I used Reference Manager for my thesis. It integrated pretty well with Word and accepted reference citations from all the major online databases. The whole research group used it, and when I left, it was managing well over 3000 papers and assorted references. It comes with hundreds of reference formats for most major journals, and allows you to build your own format. The best feature with it, though, was the "Cite as you write" that allowed me to hit a key combo and then enter some identifers (like "Smith, 1996"). It would search through the database and offer the matches. Selecting the match put the reference in the correct place. Every once and a while, I'd generate the bibiography and it'd scan the document, pick up the references, format them in the text, and assemble the bibliography. Frankly, I don't know how I would have managed without it.
Well, yes, Airbus has been an industry leader in the use of composites in airplanes. And, yes, Boeing was pretty skeptical.
And, yes there are challenges in making large integrated parts.
However, if Boeing can do that, reliably and in high manufacturing volume (well, high for commerical airliners) then... that's innovative. Airbus hasn't done that, and nor are they planning to (yet). I was merely commenting on the level of innovation. Airbus could have easily pursued a similar approach, and I think that would also have been innovative.
OK, admittedly I Am an Aerospace Engineer (IAAE?).
Considering the big picture, the 787 *is*, as a whole, really innovative. Yes, really. Never before has a large civilian airplane been made with the technology that Boeing will be using to make the 787s: namely large integrated primary structures made from composite materials (not metals). Fuselage. Wing structures. Emppenage. Other secondary structures. Airbus is skeptical (publically) that Boeing, or anyone, can even make big planes that way. Mind you, 90% of that is politics and typical blustering of the chief competitor, but Airbus has never considered (again, publically) using composites to that extent.
General aviation doesn't count due to the size of the aircraft, low production numbers, the types of materials, and decidely low-tech manufacturing methods.
Regardless, your point is valid though. While I'd consider the 787 innovative, it's evolutionary and not revolutionary. For revolutionary, sadly, you need to look to the military programs -- or Burt Ratan (google Scaled Composites).
For our office of engineers (that is, real engineers, not "software engineers"), we'd love to use OpenOffice. However, Calc just does not provide the flexibility we need, compared to Excel. Especially when you try to do graphs of data. I mean, generally speaking, Excel's graphs suck, but Calc's graphs really suck. Multiple data series on multiple X *and* Y axes? Multiple line types, some series without lines, etc? Bleh. And after reading up on the OO.O site, it doesn't seem like a priority to improve that. So... no OO.O for us.
But we'd love to move away from having to install MS Office on every machine.
And sometimes it's not even true. Last night's "Lost" was scheduled until just after 9pm here (according to my Myth box). That bumped "The West Wing" off the recording schedule. But here's the kicker: Lost didn't actually run long. It ended well before 9pm, and the Myth box recorded the ads, closing credits, and the intro to the next program.
I've got a socket 7 mobo w/ a Cyrix K6-2/333 where the small plastic hook in the socket where the CPU cooler was supposed to be attached broke. (Obviously a poor design)
No problem, get the crazy glue out, and glue the cooler to the cpu. Insert CPU/cooler unit into socket and ignite^H^H^H^H^H^H power on.
Frankly, it's been working in this condition for the past seven years, without any problems!
In the room to the right, go up to the console and remove the red cartridge (what, you didn't see the red cartridge?). Now, put the blue cartridge in.....
Here in er, Canuckistan as I believe some of the Yanks took to calling it, most of us are able to switch effortlessly back and forth between SI and Imperial. For height and weight of things, you'll find typically find we use feet, inches, and pounds (force). You know, people, watermellon, and rockets. Most other measurements use SI. Distance, temperature, viscosity, etc. Mind you, I've never seen vehicles rated by anything other than hp and lb-ft torque. Can you imagine Watts and kN-m?
Bad news, the plane is 20% composites. You know, carbon-fibre plastics and some other good stuff. If that gets damaged at an airport, you don't just cut it off, and it's certainly not scrap metal. There are ways to repair composites, but those facilities don't exist at every airport in the world. Certainly something for the airlines and Airbus to worry about... but something that Airbus has been worring about since the A300s.
Perhaps I'm out of the loop, but can some tell me if there are civil suits coming out of this? If there was such libelous "reporting", is the reporter being sued? Are there existing complaints in the system over the constutional rights violations in regards to the search and seizure, and other judicary events? If not, why not? Presumably, in the land of a billion lawyers, this should be in full litigation?
