Personally, if I've had a bad week, I get some drivers, open the case, take it apart, get some magnets out, drop the platters in the trash (if they are glass) and drop a hammer on them. Otherwise I go out and beat the crap out of the platters.
There are 3 and 4 Tesla MRIs out there at hospitals and clinics now. I've been scanned in 3 Tesla MRIs in Portland Oregon and I know OHSU has a 12 Tesla MRI for diagnostic work.
Read what I wrote "Note that what the Russians don't sell China are advanced tanks like T-90, T-80,"
Based on the combat record of Chinese armored vehicles since 1968, the Type 96 and 99 aren't going to be a threat to a true 3rd generation tank like the T-90, Abrams, LeClerc or Challenger 2.
Militaries buy British, German, Russian and American tanks. The only operators of the Type 99 and 96 are China and Pakistan (who codeveloped the models).
Imagine how bad manned space flight would have been defunded if the US had spent a zillion dollars on a manned lunar station and have everyone there die like Roanoke* did.
* - no one really knows what happened to Roanoke, but there is no wandering off with Lunar tribe and disappearing on the Moon.
That is because of a war between Russia and China the Russians know their only survival will be tanks and as a last resort nuclear strikes.
Note that what the Russians don't sell China are advanced tanks like T-90, T-80, advanced anti-tank weapons, advanced APCs, supersonic bombers or advanced armor defenses.
Tanks, armor defenses, and anti-tank weapons are what (to Soviet doctrine) win wars, not fighters and not SAMs
Neither China or the Soviet Union made it to the moon, neither China, the Soviet Union or Russian Federation have send deep space probes to the outer planets.
While the Soviets landed on Mars and Venus, they never mapped those planets, the Chinese and Russians have not landed rovers on Mars, had probes orbit Jupiter or Saturn, only the US and ESA have accomplished extended scientific exploration of Mars.
When the Chinese or Russia get four space probes past the orbit of Pluto, land on Titan, get rovers on Mars and drop a probe into Jupiter, then they are up in the same tier the US is.
There is a historical precedence for going somewhere and then not going back for a while.
The first English colony in North America was established in 1585 at Roanoke, a second voyage there in 1590 found it missing, there was not an attempt by the English to colonize North America again until 1607. And going to North America from western Europe was much, much easier than going from the Earth to the Moon.
Funding was slashed in 1968-'72 because of the increasing cost of the Vietnam War and costs of implementing LBJ's Great Society program. The Democratic Senators who had the power to cut NASA (like Mondale), went out of their way to go after it's funding for the Great Society programs. By the time Nixon took the White House, he ramped up Vietnam to force the North to the peace talks (which worked by late 1972) and the Democrats hated him, so there was very little he could push.
We are lucky Congress didn't close NASA down from '72-'77
No, they aren't, but I see you don't understand that there are different classes of devices.
The Kindle Fire competes against the Nook, that Sony e-reader/media player and other Kindles. The iPad competes against low end laptops, netbooks, Windows, Blackberry and Android tablets.
Like how the Hyundai Sonata competes with the Honda Accord and Volkswagon Passat while the Camaro competes with the Genesis Coupe, Dodge Challenger, and Ford Mustang, and while both the Sonata and Camaro both have resale value on Ebay, they are not in the same class.
You are still comparing apples to oranges with the Fire and iPad.
There was never an 8GB iPad, there was never a 7" iPad. If Apple had a 7" iPad and smaller storage model, they might have gotten the price down into the Fire's area of $200-250, but they didn't, so you can't compare the two.
It's like comparing a Sonata to a Camaro, the devices are so different they are in different classes.
Lets take a 1st Generation iPad and compare to the Fire iPad 9.7" display 16 GB WiFi 680 g $499
Amazon Kindle Fire 7" display 8 GB WiFi 413 g $199
There is no product called an "iTouch" that works with AirPlay. Unless you mean an iPod Touch. If you don't know the name of a product, how can you argue the merits of a product?
