Actually, on several United Airlines flights I've been on, they have a channel of the onboard entertainment system dedicated to the cockpit communications. You can hear everything the pilot says and hears over the radio.
Around takeoff and landing, the radio chatter is the most hectic. The air traffic controller is talking nonstop to a number of different planes. Giving an order, waiting for ack. Giving another order to another plane, and so on. I can see why the job is so stressful.
There are a number of handoffs that occur during the flight, too, as the plane moves from region to region. You'll hear the air traffic controller tell your pilot to contact another Center at such-and-such frequency. The pilot acknowledges. Then, there is a pause, as someone in the cockpit presumably turns a knob to change the frequency, waits for silence on the channel, then announces his presence to the new controller.
No, no, no! If advertisers are the customers, then the listeners will be ignored, as they will merely be the product.
I'd rather pay for the radio I listen to with my money rather than with my ears. Ads are just so annoying. No, I'm not really interested in satellite radio, but I do listen to public radio, and I contribute at pledge time.
Public domain status is compatible with the GNU GPL.
Yes, but it's only one-way compatibility. The GPL states that you must release derivative works under the GPL as well, right? So, as soon as the tiniest change is made, you can't re-release a GPLed work to the Public Domain, unless you redo all the effort starting from the PD version.
You make a good point. But, the thing that still bothers me is forceably taking guns away from people who'd rather keep them. Owning a gun is a freedom, no matter how you slice it. The fact that it is a very costly freedom doesn't change this.
I'd rather see people give up their guns voluntarily because they don't need them. I'd rather see people use their guns responsibly if they must have them. I'd rather see people lock up their guns separate from the ammunition so their children don't shoot themselves.
I have a Comcast cable modem too, and when I changed NICs, all I had to do was call Comcast and tell them the new MAC address. I called the same number as from the "self-setup."
I never quite understood the concept that an object in orbit is "falling around the sun (or earth)" until I read a physics book that got me to visualize this:
Imagine you have a cannon. You fire a cannonball out of it, and it follows a parabolic path until it hits the ground (Boom). Now, you get a more powerful cannon, and fire a cannonball even farther. In fact it's so powerful that the cannonball is traveling so fast horizontally that the ground is receding from it, due to the curvature of the Earth, faster than gravity is pulling it down to the Earth!
Tada! So the cannonball just keeps moving, around the Earth. It's in orbit.
I hope that explanation helps at least one person who was like me.
At some point in the future, we will have the canonical set of computing applications...
At what point in the future? In fifty years? One hundred? You know, the poster you are replying to actually agrees with you. It's just that he specifically mentions that he thinks it won't happen in our lifetimes. I tend to agree.
For one thing, the world is always changing, and software will have to change with it. To do that, you need programmers - or computers that can program themselves. And to have a computer to program itself, you need some fancy AI. I'm pretty sure it'll be awhile before we have that.
So, it'll be awhile before you can just talk to your computer a la Star Trek.
Computer, run an analysis on the warp field fluctuations and whip me up a holographic simulation of a rainforest. Steer the ship around that black hole. And get me a cup of coffee! Thank you.
A journal on an external drive? If you take the drive away, the journal is gone! Though, I guess it'd be possible to detect the absence and revert to non-journaling mode.
Yeah, but at 44.1 KHz sampling, a 22050 Hz tone can, at best, be represented as a triangle wave - not a nice smooth sinusoid. Triangle waves sound terrible. I'm not sure how much you'd notice at those high frequencies, though. Maybe it doesn't matter, because you can't hear all the harmonics? Can anyone comment?
What I can't stand is when I switch between five radio stations and they are all playing commercials. Then I try five minutes later and they are still playing commercials! For this to happen on five stations at once, and for it to happen so often, means they are playing an ungodly amount of commercials. (I've never actually listened all the way through a commercial break to find out how long it is.)
On Saturday Mornings I listen to Car Talk on NPR. They have two two-minute breaks per hour. That's right: four minutes total (approximatly). A few years ago, they only had one break, and I was mildly annoyed when they added the second. But, those two breaks are heavenly compared to commercial radio.
