Typically, you preflight, start the engine, and go flying. That's it. Fossett additionally probably didn't have a heading to give - he probably had no more expectation of the direction of flight other than a cardinal direction on the compass to start out on since he was going to search for suitable lake beds. This suggests a meandering flight path on no particular heading.
You do not need to file flight plans. No "commercial airport" in the United States requires a flight plan (except the DC ADIZ, but it's still not an airport requirement). I've flown light aircraft out of more "commercial airports" than you've had hot dinners without filing a flight plan, including big ones such as Houston Hobby, Houston Intercontinental, Denver International, Salt Lake City International - and small ones, Monterrey, CA., Raleigh-Durham International, Oakland, Austin, San Antonio etc.
The only time I file flight plans is for IFR (instrument flight rules) flights. I have never, ever filed a flight plan for a local bimble, which is what Fossett was doing. When they find his aircraft, I bet it's within 50nm of the airfield.
You either don't live in the United States, or are not a pilot.
There are only a very small handful of airports in the United States where you have to file a flight plan before departing, these are mainly within the Washington DC ADIZ.
Most of the several thousand airfields in the US - you can just get in your plane, fire up the engine, and take off. You don't even need a radio, and if you have one, you aren't forced to use it (although it's generally considered good practise to use the radio if you have it).
No it's not a "huge huge fuckup". Flight plans are useful for IFR flights from point A to point B. A sightseeing flight (which is essentially what he was doing - searching the area for suitable places for a record attempt) has no particular heading, direction or altitude. The best you can do is tell a friend "I'm going flying, I'll be about an hour" - which it seems he must have done as there was someone to report him overdue. Filing a flight plan in this instance wouldn't have made a scrap of difference because it wouldn't have told anyone anything they didn't know already.
I've got around 1200 hours of single engine time - about 1100 of those without filing a flight plan - because there was no point (the flights were VFR, and virtually all of the cross country VFR flights I take have good radar coverage, and I'm already talking to ATC if I have a problem which is MUCH more useful than a flight plan).
I've done around 1200 hours of single engine flying, and I call BS on your BS. He was on a local flight to look for places for a land speed record, apparently. Not a cross country. For an experienced pilot, this is a "routine VFR flight". He likely wasn't planning on going more than about 50 nautical miles from the airfield. Pilots doing flights like that very often just preflight the aircraft, have a look at the chart to get an idea of what they are looking for, and take off. Pilots who are intimiately familiar with the terrain might not even look at the chart. They don't phone a friend any more than they'd phone a friend before driving to the grocery store in their car.
There was no guys in the tower, the airfield he left from is a non-towered field. It's quite likely he was the only person on the airfield when he departed. Around 90% of airfields in the United States do not have a control tower.
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He took off from a private airstrip, in the middle of nowhere. The radio was likely of little help, and disaster needn't have struck particularly fast. If his engine quit, and he made a forced landing - well, his radio may have only been set to the local airstrip's frequency. Even if he tuned to 121.5 (the emergency frequency) there is no guarantee that he would have had line of sight to an FSS antenna. That's assuming the aircraft even had a radio. Quite a few small planes don't. Quite a few small planes have really crap radios. The story I've heard is he was looking for a suitable spot to do a land speed record. This likely meant he was flying quite low, and therefore didn't have line of sight with any ground based radio. Also, as an experienced aviator, Fossett would know the priorities: AVIATE, NAVIGATE and COMMUNICATE - in that order. Fly the plane first. The plane stays airborne not on Marconi's principles, but on Bernoulli's and Newton's. Communication is the last in the list of priorities. Failing to aviate and navigate is far more likely to kill you than failing to communicate.
I've flown over large parts of the United States where there is no radar coverage, and no one to talk to on the radio because unless you're at quite a high altitude above the terrain, there just are no ATC or FSS antennas within line of sight. I've had to revert to old fashioned position reporting in some areas of the US while flying IFR (instrument flight rules) because there was no radar coverage on my flight path for dozens of miles. Even in relatively populated parts this happens - for example, around Lufkin, Texas - there's a huge gap in radar coverage if you're below about 7,000 feet.
