What the longer wings make me wonder is "Where are you going to park it?" Apron space at airports is already critically limited. How on earth do they expect to dock something with absurdly long wings?
It's a good point. I've had a similar experience. I was told by my doctor that I had an incurable condition and would require expensive medication semi-regularly for the rest of my life. I immediately set out to learn more about the illness and upon doing further research I noted that some things didn't quite add up. I insisted on extra tests (just to be sure, doc) and sure enough they came back negative.
Now, a bit of internet reading won't make me an expert, but during my consultation it allowed me to be an active participant and not just a recipient of diagnosis from on high.
Very interesting and very informative. Thank you for your comments. Can I infer that you're involved with the program somewhere, or just knowledgable about it?
Minor failures, sure, but I don't think I've ever heard of a shuttle performing an abort. In fact, I don't recall any successfully recovered in-flight catastrophe since Apollo 13. That said, that's probably because the crews do a good enough job that minor problems on the ground don't translate into major problems in flight.
It's not whether they're preventable so much as when stuff goes wrong with rockets it (tends) to go spectacularly wrong. Soft failures seem to be in the minority.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who read that as Cyber-Roach Forces reconsidering their ambulatory strategies to no doubt increase their already terrifyingly lethal capabilities.
The money required to pay off all the debt and solve the counties problems is orders of magnitude greater than the money required to properly fund the space program to do great things
Just so - especially when you consider the trillion dollars going into defence spending every year. Some people may argue that defence spending stimulates economies and provides jobs but it strikes me as absurd that those same people couldn't be equally gainfully employed developing similarly advance technology for peaceful space exploration.
Depends on what you're looking for in games. If you want vapid console titles, sure - great! If you want deep and thoughtful simulations or (god forbid) adventure games, you're out of luck.
I live a similar lifestyle. I don't own a car (although I was previously in a position to buy one outright, but chose not to since I was moving countries). I don't own a house, but rent. I pay my phone bill month to month - ironically, they wouldn't let me put it on a contract even if I wanted to, because I'm a dirty foreigner. I don't pay for TV (or even own a TV). My employer pays my health insurance. I don't have a credit card, but I have a debit card tied to my bank account so I only ever spend money I actually have.
The only 'debt' I have is the Oz Higher Education Contribution Scheme, which paid for my university schooling, which I don't have to start paying back until I earn over a certain amount. The government scheme was craftily pronounced "HECS" but that made it sound like some sort of curse. Now they've changed it to Higher Education Loan Plan or somesuch, which has the much more digestible acronym of "HELP".
When my folks die, I hope to inherit a third of the family home and buy out my siblings. It is my ambition to never take a loan.
if you went through your childhood without ever getting into trouble and had only perfect grades, you're badly prepared for adult living.
I was that kind of kid. I got bullied for it, too. After being tormented at school every day for over a decade I learned to fight violence with more violence, but be smart enough to cultivate the good kid image and so never got in trouble. Sure, I couldn't stop the name calling, but nobody laid a finger on me after the first time.
It was a valuable lesson that sometimes the smart aggressive response is the correct response.
I agree with you, but I think a better analogy to PC security is hiring a chauffeur to drive your car. Suppose you tell him to drive to a bad part of town so you can check out the russian porn sites, but don't lock your doors. While you're away somebody opens the car, clubs Jeeves over the back of the head, steals his uniform and pretends to be him. When you get back to the car, you sit in the back seat and tell him where to go and don't really pay attention to the fact that now he has a mustache and speaks only Nigerian.
If you'd had locks on your car (and if you'd avoided the bad parts of town) then you'd be ok. However, because you went to foolish places and didn't take precautions, it's no surprise that next time you tell Jeeves to take you to the bank, you get taken for a ride in more ways than one.
It's an argument based on economics rather than capability. In the civilian sphere, it is simply not as lucrative to operate high-speed aircraft compared to jammed-tight cattle-class haulers. 24 hours to anywhere on Earth is reasonable performance; shaving it down to 4 hours has diminishing returns. However, cutting the cost of that 24 hour ticket in half have a much greater payoff in terms of higher aircraft utilisation and lower operating costs.
In the military sphere large, fast expensive aircraft make great targets compared to cheap unmanned strike vehicles. Systems like cruise missiles make it much cheaper and less politically risky to penetrate enemy airspace for first-strike. The major role manned aircraft have over cruise missiles and unmanned systems in the field is pilot discretion and situational awareness. Both of those benefits go out the window when you're travelling at mach 3+.
Wargames was also a product of a time when a clock counting down was a very apt metaphor for the global political situation. As such, a single phonecall and a timer were perfect tools for unseen but potentially catastrophic peril. Even today, the telephone (or more often cell phone) remains a powerful tool to convey distant potent malice - something is on the end of the line, and it doesn't intend you good. Just as Harley Warren.
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What the longer wings make me wonder is "Where are you going to park it?" Apron space at airports is already critically limited. How on earth do they expect to dock something with absurdly long wings?
It's a good point. I've had a similar experience. I was told by my doctor that I had an incurable condition and would require expensive medication semi-regularly for the rest of my life. I immediately set out to learn more about the illness and upon doing further research I noted that some things didn't quite add up. I insisted on extra tests (just to be sure, doc) and sure enough they came back negative.
