Two years from now the world's smallest optical disc will let your cellphone store five two-hour movies...
OK, I can see a small disk like this being very useful, but WHY does everything have to relate to the cellphone? "You can do this with your cellphone...you can do that with your cellphone."
How about simple things, like actual coverage?
Watching a movie on a 2.5" screen, no matter what the resolution, is simply silly.
Sure. Some are subs of others, but can standalone as well. There are MANY, MANY office and desktop apps. For instance, the office that hands out the base access stickers you put on your windshield probably uses 10 different app in their daily routine. Now multiply that by 50-100 different offices in the personnel building. There would be a lot of overlap, but it adds up rather quickly.
Now add in actual ship related stuff. 100,000 is not unreasonable.
how much of that 6.9Billion could be elimanated by using Linux on the desktops and servers?
How much of that 'saved' 6.9B would be sucked up in retraining, rewrite,etc? Add at least 2-3 years to the project.
in the past 2 years, all uniformed services stop teaching ADA to their developers coming out of tech school
Having gone through that class in '94, the ADA section was woefully short. 2 weeks, IIRC. Not nearly enough time go really get it. Nice as an intro, though.
They still use DBase I or II at most installations. Only a few use Access 95 for databases.
And if you knew what you were talking about, you might be dangerous. Oracle, Access2k and 97, SQLServer...used on USAF bases all over the world. Oh, there might be a few DBI/II applications floating around. But mostly gone by now. Don't know about the Navy, but I'd expect them to be not far behind.(Although, the Navy just got their first CMM level 3 unit, while the USAF got their first CMM level 3 back in '96 at Langley AFB)
IIRC the terrorists had personal firearms when they were taking over the planes... where did they get them from??.. perhaps it was at the 'target' store down the street.. perhaps it was some other way.. but ultimately those guns came from the easily available market in the U.S... I will secede though that they could have imported the weapons from home.
errr, no. They merely had boxcutters and shortblade knives. All perfectly legal (at that time) on aircraft.
To maximise the possibilty of mission completion, bringing illegal weapons on board was not a good idea. Some may have been found out when boarding, thus compromising their mission. They also played on the prevalent thought processes of the aircrew. Pre-9/11, the way to stay alive during a hijack was to cooperate until you could land. That has changed.
I'd say that in all these situations you will most likely not even have time to reach for your safely secured and locked firearm in your bedside drawer.. if hes got a gun trained on you, he's not going to give you the time to pull yours out.
No, the idea is that he does not know whether or not a weapon is in any given house. Remove firearms from law abiding citizens, and then he can attack any house with impunity, because he will have a firearm, and knows that you do not.
Firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens pose no threat.
Criminals will have firearms, no matter what the law says. Which do you prefer? The possibility of protecting yourself, or simply giving up?
as if its your god given right to have the power in your hand to end someones life in an instant
As you could with a car. So what? In the hands of a responsible adult, a firearm holds no special danger. You hold in your hands (probably far too often) the equipment to be a serial rapist. Are you one? No. Presumably, you are a responsible adult.
but people like you, that have this fundamental belief that theyre essential to existance, are the reason why events like columbine, 9/11 and the latest sniper nut killings happen.... dont you think the gains clearly outweigh the losses?
The current sniper, is by definition, a criminal. If guns and ammo were outlawed, what makes you think that he would not be able to obtain them anyway? Heroin and crack are illegal, but there seems to be no problem obtaining these, either.
The events of 9/11 had nothing to do with personal firearm ownership.
I don't think guns are an essential part of existence. But, they do hold some definite advantages. Banning personal firearm ownership ensures that only people who are ready and willing to use them for criminal uses will have them. And the rest of us would have no recourse to protect ourselves. None.
When the asshole breaks into your house, and says "Give me the money", you give it to him. When he says "Give me your car", you toss him the keys. When he says "Give me your wife", you smile and wave as he carries her out the door, because you cannot stop him.
Would you be willing to put this sign in your front yard ?
"This house is gun free!"
Listen. You cannot put the genie back into the bottle. These things exist. If outlawed, they would exist underground. And be used by criminals. The best thing we can do is grow better humans, who will be less likely to turn into criminals.
