You cannot evaluate research efforts like this one based on their sheer economic or scientific value.
After all, Nazis' experiments on live humans also resulted in some scientific advances (in particular, in neurohpysiology), with results used in medecine today. However, many people (me included) have strong digsust for such flavor of science, and would rather like if such experiments were never done, regardless of their practical value.
Such situation is quite common in countries without strong copyright law or its proper enforcement.
Say, in some ex-USSR states you can buy an upcoming blockbuster months before the official world premier. Often they are outright stolen from clipping board and lack some scenes and visual effects. I recall Casper the Firendly Ghost without the actual ghosts rendered, and Waterworld without the shark hunt scene being offered on street markets.
Quite possibly it can be the case with The Two Towers as well.
..and they can fetch some from 'Saving Private Ryan': Ping Ping, n. Probably of imitative origin.
The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.
1913 Webster
Well, maybe PDAs are symbols for someone, but my Palm IIIx is definitely a mere tool. I tend to read a lot of research papers, so Plucker comes handy; I use Address Book to store *all* my contacts; Date Book to remind me of important events, lunch-time, and as an alarm-clock; Keyring to store my passwords (I have dozens of them); to look up a word in a dictionary; to pin down a passing good idea; to plan and track various activities with Progect; to play an occasional game of chess, etc.
Once, I found myself jobless in a foreign land, without PC and with net access limited to Internet cafe. Palm was virtually a life-saver there, so I spent two months hacking a pet project in Lisp in city park while waiting for leave-money to arrive.
My (informed) opinion on 'trained Syrian forces' still holds. They lost orders of magnitude more people in infantry as well; however, it is wrong to assume that an 'Israeli specie' is clearly superior by its physical capabilities to 'Syrian specie'.
In Europe, a hypothetic open confrontation with conventional weapons in most optimistic case could result in hundreds of thousands NATO casualities and several million of civilians dead.
Since the very beginning, NATO defence strategy was based on nuclear force. Since 1945, most of the US military high-ranks (with the notable exception of Patton) were quite realistic on conventional warfare with USSR: that the Russians would roll to English Channel in some three-four weeks.
Mind you, Soviet HQs had their plans on countering NATO countermeasures as well. Don't put it as strategists everywhere except at Pentagon were blind and dumb.
If you revisit your own examples, all cases of post-WWII US military involvement took place in 3rd world countries, who were clearly outgunned, outfunded and outnumbered. This is no big achievement, and inferring from that US superiority over 'Soviet doctrine' is an insult to intelligence.
They won, but look what was in their favor: massive resupply from lend/lease, a brutal winter, and a German leader who simply refused to listen to his military leaders.
The resupply from lend-lease during the war was mere 4% of USSR military production; unequipped Russian troops suffered more from winter (contrary to some beilefs Russians have no fur), and Stalin didn't listen to his military leaders too.
The raito was closer to 3:1; most of the losses were during the first two years of war.
Quality? In one on one fights between F-16/F-15s/F-14s/F-18s and MiG-29s there have been Zero F-16/F-15 loses.
Tell me one thing: *where* all these one-to-one dogfigths took place?
IIRC, during the Gulf War a sole MiG-25 managed to take down a Tomcat and flee unharmed from his eight companions. In course of Vietnam war, Phantoms fell no less than much less expensive single-seat Mig-19s and 21s. In Korean war, everything the USAF had except F86 Sabres was not any better and performed worse than MiG-15s.
Once again, there was *no* clear US air superiority on the European theater. Most of the jamming/EMP/smartbombs stuff and gadgets you seem to adore so much started to appear in 80-s, when the Soviet Union was already on its way to havoc.
As of 'capable Syrian personel' let me tell you one story. When, prior to Sinai, one soviet advisor arrived to ensure proper transfer of a few Shilka's (an AAA system), to his surprise he found out that crews consist of bedouins who were not aware what azimuth means. He ended up positioning 12 painted barrels around the machines, as it was the only way to coordinate fire.
You take some Apache and Kiowa Warriors (soon RAH-66s) and swoop in Hellfiring the crap out of the tanks, then you zap some of the supporting infantry and softer AAA and mobile SAMs with Hydra-70 rockets while the A-10s Maverick the advancing line and F-16s throw HARMs at the AAA and SAMs dumb enough to light up thier radars.
OK, now consider that until the very 80s, when TOW units were shipped, there were not enough NATO anti-tank weapons in Europe to eliminate all deployed Warsaw Pact tanks. Consider that most of the Soviet artillery (including all heavy artillery and rocket units) was self-propelled and mobile. Consider that USSR has huge air fleets matching those of US in number, quality and pilot training. Consider that the Soviet Army experienced an order of magnitude more intense and bloody fights than all other allies combined during WWII, and managed to win.
