They stared with forcibly not allowing Windows 7 and 8.1 to run on Skylake hardware after 18 months... http://arstechnica.com/informa...
They're also removing USB 2.0 support, to make sure your much-older computers are properly neutered. Guess you're going to be using that Skylake-esque hardware after all... http://wccftech.com/intel-skyl...
Don't ask a question if you don't want to know the answer!.
I think the right person could go a long way by reminding developers that w/ linux they could include the OS with the game to create a stable environment free of configuration differences (back to the days of including DOS / MacOS 2.x with the game on a disk). This should go a long way to reducing delivery day problems (assuming all required drivers are available), and would make cheating harder as the OS can be check-summed and read-onlyalong with the game files.
The downside is most companies deliver half assed software dependent on updates, and the updates would now need to include OS updates in addition to the game. Plus, if game developers all used different OS's, that means a crap-ton of rebooting just to play a different game.
Sure they would. It's a military target, but it's old so unlikely to start a war. It's the perfect target (for anyone--US or not).
As for the Occam's razor part, how large of a accident would it take to cause the satellite to explode? These things aren't small, so unless the battery / heater was heating leftover propellant (Apollo 13 style) I am unsure anything else has the energy necessary explode a 120 lb (55kg) mass--particularly if it's not in an airtight / pressure vessel (which is a guess on my part as the craft is unmanned).
If energy also came from external sources, however, then the postulations above are no longer valid.
>Currently the velocity of railguns is roughly equivalent to navel guns
Nope, the 8MJ railgun was hypersonic (I think it's at 32-64MJ now). It sounds much louder than the 5" when it fires. It needs the extra velocity as the shell turns into plasma when it hits a target, eliminating the need for explosive in the shell.
The reason for the shells that no one seems to have pointed on yet is the US Navy also need land-attack capability (The Marines continue, to this day, protest the removal of BB's because they love dropping 16" 1.5 ton shells on fortified beaches, See also, LRLAP). If you look back to the Iran-Iraq war, while missiles were used frequently most things were still finished off with 5" / 75mm. The truth is that those rounds cost much less than a standard missile, and a railgun projectile should cost even less as there's no explosive handling required for it's rounds (either HE or propellant). This is all in addition to the massive improvement in safety the CNO frequently cites (which is also important)
>High endurance aircraft that can strike from extreme range and attack submarines with surface strike capability might be the order of the day. A submersible destroyer for example could get in close with heavy weaponry, fire a salvo, and then dive before enemy systems could target and strike it. Such a thing would be vulnerable to enemy attack submarines but then you could just escort it with a flotilla of attack submarines to act as defense. You could even add some drone carriers. Submersible aircraft carriers were built by the Japanese in WW2. Consider what you could do if you gave such a design a nuclear power plant, expanded the size to Nimitz proportions, and replaced the planes entirely with more compact drones.
While I personally believe we would be better served with elimination of the surface fleet for submersible craft for many reasons (difficult to target, risk reduction to asymmetric threats such as a fishing trawler filled with explosives, reduce need for so many ships in a carrier group, etc.) the "Japanese WWII aircraft carrier" was a sub with a built in storage for three seaplanes that had to be assembled before use and disassembled on retrieval (based on memory of the wikipedia article). The sortie rate and number of aircraft supported of a CVN is much, much higher than this design can support, so we would either need a massive number of them (more $$$ + extra manpower), or need to make a submersible carrier meeting the requirements of a modern CVN. Plus, I would guess if anyone followed those Japanese seaplanes back to base that sub-carrier didn't have a lot of options to save both itself and the aircrew, as it didn't have enough planes to maintain a CAP or enough armaments to enforce a defensive perimeter.
If you Nimitz-sized one, the initial cost would be massive (a typical CVN is over $3 billion currently), and there would be a lot of technical challenges to work out (sealing aircraft elevators against water pressure, for instance). I believe it would be worth the one time high R&D cost in the long run, but it would be a hard sell in current economic times. You also have to think about risk (what's the total cost if one sinks accidentally? How many ways could that happen? Can I evacuate a sub with 4000 people the same as one with about a hundred?
Selling stock doesn't work that way. You look for people wanting to buy at a price (or offer a sale at a price and an amount) and then people say yes or no.
