Reflector

Mainstream gamers love DLCs, their attention spans are match the content so well. Who wants a proper sequel when you can have a few more 'new maps' and 'Holiday Special Items' eh? Oh wait... 'Horse armor.' Right, right, Oblivion.

http://www.jamesoberg.com/soyuz.html Man, all those accidents must not exist. Is this true, Comrade? Total number of times humans have been tossed into space with or without a payload in the shuttle: 806. (Approximate, I\'m probably off +/-10 or so) Total lives lost: 14 Ratio of successful human tossings into space to losses:806:14 (Hint: 'Around 57.5' astronauts launched to astronauts lost.) Total launches: 135 Total incidents: 2+* (Man, 67.5? 'Looks pretty good' given they didn\'t have all those random things going bad like all the Soyuz missions) *Misc incidents like early engine shutdown, APU burping after the shuttle landed and all sorts of 'funny' incidents. Failures: O Ring on SRB (Rest of launches OK), Main Tank chunk struck wing and damaged a tile. Vostok/Soyuz/Voskhod incidents where there orbital module decided it didn\'t want to seperate: Unfunny amount of times, given that pre-Soyuz, it was a tad too common. Other incidents: I don\'t like staring at this either. You guys want to stare at it for me? So for a 'much more complex, reusable vehicle that has parts refurbished and replaced for every launch' the Shuttle doesn\'t look too bad. Vostok manned launches: 6 Voskhod manned launches: 2 Soyuz family manned launches: 66 Total number of Soyuz (Original, not the later T... TM...TMA.. Etc series): 40 Total number of humans tossed into space by Soyuz (Not the family): 79 Soyuz (Not the later Soyuz vehicles) incidents that involved loss of life: 2 Total lives lost from Soyuz 1 to 40: 4 (Excluding all incidents on the ground and R&D, etc, etc... Disclaimer: I am using the same measurement for the Shuttle.) Incident ratio: 40:2 (Hint: '20') Ratio of successful human tossings into space to losses: 79:4 (Hint: '19.75') Unfunny incidents that involve Bad Things Happening (Incomplete list): Soyuz 1: 'Probably-a-bad-idea to cram the parachute in. Oh right your manual chute tangles too... Enjoy.' (Fatal) Soyuz 5: 'Volynov had his worst day ever, what with a smokey interior as Soyuz decided to not seperate the orbit module then the landing rockets decided to hate him too and he had a hard landing.' Soyuz 11: 'Whoops leaking your atmosphere out.' Soyuz 18a: 'Upper stage decided it wanted to stay mated to Soyuz and caused a harder reentry than usual. Capsule rolled down hill in comic fashion and almost fell off cliff.' Soyuz T-10-1: 'Proving that escape towers rock your world, especially when your rocket explodes on the pad.' Soyuz TMA-1: 'Decided to do a ballistic reentry when it wasn\'t supposed to and landed pretty damn far away from where it should of.' Soyuz TMA-11: 'Also decided to do ballistic reentry and do a really hard landing.' I should note that the TMA missions had 'a whole damn lot of help' from NASA pouring funding and resources in there ontop of the Russian Space Program. Something about fanboyism and not actually looking at incident reports. Right. Right. I\'m not saying the Shuttle was 'infinitely more reliable.' I\'m just saying that people who claim that Russian rockets are 'infinitely more reliable than those overly complex Western rockets' need to stare at the incident reports before they decided to parrot out fanboyistic pieces of information obtained from the internet. Additionally it should be noted that Soyuz launches typically threw less mass into space and had crew sizes of 2-3 (Risk is more contained compared to a full crew of 7-8.) So no, I\'m pretty sure the 'LOL STATISTICS, SOYUZ MORE RELIABLE' stuff is pretty off. Given how many Shuttle launches there were 'compared to the entire Soyuz family.'

I like how there are so many mentions of 'super simple Soyuz designs are cheap blah blah blah' but nobody brings up Zenit or the Ukrainian involvement with the Soviet Space Program. Ah, right, fanboyism.

Looks like mainstream gaming trends also hit the sim world. Joy oh joy, time for some more DownLoadable Cash releases eh?

