460 watts assumes you are powering an IDE drive, CD rom, floppy, and four SCSI drives. Also assumes you are using the AGP pro slot which requires an extra 100 watts of power as per the AGP pro standard. Never will happen in a 1u rack. Use a 300 watt and you will be fine.
A $330 ata raid controller has an onboard risc processor and slots for SDRAM. For $330 you get native raid 5 support and the peace of mind knowing when your OS fails, the raid array maintains it's integrity. Your OS hard crashes running software raid and you loose the raid array too. Software RAID gives you all of the speed and none of the reliability of a real raid array. For $150 you can get one of the 4 channel ATA controllers with software raid built in. That's like having a winmodem. Just a dumn hardware interface with software hooks that uses exorbinant systen resources just to communicate at 56k. I'll take a $90 dollar US Robotics modem and a $330 ATA RAID controller any day. Tell me what software rendering looks like in comparison to a GeForce 3 Ti. I'll take my RAID in hardware, Thank you.
If it is possible for quantum computers to look sideways into parallel universes to perform their calculations and evolution dictates that any lifeform that does not take full advantage of its enviroment will not survive to procreate then humans must have a latent ability to percieve parallel worlds too.
If it is possible to utilize parallel processing then life would have had to evolve the ability to take advantage of that.
Since we don't all have ESP then quantum computers are bullshit.
And no, we don't want to hear about the dog in the UK that knows when its owner has made the decision to come home.
Everyone starts with all the units they will ever have. No out building your opponent. Strategy would come in pre-game troop placement and in game movements. Each side should have a superweapon capable of taking out a mass rush making dispersion a necessity. Eliminates mass rushes and early buildouts. Perhaps resource gathering would be included just to stay alive. Just like real life. Losing your superweapon is like loosing your Queen. You will not be long for this world, but might still force a stalemate.
ATI has nothing to gain by suppressing their other scores.. Double blind this test: change "3dmark2001" to "Quake3" and see if it runs faster. Then we would know if it was ATI optimizing for quake3 or Carmack lending some friendly help, suppressing other games frame rates to claim himself game coder king. And don't think for a moment that he doesn't have millions riding on this. If UT had the frame rate of Q3A, Think of how much they could have made selling their engine instead of Carmack making the dough selling his engine.
How great! I was just looking for something that would do this. I work for a school district (all macs) but had 90+ intel boxen donated since the dot bomb (District is in norcal). Now all I have to do is make a PC seamlessly boot into a mac enviroment. That should be easier than trying to teach 200 teachers windows or linux!
Anyone seen a carrot? $40 billion in war chest funds could buy a lot of carrots. That is about $1,500 per Arab in Afganistan or about 6 times their GNP per capita. Twice the total value of everything in the country. Lots of carrots. A trust fund would instantly tripple their standard of living. Lots of tractors, roads and telephones or 80 million sheep. 3 sheep for every man woman and child in Afganistan. All we have are sticks. I guess we could start by killing all their sheep. They each have one now. We might have to give carrots to everyone who threatened terrorism against us though.. Yes, blasting them to glass is a much better solution than being held hostage to terrorist.. Something to think about.
Oh, thank god. What are we going to do without a 2.2ghz $2000 processor... Oh, get an athlon at 100 bucks a pop? ok! G5 anyone?
"This is more than likely about shortening the qualification cycle and saving the customers a bit of money"
That man is living a large at 4:20.
Saving us money? whatever. It's a damn corporation in trouble. The last thing they are thinking is saving us money. Hell with 4:20, the man's on crack.
Handing the president carte blanche in a moment of anger is exactly the mistake that led the United States into the Vietnam War...
Handing the president carte blanche in a moment of anger is exactly the mistake that led to the nazi party and hitler's rise to power following world war one.
Their constitution stipulated that in the event of a national emergency, the president would get nearly absolute power.
In the absence of respect for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as we are witnessing in this country, we are facing a similar threat to the rule of law.
Carefull no one gives them the idea of a terrorist amendment. There is currently enough bi-partisanship on the issue to do some REAL damage to the country
What makes this any different from a base bleed boat tail artillary shell? Again DARPA misses the mark. And if the Auroura is not a scramjet, what is it? This test is smoke and mirrors.
