Are there countermeasures to an antimissle laser? Sure. But that's not the point. All current missles that do not already have countermeasures will either have to be discarded or will have to be upgraded to anti antimissle laser technology. Either way, it costs money and that, in the end, *is* the point.
Are there countermeasures to stealth aircraft? Sure, but they cost money. About the time the Soviets finished up their country-wide integrated defense system, the Americans came up with aircraft that could fly through newly-exposed holes in that system, essentially negating that huge, multibillion dollar investment. The measures needed to counter stealth was going to cost billions more. About that time, they gave up, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the cold war ended.
Military planning is a constant measure/countermeasure game. It won't end. There are tanks and anti-tank weapons. There are aircraft and anti-aircraft weapons. Submarines and anti-submarine weapons. Missles, and now, antimissle systems.
Whoever spends the most wins.
The newer Patriots use a hit-to-kill method to kill missles, with no explosive.
Not sure why hit-to-kill is better than explosives triggered by a proximity fuse, however...
Actually Corel is my favorite so far, and I've tried Suse 7.0 and 6.4, Redhat 6.1, and Mandrake 6.5.
For linux newbies, Corel's default install is, in my opinion, better than the other's. I like their file manager better than the standard KDE 1.2 file manager, I like the default automount for CDs and floppys (why doesn't every distribution do that?) and I like the other touches they've put in, such as the graphical updater and printer configurator.
There's room for more improvement, like setting all CDs as SCSI emulater by default, so that CDs that turn out to be burners can be configured without recompiling the kernel, but overall, I like it better than the others I've tried.
Considering what they've done so far, I'd hate to see Corel linux disappear. I think it could get very good quickly.
Dave
I get tired of these movies bashing Russians and Russian-made stuff. In this one, Val Kilmer makes a comment about the Russian lander on the surface and questions its trustworthiness, because it's Russian. The same type thing happened in Armaggedon, which bored me to the point I got up and walked out. I don't think this is necessary. In the movie "Contact", the launch craft was made in Japan, as I recall, and no one questioned its trustworthiness. I realize this probably represents common opinion, but Hollywood should give credit where it's due - the Russians were in space before anyone else and make some of the most reliable launch vehicles on the planet. I noticed a Russian-sounding name in the credits - Sergay ******off (can't remember the rest)- who worked on the scale models. Wonder what he thought about the Russian references...
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Are there countermeasures to an antimissle laser? Sure. But that's not the point. All current missles that do not already have countermeasures will either have to be discarded or will have to be upgraded to anti antimissle laser technology. Either way, it costs money and that, in the end, *is* the point. Are there countermeasures to stealth aircraft? Sure, but they cost money. About the time the Soviets finished up their country-wide integrated defense system, the Americans came up with aircraft that could fly through newly-exposed holes in that system, essentially negating that huge, multibillion dollar investment. The measures needed to counter stealth was going to cost billions more. About that time, they gave up, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the cold war ended. Military planning is a constant measure/countermeasure game. It won't end. There are tanks and anti-tank weapons. There are aircraft and anti-aircraft weapons. Submarines and anti-submarine weapons. Missles, and now, antimissle systems. Whoever spends the most wins.
The newer Patriots use a hit-to-kill method to kill missles, with no explosive. Not sure why hit-to-kill is better than explosives triggered by a proximity fuse, however...
Actually Corel is my favorite so far, and I've tried Suse 7.0 and 6.4, Redhat 6.1, and Mandrake 6.5. For linux newbies, Corel's default install is, in my opinion, better than the other's. I like their file manager better than the standard KDE 1.2 file manager, I like the default automount for CDs and floppys (why doesn't every distribution do that?) and I like the other touches they've put in, such as the graphical updater and printer configurator. There's room for more improvement, like setting all CDs as SCSI emulater by default, so that CDs that turn out to be burners can be configured without recompiling the kernel, but overall, I like it better than the others I've tried. Considering what they've done so far, I'd hate to see Corel linux disappear. I think it could get very good quickly. Dave
I get tired of these movies bashing Russians and Russian-made stuff. In this one, Val Kilmer makes a comment about the Russian lander on the surface and questions its trustworthiness, because it's Russian. The same type thing happened in Armaggedon, which bored me to the point I got up and walked out. I don't think this is necessary. In the movie "Contact", the launch craft was made in Japan, as I recall, and no one questioned its trustworthiness. I realize this probably represents common opinion, but Hollywood should give credit where it's due - the Russians were in space before anyone else and make some of the most reliable launch vehicles on the planet. I noticed a Russian-sounding name in the credits - Sergay ******off (can't remember the rest)- who worked on the scale models. Wonder what he thought about the Russian references...