I specifically addressed that issue. Now some math to back it up:
12" at standard ratio of 4:3 yeilds 9.6" x 7.2"
15" at standard ratio of 16:9 yeilds 13"x7.4"
It is about the same length (only 2% longer) but its width (which becomes the length in your backpack) is 4 inches greater. Most backbacks I have used have had width being the limiting factor. All could fit a standard legal sized notebook in them, which coincidentaly (or perhaps not) is about an inch larger than the toshiba in every direction.
It IS bigger than the 12" this is correct. however it is bigger in only one direction and since all of the other specs are so significantly superior, I think this is an area where one could compromise.
You can't expect to get exactly an ibook on PC hardware. It would be an ibook then. You are unwilling to allow your specifications to be flexable in one dimension to get significant gains in another. In fact, I did not mention either the weight or battery of the offerings. here they are: for the Toshiba weight: 8 lbs. Battery life: 2 hrs.
So the PC IS a little heavier. (And i think jokes about the 3 lb. difference may be relevant.) But the battery life is a big downside. It all depends on what you're trying to do with your laptop.
Taking notes in class? ok you're probably right about the ibook.. IF your professor appreciates the clicking keys. Doing graphics manipulation on the plane? the PC would be more useful.
I am of the opinion that 6hrs battery is about the minimum useful time for a 'battery powered computer.' 2hrs is meerly the minimum sufficient for a 'battery moveable externally powered computer'
The original poster requested a price competetive 12" laptop with 'separate gfx card' This machine is price competative, roughly the same size as a 12" laptop and has superior everything else (except size and weight) I propose that you must be specific about which metrics are important in your specification: is minor deviation from a point acceptable? or are you steadfastly refusing to consider alternatives.
I fail to see how they would be energy efficient. mass transit will always be more efficient than indivual transit however, the main beef I had with people concerning minority report was that even without the "Dept. of precrime" the world was a pretty desolate and drab place to live. Yet my friends expressed a desire to live in a place much like that world. A world of rampant drug abuse, stark uniformity (despite constant adverts or maybe because of them) and low regard for human rights.
It's the ultimate extension of a safety obsessed communist culture. Life seems good for the ruling class (Starfleet) but for everyone else? Like the workers in Metropolis, they are hidden from view. Pretty much any form of self-improvement except new-agey personal well-being is frowned upon. No one in the federation travels without papers (in fact, there is not enough industry to support heavy starship building. Let alone interplanetary shipping and travel.) Intra-planetery movement is limited as well. Transporter usage is heavily rationed for civillians. (And why should this be the case in a civilization that has the technology to mine the stars for energy?) Unless you're in the ruling class, life is very prison like. It's a prison with glass walls and satin sheets, but it's a prison nontheless.
ST and the world from Minority report are very similar in this approach. After analyzing the situation, I would not want to live in either world, yet people (and i assume the creators as well) believe these societies to be goals for the future. (everyone has the same car? and like soviet russia, car drives you? what's up with that?)
What?? that's not interesting. That's masochistic. The whole point of buying antivirus is to PAY others to become experts on those very things so you can get along with your life doing something more interesting to YOU. If you want to become an expert, great! Go ahead and make some scratch selling your services. Everyone doesn't have time for that. In fact, that's how civilization works: everyone is a specialist and does their thing to the best of their ability.
To carry your principle to the absurd, I offer this analogy.
Told ya, I've never had faith in a national military, since the concept first came out. They can't detect every threat imaginable and they sometimes make mistakes. Don't just go and pay your taxes for people to protect you, Take matters into your own hands.
I mean, Join a local militia and stockpile weapons to protect yourself. Research and buy body armor, wear it, and make sure your family members never leave the house without it. In fact, don't live in a city (that's where a lot of crime happens) Move your family out to rural suburbs, dig a moat and build your house out of reinforced concrete 1000 feet below the surface. Just to make sure you're safe, go to ceedy bars and work your way into the various gangs. They're all crooks and theives so they won't notice your infiltration. Get an enigma machine and learn to decrypt foreign communications. You should be able to at least tell where their major troop movements are.
(Also, you shouldn't buy your weapons and tanks, you should learn to forge steel from ore you find under the ground and mill into the appropriate shapes)
Interesting. Most of the people I know who run OSX Would really like to have linux but are just too darn important to spend the time configuring a linux distro to usefulness.
