Because all that space that must be crossed translates into houses having yards, despite being within a block of Houston's downtown. Other than Downtown, Galleria/Midtown, Compaq(?) Center/Uptown, Westheimer @ Beltway 8 and maybe Southside/Hobby there are not many buildings over 4 stories and parking is available. It also is important to not the areas listed above are not close together (i.e. more than 10 minuets apart if you take side streets).
It just so happens that the downside of all that personal space is that it takes time to get to the next place, and thus walking anywhere is practically out of the question.
(There are some other large commercial centers to the North around FM 1960 or so, but I've never been up that way)
I walked from outside of West 610 to Bagby St in downtown once along Memorial parkway. It took over 2 hours, and the only reason I did it was because my car was being repaired at Courtsey Chevy (2nd closest trustworthy Chevy delarship) and the Memorial Metro buses weren't running for some reason
Sometimes they do announce alternate routes on the radio. Once I remeber hearing about an alternate route around an upcoming accident and literally saw 8 other cars begin to exit immediately after the "hint" was given.
Alternate routes tend work best when only you know of them. Otherwise, it wouldn't be an "alternate"-- it would be the main route.
IANAL, but I believe usually the dwelling/living quarters is protected by law... it can not be taken regardless of amount of debt. The worst they can do is make you refinance to remove all equity on the home. If you have multiple homes, however, I think they can take all but the one you are registered to be residing in (via voting registration, state of license, etc.)
Carburetor cleaner is magnatudes better, at a cost of being magnatudes more carcenogenic. You can pick some up at a auto supply store for about $4.
Plus WD-40 _accellerates_ rust. It's actually capable of dissolving water. Try PB-Blaster or Aerokroil for loosening bolts. They work much better too.
[The safety gear to use it responsably will cost about $40+ (VOC proof mask + saftey gloves + goggles). But it works WONDERS on cleaning scummy crap off the bottom of the shower that softscrub/ajax won't remove... if you don't mind the smell]
How about someone who troubleshoots databases from clients. Database dumps can easily take up.5-2GB, for a 5-10GB database. When the problem is easy, it can be fixed in less time than it takes to download the dump! (i.e. while another client's DB is in d/l)
Yes, it would be easier to have people export sections, but chances are if they're needing support for easy problems, they don't know how to dump selective parts. God knows I've tried to explain it before...
What you are describing is a supercritical fluid (A fluid or gas beyond the critical point pressure on its phase diagram). While superciritcal fluids have funky properties that don't seem to match gases or liquids, they are not plasmas. They are something else entriely. Google for it and you may be able to find some extra info
The solution is in how you organise the data. One design uses local databases at each physical location. When an item is in transit between locations, an ITV (in transit visibility) server picks up the data while it's on the move. These indpendent databases are small(er) and archive data after something has left the facility (and the paperwork for its leaving is approved).
Larger environmental databases record the whole life of an item, but with less detail. If detail is needed the archive on each local DB the item visited is retreived.
When an item reaches end of life, the tag is recycled and previous history is marked as safe to delete (deleted in a couple months) from the local and environmental databases.
This strategy works when the items tracked have finite lifetimes and go through few (percentage-wise) locations during their lifetime. If this is not the case, the data load will not balance evenly and you may need a new design.
No, but the military is a very powerful force in terms of presenting money for research grants. The other advantage is the military prefers everything they develop or acquire to conform to any relevant standard so they can switch vendors if necessary. Yes the technology is already there, but an influx of money could drastically shorten the time it takes for it to come to market (or as in the article's dev scale, a '10'). It also will probably increase the likleyhood of the use of standards, because you can't bid on a government contract if you don't meet standards requirements.
It work like an automated version of motocross blades. the lens has a plastic cover over it. When oil or road crap get on it, two spindles wind to "advance the roll to a cleaner part". Kind of like the never ending circular bathroom towel or some winding overhead projectors, just motorized.
