It has WiFi, BlueTooth, Camera, touchscreen, Keyboard, GPS, and compass. It also runs A version of Linux "Android" but you can use c for it. One wonders how long it would take to get a version Ubuntu or MeeGo running on it. Another option would be the HTC HD2 but they are still over $200 but already run Windows Phone 6.x, WP7, Ubuntu, Meego, and Android. As new devices get bought these will come down in price. I am giving my Sister in law my Evo 4g because I got a Galaxy Nexus. The Evo has an HDMI out so all you really need is a Bluetooth keyboard and software to make an little desktop. Of course the issues of working drivers will be with use for a while but even that may pass over time.
Boxing is even more likely to cause the damage. The terms punchy and punch drunk come to mind. I hear that some if not all boxers are now finally wearing head protection. "I don't watch boxing because I feel it is immoral to pay people to beat each other up for entrainment". I did play football in my youth and did enjoy it. If helmets can not be improved enough and the rules changed to make the sport safer I am willing to not watch it. It is not right for people to suffer and die for entertainment IMHO.
sorry typo but on Wikipedia it has it as 1411kg for gross and 894kg or 1970 lbs empty. You looks as if you confused lbs with kg. Doesn't really matter since both numbers are a heck of a lot smaller than the battery weight needed for that airplane.
Lots of your assumptions are wrong. If it is certified then the engine will also have to be certified so you can just not throw a car motor in. Also car engines are not rated like aircraft engines. An aircraft engine produces full power at every take off and climb out. Aircraft cruise 75% to 55% power not at the 10 to 15% that a car does. Also you have the problems of RPM most aircraft engines produce their peak power at much lower RPMs because you must keep the prop tips subsonic. A 3500 RPM engine is a high revving aircraft engine while 6000 plus is common for car engines. You can gear it down but aircraft gear boxes are not very simple because of the loads that a prop puts on them. Now lets do the math. 600HP=477 KWatts per hour The Tesla roadsters battery pack stores only 53kWatt Hours and has a mass of 445kg So using the same tech as the tesla figuring an average cruse of 75% power the battery pack alone will weigh 6000kg. A Cessna 182 has a groos weight of only 14kg BTW you cruse in most aircraft at 75% to 55% power not at around %10 but let's just for argument say that the plane can cruise at only 20% power you still have a 1200kg battery pack. Then add in a back up power plant fuel for the back up power plant, the electric motor and... Yea no happening without a massive improvement in battery tech over what Tesla can do. And I am using a 100% efficient motor in these calculations.
Wow what a load of fantasy. 1. They have not even built the prototype yet. 2. 300 mile range on battery? Not a chance. Until they fly it at Oshkosh or Sebring and get FAA certified it is pure fantasy. Rule one of general aviation is never get excited over a rendering or illustration of a new plane. 9 times out of 10 it will never see the light of day.
You sir are an idiot. Please look up "public relations" and "public relations nightmare" and do not bothering to reply to any more of my posts if you are unwilling to put your name on it.
There are lots of options. MIPS I think is most likely but as you said Alpha is a good option. What about VAX? Or maybe IBM 360/ZSystem? IBM made 16, 32, and 64 bit versions of that ISA and CISC does have some benifit when it comes to memory speed over RISC.
Maybe and maybe not. Look at x86 for example. You can go pretty for down the size and power scale with the Atom and then go up to Super computers all with one ISA. Arm goes from very small cpus up to pretty large and their is no reason why the ARM ISA "with 64 bit extensions" couldn't scale up as large. MIPS goes very down to very small systems using MIPS16e extensions which are a lot like the ARM Thumb extensions and can support SIMD, and 64bit at the high end. MIPS sounds like a logical choice for them to standardize on. If anything X86 has shown that you can make a terrible brain dead ISA work very fast with enough effort and extensions. MIPS is probably a better ISA than x86 and with only one ISA then China can put all of it's resources into making it work faster, use less power, and be cheaper than if they spread their efforts over many ISAs. As to a common back door for spying? Well maybe but I think that would be more of a fringe benefit than anything for the Gov. I think they see this as a way to leap frog ahead in the CPU race and not depend on the US for tech like CPUs.
