Well my little Piper Cherokee won't hardly go any higher than about 14K' MSL, but I have no West Bend timer on board. I use a little digital stopwatch that came free with a bottle of Listerine to time my turns! Also have on board the original 35+ year old wind-up aircraft clock (Swiss-made Wakman, works perfect too), a battery-powered digital clock, the digital stopwatch function built into a Terra TriNav display, and trusty wristwatch. Oops, almost forgot my cellphone has a clock/stopwatch too.
I guess you could say that whenever I take off, that 'Time Flies':-) har har har!!!!
Simply going into space and coming back doesn't create a problem with reentry.
More accurately said: It doesn't create as big of a problem with reentry:-) The ride down is still fraught with much potential peril and opportunity for stuff to go wrong..
...migh be a good way to get your foot in the door at technology firm. You can;t really just rought out of school and into a network administration role without paying your dues first. Back in the early 1990's the job market for a freshly minted BSCS was very similar to what we have right now today. My first job was an applications & support programmer for a firm that made accounting software. Pretty boring, but it paid the rent and put food on my table and bought me my first brand new sports cars. It also gave me valuable experience in how an IT company actually functions and insight into how to position myself for the ultimate role that I really wanted -- to be a king daddy paw-paw network admin, which I finally am today. It took four and a half years of grunt work as a support programmer first, then software and database architect, then a senior database admin, then finally a junior network admin, and two more job changes as a senior network admin to land my current job as a full blown network manager, which I've been at for the better part of a decade now and probably will stay until I either retire, or win the lottery:-)
Everyone I know who owns a T226 complains about the poor reception. Two of my co-workers have them too, and inside our office building their signal strength shows barely off zero, barely able to work while I can stand right next to them with my Nokia and get more than half-strength displayed and no dropped calls inside the worst places inside the building. BTW, we're all on the same provider - ATTWS.
Your solution would simply be to get a better phone.
My little Piper Cherokee single engine propellor airplane is certified for +3.8Gs at full gross weight (2150 lbs), when loaded in the "normal" category. If loaded only to a max of 1950 lbs within the c.g. envelope of the "utility" category, it's even certified to handle +4.4Gs. There's like a 40% extra stress factor engineered into the strength of the airframe above the rated max G load too. The most I've personally stressed it is maybe +3G's last year when I was getting spin lessons from a CFI who's also an F-15 pilot in the USAF. He laughed at me heartily when I commented that we'd just pulled a pretty high G load... it made my stomach kinda queasy, but no hint of being anywhere near "blackout territory".
A few years ago I nearly lost a bunch of irreplaceable original midi files and Cakewalk projects composed and recorded by yours truly and a couple of friends, one of whom passed away from cancer not long after he recorded the songs on my keyboards and computer. I swore I'd never again run solitary drives on an important music composition/production computer and promptly ran out and bought myself a Promise FastTrak card and a pair of 20GB drives (the biggest around at the time). I ran those as RAID-1 until one of the 20GB drives started crapping out and then bought a new FastTrak TX4 100 card and a pair of 80GB IBM DeathStars before I knew about them earning that nickname. Used good old Norton Ghost to copy the known good drive from the old mirrored pair over to the new pair and was up and running on the new drives within a couple hours. Ran those for 2 years as RAID-1 without a hint of trouble despite the IBM drives, and recently replaced them with a new pair of Seagate 120GB 8MB buffer drives. I've never had any disk I/O thruput problems with the Promise card either, it's plenty fast and I also use this particular rig for multitrack audio too, and can easily support recording more simultaneous tracks than my audio hardware can even provide. I used one of the old 80GB Deathstars in a Linux box where it's still happily running, and use the other old 80GB drive to hold a recent Ghost copy snapshot of my music rig and keep that drive stashed away across town at a friend's house for offsite backup in case some major disaster hits my house.
...because it's obscure as f*ck. (Almost as far out there in left field as BeOS, except it *is* a unix). I once bought an old Sparcstation5 that had NetBSD loaded on it and it was about the same as FreeBSD or OpenBSD, just subtle differences. I reformatted the disk after playing around with NetBSD until I was completely bored with it and tried other operating systems: OpenBSD/Sparc, Linux/Sparc and both Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 on the little box (110MHz) and after compiling gcc with gcc itself under each o/s, quickly came to the conclusion that Sun's older Solaris 7 was the snappiest performer on this low-power machine.
If you're gonna run an x86 based piece of hardware, just do yourself a favor and stick with FreeBSD. Not only is it legendary stable, it's also the most refined and snappiest performing *BSD of then all on x86 platform. I just now replaced an old dual PentiumPro 200MHz FreeBSD Compaq Proliant that ran for nearly two years without a reboot, serving a 2GB website with Apache 1.3.x over the internet. Never got hacked either. Funny thing it, it was replaced with a dual 1.4GHz Xeon Proliant running Win2003 with IIS6 (not my choice) and the new box cannot keep up with the workload the old one easily handled. LoL!
