Well, you should also look at the job they are designed to do. A Spitfire was designed to shoot down other armed prop-driven aircraft, while a Pterosaur is designed to eat fish, survive, and breed. It doesn't matter how efficient the engines of the Spitfire are if it's too slow and gets shot down every time it takes to the air, as that would make the aircraft itself very inefficient. Similarly, it doesn't matter how fast the Pterosaur flies if there's no other flying predator trying to make it dinner. Trying to compare the efficiencies of these two things is like trying to compare apples to automobilies.
Except that there are already plans for systems that will do precisely that. Granted, this is stuff that is not going to be available tomorrow, but this is a future capability that is in the process of being developed. You aren't going to get to this state by saying that since the system is too limited now that it's a waste of resources to pursue it. Part of that pursuit is applying and battle testing the intermediate stages of the component systems.
We have radar sets that already track incoming fire. Right now this information is used for determining where the fire came from and then directing conterfire on that position. With a laser you could use this system to shoot down incoming fire instead of just figuring out where it came from. Having a compter swing a laser around is a lot faster than notifying a driver that he needs to take evasive action and then having him figure out which ditch to turn into (not to mention starting the vehicle if needed).
So, if you can't develop a system that solves all your problems, it's useless? Man, you must curl up in a little ball in the morning, unable to function because you can't find that one tool that will brush your teeth and wipe your ass.
High energy lasers have very promising defensive purposes, such as being able to shoot down/burn up mortar and artilery fire as well as RPGs. You know, many of the things that the underdogs like to use in asymetric warfare? Being able to mount these things onto a fighter is a good step towards getting these things on the ground and in the field.
Interstingly enough AC, the overwhelming majority of people in the world don't hear the difference between "nuclear" and "nuculer," mainly because they don't speak English, also because many don't speak English as a native tounge. So basically you're targeting only the Commonwealth states. Considering America's relations amoung its current allies are currently the most strained among France and Germany, two non-English speaking countries, and that America's biggest problems come from the non-English speaking Middle-East, as well as North Korea and China (also non-English speaking), while America has few, if any real problems, with the Commonwealth, it would seem as if a leader's dialect has little effect on international relations, and simply concerns domestic politics. Hell, American pronunciations probably sound funny to all Commonwealth states no matter what regional dialect is used.
Actually, the Bible Belt would be fine, the general population is smart enough to know how to use guns and how to hunt. Urban areas, however... well... let's just say you better join a gang.
Well, the company that makes them is lobbying to move things in the direction of making them compulsory for all.
Now, I'm sorry, but I read the posted article and I didn't see the word "compulsory" in there, nor any of its synonyms. I see an article that says a whole lot of nothing while doing its best to use language to make it seem like something nefarious, but I would think that if the plan was going to be compulsory, the article sure as hell would have come out and plainly said it one or two or fifty times (my money is on the fifty). Is there another article out there that does come out and say it? Even better, is there an actual link to the language being proposed?
Ahem, maybe you missed it, but he said he was in SIXTH GRADE at the time. What, you're telling me you didn't have a rediculous idea for a perpetual motion machine back then? Mine was based on taking a big rock, converting its mass to energy, and sending that energy up to a much higher elevation where it was reconstituted into a rock. Attach the now much higher rock to a coiled rope conected to a turbine and drop it. As the rock fell it would spin the turbine, generating energy. Brilliant! Of course, at that time, I didn't realize that transporting energy actually took energy, nor that whole entropy thing. Funny I grasped E=MC^2 before that... alright, not exactly, as if you could convert just any old matter into pure energy you wouldn't need such a rediculous device.
Yes, but burning a tree is obviously environmentally unfriendly. We like trees, we grew up learning about how wonderful trees are and how they clean the air of all that nasty CO2 in grade school and high school natural science classes. So, setting fire to them makes us feel guilty. Thus, it is better if we use electricity, produced by the consumption of polluting and non-renewable sources of energy FAR FAR removed from our living rooms and so FAR FAR out of sight and mind, to create hydrogen gas which we can then promptly burn for asthetic purposes. This way we can feel better about our wasteful use of limited resources, and really, isn't that what environmentalism is all about?
