No person may operate an aircraft that has an experimental or restricted certificate over a densely populated area or in a congested airway unless authorized by the FAA.
Since this is a kit plane it will be in the experimental class. Unfortunatly this means that you wouldn't be able to fly it over built up areas making pretty restrictive for a $400k general purpose vehicle:(
DX9 has a managed inteface for most if the core components. MSFT are claiming a few% slowdown over C++ however i think that it pretty much irrelevant nowdays since games programmers seem to be having a hard time keeping up with the vast advances in computing power available to them. If working in.NET drops the framerate from 100 to 95 in exchange for a more productive porgramming environment then i think that it is worthwhile.
Directx9 also includes good integration with vstudio.net that lets you debug your shaders nicely.
There are 2 problems: the documentation is very poor at the moment - i have to find the equivelent c++ function in the help to get any info on what it does - and not all the parts are available (DirectMusic being the most noticable)
No i'm not nuts. In the UK you are taxed 40% after you earn about $60k. In the US you have to be earning about $307k before you hit the 38% federal tax bracket!
I can speak on this from the other direction - I've moved from the UK to the states - and I pay pretty much the same amount of tax. To suggest that the US taxes at a lower level is somewhat misleading and is only true with qualifications.
If you are a HIGH earner then the US taxes you at a lower rate.
If you are a normal person then the US taxes you about the same (of course this depends a little on your state).
I suspect that this is because a lot of americans belive in the 'America Dream': One day they will make it and be rich. They think that when that happens they wouldn't want really high taxes so they are content with a system that penalises the average person, just in case.
I saw spiderman on an IMAX screen. The manager told us that they were using a big magnifying lens, of which only a few exist in the country. The image quality was just about OK however I don't think that it was good enough for me to want to see many other movies in the same way. The other problem with IMAX for me is that the frame rate is too slow sometimes on the big sweeping shots and I find it a little uncomfortable.
I'm not sure what you mean by given up their freedom for nothing.
Petty thefts, bag snatching, people being beaten up are all very vaild targets in the attempt to reduce crime, after all, we don't have the same level of gun related or other serious crimes. Speeding is also a serious target - speeding kills a lot of people every year, should we take the attitude that it is OK to commit a crime providing no one sees you, or should our police offices be out catching criminals and letting automated systems take some of the burden.
My brother was involved in an incident in Leeds a couple of months ago where a gang of youths accused him of stealing their bike - they said they recognised the one he was riding. The police were able to spot the trouble on camera, record it for evidence and check that the police officers were going to be safe. This has led to a recorded downturn in the type of crime that it targets and i'm all for it.
The CCTV cameras are not designed to stop terrorist attacks and in the WTC case may not have helped, however to write off one type of system because another system that targets other crime has had no effect in an entirely different situation seems foolhardy at best. The automated face recognition systems could perhaps have helped in the recent situation. They are trained to look for a far greater number of people than any human checkin clerk, never tire and are always vigilent. The FBI seem to be saying that they have been able to identify some of the people who hijacked the planes based on the names used. If that had been combined with a face recognition system that had alerted airport security that a known terorist was passing through the airport, then i would like to see that system installed.
I live in the UK and i am quite happy about the use of CCTV as a means of combating crime. We are not there quite yet but in a few years perhaps technology will be used to stamp out crime for good.
The reason you see a lot of non US people doing Ph.D's in America is because the division of the subject between different levels is different. You get a broader, less detail undergraduate degree and make up for it with a 5 year Ph.D that includes sitting courses. In the UK (where i'm from) the undergrad degrees take the subject further but are narrower, and then you do a 3 year Ph.D comprising of just (more or less) research.
The upshot of this is that for the best education you can get, a good degree in the UK or somewhere similar, followed by a US style Ph.D seems to be very popular.
not only are they looking at that stuff bet there was an article in the paper only today about a solar powered speed camera in a cats eye! The device will also function as a brighter cats eye that changes color with the road conditions.
The device was very clever, using radar to sense speed then taking two digital pictures that are transfered out via a wireless network for remote processing. The divice is admissable in court and since the police are getting the money from fines now we will probabally start to see them everywhere.