Now, Alpha is just expensive. It is too bad as my Alpha is still running very strongly after five years of use.
Expensive, yet. Prohibitively expensive? No. We sourced pure number crunching machines about a year ago. Out of the competitors for a $300k CDN contract, Alpha (Compaq at the time) hands down. For pure single-processor number crunching, you still can't beat them. If your app can handle MPP, then of course you can't beat linux clusters...
Waiting till a show suck just enough that it loses all popularity in order to cancel it shouldn't be the way to do things. And there would be trememdous value after to buy the whole episodes on DVD season by season (and ALL of them would actually sell) and be of great entertainment. Of course, we're talking about the TV industry..... so... if they'd be any stronger and have it their way, they'd film a rock for 30 minutes and charge us for it.
Uh, I got lost in the rambling, so I'm not sure exactly whether you were referring to BTVS or Angel here, or just TV in general, but both series have been released on DVD. In the UK, you can get Buffy up to season 6, and Angel up to season 2 (see amazon UK). In North America, due to "syndication" you can only get Buffy up to season 2 (3 release this winter) and I don't know if you can get Angel at all. And, yes, they sell quite well.
In practice US protectionism tends to only 'work' against Japan which has similar protectionist mechanisms.
I'll assume you mean 'work' as in doesn't work. However, I'd also like to point out that the States also exhibit a protectionist attitude with their "closest" (ie biggest) trade partner -- Canada. I give to you softwood lumber and various argiculture-related "subsudies" and tariffs. This with a "Free Trade Agreement" in place. Face it -- the current administration is moving America in a more and more isolationalist direction.
We have a QMS Magicolor 2 (cx?). The thing has never printed very well. (1) The colour balance never seems right, despite spending quite a bit of time fiddling with the drivers (2) Print errors galore! Never had a *printer* that I had to reboot on a regular basis (3) Expensive toner cartridges and other "consumables".
We had to take it in for service once, and got nothing but abuse from the techs. Comments along the lines of "You bought one of those?", "Shouldn't you put it, and yourself, out of its misery?", etc.
Bluetooth? How about FM broadcast, so that anyone around you with a FM radio can tune in?
It already exists, and it's cheap. When I got my SlimX MP3 player, I also got a Link-It which is a personal FM transmitter, with a range of a few dozen feet, weighing a few ounces, and only a few inches in size. You can buy them for about $30 US from various places, including here.
Nope, rt-click|Back triggers the same exploit, as does (I imagine, but haven't tried) the good old javascript:history.back()
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Of course, there's no hacking required.
Step 1: Acquire one of Bill's "Tablet PC's" Step 2: Download VNC from ATT for WinCE, and your *nix box Step 3: Setup Xvnc on *nix box, vncviewer on the tablet
Given the fact that the towers collapsed entirely due to the fact that the support structure at the floors that contained the burning jet fuel were unable to continue to support the floors above, it is likely that rooftop water supplies of any size would have hastened the collapse of the towers.
The simple fact remains: There are no provisions to design for the impact and subsequent burning of a fully fueled wide-body into a tall building. If you absolutely don't want a building to come down due to an impact of a 747, build it underground.
You have got to be kidding. Do you know the volume of water required to significantly reduce the heat of the burning jet fuel? I'd do a back of the envelope calculation here... if I thought there was any point.
What basis of fact do you have to say things like "True, however a sprinkler system would have reduced the temperatures reached inside the building, quite possibly enough to have saved more people. Also a sprinkler system would've reduced the number and intensity of secondary fires; office furniture and the like." Given the intensity and localized nature of the fire, any water droplets anywhere close to the burning fuel would have been effectively useless. Conventional fire supression systems are entirely ineffective to 7000 gallons of burning jet fuel in a concentrated location.
Better fire escapes, more redunancy in the fire *suppression* system may have saved a few more people, but not the buildings. The buildings were doomed on impact and it's a testimony to the engineers that they stayed up as long as they did. What would have saved more people would have been the recognition that the buildings were going to come down.
The entire point of this exercise is that they've ensured that there are no alternatives to their controller.
Oh look, pulling more than numbers out of your ass. InterAct, MatCatz, and others already ship alternatives to "their" (ie MS) controller. And, it's been confirmed that the Japanese controllers work with the North American boxes.
