"Take a bunch of parrot AR drones and some plastic explosive and you'd be able to destroy or heavily damage any facility from afar." No not really. I do not care if you take 500 AR drones and put plastic explosives on them you will not damage a bunker. The do not carry enough. Now if you used shaped charges maybe but even that is going to be iffy at best.
Using fuel for hydraulics is standard practice for rocket and jet engines. It is really a given. Using a pressurized total loss hydraulic system for the fins is... an interesting system.
I wonder if they are using a pressurized accumulator for the fins instead of a pump. Still a bit odd since the air flow that close to landing should have been next to zero and one would assume that they still had thrust vectoring on the main engine.
Or it would be like going to a sports bar on superbowl sunday and they are showing I Love Lucy.
Slashdot is a community It may be possible that others feel exactly the same way I do but are wondering if anyone else does.
Frankly Slashdot does a terrible job covering anything outside of tech/nerd news. The comments are full of venom and bad manners.
If Dice wants to turn Slashdot into a mainstream site good luck with that but unless you are going to get some real editors that have some training in mainstream news it will just be trollpool.
Big mistake because true "Nerds" are a really good market to serve.
And with the cheap gas will come the failure of Tesla to grow at the rate predicted. I hope it will survive but it will push back profitability. Cheap natural gas means nuclear plants will not be built. Cheap natural gas makes Wind not profitable. The laws of physics really makes Solar bad selection for base load.
As to the economics part of this. It is called getting lucky. They did not decide to get out of oil because they knew the price would drop. And the truth is right now is the time to think about investing in oil. Once exploration and development stops in the US OPEC will make some small cuts and the price will jump back up. It will stabilize for a while then development in the US will start again. Once those start producing it will go back down and repeat.
What the US government should be doing is buying oil for the strategic reserve and fill it up, If it is full then start another and fill that up. When oil goes back up sell it off at a profit and us it to pay down debt. Well it would be a good thing to do if we had excess funds.
How does this involve technology, science, sci-fi, or anything else in the nerd category? Sure people might find this interesting but people find Soccer scores, weather reports, and "Entertainment news" interesting but really does not fit the areas that Slashdot covers best.
Not really. They are LEO so they will decay very quickly. And fragments would have a high drag since they would have a low mass to surface area ratio so would have high drag. Yes at LEO there is still atmospheric drag.
Iridium will succeed because it is backed by the NRO. It is a cover for a full earth Sigint system.
Actually I am making that up just to start a conspiracy theory. Frankly it really could work for mapping just about every radar on the earth in real time.
"the recipient is already being dishonest with you (saving pics without your permission) at the time that you send the picture AND the recipient is smart enough to figure out how to save Snapchat pictures without notifying you -- not that hard, but eliminates some people" How small of set is that? It would be the intersection of people smart enough to use a smartphone and can not use Google
Actually I went back to android. I do like it better than WP8 for day to day use and I prefer widgets to Live Tiles. It is all about the apps. The Apps for WP are just not as feature rich for the most part as the ones for Android or IOS. But that being said it is still a good OS.
News for Nerds. That pretty much rules out any summary as being too technical. I actually found the summary to be one of the better ones I have seen on Slashdot.
Welfare is not a solution. Welfare is great for helping people having a hard time, the ill, and old. What is needed is jobs and education. Sitting home all day doing nothing helps no one.
I think Windows 8 is a strange Microsoft logic thing. Windows Mobile failed in large part because the UI was a desktop UI on a phone or tablet. Windows 8's UI is pretty much a phone/tablet UI forced on to a desktop... I used WP8 for about 6 months and it is actually a nice mobile OS except for the lack of apps. It just is not a good UI for a laptop/desktop.
Really? Well if you like it then fine but since the start screen is limited to just "metro" apps it is mostly useless to me. As far as the rest. Frankly I move between IOS, Android, Windows, Linux, and OS/X every day. I use all of them and have no real problem moving from one to the other. Windows 8 is a case of too much pain for the gain. If you really have to try insulting people just because they do not agree with you that is your issue. As I said the 8 interface is fine for tablets but not so much for a traditional desktop or laptop.
"99% of the people bashing the windows 8 interface haven't used it for more than an hour." As someone that has used and liked AmigaOS, MacOS, OS/X, LinuxKDE, LinuxGnome, Windows, Windows95, 98, 2000, XP, and 7.... If I use a UI for an hour and still hate it I am done. Windows 8 UI works well on tablets, it is okay on touch devices, it is useless on a traditional desktop or laptop. The core OS is actually really good but the UI is bad for the majority of users. It gives little to no added value for the pain provided.
I think Microsoft needs to start the countdown after that version is no longer for sale. Windows 8 is loved about as much as Windows Me and Windows Vista.
"Transgender people often end up having myriads of surgeries, taking many pills (often until they get cancer), seeing psychologists for years, and spend most their lives being unhappy until some time after the switch. So yeah, it's a problem for them and it goes way beyond wearing clothes." So maybe society needs to find a better treatment for this disorder?
Exactly correct. It only takes a few nut cases to cause a lot of problems. I also have to wonder why Slashdot is even covering this? The weather channel and ESPN are not covering this. I wish Slashdot would stick to tech and geek specific news. It is not like every general news site is not covering this story.
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"Take a bunch of parrot AR drones and some plastic explosive and you'd be able to destroy or heavily damage any facility from afar."
No not really. I do not care if you take 500 AR drones and put plastic explosives on them you will not damage a bunker. The do not carry enough. Now if you used shaped charges maybe but even that is going to be iffy at best.