You can do some of this with MS's tags. I'm not sure what the behavious is when there are multiple tags for the same word, i think it just adds them to all to one menu, however you could write (or use someonelses) list by writing a simple XML doc in notepad and putting it into a particular directory on the server.
There are also facilities for auto updates so the list could get better over time
Having looked at the Smart Tag SDK I can say that since content providers (either the specific site you are viewing or a dictionary or something) can write thier own tags to do just about anything they want, there is no need to write this technology off as flawed.
OK, so the sample tags arn't massivly good and have a microsoft bent to them, but they are only samples.
On a more technical note, you can write these tags either as COM objects, allowing complex database lookups for example, or using a simple XML schema to create website links, which is the part that people seem to be getting worked up about.
The microsoft stock price example is written as XML and works very well. There is no reason why the mozilla developers can't support that schema themselves.
I have been very impressed by MS's smart tags through out office and i think they could be very exciting and powerful both in an internet setting and in an internal setting. I'm sure that anyone can could think of a 100 good uses for these, especially since they can be used in word etc as well:
match filmstars names and link to biographies
match company names/product names and link to the correct site
match rare words and link to a dictionary
match customer names and allow the user to access thier account info
match currency values and provide exchange info
etc. etc.
There have been a few posts about starship troopers but erhaps what whey are looking for is more laike the stormtrooper kit from Star Wars. In one of the books there is a scene where a trooper uproots a tree singlehandedly so that would definitly count as stronger. Those kits fit snugly so that it is just like wearing a suit and hopefully not difficult to run. I'm not sure how they countered the center of gravity problem however small increadibly heavy masses in the bottom of the shoes like the ones I've read about for aritficial gravity generation might work.
The point that everyone seems to be missing is that they don't say that it is used throughout win2k but that it is used on the windows remote installation server. In this situation it makes more sense, for example several apps that have the same librarys would only result in one physical copy. In that situation the backup problems you discribed wouldn't be an issue.
If i'm wrong and it does exist in win2kpro perhaps someone could tell me how to turn it on!
I think the main problem here is the award of a digital signature to something that obviously is set out to cause anoyment. Personaly I like to power that the ActiveX controls allow, such as the windows update control which checks what updates you need automatically, however unless there is a reliable organisation looking at the controls then it is no longer going to be possible to trust anyone.
What are the requirements for getting a digital signature? Has someone actually tested the control on their system and decided that the changes it makes are suitable or is the process more a foregone conclussion. Companies simply going through the motions to get the signature?
If i'm not mistaken didn't MS buy a whole load of borland stock recently? I'm sure they won't object though since with a company in charge that is pushing Linux, development of windows apps may slow which can only be good for MS. Of course if borland do get good cross-platform tools then it could be considered a big threat.
I don't think that this is the case - of course humans can always write the same code that a compiler generates, given the time, and if you complile to asembler on some compilers, the code is quite easy to squeeze an extra couple of optmisations from. On the other hand what compilers have is time, to get the best optimization may take an algorithm a long time so no current compiler would every use that algorithm. I remember a friendly telling me of algorithms he had come across with a runtime measured in days. The perfomance benefit from running them isn't worth the time to run them, but there is the potential for compilers to be better than any normal human would have the time to write.
The importance of compilers in producing fast code is increasing already. The x86 line of processors has a lot of silicon dedicated to branch prediction etc but from what I have read of the Merced line the processor relys on the compiler to order the instructions optimally and to include extra information in the op codes for branch usages. I certainly wouldn't want to have to start coding that myself.
Working big holidays is made all the worse for not being appreciated. As a musician at the first new year gig I ever played for we discoverd that despite working very hard preparing what the band would do over midnight the hotel had hired a bag piper and didn't tell us until 30 seconds before he started to play! On a more serious note the Y2K problem was one which had a lot of effort put in to it and whilst it is a shame that any one had to work it was understandable. My father does systems for air traffic control and stayed in this year in case of any emergencies. Of course there were none but today he received a note telling him that the millenium wasn't a success because of a minor error in the date in a log file - it was fixed with a reboot but at least they are not taking what seems to be becoming a popular attitude and claiming that it was over-hyped.
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Nope, I refer you to FAR 91.319...
No person may operate an aircraft that has an experimental or restricted certificate over a densely populated area or in a congested airway unless authorized by the FAA.