Haw they would rather face the nukes than the public opinion on this one. Let's see who we can go after. The 92 year old widower WWII Vet that spent 30,000 of his own money to send DVDs to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or the Chaplins that distributed them to the troops?
So do you want to take on an old man that risked his live in WWII fighting Hitler or the Japanese and that spent his own money to help the troops? Or do you go after the Chaplins? In an election year where it would be easy for people running for office to want to take on the rich cocain drunk godless heathens in Hollywood for Good and country?
Umm. My wife's old notebook runs Windows 7 just fine. It runs GIMP and Photoshop Elements, and Lightroom just fine. As too spending time making a living or with kids, really? How long does it take to run spybot? You start it and leave it over night and go watch tv with your kids. Really don't make laziness a virtue.
So one has too wonder. Will Valve come out with a console/set top box? That may seem crazy talk but why not. A simple Linux based box that hooks up to steam for games could be a real hit with people.
Maybe or you may be seeing just a mature product segment. Look at airliners. They are not getting any faster for the most part but incrementally more efficient. Every technology reaches a point of maturity when improvements become incremental. The I7 right now is fast enough for the vast majority of users needs, what will be interesting is to see how the i5 and i3 do.
Ahh no your are wrong. "Even in the early 1960s it was easily out-performed by RAF V-bombers which could cruise past at Mach 0.96 and 20,000 feet higher." From the wikipedia Performance Vulcan B.1 Maximum speed: Mach 0.96 (607 mph (1,040 km/h)) at altitude Cruise speed: Mach 0.86 (567 miles per hour (912 km/h)) at 45,000 ft Range: 2,607 mi (4,171 km) Service ceiling: 55,000 ft (17,000 m)
B-52H Maximum speed: 560 kt (650 mph, 1,047 km/h) Combat radius: 4,480 mi (3,890 nmi, 7,210 km) Ferry range: 10,145 mi (8,764 nmi, 16,232 km) Service ceiling: 50,000 ft (15,000 m)
I have seen slightly different speeds given but they are always within about 20 knots. I have seen different service ceilings given but the lowest for the B-52H was 47000 ft and I have never seen the Vulcan listed at 67000 feet which would be impressive to say the least As too the Vulcan's short field performance and high field performance well if you only loaded a B-52 with enough fuel to match the Vulcan in range say about half it's max fuel load and then only loaded it with the 20,000 lbs of weapons that the Vulcan can carry instead of the full 70,000 lbs that a B-52 can carry then I would bet the B-52 might give the Vulcan a run for it's money in that category as well. The Vulcan was a good medium bomber but the B-52 is a heavy bomber with much greater range and payload than the Vulcan. The Vulcan was closer match to the B-47 in range and bomb load but with a much higher ceiling AKA 20,000 feet higher and a slightly higher speed, of course the B-47 had been in service five years before the Vulcan entered service. Of course if the UK had spent the money that it wasted on the Nimrod AEW £1 billion "should have bought the E2, or put the E2s radar on a Nimrod or just bought the E-3 like they finally did" and the Nimrod MR.4 £3.6 billion Should have bought the P-3 updates or the P-8 now billons for nothing" on putting modern engines and avionics on the Vulcan it would still be a useful aircraft. Oh and let's not mention he money they are flushing down the WC on the A400M...
I hope my wife's new iPad will. My wife's notebook is going on seven years old and would go longer if I could get a bigger HD for it. It runs Windows 7 just fine Google Chrome runs fast enough on it and she doesn't game with it.. Even a lot of consumer hardware can have a very long life. Sure some of it dies but the real issue is that people are unwilling to "fix" it. When most peoples 4 year old notebook gets to slow instead of wiping it themselves or even running Spybot they have to pick between paying the "Geek squad" $200 to do it or buying a brand new machine for $400. To them it seems like throwing good money after bad. Of course if they just learned how to actually use a computer then... The issue of how long a computer lasts is often more a human factors than a quality of material issues. Smartphones are changing very quickly so those do not age as well.
