The Captain of the ship himself agrees that it was a legitimate attack. So does the Argentinian Government.
Please read up on your Falklands War history - this would be a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_Wargood start. Especially the bits about the carrier 'Vincent De Mayo' and the damage that would have done if it ever got near the Task Force. The sinking of the Belgrano made it very clear to the Argentinian Navy that nuclear submarines where in the area and all enemy warships were targets. It had the effect of keeping the Argentinian Navy out of the war. If Vincent De Mayo had got close enough to launch a strike package against the Task Force then I can guarantee that the UK would have lost the war since I'm sure they would have disabled or destroyed at least one of the British carriers - the Argentinian Naval aircraft were not piloted by morons and had the weapons to do it.
Also, there WERE Argentinian submarines active. I remember reading a report that one in particular managed to fire a salvo at HMS Invincible, but major reliability problems with their torpoedos meant they never got a hit.
The captain of HMS Conqueror was in command of a warship, the Belgrano was a warship of the enemy, and both countries were at war. The Argentinian Navy may have taken casualties, but I can assure you so did the Royal Navy, thanks to the Argentinian Airforce and their attacks.
As a final note, did you know there are numerous reports from Special Forces of them being fired upon from an Argentinian Hospital Ship, in direct contravention of the Geneva Convention ? Read This : http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/sbs.ht m
I agree with you partially, but when I say microcontrollers I mean the PIC16 etc series. I've used stamps myself and my next little project will probably use a PICAXE as I can't be arsed to code a large block of assembly.
I'd dearly love to use C etc but often some of the functions still have to be done in assembly.
I suspect the main reason people on slashdot like assembly is that it helps us feel smug and elite. Come on, admit it. That and cracking keys for software that has the audacity to be non-free. Perhaps some would, but not me, I'd rather avoid it like the plague [although it does give me a warm fuzzy glow to know I can still do it].
It does bother me though that many programmers don't want to touch it. Fine, but being able to go back to fundamentals, even in a simple way, benefits one's skills.
If you want to play around with Microcontrollers [pic16 series for example] you MUST learn assembly. Ok, you can use a C compiler to do it [SDCC for example] but it can be a bit clunkier and you end up having to write some of the routines in assembly anyway.
Microcontrollers are an easy and cheap way for anyone who wants to get their hands dirty with electronics.
Err... I'll think you'll find that cellphones in Europe ALREADY work quite happily across the continent. It's a wonderful system called GSM, which the rest of the world has also implemented [so my Australian GSM phone works in OZ, England, France, Dubai etc].
I lived in Surrey until Feb [now in Oz] and I used to go to the Guildford store quite a few times.
One thing they could never do was get the price labels on the shelves anywhere near the actual boxes. So you see what you want, and then spend 20 mins trying to find a price label. Or else its the other way around, you see the label describing what you want, but the box is over on the next aisle....
Having said that, its worse here. It took me loads of visits to computer stores before I could find someone who would confirm that X broadband service would not require any sort of windows-only authentication [I have two linux servers behind the router now].
I'm moving to Australia from the UK next month and I don't remember seeing any IT jobs on the Skilled List. At the moment, the Skilled Occupations List is made up of medical jobs or else such things as panel beaters, electricans, chefs, welders etc - i.e. skilled, but not automatically professional, occupations. We've got a permanent visa through my wife who is a nurse.
As far as I am aware, only an obscure or very specific IT speciality will get you a work visa for Australia at the moment.
As for all of these overseas students graduating and getting work visas, is it not safe to argue that a large number of them will be making a beeline for the U.S. anyway ?
Has it occured to you that it may have taken some time for the police to figure what kind of vehicle they are looking for ? By the time they find out what went on, take statements etc., collate the information - the vehicle is long gone.
THEN the police can start checking the cameras, motorway CCTV etc to try and find out where the target vehicle has gone. Say for example it was a silver Renault Scenic - the most popular colours for those seem to be silver and green, and a LOT of Scenics are on the road in the UK.
