Given that twin engine planes are more efficient than 4 engine planes in most use cases
What fries my noodle is that one 777 engine is about 120,000 lbs thrust, and one 747 is around 25,000. (or thereabouts, may be quite a bit more now)
One 777 engine is enough to comfortably fly a 747. o.O
I don't mind that 747 is flying into the sunset. She gave 50 years, and plenty will still be flying for at least a decade or three. Its time came.
The joke's on Airbus, whose 380 came despite not being needed by the airlines, despite seeing what Boeing had also seen - that the big four-engine birds are doomed (except for freight, a 747 can haul a miraculous amount of freight, and so can the 380, and the L1011, and the DC10 / MD11, all still in use now as freight birds.)
So in this vid (from 2013?) I saw the other day, Airbus CEO was saying that China (especially) and India (partially) was going to fuel the demand for massive numbers of passengers per plane. This was going to be the sell for the 380.
Didn't happen.
Same with the 747. Juan Trippe's bet never did quite pay off. He had bet that 747s stuffed to the gills with passengers was the future. Instead, most flew at 50% if not under. I've flown plenty in 747, the only one I've been in that was packed was a meat flight (military charter) from PHL to MHZ in 1990.
Instead, the twins won the sky, and it happened well before the 777. The 777 was the last nail in the 747's coffin.
I'm still glad I got to fly in it, and watch them land and take off so much. Always the highlight of a visit to any airport, challenged only in coolness by some old piston liner like a dc-3, 6, 7 or insane.mil hardware.
Nope.. but you sure can from the gate, from the highway which parallels the runway, from the observation deck, from your favorite planespotting perch, etc. Mine was at the fence of what is now Luiz Muñoz Marin (what was Isla Verde International Airport)
Not all plane passengers are plane lovers, but plane lovers *always* take note of what's overhead, even subconsciously.
747's best angle? 3/4 from behind. The wing fillet. That's art. Or simply science. (If it looks good, it flies good.. forgot who said that. Some early aerospace guy, I think)
Speak for yourself.. I still buy CDs and blu rays. And paper books. And these things called "records," played by dragging a stone down a groove made of dead dinosaurs and plant decay at 33 1/3rd RPM.
Streaming for the convenience, physical for the permanence.
I had a Casio tc-50 calculator watch in 1983 that was touch screen. And not that pathetic bendy screen like cheap touch devices - this was a proper glass-faced capacitive touch.
Echo chamber? Sure! Amplifier? Of course. One guy says "This is the TRUTH" and half a million mindless parrots nod their heads and go "a-yup" and then spread that "truth" up and down the net.
Seriously, we're social animals but obviously there's only so much social socializing that can go on at a given time.
Please, Apple, learn from moz://a's mistakes! Don't become what they become! Put the focus back on the customers and what the customers actually want, rather than trying to force agendas or initiatives on the customers!
Hm. I wonder if "listening to the customer" is always 100% infallible advise.
Time for a car analogy: Let's say one makes cars. And if you listen TOO much to your customers, you'll end up with the Pontiac Aztek (poster kid of what happens when a car is designed by focus groups) or Homer's Percephone. The brutal truth is most customer's don't *know* what they want.
Prove me wrong. Just because a tech minority knows what we want doesn't mean ALL customers know. Most of them don't.. and they don't care. They think their neat idea should be implemented, even if it's the most bone-headed mistake possible.
The problem is not progressives being offended, it's the right wing snowflakes who can't stand any hurt feelings or suggestion that they are wrong. It's an epidemic on Slashdot and the wider internet.
No. The problem is *both* sides are acting exactly like this and are unable and unwilling to meet in the middle. This is why nothing is getting done in politics, too. The polarization is nearly bipolar at this point, with no middle ground.
Both sides have snowflakes. Both sides are sick and tired of being trod on for so many decades. That's how I see it. Both sides have had it up to *here* with the other. It's the same on both sides, folks.
This isn't limited to the internet and/. either. The internet just serves as a gigantic amplifier.
This inability to see each other's point of view will be our doom. I fear the winner will be chosen mainly by luck - by who happens to have control of Government at the moment when the SHTF. It may be progressives, it may be conservatives. I really feel it'll be luck - a matter of timing, not design.
Firefox has done that for as long as I can remember (Options->Advanced->Warn me when pages redirect).
But then I stopped updating FF when they started fucking it up, so maybe that's gone now.
Can't find the option now, and I've never set it, but FF.. whatever the latest version is right now.. 56.0.2.. it warned me the other day about a re-direct. Default behavior.
Your point is valid, but you miss mine, which is: This used to be done in the shade. Besides, this isn't protecting the consumer, this is Dear Leader being pissed at ATT for CNN's coverage of himself.
