ressure is in Pascals everywhere outside of North America as well (where it's inches of mercury).
But "Two niner niner two" is so much easier to remember...
Likewise weather reports uses miles (both statute and nautical!), again only in this region.
Hmm are you sure it's only in that region? I know altitudes for PIREPs and SIGMETs and such are usually in feet and/or flight levels. Last I checked we parse international METARs, PIREPs, Winds Aloft, etc. the same way we do domestic ones, which would imply they're all using miles and feet/flight level...
I don't spend much (read: any) time in cockpits internationally, so it could be that pilots regularly do change their altimeter setting between Imperial and Metric (though I've usually seen it as an installer-only setting), but all the WX data that comes across my desk is in Imperial... Well, except for temperature. That's always Celsius, because the freezing point is too convenient.
People keep wondering why the FAA is being difficult about writing rules to allow unmanned aircraft operations in the US? This is why. The DoD is falling all over themselves out of desperation to get these things in the air. They won't be satisfied until there's a Global Hawk watching every inhabited square mile of the continental US 24/7. Safety for everyone else in the air be damned.
Yes, 5-10X the size of a large consumer drone, meaning it's significantly easier to see. It also managed to pierce the fuel tank of an aircraft designed to operate in combat. A MO20 or PA28 isn't quite so hardy.
and this "controlled airspace" was one where the exercise of multiple planes in a small area...
... Was still significantly less crowded than the corridor from KDCA/KBWI/KPHL/KJFK/KBOS. Close calls between airlines and manned aircraft flying VFR where they aren't supposed to is already common enough, and although "anyone" can fly a plane (legally) very few people can afford the licensing, much less own their own aircraft. Most people could buy a DJI Phantom if they wanted to.
As long as competitor content isn't slowed down to make your content more attractive, it seams reasonable to me to put caps on out of network usage, but no caps on usage from servers which are wholly owned by the ISP.
That would almost make sense if they similarly exempted traffic from any server co-located in their data centers, like the free CDN solution Netflix offers ISPs to reduce congestion on their external links. Except they don't do that, they charge Netflix AND count it against the cap.
I don't think you understand net neutrality, or how ridiculous Comcast is.
While we had fun telling visitors to the labs that most of systems running Air Traffic Control were "essentially from the 60s and 70s" that's only technically correct.
The truth is the original HOST mainframes were replaced in the 80s, and then again in the 90s, and now being phased out for ERAM (which is built out of COTS PC parts). In some cases software was brought forward during upgrades, so it may have been possible you'd of been running some assembly code back from the Apollo era but not really. There were still some oddities, though (like the "units" of some fields being in 64ths of a nautical mile), that made interfacing with the ARTCC systems fun.
There might be some ARTS IIA terminals left? Those are vintage early '80s, but I think they've all been replaced with at least IIE or IIIE ('90s) and are all slated to become some form of STARS (late '90s) by 2020 or so.
The FBI went to the administrator and had them reset the password on the account, which locked the FBI out of the phone. So either they're monumentally incompetent or they did this on purpose because they wanted the court precedent.
They did manage them. The FBI told them to reset the account password, which locked the FBI out of the phone. Convenient, really, almost like they did that on purpose.
While 33% is an overestimate, she still would be paying about 18-20% of her income in taxes at her salary level. The math about works out there. Though I didn't care enough to read her letter to determine if she was also including California's ridiculous sales tax in her calculation somehow.
Bjarne Stroustrup has always maintained that the ability to do systems programming is an essential feature of C++. It was designed that you should be able to write very resource-constrained, performant code when necessary.
Not too long ago he wrote a very good essay on the benefits of languages like C++ for infrastructure programming, and how it can save memory (and electrical power, even).
Why would they post updates on the Kickstarter page? They have their own website.
The current patch notes and development status can be found here. The FPS mode was never cancelled. Again, there's plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize RSI (like, for instance, why it seems every patch requires downloading ~27GB of data) without making crap up.
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If all you want is Over The Air, there's the Channel Master. Been hearing good things about it.
This article has some sources on the Human Factors research behind it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Apparently some of that original research has been called into question now.
Most modern systems allow for selection of gender, anyway.
But "Two niner niner two" is so much easier to remember...