Since this is a kit plane it will be in the experimental class. Unfortunatly this means that you wouldn't be able to fly it over built up areas making pretty restrictive for a $400k general purpose vehicle :(
DX9 has a managed inteface for most if the core components. MSFT are claiming a few% slowdown over C++ however i think that it pretty much irrelevant nowdays since games programmers seem to be having a hard time keeping up with the vast advances in computing power available to them. If working in .NET drops the framerate from 100 to 95 in exchange for a more productive porgramming environment then i think that it is worthwhile.
Directx9 also includes good integration with vstudio.net that lets you debug your shaders nicely.
There are 2 problems: the documentation is very poor at the moment - i have to find the equivelent c++ function in the help to get any info on what it does - and not all the parts are available (DirectMusic being the most noticable)
No i'm not nuts. In the UK you are taxed 40% after you earn about $60k. In the US you have to be earning about $307k before you hit the 38% federal tax bracket!
If you are a HIGH earner then the US taxes you at a lower rate.
If you are a normal person then the US taxes you about the same (of course this depends a little on your state).
I suspect that this is because a lot of americans belive in the 'America Dream': One day they will make it and be rich. They think that when that happens they wouldn't want really high taxes so they are content with a system that penalises the average person, just in case.
I saw spiderman on an IMAX screen. The manager told us that they were using a big magnifying lens, of which only a few exist in the country. The image quality was just about OK however I don't think that it was good enough for me to want to see many other movies in the same way. The other problem with IMAX for me is that the frame rate is too slow sometimes on the big sweeping shots and I find it a little uncomfortable.
Edward
I'm not sure what you mean by given up their freedom for nothing.
Petty thefts, bag snatching, people being beaten up are all very vaild targets in the attempt to reduce crime, after all, we don't have the same level of gun related or other serious crimes.
Speeding is also a serious target - speeding kills a lot of people every year, should we take the attitude that it is OK to commit a crime providing no one sees you, or should our police offices be out catching criminals and letting automated systems take some of the burden.
My brother was involved in an incident in Leeds a couple of months ago where a gang of youths accused him of stealing their bike - they said they recognised the one he was riding. The police were able to spot the trouble on camera, record it for evidence and check that the police officers were going to be safe. This has led to a recorded downturn in the type of crime that it targets and i'm all for it.
The CCTV cameras are not designed to stop terrorist attacks and in the WTC case may not have helped, however to write off one type of system because another system that targets other crime has had no effect in an entirely different situation seems foolhardy at best.
The automated face recognition systems could perhaps have helped in the recent situation. They are trained to look for a far greater number of people than any human checkin clerk, never tire and are always vigilent. The FBI seem to be saying that they have been able to identify some of the people who hijacked the planes based on the names used. If that had been combined with a face recognition system that had alerted airport security that a known terorist was passing through the airport, then i would like to see that system installed.
I live in the UK and i am quite happy about the use of CCTV as a means of combating crime. We are not there quite yet but in a few years perhaps technology will be used to stamp out crime for good.
The reason you see a lot of non US people doing Ph.D's in America is because the division of the subject between different levels is different. You get a broader, less detail undergraduate degree and make up for it with a 5 year Ph.D that includes sitting courses. In the UK (where i'm from) the undergrad degrees take the subject further but are narrower, and then you do a 3 year Ph.D comprising of just (more or less) research.
The upshot of this is that for the best education you can get, a good degree in the UK or somewhere similar, followed by a US style Ph.D seems to be very popular.
not only are they looking at that stuff bet there was an article in the paper only today about a solar powered speed camera in a cats eye! The device will also function as a brighter cats eye that changes color with the road conditions.
The device was very clever, using radar to sense speed then taking two digital pictures that are transfered out via a wireless network for remote processing. The divice is admissable in court and since the police are getting the money from fines now we will probabally start to see them everywhere.
You can do some of this with MS's tags. I'm not sure what the behavious is when there are multiple tags for the same word, i think it just adds them to all to one menu, however you could write (or use someonelses) list by writing a simple XML doc in notepad and putting it into a particular directory on the server.
