You don't know much about flying aircraft then. Even if they wanted to get new parts, the companies that created them most likely no longer exist. Big time political donors usually don't get "big" parts contracts since they are anything but, big. Most components on the shuttles and military aircraft are repairable, so they get recycled rather than pitched.
Its the same as the iPod. They didn't come up with anything new they just made it pretty and came up with a good marketing strategy and made it just easy enough for most people to figure out.
It really boils down to the fact that most people are sheep.
I'm in the military, these kind of people are found all over the place. They are annoying and usually get quaint nicknames such as "Toocrib Nazi", "TO Nazi", "QA Nazi", "CAMS Nazi", and my personal favorite "Little Hitler".
Their favorite hobbie is to look up obscure rules and regulations that go counter with the reality, and make a big stink till they are enforced.
For the most part they are just annoying rather than being part of a greater conspiracy. They are just busy bodies that weren't beat enough as a child for being bosy or a taddletail.
Out here in the Mojave Desert all the toy haulers I see coming up from LA are the "Extreme Edition" as much as a camper trailer can be.
Of course you are correct as all the bikes and quads in the back are all of the X-treme variety.
My other favorites are "Race Team" stickers on shit boxes that have been lowered and a fat exhaust pipe put on. Everyone knows stickers make them go faster. Yeah that's so XTREME!
I think marketers make politicians and lawyers look good. At least those two groups aren't in your face every moment of the day and night with the next "EXTREME" product.
They don't. I have no problem with the concept that the universe was created by God, as I suspect neither do a great many other people these days, and instead of making everything with the 7day shake and bake method, took the much longer road and created the universe through complicated and elegant methods. Methods which require science, intelligence, and knowledge to explain and understand.
We just get annoyed with the loony religious types that feel threatened by anything might possibly "destroy" faith, in other words anything they don't understand or like.
Intentional ignorance is a much greater sin than any of the others in my book. A sin that most of the supporters of Inteligent Design are up to their necks in.
I told you Mrs Delarco, and so did the judge, quit stalking me. 7th grade english class was over 13 years ago. I don't have to use proper Enlish or spelling anymore if I don't want to.
You are pretty close in your prediction, at least to my prediction. I think HD is the death-nell for the multi-plex much in the same way the multi-plex was the death-nell for the drive in theater.
I disagree with you as HD being a dead end. There is plenty of growth left past HD content, because frankly HD content is still crap when you compare it to computer monitor resolutions and to digital still photography.
As long as people keep buying ever bigger monitors there will always be room for higher resolutions. Think HD looks great on a 46", well I'm sure it'll look like crap on a 100" unless you are sitting back 15 feet" Yes I'm well aware you should be sitting back 15" but that's a point lost on most technophiles.
HD
1900x1080 at 24hz -- 2mp
My ancient (it's over 1 year old) Canon Rebel
3072x2048 -- 6.3mp
My new Nvidia 7800GT video card
2048x1536 60-85hz -- 3.1mp
The real stopping point for all technology is the human limitation. Until the day comes where we can no longer distinguish between watching a video and looking out a window, there will always be someone trying to improve the picture quality.
Their 24" inch display is made by Samsung, not Apple. I've been looking into those for a bit, they are down below $900 if you look hard enough. Course who makes Apple's display, heck if I know.
Otherwise, weapons need to get lighter, soldiers need to get stealthier, and overall we need to infiltrate the opposition and get deadlier.....Big and armored is out. Small, fast, quiet and lethal is in.
So as far as being "fast and quiet" please explain how a check point or guard post is supposed to do that?
"Hey dude how do we get on base?"
"Fuck if I know the gate looks like bunch of bushes and keeps moving around."
No need to be a prick and how about taking a bit of your own advice and look around for the latest video.
The current favored tactic for patrols is to have as many 50cal vehicle mounted guns along as possible. The ultimate squad mate has been the M1 Abrams that they've been sending out with small 12 man patrols when they are dealing with an area known for ambushes. They find the "stealthy" 120mm gun, heavy armor, and the thermal vision very effective at flushing the bastards out of their hiding spots at ranges of less than 100ft.
Ever lighter weapons not heavy weapons were a Cold War mentality since we were expecting a war with a power that cared about the wounded. It turns out the lighter weapons being fielded are proving to be ineffective against an enemy that does not care about casualties and for their own wounded and are increasing being found to be hopped up on drugs. The troops are going back to their roots and asking for their "big guns" back, to put the enemy down fast and permanently. They are currently using up 50cal rounds so fast they've had to crack into large stocks of WWII vintage rounds that were scheduled for destruction. After batch testing and rebelting the rounds they are being sent to the troops.
The exoskeletons already have a quite a few real world uses and would only need a little more developement to make it deployable.
