F-22 won't come back into production even if Russia builds these.
1. Russia won't use their top of the line hardware in combat, this was demonstrated in Chechnya where they were afraid airframes would be lost and make aircraft less desirable on the international market. When they did use top of the line hardware in Georgia, it got shot down (Tu-22M/Su-24)
2. F-22 and F-35 have the advantage of technology, face it, US computers for design, flight computers, avionics and materials science are better than Russia's. Russia will have an edge in metallurgy, but the US has the experience in making low observable and current US/EU jet engines are leaps and bounds better than Russian.
3. Manned fighters are on their last legs, in the US/EU we are building, probably, the last generation of manned tactical fighter (Gripen/Typhoon/F-35/Rafale), China, Japan, RoK are building another gen, but they aren't going to be full on fifth generation fighters. Sure the F-35 might still get killed, then the technologies for it will be leveraged into another block F-16 and F-18. Sixth generation will be UCAVs guided by manned fighters, seventh generation will be autonomous.
4. This is all about the export market, Russia will buy some for themselves, the rest will go to India, maybe China.
5. Just because it's flying doesn't mean Russia will build it. The last twenty years are full of Russian test flights and prototypes that ever made it into mass production
"As of June 23, 2008, there are 57 active-duty woman serving as generals in the armed services, five of whom are lieutenant generals, according to the Pentagon"
Political asylum doesn't mean citizenship, they can't vote yet, they have to become nationalized citizens first.
Feel free to keep sending folks over you don't like. As someone with German Jewish (came over 1900) and Polish Jewish (came over 1902) ancestry from two grandparents I appreciate the whole "go to the US" thing.
"While the school district responded by stating that homeschooling is illegal, the parents' maintained that their fundamental rights as parents would be violated if they were forced to return the children to public school. All of the families obtained excellent packaged curriculums from German correspondence schools, and demonstrated to school officials that their children were receiving a proper education. Heinz Kohler, the county education director, dismissed the families' beliefs, stating, "you and your children are not living in isolation on some island but rather in an environment posing intra- and extracurricular situations where you'll have to accept that your world view will be curtailed." Mr. Kohler further explained that homeschooling could not be allowed as "children should not be encapsulated or kept apart from the outside world. In these cases, the parents' rights to personally educate their children would prevent the children from growing up to be responsible individuals within society"
I was a candidate for home schooling, but back in the early 80s, it was very harder to do legally and the curricula wasn't there yet, it was in the works.
I spent 1980 to 1984 and 1990-1991 with cancer (ALL) and I had to travel 90 miles each way, three times a week for chemo and blood tests.
My grandmother was educated and a school board president so she looked into it. No joy. So I kept going to the reservation public school, half time, but with full workload, couldn't take time off besides the half days for chemo. In hindsight, I wish I'd been homeschooled, would have made the entire process go easier.
As for your comment about "shelter children from real information", well crap, public and private schools do that too. History, politics, lit and science are pushed in the direction the district and teachers want. As someone who went to a public school/federal school district on a Reservation, I had to attend a year of Lakota Mythology and Tradition. Yep a whole year of religion and beliefs for a tribe I and 1/5th of the students didn't belong to.
Apple's main computer lines are *NOT* locked down. I've been using them for oh, twenty years now. The laptops, desktops, servers are not locked down in any way shape or form.
The iPods, iPhones are all hackable, jailbreakable and can have other OSes installed on them.
Media devices don't use open formats? I have 25,000 MP3s on my iPod. My desktop has a PCIe Radeon HD 2600, it uses off the shelf SATA disks and all the ports are standard ports (IEEE 1394, USB, TosLink, etc).
Yes, its a choice and we (the consumer) have been locked into proprietary systems for decades. Auto makers encrypt the computer, force maintenance at dealers, hide specs. Same with consumer media and consumer devices, get a Dyson vacuum, go to a vacuum repair place and ask "what's Dyson like to service" and enjoy the rants about the PITA that is being a Dyson service shop, because Dyson is so proprietary and obnoxious.
And no CmdrTaco, its is not "revoking control of the computer from the user". Its iPhone OS, so it will be jailbreakable. I can still get on the web with it, I can still listen to *my* music and watch *my* videos with it
As for App Store and "renting/leasing" programs, that model has been coming for what, a decade now? M$ and Sun were talking about it 10 years ago, EA does it with sports games already - no online play or updates after 1 year so that you have to buy a new version of Madden/NHL/FIFA/NCAA.
I really like the idea of private space startups...
But show me a commercial sat in LEO or GEO for 10-100x cheaper than NASA/ESA/USAF put them up for. (Has to be a private US or EU startup) Show me a human in orbit for 10-100x cheaper than NASA or Russia or China (has to be a private US or EU startup)
Which is a big reason why the US keeps building military aviation and naval warships.
