Onboard electricity is generated by the onboard internal combustion engine. If it gets xx MPG, that is xx MPG including electricity generation. You don't plug it into a wall and get electricity from elsewhere.
It's everything. People would rather listen and repeat, like a bunch of parrots, than actually think.
A friend recently started up some nonsense about how only some (unspecified) miracle had saved the US from conquest in WW II by Germans and Japanese. It does no good to explain that the Japanese started the war with just enough shipping for their civilian economy, that the invasion fleets and resupply fleets for the nearby Asian invasions were an incredible strain. They couldn't even have invaded Hawaii, let alone the mainland. Then he got off on Germany having developed a long range bomber which could make the round trip from Germany to New York, as if having a few such bombers drop insignificant numbers of bombs had anything to do with their capability of actually invading.
People hear something fantastic, and it is so simpler to believe without thinking than to have to wake up from their couch potato stupor long enough to think.
If the missle reflects or otherwise renders harmless 90% of the incoming energy, that means the laser has to be ten times more powerful to be effective. That's good enough.
Geez! 90%! That's a huge fraction. Think of getting a 90% pay cut, or losing 90% efficiency in your car's usage of fuel, or anthing else cut by a factor of ten.
If they thought the laser weapon would be good enough with one tenth the power, they would have designed it that way, saved a bundle of money and deveopment time, and have fielded the weapon years ago. The fact that it is still experimental implies they have a ways to go, and no doubt would love to have more power.
I complained to the webmaster last time there was a Sky and Telescope link and got a snotty reply. Obviously no one there really cares much abotu understanding the technology.
Once you figure out how to simulate the electric power grid for a good section of the country, you will be set. You seem to have a good handle on the approach, just scale up and scale up.
One outage in recent years is hardly a trend and is more likely just blown out of proportion.
Quite. A quarter of the country losing power is surely blowing things out of proportion, after all, that's how you scale things up, eh?
No matter how fancy your testing system, the real world has more connections, more diiots with fingers on keyboards, more feet tripping over cables, more weather knocking out transformers and lines, more everything.
I'm not sure why that is even remotely hard to understand.
I agree, suborbital flights for $50K would sell like hot cakes. But SpaceShip One does not make suborbital flights, it merely goes straight up and backdown, and how much will that bring in? Sure, some... but enough to keep it busy and pay the bills?
These go pretty much straight up and back down. Probably don't need to go much over 5-10 times the speed of sound at most on the way up, and much less coming down, since they are made of composites. Orbital requires going real fast (17,000 mph) much closer to horizontal. The de-orbit is where the heat comes in. Unless you carry enough fuel up to slow down entirely by rocket power, you have to scrub that speed by friction with the astmosphere. Maybe real careful and slow and cautious aero braking would do it, but I doubt that's their game, and certainly not with anything based on SpaceShip One.
However, the tourist angle (#1) might be reasonable. But who knows how much rich folk will pay for a few minutes of weightlessness and an astronaut badge?
In some ways (SOME!) I actually see spam as something that could be useful... in a weird way. See, I classify spam as good, bad, and ugly. Ugly is easy, it's the viruses and phishers. Bad is the stuff with forged headers, misleading subject lines (account canceled, your resume). These two deserve no sympathy whatsoever. They are fraudulent and ought to be dropped in the ocean and fed to the fish.
But the other spam, well, calling it good is pretty optimistic. I would say only that it is not as bad as the other stuff. When I see a spam whose subject is actually correct, even if for viagra or teenage nympho web sites, my blood pressure doesn't get quite as high as with the fraudulent stuff.
But I get 400-500 a day... 80% is pure trash, with invalid users (I have my own domain), non-ascii in the subject. The rest I have to look at sooner or later just to see what should not have been classified as spam.
You know, if I only got 10 legit spams a day, real advertising for real products, it wouldn't be so bad. But these idiots send it to webmaster, postmaster, root, faxmaster, every sort of imagineable name, and that puts it in the bad category, it is fraudulent. No way has any admin account ever signed up for anything. And sending spam to the admin accounts is just plain deceitful, instantaneous self-indictment of their fraudulent intentions.
I wish spam actually were a useful, cheap advertising medium. I might actually see something once in a while that was useful. But hundreds a day, for pills or porn or loans, that is not useful.
Get it thru your thick head that Microsoft has been convicted of illegal monopolistic practices. This is just like the difference between your mom and a convicted kiddie porn maker opening a child care center.
What is so frigging hard to understand about that? Microoft has been convicted of leveraging their monopoly to enter into new fields. Here they are doing something new (for themselves) again. Of course it is ugly. If you can't see that, you are blind.
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Imagine your mother is opening a day care center, is anyone going to start screaming in horror, picketing, filing lawsuits? Probably not.
