This design also uses the wing itself as a massive air brake by tilting the wing, eliminating (or reducing) the need to assume a nose-high attitude (shuttle orbiters pitch up by 30-40 degrees for most of the re-entry phase of the mission, by comparison.)
A show? Was it "just a show" when the space shuttle Enterprise began drop tests from the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to validate its performance on final approach and landing?
Tests of this type are very important. If it weren't for the 5th and final ALT test, the first flight crew (Young and Crippen aboard Columbia for STS-1) might have found themselves in a pilot-induced oscillation and crashed on landing, which would have been disastrous and delayed the program even more than it had been by that point - delays which led to the loss of Skylab when drag brought it down before a Shuttle could reach it to reboost it.
On the other hand, civilian access to space finally becoming a reality is an incredible thing. It gives me hope, as a nearly lifelong enthusiast, that I may see space firsthand before I die, not via Celestis. This should be laid bare for the public, but it is not... we only find out about any progress weeks or months later when I'd rather the info go up within hours, which is certainly possible these days.
There is no longer any need to keep secret the fact that people and objects can get to space - Wernher von Braun wanted to try it way back in 1945, but his A-9/A-10 project got killed and it took him almost 20 more years before he accomplished that goal. If there was ever any time for secrecy, it was way back then when all this was still a surprise to spring on the bad guys. Not when there's about to be a change as big as the one we went through when Gagarin and Shepard went up.
Still seems sensible to point it out in case someone tries to click through and gets the error I got, though your point is taken. And I poked around a bit; looks like this problem goes away for links wrapped in href tags. It seems to me this is a bug that needs to be fixed. But this isn't the place to go into that.
Not sure what "YAW" stands for. I've seen it elsewhere but haven't come across the explanation. Can you fill me in?
"For the reasons discussed above, we REVERSE the district court's judgment against Peter Veeck, and REMAND with instructions to dismiss SBCCI's claims."
Elton John, on the other hand... his live playing is beautiful. It's incredible. His version of The One recorded at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles... wow. I wish I could play like that! Flowing, up and down the keyboard, some of it rehearsed, some of it sounding (beautifully) improvised. I'd love to go to one of his concerts... but $200 for a ticket? Come on already!
I'm a die-hard fan and I'd love to show support by going to a concert, but it's beyond what I can afford, and there aren't many live CDs available and those that are all cover the older stuff, which I do love - but I want the new stuff too, and requests to Rocket Records and iTunes so far haven't been successful -- so I did have to go to P2P for the live stuff. But I'd pay if the AACs were available! (or for a CD of live stuff if it were fairly priced!)
I don't see why it's so hard to produce more live recordings. I would think it would be quicker, simpler, and certainly bypasses the trouble of booking studio time. And this is a guy who can go from nothing to having something polished and professional in 30 minutes or less -- so it's certainly within his abilities.
I don't have any child porn on it or anything that'd get me in trouble, but all the same, my stuff is my stuff.
Thus, when it goes in, it will have a fresh account, created the same day, with FileVault turned on so my personal data is encrypted.
In the case you're thinking of, how did the court accept the testimony of someone who was (it seems) poking where they shouldn't have been on someone's private property?
Korolev and von Braun were dreamers who realized that the only way to achieve those dreams was to accept government funding, and to get that, they had to build the things the government hired them to build.
Yes, some of the things they built were used to kill people -- but many more of the things they built made us better, gave us new dreams to dream.
Unfortunately, it's all too easy to overlook those facts and dump people like Korolev and Goddard (and also note that Ferdinand Porsche, who designed the VW Beetle, the best-selling car for many decades, and the car loved by millions of VW enthusiasts worldwide -- designed the Strength-Through-Joy Car by order of none other than Adolf Hitler) and lump them in with "Germans" or "Soviets" or what-have-you.
I have some images on my hard drive that are just there because some site did that at a moment when I was in a "don't argue with me" mood. I tend to delete them after a while, but (trivially) defeating those is amusing when you're feeling that way.
