Carbon dioxide is "plant food" but it is also a greenhouse gas. That CO2 is a greenhouse gas is not even under debate, it's a well known property of carbon dioxide.
Despite this the single player Doom game is still very atmospheric (especially played on a dark, rainy winter night with headphones on). Because it doesn't have all the advanced stuff it's also easier for casual gamers to join in on a death match and have a remote chance of scoring a hit. It's just a fun game.
Plenty of people do. There's emulators for pretty much every old platform out there, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, SNES etc. Why not emulate old PCs so people can recreate the gaming experience of the early 1990s?
No, there's no "fundamental use" other than it's fun to do. Must everything in computing have some sort of utility? Can't we do stuff just for fun?
Incidentally, this is not the first PC emulator for an ARM based system. I remember running a PC emulator on the Acorn Archimedes in 1989-1990 or so, on the original 8 MHz Arc. It would emulate a PC faster than the original 4.77MHz PC ran - the ARM at that point was a good deal faster than the x86 processors of the time (in those days most PCs were still 8086 and 8088 based, non-PC platforms such as the Amiga, ST, Archimedes etc. were much better. It wasn't till the 386 became popular that the PC really started to catch up then pull ahead).
A felony conviction does not stop you leaving the country. It may be such that some nations won't want to let you in, or may require a visa where for US citizens in "good standing" they do not - but a felon isn't excluded from getting a passport.
No, but you STILL cannot buy a computer for the same price scale as the first Apple, Commodore, etc..
Which planet do you live on? The Commodore 64 in 1982 cost just under $600 (without monitor or mass storage device). You can get a perfectly good desktop including a mass storage device for that price today and that's not even taking into account that $600 1982 dollars is something like $2500 2013 dollars. (And for $2500 you can get a very nice workstation-class machine).
The state in the UK is if the unmanned aerial system weighs less than 20kg (basically, like most RC models) the regulation is correspondingly light and commercial operation is allowed without the need for certified systems or to put a G-xxxx registration on the aircraft. However, a permit is still required to operate and the operator must have a qualification to fly the aircraft (effectively a "drone pilot license") if it is to be flown in a populated area.
Over 20kg and the UAS needs airworthiness approval.
The actual experience is somewhat different to what you assume. In cases where the aircraft has arrived on the ground in a controlled manner, then usually pretty much everyone survives. The brace position will stop you from needlessly headbutting the seat in front, potentially meaning the difference between a nasty head injury and just bruises.
It's not the speed of arrival that's important, it's the deceleration. If the crew put the aircraft somewhere reasonably flat in a level attitude, and the aircraft has time to decelerate instead of coming to a sudden halt, the outcome is usually pretty good for the people on board. I'd wager that most plane crashes are like this, and the types of crashes where everyone dies are the rarer ones. If you have a look around airliners.net or the NTSB website, you'll see there's an awful lot of these kinds of incidents where no one gets killed (the majority being runway over/undershoots)
Runway overshoots rarely result in fatalities. The probability of survival is generally inversely proportional to the angle of arrival, and in an overshoot generally the angle of arrival is nil, and you have to slide quite a while before you hit anything solid. While a few overshoots have resulted in fatalities, the vast majority result in everyone evacuating the aircraft.
I was flying with a friend - it was his first time flying a real approach in real weather (and at night too!) - who had forgot to turn his phone off. ATC cleared us to intercept the localizer, and just at that moment, all audio from the comm radio was completely obliterated by "B-B BIP B BIP B BIP B BIP B BIP BRRRRRRRR" (if you've ever owned a GSM phone you'll be depressingly familiar with the noise - it interferes with pretty much any audio equipment) as his wife phoned him.
Fortunately, I was still instrument current at the time and could continue to fly the approach while he desperately fished in his clothing to find his phone (which is surprisingly complicated in the tight confines of a Grumman AA5A at night) to shut the damned thing off.
Of course, the loc/glideslope receivers were not affected (they continued to work absolutely normally) but if ATC had tried to say anything to us while the phone was ringing, we wouldn't have heard it. We could barely hear each other over the intercom with this racket going on in our headsets. The issue here isn't really the interference with the electronics, but rather the distraction it causes, and it's not optimal to be distracted while on an instrument approach.
