Actually, AFAIK the Bazalt is maneuverable only during its cruise phase, once it reaches the terminal guidance track and goes supersonic, it isn't really more than marginally guideable.
I'd guess that the Indian one is supersonic most of its range (thus the puny 300km) and will accept course guidance during supersonic flight.
So no, I'd guess that the title is only misleading, not grossly wrong as you imply.
http://warfare.ru/?lang=&linkid=2083&catid=312
The P-500 missile is similar in appearance to the P-6/35 and was powered by a liquid-fuel sustainer and solid-rocket booster. It has a speed of Mach 2 at high altitude and Mach 1.5-1.6 at low altitude. The flight profile of the missile varies from 30 to 7,000 m (low-low or low-high). Guidance is based on a digital INS on a gyro- stabilized platform and an active-radar seeker, which periodically switches to passive mode. For the first time, the missile was equipped with a digital computer (Tsifrova Vichislenna Mashina, "digital computing device"). The guidance system was also equipped with a datalink to communicate between missiles in a salvo, with a salvo consisting of eight missiles launched at short intervals. Usually, one of the missiles flies high (5,000-7,000 m) to pick up the target, while the rest remain at medium to low altitude with their radar seekers switched to passive mode. The leading missile then transmits targeting data to the others and allocates individual targets, with half of the salvo directed at the aircraft carrier and half at other ships in the area, one apiece. The onboard radar seekers are turned on at the last moment, just before reaching the target.If the lead missile is shot down, another one (in a programmed sequence) takes over and climbs to a higher altitude to continue directing the salvo. All the missiles have active radar jamming to disrupt any defensive action from fighters and shipboard air-defense systems. In addition, vital parts of the P-500 missile are armored to increase survivability.
The headline says, "India First To Build a Supersonic Cruise Missile". In order to even accurately reflect the article, it should read, "India First To Build a manoeuvrable Supersonic Cruise Missile". But even so, the article is wrong;
from wikipedia, P-500 Bazalt
The P-500 Bazalt (Russian: -500 ; English: basalt) is a liquid-fueled, rocket powered, supersonic cruise missile used by the Soviet and Russian navies. Developed by OKB-52 MAP (later NPO Mashinostroyeniye), its GRAU designation is 4K80[1]. Its NATO reporting name is SS-N-12 Sandbox. It entered service in 1973 to replace the SS-N-3 Shaddock. The P-500 Bazalt had a 550 km range and a payload of 1,000 kg, which allows it to carry a 350 kT nuclear or a 950 kg semi-armor-piercing high explosive warhead (currently only the conventional version remains in service). The P-500 Bazalt uses active radar homing for terminal guidance, and can receive mid-course corrections by the Tupolev Tu-95D, the Kamov Ka-25B and the Kamov Ka-27B.
The summary implies that reducing the number of science graduates would provide an incentive for companies to increase the pay of scientists and engineers. I counter that a reduced amount of science graduates would simply increase the number of H1B visas granted which will in turn drive down the pay for native scientists and engineers.
the premiums for interns were between $15,000 -$20,000. That's a hell of a lot for someone fresh out of med-school
The congressional report lists the premium for internists, not interns.
internist -noun a physician specializing in the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases, esp. of adults.
Also the the graph you reference shows the rates from Connecticut, the state with the second highest malpractice premiums according to the Medical Liability Monitor.
Just like medical predators and ambulance chasing lawyers, I congratulate them for driving health care costs to the point where litigation avoidance - not patient care or comfort, is the deciding factor in medical decisions
No one can afford to get sick without insurance in the US, and frankly not everyone can even afford the insurance.
That's true but tort reform has little to do with the cost of health care.
Thus, the health care system is broken, and thus - it HAS to get fixed NOW.
