1. Overwhelming majority of worlds planes are still non-stealth 2. Tell you comment to the pilot of the F-117 that the Serbs shot down
1. Stealth aicraft will be deplyed where they are most effective. They are not invisible to radar; _only harder to detect_. 2. Refer to your sources, so I can properly address the issue.
But the group of people you know, does represent the military as a whole?
I never said I knew a group of people. I've made inqueries and detected reoccuring statements of alcoholism.
And those same soldiers form the core of the war-time military. And do you assume that in case of war, the people are just handed an assault-rifle and told to go shoot some Russians? No, they receive training as well.
Not so. The people who go on peacekeeping missions are voulunteers, and not forced against their will like the majority of the military force. In case of war, how long do you think the bulk of the fighting force would be trained? A week? - In one week Finland would be overrun. The people who go on peacekeeping operations are trained much longer, and to compare them with a Finnish soldier rushed onto the battle field from civilian life is pure fallacy.
And doing that would cost them too much when looking at what they get in return. Comprende? you cannot invade a country with air-force, you need troops in the ground. And just look how well Russia is doing in Chechnya. Why would it be any easier in Finland?
In return they get the Finnish BNP, natural resources and strategic geographical advantage against the rest of Europe. Comprende? You _can_ invade a country through air force, and unless you've been living under a rock you'd know it happened last time right after 9.11.2001.
And how is Russia doing in Chechnya...? - Dropping vacuum bombs, internationally banned as cruel, on civilians. And the world does not lift a finger.
Finland is a large country, and about 80% of it is covered with forests. Good luck carpet-bombing anyone there. It didn't help in Vietnam, and it wouldn't help in Finland.
With the first line, I was not speaking about Finland in particular, but of modern warfare in general. In the case of Finland, the point I made about IR tech applies, rendering the first line appliant.
Not quite. The planes in the Finnish Airforce are just about the best money can buy (F/A-18 Hornets). And they have advanced SAM-batteries (Crotale NG's, Russian BUK's)
Yes, all 63 of them. SAMs are mostly useless against stealth aircraft, and rely on being able to k-kill aircraft before they can deliver their payload. Quite simply, the one with the most planes wins.
I actually know people who are in MPKK (equivalent to West Point). And let's just say that I don't share your "vision" about them.
And we all know this group of people you know stands to represent the rest of all the regular staff. Close to nothing of what is really going on gets reported because the whistleblowers are not allowed anonymity, like people here on/.
And the Finnish Soldiers in Kosovo are highly respected by the others there. They are not outclassed by those "professional" militaries in any shape or form.
They have all recieved special training for this mission, and as they get quite a lot of pay for it, they should be concidered "professionals".
Of course if Russian used all their military-power in invading Finland, they could do it. But that's not the point. The point is that invading Finland would cost them too much, that the effort is not worth the cost.
It would not take all their military power, but only enough to establish air-superiority and surpress infantry.
Foot soldiers can't do much when faced with carpet bombing except turn into minced meat. Not even artillery is worth a damn if air-superiority cannot be obtained. Modern-day IR technology can be used to spot individuals from high in the sky, so the infantry has no stealth to speak of either. What foot soldiers _can_ be used for is secure a city in a hostile take-over, as tanks and planes are inappropriate. The people of Finland, however, will never allow an attack, and as such our military is to be entirely defensive. - And foot soldiers have no place in defence except for blocking bullets.
Finland has recently started aqcuiring a number of armored vehicles to replace an aging garage, but completely neglected the defence of air-space. With hostile skies the vehicles stand defenseless, and are as such completely useless.
To cut a long story short, in my eyes the Finnish army is the epitome of incompetence. The regular staff is the bottom layer of individuals which could not get a decent job in civilian life. A lot of them are alcoholics, the bread of the State the only thing separating them from the averenge bum.
The only country Finland could have a chance against in a war is Sweden, and that is until they've finished the process of reforming their military. (Yes, they have one. Any notion of otherwise is wishful thinking and ignorance of simple fact. If the Russian Bear was to walk over our border we'd simply be the next Chechnia.
I'm going to stop ranting now, before I pop a vein.
From younger days, I remember people speaking a lot about braincells dieing because they were not in use. I never devoted the time to figure out how this could be a Good Thing, but if a chip can do it too then surely it takes a step closer towards acting like the brain does. Maybe the brain works at a lower level than this IBM solution, and builds up its logical circuits by nuking selected cells?
"eFUSE reroutes chip logic, much the way highway traffic patterns can be altered by opening and closing new lanes," said Bernard Meyerson...
...And much like the neurons in the brain? Doesn't his have rather large significance to AI, or artificial life, for that matter? If the IBM solution is part software, who is to say that the software cannot be intelligent?