All things considered, I think the speed in which the police managed to locate the vehicle and set up an arrest is commendable. Remember, at least one of the people involved was armed and had zero compunction about shooting an unarmed police officer - I'm sure the officers involved wanted to be sure that when they made an arrest, they wanted to minimize the risk to themselves AND the public.
As for your comment about the government using the death of the woman as an excuse to bury bad news ? - Jesus, I'm no fan of Blair of any of his lying cronies, but I think they learned their lesson last time. Oh, and another thing - it was never reported as an armed robbery in progress [read the papers and check your facts]. The panic alarm was triggered by someone in the shop. This went to the security company who then alerted the police that a silent alarm had been triggered. They would have then sent the nearest officers to investigate. We have the same system in our offices as do a number of places I've worked in the past.
Please tell me this person didnt actually think it was Queen Elizabeth the First that gave her blessing to the voyage of Columbus. Wrong person, wrong century, wrong country, wrong religion...
Some speculation would indicate that there may have been problems with the oxygen supply to the two pilots.
If this was inoperative, then they may well have passed out whilst trying to figure out what was wrong or even trying to get to a secondary source [e.g. portable bottles held in the cabin].
There was an incident on board an aircraft in 1989 over the English Channel [I've lost the link to the official report]. The aircraft cabin altitude rose; the captain passed out; the first officer took control; the flight attendant on seeing the captain lying on the floor tried to help and passed out as well. The first officer managed to carry out an emergency descent to lower altitude and all survived. It took 4 mins to descend from the flight level (35,000ft+ I recall) down to some 12,000 feet as you cannot just throw the plane into a dive - it has to be controlled to avoid overspeed etc.
The reason for the depressurisation ? - which wasn't explosive but was fast enough - a fatigue crack hidden behind a door seal.
The bad part is not the inability to enforce US law, the bad part is that organisations will blindly outsource functions that require handling of confidential information to the lowest bidder without bothering to consider whether that information is protected.
I thought it was from The Holy Grail, when Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad et al have to answer the questions from the Bridgekeeper, namely 'What is your favourite colour ?'
One of the fundamental reasons for wanting an autoland for VSTOL aircraft on a carrier is time.
The harrier can only hover for so long, otherwise the engine will overheat. When the harrier hovers before landing, water is pumped into the engine intake to cool it down. If the pilot doesn't land it within a certain timeframe, he runs the risk of an engine failure, and considering he will have zero forward motion and very little height, if the engine does die, he may not eject in time.
Now put an autoland function in, the pilot can get down faster and safer, putting less stress on the engine.
I was going for the angle that in its first incarnation, the frog in the adverts had his knob and nuts clearly on display. Later on, they had a little black bar on the screen to hide them.
I would think if I sent an email to the lads in Iraq asking them to wave their dicks around on camera, the only thing I would get in return is 10 squaddies at my front door with the singular intention of beating me senseless.
The gold standard of impenetrable regional accents on UK television must be Rab C. Nesbitt - one of the funniest things ever on television courtesy of the BBC. [if you can understand it].
I'm a Glaswegian-born lad so no problems for me, but English and US friends of mine have watched it and not understood a word.
At the company I work for, we send out a LOT of requested emails every night, across a range of different subjects. And no, its not spam, every one has been requested as part of a paid subscription package.
Clients can have them sent in plain text or HTML format. The HTML format looks pretty, but doesn't contain any attachments, or images etc so that the recipients email client doesn't need to download anything else [this was originally done as people would read them at home a lot, and the constant 'connecting to the internet' to get an image etc was causing negative feedback].
Time has shown that HTML emails can cause problems with spam filters - its only a very small percentage etc but you quite often have to go through the logs to confirm it was sent to the client.
Now for the important point - I've made the following VERY clear to the Marketing department:
There is no such thing as 100% guaranteed delivery.