Yes, health care needs to be fixed; however tort reform is the exact opposite of fixing the system. Tort reform is a dream come true for managed care providers. They can deny care or approve cheaper, inappropriate treatments with less consequence. For example Joe has cancer. Joe's insurance can either pay for two million dollar chemotherapy or deny treatment. With say a $50,000 cap on malpractice suits the choice for the managed care provider becomes a clear. The clear choice being the denial of treatment. Protestations based on the altruism of corporations are laughable, managed care providers are currently denying care under the above premise. Making it easier for them to do so is the exact opposite of reform.
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The US and UK have two parties each, and the two parties are basically not very different. Barring a few specific situations, votes for other parties or independents have no effect. If you don't agree with the way things are, you can't stand for the major parties, and I'm not too familiar with the US system, but the UK's "first past the post" system makes it nearly impossible for new parties to go anywhere, as the only way for one to become effective would be for large numbers of people to throw their votes away for several elections in a row.
Sometimes, voting is not going to change anything.
I often hear the term "throw your vote away" in reference to voting for a third party. If voting was the same as betting on a horse race or football, then yes voting for the loser is throwing your vote away; however voting is not like sports. You see, even though you may vote for a winner, if the winner doesn't represent your views you are actually losing.
I could never decide between the unicomp type M and the "das keyboard" http://www.daskeyboard.com/. The das keyboard has clickly keys but they aren't buckling springs. After seeing this article I called unicomp and they advised me I could get a black on black space saver with blank keys for a few bucks more, in other words a "das keyboard" style type M. Best of both worlds!
No, he'll consult opinion polls to determine what lip services he'll spout on camera. Meanwhile his real agenda will be whatever big business god damn tells him it is. Just like every other politician.
I found the review rather lackluster. In reviewing a fanless PSU I would think the PSU temperature and the case temperature would be measured both idle and under load for every PSU, instead of just saying "by the way it hit 51C under load". Also I would expect a more constant load draw than "running prime 95" for an hour or so. Perhaps hook up the PSU's to resistors so we can take the randomness out of the equation. Average fluctuation on each of the voltage lines (5, 12 & 3.3) measured in 5-minute intervals over the course of a half hour rather than a single reading would be nice as well. How well does it provides power under a brownout situation, does it survive a power surge while still giving proper power to the computer components? Does it even run longer than an hour at a time? So many questions unanswered.
No, my reasoning is not flawed. I was not making a critique of parents comment. His comment on debt to society sparked an idea on using RFID's to track debtors. It has no relation to parents comment about debt to society as a whole other than as it relates to inspiration for my idea.
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The World of Blogebrities
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"Clearly the list is fraudulent. Maddox is on the B list? I've never heard of most of the A list but I'd think getting a book deal off of having a well read blog would put you on the A list of blogging. Afterall, that's the point of having one."
I agree with you. I clicked on some of the "A List" links and found mostly news aggregation sites. One of the random "A List" clicks had the top posting as a link to The Onion, the second link on the same page to a CNN type story. Why does an amateur news aggregation site make "A list" while people who are making original material like Bruce Sterling and Maddox get delegated to the B list? The list doesn't even include Robert X. Cringely Robert X. Cringely, one of the original bloggers who blogged on the internet before these people who wrote this crappy list ever even knew what the internet was. I guess it doesn't matter because Cringely, Maddox and Sterling will keep writing their original material about relevant things while "Blogebrity" and it's "A list" keep writing about their toothpaste woes, or what brand of shoes they like, hoping for some venture capital so they can sell out without ever having contributed one iota of anything, original thought or otherwise, to society.
Or as Maddox would say, "It doesn't matter, bag my groceries"
"Because of modern anti-theft measures, the man who stuck a gun in my stomach is most likely going to end up in jail"
It's extremely unlikely that the person who stole your wallet will be picked up based on a description. Do you think the police will issue an APB on the mugger? Do you think they will have his picture on the projector in the morning briefing? DO you honestly, really think that there is some detective at your local police department who will take that picture from the 7-11 camera, and go through each and every one of the thousands or tens of thousands of mugshots they have on file, looking for a match? Just wondering.