Selling it the first way (looking for people offering to buy at a given price) takes time, because no one is looking for a volume of stock as large as what Gates has. Thus, it would take multiple buys. After a few buys at a given price (which show up on the "Big Ticker Screen"), people trying to buy will start lowering their prices. If you want to keep selling, you have to accept that price for the amounts offered. The price will go down as time goes on, because the traders know someone keeps buying even as the price goes down. So the price keeps going down, and goes down faster as you keep buying at their unrealistically low prices.
The other way (offering a massive amount of stock for sale at a fixed amount) will cause traders to go who the hell is selling all that? Then panic will ensue and more people will lower their sale price of MS stock. Since no one is likely to buy all the shares at the price you listed, you know have a similar "race to the bottom" of stock price to try to sell it all
The way to get it sold for a fair value is to sell it off slowly and take the risk of price fluctuation over time. This is what the OP was referring to WRT "it's just money on paper" as realistically getting all your value out of that asset takes time to fully close the deal at the prices against which the persons net worth was calculated.
Actually, there can be good reasons, which involve detailed requirements. For instance:
-Army develops armored vehicle -Marines need armored vehicle, get Army vehicle -Army vehicle doesn't meet Navy safety requirements
+Army stores HE shells in bunkers waaay far away for everything else on their bases
+Navy ships not that big (and "sunk due to magazine explosion" is a common theme in naval warfare), so safety is bigger deal
+Marines must use Navy ships for amphibious capability -Marines make different armored vehicle (add ability to float as well) -Congress / people claim waste because two different vehicles built for large $$$ that look / appear to do the same job.
This definitely isn't always true, but it's probably true more often than the layperson expects. This argument can be done vice versa if you include that the Army doesn't want to pay for Marine-specific features or needs something that can be procured and logistically supplied / maintained in much larger numbers.
NATO can't easily win a long term tactical / conventional war against the PRC. China is in a production infrastructure boom as the US was during WWII and has plenty of people to man all war materials produced.
China and the US are so economically tied that both would have severe long term losses. China is dependent on US consumers to buy its exports, generate IP to steal (er, "produce"), and on the US being able to repay its foreign debts. The US is dependent on cheap Chinese manufacturing, shipping, and rare earth metal exports.
That's *IF* you could remove all the encapsulated air, which of course you couldn't
I believe this is quite possible following the aerogel production process. Once the supercritical compound is "drained" out it, the aerogel would basically be at vacuum.
First, make sure you know all the current needs. Are you just doing to electrical infrastructure, or ALL of it. Who else is providing input to your boss? There are certain groups that will have higher priority in the building design, such as Safety & Occupational Health, Human Factors, etc. Make sure these are covered BEFORE you start planning. You don't want safety to throw up a flag if you need a power box near an eyewash station.
Next, ask what is in the business pipeline for the near and far future. You may know some of these, but not all of them...
Check industry vendors to get an idea of where the future of CNC equipment you may be using is going. What infrastructure will be needed to support these capabilities? How will the workfloor change to accommodate these machines?
Bearing these in mind, scope up your desired infrastructure. Keep in mind:
a) Boss may not be able to afford everything. Make sure it is possible to scope back your design. Be sure to also know and communicate what risks become more likely if the scale-down is needed. There will also be compromise if multiple designers present conflicting designs.
b) Remember your *ilities. Make sure changes can be implemented, because maintenance, breakdowns, and logistics happen and the world has revolutionary changes that nobody expects.
While the cost of incrementally upgrading your equipment can be high, if you leap generation(s) you also have risk that the upgrade process will be lost amongst your staff. If that happens, then when [eventually] you do need to upgrade the process may not be as smooth, leading to extended downtime and/or extra costs (lost customers, wrong hardware, infrastructure upgrades, etc.)
The only way to know for sure is to have a cost-benefit analysis and a risk strategy tailored to your business areas.
Depends on the bike. A KLR650 is about 400lbs and gets ~50 mpg, but part of that is because it's a 1987 design with a carburetor.
The similar BWM 650 Sertao gets ~75mpg while putting out a lot more electrical power and weighing more because it's a more modern design with fuel injection. The downside is you need a lot more than duck tape and RTV silicone to fix it.