It took me more time to format and write this comment than it took me to find this: Toshiba Satellite
for $999 (the price of the cheapest 12" ibook) you get:
RAM: 512MB on board and one free slot, CPU: Intel mobile P4 (3.20GHz, 1MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB) OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition (SP2) BUNDLED: No Microsoft® Office software I'm willing to count this as a feature:) SCREEN: 15.4" Wide-screen XGA Display w/TruBrite(TM) (1280x800) GFX CARD: ATI MOBILITY(TM) RADEON(TM) 9000 IGP w/up to 128MB video memory (64MB default) 40GB HDD (5400rpm) REMOVEABLE DRIVE: 8x DVD-SuperMulti drive (IS also a DVD burner) WIRELESS: Atheros® Wireless LAN (802.11b/g) supporting Atheros SuperG(TM) technology
Now for the apple: 1.2GHz PowerPC G4 512K L2 cache @1.2GHz 12-inch TFT Displays 1024x768 resolution 256MB DDR266 SDRAM 30GB Ultra ATA drive Combo Drive (NOT a DVD burner) ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 32MB DDR video memory AirPort Extreme built-in
They appear to have similar graphics cards, (PC version has 2x the ram and is expantable). In all other areas except one, the PC wins: it's not 12"*.. Aparantly they are hard to find with screens that small. No amount of argument (except some benchmarks which i highly doubt you can produce) will convince me that a P4 mobile of more than 2x the speed (almost 3x!) of the G4 is slower than saidsame chip.
*It's 15" widescreen, so it's going to be pretty close to the 12" size in height, but it'll be a little longer - it's still going to fit in your backpack.
I'll admit I might have some bias because I own an 800ghz toshiba satellite (only two things wrong after 4 years of dropping it in the body search line at airports: keyboard connector came loose and battery never lasted long, died quickly as well) It even runs linux. Though If i were to buy another laptop right now, it'd be a powerbook (small form factor, OSX, allegedly good battery life) But performance wise, I'd to have to take the hit vs. similarly priced PC notebooks.
Any SW fanfic that can make a Pulp Fiction reference work is OK in my book. I thought 'troops' was more fun in general though. I was so mad when they barely got any mention at that awful lucas self-back-patting of SW fan film award show dealy. "I want ton ton's for Xmas?" what's up with that?
Have you ever seen the sniper school show they put on TLC (i think.. maybe history)? Those guys could hide themselves in full kit on your couch next to you and eat a burrito and you wouldn't even notice.
If they're in full view of YOU, they're not snipers. So who are those guys then?
Even more creepy than you've let on. They appear to take GAIM's code to use AOL's chat network to send THEIR ads. (Though if they use gaim code, they're right about it using the best IM client...) It's not as if they're providing an unique service (a la gaim allowing you to use AIM on linux and consolodate IM clients.. or a la AIM java-client allowing you to use IM on any java capable machine or a la AOL allowing you to use their servers for free)
If Gaim can't do anything about it, maybe AOL will.
Foudation did a pretty good job of it. Generally with prequels you aren't presumed to read in chronological order, rather in the order they're written. SW screwed this up by numbering the episodes, a good gimic when 4 came out, but not so fun when they actually tried to fill in the gaps. I won't say what I thought he should've done though, I know my skill level at writing screenplays. (hint: it's less than 1 and not negative.. at least i think it's not negative)
If you zoom in a little more, you'll notice that the roof of the white house has been replaced by brown rectangles. Whatever's up there, you're going to need to image it yourself if you want to know. My guess? No stingers or AA of any kind, no snipers of any kind. We expect those things to be there, but we seem to have more of a reactionary government than a pro-active government. I'll bet it's blocked out because people would wonder, "Where's all the stuff that's supposed to protect the president?"
From the article you qouted: "More than 70 percent knew oxygen comes from plants..."
Which you described as "30% of americans do not know that plants produce most of the Oxygen on earth..."
Apparantly many americans (I am assuming you're american based on your final paragraph) also lack critical thinking skills in determining what information is actually being provided.
Using you as an example. Though the ABC poll correctly stated that oxygen comes from plants and asserts that only 70% of americans know this fact, it does not mention that oxygen comes from other sources than plants. Among these are vulcanism and organisms other than plants. A majority of our oxygen probably comes from blue-green algae in the sea. Your statement is neither correct nor a correct interpretion of the results of the poll.
