The only thing that leaves me inclined to go wireless is not having to pull butt loads of cable through ceilings and attics. Then things like security, PCI DSS and HIPAA are brought into the mix and reality sets in, as I head back into the attic. One of the places I worked at was trying to use an apple airport for a firewall. We were scanned for PCI DSS compliance and gave us a report of every single device on our network. I yanked that in my first 30 days there. Don't even get started on the wireless encryption bit. Really
Sadly, there is no explaining Ghetto. I don't get it either. There are those deemed less than worthy by their own actions that make things hard for the rest of us. It is those people that cannot be allowed to base the example used to set the bar.
This would be legal (in the UK) but outrageous. Don't get me started on the failings of the welfare state, please...
It's legal in the U.S. too and not really outrageous. Maybe frowned upon, maybe. Two 16 year olds can make a baby. I would speculate that it is more normal world wide and historically than abnormal. I know of no other animal that waits so long after hitting reproductive age to actually reproduce.
To be sure, for humans, waiting can be beneficial. The ability to pursue education being the main one. I'm not so sure there is a 'failing of the welfare state' more than diminishing of family structure. Industrialization brings many things to a society that weaken the dependence and therefore strength of family.
The automobile has scattered families. Moving off of farms has cut our rate of offspring at least in half. Independence from each other has made it much easier to divorce. The ability to be financially independent seems to be a factor in the divorce rate as divorce rates usually decline in economic slumps.
House insurance means you don't have to depend on your neighbors to help you rebuild. The modern world gives us independence. Unfortunately that brings problems when what family structure remains consists of a dozen or less people. When someone honestly needs help it can strain that small circle. I'm not sure how to address the underlying problems/freedoms that industrialization has given us.
If civilization were to collapse, human reproduction will return to it's natural state. Any natural human condition should therefore not be considered an abnormality in a civilized society. That we as a race would look down on each other for applying ourselves to the primary purpose of our existence suggests that this society should not replenish itself. Society, through occasional welfare, is ensuring the continuation of our societies through the rigors of an industrialized nations in flux.
The thing is there's no peer state to compete with on that level anymore. Neither side at this time can manufacture thousands of the fighters we already have vs taking the time to develop and deploy a new fighter. There's several things that are true here:
- Global conflict may well be over long before any specialized requirements are even identified. Military development will be very much after the fact and attempting to predict the operational parameters of the next conflict.
- There has been numerous art pieces and written literature depicting steampunk / 30's and 20's era conflict. This would seem to be a self fulfilling prophecy as time moves forward, existing systems are upgraded, but the craft remain largely the same. If the US were to be dropped into a Balls out war now, all the mothball fleets would be minimally repaired, and pressed into service.
- Overwhelm their defenses, kill their queen. In WWII the Germans had vastly superiour technology. They had Jets and guided missiles and all sorts of things. In the end they lost because at one point in time during the war, any single 262 sortie would encounter roughly 200 allied planes during it's flight, and there were just to many bombers to take down. Not to mention no access to local resources such as oil. Speaking of which, you think we really should use all our natural reserves up just to drop the price of Gas? We need those reserves 'just in case'.
- Cost. Prop driven aircraft require less time to produce, repair, field and fuel than a Jet. Smaller lighter craft require shorter fields, no pavement in some cases and can be deployed in much greater numbers. Technology exists today to watch a fleet make it's way to the US, and have a team waiting. It's called, Radar, Satellite, Internet ( comms ) etc. Even then, lets add some guns to that R6, or Extra 300. Cessna? Drop some bombs. Commercial airliners? Napalm Dispensary? Hrm...
Tho Bottom line is unless the battle is taking place in space, there's really no *need* to develop the next super-plane. You aren't going to abscond with the laws of physics. The faster you go, the longer the turn radius, the greater the G's. A slower prop can easily turn inside a jet trying to dogfight. It's pathetic.
Acquire a gumstix and mate this with cell-based internet connectivity, stream control on one account, video on another. Maybe add another channel for weapons deployent.
All problems solved. This isn't the rocket science you think it is.
And if more people asked for this, then naturally the cost of a UAV wold go down, and the goals for a new UAV that could fly above them would be established.
I for one, want the ability to tail any of my daughters on their dates. *Grin*
Another Theory, No matter how educated, very few can actually grasp the concept of mass existing without humanities demarcations of 'beginning' or 'end'.
It would be my pleasure. However while I know the problem is much more complex than the other correspondent has waved his/her hands to make us believe, my own knowledge lacks the refinement to be able to convey that understanding adequately. Even if I were the other poster has already demonstrated an inability to accept any engineering possibility other than the one he's adopted in his head.
In short, it doesn't matter how correct anyone else is, if it's contrary to his wind-solar religion he will ignore it.
Judging by your handle though, you know something about power distribution?
Solar baseload power can generate power all the time, and weather patterns are predictable over the long-term that plants can be dispersed to complement each other's low points in generating capacity.
What, the sun never sets? predicting the weather means we can still generate power? Are you going to move the solar arrays around the clouds? Plants can be dispersed? That last is really ridiculous, when entire Nations ( Like America recently ) have been 80% under cloud cover. You are pointing to one study in the face of decades of research and wisdom.
Lets just call the whole wind and solar debacle "Green Theater".
Solar power, or wind generated power does not scale like Nuclear. All these nuke haters need to offer up a *viable* alternative to nuclear power or shut the hell up.
If they aren't educated enough to tell us what we *can* use then they aren't educated enough to tell us what we *can't* use.