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I used Reference Manager for my thesis. It integrated pretty well with Word and accepted reference citations from all the major online databases. The whole research group used it, and when I left, it was managing well over 3000 papers and assorted references. It comes with hundreds of reference formats for most major journals, and allows you to build your own format. The best feature with it, though, was the "Cite as you write" that allowed me to hit a key combo and then enter some identifers (like "Smith, 1996"). It would search through the database and offer the matches. Selecting the match put the reference in the correct place. Every once and a while, I'd generate the bibiography and it'd scan the document, pick up the references, format them in the text, and assemble the bibliography. Frankly, I don't know how I would have managed without it.
Well, yes, Airbus has been an industry leader in the use of composites in airplanes. And, yes, Boeing was pretty skeptical.
... that's innovative. Airbus hasn't done that, and nor are they planning to (yet). I was merely commenting on the level of innovation. Airbus could have easily pursued a similar approach, and I think that would also have been innovative.
And, yes there are challenges in making large integrated parts.
However, if Boeing can do that, reliably and in high manufacturing volume (well, high for commerical airliners) then
OK, admittedly I Am an Aerospace Engineer (IAAE?).
Considering the big picture, the 787 *is*, as a whole, really innovative. Yes, really. Never before has a large civilian airplane been made with the technology that Boeing will be using to make the 787s: namely large integrated primary structures made from composite materials (not metals). Fuselage. Wing structures. Emppenage. Other secondary structures. Airbus is skeptical (publically) that Boeing, or anyone, can even make big planes that way. Mind you, 90% of that is politics and typical blustering of the chief competitor, but Airbus has never considered (again, publically) using composites to that extent.
General aviation doesn't count due to the size of the aircraft, low production numbers, the types of materials, and decidely low-tech manufacturing methods.
Regardless, your point is valid though. While I'd consider the 787 innovative, it's evolutionary and not revolutionary. For revolutionary, sadly, you need to look to the military programs -- or Burt Ratan (google Scaled Composites).
For our office of engineers (that is, real engineers, not "software engineers"), we'd love to use OpenOffice. However, Calc just does not provide the flexibility we need, compared to Excel. Especially when you try to do graphs of data. I mean, generally speaking, Excel's graphs suck, but Calc's graphs really suck. Multiple data series on multiple X *and* Y axes? Multiple line types, some series without lines, etc? Bleh. And after reading up on the OO.O site, it doesn't seem like a priority to improve that. So ... no OO.O for us.
But we'd love to move away from having to install MS Office on every machine.
Ah well, it is to dream.
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You can find info about the firmware (not bios) here: http://www.bahneman.com/liem/photos/tricks/digital -rebel-tricks.html
And sometimes it's not even true. Last night's "Lost" was scheduled until just after 9pm here (according to my Myth box). That bumped "The West Wing" off the recording schedule. But here's the kicker: Lost didn't actually run long. It ended well before 9pm, and the Myth box recorded the ads, closing credits, and the intro to the next program.
What's with that?
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Dude, thank you!
The more people that say this, the greater chance the music industry will start paying attention to their customers' wants again.
Thermal compound? Ha! Ha! I say! Ha!
I've got a socket 7 mobo w/ a Cyrix K6-2/333 where the small plastic hook in the socket where the CPU cooler was supposed to be attached broke. (Obviously a poor design)
No problem, get the crazy glue out, and glue the cooler to the cpu. Insert CPU/cooler unit into socket and ignite^H^H^H^H^H^H power on.
Frankly, it's been working in this condition for the past seven years, without any problems!
Thermal paste, ha!
In the room to the right, go up to the console and remove the red cartridge (what, you didn't see the red cartridge?). Now, put the blue cartridge in.....
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Here in er, Canuckistan as I believe some of the Yanks took to calling it, most of us are able to switch effortlessly back and forth between SI and Imperial. For height and weight of things, you'll find typically find we use feet, inches, and pounds (force). You know, people, watermellon, and rockets. Most other measurements use SI. Distance, temperature, viscosity, etc. Mind you, I've never seen vehicles rated by anything other than hp and lb-ft torque. Can you imagine Watts and kN-m?
Lisa, get in here. In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Hmmm, run that by me again? It *gains* weight? How? Please describe it in detail, I'm preparing a patent application....
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Bad news, the plane is 20% composites. You know, carbon-fibre plastics and some other good stuff. If that gets damaged at an airport, you don't just cut it off, and it's certainly not scrap metal. There are ways to repair composites, but those facilities don't exist at every airport in the world. Certainly something for the airlines and Airbus to worry about ... but something that Airbus has been worring about since the A300s.
