Long ago, college dorms were more like Army barracks. Now they are private apartments. Food was served in a cafeteria, and you ate what they had today. Now they are more like food courts, and require far more staff. Students expect this kind of service, and if a school doesn't upgrade, they lose students to schools that do. It's overhead that has risen the cost of education, not the cost of professors. The difference in equipment and classrooms between engineering and liberal arts is small compared to the school environment costs.
I used to run a system for the government. Users would complain that they could get 6 different answers to the same question. I had to show them that they were getting 6 different answers to 6 slightly different questions. It was like "how many of these things to I have?" There might have been 18 in stock, but 3 are broken awaiting repair, 2 are waiting for upgrades, and one is damaged beyond economical repair. Depending on how they ask the question, they will get different combinations of those items. Answers from data are only useful if you know the state of the data and the question asked. Just giving someone the answer can be very deceptive and lead to misunderstandings.
Attitude indicators have nothing to do with pitot tubes. Pitot tubes measure speed. Throttle forward and stick back are reactions if you are very low, not near max altitude. What should have happened is one pilot should have taken control, announced that it was his aircraft. The other should have pulled out the checklist for loss of speed indications. I don't know that aircraft, but the response should have been something like 5 degree up on the nose and 85% power. The plane would have flown just fine until the pitot tubes cleared (which only takes 20-30 seconds). The speed indicators would have returned to normal and they could have reengaged the autopilot. Instead, the one pilot reacted as if the plane was entering a dive and was now overspeed. Pulling up would be the correct move, but he never looked at the attitude indicator to see that they weren't diving. They keep doing uncoordinated actions to the point the plane was in such a wide maneuver that they no longer understood the instruments. When flying by instruments, look at them, then decide what to do. You are at 35,000 ft. You have some time to look at the instruments before doing something, you aren't about to hit the ground. That was the main problem, the pilots were only really trained to fly the plane on takeoff and landing, when they are near the ground.
The crash was all the pilot's fault. If they had just sat there and looked at it it would not have crashed. Waiting 20 seconds and reengaging the autopilot would have solved the problem. The readings were only conflicting when they put the plane into an absolutely crazy flight envelope that the instruments were not designed to handle. At any time they could have looked at the attitude indicator to see what was going on. The reaction to loss of airspeed indicator is to raise the nose to a certain level and set the engines to a certain power. They yanked the aircraft nose all the way up and slammed the throttle forward. Unless you are about to hit a mountain that is not the right reaction for any event.
Autopilot is an automated pilot, not an Autonomous pilot. It automates part of the flying of the aircraft. It is not a replacement pilot. It can't make decisions.
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We had someone leave from work, and left his forwarding address as Melbourne, Austria. We often wondered if he knew where he was going.
Which of their aircraft have bad safety records?
Yes, but you will also be raising my taxes, to pay for the education of your children. What do I get out of it?
Long ago, college dorms were more like Army barracks. Now they are private apartments. Food was served in a cafeteria, and you ate what they had today. Now they are more like food courts, and require far more staff. Students expect this kind of service, and if a school doesn't upgrade, they lose students to schools that do. It's overhead that has risen the cost of education, not the cost of professors. The difference in equipment and classrooms between engineering and liberal arts is small compared to the school environment costs.
Double our taxes and make college free like in civilized countries!
This should bring ReactOS closer to being useful.
In Doctor Strangelove? It was originally "Dallas" but changed to "Vegas" after the Kennedy assassination.
They did that after WW I. It worked right up until WW II happened.
The SpaceX team will be landing on a barge on the Moon.
Shoot, A Fella' Could Have A Pretty Good Weekend In Vegas With All That Stuff.
I used to run a system for the government. Users would complain that they could get 6 different answers to the same question. I had to show them that they were getting 6 different answers to 6 slightly different questions. It was like "how many of these things to I have?" There might have been 18 in stock, but 3 are broken awaiting repair, 2 are waiting for upgrades, and one is damaged beyond economical repair. Depending on how they ask the question, they will get different combinations of those items. Answers from data are only useful if you know the state of the data and the question asked. Just giving someone the answer can be very deceptive and lead to misunderstandings.
They should have bought Borland, too. Oracle Delphi could have predicted this.
Looks like this is the end of Sun SPARC and Solaris.
Is Al Gore at it again?
So, they are popping up and ad to add pop-up ads to your browser.
This breaking news just in - Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!
His wife was dressed very nicely. She looks good in blue.
Attitude indicators have nothing to do with pitot tubes. Pitot tubes measure speed. Throttle forward and stick back are reactions if you are very low, not near max altitude. What should have happened is one pilot should have taken control, announced that it was his aircraft. The other should have pulled out the checklist for loss of speed indications. I don't know that aircraft, but the response should have been something like 5 degree up on the nose and 85% power. The plane would have flown just fine until the pitot tubes cleared (which only takes 20-30 seconds). The speed indicators would have returned to normal and they could have reengaged the autopilot. Instead, the one pilot reacted as if the plane was entering a dive and was now overspeed. Pulling up would be the correct move, but he never looked at the attitude indicator to see that they weren't diving. They keep doing uncoordinated actions to the point the plane was in such a wide maneuver that they no longer understood the instruments. When flying by instruments, look at them, then decide what to do. You are at 35,000 ft. You have some time to look at the instruments before doing something, you aren't about to hit the ground. That was the main problem, the pilots were only really trained to fly the plane on takeoff and landing, when they are near the ground.
Don't worry, he'll be deported tomorrow.
Reversing the polarity of the neutron flow always seems to fix the TARDIS, should work here, too.
He's too busy landing rockets on barges in the ocean to take the time to shoot someone.
The crash was all the pilot's fault. If they had just sat there and looked at it it would not have crashed. Waiting 20 seconds and reengaging the autopilot would have solved the problem. The readings were only conflicting when they put the plane into an absolutely crazy flight envelope that the instruments were not designed to handle. At any time they could have looked at the attitude indicator to see what was going on. The reaction to loss of airspeed indicator is to raise the nose to a certain level and set the engines to a certain power. They yanked the aircraft nose all the way up and slammed the throttle forward. Unless you are about to hit a mountain that is not the right reaction for any event.
Autopilot is an automated pilot, not an Autonomous pilot. It automates part of the flying of the aircraft. It is not a replacement pilot. It can't make decisions.
It's the language where a truck is a truck and not a lorry.
That's what you get when you post an article from the BBC about a car crash in the US.