You also seem to underestimate the effect of some million tons of munition falling on your lines continiously.
The only thing that could match W.P. superiority was nuclear power. And it did, effectively saving the free world (no irony here).
M-1A2, M-2, AH-64, H-56, A-10, F-16, M-109, MLRS, MAV, M-60A3, M-113A3, F-117 and F-15E are all desgined/upgraded to exploit faults in Soviet Doctrine as illustrated in Korea, the Golan, Sinai, Inter-Germany observations and Iraq.
Comparing the lesser regimes with USSR is plain silly. Do you *really* think that Seoul, Israel, West Germany alone or Saudi Arabia armies could stand a chance against the Soviets in a confilct? Also, I see no mention of Cuba and Vietnam on your list.
Now we just need to get Congress to approve declarations of war against... Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Palestine... oh wait, doesn't exist yet... Egypt, Jordan, Chechnya
The article states that, in general, redheads felt more pain. It just says that some particular dose of drug is less likely to affect you enough to sustain serious surgery. (Two cents from another redhead, who knows how painful dentistry can be).
It looks like a successor to the world's only supersonic passenger jet, Concorde (built jointly by the British and French in the 1960s) is still some way off. Surely you are aware of Tu-144? It wasn't too successful, but it was supersonic and intended to carry passengers.
... that Microsoft will lobby to make their security extensions mandatory on Turing Machines, thus extending their influence to most of present day computer architectures.
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Microsoft Delphi, Microsoft Delphi, Microsoft Delphi...
You cannot evaluate research efforts like this one based on their sheer economic or scientific value.
After all, Nazis' experiments on live humans also resulted in some scientific advances (in particular, in neurohpysiology), with results used in medecine today. However, many people (me included) have strong digsust for such flavor of science, and would rather like if such experiments were never done, regardless of their practical value.
If you don't want to bother inventing a name for your baby :P
Such situation is quite common in countries without strong copyright law or its proper enforcement.
Say, in some ex-USSR states you can buy an upcoming blockbuster months before the official world premier. Often they are outright stolen from clipping board and lack some scenes and visual effects. I recall Casper the Firendly Ghost without the actual ghosts rendered, and Waterworld without the shark hunt scene being offered on street markets.
Quite possibly it can be the case with The Two Towers as well.
Sort of like a skyscraper? Or a large jet airliner?
Skyscraper will not collapse if it was built a ton or two heavier than planned. Jet airliner can fly with half of its engines completely off.
In contrast, software has no redundancy. Throw a DLL out of project, and the rest of your code is useless.
Does it means that they will pay me for using it? Hmm.. beats helping that guy from Nigeria..
Would Netherlands fit?
Have a look at their's "The Billion Years Before End of Time". Very unusual and probably the most depressing book I've read.
13. An ability to make Beowulf cluster of virtually anything.
..and they can fetch some from 'Saving Private Ryan':
Ping Ping, n. Probably of imitative origin.
The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.
1913 Webster
They'd feel themselves real field surgeons then.
Physisist Fotini Markopoulou Kalamara (try saying that 3 times fast)...
Try saying "physicist" once, and slowly.
The building codes in most states in the US require a window large enough to be used as a fire escape in EVERY bedroom.
Can you trick them with vidcam + plasma panels?
Makes a perfect target for Tomahawk.
Now we should figure some way to link Ralsky with Al-Quaeda and the War on Terror will take care of the rest.
Well, maybe PDAs are symbols for someone, but my Palm IIIx is definitely a mere tool. I tend to read a lot of research papers, so Plucker comes handy; I use Address Book to store *all* my contacts; Date Book to remind me of important events, lunch-time, and as an alarm-clock; Keyring to store my passwords (I have dozens of them); to look up a word in a dictionary; to pin down a passing good idea; to plan and track various activities with Progect; to play an occasional game of chess, etc.
Once, I found myself jobless in a foreign land, without PC and with net access limited to Internet cafe. Palm was virtually a life-saver there, so I spent two months hacking a pet project in Lisp in city park while waiting for leave-money to arrive.
a Beowulf cluster of those!
'Cracker' postdates 'Hacker'
Only because crackers postdate hackers.
..about this story, is that noone of slashdotters objected this time to use of word 'hacker' as a label to 'cracker'.
Oh well...
My (informed) opinion on 'trained Syrian forces' still holds. They lost orders of magnitude more people in infantry as well; however, it is wrong to assume that an 'Israeli specie' is clearly superior by its physical capabilities to 'Syrian specie'.