I'm just like you, except throw in Spike (for TNG), and Court and A&E (occasional forensics shows)... and of course PBS, but I often find myself watching a LOT of History. Whatever happened to History's Mysteries, anyway? I liked that, but even though it's a season pass on my TIVO, it nearly never shows up in the list of what's playing.
Correct. And your average shuttle mission costs about $300-$800 million (depending on who you ask and what the payload is; one end of that is 'low' and the other 'high') to carry out.
Hubble instruments are specifically designed to fit in the telescope's instrument compartment, which was designed from the beginning for instrument changeout and on-orbit servicing. The JWST is not as it won't be in an orbit the Shuttle can reach.
Here's one few people think of: imagery for artworks!
I've seen Hubble images used to great effect in Star Trek: Insurrection, for example -- with jawdropping CGI effects added, but the images themselves are clearly Hubble shots.
I've seen them, with artistic filters added in Photoshop or similar, as backgrounds in cartoons (Transformers, for instance).
That's just two examples - and many people probably didn't know where the images came from!
And why pay more to destroy something that's working, and working well, and rebuild it, than keeping it running? It's like throwing out your old Honda and buying a new Lexus when there's nothing wrong with the car you've got. You can still get parts and still get it serviced, and it runs extremely well. Why go to the expense? Especially when the Lexus is more complicated and can't be fixed in your home garage if something is unexpectedly wrong with it?
Hubble is also upgradeable, if O'Keefe will stop being a pansy wuss. If the current instruments are getting old, replace them with something new! That's a huge innovation and one that won't be available with the new telescope.
I was wondering when this would be brought up. It's not offtopic at all. A lot of people seem to be advocating DirecTV, when these are the people that are suing the innocent and not caring about it. It seems awfully hypocritical - though I have no way to compare who said what here and in the DTV lawsuit threads.
I'm getting the damn banner while trying to watch TNG. I DO NOT CARE because I'm not a Dish subscriber. Whoever targeted this is a lazy idiot who can't be bothered to not irritate people who have no interest in the matter. They'll probably end up with more irritated subscribers that start phoning them to complain from other networks than they get DISH subscribers complaining. (Er, I couldn't figure out how to word that so it would make sense, but I'm sure readers can figure it out...) If they don't quit doing this within the next few days, I'll fire off an annoyed email and drop the season pass -- and yes, Nielsen is now tracking who watches what via TiVo, so it will count against them.
Not that I've noticed. Hmm. I wonder if you don't have a bad switch. Take down your overhead console and the switch and check/clean the contacts, then reinstall it, before you try to get a new one.
The oil filler cap is very obviously labeled with a picture of an oil can and a warning not to overfill lest the catalytic converter be damaged. I've topped off the oil a couple of times with no hassle at all. The washer fluid reservoir and coolant reservoir are both labelled and the caps remove easily and they are translucent so that you can see if they need filling (plus the car has indicator lights in the cluster that light, and a beep sounds, if the levels are low.
The headlight bulbs are a pain to reach if you don't have small, nimble hands like I do; to get to them otherwise you have to remove the grille, the front bumper, and the headlight units, all of which are held on with Torx screws. Fortunately, I've gotten in a lot of practice in replacing the bulbs without taking anything off -- small hands help!
The battery box is right behind the left headlight and to get at the battery, you just pop the top off (the top is there to protect the battery terminals and the wires that take power to different parts of the car, including the OEM fog lamps in the E-code headlamps I installed due to being displeased with the light pattern and with VWoA's decontenting of US models. You don't need any tools to do that, though the box should really have a battery drawn on it to make it more obvious where the battery is.
The fuse box is on the left side of the dashboard and the covers (there are two, one the obvious one and one the larger one held on by larger clips) come off if pried gently with a screwdriver.
Have never had to replace the speakers, but have pulled the radio and CD player twice. It's easy, if you have the tools that slip into the slots on the radio.