Motocross and paintball goggles have covers that you just pull off when they get dirty. Unfortunately there is no one in the car to pull them off the camera in NASCAR, just like there is no one on Mars to pull solar panel grit covers off
Probably they didn't do this becuasd those covers are really cheap (and thus not totally transparent). This would mean less solar energy in the long run, plus scratches from dust that got under the cover when the mechanism winds (i.e. if it's going to get scratched anyway, why do it?).
You know, jumping in, criticizing and making assumptions when you know nothing about the situation isn't a good idea. I bought it used, and had to as my last car (a 1994 Geo Metro that I also bought used) was on its last legs. Quite honestly, I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get the damn thing to the car lot, the alternator on it died again on the way there, the 4th one in a row to do so. It also had about 170,000 miles on it. At the time I had a job in my field (IT) that paid well ($46k a year). The car was certainly NOT unaffordable at the time I purchased it. Of coruse 6 months later I lost my job thanks to the economy. There was no real warning, the only signs something was coming happened a month before I lost it.
Yeah well, on/. jumping into the argument is kinda the only option;-). I was trying to point out a different viewpoint from yours. I still stand by my point on this paragraph. I owned a 93 Geo Prism (interestingly enough same problem with the altenator). Although I was making insane amount (55k, and I'm single) I bought something I could pay off in 3 months. And I'm glad I did, I lost my job 3 months after that. When I forsaw that money would get tight (insurance was $$$ still), I got a 1982 Ford for $700 and arranged to sell the new one. It was old and decrepid, but it could get me around for another 1000 miles until I had something to put together another paycheck. And the other thing was it was big enough to live out of if I needed to.
I know I'll definitely pass on advice from you when you think hitchiking (which can quite literally get you killed) is a valid alternative to keeping a car. And for the record, I do live in a rural area (not like all farms and all, but rural by big city standards). There is no bus service, there's about one whole taxi service in the whole county (And using a taxi each day to and from would likely cost more than the car payment + insurance each month). Biking to work is a bit out of the question because of the distance. Since I'm living with my folks to cut costs down, moving closer is not an option. And, quite frankly, neither is doing without a car.
Risk is part of life. I know someone who has lost a loved one while performing an act of automotive kindness and still suffers from it today. But I'd rather take a chance a taking a bullet or club to the head than starving to death.
[food]
One can get free food from colleges and universities also. (Sanatary) Food is probably the toughest to do on the cheap, and after some additional thoughon my side I will conceed this point to you and correct my own stance. My apologies
No it wasn't beside the point at all. The grandparent pretty much bluntly said that they should give up that fancy new car, etc. and quit to find a new job if they didn't like what SCO was doing. The reality of the situation is that most of those people still there are likely making just enough to get by, and cannot afford to quit until they find something else. And it's not necessarily anyone's fault that the pay rate is too low. In some areas (Silicon Valley especially), cost of living went up almost exponentially. Moving a company's physical headquarters is not an operation taken lightly. How many times have you heard of a major company moving in the past 10 years? I only remember one, Boeing, and I believe they're still working on finishing up the move.
In my opinion, yes it was beside the point. You may suffer a lifestile shift, perhaps a very,very dramatic one (eating from dumpsters and living in alleyways) for such an action. But is that a price you're willing to pay for what you believe in? You may not think so... the (great?) grandparent IMHO does, and that's what he's speaking out against--the people who are not willing to risk as much for what they believe in. I was merely tring to hold up his/her side. You may sink to very, very low levels of personal worth--but you can retain life. And thusl
Do I need that health insurance under Cobra tat's costing me $400+ a month? Can I afford to lose it since I have recurrent kidney stone disease and average 6+ ER visits a year?
I don't know of the seriousness of kidney stones (other than they hurt pretty damn bad), so I'm not going to comment.
Can I afford to lose the used Toyota Camry with nearly 100,000 miles on it I bought used and have 3 more years on the loan?
That's your fault for taking a bad loan leaving you in this situation. Many people take the bus or hitchhike/bike to work if they live in a rural area. Lesson is that you should not buy what you can't afford. You control where you live, and thus your commute length. Insurance woes are also your poor planning. Just because you can afford a vehicle's price tag doesn't mean you can afford the vehicle (see also, expensive to upkeep).