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The only thing that leaves me inclined to go wireless is not having to pull butt loads of cable through ceilings and attics. Then things like security, PCI DSS and HIPAA are brought into the mix and reality sets in, as I head back into the attic. One of the places I worked at was trying to use an apple airport for a firewall. We were scanned for PCI DSS compliance and gave us a report of every single device on our network. I yanked that in my first 30 days there. Don't even get started on the wireless encryption bit. Really
- Dan.
Yea seriously, you're not going to do any serious work with an Ipad. If you think you are, then you haven't done any serious work.
This is *not* a troll, just cold hard reality. Sorry you don't like it.
- Dan.
Sadly, there is no explaining Ghetto. I don't get it either. There are those deemed less than worthy by their own actions that make things hard for the rest of us. It is those people that cannot be allowed to base the example used to set the bar.
- Dan.
This would be legal (in the UK) but outrageous. Don't get me started on the failings of the welfare state, please...
It's legal in the U.S. too and not really outrageous. Maybe frowned upon, maybe. Two 16 year olds can make a baby. I would speculate that it is more normal world wide and historically than abnormal. I know of no other animal that waits so long after hitting reproductive age to actually reproduce.
To be sure, for humans, waiting can be beneficial. The ability to pursue education being the main one. I'm not so sure there is a 'failing of the welfare state' more than diminishing of family structure. Industrialization brings many things to a society that weaken the dependence and therefore strength of family.
The automobile has scattered families. Moving off of farms has cut our rate of offspring at least in half. Independence from each other has made it much easier to divorce. The ability to be financially independent seems to be a factor in the divorce rate as divorce rates usually decline in economic slumps.
House insurance means you don't have to depend on your neighbors to help you rebuild. The modern world gives us independence. Unfortunately that brings problems when what family structure remains consists of a dozen or less people. When someone honestly needs help it can strain that small circle. I'm not sure how to address the underlying problems/freedoms that industrialization has given us.
If civilization were to collapse, human reproduction will return to it's natural state. Any natural human condition should therefore not be considered an abnormality in a civilized society. That we as a race would look down on each other for applying ourselves to the primary purpose of our existence suggests that this society should not replenish itself. Society, through occasional welfare, is ensuring the continuation of our societies through the rigors of an industrialized nations in flux.
- Dan.
If Moses weren't holding them wrong maybe the people wouldn't have gone off and built that idol.
- Dan.
Mod Up!!
You mis-quoted, that's Top Men
- Dan.
Can someone please mod this man God?
- Dan.
Wish I had mod points to cluck about. Darpa is known as Derpa these days.
- Dan.
Canadian Host?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAYMJnO9LBQ
- Dan.
Might get a better response comparing an Amarrian Abbadon vs a Hyperion.
- Dan.
The thing is there's no peer state to compete with on that level anymore. Neither side at this time can manufacture thousands of the fighters we already have vs taking the time to develop and deploy a new fighter. There's several things that are true here:
Tho Bottom line is unless the battle is taking place in space, there's really no *need* to develop the next super-plane. You aren't going to abscond with the laws of physics. The faster you go, the longer the turn radius, the greater the G's. A slower prop can easily turn inside a jet trying to dogfight. It's pathetic.
- Dan.
Score!
- Dan.
Acquire a gumstix and mate this with cell-based internet connectivity, stream control on one account, video on another. Maybe add another channel for weapons deployent.
All problems solved. This isn't the rocket science you think it is.
- Dan.
Agreed.
And if more people asked for this, then naturally the cost of a UAV wold go down, and the goals for a new UAV that could fly above them would be established.
I for one, want the ability to tail any of my daughters on their dates. *Grin*
- Dan.
It improves your usability a lot.
This gave you away.
Brain Drain in the Marketing department is becoming obvious...
- Dan.
heat-death of the universe
Another Theory, No matter how educated, very few can actually grasp the concept of mass existing without humanities demarcations of 'beginning' or 'end'.
- Dan.
It would be my pleasure. However while I know the problem is much more complex than the other correspondent has waved his/her hands to make us believe, my own knowledge lacks the refinement to be able to convey that understanding adequately. Even if I were the other poster has already demonstrated an inability to accept any engineering possibility other than the one he's adopted in his head.
In short, it doesn't matter how correct anyone else is, if it's contrary to his wind-solar religion he will ignore it.
Judging by your handle though, you know something about power distribution?
- Dan.
Speak, when you know something about power distribution. It's more complex than you believe.
- Dan.
Solar baseload power can generate power all the time, and weather patterns are predictable over the long-term that plants can be dispersed to complement each other's low points in generating capacity.
A rather comprehensive study by the University of Melbourne centered around this type of technology.
What, the sun never sets? predicting the weather means we can still generate power? Are you going to move the solar arrays around the clouds? Plants can be dispersed? That last is really ridiculous, when entire Nations ( Like America recently ) have been 80% under cloud cover. You are pointing to one study in the face of decades of research and wisdom.
Lets just call the whole wind and solar debacle "Green Theater".
- Dan.
Solar power, or wind generated power does not scale like Nuclear. All these nuke haters need to offer up a *viable* alternative to nuclear power or shut the hell up.
If they aren't educated enough to tell us what we *can* use then they aren't educated enough to tell us what we *can't* use.
- Dan.
Assuming the cameras caught everything I wonder if there will be an analysis of the acceleration and downward trajectory?
Seems odd though, that nearly all of Nasa's accidents have involved something coming *down*
- Dan.
Considering he was an outcast in school this disconnect is hardly any surprise.
- Dan.
The Webs Founders!?!?
My Ass!
- Dan.
Yet another oblivious article that posts the obvious "College doesn't teach anything practical".
No shit Shirlock, back to digging the financial obligation in the form of over inflated tuition and the HR Bastards that enforce mediocrity,
Yes I am Mad. -Dan.