Linux is fine and all but it is *still* missing a number of high end professional level programs in a number of fields. Until that changes (and it hasn't in how many years now?), Linux on the Laptop will be a fairly niche product. If it meets your requirements that's great. You get lots of options including MacBooks in their limited incantations.
There are, however, a number of other aircraft that are suitable for close support. If you look at this this table, the venerable B-52 can drop more close support weaponry at lower cost than anything else in the inventory and the F-16 is a close second. Several turboprop planes are also being used.
And of course there are helicopters and perhaps eventually UAVs.
The F35 is really a stupid concept for CAS. Expensive to own and maintain. Not particularly well armored.
The whole premise of 'one plane to rule them all' has shown itself to be poorly thought out and more of a pipe dream than anything else.
FWIW, the capture of the drone in 'Interstellar' used an old Thinkpad with a keyboard. The scene went pretty much as you described it except they let a cute teenaged girl control the thing for a while.
If you are down to dropping a quarter pound of anything non nuclear using a device that has a range of a mile or so, you're not doing too well militarily.
Of course, the big news here is that this 'hack' doesn't work against the most popular series of drones, those made by the Chinese company DJI. These common UAVs (Phantoms, Inspires, Mavics) use a proprietary, partially encrypted, spread spectrum protocol. They've been jammed by other devices, just not this particular one.
A nice collection of thoughts but I would posit the vast majority of humans Wouldn't Give A Damn. It won't help them pay for food or shelter. It won't help with their genocidal next door neighbors. They would be light years away with no FTL capability (that we've been able to discern).
The major religions that traditionally have espoused Earth as the Only Place God Likes have long figured out contingency plans for discovery of Alien life.
It certainly would help with the circulation numbers of The Daily News and National Enquirer and would spark all sorts of new YouTube videos and the like. But most people would still worry about whether or not the Cubs will win the World Series.
Just looked at the 17 Lenovo Thinkpad T70 - with 32 GB RAM and a measly 512 GB SSD the thing runs at $4200. Other than a slightly better screen and moderately improved graphics chip, it's annoyingly comparable to my 2011 17 inch MBP (24 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 1 TB HD), better trackpad.
Damn. This really wasn't supposed to happen. Looks like it's a refurbered 2015 15 inch MBP with 16 GB RAM (actually OK for what I do) and some aftermarket drive additions.
Hard to see this working at all. Instead of hundreds of different cities with varying rules about who can drive on their roads and 50 states with similarly varying rules you have one Federal entity - the FAA which strictly regulates air traffic from the top of your lawn to the Karmin line. They are not going to be bluffed into changing rules for commercial human air traffic because a bunch of avaricious Millennials want to hone in on the action.
You want to start an airline, fine. Go ahead. Be prepared. It's not all that easy.
Especially when you don't even have the aircraft design.
The problem with your attempt to define Hillary as a psychopath / sociopath (both deprecated terms, they're not long enough) is context. In the setting of politics, media and business those traits are actually highly functional. That's how you get ahead in those fields. Then you run into the Peter Principle but that is another problem.
You missed the preamble to the personality disorders. They are spectrums and they can only be really defined as a disorder when they cause harm. As far as politicians are concerns both Hillary and Donald are at the top of their respective fields. For the rest of us, not so much.
Hillary is certainly sociopathic as it relates to the vast majority of humans - but that's why she is where she is. Donald is most assuredly a narcissist and again, it's gotten him to the Republican candidate for the President of the United States, something hundreds if not thousands of other people are actively aspiring to. The line between all of the personality disorders is a pretty soft one, there is often a lot of overlap.
It is an unfortunate part of the structure of human nature, but that's how we roll. We're not Vulcans. Which version of crazy to you want running the country?
Other that during World Wars, when has a majority of the population thought 'we're going in the right direction'? The 1800's when we were moving west, finishing off destroying the rest of the indigenous flora and fauna (including humans) that European settlers started in the 1500's? Perhaps the Native Americans and the African slaves might venture to disagree if anybody bothered to poll them.
How about post WWII and the wonderful burst of economic growth that comes after destroying a quarter of the planet? If you were black, poor white trash or pretty much anybody in the South you might take exception to the idea that the country was doing wonderful things. If you were white, lower middle class and / or a veteran, you had a 25 year burst of economic Good Times. That bubble got popped a while back.
If you were of the moneyed class at any time you did OK. Amazing how that seems to happen.
So don't go so much on 'polling' data. That is a fairly new, fairly narrow view of how the country is doing. Of course, trying to come up with a better way to figure out which direction we should be going is pretty much of a fool's errand. There are so many different aspects to life in this country (or any other) that the simplistic rose colored glasses / Red, White and Blue / USA! USA! metrics are perfectly useless.
Unless, of course, you are Donald who sees a giant group of disaffected people who are just waiting for some demagogue to lead them out of the swamp. His campaign has rolled on two correct assumptions. First, there IS a fairly homogeneous and large demographic that feels downtrodden and upset. Perfect fodder for his cannon. Second, the Republicans have, yet again, failed to create a candidate that isn't a complete cartoon. And they failed worse than the last two times which is pretty impressive. And sad.