Sort of like the guy just pretending he has courage, throwing himself on a grenade to save his friends, seti@home (currently at 22.13 TeraFLOPs/sec) is a great model for getting the job done. Distributed/centralized doesn't matter. That's more work being done than any other known computer ever. When the goal is a powerful computer, semantics are trivial. Perhaps linking all current research computers into a client/server relationship would be superior to a distributed system spanning the continent. Cheaper. Not as sexy. No big budget or bureaucratic opportunities. Never happen. Never mind
Out late on a saturday night and I saw the best meteor I've ever seen. Get home and the shower is posted to slashdot. Neat. God it was a great meteor. Nice thick bright trail looked like a fat straight lightning bolt. It was leaving little secondary sparks and seemed to fork at the very end. Beautiful.
"The DTF will be the largest, most comprehensive infrastructure ever deployed for scientific research"
"creating the 13.6-teraflops system--the most powerful distributed computing system ever"
OK, what exactly does that make seti@home? 16.98 TeraFLOPs/sec as I write this, distributed computing system, scientific research... What am I missing?
5.86 Gflops per processor (We can assume marketing fud value) at $3,300 Compared to the Athlon 1.4 with a peak of 1.37 Gflops (benched value) for $145. Keep in mind the nifty PCI card that has 4 G4 processors on it. That would make for 92 processors at 1Gflop each in just one box.
Unfortunately, this seems to mark Intel's latest attempt to push an overpriced, substandard product at us. The P4 was crippled from the begining and is only just now begining to show any promise. The PIII at 1.13 and 1.2 Ghz is finally available 8 months after the recall of their failed 1.13 processor. Even their purchase of Alpha from compaq seems to be just stock propping because the original creators of the alpha are now working for AMD. The reason Compaq was willing to sell in the first place is the second generation alpha has been subjected to over three years of delays because they simply did not have the engineering talent to improve a ten year old design.
The talented engineeers are working for AMD, built the athlon and are working on the sledgehammer.
Before anyone jumps to Intel's defence, like they need defending as long as they are the 800 pound gorilla, keep this in mind:
Craig Barret warned "This was a year of record annual revenue and earnings; yet, slowing economic conditions impacted fourth quarter growth and are causing near-termuncertainty,". He was faced with AMD going from 10% market share to 34% market share in a year. Wall street took barret's word as gospel that the entire market was in decline and not just Intel's market share. Intel is a market bellwether so we all got laid off. Just so Intel would not have to admit that AMD had a better product. Nasty business. Intel does not have a great product and they are reckless with their power.
Yep, all operating systems will eventually be identicle. Powerfull "features", look and feel, form and function will be the same. As long as they are all expected to attach to the same internet they have to be the same. But OS(x),Win(x) et. al. will never have Linux's price point.
This reminds me of something I've been meaning to run by the/. gurus:
Let's say there are a bunch of clients running microsoft.net. Is it possible through ip spoofing etc. that Microsoft will not be selling time on their application servers at all but using our hardware and our bandwith to provide services to eachother? I have to run application (x), It requires a given amount of resources that I do not have onsite because I have a crippled client. I request resources from microsoft, they sell me the time and bandwidth from someone else's idle machine. Just like a distributed computing effort. Eventually, Microsoft would not even have the costs associated with running servers at all except for passport. Running my little client, I would see all this data arrive from a single IP since XP can spoof an IP. I cannot tell when my machine is acting as a server for someone else because the two "personal" firewalls that monitor outgoing traffic have been mysteriously disabled. Napster has shown that this sort of model is completely funtional. Microsoft is going to sell time on our computers back to us. It is a beautiful model for distributed computing, giving everyone access to a globaly shared beowulf cluster. Is your processor working 100% all the time? Are there times when you wished you had a hell of a lot more processing power? Do you use all your drive space all the time? Wouldn't you like to store your data encrypted on a global raid array? Need any file at all? Someone has it. Want to avoid redundant effort? Someone has done your work, and better than you could do it. Neat concepts except we could do it for ourselves for free and microsoft wants to charge us for the privelage.
We may now know why Balmer was jumping around like a monkey and bellowing the incredibly arrogant phrase "give it up for me!!".
