Actually the main problem is that to achieve good efficiency the barrel must be very long. Also you need a fast power supply, which is a major problem for any electromagnetic gun.
Ever see those people with their little RC dragsters? One turn of wire armatures with high current draw cells to power them? I think science has this covered by now, it's only a question of how big a projectile you want to lob. The US Navy has been experimenting with these for years and plan to equip ships with them, capable of lobbing shells well over one hundred miles, at mach 5 or better. Power supplies capable of high current draws and perhaps arrays of capacitors and you're well on your way.
From the description is'nt it more of a railgun type of weapon ?
If you've ever played BattleTech, past the original set of Mechs, you've seen Gauss Rifles. IIRC they were introduced about the time of the Clan Invasion (possibly retconned to the Lost Tech)
The only real problem I can see with a Gauss Rifle is the recoil, which could be considerable.
Transparent aluminum is ballistics-resistant so much so that it doesn't even scratch. It's also much more expensive.
Yeah, but its barter value isn't very high. A guy I know (Monty) only got a few big sheets of plexi in exchange for the transparent aluminum formula. Sheesh.
Yeah, I heard some hospital patient grew a new kidney, too, but got run down months later by someone driving a car made of transparent aluminum, never saw it coming.
Isn't the whole point of a cell phone to take it with you? If you're going to buy one to leave at home, just get a land line.
Problem is the mobile devices have shot right past "only in necessary situations" to "what the heck, everything, all the time, everywhere" to the point of addiction (gotta text someone on/. called me an addict!), can't put the thing down while driving, interrupt conferences or work taking personal calls, etc.
Got a mobile phone for one reason, to be able to communicate when necessary in a hurry. I don't gab, I don't purchase, I don't bank, I don't web surf, I don't do anything to compromise any data by my phone. I generally have the ringer off to preserve battery (it's a stupid phone which will run the battery down notifying me the battery is getting low), but it's a basic phone for one use and that use only. I'll keep taking it with me.
Yes, you must indeed be a 'hopeless edge case' if you enjoy reading in the bath, by a pool, on a beach, on a camping or hiking trip, etc.
Yep, that's me. I've been known to go hiking when it's pouring rain out and carrying an umbrella. I do tend to go places regardless of weather and having something to read or be able to read documentation on, while out and about would be a big plus.
An all season, outdoor weathersealed version. Probably won't happen, but it would be more useful to me than one which shorts out in a light drizzle (the ones they've been making.
And sometimes you have to drive a damn post, and you might regret not having a sledgehammer. There are some things you just can not do without a big truck. And there are even more things that you can't do without some kind of truck. My truck is only a single cab Dakota and I often find myself wishing that I had more truck.
The place I see more large vehicles than anywhere else is in front of the schools in the morning as parents drop off their kids. I boggle at the sight of it. They don't want to pay $120/yr for school bus fare, but will punt at least one gallon of gas (currently $3.99/gal. at cheapest pump) each day for 180 days giving their kids chauffer service. Probably at least on oil change averaged out over that daily driving mileage, too. Madness.
Sorry, I use my dodge ram (with Duallies, thats what we call them) to go grocery shopping, to pull my boat, to pull a horse trailer, to help friends move. But saying that I'm unsafe because I drive a pickup is pretty narrow minded. I'd imagine that I'm less dangerous than 20somethings with sportbikes or a sports cars. Oh or the soccer-moms texting&driving with a minivan full of kids. Jackass.
I perfectly understand your having a duallie for work and recreation, but not for around town errands. You should have something economical for those trips as well as any long trips you take without your boat. Gas at $4/gallon must hurt when you go to fill up, do the math over a year and see how much you feed that thing. I started with a big V8, but have gone to progressively more efficient vehicles as I'm less than thrilled to be putting half my disposable income (after housing, food, utilities, insurance, etc.) into a gas tank. I like my car, but think even at 30 MPG is sucking a lot of money out of my pocket and when gas gets up to $5 or $6 per gallon I'll be looking at it as a recreational vehicle and driving a 50+ MPG runabout for commute, errands and trips which don't require the power of the 30 MPG car.
This is exactly why we need to do away with publicly funded education. This type of shit would never fly in the private sector. Remember this story the next time you get your tax bill.
You fool. Universities offer video game production programs of study, they have for years.
While he's awesome, I wonder how this made it to the front page of Failblog before it made it to Slashdot.
Because he's strongly suggesting there's a fail somewhere?
When I was a wee little tot they gave the the sugar-coated, sterilized version of biblical events and happenings.