ELT (Emergency Locator Transmitters) are notorious for getting activated when no emergency exists (such as a hard landing, or someone banging the side of the aircraft with their hand right by the ELT mounting), and failing to go off at all in case of an actual crash.
No. The laws in the US are almost comically not-harsh on drunken drivers.
If you have a glass of wine out on a date, get a taxi home or get the bus home. It's really not that hard. If you don't want to get a taxi home, then tell your date, "I'm driving, I'll just have a $SOFT_DRINK". Or if you'd rather endanger other road users, well, carefully prepare what you'll say to the family of the person you may end up killing because the drink made you incompetent to drive.
In this country, if you get busted for drink driving, a ban really means a ban - none of this "you're banned but you can still drive to work", which is pretty lame. It's really not that hard to NOT drink and drive. It's entirely willful and incompetent to drink and drive.
I'm not "anti alcohol" to any extent, I frequently enjoy a few beers. But I don't drive afterwards. I bring enough money with me so I can get a taxi home.
Actually, in this country - yes you do. If you don't react fast enough in the 'emergency brake' part of the test you fail your driving test. There is also an oral part of the test, where the examiner does check your decision making.
When you're driving a car, you're in command of (and solely responsible) for over one tonne of sizzling machinery. Those people who don't take this seriously (i.e. drive when they've had three beers, drive with defective eyesight, drive while too tired or while ill) should lose their driving privileges. Drivers who still drive when they shouldn't really ought to start planning now what they are going to say to the family of the other road user they may eventually kill.
I've been hit by a driver doing 50 mph, who had defective vision. It hurts just as much if they do that when they are drunk as it does with defective vision, and is just as negligent. If the driver had been four inches or so more to the left, he'd have been having to think of something to say to my Dad at the funeral.
OT, but I see quite a lot of people make this mistake - it's the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) not the DCMA. DCMA would be Digital Copyright Millennium Act, which doesn't really make an awful lot of sense.
With that kind of attitude, we would still all be living in caves.
Research into quantum physics would have seemed useless with no market value when it was started. However, 50 years later, without that research, there would have been no transistors. How big is the semiconductor market today? 50 years before it even existed, no capitalist could have forseen the use of the research. There is a very good case for researching things that may have no market value for decades.
ZFS is irrelevant to the desktop user, though. (How many desktop users care what filesystem they have?)
However, a stable kernel ABI - which Linux doesn't have - is FAR more important, as it means hardware manufacturers are far more likely to release drivers for your platform that can just be installed with the hardware. If Solaris on the desktop started outnumbering Linux on the desktop, my bets would be it would have everything to do with hardware manufacturers being able to ship a driver for $random_hardware, and little to do with ZFS.
You're making a false assumption. A monopoly OSS project might not necessary garner any more developers than a non-monopoly one. For example, if KDE didn't exist, it wouldn't mean that all KDE developers would be working on Gnome - because those developers in all probability still wouldn't want to work on Gnome (and may work on a totally unrelated project). KDE and Gnome both exist because not all developers want to work on KDE and not all developers want to work on Gnome. The disappearance of one or the other wouldn't necessarily mean that developers from the one project would work on the other.
The set of all developers is not necessarily the same as the set of developers who are prepared to work on project $FOO.
You only have to move to the middle of the Irish Sea for that. I live in the Isle of Man, and we neither have corporation tax nor capital gains tax. HOWEVER, the Isle of Man does cooperate fully with other governments on tax reporting issues, as well as money laundering issues.
Canonical (i.e. company behind Ubuntu) is based in the Isle of Man. Unfortunately, despite the Manx connection to Linux, the government may as well be the Isle of Microsoft government. The head of Government ISD is personal friends with a director of Microsoft UK (so much so that on business trips to see Microsoft, everyone else stays in a hotel, but he stays with his friend) - so with that sort of conflict of interest, even if every single politician criticised the treasury on sneding so much of our taxpayer's money to Redmond instead of keeping it within the island, nothing would happen. Heigh ho.
Monarch Airlines in the UK still issue the confetti-like shower of tickets (not the tracing paper red inked ones, but the greenish card ones with lots of impeneterable TLAs and the thick magstripe).
Surprised me when I booked with them, it's the first time in years anyone's insisted on sending physical tickets.
