The top performing sales people can walk out the door and get a job selling widgets in a week. The company can't afford to lose these people. If they don't get their commissions and bonuses, they will leave.
John Dvorak is a moron. If you look at NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) database, you will find many reports of cell phones and other passenger carried electronic devices causing harmful interference to aircraft communications and navigation systems. What's worse, many passengers lie when asked if they have turned off their cell phone or laptop computer.
The 2.4 GHz band has both licensed and unlicensed users. I can legally transmit at high power in certain sections of the 2.4 GHz band because I have an amateur radio license. As a matter of general policy, unlicensed users are not allowed to interfere with licensed users and must accept interference from licensed users.
There is a web page with a short history of these locomotives here. They were delivered to Union Pacific starting about 50 years ago. Union Pacific had 55 gas turbine locomotives. They were noted for their noise and high fuel consumption.
The Eastern Range (Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center) and Western Range (Vandenberg Air Force Base) are run by the U.S. Air Force. They set the safety requirements and have the responsibility for the safe operation of the range.
When you launch a rocket, you have to be able to guarantee that in the event of a malfunction, the rocket will fall in a safe impact area. There are systems that predict the impact point based on the current position and velocity of the launch vehicle. If there is a danger that the current predicted impact point will move outside of the safe impact area, the range safety officer will send a command to the rocket to activate the flight termination system. The flight termination system terminates powered flight by using linear shaped charges to open up fuel/oxidizer tanks and solid rocket motor cases. This guarantees that the rocket, or the pieces of the rocket, will follow a ballistic trajectory and land in the safe impact area.
On one system that I helped develop, all of the fans had Hall effect sensors. These produce one pulse per revolution of the fan. These were wired into parallel I/O ports. The system software measured the RPM of all of the fans and generated a visual and audible alarm if any fan was dead or out of specified limits. All fans, even high-quality fans, eventually fail.
Many companies have an export control officer who is responsible for ensuring that the company obeys all of the export control laws and regulations. If you don't have one, the company's legal counsel should be able to tell you what you need to do. Where I work, nothing gets shipped out of the country without the approval of the export control officer.
That includes electronic delivery via the Internet.
He is one of the world's greatest computer architects. He designed, or helped to design, many of the computers produced by DEC, including the PDP series and the VAX.
See this page for a list of some of his accomplishments.
The company that is doing the software work on Big Dig is Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. (HTSI), formerly Allied-Signal Technical Services Corp. (ATSC), formerly Bendix Field Engineering Corp. (BFEC). It has nothing to do with Honeywell in the 1980s. It started out as the field engineering division of Bendix Radio in the 1950s. Bendix was acquired by Allied in 1983. Allied merged with Signal in 1985. Allied-Signal merged with Honeywell in 1999.
Even though the name and ownership has changed several times, it is still the same company that started out as a subsidiary of Bendix.
The purpose of a flight termination system is to terminate powered flight, so that the rocket, or pieces thereof, land in a safe impact area, instead of Cocoa Beach. A flight termination system can do this by using shaped explosive charges to "unzip" fuel/oxidizer tanks and solid rocket motors. Despite appearances, the goal is not to "blow up" the rocket.
That is supposed to be why the military is interested in software defined radios. They could replace a large number of incompatible radio systems with a single generic box that could use a wide variety of frequency bands and modulation techniques. It could also support applications such as GPS and data networking.
Eugenics was a popular political/social movement in the United States before World War II. Margaret Sanger, one of the founders of Planned Parenthood, was an advocate for eugenics. The movement never recovered from the backlash caused by the atrocities committed in Nazi Germany.
There is a reason for sending a technician to set up the cable connection. An improperly installed cable connection can leak EM radiation, causing interference with many licensed radio services. The cable company is legally responsible for preventing leakage. They can get in big trouble with the FCC if their system causes interference to licensed radio services.
It is common for a cinematographer or videographer to setup the 16:9 shots so that it also looks acceptable in 4:3. This will become more common with television, as there will be a mix of 16:9 and 4:3 displays for many years.
Apollo used the SNAP-27. It carried 3.8 kilograms of Pu238, for a power output (electrical) of 70 watts. Pu238 is an extremely expensive material, roughly several thousand dollars per gram.
NASA may not have run TV spots advertising their use of nuclear materials, but they didn't hide it. It was common knowledge among people interested in the hardware used for the Apollo program. I remember seeing a mockup of the RTG and getting a detailed explanation of how it worked while on a visit to the Smithsonian Institution in the 1970s.
The Apollo missions used to intentionally crash the left-over bits of the spacecraft, like the LEM, into the Moon. The impacts generated seismic waves that provided valuable data on the internal structure of the Moon. The ALSEP instrumentation packages left on the Moon included seismometers, allowing Earth based scientists to monitor the Moon for seismic activity.
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The top performing sales people can walk out the door and get a job selling widgets in a week. The company can't afford to lose these people. If they don't get their commissions and bonuses, they will leave.