2nd Generation iPod Touch was released on September 9, 2008, so its not possible to be a "4-year-old model"
Yes, those bombs on bombers, missiles at sea and in the ground have kept the world from having a global war for the last 60+ years.
MAD really did bring stability to the world, events that might have triggered large wars, Cuban Missile Crisis, invasion of Hungary, invasion of Czechoslovakia, Suez Crisis, Yom Kippur War, fall of Saigon, Straight of Taiwan crisis, Korean War, were all tempered by the knowledge that escalation would lead to hundreds of millions of deaths.
Look at the 30 Years War, the Coalition Wars, World War 1, World War 2 and the death and instability those caused, then look at the world since MAD started, it's much more stable.
The Minotaur IV vehicle consists of four stages (three from the LGM-118 Peacekeeper) and is capable of placing 1,735 kilograms (3,830 lb) of payload into a Low Earth Orbit (LEO). So it'd not be that valuable for getting stuff to ISS. Progress can get 2,350 kg (5,200 lb) to ISS, ESA's ATV can get 7,667 kg (16,900 lb) to ISS.
The missiles are being converted over to Minotaurs as they are needed, so they aren't just "collecting dust".
And comparing a 64GB iPad at $699-829 to this Fire is apples and oranges. Why not just throw up the specs for a MacBook Air and compare the Fire to that?
Warships are usually degaussed before a deployment and it can be and has been used in ships as large as a battleship. Carriers might be carrying electromagnetic coils as they did in WW2
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When the iPad came out and the /. thread was full of hows and whys other tablets would killing it in the coming year?
Then they said the same thing when iPad 2 came out.
How is that going exactly?
Personally, if I've had a bad week, I get some drivers, open the case, take it apart, get some magnets out, drop the platters in the trash (if they are glass) and drop a hammer on them. Otherwise I go out and beat the crap out of the platters.
There are 3 and 4 Tesla MRIs out there at hospitals and clinics now. I've been scanned in 3 Tesla MRIs in Portland Oregon and I know OHSU has a 12 Tesla MRI for diagnostic work.
Too much work.
Take the drives apart, smash the platters with a hammer.
Read what I wrote "Note that what the Russians don't sell China are advanced tanks like T-90, T-80,"
Based on the combat record of Chinese armored vehicles since 1968, the Type 96 and 99 aren't going to be a threat to a true 3rd generation tank like the T-90, Abrams, LeClerc or Challenger 2.
Militaries buy British, German, Russian and American tanks. The only operators of the Type 99 and 96 are China and Pakistan (who codeveloped the models).
Imagine how bad manned space flight would have been defunded if the US had spent a zillion dollars on a manned lunar station and have everyone there die like Roanoke* did.
* - no one really knows what happened to Roanoke, but there is no wandering off with Lunar tribe and disappearing on the Moon.
That is because of a war between Russia and China the Russians know their only survival will be tanks and as a last resort nuclear strikes.
Note that what the Russians don't sell China are advanced tanks like T-90, T-80, advanced anti-tank weapons, advanced APCs, supersonic bombers or advanced armor defenses.
Tanks, armor defenses, and anti-tank weapons are what (to Soviet doctrine) win wars, not fighters and not SAMs
Neither China or the Soviet Union made it to the moon, neither China, the Soviet Union or Russian Federation have send deep space probes to the outer planets.
While the Soviets landed on Mars and Venus, they never mapped those planets, the Chinese and Russians have not landed rovers on Mars, had probes orbit Jupiter or Saturn, only the US and ESA have accomplished extended scientific exploration of Mars.
When the Chinese or Russia get four space probes past the orbit of Pluto, land on Titan, get rovers on Mars and drop a probe into Jupiter, then they are up in the same tier the US is.
There is a historical precedence for going somewhere and then not going back for a while.
