Fundamentalists don't follow the laws laid out in the Old Testament, only the New Testament. Not that I agree with their viewpoint, but your example is completely ridiculous and moot.
Maybe you should spend a tiny bit of time checking your facts instead of ranting about them on Slashdot.
I kind of wanted the *original poster* to point out what the flying fuck he was talking about, since he's the one who made that excessively useless and annoying post. For all we know, he hasn't even read the damned thing, he's just making shit up. Now you've ruined that little experiment.
I don't remember there being anything about "impact armor" in the book, but I'll take your word for it, I guess.
Basically if I understand it correctly the vectored thrust allowed them to turn, but they would lose airspeed and altitude in the process. As the fighter types say - speed is life - and once it happened they were apparently easy pickings.
For the first few weeks, until the Indian pilots develop new techniques to take advantage of their technological advantage. Don't assume their pilots are idiots, obviously they wouldn't have spent as much on this plane if they didn't think it would give them a major advantage.
It's also interesting to think that, while the F-35 also uses vectored thrust for VTOL, they aren't capable of using it in combat. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
Seriously, though, what are you going for here? Just throwing out random sci-fi books? I don't remember anything like this material in Ringworld, for what it's worth. Ringworld had an near-indestructible glass-like material, a room-temperature super-conductor, and some sci-fi super-glue.
Maybe next time you could provide a little more detail, like six words instead of five? And drop that fucking annoying ", anyone?" meme while you're at it, then you could conserve a word and not sound so dumb.
Well, I don't hear any other message from any other environmental groups, so what am I supposed to believe?
Somehow, Greenpeace manages to get together annoying people with clipboards on the sidewalks of Seattle every week to annoy me. The Westboro Baptist Church, on the other hand, I've never seen in person. So somehow I don't think the two are equivalent.
It can't be both very safe *and* scary. It's either one or the other-- turns out it's "very safe", but a bunch of retards have it in their head that it's scary, and those idiots run Greenpeace, and so they don't get built.
Well, whatever. Either way, HP charges you $20 for the privilege of NOT having a ton of bullshit on your computer, and that's assuming the consumer is smart enough to figure out which of the options you need to choose to get the bullshit-free version.
I refuse to play their little game. I'll just order a company that doesn't pack in the bullshit in the first place, *and* gives me the correct OS disk for free. Fuck HP.
I can only assume you work for them, or something, to actually attempt to justify their dumb process.
We seem to be talking about different things. I am saying that "green" concepts are in fact high tech, while you are talking about the people who embrace green energy.
Fair enough.
I have little interest, actually, in your views about environmentalists, since I see no reason to think that you've ever actually talked to one in the current decade,
Greenpeace assaults me on the sidewalk every day with their anti-nuclear message. Unless I'm living in some kind of time-warp, they still have the views I pointed out in my post, and are extremely loud and abrasive about them.
or, at least, no reason to believe that you actually listened to what they might have said.
I've listened to enough to know that they're doing much more to oppose clean energy then support it.
So let me repeat what I said. Green energy is inherently high technology, despite stereotypes, and family-farms and kerosene lanterns won't cut it in the 21st century.
I agree with you entirely. Most environmentalists do not.
There's a persistent stereotype that "green" meaning a step backward in technology, but, realistically, it's exactly the opposite-- true green means high technology.
Is that a stereotype? We already have tons of great "green" high technology that we can't deploy because environmental groups are against it. Why isn't the US building nuclear power plants right now? Because environmental groups have made building a nuclear power plant almost impossible.
If it's a stereotype, it's only because it's true. Environmentalists who embrace technology are a minority.
They're not "going crying" to Washington, D.C. They've *always been* in Washington, D.C. As has every other large corporation based in the US, and many that aren't. Microsoft's there, so is Google. So is Dell, HP, and IBM. And Seimens, and PeopleSoft, and Oracle, etc etc etc. That's just part of the business landscape in the US, welcome.
Do you think GM got their sweetheart deals from the Federal Government because they never talked to the Federal Government? You're dreaming.
When you order a consumer laptop/tablet, as I did about a year and a half ago, the "OS Re-install" is kept on a separate partition of the HD, and they give you the option to *pay more* for a physical OS disk.
I did so (because I'm a sucker), figuring that when you pay extra they give you a disk without any of the crapplications on it. I was wrong; the backup partition *and* the DVD they shipped with the computer *both* were loaded to the gills with crap. (I know; the very first thing I did when I got the thing was to re-install the OS from the physical DVD.)
Between that, and their crazy idea of "styling" (which is basically: more vaguely-shaped icons with blue LEDs behind them! More! MORE!!), I'm never buying an HP again. Even if they do make an affordable, relatively-quality tablet.
If you've had a better experience with them, more power to you.
First of all "convicted monopolist" is the most over-used phrase on Slashdot. Can we please come up with something new?
