6 tons would be more then needed for a fragging solution, but it would (i bet) also be enough to launch a booster up there with a grappling/mating system to grab the satelite and just boost it down out of its orbit and burn up in the atmosphere
and any competent satelite operator will make slight orbital corrections to their bird once they see debris on an intersecting course. Then when the 'debris' changes orbit to match, you pretty much know something fishy is going down
and with a small amount of C4 and some copper plates, you could add several shaped charges throughout the satelite to make any capturing vehicle look like swiss cheese once it closes its payload-bay doors.
As for TFS, why the hell does it mention the shuttle? are there any/. editors ignorant enough to think the shuttle has the ability to reach GEO? Also the 10 second window mentioned for the 2008 takedown suggests a satelite in LEO, roughly 300 miles high, tops. Good luck shooting down anything at 22000 miles high with your navy destroyer..
sounds interesting, just so long as you dont fry the satelite next to it...
either that or focus on getting the ability to rapidly de-orbit any random object, which probably means putting a 'weapons' platform up there with several guided grab-n-boost missiles
perhaps it is time to develop a highly directional EMP weapon, to fry this sucker out completely, you would still have a big heap of junk floating around, but at least it wouldnt be a disruptive ball of junk..
i tried chrome as soon as the beta came out, and since then i have never switched back, firefox seems slow, clunky and has way too much interface clutter (well, to be fixed in 4.0 apperently) compared to chrome
well i realize that, but misinformation in an early stage might seriously impact the outcome, i wouldnt base this kind of decision on wikipedia.. it is ok for the first five minutes, but he shouldnt take wikipedia and not look any further
not a slam on you, just warning that wikipedia should never be your only source in any kind of serious situation
well i know there have been heat issues (more recent to my build off course the thunderbird athlons were hotheads..), but there is NO excuse for not just running memtest when a system is unstable, my memtest found the bad ram in just a few minutes
wow, i finally figured out what will kill mariage in western culture, it wont be rising divorces, or just outright oligarchy with harems, it will be an apple trademark...
i already have several more powerfull computers, none of which run os x, the extra cost would not be irrelevant, even if i need a new machine, the extra cost of getting a mac over a self-built linux box f similar performance is still significant
I can however imagine that your regular mom&pop with a wii for wii sports / wii fit will buy less games then the x360 totting halo fanboy which has to play the newest College football game as soon as it comes out..
doesnt make for real evidence though, i agree on that
So, which is it? We hate flash, until it is not there, then we hate Apple for removing such a pig ?
Just because Flash is a bloated hog-tied gimp of a platform doesnt make it any less used in todays web. Yes we want flash to go away, but NO we do not suddenly be unable to use tons of websites. Apple doesnt need to remove flash, websites need to remove flash, and then when flash isnt used anymore in 'normal' websites, apple can drop support.
We hate flash, but the key to removing flash is not outright killing flash support, but rather stop using it in websites, so in the end support isnt needed anymore
They're not hard to find. You don't even need to live near an Apple store: I went to Best Buy and saw a whole table of iPads.
small footnote here, not all slashdot users live in the US, the closest Best buy with a table full of ipads would be several thousand miles away for me..
I was wondering that. Also is there a way to write your own apps for the iPad/iPhone/iTouch and test thme before "release" without signing/paying up to be a dev?
As far as i know, no there isnt.
This is also one of the main factors which keeps me from dawdling with some ipod touch experimenting, having to buy a mac mini and a dev subscription is just silly when i just feel like experimenting with what i can do with the platform.
The alternate option is off course to develop what apps you want on the web, in an iphone friendly maner, but that is just the red-headed step-child option
well you have a point there, high end chips for certain sockets tend to lose their value rather slowly
And as i said, had the budget allowed for it, then i probably would have dropped a quad in my dads machine, but he set me a budget X for a new web-machine, and i couldnt justify telling him to spend more on a quad.. he wouldnt see the difference for years anyway.
