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Concorde to be Grounded

Posted by michael on from the you-couldn't-afford-it-anyway dept.

Goonie writes "This BBC article reports that Concorde flights are to come to an end in October. It may be a noisy and costly anachronism, but it's sad to see the end of perhaps the coolest commercial plane ever to fly." The financial wires carried a story the other day showing how much jet fuel demand has dropped recently.

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  1. We'll have to see what happens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To quote Monty Python: "I'm not quite dead, sir!"

  2. Last Flight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    .....better than first post

  3. Avoid Atmel AVR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    AVR's are buggy and soon to be obsolete microcontrollers. Invest in Microchip PICMicros (TM) instead.

    Advantages of PICMicro(TM):

    *True RISC Design. Only 35 instructions to Learn!
    *20ma drive current per I/O pin
    *40 Mhz operation (PIC18xxx, Using 4x PLL multiplier)
    *Simplist In-Circuit Programming in the industry

    Disadvantages of Atmel AVR(TM)

    *Based on obsolete pseudo-RISC design
    *Only 32 registers
    *Badly Implemented Peripherials (ADC is slow and innaccurate, and EEPROM loses contents often)
    *fragile - easily destroyed by ESD
    *Poorly supported.

    Don't Delay, Learn PICs (TM) Today!

    PIC(TM) and PICMicro(TM) are registed trademarks of Microchip Technology

    1. Re:Avoid Atmel AVR by snatchitup · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You leave out oh so much on the AVR, and haven't even addressed the ATMega's which are the new generation mc's.

      Also, what about cost? I bought 10 AT902313S-PC's for $2 a piece, and can program them very cheaply, and I can get a circuit up and running with very little power and extra circuitry.

      Also, PWM is very easy. CodeVision C Compiler makes it extremely easy to write. PicBasic has no place in the embedded community. It should be called PicBaby. It requires a memory module to house all the bloated code.

      Sales of Atmel microcontrollers have grown faster than any other microontroller!

  4. Re:Concorde fallacy... by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I doubt that - there'll be a Mach 2 private jet along any minute to cater for THEM - by losing Concorde it's just JOE PUBLIC that once again loses access to the best technology - Steve Jobs, John Travolta, Larry Ellison and the rest will just continue as usual - glad not to have to mix with the plebs.

    The loss of Concorde also makes Europe and the USA further apart than they've been for 25 years - and that's just sad.

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  5. Re:Subsonic almost-as-fast by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    log in or fuck off

    and WTF is a 'wanka'?

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    That was classic intercourse!
  6. Re:Shame by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you won't get any mod points until you log in you stupid cunt - why not try a sensible counterpoint instead?

    or is debate beyond your feeble mental powers?

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