They summarize and paraphrase because: 1. The 'politiburo demands so!' (Ergo, they take 'English Wikipedia' and make it barely '+1' over 'Simple English Wikipedia' because one one of the important head honcho admin types decides he wants to squat over the article over automatic transmissions after deleting some information about a specific model of automatic transmission offered by Chrysler.) 2. 'LOL I KNOW BETTER THAN YOU' (See above, then they decide to barf up some regurgitated information that has complete detachment from reality) Here, familiarize yourself with the internal politics of Wikipedia (NSFW: Encyclopedia Dramatica warning. Extremely NSFW, for the mentally mature especially.) http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Wikipedia Not feeling like doing some reading? How about this golden line: 'Talk page about USS Liberty in which Jayjg attempts to argue with the vice president of the USS Liberty Veterans Association about the Liberty incident. Yes, an Israeli agent involved in the cover-up is allowed to always have the last word on the article, not someone who was actually there and involved in the events in question.' Sadly, they\'re pretty spot on with the bitter mocking and sarcasm going on there. Not NSFW: http://images.encyclopediadramatica.ch/5/5c/Wikipedia_cat.jpg Pretty much how it rolls over there. I\'m pretty sure some people will argue with me about a 'moderate injury' like whiplash being 'LOL, TOTALLY NOT HARMFUL, EVER' over here. If it was Wikipedia, we\'d be waging a nuclear edit war right now. Ah, right, they do that already over there. Anyways, for those little 'fatalities in space' statistics, perhaps you guys might want to look at how many times the Shuttle has launched astronauts (Ergo, treat 'launch of crew into space' as unique instances even if the same astronauts go up) and divide that to the deaths. I\'m pretty sure that number looks real good. Or we can just claim RUSSIA MIGHTY, RUSSIA DESTROY AMERICAN PIGDOG WITH SATAN MISSILE. RIGHTEOUS JUSTICE.

http://www.jamesoberg.com/soyuz.html I like how Wikipedia is a frequently used source of (mis)information. Boy I love those admin politics and edit wars over there. (I\'ll let you guys check the Wikipedia pages on the missions listed there, bet you won\'t find some of those fun things like 'launch pad fatalities.')

You imply you can\'t get a better connection than him and that he will just slap you around. Hurry up and get your T3 bundle so you can throw some hits back at him until you punch a core section out of him. I will annihilate the winner of the match personally so nobody else will have to be concerned. Seeing you don\'t support this 'technology' over futurist dreaming, perhaps you would like to be on the target list that belong to the people who support it (Especially the ones that are willing to pay 10k just to beat people over the internet.) http://www.bash.org/?4281

This poll is weak, it lacks options like OS/2 and BSD as clearly defined choices.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/ OK Joe, I\'ll let you become one of those Space Janitors (But unlike the movie, you get to stay Space Janitor for life) due to your inferior genes that causes you to have this heart defect.

The capability to punch people over broadband through my monitor as if it was a portal with force adjusted proportional to the connection. Beatings proportional to various benchmark specs for broadband, ergo damage would be similar to: v.92/Satellite Internet: A poke Basic DSL: A small child\'s punch Local Cellnet Carrier: A small child wailing on their parents Inferior Cable/Fiber packages + High speed DSL: Teenager punching you Mid Tier Cable/Fiber packages: An average person punching you T1/High end Cable & Fiber: An amateur boxer socking you real good T3: A professional MMA practitioner giving you a gutshot that causes you to experience a Houdini Experience. 100/100 fiber, 40GBe, server tier options: 'Target is vaporized into a bloody pulp.' I would like to see this 'technology' further refined to allow me to choke the target over the monitor. Proportional to the connection as well.

Some of us would like to be able to chuck satellite(s) into orbit with solar panels in the 'deployed' position as well as the orbit stage. http://i.imgur.com/Nh9oL.jpg http://i.imgur.com/6uDq8.jpg And this is a simplistic satellite + payload. Sadly it cannot mount more solar panels. It would like to submit a formal complaint addressing the same problem that Voyager 2 has: It wishes it had more power. I\'m pretty sure if it had a Twitter feed like Voyager 2, it would let you know.1 http://i.imgur.com/KApS0.jpg http://i.imgur.com/r2XTt.jpg And this Munlab module (Prototypes) could have further items attached to it. http://i.imgur.com/7i1w4.jpg This 'advanced orbital device delivery system' could have a larger 24x payload instead of the smaller, inferior 3x4 payload too. http://i.imgur.com/DNQrl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/JPXsW.jpg It is also a shame I can\'t make a larger space plane for the reentry module. It sure would be nice if I didn\'t have to clip the wings into the PLF. (Similarly, the 'advanced orbital device' has the same problem with its payload.) 1 http://twitter.com/nasavoyager NASAVoyager2 @NASAVoyager2 NASAVoyager2 @ozark_skies A larger/better RTG! Perhaps you could make this a Christmas wish come true for future satellites so they do not have to suffer a most miserable death of slow shutdown until they are no longer able to operate their heating elements and freeze over? I am sure many of these payloads would be grateful, given that they survive the perilous journey of not detonating on the pad as well as not disintegrating into an explosive fireball during the ascent phases of launch. http://i.imgur.com/bl3LK.jpg This Skylab-like space station would also be happy if you could give it a 10m fairing.

