You do realize that the runway orientation is chosen due to things like prevailing winds and local terrain, don't you.
Once you've discovered the optimal runway orientation for a site, you wouldn't want to change it. Unless, say, a mountain moved, or something along those lines.
I ran an airline for a time, and I see where you left off a few critical sub-systems.
- Dispatch Planning (what cooks up the flight plans in question for submission, specifying the fuel burn, max takeoff weight, planned landing weight, operating mach speed, altitude, etc.)
- Operations Control (where every plane and crew is, in real time.). Think of a Gantt chart that would make your jaw drop, it's kind of like that.
These are the things that make an airline run. The FAA only has one responsibility -- keep airplanes apart. The rest (largely) is up to the carrier.
I refuse to master Word for the reasons cited. My neurons are too valuable to master a broken app. When users ask how to do something, I invariably say, "Hit F1".
My understanding is that the signature line only maens "you" agree to the cardmember agreement and all that goes with it (agreeing to repay the debt being the salient part the creditor cares about).
That being the case you can sign the card two seconds before you use it and it's all good to the creditor. The cashier at the retailer might give pause, but that doesn't mean doodle-squat.
If you want to validate identity, well, that's what a state issued ID or driver's license is for, just check that against the embossed name on said credit card.
I'm all for the advancement of science by anyone, anywhere, anytime. That being said, now is a great time to ratchet up the use of the Fermilab accelerator and catch those hot-shot know-it-all Continentals ^H^H^H^, er, our fellow scientists while they are flat-footed.
(I'm taking my data from a recently aired Nova covering Fermilab and would welcome any updates on what's going on there at this very moment. The piece closed with a mention of funding cuts which I presume have not been reversed.)
I haven't read all the posts, so even if it's been posted or not, the following deserves note -- we waste more fuel via poor technique versus whether there are or are not too many SUVs out there on the roads.
I can drive most peoples car for a week and get 25-35% better mileage by technique. If I told you you could get 25-35% better mileage with a doo-dad that cost 100$, I'd be rich.
But people don't like to be told how to drive. Oh, sure, they'll pay 75$ for a half-hour with the club pro in order to drop one or two strokes a round, but if you could save them $500 a year on fuel (or a half-hour or more in their time, per day), few want to listen.
Crazy, indeed.
Just remember -- Anyone going slower than you is an idiot; anyone going faster is a maniac.
---- I drive a 5.7L V8 SUV and get "book" mileage - or better - out if it, reliably. This on a 210K mile motor. And I only need brakes every 60K miles or so (this is with a 2 1/2 ton truck). Technique works.
I've been in IT for a shorter period (9 years), but I'm coming to a similar conclusion, although my reasons are different.
IT has, in my mind, become an endless game of cat and mouse, usually of two forms, namely (A) whitehat vs. blackhat (e.g., a Sisyphusian game of "find hole, patch hole, repeat...") or (B) perpetually explaining needs and then begging the brass for the assets required to do your job effectively (which largely consists of form (B)).
I'll be surprised if the OP can say he never read this quotation, since he paraphrased it so nicely, to wit:
"Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary." --H.L. Mencken (1917) cited from http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken
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I just got a Lapinator. It's ight, thin, and is actually designed to serve as a heat barrier. (It uses a trademarked 3M product). It comes in "standard" and "wide" and has an optional outboard mousing platform. A web search using your favorite engine should find their page right away.
I'm about to drive cross-country and I'll be using it with my Thinkpad T60 while my better half does the lion's share of the driving, so it will be getting a workout.
I'm still perplexed that there's not been faster and more widespread adoption of DVRs. As a technologist, I tend to be friends with the kinds of people who have DVRs, but I still have a hard time impressing on "regular people" how damn wonderful they are.
I got my wife a ReplayTV 3 years ago, and its been the greatest technical thing in my everyday life (other than internet access -- *maybe*) When the disk croaked a few weeks ago, we were at wits end until we got it back online. (Reimaging it on a bigger disk gave us 3x the capacity, so it turned into a net positive in the end.)