Now imagine that your mother has been convicted of making and selling kiddie porn.
Microsoft either denies security problems or blames everybody else (device drivers, end users, 3rd party software). FLOSS developers fix the problems and don't point fingers.
I said nothing about open source being more secure. I think it is more secureable, and I think it is better all around, but what annoys me is Microsoft whining that there is no one to sue with open source, when their EULAs have all manner of disclaimer. Microsoft should be sued for fraud. They claim to be more secure, brag about how they are secure, etc etc etc, and yet not only do the security holes continue to roll in, Microsoft blames everybody else for the problems.
Whereas open source fixes the problems without blaming others.
Back in the early 1900s, there used to be a ton of independent phone companies. In spite of using different voltages, ringing systems, etc, they interoperated pretty darned well. But AT&T wantd to be big and was buying them up, and those who wouldn't sell were effectively isolated, the main excuses being interoperability problems. The stink began getting stronger, and eventually AT&T got the government to regulate it as a utility, so it could remain intact and simply be THE phone company. Only the ignorant think regulation was imposed on AT it was their idea.
This smells to me of the same process. Being sued for security holes would be much more effective at increasing security than some hare-brained government regulation scheme. After having thought up all those EULAs which disclaim all responsibility, and blustered about Linux having no-one responsible, this is just another big corporate scheme to maintain their power and squash the small guys, and place the blame elsewhere.
The proper way to improve security is invalidate all those EULA disclaimers. A few big lawsuits with billions in damage verdicts would do far more to focus Microsoft's attention than any government regulatory body.
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One vacation on a bicycle, I sent postcards back every evening.
Someting I do now for random thoughts is send text messages from my cell phone back to my email account, just enough to jog my memory.
Onboard electricity is generated by the onboard internal combustion engine. If it gets xx MPG, that is xx MPG including electricity generation. You don't plug it into a wall and get electricity from elsewhere.
Google for it. Bug has been a term since before Edison, who spoke of debugging things.
Would that be as in ...
Illegal fair use?
Illegal copy I make for my wife?
Illegal copy of music I already bought so I can take it in my car without worrying about car thieves stealing my only copy?
Illegal copy on my hard drive so when the less than immortal physical CD craps out I don't have to pay for a new copy at full price?
Illegal monopoly on region codes (violates WTO)?
Illegal price fixing (RIAA)?
Please clarify who you think is behaving illegally.
It's everything. People would rather listen and repeat, like a bunch of parrots, than actually think.
A friend recently started up some nonsense about how only some (unspecified) miracle had saved the US from conquest in WW II by Germans and Japanese. It does no good to explain that the Japanese started the war with just enough shipping for their civilian economy, that the invasion fleets and resupply fleets for the nearby Asian invasions were an incredible strain. They couldn't even have invaded Hawaii, let alone the mainland. Then he got off on Germany having developed a long range bomber which could make the round trip from Germany to New York, as if having a few such bombers drop insignificant numbers of bombs had anything to do with their capability of actually invading.
People hear something fantastic, and it is so simpler to believe without thinking than to have to wake up from their couch potato stupor long enough to think.
My nitpick is that your nitpcik should be a nitpick.
If the missle reflects or otherwise renders harmless 90% of the incoming energy, that means the laser has to be ten times more powerful to be effective. That's good enough.
Geez! 90%! That's a huge fraction. Think of getting a 90% pay cut, or losing 90% efficiency in your car's usage of fuel, or anthing else cut by a factor of ten.
If they thought the laser weapon would be good enough with one tenth the power, they would have designed it that way, saved a bundle of money and deveopment time, and have fielded the weapon years ago. The fact that it is still experimental implies they have a ways to go, and no doubt would love to have more power.
90%! Sheesh.
Go look at that picture and realize he is saying "My SQUEAL!"
You would too.
Would that be pints or quarts or liters or fifths or ... ?
Licenses are *necessary*. They are, in essence, a contract
Hogwash. Bullshit. Nonsense. They are nothing of the sort. Go read groklaw. Find a law dictionary.
Why do idiots like you think licenses are contracts? What woodwork do you come from? If it were a goddam contract, it would be the GPC.
I complained to the webmaster last time there was a Sky and Telescope link and got a snotty reply. Obviously no one there really cares much abotu understanding the technology.
Once you figure out how to simulate the electric power grid for a good section of the country, you will be set. You seem to have a good handle on the approach, just scale up and scale up.
One outage in recent years is hardly a trend and is more likely just blown out of proportion.
Quite. A quarter of the country losing power is surely blowing things out of proportion, after all, that's how you scale things up, eh?
