Your pronouncement is quite wrong - I understand logic very well Not that logic has anything to do with the situation, like the person to who I responded, you're erecting strawmen. Or, also like him, you have the reading comprehension of used cat litter.
Which greatly limits the performance of the aircraft and thus provides much less than optimum training for the missile operators.
2) Many low signature aircraft have corner reflectors which either bolt on or are hidden behind doors and which greatly increase the radar returns.
[[Citation Needed]] - not only that such things exist, but that the F-35 has them.
3) Fit external stores. I don't know if the F35 supports this option.
It does (I know this because I'm not too lazy to Google), but as in 1), this is not always desirable.
So, a story about something that isn't a real problem and instead suggests a badly planned training exercise re-cast as an opportunity to say how great their aircraft are.
Actually, no. A bullshit reply that indicates a lack of any real knowledge indicates you have know clue what you're talking about.
So you're saying that there's no truth to this story? Where's you're evidence? You have none? Then why should I believe your negative spin?
Always a clever tactic to demand an explanation and then triumphantly declare that the other person has none before any time has passed for replies to be made. Here, let me help you with that "missing" evidence. Have you missed the news for the past eight years? The F-35 program has been dogged at every step by cost overruns, test failures, design-by-committee creeping features, etc.
Always a clever tactic - to erect a strawman and subsequent to demolishing it pronounce the other person a fraud.
It's either that, or you have serious reading comprehension problems - because the grandparent's question wasn't "prove the program is a failure". It was "prove there's no truth to this story". Something that, despite claiming "victory", you have signally failed to so.
What market there is for long-haul passenger service is probably better served by smaller ships
The reason the ocean liner has disappeared into the mists of history is that market is essentially zero. On top of that, the other two major sources of revenue for liners (immigrants and cargo) are also gone.
Also note that ocean liners and cruise ships are two different animals. Liners operated like airlines, on a fixed schedule linking two points carrying the maximum number of passengers possible with the least discomfort possible. (OK, the last is not much like an airline.) A cruise ship is an all-in-one luxury resort that happens to be mobile and is primarily designed for extracting cash from the passengers. Converting the former into the latter is a tall order indeed due to the amenities that never appeared on liners that are considered de rigueur on cruise ships.
At first I wondered why Dow Jones Industrial has to do with drones
I didn't - because I read the whole sentence and then the rest of the summary. How stupid do you have to be to not be able to do that and derive the meaning from context before leaping to conclusions?
Editors please make an effort to spell out abbreviations, please.
It's not an acronym moron, it's the name of a company.
The problem isn't anything the editors did or didn't do, it's that you have the reading comprehension and common sense of a wad of used chewing gum.
The technology is not called "self driving" - it is called autopilot. Similar to plane where course and speed are maintained.
0.o "Autopilot" literally means "self piloting".
Seriously Tesla/Musk apologists words mean things - and autopilot does not mean what you keep claiming it does. It doesn't mean "an assistant which still requires constant human monitoring and supervision", it means "an automatic system that replaces human operators". From the first line of the Wikipedia entry on autopilots entry - An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of a vehicle without constant 'hands-on' control by a human operator being required. (Emphasis mine.) And if you go searching dictionary definitions, you'll find endless repitions of the same themes. Etc.. etc... *That* is what the general public (correctly) believes an autopilot does - automatically operates the aircraft.
Tesla is using the word in a misleading fashion. And if this were Toyota or GM, the tech hipsters would be breaking out the torches and pitchforks.
*Dons Nomex suit* Flame away at the truth, I've got karma to to burn.
When you fire the entire executive staff for rigging a primary, wouldn't it be a good idea to invalidate the results of the primary?
What most folks don't realize is that even though it's carried out in the public eye with public funds - the primary election isn't a public election. It's a private internal function of the Party and so long as they stay within some pretty broad guidelines they can pretty much do whatever the hell they want - including 'rigging' the results.
If they already served their time why are they continually publicly shamed?