Mobile trama unit
Mobile maintenance unit
Heavy gear mover for a squad
Mobile heavy gun/mortar/rifle
Weapons carrier/loader
EOD
VIP movement
Field journalist movement
Fire fighting
Besides don't be such fucktard and go read a little history. Every piece of military hardware has had a prototype stage they've had to go through before it became useful.
You don't need to hide while wearing it. Get rid of the backpack and replace all the weight with armor and weapons and add in a hybrid power source so the soldier can plug into an electrical source such as a building or vehicle and save the fuel for when they have to unplug and move and now you have found the proper job for this thing.
A fixed position guard, such as a control point.
Lots of firepower, heavily armored, isn't fixed to one position and smaller so as to be less vulnerable to RPG's, and intimidating as hell.
You just found your perfect gate guard.
Give it another twenty years of developement and then maybe you'll see something more usefull to the front line soldiers, but until then I don't see it as more than it's current role which is simply a developement tool or tech demonstrator.
Exoskeletons currently only have one reasonable use based on the level of developement.
Guard
Guards are high profile targets that tend to stay in one locationt. Make this thing a hybrid and give them a power cable that can disconnect easily and you give them the ability to carry a ridiculous amount of armor. Current body armor weighs in under 30 lbs. Now imagine being able to be able to wear 200lbs. Along with that instead of carrying a light carbine the standard weapon could be a much heavier rifle or squad gun.
Currently the only method of having a "big dog on a chain" at a defensive position is to have a mounted gun position or a light armored vehicle mounted gun. Neither of which are manuverable nor unable to deal with close quarters opponents at odd angles of fire and both make nice big fat targets for RPG's.
This armored exoskeleton would have most of the advantages and fewer of the disadvantages and provide the intimidation and defensive capabilities the Army is looking for. It'll be some time were you'll see long range patrols using this equipment until some large advancements can be made to the max weight and the density of the power source.
You are absolutely correct. I just call them all seals. The only seals I've out here are the Spotted Harbor Seals, but those guys are much smaller than the sea lions and alot less pushy. They are funny though they'll follow quietly along while you scuba dive and scare the poop out of you when you turn around and find a pair of eyes a couple feet from yours. The sea lions like it a little more exciting and will get the same result with a few good attack runs and buzz you.
Here in California the seal population is exploding since they are protected, and they have gotten to the point of nuisence, well at least to rich people who own boats. The funny thing is the seals like to find a nice new boat, the kind with an easy to reach swim platform and then have a sunbathing party on said boat. They proceed to trash the boat by shitting all over it, tear up the gear with mating/territory fights, and then finally they pack onto it like a bunch of high schoolers in a compact car on a Friday night, sink it with their shear weight.
As far as the seals and the bears up north go, it wouldn't take too much to apply the same concept, minus the million dollar boats, and build some platforms (artificial bergs) up the coast for them to use. For the distances they're swiming placing one every 10 miles or so should be plenty, and would give a boost to the fishing in the area as well.
Having a brain, an actual teaching degree, or the ability to speak English is also grounds for dismissal from teaching in California as well, so exactly what is your point?
Happy Communists come from The People's Republic of California.
Yeah they work, kind of. A guy at work buys every new gadget that comes out, so he brought his in and we played with it. Did a good job, but was kind of loud. The one I find pretty cool, he bought this one too, is a robotic lawn mower, it looks like a giant yellow Roomba. Out here in California the grass doesn't grow too fast so it handles it pretty well.
For my house the regular Roomba won't cut the mustard. If they were to combine the floor cleaner with the lawn mower along with a combat/bomb robot they make also then maybe it would be able to handle my room.
hehe....half the cars on the 405 regularly suddenly drop to less than a quarter of the speed limit. I see it every time right by the 101 on my way down to the airport, and yep there is that guy still cruisin along at near the posted limit with his head up his ass bringing up the rear.
Marketers are rapidly becoming the latest spawn of the devil, right up there with lawyers, politicians, and extreme liberals/conservatives.
If someone wants to have their computer infected from the get go, in order to get it for free, fine, but don't try to hoiste that bullshit on the rest of us.
There is a big diffenence between writing a novel and what they are doing. It's more like hey what a nifty idea, I think I patten the idea of a novel, well wait everyone already knows what a novel is I can't patten that, I know I'll patten the method of writing the novel and in effect patten the concept of the novel itself. First I'll get one for righting it with a pencil, when that runs out I'll extending it by adding in right handed, then left handed, and then a typwriter, then by phone, by newspaper, etc, etc, etc.
They did not in any way conceiveable way or form come up with the concept of customer reviews just some extremely basic software to post it and track it, of course most of that already existed in the form of foruums, but I doubt they'll simply go after people who are copying their software, they'll go after anyone that puts outa similar result.