Oxygen comes from plants. Not all oxygen comes from plants. Most oxygen comes from sources that are not plants, but could be called plants if you're playing fast and loose with the definition of 'plant.'
From your final quote, "...and from the Highlights of the report, '...One-quarter of Americans understand the nature of scientific inquiry well enough to be able to make informed judgments about the scientific basis of results reported in the media...'"
We all need to remember that there's a good chance we're not in the "one-quarter" of americans who understand the nature of scientific inquiry. (assuming the results of the poll can be considered as an accurate sampling of all americans)
I never understood the get-out-the-vote campaigns either. It's very likely that the people who weren't going to vote don't pay very much attention at all. I certainly agree that we don't want people who can't be bothered to pay attention to 'the issues,' form an opinion of them and act on that opinion of their own volition shouldn't be encouraged to choose leaders for the rest of us.
A beast made of the meanest parts of other (some also mythical) beasts? I can't think of any interpretation if either chimera or phantom menace that equates the two.. (ok I can think of one, but it involves taking the definition of chimera and cutting it off after "A mythical beast...")
But 'myth' does not mean 'nonexistant' The menace of episode one WAS nonexistant, made up for the purpose of setting up future events. Even the "menace" of Darth Maul was exaggerated. As far as I can tell, all he did was walk around looking badass and fought two jedi, accidentally killing one.
The purpose of the constitution is to SECURE our rights, not to grant them. They are inalienable after all. Just because a right is not recognized in the constitution does not mean that you don't have it. (It also does not mean that you do...)
We weaken ourselves when we begin to believe that rights can be granted by an old piece of paper.
Just because space travel is costly for NASA doesn't mean it must be for the rest of us. As soon as it's profitable to do without NASA level budgeting, companies will scoop up the benjamins like there's no tomorrow.
The question is: was that 23% the size or 23% scale model, because those are two vastly different volumes.
And the corollary question is: was it an empty shell? or did it have the same mass distribution that the rocket will have?
Those are both true, but I don't see why they would be mad at us over them.
Then again, I don't see why the'd be mad about those other things i've mentioned (except I think we made a bit of a stink about the nuclear testing), but they seem to be.
A little of it is that france seems to be a bit of a hypocrite country. Many of us see them as taking the dubious stance AGAINST self-defense (and by extension premptive strikes) while engaging in some sort of activity in Ivory Coast that we don't fully understand. (Our media barely reports that it even happened) Yet, they also seem perfectly content to allow the US to continue to be the main peacekeeping force in the EU.
In other words, it seems of late that they are perfectly ok with spending american blood on french interests and french blood on french interests, but french blood on american interests (and even american blood on american interestes) is somehow dirty.
And btw, the statue of liberty was given to the US because they didn't want it in their country. and they helped during the revolution because it kept british troops bogged down in the colonies instead of fighting in europe. Both instances where french interests happened to coincide with american interests briefly. Though they certainly are valid motives, they are not the altruistic motives you imply.
Um.. you test engines in wind tunnels. Hypersonic wind tunnels are really hard to come by. There's one at Glenn Research Center near Cleveland, Ohio. They have a "moveable wall" to dial up different mach numbers for various projects made of inch and a half thick steel. It is one of the largest tunnels of its kind (very few are actually walk-in tunnels) but the usefull stream is probably very close to the size of the engine to be tested. I am unsure of what it's maximum mach number is, but it's definately single digit.
You start out by testing the engine at low speeds, and keep increasing speed until you notice some vibration mode that you didn't find before or you reach the limits of the materials you chose for initial testing. (like maybe you didn't wait for the blades to crystalize, but you're not using maximum engine stress so it cut fab time for the prototype) or any of a number of pre-defined stop points at which you evaluate the condition of the engine and either proceed with more testing or scrap and redesign. It seems they haven't tested it at its design speed yet.
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I specifically addressed that issue. Now some math to back it up:
12" at standard ratio of 4:3 yeilds 9.6" x 7.2"
15" at standard ratio of 16:9 yeilds 13"x7.4"
It is about the same length (only 2% longer) but its width (which becomes the length in your backpack) is 4 inches greater. Most backbacks I have used have had width being the limiting factor. All could fit a standard legal sized notebook in them, which coincidentaly (or perhaps not) is about an inch larger than the toshiba in every direction.
