Right, it's not about being entirely invisible to radar, it's about reducing your radar cross-section so that you detect the enemy well before they detect you. Thanks to high-speed missiles, your enemy is dead before he can see you.
Of course, to be truly in "stealth mode," the F-22 has to leave it's radar off - even a quick look will make the RWR (Radar Warning Receiver) system on the enemy aircraft start chirping. And finding a target without search radar means you'll have to take a cue from an AWACS or ground-based radar, or possibly an EW system on-board the plane. Sounds like a rather complicated ballet to me.
The Stanley Steamer record is vastly more impressive. Tires, brakes, and suspension in 1906 were primitive, materials were not nearly as reliable
But the steam engine was ancient, tried-and-true technology. This is why the car in-question also held the overall world speed record until it was beaten by a gas engine in 1911.
And who needs suspension when you're running on a salt flat? Hard rubber tires are all you need! And brakes? Again, if you're driving in a straight line, who cares how long it takes you to stop?
Sorry, but only going thirteen (13) miles an hour faster than a record more than a _century_ old is shit. He might have done better by using a replica Stanley engine made from modern materials (to allow heat increase without a boiler explosion) instead.
This is the way it works with lots of records - early pioneers spend a couple decades getting us %80 of the way there, and then we spend the next hundred years raising the bar just %20. They had the additional advantage of using an engine tech that was already old-hat, which explains the very small improvement today.
If you dump it in the slab, it's a maintenance problem. If you bury it in your back yard, well then it's just another heat pump.
Put it under dirt, the big companies insist on it because it simplifies installation, and provides for easy expansion (or potential removal). If it's in the slab, it's yours forever, and if it breaks/proves inadequate, you're out of luck.
And that's why a lot of new albums are sold in printed cardboard cases. The cardboard provides a skeleton that is more durable than a jewel case, and I think theyn add a little plastic to the mix to make it impressively flexible. The industry is starting to like these for other reasons too: for one, printed cardboard is less expensive than clear (i.e. "virgin") plastic.
There are lots of variations on the design too - you can have pure reinforced cardboard sleeves, or you can combine a cardboard shell glued to a plastic disc holder. These cardboard shells also make it much easier to fit multiple discs in the standard jewel case footprint, which makes the logistics of shipping a double-album (or a bonus DVD) much simpler.
That's a very broad and thoughtless claim. Tell me, what would you do to fix it if the board suddenly stopped working? I suppose you could test all of t he thousands of surface mount parts on that board, but you'd need the right equipment, the right documentation for every part in the system, and endless patience.
You consider yourself some kind of tech genius, but you're not - the problem you've described is widely known and documented, and easy to diagnose, and has a known solution. It's one thing to fix a known problem, but it's another thing entirely to deal with the unknown - the overwhelming burden of fixing the unknown issues is why most problem electronics are simply thrown away.
Not at all - the result of the aggressive rule changes means that all new articles are exposed to undeserving scrutiny. Editors continuously monitor the list of new articles barrel looking for fish to shoot. And meanwhile, thousands of crappy old articles are orphaned; they're never deleted or updated because the kids are having too much fun tormenting anything recent.
Most of them range from young kids to middle-age, with hardly any of them old. They're just trying to make a name for themselves in "teh intarwebs." You need only check-out a few of their pages - mostarepedestalsfromwhichtogloatabouttheirWikipediapenis, and yet these are the people IN CHARGE.
It's this kind of arrogant attitude that's kept me away from Wikipedia the last few years - anything I add ends-up rejected because some stupid kid has a hard-on for his power position. You want to know why Wikipedia is not growing? It's because the new pack of cyber nerds is defending it's territory.
This is not true at all. A lot of "rich" people (since you seem to think there are only rich and poor people, I'll rope-in the entire middle-class under "rich" too) live beyond their means, and that's credit that never gets paid-off. This group also includes people who don't understand how to manage money, and they'll keep credit lines maxed even if they have money to pay them off.