If the US stopped building the fighters, lifters, carriers, subs and destroyers, even for a couple years, the infrastructure and knowledge would go away. Tanks and armored vehicles are "easy" compared to aviation and ships. Think about it, the US has been building aircraft carriers constantly since 1940. Every year for 70 years thousands of people have been building them in the US.
Against a Dark Background has some good insight into that post nuking civilization. There are references all through it of digging through the trash piles of the pre-war(s) civilizations for tech and knowledge lost.
I'm a systems manager at an organization with 30-40 desktop and laptop Macs (alot of staff travels so the number varies) and theres so little to do on the admin side them I have to look for stuff to do. We use Xserves, AFP, Filemaker along with Google Docs for our email and collaboration.
They work just fine for us all over the state of Alaska.
I've been using Macs since 1993 and I've never met one of these fanboys.
All the Apple fanboys I've actually met go on about how superior the hardware or OS is. Never about "free-thinking". I think the free-thinking hipster-douche is a media creation. I'd say Apple started it with their commercials, but the first issue of MacAddict kicked it off.
Ten years ago today I was working in a place that was 70% Mac and 30% Win 95/98/NT 4. A good 80% of my work was on the PCs and we were backlogged like mad. So I kept with Apple because I liked having something I didn't have to work on all the time.
Today I'm in a joint that is 100% Apple, in the last three weeks we've had one computer go down for repairs (my work station Mac Pro with a bad ATI video card) and I still buy Apple computers because I continue to like not having to repair my computer.
Not cause I'm hip or want to seem cool, because in my 17 years experience working with computers Macs work better.
But I don't and won't live in NYC, so my experiences might be different.
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I've been running it at work under 10.5 and 10.6 for a couple months with BootCamp with no problems.
Lasers are LoS. Require power, fragile, etc.
Vaccinations and nets (which B&MG Foundation already funds) are better ideas.
Yes, the project is necessary.
Look at the map here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Malaria_geographic_distribution_2003.png
How many tens of billions of your anti-mosquito lasers will it take to cover that range of the Earth?
Vaccines are a technological solution.
Depends on the missile, speed and height of the fighter and where it is in its flight envelope.
F-22 won't come back into production even if Russia builds these.
1. Russia won't use their top of the line hardware in combat, this was demonstrated in Chechnya where they were afraid airframes would be lost and make aircraft less desirable on the international market. When they did use top of the line hardware in Georgia, it got shot down (Tu-22M/Su-24)
2. F-22 and F-35 have the advantage of technology, face it, US computers for design, flight computers, avionics and materials science are better than Russia's. Russia will have an edge in metallurgy, but the US has the experience in making low observable and current US/EU jet engines are leaps and bounds better than Russian.
3. Manned fighters are on their last legs, in the US/EU we are building, probably, the last generation of manned tactical fighter (Gripen/Typhoon/F-35/Rafale), China, Japan, RoK are building another gen, but they aren't going to be full on fifth generation fighters. Sure the F-35 might still get killed, then the technologies for it will be leveraged into another block F-16 and F-18. Sixth generation will be UCAVs guided by manned fighters, seventh generation will be autonomous.
4. This is all about the export market, Russia will buy some for themselves, the rest will go to India, maybe China.
5. Just because it's flying doesn't mean Russia will build it. The last twenty years are full of Russian test flights and prototypes that ever made it into mass production
Nature is only organic if it has carbon in it.
The Navy even named a destroyer for a female admiral who just did computers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hopper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
"As of June 23, 2008, there are 57 active-duty woman serving as generals in the armed services, five of whom are lieutenant generals, according to the Pentagon"
Political asylum doesn't mean citizenship, they can't vote yet, they have to become nationalized citizens first.
Feel free to keep sending folks over you don't like. As someone with German Jewish (came over 1900) and Polish Jewish (came over 1902) ancestry from two grandparents I appreciate the whole "go to the US" thing.
No, its illegal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling_in_Germany
http://www.hslda.org/hs/international/Germany/200501100.asp
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/139
"While the school district responded by stating that homeschooling is illegal, the parents' maintained that their fundamental rights as parents would be violated if they were forced to return the children to public school. All of the families obtained excellent packaged curriculums from German correspondence schools, and demonstrated to school officials that their children were receiving a proper education.
Heinz Kohler, the county education director, dismissed the families' beliefs, stating, "you and your children are not living in isolation on some island but rather in an environment posing intra- and extracurricular situations where you'll have to accept that your world view will be curtailed." Mr. Kohler further explained that homeschooling could not be allowed as "children should not be encapsulated or kept apart from the outside world. In these cases, the parents' rights to personally educate their children would prevent the children from growing up to be responsible individuals within society"
I was a candidate for home schooling, but back in the early 80s, it was very harder to do legally and the curricula wasn't there yet, it was in the works.
