The concorde was 50/60's tech that flew from the 70's to early 00's. It was a magnificent plane.
Now imagine the same thing with modern tech: -all glass cockpit -fly by wire -supercruise engine technology -modern materials (probably still involve a fair bit of titanium, but not as much per se) -modern electronics tech (look ma, no tubes!)
Imagine if you could do the ultimate "upgrade", changing everything to its modern equivalent.
And actually I think it's a good strategy to start out here in places like OKC and KC. Just a mile or two outside both cities and you can't get anything but dialup, and the cable comapnies (cox in okc) have been loathe to invest in the infrastructure cause it would take too long to get a return.
they ignore the fact that once they dig the wires once, its cheaper the time around cause they can just fish new wire through existing conduit and not dig all new lines.... of course that too is thinking too far ahead for them. they'd probably use just barely big enugh conduit the first time cause its cheaper in the short term, thus needing all new bigger ones down the road.
so please google, even if you don't come here next, at least do it right the first time and dont play this same "only short term matters" game.
If you're into the funny/weird/strange check out the designs the OSS (CIA world war 2 forerunner) came up with. The cigarette "gun" from jame bond is real, they made it.
They do have practical benefits, but not ones that a typical private citizen is concerned about. That is they provide benefit in combat but not when hunting supper: -Barrel shrouds enable better barrel cooling / longer firing duration, lighter weight, and easier cleaning/care for the weapon. -Forward pistol grips make a weapon easier to use in a confined space (think room clearing in Fallujah) by orienting the forward hand vertically instead of horizontally. Also makes blind firing around a corner (ie, suppressive fire), and offhand firing (say your strong hand got hurt) easier.
Military issue used to be almost identical to ordinary rifles people had back at home. In WWII things started to chage, but the general form for the general issue rifles (ie, excluding things like the Thompsons that were not general issue) was still very traditional. It wasnt really until Vietnam and the M16 that things really started to differentiate in form and function.
89 guns per 100 people. That is the fed's own numbers. Nearly half of all households have at least one firearm, ALSO a number from the fed. And about 2/3 of households with guns have more than one. ALSO from the fed.
That's a lot of people with guns, exposed to guns, brought up around them.
Safe to say, considerng these things DON'T happen very often, most people are taught and trained in basic (common sense) safety and responsibility pretty well. If they weren't our reaction to friday's shooting would be far more jaded and it wouldn't be such a shocking event. Most accidents happen to the irresponsible (darwinism, imho), and tragedies are committed by psychotics that cannot be predicted, nor stopped. ie if someone really wants to hurt people, not being to buy something at Walmart isnt going to stop him.
Welcome to the moderate middle, the place where real democracy used to get done, when people still knew the meaning of the words "debate" and "discussion". Now everyone simply want to kick everyone who dont with every line they say, and think "debate" is slinging mud and pandering to their fan bases.
There's more of us out there than people know, we just need to get the word out that people like us need not feel like we absolutely MUST side with one side or the other. The "Rockefeller republicans" and "Southern Democrats" used to be pretty popular and get a lot done. Politicos that cross the aisle to get things done or because their constituincies demanded it should not be booted frm the party (like recently happened....gasp...a representive listened to his people and did what they said instead of the party!!) but be applauded.
By pushing their extremist view of the constitution, they are forcing the rest of us to deal with all kinds of military-grade weaponry in civilian hands..
BS, you don't know what you are talking about.
They think it's an infringement of their 'rights' to even be required to be trained to use the weapons they are buying.
Yep, still full of BS and still dont know what you're talking about.
Because all gun owners are NRA members and all nra members own guns....
For every person who ponies up the money for membership there's several others who dont yet still support teh organization. there's also folks who are members cause they support the organization/beliefs but dont own a firearm (due to cost, local regulation, whatever).
Yes, the entire government spending problem would go away if the bush tax cuts were elimenated. Everything was just hunky dory and everything was paid for before him.
EQ was fun, but enormous time investment. Days just to get 1 AA, and then youneeded 1000s of them to be considered "useful" ? Plus the whif monster that even max levels had to suffer? These were annoyances that wow got rid of. but wow had its own probelms: pvp balance was non existant for quite a while, certain classes or specs being simply unwanted in any form, raid dps being just mages and rogues for quite a while....but these things were evened out over time. I mean it must have dome something right: after all teh failed EQ-killers (that we used to mock like we mock wow killers now), WoW is/was the EQ-killer.
also consider that wow came out at just the right time: as EQ's core base matured they had less time to invest in it, so "chracter progress return on investment" became more important, and wow offered a better return, plus the hugely popular warcraft universe.
