The expected failure rate on that system they're supposed to wheel out in a few years is going to be high
Concur.
and if it's anything like the systems that shot down the Iranian airliner "by mistake", it only has to fail once for this rocket guy to skydie.
Count on it to fail at least twice.
Failure number one: Mistaken identity is made, live fire at Rocket Guy.
Failure number two: The fucking thing misses Rocket Guy cleanly and then goes on to take out a 757 minding its own business at 45,000 feet, two states over.
you've not quite got it right. The SPS (Solar Power Satellite) will be dangling from the end of a naontube tether and the power will be sent down the wire/waveguide/whatever so that no messy microwaves need be sprayed around indiscriminatly.
These things will be the FIRST use of "space elevator" technology, mark my words. No moving parts (that "elevator" cab will prove to be a knotty technical nightmare when it comes to actually getting the sonofabitch to work in the real world, and designs that mererely suspend things from the end of the tether will come first) makes for a much simpler deal all the way around.
When it's a done deal, tell 'em you heard it here first, way back in '03.
Just like all them hondaboys and bikertwits. I want people to KNOW when I'm computing. I want flames shooting out of the motherfucker, smoke pouring from every vent, and DECIBELS, baby DECIBELS!!!
Make it SCREAM goddammit!
If the sonofabitches on the next block are still sleeping when I'm done downloading a file at 3am then I'm not done with my mods!! RARRRRAGGGGGHHHHAAAAHHOOOOOOOOGAAAAA! Take THAT you pansies!!
With each passing day, TV becomes more and more irrelevant. The only people watching that crap anymore are bored children, jockstrap drongos, and that great heard of idiots who seek to be titillated by talk show mopery, unfunny sitcoms, hollywood trash glitz, perhaps a monster truck or two, and the everpresent Daily Dose of Death which masquerades under the name "News."
An interest in science bespeaks of at least SOME modicum of intelligence on the part of that person showing the interest.
Those of us with brains that think have long since put the TV in the rearview mirror, where it's getting smaller with each passing mile.
And besides, I've got the fucking INTERNET for my science channel!
It is the kind of situation that defeats capitalism and it should be corrected.
Actually, this is a prime example of grass roots capitalism at its finest. People are abandoning a high priced source of a product in droves, and switching to a much lower priced source for the same product (legal niceties bedamned).
The market is speaking, and whether or not the RIAA listens makes not the least whit of difference.
Not for long if they keep this kind of crap up. They seem to be progressing quite well in the business of shooting themselves in the foot. First it was the occasional shot with the six-shooter. Then they went to a gatling gun. Now it's looking like they want to join the Nuclear Club.
Kinda makes you wonder: If a wedding party in Serbia can down a small plane with stray shots, what might a behemoth like MS be able to do?
Because when you put in a CD, you usually don't want to do anything with it?
Because when I put in a CD, *I* plan on making the fucker do what *I* want it to do, run, or not run whatever's on it that *I* decide, and do all that precisely whenever *I* so choose, as opposed to rolling over and playing dead for the Mighty Gods of Software, who must surely know what's best for me, my family, and my nation.
competing BIOS makers shoud trumpet their "NO DRM!" and "NO MS!" status
They will. And it will turn out to be quite the lucrative thing to do when it's all said and done. MS continues to edge closer and closer to a catastrophic failure to understand the Will Of The People. This they do at their own arrogant peril.
The question is, what sort of general consumer protection laws would apply if the EULA is declared invalid?
All of them!
Should the EULA fail, then a Great Empire would come crashing down, complete with exquisitely interesting unforseen side effects that would rattle things mightily, down to the smallest blade of grass.
Pogo back. But considering the present condition of Walt Kelly, I'm presuming that's asking for a bit too much.
WTF's up with all the talk of carrying PASSENGERS?
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Why oh why did Hemos post that submission from weileong and fail to snip the Once these things really hit "real world" usage, the V-22 Osprey really HAS no reason to exist (and all the army personnel at risk of dying in one should rejoice). garbage from the end of it? Now everybody and their aunt Nellie are off on a toot about the merits of ornithopters as a mode of transportation for HUMANS.
The article was crystal clear on this.
Quote: "Mentor came into being in response to a vision of a "fly-on-the-wall spy"
Quote: "stealth "micro-air vehicles"
Quote: "Flapping wings offer several advantages over the fixed wings of today's reconnaissance drones"
Quote: "long toyed with many scenarios, including one in which soldiers would deploy a swarm of camera-equipped robotic insects to probe inaccessible terrain."
Quote: "... ah, the hell with it! Go ahead and talk about your flying cars as long as you like.
when they come out with a little something that can roll on like a coat of paint, with 90 percent plus percent efficency at converting sunlight (or anybody else's light for that matter) into electricity, for about thirty cents a gallon, nobody's gonna be hooked into much of anything by way of a grid any more.
At which point I shall piss and moan mightly over the fact that every last manmade thing in sight will be an amazingly ugly shade of flat black.