Can I afford to stop eating No, but you can get food for damn cheap. A Tontino's pizza costs all of $1.50 , which is a pretty good price for a meal. There is a difference between not eating and not being able to go out to restraunts or shoping at World Foods/Central Market (probably a bit of an exaggeration, but I think the point is clear)
Maybe they do make $10+ an hour, but what if the cost of living where SCO is phsyically based is 10 times higher than where you live?
That's the company's problem. If they can't afford to pay employees to live near their company for what they want to pay them, they need to move the company. That's why sweatshops exist in certain parts of the world and not in others. This is beside the point of what the grandparent was trying to address (and I think you realized that before posting this)
Totally pathetic comparison, but in this you're the coward, since you'd just leave. I'd alert the authorities, make sure the business didn't know, and cooperate with them to help them get the evidence they needed to take them down
Now your just trolling. The grandparent was just trying to give a representative analogye, and you lambast him for, basically, an extended part of the analogy he didn't really need to extrapolate on
As I have come to understand it, chlorine gas (Cl2) in and of itself, is no more posionous than oxygen. The reason chlorine gas is useful as a weapon is because when inhaled it reacts with water to form a lot of acid
since there isn't a lot of water in your lungs (it can only react with the water on the surface of your bronchial tubes), the concentration is high and therefore leads to the acid eating away your lungs from the inside out.
(Also, once the water is gone the reaction can continue by using the ClOH and further reducing the chloride ion until you get hyperchloric acid Cl(OH)3, another very strong acid which is a component of chlorine bleach)
It was limited as a weapon because It only affected the the lungs/windpipe and eyes (to a much leser degree, because there is much less surface area on your eye than in your lungs). Skin tends to be dry and chlorine has no immediate affect on it.
In drinking water, the amount of chlorine is MUCH smaller than the amount of water, so the acid is very weak. It will only be concentrated at the point at which it is placed into the water (before it diffuses/dilutes out). This allows sterilization of the water at a point without harmful effects down the road. Tap water is less acidic than even vinagerette salad dressing
I should also point out that your own stomach contains the very some acids described above, so putting very the dilute HCl water into your stomach isn't even introducing anything new into your digestive tract.
One of the resons speed limits are so low is because they are set to the lowest common denometer. An RX-8 can do 80 and still stop/swerve/etc. withour requiring forever to do it. A schoolbus whos driver has vision barley in the legal limit cannot. Thus, the rural farming towns have speed limits of 25mph so combines do end up in the sides of houses (and cars don't end up in the rears of combines, though combines only come up during harvest times)
One thing EZ Pass could do is give you a speed limit based on your driving ability and the limits of the type of vehicle you own. It probably a naieve thought, but we can try to use technology positively as well as negatively...
I do agree with you (re: starfuries), forgot about those
(re: joysticks) Hmmm, there are 6 methods of motion. x,y,z axis straight and x,y,z axis rotational
A joystick allows control of 2. As with fighters, you can put a thumb toggle on a joystick to add 2 more
My first though would be of something like two control sticks with a "mouse wheel" thing in them (bringing the total per stick to 3). One for direction and one for rotation. It may also be possible to combine some of them to reduce the control surfaces and allow for more airplane like handelling. Example:
pulling up on a stick engages: z rotation AND (z movement upward AND x movement backward both corresponding with the angle of change along z movement rotational... so that in 90 degress x movement from previous velocity vector is 0)
It is also quite possible to get antennas that are buried in the pavement like stoplight motion detectors. We are working with a few in an RFID project. And when tuned correctly they will pick that tag up as long as it's in your car somewhere (glove compartment, on top of your laptop, etc.)
The system we have doesn't work at 40+ mph. I've seen it do 15mph at best.
Usually there are 2 things that determine how much shielding is required for signal to make it out of a metal enclosure: broadcast frequency and signal boost (esp w/ active tags). Different systems implement these things differently, and as such have different metal penatration abilities.
