Comment Re:Hawker (Score 1) 442
I thought The Tempest was created by Shakespeare.
I thought The Tempest was created by Shakespeare.
Humph. Who in hell cares? I personally enjoy programming in python, but I certainly make such choices based on whether or not something is "popular".
W.C. = cute. At first it struck me as hilariously appropriate. But then I realized. A W.C. (toilet) actually does perform a useful function.
True conscientious objectors were excused from using weapons and killing people by the time of WW2, in service to enlightened countries such as the US, the UK, and Canada (not an exhaustive list). They usually still had to perform non-combatant service, often medics including unarmed front-line medics in extreme danger, and essential civilian services in support of the war.
The V1 (Doodlebug) had an 850 kg (1870 lb) warhead. A complete V1 weighed 2150 kg (4740 lb). No "children" are going to carry either object upstairs.
No goddam user-replaceable battery = NO SALE! Idiots.
What is the point of hideously overpriced dog-slow large-capacity SD cards with extremely limited wear leveling and piss poor reliability? What are the chances you could fill this bow-wow up even once and read it all back successfully and error-free?
Corporate apologist shill alert. No one falls for that that old lie any more. The difference between "consumer" and "enterprise" drives is a different label and a huge price gouge. Nothing more. Actually 24x7 operation is a lot easier on them than constant cycling on/off.
Forest, meet trees. That is all very interesting, but really not very relevant. The simple truth is that "civilian" GPS USED TO HAVE only 1/10 to 1/100 the accuracy of "military" GPS, but that hasn't been the case for quite a while now. Anyone who has used a cheap consumer GPS knows it will reliably pinpoint you within a few meters.
It's still worse than that. If you pop your face one meter away from the phone, it takes three microseconds for the light waves to travel that one meter, before it can even BEGIN to capture an image.
Pssst
"The accuracy of the GPS signal is identical for both the civilian GPS service (SPS) and the military GPS service (PPS). Civilian SPS broadcasts on only one frequency 1575.42 MHz, while military PPS uses two 1575.42 MHz and 1227.60 MHz."
"Once upon a time, the unencrypted signal included a random error factor that would make the civilian GPS randomly wrong in a different direction each day. I believe it started with errors up to 400 meters, which was still plenty accurate for general ocean navigation. The policy / feature was called “Selective Availability” and was killed in 2000."
I don't think the morons are paying attention to scientific facts. You bring to mind the stupidest line of dialog i ever heard from a WW II movie: "Johnson, take a reading with the compass so we can tell graves registration later where to find those bodies we buried." The half-wit writer actually thought a compass magically tells you exactly where you are, latitude and longitude!
armored military ship
You don't have a clue in hell what you're talking about. Destroyers have NEVER been armored in history. They don't call them "tin cans" for nothing. As a matter of fact, NO naval ships were ever "armored" the way you're thinking. Even battleships had no more than a narrow belt of armor at the waterline, and some armoring of decks and turrets. Well below the waterline, and above the waterline, there's nothing much there. Look how the South Dakota had her upperworks shot to hell in night action at Guadalcanal, mostly from small to medium caliber hits. Her communications, radar, and fire control were all wrecked.
The hull plating of a destroyer is like an eggshell. By comparison, tanker and cargo ship bows are built much sturdier, and the shape makes an excellent ram.
Careful. NiFe blows off hydrogen when charged. Hydrogen will explode from a tiny spark.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford
