Operating cost. Construction costs are 5-10 times higher. The three Zumwalt class ships ordered will cost $3.3Billion and they aren't using nukes OR railguns in the initial models. Though from all indications this is the platform that will host those items when they are finally developed. The original talk was two small navy nukes on board, one to drive the railguns and another to power everything else. Google Zumwalt class.
The beauty of the railgun and why the Navy is so aggressively pursing them is that explosive based weapons are very dangerous at sea under counter attack. The most secure portion of the ship is often the munitions storage area for this reason as a properly placed round can blow the bottom out of the ship by igniting the munitions stored.
The railgun does away with the whole bit, the munitions are rods of metal and the propellant is electricity. Without all the powder storage you can either dramatically reduce the size of ship and crew or dramatically increase the number of rounds deliverable before restocking. Finally the restocking ships aren't going to be carrying combustible munitions. A round 1/4 the size of the largest battleship guns fired from a railgun will do nearly 100 times the damage.
The goal of the Navy DDX program is ships with 1/4 the crew size, 10 times the firepower and a significant reduction in profile (stealth). Imagine being able to field twice the number of ships for half the cost and a single ship has more firepower than 10 current models.
Nothing happened with the Russian material because the Russian military officers were consummate professionals interested in maintaining the integrity of their nuclear supplies EVEN when they weren't being paid. The US helped a bit by offering support in the form of money, tracking technology and basically secretarial assistance in tracking and verifying the integrity of the supplies but every goes back to the Russians and their professionalism.
The few times a couple ounces of material disappeared it happened from commercial sources not weapons and even then it was quickly intercepted when they tried to sell it. This was all confirmed recently with recent books from people that have retired that were involved in the process, the Russians were always very professional. Hell its the reason we never ended up in a war with them, that same professionalism got Kruchef sacked and Stalin murdered by a Coumadin overdose. We might have some idealogical differences with the Russians on occasion but they've always been sane responsible people with integrity and honor.
Both Pakistan, India and China have missiles that are capable of carrying nuclear weapons that can reach the far corners of the others. If one of them decides to use a nuclear weapon it's going to be attached to a missile not a plane.
Regardless of politics I personally don't believe buying the cheapest weapon system simply because it's the cheapest is the best idea. Quality can be far more important than quantity, particularly these days when missiles are so good that there hasn't been aerial combat between aircraft (ie a dog fight) in several decades. Airframe integrity, stealthiness, weapon carrying capacity and electronics are far more important than the price IMO, particularly when India could end up in a war with China as they have several times in the past.
Most people in America when told of looting react with the phrase "shoot the looters on sight" not knowing where this comes from. In the San Francisco earthquake in the early 1900's (forget the actual year 1908?) when the army responded they issued a decree saying looters would be shot on sight (as looting was occurring). The military then proceeded to do exactly what they said they would do and shot several people, including a man that was "looting" his own store for valuables. This is where that phrase comes from and it's expansive use in America because what happened in SanFran was not only supported by Americans at the time but it was widely seen as the effective tool to stop Looting and has remained in the collective consciousness since including calls for the same thing to be done in New Orleans.
But as those that have already posted, Looting occurs everywhere during disasters. It is likely, as has been speculated, that it's an ingrained behavior that developed as a key part of human instinct (yes we have instincts just like every other animal) during catastrophic events. The only way to stop it form occurring is to bring in a culturally recognized authority (such as police, military) that snaps people back to their senses and halts the instinctive behavior.
Fully integrated email/calendar. The ability to send an appointment while checking others schedules AND scheduling a conference room at the same time. It doesn't help that pretty much every enterprise in the world uses outlook so you can email an outlook appointment outside your organization and have it fully work in not only adding to their calendar at the correct time and provide full details.
A small list of features: - Email with full calendar support. - Web-mail with most of the features of the Outlook client. - Folders and structures including common folders that can be shared between multiple people. - Integrated Contacts with separate personal contacts and company directories. - Company directories can store all contact information and in the case of VOIP systems can be linked such that clicking a phone number dials the phone. - Integrated Instant messaging and RSS feeds that can be secured and restricted to certain people. - Task handling that will track a task list, even between multiple people and offices. - Fully shareable calendars and other items allowing people to delegate calendar, email and other tasks to a subordinate. - Integration of other items such as the ability to schedule conference rooms and such with a calendar appointment. - Distribution lists, Journals, notes and Internet faxing. - Push email and calendaring that transfers everything to a PDA/phone automatically with secure handling. Works so well emails often show up on the phone before registering on outlook/exchange.