The Golf is built by inserting the engine from the bottom when the car is on the assembly line, so it can be hard to get to a lot of things. But the Golf is nowhere near as bad as, say, the Boxster.
Some cars also have the tire pressure requirements on a sticker inside the fuel filler door.
The manual probably wasn't in the car because VW manuals are so darn thick they're hard to fit in the glovebox.
The battery cover is actually a good thing because it keeps the terminals from getting dirty or corroded, which is a Bad Thing (tm). But there should be a battery image on the cover or something to make it clearer where it is, and clearer markings for which terminal is which - my battery ran down once when I left the lights on a little too long while working on something on the car, and almost hooked up the jumper cables backwards. Oops! The battery the car came with has hard-to-see polarity markings.
The VAG tool is great. I was about to mention it when I saw your post. My local club has two members who have VAG tools so I get access to them for free. At my local club's install day later this month, I'm going to see if I can't get my car reprogrammed to bleep at unlock, not just lock, and a few other things like making the clock 24-hour.
The MAF problem is common. So are O2 sensor problems. I can get the parts cheap (impex.com or through a local dealer via a club discount) and installed for free by other club members.
2000 Golf GLS 4-door, white. No "real" problems, all minor. Hacks like restoration of OEM fog lights (VW removed these from US golfs), rear fog light (same), Passat W8 overhead console w/red backlighting. Love it.
Go to AutoZone or look at specialty VW upgrade sellers. At least one (I forget which -- Hillside Imports, maybe?) will ship the tool out to you if you give them a credit card number as a deposit. You use the tool, fix/upgrade your brakes, ship it back within a certain number of days.
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Actually, it's generally carried out at a right angle to the pitch axis. ;) So is roll. (Sorry, no Rock around here!)
And do it without the massive funding the USAF has. (yes, folks, the X-15 program wasn't a NACA/NASA effort.)
This design also uses the wing itself as a massive air brake by tilting the wing, eliminating (or reducing) the need to assume a nose-high attitude (shuttle orbiters pitch up by 30-40 degrees for most of the re-entry phase of the mission, by comparison.)
A show? Was it "just a show" when the space shuttle Enterprise began drop tests from the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to validate its performance on final approach and landing?
Tests of this type are very important. If it weren't for the 5th and final ALT test, the first flight crew (Young and Crippen aboard Columbia for STS-1) might have found themselves in a pilot-induced oscillation and crashed on landing, which would have been disastrous and delayed the program even more than it had been by that point - delays which led to the loss of Skylab when drag brought it down before a Shuttle could reach it to reboost it.
On the other hand, civilian access to space finally becoming a reality is an incredible thing. It gives me hope, as a nearly lifelong enthusiast, that I may see space firsthand before I die, not via Celestis. This should be laid bare for the public, but it is not... we only find out about any progress weeks or months later when I'd rather the info go up within hours, which is certainly possible these days.
There is no longer any need to keep secret the fact that people and objects can get to space - Wernher von Braun wanted to try it way back in 1945, but his A-9/A-10 project got killed and it took him almost 20 more years before he accomplished that goal. If there was ever any time for secrecy, it was way back then when all this was still a surprise to spring on the bad guys. Not when there's about to be a change as big as the one we went through when Gagarin and Shepard went up.
Still seems sensible to point it out in case someone tries to click through and gets the error I got, though your point is taken. And I poked around a bit; looks like this problem goes away for links wrapped in href tags. It seems to me this is a bug that needs to be fixed. But this isn't the place to go into that.
Not sure what "YAW" stands for. I've seen it elsewhere but haven't come across the explanation. Can you fill me in?
Your link is incorrect. The case is here.
"For the reasons discussed above, we REVERSE the district court's judgment against Peter Veeck, and REMAND with instructions to dismiss SBCCI's claims."