Beyond which point, white houses will be an ostentatious statement of the owner's ability to just squander money away on electrons provided by others.
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Concur.
and if it's anything like the systems that shot down the Iranian airliner "by mistake", it only has to fail once for this rocket guy to skydie.
Count on it to fail at least twice.
Failure number one: Mistaken identity is made, live fire at Rocket Guy.
Failure number two: The fucking thing misses Rocket Guy cleanly and then goes on to take out a 757 minding its own business at 45,000 feet, two states over.
When the DoD is done with this, it will no longer be cheap or simple, but it WILL be hard.
I for one, am pleased to see that they don't want to go putting any of them little RFID tags in my grits. Please pass the biscuits and gravy.
These things will be the FIRST use of "space elevator" technology, mark my words. No moving parts (that "elevator" cab will prove to be a knotty technical nightmare when it comes to actually getting the sonofabitch to work in the real world, and designs that mererely suspend things from the end of the tether will come first) makes for a much simpler deal all the way around.
When it's a done deal, tell 'em you heard it here first, way back in '03.
I want my rig LOUD.
Just like all them hondaboys and bikertwits. I want people to KNOW when I'm computing. I want flames shooting out of the motherfucker, smoke pouring from every vent, and DECIBELS, baby DECIBELS!!!
Make it SCREAM goddammit!
If the sonofabitches on the next block are still sleeping when I'm done downloading a file at 3am then I'm not done with my mods!! RARRRRAGGGGGHHHHAAAAHHOOOOOOOOGAAAAA! Take THAT you pansies!!
You've got the slime all over you so I'm guessing you'll go far in your intended career.
With each passing day, TV becomes more and more irrelevant. The only people watching that crap anymore are bored children, jockstrap drongos, and that great heard of idiots who seek to be titillated by talk show mopery, unfunny sitcoms, hollywood trash glitz, perhaps a monster truck or two, and the everpresent Daily Dose of Death which masquerades under the name "News."
An interest in science bespeaks of at least SOME modicum of intelligence on the part of that person showing the interest.
Those of us with brains that think have long since put the TV in the rearview mirror, where it's getting smaller with each passing mile.
And besides, I've got the fucking INTERNET for my science channel!
Actually, this is a prime example of grass roots capitalism at its finest. People are abandoning a high priced source of a product in droves, and switching to a much lower priced source for the same product (legal niceties bedamned).
The market is speaking, and whether or not the RIAA listens makes not the least whit of difference.
Not for long if they keep this kind of crap up. They seem to be progressing quite well in the business of shooting themselves in the foot. First it was the occasional shot with the six-shooter. Then they went to a gatling gun. Now it's looking like they want to join the Nuclear Club.
Kinda makes you wonder: If a wedding party in Serbia can down a small plane with stray shots, what might a behemoth like MS be able to do?
Because when I put in a CD, *I* plan on making the fucker do what *I* want it to do, run, or not run whatever's on it that *I* decide, and do all that precisely whenever *I* so choose, as opposed to rolling over and playing dead for the Mighty Gods of Software, who must surely know what's best for me, my family, and my nation.
But only one time.
They will. And it will turn out to be quite the lucrative thing to do when it's all said and done. MS continues to edge closer and closer to a catastrophic failure to understand the Will Of The People. This they do at their own arrogant peril.
All of them!
Should the EULA fail, then a Great Empire would come crashing down, complete with exquisitely interesting unforseen side effects that would rattle things mightily, down to the smallest blade of grass.
So ok, enough with the suspense. WHAT browser?
Fight the good fight. Secure rights and liberties even for the great rabble of craven dogs who would seek to destroy you. Bully for you!
Small nuclear war, hmm? Interesting use of the word "small."
More like Windows 1984 and down if you ask me.
Great. Yet another security hole I'm going to have to deal with.
You're saying that the Pope's scrotum comes equipped with blinkenlights?
Pogo back. But considering the present condition of Walt Kelly, I'm presuming that's asking for a bit too much.
The article was crystal clear on this.
Quote: "Mentor came into being in response to a vision of a "fly-on-the-wall spy"
Quote: "stealth "micro-air vehicles"
Quote: "Flapping wings offer several advantages over the fixed wings of today's reconnaissance drones"
Quote: "long toyed with many scenarios, including one in which soldiers would deploy a swarm of camera-equipped robotic insects to probe inaccessible terrain."
Quote: "... ah, the hell with it! Go ahead and talk about your flying cars as long as you like.
But I could be wrong, yes?
And what the hell, why not mod me offtopic for bringing this up here and now?
This I'd like to see!
Along with a buttload of other similar type items.
Wonder if some sharp pencil out there somewhere will be able to develop a suite of ANTISPAM worms?
At which point I shall piss and moan mightly over the fact that every last manmade thing in sight will be an amazingly ugly shade of flat black.
Beyond which point, white houses will be an ostentatious statement of the owner's ability to just squander money away on electrons provided by others.