Using HTML means that some emails WILL be blocked.
See (1) again.
If your boss wants to use HTML, fine its his decision - sometimes in a job you have to accept practices you won't always like. However, make it clear to him that there will be occasions that the email won't get to the recipient etc.; otherwise you will get the rough end of it when clients complain about not getting their email.
Moderator. This is material which slows down the neutrons released from fission so that they cause more fission. It may be water, heavy water, or graphite.
Whilst the graphite moderator caught fire and other Western designs use water instead, it wasn't a coolant.
I can't say I recall sipping Krug champange whilst travelling at Mach 2 and 60,000 feet horrible.
Ok, so Concorde wasn't the most environmentally friendly aircraft ever built. However, I do remember watching an interview with one of the design engineers. He was of the opinion that Concorde was always envisaged as the FIRST in a long line of supersonic transport aircraft. Considering the engineering brilliance that Concorde represented, I wonder where it could have led ?
In 2000, the UK version of the FAA, the CAA carried out study on mobile phone interference.
The study, carried out in a laboratory, indicated [section 6.2]that cellphones can cause interference to VOR and ILS indicators and background noise to audio channels.
Whilst section 6.2 does point out that the interference caused problems when the cellphone was very close to the equipment or wiring harness, its not inconceivable that someone using a cellphone on an airliner could be in relatively close proximity to a piece of equiment or more likely, a wiring harness.
There's a lot of comments from people here about what bullshit the whole thing is. Well just remember this - you're in a aluminum tube flying at 500mph at 35,000 feet. It's a two engine airliner and one engine has just failed. The pilots need to divert, and the weather at all the divert airfields is marginal. They will need all of their navigation and comms equipment to land safely...and then some idiot switches on their phone...
You haven't a clue what you are talking about. I DO have an Electrical Engineering Degree, but I would still defer to the time-served electrician any day of the week on most things. An Engineering Degree teaches you lots of theory, but very little practice in general.
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I think you will find that most people who manage a RAID system wouldn't install the software this way anyway. I would also suggest that most people who manage RAID systems can:
Refrain from installing any old software at will
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If you are going to install some new software, at least take the time to read up on how to do it and whats its effects might be.
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Did you actually read the wikipedia entry ?
The Captain of the ship himself agrees that it was a legitimate attack. So does the Argentinian Government.
Please read up on your Falklands War history - this would be a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_Wargood start. Especially the bits about the carrier 'Vincent De Mayo' and the damage that would have done if it ever got near the Task Force. The sinking of the Belgrano made it very clear to the Argentinian Navy that nuclear submarines where in the area and all enemy warships were targets. It had the effect of keeping the Argentinian Navy out of the war. If Vincent De Mayo had got close enough to launch a strike package against the Task Force then I can guarantee that the UK would have lost the war since I'm sure they would have disabled or destroyed at least one of the British carriers - the Argentinian Naval aircraft were not piloted by morons and had the weapons to do it.
Also, there WERE Argentinian submarines active. I remember reading a report that one in particular managed to fire a salvo at HMS Invincible, but major reliability problems with their torpoedos meant they never got a hit.
The captain of HMS Conqueror was in command of a warship, the Belgrano was a warship of the enemy, and both countries were at war. The Argentinian Navy may have taken casualties, but I can assure you so did the Royal Navy, thanks to the Argentinian Airforce and their attacks.
As a final note, did you know there are numerous reports from Special Forces of them being fired upon from an Argentinian Hospital Ship, in direct contravention of the Geneva Convention ? Read This : http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/sbs.h
If you want to play around with Microcontrollers [pic16 series for example] you MUST learn assembly. Ok, you can use a C compiler to do it [SDCC for example] but it can be a bit clunkier and you end up having to write some of the routines in assembly anyway. Microcontrollers are an easy and cheap way for anyone who wants to get their hands dirty with electronics.