One of the thingies, maybe a capacitator, on my cousin's old Voodoo 3 came off while I was refurnishing the internals of his machine. I got this old, big and bulky soldering iron and a thick piece of solder, soldered the thingie back on and put the card back in. - It worked.
There is no assumption of disorder or destruction with anarchy, unlike chaos.
Again with the spoon-feeding... Chaos in not destructive, but rather causes creation. The original Greek word had the meaning of "chasm", or "void", but today it is more commonly (mis)used to describe dis-order. Yet disorder is not destructive either, and is often a source of inspiration.
Am I full of shit? Read the Principia Discordia and see if it destroys or inspires you. I should know it is the latter, as I am both an anarchist and a Discordianist.
Isn't the American ideal capitalism? Free competition? Surely we'll see the flexing of large legislative muscles and a lot of economic saber rattling because of this.
If I'm reading this right, the concept of power beamed down to Earth from satellites is credited to the SimCity crew. However, at least one version of this idea has occurred before; namely in the comic Flash Gordon. The episode was called "The Observer" (translated to Finnish and now back again to English).
IIRC this was covered in The Matrix triology, but... The Heisenberg Principle of Uncertainty in combo with Chaos Theory should be enough to convince anyone that Discordianism is the ultimate One True religion. =)
Electrogravity renders the normal concept of 'light' a defunct term as it is about combining the idea of the electromagnetic photon with the hypothetical graviton. Most likely it will also do away with the idea of particles in favor of waves as a concept for modelling. An interesting thing to note here is that particles have actually never been seen, but their existence is assumed because of an interaction that occurs. The idea that only the interaction exists, while the particle is just an idea we invented, seems a bit alien since we are so used to the idea. The possibility that it rests on nothing more than an assumption is disregarded. A wave as a model is nothing more than that; a model. It is like the 'field' used to describe for instance magnetics. The field is not a real thing itself, but a mathematical model of what interaction to expect where. It is nothing more than a graph in your calculator, without time. Give a value on x, run it through the model, and receive a value one y. Visually you draw the curve, apply the ruler vertically at the x-value, check where it intersects the graph, and read off the y-value. - When you apply this to nature, the x and y is all you see, and the graph is a construct made to predict the future. Both the phenomena and the graph are 'real', but real in quite different ways.
Intermission: I am starting to zone out. Multiple trails of thought, forking out. Attempting not to digress with some difficulty.
A wave-model in this way would only represent the phenomena that can be predicted using it. Nothing would be assumed of what is behind it. The idea of mass could no longer be applied the usual way, as there is no particle to apply it to; only the wave-model of interaction. This puts inertia in a rather new light, and when I figure out how that works, I'm sure I'll reach enlightment.
Sorry if I've only managed being confusing. Standing on the shoulders of giants is much easier than reaching from the ground to the sky. =/
If it is FTL communication, then we've stumbled into the area of electrogravity. FTL is not an impossibility; it just stands in relation to relativistic physics as it stands in relation to classic physics.
As many know, around a black hole there is a very strong gravitational field. This field has the property of bending the dimension of time itself. We can therefore state that time is not linear, and that a hypothetical theory of electrogravity would be entirely four-dimensional. This would mean that as far as the theory is concerned, there is no difference between cause and effect (as you can from our 3D perspective look at it backwards and forwards; wine filling a shattered glass that reassembles and hops up on the table), and time would be something that only stood in relation to us. The actual EG math, formulas et al., would be like the math familiar from school. - No time variable. - The formulas simply show how things stand in relation to each other, and if one thing is the cause or the other is effect; that is entirely up to us to determine.
I installed it. Very nice thing to have since I have 768MB RAM. So far, nothing suspicious going on. It does however remind me a bit of *spit* Windows ME *spit*.
Because everybody knows who Sun is and what Sun does. It's what branding is all about. If Sun started with a new niché, people would still hold the old connotitions with them. It'd be easier for Sun to create a new daughter company for the niché, but old Sun would still linger.
Also, for Sun to practically go about finding a new niché, they'd have to make a lot of internal changes, with staff, production, etc.
All coming to pass, Sun would not be Sun anymore. Might as well scrap the old and start again.
Slashdot Mirror
Two points:
1. Overwhelming majority of worlds planes are still non-stealth
2. Tell you comment to the pilot of the F-117 that the Serbs shot down
1. Stealth aicraft will be deplyed where they are most effective. They are not invisible to radar; _only harder to detect_.
2. Refer to your sources, so I can properly address the issue.
But the group of people you know, does represent the military as a whole?
I never said I knew a group of people. I've made inqueries and detected reoccuring statements of alcoholism.
And those same soldiers form the core of the war-time military. And do you assume that in case of war, the people are just handed an assault-rifle and told to go shoot some Russians? No, they receive training as well.
