Navaids broadcast their identifier using Morse. That's how you verify you've tuned in to the right facility.
The code for each navaid is printed on the sectional chart. It's very easy enough to figure them out without really *knowning* Morse code since the identifiers are only 3 chars long and are transmitted very slowly.
The days of those navaids are numbered too. NDBs are dropping like flies already, and are not being repaired/replaced as the 30-50 year old hardware fails. Discussions for end-of-lifing VOR/VORDME/VORTAC/TACANs have already been in the works for a few years too.
Mainframe programmers (used to) write their code with the philosophy that it was intended to last indefinitely, and that they could possibly spend their entire careers maintaining and evolving a piece of software. They also tend to think that nobody else will ever be touching the innards of "their baby", as mainframe programmers tend to "keep to their own turf" and don't want anything to do with anybody else's programming project, nor do they want their peers poking around in their stuff either.
Unix programmers write their code to be as efficient, clever-witted and esoteric as they can possibly get it. They know that there will be a certain number of their peers reviewing their work, and they want to impress their peers with the output of their brains. In every group of unix programmers, there exists a pecking order and a constant desire to impress one's peers and thus increment themselves one more notch up the ladder of that pecking order. This instills into unix programmers the philosophy that the code they write should be portable across many *nixes and will also naturally be passed on down to some new junior programmer that comes along, once that newbie proves he has acquired the chops to grok the code. For some odd reason, many unix programmers tend identify just a little too disturbingly close to the Jedi Order from the Star Wars movies. Either that are they are often too deep into that medieval wizards and dragons fantasy crap. Worse yet are those who do both, and have no real life outside of their hobbies or computers. When not at work, you'll find them in their mothers' basements.
Windows programmers write their code with the intent to hurriedly slap together something that sorta kinda works under most sets of circumstances, but has plenty enough eye candy to wow the typical customer who only is smart enough to see GUI-skin deep. Often the software is deliberately written to just to "grease a squeaky wheel" for solving a short term need, and the only long-range planning ever done is to see how many times you can get the customer to repeatedly re-purchase the whole nine yards every 18 months. Also, Windows programmers have a penchant for writing code that only they can understand... to help bolster their own job security since their position will be outsourced in a heartbeat if the company can get away with it. Everything in the Windows world seems centered around a cultural core of pure temporariness. Both the code and the programmer are 100% disposeable. And come to think of it, all too often so is the employer (any typical ISV company) themselves. Windows software companies come and go like thunderstorms in Oklahoma.
Just my not-so-humble opinion, but I've always considered the term "outer space" to be more appropriately applied to space which is beyond our own solar system. That would really make it genuinely deserving of the adjective "outer". Anyone else concur?
Wikipedia for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen says that: "Commercial bulk hydrogen is usually produced by the steam reforming of natural gas."
...and there are enormous deposits of methane hydrates (frozen slurries of ice and methane) at the bottom of the oceans. If someone would develop an economical way to mine and recover this stuff, the methane could be used directly to fuel piston engine vehicles. Methane has an "octane" rating of about 130, making it an excellent fuel for piston engines. It's also useable directly in many types of fuel cells in place of hydrogen to make electricity.
There's a huge amount of methane hydrates at the bottom of the oceans. If global warming causes them to be unstable and release the trapped methane into the atmosphere, it will have a greenhouse gas effect 20 times greater than if we could mine the stuff and burn it as a fuel. I just read an article that said that just one large deposit located 100km off the coast of Vancouver could theoretically supply all of Canada's energy needs for 200 years in place of oil. Mankind needs to develop some way of mining these methyl hydrates. Methane can also be used in fuel cells, or burned directly in car engines, where it has a motor octane rating of about 130, nearly the perfect fuel for a piston engine. The problems of transport and storage of LNG or CNG are not that big at all. If he suddenly had a huge source of cheap methane made available, the rest of industries would adapt to it in a heartbeat.
I think NASA would appreciate its use by people who won't crash jets onto the runway more. That, or whoever did the landing is responsible for replacing the divots.