Taking our culture from us and selling it back to us. RIAA,MPAA,Microsoft,AOL
Any military post exchange will help you figure out the real cost of a CD. They are required to sell everything with exactly a 5% murkup over wholesale cost. Since they order in incredible volume, Prices are close to actual manufacturing/distribution/royalty cost. Classical music, with it's inherant lack of copywrite, costs about $3.50 a cd. Popular music cost $9.95 to $11.35 per CD. You can check which retailers are engaging in predatory pricing by comparing what you know they purchased an item for with what their actual price is. Walmart is predetory in the organizer (you know that rubbermaid crap) department. Miller's Outpost is predatory on Levi's 501s. Home depot is predatory on cheap almost tools like flashlights cordless screwdriver bits. Everyone walks away from these places thinking "Such cool stuff so cheap". They stop shopping at their local hardware/clothing/five & dime. When the local places fold, Prices at these giant retailers almost exactly double within a few weeks. Point being, CDs should all sell for just under 4 bucks but the distribution is a world wide monopoly. We all loved how easy it was to walk into tower/warehouse/glossy mall music store instead of rummaging through your local cluttered record shop and now the indepedent record shops are by and large extinct. Same for books, computers, food, and damn near everything else we buy. The record companies did not do this to us. We did it to ourselves. They played by the rules by and large. We followed like sheep because they saved us time. We need the time because one 40 hour a week job does not support a family. A 40 hour a week job doesn't support a family because we purchase double price commodities on pay for it twice credit. Sheep Baaaa Baaaa Baaaa
I have installed quite a few dsl lines PPPoE and normal, all through Pacbell. PPPoE is used by ISPs to gain greater control over the services they offer their customers. The bad kind of control.
To paste some junk from the maker of the PPPoE client that SBC uses:
"It also allows for ISPs to resell the same line multiple times"
wtf?
"Instead of having the connection automatically occur when your computer boots (using DHCP to obtain an address), you will have to connect using Access Manager"
like a f-ing dialup.
"When you are finished, or when you've been idle for an undisclosed period of time, the client will (or might) disconnect you and you will need to reconnect to use the Internet again"
in the middle of a download and disconnected again.
"The definition of the protocol points to a 5-10% decrease in bandwidth"
I can promise you it is worse than that. 5% to 10% for an even spread of packet sizes but during a download, when packet sizes are at their largest, each one gets cut in half with additional header and footer information added.
I have never seen better than 65k/s on pacbell ISP using pppoe. ADSL using pac bell for the wire but a competeing isp is able to reach 170k/s from the same location
The process of changing ISPs was a year long horror because Pacbell is not reqired to sell the piece of copper running to your house to a third party since the contingencies of the telecommunications act of 1996 have expired.
Here is how to bypass that:
Without ever warning pacbell that you will change ISPs, have a second normal phoneline installed. Have an independent ISP set up DSL on that line through pacbell by normal means. Cancel Pacbell's DSL and have your old phone number translated to the new line. Cancel service on your old phoneline. Nasty. Expencive. Great non-pacbell DSL.
I think the pacbell execs must think PPPoE is saving them money somehow. So instead of dropping it and becoming competitive, They are playing like the monopoly they are.
Can't we just launch John Hill to the far side of the moon and see how big of a mirror he could cast up there? low grav, plenty of boron and silicone. He wouldn't even need the honey comb. With the honey comb he could probly lift and mount a hundred meter mirror by himself. Hell, that's what a block and tackle is for.
The 1.333 Ghz 266 fsb athlon was released april 1.
The MSI KT7 Turbo is at best a middle of the pack Motherboard. It does not use DDR.
The intel 850 is the best platform available for the p4
This is sort of like saying the ford mustang (P4) is faster than the chevy camero (1.1;200,KT133), therefore it is faster than the corvette(1.333;266AMD760). WRONG
BAD BIASED ARTICLE NO COOKIE! LOOSER INTEL SUCK UP PAID FOR JOURNALISM.
or a fan boy, therefore unpaid suckup double looser stoolie.
Loading missles quikly on the rolling deck of a carrier. Mess that up and you have a broken plane or missle or both and a missle rolling around on deck. considering the huge variety of specialized forklifts currently used, where the design enables finess of one type of missle on one type of hardpoint... ok I won't beat it to death. the military has 9 support people for every man behind a trigger, half of which do nothing but lift and carry. They could possibly get by with 25% less people. since the majority of the military budget is paychecks, can you imagine being able to cut the defence budget 10% or buying 10% more cool (orbital bombers) toys?
This seems to quite clearly put to shame all the designs for "powered soldiers" competeing for the recent DARPA specification. I wonder is it has anything to do with mecha permeating japanese culture? The only solace to be had on the US side of the pond is that nanotechnology seems to be permeating our pop culture.
