I don't want them to be destitute, but I wish there was an easy way to make them [anyone who profits via ripping people off] start out again. e.g. Get caught in some price fixing / rip off scheme like this and you're back at uni in a shared room, wondering if your flatmate is going to crap in the sink.
It's not 'cheating' - that type of propulsion/engine simply doesn't work until the craft's body is moving very fast indeed. Any craft wanting to use this type of engine, would require a booster before it could operate [using current technology, maybe at some point in the future, the scramjet could be hybridised with a jet within the same body, who knows].
As to the size, I assume that's because of problems with thermal dissipation - at that speed within the atmosphere, the body is going to get seriously hot. I don't think we have materials capable to handling the heat flux that'd flow through them [or of the strength required at those temperatures] for a large.. ship, but you've got to start somewhere:)
Hey, at least we know this type of engine works.
50 years down the line, this might be 75% of the form of all LEO launches.
I'd agree - what OS or system doesn't take that long to get exploited [e.g. pushing the hardware/OS of old machines] or fixed totally to it's users specifications..
On another note, I do, I suppose, as a developer find it annoying that it does, even with the best people and equiptment take decades to get complex software working.
I suppose rockets, the space shuttle, radio, the hardware[!] etc didn't take longer though. Man, I'll be dead before the OS that superceeds windows gets fixed. Doh.
At no point has this situation not been the case. We get further from and towards it, and to be fair Microsoft has tried to do a tonne to help, but commercial pressure has dictated a million different driver versions, each one responding to different bits of the api's each one needing coding more or less specifically [for commercial games, where you just can't go "Install this driver version!" if you expect good sales with low after sales support].
Graphics programming is a hell of catching up, this is no different to usual.
What it's PR effect is though.. I'm a coder, it's beyond my knowledge. I suspect bad.
I am a manic depressive, and on and off [who knows why] I get terrible problems sleeping - I end up either getting a tiny amount of sleep [1 or 2 hours] or no sleep at all [I know some people are happy with tiny amounts of sleep, but I feel shite with anything less than 7 or 8 hours depending on how hard I'm working].
Sleep is essencial. We may not really understand it, but I'd never want *anyone* to be without it.
A few sites I frequent seem to be out because of this [most notably, and annoyingly, http://ojuice.net]. This has been patched for an age [in computing terms]. It's almost shameful that admins haven't applied the patches by now, ESP after spending a whole lot of money on Microsoft Software - you'd bloody think they'd keep it up to date.
I hate to say this, as most/. readers seem to be so into linux, but what the hell is so hard about the windows api? Platform sdk... read... understand... done. One fucking day is all it takes - it's an OS not dna or 'the brain.
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I don't want them to be destitute, but I wish there was an easy way to make them [anyone who profits via ripping people off] start out again. e.g. Get caught in some price fixing / rip off scheme like this and you're back at uni in a shared room, wondering if your flatmate is going to crap in the sink.
:)
We need some baselines
Post to this if you've suceeded via one of these systems. No point bragging, or giving methods, just reply with a 'yes, I won'.
Anything less than 1000 distinct replies, considering this sites readership, and, how low this'll be moderated, says it's a rip off.
[which it is]
It's not 'cheating' - that type of propulsion/engine simply doesn't work until the craft's body is moving very fast indeed. Any craft wanting to use this type of engine, would require a booster before it could operate [using current technology, maybe at some point in the future, the scramjet could be hybridised with a jet within the same body, who knows].
:)
As to the size, I assume that's because of problems with thermal dissipation - at that speed within the atmosphere, the body is going to get seriously hot. I don't think we have materials capable to handling the heat flux that'd flow through them [or of the strength required at those temperatures] for a large.. ship, but you've got to start somewhere
Hey, at least we know this type of engine works.
50 years down the line, this might be 75% of the form of all LEO launches.
Hey Queeg!
Watching you americans get all worked up about guns is both very *very* amusing and tragically disturbing.
Good luck!
Ah! England pivoting over good 'ole Sheffield steel.. *BANG* Shit!? What's that noise!??
*The sound of the UK sinking into the sea*
I absolutely agree with this. Quite often I'll google for something, *hoping to find a shop that sells the specific thing I'm looking for*
I often wonder why there isn't a central 'business search' server, at least in the UK. Such a thing would be enormously useful.
*I'd buy things off it.*
Yes, but the small problem with this is that once you've got weapons that can selectively kill anyone you want with no misses;
:)
What's to stop you using them?
Morals?
I'd agree - what OS or system doesn't take that long to get exploited [e.g. pushing the hardware/OS of old machines] or fixed totally to it's users specifications..
On another note, I do, I suppose, as a developer find it annoying that it does, even with the best people and equiptment take decades to get complex software working.
I suppose rockets, the space shuttle, radio, the hardware[!] etc didn't take longer though. Man, I'll be dead before the OS that superceeds windows gets fixed. Doh.
At no point has this situation not been the case. We get further from and towards it, and to be fair Microsoft has tried to do a tonne to help, but commercial pressure has dictated a million different driver versions, each one responding to different bits of the api's each one needing coding more or less specifically [for commercial games, where you just can't go "Install this driver version!" if you expect good sales with low after sales support].
Graphics programming is a hell of catching up, this is no different to usual.
What it's PR effect is though.. I'm a coder, it's beyond my knowledge. I suspect bad.
But for those of us who find getting dates easy, are we meant to feel excluded from the world of geek?
I agree.
I am a manic depressive, and on and off [who knows why] I get terrible problems sleeping - I end up either getting a tiny amount of sleep [1 or 2 hours] or no sleep at all [I know some people are happy with tiny amounts of sleep, but I feel shite with anything less than 7 or 8 hours depending on how hard I'm working].
Sleep is essencial. We may not really understand it, but I'd never want *anyone* to be without it.
Fox.
A few sites I frequent seem to be out because of this [most notably, and annoyingly, http://ojuice.net]. This has been patched for an age [in computing terms]. It's almost shameful that admins haven't applied the patches by now, ESP after spending a whole lot of money on Microsoft Software - you'd bloody think they'd keep it up to date.
Here here!
For god's sake, Microsoft provide one of the easiest patching systems in the world - WTF are we getting so many outages from this hole?
Good Doggy!
I hate to say this, as most /. readers seem to be so into linux, but what the hell is so hard about the windows api? Platform sdk... read... understand... done. One fucking day is all it takes - it's an OS not dna or 'the brain.