To be nitpicky (sorry), water would evaporate (boil, actually) nearly instantly in the vacuum of space. If the exhause particles were solid granules or a liquid with a very, very low vapor pressure (mercury?) the dispersion would be primarily controlled by entropy (and thus occur, but take awhile to occur).
This also assumes there is no gas at all in the exhaust to push the particles apart as it expands. It would have to be comprised completely of solid/low vp liquid
vectored thrust can accomplish that easily. Some modern military fighters are beginning to have that (F22) to augment standard flight controls.
I couldn't tell if those missles were constantly accelerating though. They should if they are burning propellant the whole time (also required for vectored thrust)
Lastly, no one who would want a nimble shooting platform in space would have it be as asymetric as the Vipers are. Rotational about the long axis of the Viper body (fore to aft) would take for ever. The fighters of Lost in Space are the most realistic of any movie i've seen so far (IMHO)
Ok, so cut the bottom 20 pixels out of your video feed. Not too hard.
The arguements here are the exact same as webvertising. People block jpeg's from specific servers. Marketers create popups. Browser developers introduce JScript blocks for popup calls. Etc.
The war won't be over until Marketers/Lawmakers/Copyright holders realize the mass public is going to do what makes it happy, regardless of what you want it to do.
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No no, it's U-O-MEga
It's the worlds only known hardware computer virus.
click cartridge + good drive = click drive
click drive + good cartridge = click cartridge
Shatter. Mince. Delete.
Because all that space that must be crossed translates into houses having yards, despite being within a block of Houston's downtown. Other than Downtown, Galleria/Midtown, Compaq(?) Center/Uptown, Westheimer @ Beltway 8 and maybe Southside/Hobby there are not many buildings over 4 stories and parking is available. It also is important to not the areas listed above are not close together (i.e. more than 10 minuets apart if you take side streets).
It just so happens that the downside of all that personal space is that it takes time to get to the next place, and thus walking anywhere is practically out of the question.
(There are some other large commercial centers to the North around FM 1960 or so, but I've never been up that way)
I walked from outside of West 610 to Bagby St in downtown once along Memorial parkway. It took over 2 hours, and the only reason I did it was because my car was being repaired at Courtsey Chevy (2nd closest trustworthy Chevy delarship) and the Memorial Metro buses weren't running for some reason
Sometimes they do announce alternate routes on the radio. Once I remeber hearing about an alternate route around an upcoming accident and literally saw 8 other cars begin to exit immediately after the "hint" was given.
Alternate routes tend work best when only you know of them. Otherwise, it wouldn't be an "alternate"-- it would be the main route.
IANAL, but I believe usually the dwelling/living quarters is protected by law... it can not be taken regardless of amount of debt. The worst they can do is make you refinance to remove all equity on the home. If you have multiple homes, however, I think they can take all but the one you are registered to be residing in (via voting registration, state of license, etc.)
So, you're basically saying that if it was orbiting around something _else_, (Sun, Galactic Center) that would be ok.
How is that not "out of sight, out of mind", as you previously said you were against?
Carburetor cleaner is magnatudes better, at a cost of being magnatudes more carcenogenic. You can pick some up at a auto supply store for about $4.
Plus WD-40 _accellerates_ rust. It's actually capable of dissolving water. Try PB-Blaster or Aerokroil for loosening bolts. They work much better too.
[The safety gear to use it responsably will cost about $40+ (VOC proof mask + saftey gloves + goggles). But it works WONDERS on cleaning scummy crap off the bottom of the shower that softscrub/ajax won't remove... if you don't mind the smell]
cat > dv2qw\ ;qjkxbm\"\[insert_less_t han_here]\[insert_greater-than_here]PYFGCRLAOEUIDH TN\:QJKXBM/qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnmQWERTYUIOPASD FGHJKLZXCVBNM/;
/. splits it to two lines
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$_=join("",@ARGV);
tr/\'\,\.pyfgcrlaoeuidhtn
print "$_\n";
exit 0;
note the transpose (tr/*) is all on one line, even though
Not to mention the fact that you're using what was originally a DARPA developed technology right now. It's current name is "The Internet"
How about someone who troubleshoots databases from clients. Database dumps can easily take up .5-2GB, for a 5-10GB database. When the problem is easy, it can be fixed in less time than it takes to download the dump! (i.e. while another client's DB is in d/l)
;-)
Yes, it would be easier to have people export sections, but chances are if they're needing support for easy problems, they don't know how to dump selective parts. God knows I've tried to explain it before...
