>> The power curves were incredible and the engines left the Saturn V in the dust
Not really. The Saturn V was the most powerful engine ever built. It consisted of five F-1 rocket engines, each of which is more powerful than all three SSMEs(Space Shuttle Main Engines).
You question why the computers would be programmed to prevent a stall in a diving aircraft. Obviously you have only a superficial knowledge of aerodynamics. Stalls occur when the wing exceeds its critical angle of attack, this can happen in a climb, a dive, a turn or straight and level flight.
The turbine you speak of is known as the APU (auxillary power unit). The reason tube jets have APU's is they are more efficient at generating the small to moderate amounts of power required on the ground. It really has little to do with engine suckage or noise. Fuel economy is critical and turbofans, while extremely efficient at 36,000 feet, Mach 0.82; are not so efficient at taxiing a heavy jet. When big jets are pushed to the limit of their range, some procedures call for keeping an engine shut down until 5 minutes from departure. I know for a fact this was the case on the 747 & Concorde.
Also, the APU is there as a backup source of power should an engine be shut down. Emergency operating procedures often call for the APU to be started in-flight.
The Connection Machine used up to 64K 1-bit processing elements configured to work lock-step with a single control unit (SIMD).
The transputer was something completely different. It was a 32-bit processor with four high-speed connections to other transputers. This could be used to implement a MIMD processing network.
The CM scaled well on data parallel applications, the transputer was more suited to course-grained parallelism.
The discussion evolved from tracking immigrants to tracking criminals. It's really not much of a leap to suggest that if immigrant tracking is adopted, then the next group might be violent criminals. The common thread here is tracking, you know very well that I am not suggesting that all immigrants are pedophiles. What you did by suggesting this was attempt to pour gasoline on the discussion. It is people like you like make it hard to discuss contentious topics. Give yourself a pat on the back.
Given that the rate of recidivism for pedophiles is very high, and that the crime is one which destroys the lives of the most vulnerable in society, the only workable alternative to incarceration for convicted pedophiles is some kind of electronic tagging. And yes, that would mean less privacy for convicted pedophiles, I'm OK with that and I don't see it as a slippery slope. When we convict people of securities fraud the law can ban them from trading stocks for life, why not ban pedophiles from schools and enforce it with tags? When a grown man rapes a five year old girl she will suffer the mental and physical scars for the rest of her life. Is it asking too much that he be electronically tagged upon release? Some would argue that he should be executed or put away forever, but it seems you are telling me that when his time is served he should regain all of his civil liberties, including the right to go wherever he pleases. Perhaps you would be ok with him visiting the victim?
Technically parollees are still serving their sentence, when they are released into society they do not automatically regain all of their rights until their sentence has been fulfilled. In this regard, they are entitled to as much privacy as a prison inmate, i.e. none.
The problem with having a simple set of rules for collision avoidance is the situation is often too complex to reduce to a rule of thumb. For one, aircraft can have vastly different speeds and climb rates. There's also the issue of wake turbulance from jets, which is so significant that 2 minutes are allocated between jets on landing. And there's the extra height dimension.
Reminds me of a story an old fella told me about his flight training in a British Meteor. Two young hotshots decided to stage a high speed opposing pass in which their jets flew directly towards each other, turning at the last second. The last words heard on the radio were:
How about publishing detailed plans for a thermonuclear bomb and making the materials available at Home Depot? Sure, in the wrong hands it could be used for evil purposes, but Uranium 235 is just an isotope, it should not be banned *just because* bad people *might* use it. Sheesh.
As the chief test pilot for the F22 attested, "if you can fly a Cessna 152 you can fly this plane". Now if the Rat Brain could get an SR71 from the ramp to Mach 3 at Flight Level 80 I would be impressed.
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I wonder how much energy has been burned up by this sloppy code. Thanks Microsoft.
I've never heard of such a place. Perhaps you mean Derry?
Linus is being an asshole. He may be right, but he's still being an asshole. Don't confuse the two.
I think you meant charts, not maps. There's a difference.
>> The power curves were incredible and the engines left the Saturn V in the dust
Not really. The Saturn V was the most powerful engine ever built. It consisted of five F-1 rocket engines, each of which is more powerful than all three SSMEs(Space Shuttle Main Engines).
That's most surprising.
