Commercially, I don't see batteries working, simply because it would affect the turnaround time of aircraft drastically, an aircraft on the tarmac charging it's batteries is an aircraft that is not making money.
If I own a specialist hammer shop, would you berate me for doing so, and not instead selling a multitude of tools. Would you be agast in horror that when somebody came to the counter and asked for a screwdriver that I would send them to a screwdriver shop?
There's nothing wrong with specialization, just because you sell hammers doesn't mean you see every job as a nail, just that you don't do every job.
Fair enough on the upside down was taking the example a bit far, naturally the force of gravity is not being overcome in that case (unless you're applying a neg 2G).
But the point is not "completely bogus" as you put it, it serves to illustrate (perhaps poorly) that what you FEEL happening, and what actually IS happening can be two entirely different things.
1. Unless it's pressurization system was faulty (it wasn't) the pressure change wouldn't have been great. 2. Unless accelerating, you wouldn't know you were going down (or up, or banked or upside down...).
So the claim that the passengers probably didn't think it was anything more than turbulence is not hard to believe.
It is perhaps surprising to non-pilots that you can be in unusual attitudes and not know it, pilots however are acutely aware. VFR (Visual Flight Rules) pilots flying into IMC (Instrument Meteorological Conditions - ie, zero visability) is a big cause of crashes, not because they can't see where they are going, but because they don't know which way is up.
Meanwhile, in New Zealand most of the population never needs submit tax return at all unless they want to, that's what PAYE is for (Pay As You Earn, employer remits tax at appropriate rate deducted from your wages).
With "Wayland" can you do something like:
ssh -X user@server xcommandhere
I'm pretty sure when I first read about Wayland, this was not a happening thing. I don't know about other Slashdotians, but I use X11 forwarding all the time.
all the while, continuing development of all the versions already existing?
If it doesn't make them money MS would be unlikely to continue development of a Linux version. I would not be surprised if the Linux version is not all that profitable for the work that would have to go into it vs. the revenue realised by it (Skype Out etc).
Supporting the competition is something that MS doesn't do lightly. Begrudgingly they have Office for Mac and really that's about as far as it goes these days.
I would say that the Android Skype is reasonably safe for now, since inter-operability there is important to keep market share for Skype (if Android uses changed,to something else a lot of OTHER Skype users would follow I could guess).
Losing a few linux users, unlikely to be much of a problem to MS honchos.
Errr, perhaps you missed where they apparently had the browser start the windows calculator executable. That's a fairly fundamental ownage right there.
1. any camera would insert timestamp THEN encode to jpeg, anything else is complete nonsense.
2. since they are using such high precision timestamps, why on earth would they wait to grab the timestamp when they start encoding the data to jpeg at all, I would imagine they grab a timestamp and stuff it in a buffer at the same time as you trigger the CCD, when they encode the CCD's dump they take that buffered timestamp, not whatever the current time is when they get around to encoding.
Consider, client requests a bunch of stuff, one or more of those stuff happen to be dynamically generated, eg php. Server does not know how long those things will take to generate.
It does know how long it will take to grab the static files which were also requested, but those static files may not be useful to the client until it gets the dynamic one(s).
In a straight "server sends whatever file it wants first", the server has a couple of choices
send the static files first and then the dynamic ones, low transfer latency
send the dynamic files first and then the static ones, low display latency
even if the dynamic file generation is kicked off while the static files are being sent, the dynamic file can't be "inserted" into the stream until whatever static file was being sent has finished (consider it might be a BIG static file)
With SPDY as I understand it from this slashdot article, it is multiplexed so there is no need to "wait for a slot" in order to push out the dynamic content, you can kick off the generation of said content in it's own thread and as soon as it is ready start sending it out on the multiplexed stream. That would be a significant advantage over the single threaded pipeline, by providing both a low transfer and display latency.
Certainly MUCH more complicated, but I can see situations where it would be MUCH more beneficial also. Given it's a low level and optional complication, between the server and the client, I'd say that was an acceptable trade off.
