France, PRC can verify that the nukes are there. So when the SSBN fires an SLBM with 12 convention MIRVs from the middle of the Indian Ocean the Russians don't get too freaked out about it.
OK. If the connections cross state lines and the data crosses state lines, how is it not an Interstate (Federal) issue?
Explain that.
Now you've been running all over this discussion saying its an Intrastate issue because Comcast has state subsidiaries or if the traffic is within the state its Intrastate, but you never ever explain how if the traffic crosses a state line why that isn't an FCC issue.
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Oh I know, I've used my MacBook to move the cursor around on the Wii with alot of jerkiness and bugginess.
The applications to make it useful aren't there, so "No Apple computer has motion sensing like iPad/iPhone has."
Apple was less customer choice friendly when Jobs left the first time.
I've replaced the batteries and screens in iPhones and iPods with no problem, those where the "closed" devices of the last 8 years. Give it a couple weeks and people will be doing the same thing to iPads.
The iPad/iPhone/Zune/Nexus One aren't computers, they are PDAs and honestly since the Newton came out PDAs generally just aren't as storage and memory upgradable or flexible as a laptop or desktop.
Just last month I swapped out my hard disk in a MacBook Pro 5,3 and right after that had to work inside our newer HP laptop. Guess what? The MacBook was easier to get into and work on than the HP.
I've also replaced every conceivable part in MacBooks, iBooks, Powerbooks and iMacs along with every Apple "Pro" desktop of the last 15 years. I ran my Power Mac G3 233 MHz at 292 MHz for years before swapping out CPUs to get it all the way to 466 before I retired it, so don't blather on that Apple products are "locked down" because they aren't.
There were third party mice for Apple back in the late 80s, you know, the "darkest days" and while I know it is always fun to ding Apple for being "closed", its just not accurate.
Well no, one of their regular old computer won't suit someone the same way an iPad does.
1. No Apple computer is a portable one piece with no moving parts.
2. No Apple computer weighs under 2 pounds
3. No Apple computer has motion sensing like iPad/iPhone has
iPad isn't an "appliance" an appliance is for doing one specific task. A mouse is a computing appliance.
" Apple used to be a hardware company and Microsoft was a software company and all was well."
Not sure where you have been but Apple has been making and selling software for decades.
Like Reagan would say - Trust, but verify - "doveryai, no proveryai".
Is it easy to mockup warheads? Probably. I'll focus this on the US/Russia because they are the powers with the long history here.
But I think the Major Powers have a ton of intelligence information on each other, so the US/Russia have a pretty good accounting of how many strategic weapons they made. So with the inspection schemes they might be 75-85% accurate and they'll trust the other side, to a limit. From what I've read on the Cold War and the verification treaties, the Soviets always cheated and assumed the US cheated because, well, the Soviets were cheating.
Do I think that the Major Powers will always keep an ace in the hole? Absolutely. In my world view, if everyone knows about NORAD and Area 51, then there are places they don't know about and weapons they don't know about.
Despite the treaties banning nuclear weapons in space I know the Soviets had SS-9 and SS-18s tasked with putting weapons in orbit and I'm sure the US did and does the same. Not even an optimist like Obama will give up all the secrets and defenses the US has, just in case.
Theres a treaty system in place called Open Skies that allows for overflights by aircraft equipped with senors and optics to verify things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Open_Skies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:B-52s_chopped.jpg
Plus treaties like START, SALT, Conventional Forces in Europe and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty allow for inspections of bases and counting warheads, pits and delivery devices.
Remember back during 2002-2004 there used to be posters of the US with all the WMD sites and "Who is inspecting the US?", well alot of people were inspecting the US with satellites, aircraft and even folks on the ground.
Strategic nukes on bombers, tactical nukes, which were not covered by SALT or START, can go other places.
Thats what Google, FAS.org, Wikipedia or the dictionary are for.
Many /.ers are also into science fiction, gaming or were military and those abbreviations have been common in those genres and sectors of society for decades.
The abbreviations MIRV, SSBN, SLBM are not obscure and have not been obscure for at least 35 years. One doesn't have to be a "nuclear weapon fetishists" to be literate in the terminology of the devices that have been waiting to kill us for the last 50 years.
