For air superiority, you hit all the points. What about when the prop planes turn on the ground or naval forces (the scenario I suggested was F/A prop planes)?
Remember that the Bismark was caught because the British torpedo planes were too damn slow for their AA to hit.
The most advanced military in the world will be the only one flying jets with pilots in future wars. The video game logic of this AC's post is downright sad.
The AC does raise a point: non-conventional air warfare. What if this (extreme and unlikely scenario) occurred: an enemy force launches an extremely large flight of propeller-powered fighter/attack aircraft. Sure, our F/A-18s and such might blow them away until they run out of missiles. The dynamics between propeller (slow but extremely maneuverable) vs jet (fast but makes bigger turns) might prevent a gun-range, outnumbering dog-fight from playing out in our favor. This is before you get into details such as propeller planes not generating as much heat (and might require radar missiles instead of heat).
Lots of questions that our military should be asking but probably aren't as they are busy building their super-weapons. Worked out so well the last decade...
In the long term I dont think it would cost a massive amount more. However there would be a large initial cost to setup a manufacturing center. The issue is not so much the labor costs but that we dont have manufacturing facilities here anymore.
And start-up costs in the US would be higher since we tend to do more automation instead of manual work.
There's some device that's supposed to be heavily American that was only 20% more expensive to produce.
"Wal-Mart continues to sell iPads, Barnes & Noble Inc's Nook, Google Inc's Nexus 7, Samsung's Galaxy Tab and other tablets and eReaders"
So people cant use iPads to go shop at like say "amazon.com"(wow who would have thought?) and other websites to find the best deal on ebooks to everything else under the sun?
Of course this only makes sense if you take the "amazon is our competitor" line.
Kindles were specifically designed and priced to streamline the user into purchasing products (eBooks) from Amazon. iPads and the like might have their tie-in to iTunes but it's not as cannibalistic.
Striping results in a higher average latency because you always have to wait for the slowest-arriving data. The question is how much slower (and that gets into the standard deviation of response times). On the flip side, the bandwidth is higher. The question is, how much higher will the latency be and will the higher bandwidth offset it.
It happens to be less effective than those other options by far and more expensive. The only 'advantage' (other than lining defense contractor pockets) is that it doesn't create photos of obvious government oppression.
Honestly, $47 million a year is not exactly "lining defense contractor pockets" but American standards. Call me when we're half way to a billion a year...
At least from my observation, self-taught developers tend to stick with higher languages such as Ruby or Python rather than C or assembly (not a bash on their skill, just the tool they favor). Following this tendency, they would rarely run into a problem with C that requires them to call assembly code and they wouldn't miss this skill-gap.
This is just the once-a-month self-taught vs CS-degree article to start a flame war. Seriously, enough is enough.
Self taught people are effective, but sometimes they do things that are traditionally dumb like build their tree upside down. They can come up with creative solutions (because by their nature they think out of the box), but stumble on things a university graduate would find basic because we studied it and they didn't. Many can't do pseudocode or understand what big-O notation means because you never encounter it unless you've taken an algorithms class. On the flip side, non-CS-degree people are behind a large part of the CouchDB and no-SQL movement because they weren't constrained by traditional thought.
Civil disobedience is a form of getting involved. It's public, known, and rubbed in the face of the broken authority.
The actions of the person I replied to or the actions of others with offshore accounts are secretive and do not lead to societal or government improvements.
I don't avoid taxes when I feel that my money is well spent.
Sorry but this is a bit of a cop-out.
We all want the money to be spent well. We all want to have say in how it's used. But the reality is that sometimes the money is going to be spent on things we don't like (e.g. Iraq or TSA). And people who do like these things don't want money going to, say, ACORN or Planned Parenthood (I'm making some generalizations here). And someone who lives in Northern California might not like that $200 of his taxes are going towards widening a freeway in San Diego. But this is how government (even an efficient and trim one, which CA is not) works.
If you want to fix government and how it spends your money, get involved. Hold your representatives accountable for how they vote (not what they say in speeches). Don't use the fact that government does many things (some you like, some you don't) as an excuse to skip taxes. Despite what some politicians are saying, tax evasion is NOT patriotic.
Hundreds of billions going to what? People's salaries, government contractors, and some natural resources. The money isn't being burnt (except maybe when a test rocket blows up;-). One way the government can help the economy is by judicious spending (this is why a sudden cut of spending can cause a recession by itself). Just as we might spend billions on space exploration, we spend multitudes more on defense (for arguably a lesser accomplishment for mankind).
Won't be long before lazy fat people are using these just because they don't feel like using their own muscles to move their limbs
I feel sorry for fat people. It's not laziness, how would you like to have to lift 350 pounds just to get off off the couch? Plus, they usually get problems with their joints wearing out from carrying all that weight.