On the other hand, liquid fuels are vastly easier to store than electricity, and require nothing more complex than a container which offsets many of the advantages of a PV panel.
While the exhaustion date keeps slipping, the problem is what's important to our society as it stands today is not the availability of oil, but the availability of cheap oil. The cheap oil is nearly gone, and we're going to have a whole lot of trouble anyway since we're going to have to readjust to a world where energy isn't cheap, at least in the medium term.
Well, only theoretically possible. While Erlang may be a functional language (it's not quite a pure functional language, but from the point of view of how variables work we may consider it so), bugs in the Erlang virtual machine could still allow memory overwrites - at the end of the day, the bytecode interpreter will be written in an imperative language.
GCC has always been usable on things other than the command line. GUI IDEs all run a command line invocation when you compile a program, including the Microsoft one. No C compiler I know actually has a GUI.
You just listed the very things that make English such a rich language!
That it *is* the product of the "cross-fertilization" of other languages is exactly what makes it rich. That the rules aren't rigid is what makes it richer still. Compare this to French, which the French government is hell bent in ossifying by preventing terms from other languages being "francofied" (although I suspect the French government will be no more successful than King Canute was at holding back the sea)
Theory does not mean "guess" or "hunch". If you say something in the scientific sense is "only a theory", you don't actually understand what scientific theory is. Electricity is "only a theory" too.
At the risk of Godwining the whole thing, Hitler made sure the trains ran on time, had some really good roads constructed and was instrumental in getting affordable cars on the road for Germans. Just because he did some stuff that was good, doesn't excuse the otherwise vile nature of the man.
This thing in the article (the Avenger) is actually just a bog standard RC helicopter with some extra stuff added to the airframe. It really is not dissimilar to a typical pod-and-boom 3D RC helicopter like the T-Rex 700E.
Doing stuff electronically complex is really cheap. The electronics cost for a single rotor (flybarless) RC helicopter and a hypothetical 200 rotor helicopter would hardly be any different - since the same actual electronics are needed, just with more outputs and fancier software. However, something mechanically complex isn't like this - increasing electronic complexity (especially if most of it is only in software) doesn't make much difference to the unit cost, but mechanical complexity very rapidly increases the unit cost of your aircraft.
For my radio controlled helicopters, I've traded off mechanical complexity (mechanical flybar) for electronics (flybarless, with the flybar's function carried out by electronics). It makes the rotor head much, much simpler, more rugged, more reliable, and there's less to replace when the inevitable crash occurs since there is no longer the flybar nor its mixing arms and linkages in the rotor head.
From a drone point of view, probably the best (if cost is no object) is collective pitch twin rotor, either like a Chinook or like the Russian co-axial helicopters, because you're not throwing away 30% or more of your power counteracting the main rotor's torque with the tail rotor (and for a battery powered aircraft, this translates directly into more flight time or cheaper batteries). But that makes it BOTH mechanically AND electronically complex (so you see far, far more single rotor collective pitch RC helicopters than twin or coaxial collective pitch despite the power you lose to the tail rotor).
This has nothing to do with any "public fear" of drones though. The reason you can't stick a LIDAR on a drone and 3D map a riverbed is that drones can't see and avoid, and it might just blindly pile into the actual manned pipeline or electricity inspection patrol flying in the opposite direction. So drones are (quite rightly) limited at the moment to restricted airspace. You can't just restrict airspace on a whim either, because to do that you're taking away the freedom of pilots to use that airspace.
In any case it's not a big deal not being able to put a LIDAR on a drone - it's probably not that much cheaper than hiring a commercial aircraft operator to do it for you with a manned aircraft.
In the US, you won't get a pilot job at a major airline without a degree.
They don't care particularly what the degree is in, but they want to see at least a bachelor's degree. There are some universities who specialize in aerospace degrees though for hopeful airline pilots (such as Embry-Riddle)
Depends how old you are. I lived in Texas for a few years, and when I arrived my insurance for minimum liability only on an old used vehicle was $2400/year (the insurance cost more than my vehicle). I was told that because I was foreign and under 25, I was treated as if I were a 16 year old with 5 speeding tickets.
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Carbon dioxide is "plant food" but it is also a greenhouse gas. That CO2 is a greenhouse gas is not even under debate, it's a well known property of carbon dioxide.
