And, looking at your web site, we're using the Concorde as the baseline. The article we (well, I) read was discussing business jets with a capacity 1/10 of the Concorde.
By my calculations, each Concorde-sized SST with Concorde-like engines would need to dump 1.3 million pounds of NOx into the atmosphere to meet the schedule proposed in your web site.
What the web site does NOT address, however, is how or whether that would have a substantial effect on ozone depletion. And you don't address the fact that we've got 40 years of engine development since Concorde first flew, resulting in much cleaner exhaust. That, coupled with the fact that the jets under consideration are much, much smaller than Concorde, and the fact that these aircraft would be a drop in the bucket wrt the rest of the civil air transport fleet, leads me back to my original conclusion:
You hate rich people, and think they shouldn't be allowed to do things you can't afford to do.
I'm still trying to figure out how I want to do this. My Powerbook's hard drive is 60 (expensive to upgrade) gigs, but my PC has arbitrarily large amounts of space. I'm sore tempted to just use the iPod as my primary repository of music, and use the Windows PC for backups, and then just hook the iPod to the powerbook if/when I want toonz.
My concern is if I rip stuff onto the powerbook, how to migrate it smoothly over to the iPod.
I really, really like iTunes, but maybe I should look into the alternatives.
Do you have any particular knowledge about the effects of jet travel on the ozone layer, or are you assuming that since rich people do it it must be bad?
Before you answer that, go check out the speed of sound in seawater. It's a really crazybig number.
The problem wiht many tiny flaps is that each one dumps its own little shock wave, totally destroying any advantage you migh have.
Sonic booms have nothing to do with turbulence.
Believe me, the guys who are studying this are a) really smart and b) have heard of all the crazy shit you've heard of, and can explain to you why it won't work at a level you will be totally unable to comprehend.
I won't be able to comprehend it either, and I've got a fair amount of aerodynamics study under my belt.
You know what happens when you learn how to fly IFR (Instrument Flight Rules)? You wear this goofy hat that makes it really difficult to look out the windows.
Windows on (commercial) aircraft are for looking at the scenery. They are not necessary for navigation. They're no longer necessary for landing.
They are of course desireable, as an emergency last-ditch "Where the FUCK is the ground!?" check, but that task can be easily handled by some nice displays and cameras.
(Note: For tactical aircraft, the Mark 1 eyeball is still a very important tool for maintaining situational awareness, but for civil aircraft that's not really so.)
The only way voting libertarian will ever, ever be a viable option is if we get some sort of instant-runoff voting scheme in place.
Which will never happen as long as the Republicans and the Democrats control the election process. Which they will, until we get some sort of instant-runoff voting scheme in place.
Voting Libertarian will not solve this problem. Voting Libertarian is, and ever will be, tilting at windmills.
What does "obsolete" mean? Are there not 1st-gen iPods still happily cranking out 10gb of music? I mean, I'm the proud owner of the new 40gb clickwheel iPod, but I'd hardly call the 1st gen products "obsolete". Superseded by biggerfastercheaper units? Sure! But that happens in the electronics industry.
If the tool still does the thing you bought it to do, it's not obsolete.
The Pond Racer was another beautiful, but ill-fated, Rutan design. The flaw with that aircraft was mechanical (oil fire) rather than design, but nevertheless...
Designing aircraft is hard. Designing safe aircraft is almost impossible. Designing safe, high performance aircraft is impossible.
(safe=some arbitrarily low value for deaths per passenger mile)
And we find the middle ground. Ain't discussion grand?
Me, I have no particular attachment to paper. I love reading, but I am tired of replacing books that I've dropped in the bathtub. My Palm III is not quite high resolution enough to be comfortable, but it's easy for me to imagine a device that's cheap, rugged, waterproof, and backlit. The limiting factor will be the licensing agreements. Don't see a way around those...
Uh huh. I want to see you read The Confusion with one hand. You know, the hardcover one, with the modern hot-glue binding that dumps folios into your lap when you try to read it in bed.
Give me a waterproof, rugged, backlit device any time. The device I want doesn't exist yet, but it will. And I'll be delighted to say goodbye to dead trees for the majority of my reading.
Will books be "gone forever"? Of course not. But your romantic attachments to tree pulp do not bear on my desire for a more practical solution.
The only reason stock splits are attractive is because people who don't understand the market think stock splits are attractive, and people who do understand the market exploit them.
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My 4g fits in the watch pocket of my jeans. Smaller would not be particularly useful to me.
And boy, is it ever a cool piece of hardware...
Well, your comment seemed pretty prejudicial...
And, looking at your web site, we're using the Concorde as the baseline. The article we (well, I) read was discussing business jets with a capacity 1/10 of the Concorde.
By my calculations, each Concorde-sized SST with Concorde-like engines would need to dump 1.3 million pounds of NOx into the atmosphere to meet the schedule proposed in your web site.
What the web site does NOT address, however, is how or whether that would have a substantial effect on ozone depletion. And you don't address the fact that we've got 40 years of engine development since Concorde first flew, resulting in much cleaner exhaust. That, coupled with the fact that the jets under consideration are much, much smaller than Concorde, and the fact that these aircraft would be a drop in the bucket wrt the rest of the civil air transport fleet, leads me back to my original conclusion:
You hate rich people, and think they shouldn't be allowed to do things you can't afford to do.
To which I say: bollocks.
Well-designed is a superset of utilitarian. Utilitarian is functional and ugly. Well-designed is functional and beautiful.
Intuitive doesn't cover enough ground.
