They was just publicity stunts of no scientific value at all, especially given the majority of the flight time was well above the ash cloud. If they had spent hours up there flying at various speeds and altitudes and covering large swathes of Europe it might have meant something.
Of course, fortunately, the original question is easy to answer as there was no over re-action because they had to no choice. It is the law. You do not fly through volcanic ash. Maybe some research could be done on concentrations of volcanic ash that pose a threat and the law subsequently changed but as it stands, the right thing was done.
Hehe. No, I just hate OSX with a passion. Odd really because I bought another mac mini today. I love Apple hardware, i love funky things like the combined digital and audio audio out, I love the airport express (hate iTunes) , building one mac from another over firewire, the teeny weeny little bluetooth keybaord and bits and pieces like that.
The OS itself drives me nuts though I will make an exception with regards to its midi device handling. That's brilliant.
As a Unix geek for over twenty five years I think I'm qualified enough to say that OSX is the dumbest, most irritating, most badly designed and unstable *nix ever thrust upon the world. That would be my explanation at least.
Oh, I also have a mac mini, a mac book pro, a time capsule and two iPhones so I don't think I suffer from Apple envy.
I don't pirate movies but a friend gave me a pirated copy of "Saw" a few years ago. I would never have bought it as it isn't my kind of thing. To my surprise I liked it and my friend then gave me a pirated copy of "Saw II".
Since then I have bought all six of the "Saw" movies including the two that I had a pirated copy of.
While individual stories such as yours and mine don't indicate much at all they do suggest that the figures for the amount of money lost by the industry are probably completely made up.
However, the BBC is the British governments tacit admission that true quality is not provided by a free market.
Currently the BBC feels pressure to fight for ratings, at least where TV broadcasts are concerned and that has lead to a marked decrease in the quality. It still has however, at its root, the knowledge that it does not actually NEED ratings to survive and therefore, crappier though it might be, it is still the only thing keeping the British television a few points above a sea of Sun "news" headlines.
Unless you actually are one of the Murdochs, I pretty much guarantee that if the BBC ever had to fight for paying customers, youÂd end up almost apoplectic with rage at the sheer dross these independent broadcasters of yours would be producing. "Biased" you aint seen nothing yet.
I used to use Ardour, Rosegarden, Jack and Jazz and screwed about with Alsa until I got things working. It was pretty good considering the cost.
However, much as I dislike OSX (and I do with a passion), what you can achieve with something like Logic on a Mac is so far ahead of the Linux solution it is hard to believe.
Norwegians think itÂs a hard language to learn but itÂs construction is largely the same as English. Obviously it has weird constructs (like indicating "the" twice if thereÂs a adjective describing a noun but not if there isnÂt - wtf?) but it isnÂt madly different than English. It is surprisingy imprecise compared to English though which makes it easier to learn than it might be.
Errr, how many more inputs does a human get in the dark, in a storm, potentially unable to see straight because of turbulence or stuck helpless by g forces and using exactly the same data as the computer had?
The only issue I can see therefore is when the computer is getting incorrect data. For example, if it thinks something is wrong when there isn't and it disconnects, allowing a panicky pilot to rip off his own rudder. I think there was a flight that crashed not so long ago where something like this happened.
People seem to think that pilots don't make catastrophic decisions but they do. Fortunately most are very professional and experienced but I believe I'm right in saying that most accidents (not ALL) are actually down to pilot error.
Not quite as neat as the/sbin/init.d and/etc/rc approach if you ask me, particularly as you have to know of them, there`s no way of finding it out yourself by following a chain of events like most Unix stuff.
However, if these OSX launch directories can have symlinks in them then I guess I don`t have too much to complain about.
I am with you on this one!! (although I actually used Xenix too. SCO Xenix and that weird thing they stuck on those old Altos boxes:))
To me, if youÂre going to have a Unix, make it behave like one. This is one of the reasons I hated AIX when it came out. What the hell was that gettydefs file supposed to be doing. Where was my "lpadmin" command. OK, IBM eventually realised pconfig was a pile of crap so thatÂs OK.
OSX is so very nearly there (apart from the god awful interface) and it does do some things remarkably well but I do find myself hitting my head against a wall when I have to use google to find out how the hell my "vmnet" process is being started.