Besides, in the past, the Gov't has taken a hacksaw to ATT for being too big.. once in the 30's and once in the 80's.. maybe more than that, I can't remember. Those were done in the open.
But my point stands - this is a political knifing, which used to be done in the dark. This isn't protecting us, this is vengeance.
So... rampant abuse of the unsuspecting public -- which, one could argue, *should* generate a bit of outrage here.....and y'all are busy outraging about what a shoddy article was used to make this summary?!
C'mon guys. Get with it! So what if the summary is crap -- the message is this shit (the cryptomining) is spreading like wildfire. That's where the outrage should be!
Every single OS release is slower, to the point of being unusable, on older hardware. And yet there are no apparent benefits to upgrading.
Wow. If only saying it made it so.
The last iphone I had that was allergic to updates was the 3GS. It really was slow with iOS5. a 4 I had did fairly well until I got a 5S. That 5S is still my one and only phone and runs 11 just fine. No UI glitching, nothing. If there is a performance hit it is imperceptible.
My original ipad air is on 11, just fine. No stutters, no problems.
As for why to upgrade? Security updates. Bugfixes.
But please, don't let reality interfere with your fantasy world which seems to be set at 2008 or so.
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Given that twin engine planes are more efficient than 4 engine planes in most use cases
What fries my noodle is that one 777 engine is about 120,000 lbs thrust, and one 747 is around 25,000. (or thereabouts, may be quite a bit more now)
One 777 engine is enough to comfortably fly a 747. o.O
I don't mind that 747 is flying into the sunset. She gave 50 years, and plenty will still be flying for at least a decade or three. Its time came.
The joke's on Airbus, whose 380 came despite not being needed by the airlines, despite seeing what Boeing had also seen - that the big four-engine birds are doomed (except for freight, a 747 can haul a miraculous amount of freight, and so can the 380, and the L1011, and the DC10 / MD11, all still in use now as freight birds.)
I find such things immensely distasteful. >.
Hm. Gives me an idea for an app! appy app apps!
So in this vid (from 2013?) I saw the other day, Airbus CEO was saying that China (especially) and India (partially) was going to fuel the demand for massive numbers of passengers per plane. This was going to be the sell for the 380.
Didn't happen.
Same with the 747. Juan Trippe's bet never did quite pay off. He had bet that 747s stuffed to the gills with passengers was the future. Instead, most flew at 50% if not under. I've flown plenty in 747, the only one I've been in that was packed was a meat flight (military charter) from PHL to MHZ in 1990.
Instead, the twins won the sky, and it happened well before the 777. The 777 was the last nail in the 747's coffin.
I'm still glad I got to fly in it, and watch them land and take off so much. Always the highlight of a visit to any airport, challenged only in coolness by some old piston liner like a dc-3, 6, 7 or insane .mil hardware.
None of which you see as a passenger...
Nope.. but you sure can from the gate, from the highway which parallels the runway, from the observation deck, from your favorite planespotting perch, etc. Mine was at the fence of what is now Luiz Muñoz Marin (what was Isla Verde International Airport)
Not all plane passengers are plane lovers, but plane lovers *always* take note of what's overhead, even subconsciously.
747's best angle? 3/4 from behind. The wing fillet. That's art. Or simply science. (If it looks good, it flies good.. forgot who said that. Some early aerospace guy, I think)
I'm not a parent, and when I was growing up things such as iphones didn't exist, so I have to ask..
Why seek a technical solution to the problem? Why not simply take the device away from the child after x time elapses?
Others in the world still fly the 747 in pax service, enjoy them while you can.
no one wants fucking CDs anymore
Speak for yourself.. I still buy CDs and blu rays. And paper books. And these things called "records," played by dragging a stone down a groove made of dead dinosaurs and plant decay at 33 1/3rd RPM.
Streaming for the convenience, physical for the permanence.
And AT&T is what.. a cantaloupe grower? Last I heard they were in the tech business (telecom, which is the used car salesmen of tech, but still tech)
I had a Casio tc-50 calculator watch in 1983 that was touch screen. And not that pathetic bendy screen like cheap touch devices - this was a proper glass-faced capacitive touch.
I miss that watch.
Seriously. Turn off the phone and put it in a room you're not in. Then, step away from the computer (PC, tablets, laptops, whatever you use.)
Now, go do other things you've forgotten how to do.
The US used to (still does, I bet) tap Russian cables. Turnabout is fair play?
Read "Blind Man's Bluff" for stories of us playing all sorts of crazy sub games against the Russians.
Kinda feels like we've got a new Cold War, don't it? Only now it's an Information / Data / Commerce thing, not a Nukes thing.
