ICBMs that are currently deployed have low throw-weights when compared to other launch vehicles.
I'm sure dropping a 600 pound concreate MIRV from LEO with a couple thousand mph of velocity would leave a good sized hole but for now the only thing one of Americas *fewer than a thousand* ICBMs is good for is a nuke.
This is exactly the place in the triad for manned bombers.
Manned bombers are slow but can be recalled all the way to the point of the weapons delivery. But they are also the most vulernable on the ground and in the air.
Submarine launched ballistic missiles are the least vulerable and the quickest but are the least flexible when it comes to rapid communication or retasking.
ICBMs are the second quickest to get on target and are more survivable than bombers but have fixed basing locations generally.
Apple isn't going to ship the OS themeable since that might confuse users and make for more support calls - Now Ma'am, what theme are you in? Theme Ma'am, what color are the windows around all your shit?
The whole DIY vs. vendor built arguement is going to be harder to settled than emacs vs. vi or FreeBSD is dying - No it isn't.
Right now I have two computers on my desk, a 17" iMac LCD 800 and an Athlon XP 1900+ with an ASUS mobo. The PC has a Lian-Li Al case with Stealth fans through the whole box. It still sounds like a freight-train coming down a hill. My stock XP install crashes about once for every 8 hours it's on.
It was cheaper to build, but it took much longer to set up. I spent 2000 on the iMac and about 1000 on the PC (ATi All-In-Wonder). The iMac took about 10 minutes to set up. The PC took about 10 hours to get built plus longer amounts of downtime if I want to add another drive to the mix. Plus there was the weekend of new fans for the PC. I'd say to get the PC to the point it's at now it's been at least 30 hours of work.
Depending on how much your time is worth, a DIY PC can cost just as much or more than a Dell, Apple, IBM
"The reason for the space race was a PR battle with the Soviet Union, nothing more. That reason obviously doesn't exist anymore."
Actually the real reason was to push the limits of heavy lift rockets. The Air Forces and Strategic Rocket Forces were happy with getting a megaton downtown into Moscow or New York, but our German Rocket Scientists and thier German Rocket Scientists wanted to go to the Moon and Mars and they whispered into the ears of Generals talk of the high ground of space, recce bases on the Moon, nuclear missile platforms in space, big FOBS rigs and all sorts of things.
In the mid 60s USAF and the Soviets were working on manned stations for space warfare and recon work. After Nixon and the Democrats starting wacking budgets USAF's station got crippled and turned into Skylab while the Soviet dreams died on the launch pad with thier Moon rocket's multiple failures.
It wasn't so much a PR battle as it was public devlopment of big rockets for military purposes with a civilian side.
1. Just because there will be fuel cells, doesn't mean they won't be sold, repaired or built. Magic fuel cell Smurfs won't build GM fuel cell cars in invisable mushrooms somewhere.
2. Gas stations will adapt or die. What will happen is as soon as GM and Toyota announce they are going fuel cell in x number of years whom ever is partnering with them will announce they will have y number of stations with hydrogen, methane, whatever they've standardized on.
I think fuel cells will be on trucks and buses to start and it will trickle down to passenger vehicles over 3-5 years.
3. As for OPEC, they will still export oil for plastics, lubricants, etc. But if they don't see the writing on the wall and diversify then they will be in for trouble.
Hindenburg didn't go up in smoke because of the hydrogen, it went up because the canvas dope was basicly Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster fuel and it didn't ground.
The skin and dope of Hindenburg was cotton canvas, a layer of iron oxide, cellulose butyrate acetate based paint, aluminum powder mixed in to reflect the sunlight.
The Hindenburg flew through a thunderstorm and the skin became charged, but the skin was insulated from the frame, so when it finally moored and became grounded the skin didn't ground. It then arced and blew out the hydrogen cells.
In the Graf Zeppelin II the skin and connections to the aluminum frame were changed.
Calcium Sulfamate added to the doping as a fire retardant.
Aluminum powder was replaced with bronze powder
Ramie cords were treated with graphite, the cords that connected the skin with the frame would be now electrically connected, allowing the static charge on the skin to effortlessly discharge to the frame.
H2 is another energy market to be R&D'ed, tapped and then optimized for profit.
Exxon-Mobil is working GM and Toyota to use gasoline and methanol with fuel cells to avoid some of the complications with using just H2.
