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  1. Re:Point of reference of movement.... AHH!!! on Carter Copter Breaks Mu-1 Barrier · · Score: 1

    I was having a tough time of this too until you pointed out IT IS THE BLADE not the Whole Propeller!

    If you look at the whole Propeller if the outside tip is rotationg around the object at X speed and object is moving at X speed relitive to the ground. then one side of Propeller is moving at 0 to the ground and the oppistie side is moving at 2X to ground.

    Now when you view a single blade in the above. When the tip is moving at 0 to the ground, then center of the blade is still moving at X. So the leading edge of the blade, pointing to rear of craft (oppisite in direction of X) is no longer cutting though the air, bu actually the rear edge of the blade near the center hub is Cutting though the air in at X.

    This view then leads to the view - if a helicoper was a fixed wing craft... the faster you go the short the wing becomes oneside of the craft and the longer it becomes on the other, until there is not enough control surface area to keep the plan in level flight.

  2. Re:Pulic Right to how it works on Closed Source -> Charges Dismissed? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Black Box testing only works for the current "frozen " black box.

    If upgrade software is released, how do you know what changed... redo black box testing.

  3. Re:Of five space shuttles... on NASA Preparing Manned Hubble Service Mission · · Score: 2, Informative

    Then you are for removing all forms of transport. Since in every from that are deaths.

    The question is using meaniful messures to compare safety. That was base post.

    Using item counts, One person takes one trip and is killed, then all vehicals that type the person used in the trip is unsafe.

    Using mailage counts we can compare the reality safety of each trip.

    Which bring us to you second point. Safely returning the crew... you are right, that is goal. How do you messure safely? Is is every trip MUST return a person safely... IF so then no trips can be made. First is point of my first paragraph. Or is there a relative risk? 99.9999% of trips will end sucessfully.

    That why you drive car and BUY Auto Insurance and Life Insurance. The first is for 99.9999% will end sucessfully/safely. The other two, you are betting that you will screw-up!

  4. Re:Is it worth it? on NASA Preparing Manned Hubble Service Mission · · Score: 1

    What is really broke?

    Needs fuel, a few stearing peices of equipment, maybe add a new option or two.

    If that was your car... would you just buy a build a new one becuase it was out of gas and needed new shocks and you wanted to add a new a satilite radio?

  5. Re:Yeah vs Huh? on NASA Preparing Manned Hubble Service Mission · · Score: 1

    No, MS

  6. Re:Of five space shuttles... on NASA Preparing Manned Hubble Service Mission · · Score: 1

    OH you are using the worst stat yet... ITEM COUNTS!

    Tell me sir, how many miles did each of the vehicles rackup? More than 747? your car? Compare the operating enviroments that each must function in.

    You may want to take a class on messurements as it relates to safty.

  7. Yeah vs Huh? on NASA Preparing Manned Hubble Service Mission · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is about time that leadership is showing at NASA.

    We shutdown a system over safty concerns, if that was really true, then get the guys off the space station and shut it all down!

    NASA is about science and the need to know. That is a very human need. NASA is tech that makes up our very jobs. YES, even the check out clerk at your supermarket is using products in the job and life daily that came from NASA fund research and neededs.

    Now we some at the head again that is thinking about "ruuning NASA the science group" not "how to keep his job". Before you shutdown a rescue mission to Hubble (or projects) what are real issues? That is science! Knowing the facts and THEN and ONY THEN MAKING A DISCEDION!

  8. Re:Hmmm. on NASA Preparing Manned Hubble Service Mission · · Score: 1

    Are you messuring by passenger mile or trip count?

    Becuase messuring by passenger mile, I believe you are very very wrong.

  9. Are you writing COBOL? on Comments are More Important than Code · · Score: 1

    There is a reason for COBOL.
    There is a reason for C.
    There is a reason for ASM.

    Why cross the bound and use the worng one for wrong reason?

    Comments ARE NEEDED to help understand "paragraphs" of code. Like the use of a subroutine or why the program got this point in processing.

    Using variables like comments does not make the code easier to understand unless you are using COBOL.

    Writing code like a(i++) =+ b(--j); does not make understanding easier. Nor always makes code run faster.

    Writing comments like MOV AX,BX ; move AX to BX
    makes the program more self documenting.

    So in the end. You are mostly right. Adding comments where they are needed and ARE MEANINGFUL make future maintenance easier.

    Now if only the next guy that fixes the code will actually REMOVE unneeded code and COMMENTS and place new correct ones in thier place.

  10. Re:A suggestion maybe on Will America's Favorite Technology Go Dark? · · Score: 1

    The plan should be to dump it back into the laps of manufactures.