I spent 1980 to 1984 and 1990-1991 with cancer (ALL) and I had to travel 90 miles each way, three times a week for chemo and blood tests.
My grandmother was educated and a school board president so she looked into it. No joy. So I kept going to the reservation public school, half time, but with full workload, couldn't take time off besides the half days for chemo. In hindsight, I wish I'd been homeschooled, would have made the entire process go easier.
As for your comment about "shelter children from real information", well crap, public and private schools do that too. History, politics, lit and science are pushed in the direction the district and teachers want. As someone who went to a public school/federal school district on a Reservation, I had to attend a year of Lakota Mythology and Tradition. Yep a whole year of religion and beliefs for a tribe I and 1/5th of the students didn't belong to.
You are an idiot.
Apple's main computer lines are *NOT* locked down. I've been using them for oh, twenty years now. The laptops, desktops, servers are not locked down in any way shape or form.
The iPods, iPhones are all hackable, jailbreakable and can have other OSes installed on them.
So what the devil are you rambling about?
Media devices don't use open formats? I have 25,000 MP3s on my iPod. My desktop has a PCIe Radeon HD 2600, it uses off the shelf SATA disks and all the ports are standard ports (IEEE 1394, USB, TosLink, etc).
Except most major businesses just want a handful of apps and the PC locked the hell down.
A browser, an IM client, Office and maybe a specialty app or suite, depending on what the person does there.
Yes, its a choice and we (the consumer) have been locked into proprietary systems for decades. Auto makers encrypt the computer, force maintenance at dealers, hide specs. Same with consumer media and consumer devices, get a Dyson vacuum, go to a vacuum repair place and ask "what's Dyson like to service" and enjoy the rants about the PITA that is being a Dyson service shop, because Dyson is so proprietary and obnoxious.
And no CmdrTaco, its is not "revoking control of the computer from the user". Its iPhone OS, so it will be jailbreakable. I can still get on the web with it, I can still listen to *my* music and watch *my* videos with it
As for App Store and "renting/leasing" programs, that model has been coming for what, a decade now? M$ and Sun were talking about it 10 years ago, EA does it with sports games already - no online play or updates after 1 year so that you have to buy a new version of Madden/NHL/FIFA/NCAA.
And more space than a Nomad.
So it should be "no 3G connection built in. Less space than a Inspiron Mini 10v. Lame."
They used Temple records to find the Jews, and names, the stereotyping by feature was just something to stir up the Volk.
My Iguana has better liberal and conservative recognition chances than that.
You are right, but my point for W0mprat was, are private startups able to get a kilo to LEO 10x cheaper than a Delta IV, Atlas V or Ariane 5?
/. just should have taken this - http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257&tid=107 and formed it for iPad.
With
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
I really like the idea of private space startups...
But show me a commercial sat in LEO or GEO for 10-100x cheaper than NASA/ESA/USAF put them up for. (Has to be a private US or EU startup)
Show me a human in orbit for 10-100x cheaper than NASA or Russia or China (has to be a private US or EU startup)
Which is a big reason why the US keeps building military aviation and naval warships.
If the US stopped building the fighters, lifters, carriers, subs and destroyers, even for a couple years, the infrastructure and knowledge would go away. Tanks and armored vehicles are "easy" compared to aviation and ships. Think about it, the US has been building aircraft carriers constantly since 1940. Every year for 70 years thousands of people have been building them in the US.
Against a Dark Background has some good insight into that post nuking civilization. There are references all through it of digging through the trash piles of the pre-war(s) civilizations for tech and knowledge lost.
I'm a systems manager at an organization with 30-40 desktop and laptop Macs (alot of staff travels so the number varies) and theres so little to do on the admin side them I have to look for stuff to do. We use Xserves, AFP, Filemaker along with Google Docs for our email and collaboration.
They work just fine for us all over the state of Alaska.
I've been using Macs since 1993 and I've never met one of these fanboys.
All the Apple fanboys I've actually met go on about how superior the hardware or OS is. Never about "free-thinking". I think the free-thinking hipster-douche is a media creation. I'd say Apple started it with their commercials, but the first issue of MacAddict kicked it off.
I use a Mac because I work on computers.
Ten years ago today I was working in a place that was 70% Mac and 30% Win 95/98/NT 4. A good 80% of my work was on the PCs and we were backlogged like mad. So I kept with Apple because I liked having something I didn't have to work on all the time.
Today I'm in a joint that is 100% Apple, in the last three weeks we've had one computer go down for repairs (my work station Mac Pro with a bad ATI video card) and I still buy Apple computers because I continue to like not having to repair my computer.
Not cause I'm hip or want to seem cool, because in my 17 years experience working with computers Macs work better.
But I don't and won't live in NYC, so my experiences might be different.
Had radiation go wide during a 6 day cycle, radiation burns and good times. It was picked up the following cycle and "adjusted" for.