It IS bigger than the 12" this is correct. however it is bigger in only one direction and since all of the other specs are so significantly superior, I think this is an area where one could compromise.
You can't expect to get exactly an ibook on PC hardware. It would be an ibook then. You are unwilling to allow your specifications to be flexable in one dimension to get significant gains in another. In fact, I did not mention either the weight or battery of the offerings. here they are:
for the Toshiba
weight: 8 lbs.
Battery life: 2 hrs.
For the apple
battery life: 6 hrs.
weight: 5lbs.
So the PC IS a little heavier. (And i think jokes about the 3 lb. difference may be relevant.) But the battery life is a big downside. It all depends on what you're trying to do with your laptop.
Taking notes in class? ok you're probably right about the ibook.. IF your professor appreciates the clicking keys. Doing graphics manipulation on the plane? the PC would be more useful.
I am of the opinion that 6hrs battery is about the minimum useful time for a 'battery powered computer.' 2hrs is meerly the minimum sufficient for a 'battery moveable externally powered computer'
The original poster requested a price competetive 12" laptop with 'separate gfx card' This machine is price competative, roughly the same size as a 12" laptop and has superior everything else (except size and weight) I propose that you must be specific about which metrics are important in your specification: is minor deviation from a point acceptable? or are you steadfastly refusing to consider alternatives.
Price, Power, Weight choose 2.
I fail to see how they would be energy efficient. mass transit will always be more efficient than indivual transit however, the main beef I had with people concerning minority report was that even without the "Dept. of precrime" the world was a pretty desolate and drab place to live. Yet my friends expressed a desire to live in a place much like that world. A world of rampant drug abuse, stark uniformity (despite constant adverts or maybe because of them) and low regard for human rights.
It's self-limiting.
It's the ultimate extension of a safety obsessed communist culture. Life seems good for the ruling class (Starfleet) but for everyone else? Like the workers in Metropolis, they are hidden from view. Pretty much any form of self-improvement except new-agey personal well-being is frowned upon. No one in the federation travels without papers (in fact, there is not enough industry to support heavy starship building. Let alone interplanetary shipping and travel.) Intra-planetery movement is limited as well. Transporter usage is heavily rationed for civillians. (And why should this be the case in a civilization that has the technology to mine the stars for energy?) Unless you're in the ruling class, life is very prison like. It's a prison with glass walls and satin sheets, but it's a prison nontheless.
ST and the world from Minority report are very similar in this approach. After analyzing the situation, I would not want to live in either world, yet people (and i assume the creators as well) believe these societies to be goals for the future. (everyone has the same car? and like soviet russia, car drives you? what's up with that?)
What?? that's not interesting. That's masochistic. The whole point of buying antivirus is to PAY others to become experts on those very things so you can get along with your life doing something more interesting to YOU. If you want to become an expert, great! Go ahead and make some scratch selling your services. Everyone doesn't have time for that. In fact, that's how civilization works: everyone is a specialist and does their thing to the best of their ability.
To carry your principle to the absurd, I offer this analogy.
Told ya, I've never had faith in a national military, since the concept first came out. They can't detect every threat imaginable and they sometimes make mistakes. Don't just go and pay your taxes for people to protect you, Take matters into your own hands.
I mean, Join a local militia and stockpile weapons to protect yourself. Research and buy body armor, wear it, and make sure your family members never leave the house without it. In fact, don't live in a city (that's where a lot of crime happens) Move your family out to rural suburbs, dig a moat and build your house out of reinforced concrete 1000 feet below the surface. Just to make sure you're safe, go to ceedy bars and work your way into the various gangs. They're all crooks and theives so they won't notice your infiltration. Get an enigma machine and learn to decrypt foreign communications. You should be able to at least tell where their major troop movements are.
(Also, you shouldn't buy your weapons and tanks, you should learn to forge steel from ore you find under the ground and mill into the appropriate shapes)
Interesting. Most of the people I know who run OSX Would really like to have linux but are just too darn important to spend the time configuring a linux distro to usefulness.
