The rumor sites had universally nixed the idea of an iPhone5 by the time of the announcements (or at least said, it's possible that there will be an iPhone5, but we have absolutely no evidence for it at all).
Yep, in the last several weeks of the year long run up to the launch. Before that rumors about the magical iPhone 5 were rampant.
Of course, the whole idea about people getting so wound up about the launch of another cell phone that they would complain about it for an entire year is pretty weird, but that's what happened.
Not all NRA members are conceal carrying nutjobs. The rank in file IMHO, is actually fairly reasonable. Unfortunately, like most advocacy organizations, the very polarized individuals tend to be the loudest, tend to be the most political and least willing to cooperate with opposing sides. You see it in the AARP, the Sierra Club, the Boy Scouts and probably in the American Left Handed Dentist's Association.
Or maybe is a complicated dance between getting the manufacturer to make x million in a certain time without any significant leakage of the product's specks or design. While Apple kept the idea of a modestly improved iPhone 4 pretty close to the chest (everybody was yapping about the magical iPhone 5 and a 'cheap' iPhone), they can't do it forever. They had to package and ship everything somewhere. They had to organize the event. Maybe they would have liked x + y million but just settled on what they could get.
Don't forget, these are complex little devices and not all that easy to manufacture in quantity.
Really no need to get all wrapped up in your tin foil - it works better without all the creases anyway.
I haven't seen through the hole PCBs on commercial stuff for ages. Unless it's really high power stuff or the company is still using boards from a decade a go. Even for hobbyists, SMT (Surface Mount Technology) is pretty easy. Once you get a nice magnifying glass and some fine tweezers.
While pretty impressive from a home hobbyist point of view (I'm showing this to my wife, I'm nowhere near this bad) - it doesn't break any ground in terms of rocketry. He isn't a state secret, needn't walk around icognito. If you watch the videos of the Libyan war, you see similar devices shot more or less horizontally. As you allude to, staging is much harder. Payloads are harder.
The bungie cord though, is fantastic. So are the little GoPro cameras. One other interesting pointlet is that most of the PCBs seem to be COTS prototyping boards. He's managed to leverage a large amount of over the counter tech for this thing.
Even if he's not doing anything horridly complex (by world standards, at least) it's pretty damned cool.
My guess is that these are nested "rootkits", if you will, reflecting the various levels of clearance that exist in a military foodchain. One can then log in and spy on all the others that his clearance allows him to.
Yo dawg! I hear you like rootkits so we can put a rootkit in your rootkit.
My first self-owned computer was a Kaypro 4-84. The OS was CPM and the machine came with 64K (yes, K) of RAM. When it booted up the screen said it had 63K of RAM. I thought I had been ripped off so I called the company. The tech explained that the other 1K was being used by the OS. So I don't think Windows 8 is going to impress me.
Folks in Asia have almost zero "not-invented-here" issues, whereas it's pretty prevalent all over the U.S.'
Hmm, could this explain how Asia was able to move so quickly in the past decades? Yes, it means that you steal (either figuratively or literaly) ideas more often, but it also means that you'll always try to use what it's best, without being hang-up on the current solution.
Where do you see this happening? In most industries, China has first, blatantly ripped off existing IP, then figured out how to manufacture it, then undercut other manufacturers and made some money. They've not done especially well in high tech. Their new 'Chinese" commercial aircraft is largely copied from an Airbus A320. Much of the technology in their high speed trains is German and French.
They have bright engineers and have figured out complex mechanical engineering and supply chains and whatnot, but they are hardly a paragon of new technology blazing to unheard of heights. Hell, their space program is based on the 1960's Soyuz design. Nothing wrong with that, but it's hardly ground breaking.
They are pretty much using the 'current solution' everywhere.
Curiosity is powered by an RTG. Every time we launch something with a nuclear power source a horde of demonstrators show up in an effort to stop the launch.
That's OK. This is the US, free speech and all. In fact, we should give them ringside seats.
