They argue that it would be little different from early settlers to North America,
o_O
Yeah, I once visited the museum reproduction of the enclosed habitat that they shipped over on the Mayflower. The Pilgrims lived in it until they were able to terraform North America.
Remember, kids, a science degree is *not* an inoculation against idiocy.
I recall in an early ray tracing text the author talking about a college professor who stated that computer graphics were pointless and that computers should be used for nothing but pure number crunching. And people wonder why the title "professor" does not automatically impress me. I could see the potential even as a kid when I saw an early system that just did line drawings on a plotter.
From guys I know who work on these things, when you invent something completely new and cutting edge for launch into space, referring to the costs as a "budget" is kind of silly. It's an "estimate" at best. yeah, maybe the estimates need to be better, but the media like to portray it like like Starbucks putting up their next coffee shop in a mall, with tidy little plans and budgets you can hire guys hanging out over at Home Depot to do the base work. Then again this is the same pack of moronic miseryshits who had everyone thinking a missile got fired of the coast of California this week, so you can't expect much.
The industry has also shot itself in the foot on this. There is so much unpaid and unrecorded overtime thanks to the whole "exempt" employee concept. Even if you make a truly honest attempt to make a bid based on previous designs, you could be 100% or more out of kilter.
You're seeing it very foreshortened, and, yes, they can be very robust right behind the aircraft. For fuck's sake just do a google image search on contrails. This shit is not difficult. You have a vast network at your fingertips!
Here: A jet with the contrail practically crawling up the engine's exhaust.
Just stop it already. 20 years ago the geek community would be collectively laughing at the rubes at the local news station that started the whole hysteria by not recognizing a fucking contrail, or doing 10 minutes of research to find a similar stores in the recent past. What the hell has happened?
Gosh, they could NEVER merge into one contrail, could they? That just TOO FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE to contemplate! You're right! IT WAS BLACK ALIEN HELICOPTERS FROM KENYA WITH OBAMA'S REAL PARENTS!
What? Use the vast international computing machine network to find out about contrails? THAT'S CRAZY TALK!
That actually would have been fine, because then they could have said, at 11, "No."
What they did, from the start, was ask "Who fired a missile off the coast?! OMG!" And then having dubious "experts" weeping about the "incompetence of the military" in identifying a missile which was never there. Some dumbass political hack somewhere called it a "show of force"? Well! That's good enough for me! Herpa derp! Booooop! (brain fizzle)
Meanwhile, folks at the Navy were probably looking at one another saying, "WTF? Are these people high? What missile?"
Do they really have anything to "play back" or is that just something everyone is assuming?
What I don't get is how "contrail mistaken for missile", which has happened before a number of times, is so much less believable than "ZOMG! MYSTERY MISSILE! ACK!" Has the national lack of critical thinking really spun that far out of control?
The helicopter is in the foreground compared to the contrail due to the telephoto effect of the camera. It is completely unrealted to the contrail. Gah! This stuff is SIMPLE, people!
Well, yeah, you need to filter the information. I thought that was obvious. They range from "Dis gAM am TeH SUXORZ!!1!" to a reasoned analysis with video captures.
Release what? People at the Navy probably spent the first hours trying to figure out WTF everyone was babbling about, because from their POV there was no missile. At the very least they have to go to whatever records/radar scans NORAD (or whatever) keeps and try to figure out what people think they saw. This isn't a Hollywood movie where All World Data For All Time is available when Tony Stark mumbles a pass phrase.
Seems clearly likely that the US military knows exactly what it is and doesn't want to talk about it. (Maybe it's high up enough that even the local commanders don't have a full picture)
...or it was an airplane/contrail and the military is fielding the calls about a missile launch and going "WTF are people talking about? Huh?"
So, the two likely scenarios would be: 1) The US test firing something, but nobody knows who or what just yet because it is being kept secret. 2) Someone else firing off missiles off the coast of the US to demonstrate a point.
I consider 1) likely, and 2) just downright scary.