Now, a bit of internet reading won't make me an expert, but during my consultation it allowed me to be an active participant and not just a recipient of diagnosis from on high.
Of course: she is.
Very interesting and very informative. Thank you for your comments. Can I infer that you're involved with the program somewhere, or just knowledgable about it?
Minor failures, sure, but I don't think I've ever heard of a shuttle performing an abort. In fact, I don't recall any successfully recovered in-flight catastrophe since Apollo 13. That said, that's probably because the crews do a good enough job that minor problems on the ground don't translate into major problems in flight.
It's not whether they're preventable so much as when stuff goes wrong with rockets it (tends) to go spectacularly wrong. Soft failures seem to be in the minority.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who read that as Cyber-Roach Forces reconsidering their ambulatory strategies to no doubt increase their already terrifyingly lethal capabilities.
The money required to pay off all the debt and solve the counties problems is orders of magnitude greater than the money required to properly fund the space program to do great things
Just so - especially when you consider the trillion dollars going into defence spending every year. Some people may argue that defence spending stimulates economies and provides jobs but it strikes me as absurd that those same people couldn't be equally gainfully employed developing similarly advance technology for peaceful space exploration.
As tends to be the way with all rockets, and high-energy systems in general.
Depends on what you're looking for in games. If you want vapid console titles, sure - great! If you want deep and thoughtful simulations or (god forbid) adventure games, you're out of luck.
I live a similar lifestyle. I don't own a car (although I was previously in a position to buy one outright, but chose not to since I was moving countries). I don't own a house, but rent. I pay my phone bill month to month - ironically, they wouldn't let me put it on a contract even if I wanted to, because I'm a dirty foreigner. I don't pay for TV (or even own a TV). My employer pays my health insurance. I don't have a credit card, but I have a debit card tied to my bank account so I only ever spend money I actually have.
The only 'debt' I have is the Oz Higher Education Contribution Scheme, which paid for my university schooling, which I don't have to start paying back until I earn over a certain amount. The government scheme was craftily pronounced "HECS" but that made it sound like some sort of curse. Now they've changed it to Higher Education Loan Plan or somesuch, which has the much more digestible acronym of "HELP".
When my folks die, I hope to inherit a third of the family home and buy out my siblings. It is my ambition to never take a loan.
Yes. And also, it's isn't natural for you to harbour such thoughts about your mother. Seriously, you need therapy.
I'm so glad there's finally a solution! I'm so tired from outrunning those mobs of horny women lusting for geek guys.
Easy!
if you went through your childhood without ever getting into trouble and had only perfect grades, you're badly prepared for adult living.
I was that kind of kid. I got bullied for it, too. After being tormented at school every day for over a decade I learned to fight violence with more violence, but be smart enough to cultivate the good kid image and so never got in trouble. Sure, I couldn't stop the name calling, but nobody laid a finger on me after the first time.
It was a valuable lesson that sometimes the smart aggressive response is the correct response.
It strikes me that a better use of a fourth colour pixel would be to represent all those greens the RGB colour space doesn't actually represent.
I agree with you, but I think a better analogy to PC security is hiring a chauffeur to drive your car. Suppose you tell him to drive to a bad part of town so you can check out the russian porn sites, but don't lock your doors. While you're away somebody opens the car, clubs Jeeves over the back of the head, steals his uniform and pretends to be him. When you get back to the car, you sit in the back seat and tell him where to go and don't really pay attention to the fact that now he has a mustache and speaks only Nigerian.
If you'd had locks on your car (and if you'd avoided the bad parts of town) then you'd be ok. However, because you went to foolish places and didn't take precautions, it's no surprise that next time you tell Jeeves to take you to the bank, you get taken for a ride in more ways than one.
Oh yeah, and for a Microsoftie to say "...open your mind a tiny bit...", well, it's very funny at least.
I'd say he took the blue pill.
It's an argument based on economics rather than capability. In the civilian sphere, it is simply not as lucrative to operate high-speed aircraft compared to jammed-tight cattle-class haulers. 24 hours to anywhere on Earth is reasonable performance; shaving it down to 4 hours has diminishing returns. However, cutting the cost of that 24 hour ticket in half have a much greater payoff in terms of higher aircraft utilisation and lower operating costs.
In the military sphere large, fast expensive aircraft make great targets compared to cheap unmanned strike vehicles. Systems like cruise missiles make it much cheaper and less politically risky to penetrate enemy airspace for first-strike. The major role manned aircraft have over cruise missiles and unmanned systems in the field is pilot discretion and situational awareness. Both of those benefits go out the window when you're travelling at mach 3+.
from the thats-one-big-twinkie dept.
I think the editors beat you to it.
Wargames was also a product of a time when a clock counting down was a very apt metaphor for the global political situation. As such, a single phonecall and a timer were perfect tools for unseen but potentially catastrophic peril. Even today, the telephone (or more often cell phone) remains a powerful tool to convey distant potent malice - something is on the end of the line, and it doesn't intend you good. Just as Harley Warren.
Can't it be both?
Pokeberry, I choose you!
Actually, I thought it was because of Howard.
Too right. That's all that stops me from eating them.