Forums did this 20+ years ago.
Echo chamber? Sure!
Amplifier? Of course.
One guy says "This is the TRUTH" and half a million mindless parrots nod their heads and go "a-yup" and then spread that "truth" up and down the net.
Seriously, we're social animals but obviously there's only so much social socializing that can go on at a given time.
Please, Apple, learn from moz://a's mistakes! Don't become what they become! Put the focus back on the customers and what the customers actually want, rather than trying to force agendas or initiatives on the customers!
Hm. I wonder if "listening to the customer" is always 100% infallible advise.
Time for a car analogy: Let's say one makes cars. And if you listen TOO much to your customers, you'll end up with the Pontiac Aztek (poster kid of what happens when a car is designed by focus groups) or Homer's Percephone. The brutal truth is most customer's don't *know* what they want.
Prove me wrong. Just because a tech minority knows what we want doesn't mean ALL customers know. Most of them don't.. and they don't care. They think their neat idea should be implemented, even if it's the most bone-headed mistake possible.
So how does The People fight this? No one reads /.
No one. Numbers-wise, I mean. /. is not read by enough people to truly spark Fake (or Genuine) Internet Outrage.
How come this isn't running front page on the major Muggle press?
Yeah. What they don' know won't hurt them.
But sure as fuck it'll hurt us.
Wow. Slashdot seriously canâ(TM)t handle posting from a phone?! It totally mangled my apostrophes.
5S, iOS 11.1.2. Itâ(TM)s not doing the IT thing for me. But then again, u donâ(TM)t use QuickType at all, itâ(TM)s turned off.
What is this, 2004 on a Razr with a number keypad only?! Why the need for a predictive keyboard?
The problem is not progressives being offended, it's the right wing snowflakes who can't stand any hurt feelings or suggestion that they are wrong. It's an epidemic on Slashdot and the wider internet.
No. The problem is *both* sides are acting exactly like this and are unable and unwilling to meet in the middle. This is why nothing is getting done in politics, too. The polarization is nearly bipolar at this point, with no middle ground.
Both sides have snowflakes. Both sides are sick and tired of being trod on for so many decades. That's how I see it. Both sides have had it up to *here* with the other. It's the same on both sides, folks.
This isn't limited to the internet and /. either. The internet just serves as a gigantic amplifier.
This inability to see each other's point of view will be our doom. I fear the winner will be chosen mainly by luck - by who happens to have control of Government at the moment when the SHTF. It may be progressives, it may be conservatives. I really feel it'll be luck - a matter of timing, not design.
I'm pretty sure I read it in a few places when Touch ID was new -- it needs a life finger to work. It won't work with a cadaver.
Firefox has done that for as long as I can remember (Options->Advanced->Warn me when pages redirect).
But then I stopped updating FF when they started fucking it up, so maybe that's gone now.
Can't find the option now, and I've never set it, but FF .. whatever the latest version is right now.. 56.0.2.. it warned me the other day about a re-direct. Default behavior.
Derp derp, it's Time-Warner he's pissed at, not ATT. That's what I get for typing before caffeine.
Your point is valid, but you miss mine, which is: This used to be done in the shade. Besides, this isn't protecting the consumer, this is Dear Leader being pissed at ATT for CNN's coverage of himself.
Besides, in the past, the Gov't has taken a hacksaw to ATT for being too big.. once in the 30's and once in the 80's.. maybe more than that, I can't remember. Those were done in the open.
But my point stands - this is a political knifing, which used to be done in the dark. This isn't protecting us, this is vengeance.
Used to be this kind of chicanery was done in the shade, not in the open.
... was "pencil."
And was kept in a little pull-out tray above the top-most drawer of the skleketary's desk?
So... rampant abuse of the unsuspecting public -- which, one could argue, *should* generate a bit of outrage here.. ...and y'all are busy outraging about what a shoddy article was used to make this summary?!
C'mon guys. Get with it! So what if the summary is crap -- the message is this shit (the cryptomining) is spreading like wildfire. That's where the outrage should be!
Every single OS release is slower, to the point of being unusable, on older hardware. And yet there are no apparent benefits to upgrading.
Wow. If only saying it made it so.
The last iphone I had that was allergic to updates was the 3GS. It really was slow with iOS5. a 4 I had did fairly well until I got a 5S. That 5S is still my one and only phone and runs 11 just fine. No UI glitching, nothing. If there is a performance hit it is imperceptible.
My original ipad air is on 11, just fine. No stutters, no problems.
As for why to upgrade? Security updates. Bugfixes.
But please, don't let reality interfere with your fantasy world which seems to be set at 2008 or so.