Other posters are trying to come up with ways to mitigate a laser's effects but you have to know that a system like this will probably be connected directly to the national grid and so when it does fire, it won't do so timidly.
I really enjoyed Colberts routine, but what is this couragous act you speak of? This isn't the Soviet Union and Colbert wasn't in the prescence of Stalin insulting him. This is America, where insulting the president is tolerated. I promise you, Colbert won't dissappear to some secret European prison or be sent to Guantonimo Bay.
If we can't get the patent holders to come to some sort of comprimise maybe we can get the content producers to do so. In fact, they have incentive to resolve this mess because the market won't really take off if people are hesitant to risk purchasing a format that may become obsolete in a few years. This is bad news bears for the content producers who want to rerelease Jaws SUPERDUPERBIT Platinum Plus edition and the like to reap insane profits.
So in order to fix this two-standard mess content producers need to distribute their media on double sided discs. One side HD-DVD, the other Blue-Ray. This way, no matter which player you buy, you can watch it on either. This allows content producers to rerelease old films and make insane profits. Win-win for everybody. Yaaaaaaay.
The problem is that Apple would have to rely on Microsoft playing nice. I can just forsee Microsoft constantly releasing "patches" to prevent their OS from playing nice with this virtualization scheme you talk of.
I agree. The question is, is fighting against such countries really the threat that we need to prepare for? Or is the era of large-scale country-to-country warfare over (due to MAD if nothing else), and the real threat these days comes from terrorism? And if that is the case, wouldn't this money be better spent on combatting terrorism, rather than on building ships for wars that won't happen?
1) Just because a carrier was developed to fight large-scale conventional war does not mean it is not incapable of being useful in a small-scale unconventional war.
2) No one can pretend to know what the future holds for warfare. War is costly yes but that alone can not be relied upon to prevent nations from attacking each other. It was just 15 years ago that Saddam Hussein invaded his neighbor to the south and if we all followed your wisdom then our conventional war with what was the fourth largest army in the world could have proved a costly engagement.
3) Immense superiority of fire power is sometimes enough to deter attack. I suspect that the only reason that Beijing has not yet flexed their muscles over Taiwan is that their entire armed forces would be utterly crushed in a head-to-head conflict with the US. I also suspect that this is why Egypt, Syria and Lebanon have finally given up trying to go fight the Israelis vis-a-vis overt conventional warfare. Although a previous poster made the point that this forces outmatched nations to engage their enemies with unconventional tactics (ie. support to terrorist groups) the consequences of losing a conventional war are greater than the consequences of losing an unconventional one. In other words: I would fight a war where I lose 50 citizens a year to terrorist attacks, then one where I face the real possibility of losing everything.
I'm sorry but when did "consensus" become a standard for scientific truth? Truth in science, has often come at the expense of breaking with consensus. And along those lines, science has been led down the wrong roads many times because scientists were trying to marry their data with the agreed "scientific consensus" of their time.
For a more developed argument, please see Crichton's Aliens Cause Global Warming paper for the explosive and decisive attack against the method of scrutinizing scientific truth which you just proposed.
Is Paul Allen to Seattle as Thomas and Bruce Wayne were to Gotham City?
Evidence?
Has a huge house, more of a compound really. Isn't married. He has lots of fast cars. One of the biggest philanthropists in America. Funded medical research, mapping the human brain at the cellular level. [Funded] the Experience Music project and the Science Fiction museum. Art collection...rumoured to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Donated $20 million to develop a park which would have stretched from the downtown area to Lake Union. Converting a nondescript belt of warehouses and commercial buildings into a biotech hub, while redeveloping environmentally friendly housing, and a waterfront park.
Now that we have evidence that he plays the role of philantropist-playboy by day can anyone pony-up the evidence that he lives the double life and is a crime-fighter by night?
I can speak to how hard this is. The Arabic course is actually 63 weeks, with an additional 4 more months at Goodfellow AFB, TX. I was a former Russian linguist. I say former linguist because I washed out of the course with 2/3 of the class (yes only a 1/3 ended up graduating). Learning a language isn't hard, but the pace they are trying to teach it to you at is.
It's OK though, I got reclassied into a much cooler job and I'm much happier with it.
How does a lack of market dominance equal failure? Is that like how Linux and Macintosh account for less than 10% of the total desktop market mean that they are failures? Or perhaps maybe it just means, that not every person is going to need/want the same tool?
The message reads 'in hoc spatio arbor noster floruit, fecundus pomis Elysii ignoti, quo in loco ludent electi, ab Originis angelis circumdati'. We consulted the IGN annals of ultimate intelligence and wisdom and came up with the following rough translation: 'In this place may our fertile tree bloom with fruits in strange elysium, where in the place of the chosen, angels surround the origin'. Something big is about to happen.
I'm a 1N. I'll give you the basic 'Basic' spiel. If you want to get out of BMT as painless as possible, lie as low as you can. Don't volunteer unless you know what you're volunteering for (unless it's KP duty). Stay out of trouble as much aS possible. Any attempt to break the rules is never worth the cost (usually a recycle back for 2 more weeks of BMT). And finally most important, TELL YOUR FAMILY/FREINDS TO WRITE YOU EVERYDAY. Even though it will only be 6 weeks away, every week there will seem like an entire month to you. So letters everyday will really help with the morale. Otherwise I invite you to join my website and there will be a lot of people to help you there:
airforce-crossroads.com
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Other posters are trying to come up with ways to mitigate a laser's effects but you have to know that a system like this will probably be connected directly to the national grid and so when it does fire, it won't do so timidly.
