-Stability
-Dare I say "backup"? (it's a pain in the ass - there is NO good solution)
-Email Virus and security vulnerabilities
-Lack of scalable hardware choice
-Lack of cross-platform support (Yes, exchange server supports POP3, etc, but where else can you run MAPI clients - MAPI is required to use any of the nifty features that make Exchange appear attractive, and then you're stuck with Windows only.)
-With Exchange, you don't get that warm fuzzy feeling that you're supporting an industry underdog, in fact, you are propping up a monopolist and proving to Capitalism's detractors that the free-market is broken. (ie. I'm saying if you choose Exchange, you are supporting COMMUNISM!)
-No trust - are you really going to trust that Microsoft doesn't have secret back doors for the NSA (IE's NSAKey anyone?) - or that the hackers that broke into Microsoft didn't insert their own back doors? You can't trust closed-source software. Period.
Is there a PPTP implementation for BSD? (er- Mac OS X)
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"clipart", you could just be looking for say, a specific kink, and find it?
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They are going to kill that poor bastard.
All they have to do is say that he's harboring terrorists or something, and it will be raining cruise missiles.
Of course, he won't have to really be harboring terrorists. Just data, copyrighted by large contributors to the last presidential election.
For something that small, it could just be annihilated in a wink, in the middle of the night. No witnesses, and all evidence at the bottom of the atlantic.
worse still, I've read that astronomers HATE Irridium, because these satellites are exceptionally bright, and have this flaring behavior, which has been known to put a damper on observation.
I don't know if I consider that cheating. It's more of a creative use of a game feature to sucker other players.
Face it, in real life, you'd be using the same kind of tricks to win. You'd be even MORE compelled, because taking a.45 slug in the chest REALLY HURTS.
This is as old as kicking sand in the other guy's eyes. (or maybe kicking someone in the nuts). It's called finding a weakness and exploiting it. It's only cheating if your opponent has no chance of learning and using the same tactic against you. I think the spikes thing was lame, and should have been fixed, because it wasn't an accurate portrayal of reality, which is what a simulation should be striving for.
What, does EVERY frickin rock band have it's own "style" of Metal? Metal? WTF? As far as I can tell, "Metal" was born in the song "Born to be Wild". Most agree that at least the term "Heavy Metal" originated there. It enjoyed a nice 5 or so years, The Guess Who, The Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Iron Butterfly, Dare I say Rush?, then Metal DIED with KISS, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, (just gets worse and worse, doesn't it?) Ratt, (ugh! remember them?) Though a few good bands continued on during this era - Black Sabbath, Van Halen, etc. then, Poison, and all the glam-rock fags.
Metallica, IMHO was the rebirth of metal, but it had mutated into something else, different, a bit more thoughtful and mature, and of course a lot of crappy bands glommed on and killed it again quickly (your Whitesnakes, Panteras, Slayers, and other over-cliched rip offs). Seattle/Grunge kind of revived the style, but again, a whole shitload of crappy copycat bands glommed on and ruined it (like Nirvanna!) And, of course, Metallica had to sell out, the bad half of Pink Floyd kept the name when they split up, and sold out. The Who still rocks I guess, I saw them on the Simpsons the other night (that fat dumb and bald guy sure plays a mean hardball!).
This just all underscores your point, and the point that has been made by EVERY major art movement in western history:
New ideas are born of creativity, and are soon shackled to the slavery of greed. Every major art movement has been a rebellion against the previous movement - which was a rebellion against the one before it, etc. Why all this rebellion? Because as soon as "society" recognizes the creativity, the novelty of the new art, it quickly becomes valuable, and as it becomes valuable, it is commoditized, copied (superficially), and manufactured for the masses, quite often, not containing most of the qualities that made it valuable in the first place. Of course, all of these "copies" need to come up with some sort of superficial definition that makes them different enough from their progeny. "We're not Heavy Metal man, we're something MORE than that, our fascination with death and violence, we're Death and Violence Metal man." Why do you suppose someone would want to rebel against that?
Of course, I should retract my DISsing of KISS. They were pretty much the most bizzarre thing on 8 legs in their day - nothing like them anywhere. (Consider GWAR to be a modern rip-off and extension of KISS). I just didn't like them. But they really did represent an innovation and the beginning of an evolution of the Heavy Metal tradition. It's just unfortunate that that branch of the family spiraled downward and mutated into the whole GOTH craze (as far as I can tell).
Not only that, you pilots grew up playing the Playstation version, so training will be minimal - plus, you don't need perfect physical specimens - they don't have to have perfect eyesight (the camera gets rid of any advantage there), they don't have to be in top condition for resisting high-g maneuvers, nor do they need the extensive survival training.