I'm already running to this at work. Every other person I've talked to lately about helping build a machine have made a beeline straight to the multi's.
I've made the leap myself already, but when it comes to others, I find myself talking them down from the $500+ processors and push them towards the $200 single cores and a better video card and a new sound card.
Don't get me wrong they are very cool with the ability to do silly amounts of multi-tasking, but beyond that they don't do anything else for you. (I love doing 8 things at once, goes well with me ADD.)
Of course it seems as of late the whole batch of them have already swallowed all the hype and think they need these things now to play all the latest games.
It's a simple solution really, don't buy into any of the 3's "unique" solutions schemes. If you absolutely must have that one hit wonder song and don't need the rest of the cd then after you have given over your $.99 to the devil then simply convert the song to a more open file type and move on.
There is a simple test for freedoms and rights and smoking in public usually fails that test.
"Your right to do what ever you want only has one boundary, the rights of others."
Smokers historically have made no effort to accomidate non-smokers with the where and the way they smoked and disposed of their butts, so in reverse very little effort by non-smokers have been made to accomidate smokers.
When it comes to bars and resturants the typical reason why they are smoke free is that the owner of the establishment doesn't care to make any special ventilated smoking rooms available, which happen to be legal under most of the current regulation.
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You don't know much about flying aircraft then. Even if they wanted to get new parts, the companies that created them most likely no longer exist. Big time political donors usually don't get "big" parts contracts since they are anything but, big. Most components on the shuttles and military aircraft are repairable, so they get recycled rather than pitched.
It really boils down to the fact that most people are sheep.
Their favorite hobbie is to look up obscure rules and regulations that go counter with the reality, and make a big stink till they are enforced.
For the most part they are just annoying rather than being part of a greater conspiracy. They are just busy bodies that weren't beat enough as a child for being bosy or a taddletail.
Of course you are correct as all the bikes and quads in the back are all of the X-treme variety.
My other favorites are "Race Team" stickers on shit boxes that have been lowered and a fat exhaust pipe put on. Everyone knows stickers make them go faster. Yeah that's so XTREME!
I think marketers make politicians and lawyers look good. At least those two groups aren't in your face every moment of the day and night with the next "EXTREME" product.
Who could possibly need 17 exabytes of ram?
I'm pretty sure within five years someone will come up with a use for it.
Just for the sake of novelty zetta (10x21) and yotta (10x24) come next.
We just get annoyed with the loony religious types that feel threatened by anything might possibly "destroy" faith, in other words anything they don't understand or like.
Intentional ignorance is a much greater sin than any of the others in my book. A sin that most of the supporters of Inteligent Design are up to their necks in.
I told you Mrs Delarco, and so did the judge, quit stalking me. 7th grade english class was over 13 years ago. I don't have to use proper Enlish or spelling anymore if I don't want to.
I disagree with you as HD being a dead end. There is plenty of growth left past HD content, because frankly HD content is still crap when you compare it to computer monitor resolutions and to digital still photography.
As long as people keep buying ever bigger monitors there will always be room for higher resolutions. Think HD looks great on a 46", well I'm sure it'll look like crap on a 100" unless you are sitting back 15 feet" Yes I'm well aware you should be sitting back 15" but that's a point lost on most technophiles.
HD
1900x1080 at 24hz -- 2mp
My ancient (it's over 1 year old) Canon Rebel
3072x2048 -- 6.3mp
My new Nvidia 7800GT video card
2048x1536 60-85hz -- 3.1mp
The real stopping point for all technology is the human limitation. Until the day comes where we can no longer distinguish between watching a video and looking out a window, there will always be someone trying to improve the picture quality.
Their 24" inch display is made by Samsung, not Apple. I've been looking into those for a bit, they are down below $900 if you look hard enough. Course who makes Apple's display, heck if I know.
So as far as being "fast and quiet" please explain how a check point or guard post is supposed to do that?
"Hey dude how do we get on base?"
"Fuck if I know the gate looks like bunch of bushes and keeps moving around."
No need to be a prick and how about taking a bit of your own advice and look around for the latest video.
The current favored tactic for patrols is to have as many 50cal vehicle mounted guns along as possible. The ultimate squad mate has been the M1 Abrams that they've been sending out with small 12 man patrols when they are dealing with an area known for ambushes. They find the "stealthy" 120mm gun, heavy armor, and the thermal vision very effective at flushing the bastards out of their hiding spots at ranges of less than 100ft.
Ever lighter weapons not heavy weapons were a Cold War mentality since we were expecting a war with a power that cared about the wounded. It turns out the lighter weapons being fielded are proving to be ineffective against an enemy that does not care about casualties and for their own wounded and are increasing being found to be hopped up on drugs. The troops are going back to their roots and asking for their "big guns" back, to put the enemy down fast and permanently. They are currently using up 50cal rounds so fast they've had to crack into large stocks of WWII vintage rounds that were scheduled for destruction. After batch testing and rebelting the rounds they are being sent to the troops.
