Yes this is true, static sparks can ignite gas fumes there's no doubt there. I'm just saying my cell phone is not throwing of sparks. The 3v battery can't even overcome air resistance even in a saturated environment so it can't throw off sparks.
Agreed I'll have to listen to the witless repeating this BS scenario will bring the plane down. Gee hope we don't get hit by a mild solar storm while we're flying because if my phone can bring the plane crashing down then I think the sun will be able to do a much better job.
This is just another example of how (inexplicably to me at least) companies want to continue fear based rules that just don't make sense. It's like the whole "don't use your cell phone near the gas pump" BS that they tried to spread for a long time. Even when tests and common sense says there's no way a cell phone would cause a spark that would ignite gas fumes unless some catastrophic (and extremely rare) occurred.
So the company just admitted that their (likely expensive) aviation equipment (displays?) are more error prone from EMI than say....my desktop pc...phone...digital watch? What sort of equipment are these people working with? Consumer electronics are bombarded by this sort of EMI constantly and I don't see any displays blanking in my office. In an airplane I would have assumed they would have to have MORE shielding because at altitude they have less shield from solar radiation which is well known for being harmful to electronics where my wifi adapter hasn't fried a single piece of electronics...yet.
This still sounds like total BS to me.
There is a segment of Americans who look at our politics and thinks "What the...." but it seems like there is nothing we can do about it. We elect Obama and think maybe things really can change but alas...no it seems like nothing changed. I'm not really even blaming Obama for this as I think the system has it's own momentum that is beyond the power of any one person to change it. Even if no one agreed with where it was going I'm not sure how much it would really matter. The people are the concern of the government only in the most superficial of levels it seems.
Exactly, I have been waiting for people to star showing up with big foam "we're number one" fingers in red and blue. I am considering starting a company to sell republican branded beer holder hats and such I'm pretty sure it would be a huge market.
This is true but the other side of that is that it still shows that Macs do in fact have security vulnerabilities that are no less equivalent to those of say a Windows pc. This in spite of a widely held belief that Macs are "safer" and the less widely held belief that since the OS being based on BSD it must also be safer. Security largely still remains in the hands of the user and that should be understood.
Good thing I always have my social firewall up....of course this mostly means not looking at anyone and mumbling and running away whenever someone talks to me.
Because they are the two things that we have in movies and other media that are measured for "audience appropriateness". It's also a pretty interesting comparison that we are more ok with our children seeing someone killed than someone having sex.
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That's where they get you! $30 for a printhead with some "genuine HP kidney cells" inside.
As soon as they acquire the technology needed to begin taking notes they will begin taking them. Then sometime later begin working on this "broadband" stuff.
Haven't used XCode/Objective-C/etc but I have programmed a fair bit in Java using Eclipse and Oracle JDeveloper mostly. In that comparison I would say VS wins hands down. I wish there was an open or even just cross platform IDE that is even half as good as VS. I hate having such narrow dev experience but everytime I've developed for non-MS projects it has left me wanting VS back even more.
My understanding of Journalism is that it should be used to present a balanced perspective on issues that informs the viewer in such a way as to allow them to form an opinion based on their understanding and perspective. I think what you just described is "op ed" not journalism.
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Yes this is true, static sparks can ignite gas fumes there's no doubt there. I'm just saying my cell phone is not throwing of sparks. The 3v battery can't even overcome air resistance even in a saturated environment so it can't throw off sparks.
I'd buy one....not sure what the hell I'd do with it but I'd buy it. Now if it was ACTUALLY a 1MW laser...I'd buy two.
Agreed I'll have to listen to the witless repeating this BS scenario will bring the plane down. Gee hope we don't get hit by a mild solar storm while we're flying because if my phone can bring the plane crashing down then I think the sun will be able to do a much better job.
This is just another example of how (inexplicably to me at least) companies want to continue fear based rules that just don't make sense. It's like the whole "don't use your cell phone near the gas pump" BS that they tried to spread for a long time. Even when tests and common sense says there's no way a cell phone would cause a spark that would ignite gas fumes unless some catastrophic (and extremely rare) occurred.
So the company just admitted that their (likely expensive) aviation equipment (displays?) are more error prone from EMI than say....my desktop pc...phone...digital watch? What sort of equipment are these people working with? Consumer electronics are bombarded by this sort of EMI constantly and I don't see any displays blanking in my office. In an airplane I would have assumed they would have to have MORE shielding because at altitude they have less shield from solar radiation which is well known for being harmful to electronics where my wifi adapter hasn't fried a single piece of electronics...yet. This still sounds like total BS to me.
There is a segment of Americans who look at our politics and thinks "What the...." but it seems like there is nothing we can do about it. We elect Obama and think maybe things really can change but alas...no it seems like nothing changed. I'm not really even blaming Obama for this as I think the system has it's own momentum that is beyond the power of any one person to change it. Even if no one agreed with where it was going I'm not sure how much it would really matter. The people are the concern of the government only in the most superficial of levels it seems.
Exactly, I have been waiting for people to star showing up with big foam "we're number one" fingers in red and blue. I am considering starting a company to sell republican branded beer holder hats and such I'm pretty sure it would be a huge market.
This is true but the other side of that is that it still shows that Macs do in fact have security vulnerabilities that are no less equivalent to those of say a Windows pc. This in spite of a widely held belief that Macs are "safer" and the less widely held belief that since the OS being based on BSD it must also be safer. Security largely still remains in the hands of the user and that should be understood.
Good thing I always have my social firewall up....of course this mostly means not looking at anyone and mumbling and running away whenever someone talks to me.
Not disagreeing with you, but you should look up the paper and pencil roleplaying game called "Paranoia".
Because they are the two things that we have in movies and other media that are measured for "audience appropriateness". It's also a pretty interesting comparison that we are more ok with our children seeing someone killed than someone having sex.
That's where they get you! $30 for a printhead with some "genuine HP kidney cells" inside.
He posted about it and they were watching his internet usage obviously.
As soon as they acquire the technology needed to begin taking notes they will begin taking them. Then sometime later begin working on this "broadband" stuff.
Haven't used XCode/Objective-C/etc but I have programmed a fair bit in Java using Eclipse and Oracle JDeveloper mostly. In that comparison I would say VS wins hands down. I wish there was an open or even just cross platform IDE that is even half as good as VS. I hate having such narrow dev experience but everytime I've developed for non-MS projects it has left me wanting VS back even more.
My understanding of Journalism is that it should be used to present a balanced perspective on issues that informs the viewer in such a way as to allow them to form an opinion based on their understanding and perspective. I think what you just described is "op ed" not journalism.