Because the public has this twisted idea that if we know who they are and where they live, we'll all be "safer". Never mind that you're a thousand times more likely to molested by a non family adult known to the child (teacher, coach, etc...) than by a stranger... and a thousand times more likely than that to be molested by a family member. Sex offender registries and "stranger danger" are nothing more than moral panic.
"A century ago, there would be a battle that wiped out the next village, you'd never even hear about it."
Huh? Maybe in the remote parts of Africa or some other place that was still stuck in the stone age. Maybe. In the parts of the worlds actually living in the (early) 20th century not so much.
I think there's some truth to this, in that not even that long ago when something awful happened far away it may have gotten printed in a larger newspaper but even then the details were spartan, often delayed by days or weeks (depending on how far back we're talking).
Do you honestly not grasp the difference between "next village" and "far away"? (Not to mention failing to grasp the standards of mass media that existed as early as the mid/late 19th century.)
When will computer geeks grasp that most of the human race actually enjoys the company of others and that there are actual economic reasons why people cluster?
That's exactly what Kurzweil DID agree with. He said we've crowded into cities because we want to crowd. But it has downsides.
Um, no. Very few people want to crowd, because crowding is quite frankly uncomfortable. We put up with it because the benefits far exceed the downsides.
His contention is that as we improve communications and physical delivery of goods, we can have the economic benefits and companionship benefits of clustering without actually clustering.
Only if one is the stereotypical computer geek who doesn't actually enjoy the physical company of another. (And who doesn't grasp that 'crowding' delivers far more than economic and communications benefits.)
"A century ago, there would be a battle that wiped out the next village, you'd never even hear about it."
Huh? Maybe in the remote parts of Africa or some other place that was still stuck in the stone age. Maybe. In the parts of the worlds actually living in the (early) 20th century not so much.
""We're only crowded because we've crowded ourselves into cities. Try taking a train trip across the United States, or Europe or Asia or anywhere in the world. Ninety-nine percent of the land is not used... we don't want to use it because you don't want to be out in the boondocks if you don't have people to work and play with. That's already changing now that we have some level of virtual communication..."
Not in the US, or most of Europe, or a good chunk of Asia. Not used for housing or urban sprawl isn't the same as not used. And no, it's actually changing much - communication isn't the only issue, access to stuff (physical goods) is also important, as is access to experiences. And neither have markedly changed if you live in the actual boondocks. (I find most people who live in big cities have little idea what conditions are like outside of the metro area.)
When will computer geeks grasp that most of the human race actually enjoys the company of others and that there are actual economic reasons why people cluster?
The Democratic National Committee is an organization of and for the Democratic Party (aka, the voters), and should be neutral until the party members have selected their candidate.
"Voter" != "Party Member". Very few people actually realize this.
Fireworks have been around in the US for a couple hundred years too - not once has the two week period leading up to a July 4th been extrapolated to annual sales directly.
Since you lack reading comprehension, I'll point out that I agreed with you in my original reply.
But to imagine that even 10% of the vast majority of bandwagon jumpers are going to continue the game
I'll repeat myself since you seem to have failed to grasp my point the first time - Pokemon Go players are, by and large, not bandwagon jumpers going from game to system to fad with each change in the wind. Pokemon Go is a new thing in the gaming world - who knows where it will go?
Of course, this may be a bit like looking at the June 20-July 4 numbers for firework vendors in the US and extrapolating that to how much they'll make over a whole year by multiplying that number by 26. This windfall only happens if the game sustains it's frenzy for 24 months. This isn't a normally mobile crowd, and the next big game (or new Xbox/PS) is always right around the corner. I'm not sure that's really a likely scenario.
A twenty year old franchise, one with a steady history of money making games, movies, and various kinds of collectible... I wouldn't be in such a hurry to write it off. Not to mention, a good number of these players come from outside the "fad gamer" demographic. They didn't come from the Last Big Thing and they are unlikely to depart for the Next Big Thing. We're pretty much in entirely new territory here.