It took me more time to format and write this comment than it took me to find this:
:)
Toshiba Satellite
for $999 (the price of the cheapest 12" ibook)
you get:
RAM: 512MB on board and one free slot,
CPU: Intel mobile P4 (3.20GHz, 1MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB)
OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition (SP2)
BUNDLED: No Microsoft® Office software
I'm willing to count this as a feature
SCREEN: 15.4" Wide-screen XGA Display w/TruBrite(TM) (1280x800)
GFX CARD: ATI MOBILITY(TM) RADEON(TM) 9000 IGP w/up to 128MB video memory (64MB default)
40GB HDD (5400rpm)
REMOVEABLE DRIVE: 8x DVD-SuperMulti drive (IS also a DVD burner)
WIRELESS: Atheros® Wireless LAN (802.11b/g) supporting Atheros SuperG(TM) technology
Now for the apple:
1.2GHz PowerPC G4
512K L2 cache @1.2GHz
12-inch TFT Displays
1024x768 resolution
256MB DDR266 SDRAM
30GB Ultra ATA drive
Combo Drive (NOT a DVD burner)
ATI Mobility Radeon 9200
32MB DDR video memory
AirPort Extreme built-in
They appear to have similar graphics cards, (PC version has 2x the ram and is expantable). In all other areas except one, the PC wins: it's not 12"*.. Aparantly they are hard to find with screens that small. No amount of argument (except some benchmarks which i highly doubt you can produce) will convince me that a P4 mobile of more than 2x the speed (almost 3x!) of the G4 is slower than saidsame chip.
*It's 15" widescreen, so it's going to be pretty close to the 12" size in height, but it'll be a little longer - it's still going to fit in your backpack.
I'll admit I might have some bias because I own an 800ghz toshiba satellite (only two things wrong after 4 years of dropping it in the body search line at airports: keyboard connector came loose and battery never lasted long, died quickly as well) It even runs linux. Though If i were to buy another laptop right now, it'd be a powerbook (small form factor, OSX, allegedly good battery life) But performance wise, I'd to have to take the hit vs. similarly priced PC notebooks.
Any SW fanfic that can make a Pulp Fiction reference work is OK in my book. I thought 'troops' was more fun in general though. I was so mad when they barely got any mention at that awful lucas self-back-patting of SW fan film award show dealy. "I want ton ton's for Xmas?" what's up with that?
Have you ever seen the sniper school show they put on TLC (i think.. maybe history)? Those guys could hide themselves in full kit on your couch next to you and eat a burrito and you wouldn't even notice.
If they're in full view of YOU, they're not snipers. So who are those guys then?
Even more creepy than you've let on. They appear to take GAIM's code to use AOL's chat network to send THEIR ads. (Though if they use gaim code, they're right about it using the best IM client...) It's not as if they're providing an unique service (a la gaim allowing you to use AIM on linux and consolodate IM clients.. or a la AIM java-client allowing you to use IM on any java capable machine or a la AOL allowing you to use their servers for free)
If Gaim can't do anything about it, maybe AOL will.
Foudation did a pretty good job of it. Generally with prequels you aren't presumed to read in chronological order, rather in the order they're written. SW screwed this up by numbering the episodes, a good gimic when 4 came out, but not so fun when they actually tried to fill in the gaps. I won't say what I thought he should've done though, I know my skill level at writing screenplays. (hint: it's less than 1 and not negative.. at least i think it's not negative)
If you zoom in a little more, you'll notice that the roof of the white house has been replaced by brown rectangles. Whatever's up there, you're going to need to image it yourself if you want to know. My guess? No stingers or AA of any kind, no snipers of any kind. We expect those things to be there, but we seem to have more of a reactionary government than a pro-active government. I'll bet it's blocked out because people would wonder, "Where's all the stuff that's supposed to protect the president?"
Forking history violates conservation of energy/mass. If possible it has more implications than just time travel.
of course.. by the time you've hollowed out the asteroid, you no longer have a reason to inhabit it.
What is the equivalent resolution of movie film? How do you account for the inevitable snaps and pops? What about fading?
From the article you qouted: "More than 70 percent knew oxygen comes from plants..."
Which you described as "30% of americans do not know that plants produce most of the Oxygen on earth..."
Apparantly many americans (I am assuming you're american based on your final paragraph) also lack critical thinking skills in determining what information is actually being provided.
Using you as an example. Though the ABC poll correctly stated that oxygen comes from plants and asserts that only 70% of americans know this fact, it does not mention that oxygen comes from other sources than plants. Among these are vulcanism and organisms other than plants. A majority of our oxygen probably comes from blue-green algae in the sea. Your statement is neither correct nor a correct interpretion of the results of the poll.