Don't rush. Small towns are now taxing everything that moves, bites or squats in the mud. It is one of the easy ways for a government to keep up with inflation, the Joneses and whatever else. Hard to raise property taxes - takes an election. Hard to get any company that might pay taxes to move in since the economy is fubared.
So that leaves you, honest citizen, to pick up the slack.
If its just a couple of beams, it can be degaussed using a arc-welded and a few wraps of the arc-welds cables around the beam. There is a more to the procedure but the tools are easy to obtain. Did this in the Navy, wrap a submarine in about 300 turns of cable and run a few thousand amps through them.
And why would a residential house have more than one or two steel beams? I've seen them holding up basements but that's pretty much it. And if it was just one or two beams, the field would have to be absolutely intense or the family is putting all of their electronics on the floor in a straight line over the I beam.
You post. Posting has more effect than moderation anyway. Most of us don't get all excited about the number, and the ones that do, well, they're all Apple fanbois anyway...
I think he's trying to get at the fact that time distortion of gravity is well known and that GPS (the 18 year old system) wouldn't work or would not work well if this wasn't taken into effect.
I am not sure that his rant is correct though, it's a small (nanosecond according TFA) difference. GPS has known uncertainties and this may very well be much smaller than known / common causes of error. It's not like the US military planned on having physicists using the GPS system for off the wall research. They were interested in blowing things up. Horse shoes and hand grenade sort of thing.
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Really guys. Maybe you should outsource this.
The rumor sites had universally nixed the idea of an iPhone5 by the time of the announcements (or at least said, it's possible that there will be an iPhone5, but we have absolutely no evidence for it at all).
Yep, in the last several weeks of the year long run up to the launch. Before that rumors about the magical iPhone 5 were rampant.
Of course, the whole idea about people getting so wound up about the launch of another cell phone that they would complain about it for an entire year is pretty weird, but that's what happened.
Not all NRA members are conceal carrying nutjobs. The rank in file IMHO, is actually fairly reasonable. Unfortunately, like most advocacy organizations, the very polarized individuals tend to be the loudest, tend to be the most political and least willing to cooperate with opposing sides. You see it in the AARP, the Sierra Club, the Boy Scouts and probably in the American Left Handed Dentist's Association.
Or maybe is a complicated dance between getting the manufacturer to make x million in a certain time without any significant leakage of the product's specks or design. While Apple kept the idea of a modestly improved iPhone 4 pretty close to the chest (everybody was yapping about the magical iPhone 5 and a 'cheap' iPhone), they can't do it forever. They had to package and ship everything somewhere. They had to organize the event. Maybe they would have liked x + y million but just settled on what they could get.
Don't forget, these are complex little devices and not all that easy to manufacture in quantity.
Really no need to get all wrapped up in your tin foil - it works better without all the creases anyway.
I haven't seen through the hole PCBs on commercial stuff for ages. Unless it's really high power stuff or the company is still using boards from a decade a go. Even for hobbyists, SMT (Surface Mount Technology) is pretty easy. Once you get a nice magnifying glass and some fine tweezers.
While pretty impressive from a home hobbyist point of view (I'm showing this to my wife, I'm nowhere near this bad) - it doesn't break any ground in terms of rocketry. He isn't a state secret, needn't walk around icognito. If you watch the videos of the Libyan war, you see similar devices shot more or less horizontally. As you allude to, staging is much harder. Payloads are harder.
The bungie cord though, is fantastic. So are the little GoPro cameras. One other interesting pointlet is that most of the PCBs seem to be COTS prototyping boards. He's managed to leverage a large amount of over the counter tech for this thing.
Even if he's not doing anything horridly complex (by world standards, at least) it's pretty damned cool.
My guess is that these are nested "rootkits", if you will, reflecting the various levels of clearance that exist in a military foodchain. One can then log in and spy on all the others that his clearance allows him to.
Yo dawg! I hear you like rootkits so we can put a rootkit in your rootkit.