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Perhaps I'm out of the loop, but can some tell me if there are civil suits coming out of this? If there was such libelous "reporting", is the reporter being sued? Are there existing complaints in the system over the constutional rights violations in regards to the search and seizure, and other judicary events? If not, why not? Presumably, in the land of a billion lawyers, this should be in full litigation?
Expensive, yet. Prohibitively expensive? No. We sourced pure number crunching machines about a year ago. Out of the competitors for a $300k CDN contract, Alpha (Compaq at the time) hands down. For pure single-processor number crunching, you still can't beat them. If your app can handle MPP, then of course you can't beat linux clusters...
My bad; not being in the UK I mis-took pre-order links for *actual* links. Looks like Season 5 in October 02, Season 6 later.
Uh, I got lost in the rambling, so I'm not sure exactly whether you were referring to BTVS or Angel here, or just TV in general, but both series have been released on DVD. In the UK, you can get Buffy up to season 6, and Angel up to season 2 (see amazon UK). In North America, due to "syndication" you can only get Buffy up to season 2 (3 release this winter) and I don't know if you can get Angel at all. And, yes, they sell quite well.
I'll assume you mean 'work' as in doesn't work. However, I'd also like to point out that the States also exhibit a protectionist attitude with their "closest" (ie biggest) trade partner -- Canada. I give to you softwood lumber and various argiculture-related "subsudies" and tariffs. This with a "Free Trade Agreement" in place. Face it -- the current administration is moving America in a more and more isolationalist direction.
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Danger Will Robinson!
We have a QMS Magicolor 2 (cx?). The thing has never printed very well. (1) The colour balance never seems right, despite spending quite a bit of time fiddling with the drivers (2) Print errors galore! Never had a *printer* that I had to reboot on a regular basis (3) Expensive toner cartridges and other "consumables".
We had to take it in for service once, and got nothing but abuse from the techs. Comments along the lines of "You bought one of those?", "Shouldn't you put it, and yourself, out of its misery?", etc.
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Bluetooth? How about FM broadcast, so that anyone around you with a FM radio can tune in?
It already exists, and it's cheap. When I got my SlimX MP3 player, I also got a Link-It which is a personal FM transmitter, with a range of a few dozen feet, weighing a few ounces, and only a few inches in size. You can buy them for about $30 US from various places, including here.
Excellent for listening to MP3s in the car.
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Nope, rt-click|Back triggers the same exploit, as does (I imagine, but haven't tried) the good old javascript:history.back()
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Of course, there's no hacking required.
Step 1: Acquire one of Bill's "Tablet PC's"
Step 2: Download VNC from ATT for WinCE, and your *nix box
Step 3: Setup Xvnc on *nix box, vncviewer on the tablet
Voila!
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including the abscense of a rooftop water supply
Given the fact that the towers collapsed entirely due to the fact that the support structure at the floors that contained the burning jet fuel were unable to continue to support the floors above, it is likely that rooftop water supplies of any size would have hastened the collapse of the towers.
The simple fact remains: There are no provisions to design for the impact and subsequent burning of a fully fueled wide-body into a tall building. If you absolutely don't want a building to come down due to an impact of a 747, build it underground.
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You have got to be kidding. Do you know the volume of water required to significantly reduce the heat of the burning jet fuel? I'd do a back of the envelope calculation here ... if I thought there was any point.
What basis of fact do you have to say things like "True, however a sprinkler system would have reduced the temperatures reached inside the building, quite possibly enough to have saved more people. Also a sprinkler system would've reduced the number and intensity of secondary fires; office furniture and the like." Given the intensity and localized nature of the fire, any water droplets anywhere close to the burning fuel would have been effectively useless. Conventional fire supression systems are entirely ineffective to 7000 gallons of burning jet fuel in a concentrated location.
Better fire escapes, more redunancy in the fire *suppression* system may have saved a few more people, but not the buildings. The buildings were doomed on impact and it's a testimony to the engineers that they stayed up as long as they did. What would have saved more people would have been the recognition that the buildings were going to come down.
As always, hindsight is 20/20.
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The entire point of this exercise is that they've ensured that there are no alternatives to their controller.
Oh look, pulling more than numbers out of your ass. InterAct, MatCatz, and others already ship alternatives to "their" (ie MS) controller. And, it's been confirmed that the Japanese controllers work with the North American boxes.