I flew last month, I didn't have to turn off my iPhone, iPad or Macbook Pro, all were sleeping from when the call came to turn them off till 10,000 feet.
No, there won't be any interference, the FAA and airlines have been testing these things for about two years now and other airlines already have replaced the crew's paper maps with iPads (Alaska Airlines for one).
The pilots and copilots already have laptops up there and use those during commercial flights.
And Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavor were different shuttle "generations" from Columbia and Challenger.
In both American accidents it was the rocket or fuel tank that lead to the loss of the craft, in both of the Soviet losses it was capsule design that lead to the loss of the craft.
If the Russians get the Soyuz out to 135 launches like Shuttle we might see another loss.
Looking at newer generation Soyuz launch history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-7_(rocket_family) Soyuz-U - 19 losses in 727 launches - 2.6% loss rate or worse than Shuttle's 1.48% loss rate Soyuz-U2 - 2 losses in 92 launches - 2.1% loss rate - no longer active Soyuz-FG - 0 losses in 29 launches Soyuz-2.1a - 1 loss in 4 launches - 25% loss rate Soyuz-2.1b - 0 losses in 3 launches
763 launches of active Soyuz rocket models and 20 lost rockets give us a 2.62% loss rate, or worse than Shuttle.
So no, getting on a Soyuz-U, FG, or 2.1x is not safer than a Shuttle was.
The Soviets lost Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11 for four dead in space flights.
The two Shuttles add up to more deaths because the Shuttles carried more people than any Soviet or Russian Federation craft.
Michael J. Adams died while piloting a North American X-15 rocket plane on reentry from 50.4 miles up.
Shuttle did 135 launches with two lost craft Soyuz has done 111 launches with two lost craft Apollo did 16 launches with no lost craft Gemini did 10 launches with no lost craft Vostok did 6 launches with no lost craft Mercury did 6 launches with no lost craft Voskhod did 2 launches with no lost craft
If your numbers are from the early 90s you need to recheck them.
Budget cuts in the mid and late 90s and mid to late '00s destroyed schedules like that. In many districts COLAs of 1-3% were all the raise teachers got. Now its even worse, my sister took a 20% cut in '10 to avoid the district having to lay off 25% of staff.
I've worked in public, private school administration and state educational agencies since 1997, my wife is a 7-12 teacher with experience at contract negotiations in the PacNW, sister is a 9-12 science teacher, brother in law is a history teacher. I've been through 3 Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations. Your numbers and example don't hold water.
No, some of these High Schools have graduating classes of 10.
I went to one of the larger districts in rural western South Dakota and graduated with 56.
Rapid City's schools are bigger, Sturgis is a little bigger, Lead, Deadwood, Custer were about the same size. Everyone else west of the Missouri River was smaller.
A high school of 200-250 was considered to be a middle tier school in size for South Dakota.
South Dakota is a Right to Work State, there is no mandatory union membership. The district I went to Eagle Butte 20-1, didn't have any teachers in the union when I went there.
Do you know how I know you've never driven to Alaska? Because you think a 300 mph train would work across northern Canada, Alaska and the Russian Far East.
I have a friend whose name is the same as someone from IRA/Provo/Real IRA and for about 5-6 years he got the random selection, couldn't book flights on the Internet, no curb side checking of bags.
Then in 2009 it all ended, he doesn't have problems anymore.
New guy, Huawei is famous for stealing IP and putting backdoors into their equipment to spy on users. Oh with some blackmail and extortion to get and keep contracts. And close ties to the PLA
Saddam Hussein had a standing militia of Iraqi and international lawyers. It didn't stop Operation Desert Fox, 11 years of airstrikes, or the invasion of Iraq. And they didn't save him from an execution.
One can't put an injunction on a SEAL/Delta/CIA team.
I'm not a fan of the drug war, and I'm a Republican.
The F-35 program is a goddamned boondoggle to put it politely, it is one of the worst design by committee aviation programs since WW2. The costs are skyrocketing, the schedule is slipping.
