Comment Re:You sunk my battleship (Score 1) 439
But remember, the ball got rolling for this in 1934, long before it was obvious battleships were obsolete.
Yamamoto was saying this at the time, but no one was listening...
But remember, the ball got rolling for this in 1934, long before it was obvious battleships were obsolete.
Yamamoto was saying this at the time, but no one was listening...
we can only see 50% of it's surface on any given night
So which nights can we see the other side? Oh, never.
Actually, on any night other than the one precisely a lunar month from the given night, you can see some of that other side (the 50% you can't see tonight). That's what libration does -- expose some of that other 50% that you can't see tonight. Not all of it, sure, but some. You can only see 50% on any given night, but you can see 59% over time. Thus, 18% of tonight's "other side" will be "this side" on some other night.
the strengths of traditional compiled languages....zero-overhead Java platform integration
I never thought I'd hear someone say that Java integration is a traditional strength of compiled languages...
...and you didn't. The text you quoted neither says nor implies that that's a traditional strength. (In the text you quoted, the word traditional is used as an adjective modifying "languages".)
... caught trying to deliver schematics for an aircraft carrier to the Egyptian government.
No, he was caught trying to deliver schematics for an aircraft carrier to the FBI. Since he thought he was trying to deliver them to the Egyptian government, that makes him a scumbag, but let's not pretend an actual crime that would have occurred without the FBI's action has been thwarted here. They didn't step in and stop something bad from happening, they just found some guy who likes money more than ethics and made a good headline out of him. Arguably doing so maybe has some deterrent effect, but don't misrepresent what happened or blow it out of proportion.
They work fine, and without lasers.
Eh, okay, maybe they're adequate, but they have the huge disadvantage you noted: no lasers!
I just realized that all of JJ Abrams' movies are the same style. That only hit me while seeing this trailer.
I don't know where you get that with this trailer. It looks like every other SW trailer that I have seen.
Yes, but, as has been pointed out, that's because SW is a very good fit for JJ Abrams' style. This kinda drives that home.
The mission did not succeed in most of its stated objectives. By definition that makes it a failure.
It's not a complete failure, and we can learn from what failed to attempt to design future missions to avoid these particular failure modes, and we can even celebrate the successes that we did get from the mission, but we cannot truly call the mission as a whole a success.
The mission did not fail in most of its stated objectives. By definition that makes it a success.
It's not a complete success, and we can learn from what failed to attempt to design future missions to avoid these particular failure modes, and while we can lament the failures that did occur, we cannot truly call the mission as a whole a failure.
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League