How about this for a possible solution: let your characters continue to work when you're not online. Looking back to the good 'ol pen & paper days, there were things that your characters could do that would take months or years of time, but you didn't really roleplay in any depth. These include things like running shops, researching spells, training, etc. So why not actually make character improvement something that happens when you're off-line? You join in just to have a fun romp killing beasts or warring against another guild or teaming up to loot that dragon's horde, but when you log off you set your characters to perform a certain task that will earn you money or experience or skills. You can even throw a minimum of interactivity into it by sending e-mails to the player asking for some general input. If the hardcore players want to do everything the old fashioned way, let them, but let the casual gamers walk away from the game without getting left in the dust.
So, are you saying that using a school computer somehow prevents you from using another, non-school owned computer, for personal use? So if I use one of these iBooks, my computer will stop working? Cause if not, then I can still download porn and write scathing articles about the administration, just not on that iBook. For some strange reason, I just don't see a problem with that.
Wouldn't the blueshift when traveling at such speeds push everything out the visible spectrum? So you wouldn't actually see anything, you'd just get a nasty dose of Gamma waves... or worse?
My university's video editing facilities got a whole bunch of new G4s a few years ago. I can remember when they came in the very next day you could find about 12 of the one-button mice Apple bundles with its systems in the trash as you walked into the lab; all immediately replaced by two-button mice.
Good luck to Apple then, as my Grandmother hasn't been using anything for the past ten years now. Well, except, she was apparently able to use a ballot box last election in Chicago.
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No, it would link it to the Arilou Lalee'lay, indicating that the Soviets had a secret deal with them to obtain a quasispace portal generator. I always knew Falayalaralfali was Red!
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Well, you should also look at the job they are designed to do. A Spitfire was designed to shoot down other armed prop-driven aircraft, while a Pterosaur is designed to eat fish, survive, and breed. It doesn't matter how efficient the engines of the Spitfire are if it's too slow and gets shot down every time it takes to the air, as that would make the aircraft itself very inefficient. Similarly, it doesn't matter how fast the Pterosaur flies if there's no other flying predator trying to make it dinner. Trying to compare the efficiencies of these two things is like trying to compare apples to automobilies.
Just imagine those poor Democrats, being constantly outwitted by a mold...
Except that there are already plans for systems that will do precisely that. Granted, this is stuff that is not going to be available tomorrow, but this is a future capability that is in the process of being developed. You aren't going to get to this state by saying that since the system is too limited now that it's a waste of resources to pursue it. Part of that pursuit is applying and battle testing the intermediate stages of the component systems.
I'm not talking about lasers on a plane. In the future, try reading the thread before responding to it.
We have radar sets that already track incoming fire. Right now this information is used for determining where the fire came from and then directing conterfire on that position. With a laser you could use this system to shoot down incoming fire instead of just figuring out where it came from. Having a compter swing a laser around is a lot faster than notifying a driver that he needs to take evasive action and then having him figure out which ditch to turn into (not to mention starting the vehicle if needed).
So, if you can't develop a system that solves all your problems, it's useless? Man, you must curl up in a little ball in the morning, unable to function because you can't find that one tool that will brush your teeth and wipe your ass.
High energy lasers have very promising defensive purposes, such as being able to shoot down/burn up mortar and artilery fire as well as RPGs. You know, many of the things that the underdogs like to use in asymetric warfare? Being able to mount these things onto a fighter is a good step towards getting these things on the ground and in the field.
Interstingly enough AC, the overwhelming majority of people in the world don't hear the difference between "nuclear" and "nuculer," mainly because they don't speak English, also because many don't speak English as a native tounge. So basically you're targeting only the Commonwealth states. Considering America's relations amoung its current allies are currently the most strained among France and Germany, two non-English speaking countries, and that America's biggest problems come from the non-English speaking Middle-East, as well as North Korea and China (also non-English speaking), while America has few, if any real problems, with the Commonwealth, it would seem as if a leader's dialect has little effect on international relations, and simply concerns domestic politics. Hell, American pronunciations probably sound funny to all Commonwealth states no matter what regional dialect is used.