In Europe, a hypothetic open confrontation with conventional weapons in most optimistic case could result in hundreds of thousands NATO casualities and several million of civilians dead.
Since the very beginning, NATO defence strategy was based on nuclear force. Since 1945, most of the US military high-ranks (with the notable exception of Patton) were quite realistic on conventional warfare with USSR: that the Russians would roll to English Channel in some three-four weeks.
Mind you, Soviet HQs had their plans on countering NATO countermeasures as well. Don't put it as strategists everywhere except at Pentagon were blind and dumb.
If you revisit your own examples, all cases of post-WWII US military involvement took place in 3rd world countries, who were clearly outgunned, outfunded and outnumbered. This is no big achievement, and inferring from that US superiority over 'Soviet doctrine' is an insult to intelligence.
They won, but look what was in their favor: massive resupply from lend/lease, a brutal winter, and a German leader who simply refused to listen to his military leaders.
The resupply from lend-lease during the war was mere 4% of USSR military production; unequipped Russian troops suffered more from winter (contrary to some beilefs Russians have no fur), and Stalin didn't listen to his military leaders too.
The raito was closer to 3:1; most of the losses were during the first two years of war.
Quality? In one on one fights between F-16/F-15s/F-14s/F-18s and MiG-29s there have been Zero F-16/F-15 loses.
Tell me one thing: *where* all these one-to-one dogfigths took place?
IIRC, during the Gulf War a sole MiG-25 managed to take down a Tomcat and flee unharmed from his eight companions. In course of Vietnam war, Phantoms fell no less than much less expensive single-seat Mig-19s and 21s. In Korean war, everything the USAF had except F86 Sabres was not any better and performed worse than MiG-15s.
Once again, there was *no* clear US air superiority on the European theater. Most of the jamming/EMP/smartbombs stuff and gadgets you seem to adore so much started to appear in 80-s, when the Soviet Union was already on its way to havoc.
As of 'capable Syrian personel' let me tell you one story. When, prior to Sinai, one soviet advisor arrived to ensure proper transfer of a few Shilka's (an AAA system), to his surprise he found out that crews consist of bedouins who were not aware what azimuth means. He ended up positioning 12 painted barrels around the machines, as it was the only way to coordinate fire.
You take some Apache and Kiowa Warriors (soon RAH-66s) and swoop in Hellfiring the crap out of the tanks, then you zap some of the supporting infantry and softer AAA and mobile SAMs with Hydra-70 rockets while the A-10s Maverick the advancing line and F-16s throw HARMs at the AAA and SAMs dumb enough to light up thier radars.
OK, now consider that until the very 80s, when TOW units were shipped, there were not enough NATO anti-tank weapons in Europe to eliminate all deployed Warsaw Pact tanks. Consider that most of the Soviet artillery (including all heavy artillery and rocket units) was self-propelled and mobile. Consider that USSR has huge air fleets matching those of US in number, quality and pilot training. Consider that the Soviet Army experienced an order of magnitude more intense and bloody fights than all other allies combined during WWII, and managed to win.
You also seem to underestimate the effect of some million tons of munition falling on your lines continiously.
The only thing that could match W.P. superiority was nuclear power. And it did, effectively saving the free world (no irony here).
M-1A2, M-2, AH-64, H-56, A-10, F-16, M-109, MLRS, MAV, M-60A3, M-113A3, F-117 and F-15E are all desgined/upgraded to exploit faults in Soviet Doctrine as illustrated in Korea, the Golan, Sinai, Inter-Germany observations and Iraq.
Comparing the lesser regimes with USSR is plain silly. Do you *really* think that Seoul, Israel, West Germany alone or Saudi Arabia armies could stand a chance against the Soviets in a confilct?
Also, I see no mention of Cuba and Vietnam on your list.
Now we just need to get Congress to approve declarations of war against... Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Palestine... oh wait, doesn't exist yet... Egypt, Jordan, Chechnya
Chechnya doesn't exist yet, too.
The article states that, in general, redheads felt more pain.
It just says that some particular dose of drug is less likely to affect you enough to sustain serious surgery.
(Two cents from another redhead, who knows how painful dentistry can be).
It looks like a successor to the world's only supersonic passenger jet, Concorde (built jointly by the British and French in the 1960s) is still some way off.
Surely you are aware of Tu-144? It wasn't too successful, but it was supersonic and intended to carry passengers.
... that Microsoft will lobby to make their security extensions mandatory on Turing Machines, thus extending their influence to most of present day computer architectures.