Also, it's in a ship, not a boat, truck, car, plane, etc. Power-to-weight ratio of the engine is not a factor. How many thousands of tons of cargo does the ship move? The weight of the engine is relatively minor.
Power-to-weight ratio is a critical factor in aircraft design, cars, etc., where the overall weight of the craft is essentially a fixed design criteria, designers always looking to keep it as small as they can.
There are not too many direct-drive diesel locomotives. It's just easier to mount electric motors on the axles of the drive wheels, either directly (i.e., motor's shaft is axle) or geared to the axle, especially with the drive wheels mounted in sets (bogies) that pivot. Regenerative braking is a nice side effect, where the motors are turned into generators powering big electric heaters to dissapate the energy...
As long as the Board can partake of the flights, then the top executives will, too. But I wonder if one of the main users will be some of the blacker aspects of government agencies. There might even be a bidding war between DHL, FedEX, UPS and USPS for shipping things that absolutely have to get there...2 hrs from now.
I was referring to the entire package (i.e., electronic interface details, rocket assembly, bus, tube, etc), not just the warhead. France makes its own SLBMs. GB would have to really grovel in the mud, but I'm sure France would sell them their SLBMs for the right price, of which the monetary component will be a trivial portion...
...and we're so sure that China and Russia don't already have a strong clue as to what makes some of the anti-radar stuff work (which means they will probably have some clue as to how to defeat it or detect the plane anyways), how well the passive sensors work, and some of the basic operating parameters for the plane's low-observable active sensors?
Or is there some secret USAF anger about what Israel did with the souped-up F16 they ultimately gave up on producing or fear that BAE/EAD/Dassault might spy heavily on the planes in Britain's hands to improve their new front-line fighter jets (Eurofighter/Rafale)?
Maybe for the missiles, but not for the subs themselves. But Britain never developed its own sea-launched ballistic missiles independent of the US, unlike France.
A big part of it is that Britain has some of its own rather useful and effective munitions that it produces that it would probably like to use with it, as well as to do its own avionics modifications, etc., and probably a bit of a desire to not totally be dependent on Lockmart technicians for doing everything with the plane.
It is a bit of a "keep our own defense industries viable", which comes down to a technology and job protection program (and probably much more important in British politics than even in the US).
The sad part of it is that Britain is probably the US' last firm ally in the world right now. With Britain wanting to upgrade its nuclear missile submarine program in a few years, what are they going to do then if we are still being so schizoid, buy their nukes from France? I bet that Britain shared the World's Deadliest Joke with the US. Only it wouldn't have worked on people here who would have worked on it (hence, safe for US to translate it into other languages), because we have no sense of humor, or at least one that includes wordplay, sarcasm and irony and doesn't include swearing or racial slurs.
sorry, I think that MOST people had either heard about it online or from people trickling into work who had been listening to it on the radio, or the TVs in the bagel shop. No need to restate the obvious after the fact.
when have I heard EAS in effect? "a tornado warning is in effect for Lake Co. illinois from..." never after "two feet of ice have been dropped on portland, or. do not drive".
Millions of people in New York were inconvenienced, not terrorized. How really different for most people was the immediate after affects of 9/11 compared to the most recent major power outage? Take the WTC buildings out of the equation, and not a whole lot different.
The brilliance of the 9/11 attacks was the plane attacks. No one in our civilized world was able to conceive of that mode of attack, due to our own civilities, etc. Of course, we're aware now.
Besides, every time an oil refinery or chemical plant pops a cork, thousands of people are exposed to some far nastier shit than came out of the WTC dust. One could argue that the downwinders live with it every day.
Get over yourself. 9/11 was bad, but it wasn't THAT bad.
you do not understand month-end processes, do you?
In most/all companies, month-end and year-end are major periods of effort for accounting to close the books. Some of that includes communicating information with third-parties...
If it was an Access replacement, it would also have a highly integrated application development tool for it. But it doesn't. It's a much richer Jet (Access' native DB) replacement, however, along the lines of Oracle XE/MSDE/etc.
