hmm you might want to take a closer look at your LCD screen and check for moving parts.
to make things look like they move you just have to print these things at great density and retain the power to turn them on and off at will.
I would say it will certainly be possible to do it with this technology, but by the time it's that developed the established technologies will have moved on a ways and it won't be worth it.
but for a production server doing mail or web or database work?
give me deb every time,
it just sits there and works, and when packages have security issues (as they always will) the update is hassle free.
And you can't say that about anyone else.
on a fast pipe I can have a debian server up and going inside of an hour. And once its up I can forget about it (aside from #apt-get update #apt-get dist-upgrade once a week).
Once every six months they get rebooted to take the new kernel, always without any hassle.
The bosses actually find it reassuring when I tell them the mailserver is coming down for 30 seconds for a reboot to take a new kernel.
So long as they only hear it once every six months.
Debian leaves me free to do my real work.
And putting the 2.4 kernel on is no problem if you really need that functionality.
If you want "vendor confidence & relationships" instead of understanding your system then debian will never be for you.
Personally I trust the debian team a lot more than the board of directors of any other distribution.
The US military funds lots of projects here in Australian academia, nothing shadowy about it, if they develop a good project but need more money to test it.
Trust me the booster rocket they're using on this thing is far, far, beyond any local capacity.
We were the 4th nation to put a payload into orbit but canned the space program in the 70's.
If the US were to launch a ballisitc missile tomorrow without first notifying the russians and chinese, and supplying the trajectory, the world would still very likely end.
and you don't want to tell the chinese and russians about every missile plot you plan to implement because they will go and use that information for their own ends.
before missile defence there was nuclear deterence, and that still exists.
I'm not saying a scramjet can't be used for anything useful, just that there's a better way to do almost anything given the current requirement to get it moving at mach 8 before it even lights.
except long-range, hypersonic, non ballistic ordnance delivery.
Which oddly enough it could do rather well, and oddly enough the US military might have a desire for.
Which is almost certainly why it's getting funded. Not as a half-arsed second stage (requiring a third stage) orbital booster, or as a murderously fast people mover.
please explain to me the use for satellite launches of a complicated secondary stage that will only kick in when the thing hits mach 8 and then cuts out when it leaves the atmosphere?
Single Stage To Orbit is widely considered the future of space launch, not fiddly second stages requiring a third stage.
On the other hand the scramjet's weight advantage from getting it's O2 from the atmosphere is just dandy for a missile.
And while you're at it can you name me a single long distance weapon (non-ballistic), missile that runs over mach 8?
Non-Ballistic is important because you're very limited in what you can do with even conventional ballistic weapons without tripping off the early warning systems of a whole bunch of people who live on hair triggers, even today.
The Russian "sunburn" sea-skimming supersonic missiles are considered exceptional and they don't get close to that speed.
To summarise,
The scramjet is of almost no peaceful use, but will make a fine missile engine.
P.S. the world we live in now is a lot more unstable than the cold war ever was, turn on your TV.
but the scramjet won't fire till u've already got to mach 8, so u've already done almost all the heavy lifting, and are already in very thin atmosphere, where a normal rocket is fine.
"Hey Guys, We've got nothing good now, but don't go changing to the other folks product, 'cos our next thing [which doesn't exist yet] will be much better, we PROMISE"
You can only judge by whats on the market today, and predict by what's here tomorrow.
Reactive armour was a specific counter to High Explosive Soft Head (HESH) ammunition.
The HESH ammo would conform to the outide of the armour and blow, resulting in little damage to the exterior of the armour but somewhere on the interior a large chunk would come loose and fly around at high speed, much like "newton's cradle" the toy on your doctors desk where u whack the balls at one end and they come loose at the other.
Tank crews took a dim view to chunks of their armour shredding through the interior of the tank.
HESH ammo meant there was little point in just making solid plate armour thicker.
The Russian response was reactive armour which worked fine, but was VERY expesive to maintain properly, and dangerous when dealing with anything other than another Main Battle Tank.
The allied response was laminated armour, where the different layers of composite absorbed the momentum imparted by HESH.
Both approaches proved effective but laminate is easier to maintain and looks cooler, so thats the way they went.
But if you had an older tank (and many do) then you wouldn't say no to a strap-on reactive shell if you were up against people using either HESH, or many of the other fancy shells & missiles out there these days.
BTW the shell with the stick on the front was IIRC called "Probe" ammunition.
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some say it's because debian users only ever have to install once.
Ok guys, not every new invention *must* be plugged into your computer in order to be revolutionary.
This process could obliterate the neon sign industry.
And bring Stephenson's "Loglo" a big step closer to reality as every available surface gets plastered in pulsing lights.
"right now, they're printing flat pictures, not moving, highly detailed ones"
hmm you might want to take a closer look at your LCD screen and check for moving parts.
to make things look like they move you just have to print these things at great density and retain the power to turn them on and off at will.
I would say it will certainly be possible to do it with this technology, but by the time it's that developed the established technologies will have moved on a ways and it won't be worth it.
gee whiz
because the documentation I get with my prorietary apps is so smegging useful.
Oh for gods sake
for a workstation for myself I'll take mandrake
but for a production server doing mail or web or database work?
give me deb every time,
it just sits there and works, and when packages have security issues (as they always will) the update is hassle free.
And you can't say that about anyone else.
on a fast pipe I can have a debian server up and going inside of an hour. And once its up I can forget about it (aside from #apt-get update #apt-get dist-upgrade once a week).
Once every six months they get rebooted to take the new kernel, always without any hassle.
The bosses actually find it reassuring when I tell them the mailserver is coming down for 30 seconds for a reboot to take a new kernel.