Any chance of seeing 4m or 5m+ shrouds for oversized payloads? It\'d be nice to have options of 3m -> 4m and 3m -> 6m type fairings for Munlabs and space stations.

... I really can\'t comprehend why people do not understand sarcasm and need to argue this with more seriousness than two guys on forums looking at the original Starwars Trilogy going 'BUT THE TURBOLASER OBVIOUSLY DESTROYED THE ASTEROID 3 FRAME BEFORE THE BOLT STRUCK!' (Rotoscoping and timing synchronization! Completely ignored for no reason at all.) Radians were brought up to HUMOR this conversation but then this gradian thing is brought up but it became something so finely analyzing yet pointlessas the flavor of Minecraft Autism (Again, no offense to actual people diagnosed as autistic, you have every reason to feel offended that you\'re lumped into that merely by word assocation) Just please, live in your world of decimal time 'only' while the rest of us are happy with one or more systems. We\'ll keep a table handy to accommodate you when you come by and tell us 'YOUR 60 SECOND, 60 MINUTE, 24 HOUR DAY SYSTEM IS ANTIQUATED AND USELESS, YOU OLD FASHIONED ADULT!' Then we will whip a piece of paper out or a calculator and convert whatever and be over with it instead of going around preaching about system superiority. And I assume the world will settle on 220 volts and be done with 110 volts or any other voltage eh? How about one, unified world plug? Ignoring all the logistical problems of that.

Like I said, detachment from reality. That post more or less threw a bunch of numbers disconnected from 'a man jumps from a plane with enough force to from his perspective, go from 0 to Mach 0.6. Somehow his legs were able to do that and/or in the process not shear his muscles off his bones. Ignoring that problem, he somehow undergoes acceleration without ANY restraints flailing into the air at those speeds. Then he falls and most likely dies.' Right, lets ignore everything inbetween that is very wrong then bring up Wikipedia Derrived Numbers or other Web Resources to 'legitimize' random occurrence of survival in completely different scenarios (Involving seats and RESTRAINTS no less!) This topic is not even worth it, I can no longer derrive any fun when the environment becomes something like what Minecraft players would do: 'BUT YOUR COBBLESTONE FACTORY IS INFERIOR, THESE NUMBERS PROVE YOU WRONG EVEN IF THEY ARE COMPLETELY DISPROVEN IN PRACTICE! OBVIOUSLY THIS PROVES MY MANUALLY ACTUATED REDSTONE PISTON METHOD HAS AN EFFICIENCY FACTOR OF 5.' Numbers numbers numbers, ignoring everything about how 'uh, I doubt you can even do that in the first place, but somehow if you did without horribly maiming yourself.' And I\'m out, I\'m not going to bother when all my former points are ignored. (Like these ever important stall characteristics of a glider versus the AN-2 and how the glider will be extremely forgiving because they are designed for that flight regime.)

I honestly have to believe there is some serious detachment from reality going on here. Wing area does not determine stall characteristics. If that were the case I would friggin fly an A380 next to the AN-2 and then mock it and flip it over with my giant vortices. If you stall in an airliner, you will drop like a bloody brick. The AN-2 is no featherweight (Its easily several Storches for crying out loud.) Additionally nobody brings up durations of the highest G impulse. 100g for a hundred or so miliseconds with a taper in and taper off is completely different from a mesa like '40g absolute for 500ms.' There are huge differences in energy imparted PER MILISECOND here I\'m not going to even bother, this has turned into 'look at my one number, you\'re wrong! you\'re so wrong!' from what was an obviously 'ha, like any human could somehow push theirselves hard enough to accelerate to Mach .6... Without dying... In a half second' (Let alone the problems of windblast or anything going on here.) This topic has turned into Minecraft levels of horribad.

