Swedish designed Australian built diesel-electric submarines with a little publicised capability to be turned nuclear in a very short space of time.
The Collins has become the subject of much unfair Australian media coverage largely because they are one of the bigger show's in essentially a small town.
A lot of advanced technical developments that had teething problems exaserpated by the Swedes telling lies about what they knew how to do. The combined teething problems did make them look rather incapable
John Howard:
Conservative Prime Minister of Australia. Like any conservative leader the subject of ridicule by the left, however in Mr. Howard's case much of it is deserved.
A hundred years ago 20 days was considered pretty quick from London to New York.
Now u can do it in 5 hours or teleconference in seconds
Concorde and SR-71 were never going to be able to be mass produced, the AVERAGE air-craft speed is quite a bit quicker now, if you include the reduced refueling times the newer engines have brought about.
How do you think they get jet planes off the deck of the USS Nimitz? (which BTW is an aircraft carrier and doesn't fire many tomohawk missiles)
Its called a steam catapult and it flings the planes off the lauch ramp at flight speed, sometimes they need to turn the carrier into the wind to get sufficient speed over the wing.
Anyone remember the FIRST space shuttle, not Columbia, the real first one ENTERPRISE
It never made it into orbit but they did launch it off the back of modified 747's and land it...
I think it was realised that it was easier just to explode off the ground (sometimes more delicately than others) than to kinda sorta do it from halfway up.
a scram-jet by definition has no moving parts, thats its appeal.
The buzzbombs (Known as the V1 to its friends) used a fuel-air explosion which generated thrust. A set of moving "doors" slammed shut over the intake at the front (like a valve) to push the exhaust out the back and generate thrust.
It was the constant timed explosions that create the "put put put" sound which gave them the name "buzz bomb"
Wandering OT here; guidance was a question of pointing them in the right direction and judging the correct amount of fuel.
When they ran out of fuel they dropped to the ground.
British intelligence which had infiltrated the german spy rings fed the germans false ranging info to make the majority of the things fall short (reporting overshoots as hits and hits as fall-shorts) but thats another story
read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
God almighty u'd think/. readers would have read the basic canon.
SF writers have been wittering about orbital kinetic weapons since Jules Verne.
Right now the explosive used as fuel does not equal the destructive potential of dropping the rock (or depleted uranium, or whatever u've got lying around thats heavy) from orbit onto peoples heads.
But once we get that space elevator going it could all get more interesting
Given the immensity of human experience I think we can assume that any subjects covered by an intelligent man in a short note are there for a reason.
Given that he belabors the "trusted" versions and makes note of "different visions" I think you could safely bet large sums of money on backdoors in future versions and not lose any sleep over it.
We've got a sparc 5 running as a search engine over a dynamic collection with 1.5 million records and 10Gb of data. We run it pretty hot too, thousands of queries a day.
Now yes we are in the process of hooking up a Sun 250 to replace it but a 486 will do dhcp and secondary DNS wortk pretty adequately for a LOT of people.
Deploying sparc 5's for that task sounds like a VERY expensive approach.
Hence they publicly bragged about things that looked pretty apalling when repeated to a trial judge.
Given the dysfunctional nature of the company internally it shouldn't be a suprise if the mad dogs within are still playing the same games that always earned them promotion in the past.
Eurostar Is the name of ONE of the trains that runs through the Chunnel.
Its the name of the one that carries the people thats why you've heard of it.
The frieght trains have different names entirely but could be called anything as the name of the tunnel is irrelevant to the name of the train that runs trhough it.
They might well use it to reducve their reliance on other countries warm water ports for their shipping.
And while they are at it the Chinese could pump a hell of a lot of volume down it. to say nothing of central asia, or, having built the tunnel, oil and gas pipleines from central asia joining the Alaska pipeline.
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They don't plan that far ahead because technologies don't last that long
Easy enough for them to build encrypted authentication into the new napster version
Swedish designed Australian built diesel-electric submarines with a little publicised capability to be turned nuclear in a very short space of time.
The Collins has become the subject of much unfair Australian media coverage largely because they are one of the bigger show's in essentially a small town.
