Both the test links worked for me on several different machines at work. The windows media version does give the popup asking for permission, but the wording doesn't make it seem threatening at all. The second link has no such warning though. We're running a fully up to date XP SP3 and IE8.
What makes me the most angry, is how we signed a contract with them for a certain service, then they arbitrarily decide that their contract only applies to us, and they can change the terms all they want.
If you really look at the fine print in the contract, I'm sure it says exactly that.
It's still available in the US market as well. Either it hasn't been pulled yet, or it has already been restored. Either way, I downloaded it on my droid right after I saw this story.
I don't think flying a balloon into a large area of hot, unstable air is going to get you the performance you're thinking of. What's wrong with the converted tanker aircraft we have?
Unless you're like me and have half of your local stations on VHF, including one way the hell down on channel 5. I'm not sure what inspired most of the stations here to return to their old VHF assignments, but it certainly hasn't increased their viewership among apartment dwellers. The higher frequency channels at 10 and 13 are generally watchable, but channel 5 is just gone. I can't even get a signal 20 miles away with a direct line of sight to the tower. (Yes, it really is direct, the towers are 2000' tall)
I'm not sure if you were including that as "general issues with DRM" or not, but it certainly is something that doesn't work like it should. I shouldn't have to know in advance when my internet might go out to be able to play a game.
All the sites with good current info are paywalled so I can't link you to anything. The lowest I found was US Airways, paying their first year FO's $21,000. The average is much higher at about $35,000.
Not exactly $17,000/yr but still pretty damn low considering the many thousands of dollars spent on training to get you that entry level position.
I have introduced many people to firefly over the years, and everyone I've shown it to has liked it.
Every. Single. One.
Hell, even my parents liked it so much that they showed it to their friends, many of whom went on to buy the DVDs. If that show has appeal from college students to boomers, I'd say it would have been pretty damn successful had anybody actually been able to watch it when it was on FOX.
Two of the pairs are simply unused. There were some gigabit ethernet standards that used all four pairs, but I'm not sure if that is the standard that is in common use today.
That's not the way it works. The value of characteristic impedance is in ohms, not ohms/meter. It absolutely does not change based on cable length. It describes how signals will propagate which is a characteristic of the cable, not how long it is.
I have no idea what this article is talking about. The source is apparently an interview with BBC news, so I'm wondering if this is something that only applies to Britain or maybe Europe in general.
In the US we have a fantastic little organization called SoundExchange. You may remember them from previous stories on slashdot about how they were trying to destroy internet radio by charging massively inflated prices. Part of the reason it was big news is because in the US internet radio broadcasts fall under a compulsory license. Even if you're an independent artist who is not represented by any of the labels that SoundExchange represents, broadcasters must pay SoundExchange to play your recordings.
Warner is in the same situation, and cannot opt out of this no matter how much they want to. They could make specific agreements with each and every internet radio station, but all the stations would have to do is say no. If no agreement could be reached it goes right back to the standard terms of SoundExchange.
I'm not an expert in licensing, but I do work for a radio network that also broadcasts on the internet. During the big SoundExchange debacle last year this is how everything was explained to me. I highly doubt any internet radio service in the US will be in trouble.
It is in a geosynchronous orbit, not a geostationary orbit. Any orbit with inclination cannot be geostationary and would require multiple ground stations or a steerable antenna. It may also be possible that they are using a fixed antenna and a highly elliptical orbit, and using that to create a long period of relatively little apparent motion from earth during which to perform their downlinks. That may also be how they create longer observation times.
Either way, this wouldn't allow continuous observation of the sun. It may be close, but at some point it is going to be near enough to the night side of earth to be in its shadow.
No DSL is *not* over telephone lines. POTS (plain old telephone service) is defined as having a 0 to 8000 hertz bandwidth, hence the 56k dialup limit. The engineers have squeezed as much data as they can into that limited range.
Actually that limit is digital in nature, and has nothing to do with the quality (or lack thereof) in the lines themselves. I work at a university and we use phone lines to move audio from building to building. It's analog the whole way, with all switching equipment removed and everything hard wired together at the university's telecom office. It's good enough to get FM broadcast quality even running all the way across campus and back again.
You aren't understanding what PAE does. You may be able to have more than the 32bit limit in the system, but each individual program is still subject to the limitation.
From what I understand, their claim is pretty much completely dependent on the wording of the contract they had with the photographer. If the AP has a signed contract saying that they own the copyright of all the pictures he took for them, then their claim is valid. If they only have a contract that says they get unlimited reproduction rights (my understanding is that a typical contract is more like that), then they don't own the copyright. Until details of the contract are presented, nobody can know anything more about their case.