Rift and Swtor put serious dents in it, the first "wow-killers" to do so, but they did it by being at simplest terms wow-clones with new worlds/mythologies/settings to explore. they changed some things, minor annoyances that wow has included themselves or is about to. rift is still gaining a steady audience having stabilized after the initial wow-hater influx ("wow sucks this, wow sucks that, this game rocks.....(3 months later) man this is just like wow, this sucks"). swtor used wow clone design combined with the huge builtin fanbase of star wars to become an instant hit, the closest to a wow killer of all. like rift did, its now going through its period of shedding people after the intial influx and stabilizing its subscriber base.
this is why these observations are amusing. wow revolutionized the mmorpg general style by fixing most of the complaints of the biggest mmo, EQ. in so doing it became the new big guy on the block, gaining at one point over 12million players (EQ topped out at what, 1 million?). so far most wow killers have failed, and the most successful ones have been the copycats.
will there eventually be a wow killer? yes.
but will it kill wow by being revolutionary, like wow vs eq, or just evolutionary with a more interesting world, like rift/swtor?
"Right Wing" aka conservatism is not and has never been about small government, despite the protestations of those who have fallen for that line. It is about restoring the old order. The order that was shaken to its core by the French and American revolutions. It is about returning to an age of absolute authoritarianism where a select few gentry have absolute power over the masses by legal, economic and superstitious means"
This part is absolute bullcrap.
The bad boss? F him
Doing the right thing is often hard. But it's still the right thing. Being honest is the right thing. Doing all you can to correct bad situations is the right thing. You can't help it they don't listen to you, but that doesn't mean you should wuss out. Always be forthright and honest. Your strength of character is more important than anything else and will carry you far. People used to have guts, and self-respect.
Mod up. And cue the Heinlen quote:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
If only I could reach through the monitor and slap people. This is not progress. This is classic cultural decline.
When you no longer have the expertise to do something, even a basic something, you are at the mercy of those who do. It's a form of competition. The experts can cost cost more, but not too much more cause you'll just do it yourself. But when you can no lnger do it, they can charge whatever they want. And give you whatever quality they want, cause you no longer possess the knowledge to know the difference.
It's also very much a reflection of mindset. The article captures it perfectly, it is a decline in the can-do, get-it-done mentality. Taming the continent gave us that mindset, and it lasted a few generations. Now we just want our A/c and our tv and our beer and some trashy "reality" on TV, and for someone else, like big brother, to just take care of everything, including us.
The next frontier is space, and we are not leading the way. We will be passed shortly by some other country. And in learning to tame space, that culture will develop that self-reliant can-do attitude that we used to have. And then they will dominate world (galactic?) events until they too become apathetic and slip into cultural decline.
There are essentially 3 trajectories a rocket can take:
1) Sub-orbital, item will return to earth
2) Orbital, item will orbit the earth
3) Escape, item will leave the earth's gravitational hold
While I get what point you're trying to make, you confuse your own point by stating "you could fly higher than the Moon on a 'sub-orbital' trajectory" because by definition in order to get to the moon the item must use an escape trajectory.
irrelevant datum for a useful engineering design.
How think is the graphene filter? If its only 1 or 2 molecules thick it may be "stronger" than any other filter yet still breakable by only a few pounds of force.
And stronger in what way? Compression? Tension? Torsion? Axial loading? Bending moment?
Plus you have to clean the filter of the blocked material. In most water treatment plants that means the screen (filter) has a scraper mounted on its front (rotating or back-forth style) which further complicates the design. The graphene needs to be thick enough to resist the forces from the scraping, yet it may be that such a sufficient thickness loses its filtering efficiency (happens with other materials).
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The concorde was 50/60's tech that flew from the 70's to early 00's. It was a magnificent plane.
Now imagine the same thing with modern tech:
-all glass cockpit
-fly by wire
-supercruise engine technology
-modern materials (probably still involve a fair bit of titanium, but not as much per se)
-modern electronics tech (look ma, no tubes!)
