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  1. Re:Even the Germans... on Linux Notebooks Selling Well On Amazon Germany · · Score: 1

    That depends, do you wear boots?

  2. Re:Even the Germans... on Linux Notebooks Selling Well On Amazon Germany · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not really, people that are still focused on that just have their heads up their asses. I'm German, but damn, I've got a sense of humor.
    What would happen if I said that even Russians make bad choices, or - God forbid - Americans make bad choices, does that get me banned?

    Fuck off people, get a life.

    NOW THAT'S A TROLL WITH FLAMEBAIT.

  3. Re:Even the Germans... on Linux Notebooks Selling Well On Amazon Germany · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Being German, and having a good sense of humor, I would like to know how I'm flamebait and a Troll.

  4. Re:Even the Germans... on Linux Notebooks Selling Well On Amazon Germany · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would like to know how that was a 'Troll', can you even read?

  5. Even the Germans... on Linux Notebooks Selling Well On Amazon Germany · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Make some bad choices. Actually Linux probably outperforms Windows or Mac on low end, and if meets the needs then who is going to argue with it.

  6. Re:They're just raping you... on Are Console Developers Neglecting Their Standard-Def Players? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I got modded down for that? That just goes to show how smart the average mod is. Have at it boys, don't take anything with a grain of salt or anything. I'm not trolling, I'm dead serious, you really are idiots.

  7. Re:They're just raping you... on Are Console Developers Neglecting Their Standard-Def Players? · · Score: 0, Troll

    What kind of mumbling idiot are you? Read my sig, carefully. Repeat as needed.

  8. Re:They're just raping you... on Are Console Developers Neglecting Their Standard-Def Players? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm an avid D'n'D player, that's exactly why I won't fall prey to this trap. For me it's a social occasion, we drink a couple of beers, we have some laughs. It makes an excellent weekend. Oh, I actually get to see my freinds in HD :)

  9. Re:I/O is random? What have you been smoking? on Are RAID Controllers the Next Data Center Bottleneck? · · Score: 1

    With todays technology SSD isn't ready for SSD. It's poorly controlled. How much more of a bottleneck do you need? Does anybody remember the machines with shitloads of RAM and not a HDD in sight?

  10. Bacteria doing math? on Bacterial Computer Solves Hamiltonian Path Problem · · Score: 1

    Are they getting that hard up for grants? What is it, flagellate for a one, don't flagellate for a zero? Everybody get in line so we can read the binary?

  11. Re:right of ways on Electronic Armageddon, and No Electricity Either · · Score: 1

    How much more vulnerable can you get than being vulnerable?

  12. Re:Hmmm on Facebook Lets Advertisers Use Pictures Without Permission · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is bullshit, as usual, you can disable this. It's in the privacy settings. If you leave it open your friends see you as an advertisement. No news here, move along....

  13. They're just raping you... on Are Console Developers Neglecting Their Standard-Def Players? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why pay them to rape you? What the hell on tv is worth watching in HD anyway, it's all crap in low def.... It's the same bullshit for games. They expect us to buy the games because they are HD, they still aren't putting anything what-so-ever into the plot or playability(is that a word?). I for one don't buy games for pretty graphics, I want a good immersion experience. It's lacking all across the board.

  14. Re:As another Canadian let me be the second to say on Canada Considering Online Voting In Elections · · Score: 1
    You're obviously not familiar with epass. It works well enough for taxes, emplyment insurance....
    It's very secure, if the user is careful with his password of course. Every Canadian with a SIN can get one.
    I think you're the one that doesn't

    have enought knowledge about this subject

  15. Re:Control surfaces? on Hitler's Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    Not only does it not have yaw control, I see no evidence of a way to control the pitch. Unless the tail section is similar to the beaver tail on a B-2.

  16. Re:Control surfaces? on Hitler's Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    in any system other than fly-by-wire the use of spoilers is utterly exhausting to the pilot, as far more drag is experienced than with the use of an aileron.

    You are correct there, that should not read fly-by-wire. It should however read assisted.

  17. Re:Control surfaces? on Hitler's Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if the tiny propshaft fairings count as meaningful stabilizers. And neither the N-9M nor the X/YB-35 family had any kind of vertical stabilization.

    Actually both craft did, it's quite plain to see in the photographs. You would be absolutely amazed at what those tiny looking surfaces were actually capable of as far as stabilization goes.

