The trouble with this idea is when the friends of faction B send in their drones and obliterate faction A. Of course, the friends of faction A would respond by obliterating faction B completely, since it's relatively cheap to do so and it would prevent faction B to claim victory.
This has a huge potential of becoming very, very ugly.
"One of the first retrofits to the F4 involved cannons"
Cannons seem to be the only practical way to engage a stealth fighter (or drone). Fighters also cannot pull pilot-killing high-G maneuvers, but drones can, and could pose difficult challenge to missiles and pilots alike. However, as pointed out earlier, with GPS and communications jammed, they would have to rely on terrain imaging (if low enough), inertial navigation and their own brains to fight-off the wetware-powered craft.
In those conditions, I can't imagine drones being that hard to kill.
Of course, the real reason for fighter planes is that nobody gets a medal for sending in an autonomous robot to do the dirty work.
Yes, but only if they know where they are. With GPS jamming, they would have to rely on inertial navigation and image recognition to pinpoint their positions. That would render them just very expensive smart bombs and probably easy to kill targets.
Perhaps that's because Debian is known for being very stable and, sometimes, quite boring. That's why I went with testing - stable was too stable for me.
A Windows-like desktop with no Windows software is no better than a BSD/Linux/Solaris desktop with a Windows-like shell. If coolness could be a factor, we could go with a Windows-like shell for Plan 9 as well.
People really don't care about Windows. They care about Office, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, Quicken and the games they already have. We cannot duplicate that without x86 compatibility.
Even if you can't predict earthquakes with enough precision to move populations out of risk areas, you still can raise emergency preparation. A lot of damage can be prevented if you can cut power and gas lines quickly enough and have emergency personnel from nearby locations on heightened alert and hospitals fully supplied for disasters. Many of those supplies have lng shelf lives and can be taken from emergency to emergency.
There is no way to make a netbook that can't run XP well with current parts. Nobody makes processors that slow these days.
There is, however, a completely Windows-proof option: ARM-based netbooks will start selling this year at price-points, weights and power-envelopes below those reachable by Atom-based netbooks.
I don't care for people who run Windows. I will be perfectly happy as long as Firefox, Evolution, OpenOffice, Emacs and Django run well.
I remember hearing someone musing around this. I can do most of that with Cygwin. It makes Windows a barely usable system, as opposed to the toy it is out of the box.
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The Predator C++ will be more popular, but the Objective-Predator C will be far easier to understand and will be praised by those familiar with it.
"Are there any readers here who work on weapons systems like this?"
Yes. And those who do will not talk about it.
The trouble with this idea is when the friends of faction B send in their drones and obliterate faction A. Of course, the friends of faction A would respond by obliterating faction B completely, since it's relatively cheap to do so and it would prevent faction B to claim victory.
This has a huge potential of becoming very, very ugly.
"Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building."
Your tagline seems oddly on-topic...
"One of the first retrofits to the F4 involved cannons"
Cannons seem to be the only practical way to engage a stealth fighter (or drone). Fighters also cannot pull pilot-killing high-G maneuvers, but drones can, and could pose difficult challenge to missiles and pilots alike. However, as pointed out earlier, with GPS and communications jammed, they would have to rely on terrain imaging (if low enough), inertial navigation and their own brains to fight-off the wetware-powered craft.
In those conditions, I can't imagine drones being that hard to kill.
Of course, the real reason for fighter planes is that nobody gets a medal for sending in an autonomous robot to do the dirty work.
"autonomous craft will take care of that problem"
Yes, but only if they know where they are. With GPS jamming, they would have to rely on inertial navigation and image recognition to pinpoint their positions. That would render them just very expensive smart bombs and probably easy to kill targets.
Xenix, I would guess
Emacs is a very nice operating system, but it lacks a decent text editor.
Sorry. Couldn't resist...
Of course he is. His bonuses depend on people believing him.
I wonder if he could say it with a straight face. ;-)
Let's invite BAE's XTS-400 to this friendly conversation too.
Perhaps that's because Debian is known for being very stable and, sometimes, quite boring. That's why I went with testing - stable was too stable for me.
Any Debian user, for instance.
I spent a couple years using the Debian testing version and had little to no problem when the system decided it should update itself.
Oh please no.
If these are the top 5, I want no non-Linuxer to ever see all of them. #1 and #2, perhaps #3. We are in serious risk of a Songsmith situation.
Oh boy... 1 and 2 are great (2 is somewhat weird). 3 is so-so. 4 and 5 are embarrassingly bad.
If these are the best 5, we need a good agency. Desperately.
A Windows-like desktop with no Windows software is no better than a BSD/Linux/Solaris desktop with a Windows-like shell. If coolness could be a factor, we could go with a Windows-like shell for Plan 9 as well.
People really don't care about Windows. They care about Office, AutoCAD, PhotoShop, Quicken and the games they already have. We cannot duplicate that without x86 compatibility.
Sorry. I was under the impression grub was late getting ext4 support.
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-ext4/2008/10/18/3716214/thread
Even if you can't predict earthquakes with enough precision to move populations out of risk areas, you still can raise emergency preparation. A lot of damage can be prevented if you can cut power and gas lines quickly enough and have emergency personnel from nearby locations on heightened alert and hospitals fully supplied for disasters. Many of those supplies have lng shelf lives and can be taken from emergency to emergency.
The damn thing came with a hard disk twice as large as my last notebook. It takes a while to fill it up.
And a didn't leave space for a /boot partition anyway. April is the time I will need one, if Grub still doesn't know how to deal with ext4.
"I wonder if they count my shiny new Acer Aspire One"
And, BTW, it's not personal. Their bonuses depend on it.
There is no way to make a netbook that can't run XP well with current parts. Nobody makes processors that slow these days.
There is, however, a completely Windows-proof option: ARM-based netbooks will start selling this year at price-points, weights and power-envelopes below those reachable by Atom-based netbooks.
I don't care for people who run Windows. I will be perfectly happy as long as Firefox, Evolution, OpenOffice, Emacs and Django run well.
Of course they are. Mine too.
BTW, the Windows restore partition will be gone by April, when I install Ubuntu 9.04. I have better use for those 5 GB.
Actually, it's an acronym. ;-)
I remember hearing someone musing around this. I can do most of that with Cygwin. It makes Windows a barely usable system, as opposed to the toy it is out of the box.
BTW, What microkernel is running the latest version of HURD?
Count that as three. Debian also runs on the Hurd microkernel.