The main problem I see with that idea is that the transition between normal takeoff/landing flight and inverted cruising flight would be difficult to manage. Perhaps it would be able to reconfigure itself so that its wings produce a downward force without affecting the passenger cabin.
If no one's been running the company since 1974, who sued Apple over the ITMS earlier this year and in the early 90s for shipping microphones with Macs?
It may be the same as abandonware, but that doesn't mean you can copy it. Abandonware is still copyright violation, just with a different justification from normal warez.
Also, to respond to the rest of your post: I also thought that the reference to Earth was badly done, but the baby-killing and lack of motivation can be easily rationalized into some hackneyed "human beings are a disease"-type genocide. And don't forget she's decided that her actions for the next few hours will have no consequences as the city's about to be nuked anyway.
- The Galactica needs bigger engines. Those puny pipes sticking out don't look like they do jack squat.
- The Galactica needs to be BIGGER. You get the sense that she's about the size of a modern aircraft carrier. That's big, but nowhere near as big as the concept of a "BattleStar" calls for.
I don't think the Galactica really needs to be maneuverable; space battles would be very much like sea battles in that regard. And the FTL engines don't seem to require any acceleration at all.
You're not making sense. A CPU/hard drive/memory upgrade isn't free. Maybe it costs less than clearing land for construction, but it's still a cost of running a server (and a rather large server/cost, considering we're talking about nodes of an MMO game). Might as well say, "The idea of paying rent is absurd, when you can just go build another house over there."
It takes about 10 *seconds* to download a song on broadband on the iTunes store. That's less time than it takes to find the song you wanted in the first place (if you know the song you want and the store has it, it takes a maximum of maybe 30 seconds to go from sitting down at the computer to listening to the newly purchased song).
30-45 minutes isn't even in the same ballpark. That's longer than it would take me to walk to Blockbuster and get it on DVD. (Not to mention that you'll only get 700K/sec off a swarm system like BitTorrent, so you can't even start playing the unfinished movie like you can with true streaming or VOD.)
I'm sure legal movie downloads will eventually arrive, but with current technology Steve is correct that there is no instant gratification.
I don't think there's anything that makes a supersonic Harrier impossible; it just doesn't have the engine power for it.
Helicopters have a completely different problem, which is entirely due to their rotating lift surfaces. A fixed-wing aircraft has no fundamental block to going supersonic.
Plus, it's not like this craft needs great performance in VTOL mode. It would only be used for getting it off the ground and putting it back down.
You don't just need a kitchen, you'd need a raw material production system- some form of agriculture. And I don't think *that* has ever been successfully done in space.
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If it was as easy to memorize a 32-character randomly generated password that changes every 30 days as it was to put one more key in your pocket, then no, no one would tape it to the door. But if my garage door key was a 6" half-pound chunk of rebar, damn right I'd find a less secure place to store it.
Jamming an enemy's transmission is a lot harder than it sounds against modern "smart" weapons. The Iraquis did try some jamming early in the war, but the US simply programmed a missile to home in on the jammer's signal.
There was no battery problem. A battery dying in 18 months was an extremely rare exception, and Apple charges $100 for a new battery, not $250, and you can get a 3rd party replacement for $50.
True, but 0_197_56633ab0d90f43c68ed1b47358eccfe7.domain.com is (as far as I know) not a real domain.
And admins would want to combat it to prevent "DNSservers will use a loooot of memory" and "bog down BIND servers all over the planet" as the article says.
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The main problem I see with that idea is that the transition between normal takeoff/landing flight and inverted cruising flight would be difficult to manage. Perhaps it would be able to reconfigure itself so that its wings produce a downward force without affecting the passenger cabin.
If no one's been running the company since 1974, who sued Apple over the ITMS earlier this year and in the early 90s for shipping microphones with Macs?
It may be the same as abandonware, but that doesn't mean you can copy it. Abandonware is still copyright violation, just with a different justification from normal warez.
Erk, sorry.
Also, to respond to the rest of your post: I also thought that the reference to Earth was badly done, but the baby-killing and lack of motivation can be easily rationalized into some hackneyed "human beings are a disease"-type genocide. And don't forget she's decided that her actions for the next few hours will have no consequences as the city's about to be nuked anyway.
I don't think the Galactica really needs to be maneuverable; space battles would be very much like sea battles in that regard. And the FTL engines don't seem to require any acceleration at all.
Or if, as with me, you know fuck all about the original series and are approaching this show with a blank slate
I don't think 3rd-world torturers were waiting for this breakthrough before they could use electrodes to "produce severe discomfort".
I hope you meant [[Stanford alloc] init] autorelease].
You're not making sense. A CPU/hard drive/memory upgrade isn't free. Maybe it costs less than clearing land for construction, but it's still a cost of running a server (and a rather large server/cost, considering we're talking about nodes of an MMO game). Might as well say, "The idea of paying rent is absurd, when you can just go build another house over there."
It's called WebKit, not "the Safari library".
It takes about 10 *seconds* to download a song on broadband on the iTunes store. That's less time than it takes to find the song you wanted in the first place (if you know the song you want and the store has it, it takes a maximum of maybe 30 seconds to go from sitting down at the computer to listening to the newly purchased song).
30-45 minutes isn't even in the same ballpark. That's longer than it would take me to walk to Blockbuster and get it on DVD. (Not to mention that you'll only get 700K/sec off a swarm system like BitTorrent, so you can't even start playing the unfinished movie like you can with true streaming or VOD.)
I'm sure legal movie downloads will eventually arrive, but with current technology Steve is correct that there is no instant gratification.
Can you provide a link to said report?
Also, don't forget that iTunes originally had no sharing limit. People were abusing this to copy music P2P-style, so it was removed.
Obviously, you try to kill yourself. If you succeed, then you get your money back.
That huge fat guy from Meaning of Life?
What makes you think it would be GPL? A BSD license seems a much better idea for something like this, if wide adoption is the target.
I don't think there's anything that makes a supersonic Harrier impossible; it just doesn't have the engine power for it.
Helicopters have a completely different problem, which is entirely due to their rotating lift surfaces. A fixed-wing aircraft has no fundamental block to going supersonic.
Plus, it's not like this craft needs great performance in VTOL mode. It would only be used for getting it off the ground and putting it back down.
You don't just need a kitchen, you'd need a raw material production system- some form of agriculture. And I don't think *that* has ever been successfully done in space.
If it was as easy to memorize a 32-character randomly generated password that changes every 30 days as it was to put one more key in your pocket, then no, no one would tape it to the door. But if my garage door key was a 6" half-pound chunk of rebar, damn right I'd find a less secure place to store it.
This guy didn't change his password either. Idiot. And such a low account number, too!
We're not stuck at 56K. MultiMbps DSL runs over phone lines too.
Jamming an enemy's transmission is a lot harder than it sounds against modern "smart" weapons. The Iraquis did try some jamming early in the war, but the US simply programmed a missile to home in on the jammer's signal.
There was no battery problem. A battery dying in 18 months was an extremely rare exception, and Apple charges $100 for a new battery, not $250, and you can get a 3rd party replacement for $50.
True, but 0_197_56633ab0d90f43c68ed1b47358eccfe7.domain.com is (as far as I know) not a real domain.
And admins would want to combat it to prevent "DNSservers will use a loooot of memory" and "bog down BIND servers all over the planet" as the article says.
Just ensure that the DNS checks to see that the new file is actually a legal DNS zone file. I assume these things have a required format?