Hmm are you sure it's only in that region? I know altitudes for PIREPs and SIGMETs and such are usually in feet and/or flight levels. Last I checked we parse international METARs, PIREPs, Winds Aloft, etc. the same way we do domestic ones, which would imply they're all using miles and feet/flight level...
I don't spend much (read: any) time in cockpits internationally, so it could be that pilots regularly do change their altimeter setting between Imperial and Metric (though I've usually seen it as an installer-only setting), but all the WX data that comes across my desk is in Imperial... Well, except for temperature. That's always Celsius, because the freezing point is too convenient.
There are only a few countries that use meters, and most of them (e.g. Russia and China) aren't countries many people fly in and out of...
People keep wondering why the FAA is being difficult about writing rules to allow unmanned aircraft operations in the US? This is why. The DoD is falling all over themselves out of desperation to get these things in the air. They won't be satisfied until there's a Global Hawk watching every inhabited square mile of the continental US 24/7. Safety for everyone else in the air be damned.
Yes, 5-10X the size of a large consumer drone, meaning it's significantly easier to see. It also managed to pierce the fuel tank of an aircraft designed to operate in combat. A MO20 or PA28 isn't quite so hardy.
http://www.defensetech.org/201...
And that was where the US Mililtary controls the entire airspace, not where anyone can fly whenever they want...
That would almost make sense if they similarly exempted traffic from any server co-located in their data centers, like the free CDN solution Netflix offers ISPs to reduce congestion on their external links. Except they don't do that, they charge Netflix AND count it against the cap.
I don't think you understand net neutrality, or how ridiculous Comcast is.
There aren't billions of birds at 11,000 feet.
And at low altitudes where planes commonly are (e.g. around airports) we scare them away with rockets or outright kill them.
While we had fun telling visitors to the labs that most of systems running Air Traffic Control were "essentially from the 60s and 70s" that's only technically correct.
The truth is the original HOST mainframes were replaced in the 80s, and then again in the 90s, and now being phased out for ERAM (which is built out of COTS PC parts). In some cases software was brought forward during upgrades, so it may have been possible you'd of been running some assembly code back from the Apollo era but not really. There were still some oddities, though (like the "units" of some fields being in 64ths of a nautical mile), that made interfacing with the ARTCC systems fun.
There might be some ARTS IIA terminals left? Those are vintage early '80s, but I think they've all been replaced with at least IIE or IIIE ('90s) and are all slated to become some form of STARS (late '90s) by 2020 or so.
The FBI went to the administrator and had them reset the password on the account, which locked the FBI out of the phone. So either they're monumentally incompetent or they did this on purpose because they wanted the court precedent.
You mean how you didn't read my post where I said the same thing as you but with LESS CAPS?
Go read SB County's twitter:
https://twitter.com/CountyWire...
They did manage them. The FBI told them to reset the account password, which locked the FBI out of the phone. Convenient, really, almost like they did that on purpose.
While 33% is an overestimate, she still would be paying about 18-20% of her income in taxes at her salary level. The math about works out there. Though I didn't care enough to read her letter to determine if she was also including California's ridiculous sales tax in her calculation somehow.
The executive branch is in charge of convening Grand Juries and investigating/prosecuting crimes.
Great. Let's go back to fixed terms with optional renewals. Then there's no benefit to killing the author.
I asked the author of Classic Theme Restorer if it would stop working, he said it would have no effect on CTR.
And that is objectively awful.
Bjarne Stroustrup has always maintained that the ability to do systems programming is an essential feature of C++. It was designed that you should be able to write very resource-constrained, performant code when necessary.
Not too long ago he wrote a very good essay on the benefits of languages like C++ for infrastructure programming, and how it can save memory (and electrical power, even).
The USTR that's pushing this is in a Democrat administration.
That you know.
Why would they post updates on the Kickstarter page? They have their own website.
The current patch notes and development status can be found here. The FPS mode was never cancelled. Again, there's plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize RSI (like, for instance, why it seems every patch requires downloading ~27GB of data) without making crap up.
Actually the most recent "update" (if you mean software release) for Star Citizen was August 6th: 1.1.6a.
If you mean the most recent news release, it was August 22nd...
There's plenty of reasons to criticize RSI w/o making stuff up.
No it doesn't. It might download them, but you still have to manually trigger the install.
By your definition, insults are hate speech.
Hate speech is like pornography/obscenity: No one can define it, and it's usually strangely close to "Stuff I don't like."