(You insensitive clod
What you are describing is a supercritical fluid (A fluid or gas beyond the critical point pressure on its phase diagram). While superciritcal fluids have funky properties that don't seem to match gases or liquids, they are not plasmas. They are something else entriely. Google for it and you may be able to find some extra info
The solution is in how you organise the data. One design uses local databases at each physical location. When an item is in transit between locations, an ITV (in transit visibility) server picks up the data while it's on the move. These indpendent databases are small(er) and archive data after something has left the facility (and the paperwork for its leaving is approved).
Larger environmental databases record the whole life of an item, but with less detail. If detail is needed the archive on each local DB the item visited is retreived.
When an item reaches end of life, the tag is recycled and previous history is marked as safe to delete (deleted in a couple months) from the local and environmental databases.
This strategy works when the items tracked have finite lifetimes and go through few (percentage-wise) locations during their lifetime. If this is not the case, the data load will not balance evenly and you may need a new design.
No, but the military is a very powerful force in terms of presenting money for research grants. The other advantage is the military prefers everything they develop or acquire to conform to any relevant standard so they can switch vendors if necessary. Yes the technology is already there, but an influx of money could drastically shorten the time it takes for it to come to market (or as in the article's dev scale, a '10'). It also will probably increase the likleyhood of the use of standards, because you can't bid on a government contract if you don't meet standards requirements.
It work like an automated version of motocross blades. the lens has a plastic cover over it. When oil or road crap get on it, two spindles wind to "advance the roll to a cleaner part". Kind of like the never ending circular bathroom towel or some winding overhead projectors, just motorized.
Motocross and paintball goggles have covers that you just pull off when they get dirty. Unfortunately there is no one in the car to pull them off the camera in NASCAR, just like there is no one on Mars to pull solar panel grit covers off
Probably they didn't do this becuasd those covers are really cheap (and thus not totally transparent). This would mean less solar energy in the long run, plus scratches from dust that got under the cover when the mechanism winds (i.e. if it's going to get scratched anyway, why do it?).
You know, jumping in, criticizing and making assumptions when you know nothing about the situation isn't a good idea. I bought it used, and had to as my last car (a 1994 Geo Metro that I also bought used) was on its last legs. Quite honestly, I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get the damn thing to the car lot, the alternator on it died again on the way there, the 4th one in a row to do so. It also had about 170,000 miles on it. At the time I had a job in my field (IT) that paid well ($46k a year). The car was certainly NOT unaffordable at the time I purchased it. Of coruse 6 months later I lost my job thanks to the economy. There was no real warning, the only signs something was coming happened a month before I lost it.
/. jumping into the argument is kinda the only option ;-). I was trying to point out a different viewpoint from yours. I still stand by my point on this paragraph. I owned a 93 Geo Prism (interestingly enough same problem with the altenator). Although I was making insane amount (55k, and I'm single) I bought something I could pay off in 3 months. And I'm glad I did, I lost my job 3 months after that. When I forsaw that money would get tight (insurance was $$$ still), I got a 1982 Ford for $700 and arranged to sell the new one. It was old and decrepid, but it could get me around for another 1000 miles until I had something to put together another paycheck. And the other thing was it was big enough to live out of if I needed to.
Yeah well, on
I know I'll definitely pass on advice from you when you think hitchiking (which can quite literally get you killed) is a valid alternative to keeping a car. And for the record, I do live in a rural area (not like all farms and all, but rural by big city standards). There is no bus service, there's about one whole taxi service in the whole county (And using a taxi each day to and from would likely cost more than the car payment + insurance each month). Biking to work is a bit out of the question because of the distance. Since I'm living with my folks to cut costs down, moving closer is not an option. And, quite frankly, neither is doing without a car.
