"I believe this is why its very important to phase out MBA managers in general and only hire someone like an Industrial Engineer or in this case an actual senior level programmer to do management in any kind of production be it software or physical products."
Good luck getting the MBAs who hire MBAs to see that they aren't best suited for...everything.:)
"What if we don't want to blow the old partitions away? We might need them again if discs fail or whatever!"
That was either an attempt at humor, or gibberish.
Anyone advanced enough to dual-boot should be expected (and expect if necessary) to be able to do a bare-metal restore, and to image the whole hard disk or partitions thereof as necessary to cover their arse.
Learn that stuff BEFORE mucking about with dual-booting. It's been basic procedure since the 1990s when the first convenient distros (such as Mandrake) came out with tools to facilitate dual-booting.
The small ones require similar fuel and air management tech to the large ones, so unless costs are cut in the core engine sections by dramatic material improvements, they will stay expensive.
"You'll sometimes hear opponents of this kind of charity point out that disease is Nature's way of controlling population, but you could justify quite a few scary things with that reasoning."
Nature is scary, utterly without pity, ruthless, but also perfectly "fair" in its selection process. It is amoral (not moral or immoral), and punishes bad human decisions accordingly.
"If you cared about your family, you wouldn't leave for 6-9 months at a time. "
I'll put this kindly: You're an idiot.
If you and family are so desperately co-dependent that being gone for less than a year is going to break things, you have much worse issues than being gone for a bit. Economic survival nowadays often means going to where the work is.
"I think the idea is that driving 95 miles and flying 5 is cheaper than flying 100 miles."
It's a stupid idea. If you want airpower, buy aircraft.
Driving anything that is light enough to fly 95 miles will beat the shit out of it, and it will remain far too light to be protective.
It's a fit project for DARPA to EXPLORE tech that could get closer, but the goal is a benchmark, obviously not intended to be practical for decades if ever.
You know the answer to that, it's called the "National Rifle Association".
Many geeks rant about freedom, but NRA members VOTE and won't hesitate to hammer the shit out of politicians who oppose them. THAT has worked for the NRA for more than one hundred years, and why I'm a life member.
"But Joe Turk might have a different opinion when he sees his children and grandchildren dressed up in unnatural garb and aping smirking foreigners while they exploit what's left of his country. "
Citation needed on the exploitation charge. Ataturk was ferociously NATIONALIST, no bootlicker at all.
Your Native American comparison is ridiculous. Ataturk was a revolutionary who adopted (some) ways of SUCCESSFUL cultures in preference to (some) ways of backward cultures. He fought superbly for the Ottoman Empire, then afterwards to reunify Turkey.
"If you measure everything with money, you are correct."
If you measure progress, the choice by Ataturk was tremendously beneficial.
Visit Turkey, then (any) Arab country, and compare social progress and freedom. Turkey isn't perfect, but its secular, and Ataturk appreciated what was necessary to get there. I admire his revolution, and I'm not Turkish.
Of what use was that history in daily life, science, industry, and so forth? No country modernizes by wallowing in its past, not even the US.
Kemal Ataturk was impressively effective at helping break Turkey from backward ways in a very short time, and part of that was the choice to break from Arabic.
The man was brilliant, his movement tremendously beneficial for Turkey, and anything lost in the process was a trifle.
The sooner we kill off anything but block printing for written communication the better.
Leave art to the calligraphers, and work to keep communication effective. For example, there should never be prescription errors due to handwriting because nothing aside from the signature should be written.
Not absurd, been done, and thanks to the Internet we know concealing something the size of a hand grenade (spoon taped so it doesn't snag) is quite practical:
(I'm a former F-16 A/B/C/D engine weenie/crew chief.)
Maintenance issue:
Screen must be opened and closed to inspect intake and fan stage during preflight. thruflight, and postflight inspections. Hardware and latches would be subject to wear, screen subject to fatigue cracking, and either could dump parts downstream into the engine resulting in engine damage and loss of aircraft. That's why screens used for ground runs are inspected before and after use, and their installation and removal entered in the aircraft maintenance documentation.
Weight issue: Every pound matters in terms of performance and fuel mileage. When you hang parts on a fighter airframe, they affect Weight and Balance calculations, place stress on their attach points, and can create host of problems anticipated or otherwise.
While the concept isn't suitable to jets, helicopters are suitable for mechanical intake Foreign Object Damage mitigation systems such as EAPS:
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"I believe this is why its very important to phase out MBA managers in general and only hire someone like an Industrial Engineer or in this case an actual senior level programmer to do management in any kind of production be it software or physical products."
Good luck getting the MBAs who hire MBAs to see that they aren't best suited for...everything. :)
Where's an Arc Light strike when you need one?
"What if we don't want to blow the old partitions away? We might need them again if discs fail or whatever!"
That was either an attempt at humor, or gibberish.
Anyone advanced enough to dual-boot should be expected (and expect if necessary) to be able to do a bare-metal restore, and to image the whole hard disk or partitions thereof as necessary to cover their arse.
Learn that stuff BEFORE mucking about with dual-booting. It's been basic procedure since the 1990s when the first convenient distros (such as Mandrake) came out with tools to facilitate dual-booting.
The small ones require similar fuel and air management tech to the large ones, so unless costs are cut in the core engine sections by dramatic material improvements, they will stay expensive.
"You'll sometimes hear opponents of this kind of charity point out that disease is Nature's way of controlling population, but you could justify quite a few scary things with that reasoning."