NASA also used to historically "overbuild" these machines to as much of a degree as they possibly could too, within the bounds of such parameters as launch weight, power consumption, budget, etc. Surely these "overbuilt" qualities are a significant factor in the machines' ability to far exceed their original intended missions.
Nowadays, the beancounters have much more say over the engineers, and the "overbuilding" is done to a much lesser degree.
...as their email system, where it is trivial to archive old email from your main mailbox off to an archive database file where it's easily moveable to some offline, dirt-cheap media such as CDR, etc.
Are Linux Today's readers too stupid to think for themselves?
No kidding. Those MS ads are, to the average Linux Today reader, just like humorous Monty Python-esque interludes. All they are missing is the big foot.
Full speed, was the "full speed" of the older spec, but now we have hi-speed thanks to the 2.0 spec. So for USB 3.0 we'll have "super speed" (or whatever they call it
Personally, I think they should all be renamed to the following:
I'm patenting the technique of holding your mouth just right when you move the mouse around in games to score better points. All you hard core gamers out there are gonna owe me big time.
...in which, committing murder is a death- sentence crime, and the murderer is supposed to be executed right away as soon as possible after the crime. Now suppose a young man kills someone, and the authorities know right away he did it, but for whatever strange reason he doesn't get arrested, sentenced and executed immediately like as is the normal case with murders. The young man thinks that the police aren't on to him, and lives on to later have a wife and children, becomes a prosperous businessman and respected member of the community despite his evil secret past. Now later, his murder case out into the open even though the police have known of it for years. The courts try him, find him guilty and sentence him to be executed right away, but also the sentence is such that since he should have been sentenced to death immediately after his murder, that he had no right to have had a family, so that his children must also be put to death too and his wife imprisoned for consorting with a murderer. And all his posessions and wealth are seized by the courts too. His entire history from the time of the murder to the present are to be erased. Even everyone who had had contact with him in the past and prospered from that contact must give up whatever good will came of their relationships.
... or even any primates in existance at the time of the dinosaurs' mass extinction 65 million yeargs ago. In fact the only mammals around were only some very small rodent-like primitive mammals around then. Well, maybe you might call those critters our "ancestors", and maybe they did feast on rotting dino meat.
Looks like he is varying the thrust from the motor/prop, which is at some angle of attack against the bottom of the disk, to give pitch control. More thrust makes the nose pitch more upwards, less thrust makes the nose drop back down. I couldn't see any roll or yaw controls either, but I suspect he's probably got some kind of hidden spoilers that extend or retract a subtle amount in the back of the "engine nacelles". If I were trying to design it to give the thing some semblance of controllable flight while staying true to the shape of the craft, that's what I'd probably try to do.
All aircraft refueling pumps require, by law, a grounding wire to be connected to the aircraft to reduce the opportunity for static electric discharge before even putting the pump nozzle into the tank opening. Aircraft refueling involves a *much* higher rate of flow than auto refueling too (I can fill the twin 25 gallon tanks in my airplane in a mere fraction of the time it takes to put 20 gallons into my car). The high rate of flow of a non-polar fluid from the nozzle into the tank forms a sort of Van DeGraff generator. Auto refueling pumps are supposed to have a conductor built into the hose to ground the vehivle to the nozzle as you put it into the vehicle, but maybe there should also be a separate ground wire to connect to the vehicle *before* putting the nozzle in.
Even if Moller can ever get this thing working (very, very doubtful based on the man and the machine's history thus far), the physics involved in a purely vectored-thrust/powered lift flying machine, make it the potentially most dangerous and unstable aircraft you can ever have. Unless all thrust generating and vectoring parts are always working perfectly 100% of the time, the machine will be completely uncontrollable. Think of Neil Armstrong's experience with the "flying bedstead" here. Heck, even a helicopter has a quasi-failsafe mode (autorotation) for landing under some semblence of the pilot still being under control of the aircraft in case of loss of power. As an experienced pilot, I certainly would not want to see the sky polluted with these deathtraps.
Microsoft had no real way to apply "embrace and extend" into the networking world.
I sure wish I had another mod point to give you.
When I first read this article on the Slashdot front page, that was the first thing that jumped into my mind... that they're ditching commodity wifi because they can't find a way to proprietarize it and take it over.
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Well my little Piper Cherokee won't hardly go any higher than about 14K' MSL, but I have no West Bend timer on board. I use a little digital stopwatch that came free with a bottle of Listerine to time my turns! Also have on board the original 35+ year old wind-up aircraft clock (Swiss-made Wakman, works perfect too), a battery-powered digital clock, the digital stopwatch function built into a Terra TriNav display, and trusty wristwatch. Oops, almost forgot my cellphone has a clock/stopwatch too.