Monitoring should only be done in those cases where a person has "incurred a debt to society"
Good idea. Attach RFID's to people with low credit scores as a condition for loans. That way the company issuing the loan can track the debtors down in case they try to skip out on their debt.
And if you want to be pessimistic you might wonder how an unremarkable comment could be marked +4 interesting, especially considering the advertisement in the sig.
Networks are not governed by Moore's Law, instead there is Edolms Law, a theory on the growth of computer networks.
"If we project forward, Edholm's Law says that in about five years 3G (third-generation) wireless will routinely deliver 1 Mb/s, Wi-Fi will bring nomadic access to 10 Mb/s, and office desktops will connect at a standard of 1 gigabit per second."
--Steven Cherry - Edholm's Law of Bandwidth
So while in 6 years Lucas's network may or may not be sufficient for his needs, by outside standards of network speed it will remain sufficient.
You're jumping around with different topics to support the removal of goverment social services, in this thread and other threads. Yes if unemployment is high then the overall burden on the economy is increased when social services are being provided to the citizens. Yes, there are elite interests in our society that are seeking to remove the social services to alleviate their own tax burden. But the connections you are making don't make sense in the context you're using them. If you're against cutting of social services just explain why in a few pararaphs explaining your reasoning.
"Now of course only some of us can be the man, this is why we need population control"
What does a limited amount of society being in a position control production have to do with population control? You have supplied no logical connection between the two ideas.
"I have yet to see a single-player mod that I thought was as compelling as, say, the original Soul Reaver"
Also, I found Soul Reaver to be an uninspired, linear game with poor level design and little replay value.
"Mods are cool, but they generally fail to tell a compelling, cinematic story."
Video games are not about telling a compelling cinematic story. Video games are about exploiting the "reoreintation of view" response from the brain. Similar to how TV works. Constant fast paced reorientations compell attention and are difficult to ignore. Some of the most popular video games tell no story at all. Street Fighter 2, Galaga, and Tetris come to mind as games that tell no story but were best sellers in their time.
Whenever I hear about a "silent majority" I am reminded of the Eskimo commercial a few years back where two Eskimos are sitting alone on a vast empty snow filled plain. One has a bag of chips and the other Eskimo wants one. The first Eskimo says "If I give one to you, then I have to give one to everyone!" but there's no one around for miles.
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Actually, AFAIK the Bazalt is maneuverable only during its cruise phase, once it reaches the terminal guidance track and goes supersonic, it isn't really more than marginally guideable.
I'd guess that the Indian one is supersonic most of its range (thus the puny 300km) and will accept course guidance during supersonic flight. So no, I'd guess that the title is only misleading, not grossly wrong as you imply.
http://warfare.ru/?lang=&linkid=2083&catid=312
The P-500 missile is similar in appearance to the P-6/35 and was powered by a liquid-fuel sustainer and solid-rocket booster. It has a speed of Mach 2 at high altitude and Mach 1.5-1.6 at low altitude. The flight profile of the missile varies from 30 to 7,000 m (low-low or low-high). Guidance is based on a digital INS on a gyro- stabilized platform and an active-radar seeker, which periodically switches to passive mode. For the first time, the missile was equipped with a digital computer (Tsifrova Vichislenna Mashina, "digital computing device"). The guidance system was also equipped with a datalink to communicate between missiles in a salvo, with a salvo consisting of eight missiles launched at short intervals. Usually, one of the missiles flies high (5,000-7,000 m) to pick up the target, while the rest remain at medium to low altitude with their radar seekers switched to passive mode. The leading missile then transmits targeting data to the others and allocates individual targets, with half of the salvo directed at the aircraft carrier and half at other ships in the area, one apiece. The onboard radar seekers are turned on at the last moment, just before reaching the target.If the lead missile is shot down, another one (in a programmed sequence) takes over and climbs to a higher altitude to continue directing the salvo. All the missiles have active radar jamming to disrupt any defensive action from fighters and shipboard air-defense systems. In addition, vital parts of the P-500 missile are armored to increase survivability.
smallfurry from SZ?