Many other features, of course MS is one of the best companies at inter-product ties, such that there is integrated handling of all MS products including the ability to directly cut and paste document items directly into emails and have it fully handled and look and behave perfectly. This extends as well to Share-point which is a network enabled file management system that allows collaboration including multiple people in the same document over the Internet along with check-in and checkout library type handling.
It's reached the point that if outlook and exchange are down large companies can't even function. I'm not exaggerating either. I've seen personally an exchange crash idle almost the entire company while it's restored. This list was neither comprehensive nor even all the popular features. Just the ones I'm familiar with in my little tiny slice of life. As it's been stated before, most people only use 10% of the programs, but the features that make up that 10% is different for everyone, meaning everything gets used by someone but on average only a small subset is used per individual/company/business.
To replace MS Office at the enterprise level we have to replace the whole kit and kaboodle. Office, Exhange, Outlook, Sharepoint, etc, precisely because MS has tied them all together so well that they are essentially indispensable to most companies.
Who gave you the impression the R's are for less government? That's not even REMOTELY true. The Republicans are for less of certain kinds of government and absolutely for more of other kinds. The Dems are in the same position, wanting more of some kinds and less of others. The disagreement between the parties is which parts need less and which parts need more.
At least they are being honest about their desire to extract a pound of flesh from Google. That's what this has always been about. They want Google's profits.
MASS, not tensile strength buddy. Try Tungsten, hell even lead and steel have more mass per volume than Titanium, ideally you would use DU for maximum density.
Or you could allow people to retake whatever test. When you fail the Seal training you fail it permanently and have to retake the entire training course because you missed your swim time by 10 seconds. Some of the training programs don't ever let your retake the test. They throw a LOT of people out on essentially technicalities because they have to weed the recruits down to single digits or they would overwhelm their own training programs (yes there are that many people applying).
They could quadruple the number of people in special operations and it wouldn't even be difficult to find the people. But at $10 million in training per individual and the time involved they'd have to take everyone currently in the field out of the field and put them into training the new recruits.
And as typically happens in these cases people completely forget that you have to pay multiple copyright trolls, that means you pay the RIAA studio for the actual recording AND you have to pay the song writer (ASCAP). And as typically happens the RIAA studio and ASCAP happily negotiates and accepts payment for works they aren't entitled to so that you end up getting sued anyway by both the song writer and band and have to pay a second time. And the kicker is that the first payments to the studio and ASCAP aren't refundable even if they weren't authorized to collect royalties for the works in question because they don't give money back even if they didn't collect it legally.
Android is FREE. Phone makers are free to customize it and do whatever they want with it, they just have the replace the Google apps with something else and call it something other than Android (like droid for example). Who needs a dozen different solutions when you have one that anyone can take and customize? Windows Phone isn't needed and IMO will likely never take off.
The salesmen don't sell it because it's got a huge return rate (more than half come back), and Nokia has no one to blame but the Board of Directors, they hired Elop, they endorsed his Windows Phone strategy and they continue to support him. They absolutely knew what they were getting into when they hired a former MS employee. If you're a shareholder of Nokia you should be demanding the board be replaced so Elop can be fired.
Presidents routinely sign treaties that aren't later ratified by Congress, there is nothing special about what Obama did compared to any of the other dozen treaties that Congress never ratified.
What are you talking about? Japan has been in crash and burn mode for 20 years! Those of old enough remember when it was all the rage to talk about how Japan was going to dominate the US, then the reality hit. They had an export driven economy with no internal consumption, as exports fell the entire economy stagnated. Japanese growth has either been negative or barely above 0 for close to 20 years.
Although China is a concern those that study such things have noted they are doing exactly what the Japanese did, building an export based economy that has no internal consumption. Now at least the Chinese recognize the problem and are trying to build internal consumption but it's hard when about 75% of your population lives in economic slavery and a 4% increase in your currency will cut your growth in half. So they keep their currency artificially low which stalls their goal of increasing internal consumption because those 75% living in economic poverty will never be able to get out unless the Yuan value increases.