I'm sure the next generation of music media -- the one that replaces CDs -- will have some sort of encryption/DRM too. In fact, I think there was a Slashdot article on just this topic awhile ago.
If one was really interested in the final release of Red Hat 8, then he/she probably knew about it before the Slashdot story. For others (like me) who are mildly interested, a two day delay is not a big deal.
And have you ever tried to download the ISOs with a 56k
I have. About two summers ago I wanted to download the ISO for some distribution-or-other. Every night for a week I started the download and went to bed. I couldn't tie up the phoneline during the day, so I had to stop it in the morning and resume the next night.
I don't quite remember, but I think my first attempt left me with a corrupted image; so I may have had to do it all over again. Needless to say, it was quite a long ordeal. I was very happy to go back to college in the fall and get back to some speedy Internet access.
How many ISOs make up the release of Red Hat 8? I don't even want to think about sucking them all down at 56k!
That's interesting, because the amount of spam I've received lately is noticeably smaller. I figured maybe it was because a lot of spammers were bored students on summer vacation and now they are back in school.
modern evolutionary theory does have trouble neatly explaining some observations.
As a result, you are tempted to discard the entire notion of evolution? To use your own example, that would be as if Galileo had decided that there are no planets, just because we didn't fully understand their motion. No, instead, he came up with a better model, which, IIRC, still wasn't perfect.
The problem is, most people always hear about "evolutionary theory," when it's really more of a general concept. The actual theories as to how evolution occurs are rarely mentioned in non-scientific publications. To go into some more detail, maybe this will clarify what I'm saying. Again, I'm using your example for comparision:
Science: Astronomy
Observation: apparent motion of "heavenly bodies" (stars, planets, the moon, sun) in the sky.
Theories to explain observation:
Earth-Centered system, with circular orbits
Earth-Centered system, with funny, epicyclic (sp?) orbits
Sun-Centered (Heliocentric) system, with circular, concentric orbits
Sun-Centered system, with elliptical, overlapping orbits
Science: Biology
Observation: apparent "evolution" of species. (note: "evolution" is just a notation for the observation.)
You might be kidding about including fdisk, but there is a free (GPL) version of fdisk out there: Free FDISK. It acts like regular MS fdisk, but has more features, such as support for non-DOS partition types. I think it was this feature that brought me to Free FDISK; regular fdisk just wasn't getting the job done.
Those rare systems that do not include GNU components can be called "GNU-less Linux." Otherwise, "Linux" is fine with me. I agree that the "GNU" part is redundant, or at least unneeded information in the name of a distribution.
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It also makes the entire lawmaking process seem totally arbitrary, and makes people less likely to follow other laws, IMHO.
Around takeoff and landing, the radio chatter is the most hectic. The air traffic controller is talking nonstop to a number of different planes. Giving an order, waiting for ack. Giving another order to another plane, and so on. I can see why the job is so stressful.
There are a number of handoffs that occur during the flight, too, as the plane moves from region to region. You'll hear the air traffic controller tell your pilot to contact another Center at such-and-such frequency. The pilot acknowledges. Then, there is a pause, as someone in the cockpit presumably turns a knob to change the frequency, waits for silence on the channel, then announces his presence to the new controller.
Very interesting to hear.
I'd say it's because they are still a pain to customize, at lease from my POV.
I'd rather pay for the radio I listen to with my money rather than with my ears. Ads are just so annoying. No, I'm not really interested in satellite radio, but I do listen to public radio, and I contribute at pledge time.
Yes, but it's only one-way compatibility. The GPL states that you must release derivative works under the GPL as well, right? So, as soon as the tiniest change is made, you can't re-release a GPLed work to the Public Domain, unless you redo all the effort starting from the PD version.
I'd rather see people give up their guns voluntarily because they don't need them. I'd rather see people use their guns responsibly if they must have them. I'd rather see people lock up their guns separate from the ammunition so their children don't shoot themselves.
I have a Comcast cable modem too, and when I changed NICs, all I had to do was call Comcast and tell them the new MAC address. I called the same number as from the "self-setup."
