a real jet takes air and compresses it and explodes it with a fuel mixture.
that said, there *are* RC jets. They're hideously expensive and tempermental and so fast as to be very difficult to fly. Only extremely experienced fanatics can build and fly them.
About as likely as having sleeper agents live in a country for several years, learn how to fly jetliners and then pilot them expertly into skyscrapers and the pentagon at the same time.
Learn about torque. Electric motors generate tons of it at any speed. Gas engines don't. Most people havent a clue what horsepower actually is. these days its a well abused marketing term. Sort of like claiming mhz in a computer processor defines how fast it computes.
i believe most airplane cockpits are required to carry a fashion of slide rule in case the electronics all fail (and so does the batteries in your fuel calculator) and you need to make various calculations.
you would never face the sudden dread of a fading calculator screen during a midterm...
Each year the academy sends DVDs of movies up for nomination to academy members (ie, actors, directors and so forth) so they can watch the movies and then vote for them.
As you can imagine, nobody can see each movie up for grabs each year, much less the less-distributed arthouse ones where the real 'art' is.
The MPAA is worried these DVDs will make it onto the internet.
alot of sites spam by using meta words that have nothing to do with them and hiding them either in meta tags, or on the page with the same color as the background.
Once i searched for my site's URL and found it in the text of one of those penis pill sites.
the new and 'improved' soyuz landed several hundred miles off target.
Amusingly, all soyuz capsules come with sawed off shotguns. Why? The russians had problems with them going off course and landing in the woods and one crew found itself staring down hungry wolves while they waited for a rescue team.
they're the party of free enterprise - which in most cases means letting businesses do what they will in a free market, unfettered with government laws and regulations.
The RIAA is abusing law (DMCA) and using 'big government' (the passage of said DMCA) in their actions. They are threatening people by wasting the resources of the government with their increasingly frivolous lawsuits (each of these has to be handled by a court clerk).
I forget the name of it. But there are currently data recorders on the market which plug into the OBDII and save the data - one is specifically marketed to households with teenage drivers.
Car tuners have for quite awhile been using similar systems.
They have to, for the fundamental operation of the engine.
Your engine computer contains some non-voltile memory that saves any error codes your engine may throw up (misfire, malfunctioning O2 sensor, emissions problem..anything that causes your 'check engine' light to come on) so your mechanical can quickly diagnose problems. For economical reasons, they usually use this same nvram chip to hold the running data for the engine. O2 readings, fuel data and of course, Speed, because vehicle speed is integral to calculating optimum fuel and air consumption for the engine. Other things like spark timing and camshaft positions are recorded too. All kinds of mundane data.
As such, your engine computer usually holds a few seconds of this data in its memory. Now get in a wreck, computer loses power, but since they use nonvolatile memory the last few seconds of data are probably in there.
Most vehicles computers store the last few seconds of data, but a few are outfitted with recorders that save the data if an airbag is deployed. The manufacturers can use this data to perform analysis on what the cars were doing and so on.
I believe Volvo goes so far as to dispatch an 'accident team' if a wreck involving one of their cars occurs within a few kilometers of their safety division headquarters. They find out what happened, how the car reacted, etc.
most of it is mundane. O2 levels, fuel readings, etc. It records speed, however, as its useful for a bunch of various calculations (like optimal fuel consumption).
So what these are used for is say you get in a fatal wreck and claim you were doing 45 mph. Witnesses disagree and say you were doing a more reckless 70. Who's to say? Well, the data contained by the car's computer isn't going to lie. It means the difference between accident and manslaughter, in some cases.
before going to court *you* should get your box's data analyzed by a third party. Obviously you have a right to view the data contained within your own automobile. This law doesn't restrict your personal use.
Oh, and you get: an ftp server, smb, sftp, ssh, httpd with CGI support, pop3/imap4, and postfix for smtp
And you expect Joe Blow to be able to administer these in a safe way? Isn't the main complaint against microsoft's insecurity the result of having too many services running on a default install? What the hell does Joe know about any of this crap?
