What is digital disruption? I've never heard of that.
Digital Disruption: When clouds / heavy precip overwhelm the Comcast dish (the big ones at their facilities) which feeds your home cable connection, freezing, pixellating and making the show you were watching look like a Cubist work of art.
The old way: A notebook (the paper kind) with a pencil (this wooden thing with graphite in the center).
THe notebook would record that Roll #3 was Tri-x exposed as rated (400 ASA), that frame 1 was a grey card at f5.6 with a shutter speed of 1/400, and then on and on for each successive frame.. if you gave a rip about how a particular frame was shot.
I'll take exif any day, I just make sure the camera (or device) I'm using doesn't geotag.
"I pledge allegiance to the Corporations of the United States, and to the Republic which they freely rape.
One Nation brainwashed and addled to believe in a "God," divided by ignorance and wealth, with Liberty and Justice only for the well-off."
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Well, America, isn't this what you wanted? Free stuff for everyone? Have the big corporations supply your every need, have the Big Bad Federal Government supply your every protection?
You got it. Now enjoy it. Gooooood luck getting rid of it!
We're headed that way. Commerce and government will become indistinguishable from each other.
We have a (laughably ineffective) separation of Church and State.
We desperately need to even more fiercely deploy and enforce a separation of Commerce and State. No more lobbying by religious groups. No more lobbying by commerce -- or proxies of, at least not on the positively obscene way it is being done today
Hovering over my property without my invite? Expect to be blown out of the sky.. if I determine I can get the shot without having the wreck come down on top of my house.
Alternatively, we can develop counter-drone drones, whose job would be to seek out unwanted drones and shoot them out of the sky.
Or how about a net-gun? Throw a net at the offending drone, capture it, and if it survives, sell the shit on ebay.
And as for maximum speed? its egregiously avoided at all costs because it burns much more fuel than a slow lope across the globe. It taxes engines and in turn drives up maintenance costs.
"Egregiously avoided?" More like "avoided to avoid damage to the aircraft" You don't fly at max speed.
Velocity Never Exceed (Vne) is the maximum speed of an aircraft - and no one stays there for long at all. If you stay there too long or go beyond that, very bad things likely will happen.
All aircraft have a cruise setting, which is some ways away from Vne.
I like reminiscing about the rope-and-pulley days but i've been stranded with a broken clutch steel-rope cable, I've had another one snap on a bike, and points-and-condenser ignitions are inhumane and intolerant of lapses in maintenance. That peculiar smell that old cars and old planes had? incomplete combustion.
I like this computer-controlled world. Things work much better.
The rope-and-pulley analog here would be "Hey Bertie, did you put the cotter pin on that rod?" "Ya ya, sure sure!"
Meanwhile, as the plane reaches 400 ft:
*clink* "Hey.. what was that?" "Hey man the thrott*BLAM* (impact on ground)
Apple pays attention to sound quality. This is evident from what comes out of the iphone, ipad, mac mini.
Beats, on the other hand, dips the music in sweet syrup, then wraps it in a soft blanket and then gives the bass a +10db boost. That's what their headphones sounded like to me.
I can only hope Apple will show beats what music really sounds like.
And as for bluetooth speakers, I use a JBL Clip. At least JBL remembers how to make good sound. Beats never learned. Plus it's really hard to clip a Pill to your backpack.. unless you improvise a carrying handle out of 1/2 inch velcro like a bud of mine did.
One is the car "key" (that round mini / bmw thing), that has a cast metal enamel Wakko Warner in a rather acrobatic pose dangling from it. Looks great when I'm hard left and he's sticking almost sideways
The other is the rest of the keys, on that i have a piston (complete with connecting rod and piston pin - the whole thing is maybe an inch long), a small pill bottle, a maglite led solitaire, the fob to get into the building i work at, and that's it. The rest is keys.
When I had an RX8 the fob had a working model of a rotary engine -- just one rotor though. But it did make the motions of a real wankel rotary. Great to illustrate to people how they work.
Don't you find it interesting that this incident occurred while Snowden was in Russia? Maybe he gave them the White House wifi password in exchange for his 1-year visa.
Oh come *on!* It's not too hard to guess, it's the same one in 10 Downing St!
I'm talking about innovations like the creation of the microprocessor, the invention of computer networking, and real innovation like that.
Simple - those things have reached a certain degree of maturity - just like microwave ovens, hi-fi, TV/monitors, cars, airplanes, etc. For the most part we're just refining things that existed many decades ago in slightly different forms.