I really enjoyed Colberts routine, but what is this couragous act you speak of? This isn't the Soviet Union and Colbert wasn't in the prescence of Stalin insulting him. This is America, where insulting the president is tolerated. I promise you, Colbert won't dissappear to some secret European prison or be sent to Guantonimo Bay.
They settled. I'm sure if this went to court they would have lost a lot more.
So in order to fix this two-standard mess content producers need to distribute their media on double sided discs. One side HD-DVD, the other Blue-Ray. This way, no matter which player you buy, you can watch it on either. This allows content producers to rerelease old films and make insane profits. Win-win for everybody. Yaaaaaaay.
The problem is that Apple would have to rely on Microsoft playing nice. I can just forsee Microsoft constantly releasing "patches" to prevent their OS from playing nice with this virtualization scheme you talk of.
I agree that the potential for abuse is there, but if there is abuse then the solution to the problem is to punish the abusers, not remove the power.
Then what is there to fear? Why would you be worried?
Hire a squad of former Marines to do it in broad daylight hours, I don't see anyone at MIT stopping/intimidating them.
What prevents them from going to MIT and just taking it back by force?
1) Just because a carrier was developed to fight large-scale conventional war does not mean it is not incapable of being useful in a small-scale unconventional war.
2) No one can pretend to know what the future holds for warfare. War is costly yes but that alone can not be relied upon to prevent nations from attacking each other. It was just 15 years ago that Saddam Hussein invaded his neighbor to the south and if we all followed your wisdom then our conventional war with what was the fourth largest army in the world could have proved a costly engagement.
3) Immense superiority of fire power is sometimes enough to deter attack. I suspect that the only reason that Beijing has not yet flexed their muscles over Taiwan is that their entire armed forces would be utterly crushed in a head-to-head conflict with the US. I also suspect that this is why Egypt, Syria and Lebanon have finally given up trying to go fight the Israelis vis-a-vis overt conventional warfare. Although a previous poster made the point that this forces outmatched nations to engage their enemies with unconventional tactics (ie. support to terrorist groups) the consequences of losing a conventional war are greater than the consequences of losing an unconventional one. In other words: I would fight a war where I lose 50 citizens a year to terrorist attacks, then one where I face the real possibility of losing everything.
Then you have nothing to be afraid of. I don't see how this harms anyone except people who do illegal things.
For a more developed argument, please see Crichton's Aliens Cause Global Warming paper for the explosive and decisive attack against the method of scrutinizing scientific truth which you just proposed.
These are the real questions gaming enthusiats are asking. Not whether it can replicate technology that was cutting edge 5 years ago.
First, you should take a class in logic.
Second, here's why you're wrong.
If a statement is true, it doesn't nessecarily follow that its inverse is true.
P -> Q, can not be logically transformed to mean ~P -> ~Q
Is Paul Allen to Seattle as Thomas and Bruce Wayne were to Gotham City?
Evidence?
Has a huge house, more of a compound really.
Isn't married.
He has lots of fast cars.
One of the biggest philanthropists in America.
Funded medical research, mapping the human brain at the cellular level.
[Funded] the Experience Music project and the Science Fiction museum.
Art collection...rumoured to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Donated $20 million to develop a park which would have stretched from the downtown area to Lake Union.
Converting a nondescript belt of warehouses and commercial buildings into a biotech hub, while redeveloping environmentally friendly housing, and a waterfront park.
Now that we have evidence that he plays the role of philantropist-playboy by day can anyone pony-up the evidence that he lives the double life and is a crime-fighter by night?
I think we've just been attacked by parent.
An RPG with a IR seeker head is called a MANPAD. And the Russians have been producing them for decades. They are called SA-7's 14's 16's and 18's.
I can speak to how hard this is. The Arabic course is actually 63 weeks, with an additional 4 more months at Goodfellow AFB, TX. I was a former Russian linguist. I say former linguist because I washed out of the course with 2/3 of the class (yes only a 1/3 ended up graduating). Learning a language isn't hard, but the pace they are trying to teach it to you at is. It's OK though, I got reclassied into a much cooler job and I'm much happier with it.
lol I'd mod you up if I had some points to give.
How does a lack of market dominance equal failure? Is that like how Linux and Macintosh account for less than 10% of the total desktop market mean that they are failures? Or perhaps maybe it just means, that not every person is going to need/want the same tool?
Canada.
You captured truth and insight so succintly, I'm shocked.
Don't you all feel bright now for bashing Microsoft? Perhaps it isn't only the editors that should check the credibility of a story?
Like Slashdot is about to be spammed?
I'm a 1N. I'll give you the basic 'Basic' spiel. If you want to get out of BMT as painless as possible, lie as low as you can. Don't volunteer unless you know what you're volunteering for (unless it's KP duty). Stay out of trouble as much aS possible. Any attempt to break the rules is never worth the cost (usually a recycle back for 2 more weeks of BMT). And finally most important, TELL YOUR FAMILY/FREINDS TO WRITE YOU EVERYDAY. Even though it will only be 6 weeks away, every week there will seem like an entire month to you. So letters everyday will really help with the morale. Otherwise I invite you to join my website and there will be a lot of people to help you there: airforce-crossroads.com