The problem has more to do with poor tactics. The Apaches were built for and originally intended to be used in the European theater in conjunction with ground forces. Not deep in enemy territory without any support where enemies could be hiding behind every tree etc. They are built to withstand a lot of damage, but they aren't invincible.
Thanks for clarifying the trade secret laws. I do realise that are protections for trade secrets, but they are not as strict as patents. If someone else discovers the secret on their own (through reverse engineering or independent creation), you have no legal means to stop them from using it.
According to the lawyer who gave a lecture about intellectual property rights, patents and trade secrets etc., trade secrets have no protection. If you can develop the formula for Coca Cola on your own, they can't stop you from selling it, as long as you don't infringe on their copyrights or trademarks. There is also a chance that someone could patent it before you do if they develop it around the same time, in which case you could be infringing on a patent if you can't prove you came up with the idea on your own.
Every application doesn't have to look exactly the same, but where they have similar commands or options, these options should be. You are right about not having a word processor and a media player being identical. Under the Classic Mac OS if you need to change the preferences, go to the Edit menu, if you need to print, go to the File menu. This works whether you are using MS Word or iTunes. Windows isn't too bad, but there still are programs where you have to go looking for the preferences or options. Linux has no standard, so depending on whether you are using KDE, Gnome or something else, the same option can be in one of several places. This is what makes working on the Mac much nicer than Windows or Linux. You can spend more time learning the application specific features/functions and not have to worry about the basics, not to mention just learning the application in the first place. Mac users are notorious when it comes to the interface. Try reading an old MacWorld review. When a program doesn't work like a Mac program, it loses points in the review. In cases like MS Word 6 for the Mac, which was a straight port from Windows, the users wouldn't even buy it. Microsoft had to keep selling Word 5 for years after Word 6 was out.
There is nothing wrong with having a different way of doing the same task. PhotoShop, Painter and whatever other image editors have slightly different ways of accomplishing the same thing on Macs. Usually they have enough similarities though that once you know one, you can learn the other relatively quickly because there is a standard that they are working from. Going from PhotoShop to the GIMP takes more effort because the GIMP puts things where ever it wants to, and doesn't follow any other standard. Linux could go and come up with an entirely different standard than what Windows and the Mac have, but within Linux, there should be some sort of base standard if Linux wants to be used by more than just geeks.
It did fly on burner the whole time when supersonic, but at high speeds the engines started to act more like ramjets, and generated most of the thrust from the intake and exhaust designs, not from the jet directly. It was something like 80% from the intake alone at high speed. The stories from the pilots say that the faster they went the better the fuel efficiency, but the shape of the plane limited how fast they could push it.
Military aircraft don't usually fly supersonic over heavily populated areas, and generally stick to restricted training areas, or out to sea. There are some exceptions, like around Edwards Air Force base and the surrounding areas, but the people that live in those places don't seem to care as much. According to some stories of the SR-71 flying supersonic over the mainland, the Air Force had to pay for more than a few broken windows, so I'm not sure airlines would want to deal with that anyways. With the amount of people complaining about noise around airports now, I would hate to see what it would be like if there were Concords everywhere.
One crash in 30 years doesn't mean that the Concord is any safer than any other airliner. When you look at the fact that there were only 13 planes in service, and each only made one or two trans-Atlantic flights a week, it's no better than most other airliners.
Except that tire pieces shouldn't be puncturing fuel tanks. That wasn't the first time that happened either. A Concord flight out of the US (I think) had one of its tires come apart the same way, which then punctured the fuel tank. The fuel didn't ignite though.
It wasn't that it wasn't fuel efficient, but that the fuel cost more than regular jet fuel. It was the same with the oil and other fluids in the plane, flying at Mach 3 meant that everything had to work at temperatures that would cause their conventional counterparts to break down. From some of the books I have read, the SR-71 got more efficient the faster it went, but it would run into aerodynamic problems. Things like shockwaves coming off the nose and entering the engine intakes, causing rather unsettling engine "unstarts" or something like that.