The headline says, "India First To Build a Supersonic Cruise Missile". In order to even accurately reflect the article, it should read, "India First To Build a manoeuvrable Supersonic Cruise Missile". But even so, the article is wrong;
from wikipedia, P-500 Bazalt
The P-500 Bazalt (Russian: -500 ; English: basalt) is a liquid-fueled, rocket powered, supersonic cruise missile used by the Soviet and Russian navies. Developed by OKB-52 MAP (later NPO Mashinostroyeniye), its GRAU designation is 4K80[1]. Its NATO reporting name is SS-N-12 Sandbox. It entered service in 1973 to replace the SS-N-3 Shaddock. The P-500 Bazalt had a 550 km range and a payload of 1,000 kg, which allows it to carry a 350 kT nuclear or a 950 kg semi-armor-piercing high explosive warhead (currently only the conventional version remains in service). The P-500 Bazalt uses active radar homing for terminal guidance, and can receive mid-course corrections by the Tupolev Tu-95D, the Kamov Ka-25B and the Kamov Ka-27B.
So many levels of fail in this submission
The summary implies that reducing the number of science graduates would provide an incentive for companies to increase the pay of scientists and engineers. I counter that a reduced amount of science graduates would simply increase the number of H1B visas granted which will in turn drive down the pay for native scientists and engineers.
the premiums for interns were between $15,000 -$20,000. That's a hell of a lot for someone fresh out of med-school
The congressional report lists the premium for internists, not interns.
internist
-noun
a physician specializing in the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases, esp. of adults.
Also the the graph you reference shows the rates from Connecticut, the state with the second highest malpractice premiums according to the Medical Liability Monitor.
Just like medical predators and ambulance chasing lawyers, I congratulate them for driving health care costs to the point where litigation avoidance - not patient care or comfort, is the deciding factor in medical decisions
"medical predators and ambulance chasing lawyers" amount to "less than one-half of a percentage point of medical spending" It's hardly the driving force in the cost of health insurance.
No one can afford to get sick without insurance in the US, and frankly not everyone can even afford the insurance.
That's true but tort reform has little to do with the cost of health care.
Thus, the health care system is broken, and thus - it HAS to get fixed NOW.
Yes, health care needs to be fixed; however tort reform is the exact opposite of fixing the system. Tort reform is a dream come true for managed care providers. They can deny care or approve cheaper, inappropriate treatments with less consequence. For example Joe has cancer. Joe's insurance can either pay for two million dollar chemotherapy or deny treatment. With say a $50,000 cap on malpractice suits the choice for the managed care provider becomes a clear. The clear choice being the denial of treatment. Protestations based on the altruism of corporations are laughable, managed care providers are currently denying care under the above premise. Making it easier for them to do so is the exact opposite of reform.
The US and UK have two parties each, and the two parties are basically not very different. Barring a few specific situations, votes for other parties or independents have no effect. If you don't agree with the way things are, you can't stand for the major parties, and I'm not too familiar with the US system, but the UK's "first past the post" system makes it nearly impossible for new parties to go anywhere, as the only way for one to become effective would be for large numbers of people to throw their votes away for several elections in a row.
Sometimes, voting is not going to change anything.
I often hear the term "throw your vote away" in reference to voting for a third party. If voting was the same as betting on a horse race or football, then yes voting for the loser is throwing your vote away; however voting is not like sports. You see, even though you may vote for a winner, if the winner doesn't represent your views you are actually losing.
I could never decide between the unicomp type M and the "das keyboard" http://www.daskeyboard.com/. The das keyboard has clickly keys but they aren't buckling springs. After seeing this article I called unicomp and they advised me I could get a black on black space saver with blank keys for a few bucks more, in other words a "das keyboard" style type M. Best of both worlds!