On paper it's less effective than late block F-16s in the light fighter role. It's never going to be an effective replacement for the A-10 in that role, in the AV-8B role it's at least 300% more per plane, and in the F/A-18C/D role its at least 200% more per plane. Those prices are today, who knows what they will be when the plane actually enters service in large numbers.
No supercruise, so it's slower the F-22, less stealthy than the F-22, one engine so the things will be falling into the sea like A-4s, A-7s and F-8s did.
I guess it's a program to make the TFX look like a good idea in program management.
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So where it the clock cleaning at?
http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2011/07/19/apple-3q-earnings-revenue-shatter-expectations/
http://daringfireball.net/2011/07/ipad_dominance
iPads outsell Android tablets 20-1
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/08/24/beats.out.likes.of.tiffany.whole.foods/
Apple retail highest sales per square foot
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219467/Tight_supplies_push_up_prices_of_13_in._MacBook_Air?taxonomyId=76
Even the laptops are beating sales expectations
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/08/24/could.give.apple.74.percent.of.tablet.market/
And shipping estimates for iPads are increasing
The facts don't support your claims, unless you have other magical facts that aren't in business reports.
I flew last month, I didn't have to turn off my iPhone, iPad or Macbook Pro, all were sleeping from when the call came to turn them off till 10,000 feet.
Since when has record profits and record sales meant "getting it's clock cleaned"?
I've never had to turn my iPhone, iPods, iPad or laptops all the way off when I flew. Just put the device into airplane mode and put it to sleep.
Yea, anything happens under 10k and they wouldn't be going to their maps on paper either.
No, there won't be any interference, the FAA and airlines have been testing these things for about two years now and other airlines already have replaced the crew's paper maps with iPads (Alaska Airlines for one).
The pilots and copilots already have laptops up there and use those during commercial flights.
The iPad cockpit setups have to, by FAA rules, have a charging cable attached to them during flight operations.
The maps and iPads are backups to the aircraft's onboard map display, not the primary navigational aid.
My cousin flies for a major airline who is still testing the iPad in the cockpit. The pilots are responsable for doing their own map updating.
I've had iPad orders ship directly from Taipei in the past, others ship from within the United States.
When they Soyuz get to 135 manned launches (they are at 119 right now) without a loss, then we can compare to Shuttle.
And Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavor were different shuttle "generations" from Columbia and Challenger.
In both American accidents it was the rocket or fuel tank that lead to the loss of the craft, in both of the Soviet losses it was capsule design that lead to the loss of the craft.
If the Russians get the Soyuz out to 135 launches like Shuttle we might see another loss.
Looking at newer generation Soyuz launch history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-7_(rocket_family)
Soyuz-U - 19 losses in 727 launches - 2.6% loss rate or worse than Shuttle's 1.48% loss rate
Soyuz-U2 - 2 losses in 92 launches - 2.1% loss rate - no longer active
Soyuz-FG - 0 losses in 29 launches
Soyuz-2.1a - 1 loss in 4 launches - 25% loss rate
Soyuz-2.1b - 0 losses in 3 launches
763 launches of active Soyuz rocket models and 20 lost rockets give us a 2.62% loss rate, or worse than Shuttle.
So no, getting on a Soyuz-U, FG, or 2.1x is not safer than a Shuttle was.
The Soviets lost Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11 for four dead in space flights.
The two Shuttles add up to more deaths because the Shuttles carried more people than any Soviet or Russian Federation craft.
Michael J. Adams died while piloting a North American X-15 rocket plane on reentry from 50.4 miles up.
Shuttle did 135 launches with two lost craft
Soyuz has done 111 launches with two lost craft
Apollo did 16 launches with no lost craft
Gemini did 10 launches with no lost craft
Vostok did 6 launches with no lost craft
Mercury did 6 launches with no lost craft
Voskhod did 2 launches with no lost craft
US 167 launches - 2 losses
USSR/Russian Federation 119 launches - 2 losses
If your numbers are from the early 90s you need to recheck them.