They did. Over ten years ago there were articles on how global warming could result in northern Europe getting colder.
Because it's fun to do, perhaps.
Despite this the single player Doom game is still very atmospheric (especially played on a dark, rainy winter night with headphones on). Because it doesn't have all the advanced stuff it's also easier for casual gamers to join in on a death match and have a remote chance of scoring a hit. It's just a fun game.
Plenty of people do. There's emulators for pretty much every old platform out there, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, SNES etc. Why not emulate old PCs so people can recreate the gaming experience of the early 1990s?
No, there's no "fundamental use" other than it's fun to do. Must everything in computing have some sort of utility? Can't we do stuff just for fun?
Incidentally, this is not the first PC emulator for an ARM based system. I remember running a PC emulator on the Acorn Archimedes in 1989-1990 or so, on the original 8 MHz Arc. It would emulate a PC faster than the original 4.77MHz PC ran - the ARM at that point was a good deal faster than the x86 processors of the time (in those days most PCs were still 8086 and 8088 based, non-PC platforms such as the Amiga, ST, Archimedes etc. were much better. It wasn't till the 386 became popular that the PC really started to catch up then pull ahead).
A felony conviction does not stop you leaving the country. It may be such that some nations won't want to let you in, or may require a visa where for US citizens in "good standing" they do not - but a felon isn't excluded from getting a passport.
Which planet do you live on? The Commodore 64 in 1982 cost just under $600 (without monitor or mass storage device). You can get a perfectly good desktop including a mass storage device for that price today and that's not even taking into account that $600 1982 dollars is something like $2500 2013 dollars. (And for $2500 you can get a very nice workstation-class machine).
The state in the UK is if the unmanned aerial system weighs less than 20kg (basically, like most RC models) the regulation is correspondingly light and commercial operation is allowed without the need for certified systems or to put a G-xxxx registration on the aircraft. However, a permit is still required to operate and the operator must have a qualification to fly the aircraft (effectively a "drone pilot license") if it is to be flown in a populated area.
Over 20kg and the UAS needs airworthiness approval.
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP722.pdf
The actual experience is somewhat different to what you assume. In cases where the aircraft has arrived on the ground in a controlled manner, then usually pretty much everyone survives. The brace position will stop you from needlessly headbutting the seat in front, potentially meaning the difference between a nasty head injury and just bruises.
It's not the speed of arrival that's important, it's the deceleration. If the crew put the aircraft somewhere reasonably flat in a level attitude, and the aircraft has time to decelerate instead of coming to a sudden halt, the outcome is usually pretty good for the people on board. I'd wager that most plane crashes are like this, and the types of crashes where everyone dies are the rarer ones. If you have a look around airliners.net or the NTSB website, you'll see there's an awful lot of these kinds of incidents where no one gets killed (the majority being runway over/undershoots)
Runway overshoots rarely result in fatalities. The probability of survival is generally inversely proportional to the angle of arrival, and in an overshoot generally the angle of arrival is nil, and you have to slide quite a while before you hit anything solid. While a few overshoots have resulted in fatalities, the vast majority result in everyone evacuating the aircraft.
Well you're (slightly) wrong.
I was flying with a friend - it was his first time flying a real approach in real weather (and at night too!) - who had forgot to turn his phone off. ATC cleared us to intercept the localizer, and just at that moment, all audio from the comm radio was completely obliterated by "B-B BIP B BIP B BIP B BIP B BIP BRRRRRRRR" (if you've ever owned a GSM phone you'll be depressingly familiar with the noise - it interferes with pretty much any audio equipment) as his wife phoned him.
Fortunately, I was still instrument current at the time and could continue to fly the approach while he desperately fished in his clothing to find his phone (which is surprisingly complicated in the tight confines of a Grumman AA5A at night) to shut the damned thing off.
Of course, the loc/glideslope receivers were not affected (they continued to work absolutely normally) but if ATC had tried to say anything to us while the phone was ringing, we wouldn't have heard it. We could barely hear each other over the intercom with this racket going on in our headsets. The issue here isn't really the interference with the electronics, but rather the distraction it causes, and it's not optimal to be distracted while on an instrument approach.
