I'd most likely suspect that it's simply a case of they have only a fixed amount of backbone bandwidth to their central office that's now feeding both the old DSL and new fiber customers, and now all those newly added fiber customers are simply sucking the life out of the backbone connection's bandwidth capacity.
Could we be seeing the demise of the drug/bomb sniffing dog with this new tech?
Maybe. But maybe we'll just see the rise of the electronic sniffing machines that can easily be surreptitiously programmed to report falsified findings, kinda like electronic voting machines.
(1) Champ (2) Citabria (various versions)
-----> (2.5) Scout line derived from Citabria airframe to become bush-plane line. (3) Decathlon (4) Super Decathlon
Steve was flying the top of the line model, though the Scout probably would've been a better choice of a plane for the particular mission Steve was flying, if he would have had one available.
...people say "he died doing what he loved". No pilot loves crashing a plane. Whatever had gone terribly wrong at the end of Steve's last flight, I can guarantee you he was not loving it. I'd bet that the first emotion that he felt was anger at whatever caused the initial deviation from normal flight, followed by shock and apprehension in the final seconds once he realized he was in serious trouble.
Fortunately I have never been in such a dire predicament while behind the controls of a plane, the worst that's happened to me was a partial loss of power after takeoff during climbout in a C172, but I had plenty of altitude and an airport right behind me in easy gliding distance in case the engine quit completely, but I landed normally without incident. I can tell you I was certainly NOT loving it, and the emotion going thru my head was that I was pissed off at the airplane.
Two pilot friends of mine have died in small plane crashes, both due to making really stupid errors in judgement. As they drilled their respective planes into the dirt, they were not doing what they loved either. Both of them took friends and family members to their deaths with them too.
...the local municipality has no say in what they consider public records or not. The State dictates this to the city, county and appraisal district governing bodies. And yup, the appraisal tax maps are public records.
Besides, when I was a young'un, the plasterboard would have been the prize. We had to make our own drywall from gypsum lumps and the paper we made by chewing up wasps nests and spitting out the eggs, larvae, and wasps to make pulp.
Right.
I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of dry poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill, and when we got home, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah!
You can't tell the young people of today that. They won't believe you.
I guess I might as well karma-whore some more...I completely missed the Wiki page for Butanol Fuel. I also think that Wiki article is wrong about butanol's melting point being 25.5 deg C, that is for pure "tertiary-Butanol", not "n-Butanol" which is the isomer that is preferred for fuel.
Ethanol has about 84K BTU/gallon of energy for use in a piston engine. Butanol has about 110K BTU/gallon, compared to an average of 115K BTU/gallon for unleaded gasoline. Butanol also does not absorb water out of the air like ethanol does readily. Butanol can be made by via bacteria fermentation of biomass similar to like ethanol can. Butanol does have a problem with not vaporizing good enough for cold starts in very low temperatures, but that could be overcome with electric heater incorporated in a vehicle's fuel injector system for operation in cold weather.
My employer does a lot of state and local government systems installation and support contracts. All the email systems we install must have archive mechanisms that capture copies of all emails that are sent and received and that the end-users cannot access or modify. Emails sent or received by government employees are often considered public records, and typically the state has a set of regulatory statutes that govern how long each classification of email must be retained, some classes must be kept forever.
Ever wonder why so many state and local government email system run on Lotus Notes/Domino? It's because Lotus has a built-in feature called "mail journaling" that automatically does the archiving. In addition, Lotus has a standard clustering capability in its design that allows you to replicate the entire servers and their contents effortlessly across multiple machines. When I first had to learn Lotus, I thought it was going to kill me, but the more time I spend with it, the more I realize it is an incredibly powerful and capable messaging and application/database platform. But it has a super-weird learning curve to it that most people never can seem to "get it", hence the widespread fear and loathing towards Lotus Notes.
who the hell thought domain names like meat.com and milk.com were going to be goldmines?
Obviously the kind of people whose brains think at the complete opposite end of the spectrum as the folks who thought up this one.
You're probably aware of the threat robots pose...
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Robots Learn To Lie
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...it shows what can happen if we give too much power to robots
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel. And when they grab you with those metal claws, you can't break free... because they're made of metal, and robots are strong.