The exoskeletons already have a quite a few real world uses and would only need a little more developement to make it deployable.
Mobile trama unit
Mobile maintenance unit
Heavy gear mover for a squad
Mobile heavy gun/mortar/rifle
Weapons carrier/loader
EOD
VIP movement
Field journalist movement
Fire fighting
Besides don't be such fucktard and go read a little history. Every piece of military hardware has had a prototype stage they've had to go through before it became useful.
A fixed position guard, such as a control point.
Lots of firepower, heavily armored, isn't fixed to one position and smaller so as to be less vulnerable to RPG's, and intimidating as hell.
You just found your perfect gate guard.
Give it another twenty years of developement and then maybe you'll see something more usefull to the front line soldiers, but until then I don't see it as more than it's current role which is simply a developement tool or tech demonstrator.
Guard
Guards are high profile targets that tend to stay in one locationt. Make this thing a hybrid and give them a power cable that can disconnect easily and you give them the ability to carry a ridiculous amount of armor. Current body armor weighs in under 30 lbs. Now imagine being able to be able to wear 200lbs. Along with that instead of carrying a light carbine the standard weapon could be a much heavier rifle or squad gun.
Currently the only method of having a "big dog on a chain" at a defensive position is to have a mounted gun position or a light armored vehicle mounted gun. Neither of which are manuverable nor unable to deal with close quarters opponents at odd angles of fire and both make nice big fat targets for RPG's.
This armored exoskeleton would have most of the advantages and fewer of the disadvantages and provide the intimidation and defensive capabilities the Army is looking for. It'll be some time were you'll see long range patrols using this equipment until some large advancements can be made to the max weight and the density of the power source.
You are absolutely correct. I just call them all seals. The only seals I've out here are the Spotted Harbor Seals, but those guys are much smaller than the sea lions and alot less pushy. They are funny though they'll follow quietly along while you scuba dive and scare the poop out of you when you turn around and find a pair of eyes a couple feet from yours. The sea lions like it a little more exciting and will get the same result with a few good attack runs and buzz you.
As far as the seals and the bears up north go, it wouldn't take too much to apply the same concept, minus the million dollar boats, and build some platforms (artificial bergs) up the coast for them to use. For the distances they're swiming placing one every 10 miles or so should be plenty, and would give a boost to the fishing in the area as well.
Happy Communists come from The People's Republic of California.
For my house the regular Roomba won't cut the mustard. If they were to combine the floor cleaner with the lawn mower along with a combat/bomb robot they make also then maybe it would be able to handle my room.
Dude.....is very much an 80's word. Proof positive that the tubularness will be back very soon. It's only a matter of time, resistence is futile.
hehe....half the cars on the 405 regularly suddenly drop to less than a quarter of the speed limit. I see it every time right by the 101 on my way down to the airport, and yep there is that guy still cruisin along at near the posted limit with his head up his ass bringing up the rear.
Put a hungry wolverine in the cage and watch Mr Sedentary turn into a world record sprinter.
Marketers are rapidly becoming the latest spawn of the devil, right up there with lawyers, politicians, and extreme liberals/conservatives.
If someone wants to have their computer infected from the get go, in order to get it for free, fine, but don't try to hoiste that bullshit on the rest of us.
They did not in any way conceiveable way or form come up with the concept of customer reviews just some extremely basic software to post it and track it, of course most of that already existed in the form of foruums, but I doubt they'll simply go after people who are copying their software, they'll go after anyone that puts outa similar result.
I've made the leap myself already, but when it comes to others, I find myself talking them down from the $500+ processors and push them towards the $200 single cores and a better video card and a new sound card.
Don't get me wrong they are very cool with the ability to do silly amounts of multi-tasking, but beyond that they don't do anything else for you. (I love doing 8 things at once, goes well with me ADD.)
Of course it seems as of late the whole batch of them have already swallowed all the hype and think they need these things now to play all the latest games.
It's a simple solution really, don't buy into any of the 3's "unique" solutions schemes. If you absolutely must have that one hit wonder song and don't need the rest of the cd then after you have given over your $.99 to the devil then simply convert the song to a more open file type and move on.
"Your right to do what ever you want only has one boundary, the rights of others."
Smokers historically have made no effort to accomidate non-smokers with the where and the way they smoked and disposed of their butts, so in reverse very little effort by non-smokers have been made to accomidate smokers.
When it comes to bars and resturants the typical reason why they are smoke free is that the owner of the establishment doesn't care to make any special ventilated smoking rooms available, which happen to be legal under most of the current regulation.