Generally speaking, the only places left to innovate are software ("apps") and integration of All Of The Above -- so really, the only place left for true innovation is the Internet of Things -- and even then.. it's just mashing disparate technologies together using a 40+ year old network.
Every now and then some genuine innovation does come along - smartphones, UCS, SSD, Moonshot, that new intel computer-on-a-usb-stick.
I would just be happy if they could make a rearview mirror and side mirrors that don't have blind spots how can I trust them with their technology when they can't even do the basic things
Blind spots don't exist because car design makes for them, blind spots exist because drivers never were taught, or never learned, how to properly set up their car.
I've had old cars and new cars, and none of them have had blind spots. Including the Miata what with it's "huge" c-pillars when top-up, an Rx-8 that people insist had huge blind spots and bad visibility, and a Mini with a small back window and fat c-pillars. All these criticisms are bogus, but people *hate* being told they're wrong.
I could spend many bytes explaining why there is no such thing as blind spots, but you'll likely dismiss my explanation. So here, spend some time educating yourself on the problem and the solution.
Se we should all be mindless sheeple who accelerate so slowly you get passed by a scooter, and corner so peacefully that the keychain barely moves away form vertical?
The insurance industry is suggesting we all drive like scared 80 year olds?
I'd rather die or just give the fuck up and get a driverless car.
You're welcome to your opinion, but I fail to see how taking off smartly from a light is going to confuse other drivers.
Are you thinking about me tearing off with smoke coming off my tires? No man. That's not at all what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about doing 50 in a 40, I'm not talking about being an obnoxious hoon. You seem to confuse brisk driving with mad, crazy driving.
The behavior I'm calling out is hazardous -- literally crawling out of a light, and doing 10 freaking miles per hours on a wide sweeper of a left turn at an intersection, with a column of cars behind. As if the road was ice. As if even slightly putting any G at all is going to make the car slide off into the curb. I'm not exaggerating, that's how people drive here.
Is someone who briskly takes off from a light -- not doing burnouts or other kinds of hooning, -- automatically less safe than someone who rolls out at snails' pace?
Is someone who goes around a corner with some amount of G automatically less safe than those who take forever to negotiate the same corner?
At least it should catch those who wait until the last moment to brake when approaching a light or other traffic.
This app is going to penalize people that aren't in fact less safe, and it will utterly fail at detecting some truly dangerous driving: Will it detect someone who follows too close? Will it detect eating a double cheeseburger with one hand while applying makeup with the other? Will it detect someone who's texting while driving? Reaching back to smack the kiddies around? Taking eyes off the road to fuck with the radio or satnav?
Will it detect all those who have their side mirrors way too far in?
No, it won't detect truly dangerous behavior and will penalize those who like to have a little fun with their cars without endangering anyone. Because, you know, not everyone sees cars as a mere conveyance or appliance.
Well then, I respect your credentials, but will still say that I'd like the pilot to have final say.
I"m still WTF on AF 442. Bewildered, if you will. I can't wrap my brain around the fact that entire aircrew disregarded all their other instruments. I expect that out of a rookie like me, perhaps, if I got caught IFR while not being trained for it, but.. eh, I'll just stop right here. It happened, even if I can't comprehend how.
100% correct. So you believe your primary instruments: your artificial horizon, your altimeter, variometer, airspeed. You also must use your VOR, DME, ILS, ADF or whatever nav you're using.
So why did AF 447 not do any of that? It's obvious they could not / did not correctly interpret what their panel surely must've shown: Zero airspeed (false), unwinding altimeter (true), high sink rate (true), artificial horizon mostly blue (True)
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I have a Yahoo email account, because the ISP I had when I started in florida -- BellSouth -- later AT&T -- outsourced their email to yahoo.
I still have an ATT account, which is still my BellSouth email address.
I'm paying for this so-called Yahoo email.. Which is why Yahoo can go fuck themselves into oblivion, they seem to be very good at that.
I wonder if they'd be able to detect this for FireFox Mozilla Yahoo Ad Hide Plugin or for Chrome
Yeah, I use that on top of AdBlockPlus.
Recycled means it came from other sources, not from going into Comcast.
They flagged the guy as a scammer, too. Honor amongst thieves?
It's all in TFA
What is digital disruption? I've never heard of that.
Digital Disruption: When clouds / heavy precip overwhelm the Comcast dish (the big ones at their facilities) which feeds your home cable connection, freezing, pixellating and making the show you were watching look like a Cubist work of art.
The old way: A notebook (the paper kind) with a pencil (this wooden thing with graphite in the center).