He's retiring, not dead. Burt's retiring could be pretty good for light sport, in that, he will have lots of free time and a good chance that he might want to design himself a new light sport aircraft:-)
It comes down to efficiency, and energy management.
The limit in the energy capacity for current battery technology (vs weight) simply means we need to push for far more efficient airframes.
Nobody is suggesting smacking an electric engine on the front of a Cessna 150 is going to work well, because the energy to push a brick through the air is just to much.
Composite materials, highly streamlined, slippery as hell, fancy stuff like reflex flaps, long thin glider inspired wings... an extremely efficient aircraft with an electric motor could be a pretty nice recreational machine.
We all accept that this vehicle derives it's motion through the rotation of the propeller which drives the wheels. I think we all accept that the bigger a propeller being driven by the wind, the more energy you extract. The more energy you have the faster you can drive the wheels.
Ok so far.. but, I just can't get my head around the fact that once the vehicle reaches (or even approaches) the same velocity as the wind, how there is any relative wind left to drive the propeller without reversing the blade pitch.
This is where I interject with a tale about Natalie Portman naked petrified and covered in hot grits. Because I have a lower user id than you and intend to use the classical Slashdot meme to allude to this lower user id as a badge of superiority.
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The word you want is epitome, not epiphany.
Commercially, I don't see batteries working, simply because it would affect the turnaround time of aircraft drastically, an aircraft on the tarmac charging it's batteries is an aircraft that is not making money.
There is only one internet, it lives atop Big Ben. Occasionally the elders will let you borrow it, if you are able to sufficiently impress them.
There is a big difference between the HP at the shaft, and the thrust delivered.
If I own a specialist hammer shop, would you berate me for doing so, and not instead selling a multitude of tools. Would you be agast in horror that when somebody came to the counter and asked for a screwdriver that I would send them to a screwdriver shop?
There's nothing wrong with specialization, just because you sell hammers doesn't mean you see every job as a nail, just that you don't do every job.
The point of flight is applying forces to overcome gravity.
In normal level flight, that force is lift and it is sufficient only to keep you airborne, everything is normal.
But once you start changing things, ascending, descending, banking, yawing, pitching, you have introduced forces in other directions.
Enough force in the right direction, and absent external cues, and your perception of where down is, is not necessarily where down actually is.
Fair enough on the upside down was taking the example a bit far, naturally the force of gravity is not being overcome in that case (unless you're applying a neg 2G).
But the point is not "completely bogus" as you put it, it serves to illustrate (perhaps poorly) that what you FEEL happening, and what actually IS happening can be two entirely different things.
Of course, Bob Hoover. Enough said. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp2Uc9XvmjY
To be clear, this was not a case of VFR into IMC, an airliner is basically IFR all the way these days.
1. Unless it's pressurization system was faulty (it wasn't) the pressure change wouldn't have been great.
2. Unless accelerating, you wouldn't know you were going down (or up, or banked or upside down...).
So the claim that the passengers probably didn't think it was anything more than turbulence is not hard to believe.
It is perhaps surprising to non-pilots that you can be in unusual attitudes and not know it, pilots however are acutely aware. VFR (Visual Flight Rules) pilots flying into IMC (Instrument Meteorological Conditions - ie, zero visability) is a big cause of crashes, not because they can't see where they are going, but because they don't know which way is up.
At restaurants and bars across the US I see "stretched out" video everywhere.
To me, I hate seeing the fat squashed people.
People in the US clearly just like seeing a more realistic representation of their population.
Meanwhile, in New Zealand most of the population never needs submit tax return at all unless they want to, that's what PAYE is for (Pay As You Earn, employer remits tax at appropriate rate deducted from your wages).
With "Wayland" can you do something like:
ssh -X user@server xcommandhere
I'm pretty sure when I first read about Wayland, this was not a happening thing. I don't know about other Slashdotians, but I use X11 forwarding all the time.