Much as dislike OSX, its core audio knocks seven bells of crap out of the opposition. Forgetting the insane ease with which it sees and configures and unconfigures audio devices attached to it (or other macs), it comes with midi over ethernet and audio over ethernet built in and simple.
Ok the audio over ethernet isn`t quite as simple but it works. This saves you a fair bit of cash on either commercial MIDI over lan software and either expensive sound modules for each mac you use as a "slave" or rather expensive audio over ethernet software.
I have no experience of the NPR but do have direct experience with both the BBC and NRK as a Brit who has been living in Oslo for the past six years.
NRK and the BBC seem almost exactly the same to me in their remit, their range of programming and their method of collecting money (although NRK are much more polite about it).
Neither of these organisations have the mandate to just give away their content. Their customers i.e. the citizens of their country buy their content via the license fee.
Have you never come across the idea of using something other than the subject of a discussion to illustrate a point?
The BBC and NRK are funded the same way and, as you used the construct "As a government funded institution NRK blah blah" then presumably, what applies to NRK also applies to the BBC. NRK choose to distribute their content to all and sundry via a torrent, the BBC do not. This is therefore a newsworthy decision on behalf of NRK.
It isnÂt especially complicated and doesnÂt even begin to cover the fact that NRKÂs mandate is to supply their content to Norway, not to everyone else.
The BBC is respected the world over. If their "constitution" were changed to allow them to make their own shows available, internationally, over the net with one or two adverts thrown in I think the viewing figures would be enormous. It might reduce the amount UK citizens had to pay for their TV license by quite a bit.
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Bit difficult to avoid a cloud that covers your start point, your end point and everything in between.
They was just publicity stunts of no scientific value at all, especially given the majority of the flight time was well above the ash cloud. If they had spent hours up there flying at various speeds and altitudes and covering large swathes of Europe it might have meant something.
Of course, fortunately, the original question is easy to answer as there was no over re-action because they had to no choice. It is the law. You do not fly through volcanic ash. Maybe some research could be done on concentrations of volcanic ash that pose a threat and the law subsequently changed but as it stands, the right thing was done.
I speak as someone whose flight was cancelled.
Hehe. No, I just hate OSX with a passion. Odd really because I bought another mac mini today. I love Apple hardware, i love funky things like the combined digital and audio audio out, I love the airport express (hate iTunes) , building one mac from another over firewire, the teeny weeny little bluetooth keybaord and bits and pieces like that.
The OS itself drives me nuts though I will make an exception with regards to its midi device handling. That's brilliant.
As a Unix geek for over twenty five years I think I'm qualified enough to say that OSX is the dumbest, most irritating, most badly designed and unstable *nix ever thrust upon the world. That would be my explanation at least.
Oh, I also have a mac mini, a mac book pro, a time capsule and two iPhones so I don't think I suffer from Apple envy.
And the flip side of this?
I don't pirate movies but a friend gave me a pirated copy of "Saw" a few years ago. I would never have bought it as it isn't my kind of thing. To my surprise I liked it and my friend then gave me a pirated copy of "Saw II".
Since then I have bought all six of the "Saw" movies including the two that I had a pirated copy of.
While individual stories such as yours and mine don't indicate much at all they do suggest that the figures for the amount of money lost by the industry are probably completely made up.
Have you no idea at all about how society works!!!
He does have a valid argument.
However, the BBC is the British governments tacit admission that true quality is not provided by a free market.
Currently the BBC feels pressure to fight for ratings, at least where TV broadcasts are concerned and that has lead to a marked decrease in the quality. It still has however, at its root, the knowledge that it does not actually NEED ratings to survive and therefore, crappier though it might be, it is still the only thing keeping the British television a few points above a sea of Sun "news" headlines.
Unless you actually are one of the Murdochs, I pretty much guarantee that if the BBC ever had to fight for paying customers, youÂd end up almost apoplectic with rage at the sheer dross these independent broadcasters of yours would be producing. "Biased" you aint seen nothing yet.
Personally I did it the other way around.
I used to use Ardour, Rosegarden, Jack and Jazz and screwed about with Alsa until I got things working. It was pretty good considering the cost.