Elton John, on the other hand ... his live playing is beautiful. It's incredible. His version of The One recorded at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles ... wow. I wish I could play like that! Flowing, up and down the keyboard, some of it rehearsed, some of it sounding (beautifully) improvised. I'd love to go to one of his concerts ... but $200 for a ticket? Come on already!
I'm a die-hard fan and I'd love to show support by going to a concert, but it's beyond what I can afford, and there aren't many live CDs available and those that are all cover the older stuff, which I do love - but I want the new stuff too, and requests to Rocket Records and iTunes so far haven't been successful -- so I did have to go to P2P for the live stuff. But I'd pay if the AACs were available! (or for a CD of live stuff if it were fairly priced!)
I don't see why it's so hard to produce more live recordings. I would think it would be quicker, simpler, and certainly bypasses the trouble of booking studio time. And this is a guy who can go from nothing to having something polished and professional in 30 minutes or less -- so it's certainly within his abilities.
My Powerbook has something wrong with it.
I don't have any child porn on it or anything that'd get me in trouble, but all the same, my stuff is my stuff.
Thus, when it goes in, it will have a fresh account, created the same day, with FileVault turned on so my personal data is encrypted.
In the case you're thinking of, how did the court accept the testimony of someone who was (it seems) poking where they shouldn't have been on someone's private property?
Korolev and von Braun were dreamers who realized that the only way to achieve those dreams was to accept government funding, and to get that, they had to build the things the government hired them to build.
Yes, some of the things they built were used to kill people -- but many more of the things they built made us better, gave us new dreams to dream.
Unfortunately, it's all too easy to overlook those facts and dump people like Korolev and Goddard (and also note that Ferdinand Porsche, who designed the VW Beetle, the best-selling car for many decades, and the car loved by millions of VW enthusiasts worldwide -- designed the Strength-Through-Joy Car by order of none other than Adolf Hitler) and lump them in with "Germans" or "Soviets" or what-have-you.
I have some images on my hard drive that are just there because some site did that at a moment when I was in a "don't argue with me" mood. I tend to delete them after a while, but (trivially) defeating those is amusing when you're feeling that way.
I'm just like you, except throw in Spike (for TNG), and Court and A&E (occasional forensics shows) ... and of course PBS, but I often find myself watching a LOT of History. Whatever happened to History's Mysteries, anyway? I liked that, but even though it's a season pass on my TIVO, it nearly never shows up in the list of what's playing.
Correct. And your average shuttle mission costs about $300-$800 million (depending on who you ask and what the payload is; one end of that is 'low' and the other 'high') to carry out.
Hubble instruments are specifically designed to fit in the telescope's instrument compartment, which was designed from the beginning for instrument changeout and on-orbit servicing. The JWST is not as it won't be in an orbit the Shuttle can reach.
Here's one few people think of: imagery for artworks!
I've seen Hubble images used to great effect in Star Trek: Insurrection, for example -- with jawdropping CGI effects added, but the images themselves are clearly Hubble shots.
I've seen them, with artistic filters added in Photoshop or similar, as backgrounds in cartoons (Transformers, for instance).
That's just two examples - and many people probably didn't know where the images came from!
And why pay more to destroy something that's working, and working well, and rebuild it, than keeping it running? It's like throwing out your old Honda and buying a new Lexus when there's nothing wrong with the car you've got. You can still get parts and still get it serviced, and it runs extremely well. Why go to the expense? Especially when the Lexus is more complicated and can't be fixed in your home garage if something is unexpectedly wrong with it?
Hubble is also upgradeable, if O'Keefe will stop being a pansy wuss. If the current instruments are getting old, replace them with something new! That's a huge innovation and one that won't be available with the new telescope.
The British version declares that it will never surrender, and then pauses in midafternoon for tea and crumpets before resuming the DDoS.
I was wondering when this would be brought up. It's not offtopic at all. A lot of people seem to be advocating DirecTV, when these are the people that are suing the innocent and not caring about it. It seems awfully hypocritical - though I have no way to compare who said what here and in the DTV lawsuit threads.