A good example: my mother's 3rd husband worked for the Census bureau for decades, and he died recently. He was making six figures, throwing cash into his retirement accounts, but he apparently didn't know how to manage his money - turns out, he had about $50k in unpaid credit card debt he was just letting rot, just paying interest. He never told my mother about any of it; he was just keeping up appearances, and pretended the debt wasn't there.
Middle-class/rich are a bank's best clients because they have assets. That means that if they die or default, there's a chance the loan will be repaid (as happened in the above case). If poor people default, the bank gets a big slice of absolutely nothing, so there's a lot more risk. This is why banks refuse to lend to poor people, or will require security for the loan/line of credit.
Trust me, more money in the hands of foolish people just means they're qualified for larger loans, and trust them to take advantage of such bountiful free money!
And so very true, AMD hasn't funded a completely new processor architecture in years. They really should think about doing so if they want to stay relevant, because low-voltage chips are a low-volume solution that doesn't make them any money (only select dies can handle the low voltage, and the larger die area compared to Atom means a lot less profit).
You should try working for a major defense contractor as an engineer. Part of the current government bidding rules prevent companies from requiring unpaid overtime from workers - this means that a company that stomps on it's workers and makes them work 60-hour weeks without extra pay can't easily outbid a company that respects it's workers and pays for OT.
The result is that most government contractors today (the ones that follow the law anyway) only require 40-hour work weeks, and OT is paid (regular rate). As a result of this, managers are forced to actually plan appropriately for labor needs (because OT has to be approved by the customer), so most phases of the project are spent with blissful 40-hour work weeks. You still get hit with some 50-60 hour weeks during crunch time, but 1. that's pretty tame compared to most places, and 2. you still get paid for the crunch.
well, if you take account Nintendo 64 had almost twice the ram of playstation console, and probably the devs would want to use it, that would mean in a lot of cases that N64 would have two times more loadtime than the playstation console, unless they used a more expensive 4x drive.
"more expensive" 4x drive is relative. Through the 1990s, CD-ROM read performance improved from 1x to about 40x without significantly increasing the price of the drive. And as faster drives were released, slower drives could be cost-reduced.
When the Playstation was conceived, the mid-range optical drive speed was 2x, with a top-end at 4x. But in 1996, the field had changed: the top-end was 16x, and the mid-range was split between 4x and 8x.
It's a done deal that Nintendo could have used a 4x drive as a minimum for the N64. But they could have also considerd an 8x drive, to completely blow their competition out of the water. This isn't at all far-fetched: the Dreamcast, released only 2 years later, used a 12x CD-ROM drive (at the time, 32x drives were top-end).
But that's GMA 500, Intel's Atom mobile video chipset that has real video acceleration. See here for a video test of the chipset: Quicktime 720p plays smooth (better than on a system with twice the processing power and GMA 950 graphics), but once you move to web video it craps-out.
The reason you don't see it on many netbooks is the high cost of the chipset, and the poor 3D performance (even worse than GMA 950).
The GP's netbook has GMA 950. It cannot play 720p video from anything except MPEG2 (acceleration is supported) or perhaps something less-agressive than h.264 with a low bitrate. Nothing modern or high-quality will play.
Well yeah, most people in this thread have already called foul on that one. There's probably something wrong with their testing methodology. But that doesn't make the I7 paste a bad idea - it performs and costs about the same as Artic Silver 5, and is not electrically conductive. I will certainly buy it for my next install.
They just keep coming back, each time with more ads and less content. Just take a look at the Sun Plus that gets delivered to my doorstep every week (without my consent), or the Pennysaver that comes in my mailbox (along with tons of inserts). Inserts, ads and listings will always find a way to reach you, even if the big newspapers die!
And if you want grocery coupons, sign-up on your favorite store's website, and they'll send you their entire Sunday insert via email. Really, who needs paper anymore?