Err... I'll think you'll find that cellphones in Europe ALREADY work quite happily across the continent. It's a wonderful system called GSM, which the rest of the world has also implemented [so my Australian GSM phone works in OZ, England, France, Dubai etc].
I lived in Surrey until Feb [now in Oz] and I used to go to the Guildford store quite a few times. One thing they could never do was get the price labels on the shelves anywhere near the actual boxes. So you see what you want, and then spend 20 mins trying to find a price label. Or else its the other way around, you see the label describing what you want, but the box is over on the next aisle.... Having said that, its worse here. It took me loads of visits to computer stores before I could find someone who would confirm that X broadband service would not require any sort of windows-only authentication [I have two linux servers behind the router now].
I'm moving to Australia from the UK next month and I don't remember seeing any IT jobs on the Skilled List. At the moment, the Skilled Occupations List is made up of medical jobs or else such things as panel beaters, electricans, chefs, welders etc - i.e. skilled, but not automatically professional, occupations. We've got a permanent visa through my wife who is a nurse.
As far as I am aware, only an obscure or very specific IT speciality will get you a work visa for Australia at the moment.
As for all of these overseas students graduating and getting work visas, is it not safe to argue that a large number of them will be making a beeline for the U.S. anyway ?
Has it occured to you that it may have taken some time for the police to figure what kind of vehicle they are looking for ? By the time they find out what went on, take statements etc., collate the information - the vehicle is long gone.
THEN the police can start checking the cameras, motorway CCTV etc to try and find out where the target vehicle has gone. Say for example it was a silver Renault Scenic - the most popular colours for those seem to be silver and green, and a LOT of Scenics are on the road in the UK.
All things considered, I think the speed in which the police managed to locate the vehicle and set up an arrest is commendable. Remember, at least one of the people involved was armed and had zero compunction about shooting an unarmed police officer - I'm sure the officers involved wanted to be sure that when they made an arrest, they wanted to minimize the risk to themselves AND the public.
As for your comment about the government using the death of the woman as an excuse to bury bad news ? - Jesus, I'm no fan of Blair of any of his lying cronies, but I think they learned their lesson last time. Oh, and another thing - it was never reported as an armed robbery in progress [read the papers and check your facts]. The panic alarm was triggered by someone in the shop. This went to the security company who then alerted the police that a silent alarm had been triggered. They would have then sent the nearest officers to investigate. We have the same system in our offices as do a number of places I've worked in the past.
Please tell me this person didnt actually think it was Queen Elizabeth the First that gave her blessing to the voyage of Columbus. Wrong person, wrong century, wrong country, wrong religion...
Some speculation would indicate that there may have been problems with the oxygen supply to the two pilots.
If this was inoperative, then they may well have passed out whilst trying to figure out what was wrong or even trying to get to a secondary source [e.g. portable bottles held in the cabin].
There was an incident on board an aircraft in 1989 over the English Channel [I've lost the link to the official report]. The aircraft cabin altitude rose; the captain passed out; the first officer took control; the flight attendant on seeing the captain lying on the floor tried to help and passed out as well. The first officer managed to carry out an emergency descent to lower altitude and all survived. It took 4 mins to descend from the flight level (35,000ft+ I recall) down to some 12,000 feet as you cannot just throw the plane into a dive - it has to be controlled to avoid overspeed etc.
The reason for the depressurisation ? - which wasn't explosive but was fast enough - a fatigue crack hidden behind a door seal.
The bad part is not the inability to enforce US law, the bad part is that organisations will blindly outsource functions that require handling of confidential information to the lowest bidder without bothering to consider whether that information is protected.
Its NOT the same - the BT phone routes calls through the Hub and VOIP, rather than a standard analogue connection via PSTN.
I thought it was from The Holy Grail, when Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad et al have to answer the questions from the Bridgekeeper, namely 'What is your favourite colour ?'
No it doesn't - it just implies that they will send it electronically instead, and when they do that, it will be encrypted.