Actually it's mostly fence as well. But you can also try Britain, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and India to see if their walls will work.
Actually, the Bible Belt would be fine, the general population is smart enough to know how to use guns and how to hunt. Urban areas, however... well... let's just say you better join a gang.
Well, the company that makes them is lobbying to move things in the direction of making them compulsory for all.
Now, I'm sorry, but I read the posted article and I didn't see the word "compulsory" in there, nor any of its synonyms. I see an article that says a whole lot of nothing while doing its best to use language to make it seem like something nefarious, but I would think that if the plan was going to be compulsory, the article sure as hell would have come out and plainly said it one or two or fifty times (my money is on the fifty). Is there another article out there that does come out and say it? Even better, is there an actual link to the language being proposed?
Ahem, maybe you missed it, but he said he was in SIXTH GRADE at the time. What, you're telling me you didn't have a rediculous idea for a perpetual motion machine back then? Mine was based on taking a big rock, converting its mass to energy, and sending that energy up to a much higher elevation where it was reconstituted into a rock. Attach the now much higher rock to a coiled rope conected to a turbine and drop it. As the rock fell it would spin the turbine, generating energy. Brilliant! Of course, at that time, I didn't realize that transporting energy actually took energy, nor that whole entropy thing. Funny I grasped E=MC^2 before that... alright, not exactly, as if you could convert just any old matter into pure energy you wouldn't need such a rediculous device.
Yes, but burning a tree is obviously environmentally unfriendly. We like trees, we grew up learning about how wonderful trees are and how they clean the air of all that nasty CO2 in grade school and high school natural science classes. So, setting fire to them makes us feel guilty. Thus, it is better if we use electricity, produced by the consumption of polluting and non-renewable sources of energy FAR FAR removed from our living rooms and so FAR FAR out of sight and mind, to create hydrogen gas which we can then promptly burn for asthetic purposes. This way we can feel better about our wasteful use of limited resources, and really, isn't that what environmentalism is all about?
How about this for a possible solution: let your characters continue to work when you're not online. Looking back to the good 'ol pen & paper days, there were things that your characters could do that would take months or years of time, but you didn't really roleplay in any depth. These include things like running shops, researching spells, training, etc. So why not actually make character improvement something that happens when you're off-line? You join in just to have a fun romp killing beasts or warring against another guild or teaming up to loot that dragon's horde, but when you log off you set your characters to perform a certain task that will earn you money or experience or skills. You can even throw a minimum of interactivity into it by sending e-mails to the player asking for some general input. If the hardcore players want to do everything the old fashioned way, let them, but let the casual gamers walk away from the game without getting left in the dust.
So, are you saying that using a school computer somehow prevents you from using another, non-school owned computer, for personal use? So if I use one of these iBooks, my computer will stop working? Cause if not, then I can still download porn and write scathing articles about the administration, just not on that iBook. For some strange reason, I just don't see a problem with that.
So does Chicago, and they make it available to the citizens. It's called ICAM. So congratulations Adrian, you created something that already existed!
I sure hope it's the Sith. I would hate for Lucas to have a headquaters in a building that was built using non-absolute measurements.
This would be why I'm asking, instead of stating it as fact. I really want to know the answer here, and an explanation for why not.
Wouldn't the blueshift when traveling at such speeds push everything out the visible spectrum? So you wouldn't actually see anything, you'd just get a nasty dose of Gamma waves... or worse?
If scientists have to talk about consensus then there is a problem with the science.
My university's video editing facilities got a whole bunch of new G4s a few years ago. I can remember when they came in the very next day you could find about 12 of the one-button mice Apple bundles with its systems in the trash as you walked into the lab; all immediately replaced by two-button mice.
Good luck to Apple then, as my Grandmother hasn't been using anything for the past ten years now. Well, except, she was apparently able to use a ballot box last election in Chicago.
Because the parent can be held legally responsible for the actions of his/her children.
No, it would link it to the Arilou Lalee'lay, indicating that the Soviets had a secret deal with them to obtain a quasispace portal generator. I always knew Falayalaralfali was Red!