There are also facilities for auto updates so the list could get better over time
Having looked at the Smart Tag SDK I can say that since content providers (either the specific site you are viewing or a dictionary or something) can write thier own tags to do just about anything they want, there is no need to write this technology off as flawed.
OK, so the sample tags arn't massivly good and have a microsoft bent to them, but they are only samples.
On a more technical note, you can write these tags either as COM objects, allowing complex database lookups for example, or using a simple XML schema to create website links, which is the part that people seem to be getting worked up about.
The microsoft stock price example is written as XML and works very well. There is no reason why the mozilla developers can't support that schema themselves.
I have been very impressed by MS's smart tags through out office and i think they could be very exciting and powerful both in an internet setting and in an internal setting. I'm sure that anyone can could think of a 100 good uses for these, especially since they can be used in word etc as well:
match filmstars names and link to biographies
match company names/product names and link to the correct site
match rare words and link to a dictionary
match customer names and allow the user to access thier account info
match currency values and provide exchange info
etc. etc.
I've been using a bit of software from Sensiva to do this with my tablet for a while - and it works across any application not just the web.
They seem to have versions for Windows, Mac and Linux.
I missed having the thumb button on my mouse which was set to back until i found this.
Sad to see Blame Canada not win best song but I think that they should still win best dress of the evening ;)
Matt Stone & Trey Parker
There have been a few posts about starship troopers but erhaps what whey are looking for is more laike the stormtrooper kit from Star Wars. In one of the books there is a scene where a trooper uproots a tree singlehandedly so that would definitly count as stronger.
Those kits fit snugly so that it is just like wearing a suit and hopefully not difficult to run. I'm not sure how they countered the center of gravity problem however small increadibly heavy masses in the bottom of the shoes like the ones I've read about for aritficial gravity generation might work.
The point that everyone seems to be missing is that they don't say that it is used throughout win2k but that it is used on the windows remote installation server. In this situation it makes more sense, for example several apps that have the same librarys would only result in one physical copy. In that situation the backup problems you discribed wouldn't be an issue.
If i'm wrong and it does exist in win2kpro perhaps someone could tell me how to turn it on!
I think the main problem here is the award of a digital signature to something that obviously is set out to cause anoyment. Personaly I like to power that the ActiveX controls allow, such as the windows update control which checks what updates you need automatically, however unless there is a reliable organisation looking at the controls then it is no longer going to be possible to trust anyone.
What are the requirements for getting a digital signature? Has someone actually tested the control on their system and decided that the changes it makes are suitable or is the process more a foregone conclussion. Companies simply going through the motions to get the signature?
If i'm not mistaken didn't MS buy a whole load of borland stock recently?
I'm sure they won't object though since with a company in charge that is pushing Linux, development of windows apps may slow which can only be good for MS. Of course if borland do get good cross-platform tools then it could be considered a big threat.
I don't think that this is the case - of course humans can always write the same code that a compiler generates, given the time, and if you complile to asembler on some compilers, the code is quite easy to squeeze an extra couple of optmisations from.
On the other hand what compilers have is time, to get the best optimization may take an algorithm a long time so no current compiler would every use that algorithm. I remember a friendly telling me of algorithms he had come across with a runtime measured in days. The perfomance benefit from running them isn't worth the time to run them, but there is the potential for compilers to be better than any normal human would have the time to write.
The importance of compilers in producing fast code is increasing already. The x86 line of processors has a lot of silicon dedicated to branch prediction etc but from what I have read of the Merced line the processor relys on the compiler to order the instructions optimally and to include extra information in the op codes for branch usages. I certainly wouldn't want to have to start coding that myself.
Working big holidays is made all the worse for not being appreciated. As a musician at the first new year gig I ever played for we discoverd that despite working very hard preparing what the band would do over midnight the hotel had hired a bag piper and didn't tell us until 30 seconds before he started to play!
On a more serious note the Y2K problem was one which had a lot of effort put in to it and whilst it is a shame that any one had to work it was understandable.
My father does systems for air traffic control and stayed in this year in case of any emergencies. Of course there were none but today he received a note telling him that the millenium wasn't a success because of a minor error in the date in a log file - it was fixed with a reboot but at least they are not taking what seems to be becoming a popular attitude and claiming that it was over-hyped.