Budget cuts in the mid and late 90s and mid to late '00s destroyed schedules like that. In many districts COLAs of 1-3% were all the raise teachers got. Now its even worse, my sister took a 20% cut in '10 to avoid the district having to lay off 25% of staff.
I've worked in public, private school administration and state educational agencies since 1997, my wife is a 7-12 teacher with experience at contract negotiations in the PacNW, sister is a 9-12 science teacher, brother in law is a history teacher. I've been through 3 Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations. Your numbers and example don't hold water.
No, some of these High Schools have graduating classes of 10.
I went to one of the larger districts in rural western South Dakota and graduated with 56.
Rapid City's schools are bigger, Sturgis is a little bigger, Lead, Deadwood, Custer were about the same size. Everyone else west of the Missouri River was smaller.
A high school of 200-250 was considered to be a middle tier school in size for South Dakota.
South Dakota teacher salaries are very, very, very low.
http://teacherportal.com/teacher-salaries-by-state
26,000 is the average.
South Dakota is a Right to Work State, there is no mandatory union membership. The district I went to Eagle Butte 20-1, didn't have any teachers in the union when I went there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne-Eagle_Butte_School
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law#U.S._states_with_right-to-work_laws
Do you know how I know you've never driven to Alaska? Because you think a 300 mph train would work across northern Canada, Alaska and the Russian Far East.
The future of energy in the north is still natural gas and to a lesser extent, oil.
Projections for a natural gas pipeline in the state of Alaska foresees 100%-500% income over the oil pipeline.
http://www.adn.com/2011/08/22/2026719/report-shows-value-of-all-alaska.html
Siberia, the Russian Far East, Alaska and northern Canada are all rich with natural gas. And no one knows what is out in the Arctic Ocean.
I have a friend whose name is the same as someone from IRA/Provo/Real IRA and for about 5-6 years he got the random selection, couldn't book flights on the Internet, no curb side checking of bags.
Then in 2009 it all ended, he doesn't have problems anymore.
Fark had this on 20 Aug 2011 at 1:16 PM.
Yes, I've been here since it was Chips and Dips, I survived the Hot Grits, but I missed when /. became the place where articles were posted days later.
New guy, Huawei is famous for stealing IP and putting backdoors into their equipment to spy on users. Oh with some blackmail and extortion to get and keep contracts. And close ties to the PLA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei#Criticisms_and_controversy
Also, they aren't that big, 185.176 billion CNY is currently 28.94 billion USD, so about a third of the revenue of Apple Inc
Except a US Navy unit has nothing to do with Army marketing.
Exactly, the Bay of Pigs was a lesson for the CIA, now they have professional covert ops units and armed drones.
The CIA in the Bay of Pigs was a couple field officers, some mercenaries and disgruntled Cuban nationalists with WW2 era guns and airplanes.
Saddam Hussein had a standing militia of Iraqi and international lawyers. It didn't stop Operation Desert Fox, 11 years of airstrikes, or the invasion of Iraq. And they didn't save him from an execution.
One can't put an injunction on a SEAL/Delta/CIA team.
I'm not a fan of the drug war, and I'm a Republican.
The F-35 program is a goddamned boondoggle to put it politely, it is one of the worst design by committee aviation programs since WW2. The costs are skyrocketing, the schedule is slipping.
On paper it's less effective than late block F-16s in the light fighter role. It's never going to be an effective replacement for the A-10 in that role, in the AV-8B role it's at least 300% more per plane, and in the F/A-18C/D role its at least 200% more per plane. Those prices are today, who knows what they will be when the plane actually enters service in large numbers.
No supercruise, so it's slower the F-22, less stealthy than the F-22, one engine so the things will be falling into the sea like A-4s, A-7s and F-8s did.
I guess it's a program to make the TFX look like a good idea in program management.