None of the unmarked vans were stopping.
But, being a non-conformist, I stopped the next one, drove it to the river, and put a rabbit on top of it. I'll be waiting in the hammock when I get back to it from this coffee shop.
Hey, you. Yeah, you. You're not supposed to read this. Move your eyeballs along.
Duct tape on the camera, or tape your eyelids and eyeballs wide open so the camera can't see normal movement?
Or duct tape googly eyes all over your face?
As I said, cruise missiles use a cruise mode for their long range travel. They do indeed use airflow lift in cruise mode, but it is their long range cruising which makes them different from other missiles. The lifting surface is needed to achieve the long distance; it is not the lifting surface which defines them (some antiship missiles and drone aircraft also use lifting surfaces).
Your ballistic missile example is overly simplified, as there are other types of missiles such as antiaircraft missiles and antiship missiles which are not generally considered cruise missiles. Antiaircraft missiles (particularly air-to-air) usually are thrusting all the way to the target and are thus not ballistic. There are also many antiship missiles which are not ballistic, and have many of the characteristics of cruise missiles except that most antiship missiles have much shorter ranges than cruise missiles have. Antiship missiles are also designed for use over water and thus have simpler navigation systems, but that's a side effect of the shorter range; cruise missiles need complex navigation systems so they can produce better results at long range. Some antiship missiles have ranges in the cruise missile range, but are probably classed as antiship rather than cruise missiles due to not being very useful outside of naval warfare due to limitations such as targeting limits (being able to lock on to a ship's radar profile but not a building), armor-piercing design, or terminal-phase behavior (high-speed popup, overhead targeting of vital area, and close-in defense countermeasures). Yes, there are cruise missiles which are used against ships, but it's the long range which is the major characteristic of the class.
No, a cruise missile is one with a long-distance cruising mode. The ability of it to steer merely makes its routing and targeting more precise. The V-1 "buzz bomb" was a cruise missile which could not be aimed well. This steering technology makes the missile more practical to use, and much more effective than slower ones. If the missile has to travel 300 miles over hostile terrain, the enemy may have an hour to react to it. There's a drastic difference between having having one hour and having a half hour (or less).
No, they're cruise missiles because of their long range and small size. It's hard for a small ballistic missile to have a range of hundreds of miles. These missiles have a cruise mode where they can travel long distances. The long distance ability then encourages their other characteristics.
Don't do that Google search!
I did it and then I was right in the middle of that crater.
I'll tell you more when I get back, the Internet link in the middle of this crater is really slow.
I think this is engineering, not theory. Theory was the original idea of using entanglement for cryptography. Now they're applying the technology to make it practical, and that's engineering. They're adding a bit of steel or another entanglement to make it more usable. If nobody has built this device yet, it's theoretical engineering.
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It is about impossible with modern drives. You'd have to replace the whole electronics with your own and drive the head and the motors with your own.
Find a drive with characteristics similar to what you want, and contract with the manufacturer to modify the drive to do what you want. The manufacturer has the tools and engineers to alter the existing firmware. It won't be cheap. If the manufacturer refuses the proposal, buy the company.
No, just provide appropriate restitution. My church will forward the accounting of their lost future income until eternity, and also provide equivalently powerful prayers.
Let the ethicists at the first university in the asteroid belt work on these questions.
It's irrelevant until we get out there, and we're not out there.
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None of the unmarked vans were stopping.
But, being a non-conformist, I stopped the next one, drove it to the river, and put a rabbit on top of it. I'll be waiting in the hammock when I get back to it from this coffee shop.
Hey, you. Yeah, you. You're not supposed to read this. Move your eyeballs along.
Duct tape on the camera, or tape your eyelids and eyeballs wide open so the camera can't see normal movement?
Or duct tape googly eyes all over your face?
Oh, I'm sorry. I was daydreaming. What were you saying?
Agreed. Nits targeted, entering terminal phase.
As I said, cruise missiles use a cruise mode for their long range travel. They do indeed use airflow lift in cruise mode, but it is their long range cruising which makes them different from other missiles. The lifting surface is needed to achieve the long distance; it is not the lifting surface which defines them (some antiship missiles and drone aircraft also use lifting surfaces). Your ballistic missile example is overly simplified, as there are other types of missiles such as antiaircraft missiles and antiship missiles which are not generally considered cruise missiles. Antiaircraft missiles (particularly air-to-air) usually are thrusting all the way to the target and are thus not ballistic. There are also many antiship missiles which are not ballistic, and have many of the characteristics of cruise missiles except that most antiship missiles have much shorter ranges than cruise missiles have. Antiship missiles are also designed for use over water and thus have simpler navigation systems, but that's a side effect of the shorter range; cruise missiles need complex navigation systems so they can produce better results at long range. Some antiship missiles have ranges in the cruise missile range, but are probably classed as antiship rather than cruise missiles due to not being very useful outside of naval warfare due to limitations such as targeting limits (being able to lock on to a ship's radar profile but not a building), armor-piercing design, or terminal-phase behavior (high-speed popup, overhead targeting of vital area, and close-in defense countermeasures). Yes, there are cruise missiles which are used against ships, but it's the long range which is the major characteristic of the class.
No, a cruise missile is one with a long-distance cruising mode. The ability of it to steer merely makes its routing and targeting more precise. The V-1 "buzz bomb" was a cruise missile which could not be aimed well. This steering technology makes the missile more practical to use, and much more effective than slower ones. If the missile has to travel 300 miles over hostile terrain, the enemy may have an hour to react to it. There's a drastic difference between having having one hour and having a half hour (or less).
No, they're cruise missiles because of their long range and small size. It's hard for a small ballistic missile to have a range of hundreds of miles. These missiles have a cruise mode where they can travel long distances. The long distance ability then encourages their other characteristics.
I didn't hear that coming.
"#NonUSA Buy ExcelSuperGreenDrug! #USA Sorry, you die."
Don't do that Google search!
I did it and then I was right in the middle of that crater.
I'll tell you more when I get back, the Internet link in the middle of this crater is really slow.
I think this is engineering, not theory. Theory was the original idea of using entanglement for cryptography. Now they're applying the technology to make it practical, and that's engineering. They're adding a bit of steel or another entanglement to make it more usable. If nobody has built this device yet, it's theoretical engineering.
This discussion is on a site with a checkbox which invites me to disable advertising, and no option to ask Slashdot to stop nagging me to disable advertising.
Hairy food packaging. I think someone will come up with a better name for that material.
Now we finally know that mall and bus rhyme with orange.
Don't you hate when someone forks a project and then forgets about it, leaving an odd little version buried in an obscure corner?
They're going to use laptops in the mosh pit?
OK, that will get the New York Times out of the way of real reporters.
Find a drive with characteristics similar to what you want, and contract with the manufacturer to modify the drive to do what you want. The manufacturer has the tools and engineers to alter the existing firmware. It won't be cheap. If the manufacturer refuses the proposal, buy the company.
They could save on bandwidth by replacing their restrictive video feeds with torrent servers, and live feeds with streaming torrents.
Oh, good, I need to remap the Any key because I never can find it.
Does it work on Linux?
I had a longer comment, but it got lost when I got the screaming yellow unicorn error.
No, just provide appropriate restitution. My church will forward the accounting of their lost future income until eternity, and also provide equivalently powerful prayers.
When the aliens update the Wikipedia article on alien interaction, then we'll need to decide the limits of interaction.
Let the ethicists at the first university in the asteroid belt work on these questions.
It's irrelevant until we get out there, and we're not out there.