John Dvorak is a moron. If you look at NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) database, you will find many reports of cell phones and other passenger carried electronic devices causing harmful interference to aircraft communications and navigation systems. What's worse, many passengers lie when asked if they have turned off their cell phone or laptop computer.
I suspect that Microsoft is pissed off about SE Linux.
The 2.4 GHz band has both licensed and unlicensed users. I can legally transmit at high power in certain sections of the 2.4 GHz band because I have an amateur radio license. As a matter of general policy, unlicensed users are not allowed to interfere with licensed users and must accept interference from licensed users.
There is a web page with a short history of these locomotives here. They were delivered to Union Pacific starting about 50 years ago. Union Pacific had 55 gas turbine locomotives. They were noted for their noise and high fuel consumption.
It's no longer a trade secret if you leave source code listings in publicly accessible trash containers.
When you launch a rocket, you have to be able to guarantee that in the event of a malfunction, the rocket will fall in a safe impact area. There are systems that predict the impact point based on the current position and velocity of the launch vehicle. If there is a danger that the current predicted impact point will move outside of the safe impact area, the range safety officer will send a command to the rocket to activate the flight termination system. The flight termination system terminates powered flight by using linear shaped charges to open up fuel/oxidizer tanks and solid rocket motor cases. This guarantees that the rocket, or the pieces of the rocket, will follow a ballistic trajectory and land in the safe impact area.
On one system that I helped develop, all of the fans had Hall effect sensors. These produce one pulse per revolution of the fan. These were wired into parallel I/O ports. The system software measured the RPM of all of the fans and generated a visual and audible alarm if any fan was dead or out of specified limits. All fans, even high-quality fans, eventually fail.
Many companies have an export control officer who is responsible for ensuring that the company obeys all of the export control laws and regulations. If you don't have one, the company's legal counsel should be able to tell you what you need to do. Where I work, nothing gets shipped out of the country without the approval of the export control officer. That includes electronic delivery via the Internet.
Don't forget the Royal Navy submarine HMS Explorer (AKA HMS Exploder), which was powered by hydrogen peroxide.
He is one of the world's greatest computer architects. He designed, or helped to design, many of the computers produced by DEC, including the PDP series and the VAX. See this page for a list of some of his accomplishments.
The company that is doing the software work on Big Dig is Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. (HTSI), formerly Allied-Signal Technical Services Corp. (ATSC), formerly Bendix Field Engineering Corp. (BFEC). It has nothing to do with Honeywell in the 1980s. It started out as the field engineering division of Bendix Radio in the 1950s. Bendix was acquired by Allied in 1983. Allied merged with Signal in 1985. Allied-Signal merged with Honeywell in 1999. Even though the name and ownership has changed several times, it is still the same company that started out as a subsidiary of Bendix.
Hint: He is not some random Microsoft employee.
The purpose of a flight termination system is to terminate powered flight, so that the rocket, or pieces thereof, land in a safe impact area, instead of Cocoa Beach. A flight termination system can do this by using shaped explosive charges to "unzip" fuel/oxidizer tanks and solid rocket motors. Despite appearances, the goal is not to "blow up" the rocket.
That is supposed to be why the military is interested in software defined radios. They could replace a large number of incompatible radio systems with a single generic box that could use a wide variety of frequency bands and modulation techniques. It could also support applications such as GPS and data networking.
Eugenics was a popular political/social movement in the United States before World War II. Margaret Sanger, one of the founders of Planned Parenthood, was an advocate for eugenics. The movement never recovered from the backlash caused by the atrocities committed in Nazi Germany.
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Financial Crimes Division
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Suite 5300
Washington, DC 20223
Phone: (202) 406-5850
Fax: (202) 406-5031
If you are just reporting a scam, mark your email "No Financial Loss - For Your Database".
See the 419 Coalition web site.
If you get mugged, you are too slow/weak to have money.
There is a reason for sending a technician to set up the cable connection. An improperly installed cable connection can leak EM radiation, causing interference with many licensed radio services. The cable company is legally responsible for preventing leakage. They can get in big trouble with the FCC if their system causes interference to licensed radio services.
It is common for a cinematographer or videographer to setup the 16:9 shots so that it also looks acceptable in 4:3. This will become more common with television, as there will be a mix of 16:9 and 4:3 displays for many years.
I have some 8mm tape drives that do that. The tape drive's firmware can be updated by inserting a specially formatted tape cartridge.
Apollo used the SNAP-27. It carried 3.8 kilograms of Pu238, for a power output (electrical) of 70 watts. Pu238 is an extremely expensive material, roughly several thousand dollars per gram.
NASA may not have run TV spots advertising their use of nuclear materials, but they didn't hide it. It was common knowledge among people interested in the hardware used for the Apollo program. I remember seeing a mockup of the RTG and getting a detailed explanation of how it worked while on a visit to the Smithsonian Institution in the 1970s.
The Apollo missions used to intentionally crash the left-over bits of the spacecraft, like the LEM, into the Moon. The impacts generated seismic waves that provided valuable data on the internal structure of the Moon. The ALSEP instrumentation packages left on the Moon included seismometers, allowing Earth based scientists to monitor the Moon for seismic activity.
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