By the time any pilot ever gets to fly and land their first big jet, they're already a well-seasoned expert who has logged thousands of hours of flight time and tens of thousands of landings in progressively larger and larger, and more sophisticated aircraft on their way up their flying careers. There is no such thing as "primary" training ever done in a jetliner. In fact jetliner pilots have to successfully pass a rigorous training regimen in simulators on the ground before they ever get to the co-pilot's seat of the big iron, and several years of flying right-seat before they get to the left seat.
If you like Slackware, and if you've ever tried FreeBSD and seen the BSD "ports collection" system of installing stuff, then you'll probably love Gentoo. I used to be a die-hard Slackware user but use SuSE now since it's too easy and convenient and I've gotten lazy WRT keeping my Linux machines updated... SuSE's Yast Online Update takes all the work out of it.
Leaving a WiFi access point open and unsecured is broadcasting the signal, and hence, access to anyone in the public who is within "earshot" of the WAP. Some court somewhere needs to wake up and smell the coffee with this issue and give a clear and sensible ruling on it, because even the cheapest WAPs on the market do have a mechanism to switch from public broadcast to private access (i.e. at least turning on WEP). Even though WEP doesn't provide any real security, it at least marks a visible boundry. In virtually every municipality in the USA, the concrete sidewalk that cuts across your residential front yard is public property and everyone in your neighborhood is free to walk along it... it's mere presence constitutes an invitation for the public to use it, but your front yard itself is private... there's no fence in between your grass and the sidewalk. If you have a portable AM/FM radio, does tuning into a local station constitute "hacking" their signal even though you have no intention of buying goods and services from their commercial advertisors? No. Does using an unauthorized satellite TV receiver with decryption system constitute "hacking" a pay-per-view satellite TV transmission? Yes. The "securing of the signal" is what makes the difference.
In a nutshell, leaving a WAP wide open not only constitutes "not marking any boundary at all", but IMHO it also constitutes broadcasting an invitation for the public to use it.
Occupants of a hot air balloon in a wind storm perceive only calm air
Only if they're suspended *inside* the balloon itself! If they're riding in a basket or gondola slung underneath the balloon, I think they'll have a slightly different opinion of the ride.
The CarterCopter never claimed to be a helicopter... only a rotorcraft. (Gyroplanes and helicopters are both types of "rotorcraft"... FAA's definition) The CarterCopter folks only wanted to be the first "rotorcraft" to break 1.0 mu. Still, it's pretty neat what they've accomplished with their applied engineering and they've acually built and flown their machine unlike many other hyped up experimental flying machine concepts such as Moller's Skycar.
They mesure airspead. Groundspead is totally irrelivant.
Yup. Groundspeed is only relevant to the persons inside the aircraft who are in a hurry to get from point A to point B in some amount of time. To the aircraft itself, any aircraft, the only speed it knows about is airspeed. By definition, mu is a ratio based purely on airspeed.
BTW, I've seen the CarterCopter up close and personal once... even got to touch it, but they wouldn't let me sit inside for a photo:-/. It's quite an amazing machine.
Then again, if the DVForge guys thought they had a chance, I would think they'd push it in court (they could always recover the costs, right?). So they must feel they are actually on shaky ground, too.
Umm, if you don't the money up front to fund the court fight, you're screwed already.
Yes we do, but all the PHBs and golf-playing beancounters who are in charge of everything right now don't seem to give a rat's ass about that. Even if they did, the last thing they want to do is give credit where credit is due, but rather to steal someone else's thunder and claim it for their own benefit while squashing the originator of the ideas.
pardon my rant,/me feeling really cynical tonight after a couple beers
...when next the US Post Office will be required to scan and image and index into a searchable database every letter and document that flows thru the postal system.
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So... if it's written in MUMPS (otherwise known as "M" for brevity), and it's Open Source Software, then wouldn't that make it a piece of MOSS.
;-)
Navaids broadcast their identifier using Morse. That's how you verify you've tuned in to the right facility.
The code for each navaid is printed on the sectional chart. It's very easy enough to figure them out without really *knowning* Morse code since the identifiers are only 3 chars long and are transmitted very slowly.