Now here's the kicker, the Chinese have been building a massive export based economy at the expense of Japan. Because they have little to no internal consumption the Japanese are facing yet another decade of deflation and economic stagnation. Deflation makes the debt more expensive.
The US has problems and MUST get it's debt under control, but we can't do that cutting taxes. Anyone that tells you it's possible is lying to you Bush Sr style.
It doesn't need a fucking amendment. What it NEEDS is the courts to stop trying to interpret only the letter of the law and not the spirit. The 5th amendment is very clear, you don't have to assist the prosecution in prosecuting you. The spirit of the law is extremely clear, what the courts and prosecutors are trying to do is wiggle around the spirit with fancy language such as telling her she can enter the password in privacy. If it doesn't violate the constitution it shouldn't matter WHERE she does it.
All Citizen's Unitied did was bring all this shit out of the backroom as it was still going on, just shielded through the byzantine campaign contribution laws. Now Colbert is using this open exception to beat the public with a very aggressive lesson in the danger of unlimited and untraceable money in politics. He's doing far more to win public support to this issue than anyone ever has, he's got the mainstream press talking about how the system can be abused. Citizen's United is what gave him the muscle to do this and make no mistake, those who like the unlimited money see the danger he presents and are already attacking. I've seen over a dozen personal attacks on Colbert in the last week penned by top political party insiders/paid muscle.
They used political muscle to get a testing waiver (personally I don't see anything wrong with allowing them to prove it doesn't work). The testing waiver doesn't give them the go ahead, it gives them permission to conduct testing and IF the testing reveals no interference or a path to eliminate the interference and IF the FCC concurs that this meets the minimum requirements of the law and IF no one else detects problems they might get a full waiver to proceed.
They didn't make it past the first IF and the military has already mobilized along with the very powerful farming interests which pretty much guarantee that regardless of their pull with the Obama administration the FCC cant' approve this. This thing would pretty much invalidate every single GPS produced before 2008 and most of the ones produced and built right up until this moment. That means the FAA suddenly doesn't have reliable navigation, the coast guard, millitary, surveyors, farmers and others can't know with precisions where they are (and most of these are critical aspects of the america economy). If the FCC allowed this forward they would get sued by every single player in the GPS world, that's not even including the fact that the military could just designate the towers as official GPS jamming systems and drop bombs on them.
And they got a steal on the residential parcel and if they can get it rezoned for the skyscraper it's worth 100X what they paid for it. This was nothing more than a gamble to try to get spectrum reallocated to ground prices. They paid almost nothing for spectrum that if it was ground based would be worth almost 6 billion (based on the last auction). The entire reason the spectrum is cheaper is that it costs $2billion minimum to put a satellite in orbit to use it.
Lightsquared is neither innocent nor deserving of sympathy. They were told multiple times the waiver they were given was for testing. It would be foolish of the FCC to not allow them a chance to prove they have developed filtering technology capable of working around the physics. When their testing showed their signal would destroy high precision GPS they had the gall to suggest that the billions of installed GPS receivers have to be replaced that's when they lost all sympathy from me. I have a feeling they've not only known from the begining that this would never work but that they thought they had the political muscle to move it through. Not only that but I don't believe they ever really intended to build a network, but their real intention was to get the spectrum usage switched then sell it 10X what they paid for it.
Add me to that list as well. It was on my wish list. I took it off the wish list after reading the article and I WON'T be purchasing it. Looked good Blue Byte, too bad your publisher screwed you over. You really shouldn't associate with UbiSoft.
I blacklisted Ubisoft fully at this point, it was only a partial black list before in that I avoided the bad DRM games, I'd thought they'd learned their lesson but it appears that Steam just moved the warning and I hadn't noticed. Thanks to this article I know where to look now and what games to avoid. And more importantly, no more UbiSoft ever again. Fortunately the Indie market is finally taking off, for those that aren't aware games like Orc's Must Die are fantastically fun. I look forward to the day UbiSoft and EA both go under.
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Operating cost. Construction costs are 5-10 times higher. The three Zumwalt class ships ordered will cost $3.3Billion and they aren't using nukes OR railguns in the initial models. Though from all indications this is the platform that will host those items when they are finally developed. The original talk was two small navy nukes on board, one to drive the railguns and another to power everything else. Google Zumwalt class.