Then you're done, though every once in awhile you should use the pretty graphics and MandrakeUpdate program to keep the bad guys out.
Too much work. No good.
If you buy it at Best Buy (like a lot of people I know), it costs you $30, the computer you were going to throw away, and an hour of your time.
Most people don't have a computer to throw away. Not everyone keeps their closet full of random spare parts, you know. And an hour is alot of time. And easily stretches into 10 when something goes wrong as it inevitably will. I hate Linux when something doesn't install as the instructions say it will. Seems to happen about half the time in my experience, and boy do I curse it because getting help with linux is an exercise in frustration. And I work with it on a daily basis... I imagine most people would give up and return the damn thing to best buy.
When you tell people they are buying a web server for $30, it makes following a few pictures to install Mandrake very easy.
The people this device is aimed at don't want a webserver they have to administer. They want a backup solution with *secure* sharing abilities where installation is a matter of plugging it in and turning it on. The device updates itself with no user interaction. It is in effect an ubiquitous silent device you're not supposed to notice nor touch after you plug it in.
You are not the target market. And not surprisingly for slashdot, appear unable to grasp that.
I like the 'well just set linux up' on whatever machine.
Hmm, lets see, do i have a good portion of a weekend to waste sitting in front of a monitor... or just buy a little box I can plug in and thats it, and you know, go do other more interesting stuff.
But it would take a great deal longer to set up and get working than this device which requires you to a. Plug it in. b. Turn it on. c. Give it a name.
Not to mention the fact its targetted at the general population who could care less about what operating system its running and just want the thing to do as its advertised. Which is back up files and make them easily accessible in little time.
have always amazed me with their blind shortsighted cynicism. Everything started off as a mostly useless concept at some point. The first car henry ford built wasn't exactly 'worthwhile' either, puttered around at 10 mph and spooked horses with its incredible racket. And it had no brakes and was mostly unsteerable.
A few years later, a million model T's had rolled off the assembly line.
Keep working hard, and let the dumb nerds complain themselves into lonely unrecognized obscurity.
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i guess you didnt listen to the guy talk. His gives their job description - programmers.
a real jet takes air and compresses it and explodes it with a fuel mixture.
that said, there *are* RC jets. They're hideously expensive and tempermental and so fast as to be very difficult to fly. Only extremely experienced fanatics can build and fly them.
This company builds actual micro jet engines.
About as likely as having sleeper agents live in a country for several years, learn how to fly jetliners and then pilot them expertly into skyscrapers and the pentagon at the same time.
Or so I imagine.
Learn about torque. Electric motors generate tons of it at any speed. Gas engines don't. Most people havent a clue what horsepower actually is. these days its a well abused marketing term. Sort of like claiming mhz in a computer processor defines how fast it computes.
i believe most airplane cockpits are required to carry a fashion of slide rule in case the electronics all fail (and so does the batteries in your fuel calculator) and you need to make various calculations.
you would never face the sudden dread of a fading calculator screen during a midterm...
Each year the academy sends DVDs of movies up for nomination to academy members (ie, actors, directors and so forth) so they can watch the movies and then vote for them.
As you can imagine, nobody can see each movie up for grabs each year, much less the less-distributed arthouse ones where the real 'art' is.
The MPAA is worried these DVDs will make it onto the internet.
*Kerin, Berkowitz, Hartley, Rudelius.
Marketing: 7th edition.
Once i searched for my site's URL and found it in the text of one of those penis pill sites.
Seriously. I should've copyrighted "i++" a long time ago...
Amusingly, all soyuz capsules come with sawed off shotguns. Why? The russians had problems with them going off course and landing in the woods and one crew found itself staring down hungry wolves while they waited for a rescue team.
is far more inspiring to future generations of scientists and engineers than moving people faster than sound across the atlantic.
