I think frequency would be slightly more important here...you would want to maintain a suitable blood-alcohal level constantly, but then you could always spike it higher for those pesky 'dealing with the public' occasions.;-)
I have wondered that same thing from the beginning.
I was thinking they would only be used more along 'line of sight' ranges.
"Line of sight' very loosely defined here! It would still have high velocity at ranges that are occluded by the 'over the horizon' ranges. Maybe more accurate to call it 'follows Earth's Curvature', or something.
It would be useful info to know what the projectile's velocity is at the stated 100 mile range, to enable calculations for remaing energy.
I know from long range target shooting that projectiles slow down fast. ex: a.308 Winchester firing a 150 grain bullet at 2750 feet per second will be travelling less than 1000 fps after only 1000 yards, and remaing energy is far less than at muzzle velocity. With a 100 yard 'sight in', that same bullet is striking the target about 10 feet below point of aim at around that 1000 yards, and a 10 mile per hour crosswind will deflect it around 2 feet, IIRC.(fuzzy on that memory)
The flames/fireball are similar to the the effects of say, a meteor entering Earth's atmoshere at high velocity...no fuel involved.
No trick here, just super heated air and plasma caused by friction, and maybe some 'fuel' from ablation of sabot and possibly projectile. Similar principals enable deisel engines to combust fuel without a spark plug...compression causes friction, friction causes heat,...
And how often are those fighter pilots confronted by pedestrians stepping out in front of them, or a traffic light turning red, when they are flying in the air?
Having flown and with many hours riding[1] in various planes, I can assure you that when flying, there are usually far less obstacles and distractions while cruising aloft. You can safely spend several(or more) seconds for a touch screen or other controls, unlike driving a ground vehicle.
Take-off and landing, as well as intricate manuevers/formations can be another kettle of fish, but these usuall take up a very small portion of most flights, even fighter jets.
And while they may have touchscreens, there is also a very good reason fighter jets almost universally have HOTAS(Hands On Throttle And Stick) systems in cockpit for actual combat when stress is high and attention is needed on surrounding conditions/threats/targets, and the touchscreens are mostly ignored.
[1] I have spent some hours(40-50?) only piloting a plane, and those hours were in Cessna 150's and 180's. I have had the good fortune to be a rider in an F-4 Phantom(1974) piloted by my neighbor who was a US Marine fighter pilot with two combat tours in Vietnam(4 kills, 2 assists), and then again in 1989 I got to ride in an F-15C with an air combat vet(no specifcs where given). I observed very little touchscreen interaction, but a lot of attention paid to gauges and controls, once take off happened, it seemed maostle Mark 1 Eyeball looking around at the sourroundings and instruments, and interactions with HOTAS.
WAAHOOOO!!! I pride myself as being an adrenaline junkie, and salivate at the prospect of riding the most outrageous rides available. I was Airborne in the US Army, and had over 1000 jumps(static line, HALO[my favorite!], HAHO) before an accident left me with Teflon kneecaps, and relearning to walk. My only regret is that I can't jump again.
But, none of that compares to those two fighter jet rides! In the F-4, I think I creamed my jeans. I certainly fired up a Camel back on the ground, and with a grin the undertaker could not have taken off my face upon death...
With the F-15 ride, my little brother got some payback...sort of. He was Chief Avionics Tech boss(I forget his actual rank and title, the US Air Force system never made sense to a ground pounder like me), and a Colonel was taking it up for a 'training flight'(he needed 'air hours' to maintain his flight status), and my brother told him that 'My brother bet me you could not scare him.'
Apparently that was 'a challenge issued' that the Col. felt duty bound to take up.
I certainly creamed my jeans, but I'm afraid I also pissed myself, and came close to soiling my drawers, all while clutching the 'barf bag' in a death grip. I did not have to use it, but it was REAL close several times.
And I would love to do it again.(I've also been a passenger in two Huey copters that had engine failure and autorotated down...no sweat)
Appliances aren't worth connecting until they're also fully automated.
I question the need to connect if it is truly automated, but I think I understand what you are getting at. (jumping to your third para)
What I see as a goal is a 'master computer' controlling your home, and applicable contents. You communicate with the Home Computer, and then it controls the individual appliences and equipment. (fully automated)
So you are connected to the home comp and communicating your commands to it, and it takes things from there.