I continually explain that having a good DVR is like having refridgeration -- once you've had it, you don't see how anyone made it this far without it. To that end, my wife and I find it diffucult to watch tv away from home. ("Crap, we can't pause|jump back|jump ahead....ARrrrggghhhh")
Rolex's are a good indicator of someone with more money than sense. The movements are not fabbed in house, but are generally mass-produced movements from ETA -- decent construction, don't get me wrong -- but would you pay $100,000 for a Jaguar with a Ford engine?
True horology phreaks prefer makers that still make the movements in house. As these are becoming rarer and rarer, the costs of owning such a timepiece has gone up little by little. But it's neat knowing that if your watch says %MAKER% on the dial, then you know the guts were made by %MAKER%, as well.
Plus, every MBA and his buddy has a Rolex whatever-date on his wrist. There are probably a thousand "Official Rolex" dealers in the USofA. But should you find someone wearing a Glashuette or Blaincpain or Patek, you'll know you found someone who actually took the time to learn the intricacies of what sets one watch apart from the rest.
And no, I don't think a hand made mechanical watch is a "better timepiece" than a $30 Casio, or a cell phone. It's just neat to have the miniature equivalent of a V8 engine on my wrist at all times. That 'wow' factor is worth the price of admission to me.
Kadin2048 said: Such a plane could fly low and slow to save fuel
Apparently you know nothing about the efficiencies of flight.
The ideal efficient flight profile is a parabola. Unfortunately, that would mean the aircraft is constantly changing altitude, so it would make air traffic nightmarish. The flight plans that aircraft file and fly today are a reasonable approximation to the 'ideal flight plan.' Basically, climb at Vclimb (most efficient power/drag speed) to the max altitude for the given weight and then 'coast' (descend) to the endpoint. Note that the max altitude is weight dependent, therefore transport jets often "step climb" where possible; once they get lighter from fuel burn, they climb again to a higher, more efficient, altitude.
Windows Update writes pretty verbosely to its own logfile. Looking at that, combined with some internet searching, usually results in a pretty easy to implement fix. This is nothing so broken that it can't be fixed (at least not in my experience). I think you just need more patience with the problem -- or at least *try* to fix it.
If (b) is the objective, there is good solution already available.
Google for: magna trigger
Basically, it's a magnetic catch that is added to the lockworks which automatically disengages when the "ring bearer" (heh) holds the weapon in a firing grip. This system only is available for a limited number of revolvers, howeever.
This mod is a longtime favorite of Massad Ayoob, one of this country's most reknown self-defense experts (and a helluva shot, too.)
Nice overview, but due for a correction. For memory, running one gig stick instead of two 512MB sticks (otherwise identical)
Uhhh, no. To run Dual-Channel, you MUST populate (the proper) two slots with equivalent sticks. This is a performance compromise many may not want to make.
Just FYI...
Hello, you must be new here (to the States, not/.).
You've cited the "2nd Amendment Paradox" -- a very cogent argument which somehow eludes much of our legislature. Sad to see the UK wrestling with it here, substituting "crypto" for "guns."
Oh wait, they've banned personal firearms already...
Funny you should exlicitly mention ASA, because his flight leg was on ASA -- DAL doesn't serve the ATL-XNA route itself, its run by its Connection Carrier®, in this case, ASA.
If you reverse engineer my nick handle, you'll know I speak from experience.
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I already use one of these self driving cars. It's more commonly called "a bus."
You do realize that the runway orientation is chosen due to things like prevailing winds and local terrain, don't you. Once you've discovered the optimal runway orientation for a site, you wouldn't want to change it. Unless, say, a mountain moved, or something along those lines.
My SSID at home advertises the WPA2 key, that is my SSID is keyissomestring . Im happy to share my bandwidth, but I don't want to share my data.
I believe the NIST has tried to write a sensible definition of Cloud Computing, see
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/
I ran an airline for a time, and I see where you left off a few critical sub-systems.