Go door to door, asking for every citizen to turn in his firearms? What about those that use them only for target shooting? (And how do you tell?)
What about people that actually feed their familes with a rifle? Go out and kill a few animals, and have meat for a few weeks/months? There aren't many of these, but there are some.
Collectors? "No, you may not keep your collection that was passed down to you by your father." Suuure.
What if someone refuses? (and MANY will). Jail? Already overcrowded. Do you shoot him? THAT'S a fine solution.
And even if you convince ALL of the above to fess up, what about criminals? By definition, They won't conform. So you're left with the only people in posession of firearms are the police, military, and criminals. And these are just about the only people who use them now outside of firing ranges.
So you have actually achieved nothing, except for removal of mostly harmless firearms from lawabiding citizens.
I am no guntoting NRA member. Currently, I do not own a firearm. I have in the past, and probably will in the future.
But there is really no way to do this.
LP's are in there somewhere, along with all the lost formats (DAT, ElCassette, Minidisc, etc)
With each new toy, there was a real form factor change along with a fidelity change.
A 5" round thing that looks like a CD, plays in what looks like a CD player, plays only music, plays music at no real discernable quality gain, yet costs significantly more, and carries the potential of no copying...
That's dead before it leaves the gate.
At least come up with some new player and format. Maybe a solid state chip or something. Not just another "CD".
And in typical legal fashion, that clickthru could be so convoluted in its wording as to be useless.
Just make it long and wordy, and the typical user will never scroll all the way down to the part where it says "...and you grant permission for BigProvider to sell your name and life to anyone with a nickel..."
A piece of plywood, a sheet of plastic (shower curtain), and the absolute cheapest electric leafblower you can find will slide a 200lb person all the way across the gym floor.
In this case the College students were able to deliver better than the IT workers.
"Maybe" better than the IT workers.
Next July, when the college kids are off biking through France, and the database needs some tuneup or added feature...One manager might find himself out looking for a new job.
So, using your figures, we have 10% less range with an alcohol engine. This is VERY significant in aircraft.
OR, we bump up the gas tank size by 10% to achieve the same range. Ergo, we have x% less cargo capacity. Lift capacity (max TOW) for a given airframe is pretty much a hard limit. Again, very significant.
I'm not saying it is necessarily bad. But all factors do have to be accounted for.
While research into an alternative to gasoline is a good thing, let's not lose sight of why gas seems to be so prevalent in power plants.
If alcohol is less energy dense than gas, to perform a certain task (carrying 1000 lbs 500 miles @ 140mph), you need more alcohol. In aircraft, there is a hard limit of how much heavier you can make the cargo (people, fuel, cargo). Take off weight and safety reserve is nonchangeable without a large change in aerodynamics and engine technology.
So, to accomodate more fuel, you carry less cargo. Less cargo per trip = more trips to perform the same task. So, you may well end up being less ecofriendly than the gas.
If using alcohol turns your 4 place into a 3 place, you might not want to do it. Or if it means you can only dust 2 fields/day instead of 3.
i may well be talking out my ass, and alcohol as a fuel blows gasoline away. But don't automatically assume that 1 is better than the other simply because "is't not evil gasoline". Figure in ALL the parameters.
We are two different species. (ok, not really, but close enough) We think differently. Anyone that doesn't realise this has never lived with the opposite sex.
And seeing as how most game developers are male....why should these games appeal to women?
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...and also the T-38 or F-20.
Usually, if you look at any aircraft, the wings are atleast 1/3rd - 2/3rds of the entire size of the craft (size comparison wise).
Ever seen an F-104? Tiny wings. The F-5 is almost as bad.
the F-22 is what we can deploy and have deployed right now.
Not quite. There are only 6(?) airframes so far. No operational squadron. The initial base has been decided, but they're not there just yet.
Two years from now the world's smallest optical disc will let your cellphone store five two-hour movies...
OK, I can see a small disk like this being very useful, but WHY does everything have to relate to the cellphone? "You can do this with your cellphone...you can do that with your cellphone."
How about simple things, like actual coverage?
Watching a movie on a 2.5" screen, no matter what the resolution, is simply silly.