I used to work over the road from the JSC, at IBM.
Guess what we needed invasive background checks for?
Working on a contract for the United States Postal Service. This, by the way, was back in about 1998. That didn't ask whether we were gay or not (in fact, I don't really remember half the questions on the big fat questionnaire, since I managed to get out of having to fill it out in the end; to be honest I couldn't even fill it out properly as I didn't remember half the addresses I'd had in the past X years - I moved a lot while I was a student, and didn't really think it was necessary to keep an exact record of the dates and addresses of all the tiny bedsits I'd occupied).
Moller's been expecting to build the Skycar (volantor as he calls it) "in six years time" for the last 30 years. Don't believe him. None of his aircraft have managed an untethered flight outside of ground effect - every so often he pumps up some publicity, presumably to get new funding after the last lot of venture capitalists see that he's going nowhere.
I'm struggling to see what's newsworthy or innovative about what will essentially be a silicon solar cell, battery, and DC-DC converter. I've had a similar home-made system on my shed roof for a while now. No doubt it'll come with a confetti like stream of patents:/
It's certainly better than the name Microsoft Axapta (which sounds like the sound a toy raygun makes, and no one knows how to spell if they've only heard it spoken).
The British GPO (in the days the post office ran the phones in Britain) had a service called "Dial a Disc", where you could phone - I kid you not - a 3-digit number and listen to a radio-like music service. In probably worse quality than AM radio, and you had to pay for the privilege.
Apparently, you could also do the same thing with that, too by shouting loudly enough down the phone.
The speaking clock in Britain had also more frightening uses - the same network was also used for the nuclear attack alert that would start the air raid sirens should the Soviets launch.
Where have all the rootkits gone?
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Long, long ago Sony picked them, every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn.
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No, you're wrong.
Typically, you preflight, start the engine, and go flying. That's it. Fossett additionally probably didn't have a heading to give - he probably had no more expectation of the direction of flight other than a cardinal direction on the compass to start out on since he was going to search for suitable lake beds. This suggests a meandering flight path on no particular heading.
You do not need to file flight plans. No "commercial airport" in the United States requires a flight plan (except the DC ADIZ, but it's still not an airport requirement). I've flown light aircraft out of more "commercial airports" than you've had hot dinners without filing a flight plan, including big ones such as Houston Hobby, Houston Intercontinental, Denver International, Salt Lake City International - and small ones, Monterrey, CA., Raleigh-Durham International, Oakland, Austin, San Antonio etc.
The only time I file flight plans is for IFR (instrument flight rules) flights. I have never, ever filed a flight plan for a local bimble, which is what Fossett was doing. When they find his aircraft, I bet it's within 50nm of the airfield.
You either don't live in the United States, or are not a pilot.
There are only a very small handful of airports in the United States where you have to file a flight plan before departing, these are mainly within the Washington DC ADIZ.
Most of the several thousand airfields in the US - you can just get in your plane, fire up the engine, and take off. You don't even need a radio, and if you have one, you aren't forced to use it (although it's generally considered good practise to use the radio if you have it).
No it's not a "huge huge fuckup". Flight plans are useful for IFR flights from point A to point B. A sightseeing flight (which is essentially what he was doing - searching the area for suitable places for a record attempt) has no particular heading, direction or altitude. The best you can do is tell a friend "I'm going flying, I'll be about an hour" - which it seems he must have done as there was someone to report him overdue. Filing a flight plan in this instance wouldn't have made a scrap of difference because it wouldn't have told anyone anything they didn't know already.
I've got around 1200 hours of single engine time - about 1100 of those without filing a flight plan - because there was no point (the flights were VFR, and virtually all of the cross country VFR flights I take have good radar coverage, and I'm already talking to ATC if I have a problem which is MUCH more useful than a flight plan).
I've done around 1200 hours of single engine flying, and I call BS on your BS. He was on a local flight to look for places for a land speed record, apparently. Not a cross country. For an experienced pilot, this is a "routine VFR flight". He likely wasn't planning on going more than about 50 nautical miles from the airfield. Pilots doing flights like that very often just preflight the aircraft, have a look at the chart to get an idea of what they are looking for, and take off. Pilots who are intimiately familiar with the terrain might not even look at the chart. They don't phone a friend any more than they'd phone a friend before driving to the grocery store in their car.