With all of that said, all the Dems could do is pick Hillary. I understand it completely, she'll make a fine statist president and Murphy's Law (along with the laws of thermodynamics) will continue to be the driving forces in the Universe.
My assessment is that clinton will smoothly lead the whole world into world war 3, if all her posturing towards Russia is to be believed.
Right. The planet is sitting on a powder keg with a couple of smoldering fuses. So, who is going to try to lead the country with the majority of powder, fuses and cannon? A corrupt politico with deep ties to every other corrupt politico on earth or some insane narcissist who cares not a whit about anybody else?
It would be an easy decision if you could figure out which one was which.
Restoring a mac is nothing short of corporate witchcraft?
What? Copy a backup (and bootable) image to the hard drive and you're done. No digging into the Registry. NO sacrificing goats or chickens (management gets made because they're vegetarians).
About the only satanist thing I've done restoring a Mac is to draw a pentagram. USB drives can be pretty slow and I get bored easily.
Gee, I have, lets see, a 2008 MacPro that's still running strong, a 2011 17 inch MBP that had a motherboard failure that Apple replaced in 2015. For free. A 2009 15 inch MBP that worked well until my wife's Jack Russel Terror spilled a Grande Latte on (never feed JRTs expresso....). The used replacement is still going strong. I have a one year old iMac that is just silently working.
I have a lot of issues with Apple. Both the Mac Pro and the 17 incher are really getting old and Apple's support of the apparently small market that likes powerful computers is rapidly waning in favor of this weird approach to making computers thinner as the populace widens.
But hardware support and build quality isn't among Apple's big problems despite the Sturm Und Drang this and every other Internet forum engenders.
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Linux is fine and all but it is *still* missing a number of high end professional level programs in a number of fields. Until that changes (and it hasn't in how many years now?), Linux on the Laptop will be a fairly niche product. If it meets your requirements that's great. You get lots of options including MacBooks in their limited incantations.
But no Adobe, Autodesk, Maya etc.
Life's a bitch. Then you vote.
There are, however, a number of other aircraft that are suitable for close support. If you look at this this table, the venerable B-52 can drop more close support weaponry at lower cost than anything else in the inventory and the F-16 is a close second. Several turboprop planes are also being used.
And of course there are helicopters and perhaps eventually UAVs.
The F35 is really a stupid concept for CAS. Expensive to own and maintain. Not particularly well armored.
The whole premise of 'one plane to rule them all' has shown itself to be poorly thought out and more of a pipe dream than anything else.
FWIW, the capture of the drone in 'Interstellar' used an old Thinkpad with a keyboard. The scene went pretty much as you described it except they let a cute teenaged girl control the thing for a while.
Cops can use this all they like. It will do them very little good. See the previous posts on how really useless this device is.
If you are down to dropping a quarter pound of anything non nuclear using a device that has a range of a mile or so, you're not doing too well militarily.
Of course, the big news here is that this 'hack' doesn't work against the most popular series of drones, those made by the Chinese company DJI. These common UAVs (Phantoms, Inspires, Mavics) use a proprietary, partially encrypted, spread spectrum protocol. They've been jammed by other devices, just not this particular one.
Duck and cover!
A nice collection of thoughts but I would posit the vast majority of humans Wouldn't Give A Damn. It won't help them pay for food or shelter. It won't help with their genocidal next door neighbors. They would be light years away with no FTL capability (that we've been able to discern).
The major religions that traditionally have espoused Earth as the Only Place God Likes have long figured out contingency plans for discovery of Alien life.
It certainly would help with the circulation numbers of The Daily News and National Enquirer and would spark all sorts of new YouTube videos and the like. But most people would still worry about whether or not the Cubs will win the World Series.
Any plague of frogs or locusts?
Twit of tweets?
Tweet of twits?
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Fantastic. Yet another dongle. Let's see. Magsafe dongle, dongle to charge iPhone, iPhone audiojack dongle. Ethernet dongle.
It's dongles all the way down.
Just looked at the 17 Lenovo Thinkpad T70 - with 32 GB RAM and a measly 512 GB SSD the thing runs at $4200. Other than a slightly better screen and moderately improved graphics chip, it's annoyingly comparable to my 2011 17 inch MBP (24 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 1 TB HD), better trackpad.
Damn. This really wasn't supposed to happen. Looks like it's a refurbered 2015 15 inch MBP with 16 GB RAM (actually OK for what I do) and some aftermarket drive additions.
So incredibly disappointed.
You can get 2 TB in the 15 inch. For a price, of course.
Hard to see this working at all. Instead of hundreds of different cities with varying rules about who can drive on their roads and 50 states with similarly varying rules you have one Federal entity - the FAA which strictly regulates air traffic from the top of your lawn to the Karmin line. They are not going to be bluffed into changing rules for commercial human air traffic because a bunch of avaricious Millennials want to hone in on the action.