Imagine if you could do the ultimate "upgrade", changing everything to its modern equivalent.
Oklahoma city next pretty please!
And actually I think it's a good strategy to start out here in places like OKC and KC. Just a mile or two outside both cities and you can't get anything but dialup, and the cable comapnies (cox in okc) have been loathe to invest in the infrastructure cause it would take too long to get a return.
they ignore the fact that once they dig the wires once, its cheaper the time around cause they can just fish new wire through existing conduit and not dig all new lines.. .. of course that too is thinking too far ahead for them. they'd probably use just barely big enugh conduit the first time cause its cheaper in the short term, thus needing all new bigger ones down the road.
so please google, even if you don't come here next, at least do it right the first time and dont play this same "only short term matters" game.
If you're into the funny/weird/strange check out the designs the OSS (CIA world war 2 forerunner) came up with. The cigarette "gun" from jame bond is real, they made it.
Here's a starting point: http://gizmodo.com/392406/resistance-isnt-futile-explosive-edible-flour-cigarette-guns-and-other-wwii-oss-tricks
They do have practical benefits, but not ones that a typical private citizen is concerned about. That is they provide benefit in combat but not when hunting supper:
-Barrel shrouds enable better barrel cooling / longer firing duration, lighter weight, and easier cleaning/care for the weapon.
-Forward pistol grips make a weapon easier to use in a confined space (think room clearing in Fallujah) by orienting the forward hand vertically instead of horizontally. Also makes blind firing around a corner (ie, suppressive fire), and offhand firing (say your strong hand got hurt) easier.
Military issue used to be almost identical to ordinary rifles people had back at home. In WWII things started to chage, but the general form for the general issue rifles (ie, excluding things like the Thompsons that were not general issue) was still very traditional. It wasnt really until Vietnam and the M16 that things really started to differentiate in form and function.
89 guns per 100 people. That is the fed's own numbers.
Nearly half of all households have at least one firearm, ALSO a number from the fed.
And about 2/3 of households with guns have more than one. ALSO from the fed.
That's a lot of people with guns, exposed to guns, brought up around them.
Safe to say, considerng these things DON'T happen very often, most people are taught and trained in basic (common sense) safety and responsibility pretty well. If they weren't our reaction to friday's shooting would be far more jaded and it wouldn't be such a shocking event.
Most accidents happen to the irresponsible (darwinism, imho), and tragedies are committed by psychotics that cannot be predicted, nor stopped. ie if someone really wants to hurt people, not being to buy something at Walmart isnt going to stop him.
Welcome to the moderate middle, the place where real democracy used to get done, when people still knew the meaning of the words "debate" and "discussion". Now everyone simply want to kick everyone who dont with every line they say, and think "debate" is slinging mud and pandering to their fan bases.
There's more of us out there than people know, we just need to get the word out that people like us need not feel like we absolutely MUST side with one side or the other. The "Rockefeller republicans" and "Southern Democrats" used to be pretty popular and get a lot done. Politicos that cross the aisle to get things done or because their constituincies demanded it should not be booted frm the party (like recently happened....gasp...a representive listened to his people and did what they said instead of the party!!) but be applauded.
By pushing their extremist view of the constitution, they are forcing the rest of us to deal with all kinds of military-grade weaponry in civilian hands..
BS, you don't know what you are talking about.
They think it's an infringement of their 'rights' to even be required to be trained to use the weapons they are buying.
Yep, still full of BS and still dont know what you're talking about.
Because all gun owners are NRA members and all nra members own guns....
For every person who ponies up the money for membership there's several others who dont yet still support teh organization. there's also folks who are members cause they support the organization/beliefs but dont own a firearm (due to cost, local regulation, whatever).
It took a thousand years, but it looks like Denmark's about to hit the jackpot.
Yes, the entire government spending problem would go away if the bush tax cuts were elimenated. Everything was just hunky dory and everything was paid for before him.
EQ was fun, but enormous time investment. Days just to get 1 AA, and then youneeded 1000s of them to be considered "useful" ? Plus the whif monster that even max levels had to suffer? These were annoyances that wow got rid of. but wow had its own probelms: pvp balance was non existant for quite a while, certain classes or specs being simply unwanted in any form, raid dps being just mages and rogues for quite a while....but these things were evened out over time. I mean it must have dome something right: after all teh failed EQ-killers (that we used to mock like we mock wow killers now), WoW is/was the EQ-killer.
also consider that wow came out at just the right time: as EQ's core base matured they had less time to invest in it, so "chracter progress return on investment" became more important, and wow offered a better return, plus the hugely popular warcraft universe.