Oxygen comes from plants. Not all oxygen comes from plants. Most oxygen comes from sources that are not plants, but could be called plants if you're playing fast and loose with the definition of 'plant.'
From your final quote, "...and from the Highlights of the report, '...One-quarter of Americans understand the nature of scientific inquiry well enough to be able to make informed judgments about the scientific basis of results reported in the media...'"
We all need to remember that there's a good chance we're not in the "one-quarter" of americans who understand the nature of scientific inquiry. (assuming the results of the poll can be considered as an accurate sampling of all americans)
I never understood the get-out-the-vote campaigns either. It's very likely that the people who weren't going to vote don't pay very much attention at all. I certainly agree that we don't want people who can't be bothered to pay attention to 'the issues,' form an opinion of them and act on that opinion of their own volition shouldn't be encouraged to choose leaders for the rest of us.
A beast made of the meanest parts of other (some also mythical) beasts? I can't think of any interpretation if either chimera or phantom menace that equates the two.. (ok I can think of one, but it involves taking the definition of chimera and cutting it off after "A mythical beast...")
But 'myth' does not mean 'nonexistant' The menace of episode one WAS nonexistant, made up for the purpose of setting up future events. Even the "menace" of Darth Maul was exaggerated. As far as I can tell, all he did was walk around looking badass and fought two jedi, accidentally killing one.
How long until we have mag-strip backed prints with the digital version encoded in the mag-strip?
Ok, but how much revinue would they lose to piracy if they did nothing at all? My guess is all of it. What a great business model.
BTW, what do bodesters 1-16 think about your nick choice?
The purpose of the constitution is to SECURE our rights, not to grant them. They are inalienable after all. Just because a right is not recognized in the constitution does not mean that you don't have it. (It also does not mean that you do...)
We weaken ourselves when we begin to believe that rights can be granted by an old piece of paper.
Just because space travel is costly for NASA doesn't mean it must be for the rest of us. As soon as it's profitable to do without NASA level budgeting, companies will scoop up the benjamins like there's no tomorrow.
The question is: was that 23% the size or 23% scale model, because those are two vastly different volumes.
And the corollary question is: was it an empty shell? or did it have the same mass distribution that the rocket will have?
Those are both true, but I don't see why they would be mad at us over them.
Then again, I don't see why the'd be mad about those other things i've mentioned (except I think we made a bit of a stink about the nuclear testing), but they seem to be.
A little of it is that france seems to be a bit of a hypocrite country. Many of us see them as taking the dubious stance AGAINST self-defense (and by extension premptive strikes) while engaging in some sort of activity in Ivory Coast that we don't fully understand. (Our media barely reports that it even happened) Yet, they also seem perfectly content to allow the US to continue to be the main peacekeeping force in the EU.
In other words, it seems of late that they are perfectly ok with spending american blood on french interests and french blood on french interests, but french blood on american interests (and even american blood on american interestes) is somehow dirty.
And btw, the statue of liberty was given to the US because they didn't want it in their country. and they helped during the revolution because it kept british troops bogged down in the colonies instead of fighting in europe. Both instances where french interests happened to coincide with american interests briefly. Though they certainly are valid motives, they are not the altruistic motives you imply.
Um.. you test engines in wind tunnels. Hypersonic wind tunnels are really hard to come by. There's one at Glenn Research Center near Cleveland, Ohio. They have a "moveable wall" to dial up different mach numbers for various projects made of inch and a half thick steel. It is one of the largest tunnels of its kind (very few are actually walk-in tunnels) but the usefull stream is probably very close to the size of the engine to be tested. I am unsure of what it's maximum mach number is, but it's definately single digit.
You start out by testing the engine at low speeds, and keep increasing speed until you notice some vibration mode that you didn't find before or you reach the limits of the materials you chose for initial testing. (like maybe you didn't wait for the blades to crystalize, but you're not using maximum engine stress so it cut fab time for the prototype) or any of a number of pre-defined stop points at which you evaluate the condition of the engine and either proceed with more testing or scrap and redesign. It seems they haven't tested it at its design speed yet.
me.
Yeah. We sure did kick their arses when they invaded fra.. oh wait..
Well there was the time they screwed up indochina and dropped it in our laps. we sure did show them.. oh wait..
Maybe they're mad at us because of continued above ground nuclear testing.. oh got that backwards too.