Obesity is a health problem, and laughing at someone's health problems, whether it be morbid obesity, insanity, or cancer, is the mark of a heartless jerk.
I'm just damned glad I'm skinny. I can't gain weight if I try.
People generally don't laugh at people who have health problems that stuck them in a mobility scooter.
However, when you see someone grabbing a 5 gallon tub to put in the basket you might stop thinking that it's not their fault. For many who are overweight, walking is the gateway exercise and they've stopped doing that.
So they'll just re-introduce the 55 MPH speed limit, which was done to save energy.
It depends entirely on the design of the car and engine. I get 4 additional miles per gallon (mpg) when cruising at 65 rather than 55. I was surprised and repeated the measurements several times. Verified the onboard computer's reported mpg against the odometer and actually gas consumed (top off at same fuel pump before and after).
Perhaps 55 was some sort of average efficiency point for vehicles of the 1970s but I expect a higher efficiency point with today's designs.
Cars used to have only 3 (for automatic) or 4 (for manual) gears. 55 was probably around the speed while in top gear that the engine was in it's most efficient range. Today, cars have 5 or 6 gears (with some luxury automatics having as many as 8). Those top-end overdrive gears allow for driving at higher speed while in the RPM sweet-spot for efficiency.
Is the wind and small hydro something you put together or from the grid? While noteworthy and positive, I am skeptical that there isn't some coal getting burnt to power your car.
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For air superiority, you hit all the points. What about when the prop planes turn on the ground or naval forces (the scenario I suggested was F/A prop planes)?
Remember that the Bismark was caught because the British torpedo planes were too damn slow for their AA to hit.
The most advanced military in the world will be the only one flying jets with pilots in future wars. The video game logic of this AC's post is downright sad.
The AC does raise a point: non-conventional air warfare. What if this (extreme and unlikely scenario) occurred: an enemy force launches an extremely large flight of propeller-powered fighter/attack aircraft. Sure, our F/A-18s and such might blow them away until they run out of missiles. The dynamics between propeller (slow but extremely maneuverable) vs jet (fast but makes bigger turns) might prevent a gun-range, outnumbering dog-fight from playing out in our favor. This is before you get into details such as propeller planes not generating as much heat (and might require radar missiles instead of heat).
Lots of questions that our military should be asking but probably aren't as they are busy building their super-weapons. Worked out so well the last decade...
Please don't just make shit up.
He can't help it - he's watched it done on Fox too much.
I don't ask Romney to fix kernel bugs just as I don't look to Linux for political advice. Both should stick to what they know.
You imply that Romney is a source for political advice. The current (supposedly left-leaning but maybe not) polls speak otherwise.
Since Linus is speaking honestly, he makes the entire community look good.
or that Obama has time for Letterman, The View, Beyonce and JayZ
It's campaign season. Get over it. Every sitting president has campaigned whether it's town hall meetings, stump speeches or TV shows.
Bright or not, that would be caving to alleged mormon influence, as in "don't piss us off or we will hurt you"
Which smacks of intimidation.
What are they going to do, make all of their business investments run Windows servers?
In the long term I dont think it would cost a massive amount more. However there would be a large initial cost to setup a manufacturing center. The issue is not so much the labor costs but that we dont have manufacturing facilities here anymore.
And start-up costs in the US would be higher since we tend to do more automation instead of manual work.
There's some device that's supposed to be heavily American that was only 20% more expensive to produce.
Who cares? I'm sitting in a coffee shop sipping on fairtrade coffee on blogging on my retina macbook pro about Obama and talking on my new iphone 5.
Scumbag western liberals: claims to support the working class, gladly buys products from a communist dictatorship with an abysmal human rights record
You imply that only liberals buy Apple products. They also supply different Android and consumer electronics.
Foxconn produces so much stuff that even buying an American pick-up or SUV is going to potentially have some of their components.
Why capitalism? Every human system ever devised is rife with corruption.
Exactly, look at how corrupt communism was.
"Wal-Mart continues to sell iPads, Barnes & Noble Inc's Nook, Google Inc's Nexus 7, Samsung's Galaxy Tab and other tablets and eReaders" So people cant use iPads to go shop at like say "amazon.com"(wow who would have thought?) and other websites to find the best deal on ebooks to everything else under the sun? Of course this only makes sense if you take the "amazon is our competitor" line.
Kindles were specifically designed and priced to streamline the user into purchasing products (eBooks) from Amazon. iPads and the like might have their tie-in to iTunes but it's not as cannibalistic.
to run them. Please, God, let Romney win.
Do you think Romney would do anything differently?
Hint: if he would, he would have mentioned it by now.
I think the Cray will have a higher terminal velocity than the iPad
Now that's a race I want to see.