Look at another of Murdoch's properties... the Wall Street Journal. Access to many articles online is available for paid subscribers only (full disclosure: I subscribe to the WSJ). Looking at profit and circulation for national papers, the WSJ has been one of only two newspapers whose circulation is actually increasing, while others are dropping every year, some as much as double digits per year. The Journal has made money every year except one during this decade, again, while other powerhouses like the NY Times have had to resort to things like leasing part of their new building to stay afloat. Murdoch views the websites as part of the paper business model, not separate from them, and he's the one that's been making money. All of his media properties make money, especially Fox. I'd say he's doing something right. In fact, I think much of the industry will follow his model. You'll have less traffic for the paid sites, but more profitability. If people think the content is worth it, they'll pay for it.
Everyone points to the Journal, and yeah, it makes money - anything THAT targeted to the business market can make money via subscriptions. But you can't assume that just because people will pay good money for Murdoch's business newspapers, they'll pay for the other two-dozen "AP-repeater" newspapers owned by News Corp.
On the internet, wire news is EVERYWHERE. You can't hope to get users to pay for it, because all it takes is one free outlet to send your user base elsewhere. And on the internet, LOCAL news has little value because it's targeted at a very small crumb of total web traffic (that, and people have so many different sources for getting local news).
Further, making a news website that large "for-pay only" is completely untested, despite what Murdoch claims: even WSJ is a hybrid website, with some content free. This allows news aggregators to pick-up some of these top stories and lure-in potential subscribers to WSJ (free advertising). But if you make the entire site for-pay, the articles are less likely to get picked up by major news aggregators, and on the internet that means a slow and painful death.
Is WSJ going to stay a hybrid website, or will it go completely for-pay access?
I'll back this. The seek noises on the Wii are loud-as-hell compared to the Gamecube's optical drive. This noise is present even when using old Gamecube discs.
In terms of purse fan noise, the Wii and Gamecube are similar, but the Wii seeks can be heard clear across the room! Sure, it's quiet compared to other consoles, but it's a step back for Nintendo.
Agreed, in heavy traffic, I try not to propagate "the wave." This means I leave plenty of distance between myself and the car in front of me, and I respond slowly to any acceleration (let the gap grow) or deceleration (let the gap shrink).
Traffic waves start by just one rubbernecker/accident or just one guy making a sudden lane change, but they can propagate back and forth for hours until traffic clears. That is, unless people drive like me and make a conscious effort to break-up the wave.
40nm is currently the smallest process available. It is a half-step between 45nm and 32nm, and TSMC (the world's largest independent foundry) is currently ramping-up production at this node. Global Foundries was previously using 45nm SOI to supply AMD, but in-order to attract customers, they've added the 40nm half-step using bulk silicon (to match TSMC).
SOI is a no-go for most small companies making chips because the SOI wafers are more expensive to make, AND you have to redesign the chip for SOI (and since nobody else except IBM uses SOI, this means you can't easily take your chip to another company if Global Foundries fucks things up). The 40nm bulk silicon process means they can get get customers in this down economy, customers who don't want to feel locked-in..
For Flash (and other simple chips):
32nm is currently the cutting-edge, and as far as I know Intel is the only one with 32nm Flash chips on the market. SanDisk will have 32nm Flash by the end of the year.
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Right, it's not about being entirely invisible to radar, it's about reducing your radar cross-section so that you detect the enemy well before they detect you. Thanks to high-speed missiles, your enemy is dead before he can see you.
Of course, to be truly in "stealth mode," the F-22 has to leave it's radar off - even a quick look will make the RWR (Radar Warning Receiver) system on the enemy aircraft start chirping. And finding a target without search radar means you'll have to take a cue from an AWACS or ground-based radar, or possibly an EW system on-board the plane. Sounds like a rather complicated ballet to me.
The Stanley Steamer record is vastly more impressive. Tires, brakes, and suspension in 1906 were primitive, materials were not nearly as reliable
But the steam engine was ancient, tried-and-true technology. This is why the car in-question also held the overall world speed record until it was beaten by a gas engine in 1911.