However, much as I dislike OSX (and I do with a passion), what you can achieve with something like Logic on a Mac is so far ahead of the Linux solution it is hard to believe.
Norwegians think itÂs a hard language to learn but itÂs construction is largely the same as English. Obviously it has weird constructs (like indicating "the" twice if thereÂs a adjective describing a noun but not if there isnÂt - wtf?) but it isnÂt madly different than English. It is surprisingy imprecise compared to English though which makes it easier to learn than it might be.
I dispute this as a resident of Norway.
The Swedes are more difficult and grumpy whereas the Norwegian are easy and carefree. They do look similar though.
Assuming of course that the values received for speed and crosswind conditions are correct.
Errr, how many more inputs does a human get in the dark, in a storm, potentially unable to see straight because of turbulence or stuck helpless by g forces and using exactly the same data as the computer had?
I think the argument is more complex then that.
The only issue I can see therefore is when the computer is getting incorrect data. For example, if it thinks something is wrong when there isn't and it disconnects, allowing a panicky pilot to rip off his own rudder. I think there was a flight that crashed not so long ago where something like this happened.
People seem to think that pilots don't make catastrophic decisions but they do. Fortunately most are very professional and experienced but I believe I'm right in saying that most accidents (not ALL) are actually down to pilot error.
It might also be worth factoring in the fact that if nobody got a single solitary cent for making music, then many still would.
These days, quality would be pretty high too.
Not quite as neat as the /sbin/init.d and /etc/rc approach if you ask me, particularly as you have to know of them, there`s no way of finding it out yourself by following a chain of events like most Unix stuff.
However, if these OSX launch directories can have symlinks in them then I guess I don`t have too much to complain about.
Thanks for pointing them out to me though.
You would think so wouldn`t you. However that doesn`t seem to be the case as I haven`t run that in months.
Nope, still doesn`t tell me how my vmnet process is starting.
Doh!!
Just what inetd was invented for.
I am with you on this one!! (although I actually used Xenix too. SCO Xenix and that weird thing they stuck on those old Altos boxes :))
To me, if youÂre going to have a Unix, make it behave like one. This is one of the reasons I hated AIX when it came out. What the hell was that gettydefs file supposed to be doing. Where was my "lpadmin" command. OK, IBM eventually realised pconfig was a pile of crap so thatÂs OK.
OSX is so very nearly there (apart from the god awful interface) and it does do some things remarkably well but I do find myself hitting my head against a wall when I have to use google to find out how the hell my "vmnet" process is being started.
Ok, change the etc to sbin. Even if you didn`t actually know that you can find out by following the /etc/inittab trail.
Much as dislike OSX, its core audio knocks seven bells of crap out of the opposition. Forgetting the insane ease with which it sees and configures and unconfigures audio devices attached to it (or other macs), it comes with midi over ethernet and audio over ethernet built in and simple.
Ok the audio over ethernet isn`t quite as simple but it works. This saves you a fair bit of cash on either commercial MIDI over lan software and either expensive sound modules for each mac you use as a "slave" or rather expensive audio over ethernet software.
I have no experience of the NPR but do have direct experience with both the BBC and NRK as a Brit who has been living in Oslo for the past six years.
NRK and the BBC seem almost exactly the same to me in their remit, their range of programming and their method of collecting money (although NRK are much more polite about it).
Neither of these organisations have the mandate to just give away their content. Their customers i.e. the citizens of their country buy their content via the license fee.
Have you never come across the idea of using something other than the subject of a discussion to illustrate a point?
The BBC and NRK are funded the same way and, as you used the construct "As a government funded institution NRK blah blah" then presumably, what applies to NRK also applies to the BBC. NRK choose to distribute their content to all and sundry via a torrent, the BBC do not. This is therefore a newsworthy decision on behalf of NRK.
It isnÂt especially complicated and doesnÂt even begin to cover the fact that NRKÂs mandate is to supply their content to Norway, not to everyone else.
The BBC is respected the world over. If their "constitution" were changed to allow them to make their own shows available, internationally, over the net with one or two adverts thrown in I think the viewing figures would be enormous. It might reduce the amount UK citizens had to pay for their TV license by quite a bit.