CMM 3 is a bitch. Have fun. I was on the Level 2 and Level 3 team at Langley.
Document everything .
Sure. Some are subs of others, but can standalone as well. There are MANY, MANY office and desktop apps. For instance, the office that hands out the base access stickers you put on your windshield probably uses 10 different app in their daily routine. Now multiply that by 50-100 different offices in the personnel building. There would be a lot of overlap, but it adds up rather quickly.
Now add in actual ship related stuff. 100,000 is not unreasonable.
how much of that 6.9Billion could be elimanated by using Linux on the desktops and servers?
How much of that 'saved' 6.9B would be sucked up in retraining, rewrite,etc? Add at least 2-3 years to the project.
in the past 2 years, all uniformed services stop teaching ADA to their developers coming out of tech school
Having gone through that class in '94, the ADA section was woefully short. 2 weeks, IIRC. Not nearly enough time go really get it. Nice as an intro, though.
They still use DBase I or II at most installations. Only a few use Access 95 for databases.
And if you knew what you were talking about, you might be dangerous. Oracle, Access2k and 97, SQLServer...used on USAF bases all over the world. Oh, there might be a few DBI/II applications floating around. But mostly gone by now. Don't know about the Navy, but I'd expect them to be not far behind.(Although, the Navy just got their first CMM level 3 unit, while the USAF got their first CMM level 3 back in '96 at Langley AFB)
IIRC the terrorists had personal firearms when they were taking over the planes... where did they get them from??.. perhaps it was at the 'target' store down the street.. perhaps it was some other way.. but ultimately those guns came from the easily available market in the U.S... I will secede though that they could have imported the weapons from home.
errr, no. They merely had boxcutters and shortblade knives. All perfectly legal (at that time) on aircraft.
To maximise the possibilty of mission completion, bringing illegal weapons on board was not a good idea. Some may have been found out when boarding, thus compromising their mission. They also played on the prevalent thought processes of the aircrew. Pre-9/11, the way to stay alive during a hijack was to cooperate until you could land. That has changed.
I'd say that in all these situations you will most likely not even have time to reach for your safely secured and locked firearm in your bedside drawer.. if hes got a gun trained on you, he's not going to give you the time to pull yours out.
No, the idea is that he does not know whether or not a weapon is in any given house. Remove firearms from law abiding citizens, and then he can attack any house with impunity, because he will have a firearm, and knows that you do not.
Firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens pose no threat.
Criminals will have firearms, no matter what the law says.
Which do you prefer? The possibility of protecting yourself, or simply giving up?
as if its your god given right to have the power in your hand to end someones life in an instant
As you could with a car. So what? In the hands of a responsible adult, a firearm holds no special danger. You hold in your hands (probably far too often) the equipment to be a serial rapist. Are you one? No. Presumably, you are a responsible adult.
but people like you, that have this fundamental belief that theyre essential to existance, are the reason why events like columbine, 9/11 and the latest sniper nut killings happen.... dont you think the gains clearly outweigh the losses?
The current sniper, is by definition, a criminal. If guns and ammo were outlawed, what makes you think that he would not be able to obtain them anyway? Heroin and crack are illegal, but there seems to be no problem obtaining these, either.
The events of 9/11 had nothing to do with personal firearm ownership.
I don't think guns are an essential part of existence. But, they do hold some definite advantages. Banning personal firearm ownership ensures that only people who are ready and willing to use them for criminal uses will have them. And the rest of us would have no recourse to protect ourselves. None.
When the asshole breaks into your house, and says "Give me the money", you give it to him.
When he says "Give me your car", you toss him the keys.
When he says "Give me your wife", you smile and wave as he carries her out the door, because you cannot stop him.
Would you be willing to put this sign in your front yard ?
"This house is gun free!"
Listen. You cannot put the genie back into the bottle. These things exist. If outlawed, they would exist underground. And be used by criminals. The best thing we can do is grow better humans, who will be less likely to turn into criminals.
OK, smart guy...how would you do it?
How would you get rid of guns?
Go door to door, asking for every citizen to turn in his firearms? What about those that use them only for target shooting? (And how do you tell?)