Basically, you could pull Beavis and Butthead right out of their living room and plop them directly into the console.
There's also the fact that jammers are really easy targets to find and hit.
not when it's an A-6.
Which leads me to another interesting question. If a massive first-assualt type of strike is used, generally, we lead-off with EW, jamming, etc. Blind the enemy first.
But with jamming going on, how could these vehicles participate in the strike?
We will treat it like a snake, find the head, cut it off, and then kill it.
( I remember this, because the analogy broke down when he said that, as if cutting off a snakes head wouldn't kill it already - years later, I read in Scientific American that a severed snake's head can still bite even hours after it was removed)
This discussion was how Colin Powell was going to treat the Iraqi Army's command structure, they used electronic warfare to stop all communication, then attacked all command posts. Cut it off, and then kill it.
It's a pretty obvious battle plan, so he wasn't really revealing anything.
"Or another such novel, where a helicopter avoids detection by an AWACS by following a train."
Wouldn't the JSTAR be able to tell the difference?
I remember one incident in the Gulf War where an Iraqi helicopter was hiding among some buildings at low altitude, and a JSTAR directed an F-15 to drop a laser guided bomb on it. Not an air-to-air missile, not even a radar guided one. It helped that the helicopter wasn't moving though. ..
. . . another really great application of this technology would be to add it to a normal human-piloted plane, in case the pilot is incapacitated by enemy fire, or maybe, needs the AI to take-over if he has to pull a high-g turn to evade fire, and blacks out. Better than nothing, right?
Last month, I had the experience of watching the Thunderbirds in an air show. They did some amazing stuff. I bet that in an air show, these drones would make the Thunderbirds obsolete.
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and after a month of fighting it, you'll want to exchange it for something else!
-Stability
-Dare I say "backup"? (it's a pain in the ass - there is NO good solution)
-Email Virus and security vulnerabilities
-Lack of scalable hardware choice
-Lack of cross-platform support (Yes, exchange server supports POP3, etc, but where else can you run MAPI clients - MAPI is required to use any of the nifty features that make Exchange appear attractive, and then you're stuck with Windows only.)
-With Exchange, you don't get that warm fuzzy feeling that you're supporting an industry underdog, in fact, you are propping up a monopolist and proving to Capitalism's detractors that the free-market is broken. (ie. I'm saying if you choose Exchange, you are supporting COMMUNISM!)
-No trust - are you really going to trust that Microsoft doesn't have secret back doors for the NSA (IE's NSAKey anyone?) - or that the hackers that broke into Microsoft didn't insert their own back doors? You can't trust closed-source software. Period.
what if that's what my employer has set up?
VPN sounds interesting.
Is there a PPTP implementation for BSD? (er- Mac OS X)
"clipart", you could just be looking for say, a specific kink, and find it?
They are going to kill that poor bastard.
All they have to do is say that he's harboring terrorists or something, and it will be raining cruise missiles.
Of course, he won't have to really be harboring terrorists. Just data, copyrighted by large contributors to the last presidential election.
For something that small, it could just be annihilated in a wink, in the middle of the night. No witnesses, and all evidence at the bottom of the atlantic.
Don't expect them to last either.
Speaking as a person who took High School Biology, yes, many fungal spores can live without air, and survive very harsh conditions.
worse still, I've read that astronomers HATE Irridium, because these satellites are exceptionally bright, and have this flaring behavior, which has been known to put a damper on observation.
I don't know if I consider that cheating. It's more of a creative use of a game feature to sucker other players.
.45 slug in the chest REALLY HURTS.
Face it, in real life, you'd be using the same kind of tricks to win. You'd be even MORE compelled, because taking a
This is as old as kicking sand in the other guy's eyes. (or maybe kicking someone in the nuts). It's called finding a weakness and exploiting it. It's only cheating if your opponent has no chance of learning and using the same tactic against you. I think the spikes thing was lame, and should have been fixed, because it wasn't an accurate portrayal of reality, which is what a simulation should be striving for.
DAMN you for having a life!
gee, maybe if they had sold the cell phones and service for pennies on the dollar, they would have been able to keep the business.
Another great idea, destroyed by greed.
shut UP or you'll jinx us, asshole!
then they'd just charge you a buck-fifty for the privilege of using their machine to vote.
What, does EVERY frickin rock band have it's own "style" of Metal? Metal? WTF? As far as I can tell, "Metal" was born in the song "Born to be Wild". Most agree that at least the term "Heavy Metal" originated there. It enjoyed a nice 5 or so years, The Guess Who, The Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Iron Butterfly, Dare I say Rush?, then Metal DIED with KISS, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, (just gets worse and worse, doesn't it?) Ratt, (ugh! remember them?) Though a few good bands continued on during this era - Black Sabbath, Van Halen, etc. then, Poison, and all the glam-rock fags.