When you consider supercavitating torpedoes that are approaching or surpassing the speed of sound in water (and have active homing), things like this, and actual DE weapons (closure rate close to c) in development there are a lot of hazards out there.
Yes, each new technology can be use against you. Science is science, the will to use (and how to use) is an invention of man. However, by knowing about and having these items first, you have time to develop defenses. You also have the means to test those defenses since you have the weapon systems already. This is why we press forward with R&D in the military.
Further, there is significant political traction by saying we have these items. If that alone leads to a peaceful solution without actually having to use systems of destruction, then hasn't that weapon still paid off?
Many would say the value is in fact greater than if it was actually used, as no one ended up getting hurt as would happen in a conventional conflict. Others may have different opinions...
Spectroscopy grade [~99.9999%] water does leeches ions & salts from your blood into your throat, stomach, etc. via osmosis. This does not feel pleasant (i.e. you may puke). You won't be able to drink much
Because you have to know what you are doing to actively edit software code and make a positive contribution. Those who are having countless amounts of free time are typically low NCO's and enlisted, they have little college education, and have to be ready for their next mission after their buddy's truck was blown up on the last.
This DARPA grant is soliciting for a method of using those idle people to test software without those programming skills. It is not a direct outsourcing of those skills. I don't believe the published request equates crowd to the general public.
Ok, lets stop the knee jerk reactions and take a breath.
There's a lot you can do. Asymettric battles have occurred and continue to occur without one side dominating the other.
Intelligence can garner some clue about what exactly we can expect and not expect. Example: While the US enjoys air superiority most of the time, using underground fortifications and transport routes can counter that without purchasing a massive air force or developing cutting edge aerospace technologies of your own.
Economic theft of IP: See also, AIM-9 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder#Compromised_technology) Manhatten Project / Fuchs & Rosenburgs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_spies) and the daily list of Chinese copies of technologies from Europe, Korea, Japan, etc.
None of this is possible without knowing what's out there. Now the more speculative items...
Of course, we can probably expect advanced technology races to have a high standard of living (beyond what we have here for 1st world countries). As such, minimum pay amounts may be lavish by any standard(i.e. flipping burgers earning $150,000 by todays standards, or via bringing back near-magical devices from the alien equivalent of Walmart and fetching much higher prices on Earth.
DRM does help sales, to a point. I would counter that overdoing the DRM is the major issue.
If the DRM stops casual piracy (ie. the selling of $2 DVD's on street corners) while not being completely bullet proof (such that a moderately technical user can circumvent) that is the golden area. From here, a significant number of people are able to bypass but not the majority due to hassle, virus fears, or lack of know how / fear of tinkering with a computer. It balances mass piracy against privacy intrusion and playability issues.
Colonel Sandurz: Try here. Stop. Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie? Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now. Dark Helmet: What happened to then? Colonel Sandurz: We passed then. Dark Helmet: When? Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now. Dark Helmet: Go back to then. Colonel Sandurz: When? Dark Helmet: Now. Colonel Sandurz: Now? Dark Helmet: Now. Colonel Sandurz: I can't. Dark Helmet: Why? Colonel Sandurz: We missed it. Dark Helmet: When? Colonel Sandurz: Just now. Dark Helmet: When will then be now? Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
The "natives" don't have statistics. People just die in the streets from whatever, and you're not going to know why because no one can afford the autopsy necessary. Or are we going to spend another $10B on autopsies just to get some data?
I recommend taking a trip to Afghanistan and figuring out for yourself what it's actually like there. Then, I would ask you to note who is more effective in the combat situations. If spending $20B on A/C make for better fighters that can win a significant majority of the engagements they are put in, then yes it is worth while.
Also, you should look up information local customs for the amount of work accomplished in a day. Most of the people in iraq and afghan only work part of the time, and rather force others (wives, children, other villagers) to do it for them. Talk with people who have been over there. Not all people are lazy as such, however it's a larger group than the average person in the US (and that's saying something). Not sure about you, but I don't need as much A/C if I'm not going to do much of anything all day long.
Long story short, there is a LOT that goes into these spending decisions ans system design. Don't deride expenses based on rolled up statistics from a single theater of war when much of the military need extends beyond those confined boundaries.