When I grew older the tone of things became more apparent, the Bible is full of very bad things happening and wicked people doing wicked things.. which could certainly color a young child's perspective. Effectively church leaders have known for a while there's some stuff you want to keep away from kids until they're old enough to weigh the full force of the message, not get fixated on details. ("Mommy, what did they do in Sodom that was sinful?")
A company gets shutdown, but the demand for email advertising is still there, so other companies move-in to fill the need of customers. (Same thing happened with megaupload..... shutting it down didn't stop file sharing. It just showed the U.S. government is a lackey/hitman for the Hollywood megacorps. AKA fascist.)
Companies?!?
These aren't companies, these are criminal going concerns, some well organized, but I don't expect you'll see them listed on NASDAQ any time soon.
although facebook did get listed, so who really knows
People who have bad security practices on their computers, still have bad security practices on their computers.
or
People with one infection on their computers, are more likely to have another.
Operating systems with sufficient security gaps, due to interdepartmental squabbles, deviation from established use of APIs and failure to adhere to sound programming practices will create fertile ground for more bots and botnets.
Attitude of the bot architects: go ahead, take down grum, we'll make moar
Why doesn't NASA print its own money, that's what Congress does when it wants some!
Yeah, but when you print your own money they come, arrest you, throw you in jail -- because they don't like the competition.
Stupid thing is how little money NASA requires, but we can always find a few extra billion for yet another wacky military subcontractor to do something, rather than have the GIs do it.
Well, it's up to us to find somebody that see to it that it's funded properly. Obviously that precludes the party regulars we elect now who are more concerned with protecting overseas business interests. So that leaves us with... what?
Slashdot Mirror
Actually the main problem is that to achieve good efficiency the barrel must be very long.
Also you need a fast power supply, which is a major problem for any electromagnetic gun.
Ever see those people with their little RC dragsters? One turn of wire armatures with high current draw cells to power them? I think science has this covered by now, it's only a question of how big a projectile you want to lob. The US Navy has been experimenting with these for years and plan to equip ships with them, capable of lobbing shells well over one hundred miles, at mach 5 or better. Power supplies capable of high current draws and perhaps arrays of capacitors and you're well on your way.
From the description is'nt it more of a railgun type of weapon ?
If you've ever played BattleTech, past the original set of Mechs, you've seen Gauss Rifles. IIRC they were introduced about the time of the Clan Invasion (possibly retconned to the Lost Tech)
The only real problem I can see with a Gauss Rifle is the recoil, which could be considerable.
And then there is also corporations established by the social robots. I wonder how soon these would get special rights too...
Special? They can probably already donate to elections .. what's your definition of catastrophe?
See subject.
"Bite my shiny metal Like!"
That's a proper boast right there.
Ever eat a burger in a high school cafeteria? You'd alreayd know how tough cellulose can be.
Transparent aluminum is ballistics-resistant so much so that it doesn't even scratch. It's also much more expensive.
Yeah, but its barter value isn't very high. A guy I know (Monty) only got a few big sheets of plexi in exchange for the transparent aluminum formula. Sheesh.
Yeah, I heard some hospital patient grew a new kidney, too, but got run down months later by someone driving a car made of transparent aluminum, never saw it coming.
Isn't the whole point of a cell phone to take it with you? If you're going to buy one to leave at home, just get a land line.
Problem is the mobile devices have shot right past "only in necessary situations" to "what the heck, everything, all the time, everywhere" to the point of addiction (gotta text someone on /. called me an addict!), can't put the thing down while driving, interrupt conferences or work taking personal calls, etc.
Got a mobile phone for one reason, to be able to communicate when necessary in a hurry. I don't gab, I don't purchase, I don't bank, I don't web surf, I don't do anything to compromise any data by my phone. I generally have the ringer off to preserve battery (it's a stupid phone which will run the battery down notifying me the battery is getting low), but it's a basic phone for one use and that use only. I'll keep taking it with me.
Yes, you must indeed be a 'hopeless edge case' if you enjoy reading in the bath, by a pool, on a beach, on a camping or hiking trip, etc.
Yep, that's me. I've been known to go hiking when it's pouring rain out and carrying an umbrella. I do tend to go places regardless of weather and having something to read or be able to read documentation on, while out and about would be a big plus.
An all season, outdoor weathersealed version. Probably won't happen, but it would be more useful to me than one which shorts out in a light drizzle (the ones they've been making.
They both turned to a singing -- which was enough to discourage anyone turning their boom-box up.
Maybe he can shed some light on sugar around a planet Organic origins or just dumb luck, formed by a shock wave from nova/super nova.
Or Galactus having a quick one for tea
And sometimes you have to drive a damn post, and you might regret not having a sledgehammer. There are some things you just can not do without a big truck. And there are even more things that you can't do without some kind of truck. My truck is only a single cab Dakota and I often find myself wishing that I had more truck.
The place I see more large vehicles than anywhere else is in front of the schools in the morning as parents drop off their kids. I boggle at the sight of it. They don't want to pay $120/yr for school bus fare, but will punt at least one gallon of gas (currently $3.99/gal. at cheapest pump) each day for 180 days giving their kids chauffer service. Probably at least on oil change averaged out over that daily driving mileage, too. Madness.
Sorry, I use my dodge ram (with Duallies, thats what we call them) to go grocery shopping, to pull my boat, to pull a horse trailer, to help friends move. But saying that I'm unsafe because I drive a pickup is pretty narrow minded. I'd imagine that I'm less dangerous than 20somethings with sportbikes or a sports cars. Oh or the soccer-moms texting&driving with a minivan full of kids. Jackass.
I perfectly understand your having a duallie for work and recreation, but not for around town errands. You should have something economical for those trips as well as any long trips you take without your boat. Gas at $4/gallon must hurt when you go to fill up, do the math over a year and see how much you feed that thing. I started with a big V8, but have gone to progressively more efficient vehicles as I'm less than thrilled to be putting half my disposable income (after housing, food, utilities, insurance, etc.) into a gas tank. I like my car, but think even at 30 MPG is sucking a lot of money out of my pocket and when gas gets up to $5 or $6 per gallon I'll be looking at it as a recreational vehicle and driving a 50+ MPG runabout for commute, errands and trips which don't require the power of the 30 MPG car.
This is exactly why we need to do away with publicly funded education. This type of shit would never fly in the private sector. Remember this story the next time you get your tax bill.
You fool. Universities offer video game production programs of study, they have for years.
Back to the Stygian Abyss with you!
Another visitor .. stay a while, stay forever!
Also, structural engineering, materials engineering, when you factor in biomimetics.
Also, software development, with each new language we mus master we continue to evolve into more hideous creatures with each passing day.
While he's awesome, I wonder how this made it to the front page of Failblog before it made it to Slashdot.
Because he's strongly suggesting there's a fail somewhere?
When I was a wee little tot they gave the the sugar-coated, sterilized version of biblical events and happenings.
When I grew older the tone of things became more apparent, the Bible is full of very bad things happening and wicked people doing wicked things .. which could certainly color a young child's perspective. Effectively church leaders have known for a while there's some stuff you want to keep away from kids until they're old enough to weigh the full force of the message, not get fixated on details. ("Mommy, what did they do in Sodom that was sinful?")
A company gets shutdown, but the demand for email advertising is still there, so other companies move-in to fill the need of customers. (Same thing happened with megaupload..... shutting it down didn't stop file sharing. It just showed the U.S. government is a lackey/hitman for the Hollywood megacorps. AKA fascist.)
Companies?!?
These aren't companies, these are criminal going concerns, some well organized, but I don't expect you'll see them listed on NASDAQ any time soon.
although facebook did get listed, so who really knows
People who have bad security practices on their computers, still have bad security practices on their computers.
or
People with one infection on their computers, are more likely to have another.
Operating systems with sufficient security gaps, due to interdepartmental squabbles, deviation from established use of APIs and failure to adhere to sound programming practices will create fertile ground for more bots and botnets.
Attitude of the bot architects: go ahead, take down grum, we'll make moar
unreel a fiber optic cable to a surface station, much like a human climber with a rope. Not at all difficult.
Watch out for that unpredictable snag.
Why doesn't NASA print its own money, that's what Congress does when it wants some!
Yeah, but when you print your own money they come, arrest you, throw you in jail -- because they don't like the competition.
Stupid thing is how little money NASA requires, but we can always find a few extra billion for yet another wacky military subcontractor to do something, rather than have the GIs do it.
Well, it's up to us to find somebody that see to it that it's funded properly. Obviously that precludes the party regulars we elect now who are more concerned with protecting overseas business interests. So that leaves us with... what?
Chinese Communisty Party Martian Masters?
well it is the RED planet!
I never expected Google to be a company that cheaply jumps on the latest fad that blows by.
We need them to work on the technology of controling the weather ... push it to the east a hundred miles would be a good start.
A "self-driving" google hurricaine?
Ya know... I think that sounds even more fun than a flying car. Where can I get one? (c=
I never expected Google to be a company that cheaply jumps on the latest fad that blows by.
We need them to work on the technology of controling the weather ... push it to the east a hundred miles would be a good start.