but I've only ever seen one HDTV in an actual house
Oh, are we doing anecdotal evidence theatre now?
I bought an LCD HDTV in January and three of my friends have since bought HDTVs. Therefore EVERYONE now owns an HDTV.
And to your point about 32" TVs starting at $600-$700: Do you recall what 32" CRTs started at 5 years ago? LCDs have gotten MUCH cheaper in the past year or so. As much as you rail against it, the future is now!:)
*Historical footnote. The Third Reich invaded Poland.
Yes but didn't the Nazis first sneak across the border and capture some radio station or somesuch, then haul the Polish bodies back into Germany and use that as the excuse to invade?
Ok, since you bring up "politics": I wonder if the United States would have spent the money we've sunk into invading Iraq on a Mars mission how close we'd be to astronauts on the Red Planet?
Orbital mechanics 101:
If you "throw" something from a given orbit towards the object it is orbiting, you are just changing the orbital altitude. Distance will decrease but orbital period also decreases, thus it stays in orbit. To get an object to "de-orbit" you would need to throw it backwards (that is in the opposite direction of travel).
Wouldn't "gigabits per mile" make more sense as a metric to take into account how much more area there is to cover in the US veruss South Korea or Japan?
Right. It's so simple. YOU invented "fight to win"! Why didn't we just do that in the first place? I hereby promote you to Supreme Allied Commander: Iraqi Quagmire. Now be sure to fight to win!
I'll let you go ahead and read what you posted again:
Cutting and running wouldn't just be disasterous for Iraq, there are other ME countries that started "seeing the light" (stopping weapons programs, starting to have some democratically elected officials) when we invaded Iraq.
Or is your logic that everyone will think "Gosh Iraq didn't even HAVE WMDs and those batshit crazy Americans invaded them"? Apparently unlike you I don't want my country to be seen as the second coming of the Empire.
fight to win
Hey! Alright! You've updated your talking points. Way to go! Dribble out more meaningless garbage why don't you?
Ah yes, but the article has lead guitarists in Famous Rock Bands saying they get beaten by 14 year olds. Therefore: A sense of rythm is not required to be a lead guitarist in a Famous Rock Band.
Because listening to a metronome tick over and over and over is much more fun than a VIDEO GAME! Nobody, and I mean nobody is claiming that Guitar Hero makes you a better guitar player. Why do real guitarists get threatened by a plastic toy with multicolored buttons?
OP's point is that once the next best thing comes out the unwashed masses will be attracted to the next shiny sparkly object. For example, once the expansion is released, (ZOMG LAAATE BLIZ I H888888TE JOO!!!) there will be WTFPWN LEVEL 70 EPIX!!! to covet instead of useless trinkets.
Multispectral sensors.
While you may be able to fool some of the wavelengths all of the time and you may be able to fool all of the wavelengths some of the time, you'll never be able to fool all of the wavelengths all of the time.
Your math has a small flaw. The Earth is about 25,000 miles around, yes. The last time I checked Hubble is NOT however orbiting at an altitude of 0 feet. Therefore the orbital radius is just a tad larger than the Earth's radius.
Other so-called "Active Defenses" [ciar.org] developed for battletanks might also be applicable.
Maybe, but these objects are an order of magnitude faster than an RPG round. And they work by firing off a charge to intercept the incoming round. You think the debris problem is bad not? Try setting off a few of these in the ISS's orbit. "Cleanup in aisle 5"...
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And cassette tapes are way too fancy, 8-tracks are good enough right?
I bought an LCD HDTV in January and three of my friends have since bought HDTVs. Therefore EVERYONE now owns an HDTV.
And to your point about 32" TVs starting at $600-$700: Do you recall what 32" CRTs started at 5 years ago? LCDs have gotten MUCH cheaper in the past year or so. As much as you rail against it, the future is now!
Yes but didn't the Nazis first sneak across the border and capture some radio station or somesuch, then haul the Polish bodies back into Germany and use that as the excuse to invade?
Now where did I put those WMDs?
You would have gotten extra points for "pounds of CO2 per passenger-kilometer" though... or maybe "grams per passenger-foot"?
A communications disruption can mean only one thing: Invasion!
Like the IM client or the character from HHGTG?
:P
You're right. They don't want your elitist, whiny money OR ass. In other words: keep it and go away.
QQ more n00b.
Seriously, take your ball and go home. They said "no", they mean "NO". They don't want your elitist, whiny ass.
Ok, since you bring up "politics": I wonder if the United States would have spent the money we've sunk into invading Iraq on a Mars mission how close we'd be to astronauts on the Red Planet?
EA hasn't managed to buy a monopoly on NBA games yet. Give them time, they're not superhuman.
Orbital mechanics 101: If you "throw" something from a given orbit towards the object it is orbiting, you are just changing the orbital altitude. Distance will decrease but orbital period also decreases, thus it stays in orbit. To get an object to "de-orbit" you would need to throw it backwards (that is in the opposite direction of travel).
Wouldn't "gigabits per mile" make more sense as a metric to take into account how much more area there is to cover in the US veruss South Korea or Japan?
Right. It's so simple. YOU invented "fight to win"! Why didn't we just do that in the first place? I hereby promote you to Supreme Allied Commander: Iraqi Quagmire. Now be sure to fight to win!
Or is your logic that everyone will think "Gosh Iraq didn't even HAVE WMDs and those batshit crazy Americans invaded them"? Apparently unlike you I don't want my country to be seen as the second coming of the Empire. Hey! Alright! You've updated your talking points. Way to go! Dribble out more meaningless garbage why don't you?
Ah yes, but the article has lead guitarists in Famous Rock Bands saying they get beaten by 14 year olds. Therefore: A sense of rythm is not required to be a lead guitarist in a Famous Rock Band.
Because listening to a metronome tick over and over and over is much more fun than a VIDEO GAME! Nobody, and I mean nobody is claiming that Guitar Hero makes you a better guitar player. Why do real guitarists get threatened by a plastic toy with multicolored buttons?
Whelps. Many whelps left side. HANDLE IT!
OP's point is that once the next best thing comes out the unwashed masses will be attracted to the next shiny sparkly object. For example, once the expansion is released, (ZOMG LAAATE BLIZ I H888888TE JOO!!!) there will be WTFPWN LEVEL 70 EPIX!!! to covet instead of useless trinkets.
Multispectral sensors. While you may be able to fool some of the wavelengths all of the time and you may be able to fool all of the wavelengths some of the time, you'll never be able to fool all of the wavelengths all of the time.
Your math has a small flaw. The Earth is about 25,000 miles around, yes. The last time I checked Hubble is NOT however orbiting at an altitude of 0 feet. Therefore the orbital radius is just a tad larger than the Earth's radius.
Maybe, but these objects are an order of magnitude faster than an RPG round. And they work by firing off a charge to intercept the incoming round. You think the debris problem is bad not? Try setting off a few of these in the ISS's orbit. "Cleanup in aisle 5"...
Yeah... I think I'm going to go with micrometorite. But thanks for playing!
Technically it was o-rings on the solid rocket boosters, not the external fuel tank.
Wouldn't that be kind of like listening for an ant fart 100 miles away when you're at a heavy metal concert?
Lots of noise
Or were you being sarcastic?