THe notebook would record that Roll #3 was Tri-x exposed as rated (400 ASA), that frame 1 was a grey card at f5.6 with a shutter speed of 1/400, and then on and on for each successive frame.. if you gave a rip about how a particular frame was shot.
I'll take exif any day, I just make sure the camera (or device) I'm using doesn't geotag.
"I pledge allegiance to the Corporations of the United States, and to the Republic which they freely rape.
One Nation brainwashed and addled to believe in a "God," divided by ignorance and wealth, with Liberty and Justice only for the well-off."
---
Well, America, isn't this what you wanted? Free stuff for everyone? Have the big corporations supply your every need, have the Big Bad Federal Government supply your every protection?
You got it. Now enjoy it. Gooooood luck getting rid of it!
I'm having the same, downloading apps, iOS and books is slow via comcast internet or over the at&t wireless network.
Why not just get a flip phone instead?
Because no one makes a flip as beautiful, well-made and small-footprint as the Razr.
That atrocity by LG the other day looks like a Razr with a tacky leather cover glued on to it -- that doesn't count. That's a near copy.
After the Razr, all flips are hopelessly plasticky fragile constructions.
My Razr lasted 6 years. Longest-lived phone i've had.
We're headed that way. Commerce and government will become indistinguishable from each other.
We have a (laughably ineffective) separation of Church and State.
We desperately need to even more fiercely deploy and enforce a separation of Commerce and State. No more lobbying by religious groups. No more lobbying by commerce -- or proxies of, at least not on the positively obscene way it is being done today
And by State I also include the federales.
Wood gotten upon seeing the island's females?
Weather guys want this after NSA's done.
We'll take a side of phased-array weather radar to go with that, too.
Hovering over my property without my invite? Expect to be blown out of the sky.. if I determine I can get the shot without having the wreck come down on top of my house.
Alternatively, we can develop counter-drone drones, whose job would be to seek out unwanted drones and shoot them out of the sky.
Or how about a net-gun? Throw a net at the offending drone, capture it, and if it survives, sell the shit on ebay.
Brave new world, this one.
My eyeballs are mine to keep
Not for you to make a dime a peep
Do we fight them, or are we sheep?
Burma Shave
And as for maximum speed? its egregiously avoided at all costs because it burns much more fuel than a slow lope across the globe. It taxes engines and in turn drives up maintenance costs.
"Egregiously avoided?" More like "avoided to avoid damage to the aircraft" You don't fly at max speed.
Velocity Never Exceed (Vne) is the maximum speed of an aircraft - and no one stays there for long at all. If you stay there too long or go beyond that, very bad things likely will happen.
All aircraft have a cruise setting, which is some ways away from Vne.
I like reminiscing about the rope-and-pulley days but i've been stranded with a broken clutch steel-rope cable, I've had another one snap on a bike, and points-and-condenser ignitions are inhumane and intolerant of lapses in maintenance. That peculiar smell that old cars and old planes had? incomplete combustion.
I like this computer-controlled world. Things work much better.
The rope-and-pulley analog here would be "Hey Bertie, did you put the cotter pin on that rod?" "Ya ya, sure sure!"
Meanwhile, as the plane reaches 400 ft:
*clink* "Hey.. what was that?" "Hey man the thrott*BLAM* (impact on ground)
Apple pays attention to sound quality. This is evident from what comes out of the iphone, ipad, mac mini.
Beats, on the other hand, dips the music in sweet syrup, then wraps it in a soft blanket and then gives the bass a +10db boost. That's what their headphones sounded like to me.
I can only hope Apple will show beats what music really sounds like.
And as for bluetooth speakers, I use a JBL Clip. At least JBL remembers how to make good sound. Beats never learned. Plus it's really hard to clip a Pill to your backpack.. unless you improvise a carrying handle out of 1/2 inch velcro like a bud of mine did.
Where's my pothead hippie atheist science enthusiast candidate? Preferably one that also likes the military.
And yes, one can be a pacifist *and* still carry a wicked weapon. Speak softly, and carry a big stick?
I am frustrated to no end with the current political climate, and by extension the slow steady decline of this nation (usa) in the past 30+ years.
One is the car "key" (that round mini / bmw thing), that has a cast metal enamel Wakko Warner in a rather acrobatic pose dangling from it. Looks great when I'm hard left and he's sticking almost sideways
The other is the rest of the keys, on that i have a piston (complete with connecting rod and piston pin - the whole thing is maybe an inch long), a small pill bottle, a maglite led solitaire, the fob to get into the building i work at, and that's it. The rest is keys.
