Spoken like a true basement dweller... How the hell would tight lips contribute beneficially? You don't want to be permitted entrance? I think it's time you go back and study the Wiki pictures on the subject. Your present source is giving you the wrong notions.
Sadly there's a portion of/.'s that believe that to be a credible source. I haven't dug into it, but I have strong suspicions that they're one-in-the-same as the "don't tread on me", "I'm l33t", lowly educated, tech support/Geek Squad folks who can't think any farther than their nose. Those wonderful tea-baggers that figure as long as they're doing "ok" everyone else must be so tough it up and shut the hell up.
Are you insane? Don't you realize that women living in close proximity synchronize?!? You want to deal with a 10 to 1 ratio that you can't get away from because you're all trapped in a tin can?
I believe you mean Falcon 9 Heavy, which are essentially three Falcon 9s strapped together. In either case the Ares V was being designed to carry 188,000kg to LEO so it's not even in the same ball park.
Present incarnation can neither be throttled nor shut down. This is the reason for the incredibly expensive and likely to fail crew escape system that will make a feeble attempt to jet off of the stack while said stack is still under (potentially uncontrolled) power. The SRBs contracted through ATK are generally considered a make work for the state of Utah.
In its proper usage the terms are not interchangeable. Engineers typically have an expanded set of roles including pulling duty as architects, management of aspects of or entire projects, etc. Programmers typically do just that, program. They generally take their cue from engineers and deal primarily with the nuts and bolts of things with significantly less focus on big picture notions. Many of which are often derisively referred to as code-monkeys due to their restrictive roles and/or lack of skills to perform anything more significant. The sweat-shop monkey being the bottom of the ladder typically hacking together low quality web sites/apps for one-time/periodic contract customers. These poor folks typically are paid miserable hourly or piece rates.
You know what would be funny right about now? For the same silly folks that claim you can vote with your wallet when it comes to poor service and high prices for communication services to chime in about credit payment service companies...
MPAA/RIAA doesn't mean piss in the grand scheme of all that is purchased with Mastercard. I'd have a hard time believing that even the MPAA/RIAA is sufficiently stupid enough to give up revenue from everyone paying for their crap via Mastercard. There's some other motivation that compensates for the loss of transaction revenue due to self-censorship. The folks in charge at Mastercard are definitely not stupid enough to try the whole "morality" thing for its own sake. The board of directors would have their head on a pike for giving away money.
Don't be a douche... If you were paying attention instead of tea bagging you'd have realized I was speaking about market competition. We are entitled to market competition. The communication industry has and is exploiting an oligopolistic, sometimes monopolistic strangle hold on the market. Competition laws have been established the world over from ancient times to prevent business from abusing its position of dominance to the detriment of its customers. Many of us are arguing that the US communication industry is in violation of those laws. Evidence often used to support this include studies and anecdotes regarding poor service, lack of choice, etc. and of course the "rest of the free world" argument which often point to similar or larger bandwidth for much cheaper rates in various places of the world ranging from first world nations such as South Korea, and Japan, to the developing nations (particularly former Soviet states) such as Ukraine.
You can live without your home and car but my argument makes as much sense as yours. The Internet is the communication medium of the present time. It is an essential component of contemporary life. To not have this service is more burdensome than the BS that comes with having it. They know that, they exploit that. Solving this sort of problem is one of the chief domestic responsibilities of government. The government stepped in to deal with Ma Bell some years back, now it's time to step in again and deal with the strangle hold today's communication companies have. There is no reason why Americans should be forced to stand on the side-lines getting gouged for inferior service while the rest of the free world marches on with cheap and far more capable communication services.
Last I knew the US was very much against ceding control of the Internet. Being as they are permanent members of the UN security council this notion really has no wheels even if every other country in the UN was in favor of it. While something akin to this is likely inevitable, it won't until UN v3.0 is release.
Capitalism is about generating the highest revenue at the lowest cost. It has absolutely jack sh*t to do with "best value." The notion of value in a capitalist society is a delusive manufacture of the the marketing department designed to part customers and their money while providing little if anything of true worth in return. The penultimate expression of this can be seen in patent holding corporations such as Intellectual Ventures whom extract money from you for a promise not to sue you.
Good web sites cost $$$$. Crappy web sites made by code monkey sweatshops cost $$$. Bad websites the bookstore staff could put together cost $$ and most mom and pop bookstores have $ to spend thanks to everyone else standing in line ahead of them for customers.
There is a bit of a danger in the act of doing so. Is it good to get all the angles? Yes. Is it good to present each angle in a manner so as to suggest having a stronger position than it really has? Definitely not.
Fox News certainly seems to bias things, however, more importantly I think is that they're pandering first and foremost to viewer interests for the sake of ad revenue generation. This typically translates into favoring controversy and sensationalism with reckless disregard for responsible journalism.
They will never chime in on things such as this, they're just conveniently ignored like everything else. Regardless, this one rates rather low on the plausibility scale.
I'm admittedly not a physicist but referencing good old Wiki they're citing a delta-v of >100 for both Hall effect and Electrostatic ion thrusters. From what I've read the VASMIR has the makings of trumping both of those and will be sent up to the ISS 2012/13ish for testing. I'm not sure where we're presently at relative to the theoretical limits vs. the prototypes we've flown but I get the impression we're making rather impressive strides.
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Spoken like a true basement dweller... How the hell would tight lips contribute beneficially? You don't want to be permitted entrance? I think it's time you go back and study the Wiki pictures on the subject. Your present source is giving you the wrong notions.