Is this what you had in mind for 'fully automated'?
If you give your sock drawer access to the internet, it will hack it's way into the means to put the Large Hadron Collider into turbo boost overdrive, all in order to rip the fabric of space-time to open a portal into Demon Murphy's demension/domain(of Murphy's Law infamy), have a Massive Black Hole FedEx'd into our solar system, and Earth would get sucked into Demon Murphy's Domain, making Hell look like Paradise.
All to hide the true facts about all of those missing socks that we always blame on the washer or dryer.
The upsides are a lie, to answer your questions...but remember to be especially wary of the sock drawer!
I don't think 'hsmith' was refering to networks as a fad, but this 'Internet of Things' as being a fad, similar to 'web 2.0' and 'cloud computing'.
It is also preposterous to not teach the concepts of security for devices connected to hostile environments (i.e., every network ever...
I agree wholeheartedly with all of that, but I take particular note of the portion in parenthesis, which describes the afore mentioned 3 fads: 1)Internet of Things 2) Cloud Computing 3) Web 2.0
All have been basic, core functions of networks from early on.(mid and late 1970's)
Based on the quote from your comment(above), I suggest that you and 'hsmith' are saying about the same thing, just different wording.
You apparently overlooked the '...' around 'empty', and the note[1], where I said that 'empty' is a deceptive description of space to astrophysisists.
What I was alluding to was the average Joe picturing vast volumes of space as being empty of stuff that can be detected with the human eye in context to TFA talking about using the human eye and brain in searching out these particles collected in the aerogell.
As far as space being actually mostly empty, that is not true. it is chock full of stuff, mostly requiring dectors that far exceed human eyesight.
Quarks, gluons, nuetrinos, leptons, dark matter, black holes, most wavelenghts of EM radiation, gravity, the 'fabric' of space time, many more are crammed int the volume of what would look to a human using the good old 'Eyeball, Mark 1' as a mostly empty void. Most layman/people only beleive in what they can see, but that is only the barest 'tip of the iceberg' to what's actually out there.
'Tenous gas', various EM radiation, sub atomic particles, 'dark matter, etc. and ad nausem and quantam foam, and more are all presented as theories. Taken altogether, 'empty' space is actually more crowded than a Tokyo subway during rush hour, and busier than a one-armed paper hanger.
I do actually agree with you, but I was trying to play to a more 'layman/mainstream' crowd, and tried to give the more knowledgable here acknowledgement that it was far from 'empty'
Sorry I failed to make that clear.:-) But then again, because I like to stir the mudpuddles....;-)
Look at how 'empty' aerogel is: 99.8% 'empty space', and how much 'empty space' there is in an atom.
Sorry to double-reply, but SoylentNews underwent an announced shutdown for maintainance last night, and apparently something went arwy, the site is currently down as of a few seconds ago....
You can do what I just did: 1.) go to pref's, and assign a '-5' modifier to your foes, then mark those spam-post authors as 'foe' and reload page.
Or:
2.) join in the discussions at SoylentNews. I have been spending more time there than on/. lately. The discussions are more like/. was before Dice took over, and it started as a direct result of/.Beta.
The the SN community is still small(but growing), and the SN team has been extremely responsive to community feedback, unlike here. As a side effect(of the above statement), the community has a large influence in the shaping and direction that SN takes...again, not like here.
I'd like to be able to set up a win98 VM with all my old games...
Serious question here...
Where do you find drivers for modern hardware that works in Win98?
My problem trying to do this very thing has been finding graphics drivers for Win98. None of the so called 'generic drivers' have worked for me, and the only two solutions I have reached is: 1) run some *nix distro + WINE for a few 2) keep one of my retired boxes that I can run Win98 on that I have/can find drivers for(I don't have the space for this)
If I could find a working 'generic' SVGA driver to run Win98 in VirtualBox on my current PC(Linux/Win7 dual-boot), I would be a very happy camper. It is something I have tried to get working off and on for some years now.
BTW, a cross-platform option would be sweet!