No, he'll consult opinion polls to determine what lip services he'll spout on camera. Meanwhile his real agenda will be whatever big business god damn tells him it is. Just like every other politician.
burnt toast!
I can't wait to get my fuligin cloak!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_New_Sun/
I found the review rather lackluster. In reviewing a fanless PSU I would think the PSU temperature and the case temperature would be measured both idle and under load for every PSU, instead of just saying "by the way it hit 51C under load". Also I would expect a more constant load draw than "running prime 95" for an hour or so. Perhaps hook up the PSU's to resistors so we can take the randomness out of the equation. Average fluctuation on each of the voltage lines (5, 12 & 3.3) measured in 5-minute intervals over the course of a half hour rather than a single reading would be nice as well. How well does it provides power under a brownout situation, does it survive a power surge while still giving proper power to the computer components? Does it even run longer than an hour at a time? So many questions unanswered.
No, my reasoning is not flawed. I was not making a critique of parents comment. His comment on debt to society sparked an idea on using RFID's to track debtors. It has no relation to parents comment about debt to society as a whole other than as it relates to inspiration for my idea.
I agree with you. I clicked on some of the "A List" links and found mostly news aggregation sites. One of the random "A List" clicks had the top posting as a link to The Onion, the second link on the same page to a CNN type story. Why does an amateur news aggregation site make "A list" while people who are making original material like Bruce Sterling and Maddox get delegated to the B list? The list doesn't even include Robert X. Cringely Robert X. Cringely, one of the original bloggers who blogged on the internet before these people who wrote this crappy list ever even knew what the internet was. I guess it doesn't matter because Cringely, Maddox and Sterling will keep writing their original material about relevant things while "Blogebrity" and it's "A list" keep writing about their toothpaste woes, or what brand of shoes they like, hoping for some venture capital so they can sell out without ever having contributed one iota of anything, original thought or otherwise, to society.
Or as Maddox would say, "It doesn't matter, bag my groceries"
Good idea. Attach RFID's to people with low credit scores as a condition for loans. That way the company issuing the loan can track the debtors down in case they try to skip out on their debt.
And if you want to be pessimistic you might wonder how an unremarkable comment could be marked +4 interesting, especially considering the advertisement in the sig.
Networks are not governed by Moore's Law, instead there is Edolms Law, a theory on the growth of computer networks.
So while in 6 years Lucas's network may or may not be sufficient for his needs, by outside standards of network speed it will remain sufficient.
You're jumping around with different topics to support the removal of goverment social services, in this thread and other threads. Yes if unemployment is high then the overall burden on the economy is increased when social services are being provided to the citizens. Yes, there are elite interests in our society that are seeking to remove the social services to alleviate their own tax burden. But the connections you are making don't make sense in the context you're using them. If you're against cutting of social services just explain why in a few pararaphs explaining your reasoning.
"Now of course only some of us can be the man, this is why we need population control"
What does a limited amount of society being in a position control production have to do with population control? You have supplied no logical connection between the two ideas.
"I have yet to see a single-player mod that I thought was as compelling as, say, the original Soul Reaver" Also, I found Soul Reaver to be an uninspired, linear game with poor level design and little replay value.
"Mods are cool, but they generally fail to tell a compelling, cinematic story."
Video games are not about telling a compelling cinematic story. Video games are about exploiting the "reoreintation of view" response from the brain. Similar to how TV works. Constant fast paced reorientations compell attention and are difficult to ignore. Some of the most popular video games tell no story at all. Street Fighter 2, Galaga, and Tetris come to mind as games that tell no story but were best sellers in their time.
mod parent up
Whenever I hear about a "silent majority" I am reminded of the Eskimo commercial a few years back where two Eskimos are sitting alone on a vast empty snow filled plain. One has a bag of chips and the other Eskimo wants one. The first Eskimo says "If I give one to you, then I have to give one to everyone!" but there's no one around for miles.
Press down hard enough and the graphite tip will break and lodge in your friend's eye. This is called a "fatality" and instantly wins the game.