    1) The system will go dark for ALL includes cable, two years after they sell thier last Analog Tuner. That means TVs (of ANY SIZE), tape players, video cards, etc. If they keep building them, we keep buying them, so THERE IS SUPPLY AND DEMAND. Cut the supply... then NO demand.

    2) Every year after 2006, that the system keeps running and MUST KEEP RUNNING until 1) is meet. Manufactures will pay $X for continued use of boardcast channels.

    This puts the problem squarely into the laps that keep fueling the continued need of those signals.

  11. Re:Another example of waste... on Will America's Favorite Technology Go Dark? · · Score: 1
    newspapers that routinely throw away more than a small forest's worth of paper every issue

    But this is sound policy. Let the plants pull from the air carbon, then bury it. This allows for more oil to be burned.

  12. Re:Whenever they please? on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1

    Than add the gas mileage issues...

    So Homeland will kill by shutdown ANY alternive to gas.

  13. Re:is it wise? HAWAII!! on Hole Drilled to Bottom of Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    Hwo do you think we got Hawaii?

    I am just hoping they drill where the white beaches will be nice a warm, in few million years.

  14. Re:This article contains material on evolution. on Early Earth Atmosphere Favourable to Life · · Score: 1

    It is easy to take the Bible and other stories of creations as "Fireside Chats". The order is about right but timing is off. As such they present to audience the basic frame work to understand the bigger picture.

    What most Creationism do not want to remember, is that it has been mainly Priests and Theologians trying to prove the Bible is right, that has shown Evolution *IS* a better Therory.

    NOTE: Evolution does not replace Creation, it shows the frame work of "In the begin..." is right. Time Scale issues only. Dr. Carl Sagen when presenting the our universe from the BIG BANG to today, pointed out that God is not replaced, but could be there as the guy that fired off the BIG BANG. And could even have his hands in works by setting up the "sponatous mutations" that would be required to maximize the gene pool.

  15. Can you say... on Early Earth Atmosphere Favourable to Life · · Score: 3, Funny

    DUH!

    Else would we be here.

  16. These TLD are meaningless on ICANN Officially Approves .jobs and .travel TLD's · · Score: 1

    It is time to dump the .COM and othe meaningless now meaningless TLD.

    Let the UN take ICANN over and start selling global trademarks. So IBM becomes just .IBM not .IBM.COM

    With that local trademarks set right under... .IBM.US then .IBM.CA.US then .IBM.LA.CA.US

  17. Re:Law Enforcement Ahoy.... on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1

    Now though the second phase of American Justice can kick in...

    THE LAW SUIT.

    This guy should now own the land that BEST BUY sits on and be paying him with $2 bills right back.

    ----
    On another note: It is illegal to pay your bills in California with Legal Tender... many though it is the kind that clinks.

    another version of article...
    http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/ messages.cfm /forumid:5/threadid:16752

  18. Re:I'll take the survey in a bit, but... on How Long Do You Want Digital Media To Last? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But, I still have my paper tape from Teletype that was hooked up by 110 baud modem to an HP2000F!

    I can use a flash light to read to the holes...

    And realy I do have the 30 year old paper tape!

  19. LAN Party at 30k FT on Internet Access 10 Kilometers High Up In The Air · · Score: 0

    My veiw is get some freinds together have fragfest at 30k FT, since we are now allowed to have wireless active.

    You may run into problems with the sound turned up and Air-Marshal in the new row.

  20. Re:Yet another attempt to fight off impending doom on Microsoft to Offer Patches to U.S. Govt. First · · Score: 1

    Are you forgetting the NT machines that cuased problems in control systems for Navy Ships.

    Now it appears that Air Force that is gettting these first... not the Navy.

    So planes or missle will not fall from the sky... but a ship will be stopped.

  21. Re:Yet another attempt to fight off impending doom on Microsoft to Offer Patches to U.S. Govt. First · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So majority has to wait for another month for the patch. Another month of defenseless machines.

    In the US, we are government. It is "by the people, for the people".

  22. Re:So carrots are legal, sticks are not on Intel in Antitrust Trouble in Japan · · Score: 1

    It was spelling mistake!!! I swear it was only a mistake.

  23. Re:So carrots are legal, sticks are not on Intel in Antitrust Trouble in Japan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are using Voluntary very loosely.

    Intel when up from 78% to 89% of the market.

    Now the bases is same as Microsoft did to PC here in the US; "If you sell the others products, we will NOT give you money".

    What is large market share in your business, if you sell another's products, you loose money that makes you profitable.

    That is MOB (as in the market) talking.

  24. Re:The cheapest solution... on Always-On Internet For Cheapskates? · · Score: 1

    Is there a method to get speakeasy when you are 40ft to far from the CO?

  25. Re:Restating the Obvious on Who's Really Responsible In Online Banking Fraud? · · Score: 1

    Not for the breach of security. But is for allowing a non-customer to access a customer's money.