A lot of advanced technical developments that had teething problems exaserpated by the Swedes telling lies about what they knew how to do. The combined teething problems did make them look rather incapable
John Howard:
Conservative Prime Minister of Australia. Like any conservative leader the subject of ridicule by the left, however in Mr. Howard's case much of it is deserved.
they are useful for remote areas and as an emissions smokescreen depending on your utilities greenhouse compliance burden.
But as they stand they still require a scad load of fossil/hydro/nuclear power
Now u can do it in 5 hours or teleconference in seconds
Concorde and SR-71 were never going to be able to be mass produced, the AVERAGE air-craft speed is quite a bit quicker now, if you include the reduced refueling times the newer engines have brought about.
even better it uses 3 totally different propulsion systems
the holy grail of cheap space flight is Single Stage To Orbit (SSTO)
Not a place that becomes a ramjet that becomes a scramjet that becomes a rocket (4 stages now)
With engineering like that you must be English.
Its called a steam catapult and it flings the planes off the lauch ramp at flight speed, sometimes they need to turn the carrier into the wind to get sufficient speed over the wing.
It never made it into orbit but they did launch it off the back of modified 747's and land it...
I think it was realised that it was easier just to explode off the ground (sometimes more delicately than others) than to kinda sorta do it from halfway up.
The buzzbombs (Known as the V1 to its friends) used a fuel-air explosion which generated thrust. A set of moving "doors" slammed shut over the intake at the front (like a valve) to push the exhaust out the back and generate thrust.
It was the constant timed explosions that create the "put put put" sound which gave them the name "buzz bomb"
Wandering OT here; guidance was a question of pointing them in the right direction and judging the correct amount of fuel.
When they ran out of fuel they dropped to the ground.
British intelligence which had infiltrated the german spy rings fed the germans false ranging info to make the majority of the things fall short (reporting overshoots as hits and hits as fall-shorts) but thats another story
God almighty u'd think /. readers would have read the basic canon.
SF writers have been wittering about orbital kinetic weapons since Jules Verne.
Right now the explosive used as fuel does not equal the destructive potential of dropping the rock (or depleted uranium, or whatever u've got lying around thats heavy) from orbit onto peoples heads.
But once we get that space elevator going it could all get more interesting
MS engineers are carefully sheilded from the public for this sort of reason.
That the licence has not been tested in court is tribute to its strength, not its weakness.
I would say lets leave them to that headache, the price of using GPL code to develop other code is supposed to be that others can use your code.
Problem for multi million dollar companies wanting to add proprietary extensions to a feee OS.
Not a problem for the rest of us.
Given the immensity of human experience I think we can assume that any subjects covered by an intelligent man in a short note are there for a reason.
Given that he belabors the "trusted" versions and makes note of "different visions" I think you could safely bet large sums of money on backdoors in future versions and not lose any sleep over it.
Spend some time in the East End, Guy Ritchie isn't doing fantasy in these movies.
He's just picking from the rich tangle of urban legend.
An evening spent in any pub East of Canary Wharf would yield a similar slew of characters
Now yes we are in the process of hooking up a Sun 250 to replace it but a 486 will do dhcp and secondary DNS wortk pretty adequately for a LOT of people.
Deploying sparc 5's for that task sounds like a VERY expensive approach.
Hence they publicly bragged about things that looked pretty apalling when repeated to a trial judge.
Given the dysfunctional nature of the company internally it shouldn't be a suprise if the mad dogs within are still playing the same games that always earned them promotion in the past.
But Josh needs to learn some anger management.
His behaviour on /. was pretty ugly in patches.
But short kicks to the knees while keeping the guard up can be pretty effective over time.
Assuming future civilisations have our reckoning of time..... (which is where the degrees are comprised)
for this sort of stuff surely underfloor wiring is the way to go, with access ports?
If they can show that this thing can make more money than it will cpost then people will be queuing around the corner to fund it.
Remember the Suez and Panama Canals
Actually they've built them over frozen lakes when they've felt an urgent need (but occasionally they drop a train into the lake that way)
Railways have built in load-spreaders and they aren't warm like houses.
Its the name of the one that carries the people thats why you've heard of it.
The frieght trains have different names entirely but could be called anything as the name of the tunnel is irrelevant to the name of the train that runs trhough it.
And while they are at it the Chinese could pump a hell of a lot of volume down it. to say nothing of central asia, or, having built the tunnel, oil and gas pipleines from central asia joining the Alaska pipeline.