I have always thought that I was just missing some knowledge about VM's, but having looked for a while, it is either hard to do, or the knowledge is well hidden,IMHO.
State law insists that all traffic remain in the right-hand lane unless passing, or turning left. That has been in effect for decades, but suddenly now it is an issue?
Not to pick on Oklahoma(I live in Stillwater, OK), this is nationwide, because everyone knows 'the 'fast lane' is faster.
It's a sad fact, but that is how it is nowadays.
The 'correct responce' would have been: 1.) get vehicle make/model/description 2.) any vehicle ID numbers(dump truck, corp. vehicle, etc.) 3.) Lic tag # 4. ) Give info to Insurance agent 5.)????Profit?;-)Yeah, that's it. *former PA resident
Where the 8,000 came from, was the original poster saying that it was 500 billion years old, with mass extinctions every 62 million, which equaled 130 events. The 8,000 was a sarcastic comment regarding the incorrect maths.
I fully understand the current known facts, and the maths.
I was just curious where the 500 billion number came from that 'MichaelDavidCrawford' was making sarcastic replies to.
Start with this comment to clear up your confusion.
Why 500 billion? Where does that number come from?
That's what started this whole mess...that linked(above) comment. 'wjcofkc' is the one that provided the 500 billion number, 'MichaelDavidCrawford' commented sarcastically about the 8,000 events to point out the math error, and then I joined in trying to find out where 'wjofkc' was getting the 500 billion number from, then you tried correcting me without knowing what started this(my guess).
Nothing more than the natural confusion when entering an ongooing conversation without the context of the 'root' of the conversation. Happens to me all the time!:-)
All of those lying, conniving scoundrals that call themselves scientists have been trying to convince me for years that the universe was only 14 1/2 billion years old.
Man, I feel old now....
Hey wait, maybe this explains the universe expanding....it's trying to catch up with the new info. Yeah, that's gotta be it.;-)
There are lots of 60-70 year old rockers out their still playing concerts.
How very true, but I had two similar experiences recently.
Several years ago(2-3?), ZZ Top was in town for a show. Myself, the wife, and stepdaughter all went. The two gals had a great time, and enjoyed the show. Me? Well, I spent approximately 3/4 the show trying to figure out what I was hearing, occasional clear bits would shine through the muddy noise, and I could ID the song.
I just chalked it up to some weird mixing and/or accoustic envoirment.(outdoors)
Then later that same year, Ozzie Osbourne was playing close by. I treated my stepdaughter to the concert for her birthday. This show was indoors, and again the very same thing happened.
I guess my dodgey hearing had detereriated more than I had realized, and I came to the regretful conclusion that live shows are not worth it anymore fore me.;-(
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I think frequency would be slightly more important here...you would want to maintain a suitable blood-alcohal level constantly, but then you could always spike it higher for those pesky 'dealing with the public' occasions. ;-)
You obviously are not familiar with Oklahoma.
Oklahoma is a firm Republic state, and past experience tells me this will be legislated.
The same reason that space vehicles and meteors burn the atmoshere when they encounter 'air' at high velocities.
The same thing that destroyed the space shuttle "Columbia"with damaged heat tiles on the wing edge when it re-entered.
I have wondered that same thing from the beginning.
I was thinking they would only be used more along 'line of sight' ranges.
"Line of sight' very loosely defined here! It would still have high velocity at ranges that are occluded by the 'over the horizon' ranges.
Maybe more accurate to call it 'follows Earth's Curvature', or something.
It would be useful info to know what the projectile's velocity is at the stated 100 mile range, to enable calculations for remaing energy.
I know from long range target shooting that projectiles slow down fast. .308 Winchester firing a 150 grain bullet at 2750 feet per second will be travelling less than 1000 fps after only 1000 yards, and remaing energy is far less than at muzzle velocity.
ex:
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With a 100 yard 'sight in', that same bullet is striking the target about 10 feet below point of aim at around that 1000 yards, and a 10 mile per hour crosswind will deflect it around 2 feet, IIRC.(fuzzy on that memory)
The flames/fireball are similar to the the effects of say, a meteor entering Earth's atmoshere at high velocity...no fuel involved.