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460 watts assumes you are powering an IDE drive, CD rom, floppy, and four SCSI drives. Also assumes you are using the AGP pro slot which requires an extra 100 watts of power as per the AGP pro standard. Never will happen in a 1u rack. Use a 300 watt and you will be fine.
A $330 ata raid controller has an onboard risc processor and slots for SDRAM. For $330 you get native raid 5 support and the peace of mind knowing when your OS fails, the raid array maintains it's integrity. Your OS hard crashes running software raid and you loose the raid array too. Software RAID gives you all of the speed and none of the reliability of a real raid array. For $150 you can get one of the 4 channel ATA controllers with software raid built in. That's like having a winmodem. Just a dumn hardware interface with software hooks that uses exorbinant systen resources just to communicate at 56k. I'll take a $90 dollar US Robotics modem and a $330 ATA RAID controller any day. Tell me what software rendering looks like in comparison to a GeForce 3 Ti. I'll take my RAID in hardware, Thank you.
Exactly.
ATA raid controller: $330
4*100 Gig drives: $800
RAID 5 backup: cheaper than tape
If it is possible for quantum computers to look sideways into parallel universes to perform their calculations and evolution dictates that any lifeform that does not take full advantage of its enviroment will not survive to procreate then humans must have a latent ability to percieve parallel worlds too.
If it is possible to utilize parallel processing then life would have had to evolve the ability to take advantage of that.
Since we don't all have ESP then quantum computers are bullshit.
And no, we don't want to hear about the dog in the UK that knows when its owner has made the decision to come home.
Everyone starts with all the units they will ever have. No out building your opponent. Strategy would come in pre-game troop placement and in game movements. Each side should have a superweapon capable of taking out a mass rush making dispersion a necessity. Eliminates mass rushes and early buildouts. Perhaps resource gathering would be included just to stay alive. Just like real life. Losing your superweapon is like loosing your Queen. You will not be long for this world, but might still force a stalemate.
ATI has nothing to gain by suppressing their other scores.. Double blind this test: change "3dmark2001" to "Quake3" and see if it runs faster. Then we would know if it was ATI optimizing for quake3 or Carmack lending some friendly help, suppressing other games frame rates to claim himself game coder king. And don't think for a moment that he doesn't have millions riding on this. If UT had the frame rate of Q3A, Think of how much they could have made selling their engine instead of Carmack making the dough selling his engine.
How great! I was just looking for something that would do this. I work for a school district (all macs) but had 90+ intel boxen donated since the dot bomb (District is in norcal). Now all I have to do is make a PC seamlessly boot into a mac enviroment. That should be easier than trying to teach 200 teachers windows or linux!
Anyone seen a carrot? $40 billion in war chest funds could buy a lot of carrots. That is about $1,500 per Arab in Afganistan or about 6 times their GNP per capita. Twice the total value of everything in the country. Lots of carrots. A trust fund would instantly tripple their standard of living. Lots of tractors, roads and telephones or 80 million sheep. 3 sheep for every man woman and child in Afganistan. All we have are sticks. I guess we could start by killing all their sheep. They each have one now. We might have to give carrots to everyone who threatened terrorism against us though.. Yes, blasting them to glass is a much better solution than being held hostage to terrorist.. Something to think about.
Oh, thank god. What are we going to do without a 2.2ghz $2000 processor... Oh, get an athlon at 100 bucks a pop? ok! G5 anyone?
"This is more than likely about shortening the qualification cycle and saving the customers a bit of money"
That man is living a large at 4:20.
Saving us money? whatever. It's a damn corporation in trouble. The last thing they are thinking is saving us money. Hell with 4:20, the man's on crack.
Handing the president carte blanche in a moment of anger is exactly the mistake that led the United States into the Vietnam War...
Handing the president carte blanche in a moment of anger is exactly the mistake that led to the nazi party and hitler's rise to power following world war one.
Their constitution stipulated that in the event of a national emergency, the president would get nearly absolute power.
In the absence of respect for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as we are witnessing in this country, we are facing a similar threat to the rule of law.
Carefull no one gives them the idea of a terrorist amendment. There is currently enough bi-partisanship on the issue to do some REAL damage to the country
668, 664 Neighbors of the beast
667, 665 across the street from the beast
66.6% drop in the value of your home when the beast moves in next door.
We can just spam 'em with our affadavits! Yeah that will get our point across... .. . Never mind.
What makes this any different from a base bleed boat tail artillary shell? Again DARPA misses the mark. And if the Auroura is not a scramjet, what is it? This test is smoke and mirrors.