What about people that actually feed their familes with a rifle? Go out and kill a few animals, and have meat for a few weeks/months? There aren't many of these, but there are some.
Collectors? "No, you may not keep your collection that was passed down to you by your father." Suuure.
What if someone refuses? (and MANY will). Jail? Already overcrowded. Do you shoot him? THAT'S a fine solution.
And even if you convince ALL of the above to fess up, what about criminals? By definition, They won't conform. So you're left with the only people in posession of firearms are the police, military, and criminals. And these are just about the only people who use them now outside of firing ranges.
So you have actually achieved nothing, except for removal of mostly harmless firearms from lawabiding citizens.
I am no guntoting NRA member. Currently, I do not own a firearm. I have in the past, and probably will in the future.
But there is really no way to do this.
Can I order my system with no office suite please?
Sure, if you actually want a Gateway.
...there is an entirely new form factor.
8track->cassette->CD
Super8->VHS->DVD
LP's are in there somewhere, along with all the lost formats (DAT, ElCassette, Minidisc, etc)
With each new toy, there was a real form factor change along with a fidelity change.
A 5" round thing that looks like a CD, plays in what looks like a CD player, plays only music, plays music at no real discernable quality gain, yet costs significantly more, and carries the potential of no copying...
That's dead before it leaves the gate.
At least come up with some new player and format. Maybe a solid state chip or something. Not just another "CD".
And in typical legal fashion, that clickthru could be so convoluted in its wording as to be useless.
Just make it long and wordy, and the typical user will never scroll all the way down to the part where it says "...and you grant permission for BigProvider to sell your name and life to anyone with a nickel..."
Up until 3 years ago, the company I work for was still using a bank of Atari 800's for video display.
I could probably still find the rotting hulks in a closet somewhere.
A piece of plywood, a sheet of plastic (shower curtain), and the absolute cheapest electric leafblower you can find will slide a 200lb person all the way across the gym floor.
In this case the College students were able to deliver better than the IT workers.
"Maybe" better than the IT workers.
Next July, when the college kids are off biking through France, and the database needs some tuneup or added feature...One manager might find himself out looking for a new job.
There is something to be said for onsite staff.
I don't see how AOL are being harmed by this, since you still need to be signed up with them.
Because you aren't seeing all the ads and customized content on the front page.
So, using your figures, we have 10% less range with an alcohol engine. This is VERY significant in aircraft.
OR, we bump up the gas tank size by 10% to achieve the same range. Ergo, we have x% less cargo capacity. Lift capacity (max TOW) for a given airframe is pretty much a hard limit. Again, very significant.
I'm not saying it is necessarily bad. But all factors do have to be accounted for.
While research into an alternative to gasoline is a good thing, let's not lose sight of why gas seems to be so prevalent in power plants.
If alcohol is less energy dense than gas, to perform a certain task (carrying 1000 lbs 500 miles @ 140mph), you need more alcohol. In aircraft, there is a hard limit of how much heavier you can make the cargo (people, fuel, cargo). Take off weight and safety reserve is nonchangeable without a large change in aerodynamics and engine technology.
So, to accomodate more fuel, you carry less cargo. Less cargo per trip = more trips to perform the same task. So, you may well end up being less ecofriendly than the gas.
If using alcohol turns your 4 place into a 3 place, you might not want to do it. Or if it means you can only dust 2 fields/day instead of 3.
i may well be talking out my ass, and alcohol as a fuel blows gasoline away. But don't automatically assume that 1 is better than the other simply because "is't not evil gasoline". Figure in ALL the parameters.
We are two different species. (ok, not really, but close enough) We think differently. Anyone that doesn't realise this has never lived with the opposite sex.
And seeing as how most game developers are male....why should these games appeal to women?
the surprising statistic that a large potion of computer gamers are over 35.
Interesstingly, a large portion of humans are over 35.
only if the scale model naked, drunken rednecks are female.
A coworker: "Hey Mary, let's go out to lunch."
"OK, can we swing by the ATM first?"
Would you give your card and PIN to a co-worker? I wouldn't.
place your hand on the Bible and swear...
New way to transfer a virus?
Not only a bio-bug, but also e-bugs.