- Dispatch Planning (what cooks up the flight plans in question for submission, specifying the fuel burn, max takeoff weight, planned landing weight, operating mach speed, altitude, etc.)
- Operations Control (where every plane and crew is, in real time.). Think of a Gantt chart that would make your jaw drop, it's kind of like that.
These are the things that make an airline run. The FAA only has one responsibility -- keep airplanes apart. The rest (largely) is up to the carrier.
Mod parent up.
I refuse to master Word for the reasons cited. My neurons are too valuable to master a broken app. When users ask how to do something, I invariably say, "Hit F1".
Hmmm, that sounds wrong.
My understanding is that the signature line only maens "you" agree to the cardmember agreement and all that goes with it (agreeing to repay the debt being the salient part the creditor cares about).
That being the case you can sign the card two seconds before you use it and it's all good to the creditor. The cashier at the retailer might give pause, but that doesn't mean doodle-squat.
If you want to validate identity, well, that's what a state issued ID or driver's license is for, just check that against the embossed name on said credit card.
I'm all for the advancement of science by anyone, anywhere, anytime. That being said, now is a great time to ratchet up the use of the Fermilab accelerator and catch those hot-shot know-it-all Continentals ^H^H^H^, er, our fellow scientists while they are flat-footed.
(I'm taking my data from a recently aired Nova covering Fermilab and would welcome any updates on what's going on there at this very moment. The piece closed with a mention of funding cuts which I presume have not been reversed.)
I haven't read all the posts, so even if it's been posted or not, the following deserves note -- we waste more fuel via poor technique versus whether there are or are not too many SUVs out there on the roads.
I can drive most peoples car for a week and get 25-35% better mileage by technique. If I told you you could get 25-35% better mileage with a doo-dad that cost 100$, I'd be rich.
But people don't like to be told how to drive. Oh, sure, they'll pay 75$ for a half-hour with the club pro in order to drop one or two strokes a round, but if you could save them $500 a year on fuel (or a half-hour or more in their time, per day), few want to listen.
Crazy, indeed.
Just remember -- Anyone going slower than you is an idiot; anyone going faster is a maniac.
----
I drive a 5.7L V8 SUV and get "book" mileage - or better - out if it, reliably. This on a 210K mile motor. And I only need brakes every 60K miles or so (this is with a 2 1/2 ton truck). Technique works.
I've been in IT for a shorter period (9 years), but I'm coming to a similar conclusion, although my reasons are different.
IT has, in my mind, become an endless game of cat and mouse, usually of two forms, namely (A) whitehat vs. blackhat (e.g., a Sisyphusian game of "find hole, patch hole, repeat...") or (B) perpetually explaining needs and then begging the brass for the assets required to do your job effectively (which largely consists of form (B)).
Both are tiring and not so much fun.
I'll be surprised if the OP can say he never read this quotation, since he paraphrased it so nicely, to wit:
"Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."
--H.L. Mencken (1917)
cited from http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken
I just got a Lapinator. It's ight, thin, and is actually designed to serve as a heat barrier. (It uses a trademarked 3M product). It comes in "standard" and "wide" and has an optional outboard mousing platform. A web search using your favorite engine should find their page right away.
I'm about to drive cross-country and I'll be using it with my Thinkpad T60 while my better half does the lion's share of the driving, so it will be getting a workout.
I'm still perplexed that there's not been faster and more widespread adoption of DVRs. As a technologist, I tend to be friends with the kinds of people who have DVRs, but I still have a hard time impressing on "regular people" how damn wonderful they are.
I got my wife a ReplayTV 3 years ago, and its been the greatest technical thing in my everyday life (other than internet access -- *maybe*) When the disk croaked a few weeks ago, we were at wits end until we got it back online. (Reimaging it on a bigger disk gave us 3x the capacity, so it turned into a net positive in the end.)
I continually explain that having a good DVR is like having refridgeration -- once you've had it, you don't see how anyone made it this far without it. To that end, my wife and I find it diffucult to watch tv away from home. ("Crap, we can't pause|jump back|jump ahead....ARrrrggghhhh")
FYI, I didn't RTFA.