> all he has to do is release another video
Releasing videos is real easy when you are locked up in a secret facility between "interrogation" sessions.
all the while, continuing development of all the versions already existing?
If it doesn't make them money MS would be unlikely to continue development of a Linux version. I would not be surprised if the Linux version is not all that profitable for the work that would have to go into it vs. the revenue realised by it (Skype Out etc).
Supporting the competition is something that MS doesn't do lightly. Begrudgingly they have Office for Mac and really that's about as far as it goes these days.
I would say that the Android Skype is reasonably safe for now, since inter-operability there is important to keep market share for Skype (if Android uses changed,to something else a lot of OTHER Skype users would follow I could guess).
Losing a few linux users, unlikely to be much of a problem to MS honchos.
Errr, perhaps you missed where they apparently had the browser start the windows calculator executable. That's a fairly fundamental ownage right there.
Amateur. Real men just telnet into port 80.
1. any camera would insert timestamp THEN encode to jpeg, anything else is complete nonsense.
2. since they are using such high precision timestamps, why on earth would they wait to grab the timestamp when they start encoding the data to jpeg at all, I would imagine they grab a timestamp and stuff it in a buffer at the same time as you trigger the CCD, when they encode the CCD's dump they take that buffered timestamp, not whatever the current time is when they get around to encoding.
Consider, client requests a bunch of stuff, one or more of those stuff happen to be dynamically generated, eg php. Server does not know how long those things will take to generate.
It does know how long it will take to grab the static files which were also requested, but those static files may not be useful to the client until it gets the dynamic one(s).
In a straight "server sends whatever file it wants first", the server has a couple of choices
send the static files first and then the dynamic ones, low transfer latency
send the dynamic files first and then the static ones, low display latency
even if the dynamic file generation is kicked off while the static files are being sent, the dynamic file can't be "inserted" into the stream until whatever static file was being sent has finished (consider it might be a BIG static file)
With SPDY as I understand it from this slashdot article, it is multiplexed so there is no need to "wait for a slot" in order to push out the dynamic content, you can kick off the generation of said content in it's own thread and as soon as it is ready start sending it out on the multiplexed stream. That would be a significant advantage over the single threaded pipeline, by providing both a low transfer and display latency.
Certainly MUCH more complicated, but I can see situations where it would be MUCH more beneficial also. Given it's a low level and optional complication, between the server and the client, I'd say that was an acceptable trade off.
He's retiring, not dead. Burt's retiring could be pretty good for light sport, in that, he will have lots of free time and a good chance that he might want to design himself a new light sport aircraft :-)
It comes down to efficiency, and energy management.
The limit in the energy capacity for current battery technology (vs weight) simply means we need to push for far more efficient airframes.
Nobody is suggesting smacking an electric engine on the front of a Cessna 150 is going to work well, because the energy to push a brick through the air is just to much.
Composite materials, highly streamlined, slippery as hell, fancy stuff like reflex flaps, long thin glider inspired wings... an extremely efficient aircraft with an electric motor could be a pretty nice recreational machine.
99 mile An Hour is too slow??
That's near enough to 160 K/hr!
I think it would be safe to say that in most parts of the world that speed is going to get you walking home after the authorities take your licence.
On a side note, x-rays are typically shielded by lead.
We all accept that this vehicle derives it's motion through the rotation of the propeller which drives the wheels.
I think we all accept that the bigger a propeller being driven by the wind, the more energy you extract.
The more energy you have the faster you can drive the wheels.
Ok so far.. but, I just can't get my head around the fact that once the vehicle reaches (or even approaches) the same velocity as the wind, how there is any relative wind left to drive the propeller without reversing the blade pitch.
This is where I interject with a tale about Natalie Portman naked petrified and covered in hot grits. Because I have a lower user id than you and intend to use the classical Slashdot meme to allude to this lower user id as a badge of superiority.
The BD-5 will also probably kill you (especially the 5J which is a total death trap).
The Cri Cri is a bit more benign.