Is that really a hypersonic bomber, or just a non-ballistic missile? It looks like the difference between that and an ICBM is that it doesn't exit the admosphere...
"I think the point with hypersonic bombers as opposed to ICBMs is 1.) they are reusable... ICBM's are not, and if I'm not mistaken these are the type that skim the atmosphere to get oxygen then benefits from no resistance of space thus making them more fuel efficient"
I don't mean to be mean, but this is the stupidest thing I've read in a long time. We have a stockpile of over 10,000 ICBMs. they only reason reusability comes in to play is if we plan on running out. The same can be said for fuel efficiency.
Also, do you have any idea how much it costs to design, test, and roll out a few hypersonic planes? Neither does the government, because they've tried three times and dropped it after severe cost overruns and technical problems. I don't think saving a hundred thousand dollars on fuel is valid justification for spending 30 billion designing a superfluous 'defense system.'
"Darpa says: "This capability would free the US military from reliance on forward basing to enable it to react promptly and decisively to destabilising or threatening actions by hostile countries and terrorist organisations.""
Someone should let them know the solution is 50 years old.
"what?? two half-sized peices on either side?? Isn't that the same thing as a fold in the middle?"
No. He means there is a half-size piece in the center, and two quarter-sized pieces on each side, that can fold in to cover the half-size. His nomenclature assumes that the center piece is equivalent to a 'full sized' display, and the two 'wings' are half-sized, and on either side.
In other words, they have subtracted $1 from a $3000 computer to make it seem cheaper, which is absolutely ridiculous.
Are you saying that a computer that costs $2999 isn't cheaper than a $3000 computer? Saying taht tehy're the same price, now that's absolutely ridiculous.
The funniest part to me is that the VP's name is Joswiak. What, did someone genetically engineer an amalgamation of the Steves? (Jobs + Wozniak)/2 = Joswiak??
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You can pick up a Dell 8300 with 3.0 GHz P4 (the one Apple tested), 512MB RAM, 120GB HD, CD-RW, SoundBlaster for LESS than $2000 and it is FASTER than the top-of-the-line PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 GHz costing $3000. (Faster on integer single-processor tasks, which is what most people use most of the time.):"
Ignoring all the other differences between the two machines (superdrive, bus-intensive tasks, etc.) the author chooses to ignore the G5's second processor, erroneously claiming that 'well, most people wouldn't use the second processor, anyhow'.
The multithreading in the G5 architecture is tight. If you were performing enough integer math to saturate the CPU, which is the only time these sorts of comparative speed evaluations are relevant, the G5 damn well would be taking serious advantage of the second CPU.
Everyone has an agenda, and this article's author is no exception.
Ahem, it's not a troll, just that a 'real life' FPS is when a someone is Shooting people in the First Person. How is that a troll? Are you saying that wargames aren't games, based on war?
If you're trying to use a tether system to transfer from a low orbit to a high orbit, a tether will only get you halfway there. The transfer from a low orbit to high involves one thrust event to change your orbit from circular to elliptical, with the perigee (closest point) staying the same, but the apogee (farthest point) higher up. The second thrust event happens when the satellite hits apogee, accelerating it so that the orbit becomes circular again.
You can hurl rocks up high all you want, but you'll need another force to make sure they stay there.
Note that this doesn't apply to the moon shots or interplanetary boosts. I'm only talking about parabolic and circular orbits, not hyperbolic or complex orbits. I'm sure this would be cool for those cases.
I'm in the right lane on the freeway going 62mph (100kph) and an 18-wheeler merges in front of me going 20. I'm approaching so fast that it would be dangerous to try and slow immediately to 20, both to me and to the *other* 18-wheeler behind me matching my speed (note he can't brake anywhere near as fast as my honda can.
In short, if I tried to brake, I'd get squished.
The natural alternative, learned in Drivers Training, is to move one lane to the left, only there's another car about a carlength behind me in that lane, so I've got to accelerate and move over a lane.
Just as I'm doing so, my car applies the brakes, either slowing my car so I hit the car in the other lane when I try to change lanes, or forcing me to ditch that escape route, Now my acceleration has landed me in *deeper* shit, and I crash into the 18-wheeler.
No thanks. Some times the best way to evade an accident is to accelerate, and sometimes I know that better than a computer and its tunnel-vision radar.
My personal problem with this watch is that I'm left-handed, but keep my watch on my left hand. Now, try writing graffiti on a 1.5" watch face with your wrong hand. It ain't easy!