3) It's a friggin' airplane and contrail. People mistake these for missiles all the time when the lighting and perspective is just right, and a news organization in one of the top media markets in the world should know that.
You don't know its buggy until you've bought and played it.
Yeah, it's a shame there isn't some sort of, oh, network of some sort where people could go and read, let's say, a kind of review of the game. Jeepers, but that would be great!
That's why GameFly is so great on the console side. My subscription has paid for itself several times over by letting me play a game I might have bought at release only to find it wasn't what I had expected or hoped. Madworld and Too Human and come to mind. Or I can play a game that can be finished in a week for just the rental cost.
My followers worked as advertised (and are much improved from those in Fallout 3)
I would make Veronica my queen. I fell in love with her after she punched out a giant radscorpion. (swoon) Of course I weakened it a bit with some well placed sniping, but coordinated kills of enemies is the solid heart of any modern relationship.
It's actually got me looking back into building a new gaming rig. At least on the PC if a critical quest character vanishes I can respawn them with a "cheat" command. Maybe they can just let us open a console window on the consoles.:) I really hate moving with keys, though, even with my fancy gaming keyboard. I find the analog controller much more immersive and visceral. Meh... what to do...
"A special effect without a story is boring" - George Lucas, 1977. Hey George, regarding Episodes 1-2-3...?
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They argue that it would be little different from early settlers to North America,
o_O
Yeah, I once visited the museum reproduction of the enclosed habitat that they shipped over on the Mayflower. The Pilgrims lived in it until they were able to terraform North America.
Remember, kids, a science degree is *not* an inoculation against idiocy.
Not saying it wasn't, just that people have a different reaction to the term "paper airplane".
They could have used wood just as easily with this sort of structure.
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It's a trap! The real correct answer is not to play at all.
I win.
I recall in an early ray tracing text the author talking about a college professor who stated that computer graphics were pointless and that computers should be used for nothing but pure number crunching. And people wonder why the title "professor" does not automatically impress me. I could see the potential even as a kid when I saw an early system that just did line drawings on a plotter.
And to be honest, it would have been more impressive if they didn't try to make it sound more impressive by using the word "space"
Or "paper airplane" when most people think of a piece of folded paper.
The freedom to be batshit crazy and burn alive people who disagree with you is still a freedom
Er... not so much for the ones burning...
From guys I know who work on these things, when you invent something completely new and cutting edge for launch into space, referring to the costs as a "budget" is kind of silly. It's an "estimate" at best. yeah, maybe the estimates need to be better, but the media like to portray it like like Starbucks putting up their next coffee shop in a mall, with tidy little plans and budgets you can hire guys hanging out over at Home Depot to do the base work. Then again this is the same pack of moronic miseryshits who had everyone thinking a missile got fired of the coast of California this week, so you can't expect much.
The industry has also shot itself in the foot on this. There is so much unpaid and unrecorded overtime thanks to the whole "exempt" employee concept. Even if you make a truly honest attempt to make a bid based on previous designs, you could be 100% or more out of kilter.
Only on Slashdot is this insightful. BLACK HELICOPTERS!
(facepalm) Whatever. You have fun chasing shadows.
You're seeing it very foreshortened, and, yes, they can be very robust right behind the aircraft. For fuck's sake just do a google image search on contrails. This shit is not difficult. You have a vast network at your fingertips!
Here: A jet with the contrail practically crawling up the engine's exhaust.
http://www.kadiak.org/joe/contrail.jpg
And here the individual trails merging:
http://www.lifeonperth.com/uu772contrail.jpg
THIS TOOK ME 20 SECONDS!!!!
I dunno; just sayin'...
Just stop it already. 20 years ago the geek community would be collectively laughing at the rubes at the local news station that started the whole hysteria by not recognizing a fucking contrail, or doing 10 minutes of research to find a similar stores in the recent past. What the hell has happened?
Gosh, they could NEVER merge into one contrail, could they? That just TOO FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE to contemplate! You're right! IT WAS BLACK ALIEN HELICOPTERS FROM KENYA WITH OBAMA'S REAL PARENTS!