Without knowing more about the aircraft (like the exact glide ratio and best glide speed) a few back of the envelope calculations suggest that the glide time from 30,000 ft to sea level would probably take about 3.5 hours. While impressive, it's not going to make it the entire night without some help.
They disengaged the main flight control system because they thought it was flying too fast in the turbulence, or was causing too much passenger discomfort.
Possible, but I'm sure the autopilot is more than capable of handling turbulence. I highly doubt there is anything the pilots could do to improve passenger comfort other than to change course or altitude and move out of the turbulence.
They slowed down to a very narrow margin above stall speed.
Only an idiot would do this. There is no reason whatsoever to slow down below maneuvering speed, which on a heavy aircraft is probably still quite fast.
They went into a high-speed dive.
Aircraft that stall don't just fall out of the sky. In fact, a stalled wing continues to produce lift, just not as much of it.
They hit a 100 mph updraft, causing the AOA to go beyond the stall angle.
That's a very violent updraft, and the reason pilots of any size aircraft route around storms. It's also why you wouldn't slow down below maneuvering speed. The faster you're going, the stronger the wind would need to be to cause a stall.
Because they were on manual backup control they could not exert enough force on the controls to recover before Vne or the flutter speed of something was attained.
The aircraft is fly by wire. It's also hydraulic powered. There is no change in force other than possibly some type of force feedback system, which obviously would not be strong enough to prevent the pilots from moving the controls.
I'd go on, but your argument is completely ridiculous. Yes, it's true that nobody knows what happened, but that doesn't mean that absolutely anything is a reasonable argument.
Number of stations I received via analog: 7
Number of stations I receive via digital: 18
Yeah I'm counting subchannels, but it's all programming I couldn't get before so it seems equivalent to a new station to me. Eight of those digital stations are HD resolutions and a lot superior to the picture I could get before. I'm sorry that things haven't worked out for you in the transition, but I'm quite happy with how things have turned out for me. Most people I know in other markets are likewise impressed.
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Both the test links worked for me on several different machines at work. The windows media version does give the popup asking for permission, but the wording doesn't make it seem threatening at all. The second link has no such warning though. We're running a fully up to date XP SP3 and IE8.
An 800GB Native / 1.6TB Compressed LTO-4 tape costs $35. If you don't deliberately choose a ridiculous comparison, tapes really aren't that expensive.
What makes me the most angry, is how we signed a contract with them for a certain service, then they arbitrarily decide that their contract only applies to us, and they can change the terms all they want.
If you really look at the fine print in the contract, I'm sure it says exactly that.
It's still available in the US market as well. Either it hasn't been pulled yet, or it has already been restored. Either way, I downloaded it on my droid right after I saw this story.
I have a feeling expanding foam doesn't expand too well at over 2,000 psi.
Why is that exactly? Sure, the J58 is a unique engine, but we've since made engines for airliners that put out three times as much thrust.
I don't think flying a balloon into a large area of hot, unstable air is going to get you the performance you're thinking of. What's wrong with the converted tanker aircraft we have?
Get a decent antenna (any UHF one will work)
Unless you're like me and have half of your local stations on VHF, including one way the hell down on channel 5. I'm not sure what inspired most of the stations here to return to their old VHF assignments, but it certainly hasn't increased their viewership among apartment dwellers. The higher frequency channels at 10 and 13 are generally watchable, but channel 5 is just gone. I can't even get a signal 20 miles away with a direct line of sight to the tower. (Yes, it really is direct, the towers are 2000' tall)
Maybe they changed this in 7 and I didn't notice, but in Vista if you are running a fullscreen 3D program aero should get disabled automatically.
I have two words for you: Offline Mode
I'm not sure if you were including that as "general issues with DRM" or not, but it certainly is something that doesn't work like it should. I shouldn't have to know in advance when my internet might go out to be able to play a game.
All the sites with good current info are paywalled so I can't link you to anything. The lowest I found was US Airways, paying their first year FO's $21,000. The average is much higher at about $35,000.
Not exactly $17,000/yr but still pretty damn low considering the many thousands of dollars spent on training to get you that entry level position.
I have introduced many people to firefly over the years, and everyone I've shown it to has liked it.
Every. Single. One.
Hell, even my parents liked it so much that they showed it to their friends, many of whom went on to buy the DVDs. If that show has appeal from college students to boomers, I'd say it would have been pretty damn successful had anybody actually been able to watch it when it was on FOX.
Two of the pairs are simply unused. There were some gigabit ethernet standards that used all four pairs, but I'm not sure if that is the standard that is in common use today.
That's not the way it works. The value of characteristic impedance is in ohms, not ohms/meter. It absolutely does not change based on cable length. It describes how signals will propagate which is a characteristic of the cable, not how long it is.