Marathon (not the Bungi game...) is a good admin tool for Firebird/Interbase.
Hmm... I am sure that for those who have kept up with Woody Leonhard et al that some of these bugs have been in Office since WinWord 1.x/Excel 3.0/Access 1.0 days. Some of them have been made harder to invoke, but they're still there.
Well, prior to Windows 3.x, the application software did everything - graphics drivers, printer drivers, etc etc etc.
Windows provided a common layer for all those non-application things, and app developers were free from having to test their apps agaoinst a myriad of printers (dot matrix, daisy wheel, and the occaisional laser). Back then, WP and Lotus were most popular, partially because they had the largest set of display drivers, and if they didn't, the hardware manufacturers were stupid if they didn't send them with their hardware.
But now Microsoft, needing "growth", can only really seem to find it in itself. Instead of developing an OS to really facilitate 3rd parties, because it sees all those third parties as competitors rather than partners, it slowly starts to squeeze them out and calls it "innovation".
It goes wayyyy back, to TrueType vs Postscript, OpenDoc vs OLE... Too much "NIH" mentality at Microsoft.
No, what made Aluminum(aluminium) valuable was whoever figured out how to cast it in a mold without leaving the funky wavy lines in the casting where the aluminum didn't "flow" against the mold completely. Before that, it was a curiosity, because all those funky mold defects really weakened it even more.
Worrying about a few hundred thousand dollars of a seemingly trivial research grant, and possibly ignoring the billions of dollars going into the occupation of Iraq monthly? Makes sense to me.
right, but if they embed a scripting language to expose the guts of the app to modders, it ain't going to be through C++, either. LUA, Ruby, Pyton, et al. will be how that is (already being) done.
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Also, it's in a ship, not a boat, truck, car, plane, etc. Power-to-weight ratio of the engine is not a factor. How many thousands of tons of cargo does the ship move? The weight of the engine is relatively minor.
Power-to-weight ratio is a critical factor in aircraft design, cars, etc., where the overall weight of the craft is essentially a fixed design criteria, designers always looking to keep it as small as they can.
There are not too many direct-drive diesel locomotives. It's just easier to mount electric motors on the axles of the drive wheels, either directly (i.e., motor's shaft is axle) or geared to the axle, especially with the drive wheels mounted in sets (bogies) that pivot. Regenerative braking is a nice side effect, where the motors are turned into generators powering big electric heaters to dissapate the energy...
As long as the Board can partake of the flights, then the top executives will, too. But I wonder if one of the main users will be some of the blacker aspects of government agencies. There might even be a bidding war between DHL, FedEX, UPS and USPS for shipping things that absolutely have to get there...2 hrs from now.
Britain has used US SLBMs since Poseidon I...
I was referring to the entire package (i.e., electronic interface details, rocket assembly, bus, tube, etc), not just the warhead. France makes its own SLBMs. GB would have to really grovel in the mud, but I'm sure France would sell them their SLBMs for the right price, of which the monetary component will be a trivial portion...
...and we're so sure that China and Russia don't already have a strong clue as to what makes some of the anti-radar stuff work (which means they will probably have some clue as to how to defeat it or detect the plane anyways), how well the passive sensors work, and some of the basic operating parameters for the plane's low-observable active sensors?
Or is there some secret USAF anger about what Israel did with the souped-up F16 they ultimately gave up on producing or fear that BAE/EAD/Dassault might spy heavily on the planes in Britain's hands to improve their new front-line fighter jets (Eurofighter/Rafale)?
Maybe for the missiles, but not for the subs themselves. But Britain never developed its own sea-launched ballistic missiles independent of the US, unlike France.
A big part of it is that Britain has some of its own rather useful and effective munitions that it produces that it would probably like to use with it, as well as to do its own avionics modifications, etc., and probably a bit of a desire to not totally be dependent on Lockmart technicians for doing everything with the plane.
It is a bit of a "keep our own defense industries viable", which comes down to a technology and job protection program (and probably much more important in British politics than even in the US).