While the currently numbers are, as you correctly point out, unsustainable... Pokemon Go isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
600,000 computers? How big do they think the U.S. Navy is anyway? That's almost two computers for every active duty service member. That's over 2,000 computers per ship.
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There's more to the Navy than ships... there's hundreds of shore facilities and commands. In the same way, there's also untold number of DoD and DoN civilian employees and contractors at those facilities and commands.
*sigh* He didn't need to be. In a parliamentary government, the leader of the majority party wields considerable power and influence. The Nazi Party was democratically elected and became the largest party in the Reichstag.
True. And again, you neatly illustrate my original point - if you can't trust those [AirBNB] reviews, then they aren't a replacement for government regulation and inspection.
Yes, there is a reason to be a dick - because a certain someone kept insisting that something had happened, but couldn't provide a link. When someone acts like an idiot, they get treated like an idiot.
Didn't they announce the flight in early October would be the first reuse?
No. They announced the first re-use would be in "September or October", but no flight or customer has been specifically identified. And it's worth noting that originally the first re-use would be in "May or June" (of 2016).
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Your pronouncement is quite wrong - I understand logic very well Not that logic has anything to do with the situation, like the person to who I responded, you're erecting strawmen. Or, also like him, you have the reading comprehension of used cat litter.
Which greatly limits the performance of the aircraft and thus provides much less than optimum training for the missile operators.
[[Citation Needed]] - not only that such things exist, but that the F-35 has them.
It does (I know this because I'm not too lazy to Google), but as in 1), this is not always desirable.
Actually, no. A bullshit reply that indicates a lack of any real knowledge indicates you have know clue what you're talking about.
Always a clever tactic - to erect a strawman and subsequent to demolishing it pronounce the other person a fraud.
It's either that, or you have serious reading comprehension problems - because the grandparent's question wasn't "prove the program is a failure". It was "prove there's no truth to this story". Something that, despite claiming "victory", you have signally failed to so.
The reason the ocean liner has disappeared into the mists of history is that market is essentially zero. On top of that, the other two major sources of revenue for liners (immigrants and cargo) are also gone.
Also note that ocean liners and cruise ships are two different animals. Liners operated like airlines, on a fixed schedule linking two points carrying the maximum number of passengers possible with the least discomfort possible. (OK, the last is not much like an airline.) A cruise ship is an all-in-one luxury resort that happens to be mobile and is primarily designed for extracting cash from the passengers. Converting the former into the latter is a tall order indeed due to the amenities that never appeared on liners that are considered de rigueur on cruise ships.
I didn't - because I read the whole sentence and then the rest of the summary. How stupid do you have to be to not be able to do that and derive the meaning from context before leaping to conclusions?
It's not an acronym moron, it's the name of a company.
The problem isn't anything the editors did or didn't do, it's that you have the reading comprehension and common sense of a wad of used chewing gum.
0.o "Autopilot" literally means "self piloting".
Seriously Tesla/Musk apologists words mean things - and autopilot does not mean what you keep claiming it does. It doesn't mean "an assistant which still requires constant human monitoring and supervision", it means "an automatic system that replaces human operators". From the first line of the Wikipedia entry on autopilots entry - An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of a vehicle without constant 'hands-on' control by a human operator being required . (Emphasis mine.) And if you go searching dictionary definitions, you'll find endless repitions of the same themes. Etc.. etc... *That* is what the general public (correctly) believes an autopilot does - automatically operates the aircraft.
Tesla is using the word in a misleading fashion. And if this were Toyota or GM, the tech hipsters would be breaking out the torches and pitchforks.
*Dons Nomex suit* Flame away at the truth, I've got karma to to burn.
What most folks don't realize is that even though it's carried out in the public eye with public funds - the primary election isn't a public election. It's a private internal function of the Party and so long as they stay within some pretty broad guidelines they can pretty much do whatever the hell they want - including 'rigging' the results.