When I had an RX8 the fob had a working model of a rotary engine -- just one rotor though. But it did make the motions of a real wankel rotary. Great to illustrate to people how they work.
Don't you find it interesting that this incident occurred while Snowden was in Russia? Maybe he gave them the White House wifi password in exchange for his 1-year visa.
Oh come *on!* It's not too hard to guess, it's the same one in 10 Downing St!
Scr3w7h3pr0le5
I'm talking about innovations like the creation of the microprocessor, the invention of computer networking, and real innovation like that.
Simple - those things have reached a certain degree of maturity - just like microwave ovens, hi-fi, TV/monitors, cars, airplanes, etc. For the most part we're just refining things that existed many decades ago in slightly different forms.
Generally speaking, the only places left to innovate are software ("apps") and integration of All Of The Above -- so really, the only place left for true innovation is the Internet of Things -- and even then.. it's just mashing disparate technologies together using a 40+ year old network.
Every now and then some genuine innovation does come along - smartphones, UCS, SSD, Moonshot, that new intel computer-on-a-usb-stick.
We're doomed. Dooooooomed!
I would just be happy if they could make a rearview mirror and side mirrors that don't have blind spots how can I trust them with their technology when they can't even do the basic things
Blind spots don't exist because car design makes for them, blind spots exist because drivers never were taught, or never learned, how to properly set up their car.
I've had old cars and new cars, and none of them have had blind spots. Including the Miata what with it's "huge" c-pillars when top-up, an Rx-8 that people insist had huge blind spots and bad visibility, and a Mini with a small back window and fat c-pillars. All these criticisms are bogus, but people *hate* being told they're wrong.
I could spend many bytes explaining why there is no such thing as blind spots, but you'll likely dismiss my explanation. So here, spend some time educating yourself on the problem and the solution.
One way.
Car and Driver's Way.
This is the one I use, they all mean the same thing anyway.
Se we should all be mindless sheeple who accelerate so slowly you get passed by a scooter, and corner so peacefully that the keychain barely moves away form vertical?
The insurance industry is suggesting we all drive like scared 80 year olds?
I'd rather die or just give the fuck up and get a driverless car.
You're welcome to your opinion, but I fail to see how taking off smartly from a light is going to confuse other drivers.
Are you thinking about me tearing off with smoke coming off my tires? No man. That's not at all what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about doing 50 in a 40, I'm not talking about being an obnoxious hoon. You seem to confuse brisk driving with mad, crazy driving.
The behavior I'm calling out is hazardous -- literally crawling out of a light, and doing 10 freaking miles per hours on a wide sweeper of a left turn at an intersection, with a column of cars behind. As if the road was ice. As if even slightly putting any G at all is going to make the car slide off into the curb. I'm not exaggerating, that's how people drive here.
It that the kind of driving your advocating?
Is someone who briskly takes off from a light -- not doing burnouts or other kinds of hooning, -- automatically less safe than someone who rolls out at snails' pace?
Is someone who goes around a corner with some amount of G automatically less safe than those who take forever to negotiate the same corner?
At least it should catch those who wait until the last moment to brake when approaching a light or other traffic.
This app is going to penalize people that aren't in fact less safe, and it will utterly fail at detecting some truly dangerous driving: Will it detect someone who follows too close? Will it detect eating a double cheeseburger with one hand while applying makeup with
the other? Will it detect someone who's texting while driving? Reaching back to smack the kiddies around? Taking eyes off the road to fuck with the radio or satnav?
Will it detect all those who have their side mirrors way too far in?
No, it won't detect truly dangerous behavior and will penalize those who like to have a little fun with their cars without endangering anyone. Because, you know, not everyone sees cars as a mere conveyance or appliance.
Well then, I respect your credentials, but will still say that I'd like the pilot to have final say.
I"m still WTF on AF 442. Bewildered, if you will. I can't wrap my brain around the fact that entire aircrew disregarded all their other instruments. I expect that out of a rookie like me, perhaps, if I got caught IFR while not being trained for it, but.. eh, I'll just stop right here. It happened, even if I can't comprehend how.
You don't fly by the seat of your pants in IFR.
100% correct. So you believe your primary instruments: your artificial horizon, your altimeter, variometer, airspeed. You also must use your VOR, DME, ILS, ADF or whatever nav you're using.
So why did AF 447 not do any of that? It's obvious they could not / did not correctly interpret what their panel surely must've shown: Zero airspeed (false), unwinding altimeter (true), high sink rate (true), artificial horizon mostly blue (True)
Why was that?