You want to start an airline, fine. Go ahead. Be prepared. It's not all that easy.
Especially when you don't even have the aircraft design.
He got a nice picture. It's just a golf cart.
Larry's been messing with us all along.
Pros carry short barrelled .375 H&H magnums. Or a 12 gauge with slugs.
About the only pistol that makes sense is a .480 Ruger Redhawk. Which weighs almost as much as a 12 gauge.
Pepper spray for the win.
And this is different from any other politician in what particular way?
Politics is ugly. Sausage making seems surgically antiseptic.
Would you want to be locked in a room with Hilary or Donald under any circumstances?
The problem with your attempt to define Hillary as a psychopath / sociopath (both deprecated terms, they're not long enough) is context. In the setting of politics, media and business those traits are actually highly functional. That's how you get ahead in those fields. Then you run into the Peter Principle but that is another problem.
You missed the preamble to the personality disorders. They are spectrums and they can only be really defined as a disorder when they cause harm. As far as politicians are concerns both Hillary and Donald are at the top of their respective fields. For the rest of us, not so much.
Hillary is certainly sociopathic as it relates to the vast majority of humans - but that's why she is where she is. Donald is most assuredly a narcissist and again, it's gotten him to the Republican candidate for the President of the United States, something hundreds if not thousands of other people are actively aspiring to. The line between all of the personality disorders is a pretty soft one, there is often a lot of overlap.
It is an unfortunate part of the structure of human nature, but that's how we roll. We're not Vulcans. Which version of crazy to you want running the country?
Other that during World Wars, when has a majority of the population thought 'we're going in the right direction'? The 1800's when we were moving west, finishing off destroying the rest of the indigenous flora and fauna (including humans) that European settlers started in the 1500's? Perhaps the Native Americans and the African slaves might venture to disagree if anybody bothered to poll them.
How about post WWII and the wonderful burst of economic growth that comes after destroying a quarter of the planet? If you were black, poor white trash or pretty much anybody in the South you might take exception to the idea that the country was doing wonderful things. If you were white, lower middle class and / or a veteran, you had a 25 year burst of economic Good Times. That bubble got popped a while back.
If you were of the moneyed class at any time you did OK. Amazing how that seems to happen.
So don't go so much on 'polling' data. That is a fairly new, fairly narrow view of how the country is doing. Of course, trying to come up with a better way to figure out which direction we should be going is pretty much of a fool's errand. There are so many different aspects to life in this country (or any other) that the simplistic rose colored glasses / Red, White and Blue / USA! USA! metrics are perfectly useless.
Unless, of course, you are Donald who sees a giant group of disaffected people who are just waiting for some demagogue to lead them out of the swamp. His campaign has rolled on two correct assumptions. First, there IS a fairly homogeneous and large demographic that feels downtrodden and upset. Perfect fodder for his cannon. Second, the Republicans have, yet again, failed to create a candidate that isn't a complete cartoon. And they failed worse than the last two times which is pretty impressive. And sad.
With all of that said, all the Dems could do is pick Hillary. I understand it completely, she'll make a fine statist president and Murphy's Law (along with the laws of thermodynamics) will continue to be the driving forces in the Universe.
Murphy was an optimist.
'cheap steal'.
Nice.
This. Hilary is acting like Trump's big sister who knows where all of his buttons are.
And Trump acts like the 12 year old that falls for it. Every time.
You should back down to double shots. Those quads and triples are really starting to affect you.
That's great. The UFO folks could use some new blood. Haven't heard a good UFO story since the drones became popular.
My assessment is that clinton will smoothly lead the whole world into world war 3, if all her posturing towards Russia is to be believed.
Right. The planet is sitting on a powder keg with a couple of smoldering fuses. So, who is going to try to lead the country with the majority of powder, fuses and cannon? A corrupt politico with deep ties to every other corrupt politico on earth or some insane narcissist who cares not a whit about anybody else?
It would be an easy decision if you could figure out which one was which.
Restoring a mac is nothing short of corporate witchcraft?
What? Copy a backup (and bootable) image to the hard drive and you're done. No digging into the Registry. NO sacrificing goats or chickens (management gets made because they're vegetarians).
About the only satanist thing I've done restoring a Mac is to draw a pentagram. USB drives can be pretty slow and I get bored easily.
Gee, I have, lets see, a 2008 MacPro that's still running strong, a 2011 17 inch MBP that had a motherboard failure that Apple replaced in 2015. For free. A 2009 15 inch MBP that worked well until my wife's Jack Russel Terror spilled a Grande Latte on (never feed JRTs expresso....). The used replacement is still going strong. I have a one year old iMac that is just silently working.
I have a lot of issues with Apple. Both the Mac Pro and the 17 incher are really getting old and Apple's support of the apparently small market that likes powerful computers is rapidly waning in favor of this weird approach to making computers thinner as the populace widens.
But hardware support and build quality isn't among Apple's big problems despite the Sturm Und Drang this and every other Internet forum engenders.