And who needs suspension when you're running on a salt flat? Hard rubber tires are all you need! And brakes? Again, if you're driving in a straight line, who cares how long it takes you to stop?
Sorry, but only going thirteen (13) miles an hour faster than a record more than a _century_ old is shit. He might have done better by using a replica Stanley engine made from modern materials (to allow heat increase without a boiler explosion) instead.
This is the way it works with lots of records - early pioneers spend a couple decades getting us %80 of the way there, and then we spend the next hundred years raising the bar just %20. They had the additional advantage of using an engine tech that was already old-hat, which explains the very small improvement today.
If you dump it in the slab, it's a maintenance problem. If you bury it in your back yard, well then it's just another heat pump.
Put it under dirt, the big companies insist on it because it simplifies installation, and provides for easy expansion (or potential removal). If it's in the slab, it's yours forever, and if it breaks/proves inadequate, you're out of luck.
And that's why a lot of new albums are sold in printed cardboard cases. The cardboard provides a skeleton that is more durable than a jewel case, and I think theyn add a little plastic to the mix to make it impressively flexible. The industry is starting to like these for other reasons too: for one, printed cardboard is less expensive than clear (i.e. "virgin") plastic.
There are lots of variations on the design too - you can have pure reinforced cardboard sleeves, or you can combine a cardboard shell glued to a plastic disc holder. These cardboard shells also make it much easier to fit multiple discs in the standard jewel case footprint, which makes the logistics of shipping a double-album (or a bonus DVD) much simpler.
That's a very broad and thoughtless claim. Tell me, what would you do to fix it if the board suddenly stopped working? I suppose you could test all of t he thousands of surface mount parts on that board, but you'd need the right equipment, the right documentation for every part in the system, and endless patience.
You consider yourself some kind of tech genius, but you're not - the problem you've described is widely known and documented, and easy to diagnose, and has a known solution. It's one thing to fix a known problem, but it's another thing entirely to deal with the unknown - the overwhelming burden of fixing the unknown issues is why most problem electronics are simply thrown away.
I'm reminded of a scene from Critters where a shape-shifting bounty hunter changes form to match a centerfold photo.
It's a perfect reproduction, including a giant staple in her navel. Sounds to me like they already had this wonderful technology - look maw, no folds!
Not at all - the result of the aggressive rule changes means that all new articles are exposed to undeserving scrutiny. Editors continuously monitor the list of new articles barrel looking for fish to shoot. And meanwhile, thousands of crappy old articles are orphaned; they're never deleted or updated because the kids are having too much fun tormenting anything recent.
Most of them range from young kids to middle-age, with hardly any of them old. They're just trying to make a name for themselves in "teh intarwebs." You need only check-out a few of their pages - most are pedestals from which to gloat about their Wikipedia penis, and yet these are the people IN CHARGE.
It's this kind of arrogant attitude that's kept me away from Wikipedia the last few years - anything I add ends-up rejected because some stupid kid has a hard-on for his power position. You want to know why Wikipedia is not growing? It's because the new pack of cyber nerds is defending it's territory.
Here's the full list.
This is not true at all. A lot of "rich" people (since you seem to think there are only rich and poor people, I'll rope-in the entire middle-class under "rich" too) live beyond their means, and that's credit that never gets paid-off. This group also includes people who don't understand how to manage money, and they'll keep credit lines maxed even if they have money to pay them off.
A good example: my mother's 3rd husband worked for the Census bureau for decades, and he died recently. He was making six figures, throwing cash into his retirement accounts, but he apparently didn't know how to manage his money - turns out, he had about $50k in unpaid credit card debt he was just letting rot, just paying interest. He never told my mother about any of it; he was just keeping up appearances, and pretended the debt wasn't there.