Risk is part of life. I know someone who has lost a loved one while performing an act of automotive kindness and still suffers from it today. But I'd rather take a chance a taking a bullet or club to the head than starving to death.
[food]
One can get free food from colleges and universities also. (Sanatary) Food is probably the toughest to do on the cheap, and after some additional thoughon my side I will conceed this point to you and correct my own stance. My apologies
No it wasn't beside the point at all. The grandparent pretty much bluntly said that they should give up that fancy new car, etc. and quit to find a new job if they didn't like what SCO was doing. The reality of the situation is that most of those people still there are likely making just enough to get by, and cannot afford to quit until they find something else. And it's not necessarily anyone's fault that the pay rate is too low. In some areas (Silicon Valley especially), cost of living went up almost exponentially. Moving a company's physical headquarters is not an operation taken lightly. How many times have you heard of a major company moving in the past 10 years? I only remember one, Boeing, and I believe they're still working on finishing up the move.
In my opinion, yes it was beside the point. You may suffer a lifestile shift, perhaps a very,very dramatic one (eating from dumpsters and living in alleyways) for such an action. But is that a price you're willing to pay for what you believe in? You may not think so... the (great?) grandparent IMHO does, and that's what he's speaking out against--the people who are not willing to risk as much for what they believe in. I was merely tring to hold up his/her side. You may sink to very, very low levels of personal worth--but you can retain life. And thusl
Since you are accessing NTFS, we can assume you have WinNT version X and thus you can have full write support if you want it.
Granted this is more work than just recompiling the kernel, but it _can_ be done.
Do I need that health insurance under Cobra tat's costing me $400+ a month? Can I afford to lose it since I have recurrent kidney stone disease and average 6+ ER visits a year?
I don't know of the seriousness of kidney stones (other than they hurt pretty damn bad), so I'm not going to comment.
Can I afford to lose the used Toyota Camry with nearly 100,000 miles on it I bought used and have 3 more years on the loan?
That's your fault for taking a bad loan leaving you in this situation. Many people take the bus or hitchhike/bike to work if they live in a rural area. Lesson is that you should not buy what you can't afford. You control where you live, and thus your commute length. Insurance woes are also your poor planning. Just because you can afford a vehicle's price tag doesn't mean you can afford the vehicle (see also, expensive to upkeep).
Can I afford to stop eating
No, but you can get food for damn cheap. A Tontino's pizza costs all of $1.50 , which is a pretty good price for a meal. There is a difference between not eating and not being able to go out to restraunts or shoping at World Foods/Central Market (probably a bit of an exaggeration, but I think the point is clear)
Maybe they do make $10+ an hour, but what if the cost of living where SCO is phsyically based is 10 times higher than where you live?
That's the company's problem. If they can't afford to pay employees to live near their company for what they want to pay them, they need to move the company. That's why sweatshops exist in certain parts of the world and not in others. This is beside the point of what the grandparent was trying to address (and I think you realized that before posting this)
Totally pathetic comparison, but in this you're the coward, since you'd just leave. I'd alert the authorities, make sure the business didn't know, and cooperate with them to help them get the evidence they needed to take them down
Now your just trolling. The grandparent was just trying to give a representative analogye, and you lambast him for, basically, an extended part of the analogy he didn't really need to extrapolate on
If you fill your lungs with water, you have a much more immediate problem than the chlorine in the water...
As I have come to understand it, chlorine gas (Cl2) in and of itself, is no more posionous than oxygen. The reason chlorine gas is useful as a weapon is because when inhaled it reacts with water to form a lot of acid
Cl2 + H2O -> HCl (hydrochloric acid) + ClOH (hypochlorite acid)
since there isn't a lot of water in your lungs (it can only react with the water on the surface of your bronchial tubes), the concentration is high and therefore leads to the acid eating away your lungs from the inside out.