My first video game ever, must've been one of the earliest Magnavox Odyssey series, like a 300 or 400. I was only about 5 at the time, but I remembered it was bright red, and had knobs to turn to move the paddles. Of course, later on I wasted lots of money and time on all the classic quarter-operated arcade machines whenever my folks would let me. In school, we got a few Commodore PETs, and I wasted as much time as the teachers allowed playing "Miner" on them with the cheesey character block graphics and speaker beep sounds.
For the curious, it usually takes a hot 357 magnum to penetrate and clear most modern drives. 9mm and 45acp either bounce off, or don't exit the drive.
That's why I prefer a 12 gauge slug at fairly close range. The impact can be best described as "glorious". Wear eye protection, I like to use a full face dirtbike helmet since bits of metal go everywhere.
BTW, the slugs do wonders on an old washing machine too:-)
Sometimes I can't help but think that if Tesla had continued more of his experimental research into very high energy RF transmissions that he might have learned about its hazards similarly, and personally, much in the same manner that Marie Curie learned the hard way about the hazards of working with radioactive substances without thorough understanding and laboratory safety.
Most tubes contained a "getter" made of barium or other reactive metal, to adsorb any gas molecules which survived initial pumpdown, or which were liberated from the internal elements during operation.
I wondered why he seemed to power up the filament until it glowed white hot like an incendescent lamp, while pumping the air out. I guess he must have been trying to sacrifice a little of the filament's metal to help burn off the last remaining oxygen that the pumpdown can't get out.
At my job, we honestly don't have a valid reason to adopt virtualization right now. It'll actually cost us more money to accomplish the same job we're presently doing without it. But my boss wants to deploy it somehow only because it's one of the latest buzzwords. I guess it looks good to have some vm experience on my c.v. also;-)
Airplanes ditch in water and people have time to get out before they sink. My Piper Cherokee will float long enough for me to climb out onto the wing
Just hope you don't flip it over when you ditch. Then you can climb out. Cherokees being ditched have a bad habit of flipping over just as soon as the nosewheel hits the water due to the pilot trying to land it on the water as if on land, with the flaps down which gives that obnoxious nose-down pitching tendancy with the hersheybar wing. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to best ditch one: (1) slow it down as much as possible with full flaps, then stall it from a few feet above the water to try to drop it down as vertically flat as possible and (2)don't use flaps so you can keep the nose high and try to drag the tail down into the water first. Either way, you gotta keep flying the plane all the way thru the ditching process. I don't think either method is especially successful as more than half of all fixed-gear light plane ditchings, both high and low wing, end up fatal. If you do ever have to ditch and are able to keep the plane right side up in the water, immediately after exiting the Cherokee, climb onto the top of the fuselage near the tail and use your weight to balance it and keep the nose from sinking and it'll stay afloat much longer. If you climb onto the wing, you'll help the nose pitch down underwater and it'll sink faster. That's what Doug Ritter, the AOPA expert on ditching once wrote about a guy in a Mooney who did just that and survived both the ditching and escaped the hypothermia from the water afterwards since the plane stayed afloat for quite a long time since he was able to keep the heavy nose from dropping under by straddling the rear fuselage and shifting his weight. Talk about "keep flying the plane" eh? Even when became a liferaft.
BTW, I own a Cherokee too... at least half of one anyway;-)
I paid for it once, and didn't perceive any real benefit. I've placed many orders in the late afternoon and they still get them shipped out by the last Fedex pickup of that same day. Expedited processing maybe pushed up the ship time by a couple hours but once a package gets into Fedex's hands the shipping process is the same.
Ahh, we had Timex Sinclairs in Tejas back when I was a wee lad. Of course, being a middle-school student at the time meant I could only browse the electronics catalogs and dream of owning a computer. By the I was old enough to afford my first computer, it was a used C64. And it really was "rubbish" as it was so slow and extremely limited in what you could do with it.
I can't help but wonder how much invisible behind-the-scenes support for this law is coming from the big telcos, who want to quash all free WiFi out of existence using any means they can conjure up.
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I'd most likely suspect that it's simply a case of they have only a fixed amount of backbone bandwidth to their central office that's now feeding both the old DSL and new fiber customers, and now all those newly added fiber customers are simply sucking the life out of the backbone connection's bandwidth capacity.
"British Airport will require no income or revenue from domestic customers."
'nuff said.
...is do do away with the concept of CALs altogether, and sell their server OS for dirt cheap.
... is the best part of playing FPS games.
And I'm not talking about motherboards, video cards and PSUs from too much overclocking either!
Could we be seeing the demise of the drug/bomb sniffing dog with this new tech?
Maybe. But maybe we'll just see the rise of the electronic sniffing machines that can easily be surreptitiously programmed to report falsified findings, kinda like electronic voting machines.
From low-end to top of the line in this model series:
(1) Champ
(2) Citabria (various versions)
-----> (2.5) Scout line derived from Citabria airframe to become bush-plane line.
(3) Decathlon
(4) Super Decathlon
Steve was flying the top of the line model, though the Scout probably would've been a better choice of a plane for the particular mission Steve was flying, if he would have had one available.
...people say "he died doing what he loved". No pilot loves crashing a plane. Whatever had gone terribly wrong at the end of Steve's last flight, I can guarantee you he was not loving it. I'd bet that the first emotion that he felt was anger at whatever caused the initial deviation from normal flight, followed by shock and apprehension in the final seconds once he realized he was in serious trouble.
Fortunately I have never been in such a dire predicament while behind the controls of a plane, the worst that's happened to me was a partial loss of power after takeoff during climbout in a C172, but I had plenty of altitude and an airport right behind me in easy gliding distance in case the engine quit completely, but I landed normally without incident. I can tell you I was certainly NOT loving it, and the emotion going thru my head was that I was pissed off at the airplane.
Two pilot friends of mine have died in small plane crashes, both due to making really stupid errors in judgement. As they drilled their respective planes into the dirt, they were not doing what they loved either. Both of them took friends and family members to their deaths with them too.
Windows Vista won't truly be ready until the first complete Service Pack is released.
That one will probably still be fiction even after the 1st service pack.
...the local municipality has no say in what they consider public records or not. The State dictates this to the city, county and appraisal district governing bodies. And yup, the appraisal tax maps are public records.
Besides, when I was a young'un, the plasterboard would have been the prize. We had to make our own drywall from gypsum lumps and the paper we made by chewing up wasps nests and spitting out the eggs, larvae, and wasps to make pulp.
Right.
I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of dry poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill, and when we got home, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah!
You can't tell the young people of today that. They won't believe you.
I guess I might as well karma-whore some more...I completely missed the Wiki page for Butanol Fuel. I also think that Wiki article is wrong about butanol's melting point being 25.5 deg C, that is for pure "tertiary-Butanol", not "n-Butanol" which is the isomer that is preferred for fuel.
Ethanol has about 84K BTU/gallon of energy for use in a piston engine. Butanol has about 110K BTU/gallon, compared to an average of 115K BTU/gallon for unleaded gasoline. Butanol also does not absorb water out of the air like ethanol does readily. Butanol can be made by via bacteria fermentation of biomass similar to like ethanol can. Butanol does have a problem with not vaporizing good enough for cold starts in very low temperatures, but that could be overcome with electric heater incorporated in a vehicle's fuel injector system for operation in cold weather.
My employer does a lot of state and local government systems installation and support contracts. All the email systems we install must have archive mechanisms that capture copies of all emails that are sent and received and that the end-users cannot access or modify. Emails sent or received by government employees are often considered public records, and typically the state has a set of regulatory statutes that govern how long each classification of email must be retained, some classes must be kept forever.
Ever wonder why so many state and local government email system run on Lotus Notes/Domino? It's because Lotus has a built-in feature called "mail journaling" that automatically does the archiving. In addition, Lotus has a standard clustering capability in its design that allows you to replicate the entire servers and their contents effortlessly across multiple machines. When I first had to learn Lotus, I thought it was going to kill me, but the more time I spend with it, the more I realize it is an incredibly powerful and capable messaging and application/database platform. But it has a super-weird learning curve to it that most people never can seem to "get it", hence the widespread fear and loathing towards Lotus Notes.
oh brother.... :-\
who the hell thought domain names like meat.com and milk.com were going to be goldmines?
Obviously the kind of people whose brains think at the complete opposite end of the spectrum as the folks who thought up this one.