The first English colony in North America was established in 1585 at Roanoke, a second voyage there in 1590 found it missing, there was not an attempt by the English to colonize North America again until 1607. And going to North America from western Europe was much, much easier than going from the Earth to the Moon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_colonization_of_North_America
Funding was slashed in 1968-'72 because of the increasing cost of the Vietnam War and costs of implementing LBJ's Great Society program. The Democratic Senators who had the power to cut NASA (like Mondale), went out of their way to go after it's funding for the Great Society programs. By the time Nixon took the White House, he ramped up Vietnam to force the North to the peace talks (which worked by late 1972) and the Democrats hated him, so there was very little he could push.
We are lucky Congress didn't close NASA down from '72-'77
Israeli Kibbutz communism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz
No, they aren't, but I see you don't understand that there are different classes of devices.
The Kindle Fire competes against the Nook, that Sony e-reader/media player and other Kindles. The iPad competes against low end laptops, netbooks, Windows, Blackberry and Android tablets.
Like how the Hyundai Sonata competes with the Honda Accord and Volkswagon Passat while the Camaro competes with the Genesis Coupe, Dodge Challenger, and Ford Mustang, and while both the Sonata and Camaro both have resale value on Ebay, they are not in the same class.
You are still comparing apples to oranges with the Fire and iPad.
There was never an 8GB iPad, there was never a 7" iPad. If Apple had a 7" iPad and smaller storage model, they might have gotten the price down into the Fire's area of $200-250, but they didn't, so you can't compare the two.
It's like comparing a Sonata to a Camaro, the devices are so different they are in different classes.
Lets take a 1st Generation iPad and compare to the Fire
iPad
9.7" display
16 GB
WiFi
680 g
$499
Amazon Kindle Fire
7" display
8 GB
WiFi
413 g
$199
There is no product called an "iTouch" that works with AirPlay. Unless you mean an iPod Touch. If you don't know the name of a product, how can you argue the merits of a product?
2nd Generation iPod Touch was released on September 9, 2008, so its not possible to be a "4-year-old model"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-25C_Titan_II#Service_history
53 dead in 1965, 2 in 1978, 1 in 1980
Yes, those bombs on bombers, missiles at sea and in the ground have kept the world from having a global war for the last 60+ years.
MAD really did bring stability to the world, events that might have triggered large wars, Cuban Missile Crisis, invasion of Hungary, invasion of Czechoslovakia, Suez Crisis, Yom Kippur War, fall of Saigon, Straight of Taiwan crisis, Korean War, were all tempered by the knowledge that escalation would lead to hundreds of millions of deaths.
Look at the 30 Years War, the Coalition Wars, World War 1, World War 2 and the death and instability those caused, then look at the world since MAD started, it's much more stable.
There is no "quick fueling" with Minuteman or Peacekeepers, they are all solid fuel rockets.
The Minotaur IV vehicle consists of four stages (three from the LGM-118 Peacekeeper) and is capable of placing 1,735 kilograms (3,830 lb) of payload into a Low Earth Orbit (LEO). So it'd not be that valuable for getting stuff to ISS. Progress can get 2,350 kg (5,200 lb) to ISS, ESA's ATV can get 7,667 kg (16,900 lb) to ISS.
The missiles are being converted over to Minotaurs as they are needed, so they aren't just "collecting dust".
iPad composite output is $40 extra.
And comparing a 64GB iPad at $699-829 to this Fire is apples and oranges. Why not just throw up the specs for a MacBook Air and compare the Fire to that?
I read all five Song of Fire and Ice novels and the Herman Khan biography on my iPad this summer.
Sorry, 787 is 50% composite.
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/787family/programfacts.html
A380 is 20% composites and B-787 is 29%.
Warships are usually degaussed before a deployment and it can be and has been used in ships as large as a battleship. Carriers might be carrying electromagnetic coils as they did in WW2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deperming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degaussing
No, the 747 from 1969 is the 747-100, almost all are retired.
Most 747s you see now are 747-200s and -400s, from the 1980s through production today.
CIA, NSA, NRO don't report to the Secretary of Defense or DoD, they report to the President of the United States.
Intelligence for the Department of Defense is from the branch intelligence services. For example, INSCOM
http://www.inscom.army.mil/Default.aspx?text=off&size=12pt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Military_Intelligence