I am assuming the sensor package on the missile will be pointed toward the ship it is supposed to attack. So painting a mirrored surface on the missile may not help the missile's sensor package.
In addition the laser doesn't need to destroy the missile. It only needs to destroy enough of the missile so that it falls out of the sky.

I'm well aware that building plans need to be debugged :) It just takes an RFI, approval of the RFI, a Change Order, Approval of the Change Order and a Big Bucket of Money. Frank Gehry buildings made of aluminum and leak like a sieve come to mind.

The article you site discussed the drop rate for the AT&T fleet. The drop rate for the fleet is 1%, my error is stating that the drop rate is 1.4%. We do not know what the drop rate for the 3GS phone is. It could be higher or lower than the drop rate for the fleet average. Without knowing what the drop rate for the 3GS phone is it is impossible to determine if the antenna for the iphone4 has a higher drop rate than average. I think we can agree that the antenna in the iphone4 is significantly more sensitive to how the user holds the phone in comparison to previous iphones and some Nokia and Rim phones. This makes the iphone4 prone to different levels of reception depending upon how one holds the phone. I believe the following has been shown: The iphone4 has a higher gain (than the 3GS phopne) when someone is not touching the gap on the lower left, it also has a lower gain when someone is touching the gap on the lower left. You have not stated what criteria you use to determine if an antenna sucks. Please state your criteria.

50% to 100% more dropped calls than what? What is the baseline being used to determine the increased drop rate?

The issue I am trying to state is this: AT&T drop rate is 1.4%. Is that for the entire fleet of phones currently in service? Is that for just the iPhone 3Gs? Is that for the iPhone4? These are significantly different populations to be looking at. We have two statements: "AT&T drop rate is 1.4% " and "Iphone 4 drops more calls than iphone 3Gs at a rate less than 1 per 100" Unfortunately we do not have a way of determining how these two pieces of information correlate. Without knowing the total fleet drop drop rate and the drop rate of the specific phones we cannot have any clear analysis of the numbers.

The issue is not the phone antenna and not the GPS antenna. The issue is when your hand (or a strip of metal for that matter) bridges between the two antennas. The effective length of the antenna is changed so the ability of the antenna to receive and transmit signals is significantly affected.

Just because issue A has a 1% incidence rate and issue B rate a 1.4% incidence rate does not necessarily mean that A+B = 2.4% incidence rate. How many of those incidence overlap or not?

Because there are less people reading the Times, fewer publicists are directing people to be interviewed at the Times. If you know people are reading the Guardian and not the Times and you want to get your message out, you go to the Guardian because more eyes are going to see your message. That is going to set up a feedback loop where people say "hey, the guardian has more content than the Times does, why am I reading the times." Then fewer people produce content for the Times, fewer people read the Times, etc etc etc.

It is hard to develop a user base when you seem to be actively driving away readers and by extension the people who develop your content.

Previously all the papers used the AP/Reuters because the AP covered issues the local paper couldn't. No one cared that everyone used the AP because people didn't read out of state newspapers.

Now the model has shifted. Everyone can read anyone's newspapers, but everyone is annoyed that all you get from any "local" newspaper is the same AP feed (some who charge for it and some who do not). I can see that small papers dropping the AP feed because it isn't useful to them any more. The bandwidth cost to carry information that everyone else has isn't worth it. Then the paper becomes a "local paper" or a "niche paper" again that can justify charging for its content. It will be able to charge because it is covering things that are locally important that you can't get anywhere else.

The AP on the other hand is going to have a problem: With all the small papers dropping them as a source of revenue, they will have to find another way to support themselves. I don't know what that is but they will have to scramble to get it done.

It appears that the quality of the WSJ reporting has declined since Murdoch took over. Most of the serious economists that want hard data and serious analysis have fled the WSJ and moved to the FT. The reason is simple: The WSJ is no longer providing the material that it used to. On the other hand I think the Bancroft Family took the best advice for the stock market when selling the paper: Buy Low, Sell High.

The London waste disposal rules are very extensive. I won't even try to list it all.
In short: Everything must be presorted: Metals, papers, cloth, plastics (by type), wood, food waste (multiple types). Failure to presort can result fines.

Reason: Landfill space is expensive on an island.

Depending on your State/County requirements your building will need to be issued a Certificate of Occupancy before you can live in it. Check with your local code enforcement officials before you start this project. Some code inspectors take a very dim view of unusual buildings or systems.

Some of the things you will likely need so you can live in your dream house:

A set of construction drawings with an engineers or architect's stamp. - This is the engineer saying the building is not going to kill someone once it is built. Getting a set of drawings for an existing train car may be difficult.

Code review of the drawings will required before you can start construction. Code review is required to make sure something did not get past the engineer. If the code inspector says you have to do something before he will approve for human habitation, you are going to end up doing it whether you like it or not.

DO NOT piss off the code inspector. The code inspector can make your life a living hell, if just by putting your application at the bottom of the pile and not getting to your application for the next 6 weeks. Find out in advance what inspections are required, when and in what order. Nothing is more frustrating than having Inspector A come out and then finding out that Inspector B's sign off is required before Inspector A will look at the building. Nothing pisses off the electrical inspector finding all of the cover plates have been installed before he has inspected them.

Proper compliance for water and sewer connections.

Proper compliance for heating and ventilation requirements.

Proper compliance for insulation requirements- walls, roof and windows. From what I know about subway windows, those are going to fail and have to be replaced with code compliant windows.

A licensed, insured and bonded electrician. It is almost impossible to get past this requirement. The code inspector will not certify the building if he cannot be assured that it is not going to burn down because of bad wiring.

Installation of Natural Gas/Propane may require a licensed or bonded installer. Check with your local code inspector. There is a reason why the utilities inject the "natural gas" smell into the lines.

As my signature says: With construction you can only compile once.
Consider the drawings and specifications your program. All of the libraries that you load in as well (and must comply with) are the local and state construction codes.
You cannot undo your compile without a significant amount of time, effort and money. Make sure everything is behind the walls before you sheetrock.

windows users need DVD43 in place of libdvdcss.

You can have your battlemech after I get my battlemech. I put down a deposit for my battlemaster last week.

This isn't anerobic digestion. Go read the website:

http://www.vegawatt.com/