...it shows what can happen if we give too much power to robots
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel. And when they grab you with those metal claws, you can't break free... because they're made of metal, and robots are strong.
Better give Old Glory Insurance a call today!
My first video game ever, must've been one of the earliest Magnavox Odyssey series, like a 300 or 400. I was only about 5 at the time, but I remembered it was bright red, and had knobs to turn to move the paddles. Of course, later on I wasted lots of money and time on all the classic quarter-operated arcade machines whenever my folks would let me. In school, we got a few Commodore PETs, and I wasted as much time as the teachers allowed playing "Miner" on them with the cheesey character block graphics and speaker beep sounds.
For the curious, it usually takes a hot 357 magnum to penetrate and clear most modern drives. 9mm and 45acp either bounce off, or don't exit the drive.
:-)
That's why I prefer a 12 gauge slug at fairly close range. The impact can be best described as "glorious". Wear eye protection, I like to use a full face dirtbike helmet since bits of metal go everywhere.
BTW, the slugs do wonders on an old washing machine too
Sometimes I can't help but think that if Tesla had continued more of his experimental research into very high energy RF transmissions that he might have learned about its hazards similarly, and personally, much in the same manner that Marie Curie learned the hard way about the hazards of working with radioactive substances without thorough understanding and laboratory safety.
Most tubes contained a "getter" made of barium or other reactive metal, to adsorb any gas molecules which survived initial pumpdown, or which were liberated from the internal elements during operation.
I wondered why he seemed to power up the filament until it glowed white hot like an incendescent lamp, while pumping the air out. I guess he must have been trying to sacrifice a little of the filament's metal to help burn off the last remaining oxygen that the pumpdown can't get out.
At my job, we honestly don't have a valid reason to adopt virtualization right now. It'll actually cost us more money to accomplish the same job we're presently doing without it. But my boss wants to deploy it somehow only because it's one of the latest buzzwords. I guess it looks good to have some vm experience on my c.v. also ;-)
Airplanes ditch in water and people have time to get out before they sink. My Piper Cherokee will float long enough for me to climb out onto the wing
;-)
Just hope you don't flip it over when you ditch. Then you can climb out. Cherokees being ditched have a bad habit of flipping over just as soon as the nosewheel hits the water due to the pilot trying to land it on the water as if on land, with the flaps down which gives that obnoxious nose-down pitching tendancy with the hersheybar wing. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to best ditch one: (1) slow it down as much as possible with full flaps, then stall it from a few feet above the water to try to drop it down as vertically flat as possible and (2)don't use flaps so you can keep the nose high and try to drag the tail down into the water first. Either way, you gotta keep flying the plane all the way thru the ditching process. I don't think either method is especially successful as more than half of all fixed-gear light plane ditchings, both high and low wing, end up fatal. If you do ever have to ditch and are able to keep the plane right side up in the water, immediately after exiting the Cherokee, climb onto the top of the fuselage near the tail and use your weight to balance it and keep the nose from sinking and it'll stay afloat much longer. If you climb onto the wing, you'll help the nose pitch down underwater and it'll sink faster. That's what Doug Ritter, the AOPA expert on ditching once wrote about a guy in a Mooney who did just that and survived both the ditching and escaped the hypothermia from the water afterwards since the plane stayed afloat for quite a long time since he was able to keep the heavy nose from dropping under by straddling the rear fuselage and shifting his weight. Talk about "keep flying the plane" eh? Even when became a liferaft.
BTW, I own a Cherokee too... at least half of one anyway
I paid for it once, and didn't perceive any real benefit. I've placed many orders in the late afternoon and they still get them shipped out by the last Fedex pickup of that same day. Expedited processing maybe pushed up the ship time by a couple hours but once a package gets into Fedex's hands the shipping process is the same.
Ahh, we had Timex Sinclairs in Tejas back when I was a wee lad. Of course, being a middle-school student at the time meant I could only browse the electronics catalogs and dream of owning a computer. By the I was old enough to afford my first computer, it was a used C64. And it really was "rubbish" as it was so slow and extremely limited in what you could do with it.
I can't help but wonder how much invisible behind-the-scenes support for this law is coming from the big telcos, who want to quash all free WiFi out of existence using any means they can conjure up.
This law will be quite effective for them.