For those confused by the NX spec page, there's a type. though the 73 and 80 seem identical aside from color (silver vs black) and price ($599 vs $499), the 73 has a 300,000 pixel camera, not the 1.3 megapixels stated on the page. It also has half the ram (16 vs 32) though others on this thread claim that the difference is more marginal (11 vs 16) due to 'overhead' and memory address issues.
Considering the LotR:FotR enhanced DVD had the risque Jack Black MTV skit as an easter egg, I wonder if they'll incorporate the Gollum MTV acceptance speech in this set.
Anyone have difinitive word? Does Weta even know yet?
I'm happy to hear this. Personally, what I hate most about cellphones is that some people don't know how to modulate their volume. I'm for any excuse that stops them from yelling a conversation right next to me for four hours (with an aircraft power supply charger so they don't run dry!)
Bandwidth costs Apple around 20 cents per gigabyte of transfer. This comes to 14/100ths of a cent. Remember, trailers on apple.com/trailers regularly push 25 megs.
Bandwidth is not the reason for the 7-minute cap. More likely, it's an out for the labels, enabling them to push an album of 5 long tracks for $10 instead of $4.99.
Also, I've noticed some long songs being sold on the Apple Music Store for $1.99, so there's more to this story than a flat 7-minute exclusion.
Looking at the latest top 500 list this would put it as the third most powerful 'self-made' system in the world.
I disagree. Hydra would qualify as "IBM made" as it uses a standard network of standard IBM machines. For comparison, the top 'self-made' computer, Sandia's Cplant Cluster, was built by the lab from off the shelf components, wired together by custom drivers written by the engineers at Sandia.
If the thrust of this story was an amazing $AU/tflop ratio, it didn't come across at all in the summary.
Not to flame or troll, but considering that over 90% of the top 80 came out in the last 30 months, how big a deal is this? Third fastest computer in Australia? Sheesh.
A computer faster than this is born every two weeks.
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Is that really a hypersonic bomber, or just a non-ballistic missile? It looks like the difference between that and an ICBM is that it doesn't exit the admosphere...
"I think the point with hypersonic bombers as opposed to ICBMs is 1.) they are reusable ... ICBM's are not, and if I'm not mistaken these are the type that skim the atmosphere to get oxygen then benefits from no resistance of space thus making them more fuel efficient"
I don't mean to be mean, but this is the stupidest thing I've read in a long time. We have a stockpile of over 10,000 ICBMs. they only reason reusability comes in to play is if we plan on running out. The same can be said for fuel efficiency.
Also, do you have any idea how much it costs to design, test, and roll out a few hypersonic planes? Neither does the government, because they've tried three times and dropped it after severe cost overruns and technical problems. I don't think saving a hundred thousand dollars on fuel is valid justification for spending 30 billion designing a superfluous 'defense system.'
"Darpa says: "This capability would free the US military from reliance on forward basing to enable it to react promptly and decisively to destabilising or threatening actions by hostile countries and terrorist organisations.""
Someone should let them know the solution is 50 years old.
"what?? two half-sized peices on either side?? Isn't that the same thing as a fold in the middle?"
No. He means there is a half-size piece in the center, and two quarter-sized pieces on each side, that can fold in to cover the half-size. His nomenclature assumes that the center piece is equivalent to a 'full sized' display, and the two 'wings' are half-sized, and on either side.
In other words, they have subtracted $1 from a $3000 computer to make it seem cheaper, which is absolutely ridiculous.
Are you saying that a computer that costs $2999 isn't cheaper than a $3000 computer? Saying taht tehy're the same price, now that's absolutely ridiculous.
The funniest part to me is that the VP's name is Joswiak. What, did someone genetically engineer an amalgamation of the Steves? (Jobs + Wozniak)/2 = Joswiak??
The multithreading in the G5 architecture is tight. If you were performing enough integer math to saturate the CPU, which is the only time these sorts of comparative speed evaluations are relevant, the G5 damn well would be taking serious advantage of the second CPU.
Everyone has an agenda, and this article's author is no exception.
Ahem, it's not a troll, just that a 'real life' FPS is when a someone is Shooting people in the First Person. How is that a troll? Are you saying that wargames aren't games, based on war?
Don't we already have 'real life Doom'? I thought that's what all those reservists were playing overseas...
I knew from the Ginger story posted here earlier this week.
Evidence has shown that email harvesters don't even *try* to parse even the simplest email obfuscation techniques (kevin at fury dot com, or changing the @ to an html entity).
These are widespread practices and yet spammers don't care about spending the effort to reach that 5% who so adamantly don't want to be reached.