(Also, once the water is gone the reaction can continue by using the ClOH and further reducing the chloride ion until you get hyperchloric acid Cl(OH)3, another very strong acid which is a component of chlorine bleach)
It was limited as a weapon because It only affected the the lungs/windpipe and eyes (to a much leser degree, because there is much less surface area on your eye than in your lungs). Skin tends to be dry and chlorine has no immediate affect on it.
In drinking water, the amount of chlorine is MUCH smaller than the amount of water, so the acid is very weak. It will only be concentrated at the point at which it is placed into the water (before it diffuses/dilutes out). This allows sterilization of the water at a point without harmful effects down the road. Tap water is less acidic than even vinagerette salad dressing
I should also point out that your own stomach contains the very some acids described above, so putting very the dilute HCl water into your stomach isn't even introducing anything new into your digestive tract.
One of the resons speed limits are so low is because they are set to the lowest common denometer. An RX-8 can do 80 and still stop/swerve/etc. withour requiring forever to do it. A schoolbus whos driver has vision barley in the legal limit cannot. Thus, the rural farming towns have speed limits of 25mph so combines do end up in the sides of houses (and cars don't end up in the rears of combines, though combines only come up during harvest times)
One thing EZ Pass could do is give you a speed limit based on your driving ability and the limits of the type of vehicle you own. It probably a naieve thought, but we can try to use technology positively as well as negatively...
I do agree with you (re: starfuries), forgot about those
(re: joysticks)
Hmmm, there are 6 methods of motion. x,y,z axis straight and x,y,z axis rotational
A joystick allows control of 2. As with fighters, you can put a thumb toggle on a joystick to add 2 more
My first though would be of something like two control sticks with a "mouse wheel" thing in them (bringing the total per stick to 3). One for direction and one for rotation. It may also be possible to combine some of them to reduce the control surfaces and allow for more airplane like handelling. Example:
pulling up on a stick engages:
z rotation AND (z movement upward AND x movement backward both corresponding with the angle of change along z movement rotational... so that in 90 degress x movement from previous velocity vector is 0)
It is also quite possible to get antennas that are buried in the pavement like stoplight motion detectors. We are working with a few in an RFID project. And when tuned correctly they will pick that tag up as long as it's in your car somewhere (glove compartment, on top of your laptop, etc.)
The system we have doesn't work at 40+ mph. I've seen it do 15mph at best.
Usually there are 2 things that determine how much shielding is required for signal to make it out of a metal enclosure: broadcast frequency and signal boost (esp w/ active tags). Different systems implement these things differently, and as such have different metal penatration abilities.
To be nitpicky (sorry), water would evaporate (boil, actually) nearly instantly in the vacuum of space. If the exhause particles were solid granules or a liquid with a very, very low vapor pressure (mercury?) the dispersion would be primarily controlled by entropy (and thus occur, but take awhile to occur).
/low vp liquid
This also assumes there is no gas at all in the exhaust to push the particles apart as it expands. It would have to be comprised completely of solid
(sorry for the horrendous spelling/grammar)
vectored thrust can accomplish that easily. Some modern military fighters are beginning to have that (F22) to augment standard flight controls.
I couldn't tell if those missles were constantly accelerating though. They should if they are burning propellant the whole time (also required for vectored thrust)
Lastly, no one who would want a nimble shooting platform in space would have it be as asymetric as the Vipers are. Rotational about the long axis of the Viper body (fore to aft) would take for ever. The fighters of Lost in Space are the most realistic of any movie i've seen so far (IMHO)
At least solid-state HD's are an option with the freeware version :-).
Ok, so cut the bottom 20 pixels out of your video feed. Not too hard.
The arguements here are the exact same as webvertising. People block jpeg's from specific servers. Marketers create popups. Browser developers introduce JScript blocks for popup calls. Etc.
The war won't be over until Marketers/Lawmakers/Copyright holders realize the mass public is going to do what makes it happy, regardless of what you want it to do.