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Dr. Richard Smalley taught Chem 102 at Rice. (Nobel Prize, Buckminnister Fullerene). his Co-Laureate (Dr. Curl) taught freshman chemistry lab
They stared with forcibly not allowing Windows 7 and 8.1 to run on Skylake hardware after 18 months...
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
They're also removing USB 2.0 support, to make sure your much-older computers are properly neutered. Guess you're going to be using that Skylake-esque hardware after all...
http://wccftech.com/intel-skyl...
Don't ask a question if you don't want to know the answer!.
And less influence f the BOX network. I heard you can accelerate the schedule with some Torgo's Executive Powder...
I think the right person could go a long way by reminding developers that w/ linux they could include the OS with the game to create a stable environment free of configuration differences (back to the days of including DOS / MacOS 2.x with the game on a disk). This should go a long way to reducing delivery day problems (assuming all required drivers are available), and would make cheating harder as the OS can be check-summed and read-onlyalong with the game files.
The downside is most companies deliver half assed software dependent on updates, and the updates would now need to include OS updates in addition to the game. Plus, if game developers all used different OS's, that means a crap-ton of rebooting just to play a different game.
Sure they would. It's a military target, but it's old so unlikely to start a war. It's the perfect target (for anyone--US or not).
As for the Occam's razor part, how large of a accident would it take to cause the satellite to explode? These things aren't small, so unless the battery / heater was heating leftover propellant (Apollo 13 style) I am unsure anything else has the energy necessary explode a 120 lb (55kg) mass--particularly if it's not in an airtight / pressure vessel (which is a guess on my part as the craft is unmanned).
If energy also came from external sources, however, then the postulations above are no longer valid.
>Currently the velocity of railguns is roughly equivalent to navel guns
Nope, the 8MJ railgun was hypersonic (I think it's at 32-64MJ now). It sounds much louder than the 5" when it fires. It needs the extra velocity as the shell turns into plasma when it hits a target, eliminating the need for explosive in the shell.
The reason for the shells that no one seems to have pointed on yet is the US Navy also need land-attack capability (The Marines continue, to this day, protest the removal of BB's because they love dropping 16" 1.5 ton shells on fortified beaches, See also, LRLAP). If you look back to the Iran-Iraq war, while missiles were used frequently most things were still finished off with 5" / 75mm. The truth is that those rounds cost much less than a standard missile, and a railgun projectile should cost even less as there's no explosive handling required for it's rounds (either HE or propellant). This is all in addition to the massive improvement in safety the CNO frequently cites (which is also important)
>High endurance aircraft that can strike from extreme range and attack submarines with surface strike capability might be the order of the day. A submersible destroyer for example could get in close with heavy weaponry, fire a salvo, and then dive before enemy systems could target and strike it. Such a thing would be vulnerable to enemy attack submarines but then you could just escort it with a flotilla of attack submarines to act as defense. You could even add some drone carriers. Submersible aircraft carriers were built by the Japanese in WW2. Consider what you could do if you gave such a design a nuclear power plant, expanded the size to Nimitz proportions, and replaced the planes entirely with more compact drones.
While I personally believe we would be better served with elimination of the surface fleet for submersible craft for many reasons (difficult to target, risk reduction to asymmetric threats such as a fishing trawler filled with explosives, reduce need for so many ships in a carrier group, etc.) the "Japanese WWII aircraft carrier" was a sub with a built in storage for three seaplanes that had to be assembled before use and disassembled on retrieval (based on memory of the wikipedia article). The sortie rate and number of aircraft supported of a CVN is much, much higher than this design can support, so we would either need a massive number of them (more $$$ + extra manpower), or need to make a submersible carrier meeting the requirements of a modern CVN. Plus, I would guess if anyone followed those Japanese seaplanes back to base that sub-carrier didn't have a lot of options to save both itself and the aircrew, as it didn't have enough planes to maintain a CAP or enough armaments to enforce a defensive perimeter.
If you Nimitz-sized one, the initial cost would be massive (a typical CVN is over $3 billion currently), and there would be a lot of technical challenges to work out (sealing aircraft elevators against water pressure, for instance). I believe it would be worth the one time high R&D cost in the long run, but it would be a hard sell in current economic times. You also have to think about risk (what's the total cost if one sinks accidentally? How many ways could that happen? Can I evacuate a sub with 4000 people the same as one with about a hundred?