I even remember back in the early 2000's walking into a local computer shop, I needed a mobo asap, and one of the sales reps told me that AMD CPU's were, "Garbage. We don't even stock any AMD parts."
back in 2003 i ordered a custom built machine at a local shop, they favored intel, but since the northwood 3.0 GHz (only intel chip i cared about at the time) was WAY out of my budget (700 euro cpu, 300 euro mobo), i insisted on an athlon XP. The guy tried to convince me that amd makes unreliable shit and overclocks their own stuff and such, but i insisted.
I got my system, and was happy, but after i while i found out it was running at 100 mhz FSB (as opposed to the specced 166 mhz), they had just upped the multiplier to have the core clock match the specs (yes, my athlon XP 2600+ does not have a multi-lock, none of those chips did until the barton core came about). I asked the guy who built it about this and he claimed that he could not get the system stable at 166 mhz (implicitly blaming AMD). A few years later i found out the stick of ram he had used has errors in it, and doesnt run stable at 166 mhz, causing the instability. Just last weekend i swapped some different ram in there, upped the FSB to spec, and the system is solid as a rock.
moral of the story, people slagging off AMD for stability and such are tools and dont know what they are talking about
if your main rig still is a single core machine, what kind of change in usage patterns do you expect that a Phenom II X4/X6 wont handle well enough? The quad server already handles your video processing..
good performance at a decent price is pretty much AMD's bread and butter, intel seems to go more for 'premium performance at a premium price'
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6 tons would be more then needed for a fragging solution, but it would (i bet) also be enough to launch a booster up there with a grappling/mating system to grab the satelite and just boost it down out of its orbit and burn up in the atmosphere
i thought the idea of lasers would be to ablate material at the 'front' of the bird, slightly slowing its orbital velocity, making it come down
anyway, yeah shooting this thing down is difficult
and any competent satelite operator will make slight orbital corrections to their bird once they see debris on an intersecting course. Then when the 'debris' changes orbit to match, you pretty much know something fishy is going down
and with a small amount of C4 and some copper plates, you could add several shaped charges throughout the satelite to make any capturing vehicle look like swiss cheese once it closes its payload-bay doors.
As for TFS, why the hell does it mention the shuttle? are there any /. editors ignorant enough to think the shuttle has the ability to reach GEO? Also the 10 second window mentioned for the 2008 takedown suggests a satelite in LEO, roughly 300 miles high, tops. Good luck shooting down anything at 22000 miles high with your navy destroyer..
But Main Street's still all cracked and broken...
(yes i know, out of order, but they ^^)
sounds interesting, just so long as you dont fry the satelite next to it...
either that or focus on getting the ability to rapidly de-orbit any random object, which probably means putting a 'weapons' platform up there with several guided grab-n-boost missiles
perhaps it is time to develop a highly directional EMP weapon, to fry this sucker out completely, you would still have a big heap of junk floating around, but at least it wouldnt be a disruptive ball of junk..
there is, there are multiple VPN-alike solutions for 'emulating' xbox live through system link.
This way even halo 1 was played online before xbox live existed..
try chrome for just one day, it is awesome
i tried chrome as soon as the beta came out, and since then i have never switched back, firefox seems slow, clunky and has way too much interface clutter (well, to be fixed in 4.0 apperently) compared to chrome
and dont get me started on IE
well i realize that, but misinformation in an early stage might seriously impact the outcome, i wouldnt base this kind of decision on wikipedia.. it is ok for the first five minutes, but he shouldnt take wikipedia and not look any further
not a slam on you, just warning that wikipedia should never be your only source in any kind of serious situation
oh, IANAL off course..
i dont even want to know how [citation needed] will hold up when this gets to court..
off course it might hold up perfectly, in which case in weep for the justice system in whichever country the OP is
well i know there have been heat issues (more recent to my build off course the thunderbird athlons were hotheads..), but there is NO excuse for not just running memtest when a system is unstable, my memtest found the bad ram in just a few minutes
flash on linux is still a beacon of stability compared to how IE-specific websites render in firefox or reversed
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wow, i finally figured out what will kill mariage in western culture, it wont be rising divorces, or just outright oligarchy with harems, it will be an apple trademark...
i already have several more powerfull computers, none of which run os x, the extra cost would not be irrelevant, even if i need a new machine, the extra cost of getting a mac over a self-built linux box f similar performance is still significant
dont know really, i dont have any hard numbers.