  18. Re:Control surfaces? on Hitler's Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    I don't imagine they do a lot of flight altering with changing thrust, since their engines are so close to center line. Outboard engines would do a lot better for turning an aircraft, although slowly.

    They don't turn the aircraft with the engine thrust or the split rudders. They control the yaw with it.

    all the design diagrams I've seen have the outboard portion noted for yaw and spoiler.

    The diagrams that you have seen are incorrect. They use split rudders. The one image in the link you provided actually has them labelled correctly. I can't seem to link directly to that part of the document but the image is about half way down the page.

  19. Re:Control surfaces? on Hitler's Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1
    I can relate, my aerospace engineering gets me nowhere with the ladies, except the sound of them snoring.
    I usually have to use my ironworking to get the ladies, and to be honest it doesn't work much better :)

    It was my understanding that because of the loads handled by commercial aircraft, they were all technically rated for acrobatics, but it was not listed in their service specs, so a high G maneuver would ground it and require a full airframe inspection after.

    The loads they take are considerably different, and NOWHERE near as brutal on the airframe. The forces experienced in aerobatics are incredible.

  20. Re:Control surfaces? on Hitler's Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    I think you need to re-read what I wrote. Or tell me what part you are misunderstanding :)

  21. Re:Control surfaces? on Hitler's Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1
    Sorry for the double post, I forgot to mention one other thing.

    Some commercial aircraft (Boeing is a big one) use them to augment the ailerons.

    Boeing uses what it calls 'fast acting' spoilers to augment the ailerons, but that is only during a high rate of roll. I have no idea what they consider to be a high rate of roll for an airliner, but I'm pretty sure that it's still much slower than a snap roll :)

  22. Re:Control surfaces? on Hitler's Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    Something like the B-2 uses a pair of thin spoilers close to the wingtips. They create drag, making the aircraft yaw. No rudder required.

    The B-2 doesn't use spoilers to control the yaw of the airframe, it uses split rudders - these are often mistaken as spoilers.
    They don't use the split rudders when they need the stealth features however, for those cases it's simply a matter of alternating the thrust from the jet engines. The reason for this is that the split rudders dramatically increase the radar signature of the aircraft.

  23. Re:Control surfaces? on Hitler's Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    Yes they do, but that is solely the result of computer assistance. Boeing also uses what are called fast acting spoilers to assist the pilot in a high rate of roll.
    The reason that they went with spoilerons on the B-52 G and H type was to reduce the flexing that occured in that long ass wing. However the D type had ailerons.
    It should also be noted that unlike ailerons spoilerons do not control roll by increasing the lift of the wing, they work by inducing drag. But we need to keep in mind that these are specially designed spoilerons, and in an emergency a standard type spoiler will work but in any system other than fly-by-wire the use of spoilers is utterly exhausting to the pilot, as far more drag is experienced than with the use of an aileron.

  24. Re:Control surfaces? on Hitler's Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    The rolling you're talking about was a side effect of the pusher propeller engines and their associated torque on most of the prototypes...

    No, that's incorrect. The aelerons on the wings are what affect roll. One aileron raising forces air to push that side of the wing down, causing the model to roll in that direction. So, to roll right the right aileron raises. They control the airplane around the roll axis. You don't need an empennage(tail section) to control the roll caused by propellers.

    The elevators on the horizontal stabilizer controls pitch on the aircraft. Pitch is illustrated by holding the airplane at each wingtip. Raising or lowering the nose is the pitch movement. This is how the climb or dive is controlled.

    The rudder on the vertical stabilizer is what control the yaw. Yaw is illustrated by hanging the airplane level by a wire located at the center of gravity. Left or right movement of the nose is the Yaw movement.

    The vertical stabilizer itself controls the slip of the aircraft. A slip is an aerodynamic state where an aircraft is moving somewhat sideways as well as forward relative to the oncoming airflow. In other words, for a conventional aircraft, the nose will not be pointing straight into the relative wind (in the side-to-side sense).

  25. Re:Control surfaces? on Hitler's Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    and yes that is a DIG on current pilots, many cant fly if the GPS is not working.

    So all of the training that pilots go through for navigation and instrument flight is what-a pipe dream?
    I guess that Captain Chesley Sullenburger III was just some hack in a suit.
    You might need the GPS to get your head out of your ass.