Rolex's are a good indicator of someone with more money than sense. The movements are not fabbed in house, but are generally mass-produced movements from ETA -- decent construction, don't get me wrong -- but would you pay $100,000 for a Jaguar with a Ford engine?
True horology phreaks prefer makers that still make the movements in house. As these are becoming rarer and rarer, the costs of owning such a timepiece has gone up little by little. But it's neat knowing that if your watch says %MAKER% on the dial, then you know the guts were made by %MAKER%, as well.
Plus, every MBA and his buddy has a Rolex whatever-date on his wrist. There are probably a thousand "Official Rolex" dealers in the USofA. But should you find someone wearing a Glashuette or Blaincpain or Patek, you'll know you found someone who actually took the time to learn the intricacies of what sets one watch apart from the rest.
And no, I don't think a hand made mechanical watch is a "better timepiece" than a $30 Casio, or a cell phone. It's just neat to have the miniature equivalent of a V8 engine on my wrist at all times. That 'wow' factor is worth the price of admission to me.
Kadin2048 said: Such a plane could fly low and slow to save fuel
Apparently you know nothing about the efficiencies of flight.
The ideal efficient flight profile is a parabola. Unfortunately, that would mean the aircraft is constantly changing altitude, so it would make air traffic nightmarish. The flight plans that aircraft file and fly today are a reasonable approximation to the 'ideal flight plan.' Basically, climb at Vclimb (most efficient power/drag speed) to the max altitude for the given weight and then 'coast' (descend) to the endpoint. Note that the max altitude is weight dependent, therefore transport jets often "step climb" where possible; once they get lighter from fuel burn, they climb again to a higher, more efficient, altitude.
If you'd like to learn how an airplane *actually* works, here's your URL -> http://www.av8n.com/how/htm/intro.html
Windows Update writes pretty verbosely to its own logfile. Looking at that, combined with some internet searching, usually results in a pretty easy to implement fix. This is nothing so broken that it can't be fixed (at least not in my experience). I think you just need more patience with the problem -- or at least *try* to fix it.
Dumbswede wrote..."those kindergarten silver or gold stars"
:)
I'll have you know, since 2001, at my firm we get those stars in lieu of stock options, you insensitive clod
Whooops! Couldn't remember my logon and hit preview to see if I typed it right the 2nd time. I did, but I hit submit instead.
What I was going to say was: I've seen fully patched (Windows) servers, running firewall software and they've *still* been PWN3D.
If you are on the public internet, and have much of an attack surface at all, you can be had. Sad, but true.
(As for my previous post, where is the "recall post" feature when you need it!)
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If (b) is the objective, there is good solution already available.
Google for: magna trigger
Basically, it's a magnetic catch that is added to the lockworks which automatically disengages when the "ring bearer" (heh) holds the weapon in a firing grip. This system only is available for a limited number of revolvers, howeever.
This mod is a longtime favorite of Massad Ayoob, one of this country's most reknown self-defense experts (and a helluva shot, too.)
Nice overview, but due for a correction.
For memory, running one gig stick instead of two 512MB sticks (otherwise identical)
Uhhh, no. To run Dual-Channel, you MUST populate (the proper) two slots with equivalent sticks. This is a performance compromise many may not want to make.
Just FYI...
Very clever -- where are my mod points when I need them?!
MOD PARENT INSIGHTFUL
Hello, you must be new here (to the States, not /.).
You've cited the "2nd Amendment Paradox" -- a very cogent argument which somehow eludes much of our legislature. Sad to see the UK wrestling with it here, substituting "crypto" for "guns."
Oh wait, they've banned personal firearms already...
Funny you should exlicitly mention ASA, because his flight leg was on ASA -- DAL doesn't serve the ATL-XNA route itself, its run by its Connection Carrier®, in this case, ASA. If you reverse engineer my nick handle, you'll know I speak from experience.
My wife *loves* super hot foods, so if this is true, she'll never get prostate cancer!