NEW YORK (CNN) -- Terrorists struck the United States Tuesday morning in harrowing, widespread attacks that included at least three commercial jet crashes into significant buildings.
In the first attack, a plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m., followed by another plane into the second tower about 20 minutes later. Both towers later collapsed.
American Airlines told CNN that it lost two planes in "tragic accidents:" Flight 11 from Boston with 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard and Flight 77 from Washington Dulles airport with 58 passengers and six crew aboard. Both planes were en route to Los Angeles
About an hour later, a plane crashed into the Pentagon, part of which later collapsed.
United Airlines Flight 93 airliner headed from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, crashed near Somerset, Pennsylvania -- police said initial reports indicated no survivors. It was not known if this was connected to the attacks. United also said it was "deeply concerned" about Flight l75 from Boston to Los Angeles.
The Pentagon, the White House, the State Department, the Justice Department, the Capitol, the CIA and all other government buildings in Washington evacuated.
In the first ever national ground stop of aircraft, all flights nationwide have been stopped at their departure airports.
All international flights were diverted to Canada.
Israel has evacuated all its missions around the world.
President Bush cancelled an appearance in Florida to return to Washington, calling the crashes "apparent terrorist attacks" and "a national tragedy."
In Chicago, the Sears Tower was evacuated; United Nations in New York evacuated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta was evacuated. CDC was preparing bioterrorism teams in case they become necessary.
The New York Port Authority said it had closed all bridges and tunnels into the city.
New York's Bellevue Hospital was designated command central for handling the catastrophe. Several hospitals have already reported receiving victims with burns and head injuries.
U.S. stock markets were closed after the New York attacks.
I just heard that another plane has crashed near Pittsburgh.... I'm trying to get links but everything is down. Can somebody please post a copy?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/627028.asp
What's great about that? Many NYC firms and plenty of schools have already been doing that. I was involved in a pilot program 2 years ago at my school where they deployed a small wireless network.
I think nobody teaches new programmers how to write their code so that other people can read it. This includes writing comments for everything you do, indenting correctly and creating variable names that actually make sense. Effective coding style makes it easier to debug and release code faster.
I believe that you can easily judge how long a person has been coding (or how well he knows programming) by looking at a snippet of his code.
MT
If you need really a fast floating point real time, why not use a DSP? Although DSPs are primarily built for signal processing, the new processors handle other operations like interrupts pretty well. Many of these DSPs can perform floating point inversions in one cycle. A lot of them are Harvard Architecture machines and are primarily built for fast Multiply and Accumulates. But, these processors run real time OSes and are capable of doing multithreaded operations. Some newer processors have really fast ports that can talk to other processors and can be easily scaled to a multiprocessor system. And - manufacturers like TI and Analog Devices have been making really fast DSPs lately (TI just announced its 1GHz DSP). They are not that expensive either (They are comparable to the embedded processors made by Motorola). And, the best part is that the new processors really little power. So, why use Intel or AMD for real time processing when you can use a really fast DSP which costs less.
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Terrorists struck the United States Tuesday morning in harrowing, widespread attacks that included at least three commercial jet crashes into significant buildings.
In the first attack, a plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m., followed by another plane into the second tower about 20 minutes later. Both towers later collapsed.
American Airlines told CNN that it lost two planes in "tragic accidents:" Flight 11 from Boston with 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard and Flight 77 from Washington Dulles airport with 58 passengers and six crew aboard. Both planes were en route to Los Angeles
About an hour later, a plane crashed into the Pentagon, part of which later collapsed.
United Airlines Flight 93 airliner headed from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, crashed near Somerset, Pennsylvania -- police said initial reports indicated no survivors. It was not known if this was connected to the attacks. United also said it was "deeply concerned" about Flight l75 from Boston to Los Angeles.
The Pentagon, the White House, the State Department, the Justice Department, the Capitol, the CIA and all other government buildings in Washington evacuated.
In the first ever national ground stop of aircraft, all flights nationwide have been stopped at their departure airports.
All international flights were diverted to Canada.
Israel has evacuated all its missions around the world.
President Bush cancelled an appearance in Florida to return to Washington, calling the crashes "apparent terrorist attacks" and "a national tragedy."
In Chicago, the Sears Tower was evacuated; United Nations in New York evacuated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta was evacuated. CDC was preparing bioterrorism teams in case they become necessary.
The New York Port Authority said it had closed all bridges and tunnels into the city.
New York's Bellevue Hospital was designated command central for handling the catastrophe. Several hospitals have already reported receiving victims with burns and head injuries.
U.S. stock markets were closed after the New York attacks.
I just heard that another plane has crashed near Pittsburgh.... I'm trying to get links but everything is down. Can somebody please post a copy?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/627028.asp
What's great about that? Many NYC firms and plenty of schools have already been doing that. I was involved in a pilot program 2 years ago at my school where they deployed a small wireless network.
I think nobody teaches new programmers how to write their code so that other people can read it. This includes writing comments for everything you do, indenting correctly and creating variable names that actually make sense. Effective coding style makes it easier to debug and release code faster. I believe that you can easily judge how long a person has been coding (or how well he knows programming) by looking at a snippet of his code. MT
If you need really a fast floating point real time, why not use a DSP? Although DSPs are primarily built for signal processing, the new processors handle other operations like interrupts pretty well. Many of these DSPs can perform floating point inversions in one cycle. A lot of them are Harvard Architecture machines and are primarily built for fast Multiply and Accumulates. But, these processors run real time OSes and are capable of doing multithreaded operations. Some newer processors have really fast ports that can talk to other processors and can be easily scaled to a multiprocessor system. And - manufacturers like TI and Analog Devices have been making really fast DSPs lately (TI just announced its 1GHz DSP). They are not that expensive either (They are comparable to the embedded processors made by Motorola). And, the best part is that the new processors really little power. So, why use Intel or AMD for real time processing when you can use a really fast DSP which costs less.