No trick here, just super heated air and plasma caused by friction, and maybe some 'fuel' from ablation of sabot and possibly projectile. ...
Similar principals enable deisel engines to combust fuel without a spark plug...compression causes friction, friction causes heat,
And how often are those fighter pilots confronted by pedestrians stepping out in front of them, or a traffic light turning red, when they are flying in the air?
Having flown and with many hours riding[1] in various planes, I can assure you that when flying, there are usually far less obstacles and distractions while cruising aloft. You can safely spend several(or more) seconds for a touch screen or other controls, unlike driving a ground vehicle.
Take-off and landing, as well as intricate manuevers/formations can be another kettle of fish, but these usuall take up a very small portion of most flights, even fighter jets.
And while they may have touchscreens, there is also a very good reason fighter jets almost universally have HOTAS(Hands On Throttle And Stick) systems in cockpit for actual combat when stress is high and attention is needed on surrounding conditions/threats/targets, and the touchscreens are mostly ignored.
[1] I have spent some hours(40-50?) only piloting a plane, and those hours were in Cessna 150's and 180's.
I have had the good fortune to be a rider in an F-4 Phantom(1974) piloted by my neighbor who was a US Marine fighter pilot with two combat tours in Vietnam(4 kills, 2 assists), and then again in 1989 I got to ride in an F-15C with an air combat vet(no specifcs where given). I observed very little touchscreen interaction, but a lot of attention paid to gauges and controls, once take off happened, it seemed maostle Mark 1 Eyeball looking around at the sourroundings and instruments, and interactions with HOTAS.
WAAHOOOO!!!
I pride myself as being an adrenaline junkie, and salivate at the prospect of riding the most outrageous rides available. I was Airborne in the US Army, and had over 1000 jumps(static line, HALO[my favorite!], HAHO) before an accident left me with Teflon kneecaps, and relearning to walk. My only regret is that I can't jump again.
But, none of that compares to those two fighter jet rides!
In the F-4, I think I creamed my jeans. I certainly fired up a Camel back on the ground, and with a grin the undertaker could not have taken off my face upon death...
With the F-15 ride, my little brother got some payback...sort of.
He was Chief Avionics Tech boss(I forget his actual rank and title, the US Air Force system never made sense to a ground pounder like me), and a Colonel was taking it up for a 'training flight'(he needed 'air hours' to maintain his flight status), and my brother told him that 'My brother bet me you could not scare him.'
Apparently that was 'a challenge issued' that the Col. felt duty bound to take up.
I certainly creamed my jeans, but I'm afraid I also pissed myself, and came close to soiling my drawers, all while clutching the 'barf bag' in a death grip. I did not have to use it, but it was REAL close several times.
And I would love to do it again.(I've also been a passenger in two Huey copters that had engine failure and autorotated down...no sweat)
Appliances aren't worth connecting until they're also fully automated.
I question the need to connect if it is truly automated, but I think I understand what you are getting at. (jumping to your third para)
What I see as a goal is a 'master computer' controlling your home, and applicable contents.
You communicate with the Home Computer, and then it controls the individual appliences and equipment. (fully automated)
So you are connected to the home comp and communicating your commands to it, and it takes things from there.
Is this what you had in mind for 'fully automated'?
Hacker's Paradise.
What happens when you are hacked, pwned, 'gamed' 12 ways from Sunday, and have to disconnect to clean up and straighten out the mess?
Is it really worth it at this point in time? Not for me, no way!
Ahhh, the sock drawer...
So, it has come to this.
If you give your sock drawer access to the internet, it will hack it's way into the means to put the Large Hadron Collider into turbo boost overdrive, all in order to rip the fabric of space-time to open a portal into Demon Murphy's demension/domain(of Murphy's Law infamy), have a Massive Black Hole FedEx'd into our solar system, and Earth would get sucked into Demon Murphy's Domain, making Hell look like Paradise.
All to hide the true facts about all of those missing socks that we always blame on the washer or dryer.
The upsides are a lie, to answer your questions...but remember to be especially wary of the sock drawer!
I don't think 'hsmith' was refering to networks as a fad, but this 'Internet of Things' as being a fad, similar to 'web 2.0' and 'cloud computing'.