Funny but it all looks like basic research or things with military applications. Sort of like what the NACA did in the US from 1920 that and a lot of basic medical research. You know I am a republican and so was my mother and father. Thing is that even a conservative fellow like myself can see the benefit looking back at history that things like this gave the US. The problem is that back in the day people thought hey corporations where getting the fruits of government research for free so why not let them pay for the research. Well the problem is that the system we have now is that government still often pays for the research but now instead of results being in the public domain so any company no matter how big or small can use them some mega corp ends up with rights. Imagine how bad the US might have done in WWII if Grumman couldn't have used the NACA cowling on the Wildcat, Hellcat, and Avenger because Boeing had the rights to it. Or if North American couldn't use the NACA low drag airfoil that gave it such high speed and long range because Curtiss had the rights to it? Sorry but I feel you are just repeating the party line without thinking about it. Now a government body sell the the tech instead of just releasing it to any company in the nation for use is interesting. I thing that it being available to everyone free is a better solution but I am not an Australian so what I thing doesn't really matter in this case.
Sorry but why complain because someone didn't know you knew what software radio was? This is Slashdot News For Nerds not CNN. If someone posted a story about AMD would you complain that they didn't include a wikipedia link to AMD? I just don't think that it is outside of reason to expect someone reading slashdot to google something they do not understand.
This makes perfect sense to me, you see this Dinosaur from outer-space decided to have a pool party for his birthday but no one came. He didn't relize that it was Halloween and all his friends where out trick or treating. Well he was so upset he made a map of his school in and practiced his assault using doom3. Latter that week he followed his plan a put peanuts all over the school and all the students died of allergic reactions. Of course that evil Dinosaur was a Fox news watching Muslim member of the the tea-party. It did happen but the media covered it all up a friend of mine was there and told me. You see real problem was that he was sensitive to EM radiation and the wifi drove him crazy. I blame it on his getting vaccinated as a child Dinosaur from outer space.
"4. Nice, open Linux setup with easy API (like WebOS HTML/Javascript)." Ewwwwww...... The javascript part anyway. That was one of the flaws in WebOS. The HTML Javascript API was useless at the start. I got the SDK and started to work on a project. First question I asked was, "How do I get the charging state?" The answer was, "You can't". Next answer was how do you control LED flash. The answer was you can't. If they had offered QT and C++ from the start then it would had really had something. It was just too limited. On small relatively slow devices like mobile c, c++, and Objective C are just better choices. Even Android offers an NDK now.
Actually you wrong about the SM-2 as is original post. The SM-2 is capable of hitting sea skimming missiles. It is not going to be very effective at hitting a long range ballistic missile at all. It could be effective with short range ballistic missiles so it does not really threaten Russia or China at all. Also for sea skimming missiles the US has the RAM missile which is more effective than gun based systems. The SM-3 does have anti-missile capabilities and can supplement the GMD interceptors in Alaska which are what China and Russia are really complaining about. What I find really odd is that in all of this fury about the US ABM system no one has pointed out that Russia deployed ABM systems as far back as the 1960s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-35_anti-ballistic_missile_system And has updated them in 1995 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-135_anti-ballistic_missile_system
Exosolar planet means not around our star. Our sun's name is Sol. Exostellar would mean an unbounded free-floating planetary-mass body but that has other issues since the current definition of a plant involves it sweeping it's orbit clear of other bodies which a free-floating mass can not really do but it is still workable.
You got it. What is funny is the same people that will think this is a good idea probably live in terror of genetically modified foods and nuclear power.
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Just wait a year or two longer.
Right now you can pick up this for around $60 http://www.ebay.com/itm/HTC-G1-T-Mobile-Black-Fair-Condition-/380435251569?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item5893b54171#ht_1342wt_1159
It has WiFi, BlueTooth, Camera, touchscreen, Keyboard, GPS, and compass. It also runs A version of Linux "Android" but you can use c for it. One wonders how long it would take to get a version Ubuntu or MeeGo running on it.