Because the public has this twisted idea that if we know who they are and where they live, we'll all be "safer". Never mind that you're a thousand times more likely to molested by a non family adult known to the child (teacher, coach, etc...) than by a stranger... and a thousand times more likely than that to be molested by a family member. Sex offender registries and "stranger danger" are nothing more than moral panic.
You'd be surprised what people will tolerate when it comes to a witch hunt.
Do you honestly not grasp the difference between "next village" and "far away"? (Not to mention failing to grasp the standards of mass media that existed as early as the mid/late 19th century.)
Um, no. Very few people want to crowd, because crowding is quite frankly uncomfortable. We put up with it because the benefits far exceed the downsides.
Only if one is the stereotypical computer geek who doesn't actually enjoy the physical company of another. (And who doesn't grasp that 'crowding' delivers far more than economic and communications benefits.)
"A century ago, there would be a battle that wiped out the next village, you'd never even hear about it."
Huh? Maybe in the remote parts of Africa or some other place that was still stuck in the stone age. Maybe. In the parts of the worlds actually living in the (early) 20th century not so much.
""We're only crowded because we've crowded ourselves into cities. Try taking a train trip across the United States, or Europe or Asia or anywhere in the world. Ninety-nine percent of the land is not used... we don't want to use it because you don't want to be out in the boondocks if you don't have people to work and play with. That's already changing now that we have some level of virtual communication..."
Not in the US, or most of Europe, or a good chunk of Asia. Not used for housing or urban sprawl isn't the same as not used. And no, it's actually changing much - communication isn't the only issue, access to stuff (physical goods) is also important, as is access to experiences. And neither have markedly changed if you live in the actual boondocks. (I find most people who live in big cities have little idea what conditions are like outside of the metro area.)
When will computer geeks grasp that most of the human race actually enjoys the company of others and that there are actual economic reasons why people cluster?
"Voter" != "Party Member". Very few people actually realize this.
Seriously. I get so tired of the complaints "waaaah, I can't copy someone else's work because it's copyrighted!".
Since you lack reading comprehension, I'll point out that I agreed with you in my original reply.
I'll repeat myself since you seem to have failed to grasp my point the first time - Pokemon Go players are, by and large, not bandwagon jumpers going from game to system to fad with each change in the wind. Pokemon Go is a new thing in the gaming world - who knows where it will go?
A twenty year old franchise, one with a steady history of money making games, movies, and various kinds of collectible... I wouldn't be in such a hurry to write it off. Not to mention, a good number of these players come from outside the "fad gamer" demographic. They didn't come from the Last Big Thing and they are unlikely to depart for the Next Big Thing. We're pretty much in entirely new territory here.
While the currently numbers are, as you correctly point out, unsustainable... Pokemon Go isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
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There's more to the Navy than ships... there's hundreds of shore facilities and commands. In the same way, there's also untold number of DoD and DoN civilian employees and contractors at those facilities and commands.
*sigh* He didn't need to be. In a parliamentary government, the leader of the majority party wields considerable power and influence. The Nazi Party was democratically elected and became the largest party in the Reichstag.
No idea who you are. But no, I still have a low tolerance for such nonsense. Always will.
Thank you for being one of the very few sensible participants in this discussion.
True. And again, you neatly illustrate my original point - if you can't trust those [AirBNB] reviews, then they aren't a replacement for government regulation and inspection.
Yes, there is a reason to be a dick - because a certain someone kept insisting that something had happened, but couldn't provide a link. When someone acts like an idiot, they get treated like an idiot.
Yeah, go Google that and get back to me. (Hint I already did what you are too lazy to do - check the facts.)
No. They announced the first re-use would be in "September or October", but no flight or customer has been specifically identified. And it's worth noting that originally the first re-use would be in "May or June" (of 2016).
Until they start reflying, all Musk is accomplishing is a very expensive method of collecting scrap aluminum.