Middle-class/rich are a bank's best clients because they have assets. That means that if they die or default, there's a chance the loan will be repaid (as happened in the above case). If poor people default, the bank gets a big slice of absolutely nothing, so there's a lot more risk. This is why banks refuse to lend to poor people, or will require security for the loan/line of credit.
Trust me, more money in the hands of foolish people just means they're qualified for larger loans, and trust them to take advantage of such bountiful free money!
When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Nobody realizes just how clever you are...except for me, that is. A fine pun, good sir!
And so very true, AMD hasn't funded a completely new processor architecture in years. They really should think about doing so if they want to stay relevant, because low-voltage chips are a low-volume solution that doesn't make them any money (only select dies can handle the low voltage, and the larger die area compared to Atom means a lot less profit).
You should try working for a major defense contractor as an engineer. Part of the current government bidding rules prevent companies from requiring unpaid overtime from workers - this means that a company that stomps on it's workers and makes them work 60-hour weeks without extra pay can't easily outbid a company that respects it's workers and pays for OT.
The result is that most government contractors today (the ones that follow the law anyway) only require 40-hour work weeks, and OT is paid (regular rate). As a result of this, managers are forced to actually plan appropriately for labor needs (because OT has to be approved by the customer), so most phases of the project are spent with blissful 40-hour work weeks. You still get hit with some 50-60 hour weeks during crunch time, but 1. that's pretty tame compared to most places, and 2. you still get paid for the crunch.
well, if you take account Nintendo 64 had almost twice the ram of playstation console, and probably the devs would want to use it, that would mean in a lot of cases that N64 would have two times more loadtime than the playstation console, unless they used a more expensive 4x drive.
"more expensive" 4x drive is relative. Through the 1990s, CD-ROM read performance improved from 1x to about 40x without significantly increasing the price of the drive. And as faster drives were released, slower drives could be cost-reduced.
When the Playstation was conceived, the mid-range optical drive speed was 2x, with a top-end at 4x. But in 1996, the field had changed: the top-end was 16x, and the mid-range was split between 4x and 8x.
It's a done deal that Nintendo could have used a 4x drive as a minimum for the N64. But they could have also considerd an 8x drive, to completely blow their competition out of the water. This isn't at all far-fetched: the Dreamcast, released only 2 years later, used a 12x CD-ROM drive (at the time, 32x drives were top-end).
But that's GMA 500, Intel's Atom mobile video chipset that has real video acceleration. See here for a video test of the chipset: Quicktime 720p plays smooth (better than on a system with twice the processing power and GMA 950 graphics), but once you move to web video it craps-out.
The reason you don't see it on many netbooks is the high cost of the chipset, and the poor 3D performance (even worse than GMA 950).
The GP's netbook has GMA 950. It cannot play 720p video from anything except MPEG2 (acceleration is supported) or perhaps something less-agressive than h.264 with a low bitrate. Nothing modern or high-quality will play.
I've never seen a stores sale insert contain manufacturer's coupons before...??
No, for that you go here. I figured you'd be a big enough boy to have found Coupons.com yourself.
Just about anything you get in the Sunday paper can be found on the web itself for free.
News? Check.
Comics? Check.
Inserts and coupons - we already covered that.
Hell, you can even read PARADE Magazine online, free. That's how little the Sunday Paper Experience® really costs you in the online world.
Of course, there's always the classic feel of reading off a piece of paper, but lately even that doesn't earn me spending $1.50.
Reminds me of Nintendo's lock-down policies during the NES era.
Well yeah, most people in this thread have already called foul on that one. There's probably something wrong with their testing methodology. But that doesn't make the I7 paste a bad idea - it performs and costs about the same as Artic Silver 5, and is not electrically conductive. I will certainly buy it for my next install.
I'll be sad to see the newspapers go away.
You can't make newspapers go away.
They just keep coming back, each time with more ads and less content. Just take a look at the Sun Plus that gets delivered to my doorstep every week (without my consent), or the Pennysaver that comes in my mailbox (along with tons of inserts). Inserts, ads and listings will always find a way to reach you, even if the big newspapers die!