You question why the computers would be programmed to prevent a stall in a diving aircraft. Obviously you have only a superficial knowledge of aerodynamics. Stalls occur when the wing exceeds its critical angle of attack, this can happen in a climb, a dive, a turn or straight and level flight.
81,000 feet over the U.S. *is* controlled airspace (class echo).
Wrong, the F-22 does not have to go "active" (visible) to see targets. It can passively detect reflected energy from other active radars.
The turbine you speak of is known as the APU (auxillary power unit). The reason tube jets have APU's is they are more efficient at generating the small to moderate amounts of power required on the ground. It really has little to do with engine suckage or noise. Fuel economy is critical and turbofans, while extremely efficient at 36,000 feet, Mach 0.82; are not so efficient at taxiing a heavy jet. When big jets are pushed to the limit of their range, some procedures call for keeping an engine shut down until 5 minutes from departure. I know for a fact this was the case on the 747 & Concorde.
Also, the APU is there as a backup source of power should an engine be shut down. Emergency operating procedures often call for the APU to be started in-flight.
The Connection Machine used up to 64K 1-bit processing elements configured to work lock-step with a single control unit (SIMD).
The transputer was something completely different. It was a 32-bit processor with four high-speed connections to other transputers. This could be used to implement a MIMD processing network.
The CM scaled well on data parallel applications, the transputer was more suited to course-grained parallelism.
>> Work with Slingbox to engineer channel aggregation with multicasting that bypasses the home units while transmitting the same programming
Oh sure, Slingbox is going to switch from being P2P to a multicast provider of copyrighted content in order to let Marriott go cheap on bandwidth.
>> Can an in-house video alternative be made as attractive as Slingbox? That's another solution.
This is non-trivial and does not solve the bandwidth problem completely.
Along the same lines I have a solution:
Cache the Internet on a local server and connected each room via a quad fiber ATM connection.
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Touch Me Baby One More Time.
Genius.
They want young, smart people. Forget it if you are old (>30) and smart, you won't even make it to the interview.
>> or considering whether I'd rather have Howard Stern or Oprah, because there is no practical way to get both
A=Oprah's fans
B=Stern's fans.
A intersection B = {null}.
but for all the strings attached.
The discussion evolved from tracking immigrants to tracking criminals. It's really not much of a leap to suggest that if immigrant tracking is adopted, then the next group might be violent criminals. The common thread here is tracking, you know very well that I am not suggesting that all immigrants are pedophiles. What you did by suggesting this was attempt to pour gasoline on the discussion. It is people like you like make it hard to discuss contentious topics. Give yourself a pat on the back.
Given that the rate of recidivism for pedophiles is very high, and that the crime is one which destroys the lives of the most vulnerable in society, the only workable alternative to incarceration for convicted pedophiles is some kind of electronic tagging. And yes, that would mean less privacy for convicted pedophiles, I'm OK with that and I don't see it as a slippery slope. When we convict people of securities fraud the law can ban them from trading stocks for life, why not ban pedophiles from schools and enforce it with tags? When a grown man rapes a five year old girl she will suffer the mental and physical scars for the rest of her life. Is it asking too much that he be electronically tagged upon release? Some would argue that he should be executed or put away forever, but it seems you are telling me that when his time is served he should regain all of his civil liberties, including the right to go wherever he pleases. Perhaps you would be ok with him visiting the victim?
Technically parollees are still serving their sentence, when they are released into society they do not automatically regain all of their rights until their sentence has been fulfilled. In this regard, they are entitled to as much privacy as a prison inmate, i.e. none.
As a condition of release many sex offenders are required to stay away from schools, what's wrong with enforcing this electronically?
The problem with having a simple set of rules for collision avoidance is the situation is often too complex to reduce to a rule of thumb. For one, aircraft can have vastly different speeds and climb rates. There's also the issue of wake turbulance from jets, which is so significant that 2 minutes are allocated between jets on landing. And there's the extra height dimension.
"You break left and I'll break right".
How about publishing detailed plans for a thermonuclear bomb and making the materials available at Home Depot? Sure, in the wrong hands it could be used for evil purposes, but Uranium 235 is just an isotope, it should not be banned *just because* bad people *might* use it. Sheesh.
As the chief test pilot for the F22 attested, "if you can fly a Cessna 152 you can fly this plane". Now if the Rat Brain could get an SR71 from the ramp to Mach 3 at Flight Level 80 I would be impressed.