Secondly, being a "monopolist" isn't a criminal offense, it's a civil one. So no, Microsoft was not convicted of a criminal offense. But thanks for playing.
The NOAA does the research, gathers the data, and the newsmen report it to the public at large. Back in the day, both of these processes were rather expensive, and so the arrangement worked fine.
But now the Internet comes along-- now writing a method for distributing the NOAA information for free is almost trivial compared to their budget. So they do it. The majority of people buy computers, and suddenly the role of the newspaper and TV station is completely unnecessary.
So the newspaper and TV stations feel like they're being "cut out of the loop."
People keep saying this on Slashdot, but have you ever bought a computer from HP? Compared to HP, and other computer retailers (most of them at least), Dell ships hardly any crapplications at all. In addition, Dell actually ships you a clean and working OS disk (with the crapplications on a completely different disk), HP puts both on the same disk making it impossible to reinstall your HP OS without also reinstalling the crapplications.
In short, Dell's one of the absolute best when it comes to shipping clean OSes.
All companies do that, ever. I can guarantee Google has as many lobbyists as Microsoft on the payroll, if only because they would have inherited them from the DoubleClick purchase. You're completely naive if you think this article is "news" and not just "business as usual."
Besides, I'm sure those halls and backrooms are well-lit with good ventilation.
To add Bing, you just visit www.bing.com and click the link in the upper-right that says "Add Bing to your browser." (Actually, I'm not sure what browsers this supports, but at least IE and Firefox. I've done it.)
While Flash on 64bit windows still is nonexistent.
It is? News to me-- I have Hulu running on my 64-bit Vista install right now in another window. But I guess that's impossible, because Flash on 64-bit Windows doesn't exist... but wait a minute I have Flash running right-- ** HEAD EXPLODES **
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Unfortunately, storing a half million copies of the song negates any practical functional gains beyond loading your trunk very efficiently.
What is this? Some kind of joke? Or... something?
Is it like, burning a half-million copies of the Tetris song to CD fills up your car trunk?
WTF is going on with this sentence? I can't make heads or tails of it.
Considering all existing, and planned, super-hero movies are LIVE ACTION and not animated, how is your question even slightly relevant?
Heh, as if. Warner would never sell it in a million years.
That's the *biggest* question you can think of?
Who fucking cares?
I'm not a Fundamentalist, ask one of them. No sense addressing that screed to me, buddy.
I was just pointing out how ridiculously clueless your example was.
Fundamentalists don't follow the laws laid out in the Old Testament, only the New Testament. Not that I agree with their viewpoint, but your example is completely ridiculous and moot.
Maybe you should spend a tiny bit of time checking your facts instead of ranting about them on Slashdot.
I kind of wanted the *original poster* to point out what the flying fuck he was talking about, since he's the one who made that excessively useless and annoying post. For all we know, he hasn't even read the damned thing, he's just making shit up. Now you've ruined that little experiment.
I don't remember there being anything about "impact armor" in the book, but I'll take your word for it, I guess.
Basically if I understand it correctly the vectored thrust allowed them to turn, but they would lose airspeed and altitude in the process. As the fighter types say - speed is life - and once it happened they were apparently easy pickings.
For the first few weeks, until the Indian pilots develop new techniques to take advantage of their technological advantage. Don't assume their pilots are idiots, obviously they wouldn't have spent as much on this plane if they didn't think it would give them a major advantage.
It's also interesting to think that, while the F-35 also uses vectored thrust for VTOL, they aren't capable of using it in combat. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
No thanks, I just ate.
Seriously, though, what are you going for here? Just throwing out random sci-fi books? I don't remember anything like this material in Ringworld, for what it's worth. Ringworld had an near-indestructible glass-like material, a room-temperature super-conductor, and some sci-fi super-glue.
Maybe next time you could provide a little more detail, like six words instead of five? And drop that fucking annoying ", anyone?" meme while you're at it, then you could conserve a word and not sound so dumb.
Well, I don't hear any other message from any other environmental groups, so what am I supposed to believe?
Somehow, Greenpeace manages to get together annoying people with clipboards on the sidewalks of Seattle every week to annoy me. The Westboro Baptist Church, on the other hand, I've never seen in person. So somehow I don't think the two are equivalent.
It is scary stuff, very safe sure, but scary.
It can't be both very safe *and* scary. It's either one or the other-- turns out it's "very safe", but a bunch of retards have it in their head that it's scary, and those idiots run Greenpeace, and so they don't get built.
Microsoft owns Massive.
Doesn't preclude PS3 or Wii offerings, but I doubt it's a high priority for Microsoft to offer them.
Well, whatever. Either way, HP charges you $20 for the privilege of NOT having a ton of bullshit on your computer, and that's assuming the consumer is smart enough to figure out which of the options you need to choose to get the bullshit-free version.