Another option would be the HTC HD2 but they are still over $200 but already run Windows Phone 6.x, WP7, Ubuntu, Meego, and Android.
As new devices get bought these will come down in price. I am giving my Sister in law my Evo 4g because I got a Galaxy Nexus. The Evo has an HDMI out so all you really need is a Bluetooth keyboard and software to make an little desktop.
Of course the issues of working drivers will be with use for a while but even that may pass over time.
Boxing is even more likely to cause the damage. The terms punchy and punch drunk come to mind. I hear that some if not all boxers are now finally wearing head protection. "I don't watch boxing because I feel it is immoral to pay people to beat each other up for entrainment".
I did play football in my youth and did enjoy it. If helmets can not be improved enough and the rules changed to make the sport safer I am willing to not watch it. It is not right for people to suffer and die for entertainment IMHO.
sorry typo but on Wikipedia it has it as 1411kg for gross and 894kg or 1970 lbs empty. You looks as if you confused lbs with kg.
Doesn't really matter since both numbers are a heck of a lot smaller than the battery weight needed for that airplane.
Lots of your assumptions are wrong.
If it is certified then the engine will also have to be certified so you can just not throw a car motor in. Also car engines are not rated like aircraft engines. An aircraft engine produces full power at every take off and climb out. Aircraft cruise 75% to 55% power not at the 10 to 15% that a car does.
Also you have the problems of RPM most aircraft engines produce their peak power at much lower RPMs because you must keep the prop tips subsonic. A 3500 RPM engine is a high revving aircraft engine while 6000 plus is common for car engines. You can gear it down but aircraft gear boxes are not very simple because of the loads that a prop puts on them.
Now lets do the math.
600HP=477 KWatts per hour
The Tesla roadsters battery pack stores only 53kWatt Hours and has a mass of 445kg
So using the same tech as the tesla figuring an average cruse of 75% power the battery pack alone will weigh 6000kg.
A Cessna 182 has a groos weight of only 14kg
BTW you cruse in most aircraft at 75% to 55% power not at around %10 but let's just for argument say that the plane can cruise at only 20% power you still have a 1200kg battery pack. Then add in a back up power plant fuel for the back up power plant, the electric motor and...
Yea no happening without a massive improvement in battery tech over what Tesla can do. And I am using a 100% efficient motor in these calculations.
Wow what a load of fantasy.
1. They have not even built the prototype yet.
2. 300 mile range on battery? Not a chance.
Until they fly it at Oshkosh or Sebring and get FAA certified it is pure fantasy.
Rule one of general aviation is never get excited over a rendering or illustration of a new plane. 9 times out of 10 it will never see the light of day.
You sir are an idiot. Please look up "public relations" and "public relations nightmare" and do not bothering to reply to any more of my posts if you are unwilling to put your name on it.
There are lots of options.
MIPS I think is most likely but as you said Alpha is a good option.
What about VAX? Or maybe IBM 360/ZSystem?
IBM made 16, 32, and 64 bit versions of that ISA and CISC does have some benifit when it comes to memory speed over RISC.
Maybe and maybe not.
Look at x86 for example. You can go pretty for down the size and power scale with the Atom and then go up to Super computers all with one ISA.
Arm goes from very small cpus up to pretty large and their is no reason why the ARM ISA "with 64 bit extensions" couldn't scale up as large.
MIPS goes very down to very small systems using MIPS16e extensions which are a lot like the ARM Thumb extensions and can support SIMD, and 64bit at the high end. MIPS sounds like a logical choice for them to standardize on.
If anything X86 has shown that you can make a terrible brain dead ISA work very fast with enough effort and extensions.
MIPS is probably a better ISA than x86 and with only one ISA then China can put all of it's resources into making it work faster, use less power, and be cheaper than if they spread their efforts over many ISAs.
As to a common back door for spying? Well maybe but I think that would be more of a fringe benefit than anything for the Gov. I think they see this as a way to leap frog ahead in the CPU race and not depend on the US for tech like CPUs.