My first self-owned computer was a Kaypro 4-84. The OS was CPM and the machine came with 64K (yes, K) of RAM. When it booted up the screen said it had 63K of RAM. I thought I had been ripped off so I called the company. The tech explained that the other 1K was being used by the OS. So I don't think Windows 8 is going to impress me.
I bet you're still driving your AMC Gremlin.
Hmm, could this explain how Asia was able to move so quickly in the past decades? Yes, it means that you steal (either figuratively or literaly) ideas more often, but it also means that you'll always try to use what it's best, without being hang-up on the current solution.
Where do you see this happening? In most industries, China has first, blatantly ripped off existing IP, then figured out how to manufacture it, then undercut other manufacturers and made some money. They've not done especially well in high tech. Their new 'Chinese" commercial aircraft is largely copied from an Airbus A320. Much of the technology in their high speed trains is German and French.
They have bright engineers and have figured out complex mechanical engineering and supply chains and whatnot, but they are hardly a paragon of new technology blazing to unheard of heights. Hell, their space program is based on the 1960's Soyuz design. Nothing wrong with that, but it's hardly ground breaking.
They are pretty much using the 'current solution' everywhere.
Curiosity is powered by an RTG. Every time we launch something with a nuclear power source a horde of demonstrators show up in an effort to stop the launch.
That's OK. This is the US, free speech and all. In fact, we should give them ringside seats.
I think the idea was to go along with Hillary. Chicks don't like nuclear weapons much. Lasers are sexier.
You're forgetting that Apple computers are the only available defense against aliens. You don't want to use these weapons for mere earthlings.
Soon our enemies will fear sleek white plastic with rounded corners falling from the sky.
What is the terminal velocity of an unladen iPhone?
Don't rush. Small towns are now taxing everything that moves, bites or squats in the mud. It is one of the easy ways for a government to keep up with inflation, the Joneses and whatever else. Hard to raise property taxes - takes an election. Hard to get any company that might pay taxes to move in since the economy is fubared.
So that leaves you, honest citizen, to pick up the slack.
There is nowhere to hide anymore.
And then, when Apple's authorization servers go tits up, you can't even play movies you BOUGHT from them.
Not a chance that I'm buying anything from those Bozos again. Apple makes fine hardware and a great OS. Streaming / Cloud services, not so much.
If its just a couple of beams, it can be degaussed using a arc-welded and a few wraps of the arc-welds cables around the beam. There is a more to the procedure but the tools are easy to obtain. Did this in the Navy, wrap a submarine in about 300 turns of cable and run a few thousand amps through them.
And why would a residential house have more than one or two steel beams? I've seen them holding up basements but that's pretty much it. And if it was just one or two beams, the field would have to be absolutely intense or the family is putting all of their electronics on the floor in a straight line over the I beam.
Something doesn't add up.
But what about us experts in everything? There are a lot of them here, it seems.
Maybe a 1 minute edit window. Most of the big goofs I see myself doing just walk right through preview. It's posted and wham. WTF was I thinking?
But it's a small issue. Getting rid of AJAX and thoroughly torturing the programmers that inflicted it on us is first.
What's flash?
No more Layer8 submissions. Please.
You post. Posting has more effect than moderation anyway. Most of us don't get all excited about the number, and the ones that do, well, they're all Apple fanbois anyway...
We also need emoticons. Really.
Unicode anyone?
As do we all.
And above average to boot.
Note to mods with ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE OF HUMOR.
Go back to real coffee, the decaf is killing us. Lighten up. Smile.
I think he's trying to get at the fact that time distortion of gravity is well known and that GPS (the 18 year old system) wouldn't work or would not work well if this wasn't taken into effect.
I am not sure that his rant is correct though, it's a small (nanosecond according TFA) difference. GPS has known uncertainties and this may very well be much smaller than known / common causes of error. It's not like the US military planned on having physicists using the GPS system for off the wall research. They were interested in blowing things up. Horse shoes and hand grenade sort of thing.