Comment Re:That's not the only way it's inferior (Score 1) 279
AFAIK, the F16 and F15 never had Naval variants. Or STOL.
AFAIK, the F16 and F15 never had Naval variants. Or STOL.
Why not use a drone instead?
The problem is that if it takes 20 years to build an airplane that design will be obsolete by the time it gets deployed. So upgrading just increases costs. Why did it take 20 years? Isn't that a bit excessive? Why doesn't the software work? Why could it not fly in the the rain for God's sake? Why are we replacing a platform like the A-10 which is an example of a good dedicated design with a Swiss Army knife approach.
The last major attempts for a "one size fits all" muti-role fighter was the f4 which resulted in the services abandoning the approach in favor of the F18, F-15, and A-10. Like a bad penny the multi-role fighter concept just keeps coming back. We are ending up with a plane that does everything and will not be able to do any of it particularly well.
You forgot can't fly in the rain, the software will not be delivered before it officially deploys, and bursts into flames.
"This way they can double *penetrate*."
Fixed that for you
But... it has its own Facebook pages. It *must* be good.
Even worse. I have seen both hierarchical and network databases re-invented.
But the question is, "Can he run an espresso machine?"
" far more important event than being the iPod/iPhone taskmaster"
I am actually going to argue that point with you. From an applications POV; IPods, IPads, iPhones, and OS X took the capabilities of Unix, and a host of other technologies, and leveraged them into something with a huge impact on social order, business, art, and science. Having Unix at the ready was important. But creating those products took the power of Unix into a whole new realm.
By analogy, knowing 2 Ca3SiO5 + 7 H2O ---> 3 CaO.2SiO2.4H2O + 3 Ca(OH)2 + 173.6kJ is important.
Taking that and using it to create a transcontinental highway system is also very important.
Why don't you ask him?
"Ignorance of mathematics isn't the cause of stupid laws and policy around technology..."
I agree somewhat but I think ignorance allows bad policy to exists. Some of what you hear coming from hucksters would, IMO, be akin to repealing the laws of gravity or building a warp drive. I am very skeptical of things such as facial recognition, trawling email to stop terrorist attacks, data mining, anything that handles data which is not ACID compliant, missile defense, and AI (AFAIAC it will never truly exist) though reflection is nice to have.
CS and the principles behind it are often so abstract that many people are not even aware of when they are lying.
You do not need electronics to compute or even build computers. You can use water, electrical circuits, wooden blocks, etc. But in any case, the Mathematics does not change. Just the implementation.
and yet, SONY's network status was blaring green ON into late night.
SCEA's PSN status page showed PSN being OFFLINE, no if's and's or but's. Perhaps SCEE forgot to update their page?
When Steam client fails to connect to the server it will (after a long timeout) let you play your games in its offline mode.
That's how it works on the PS3/PS4....but...there are games that are online only and don't have offline modes. Destiny, DCUO, FFXIV
Free only on Sony machines that aren't the PS4. PS4 requires* PS+ for multiplayer.
requires* = not-required for asynchronous multiplayer (a la a chess game with a send-turn feature), F2P titles, and MMO's.
For example, you can play DCUO or War Thunder online without PS+
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