Rift and Swtor put serious dents in it, the first "wow-killers" to do so, but they did it by being at simplest terms wow-clones with new worlds/mythologies/settings to explore. they changed some things, minor annoyances that wow has included themselves or is about to. rift is still gaining a steady audience having stabilized after the initial wow-hater influx ("wow sucks this, wow sucks that, this game rocks.....(3 months later) man this is just like wow, this sucks"). swtor used wow clone design combined with the huge builtin fanbase of star wars to become an instant hit, the closest to a wow killer of all. like rift did, its now going through its period of shedding people after the intial influx and stabilizing its subscriber base.
this is why these observations are amusing. wow revolutionized the mmorpg general style by fixing most of the complaints of the biggest mmo, EQ. in so doing it became the new big guy on the block, gaining at one point over 12million players (EQ topped out at what, 1 million?). so far most wow killers have failed, and the most successful ones have been the copycats.
will there eventually be a wow killer? yes.
but will it kill wow by being revolutionary, like wow vs eq, or just evolutionary with a more interesting world, like rift/swtor?
"I had to do a Google search to find out how to show hidden files in Windows 7"
Really? It's been in the same spot for years...since what, Win95?
That's what makes it sound the most like a shill post.
"Right Wing" aka conservatism is not and has never been about small government, despite the protestations of those who have fallen for that line. It is about restoring the old order. The order that was shaken to its core by the French and American revolutions. It is about returning to an age of absolute authoritarianism where a select few gentry have absolute power over the masses by legal, economic and superstitious means" This part is absolute bullcrap.
nice assumption. dem's never take any money i suppose?
The bad boss? F him Doing the right thing is often hard. But it's still the right thing. Being honest is the right thing. Doing all you can to correct bad situations is the right thing. You can't help it they don't listen to you, but that doesn't mean you should wuss out. Always be forthright and honest. Your strength of character is more important than anything else and will carry you far. People used to have guts, and self-respect.
are only as good as the programmer. And if he's no good at working with tools, neither will the robot be good at it.
Mod up. And cue the Heinlen quote: "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
If only I could reach through the monitor and slap people. This is not progress. This is classic cultural decline. When you no longer have the expertise to do something, even a basic something, you are at the mercy of those who do. It's a form of competition. The experts can cost cost more, but not too much more cause you'll just do it yourself. But when you can no lnger do it, they can charge whatever they want. And give you whatever quality they want, cause you no longer possess the knowledge to know the difference. It's also very much a reflection of mindset. The article captures it perfectly, it is a decline in the can-do, get-it-done mentality. Taming the continent gave us that mindset, and it lasted a few generations. Now we just want our A/c and our tv and our beer and some trashy "reality" on TV, and for someone else, like big brother, to just take care of everything, including us. The next frontier is space, and we are not leading the way. We will be passed shortly by some other country. And in learning to tame space, that culture will develop that self-reliant can-do attitude that we used to have. And then they will dominate world (galactic?) events until they too become apathetic and slip into cultural decline.
There are essentially 3 trajectories a rocket can take: 1) Sub-orbital, item will return to earth 2) Orbital, item will orbit the earth 3) Escape, item will leave the earth's gravitational hold While I get what point you're trying to make, you confuse your own point by stating "you could fly higher than the Moon on a 'sub-orbital' trajectory" because by definition in order to get to the moon the item must use an escape trajectory.
irrelevant datum for a useful engineering design. How think is the graphene filter? If its only 1 or 2 molecules thick it may be "stronger" than any other filter yet still breakable by only a few pounds of force. And stronger in what way? Compression? Tension? Torsion? Axial loading? Bending moment? Plus you have to clean the filter of the blocked material. In most water treatment plants that means the screen (filter) has a scraper mounted on its front (rotating or back-forth style) which further complicates the design. The graphene needs to be thick enough to resist the forces from the scraping, yet it may be that such a sufficient thickness loses its filtering efficiency (happens with other materials).