I've never seen a project more stupid than this... Spend the absurd amount of described resources and time to build a... probe? WHF?
With these resources would be much more useful to make an entire lunar base, and use it as a starting point to build things less extravagant and more realistic.
Hum... So it might work. Serious, I would like to have a BIOS more "smart" and without bugs, but it needs to make all the hardware work 100% out of the box, without having to scour half of the Internet for obscure hacks. This is acceptable for a new user application, but it is unacceptable for something that is the heart and soul of the motherboard.
The problem is not the CPU support, is support for the motherboard... I went to see a list of motherboards "compatible" on Coreboot site and after seeing the definition of "compatible", I concluded that it would be madness to use Coreboot on any motherboard, especially if a newer type.
Do not get me wrong, but if that Coreboot want to replace the BIOS of a motherboard then it should necessarily be 100% compatible, nothing less. How can they say that for example the Coreboot is compatible with the Asus A8N-E, when only one SATA port works and PCI-E 16X do not work?
It is one possible version, nobody said that it's really like that. Reread what I wrote and you will see that I commented that can be something entirely new.
If the plan is the enemy attention on the loud-ass ones and failing to hear the super-secret helicopter above then, why not? But read the other comments. The Chinooks arrived after the attack, not before. And there is the possibility of Chinnoks versions are also "stealth", then most people only listen when they are close enough compared to a conventional Chinnok.
I know. But in this particular case, the Chinooks may only need to be difficult to see on radar, as the attack is carried by the smaller attack helicopters and the Chinnoks came close only to pick up the soldiers. And you do not need to make the aircraft totally silent, only the sufficient to get close enougth to when the enemy can hear you, you already have then on sigths.
Think that a normal helicopter makes enougth noise to you locate then miles away. But when you can hear the "stealth" version, he is already above you.
I agree. They just needed the element of surprise until the moment of the first attack (and for that stealth helicopters), after that then no longer had to be sneaky. Then after that they could use Chinooks to have more cargo capacity, could eventually have to bring more stuff than the soldiers of the attack and may have had to evacuate the soldiers if one of the attack helicopters was lost, as happened.
And the author from the blog where I found the image of what could be the "stealth hawk" have a interesting theory: To ensure they got to the house without being noticed by the Pakistanis, it is possible that the Chinnoks were also stealth versions.
Noise reduction, reduction of RCS, reduction of IR... When the enemy realizes that you're near, it is too late to react. It worked, as when the occupants of the house realized what was happening it was too late to try to escape.
Read the source blog... The artist drew the door open, but it is obvious that in flight it would be closed (the blog author also makes this observation in the comments)
Noise reduction in this case is only part of the intriguing things in this helicopter. Never came across something that is probably something completely new and never wanted to know more about it?
Funny, not long ago that a certain president said it would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. And he succeeded.
SpaceX does not have the technology to get to Mars yet. But as in the Apollo program, is a matter of time and will.
I would not be so sure that communication faster than light is "impossible". Remember that the speed limit applies to things that may have mass and/or are moving from point A to point B. If you get a communication system that does not involve moving something with or without mass from one point to another, then how you would apply a speed limit on something that does not move?
1) Where I can buy one?
2) Can be controlled by USB or radio link?
3) Can be equipped with solid-state kilowatt-class lasers?
4) Can deal with my neighbors?
5) A optional rocket launcher interface would be useful
Redirect the trillions of dollars that governments around the world have used to save the skin of bankers in the U.S. mortgage crisis for space research. Problem solved.
The fun of the game is to create things, not destroy them as is done in an FPS. And about the graphics, a game don't need to have crysis-like graphics to be fun. Have you ever seen such a crazy guy who made a real scale NCC-1701 ENTERPRISE on Minecraft? That would be quite impossible in other games. I can build a entire city in real scale, this is quite interesting to creative people.
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I've never seen a project more stupid than this ... Spend the absurd amount of described resources and time to build a ... probe? WHF?
With these resources would be much more useful to make an entire lunar base, and use it as a starting point to build things less extravagant and more realistic.