There was no guys in the tower, the airfield he left from is a non-towered field. It's quite likely he was the only person on the airfield when he departed. Around 90% of airfields in the United States do not have a control tower.
He took off from a private airstrip, in the middle of nowhere. The radio was likely of little help, and disaster needn't have struck particularly fast. If his engine quit, and he made a forced landing - well, his radio may have only been set to the local airstrip's frequency. Even if he tuned to 121.5 (the emergency frequency) there is no guarantee that he would have had line of sight to an FSS antenna. That's assuming the aircraft even had a radio. Quite a few small planes don't. Quite a few small planes have really crap radios. The story I've heard is he was looking for a suitable spot to do a land speed record. This likely meant he was flying quite low, and therefore didn't have line of sight with any ground based radio. Also, as an experienced aviator, Fossett would know the priorities: AVIATE, NAVIGATE and COMMUNICATE - in that order. Fly the plane first. The plane stays airborne not on Marconi's principles, but on Bernoulli's and Newton's. Communication is the last in the list of priorities. Failing to aviate and navigate is far more likely to kill you than failing to communicate.
I've flown over large parts of the United States where there is no radar coverage, and no one to talk to on the radio because unless you're at quite a high altitude above the terrain, there just are no ATC or FSS antennas within line of sight. I've had to revert to old fashioned position reporting in some areas of the US while flying IFR (instrument flight rules) because there was no radar coverage on my flight path for dozens of miles. Even in relatively populated parts this happens - for example, around Lufkin, Texas - there's a huge gap in radar coverage if you're below about 7,000 feet.
ELT (Emergency Locator Transmitters) are notorious for getting activated when no emergency exists (such as a hard landing, or someone banging the side of the aircraft with their hand right by the ELT mounting), and failing to go off at all in case of an actual crash.
No. The laws in the US are almost comically not-harsh on drunken drivers.
If you have a glass of wine out on a date, get a taxi home or get the bus home. It's really not that hard. If you don't want to get a taxi home, then tell your date, "I'm driving, I'll just have a $SOFT_DRINK". Or if you'd rather endanger other road users, well, carefully prepare what you'll say to the family of the person you may end up killing because the drink made you incompetent to drive.
In this country, if you get busted for drink driving, a ban really means a ban - none of this "you're banned but you can still drive to work", which is pretty lame. It's really not that hard to NOT drink and drive. It's entirely willful and incompetent to drink and drive.
I'm not "anti alcohol" to any extent, I frequently enjoy a few beers. But I don't drive afterwards. I bring enough money with me so I can get a taxi home.
Actually, in this country - yes you do. If you don't react fast enough in the 'emergency brake' part of the test you fail your driving test. There is also an oral part of the test, where the examiner does check your decision making.
When you're driving a car, you're in command of (and solely responsible) for over one tonne of sizzling machinery. Those people who don't take this seriously (i.e. drive when they've had three beers, drive with defective eyesight, drive while too tired or while ill) should lose their driving privileges. Drivers who still drive when they shouldn't really ought to start planning now what they are going to say to the family of the other road user they may eventually kill.
I've been hit by a driver doing 50 mph, who had defective vision. It hurts just as much if they do that when they are drunk as it does with defective vision, and is just as negligent. If the driver had been four inches or so more to the left, he'd have been having to think of something to say to my Dad at the funeral.
Viola? It sounds like a viola, a musical instrument that's basically a larger violin? Or did you mean voila, as in the French word?
OT, but I see quite a lot of people make this mistake - it's the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) not the DCMA. DCMA would be Digital Copyright Millennium Act, which doesn't really make an awful lot of sense.
With that kind of attitude, we would still all be living in caves.
Research into quantum physics would have seemed useless with no market value when it was started. However, 50 years later, without that research, there would have been no transistors. How big is the semiconductor market today? 50 years before it even existed, no capitalist could have forseen the use of the research. There is a very good case for researching things that may have no market value for decades.
ZFS is irrelevant to the desktop user, though. (How many desktop users care what filesystem they have?)