It is also preposterous to not teach the concepts of security for devices connected to hostile environments (i.e., every network ever...
I agree wholeheartedly with all of that, but I take particular note of the portion in parenthesis, which describes the afore mentioned 3 fads:
1)Internet of Things
2) Cloud Computing
3) Web 2.0
All have been basic, core functions of networks from early on.(mid and late 1970's)
Based on the quote from your comment(above), I suggest that you and 'hsmith' are saying about the same thing, just different wording.
At least that is my take...:-)
You apparently overlooked the '...' around 'empty', and the note[1], where I said that 'empty' is a deceptive description of space to astrophysisists.
What I was alluding to was the average Joe picturing vast volumes of space as being empty of stuff that can be detected with the human eye in context to TFA talking about using the human eye and brain in searching out these particles collected in the aerogell.
As far as space being actually mostly empty, that is not true. it is chock full of stuff, mostly requiring dectors that far exceed human eyesight.
Quarks, gluons, nuetrinos, leptons, dark matter, black holes, most wavelenghts of EM radiation, gravity, the 'fabric' of space time, many more are crammed int the volume of what would look to a human using the good old 'Eyeball, Mark 1' as a mostly empty void.
Most layman/people only beleive in what they can see, but that is only the barest 'tip of the iceberg' to what's actually out there.
'Tenous gas', various EM radiation, sub atomic particles, 'dark matter, etc. and ad nausem and quantam foam, and more are all presented as theories.
Taken altogether, 'empty' space is actually more crowded than a Tokyo subway during rush hour, and busier than a one-armed paper hanger.
I do actually agree with you, but I was trying to play to a more 'layman/mainstream' crowd, and tried to give the more knowledgable here acknowledgement that it was far from 'empty'
Sorry I failed to make that clear. :-)
But then again, because I like to stir the mudpuddles....;-)
Look at how 'empty' aerogel is: 99.8% 'empty space', and how much 'empty space' there is in an atom.
Sorry to double-reply, but SoylentNews underwent an announced shutdown for maintainance last night, and apparently something went arwy, the site is currently down as of a few seconds ago....
FTA:
Two particles weighing in at about 3 trillionths of a gram each...[...]...âoeIt would be very easy to lose them.â
Well, not quite ready for 'Night at the Improv', worth a grin anyhow.
Only two particles out of only seven impacts, over 200 days shows just how 'empty'[1] space really is.
[1] 'empty' space can be surprisingly a deceptive statement in astrophysics, though...:-)
Gah, slashcode mangled the double parenthesis again!
When do we get proper unicode support?
You can do what I just did:
1.) go to pref's, and assign a '-5' modifier to your foes, then mark those spam-post authors as 'foe' and reload page.
Or:
2.) join in the discussions at SoylentNews. /. lately. The discussions are more like /. was before Dice took over, and it started as a direct result of /.Beta.
I have been spending more time there than on
The the SN community is still small(but growing), and the SN team has been extremely responsive to community feedback, unlike here.
As a side effect(of the above statement), the community has a large influence in the shaping and direction that SN takes...again, not like here.
Just some suggestions....:-)
Thanks for the info, I'll check into it.
I'd like to be able to set up a win98 VM with all my old games...
Serious question here...
Where do you find drivers for modern hardware that works in Win98?
My problem trying to do this very thing has been finding graphics drivers for Win98. None of the so called 'generic drivers' have worked for me, and the only two solutions I have reached is:
1) run some *nix distro + WINE for a few
2) keep one of my retired boxes that I can run Win98 on that I have/can find drivers for(I don't have the space for this)
If I could find a working 'generic' SVGA driver to run Win98 in VirtualBox on my current PC(Linux/Win7 dual-boot), I would be a very happy camper. It is something I have tried to get working off and on for some years now.
BTW, a cross-platform option would be sweet!
I have always thought that I was just missing some knowledge about VM's, but having looked for a while, it is either hard to do, or the knowledge is well hidden,IMHO.
State law insists that all traffic remain in the right-hand lane unless passing, or turning left. That has been in effect for decades, but suddenly now it is an issue?
Not to pick on Oklahoma(I live in Stillwater, OK), this is nationwide, because everyone knows 'the 'fast lane' is faster.
