Re: Battleship Main Gun Optimum Size

dg411@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andre Lieven) writes:

Gernot Hassenpflug (gernot@xxxxxxxxxx) writes:
dg411@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andre Lieven) writes:

Gernot Hassenpflug (gernot@xxxxxxxxxx) writes:
Bravo to Andre and Kenney for both excellent technical discussion, and
measured arguments that sound more like Usenet before the "September
that never ended".

Me ? me ? Hey, aren't I the "ad hominem guy" ? :-)

Oh right, this is Usenet, we don't need no stinking reasons: up yours
:-)

LOL !

I'll stand you the first drink!

Seriously, you're welcome, and it shows that there are interesting
topics about historical battleships that can be fun to discuss and
research into.

Very much so. I've had a long time to think about the value of books
and research now that I've had to move 7 times in 9 years and always
live in a tiny (<50 sq.meter) place: skimping on books to save space
*is not worth it*.

Ouch. I feel almost luxurious in the three floor, three bedroom, and
a large finished basement den ( Which is where all of my personal
library is; the wife has the living room for hers. ) townhouse that we
inhabit. I don't know what our square meterage is, but the master
bedroom is the width of the place, with room for a queen bed, the
usual dressers, etc., and a desk and three filing cabinets...

Just a matter of time I suppose. Japan is fairly spartan in terms of
housing space. I now have the 46 sq.m 2LDK to share with the wife. She
too was shocked - having lived at home in a real house - that
apartments in general do not have windows in the
bathrooms. Ventilation of humidity and accumulation of heat can be a
problem, which is not good for book storage - of for storage of good
wines, for which a proper container is high on my list of "to buy"
items. Nothing beats sitting at a desk late at night after the day's
work and exercises are done, with the LCD screen and keyboard to hand,
some references to side, plus a glass of the some of the finest
vintage to ease one's mind and lend one inspiration.

Right (damned thread drift!). I had the shock of being told that for
any projects I was to prepare a "pontier", a type of manga-picture
(comic book picture) to show to the ministry officials how the project
was going to improve matters, or how a new algorithm was going to
improve on an older one. Reason: the officials have no technical
knowledge. The pro: one can hash up anything, I can ask my talented
wife to do this in her spare time. The con (which I admit a lot of the
good technical Japanese staff are angry about as much as I): one can
simply lie. As much as I agree with simplifying something to the level
where the other person without one's specialization can understand
something, the basic principle of having to work to understand
something should not be abandoned.

Indeed. Are you familiar with the Scott Adams series of books and
cartoons called " Dilbert " ?

LOL !

Cultural and personal differences: one can either consider how little
one can do with what one has (revisionism, or not reading for lack of
space) or go and do something grand (embrace the rest of the world,
continue buying and reading and set in motion a process that can deal
with the costs in a robust manner). The one is passive, destructive,
and shallowly consumer-oriented ("the rich can have but I cannot", or
"Japan is such a small country..."), the other is active, constructive
and consumer- and producer- oriented.

Oh, believe me, dumb consumerism is all the rage over here, as well.
Don't get me started on US Presidents who, in time of war, ask not for
sacrifices, but who instead extoll their citizenry to shop more...

The answer when one ponders the question "where does the money come
from" is not pleasant...


Heres to book space, the final frontier... <g>

Seconded!
--
BOFH excuse #229:

wrong polarity of neutron flow
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