I'm getting the damn banner while trying to watch TNG. I DO NOT CARE because I'm not a Dish subscriber. Whoever targeted this is a lazy idiot who can't be bothered to not irritate people who have no interest in the matter. They'll probably end up with more irritated subscribers that start phoning them to complain from other networks than they get DISH subscribers complaining. (Er, I couldn't figure out how to word that so it would make sense, but I'm sure readers can figure it out...) If they don't quit doing this within the next few days, I'll fire off an annoyed email and drop the season pass -- and yes, Nielsen is now tracking who watches what via TiVo, so it will count against them.
XPlite can kill it.
Not that I've noticed. Hmm. I wonder if you don't have a bad switch. Take down your overhead console and the switch and check/clean the contacts, then reinstall it, before you try to get a new one.
2000 Golf owner here.
The oil filler cap is very obviously labeled with a picture of an oil can and a warning not to overfill lest the catalytic converter be damaged. I've topped off the oil a couple of times with no hassle at all. The washer fluid reservoir and coolant reservoir are both labelled and the caps remove easily and they are translucent so that you can see if they need filling (plus the car has indicator lights in the cluster that light, and a beep sounds, if the levels are low.
The headlight bulbs are a pain to reach if you don't have small, nimble hands like I do; to get to them otherwise you have to remove the grille, the front bumper, and the headlight units, all of which are held on with Torx screws. Fortunately, I've gotten in a lot of practice in replacing the bulbs without taking anything off -- small hands help!
The battery box is right behind the left headlight and to get at the battery, you just pop the top off (the top is there to protect the battery terminals and the wires that take power to different parts of the car, including the OEM fog lamps in the E-code headlamps I installed due to being displeased with the light pattern and with VWoA's decontenting of US models. You don't need any tools to do that, though the box should really have a battery drawn on it to make it more obvious where the battery is.
The fuse box is on the left side of the dashboard and the covers (there are two, one the obvious one and one the larger one held on by larger clips) come off if pried gently with a screwdriver.
Have never had to replace the speakers, but have pulled the radio and CD player twice. It's easy, if you have the tools that slip into the slots on the radio.
The Golf is built by inserting the engine from the bottom when the car is on the assembly line, so it can be hard to get to a lot of things. But the Golf is nowhere near as bad as, say, the Boxster.
Some cars also have the tire pressure requirements on a sticker inside the fuel filler door.
The manual probably wasn't in the car because VW manuals are so darn thick they're hard to fit in the glovebox.
The battery cover is actually a good thing because it keeps the terminals from getting dirty or corroded, which is a Bad Thing (tm). But there should be a battery image on the cover or something to make it clearer where it is, and clearer markings for which terminal is which - my battery ran down once when I left the lights on a little too long while working on something on the car, and almost hooked up the jumper cables backwards. Oops! The battery the car came with has hard-to-see polarity markings.
Actually, that happens on VW 2.0s, at least, too. Fixed under warranty for me.
Are you a vortexer? :)
The VAG tool is great. I was about to mention it when I saw your post. My local club has two members who have VAG tools so I get access to them for free. At my local club's install day later this month, I'm going to see if I can't get my car reprogrammed to bleep at unlock, not just lock, and a few other things like making the clock 24-hour.
The MAF problem is common. So are O2 sensor problems. I can get the parts cheap (impex.com or through a local dealer via a club discount) and installed for free by other club members.
2000 Golf GLS 4-door, white. No "real" problems, all minor. Hacks like restoration of OEM fog lights (VW removed these from US golfs), rear fog light (same), Passat W8 overhead console w/red backlighting. Love it.
Go to AutoZone or look at specialty VW upgrade sellers. At least one (I forget which -- Hillside Imports, maybe?) will ship the tool out to you if you give them a credit card number as a deposit. You use the tool, fix/upgrade your brakes, ship it back within a certain number of days.