Selling stock doesn't work that way. You look for people wanting to buy at a price (or offer a sale at a price and an amount) and then people say yes or no.
Selling it the first way (looking for people offering to buy at a given price) takes time, because no one is looking for a volume of stock as large as what Gates has. Thus, it would take multiple buys. After a few buys at a given price (which show up on the "Big Ticker Screen"), people trying to buy will start lowering their prices. If you want to keep selling, you have to accept that price for the amounts offered. The price will go down as time goes on, because the traders know someone keeps buying even as the price goes down. So the price keeps going down, and goes down faster as you keep buying at their unrealistically low prices.
The other way (offering a massive amount of stock for sale at a fixed amount) will cause traders to go who the hell is selling all that? Then panic will ensue and more people will lower their sale price of MS stock. Since no one is likely to buy all the shares at the price you listed, you know have a similar "race to the bottom" of stock price to try to sell it all
The way to get it sold for a fair value is to sell it off slowly and take the risk of price fluctuation over time. This is what the OP was referring to WRT "it's just money on paper" as realistically getting all your value out of that asset takes time to fully close the deal at the prices against which the persons net worth was calculated.
Actually, there can be good reasons, which involve detailed requirements. For instance:
-Army develops armored vehicle
-Marines need armored vehicle, get Army vehicle
-Army vehicle doesn't meet Navy safety requirements
+Army stores HE shells in bunkers waaay far away for everything else on their bases
+Navy ships not that big (and "sunk due to magazine explosion" is a common theme in naval warfare), so safety is bigger deal
+Marines must use Navy ships for amphibious capability
-Marines make different armored vehicle (add ability to float as well)
-Congress / people claim waste because two different vehicles built for large $$$ that look / appear to do the same job.
This definitely isn't always true, but it's probably true more often than the layperson expects.
This argument can be done vice versa if you include that the Army doesn't want to pay for Marine-specific features or needs something that can be procured and logistically supplied / maintained in much larger numbers.
At least many of our citizens are better armed than our military
NATO can't easily win a long term tactical / conventional war against the PRC. China is in a production infrastructure boom as the US was during WWII and has plenty of people to man all war materials produced.
China and the US are so economically tied that both would have severe long term losses. China is dependent on US consumers to buy its exports, generate IP to steal (er, "produce"), and on the US being able to repay its foreign debts. The US is dependent on cheap Chinese manufacturing, shipping, and rare earth metal exports.
That's *IF* you could remove all the encapsulated air, which of course you couldn't
I believe this is quite possible following the aerogel production process. Once the supercritical compound is "drained" out it, the aerogel would basically be at vacuum.
You mean like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Never_Dies
OK, then who draws the line between those that can mentally function and those that are deemed hopeless? What does that line look like?
First, make sure you know all the current needs. Are you just doing to electrical infrastructure, or ALL of it. Who else is providing input to your boss? There are certain groups that will have higher priority in the building design, such as Safety & Occupational Health, Human Factors, etc. Make sure these are covered BEFORE you start planning. You don't want safety to throw up a flag if you need a power box near an eyewash station.
Next, ask what is in the business pipeline for the near and far future. You may know some of these, but not all of them...
Check industry vendors to get an idea of where the future of CNC equipment you may be using is going. What infrastructure will be needed to support these capabilities? How will the workfloor change to accommodate these machines?
Bearing these in mind, scope up your desired infrastructure. Keep in mind:
a) Boss may not be able to afford everything. Make sure it is possible to scope back your design. Be sure to also know and communicate what risks become more likely if the scale-down is needed. There will also be compromise if multiple designers present conflicting designs.
b) Remember your *ilities. Make sure changes can be implemented, because maintenance, breakdowns, and logistics happen and the world has revolutionary changes that nobody expects.
It's a two way street.
While the cost of incrementally upgrading your equipment can be high, if you leap generation(s) you also have risk that the upgrade process will be lost amongst your staff. If that happens, then when [eventually] you do need to upgrade the process may not be as smooth, leading to extended downtime and/or extra costs (lost customers, wrong hardware, infrastructure upgrades, etc.)
The only way to know for sure is to have a cost-benefit analysis and a risk strategy tailored to your business areas.
Depends on the bike. A KLR650 is about 400lbs and gets ~50 mpg, but part of that is because it's a 1987 design with a carburetor.