I refuse to play their little game. I'll just order a company that doesn't pack in the bullshit in the first place, *and* gives me the correct OS disk for free. Fuck HP.
I can only assume you work for them, or something, to actually attempt to justify their dumb process.
We seem to be talking about different things. I am saying that "green" concepts are in fact high tech, while you are talking about the people who embrace green energy.
Fair enough.
I have little interest, actually, in your views about environmentalists, since I see no reason to think that you've ever actually talked to one in the current decade,
Greenpeace assaults me on the sidewalk every day with their anti-nuclear message. Unless I'm living in some kind of time-warp, they still have the views I pointed out in my post, and are extremely loud and abrasive about them.
or, at least, no reason to believe that you actually listened to what they might have said.
I've listened to enough to know that they're doing much more to oppose clean energy then support it.
So let me repeat what I said. Green energy is inherently high technology, despite stereotypes, and family-farms and kerosene lanterns won't cut it in the 21st century.
I agree with you entirely. Most environmentalists do not.
There's a persistent stereotype that "green" meaning a step backward in technology, but, realistically, it's exactly the opposite-- true green means high technology.
Is that a stereotype? We already have tons of great "green" high technology that we can't deploy because environmental groups are against it. Why isn't the US building nuclear power plants right now? Because environmental groups have made building a nuclear power plant almost impossible.
If it's a stereotype, it's only because it's true. Environmentalists who embrace technology are a minority.
They're not "going crying" to Washington, D.C. They've *always been* in Washington, D.C. As has every other large corporation based in the US, and many that aren't. Microsoft's there, so is Google. So is Dell, HP, and IBM. And Seimens, and PeopleSoft, and Oracle, etc etc etc. That's just part of the business landscape in the US, welcome.
Do you think GM got their sweetheart deals from the Federal Government because they never talked to the Federal Government? You're dreaming.
When you order a consumer laptop/tablet, as I did about a year and a half ago, the "OS Re-install" is kept on a separate partition of the HD, and they give you the option to *pay more* for a physical OS disk.
I did so (because I'm a sucker), figuring that when you pay extra they give you a disk without any of the crapplications on it. I was wrong; the backup partition *and* the DVD they shipped with the computer *both* were loaded to the gills with crap. (I know; the very first thing I did when I got the thing was to re-install the OS from the physical DVD.)
Between that, and their crazy idea of "styling" (which is basically: more vaguely-shaped icons with blue LEDs behind them! More! MORE!!), I'm never buying an HP again. Even if they do make an affordable, relatively-quality tablet.
If you've had a better experience with them, more power to you.
First of all "convicted monopolist" is the most over-used phrase on Slashdot. Can we please come up with something new?
Secondly, being a "monopolist" isn't a criminal offense, it's a civil one. So no, Microsoft was not convicted of a criminal offense. But thanks for playing.
I'm more worried about GPS. Every GPS I've used has taken forever to type in an address, much more difficult than sending a txt.
That's why you do that BEFORE YOU START DRIVING.
Think about it in the world pre-Internet...
The NOAA does the research, gathers the data, and the newsmen report it to the public at large. Back in the day, both of these processes were rather expensive, and so the arrangement worked fine.
But now the Internet comes along-- now writing a method for distributing the NOAA information for free is almost trivial compared to their budget. So they do it. The majority of people buy computers, and suddenly the role of the newspaper and TV station is completely unnecessary.
So the newspaper and TV stations feel like they're being "cut out of the loop."
People keep saying this on Slashdot, but have you ever bought a computer from HP? Compared to HP, and other computer retailers (most of them at least), Dell ships hardly any crapplications at all. In addition, Dell actually ships you a clean and working OS disk (with the crapplications on a completely different disk), HP puts both on the same disk making it impossible to reinstall your HP OS without also reinstalling the crapplications.
In short, Dell's one of the absolute best when it comes to shipping clean OSes.
All companies do that, ever. I can guarantee Google has as many lobbyists as Microsoft on the payroll, if only because they would have inherited them from the DoubleClick purchase. You're completely naive if you think this article is "news" and not just "business as usual."
Besides, I'm sure those halls and backrooms are well-lit with good ventilation.
You're doing things the hard way...
To add Bing, you just visit www.bing.com and click the link in the upper-right that says "Add Bing to your browser." (Actually, I'm not sure what browsers this supports, but at least IE and Firefox. I've done it.)
While Flash on 64bit windows still is nonexistent.
It is? News to me-- I have Hulu running on my 64-bit Vista install right now in another window. But I guess that's impossible, because Flash on 64-bit Windows doesn't exist... but wait a minute I have Flash running right-- ** HEAD EXPLODES **
Plus I haven't yet seen a single person in a toga with a laurel wreath.
That's in Seattle; results may vary in your city.