The beauty of the railgun and why the Navy is so aggressively pursing them is that explosive based weapons are very dangerous at sea under counter attack. The most secure portion of the ship is often the munitions storage area for this reason as a properly placed round can blow the bottom out of the ship by igniting the munitions stored.
The railgun does away with the whole bit, the munitions are rods of metal and the propellant is electricity. Without all the powder storage you can either dramatically reduce the size of ship and crew or dramatically increase the number of rounds deliverable before restocking. Finally the restocking ships aren't going to be carrying combustible munitions. A round 1/4 the size of the largest battleship guns fired from a railgun will do nearly 100 times the damage.
The goal of the Navy DDX program is ships with 1/4 the crew size, 10 times the firepower and a significant reduction in profile (stealth). Imagine being able to field twice the number of ships for half the cost and a single ship has more firepower than 10 current models.
Or the Iran/Contra hearings where "I do not recall" was the top phrase of the hearings.
no law, stupid judge, stupid logic, stupid order thats totally against the spirit of the 5th amendment.
Because those flights are frequently in US airspace due to geographic and jetstream issues.
Nothing happened with the Russian material because the Russian military officers were consummate professionals interested in maintaining the integrity of their nuclear supplies EVEN when they weren't being paid. The US helped a bit by offering support in the form of money, tracking technology and basically secretarial assistance in tracking and verifying the integrity of the supplies but every goes back to the Russians and their professionalism.
The few times a couple ounces of material disappeared it happened from commercial sources not weapons and even then it was quickly intercepted when they tried to sell it. This was all confirmed recently with recent books from people that have retired that were involved in the process, the Russians were always very professional. Hell its the reason we never ended up in a war with them, that same professionalism got Kruchef sacked and Stalin murdered by a Coumadin overdose. We might have some idealogical differences with the Russians on occasion but they've always been sane responsible people with integrity and honor.
Both Pakistan, India and China have missiles that are capable of carrying nuclear weapons that can reach the far corners of the others. If one of them decides to use a nuclear weapon it's going to be attached to a missile not a plane.
Regardless of politics I personally don't believe buying the cheapest weapon system simply because it's the cheapest is the best idea. Quality can be far more important than quantity, particularly these days when missiles are so good that there hasn't been aerial combat between aircraft (ie a dog fight) in several decades. Airframe integrity, stealthiness, weapon carrying capacity and electronics are far more important than the price IMO, particularly when India could end up in a war with China as they have several times in the past.
Most people in America when told of looting react with the phrase "shoot the looters on sight" not knowing where this comes from. In the San Francisco earthquake in the early 1900's (forget the actual year 1908?) when the army responded they issued a decree saying looters would be shot on sight (as looting was occurring). The military then proceeded to do exactly what they said they would do and shot several people, including a man that was "looting" his own store for valuables. This is where that phrase comes from and it's expansive use in America because what happened in SanFran was not only supported by Americans at the time but it was widely seen as the effective tool to stop Looting and has remained in the collective consciousness since including calls for the same thing to be done in New Orleans.
But as those that have already posted, Looting occurs everywhere during disasters. It is likely, as has been speculated, that it's an ingrained behavior that developed as a key part of human instinct (yes we have instincts just like every other animal) during catastrophic events. The only way to stop it form occurring is to bring in a culturally recognized authority (such as police, military) that snaps people back to their senses and halts the instinctive behavior.
Fully integrated email/calendar. The ability to send an appointment while checking others schedules AND scheduling a conference room at the same time. It doesn't help that pretty much every enterprise in the world uses outlook so you can email an outlook appointment outside your organization and have it fully work in not only adding to their calendar at the correct time and provide full details.
A small list of features:
- Email with full calendar support.
- Web-mail with most of the features of the Outlook client.
- Folders and structures including common folders that can be shared between multiple people.
- Integrated Contacts with separate personal contacts and company directories.
- Company directories can store all contact information and in the case of VOIP systems can be linked such that clicking a phone number dials the phone.
- Integrated Instant messaging and RSS feeds that can be secured and restricted to certain people.
- Task handling that will track a task list, even between multiple people and offices.
- Fully shareable calendars and other items allowing people to delegate calendar, email and other tasks to a subordinate.