Sort of like the guy just pretending he has courage, throwing himself on a grenade to save his friends, seti@home (currently at 22.13 TeraFLOPs/sec) is a great model for getting the job done. Distributed/centralized doesn't matter. That's more work being done than any other known computer ever. When the goal is a powerful computer, semantics are trivial. Perhaps linking all current research computers into a client/server relationship would be superior to a distributed system spanning the continent. Cheaper. Not as sexy. No big budget or bureaucratic opportunities. Never happen. Never mind
Out late on a saturday night and I saw the best meteor I've ever seen. Get home and the shower is posted to slashdot. Neat. God it was a great meteor. Nice thick bright trail looked like a fat straight lightning bolt. It was leaving little secondary sparks and seemed to fork at the very end. Beautiful.
"creating the 13.6-teraflops system--the most powerful distributed computing system ever"
OK, what exactly does that make seti@home? 16.98 TeraFLOPs/sec as I write this, distributed computing system, scientific research... What am I missing?
Unfortunately, this seems to mark Intel's latest attempt to push an overpriced, substandard product at us. The P4 was crippled from the begining and is only just now begining to show any promise. The PIII at 1.13 and 1.2 Ghz is finally available 8 months after the recall of their failed 1.13 processor. Even their purchase of Alpha from compaq seems to be just stock propping because the original creators of the alpha are now working for AMD. The reason Compaq was willing to sell in the first place is the second generation alpha has been subjected to over three years of delays because they simply did not have the engineering talent to improve a ten year old design.
The talented engineeers are working for AMD, built the athlon and are working on the sledgehammer.
Before anyone jumps to Intel's defence, like they need defending as long as they are the 800 pound gorilla, keep this in mind:
Craig Barret warned "This was a year of record annual revenue and earnings; yet, slowing economic conditions impacted fourth quarter growth and are causing near-termuncertainty,". He was faced with AMD going from 10% market share to 34% market share in a year. Wall street took barret's word as gospel that the entire market was in decline and not just Intel's market share. Intel is a market bellwether so we all got laid off. Just so Intel would not have to admit that AMD had a better product. Nasty business. Intel does not have a great product and they are reckless with their power.
Looks like the win CE marketeers are alive again. First bluetooth now this.
Yep, all operating systems will eventually be identicle. Powerfull "features", look and feel, form and function will be the same. As long as they are all expected to attach to the same internet they have to be the same. But OS(x),Win(x) et. al. will never have Linux's price point.
/. gurus:
This reminds me of something I've been meaning to run by the
Let's say there are a bunch of clients running microsoft.net. Is it possible through ip spoofing etc. that Microsoft will not be selling time on their application servers at all but using our hardware and our bandwith to provide services to eachother? I have to run application (x), It requires a given amount of resources that I do not have onsite because I have a crippled client. I request resources from microsoft, they sell me the time and bandwidth from someone else's idle machine. Just like a distributed computing effort. Eventually, Microsoft would not even have the costs associated with running servers at all except for passport. Running my little client, I would see all this data arrive from a single IP since XP can spoof an IP. I cannot tell when my machine is acting as a server for someone else because the two "personal" firewalls that monitor outgoing traffic have been mysteriously disabled. Napster has shown that this sort of model is completely funtional. Microsoft is going to sell time on our computers back to us. It is a beautiful model for distributed computing, giving everyone access to a globaly shared beowulf cluster. Is your processor working 100% all the time? Are there times when you wished you had a hell of a lot more processing power? Do you use all your drive space all the time? Wouldn't you like to store your data encrypted on a global raid array? Need any file at all? Someone has it. Want to avoid redundant effort? Someone has done your work, and better than you could do it. Neat concepts except we could do it for ourselves for free and microsoft wants to charge us for the privelage.
We may now know why Balmer was jumping around like a monkey and bellowing the incredibly arrogant phrase "give it up for me!!".
