How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)
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Re: How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)
#2Good response, worth the read. Heck the response alone could justify their own article.
As an aside: I hate quora' site design so much I have blacklisted it using Google Personal Blocklist. Somehow I dislike it more than Experts Exchange (which is also blacklisted), it is just super cluttered with nonsense, rolls into the comments section without warning and rarely offers good content (see Experts Exchange again).
That being said Yahoo! Answers also rarely has good content but at least with Yahoo! Answers you can determine that with a glance. You visit the page and you can see the answer (or lack of answer). So Yahoo! Answers remains in my search results, Quora and Expert Exchange have been vanished indefinitely.
PS - Quora also likes to spawn pop ups whenever you click anywhere on the page for no real reason (just asks for your Quora login details). For someone who randomly highlights blocks of text while reading this is pure hell...
Re: How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)
#3Meta Note
I'm not sure if its the software or the OP who added the "?share=1" parameter but thank you for including it in the link.
The flag makes reading quora possible. If HN doesn't add this parameter by default I think it would be a worth while upgrade to the site.
Lots of great content is locked in quora otherwise.
Re: How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)
#4Meta Note I'm not sure if its the software or the OP who added the "?share=1" parameter but thank you for including it in the link. The flag makes reading quora possible. If HN doesn't add this parameter by default I think it would be a worth while upgrade to the site. Lots of great content is locked in quora otherwise.
Since quora has problems in the money department, how is their competitor Stack Exchange maintaining profit?
Re: How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)
#5Meta Note I'm not sure if its the software or the OP who added the "?share=1" parameter but thank you for including it in the link. The flag makes reading quora possible. If HN doesn't add this parameter by default I think it would be a worth while upgrade to the site. Lots of great content is locked in quora otherwise.
Since quora has problems in the money department, how is their competitor Stack Exchange maintaining profit?
Probably not being obnoxious to their potential users.
Re: How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)
#6Off Topic: Man! Reading this answer so makes me want to play those FlightSim games of the yesteryears like Apache Havoc, Commanche, Jane's F/A 18 Hornet etc etc. Does anyone have any suggestions for a modern Flight Sim game? Thanks!
Re: How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)
#7Good response, worth the read. Heck the response alone could justify their own article. As an aside: I hate quora' site design so much I have blacklisted it using Google Personal Blocklist. Somehow I dislike it more than Experts Exchange (which is also blacklisted), it is just super cluttered with nonsense, rolls into the comments section without warning and rarely offers good content (see Experts Exchange again). Th…
I remember you used to see experts exchange or the like come up in search results and you could block it right there, in your search results without having to go to a separate page. Since they've hidden it, I honestly thought they'd removed the ability to block websites. Thanks for letting me know I just have to hunt for it.
I wonder why they removed that option from search results?
Re: How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)
#8Meta Note I'm not sure if its the software or the OP who added the "?share=1" parameter but thank you for including it in the link. The flag makes reading quora possible. If HN doesn't add this parameter by default I think it would be a worth while upgrade to the site. Lots of great content is locked in quora otherwise.
shared (share button'd) quora links add the parameter. copy-pasted hard-links don't.
quora defends the design by saying that it's their way of piping user-specific content.
I agree, it's super irritating and results in information being locked for those that don't know how to go around it.
Re: How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)
#9Meta Note I'm not sure if its the software or the OP who added the "?share=1" parameter but thank you for including it in the link. The flag makes reading quora possible. If HN doesn't add this parameter by default I think it would be a worth while upgrade to the site. Lots of great content is locked in quora otherwise.
Since quora has problems in the money department, how is their competitor Stack Exchange maintaining profit?
I don't know any numbers, but it seems as if Stack Exchange is far more popular, especially as an information database for employees and students.
Quora has the opportunity to do the same, but I think the specific stack exchange communities offer a better partition between topics. Quora does it's best to show you targetted questions/comments, whereas StackExchange sites just throw you wherever you showed up (which, if by search, is usually a better choice)
A good example : I once answered a fringe question about the Dalai Lama on Quora, now many of the questions i'm tasked with giving answers to are spiritual in nature, and of absolutely no interest to me. It's the same search bubble problem that YouTube/Google runs into occasionally. Things like that make me prefer more 'basic' sites like StackExchange networks.
Re: How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)
#10Off Topic: Man! Reading this answer so makes me want to play those FlightSim games of the yesteryears like Apache Havoc, Commanche, Jane's F/A 18 Hornet etc etc. Does anyone have any suggestions for a modern Flight Sim game? Thanks!
I don't know much about combat sims, but I have a blast with X-Plane. It's highly realistic and can practically scale to any performance computer. It has some combat-sim aspects, but I haven't played with that stuff enough to comment. Flying is tough enough for me without the weapons ;)