The RIAA is abusing law (DMCA) and using 'big government' (the passage of said DMCA) in their actions. They are threatening people by wasting the resources of the government with their increasingly frivolous lawsuits (each of these has to be handled by a court clerk).
Saw this on CNN the other day when they talked about the recall of the segways. Bush's segway wasn't turned on when he stepped onto it.
Car tuners have for quite awhile been using similar systems.
Your engine computer contains some non-voltile memory that saves any error codes your engine may throw up (misfire, malfunctioning O2 sensor, emissions problem..anything that causes your 'check engine' light to come on) so your mechanical can quickly diagnose problems. For economical reasons, they usually use this same nvram chip to hold the running data for the engine. O2 readings, fuel data and of course, Speed, because vehicle speed is integral to calculating optimum fuel and air consumption for the engine. Other things like spark timing and camshaft positions are recorded too. All kinds of mundane data.
As such, your engine computer usually holds a few seconds of this data in its memory. Now get in a wreck, computer loses power, but since they use nonvolatile memory the last few seconds of data are probably in there.
Most vehicles computers store the last few seconds of data, but a few are outfitted with recorders that save the data if an airbag is deployed. The manufacturers can use this data to perform analysis on what the cars were doing and so on.
I believe Volvo goes so far as to dispatch an 'accident team' if a wreck involving one of their cars occurs within a few kilometers of their safety division headquarters. They find out what happened, how the car reacted, etc.
So what these are used for is say you get in a fatal wreck and claim you were doing 45 mph. Witnesses disagree and say you were doing a more reckless 70. Who's to say? Well, the data contained by the car's computer isn't going to lie. It means the difference between accident and manslaughter, in some cases.
before going to court *you* should get your box's data analyzed by a third party. Obviously you have a right to view the data contained within your own automobile. This law doesn't restrict your personal use.
And you expect Joe Blow to be able to administer these in a safe way? Isn't the main complaint against microsoft's insecurity the result of having too many services running on a default install? What the hell does Joe know about any of this crap?
Then you're done, though every once in awhile you should use the pretty graphics and MandrakeUpdate program to keep the bad guys out.
Too much work. No good.
If you buy it at Best Buy (like a lot of people I know), it costs you $30, the computer you were going to throw away, and an hour of your time.
Most people don't have a computer to throw away. Not everyone keeps their closet full of random spare parts, you know. And an hour is alot of time. And easily stretches into 10 when something goes wrong as it inevitably will. I hate Linux when something doesn't install as the instructions say it will. Seems to happen about half the time in my experience, and boy do I curse it because getting help with linux is an exercise in frustration. And I work with it on a daily basis... I imagine most people would give up and return the damn thing to best buy.
When you tell people they are buying a web server for $30, it makes following a few pictures to install Mandrake very easy.
The people this device is aimed at don't want a webserver they have to administer. They want a backup solution with *secure* sharing abilities where installation is a matter of plugging it in and turning it on. The device updates itself with no user interaction. It is in effect an ubiquitous silent device you're not supposed to notice nor touch after you plug it in.
You are not the target market. And not surprisingly for slashdot, appear unable to grasp that.
I like the 'well just set linux up' on whatever machine.
Hmm, lets see, do i have a good portion of a weekend to waste sitting in front of a monitor... or just buy a little box I can plug in and thats it, and you know, go do other more interesting stuff.
Which to recommend, which indeed.
But it would take a great deal longer to set up and get working than this device which requires you to a. Plug it in. b. Turn it on. c. Give it a name.
Not to mention the fact its targetted at the general population who could care less about what operating system its running and just want the thing to do as its advertised. Which is back up files and make them easily accessible in little time.
This is mentioned on all the major news sites.
A few years later, a million model T's had rolled off the assembly line.
Keep working hard, and let the dumb nerds complain themselves into lonely unrecognized obscurity.
the IRS. I imagine SSN is used routinely to identify for tax information, social security, insurance purposes...
like a thumbreader right on the side of the mouse. much more convenient than buying extra hardware.