So long as they only hear it once every six months.
Debian leaves me free to do my real work.
And putting the 2.4 kernel on is no problem if you really need that functionality.
If you want "vendor confidence & relationships" instead of understanding your system then debian will never be for you.
Personally I trust the debian team a lot more than the board of directors of any other distribution.
The US military funds lots of projects here in Australian academia, nothing shadowy about it, if they develop a good project but need more money to test it.
Trust me the booster rocket they're using on this thing is far, far, beyond any local capacity.
We were the 4th nation to put a payload into orbit but canned the space program in the 70's.
If the US were to launch a ballisitc missile tomorrow without first notifying the russians and chinese, and supplying the trajectory, the world would still very likely end.
and you don't want to tell the chinese and russians about every missile plot you plan to implement because they will go and use that information for their own ends.
before missile defence there was nuclear deterence, and that still exists.
I'm not saying a scramjet can't be used for anything useful, just that there's a better way to do almost anything given the current requirement to get it moving at mach 8 before it even lights.
except long-range, hypersonic, non ballistic ordnance delivery.
Which oddly enough it could do rather well, and oddly enough the US military might have a desire for.
Which is almost certainly why it's getting funded. Not as a half-arsed second stage (requiring a third stage) orbital booster, or as a murderously fast people mover.
what jet system gets to mach 8?
plus have u seen how hot the skin of concorde gets at mach 2?
vacuum may well be a more forgiving environment.
ok,
please explain to me the use for satellite launches of a complicated secondary stage that will only kick in when the thing hits mach 8 and then cuts out when it leaves the atmosphere?
Single Stage To Orbit is widely considered the future of space launch, not fiddly second stages requiring a third stage.
On the other hand the scramjet's weight advantage from getting it's O2 from the atmosphere is just dandy for a missile.
And while you're at it can you name me a single long distance weapon (non-ballistic), missile that runs over mach 8?
Non-Ballistic is important because you're very limited in what you can do with even conventional ballistic weapons without tripping off the early warning systems of a whole bunch of people who live on hair triggers, even today.
The Russian "sunburn" sea-skimming supersonic missiles are considered exceptional and they don't get close to that speed.
To summarise,
The scramjet is of almost no peaceful use, but will make a fine missile engine.
P.S. the world we live in now is a lot more unstable than the cold war ever was, turn on your TV.
remote control doth not a robot make.
The predator is just a large and sophisticated remote control plane.
ok, and the chinese are planning to use them to turn the himalayan rivers back into china instead of flowing into Assam,
but it's a good comparison, these unusual, esoteric non-military uses are about as common for each technology.
but the scramjet won't fire till u've already got to mach 8, so u've already done almost all the heavy lifting, and are already in very thin atmosphere, where a normal rocket is fine.
I've lost a lot more boxes to to inelegant failure of UPS's than I have to jumpy power.
.DAT than i've had virus problems.
But then I've had Anti-virals lockup mahcines after getting a dodgy
but if u have a UPS u can blame the UPS maker, if u don't then your boss will blame you.
It's worth noting that Scramjets have no real civilian use.
Even the Passenger aircraft is a red herring, once you've boosted to Mach 8 why stay in the atmosphere?
Why not do a sub-orbital shot? be much quicker and easier.
Scramjets may get used for reconnaisance, but the only obvious application is super-fast cruise missiles, not bound by ballistic missile treaties.
Yes it's cool whizz-bang tech
But only in the same way an H-Bomb is.
I think they've been around for awhile and did just fine before they got email.
yep, probably,
Almost just as likely they've completely forgotten those business practices that got them by prior to e-mail though.
they migrated AND cut costs?
migration's the most expensive part of the process.
The real savings kick in downstream, wait for them.
silly of both of us to be debating what we haven't seen,
but the story seemed to be desribing promotional displays, not retail displays.
promotion displays are very tightly controlled by the promoter
retail displays are owned by the store and all go in the same box.
Mckinley is the day after tomorrow.
The display cases are sent out by the promoter in my experience.
It's their responsibility to make sure it works, nothing's stopping them packing the X-box into a cooling unit inside the demonstration case.
I'm guessing from what I've heard that the maketroids and bean-counters have taken this out of the hands of the developers too early.
IIRC it's a MIPS chip in the PS2, hence Debians interest in keeping a MIPS branch running.
well by "big ones" I mean having some sort of DJ I guess
Actually most online radio stations (the big ones anyway) compress on the fly from their audio feed.
so the encoding is less of an issue (as long as they can encode in realtime with a not insanely grunty machine).
Bugger all I imagine as Zimmerman left the project a few months ago
that would be HEAT ammo which is a good 20 years old,
the armour approach is new though
The HESH ammo would conform to the outide of the armour and blow, resulting in little damage to the exterior of the armour but somewhere on the interior a large chunk would come loose and fly around at high speed, much like "newton's cradle" the toy on your doctors desk where u whack the balls at one end and they come loose at the other.
Tank crews took a dim view to chunks of their armour shredding through the interior of the tank.
HESH ammo meant there was little point in just making solid plate armour thicker.
The Russian response was reactive armour which worked fine, but was VERY expesive to maintain properly, and dangerous when dealing with anything other than another Main Battle Tank.
The allied response was laminated armour, where the different layers of composite absorbed the momentum imparted by HESH.
Both approaches proved effective but laminate is easier to maintain and looks cooler, so thats the way they went.
But if you had an older tank (and many do) then you wouldn't say no to a strap-on reactive shell if you were up against people using either HESH, or many of the other fancy shells & missiles out there these days.
BTW the shell with the stick on the front was IIRC called "Probe" ammunition.