However, a stable kernel ABI - which Linux doesn't have - is FAR more important, as it means hardware manufacturers are far more likely to release drivers for your platform that can just be installed with the hardware. If Solaris on the desktop started outnumbering Linux on the desktop, my bets would be it would have everything to do with hardware manufacturers being able to ship a driver for $random_hardware, and little to do with ZFS.
You're making a false assumption. A monopoly OSS project might not necessary garner any more developers than a non-monopoly one. For example, if KDE didn't exist, it wouldn't mean that all KDE developers would be working on Gnome - because those developers in all probability still wouldn't want to work on Gnome (and may work on a totally unrelated project). KDE and Gnome both exist because not all developers want to work on KDE and not all developers want to work on Gnome. The disappearance of one or the other wouldn't necessarily mean that developers from the one project would work on the other.
The set of all developers is not necessarily the same as the set of developers who are prepared to work on project $FOO.
You only have to move to the middle of the Irish Sea for that. I live in the Isle of Man, and we neither have corporation tax nor capital gains tax. HOWEVER, the Isle of Man does cooperate fully with other governments on tax reporting issues, as well as money laundering issues.
Canonical (i.e. company behind Ubuntu) is based in the Isle of Man. Unfortunately, despite the Manx connection to Linux, the government may as well be the Isle of Microsoft government. The head of Government ISD is personal friends with a director of Microsoft UK (so much so that on business trips to see Microsoft, everyone else stays in a hotel, but he stays with his friend) - so with that sort of conflict of interest, even if every single politician criticised the treasury on sneding so much of our taxpayer's money to Redmond instead of keeping it within the island, nothing would happen. Heigh ho.
Anyone got any good pictures of these "old computer banks"? If so, URL?
6502s still manufactured? I thought CSG went bust years ago. Who makes them now, where can you buy one?
I know the Z80 is still manufactured; I have a 40-pin DIL "classic" Z80 on my table datecoded late 2006, and many electronics wholesalers stock them.
Monarch Airlines in the UK still issue the confetti-like shower of tickets (not the tracing paper red inked ones, but the greenish card ones with lots of impeneterable TLAs and the thick magstripe).
Surprised me when I booked with them, it's the first time in years anyone's insisted on sending physical tickets.
However, being a practising homosexual, or just enjoying anal with your girlfriend gets you into "C". Nice intolerant culture you have.
I used to work over the road from the JSC, at IBM.
Guess what we needed invasive background checks for?
Working on a contract for the United States Postal Service. This, by the way, was back in about 1998. That didn't ask whether we were gay or not (in fact, I don't really remember half the questions on the big fat questionnaire, since I managed to get out of having to fill it out in the end; to be honest I couldn't even fill it out properly as I didn't remember half the addresses I'd had in the past X years - I moved a lot while I was a student, and didn't really think it was necessary to keep an exact record of the dates and addresses of all the tiny bedsits I'd occupied).
Moller's been expecting to build the Skycar (volantor as he calls it) "in six years time" for the last 30 years. Don't believe him. None of his aircraft have managed an untethered flight outside of ground effect - every so often he pumps up some publicity, presumably to get new funding after the last lot of venture capitalists see that he's going nowhere.
Oh, a bit like OLGA then? Oh wait, they got shut down, too.
I'm struggling to see what's newsworthy or innovative about what will essentially be a silicon solar cell, battery, and DC-DC converter. I've had a similar home-made system on my shed roof for a while now. No doubt it'll come with a confetti like stream of patents :/
It's certainly better than the name Microsoft Axapta (which sounds like the sound a toy raygun makes, and no one knows how to spell if they've only heard it spoken).
NTP works well enough.
Either that or wait for the pips on Radio 4 when the news comes on.
The British GPO (in the days the post office ran the phones in Britain) had a service called "Dial a Disc", where you could phone - I kid you not - a 3-digit number and listen to a radio-like music service. In probably worse quality than AM radio, and you had to pay for the privilege.
Apparently, you could also do the same thing with that, too by shouting loudly enough down the phone.
The speaking clock in Britain had also more frightening uses - the same network was also used for the nuclear attack alert that would start the air raid sirens should the Soviets launch.
Where have all the rootkits gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the rootkits gone?
Long, long ago
Sony picked them, every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn.