Well, and at the same time it's definitely not the case with...a lot of other modern aircraft; just a different group.
Take this SU-27 from the topic, for example. Yes, it has thrust vectoring and fly-by-wire. But the airframe, its aerodynamics, is basically shared with MiG-29, which has none of those "cheats", good old direct pilot input. And it's aerodynamically...fabulous. It can perform cobra maneuver ffs! (yes, pre-FBW MiG-29 too). And operate from improvised airfields, so it might be a better choice for an "amateur";p
Plus there were many aircraft from WW2 period with very bad flying characteristics...
Oligarchies operating under the veil of social equality, such as the Chinese one (or those once present in Eastern part of Europe) sometimes work, well, in mysterious ways.
Semi-officially it could be something such trivial as the will to distance themselves from the "rotten West", a way to prove that "we are better" (while the pornography "issue" almost arbitrarily fell into it as one of the categories). Semi-officially...and still likely not very accurate explanation.
Also, while suppressing such powerful force in them, people need / try to find internal rationalization for the state of affairs; otherwise it would be unbearable. They actually start to be deeply convinced in all the BS, makes the whole thing easier for them without feeling alienated (and humans generally fare bad at dealing with alienation).
It causes them to pass, themselves, without strong external pressure immediately present, the trait onto their children. Which, among other factors, nicely ensures self-perpetration of oppressive society.
It's actually a very appropriate, even polite, method of communication in many circumstances. One that doesn't scream at you "ANSWER NOW! I DEMAND TO TALK TO YOU RIGHT NOW!!!"
Was it really that big of a joke? (considering the area!) It survived a decade long war with Iran, it was able to take on almost any other regional power. Only external forces humiliated it militarily.
As for governing...I'm not saying in the least that it was roses (me being from a place with its own history of repression and corruption - BTW, don't think even for a second those things ended in Iraq). But it's telling that it would be hard to present a strong argument why it was really worse in Iraq back then, in comparison to how it is now (or vice versa).
Remark 2 is a bid weird considering that he was flying F-4...not the most agile of fighters, too often lost, also because of that, even against subsonic MiGs. Plus #2 isn't really universally true, there were different eras in philosophy of fighter design after WW2, not always emphasizing maneuverability.
Also, I'm surprised he didn't quote "F-4 - triumph of engine power over aerodynamics";p
BTW, if you are willing to make a distinction between "flying" (in a sim) and owning a fighter jet - many are quite affordable, when not capable of flight anymore.
Hence I said your phone doesn't allow that, it's exactly correct (BTW, since my GSM phone is an unlocked "world phone" with most major frequency ranges supported - it's more than your cheap 3G across US only)
There's nothing Luddite about pointing out that using paper maps is an activity a child can grasp but you are apparently lost. I said nowhere about not having GPS as a backup...it's simply not always needed. And it's actually more pleasant to check where you are while in some new city by actually looking around.
Plus releasing On2 tech as a standard without legal encumbrances, for everyone to take & implement freely, and opening its adoption as the HTML5 video?
You know what is one of the main reasons the biggest phone manufacturer is almost nonexistent in the US? Several years ago Nokia didn't agree for castration of their phones as requested by US carriers (so they went with RAZR)
You might want to dismiss this trivia as irrelevant analogy, but it illustrates that ultimately the functionality of the phone is a responsibility of its manufacturer. Apple at the least doesn't mind castrating functions much, so it's not too far fetched to put part of the blame on them.
I have cheap 3G in any country where I want to have it. Simply put, the concept of using a prepaid SIM card from local operator eludes you; heck, your phone doesn't even allow that.
And it's hilarious that you remember about looking up street names but can't connect that to the efficient usage of paper map...
Size of built-in storage is actually a bigger issue in iPhone than in contemporary or preceding phones; in those, yes, internal memory was often small, but it could be actually extended. Similarly...browser, many other functions - iPhone didn't pioneer them. What it certainly did do was having UI which exploits the hardware of its era, without historical cruft, beautifully integrated.
As for inspiration...hm, you might also look at, preceding iPhone, early Maemo tablets; too bad they weren't given mobile telephony module, probably due to corporate infighting.
You are misinformed (and here you didn't even need to perform any basic calculations...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-force#Human_tolerance_of_g-force Early experiments showed that untrained humans were able to tolerate 17 g eyeballs-in (compared to 12 g eyeballs-out) for several minutes// I would venture a guess they were breathing and their brain was supplied with blood// without loss of consciousness or apparent long-term harm. The record for peak experimental horizontal g-force tolerance is held by acceleration pioneer John Stapp, in a series of rocket sled deceleration experiments in which he survived forces up to 46.2 times the force of gravity for less than a second. Stapp suffered lifelong damage to his vision from this test//"this test" likely means eyeballs-out (emphasis mine)
In my hypothetical scenario with 20 g that acceleration would last only 17 seconds, quite bearable. In the overboard example with 42 g, it would last 12 seconds (eyeballs-in!), which still might be survivable (and with eyeballs-in, which stresses eyes less, perhaps even without long-term damage)
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Now that;s interestingly ambitious.
I assume teachers aren't allowed to wear wedding rings? They are, after all, a public display of affections to whoever they are married with...
BTW, consider: the "Greatest Generation" folks who ran things back in the 1960s/70s are the ones who shaped people running the show today.
Heck, a child would violate the second.
Well, and at the same time it's definitely not the case with...a lot of other modern aircraft; just a different group.
Take this SU-27 from the topic, for example. Yes, it has thrust vectoring and fly-by-wire. But the airframe, its aerodynamics, is basically shared with MiG-29, which has none of those "cheats", good old direct pilot input. And it's aerodynamically...fabulous. It can perform cobra maneuver ffs! (yes, pre-FBW MiG-29 too). And operate from improvised airfields, so it might be a better choice for an "amateur" ;p
Plus there were many aircraft from WW2 period with very bad flying characteristics...