24 are from the Maritime provinces (10 from Nova Scotia, 10 from New Brunswick, 4 from Prince Edward Island); 24 from Quebec; 24 from Ontario; 24 from the Western provinces (6 each from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia); 6 from Newfoundland and Labrador; and one each from Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
I don't know about the new iMacs, but the orginals could be set up as thin clients, and booted from an image on the server. Jobs did a demonstration with 10 iMacs running off an OSX Server computer at a Macworld Expo a few years ago. I don't think the origianl poster was suggesting that you use an iMac as a server, at least I hope not...
The Pima air and Space museum in Tucson is almost as big and very good. Next to it is Davis Monthan air force base where all the retired aircraft are stored. There are aircraft as far as you can see.
Another place for unique aircraft is the new museum at Edwards air force base. This one probably has some prototypes that the museum in Dayton doesn't. NASA used to give tours of their Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, but I don't know if they still do. On the tour we saw an X-29, YF-23 and the last operational SR-71s. Scattered around the base are old X planes and aircraft parts. They even had the survivng "flying bedstead" that was used to train the astronauts how to land on the moon. On the way to NASA's buildings you have to drive by all of the Air Force's facilities and can see various aircraft in the air.
True active sonar could be used. If the sub was in shallow waters, near islands or the shore, the active sonar would be bouncing off of everything. I didn't say it would be easy to just wait for the carrier group to sail over, just that subs are a serious threat to carriers. The sub would still have to manouver to avoid sonuboys and the escorts, but it is possible. As for helos, most countries have been experimenting with putting Stingers or an equivalent on the periscope or a seperate mast. Dozens of countries are buying Russian Kilo class diesel subs which are among the quietest around, and most of these countries are not best friends with the U.S.
I'm no expert on submarine warfare either. You should read Tom Clancy's book Submarine which talks about modern submarine warfare.
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I am pretty sure Westjet is Canadian owned.
Air Canada virtually had a monoply when it took over Cabadian Airlines a few years ago. After that they went down hill pretty fast.
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Was I surprised, no. Had I forgotten about this movie after the LotR series, yes.
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The NDP are still alive?!?
And then reposts it as new news the next day...
Can't get no Satisfaction would be pretty popular too.
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Rotorua in New Zeland erupted in 76AD, and turned the skies red in China and Rome. There is now a pretty good sized caldera and lake there.
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General Dick did.
XFree69, XFree85 and XFree87 appear to work though...
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The problem has more to do with poor tactics. The Apaches were built for and originally intended to be used in the European theater in conjunction with ground forces. Not deep in enemy territory without any support where enemies could be hiding behind every tree etc. They are built to withstand a lot of damage, but they aren't invincible.
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If only this came were made yesterday when I had mod points!
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The real MIG-31 is the Foxhound. In the Clint Eastwood movie it's the Firefox.
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Thanks for clarifying the trade secret laws. I do realise that are protections for trade secrets, but they are not as strict as patents. If someone else discovers the secret on their own (through reverse engineering or independent creation), you have no legal means to stop them from using it.
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...ripping apart their arguments so completely!
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According to the lawyer who gave a lecture about intellectual property rights, patents and trade secrets etc., trade secrets have no protection. If you can develop the formula for Coca Cola on your own, they can't stop you from selling it, as long as you don't infringe on their copyrights or trademarks. There is also a chance that someone could patent it before you do if they develop it around the same time, in which case you could be infringing on a patent if you can't prove you came up with the idea on your own.
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Every application doesn't have to look exactly the same, but where they have similar commands or options, these options should be. You are right about not having a word processor and a media player being identical. Under the Classic Mac OS if you need to change the preferences, go to the Edit menu, if you need to print, go to the File menu. This works whether you are using MS Word or iTunes. Windows isn't too bad, but there still are programs where you have to go looking for the preferences or options. Linux has no standard, so depending on whether you are using KDE, Gnome or something else, the same option can be in one of several places. This is what makes working on the Mac much nicer than Windows or Linux. You can spend more time learning the application specific features/functions and not have to worry about the basics, not to mention just learning the application in the first place. Mac users are notorious when it comes to the interface. Try reading an old MacWorld review. When a program doesn't work like a Mac program, it loses points in the review. In cases like MS Word 6 for the Mac, which was a straight port from Windows, the users wouldn't even buy it. Microsoft had to keep selling Word 5 for years after Word 6 was out.