:-) har har har!!!!
I guess you could say that whenever I take off, that 'Time Flies'
Simply going into space and coming back doesn't create a problem with reentry.
:-)
More accurately said: It doesn't create as big of a problem with reentry
The ride down is still fraught with much potential peril and opportunity for stuff to go wrong..
...migh be a good way to get your foot in the door at technology firm. You can;t really just rought out of school and into a network administration role without paying your dues first. Back in the early 1990's the job market for a freshly minted BSCS was very similar to what we have right now today. My first job was an applications & support programmer for a firm that made accounting software. Pretty boring, but it paid the rent and put food on my table and bought me my first brand new sports cars. It also gave me valuable experience in how an IT company actually functions and insight into how to position myself for the ultimate role that I really wanted -- to be a king daddy paw-paw network admin, which I finally am today. It took four and a half years of grunt work as a support programmer first, then software and database architect, then a senior database admin, then finally a junior network admin, and two more job changes as a senior network admin to land my current job as a full blown network manager, which I've been at for the better part of a decade now and probably will stay until I either retire, or win the lottery :-)
But a quick, well handled recall is 1000% better than deny, deny, deny, deny... oh? oh yeah! we do have a problem!
How many people remember the Pentium floating point division bug?
Everyone I know who owns a T226 complains about the poor reception. Two of my co-workers have them too, and inside our office building their signal strength shows barely off zero, barely able to work while I can stand right next to them with my Nokia and get more than half-strength displayed and no dropped calls inside the worst places inside the building. BTW, we're all on the same provider - ATTWS.
Your solution would simply be to get a better phone.
You still need a good Faraday cage to block everything.
You also need to add plenty of Mu-Metal shielding too, to block your magnetic emissions.
My little Piper Cherokee single engine propellor airplane is certified for +3.8Gs at full gross weight (2150 lbs), when loaded in the "normal" category. If loaded only to a max of 1950 lbs within the c.g. envelope of the "utility" category, it's even certified to handle +4.4Gs. There's like a 40% extra stress factor engineered into the strength of the airframe above the rated max G load too. The most I've personally stressed it is maybe +3G's last year when I was getting spin lessons from a CFI who's also an F-15 pilot in the USAF. He laughed at me heartily when I commented that we'd just pulled a pretty high G load... it made my stomach kinda queasy, but no hint of being anywhere near "blackout territory".
...but definitely barfbags.
A few years ago I nearly lost a bunch of irreplaceable original midi files and Cakewalk projects composed and recorded by yours truly and a couple of friends, one of whom passed away from cancer not long after he recorded the songs on my keyboards and computer. I swore I'd never again run solitary drives on an important music composition/production computer and promptly ran out and bought myself a Promise FastTrak card and a pair of 20GB drives (the biggest around at the time). I ran those as RAID-1 until one of the 20GB drives started crapping out and then bought a new FastTrak TX4 100 card and a pair of 80GB IBM DeathStars before I knew about them earning that nickname. Used good old Norton Ghost to copy the known good drive from the old mirrored pair over to the new pair and was up and running on the new drives within a couple hours. Ran those for 2 years as RAID-1 without a hint of trouble despite the IBM drives, and recently replaced them with a new pair of Seagate 120GB 8MB buffer drives. I've never had any disk I/O thruput problems with the Promise card either, it's plenty fast and I also use this particular rig for multitrack audio too, and can easily support recording more simultaneous tracks than my audio hardware can even provide. I used one of the old 80GB Deathstars in a Linux box where it's still happily running, and use the other old 80GB drive to hold a recent Ghost copy snapshot of my music rig and keep that drive stashed away across town at a friend's house for offsite backup in case some major disaster hits my house.
...because it's obscure as f*ck. (Almost as far out there in left field as BeOS, except it *is* a unix). I once bought an old Sparcstation5 that had NetBSD loaded on it and it was about the same as FreeBSD or OpenBSD, just subtle differences. I reformatted the disk after playing around with NetBSD until I was completely bored with it and tried other operating systems: OpenBSD/Sparc, Linux/Sparc and both Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 on the little box (110MHz) and after compiling gcc with gcc itself under each o/s, quickly came to the conclusion that Sun's older Solaris 7 was the snappiest performer on this low-power machine.
If you're gonna run an x86 based piece of hardware, just do yourself a favor and stick with FreeBSD. Not only is it legendary stable, it's also the most refined and snappiest performing *BSD of then all on x86 platform. I just now replaced an old dual PentiumPro 200MHz FreeBSD Compaq Proliant that ran for nearly two years without a reboot, serving a 2GB website with Apache 1.3.x over the internet. Never got hacked either. Funny thing it, it was replaced with a dual 1.4GHz Xeon Proliant running Win2003 with IIS6 (not my choice) and the new box cannot keep up with the workload the old one easily handled. LoL!