No matter how fancy your testing system, the real world has more connections, more diiots with fingers on keyboards, more feet tripping over cables, more weather knocking out transformers and lines, more everything.
I'm not sure why that is even remotely hard to understand.
I agree, suborbital flights for $50K would sell like hot cakes. But SpaceShip One does not make suborbital flights, it merely goes straight up and backdown, and how much will that bring in? Sure, some ... but enough to keep it busy and pay the bills?
These go pretty much straight up and back down. Probably don't need to go much over 5-10 times the speed of sound at most on the way up, and much less coming down, since they are made of composites. Orbital requires going real fast (17,000 mph) much closer to horizontal. The de-orbit is where the heat comes in. Unless you carry enough fuel up to slow down entirely by rocket power, you have to scrub that speed by friction with the astmosphere. Maybe real careful and slow and cautious aero braking would do it, but I doubt that's their game, and certainly not with anything based on SpaceShip One.
However, the tourist angle (#1) might be reasonable. But who knows how much rich folk will pay for a few minutes of weightlessness and an astronaut badge?
In some ways (SOME!) I actually see spam as something that could be useful ... in a weird way. See, I classify spam as good, bad, and ugly. Ugly is easy, it's the viruses and phishers. Bad is the stuff with forged headers, misleading subject lines (account canceled, your resume). These two deserve no sympathy whatsoever. They are fraudulent and ought to be dropped in the ocean and fed to the fish.
... 80% is pure trash, with invalid users (I have my own domain), non-ascii in the subject. The rest I have to look at sooner or later just to see what should not have been classified as spam.
But the other spam, well, calling it good is pretty optimistic. I would say only that it is not as bad as the other stuff. When I see a spam whose subject is actually correct, even if for viagra or teenage nympho web sites, my blood pressure doesn't get quite as high as with the fraudulent stuff.
But I get 400-500 a day
You know, if I only got 10 legit spams a day, real advertising for real products, it wouldn't be so bad. But these idiots send it to webmaster, postmaster, root, faxmaster, every sort of imagineable name, and that puts it in the bad category, it is fraudulent. No way has any admin account ever signed up for anything. And sending spam to the admin accounts is just plain deceitful, instantaneous self-indictment of their fraudulent intentions.
I wish spam actually were a useful, cheap advertising medium. I might actually see something once in a while that was useful. But hundreds a day, for pills or porn or loans, that is not useful.
Get it thru your thick head that Microsoft has been convicted of illegal monopolistic practices. This is just like the difference between your mom and a convicted kiddie porn maker opening a child care center.
What is so frigging hard to understand about that? Microoft has been convicted of leveraging their monopoly to enter into new fields. Here they are doing something new (for themselves) again. Of course it is ugly. If you can't see that, you are blind.
Imagine your mother is opening a day care center, is anyone going to start screaming in horror, picketing, filing lawsuits? Probably not.
Now imagine that your mother has been convicted of making and selling kiddie porn.
Whoops! Maybe reputation makes a difference.
I don't know what is more pathetic, that I posted something so off topic, or that the moderators had no sense of humor ...
... or that it doesn't add up to 100%.
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30% Overrated
10% Offtopic
Do you believe this is a step in the right direction? Why?
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You can get a degree in hunting?
Microsoft either denies security problems or blames everybody else (device drivers, end users, 3rd party software). FLOSS developers fix the problems and don't point fingers.
I said nothing about open source being more secure. I think it is more secureable, and I think it is better all around, but what annoys me is Microsoft whining that there is no one to sue with open source, when their EULAs have all manner of disclaimer. Microsoft should be sued for fraud. They claim to be more secure, brag about how they are secure, etc etc etc, and yet not only do the security holes continue to roll in, Microsoft blames everybody else for the problems.
Whereas open source fixes the problems without blaming others.
Back in the early 1900s, there used to be a ton of independent phone companies. In spite of using different voltages, ringing systems, etc, they interoperated pretty darned well. But AT&T wantd to be big and was buying them up, and those who wouldn't sell were effectively isolated, the main excuses being interoperability problems. The stink began getting stronger, and eventually AT&T got the government to regulate it as a utility, so it could remain intact and simply be THE phone company. Only the ignorant think regulation was imposed on AT it was their idea.
This smells to me of the same process. Being sued for security holes would be much more effective at increasing security than some hare-brained government regulation scheme. After having thought up all those EULAs which disclaim all responsibility, and blustered about Linux having no-one responsible, this is just another big corporate scheme to maintain their power and squash the small guys, and place the blame elsewhere.
The proper way to improve security is invalidate all those EULA disclaimers. A few big lawsuits with billions in damage verdicts would do far more to focus Microsoft's attention than any government regulatory body.
Everybody else who feels the same simply stays away from Slashdot on April 1st.