What? Use the vast international computing machine network to find out about contrails? THAT'S CRAZY TALK!
"Was there a mystery missile? Film at 11"
That actually would have been fine, because then they could have said, at 11, "No."
What they did, from the start, was ask "Who fired a missile off the coast?! OMG!" And then having dubious "experts" weeping about the "incompetence of the military" in identifying a missile which was never there. Some dumbass political hack somewhere called it a "show of force"? Well! That's good enough for me! Herpa derp! Booooop! (brain fizzle)
Meanwhile, folks at the Navy were probably looking at one another saying, "WTF? Are these people high? What missile?"
I won $190 in bets with the "ZOMG! It teh MissIle!!!!1" crowd. Heh heh. Dumbasses. :-D
Do they really have anything to "play back" or is that just something everyone is assuming?
What I don't get is how "contrail mistaken for missile", which has happened before a number of times, is so much less believable than "ZOMG! MYSTERY MISSILE! ACK!" Has the national lack of critical thinking really spun that far out of control?
The helicopter is in the foreground compared to the contrail due to the telephoto effect of the camera. It is completely unrealted to the contrail. Gah! This stuff is SIMPLE, people!
Or maybe it was US Aiways flight 808 from Hawaii to Phoenix.
Contrails aren't that wide and don't appear singly.
WTF are you talking about? I've seen contrails that spread half way across the sky and turn into cirrus clouds when the conditions are right.
Not even sure what you mean by not appearing singly. Here you go - single contrail: http://www.flickr.com/photos/misterbucketspartytime/1681098779/
Well, yeah, you need to filter the information. I thought that was obvious. They range from "Dis gAM am TeH SUXORZ!!1!" to a reasoned analysis with video captures.
Release what? People at the Navy probably spent the first hours trying to figure out WTF everyone was babbling about, because from their POV there was no missile. At the very least they have to go to whatever records/radar scans NORAD (or whatever) keeps and try to figure out what people think they saw. This isn't a Hollywood movie where All World Data For All Time is available when Tony Stark mumbles a pass phrase.
Seems clearly likely that the US military knows exactly what it is and doesn't want to talk about it. (Maybe it's high up enough that even the local commanders don't have a full picture)
...or it was an airplane/contrail and the military is fielding the calls about a missile launch and going "WTF are people talking about? Huh?"
So, the two likely scenarios would be: 1) The US test firing something, but nobody knows who or what just yet because it is being kept secret. 2) Someone else firing off missiles off the coast of the US to demonstrate a point.
I consider 1) likely, and 2) just downright scary.
3) It's a friggin' airplane and contrail. People mistake these for missiles all the time when the lighting and perspective is just right, and a news organization in one of the top media markets in the world should know that.
There's a new demo on XBox live almost every other day, and pretty much every XBL Arcade release can be downloaded free on a trial basis.
You don't know its buggy until you've bought and played it.
Yeah, it's a shame there isn't some sort of, oh, network of some sort where people could go and read, let's say, a kind of review of the game. Jeepers, but that would be great!
That's why GameFly is so great on the console side. My subscription has paid for itself several times over by letting me play a game I might have bought at release only to find it wasn't what I had expected or hoped. Madworld and Too Human and come to mind. Or I can play a game that can be finished in a week for just the rental cost.
My followers worked as advertised (and are much improved from those in Fallout 3)
I would make Veronica my queen. I fell in love with her after she punched out a giant radscorpion. (swoon) Of course I weakened it a bit with some well placed sniping, but coordinated kills of enemies is the solid heart of any modern relationship.
It's actually got me looking back into building a new gaming rig. At least on the PC if a critical quest character vanishes I can respawn them with a "cheat" command. Maybe they can just let us open a console window on the consoles. :) I really hate moving with keys, though, even with my fancy gaming keyboard. I find the analog controller much more immersive and visceral. Meh... what to do...
"A special effect without a story is boring" - George Lucas, 1977. Hey George, regarding Episodes 1-2-3...?
They had stories. They just weren't very good.