Not so. The people who go on peacekeeping missions are voulunteers, and not forced against their will like the majority of the military force.
In case of war, how long do you think the bulk of the fighting force would be trained? A week? - In one week Finland would be overrun. The people who go on peacekeeping operations are trained much longer, and to compare them with a Finnish soldier rushed onto the battle field from civilian life is pure fallacy.
And doing that would cost them too much when looking at what they get in return. Comprende? you cannot invade a country with air-force, you need troops in the ground. And just look how well Russia is doing in Chechnya. Why would it be any easier in Finland?
In return they get the Finnish BNP, natural resources and strategic geographical advantage against the rest of Europe. Comprende?
You _can_ invade a country through air force, and unless you've been living under a rock you'd know it happened last time right after 9.11.2001.
And how is Russia doing in Chechnya...? - Dropping vacuum bombs, internationally banned as cruel, on civilians. And the world does not lift a finger.
Finland is a large country, and about 80% of it is covered with forests. Good luck carpet-bombing anyone there. It didn't help in Vietnam, and it wouldn't help in Finland.
/.
With the first line, I was not speaking about Finland in particular, but of modern warfare in general. In the case of Finland, the point I made about IR tech applies, rendering the first line appliant.
Not quite. The planes in the Finnish Airforce are just about the best money can buy (F/A-18 Hornets). And they have advanced SAM-batteries (Crotale NG's, Russian BUK's)
Yes, all 63 of them. SAMs are mostly useless against stealth aircraft, and rely on being able to k-kill aircraft before they can deliver their payload.
Quite simply, the one with the most planes wins.
I actually know people who are in MPKK (equivalent to West Point). And let's just say that I don't share your "vision" about them.
And we all know this group of people you know stands to represent the rest of all the regular staff. Close to nothing of what is really going on gets reported because the whistleblowers are not allowed anonymity, like people here on
And the Finnish Soldiers in Kosovo are highly respected by the others there. They are not outclassed by those "professional" militaries in any shape or form.
They have all recieved special training for this mission, and as they get quite a lot of pay for it, they should be concidered "professionals".
Of course if Russian used all their military-power in invading Finland, they could do it. But that's not the point. The point is that invading Finland would cost them too much, that the effort is not worth the cost.
It would not take all their military power, but only enough to establish air-superiority and surpress infantry.
Foot soldiers can't do much when faced with carpet bombing except turn into minced meat. Not even artillery is worth a damn if air-superiority cannot be obtained. Modern-day IR technology can be used to spot individuals from high in the sky, so the infantry has no stealth to speak of either. What foot soldiers _can_ be used for is secure a city in a hostile take-over, as tanks and planes are inappropriate.
The people of Finland, however, will never allow an attack, and as such our military is to be entirely defensive. - And foot soldiers have no place in defence except for blocking bullets.
Finland has recently started aqcuiring a number of armored vehicles to replace an aging garage, but completely neglected the defence of air-space. With hostile skies the vehicles stand defenseless, and are as such completely useless.
To cut a long story short, in my eyes the Finnish army is the epitome of incompetence. The regular staff is the bottom layer of individuals which could not get a decent job in civilian life. A lot of them are alcoholics, the bread of the State the only thing separating them from the averenge bum.
The only country Finland could have a chance against in a war is Sweden, and that is until they've finished the process of reforming their military. (Yes, they have one. Any notion of otherwise is wishful thinking and ignorance of simple fact. If the Russian Bear was to walk over our border we'd simply be the next Chechnia.
I'm going to stop ranting now, before I pop a vein.
From younger days, I remember people speaking a lot about braincells dieing because they were not in use. I never devoted the time to figure out how this could be a Good Thing, but if a chip can do it too then surely it takes a step closer towards acting like the brain does. Maybe the brain works at a lower level than this IBM solution, and builds up its logical circuits by nuking selected cells?
"eFUSE reroutes chip logic, much the way highway traffic patterns can be altered by opening and closing new lanes," said Bernard Meyerson...
...And much like the neurons in the brain? Doesn't his have rather large significance to AI, or artificial life, for that matter? If the IBM solution is part software, who is to say that the software cannot be intelligent?
...Tell me about it. I thought it was the mobo that bent a bit, however.
Also, there's a good chance the mobo itself fries doing this.
This also happened to my cousin, whose Voodoo 3 I just posted about soldering. Nice to have other people's HW to play with.
One of the thingies, maybe a capacitator, on my cousin's old Voodoo 3 came off while I was refurnishing the internals of his machine. I got this old, big and bulky soldering iron and a thick piece of solder, soldered the thingie back on and put the card back in. - It worked.
(Without the capacitator the card didn't work.)
Cochlear Implant
My mother has one of these. She is by defenition a cyborg.
There is no assumption of disorder or destruction with anarchy, unlike chaos.