Imagine you have a cannon. You fire a cannonball out of it, and it follows a parabolic path until it hits the ground (Boom). Now, you get a more powerful cannon, and fire a cannonball even farther. In fact it's so powerful that the cannonball is traveling so fast horizontally that the ground is receding from it, due to the curvature of the Earth, faster than gravity is pulling it down to the Earth!
Tada! So the cannonball just keeps moving, around the Earth. It's in orbit.
I hope that explanation helps at least one person who was like me.
You'd better hope "you" aren't the one trapped in the computer.
For one thing, the world is always changing, and software will have to change with it. To do that, you need programmers - or computers that can program themselves. And to have a computer to program itself, you need some fancy AI. I'm pretty sure it'll be awhile before we have that.
So, it'll be awhile before you can just talk to your computer a la Star Trek.
Way to go, Microsoft. It took them years to get Notepad right. What was the deal with this clumsy workaround?
(After taking that intro EE class I decided to declare CE as my major.)
A journal on an external drive? If you take the drive away, the journal is gone! Though, I guess it'd be possible to detect the absence and revert to non-journaling mode.
"Merit" only has one "r". Ferret, on the other hand...
On Saturday Mornings I listen to Car Talk on NPR. They have two two-minute breaks per hour. That's right: four minutes total (approximatly). A few years ago, they only had one break, and I was mildly annoyed when they added the second. But, those two breaks are heavenly compared to commercial radio.
The might be selling them at a loss, to bargain-hunters who have been saving money. This is just a guess, though.
I'm sure the next generation of music media -- the one that replaces CDs -- will have some sort of encryption/DRM too. In fact, I think there was a Slashdot article on just this topic awhile ago.
Do you mean Mandrake 9.1?
If one was really interested in the final release of Red Hat 8, then he/she probably knew about it before the Slashdot story. For others (like me) who are mildly interested, a two day delay is not a big deal.
I have. About two summers ago I wanted to download the ISO for some distribution-or-other. Every night for a week I started the download and went to bed. I couldn't tie up the phoneline during the day, so I had to stop it in the morning and resume the next night.
I don't quite remember, but I think my first attempt left me with a corrupted image; so I may have had to do it all over again. Needless to say, it was quite a long ordeal. I was very happy to go back to college in the fall and get back to some speedy Internet access.
How many ISOs make up the release of Red Hat 8? I don't even want to think about sucking them all down at 56k!
That's interesting, because the amount of spam I've received lately is noticeably smaller. I figured maybe it was because a lot of spammers were bored students on summer vacation and now they are back in school.
As a result, you are tempted to discard the entire notion of evolution? To use your own example, that would be as if Galileo had decided that there are no planets, just because we didn't fully understand their motion. No, instead, he came up with a better model, which, IIRC, still wasn't perfect.
The problem is, most people always hear about "evolutionary theory," when it's really more of a general concept. The actual theories as to how evolution occurs are rarely mentioned in non-scientific publications. To go into some more detail, maybe this will clarify what I'm saying. Again, I'm using your example for comparision:
Science: Astronomy
Observation: apparent motion of "heavenly bodies" (stars, planets, the moon, sun) in the sky.
Theories to explain observation:
- Earth-Centered system, with circular orbits
- Earth-Centered system, with funny, epicyclic (sp?) orbits
- Sun-Centered (Heliocentric) system, with circular, concentric orbits
- Sun-Centered system, with elliptical, overlapping orbits
Science: BiologyObservation: apparent "evolution" of species. (note: "evolution" is just a notation for the observation.)
Theories to explain observation:
I hope that all makes sense.
You might be kidding about including fdisk, but there is a free (GPL) version of fdisk out there: Free FDISK. It acts like regular MS fdisk, but has more features, such as support for non-DOS partition types. I think it was this feature that brought me to Free FDISK; regular fdisk just wasn't getting the job done.
Those rare systems that do not include GNU components can be called "GNU-less Linux." Otherwise, "Linux" is fine with me. I agree that the "GNU" part is redundant, or at least unneeded information in the name of a distribution.