Sadly there's a portion of /.'s that believe that to be a credible source. I haven't dug into it, but I have strong suspicions that they're one-in-the-same as the "don't tread on me", "I'm l33t", lowly educated, tech support/Geek Squad folks who can't think any farther than their nose. Those wonderful tea-baggers that figure as long as they're doing "ok" everyone else must be so tough it up and shut the hell up.
No, no, you just give them a video feed of the other can making its way to Mars.
Are you insane? Don't you realize that women living in close proximity synchronize?!? You want to deal with a 10 to 1 ratio that you can't get away from because you're all trapped in a tin can?
I believe you mean Falcon 9 Heavy, which are essentially three Falcon 9s strapped together. In either case the Ares V was being designed to carry 188,000kg to LEO so it's not even in the same ball park.
Present incarnation can neither be throttled nor shut down. This is the reason for the incredibly expensive and likely to fail crew escape system that will make a feeble attempt to jet off of the stack while said stack is still under (potentially uncontrolled) power. The SRBs contracted through ATK are generally considered a make work for the state of Utah.
I thought we called that veal...
In its proper usage the terms are not interchangeable. Engineers typically have an expanded set of roles including pulling duty as architects, management of aspects of or entire projects, etc. Programmers typically do just that, program. They generally take their cue from engineers and deal primarily with the nuts and bolts of things with significantly less focus on big picture notions. Many of which are often derisively referred to as code-monkeys due to their restrictive roles and/or lack of skills to perform anything more significant. The sweat-shop monkey being the bottom of the ladder typically hacking together low quality web sites/apps for one-time/periodic contract customers. These poor folks typically are paid miserable hourly or piece rates.
someone gets the idea to add "goats" to the end of everything they just registered.
Shhh, we're trying to keep the south in the dark on that. We don't need any more stupid xenophobic legislation.
Are you new here?
You know what would be funny right about now? For the same silly folks that claim you can vote with your wallet when it comes to poor service and high prices for communication services to chime in about credit payment service companies...
MPAA/RIAA doesn't mean piss in the grand scheme of all that is purchased with Mastercard. I'd have a hard time believing that even the MPAA/RIAA is sufficiently stupid enough to give up revenue from everyone paying for their crap via Mastercard. There's some other motivation that compensates for the loss of transaction revenue due to self-censorship. The folks in charge at Mastercard are definitely not stupid enough to try the whole "morality" thing for its own sake. The board of directors would have their head on a pike for giving away money.
Don't be a douche... If you were paying attention instead of tea bagging you'd have realized I was speaking about market competition. We are entitled to market competition. The communication industry has and is exploiting an oligopolistic, sometimes monopolistic strangle hold on the market. Competition laws have been established the world over from ancient times to prevent business from abusing its position of dominance to the detriment of its customers. Many of us are arguing that the US communication industry is in violation of those laws. Evidence often used to support this include studies and anecdotes regarding poor service, lack of choice, etc. and of course the "rest of the free world" argument which often point to similar or larger bandwidth for much cheaper rates in various places of the world ranging from first world nations such as South Korea, and Japan, to the developing nations (particularly former Soviet states) such as Ukraine.
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You can live without your home and car but my argument makes as much sense as yours. The Internet is the communication medium of the present time. It is an essential component of contemporary life. To not have this service is more burdensome than the BS that comes with having it. They know that, they exploit that. Solving this sort of problem is one of the chief domestic responsibilities of government. The government stepped in to deal with Ma Bell some years back, now it's time to step in again and deal with the strangle hold today's communication companies have. There is no reason why Americans should be forced to stand on the side-lines getting gouged for inferior service while the rest of the free world marches on with cheap and far more capable communication services.
Ah yes, but first you must find this fabled Keyboard of Life...
Last I knew the US was very much against ceding control of the Internet. Being as they are permanent members of the UN security council this notion really has no wheels even if every other country in the UN was in favor of it. While something akin to this is likely inevitable, it won't until UN v3.0 is release.
no. they simply file as a class action and the courts seem to be sympathetic to permitting them to do that.
Capitalism is about generating the highest revenue at the lowest cost. It has absolutely jack sh*t to do with "best value." The notion of value in a capitalist society is a delusive manufacture of the the marketing department designed to part customers and their money while providing little if anything of true worth in return. The penultimate expression of this can be seen in patent holding corporations such as Intellectual Ventures whom extract money from you for a promise not to sue you.
Good web sites cost $$$$. Crappy web sites made by code monkey sweatshops cost $$$. Bad websites the bookstore staff could put together cost $$ and most mom and pop bookstores have $ to spend thanks to everyone else standing in line ahead of them for customers.
There is a bit of a danger in the act of doing so. Is it good to get all the angles? Yes. Is it good to present each angle in a manner so as to suggest having a stronger position than it really has? Definitely not.
Fox News certainly seems to bias things, however, more importantly I think is that they're pandering first and foremost to viewer interests for the sake of ad revenue generation. This typically translates into favoring controversy and sensationalism with reckless disregard for responsible journalism.
They will never chime in on things such as this, they're just conveniently ignored like everything else. Regardless, this one rates rather low on the plausibility scale.
Unless I'm misunderstanding things, doesn't the exhaust velocity reveal the potential of the vehicle itself given sufficient thrust duration?
I'm admittedly not a physicist but referencing good old Wiki they're citing a delta-v of >100 for both Hall effect and Electrostatic ion thrusters. From what I've read the VASMIR has the makings of trumping both of those and will be sent up to the ISS 2012/13ish for testing. I'm not sure where we're presently at relative to the theoretical limits vs. the prototypes we've flown but I get the impression we're making rather impressive strides.