Striping results in a higher average latency because you always have to wait for the slowest-arriving data. The question is how much slower (and that gets into the standard deviation of response times). On the flip side, the bandwidth is higher. The question is, how much higher will the latency be and will the higher bandwidth offset it.
It happens to be less effective than those other options by far and more expensive. The only 'advantage' (other than lining defense contractor pockets) is that it doesn't create photos of obvious government oppression.
Honestly, $47 million a year is not exactly "lining defense contractor pockets" but American standards. Call me when we're half way to a billion a year...
Not true at all. I'd expect anyone who was competently self-taught to understand both.
Every self-taught I've asked about Big-O responded roughly by saying "I don't know what that is, but it's irrelevant." (this despite their success)
At least from my observation, self-taught developers tend to stick with higher languages such as Ruby or Python rather than C or assembly (not a bash on their skill, just the tool they favor). Following this tendency, they would rarely run into a problem with C that requires them to call assembly code and they wouldn't miss this skill-gap.
This is just the once-a-month self-taught vs CS-degree article to start a flame war. Seriously, enough is enough.
Self taught people are effective, but sometimes they do things that are traditionally dumb like build their tree upside down. They can come up with creative solutions (because by their nature they think out of the box), but stumble on things a university graduate would find basic because we studied it and they didn't. Many can't do pseudocode or understand what big-O notation means because you never encounter it unless you've taken an algorithms class. On the flip side, non-CS-degree people are behind a large part of the CouchDB and no-SQL movement because they weren't constrained by traditional thought.
Civil disobedience is a form of getting involved. It's public, known, and rubbed in the face of the broken authority.
The actions of the person I replied to or the actions of others with offshore accounts are secretive and do not lead to societal or government improvements.
You apparently read "avoid" as "evade". Easy to do.
The only difference between the two is 15 years of prison time. (old CPA joke)
I don't avoid taxes when I feel that my money is well spent.
Sorry but this is a bit of a cop-out.
We all want the money to be spent well. We all want to have say in how it's used. But the reality is that sometimes the money is going to be spent on things we don't like (e.g. Iraq or TSA). And people who do like these things don't want money going to, say, ACORN or Planned Parenthood (I'm making some generalizations here). And someone who lives in Northern California might not like that $200 of his taxes are going towards widening a freeway in San Diego. But this is how government (even an efficient and trim one, which CA is not) works.
If you want to fix government and how it spends your money, get involved. Hold your representatives accountable for how they vote (not what they say in speeches). Don't use the fact that government does many things (some you like, some you don't) as an excuse to skip taxes. Despite what some politicians are saying, tax evasion is NOT patriotic.
Hundreds of billions going to what? People's salaries, government contractors, and some natural resources. The money isn't being burnt (except maybe when a test rocket blows up ;-). One way the government can help the economy is by judicious spending (this is why a sudden cut of spending can cause a recession by itself). Just as we might spend billions on space exploration, we spend multitudes more on defense (for arguably a lesser accomplishment for mankind).
Won't be long before lazy fat people are using these just because they don't feel like using their own muscles to move their limbs
I feel sorry for fat people. It's not laziness, how would you like to have to lift 350 pounds just to get off off the couch? Plus, they usually get problems with their joints wearing out from carrying all that weight.
Obesity is a health problem, and laughing at someone's health problems, whether it be morbid obesity, insanity, or cancer, is the mark of a heartless jerk.
I'm just damned glad I'm skinny. I can't gain weight if I try.
People generally don't laugh at people who have health problems that stuck them in a mobility scooter.
However, when you see someone grabbing a 5 gallon tub to put in the basket you might stop thinking that it's not their fault. For many who are overweight, walking is the gateway exercise and they've stopped doing that.
My fiance doesn't drive and doesn't have a license, just a state ID, and she can vote just fine.
Apparently she doesn't live in Pennsylvania.
So they'll just re-introduce the 55 MPH speed limit, which was done to save energy.
It depends entirely on the design of the car and engine. I get 4 additional miles per gallon (mpg) when cruising at 65 rather than 55. I was surprised and repeated the measurements several times. Verified the onboard computer's reported mpg against the odometer and actually gas consumed (top off at same fuel pump before and after). Perhaps 55 was some sort of average efficiency point for vehicles of the 1970s but I expect a higher efficiency point with today's designs.
Cars used to have only 3 (for automatic) or 4 (for manual) gears. 55 was probably around the speed while in top gear that the engine was in it's most efficient range. Today, cars have 5 or 6 gears (with some luxury automatics having as many as 8). Those top-end overdrive gears allow for driving at higher speed while in the RPM sweet-spot for efficiency.
Is the wind and small hydro something you put together or from the grid? While noteworthy and positive, I am skeptical that there isn't some coal getting burnt to power your car.