Well, we have wardriving and warflying..., and now warsailing. What's next? Warspelunking in hell?
NASA also used to historically "overbuild" these machines to as much of a degree as they possibly could too, within the bounds of such parameters as launch weight, power consumption, budget, etc. Surely these "overbuilt" qualities are a significant factor in the machines' ability to far exceed their original intended missions.
Nowadays, the beancounters have much more say over the engineers, and the "overbuilding" is done to a much lesser degree.
...as their email system, where it is trivial to archive old email from your main mailbox off to an archive database file where it's easily moveable to some offline, dirt-cheap media such as CDR, etc.
Are Linux Today's readers too stupid to think for themselves?
No kidding. Those MS ads are, to the average Linux Today reader, just like humorous Monty Python-esque interludes. All they are missing is the big foot.
Personally, I think they should all be renamed to the following:
I'm patenting the technique of holding your mouth just right when you move the mouse around in games to score better points. All you hard core gamers out there are gonna owe me big time.
...in which, committing murder is a death- sentence crime, and the murderer is supposed to be executed right away as soon as possible after the crime. Now suppose a young man kills someone, and the authorities know right away he did it, but for whatever strange reason he doesn't get arrested, sentenced and executed immediately like as is the normal case with murders. The young man thinks that the police aren't on to him, and lives on to later have a wife and children, becomes a prosperous businessman and respected member of the community despite his evil secret past. Now later, his murder case out into the open even though the police have known of it for years. The courts try him, find him guilty and sentence him to be executed right away, but also the sentence is such that since he should have been sentenced to death immediately after his murder, that he had no right to have had a family, so that his children must also be put to death too and his wife imprisoned for consorting with a murderer. And all his posessions and wealth are seized by the courts too. His entire history from the time of the murder to the present are to be erased. Even everyone who had had contact with him in the past and prospered from that contact must give up whatever good will came of their relationships.
Far out, another fellow r.a.p.'er here on Slashdot. Dylan reads and posts here a lot too (as "Alioth"). I fly a Piper too (PA28).
... or even any primates in existance at the time of the dinosaurs' mass extinction 65 million yeargs ago. In fact the only mammals around were only some very small rodent-like primitive mammals around then. Well, maybe you might call those critters our "ancestors", and maybe they did feast on rotting dino meat.
Yay! Notes 6.5.1 runs wonderfully.
What about Desginer and Domino Administrator 6.x too?
The babelfish translation of the Japanese site says that he has some "compound rudder, aileron, elevator" at the rear of the disk.
Looks like he is varying the thrust from the motor/prop, which is at some angle of attack against the bottom of the disk, to give pitch control. More thrust makes the nose pitch more upwards, less thrust makes the nose drop back down. I couldn't see any roll or yaw controls either, but I suspect he's probably got some kind of hidden spoilers that extend or retract a subtle amount in the back of the "engine nacelles". If I were trying to design it to give the thing some semblance of controllable flight while staying true to the shape of the craft, that's what I'd probably try to do.
All aircraft refueling pumps require, by law, a grounding wire to be connected to the aircraft to reduce the opportunity for static electric discharge before even putting the pump nozzle into the tank opening. Aircraft refueling involves a *much* higher rate of flow than auto refueling too (I can fill the twin 25 gallon tanks in my airplane in a mere fraction of the time it takes to put 20 gallons into my car). The high rate of flow of a non-polar fluid from the nozzle into the tank forms a sort of Van DeGraff generator. Auto refueling pumps are supposed to have a conductor built into the hose to ground the vehivle to the nozzle as you put it into the vehicle, but maybe there should also be a separate ground wire to connect to the vehicle *before* putting the nozzle in.
Even if Moller can ever get this thing working (very, very doubtful based on the man and the machine's history thus far), the physics involved in a purely vectored-thrust/powered lift flying machine, make it the potentially most dangerous and unstable aircraft you can ever have. Unless all thrust generating and vectoring parts are always working perfectly 100% of the time, the machine will be completely uncontrollable. Think of Neil Armstrong's experience with the "flying bedstead" here. Heck, even a helicopter has a quasi-failsafe mode (autorotation) for landing under some semblence of the pilot still being under control of the aircraft in case of loss of power. As an experienced pilot, I certainly would not want to see the sky polluted with these deathtraps.
Microsoft had no real way to apply "embrace and extend" into the networking world.
I sure wish I had another mod point to give you.
When I first read this article on the Slashdot front page, that was the first thing that jumped into my mind... that they're ditching commodity wifi because they can't find a way to proprietarize it and take it over.