- Integration of other items such as the ability to schedule conference rooms and such with a calendar appointment.
- Distribution lists, Journals, notes and Internet faxing.
- Push email and calendaring that transfers everything to a PDA/phone automatically with secure handling. Works so well emails often show up on the phone before registering on outlook/exchange.
Many other features, of course MS is one of the best companies at inter-product ties, such that there is integrated handling of all MS products including the ability to directly cut and paste document items directly into emails and have it fully handled and look and behave perfectly. This extends as well to Share-point which is a network enabled file management system that allows collaboration including multiple people in the same document over the Internet along with check-in and checkout library type handling.
It's reached the point that if outlook and exchange are down large companies can't even function. I'm not exaggerating either. I've seen personally an exchange crash idle almost the entire company while it's restored. This list was neither comprehensive nor even all the popular features. Just the ones I'm familiar with in my little tiny slice of life. As it's been stated before, most people only use 10% of the programs, but the features that make up that 10% is different for everyone, meaning everything gets used by someone but on average only a small subset is used per individual/company/business.
To replace MS Office at the enterprise level we have to replace the whole kit and kaboodle. Office, Exhange, Outlook, Sharepoint, etc, precisely because MS has tied them all together so well that they are essentially indispensable to most companies.
Who gave you the impression the R's are for less government? That's not even REMOTELY true. The Republicans are for less of certain kinds of government and absolutely for more of other kinds. The Dems are in the same position, wanting more of some kinds and less of others. The disagreement between the parties is which parts need less and which parts need more.
At least they are being honest about their desire to extract a pound of flesh from Google. That's what this has always been about. They want Google's profits.
MASS, not tensile strength buddy. Try Tungsten, hell even lead and steel have more mass per volume than Titanium, ideally you would use DU for maximum density.
Or you could allow people to retake whatever test. When you fail the Seal training you fail it permanently and have to retake the entire training course because you missed your swim time by 10 seconds. Some of the training programs don't ever let your retake the test. They throw a LOT of people out on essentially technicalities because they have to weed the recruits down to single digits or they would overwhelm their own training programs (yes there are that many people applying).
They could quadruple the number of people in special operations and it wouldn't even be difficult to find the people. But at $10 million in training per individual and the time involved they'd have to take everyone currently in the field out of the field and put them into training the new recruits.
And as typically happens in these cases people completely forget that you have to pay multiple copyright trolls, that means you pay the RIAA studio for the actual recording AND you have to pay the song writer (ASCAP). And as typically happens the RIAA studio and ASCAP happily negotiates and accepts payment for works they aren't entitled to so that you end up getting sued anyway by both the song writer and band and have to pay a second time. And the kicker is that the first payments to the studio and ASCAP aren't refundable even if they weren't authorized to collect royalties for the works in question because they don't give money back even if they didn't collect it legally.
Android is FREE. Phone makers are free to customize it and do whatever they want with it, they just have the replace the Google apps with something else and call it something other than Android (like droid for example). Who needs a dozen different solutions when you have one that anyone can take and customize? Windows Phone isn't needed and IMO will likely never take off.
The salesmen don't sell it because it's got a huge return rate (more than half come back), and Nokia has no one to blame but the Board of Directors, they hired Elop, they endorsed his Windows Phone strategy and they continue to support him. They absolutely knew what they were getting into when they hired a former MS employee. If you're a shareholder of Nokia you should be demanding the board be replaced so Elop can be fired.
Presidents routinely sign treaties that aren't later ratified by Congress, there is nothing special about what Obama did compared to any of the other dozen treaties that Congress never ratified.
What are you talking about? Japan has been in crash and burn mode for 20 years! Those of old enough remember when it was all the rage to talk about how Japan was going to dominate the US, then the reality hit. They had an export driven economy with no internal consumption, as exports fell the entire economy stagnated. Japanese growth has either been negative or barely above 0 for close to 20 years.
Although China is a concern those that study such things have noted they are doing exactly what the Japanese did, building an export based economy that has no internal consumption. Now at least the Chinese recognize the problem and are trying to build internal consumption but it's hard when about 75% of your population lives in economic slavery and a 4% increase in your currency will cut your growth in half. So they keep their currency artificially low which stalls their goal of increasing internal consumption because those 75% living in economic poverty will never be able to get out unless the Yuan value increases.