Haw they would rather face the nukes than the public opinion on this one.
Let's see who we can go after.
The 92 year old widower WWII Vet that spent 30,000 of his own money to send DVDs to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Or the Chaplins that distributed them to the troops?
So do you want to take on an old man that risked his live in WWII fighting Hitler or the Japanese and that spent his own money to help the troops?
Or do you go after the Chaplins?
In an election year where it would be easy for people running for office to want to take on the rich cocain drunk godless heathens in Hollywood for Good and country?
Umm. My wife's old notebook runs Windows 7 just fine. It runs GIMP and Photoshop Elements, and Lightroom just fine.
As too spending time making a living or with kids, really? How long does it take to run spybot? You start it and leave it over night and go watch tv with your kids. Really don't make laziness a virtue.
That is all.
So one has too wonder. Will Valve come out with a console/set top box?
That may seem crazy talk but why not. A simple Linux based box that hooks up to steam for games could be a real hit with people.
Maybe or you may be seeing just a mature product segment.
Look at airliners. They are not getting any faster for the most part but incrementally more efficient. Every technology reaches a point of maturity when improvements become incremental. The I7 right now is fast enough for the vast majority of users needs, what will be interesting is to see how the i5 and i3 do.
Ahh no your are wrong.
"Even in the early 1960s it was easily out-performed by RAF V-bombers which could cruise past at Mach 0.96 and 20,000 feet higher."
From the wikipedia
Performance
Vulcan B.1
Maximum speed: Mach 0.96 (607 mph (1,040 km/h)) at altitude
Cruise speed: Mach 0.86 (567 miles per hour (912 km/h)) at 45,000 ft
Range: 2,607 mi (4,171 km)
Service ceiling: 55,000 ft (17,000 m)
B-52H
Maximum speed: 560 kt (650 mph, 1,047 km/h)
Combat radius: 4,480 mi (3,890 nmi, 7,210 km)
Ferry range: 10,145 mi (8,764 nmi, 16,232 km)
Service ceiling: 50,000 ft (15,000 m)
I have seen slightly different speeds given but they are always within about 20 knots.
I have seen different service ceilings given but the lowest for the B-52H was 47000 ft and I have never seen the Vulcan listed at 67000 feet which would be impressive to say the least
As too the Vulcan's short field performance and high field performance well if you only loaded a B-52 with enough fuel to match the Vulcan in range say about half it's max fuel load and then only loaded it with the 20,000 lbs of weapons that the Vulcan can carry instead of the full 70,000 lbs that a B-52 can carry then I would bet the B-52 might give the Vulcan a run for it's money in that category as well.
The Vulcan was a good medium bomber but the B-52 is a heavy bomber with much greater range and payload than the Vulcan.
The Vulcan was closer match to the B-47 in range and bomb load but with a much higher ceiling AKA 20,000 feet higher and a slightly higher speed, of course the B-47 had been in service five years before the Vulcan entered service.
Of course if the UK had spent the money that it wasted on the Nimrod AEW £1 billion "should have bought the E2, or put the E2s radar on a Nimrod or just bought the E-3 like they finally did" and the Nimrod MR.4 £3.6 billion Should have bought the P-3 updates or the P-8 now billons for nothing" on putting modern engines and avionics on the Vulcan it would still be a useful aircraft. Oh and let's not mention he money they are flushing down the WC on the A400M...
I hope my wife's new iPad will. My wife's notebook is going on seven years old and would go longer if I could get a bigger HD for it. It runs Windows 7 just fine Google Chrome runs fast enough on it and she doesn't game with it.. Even a lot of consumer hardware can have a very long life. Sure some of it dies but the real issue is that people are unwilling to "fix" it. When most peoples 4 year old notebook gets to slow instead of wiping it themselves or even running Spybot they have to pick between paying the "Geek squad" $200 to do it or buying a brand new machine for $400. To them it seems like throwing good money after bad.
Of course if they just learned how to actually use a computer then...
The issue of how long a computer lasts is often more a human factors than a quality of material issues.
Smartphones are changing very quickly so those do not age as well.