On the other hand, liquid fuels are vastly easier to store than electricity, and require nothing more complex than a container which offsets many of the advantages of a PV panel.
While the exhaustion date keeps slipping, the problem is what's important to our society as it stands today is not the availability of oil, but the availability of cheap oil. The cheap oil is nearly gone, and we're going to have a whole lot of trouble anyway since we're going to have to readjust to a world where energy isn't cheap, at least in the medium term.
Well, only theoretically possible. While Erlang may be a functional language (it's not quite a pure functional language, but from the point of view of how variables work we may consider it so), bugs in the Erlang virtual machine could still allow memory overwrites - at the end of the day, the bytecode interpreter will be written in an imperative language.
Reverse vending machine :-)
I have the mental image of a machine in which you insert a packet of Doritos and out comes 70 cents.
GCC has always been usable on things other than the command line. GUI IDEs all run a command line invocation when you compile a program, including the Microsoft one. No C compiler I know actually has a GUI.
You just listed the very things that make English such a rich language!
That it *is* the product of the "cross-fertilization" of other languages is exactly what makes it rich. That the rules aren't rigid is what makes it richer still. Compare this to French, which the French government is hell bent in ossifying by preventing terms from other languages being "francofied" (although I suspect the French government will be no more successful than King Canute was at holding back the sea)
Theory does not mean "guess" or "hunch". If you say something in the scientific sense is "only a theory", you don't actually understand what scientific theory is. Electricity is "only a theory" too.
At the risk of Godwining the whole thing, Hitler made sure the trains ran on time, had some really good roads constructed and was instrumental in getting affordable cars on the road for Germans. Just because he did some stuff that was good, doesn't excuse the otherwise vile nature of the man.
Atheism is a religion in the same way as not collecting stamps is a hobby...
This thing in the article (the Avenger) is actually just a bog standard RC helicopter with some extra stuff added to the airframe. It really is not dissimilar to a typical pod-and-boom 3D RC helicopter like the T-Rex 700E.
Doing stuff electronically complex is really cheap. The electronics cost for a single rotor (flybarless) RC helicopter and a hypothetical 200 rotor helicopter would hardly be any different - since the same actual electronics are needed, just with more outputs and fancier software. However, something mechanically complex isn't like this - increasing electronic complexity (especially if most of it is only in software) doesn't make much difference to the unit cost, but mechanical complexity very rapidly increases the unit cost of your aircraft.
For my radio controlled helicopters, I've traded off mechanical complexity (mechanical flybar) for electronics (flybarless, with the flybar's function carried out by electronics). It makes the rotor head much, much simpler, more rugged, more reliable, and there's less to replace when the inevitable crash occurs since there is no longer the flybar nor its mixing arms and linkages in the rotor head.
From a drone point of view, probably the best (if cost is no object) is collective pitch twin rotor, either like a Chinook or like the Russian co-axial helicopters, because you're not throwing away 30% or more of your power counteracting the main rotor's torque with the tail rotor (and for a battery powered aircraft, this translates directly into more flight time or cheaper batteries). But that makes it BOTH mechanically AND electronically complex (so you see far, far more single rotor collective pitch RC helicopters than twin or coaxial collective pitch despite the power you lose to the tail rotor).
This has nothing to do with any "public fear" of drones though. The reason you can't stick a LIDAR on a drone and 3D map a riverbed is that drones can't see and avoid, and it might just blindly pile into the actual manned pipeline or electricity inspection patrol flying in the opposite direction. So drones are (quite rightly) limited at the moment to restricted airspace. You can't just restrict airspace on a whim either, because to do that you're taking away the freedom of pilots to use that airspace.
In any case it's not a big deal not being able to put a LIDAR on a drone - it's probably not that much cheaper than hiring a commercial aircraft operator to do it for you with a manned aircraft.
In the US, you won't get a pilot job at a major airline without a degree.
They don't care particularly what the degree is in, but they want to see at least a bachelor's degree. There are some universities who specialize in aerospace degrees though for hopeful airline pilots (such as Embry-Riddle)
Depends how old you are. I lived in Texas for a few years, and when I arrived my insurance for minimum liability only on an old used vehicle was $2400/year (the insurance cost more than my vehicle). I was told that because I was foreign and under 25, I was treated as if I were a 16 year old with 5 speeding tickets.