And in the industry, there is already a sense that they need to adapt in order to survive. When a former Saudi oil minister and petroleum consultant says..."Thirty years from now there will be a huge amount of oil - and no buyers. Oil will be left in the ground. The Stone Age came to an end, not because we had a lack of stones, and the oil age will come to an end not because we have a lack of oil."
Fuel-cell motor technology will have a dramatic impact on the oil market, he predicts. "This is coming before the end of the decade and will cut gasoline consumption by almost 100 per cent. Imagine a country like the United States, the largest consuming nation, where more than 50 per cent of their consumption is gasoline. If you eliminatethat, what will happen?" Saudi Arabia, he says, "will have serious economic difficulties".
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"Tell that to Martha Stewart. Or better yet, tell her kids. - I dont know anything about her."
Then maybe you should do a little reading next time.
"Someone who is married with children can never dedicate themselves to any job. You work for your wife and kids, thats what motivates you to go to work every day."
Ms. Stewart was married with children, she worked and worked and worked and ended up with a ton of money and an estranged husband and wife.
I made more than 75K a year, and I'm not settled down with someone who is with me for the money.
"So your stats dont really matter, they dont prove anything, sure alot of people are married, alot of people work for alot of reasons, but fact is half the population isnt married."
Actually, my stats DO show that more than half the population of the United States IS married.
See, 52.3% is more than 50% which is half. If one tosses in the seperated, it goes to 53.6% which is still more than half.
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"Someone who is married with children can never dedicate themselves to any job."
Tell that to Martha Stewart. Or better yet, tell her kids.
Actually, 52.3% of the population is married. 1.3% are married but seperated. 6.3% are widowed and only 28.5% have never been married.
If you make over 75K a year the married percentage climbs to 81.7%
I've got boxes running 10.1 Server around here because no one "forced" me to run 10.2 Server.
Likewise I know my mother's 233 iMac and another 333 iMac I support are running plainjane 10.1 and it runs well.
I'll get 10.3 for my machines, but not becuase Steve Jobs is pointing a CD to my head screaming "Forced Upgrade biaaatchhhh! Now shell for Panther!" but because I want the features.
"The day we were visiting, the Chinese crew was utilizing the EVA (extra-vehicular activity) building. You do not train for EVAs if you are doing simple orbital missions. EVAs are typically related to space-based construction work."
That's just plain FUD. The US and Soviets EVA'ed for years and years before they ever did any space-based construction work.
From Skylab to Mir the majority of space stations were assembled by docking modules togeather with minimal EVA for bolting things on.
Ed White's Gemini EVA took place 20 years before Shuttle missions started EVAs for fixing equipment in orbit.
However in some places the laws are changing to give those on bikes and other non-traditional motorized vehicles right of way all the time and here in Portland there is talk of letting bikes and non-traditional motorized vehicles the right to go through red lights without a stop.
You have a jackass on a Segway without helmet or lights rolling down the street at dusk and you have a rolling lawsuit.
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Apple's laptop sales are increasing while desktops decrease.
In the spring of 2003 Apple's laptop sales made it to 40% of all the Macs sold. In 2001 it was 30%.
MX had alot of lives but eventually it ended up as the Peacekeeper based in Wyoming, until the end of this year.
First it was going to be rail based, then truck based, then underground rail based, then rail based, then dense packed.
There was talk of dropping them out of the back of 747 or C-5s too. A Minuteman was test launched by airdrop at one point as well.
ICBMs that are currently deployed have low throw-weights when compared to other launch vehicles.
I'm sure dropping a 600 pound concreate MIRV from LEO with a couple thousand mph of velocity would leave a good sized hole but for now the only thing one of Americas *fewer than a thousand* ICBMs is good for is a nuke.
Only SSBN class in service is the Ohio with 4 of them removed and being turned into SSGNs
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The Benjamin Franklin class was decommed in the 90s
The Lafayette class was decommed in the late 80s and early 90s.
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The United States does not have "10,000 ICBMs".
There are currently 500 Minuteman III missiles with one warhead each. The 100 Peacekeepers with 8 MIRVs will be withdrawn by the end of 2003.
There are 18 Ohio class SSBNs with 24 Trident SLBMs each
This is exactly the place in the triad for manned bombers.
Manned bombers are slow but can be recalled all the way to the point of the weapons delivery. But they are also the most vulernable on the ground and in the air.
Submarine launched ballistic missiles are the least vulerable and the quickest but are the least flexible when it comes to rapid communication or retasking.
ICBMs are the second quickest to get on target and are more survivable than bombers but have fixed basing locations generally.
I'm running Brushed Metal right now on 10.2.6
Apple isn't going to ship the OS themeable since that might confuse users and make for more support calls - Now Ma'am, what theme are you in? Theme Ma'am, what color are the windows around all your shit?
The whole DIY vs. vendor built arguement is going to be harder to settled than emacs vs. vi or FreeBSD is dying - No it isn't.
Right now I have two computers on my desk, a 17" iMac LCD 800 and an Athlon XP 1900+ with an ASUS mobo. The PC has a Lian-Li Al case with Stealth fans through the whole box. It still sounds like a freight-train coming down a hill. My stock XP install crashes about once for every 8 hours it's on.
It was cheaper to build, but it took much longer to set up. I spent 2000 on the iMac and about 1000 on the PC (ATi All-In-Wonder). The iMac took about 10 minutes to set up. The PC took about 10 hours to get built plus longer amounts of downtime if I want to add another drive to the mix. Plus there was the weekend of new fans for the PC. I'd say to get the PC to the point it's at now it's been at least 30 hours of work.
Depending on how much your time is worth, a DIY PC can cost just as much or more than a Dell, Apple, IBM
"The reason for the space race was a PR battle with the Soviet Union, nothing more. That reason obviously doesn't exist anymore."
Actually the real reason was to push the limits of heavy lift rockets. The Air Forces and Strategic Rocket Forces were happy with getting a megaton downtown into Moscow or New York, but our German Rocket Scientists and thier German Rocket Scientists wanted to go to the Moon and Mars and they whispered into the ears of Generals talk of the high ground of space, recce bases on the Moon, nuclear missile platforms in space, big FOBS rigs and all sorts of things.
In the mid 60s USAF and the Soviets were working on manned stations for space warfare and recon work. After Nixon and the Democrats starting wacking budgets USAF's station got crippled and turned into Skylab while the Soviet dreams died on the launch pad with thier Moon rocket's multiple failures.
It wasn't so much a PR battle as it was public devlopment of big rockets for military purposes with a civilian side.
1. Just because there will be fuel cells, doesn't mean they won't be sold, repaired or built. Magic fuel cell Smurfs won't build GM fuel cell cars in invisable mushrooms somewhere.
2. Gas stations will adapt or die. What will happen is as soon as GM and Toyota announce they are going fuel cell in x number of years whom ever is partnering with them will announce they will have y number of stations with hydrogen, methane, whatever they've standardized on.
I think fuel cells will be on trucks and buses to start and it will trickle down to passenger vehicles over 3-5 years.
3. As for OPEC, they will still export oil for plastics, lubricants, etc. But if they don't see the writing on the wall and diversify then they will be in for trouble.
Hindenburg didn't go up in smoke because of the hydrogen, it went up because the canvas dope was basicly Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster fuel and it didn't ground.
The skin and dope of Hindenburg was cotton canvas, a layer of iron oxide, cellulose butyrate acetate based paint, aluminum powder mixed in to reflect the sunlight.
The Hindenburg flew through a thunderstorm and the skin became charged, but the skin was insulated from the frame, so when it finally moored and became grounded the skin didn't ground. It then arced and blew out the hydrogen cells.
In the Graf Zeppelin II the skin and connections to the aluminum frame were changed.
Calcium Sulfamate added to the doping as a fire retardant.
Aluminum powder was replaced with bronze powder
Ramie cords were treated with graphite, the cords that connected the skin with the frame would be now electrically connected, allowing the static charge on the skin to effortlessly discharge to the frame.
Yes they will.
H2 is another energy market to be R&D'ed, tapped and then optimized for profit.
Exxon-Mobil is working GM and Toyota to use gasoline and methanol with fuel cells to avoid some of the complications with using just H2.
And in the industry, there is already a sense that they need to adapt in order to survive. When a former Saudi oil minister and petroleum consultant says..."Thirty years from now there will be a huge amount of oil - and no buyers. Oil will be left in the ground. The Stone Age came to an end, not because we had a lack of stones, and the oil age will come to an end not because we have a lack of oil."
Fuel-cell motor technology will have a dramatic impact on the oil market, he predicts. "This is coming before the end of the decade and will cut gasoline consumption by almost 100 per cent. Imagine a country like the United States, the largest consuming nation, where more than 50 per cent of their consumption is gasoline. If you eliminatethat, what will happen?" Saudi Arabia, he says, "will have serious economic difficulties".
"Tell that to Martha Stewart. Or better yet, tell her kids. - I dont know anything about her."
Then maybe you should do a little reading next time.
"Someone who is married with children can never dedicate themselves to any job. You work for your wife and kids, thats what motivates you to go to work every day."
Ms. Stewart was married with children, she worked and worked and worked and ended up with a ton of money and an estranged husband and wife.
I made more than 75K a year, and I'm not settled down with someone who is with me for the money.
"So your stats dont really matter, they dont prove anything, sure alot of people are married, alot of people work for alot of reasons, but fact is half the population isnt married."
Actually, my stats DO show that more than half the population of the United States IS married.
See, 52.3% is more than 50% which is half. If one tosses in the seperated, it goes to 53.6% which is still more than half.
"Someone who is married with children can never dedicate themselves to any job."
Tell that to Martha Stewart. Or better yet, tell her kids.
Actually, 52.3% of the population is married. 1.3% are married but seperated. 6.3% are widowed and only 28.5% have never been married.
If you make over 75K a year the married percentage climbs to 81.7%
I've got a Breitling on my wrist, so I'm out of MS's grasp for a while.
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337 fps with a twin 2.0 GHz and Radeon 9800 Pro @ 1024x768, 32 bit color
"Want the newest games? Upgrade. Newest office app? Upgrade."
I've got Office X and a newish version of Appleworks running on 10.1 boxes.
It's not a forced upgrade.
I've got boxes running 10.1 Server around here because no one "forced" me to run 10.2 Server.
Likewise I know my mother's 233 iMac and another 333 iMac I support are running plainjane 10.1 and it runs well.
I'll get 10.3 for my machines, but not becuase Steve Jobs is pointing a CD to my head screaming "Forced Upgrade biaaatchhhh! Now shell for Panther!" but because I want the features.
Is this the *fast* USB 2.0 or the USB 2.0 that used to be USB 1.1 but got renamed USB 2.0 so as to not confuse consumers?
And the low end machine by then will most likely be a 1 or 1.42 GHz G4.
For Joe Desktop-Publisher or Lisa Low-Middle-Photoshop that's all they need.
Franky 1200 DPI CMYK and Bob 10.2 Server w/mysql can justify the 2 grand for a 64bit workstation
India and China still have nuclear weapons and everyone knows that developing heavy-lift rockets always helps your nuclear missile systems.
While China and Russia get closer the United States and India will as well. Or maybe India and Japan.
"The day we were visiting, the Chinese crew was utilizing the EVA (extra-vehicular activity) building. You do not train for EVAs if you are doing simple orbital missions. EVAs are typically related to space-based construction work."
That's just plain FUD. The US and Soviets EVA'ed for years and years before they ever did any space-based construction work.
From Skylab to Mir the majority of space stations were assembled by docking modules togeather with minimal EVA for bolting things on.
Ed White's Gemini EVA took place 20 years before Shuttle missions started EVAs for fixing equipment in orbit.
I read the article and it said they did go around the UN embargo to get the equipment, but my question is who sold them the gear?
I'm not trying to troll or anything, I'm really interested in this paradox.
There were embargos put on Iraq following the war from the UN.
Everyone violates the embargos.
US goes around the UN.
Everyone bitches about the US.
No one bitches about the people who broke the UN embargo and thumbed thier noses at International Law.
I've built machines before and that's fun and cheap and all but for my servers and desktop machine I buy Apple.
Why? It costs more but it's done and it ships with a warrenty.
There are some cool mini cases out there now but none of them look as good as my 17" iMac.
Some people don't want to piece togeather thier own machine.
No cyclists and drivers don't obey the laws...
However in some places the laws are changing to give those on bikes and other non-traditional motorized vehicles right of way all the time and here in Portland there is talk of letting bikes and non-traditional motorized vehicles the right to go through red lights without a stop.
You have a jackass on a Segway without helmet or lights rolling down the street at dusk and you have a rolling lawsuit.