I'm still trying to figure out how I want to do this. My Powerbook's hard drive is 60 (expensive to upgrade) gigs, but my PC has arbitrarily large amounts of space. I'm sore tempted to just use the iPod as my primary repository of music, and use the Windows PC for backups, and then just hook the iPod to the powerbook if/when I want toonz.
My concern is if I rip stuff onto the powerbook, how to migrate it smoothly over to the iPod.
I really, really like iTunes, but maybe I should look into the alternatives.
Just ruminating...
Like it or not, an idea is only as good as its salesman.
See my other response to your post on the subject.
Woz didn't turn Apple around, leading the company to develop a kick ass new operating system and this sweet Powerbook I'm working on.
Woz is a freakin' genius, and a real mensch. But just because he's great doesn't mean Jobs has to be not-great. Jobs is a great leader.
Created the notion that computers should be well designed, not just raw utilitarian functionalism?
You might disagree, and you're entitled to. Me, I think Jobs has immeasurably improved my experience of using computers.
What has he done? Re-energized a bunch of creative engineers and designers. Led them to take on the world and design insanely great products.
Is he a coder? Or an engineer? Or a designer? No. He's a visionary. We need all those sorts of people to advance the state of any art.
You are, of course, free to hate his vision. I do not. : )
Do you have any particular knowledge about the effects of jet travel on the ozone layer, or are you assuming that since rich people do it it must be bad?
How many supersonic dolphins are there?
Before you answer that, go check out the speed of sound in seawater. It's a really crazybig number.
The problem wiht many tiny flaps is that each one dumps its own little shock wave, totally destroying any advantage you migh have.
Sonic booms have nothing to do with turbulence.
Believe me, the guys who are studying this are a) really smart and b) have heard of all the crazy shit you've heard of, and can explain to you why it won't work at a level you will be totally unable to comprehend.
I won't be able to comprehend it either, and I've got a fair amount of aerodynamics study under my belt.
It IS a shockwave. Textbook definition.
Sonic booms are serious action.
So it's not illegal. I'm sure that's a big comfort to the families of Jr's passengers.
If you're not IFR rated, you've got no business flying passengers in the conditions he crashed in.
You know what happens when you learn how to fly IFR (Instrument Flight Rules)? You wear this goofy hat that makes it really difficult to look out the windows.
Windows on (commercial) aircraft are for looking at the scenery. They are not necessary for navigation. They're no longer necessary for landing.
They are of course desireable, as an emergency last-ditch "Where the FUCK is the ground!?" check, but that task can be easily handled by some nice displays and cameras.
(Note: For tactical aircraft, the Mark 1 eyeball is still a very important tool for maintaining situational awareness, but for civil aircraft that's not really so.)
2%? Bullshit. The Greens got more than that last election. Perot got ten times that. Where are those parties?
Adrift with no rudder. And they'll stay that way until we get rid of the winner-take-all system.
What makes you think you live in a democracy?
What makes you think that living in a democracy is a good idea?
There are things that need to be changed about our political system, but "Not being a democracy" is not one of those problems.
The only way voting libertarian will ever, ever be a viable option is if we get some sort of instant-runoff voting scheme in place.
Which will never happen as long as the Republicans and the Democrats control the election process. Which they will, until we get some sort of instant-runoff voting scheme in place.
Voting Libertarian will not solve this problem. Voting Libertarian is, and ever will be, tilting at windmills.
Cool...thanks for the confirmation. That's what I thought you had to do.
I'm contemplating reformatting my Mac iPod for Windows, so that I can connect it to any computer on Earth. That'd be cool!
exactly my point. : ) It was a great piece of hardware, and still is.
Do the 1G devices work with Windows, out of curiousity?
What does "obsolete" mean? Are there not 1st-gen iPods still happily cranking out 10gb of music? I mean, I'm the proud owner of the new 40gb clickwheel iPod, but I'd hardly call the 1st gen products "obsolete". Superseded by biggerfastercheaper units? Sure! But that happens in the electronics industry.
If the tool still does the thing you bought it to do, it's not obsolete.
Isn't it? My understanding is that there is exactly one source of helium on Earth (in Amarillo, TX) and it's not trivial to extract it.
Am I operating on bad info?
The Pond Racer was another beautiful, but ill-fated, Rutan design. The flaw with that aircraft was mechanical (oil fire) rather than design, but nevertheless...
Designing aircraft is hard. Designing safe aircraft is almost impossible. Designing safe, high performance aircraft is impossible.
(safe=some arbitrarily low value for deaths per passenger mile)
And we find the middle ground. Ain't discussion grand?
Me, I have no particular attachment to paper. I love reading, but I am tired of replacing books that I've dropped in the bathtub. My Palm III is not quite high resolution enough to be comfortable, but it's easy for me to imagine a device that's cheap, rugged, waterproof, and backlit. The limiting factor will be the licensing agreements. Don't see a way around those...
Uh huh. I want to see you read The Confusion with one hand. You know, the hardcover one, with the modern hot-glue binding that dumps folios into your lap when you try to read it in bed.
Give me a waterproof, rugged, backlit device any time. The device I want doesn't exist yet, but it will. And I'll be delighted to say goodbye to dead trees for the majority of my reading.
Will books be "gone forever"? Of course not. But your romantic attachments to tree pulp do not bear on my desire for a more practical solution.
No.
From the perspective of the computer marketplace, there are about four of you that don't use any MS products.
That's great and all, but don't pretend that your ability to avoid MS's crap means that MS doesn't control the market.
I like Hi. Cram it. better.
DUDE! Can you see me or something? That's creepy!
The only reason stock splits are attractive is because people who don't understand the market think stock splits are attractive, and people who do understand the market exploit them.