Nordic countries? ;) Sea-faring ships? ;p
Oligarchies operating under the veil of social equality, such as the Chinese one (or those once present in Eastern part of Europe) sometimes work, well, in mysterious ways.
Semi-officially it could be something such trivial as the will to distance themselves from the "rotten West", a way to prove that "we are better" (while the pornography "issue" almost arbitrarily fell into it as one of the categories). Semi-officially...and still likely not very accurate explanation.
Also, while suppressing such powerful force in them, people need / try to find internal rationalization for the state of affairs; otherwise it would be unbearable. They actually start to be deeply convinced in all the BS, makes the whole thing easier for them without feeling alienated (and humans generally fare bad at dealing with alienation).
It causes them to pass, themselves, without strong external pressure immediately present, the trait onto their children. Which, among other factors, nicely ensures self-perpetration of oppressive society.
It's actually a very appropriate, even polite, method of communication in many circumstances. One that doesn't scream at you "ANSWER NOW! I DEMAND TO TALK TO YOU RIGHT NOW!!!"
Was it really that big of a joke? (considering the area!) It survived a decade long war with Iran, it was able to take on almost any other regional power. Only external forces humiliated it militarily.
As for governing...I'm not saying in the least that it was roses (me being from a place with its own history of repression and corruption - BTW, don't think even for a second those things ended in Iraq). But it's telling that it would be hard to present a strong argument why it was really worse in Iraq back then, in comparison to how it is now (or vice versa).
Remark 2 is a bid weird considering that he was flying F-4...not the most agile of fighters, too often lost, also because of that, even against subsonic MiGs. Plus #2 isn't really universally true, there were different eras in philosophy of fighter design after WW2, not always emphasizing maneuverability.
Also, I'm surprised he didn't quote "F-4 - triumph of engine power over aerodynamics" ;p
BTW, if you are willing to make a distinction between "flying" (in a sim) and owning a fighter jet - many are quite affordable, when not capable of flight anymore.
Hence I said your phone doesn't allow that, it's exactly correct (BTW, since my GSM phone is an unlocked "world phone" with most major frequency ranges supported - it's more than your cheap 3G across US only)
There's nothing Luddite about pointing out that using paper maps is an activity a child can grasp but you are apparently lost. I said nowhere about not having GPS as a backup...it's simply not always needed. And it's actually more pleasant to check where you are while in some new city by actually looking around.
Most likely. But are we sure we're going to be able to tell the difference while it approaches?
Robots are destined to rule the world, destroying all humans is a good thing.
Of course I wasn't really serious.
But you know, as far as the region goes (and disregarding massive external...pressures one or two times), he did quite well...
VLC or more generally libavcodec, even if not using any latest hardware decoding support, would still be much better than Flash...
Plus releasing On2 tech as a standard without legal encumbrances, for everyone to take & implement freely, and opening its adoption as the HTML5 video?
That would be interesting...
synching desktop app for seamless integration of playlists and device backup Windows media player does not really count IMO
I suspect Android supports that via MTP, Media Transfer Protocol (which is a standard); meaning it's not really limited to WMP...
You know what is one of the main reasons the biggest phone manufacturer is almost nonexistent in the US? Several years ago Nokia didn't agree for castration of their phones as requested by US carriers (so they went with RAZR)
You might want to dismiss this trivia as irrelevant analogy, but it illustrates that ultimately the functionality of the phone is a responsibility of its manufacturer. Apple at the least doesn't mind castrating functions much, so it's not too far fetched to put part of the blame on them.
I have cheap 3G in any country where I want to have it. Simply put, the concept of using a prepaid SIM card from local operator eludes you; heck, your phone doesn't even allow that.
And it's hilarious that you remember about looking up street names but can't connect that to the efficient usage of paper map...
Size of built-in storage is actually a bigger issue in iPhone than in contemporary or preceding phones; in those, yes, internal memory was often small, but it could be actually extended. Similarly...browser, many other functions - iPhone didn't pioneer them. What it certainly did do was having UI which exploits the hardware of its era, without historical cruft, beautifully integrated.
As for inspiration...hm, you might also look at, preceding iPhone, early Maemo tablets; too bad they weren't given mobile telephony module, probably due to corporate infighting.
I'm not sure elimination of any metal objects, with lengths affecting the wide usable spectrum, is anywhere near practical...
They are not interested in scientific explanations in the slightest. "Scientific" implies non-discriminatory look at available data and theories.
Whereas conspiracy theorists operate on the basis of strong confirmation bias.
You are misinformed (and here you didn't even need to perform any basic calculations...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-force#Human_tolerance_of_g-force // I would venture a guess they were breathing and their brain was supplied with blood // without loss of consciousness or apparent long-term harm. The record for peak experimental horizontal g-force tolerance is held by acceleration pioneer John Stapp, in a series of rocket sled deceleration experiments in which he survived forces up to 46.2 times the force of gravity for less than a second. Stapp suffered lifelong damage to his vision from this test //"this test" likely means eyeballs-out
Early experiments showed that untrained humans were able to tolerate 17 g eyeballs-in (compared to 12 g eyeballs-out) for several minutes
(emphasis mine)
In my hypothetical scenario with 20 g that acceleration would last only 17 seconds, quite bearable. In the overboard example with 42 g, it would last 12 seconds (eyeballs-in!), which still might be survivable (and with eyeballs-in, which stresses eyes less, perhaps even without long-term damage)
Saturn V? Dr. Evil would like a word with you...
Railroads are very, very sound economically, they just have high upfront cost. Don't confuse the two issues.