I was waiting for this to be brought up. Thank you Capt\'n Skunky!

Here is a summary of my point: Using either system isn\'t bad. The imperial system has some really good users. The metric system has some really good users. System zealotry/fanboyism is however bad because it comes off as endless bickering at people that are competent at converting between both systems, mentally or with a calculator instead of being able to tolerate or even accept that other people use something different from them. That and math errors are a human problem because people screw up with the metric system even if moving a decimal place is easy. Perhaps you should read from the beginning?

Gosh, was I accused of being a sockpuppet? I\'m actually honored by that because I never knew that my heavy sarcasm would cause others to believe I was somebody else. Time to scheme!

... Last time I checked, being able to make 40g half second jump has no restraints like a nice F1 car would. Also would you like to ask all those people that die from all those sub-20g decelerations into things? Oh ... Oh. Right, something about 100g for 100ms guys surviving being this whole... Random event thing. Right, lots of other people die from sudden stops too. I guess this whoe survival thing is relative right? 0.1% is way, way better than 0%. I assume modern motor gliders are nonexistent in your world then, carry on in the AN-2 there then. ...Unless you\'re just a flight sim guy... Because easier to stall does relate to 'how' it will stall... Or how you will enter the Flanker Inverted Flatspin Death Spiralâ„¢. Righto, something about gliders having nice stalling characteristics instead of 'you\'re dead' when your nose decides to yaw into the ground.

http://pocketnow.com/how-to/tutorial-setting-up-remote-desktop-in-windows-mobile Keep the ignorance flowing, please! Also you missed Maddox\'s fun usage of being able to reboot a server with a E70. >leaning difficulties. Somehow all the humor of my posts has been lost due to argument over phrase definitions.

Leaning difficulties... As they have poor balance? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_disability http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/learningdisabilities/learningdisabilities.htm Anyways, I will get to the point: I know students from special education and I will be very respectful towards them because they are much more capable of converting metric to metric than... Mainstream students. (Sadly, including those that you could say are 'the wheelchair stereotype.') However I have not met special education students in higher education before so I cannot comment on how they in that environment. So mind me if I say this but: Minecraft is an autism incarnate*. Minecraft players are 'autistic.' *Terraria counts too. And let me say this: They take every bad trait of autistic kids I know about and then make that into a player base. Somehow. It defies my logic in how they can condense the worst possible stereotypes into general playerbase. And perhaps I should remark that actual, diagnosed kids (Not 'fad diagnosis' or 'internet type') that are autistic should have every reason to feel offended by that. Just like rutabagas and potatoes should feel offended for being compared with many of the players. Because my god, many Minecraft players are just bad. Extremely bad. Horribad.

You are familiar that the term 'learning disabilities' can cover many, many things right? Are you familiar with that certain phrase of 'Minecraft is the <noun> incarnate' or 'Minecraft players are all <noun>' If you\'re familiar with those phrases/jokes, then you\'d understand why those glaring sarcasm tags are needed... As it seems apparent that the mentality here is very, very similar. Something about being overly serious and screaming about the 'technical superiority' of one unit system. Kind of like a bunch of advanced script kiddies screaming their coding (As in the rare types that know how to code) is superior to each other... In 'very technical aspects' instead of cycles needed to execute.

Kryten, I thought what I described was the greater subset of the Minecraft player base anyways?

I like how everyone ignores my posts. Or alternatively, skim over them and then make their own idea up about what I said. Then they scream something about Americans being inferior (Something about this... Moon landing) and then how metric is the True Righteous System. Ah, nevermind, I actually brought up SI a few posts back and how it doesn\'t use that awful decimal time system the French used. Oh, wait. The same standards guys that tried to push the metric system onto everyone? As in CGS metric too? Hmmmm oh wait... SI uses MKG. Ah ha, I have an idea. Let me scream to others on the internet and say it is the GLORIOUS METRIC SYSTEM! and not this evil, impure thing called the 'SI' system. [/sarcasm] Just in case there are Minecraft players with learning disabilities here, because it seems that the sarcasm content of my posts are completely missed!

My, those [sarcasm] tags aren\'t working are they? Also I hope you realize harddrives use inch/gb² for storage density measurements within the industry... Right?