Unless greymail is used by more than a quarter of *all* email readers, history has shown that the spammers just won't care.
I bet Jobs shit his pants.
If you're trying to use a tether system to transfer from a low orbit to a high orbit, a tether will only get you halfway there. The transfer from a low orbit to high involves one thrust event to change your orbit from circular to elliptical, with the perigee (closest point) staying the same, but the apogee (farthest point) higher up. The second thrust event happens when the satellite hits apogee, accelerating it so that the orbit becomes circular again.
You can hurl rocks up high all you want, but you'll need another force to make sure they stay there.
Note that this doesn't apply to the moon shots or interplanetary boosts. I'm only talking about parabolic and circular orbits, not hyperbolic or complex orbits. I'm sure this would be cool for those cases.
I'm in the right lane on the freeway going 62mph (100kph) and an 18-wheeler merges in front of me going 20. I'm approaching so fast that it would be dangerous to try and slow immediately to 20, both to me and to the *other* 18-wheeler behind me matching my speed (note he can't brake anywhere near as fast as my honda can.
In short, if I tried to brake, I'd get squished.
The natural alternative, learned in Drivers Training, is to move one lane to the left, only there's another car about a carlength behind me in that lane, so I've got to accelerate and move over a lane.
Just as I'm doing so, my car applies the brakes, either slowing my car so I hit the car in the other lane when I try to change lanes, or forcing me to ditch that escape route, Now my acceleration has landed me in *deeper* shit, and I crash into the 18-wheeler.
No thanks. Some times the best way to evade an accident is to accelerate, and sometimes I know that better than a computer and its tunnel-vision radar.
My personal problem with this watch is that I'm left-handed, but keep my watch on my left hand. Now, try writing graffiti on a 1.5" watch face with your wrong hand. It ain't easy!
Now if only the watch was color and use a peephole display...
For those confused by the NX spec page, there's a type. though the 73 and 80 seem identical aside from color (silver vs black) and price ($599 vs $499), the 73 has a 300,000 pixel camera, not the 1.3 megapixels stated on the page. It also has half the ram (16 vs 32) though others on this thread claim that the difference is more marginal (11 vs 16) due to 'overhead' and memory address issues.
Considering the LotR:FotR enhanced DVD had the risque Jack Black MTV skit as an easter egg, I wonder if they'll incorporate the Gollum MTV acceptance speech in this set.
Anyone have difinitive word? Does Weta even know yet?
I'm happy to hear this. Personally, what I hate most about cellphones is that some people don't know how to modulate their volume. I'm for any excuse that stops them from yelling a conversation right next to me for four hours (with an aircraft power supply charger so they don't run dry!)
Bandwidth costs Apple around 20 cents per gigabyte of transfer. This comes to 14/100ths of a cent. Remember, trailers on apple.com/trailers regularly push 25 megs.
Bandwidth is not the reason for the 7-minute cap. More likely, it's an out for the labels, enabling them to push an album of 5 long tracks for $10 instead of $4.99.
Also, I've noticed some long songs being sold on the Apple Music Store for $1.99, so there's more to this story than a flat 7-minute exclusion.
Then something to explain that the nearest star is about 65,000 miles away on the same scale.
My numbers say that'd actually be 256,800 miles to the nearest star...
4.3 light years, divided by the 1:93,000,000 scale, comes to 1.459 light-seconds, or 256K miles...
The shame is that the Moon is 251K away at apogee. If we wait for ti to drift a little farther away, we could put Proxima Centauri on the Moon.
Does anyone know if Proxima is coming towards us or running away? It could make our job easier or harder...
A wearable jacket. I've been waiting for one of these for a while.
I would so mod that up if I had the mod points.
Gotta love the 'executive toy' on the desk in the picture.
how are you supposed to know it's an executive's desk unless there's a kinetic sculpture on it? Truly, this is the future.
Almost forgot the all-important supporting link.
Looking at the latest top 500 list this would put it as the third most powerful 'self-made' system in the world.
I disagree. Hydra would qualify as "IBM made" as it uses a standard network of standard IBM machines. For comparison, the top 'self-made' computer, Sandia's Cplant Cluster, was built by the lab from off the shelf components, wired together by custom drivers written by the engineers at Sandia.
If the thrust of this story was an amazing $AU/tflop ratio, it didn't come across at all in the summary.
Not to flame or troll, but considering that over 90% of the top 80 came out in the last 30 months, how big a deal is this? Third fastest computer in Australia? Sheesh.
A computer faster than this is born every two weeks.
Thank got for meta-moderation.