I have no idea what this article is talking about. The source is apparently an interview with BBC news, so I'm wondering if this is something that only applies to Britain or maybe Europe in general.
In the US we have a fantastic little organization called SoundExchange. You may remember them from previous stories on slashdot about how they were trying to destroy internet radio by charging massively inflated prices. Part of the reason it was big news is because in the US internet radio broadcasts fall under a compulsory license. Even if you're an independent artist who is not represented by any of the labels that SoundExchange represents, broadcasters must pay SoundExchange to play your recordings.
Warner is in the same situation, and cannot opt out of this no matter how much they want to. They could make specific agreements with each and every internet radio station, but all the stations would have to do is say no. If no agreement could be reached it goes right back to the standard terms of SoundExchange.
I'm not an expert in licensing, but I do work for a radio network that also broadcasts on the internet. During the big SoundExchange debacle last year this is how everything was explained to me. I highly doubt any internet radio service in the US will be in trouble.
It is in a geosynchronous orbit, not a geostationary orbit. Any orbit with inclination cannot be geostationary and would require multiple ground stations or a steerable antenna. It may also be possible that they are using a fixed antenna and a highly elliptical orbit, and using that to create a long period of relatively little apparent motion from earth during which to perform their downlinks. That may also be how they create longer observation times.
Either way, this wouldn't allow continuous observation of the sun. It may be close, but at some point it is going to be near enough to the night side of earth to be in its shadow.
With the possible exception of Gmail, I wouldn't call any of those applications. They're just websites.
That has absolutely no impact on the efficiency of the computer.
That's like saying a car must be really fuel inefficient for no other reason than it has a 25 gallon gas tank.
No DSL is *not* over telephone lines. POTS (plain old telephone service) is defined as having a 0 to 8000 hertz bandwidth, hence the 56k dialup limit. The engineers have squeezed as much data as they can into that limited range.
Actually that limit is digital in nature, and has nothing to do with the quality (or lack thereof) in the lines themselves. I work at a university and we use phone lines to move audio from building to building. It's analog the whole way, with all switching equipment removed and everything hard wired together at the university's telecom office. It's good enough to get FM broadcast quality even running all the way across campus and back again.
You aren't understanding what PAE does. You may be able to have more than the 32bit limit in the system, but each individual program is still subject to the limitation.
From what I understand, their claim is pretty much completely dependent on the wording of the contract they had with the photographer. If the AP has a signed contract saying that they own the copyright of all the pictures he took for them, then their claim is valid. If they only have a contract that says they get unlimited reproduction rights (my understanding is that a typical contract is more like that), then they don't own the copyright. Until details of the contract are presented, nobody can know anything more about their case.
Closed captions are encoded as part of the video stream, subtitles are completely separate.
Without knowing more about the aircraft (like the exact glide ratio and best glide speed) a few back of the envelope calculations suggest that the glide time from 30,000 ft to sea level would probably take about 3.5 hours. While impressive, it's not going to make it the entire night without some help.
They disengaged the main flight control system because they thought it was flying too fast in the turbulence, or was causing too much passenger discomfort.
Possible, but I'm sure the autopilot is more than capable of handling turbulence. I highly doubt there is anything the pilots could do to improve passenger comfort other than to change course or altitude and move out of the turbulence.
They slowed down to a very narrow margin above stall speed.
Only an idiot would do this. There is no reason whatsoever to slow down below maneuvering speed, which on a heavy aircraft is probably still quite fast.
They went into a high-speed dive.
Aircraft that stall don't just fall out of the sky. In fact, a stalled wing continues to produce lift, just not as much of it.
They hit a 100 mph updraft, causing the AOA to go beyond the stall angle.
That's a very violent updraft, and the reason pilots of any size aircraft route around storms. It's also why you wouldn't slow down below maneuvering speed. The faster you're going, the stronger the wind would need to be to cause a stall.
Because they were on manual backup control they could not exert enough force on the controls to recover before Vne or the flutter speed of something was attained.
The aircraft is fly by wire. It's also hydraulic powered. There is no change in force other than possibly some type of force feedback system, which obviously would not be strong enough to prevent the pilots from moving the controls.
I'd go on, but your argument is completely ridiculous. Yes, it's true that nobody knows what happened, but that doesn't mean that absolutely anything is a reasonable argument.
Number of stations I received via analog: 7 Number of stations I receive via digital: 18 Yeah I'm counting subchannels, but it's all programming I couldn't get before so it seems equivalent to a new station to me. Eight of those digital stations are HD resolutions and a lot superior to the picture I could get before. I'm sorry that things haven't worked out for you in the transition, but I'm quite happy with how things have turned out for me. Most people I know in other markets are likewise impressed.