And if you want grocery coupons, sign-up on your favorite store's website, and they'll send you their entire Sunday insert via email. Really, who needs paper anymore?
Look at another of Murdoch's properties... the Wall Street Journal. Access to many articles online is available for paid subscribers only (full disclosure: I subscribe to the WSJ). Looking at profit and circulation for national papers, the WSJ has been one of only two newspapers whose circulation is actually increasing, while others are dropping every year, some as much as double digits per year. The Journal has made money every year except one during this decade, again, while other powerhouses like the NY Times have had to resort to things like leasing part of their new building to stay afloat. Murdoch views the websites as part of the paper business model, not separate from them, and he's the one that's been making money. All of his media properties make money, especially Fox. I'd say he's doing something right. In fact, I think much of the industry will follow his model. You'll have less traffic for the paid sites, but more profitability. If people think the content is worth it, they'll pay for it.
Everyone points to the Journal, and yeah, it makes money - anything THAT targeted to the business market can make money via subscriptions. But you can't assume that just because people will pay good money for Murdoch's business newspapers, they'll pay for the other two-dozen "AP-repeater" newspapers owned by News Corp.
On the internet, wire news is EVERYWHERE. You can't hope to get users to pay for it, because all it takes is one free outlet to send your user base elsewhere. And on the internet, LOCAL news has little value because it's targeted at a very small crumb of total web traffic (that, and people have so many different sources for getting local news).
Further, making a news website that large "for-pay only" is completely untested, despite what Murdoch claims: even WSJ is a hybrid website, with some content free. This allows news aggregators to pick-up some of these top stories and lure-in potential subscribers to WSJ (free advertising). But if you make the entire site for-pay, the articles are less likely to get picked up by major news aggregators, and on the internet that means a slow and painful death.
Is WSJ going to stay a hybrid website, or will it go completely for-pay access?
Or, it could just cost $7.99. I guarantee 1.5 ounces will last you at least a dozen installs, if not more.
Mr Balmer, is that you?
Just one question for ya ... If I bing something, won't I end up squirting flying chairs or something?
Not if you use protection!
A Zune Condom is always the right call!
Hey, as long as the LEAF comes with Free Coffee, I'm sold! I mean, after you plop-down your cash for this sucker, you'll be broke and need it more...
I'll back this. The seek noises on the Wii are loud-as-hell compared to the Gamecube's optical drive. This noise is present even when using old Gamecube discs.
In terms of purse fan noise, the Wii and Gamecube are similar, but the Wii seeks can be heard clear across the room! Sure, it's quiet compared to other consoles, but it's a step back for Nintendo.
Agreed, in heavy traffic, I try not to propagate "the wave." This means I leave plenty of distance between myself and the car in front of me, and I respond slowly to any acceleration (let the gap grow) or deceleration (let the gap shrink).
Traffic waves start by just one rubbernecker/accident or just one guy making a sudden lane change, but they can propagate back and forth for hours until traffic clears. That is, unless people drive like me and make a conscious effort to break-up the wave.
For complex processors:
40nm is currently the smallest process available. It is a half-step between 45nm and 32nm, and TSMC (the world's largest independent foundry) is currently ramping-up production at this node. Global Foundries was previously using 45nm SOI to supply AMD, but in-order to attract customers, they've added the 40nm half-step using bulk silicon (to match TSMC).
SOI is a no-go for most small companies making chips because the SOI wafers are more expensive to make, AND you have to redesign the chip for SOI (and since nobody else except IBM uses SOI, this means you can't easily take your chip to another company if Global Foundries fucks things up). The 40nm bulk silicon process means they can get get customers in this down economy, customers who don't want to feel locked-in..
For Flash (and other simple chips):
32nm is currently the cutting-edge, and as far as I know Intel is the only one with 32nm Flash chips on the market. SanDisk will have 32nm Flash by the end of the year.
Yeah, technology today is so great, you can play Zork over text messaging...