Modern missiles are so lethal that dogfights today are the exception, not the rule. Our pilots still train for them, because we went into Nam thinking it was all about missiles, and learned the hard way that their reliability had been oversold, and that lesson resulted in Top Gun and Red Flag. But today's missiles really ARE deadly accurate, so until everyone has stealth, most air to air engagements are likely to be one-sided, long-range affairs.
Our (US) pilots still train for dogfights for the same reason our (US) submariners still train for strictly visual periscope attack approaches - it preserves the options. If for some reason the pilots were under a ROE that precluded BVR attacks, without dogfighting skills they'd be unable to execute that option, etc... etc...
A comparison would be the Seawolf ssn and the Virgina ssn. The Virgina class submarine was designed and built at a later point than the Seawolf. However you could easily say the Seawolf is a superior boat The Seawolf and the F-22 were designed to take The Russians at the hight of their power and after the USSRs failure there is no need/very little need for the top shelf equipment. So we are left with the F-35 and Virginia good in the own right but not nearly as bad-ass as the F-22 and The Seawolf.
You could say that about Virginia and Seawolf. You'd be about as wrong as you could be... But you could say that.
VIFF is the correct term, and yes it was widely bandied about during the Falklands war... But postwar research hasn't discovered a single instance of it being used in combat during the war.
Wouldn't this quickly take enough disk space to be easily noticeable?
If the phone user is talking 24/7 and has a small hard drive - sure. The loss of 4 gig (the equivalent of 4 *days* of MP3's, or so sayeth my iPod about my music collection) would go unnoticed by all but the most paranoid of users or someone whose hard drive was almost full.
And that's just off the top of my head, from someone who doesn't actually know much about cell phones.
And who can't even be bothered to read his fucking reference. (IE, not only are the antennas in question not based on basic research - they're based antecedents fifty years old.)
Case in point: mobile-phone technology. How many patents have been generated from that? How many new jobs around the world? You'd have thought the "hard-part" of basic radio research was over long ago.
You'd have a point if the bulk of the improvements in cell phone technology were in the area of radio frequency communications rather than in digital technology, display technology, camera technology, battery technology, etc..., from other fields. Equally, most of those improvements are based on incremental improvements rather than basic research. (I.E. the 'basic radio research' phase of cell phones was forty years ago when they were first introduced.)
In short, Charles Tandy, the leather salesman, ran it better and more profitably than the "business school" people that were bought in because he understood the business.
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The same old "Radio Shack was better when I was a young 'un" rant is no substitute for facts.
They stopped carrying a lot of small parts, because of the low dollar value, regardless if they were high profit.
"Name an industry that can produce 1 million new, high-paying jobs over the next three years", challenges BusinessWeek. The obvious answer is Greentech. We need to scale wind and solar power production rapidly, for a whole host of reasons.
It's not obvious at all. While it's true, Green tech can produce a few high paying jobs in research, development, and management... The bulk of the jobs are going to be [relatively] low paying grunt work out in the field installing the things.
Amazing what 24 hours and a press release can do when combined with the synthetic outrage that the 'net in general (and/. in particular) does so well at generating.
24 hours ago, none of the soi-disant experts here on/. had even heard of Steve Cook - though given the high profile projects he's managed and they're all experts on they should have known him well... And now he's Satan incarnate.
And how, exactly, does giving the money to someone with zero relevant experience accomplish anything? No offense to Burt, who is brilliant in his field, but you'd accomplish roughly as much by handing the money to some random person off the street.
I was about to say the same thing - Danny Deger is always 110% right but completely unappreciated by his bosses. Or so his story goes, in reality, he's an complete loon. After he was scoffed at on the sci.space.* newsgroups, I'm unsurprised to find him in bed with Kieth Cowing. (Another complete loon.)
I'm not amazed - "she" (who was killed) was "just 19", virtually guaranteed to be highly publicized and widely and publicly 'mourned' by people who'd never heard of her prior. (I'll bet she was white and pretty too.)
However, if you do that with a large enough company to get "undetected" (assuming smaller companies would recognise something fishy is going on) there should be a large risk that this laptop goes to the IT-people first to get completely altered to companies standards.
I rather suspect the reverse is true, those 'undetected' (rogue) laptops would be considered a godsend - because they aren't locked down by IT or tracked in the companies inventory system. (Man, we've been trying to get an extra laptop for [$PURPOSE|$PERSON} for months, but those bastards down in IT say we've got all we need.)
One way is those who know what Hacker means, and those who mistakenly think it is a synonym for cracker. I don't care what percentage of society is cluless in this regard even if it is 99+%.
Get the fuck over yourself. 'Hacker' is a synonym for 'cracker' and has been for nearly thirty years. Language, slang, and jargon - they all mutate and change over time. Grow up and get with the times.
Part of The Guilds success is no doubt due to their vast built in audience... A show for players of Puzzle Pirates or City of Heroes/Villains has much less of a potential audience. It also no doubt helps that those audiences are used to fan made material and have very low expectations as to writing, acting, and production values.