I can however imagine that your regular mom&pop with a wii for wii sports / wii fit will buy less games then the x360 totting halo fanboy which has to play the newest College football game as soon as it comes out..
doesnt make for real evidence though, i agree on that
Or become a developer
Your suggestion for getting $300 device functionality out of a $500 device is to buy a $600 computer and a $100 dev license?
So, which is it? We hate flash, until it is not there, then we hate Apple for removing such a pig ?
Just because Flash is a bloated hog-tied gimp of a platform doesnt make it any less used in todays web. Yes we want flash to go away, but NO we do not suddenly be unable to use tons of websites. Apple doesnt need to remove flash, websites need to remove flash, and then when flash isnt used anymore in 'normal' websites, apple can drop support.
We hate flash, but the key to removing flash is not outright killing flash support, but rather stop using it in websites, so in the end support isnt needed anymore
How did this get modded up?
They're not hard to find. You don't even need to live near an Apple store: I went to Best Buy and saw a whole table of iPads.
small footnote here, not all slashdot users live in the US, the closest Best buy with a table full of ipads would be several thousand miles away for me..
I was wondering that. Also is there a way to write your own apps for the iPad/iPhone/iTouch and test thme before "release" without signing/paying up to be a dev?
As far as i know, no there isnt.
This is also one of the main factors which keeps me from dawdling with some ipod touch experimenting, having to buy a mac mini and a dev subscription is just silly when i just feel like experimenting with what i can do with the platform.
The alternate option is off course to develop what apps you want on the web, in an iphone friendly maner, but that is just the red-headed step-child option
But why are so many techies defending Flash "programmers". Isn't that about like defending people who could only program in VB6?
because being able to program in both objective C and flash is better then just being allowed to only use objective C
Choice is good, even if the added option isnt exactly magnificent right now
well you have a point there, high end chips for certain sockets tend to lose their value rather slowly
And as i said, had the budget allowed for it, then i probably would have dropped a quad in my dads machine, but he set me a budget X for a new web-machine, and i couldnt justify telling him to spend more on a quad.. he wouldnt see the difference for years anyway.
I even remember back in the early 2000's walking into a local computer shop, I needed a mobo asap, and one of the sales reps told me that AMD CPU's were, "Garbage. We don't even stock any AMD parts."
back in 2003 i ordered a custom built machine at a local shop, they favored intel, but since the northwood 3.0 GHz (only intel chip i cared about at the time) was WAY out of my budget (700 euro cpu, 300 euro mobo), i insisted on an athlon XP. The guy tried to convince me that amd makes unreliable shit and overclocks their own stuff and such, but i insisted.
I got my system, and was happy, but after i while i found out it was running at 100 mhz FSB (as opposed to the specced 166 mhz), they had just upped the multiplier to have the core clock match the specs (yes, my athlon XP 2600+ does not have a multi-lock, none of those chips did until the barton core came about). I asked the guy who built it about this and he claimed that he could not get the system stable at 166 mhz (implicitly blaming AMD). A few years later i found out the stick of ram he had used has errors in it, and doesnt run stable at 166 mhz, causing the instability. Just last weekend i swapped some different ram in there, upped the FSB to spec, and the system is solid as a rock.
moral of the story, people slagging off AMD for stability and such are tools and dont know what they are talking about
how so? my AM2+ board had the needed bios update available before the new chips even hit store shelves
if your main rig still is a single core machine, what kind of change in usage patterns do you expect that a Phenom II X4/X6 wont handle well enough? The quad server already handles your video processing..
good performance at a decent price is pretty much AMD's bread and butter, intel seems to go more for 'premium performance at a premium price'