The sad part of it is that Britain is probably the US' last firm ally in the world right now. With Britain wanting to upgrade its nuclear missile submarine program in a few years, what are they going to do then if we are still being so schizoid, buy their nukes from France? I bet that Britain shared the World's Deadliest Joke with the US. Only it wouldn't have worked on people here who would have worked on it (hence, safe for US to translate it into other languages), because we have no sense of humor, or at least one that includes wordplay, sarcasm and irony and doesn't include swearing or racial slurs.
no, the responsibility is on the lazy-ass consumer. (hey, I'm one, too)
sorry, I think that MOST people had either heard about it online or from people trickling into work who had been listening to it on the radio, or the TVs in the bagel shop. No need to restate the obvious after the fact.
when have I heard EAS in effect? "a tornado warning is in effect for Lake Co. illinois from..." never after "two feet of ice have been dropped on portland, or. do not drive".
get treatment for your NYC narcissism soon.
Millions of people in New York were inconvenienced, not terrorized. How really different for most people was the immediate after affects of 9/11 compared to the most recent major power outage? Take the WTC buildings out of the equation, and not a whole lot different.
The brilliance of the 9/11 attacks was the plane attacks. No one in our civilized world was able to conceive of that mode of attack, due to our own civilities, etc. Of course, we're aware now.
Besides, every time an oil refinery or chemical plant pops a cork, thousands of people are exposed to some far nastier shit than came out of the WTC dust. One could argue that the downwinders live with it every day.
Get over yourself. 9/11 was bad, but it wasn't THAT bad.
you do not understand month-end processes, do you?
In most/all companies, month-end and year-end are major periods of effort for accounting to close the books. Some of that includes communicating information with third-parties...
If it was an Access replacement, it would also have a highly integrated application development tool for it. But it doesn't. It's a much richer Jet (Access' native DB) replacement, however, along the lines of Oracle XE/MSDE/etc.
Marathon (not the Bungi game...) is a good admin tool for Firebird/Interbase.
Hmm... I am sure that for those who have kept up with Woody Leonhard et al that some of these bugs have been in Office since WinWord 1.x/Excel 3.0/Access 1.0 days. Some of them have been made harder to invoke, but they're still there.
Didn't at least one former Enron executive or accountant type kill himself after things fell apart?
Don't forget the exposure to cosmic radiation on the Moon that would eventually sterilize most of the seeds anyways over time.
Well, prior to Windows 3.x, the application software did everything - graphics drivers, printer drivers, etc etc etc.
Windows provided a common layer for all those non-application things, and app developers were free from having to test their apps agaoinst a myriad of printers (dot matrix, daisy wheel, and the occaisional laser). Back then, WP and Lotus were most popular, partially because they had the largest set of display drivers, and if they didn't, the hardware manufacturers were stupid if they didn't send them with their hardware.
But now Microsoft, needing "growth", can only really seem to find it in itself. Instead of developing an OS to really facilitate 3rd parties, because it sees all those third parties as competitors rather than partners, it slowly starts to squeeze them out and calls it "innovation".
It goes wayyyy back, to TrueType vs Postscript, OpenDoc vs OLE... Too much "NIH" mentality at Microsoft.
No, what made Aluminum(aluminium) valuable was whoever figured out how to cast it in a mold without leaving the funky wavy lines in the casting where the aluminum didn't "flow" against the mold completely. Before that, it was a curiosity, because all those funky mold defects really weakened it even more.
It was probably BillG who called him...
VAX Basic was very modular...
...Or systems that work well in environments like legal offices, contract adminstration, etc. Apps like Documentum and LiveLink.
They integrate with Word (through ODMA) to various degrees. Sure beats writing custom macros to do it.
Worrying about a few hundred thousand dollars of a seemingly trivial research grant, and possibly ignoring the billions of dollars going into the occupation of Iraq monthly? Makes sense to me.
right, but if they embed a scripting language to expose the guts of the app to modders, it ain't going to be through C++, either. LUA, Ruby, Pyton, et al. will be how that is (already being) done.