(As a side note: Has everyone forgotten RvB already?)
I don't however agree with summaries conclusion that the video's are 'accessible to non gamers'. I'm a gamer (though mostly out on the fringe, UO, CoX, YPP!), and I found them somewhat hard to understand because the terminology used was so WoW centric.
'When I heard they didn't have schedules, I was like, "What have they been doing all summer?"'
I suspect the schools don't run the scheduler until a few days before school actually starts - Teachers can die (happened my senior year), quit, not show up for work, classrooms may be unavailable for many reasons, etc... On top of this, they don't actually know how many students are going to show up until registration closes (typically a week before class starts).
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Our (US) pilots still train for dogfights for the same reason our (US) submariners still train for strictly visual periscope attack approaches - it preserves the options. If for some reason the pilots were under a ROE that precluded BVR attacks, without dogfighting skills they'd be unable to execute that option, etc... etc...
You could say that about Virginia and Seawolf. You'd be about as wrong as you could be... But you could say that.
VIFF is the correct term, and yes it was widely bandied about during the Falklands war... But postwar research hasn't discovered a single instance of it being used in combat during the war.
That's the urban legend - but not only is that virtually impossible, it was never done in the Falklands.
Well, there's something hideously wrong with your calculations... The longest MP3 in my collection (approx 12mins) takes up 11k.
If the phone user is talking 24/7 and has a small hard drive - sure. The loss of 4 gig (the equivalent of 4 *days* of MP3's, or so sayeth my iPod about my music collection) would go unnoticed by all but the most paranoid of users or someone whose hard drive was almost full.
And who can't even be bothered to read his fucking reference. (IE, not only are the antennas in question not based on basic research - they're based antecedents fifty years old.)
In short, no - you don't have any support for your claims.
You'd have a point if the bulk of the improvements in cell phone technology were in the area of radio frequency communications rather than in digital technology, display technology, camera technology, battery technology, etc..., from other fields. Equally, most of those improvements are based on incremental improvements rather than basic research. (I.E. the 'basic radio research' phase of cell phones was forty years ago when they were first introduced.)
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The same old "Radio Shack was better when I was a young 'un" rant is no substitute for facts.
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It's not obvious at all. While it's true, Green tech can produce a few high paying jobs in research, development, and management... The bulk of the jobs are going to be [relatively] low paying grunt work out in the field installing the things.
Amazing what 24 hours and a press release can do when combined with the synthetic outrage that the 'net in general (and /. in particular) does so well at generating.
/. had even heard of Steve Cook - though given the high profile projects he's managed and they're all experts on they should have known him well... And now he's Satan incarnate.
24 hours ago, none of the soi-disant experts here on
And how, exactly, does giving the money to someone with zero relevant experience accomplish anything? No offense to Burt, who is brilliant in his field, but you'd accomplish roughly as much by handing the money to some random person off the street.
I was about to say the same thing - Danny Deger is always 110% right but completely unappreciated by his bosses. Or so his story goes, in reality, he's an complete loon. After he was scoffed at on the sci.space.* newsgroups, I'm unsurprised to find him in bed with Kieth Cowing. (Another complete loon.)
Um - did you even read the articles in question (while sober)? Because what you posted has about nothing to do with the sequence of events.
I'm not amazed - "she" (who was killed) was "just 19", virtually guaranteed to be highly publicized and widely and publicly 'mourned' by people who'd never heard of her prior. (I'll bet she was white and pretty too.)
NASA has detailed measurements for the pieces it is responsible for... Which does include random bits in foreign museums.
I rather suspect the reverse is true, those 'undetected' (rogue) laptops would be considered a godsend - because they aren't locked down by IT or tracked in the companies inventory system. (Man, we've been trying to get an extra laptop for [$PURPOSE|$PERSON} for months, but those bastards down in IT say we've got all we need.)
As I said to the OP, the meanings of words change regardless of the source of that change. Get the fuck over yourself.
Get the fuck over yourself. 'Hacker' is a synonym for 'cracker' and has been for nearly thirty years. Language, slang, and jargon - they all mutate and change over time. Grow up and get with the times.
That's called "the exception that proves the rule".
No, I'm saying it makes no sense to do a job in June that will have to redone at least once (if not more) in August.
Part of The Guilds success is no doubt due to their vast built in audience... A show for players of Puzzle Pirates or City of Heroes/Villains has much less of a potential audience. It also no doubt helps that those audiences are used to fan made material and have very low expectations as to writing, acting, and production values.
(As a side note: Has everyone forgotten RvB already?)
I don't however agree with summaries conclusion that the video's are 'accessible to non gamers'. I'm a gamer (though mostly out on the fringe, UO, CoX, YPP!), and I found them somewhat hard to understand because the terminology used was so WoW centric.
I suspect the schools don't run the scheduler until a few days before school actually starts - Teachers can die (happened my senior year), quit, not show up for work, classrooms may be unavailable for many reasons, etc... On top of this, they don't actually know how many students are going to show up until registration closes (typically a week before class starts).
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