Taking our culture from us and selling it back to us. RIAA,MPAA,Microsoft,AOL
Nasty, Nasty, Nasty, Nasty. Fuck I hate This
Any military post exchange will help you figure out the real cost of a CD. They are required to sell everything with exactly a 5% murkup over wholesale cost. Since they order in incredible volume, Prices are close to actual manufacturing/distribution/royalty cost. Classical music, with it's inherant lack of copywrite, costs about $3.50 a cd. Popular music cost $9.95 to $11.35 per CD. You can check which retailers are engaging in predatory pricing by comparing what you know they purchased an item for with what their actual price is. Walmart is predetory in the organizer (you know that rubbermaid crap) department. Miller's Outpost is predatory on Levi's 501s. Home depot is predatory on cheap almost tools like flashlights cordless screwdriver bits. Everyone walks away from these places thinking "Such cool stuff so cheap". They stop shopping at their local hardware/clothing/five & dime. When the local places fold, Prices at these giant retailers almost exactly double within a few weeks. Point being, CDs should all sell for just under 4 bucks but the distribution is a world wide monopoly. We all loved how easy it was to walk into tower/warehouse/glossy mall music store instead of rummaging through your local cluttered record shop and now the indepedent record shops are by and large extinct. Same for books, computers, food, and damn near everything else we buy. The record companies did not do this to us. We did it to ourselves. They played by the rules by and large. We followed like sheep because they saved us time. We need the time because one 40 hour a week job does not support a family. A 40 hour a week job doesn't support a family because we purchase double price commodities on pay for it twice credit. Sheep Baaaa Baaaa Baaaa
I have installed quite a few dsl lines PPPoE and normal, all through Pacbell. PPPoE is used by ISPs to gain greater control over the services they offer their customers. The bad kind of control.
To paste some junk from the maker of the PPPoE client that SBC uses:
"It also allows for ISPs to resell the same line multiple times"
wtf?
"Instead of having the connection automatically occur when your computer boots (using DHCP to obtain an address), you will have to connect using Access Manager"
like a f-ing dialup.
"When you are finished, or when you've been idle for an undisclosed period of time, the client will (or might) disconnect you and you will need to reconnect to use the Internet again"
in the middle of a download and disconnected again.
"The definition of the protocol points to a 5-10% decrease in bandwidth"
I can promise you it is worse than that. 5% to 10% for an even spread of packet sizes but during a download, when packet sizes are at their largest, each one gets cut in half with additional header and footer information added.
I have never seen better than 65k/s on pacbell ISP using pppoe. ADSL using pac bell for the wire but a competeing isp is able to reach 170k/s from the same location
The process of changing ISPs was a year long horror because Pacbell is not reqired to sell the piece of copper running to your house to a third party since the contingencies of the telecommunications act of 1996 have expired.
Here is how to bypass that:
Without ever warning pacbell that you will change ISPs, have a second normal phoneline installed. Have an independent ISP set up DSL on that line through pacbell by normal means. Cancel Pacbell's DSL and have your old phone number translated to the new line. Cancel service on your old phoneline. Nasty. Expencive. Great non-pacbell DSL.
I think the pacbell execs must think PPPoE is saving them money somehow. So instead of dropping it and becoming competitive, They are playing like the monopoly they are.
Can't we just launch John Hill to the far side of the moon and see how big of a mirror he could cast up there? low grav, plenty of boron and silicone. He wouldn't even need the honey comb. With the honey comb he could probly lift and mount a hundred meter mirror by himself. Hell, that's what a block and tackle is for.
1.1 Ghz 200fsb Athlon -vs- 1.7 Ghz P4????
The 1.7 was released april 23.
The 1.333 Ghz 266 fsb athlon was released april 1.
The MSI KT7 Turbo is at best a middle of the pack Motherboard. It does not use DDR.
The intel 850 is the best platform available for the p4
This is sort of like saying the ford mustang (P4) is faster than the chevy camero (1.1;200,KT133), therefore it is faster than the corvette(1.333;266AMD760). WRONG
BAD BIASED ARTICLE NO COOKIE! LOOSER INTEL SUCK UP PAID FOR JOURNALISM.
or a fan boy, therefore unpaid suckup double looser stoolie.
-1 flamebait
Loading missles quikly on the rolling deck of a carrier. Mess that up and you have a broken plane or missle or both and a missle rolling around on deck. considering the huge variety of specialized forklifts currently used, where the design enables finess of one type of missle on one type of hardpoint... ok I won't beat it to death. the military has 9 support people for every man behind a trigger, half of which do nothing but lift and carry. They could possibly get by with 25% less people. since the majority of the military budget is paychecks, can you imagine being able to cut the defence budget 10% or buying 10% more cool (orbital bombers) toys?
This seems to quite clearly put to shame all the designs for "powered soldiers" competeing for the recent DARPA specification. I wonder is it has anything to do with mecha permeating japanese culture? The only solace to be had on the US side of the pond is that nanotechnology seems to be permeating our pop culture.