There is nothing wrong with having a different way of doing the same task. PhotoShop, Painter and whatever other image editors have slightly different ways of accomplishing the same thing on Macs. Usually they have enough similarities though that once you know one, you can learn the other relatively quickly because there is a standard that they are working from. Going from PhotoShop to the GIMP takes more effort because the GIMP puts things where ever it wants to, and doesn't follow any other standard. Linux could go and come up with an entirely different standard than what Windows and the Mac have, but within Linux, there should be some sort of base standard if Linux wants to be used by more than just geeks.
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Actually ATI does manufacture their own cards as well as license the design. I don't think Nvidia produces any cards though.
It did fly on burner the whole time when supersonic, but at high speeds the engines started to act more like ramjets, and generated most of the thrust from the intake and exhaust designs, not from the jet directly. It was something like 80% from the intake alone at high speed. The stories from the pilots say that the faster they went the better the fuel efficiency, but the shape of the plane limited how fast they could push it.
Military aircraft don't usually fly supersonic over heavily populated areas, and generally stick to restricted training areas, or out to sea. There are some exceptions, like around Edwards Air Force base and the surrounding areas, but the people that live in those places don't seem to care as much. According to some stories of the SR-71 flying supersonic over the mainland, the Air Force had to pay for more than a few broken windows, so I'm not sure airlines would want to deal with that anyways. With the amount of people complaining about noise around airports now, I would hate to see what it would be like if there were Concords everywhere.
One crash in 30 years doesn't mean that the Concord is any safer than any other airliner. When you look at the fact that there were only 13 planes in service, and each only made one or two trans-Atlantic flights a week, it's no better than most other airliners.
Except that tire pieces shouldn't be puncturing fuel tanks. That wasn't the first time that happened either. A Concord flight out of the US (I think) had one of its tires come apart the same way, which then punctured the fuel tank. The fuel didn't ignite though.
It wasn't that it wasn't fuel efficient, but that the fuel cost more than regular jet fuel. It was the same with the oil and other fluids in the plane, flying at Mach 3 meant that everything had to work at temperatures that would cause their conventional counterparts to break down. From some of the books I have read, the SR-71 got more efficient the faster it went, but it would run into aerodynamic problems. Things like shockwaves coming off the nose and entering the engine intakes, causing rather unsettling engine "unstarts" or something like that.
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This is Slashdot, there is no reasoning with anyone.
Actually we have 105 Senators:
24 are from the Maritime provinces (10 from Nova Scotia, 10 from New Brunswick, 4 from Prince Edward Island);
24 from Quebec;
24 from Ontario;
24 from the Western provinces (6 each from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia);
6 from Newfoundland and Labrador;
and one each from Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
I don't know about the new iMacs, but the orginals could be set up as thin clients, and booted from an image on the server. Jobs did a demonstration with 10 iMacs running off an OSX Server computer at a Macworld Expo a few years ago. I don't think the origianl poster was suggesting that you use an iMac as a server, at least I hope not...
The Pima air and Space museum in Tucson is almost as big and very good. Next to it is Davis Monthan air force base where all the retired aircraft are stored. There are aircraft as far as you can see.
Another place for unique aircraft is the new museum at Edwards air force base. This one probably has some prototypes that the museum in Dayton doesn't. NASA used to give tours of their Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, but I don't know if they still do. On the tour we saw an X-29, YF-23 and the last operational SR-71s. Scattered around the base are old X planes and aircraft parts. They even had the survivng "flying bedstead" that was used to train the astronauts how to land on the moon. On the way to NASA's buildings you have to drive by all of the Air Force's facilities and can see various aircraft in the air.
True active sonar could be used. If the sub was in shallow waters, near islands or the shore, the active sonar would be bouncing off of everything. I didn't say it would be easy to just wait for the carrier group to sail over, just that subs are a serious threat to carriers. The sub would still have to manouver to avoid sonuboys and the escorts, but it is possible. As for helos, most countries have been experimenting with putting Stingers or an equivalent on the periscope or a seperate mast. Dozens of countries are buying Russian Kilo class diesel subs which are among the quietest around, and most of these countries are not best friends with the U.S.
I'm no expert on submarine warfare either. You should read Tom Clancy's book Submarine which talks about modern submarine warfare.