The days of those navaids are numbered too. NDBs are dropping like flies already, and are not being repaired/replaced as the 30-50 year old hardware fails. Discussions for end-of-lifing VOR/VORDME/VORTAC/TACANs have already been in the works for a few years too.
2008 called. He was amazed because he just read Slashdot and people were still posting this tired old joke.
Ask him if DNF ever shipped yet.
Mainframe programmers (used to) write their code with the philosophy that it was intended to last indefinitely, and that they could possibly spend their entire careers maintaining and evolving a piece of software. They also tend to think that nobody else will ever be touching the innards of "their baby", as mainframe programmers tend to "keep to their own turf" and don't want anything to do with anybody else's programming project, nor do they want their peers poking around in their stuff either.
Unix programmers write their code to be as efficient, clever-witted and esoteric as they can possibly get it. They know that there will be a certain number of their peers reviewing their work, and they want to impress their peers with the output of their brains. In every group of unix programmers, there exists a pecking order and a constant desire to impress one's peers and thus increment themselves one more notch up the ladder of that pecking order. This instills into unix programmers the philosophy that the code they write should be portable across many *nixes and will also naturally be passed on down to some new junior programmer that comes along, once that newbie proves he has acquired the chops to grok the code. For some odd reason, many unix programmers tend identify just a little too disturbingly close to the Jedi Order from the Star Wars movies. Either that are they are often too deep into that medieval wizards and dragons fantasy crap. Worse yet are those who do both, and have no real life outside of their hobbies or computers. When not at work, you'll find them in their mothers' basements.
Windows programmers write their code with the intent to hurriedly slap together something that sorta kinda works under most sets of circumstances, but has plenty enough eye candy to wow the typical customer who only is smart enough to see GUI-skin deep. Often the software is deliberately written to just to "grease a squeaky wheel" for solving a short term need, and the only long-range planning ever done is to see how many times you can get the customer to repeatedly re-purchase the whole nine yards every 18 months. Also, Windows programmers have a penchant for writing code that only they can understand... to help bolster their own job security since their position will be outsourced in a heartbeat if the company can get away with it. Everything in the Windows world seems centered around a cultural core of pure temporariness. Both the code and the programmer are 100% disposeable. And come to think of it, all too often so is the employer (any typical ISV company) themselves. Windows software companies come and go like thunderstorms in Oklahoma.
The question still exsists.Will the "seperation of church and state" clause apply?
What is this "separation of church and state" clause you're speaking of? There's no such thing anywhere in the US constitution.
Just my not-so-humble opinion, but I've always considered the term "outer space" to be more appropriately applied to space which is beyond our own solar system. That would really make it genuinely deserving of the adjective "outer". Anyone else concur?
Is it any worse than "Inframan"?
Technically, it will be political, of course!
Wikipedia for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen says that:
...and there are enormous deposits of methane hydrates (frozen slurries of ice and methane) at the bottom of the oceans. If someone would develop an economical way to mine and recover this stuff, the methane could be used directly to fuel piston engine vehicles. Methane has an "octane" rating of about 130, making it an excellent fuel for piston engines. It's also useable directly in many types of fuel cells in place of hydrogen to make electricity.
"Commercial bulk hydrogen is usually produced by the steam reforming of natural gas."
There's a huge amount of methane hydrates at the bottom of the oceans. If global warming causes them to be unstable and release the trapped methane into the atmosphere, it will have a greenhouse gas effect 20 times greater than if we could mine the stuff and burn it as a fuel. I just read an article that said that just one large deposit located 100km off the coast of Vancouver could theoretically supply all of Canada's energy needs for 200 years in place of oil. Mankind needs to develop some way of mining these methyl hydrates. Methane can also be used in fuel cells, or burned directly in car engines, where it has a motor octane rating of about 130, nearly the perfect fuel for a piston engine. The problems of transport and storage of LNG or CNG are not that big at all. If he suddenly had a huge source of cheap methane made available, the rest of industries would adapt to it in a heartbeat.
With a "z". Please get your Yiddish correct.
I think NASA would appreciate its use by people who won't crash jets onto the runway more. That, or whoever did the landing is responsible for replacing the divots.