One of the fundamental reasons for wanting an autoland for VSTOL aircraft on a carrier is time.
The harrier can only hover for so long, otherwise the engine will overheat. When the harrier hovers before landing, water is pumped into the engine intake to cool it down. If the pilot doesn't land it within a certain timeframe, he runs the risk of an engine failure, and considering he will have zero forward motion and very little height, if the engine does die, he may not eject in time.
Now put an autoland function in, the pilot can get down faster and safer, putting less stress on the engine.
I was going for the angle that in its first incarnation, the frog in the adverts had his knob and nuts clearly on display. Later on, they had a little black bar on the screen to hide them.
I would think if I sent an email to the lads in Iraq asking them to wave their dicks around on camera, the only thing I would get in return is 10 squaddies at my front door with the singular intention of beating me senseless.
You mean - 'tackle out' ?
The gold standard of impenetrable regional accents on UK television must be Rab C. Nesbitt - one of the funniest things ever on television courtesy of the BBC. [if you can understand it].
I'm a Glaswegian-born lad so no problems for me, but English and US friends of mine have watched it and not understood a word.
At the company I work for, we send out a LOT of requested emails every night, across a range of different subjects. And no, its not spam, every one has been requested as part of a paid subscription package.
Clients can have them sent in plain text or HTML format. The HTML format looks pretty, but doesn't contain any attachments, or images etc so that the recipients email client doesn't need to download anything else [this was originally done as people would read them at home a lot, and the constant 'connecting to the internet' to get an image etc was causing negative feedback].
Time has shown that HTML emails can cause problems with spam filters - its only a very small percentage etc but you quite often have to go through the logs to confirm it was sent to the client.
Now for the important point - I've made the following VERY clear to the Marketing department :
If your boss wants to use HTML, fine its his decision - sometimes in a job you have to accept practices you won't always like. However, make it clear to him that there will be occasions that the email won't get to the recipient etc.; otherwise you will get the rough end of it when clients complain about not getting their email.
Graphite is used as a nuclear reaction moderator :
Whilst the graphite moderator caught fire and other Western designs use water instead, it wasn't a coolant.
horrible Concorde
I can't say I recall sipping Krug champange whilst travelling at Mach 2 and 60,000 feet horrible.
Ok, so Concorde wasn't the most environmentally friendly aircraft ever built. However, I do remember watching an interview with one of the design engineers. He was of the opinion that Concorde was always envisaged as the FIRST in a long line of supersonic transport aircraft. Considering the engineering brilliance that Concorde represented, I wonder where it could have led ?
The study, carried out in a laboratory, indicated [section 6.2]that cellphones can cause interference to VOR and ILS indicators and background noise to audio channels.
Whilst section 6.2 does point out that the interference caused problems when the cellphone was very close to the equipment or wiring harness, its not inconceivable that someone using a cellphone on an airliner could be in relatively close proximity to a piece of equiment or more likely, a wiring harness.
There's a lot of comments from people here about what bullshit the whole thing is. Well just remember this - you're in a aluminum tube flying at 500mph at 35,000 feet. It's a two engine airliner and one engine has just failed. The pilots need to divert, and the weather at all the divert airfields is marginal. They will need all of their navigation and comms equipment to land safely...and then some idiot switches on their phone...
Some people in the UK have complained that its not up-to-date enough, although the version I have does have the M6 toll road on it.
You haven't a clue what you are talking about. I DO have an Electrical Engineering Degree, but I would still defer to the time-served electrician any day of the week on most things. An Engineering Degree teaches you lots of theory, but very little practice in general.
I think you will find that most people who manage a RAID system wouldn't install the software this way anyway. I would also suggest that most people who manage RAID systems can :
If you are going to install some new software, at least take the time to read up on how to do it and whats its effects might be.
I think you mean Rupert Murdoch - Mr. Maxwell threw a seven and drowned after falling [allegedly...] off his yacht in the Med.