The similar BWM 650 Sertao gets ~75mpg while putting out a lot more electrical power and weighing more because it's a more modern design with fuel injection. The downside is you need a lot more than duck tape and RTV silicone to fix it.
When you consider supercavitating torpedoes that are approaching or surpassing the speed of sound in water (and have active homing), things like this, and actual DE weapons (closure rate close to c) in development there are a lot of hazards out there.
Yes, each new technology can be use against you. Science is science, the will to use (and how to use) is an invention of man. However, by knowing about and having these items first, you have time to develop defenses. You also have the means to test those defenses since you have the weapon systems already. This is why we press forward with R&D in the military.
Further, there is significant political traction by saying we have these items. If that alone leads to a peaceful solution without actually having to use systems of destruction, then hasn't that weapon still paid off?
Many would say the value is in fact greater than if it was actually used, as no one ended up getting hurt as would happen in a conventional conflict. Others may have different opinions...
Spectroscopy grade [~99.9999%] water does leeches ions & salts from your blood into your throat, stomach, etc. via osmosis. This does not feel pleasant (i.e. you may puke). You won't be able to drink much
Not saying how I know this...
Because you have to know what you are doing to actively edit software code and make a positive contribution. Those who are having countless amounts of free time are typically low NCO's and enlisted, they have little college education, and have to be ready for their next mission after their buddy's truck was blown up on the last.
This DARPA grant is soliciting for a method of using those idle people to test software without those programming skills. It is not a direct outsourcing of those skills. I don't believe the published request equates crowd to the general public.
Ok, lets stop the knee jerk reactions and take a breath.
There's a lot you can do. Asymettric battles have occurred and continue to occur without one side dominating the other.
Intelligence can garner some clue about what exactly we can expect and not expect. Example: While the US enjoys air superiority most of the time, using underground fortifications and transport routes can counter that without purchasing a massive air force or developing cutting edge aerospace technologies of your own.
Economic theft of IP: See also, AIM-9 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder#Compromised_technology)
Manhatten Project / Fuchs & Rosenburgs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_spies)
and the daily list of Chinese copies of technologies from Europe, Korea, Japan, etc.
None of this is possible without knowing what's out there. Now the more speculative items...
Of course, we can probably expect advanced technology races to have a high standard of living (beyond what we have here for 1st world countries). As such, minimum pay amounts may be lavish by any standard(i.e. flipping burgers earning $150,000 by todays standards, or via bringing back near-magical devices from the alien equivalent of Walmart and fetching much higher prices on Earth.
Assuming "our own" is the United States, there are twenty according to this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_index
DRM does help sales, to a point. I would counter that overdoing the DRM is the major issue.
If the DRM stops casual piracy (ie. the selling of $2 DVD's on street corners) while not being completely bullet proof (such that a moderately technical user can circumvent) that is the golden area. From here, a significant number of people are able to bypass but not the majority due to hassle, virus fears, or lack of know how / fear of tinkering with a computer. It balances mass piracy against privacy intrusion and playability issues.
Colonel Sandurz: Try here. Stop.
Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then.
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/quotes]
It's called the shore power adapter. These go up to 430V at 400A which should be enough for anyone...
If you're looking for something home-friendly, there are 230V shore power plug types as well..
The "natives" don't have statistics. People just die in the streets from whatever, and you're not going to know why because no one can afford the autopsy necessary. Or are we going to spend another $10B on autopsies just to get some data?
I recommend taking a trip to Afghanistan and figuring out for yourself what it's actually like there. Then, I would ask you to note who is more effective in the combat situations. If spending $20B on A/C make for better fighters that can win a significant majority of the engagements they are put in, then yes it is worth while.
Also, you should look up information local customs for the amount of work accomplished in a day. Most of the people in iraq and afghan only work part of the time, and rather force others (wives, children, other villagers) to do it for them. Talk with people who have been over there. Not all people are lazy as such, however it's a larger group than the average person in the US (and that's saying something). Not sure about you, but I don't need as much A/C if I'm not going to do much of anything all day long.
Long story short, there is a LOT that goes into these spending decisions ans system design. Don't deride expenses based on rolled up statistics from a single theater of war when much of the military need extends beyond those confined boundaries.