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... make excellent targets*.
Clever idea though. But I do wonder about using a blue laser. Isn't there a lot of blue (and UV) light "up there" already that might influence the signal-to-noise ratio in an undesired way?
* Well, I did serve in artillery once, and an artilleryman doesn't know friend or foe, only targets.
Well, I guess I'll wait for the DVD then.
As to Gene Roddenberry - what a guy.
" ... one of the oddest ideas to emerge in the Cold War: a nuclear-armed air-to-air missile ... "
Par for the course. The whole Cold War era was odd. Or batshit crazy. Some of the, er, interesting stuff is already mentioned in the thread, but there's a lot more, just poke around a bit. One of my favourites are the 'Rainbow Bombs', aka nukes in space.
As to living close to something on the primary target list - after viewing all the training films during my time in the army I actually welcomed it. If it were to happen, it would be over before I knew it.
It's dead already. The perception that it is still moving is an illusion - it's a bloated corpse bobbing in the water. But there still is that winning lottery ticket in one of the pockets... so the grieving relatives gather at the shore and try to figure out how to reel in the body and swipe the ticket before it's too late, and all without getting their hands dirty...
"It struck me that one way to deal with them would be to "promote" them to a department with a death march project and then, after the next PAC/NAO report condemning the lack of progress, publicly label them as incompetent and replace them with the next in line."
Why do you think TM put The BoJoTM in the FO?
I've had lots of brilliant ideas* looking into glasses in the past, and I'm also 50 this year...
But seriously, what Kao and his colleagues came up with is absolutely top notch engineering / boffinry, and it's nice to see that this is appreciated, awarded and put to good use.
*Well, they seemed brilliant at the time.
The big question is, does SoftBank actually has a plan, a considered strategy in which ARM is the cornerstone that would be worth paying an extra 10bn. Or do they just have a load of cash they want to use to diversify, and someone on the board read some blurb about IoT? In that case, they might not even be aware of the fact that ARM designs chips, but doesn't make them. (Stranger things have happened.) Anyway, anything other than option one does not bode well for ARM.
"... we have a choice between Eva Peron and Biff."
So how, is Mrs Clinton's singing voice then?
To be honest, my finger was hovering over the 'down' button until I read the last bit, but that is actually a very good analogy!
For what it's worth, I've been following the life and times of Donald Trump loosely for the past 25 years or so. My background is in civil engineering, so I take an interest in large building projects and the people behind them. So yes, what I "know" about him is entirely based upon media reports and hearsay, not personal experience. But that was enough to conclude that I would go out of my way to avoid any personal experience, let alone work on any of his projects.
Just my 0,02 USD from across the pond.
I guess what he meant to say is that telcos/ISPs technically can send different user's data with different "speeds" or priorities, according to what they pay. So this is, once again, basically about net neutrality. True, he put it very clumsy. Given the topic, the platform and the audience that was just asking for trouble. But then again not everybody has the linguistic eloquence of an executive editor of a technical online magazine. Storm in a teacup on a slow day?
"(Though I can't get rid of the nagging feeling that while our theories can very accurately describe what we see they bear no relation to what things actually are.)"
This. Right now it's a bit like looking at the shadow a book casts and trying to figure out what's written on its pages.
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