Using fuel for hydraulics is standard practice for rocket and jet engines. It is really a given. Using a pressurized total loss hydraulic system for the fins is... an interesting system.
You could do all that with a feature phone a long time ago. My old feature phone from Sprint had all those functions.
I wonder if they are using a pressurized accumulator for the fins instead of a pump. Still a bit odd since the air flow that close to landing should have been next to zero and one would assume that they still had thrust vectoring on the main engine.
Or it would be like going to a sports bar on superbowl sunday and they are showing I Love Lucy.
Slashdot is a community It may be possible that others feel exactly the same way I do but are wondering if anyone else does.
Frankly Slashdot does a terrible job covering anything outside of tech/nerd news. The comments are full of venom and bad manners.
If Dice wants to turn Slashdot into a mainstream site good luck with that but unless you are going to get some real editors that have some training in mainstream news it will just be trollpool.
Big mistake because true "Nerds" are a really good market to serve.
And with the cheap gas will come the failure of Tesla to grow at the rate predicted. I hope it will survive but it will push back profitability.
Cheap natural gas means nuclear plants will not be built.
Cheap natural gas makes Wind not profitable.
The laws of physics really makes Solar bad selection for base load.
As to the economics part of this. It is called getting lucky. They did not decide to get out of oil because they knew the price would drop. And the truth is right now is the time to think about investing in oil. Once exploration and development stops in the US OPEC will make some small cuts and the price will jump back up. It will stabilize for a while then development in the US will start again. Once those start producing it will go back down and repeat.
What the US government should be doing is buying oil for the strategic reserve and fill it up, If it is full then start another and fill that up. When oil goes back up sell it off at a profit and us it to pay down debt. Well it would be a good thing to do if we had excess funds.
How does this involve technology, science, sci-fi, or anything else in the nerd category?
Sure people might find this interesting but people find Soccer scores, weather reports, and "Entertainment news" interesting but really does not fit the areas that Slashdot covers best.
Not really. They are LEO so they will decay very quickly. And fragments would have a high drag since they would have a low mass to surface area ratio so would have high drag.
Yes at LEO there is still atmospheric drag.
Iridium will succeed because it is backed by the NRO. It is a cover for a full earth Sigint system.
Actually I am making that up just to start a conspiracy theory. Frankly it really could work for mapping just about every radar on the earth in real time.
"the recipient is already being dishonest with you (saving pics without your permission) at the time that you send the picture
AND
the recipient is smart enough to figure out how to save Snapchat pictures without notifying you -- not that hard, but eliminates some people"
How small of set is that? It would be the intersection of people smart enough to use a smartphone and can not use Google
In other words you bought a car that no one has review and is not even shipping yet.
Actually I went back to android. I do like it better than WP8 for day to day use and I prefer widgets to Live Tiles. It is all about the apps. The Apps for WP are just not as feature rich for the most part as the ones for Android or IOS.
But that being said it is still a good OS.
I guess you did not see that part about jobs and education.
News for Nerds.
That pretty much rules out any summary as being too technical.
I actually found the summary to be one of the better ones I have seen on Slashdot.
That in large part is probably due to the Mormon culture in Utah.
Welfare is not a solution.
Welfare is great for helping people having a hard time, the ill, and old. What is needed is jobs and education. Sitting home all day doing nothing helps no one.
I think Windows 8 is a strange Microsoft logic thing.
Windows Mobile failed in large part because the UI was a desktop UI on a phone or tablet.
Windows 8's UI is pretty much a phone/tablet UI forced on to a desktop...
I used WP8 for about 6 months and it is actually a nice mobile OS except for the lack of apps. It just is not a good UI for a laptop/desktop.
Really? Well if you like it then fine but since the start screen is limited to just "metro" apps it is mostly useless to me.
As far as the rest. Frankly I move between IOS, Android, Windows, Linux, and OS/X every day. I use all of them and have no real problem moving from one to the other.
Windows 8 is a case of too much pain for the gain. If you really have to try insulting people just because they do not agree with you that is your issue. As I said the 8 interface is fine for tablets but not so much for a traditional desktop or laptop.
But by default it is off and they added back a start like button.
"99% of the people bashing the windows 8 interface haven't used it for more than an hour."
As someone that has used and liked AmigaOS, MacOS, OS/X, LinuxKDE, LinuxGnome, Windows, Windows95, 98, 2000, XP, and 7.... If I use a UI for an hour and still hate it I am done.
Windows 8 UI works well on tablets, it is okay on touch devices, it is useless on a traditional desktop or laptop.
The core OS is actually really good but the UI is bad for the majority of users. It gives little to no added value for the pain provided.
Yes.
You only get the tiled interface on Tablets and maybe touch devices....
In other words the way it really should have worked from the start.
I think Microsoft needs to start the countdown after that version is no longer for sale.
Windows 8 is loved about as much as Windows Me and Windows Vista.
"Transgender people often end up having myriads of surgeries, taking many pills (often until they get cancer), seeing psychologists for years, and spend most their lives being unhappy until some time after the switch. So yeah, it's a problem for them and it goes way beyond wearing clothes."
So maybe society needs to find a better treatment for this disorder?
Exactly correct. It only takes a few nut cases to cause a lot of problems.
I also have to wonder why Slashdot is even covering this? The weather channel and ESPN are not covering this. I wish Slashdot would stick to tech and geek specific news.
It is not like every general news site is not covering this story.
But the Job of the OS has not. VMS is actually a great OS for this kind of system. Frankly it is a real shame that is in the Hands of HP today.