Funny but it all looks like basic research or things with military applications. Sort of like what the NACA did in the US from 1920 that and a lot of basic medical research.
You know I am a republican and so was my mother and father. Thing is that even a conservative fellow like myself can see the benefit looking back at history that things like this gave the US. The problem is that back in the day people thought hey corporations where getting the fruits of government research for free so why not let them pay for the research. Well the problem is that the system we have now is that government still often pays for the research but now instead of results being in the public domain so any company no matter how big or small can use them some mega corp ends up with rights.
Imagine how bad the US might have done in WWII if Grumman couldn't have used the NACA cowling on the Wildcat, Hellcat, and Avenger because Boeing had the rights to it. Or if North American couldn't use the NACA low drag airfoil that gave it such high speed and long range because Curtiss had the rights to it? Sorry but I feel you are just repeating the party line without thinking about it. Now a government body sell the the tech instead of just releasing it to any company in the nation for use is interesting. I thing that it being available to everyone free is a better solution but I am not an Australian so what I thing doesn't really matter in this case.
Sorry but why complain because someone didn't know you knew what software radio was? This is Slashdot News For Nerds not CNN. If someone posted a story about AMD would you complain that they didn't include a wikipedia link to AMD?
I just don't think that it is outside of reason to expect someone reading slashdot to google something they do not understand.
This makes perfect sense to me, you see this Dinosaur from outer-space decided to have a pool party for his birthday but no one came. He didn't relize that it was Halloween and all his friends where out trick or treating. Well he was so upset he made a map of his school in and practiced his assault using doom3. Latter that week he followed his plan a put peanuts all over the school and all the students died of allergic reactions. Of course that evil Dinosaur was a Fox news watching Muslim member of the the tea-party. It did happen but the media covered it all up a friend of mine was there and told me. You see real problem was that he was sensitive to EM radiation and the wifi drove him crazy. I blame it on his getting vaccinated as a child Dinosaur from outer space.
"4. Nice, open Linux setup with easy API (like WebOS HTML/Javascript)."
Ewwwwww......
The javascript part anyway. That was one of the flaws in WebOS. The HTML Javascript API was useless at the start. I got the SDK and started to work on a project.
First question I asked was, "How do I get the charging state?" The answer was, "You can't".
Next answer was how do you control LED flash. The answer was you can't.
If they had offered QT and C++ from the start then it would had really had something. It was just too limited. On small relatively slow devices like mobile c, c++, and Objective C are just better choices. Even Android offers an NDK now.
Actually you wrong about the SM-2 as is original post.
The SM-2 is capable of hitting sea skimming missiles. It is not going to be very effective at hitting a long range ballistic missile at all. It could be effective with short range ballistic missiles so it does not really threaten Russia or China at all. Also for sea skimming missiles the US has the RAM missile which is more effective than gun based systems.
The SM-3 does have anti-missile capabilities and can supplement the GMD interceptors in Alaska which are what China and Russia are really complaining about.
What I find really odd is that in all of this fury about the US ABM system no one has pointed out that Russia deployed ABM systems as far back as the 1960s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-35_anti-ballistic_missile_system
And has updated them in 1995 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-135_anti-ballistic_missile_system
I guess you never heard of this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-3_Orion
or this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_P-8_Poseidon
or this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_SH-60_Seahawk
or this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Hazard_Perry_class_frigate
or this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arleigh_Burke_class_destroyer
or SSNs in general.
Ahh... No. And take a look at this persons picture http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/assets/2012/03/16/sn-snyder.jpg for proof.
Too bad that with all the resources available today we still can not cure the stupid commenter on Slashdot.
Exosolar planet means not around our star. Our sun's name is Sol.
Exostellar would mean an unbounded free-floating planetary-mass body but that has other issues since the current definition of a plant involves it sweeping it's orbit clear of other bodies which a free-floating mass can not really do but it is still workable.
Extra-Terrestrial means not Earth.
You got it. What is funny is the same people that will think this is a good idea probably live in terror of genetically modified foods and nuclear power.