Read somewhere that the factories themselves (i.e. one large enough to build the beast) were torn down. Also that about half of the plans (the ones that matter) are MIA.
I agree. However conceptualize........one time use capacitors that are supercharged with energy well before firing. Loaded like bullets. Each one discharges for about 1/20th of a second, at 10000 yards carries the equivalent energy of a 37mm A/A round. Each round also packs it own optics. So once it discharges and trashes the optics new eyeballs are ready for the next shot. Each one say the size of a magnum shotgun shell.
A directed energy weapon that spits out used capacitors like an automatic weapon ejects used shell casings.
I just pulled this out of my ass. But it sounds cool, and seems almost plausible.
Incorrect. The shell is scortched and is mechanically scored (i.e. scratched) when leaving the tube. Even if it was as reflective as you say (it isn't) when it was loaded, it certainly isn't when it is fired.
This argument was posited as a countermeasure against ABL. It is not viable for many reasons.
Insurgents try this tactic in Balad (sans gas agents) - firing mortars and rockets from behind terrain and buildings.
Doesn't help - the CIWS (when it is actually turned on) intercepts them regardless. A parabola is a parabola. As soon as it clears the terrain the shell is vulnerable.
All this tactic does is make their indirect fire less accurate. Not that we mind this.
Tell it to the USAF. I now have over 300 hours of "combat" time. Not one frightening moment to show for it, aside from the time I was stuck in Tikrit waiting for a maintenance crew to arrive from Kuwait which took about 50 hours or so not one porta potty in sight.
However, regardless of the number of flares kicked out - be it from manpads or welding sets - combat operations spans the gamut (?) from simply operating from forward bases to actual kinetic strikes.
Not my idea, but this is how they tally these things.
That is not true - I work on a very large C++ project that is well nigh a work of art.
Any one who answers this topic basing their point on lanaguage alone should be 1) modded down, and 2) dissmissed out of hand as being a complete and utter ameteur.
I have a laptop running XP Home that will not enter Standby mode now (after applying this patch), a dlg box pops up claming that a.Net service is preventing the system from entering standby.
One that the Chinese (/Indians/Russians/Japanese/ect) would love for us to take to heart.
You know, there used to be a time when Americans actually studied. Not bitch about how math is hard and useless, how they don't need a college degree to be a decent coder, and how school is a waste of time.
The most patriotic thing you can do for this nation is to educate yourself. All else follows.
Mathematics is more a logical tautology used to overcome the shortcomings of human communication. WHile it would be tempting to call it a metalanguage, and in come contexts it is, it is simply a logical contruct that is utterly meaningless with out the context that only language can frame it within.
"The small guys have tried to fight this re-monopolization of the network infrastructure."
Allow me to finish the statement....
"The small guys have tried to fight this re-monopolization of the network infrastructure, network infrastructure that they did not build or invest capital to build."
we might be going down, but it won't happen in your lifetime. May as well get used to it.
And these days there is no real number one any more. Since the Roman Empire fell, being #1 has meant less and less. America is the last true Numero Uno.... and we have always had a close contender. The next lead will have a pack of runners up who are in the 98th percentile.
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sticking up from my keyboard.
I am odd that way.
The mind boggles at such stupidity.
Read somewhere that the factories themselves (i.e. one large enough to build the beast) were torn down. Also that about half of the plans (the ones that matter) are MIA.
>> When it happens: fuck them if they're not smart enough to figure it out.
They figured it out.
>> I'll give it back when they ask.
They are "asking" in the form of deducting the $ from the accounts in question.
...that looks like a refridgerator.
Badabing!
I agree. However conceptualize.... ....one time use capacitors that are supercharged with energy well before firing. Loaded like bullets. Each one discharges for about 1/20th of a second, at 10000 yards carries the equivalent energy of a 37mm A/A round. Each round also packs it own optics. So once it discharges and trashes the optics new eyeballs are ready for the next shot. Each one say the size of a magnum shotgun shell.
A directed energy weapon that spits out used capacitors like an automatic weapon ejects used shell casings.
I just pulled this out of my ass. But it sounds cool, and seems almost plausible.
Incorrect. The shell is scortched and is mechanically scored (i.e. scratched) when leaving the tube. Even if it was as reflective as you say (it isn't) when it was loaded, it certainly isn't when it is fired.
This argument was posited as a countermeasure against ABL. It is not viable for many reasons.
Insurgents try this tactic in Balad (sans gas agents) - firing mortars and rockets from behind terrain and buildings.
Doesn't help - the CIWS (when it is actually turned on) intercepts them regardless. A parabola is a parabola. As soon as it clears the terrain the shell is vulnerable.
All this tactic does is make their indirect fire less accurate. Not that we mind this.
Tell it to the USAF. I now have over 300 hours of "combat" time. Not one frightening moment to show for it, aside from the time I was stuck in Tikrit waiting for a maintenance crew to arrive from Kuwait which took about 50 hours or so not one porta potty in sight.
However, regardless of the number of flares kicked out - be it from manpads or welding sets - combat operations spans the gamut (?) from simply operating from forward bases to actual kinetic strikes.
Not my idea, but this is how they tally these things.
and life ain't nuthin but bitchez n money.
..I doubt they could.
>> But mostly - flying in, around or above a comabat zone doesn't count as 'combat'.
Actually, it does.
I simply disabled the service. Not a real fix but the annoyance went away.
Or is it the legs that do it for you?
"Pretty" is a relative term. Pretty code to me is robust, fast, maintainable, short, maintainable, readable, and maintainable: in that order.
Personally, I am a tits man.
You are joking, right? Much of the code in the kernel could win IOCCC hands down.
Christ get past tabs, indentation, and nameing standards.
This is not to say it is BAD code, but 'pretty' is not a word most would use to describe it.
That is not true - I work on a very large C++ project that is well nigh a work of art.
Any one who answers this topic basing their point on lanaguage alone should be 1) modded down, and 2) dissmissed out of hand as being a complete and utter ameteur.
I have a laptop running XP Home that will not enter Standby mode now (after applying this patch), a dlg box pops up claming that a .Net service is preventing the system from entering standby.
now there is some irony.
...a WONDERFUL idea!
One that the Chinese (/Indians/Russians/Japanese/ect) would love for us to take to heart.
You know, there used to be a time when Americans actually studied. Not bitch about how math is hard and useless, how they don't need a college degree to be a decent coder, and how school is a waste of time.
The most patriotic thing you can do for this nation is to educate yourself. All else follows.
Hardly.
Mathematics is more a logical tautology used to overcome the shortcomings of human communication. WHile it would be tempting to call it a metalanguage, and in come contexts it is, it is simply a logical contruct that is utterly meaningless with out the context that only language can frame it within.
"The small guys have tried to fight this re-monopolization of the network infrastructure."
Allow me to finish the statement....
"The small guys have tried to fight this re-monopolization of the network infrastructure, network infrastructure that they did not build or invest capital to build."
Not a bad plan actually.
MS take note!
That used to work.
Nowadays, most bosses simply fire back with, "So how much does unemployment pay?"
....our new artifical blackhole Overlords.
we might be going down, but it won't happen in your lifetime. May as well get used to it.
And these days there is no real number one any more. Since the Roman Empire fell, being #1 has meant less and less. America is the last true Numero Uno.... and we have always had a close contender. The next lead will have a pack of runners up who are in the 98th percentile.