Hum... So it might work. Serious, I would like to have a BIOS more "smart" and without bugs, but it needs to make all the hardware work 100% out of the box, without having to scour half of the Internet for obscure hacks. This is acceptable for a new user application, but it is unacceptable for something that is the heart and soul of the motherboard.
Did I miss something?
The problem is not the CPU support, is support for the motherboard... I went to see a list of motherboards "compatible" on Coreboot site and after seeing the definition of "compatible", I concluded that it would be madness to use Coreboot on any motherboard, especially if a newer type.
Do not get me wrong, but if that Coreboot want to replace the BIOS of a motherboard then it should necessarily be 100% compatible, nothing less. How can they say that for example the Coreboot is compatible with the Asus A8N-E, when only one SATA port works and PCI-E 16X do not work?
It is one possible version, nobody said that it's really like that. Reread what I wrote and you will see that I commented that can be something entirely new.
If the plan is the enemy attention on the loud-ass ones and failing to hear the super-secret helicopter above then, why not? But read the other comments. The Chinooks arrived after the attack, not before. And there is the possibility of Chinnoks versions are also "stealth", then most people only listen when they are close enough compared to a conventional Chinnok.
I know. But in this particular case, the Chinooks may only need to be difficult to see on radar, as the attack is carried by the smaller attack helicopters and the Chinnoks came close only to pick up the soldiers. And you do not need to make the aircraft totally silent, only the sufficient to get close enougth to when the enemy can hear you, you already have then on sigths.
Think that a normal helicopter makes enougth noise to you locate then miles away. But when you can hear the "stealth" version, he is already above you.
I agree. They just needed the element of surprise until the moment of the first attack (and for that stealth helicopters), after that then no longer had to be sneaky.
Then after that they could use Chinooks to have more cargo capacity, could eventually have to bring more stuff than the soldiers of the attack and may have had to evacuate the soldiers if one of the attack helicopters was lost, as happened.
And the author from the blog where I found the image of what could be the "stealth hawk" have a interesting theory: To ensure they got to the house without being noticed by the Pakistanis, it is possible that the Chinnoks were also stealth versions.
Noise reduction, reduction of RCS, reduction of IR ... When the enemy realizes that you're near, it is too late to react. It worked, as when the occupants of the house realized what was happening it was too late to try to escape.
Read the source blog... The artist drew the door open, but it is obvious that in flight it would be closed (the blog author also makes this observation in the comments)
Who mod this guy as "interesting"?
Noise reduction in this case is only part of the intriguing things in this helicopter. Never came across something that is probably something completely new and never wanted to know more about it?
Open an enormous crater in the middle of a city? This is often understood as an act of war.
According to several sources were four helicopters, two of these Chinooks. Perhaps it was these two that it shook the windows
Only now it appeared on Slashdot? And below a picture of the possible appearance of the helicopter:
http://cencio4.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/stealth-black-hawk-down-revised-sketch/
And the worst part, the world have many good reasons to hate the north-americans.
And ready the shotgun (and lots of ammo) for the first wave of patent troils.
Funny, not long ago that a certain president said it would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. And he succeeded.
SpaceX does not have the technology to get to Mars yet. But as in the Apollo program, is a matter of time and will.
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I would not be so sure that communication faster than light is "impossible". Remember that the speed limit applies to things that may have mass and/or are moving from point A to point B. If you get a communication system that does not involve moving something with or without mass from one point to another, then how you would apply a speed limit on something that does not move?
Why two lasers (see option 3)? You need to have anti-aircraft lasers too? :)
1) Where I can buy one?
2) Can be controlled by USB or radio link?
3) Can be equipped with solid-state kilowatt-class lasers?
4) Can deal with my neighbors?
5) A optional rocket launcher interface would be useful
Graphical calculator? When I was in college, resulting graphs of the equations were made with a ruler and pencil.
Redirect the trillions of dollars that governments around the world have used to save the skin of bankers in the U.S. mortgage crisis for space research. Problem solved.
The fun of the game is to create things, not destroy them as is done in an FPS. And about the graphics, a game don't need to have crysis-like graphics to be fun. Have you ever seen such a crazy guy who made a real scale NCC-1701 ENTERPRISE on Minecraft? That would be quite impossible in other games. I can build a entire city in real scale, this is quite interesting to creative people.