Again with the spoon-feeding... Chaos in not destructive, but rather causes creation. The original Greek word had the meaning of "chasm", or "void", but today it is more commonly (mis)used to describe dis-order. Yet disorder is not destructive either, and is often a source of inspiration.
Am I full of shit? Read the Principia Discordia and see if it destroys or inspires you. I should know it is the latter, as I am both an anarchist and a Discordianist.
Isn't the American ideal capitalism? Free competition?
Surely we'll see the flexing of large legislative muscles and a lot of economic saber rattling because of this.
...Kill me now.
Well don'cha feel big, bro? Howd'ya come 'cross dis' information?
(No way am I posting this with my account. [And please do notice the play on words before modding this -1.])
If I'm reading this right, the concept of power beamed down to Earth from satellites is credited to the SimCity crew.
However, at least one version of this idea has occurred before; namely in the comic Flash Gordon. The episode was called "The Observer" (translated to Finnish and now back again to English).
http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
Completely anonymous too. Albeit slow as a snail on valium.
An increase of users is supposed to equal an increase in speed. Unconfirmed.
Google has the front page of the site cached, in case no one sets up a mirror.
IIRC this was covered in The Matrix triology, but...
The Heisenberg Principle of Uncertainty in combo with Chaos Theory should be enough to convince anyone that Discordianism is the ultimate One True religion. =)
Electrogravity renders the normal concept of 'light' a defunct term as it is about combining the idea of the electromagnetic photon with the hypothetical graviton. Most likely it will also do away with the idea of particles in favor of waves as a concept for modelling.
An interesting thing to note here is that particles have actually never been seen, but their existence is assumed because of an interaction that occurs. The idea that only the interaction exists, while the particle is just an idea we invented, seems a bit alien since we are so used to the idea. The possibility that it rests on nothing more than an assumption is disregarded.
A wave as a model is nothing more than that; a model. It is like the 'field' used to describe for instance magnetics. The field is not a real thing itself, but a mathematical model of what interaction to expect where. It is nothing more than a graph in your calculator, without time. Give a value on x, run it through the model, and receive a value one y. Visually you draw the curve, apply the ruler vertically at the x-value, check where it intersects the graph, and read off the y-value. - When you apply this to nature, the x and y is all you see, and the graph is a construct made to predict the future. Both the phenomena and the graph are 'real', but real in quite different ways.
Intermission: I am starting to zone out. Multiple trails of thought, forking out. Attempting not to digress with some difficulty.
A wave-model in this way would only represent the phenomena that can be predicted using it. Nothing would be assumed of what is behind it. The idea of mass could no longer be applied the usual way, as there is no particle to apply it to; only the wave-model of interaction. This puts inertia in a rather new light, and when I figure out how that works, I'm sure I'll reach enlightment.
Sorry if I've only managed being confusing. Standing on the shoulders of giants is much easier than reaching from the ground to the sky. =/
If it is FTL communication, then we've stumbled into the area of electrogravity.
FTL is not an impossibility; it just stands in relation to relativistic physics as it stands in relation to classic physics.
As many know, around a black hole there is a very strong gravitational field. This field has the property of bending the dimension of time itself. We can therefore state that time is not linear, and that a hypothetical theory of electrogravity would be entirely four-dimensional. This would mean that as far as the theory is concerned, there is no difference between cause and effect (as you can from our 3D perspective look at it backwards and forwards; wine filling a shattered glass that reassembles and hops up on the table), and time would be something that only stood in relation to us. The actual EG math, formulas et al., would be like the math familiar from school. - No time variable. - The formulas simply show how things stand in relation to each other, and if one thing is the cause or the other is effect; that is entirely up to us to determine.
BREW
Looks really pretty, but it'll probably give you for free a good deal of the products Sony wants to sell you. Ergo you're unlikely to see it.
Why did I click that link?? Now THEY've got my IP. Gotta hide... gotta hide!
I installed it. Very nice thing to have since I have 768MB RAM.
So far, nothing suspicious going on. It does however remind me a bit of *spit* Windows ME *spit*.
They called themselves Vikings, predated, and were a lot better at it than pirates.
Aaah, it's good the young ones keep up the traditions. 1st of May is even today the day to drink copious amounts of mead.
Open Source software.
Because everybody knows who Sun is and what Sun does. It's what branding is all about. If Sun started with a new niché, people would still hold the old connotitions with them. It'd be easier for Sun to create a new daughter company for the niché, but old Sun would still linger.
Also, for Sun to practically go about finding a new niché, they'd have to make a lot of internal changes, with staff, production, etc.
All coming to pass, Sun would not be Sun anymore. Might as well scrap the old and start again.
Ah, so that's the name of it. I knew my memory wasn't playing tricks on me. =)