It's a sad fact, but that is how it is nowadays.
The 'correct responce' would have been: ;-)Yeah, that's it. *former PA resident
1.) get vehicle make/model/description
2.) any vehicle ID numbers(dump truck, corp. vehicle, etc.)
3.) Lic tag #
4. ) Give info to Insurance agent
5.)????Profit?
Every politician is the correct answer, nowadays.
You are forgetting 'Lobby' influence, and how cheap the congresscritters can be bought by 'special influence' groups.
Yes, it's a conflict of interest, but who cares.
The only thing that seems to matter is how much 'mileage' you can get out of your agenda....FSCK right or wrong.
It's the 'new way', get used to it, or fight it....your choice.
I choose to 'fight'.
Your comment gets my vote for the most insightful one presented.
The whole issue strikes me as:
"You should remove your wife's panties before you drop her off on the corner to turn tricks."
Well , yes, I guess that would make it easier for her to turn tricks, but why am I having my wife turn tricks in the first place?!?!?
This whole subject seems to be begging the question.
Where the 8,000 came from, was the original poster saying that it was 500 billion years old, with mass extinctions every 62 million, which equaled 130 events. The 8,000 was a sarcastic comment regarding the incorrect maths.
I fully understand the current known facts, and the maths.
I was just curious where the 500 billion number came from that 'MichaelDavidCrawford' was making sarcastic replies to.
Start with this comment to clear up your confusion.
Why 500 billion? Where does that number come from?
That's what started this whole mess...that linked(above) comment. 'wjcofkc' is the one that provided the 500 billion number, 'MichaelDavidCrawford' commented sarcastically about the 8,000 events to point out the math error, and then I joined in trying to find out where 'wjofkc' was getting the 500 billion number from, then you tried correcting me without knowing what started this(my guess).
Nothing more than the natural confusion when entering an ongooing conversation without the context of the 'root' of the conversation. Happens to me all the time! :-)
Is the beta rollout still happening?
If I remember correctly, the beta was not going 'live' until the end of March, or beginning of April.
I for one, was hoping it was an elaborate April Fools joke on /.'s part.
You have to admit, this one would go down in history as bigger than the year we were subjected to 'OMG...PONIES!!!'
I don't really expect /. beta to be an April Fool, unfortuneately.
Yeah, I feel 'sucker-punched' by this as well.
All of those lying, conniving scoundrals that call themselves scientists have been trying to convince me for years that the universe was only 14 1/2 billion years old.
Man, I feel old now....
Hey wait, maybe this explains the universe expanding....it's trying to catch up with the new info. Yeah, that's gotta be it. ;-)
I think you need to recheck your math.
500 billion divided by 62 million equals 8,064.5, so I don't understand where the 130 number is coming from.
Even if you were thinking 'million' as you typed billion, 130 still makes no sense, as 500 million divided by 62 million equals 8.
Best current estimates on the age of the universe are much smaller than 500 billion, more like 14-15 billion.
Where does the 500 billion come from?
BTW, other than the maths, you made an interesting comment. :-)
You should just have your blood pressure checked.
That's HOW I keep track of my blood pressure, you insensitive clod!
All lame jokes aside, the volume and pitch of my tinnitus changes with my BP changes.
If it's louder than normal, and higher pitched than normal, it's usually a sign I have forgotten to take my BP med.'s.
There are lots of 60-70 year old rockers out their still playing concerts.
How very true, but I had two similar experiences recently.
Several years ago(2-3?), ZZ Top was in town for a show.
Myself, the wife, and stepdaughter all went.
The two gals had a great time, and enjoyed the show.
Me? Well, I spent approximately 3/4 the show trying to figure out what I was hearing, occasional clear bits would shine through the muddy noise, and I could ID the song.
I just chalked it up to some weird mixing and/or accoustic envoirment.(outdoors)
Then later that same year, Ozzie Osbourne was playing close by.
I treated my stepdaughter to the concert for her birthday.
This show was indoors, and again the very same thing happened.
I guess my dodgey hearing had detereriated more than I had realized, and I came to the regretful conclusion that live shows are not worth it anymore fore me. ;-(