Probably not. Missiles like the AIM-120 are better for this. Especially when you couple the range of the AMRAAM (classified, but really far) with the power of the radar systems on the F-35, you have a first look, first shot, first kill system. In other words, the enemy aircraft is dead before he can even see you on his radar.
Exact specs may be classified, but the AMRAAM's range is roughly 30 miles. Not what I'd call really far, in aerial combat terms. Now, the Phoenix AAM has a range of around 110 miles. That's impressive:)
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I'd be even neater if it was located in Linkoping. Seriously, the -koping part is an old word for town, basically. Root word being a merchant, something to do with market town rights. So we end up with a fair amount of cities called, Linkoping, Jonkoping, Norrkoping, Soderkoping, etc etc.
For my money, Link-O-Ping is the best one.
PS. There's actually an umlaut over the o in koping, making it an -ö- assuming that works on/.
Ok, I know this might not go over well with the slashdot crowd, but might not the "subscription" model for software help in making "good software"? The reasoning being that say someone writes a wordprocessor app, and let's people subscribe to use it. Assuming it's a good program, that ppl want to use, wouldn't the revenue of subscriptions obviate the need for new releases, with fancier paper-clips, etc, instead letting some of the profits funnel back into improving the existing code?
Okay, okay, I'm an optimist, I know.. but it's it at least a possible scenario?
I think every geek will agree that bandwidth will keep growing, that computers will keep getting faster and faster - same goes for the rest of the axioms of geekdom:)
What noone's proved to my satisfaction is whether or not a -true- AI can be constructed. We're not talking expert systems, but genuine, pass the turing test any day of the week AI. I for one am convinced that we will have AI, but my first prediction for when was 2000:( I'd have to put it at least 20 years off from where we are today though.
The reason I'm On Topic:) - If we can design AI entities, it will make a quantum leap forward in the ways we can use the internet. With AI assistants we will be able to design virtual realities that would be far too time consuming and complex for human designers alone. Likewise, we are coming closer and closer to "information overload" to use a cliche. An AI enitity that could help users -intelligently- in sorting through, organizing and accessing information would mean a gigantic step forward in the usefulness of a future internet.
Some of this may be done without AI (a recent news item about tons of little agent entities moving information on the net springs to mind), but in my mind, we will either have a future without AI, where the internet evolves in fairly predictable ways that can be extrapolated from today's net or we move to an AI assisted/managed net, which will mean a true internet revolution.
I'm afraid I've forgotten the company, and can't find a reference to it, in a brief search, but I -swear- that about 6 months ago, I read about someone developing a smello-card add in for your PC. It was based on a cartridge, containing various esthers(sp?) that could be released in various combinations. I seem to recall that they were far off from releasing a product - they were still in the research stage.
Other posters have made a few cracks about the smell os M$, Java etc, but realize - this may actually happen in a year or two. Wrap your mind about the possibilities this may have.....
-Apple sues M$ - Windows 6000 look&smell UI infringes on our MacOS XXIV
- Every BSOD crash now accompanied by the smell of burning electronics
-the Pr0n industry.....let's not even go there
-banner ads for food including the smell, now here's a truly EVIL concept.
True, this instance, it's a different piece of Real software. Still, I've been more and more convinced that RealPlayer is a virus, not an app and have beeen advising people to avoid it at all costs. Example, when installing RealPlayer G2 Plus, the installer also downloads and installs RealJukebox and some garbage called Net2Phone without so much as a by your leave. RealJukebox is easy to uninstall, but not so Net2Phone. N2P adds itself all over your registry, insinuating itself into Internet Explorer, adding to the tools menu. Even after uninstalling N2P, the changes to IE remain. I had to go through and nuke the bastard manually throughout the registry on my gf:s computer. Maybe it's not a big deal, but any Software company that takes these kinds of liberties with a system deserves nothing but scorn and ridicule, IMO. Granted, almost every installer for Windoze adds "features" without custome install options - Windows2000 springs to mind, but after a RealPlayer install, the amount of work to get rid of all these features is ridiculous. -- Boycott Real - Play UnReal instead:)
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I'd be even neater if it was located in Linkoping. Seriously, the -koping part is an old word for town, basically. Root word being a merchant, something to do with market town rights. So we end up with a fair amount of cities called, Linkoping, Jonkoping, Norrkoping, Soderkoping, etc etc. For my money, Link-O-Ping is the best one. PS. There's actually an umlaut over the o in koping, making it an -ö- assuming that works on /.
Ok, I know this might not go over well with the slashdot crowd, but might not the "subscription" model for software help in making "good software"? The reasoning being that say someone writes a wordprocessor app, and let's people subscribe to use it. Assuming it's a good program, that ppl want to use, wouldn't the revenue of subscriptions obviate the need for new releases, with fancier paper-clips, etc, instead letting some of the profits funnel back into improving the existing code? Okay, okay, I'm an optimist, I know.. but it's it at least a possible scenario?
I think every geek will agree that bandwidth will keep growing, that computers will keep getting faster and faster - same goes for the rest of the axioms of geekdom :)
:( I'd have to put it at least 20 years off from where we are today though.
:) - If we can design AI entities, it will make a quantum leap forward in the ways we can use the internet. With AI assistants we will be able to design virtual realities that would be far too time consuming and complex for human designers alone. Likewise, we are coming closer and closer to "information overload" to use a cliche. An AI enitity that could help users -intelligently- in sorting through, organizing and accessing information would mean a gigantic step forward in the usefulness of a future internet.
What noone's proved to my satisfaction is whether or not a -true- AI can be constructed. We're not talking expert systems, but genuine, pass the turing test any day of the week AI. I for one am convinced that we will have AI, but my first prediction for when was 2000
The reason I'm On Topic
Some of this may be done without AI (a recent news item about tons of little agent entities moving information on the net springs to mind), but in my mind, we will either have a future without AI, where the internet evolves in fairly predictable ways that can be extrapolated from today's net or we move to an AI assisted/managed net, which will mean a true internet revolution.
I'm afraid I've forgotten the company, and can't find a reference to it, in a brief search, but I -swear- that about 6 months ago, I read about someone developing a smello-card add in for your PC. It was based on a cartridge, containing various esthers(sp?) that could be released in various combinations. I seem to recall that they were far off from releasing a product - they were still in the research stage.
Other posters have made a few cracks about the smell os M$, Java etc, but realize - this may actually happen in a year or two. Wrap your mind about the possibilities this may have.....
-Apple sues M$ - Windows 6000 look&smell UI infringes on our MacOS XXIV
- Every BSOD crash now accompanied by the smell of burning electronics
-the Pr0n industry.....let's not even go there
-banner ads for food including the smell, now here's a truly EVIL concept.
True, this instance, it's a different piece of Real software. Still, I've been more and more convinced that RealPlayer is a virus, not an app and have beeen advising people to avoid it at all costs. Example, when installing RealPlayer G2 Plus, the installer also downloads and installs RealJukebox and some garbage called Net2Phone without so much as a by your leave. RealJukebox is easy to uninstall, but not so Net2Phone. N2P adds itself all over your registry, insinuating itself into Internet Explorer, adding to the tools menu. Even after uninstalling N2P, the changes to IE remain. I had to go through and nuke the bastard manually throughout the registry on my gf:s computer. Maybe it's not a big deal, but any Software company that takes these kinds of liberties with a system deserves nothing but scorn and ridicule, IMO. Granted, almost every installer for Windoze adds "features" without custome install options - Windows2000 springs to mind, but after a RealPlayer install, the amount of work to get rid of all these features is ridiculous. -- Boycott Real - Play UnReal instead :)