Metallica, IMHO was the rebirth of metal, but it had mutated into something else, different, a bit more thoughtful and mature, and of course a lot of crappy bands glommed on and killed it again quickly (your Whitesnakes, Panteras, Slayers, and other over-cliched rip offs). Seattle/Grunge kind of revived the style, but again, a whole shitload of crappy copycat bands glommed on and ruined it (like Nirvanna!) And, of course, Metallica had to sell out, the bad half of Pink Floyd kept the name when they split up, and sold out. The Who still rocks I guess, I saw them on the Simpsons the other night (that fat dumb and bald guy sure plays a mean hardball!).
This just all underscores your point, and the point that has been made by EVERY major art movement in western history:
New ideas are born of creativity, and are soon shackled to the slavery of greed. Every major art movement has been a rebellion against the previous movement - which was a rebellion against the one before it, etc. Why all this rebellion? Because as soon as "society" recognizes the creativity, the novelty of the new art, it quickly becomes valuable, and as it becomes valuable, it is commoditized, copied (superficially), and manufactured for the masses, quite often, not containing most of the qualities that made it valuable in the first place. Of course, all of these "copies" need to come up with some sort of superficial definition that makes them different enough from their progeny. "We're not Heavy Metal man, we're something MORE than that, our fascination with death and violence, we're Death and Violence Metal man." Why do you suppose someone would want to rebel against that?
Of course, I should retract my DISsing of KISS. They were pretty much the most bizzarre thing on 8 legs in their day - nothing like them anywhere. (Consider GWAR to be a modern rip-off and extension of KISS). I just didn't like them. But they really did represent an innovation and the beginning of an evolution of the Heavy Metal tradition. It's just unfortunate that that branch of the family spiraled downward and mutated into the whole GOTH craze (as far as I can tell).
Not only that, you pilots grew up playing the Playstation version, so training will be minimal - plus, you don't need perfect physical specimens - they don't have to have perfect eyesight (the camera gets rid of any advantage there), they don't have to be in top condition for resisting high-g maneuvers, nor do they need the extensive survival training.
Basically, you could pull Beavis and Butthead right out of their living room and plop them directly into the console.
sorry 'bout that old bean. . .
No, it was when Ooog the caveman ordered his little brother, Ooogoo, to go kill the cavemen across the valley with a stone axe.
The ethical dilemma lies with the person giving the orders, not with the mindless machine that follows them.
There's also the fact that jammers are really easy targets to find and hit.
not when it's an A-6.
Which leads me to another interesting question. If a massive first-assualt type of strike is used, generally, we lead-off with EW, jamming, etc. Blind the enemy first.
But with jamming going on, how could these vehicles participate in the strike?
it was more along the lines of:
We will treat it like a snake, find the head, cut it off, and then kill it.
( I remember this, because the analogy broke down when he said that, as if cutting off a snakes head wouldn't kill it already - years later, I read in Scientific American that a severed snake's head can still bite even hours after it was removed)
This discussion was how Colin Powell was going to treat the Iraqi Army's command structure, they used electronic warfare to stop all communication, then attacked all command posts. Cut it off, and then kill it.
It's a pretty obvious battle plan, so he wasn't really revealing anything.
They can be designed to be essentially disposable, perfectly aerodynamic, lighter, highly
maneuverable, and with a minimal radar signature...
and potentially, MUCH smaller. . .
bounce the signal off an AWACS (or similarly equipped plane - with an Apple AirPort Base Station. . . :-)
"Or another such novel, where a helicopter avoids detection by an AWACS by following a train."
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Wouldn't the JSTAR be able to tell the difference?
I remember one incident in the Gulf War where an Iraqi helicopter was hiding among some buildings at low altitude, and a JSTAR directed an F-15 to drop a laser guided bomb on it. Not an air-to-air missile, not even a radar guided one. It helped that the helicopter wasn't moving though. .
. . . another really great application of this technology would be to add it to a normal human-piloted plane, in case the pilot is incapacitated by enemy fire, or maybe, needs the AI to take-over if he has to pull a high-g turn to evade fire, and blacks out. Better than nothing, right?
been there, done that, Cruise Missle, Serbia, Chinese Embassy.
Next?
I just thought of something else.
Last month, I had the experience of watching the Thunderbirds in an air show. They did some amazing stuff. I bet that in an air show, these drones would make the Thunderbirds obsolete.