True. Theres not going to be any destruction of the world and nuclear winter was far over blown.
Will a civilization be destroyed? No, probably not. But would a civilization be terribly damaged for centuries? Yes, it would.
If the US and People's Republic exchanged 100 warheads, both civilizations and cultures would survive but it would do trillions and trillions of dollars damage to the infrastructure and probably cut GDP to a tenth of what it was pre-war.
If we are blowing warheads up in cities, I'd ballpark cutting the population of the 10-12 largest urban areas in half or two thirds.
I'm in a lesser city (Anchorage) and in a strategic exchange I'm sure we'll collect at least one warhead. We'll lose 3/4th of the city at least from a hit on the AFB or Fort.
CEP of 150 m is pretty good considering historical CEP and honestly we don't know if that is the real CEP. I've seen technical sources claiming the Mk-12 RV with GPS has a CEP of under 15 meters. In NROTC our instructor claimed that the D-5 with GPS had gotten RVs within 3 meters.
Well...Sprint showed that we could make electronic systems that could survive 100g and 0 to Mach 10 in 5 seconds, so I bet we could make submissions that can survive a reentry, after all, Apollo 13 came in at 11.037 km/s.
Naw, turn the rest of the SSBNs into SSGNs and load them with cruise missiles.
Every nuclear capable nation's capital is within Tomahawk range of the sea. The Navy could keep a few W-80 equipped Tomahawks on the SSGNs to mess up things if anyone attacked the US
The US created the triad to keep the USN and USAF from nuking each other over the budgets.
Put all the strategic nukes in the bomber fleet, keep some tactical weapons on the carriers and fast attack as cruise missiles along with the USAF and Army having some tactical weapons in the form of B-61s and 155mm artillery shells.
Thats enough of a triad to ensure the US can strike back at Russia or the PRC.
Mt St Helens isn't in a major urban area. Nor did it release a third of its energy as thermal radiation. A nuclear device will rip the center out of a major city.
http://www.carloslabs.com/node/16
I picked a B-61 in New York City for example.
100 large weapons (330kt or larger) will destroy the hearts of 100 cities.
We are talking about nuclear weapons. Acronyms are part of the business, its like computers and networking with RAM, CPU, NIC, Eth0, SATA, IDE, RAID-0...
OK. So, when the Nuclear Powered Strategic Missile Submarine fires a Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile with 12 conventional Multiple Independently targetable Reentry Vehicles...
They are good enough. Unclassified CEP on a Minuteman III is 150 meters, on a Trident D-5 - 90-120 m (300-400 ft) (with GPS guidance), ~120 m without GPS using the Mark 5 RV, thats close enough for hitting an enemy facility, but you are right, not good enough for hitting a palace in downtown Baghdad.
Someone with math skills, how much energy would be released from 2800 kilos coming in at 6,000 kph?
Also you can use the MIRVs or an RV to deploy more accurate submunitions at the target.
More like 15 minutes. Well thats what Open Skies is for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Open_Skies
So the US puts all its nukes on B-52s/B-1Bs/B-2/Next Gen Bomber and the signatories like Russia, Ukraine, UK, France, PRC can verify that the nukes are there. So when the SSBN fires an SLBM with 12 convention MIRVs from the middle of the Indian Ocean the Russians don't get too freaked out about it.
The US is crazy dynamite monkey.
Really the US/Russia/UK/France/PRC only need to have 50-150 devices to have dominance.
The rest of the US delivery systems (ICBM/SLBM) should go to conventional kinetic warheads.
Oh, I don't know if your sig is humorous or uninformed.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/system-requirements
1-2GB for Win 7.
OK. If the connections cross state lines and the data crosses state lines, how is it not an Interstate (Federal) issue?
Explain that.
Now you've been running all over this discussion saying its an Intrastate issue because Comcast has state subsidiaries or if the traffic is within the state its Intrastate, but you never ever explain how if the traffic crosses a state line why that isn't an FCC issue.
Dropbox
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=18663
The FCC should just start regulating communications at the frequencies that are used to transmit data via light and microwave.