By the time any pilot ever gets to fly and land their first big jet, they're already a well-seasoned expert who has logged thousands of hours of flight time and tens of thousands of landings in progressively larger and larger, and more sophisticated aircraft on their way up their flying careers. There is no such thing as "primary" training ever done in a jetliner. In fact jetliner pilots have to successfully pass a rigorous training regimen in simulators on the ground before they ever get to the co-pilot's seat of the big iron, and several years of flying right-seat before they get to the left seat.
We had a flying car way back in 1979! What more can you want than that?
If you like Slackware, and if you've ever tried FreeBSD and seen the BSD "ports collection" system of installing stuff, then you'll probably love Gentoo. I used to be a die-hard Slackware user but use SuSE now since it's too easy and convenient and I've gotten lazy WRT keeping my Linux machines updated... SuSE's Yast Online Update takes all the work out of it.
Leaving a WiFi access point open and unsecured is broadcasting the signal, and hence, access to anyone in the public who is within "earshot" of the WAP. Some court somewhere needs to wake up and smell the coffee with this issue and give a clear and sensible ruling on it, because even the cheapest WAPs on the market do have a mechanism to switch from public broadcast to private access (i.e. at least turning on WEP). Even though WEP doesn't provide any real security, it at least marks a visible boundry. In virtually every municipality in the USA, the concrete sidewalk that cuts across your residential front yard is public property and everyone in your neighborhood is free to walk along it... it's mere presence constitutes an invitation for the public to use it, but your front yard itself is private... there's no fence in between your grass and the sidewalk. If you have a portable AM/FM radio, does tuning into a local station constitute "hacking" their signal even though you have no intention of buying goods and services from their commercial advertisors? No. Does using an unauthorized satellite TV receiver with decryption system constitute "hacking" a pay-per-view satellite TV transmission? Yes. The "securing of the signal" is what makes the difference.
In a nutshell, leaving a WAP wide open not only constitutes "not marking any boundary at all", but IMHO it also constitutes broadcasting an invitation for the public to use it.
January 1st, 1970
:-)
Otherwise known as the "Epoch"
Couldn't they have picked a date other than the 13th? At least it ain't a Friday. No, I'm not superstitious or nothing like that.... honest.
Since Google now has pretty deep pockets, you can expect an endless stream of all kinds of wierd-ass lawsuits filed against them.
Occupants of a hot air balloon in a wind storm perceive only calm air
Only if they're suspended *inside* the balloon itself! If they're riding in a basket or gondola slung underneath the balloon, I think they'll have a slightly different opinion of the ride.
The CarterCopter never claimed to be a helicopter... only a rotorcraft. (Gyroplanes and helicopters are both types of "rotorcraft"... FAA's definition) The CarterCopter folks only wanted to be the first "rotorcraft" to break 1.0 mu. Still, it's pretty neat what they've accomplished with their applied engineering and they've acually built and flown their machine unlike many other hyped up experimental flying machine concepts such as Moller's Skycar.
They mesure airspead. Groundspead is totally irrelivant.
:-/. It's quite an amazing machine.
Yup. Groundspeed is only relevant to the persons inside the aircraft who are in a hurry to get from point A to point B in some amount of time. To the aircraft itself, any aircraft, the only speed it knows about is airspeed. By definition, mu is a ratio based purely on airspeed.
BTW, I've seen the CarterCopter up close and personal once... even got to touch it, but they wouldn't let me sit inside for a photo
Then again, if the DVForge guys thought they had a chance, I would think they'd push it in court (they could always recover the costs, right?). So they must feel they are actually on shaky ground, too.
Umm, if you don't the money up front to fund the court fight, you're screwed already.
America already has the homegrown talent.
/me feeling really cynical tonight after a couple beers
Yes we do, but all the PHBs and golf-playing beancounters who are in charge of everything right now don't seem to give a rat's ass about that. Even if they did, the last thing they want to do is give credit where credit is due, but rather to steal someone else's thunder and claim it for their own benefit while squashing the originator of the ideas.
pardon my rant,
...when next the US Post Office will be required to scan and image and index into a searchable database every letter and document that flows thru the postal system.
Killing off the small ISPs is likely one of the primary indended (unspoken) goals.