Nature is scary, utterly without pity, ruthless, but also perfectly "fair" in its selection process. It is amoral (not moral or immoral), and punishes bad human decisions accordingly.
"DRM that writes to the same spot every time without any checks sounds like something with a big "CRACK ME" target painted on it."
Good. The sooner it's cracked the sooner it may go out of fashion. :)
Run one as the main OS, one in a VM. You get simultaneous access to both. no problem.
"You and your grandmother likely have different definitions of "hard"."
As long as she's satisfied, I'll retain my definition.
"where would I get another partition for Grub to run from without deleting all the recovery data?"
I just make recovery media and blow the old partitions away.
"If you cared about your family, you wouldn't leave for 6-9 months at a time. "
I'll put this kindly:
You're an idiot.
If you and family are so desperately co-dependent that being gone for less than a year is going to break things, you have much worse issues than being gone for a bit. Economic survival nowadays often means going to where the work is.
A General agrees:
http://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/photo/gen-james-mattis-power-point-makes-us-stupid
He displayed testicular fortitude, and he can afford to get fired. I salute him.
"That those smart military people have decided that bomb blasts are only 2 dimensional."
Rocket-propelled grenades aren't, which is why helicopters aren't used more in urban combat.
"I think the idea is that driving 95 miles and flying 5 is cheaper than flying 100 miles."
It's a stupid idea. If you want airpower, buy aircraft.
Driving anything that is light enough to fly 95 miles will beat the shit out of it, and it will remain far too light to be protective.
It's a fit project for DARPA to EXPLORE tech that could get closer, but the goal is a benchmark, obviously not intended to be practical for decades if ever.
You know the answer to that, it's called the "National Rifle Association".
Many geeks rant about freedom, but NRA members VOTE and won't hesitate to hammer the shit out of politicians who oppose them. THAT has worked for the NRA for more than one hundred years, and why I'm a life member.
"Same thing comes up with pharmaceuticals."
"Have some crack, kid!"
"I can't escape that. "
Which is why your opinion doesn't matter to them, and is the equivalent of saying "I don't like the view from under this queening stool!". :P
"Oh, and guess what? I buy all your games USED."
Indirectly subsidising their business model is still subsidising their business model.
"But Joe Turk might have a different opinion when he sees his children and grandchildren dressed up in unnatural garb and aping smirking foreigners while they exploit what's left of his country. "
Citation needed on the exploitation charge. Ataturk was ferociously NATIONALIST, no bootlicker at all.
Your Native American comparison is ridiculous. Ataturk was a revolutionary who adopted (some) ways of SUCCESSFUL cultures in preference to (some) ways of backward cultures. He fought superbly for the Ottoman Empire, then afterwards to reunify Turkey.
http://www.ataturk.com/content/view/24/43/
"If you measure everything with money, you are correct."
If you measure progress, the choice by Ataturk was tremendously beneficial.
Visit Turkey, then (any) Arab country, and compare social progress and freedom. Turkey isn't perfect, but its secular, and Ataturk appreciated what was necessary to get there. I admire his revolution, and I'm not Turkish.
Of what use was that history in daily life, science, industry, and so forth? No country modernizes by wallowing in its past, not even the US.
Kemal Ataturk was impressively effective at helping break Turkey from backward ways in a very short time, and part of that was the choice to break from Arabic.
The man was brilliant, his movement tremendously beneficial for Turkey, and anything lost in the process was a trifle.
"The only way to learn how to write Chinese is to write it out for years on end, from kindergarten until university. It ain't much fun."
Other than for communication with Chinese. what if anything in efficiency does Chinese offer over English?
The sooner we kill off anything but block printing for written communication the better.
Leave art to the calligraphers, and work to keep communication effective. For example, there should never be prescription errors due to handwriting because nothing aside from the signature should be written.
"Some retard is going to try a rectal bomb,"
Not absurd, been done, and thanks to the Internet we know concealing something the size of a hand grenade (spoon taped so it doesn't snag) is quite practical:
http://www.strategypage.com/downloads/iedsrectalcavities.pdf (possibly NWS for pics of raghead who blew himself in half)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/28/eveningnews/main5347847.shtml
"You have to remember the intake flow to one of these engines is traveling at or near supersonic speeds."
The shape of the F-16 intake decelerates supersonic intake air to subsonic so it won't destroy the engine.
Fighter intakes
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/AWA1/101-200/walk133_F4F_phantom/images/Mvc-0049.jpg
and those on the now-defunct Concorde
http://www.concordesst.com/powerplant.html
often used variable ramps to handle the problem. The F-16 does it without moving parts, quite an accomplishment at the time.
(I'm a former F-16 A/B/C/D engine weenie/crew chief.)
Maintenance issue:
Screen must be opened and closed to inspect intake and fan stage during preflight. thruflight, and postflight inspections.
Hardware and latches would be subject to wear, screen subject to fatigue cracking, and either could dump parts downstream into the engine resulting in engine damage and loss of aircraft. That's why screens used for ground runs are inspected before and after use, and their installation and removal entered in the aircraft maintenance documentation.
Weight issue:
Every pound matters in terms of performance and fuel mileage. When you hang parts on a fighter airframe, they affect Weight and Balance calculations, place stress on their attach points, and can create host of problems anticipated or otherwise.
While the concept isn't suitable to jets, helicopters are suitable for mechanical intake Foreign Object Damage mitigation systems such as EAPS:
http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/chinook/eaps1.html