Now here's the kicker, the Chinese have been building a massive export based economy at the expense of Japan. Because they have little to no internal consumption the Japanese are facing yet another decade of deflation and economic stagnation. Deflation makes the debt more expensive.
The US has problems and MUST get it's debt under control, but we can't do that cutting taxes. Anyone that tells you it's possible is lying to you Bush Sr style.
It doesn't need a fucking amendment. What it NEEDS is the courts to stop trying to interpret only the letter of the law and not the spirit. The 5th amendment is very clear, you don't have to assist the prosecution in prosecuting you. The spirit of the law is extremely clear, what the courts and prosecutors are trying to do is wiggle around the spirit with fancy language such as telling her she can enter the password in privacy. If it doesn't violate the constitution it shouldn't matter WHERE she does it.
All Citizen's Unitied did was bring all this shit out of the backroom as it was still going on, just shielded through the byzantine campaign contribution laws. Now Colbert is using this open exception to beat the public with a very aggressive lesson in the danger of unlimited and untraceable money in politics. He's doing far more to win public support to this issue than anyone ever has, he's got the mainstream press talking about how the system can be abused. Citizen's United is what gave him the muscle to do this and make no mistake, those who like the unlimited money see the danger he presents and are already attacking. I've seen over a dozen personal attacks on Colbert in the last week penned by top political party insiders/paid muscle.
There can't be zombies in the Capital, Zombies eat brains. Duh.
They used political muscle to get a testing waiver (personally I don't see anything wrong with allowing them to prove it doesn't work). The testing waiver doesn't give them the go ahead, it gives them permission to conduct testing and IF the testing reveals no interference or a path to eliminate the interference and IF the FCC concurs that this meets the minimum requirements of the law and IF no one else detects problems they might get a full waiver to proceed.
They didn't make it past the first IF and the military has already mobilized along with the very powerful farming interests which pretty much guarantee that regardless of their pull with the Obama administration the FCC cant' approve this. This thing would pretty much invalidate every single GPS produced before 2008 and most of the ones produced and built right up until this moment. That means the FAA suddenly doesn't have reliable navigation, the coast guard, millitary, surveyors, farmers and others can't know with precisions where they are (and most of these are critical aspects of the america economy). If the FCC allowed this forward they would get sued by every single player in the GPS world, that's not even including the fact that the military could just designate the towers as official GPS jamming systems and drop bombs on them.
And they got a steal on the residential parcel and if they can get it rezoned for the skyscraper it's worth 100X what they paid for it. This was nothing more than a gamble to try to get spectrum reallocated to ground prices. They paid almost nothing for spectrum that if it was ground based would be worth almost 6 billion (based on the last auction). The entire reason the spectrum is cheaper is that it costs $2billion minimum to put a satellite in orbit to use it.
Lightsquared is neither innocent nor deserving of sympathy. They were told multiple times the waiver they were given was for testing. It would be foolish of the FCC to not allow them a chance to prove they have developed filtering technology capable of working around the physics. When their testing showed their signal would destroy high precision GPS they had the gall to suggest that the billions of installed GPS receivers have to be replaced that's when they lost all sympathy from me. I have a feeling they've not only known from the begining that this would never work but that they thought they had the political muscle to move it through. Not only that but I don't believe they ever really intended to build a network, but their real intention was to get the spectrum usage switched then sell it 10X what they paid for it.
They Moved the warning. Right side,game details box, directly under languages:
3rd-party DRM: Solidshield Tages SAS
3 machine activation limit
Add me to that list as well. It was on my wish list. I took it off the wish list after reading the article and I WON'T be purchasing it. Looked good Blue Byte, too bad your publisher screwed you over. You really shouldn't associate with UbiSoft.
I blacklisted Ubisoft fully at this point, it was only a partial black list before in that I avoided the bad DRM games, I'd thought they'd learned their lesson but it appears that Steam just moved the warning and I hadn't noticed. Thanks to this article I know where to look now and what games to avoid. And more importantly, no more UbiSoft ever again. Fortunately the Indie market is finally taking off, for those that aren't aware games like Orc's Must Die are fantastically fun. I look forward to the day UbiSoft and EA both go under.