Personally, I buy hand tools for their durability and not necessarily their technical details. I want stuff that will last for decades and give reasonable results because I don't want to waste my time running out to the store to replace a broken tool.
If the $200 stethoscope lasts forever under normal use and the $0.30 version is easily broken in your pocket, give me the $200 version. If there is a $50 version that is nearly the best but works for my application and won't break on me every few weeks, I'll take that.
Sometimes cheap is just cheap.... Sometimes cheap really means disposable.
This is true with just about *any* tool. It's the hands running it that make it great...
Put a hand saw in the hands of an experienced carpenter and it will give you great results... Hand it to me and get results similar to what a hatchet could produce.
It is news because someone else can now make them.
A stethoscope? Oh please, they are hardly high tech devices and if you are handy, I'm guessing you could make one out of scrap plumbing parts that would work great...
Many corporations also have illegal "all you do outside of work is ours" clauses too.
So? What exactly are you trying to say? Surely corporations are allowed to protect their intellectual property from disclosure by putting their employees under contract to protect it?
Weight is about performance... How fast can you stop, climb etc which might affect safety... BALANCE though is all about safety. Have an AFT CG and approach a aerodynamic stall and it's going to be a very bad bad day for everybody.
weight is damned well about safety if you can't clear the trees at the end of the runway
Which is about "performance", specifically total takeoff distance over a 50' obstacle. Aircraft weight is among the primary variables used here with lighter being "better performance". Of course, performance can be a safety issue if there isn't enough performance available to avoid hitting something.
I'm just stressing that CG is a safety issue that most people don't realize exists. You can fly with an unsafe CG, the aircraft will still fly just fine. What it won't do is recover from an unsafe attitude if the speed gets too low. The plane will stall and will NOT recover..
If you have to ask about the price, you cannot afford it...;) Who cares about the battery life if it's like the vacuums they sell... It runs until the battery gets low, then automatically finds the charger to recharge... Wash rinse and repeat for as long as the grass keeps growing.
I'm a little baffled as to why any of that is needed?
I'm going to take a stab at explaining this....
"Fixed outdoor infrastructure" is required by the robot's design. This infrastructure allows the robot to navigate your backyard and emits RF in the process. Under FCC rules, this is not allowed for an unlicensed device.
Chances are it WAS in the agreements he signed the first day of work.
With few exceptions, every place I've ever worked had boiler plate non-disclosure agreements that everybody was required to sign their first day. Most places even followed that up with training that explained what could and could not be said.
IMHO, it's NEVER a good idea to discuss work on ANY social media forum in any way. Stuff like this tends to come back to haunt you when you least expect it. It is an especially bad idea to complain about your work, past or present. It is just way to risky and could cause you trouble like this guy is in.
What you need is a REPLACABLE battery. That way, you can have a phone that lasts for as long as you wish by just replacing the battery as often as necessary. If you couple this with the ability to charge your spare batteries outside of the phone, you have the best of all worlds. As long as it lasts a few hours, who cares if you have a spare in your pocket...
Of course, that rules out an IOS device, sorry Apple.....
I mean what's really the benefit of getting the latest phone? Note 4 has a removable battery and a microsd card. It has a great screen, can be used as a vr screen. Honestly why bother getting anything else?
Totally agree... I have a note 4 and I'm very pleased with this phone. It has a reasonably strong multi core processor, lots of RAM and a lot of flash that can be easily and cheaply extended with the microSD card. Battery life is not great under heavy use but in standby it will easily last the whole day away from the charger. However, the battery is quickly replaced if you carry a spare or two.
Personally, I carry my Note 4 in a wallet style case that easily stores my two spare batteries. Should I happen to not be near a charger and bored so I'm using the phone for entertainment, I can get around 4 hours out of a battery so 3 gets me a full 12 hours of non-stop entertainment.
No, they made my bags stay behind.... I got to go and they promised to send my bags on the next flight... Of course this was pre 9/11. Now days, I believe that bags and passengers go together by rule.
Of course, the really funny thing for me was that all that was in my bag was a suit, shoes and a change of underwear and they said I could carry what I needed out of the bag. So I grabbed literally everything in the bag and collected the empty bag the next day on my way home.
All true, but there is one more part, balance. Aircraft must be balanced front to back or they become uncontrollable under certain conditions. This requires that you know how much everything weighs, but also where it is loaded on the aircraft.
Too expensive and would need to be nearly 100% reliable.
Weight and Balance are both critical for safe flying. It's just way to easy and cheaper to weigh stuff before you load it, then calculate the weight and balance of the loaded aircraft.
Weight is about performance... How fast can you stop, climb etc which might affect safety... BALANCE though is all about safety. Have an AFT CG and approach a aerodynamic stall and it's going to be a very bad bad day for everybody.
They do exactly this, but it's expensive... After any major overhaul, they actually put the aircraft on scales and weigh it to verify that their weight and balance calculations are what they expect. You have to jack up the aircraft to get the scales under it. It takes time and labor to do this.
It's easier, faster and cheaper to just weigh stuff as you load the aircraft and then calculate the affect this has on weight and balance.
I've never really understood the stupid luggage limits,
You do understand that aircraft have design limits for weight and balance right? Seems pretty obvious to me that there is a safety issue with how much stuff you throw onto or allow to walk onto an aircraft weighs..
No, usually they pull the lowest cost ticket holders off first... I've had my luggage left behind a number of times for weight and balance issues, even had to leave carryon's behind once when taking a really small (8 seat) flight that was completely sold out.
This is a common issue in commercial AND private aviation. Weight and balance is *critical* to flying safely and as load factors increase and aircraft sizes decrease it becomes very necessary to be more and more accurate. Let me explain why this is.
First is total weight. Aircraft are designed to handle a maximum takeoff and landing weight safely. The calculated performance numbers for the aircraft are based on it's weight. Now for a 777 another 100 lbs might be unnoticeable, but for a C150 I can assure you it is. Being over weight affects take off performance, necessary runway lengths, maximum rate of climb, and stopping distances on aborted takeoffs. It affects landing configurations, cross wind tolerances, and breaking distances. If you are in a position where you are depending on the performance of the aircraft, safety demands that you not be overweight.
Balance is next. Balance has to do with where the center of gravity is on the aircraft. The CG must fall within a very narrow range for both efficiency and safety's sake. If the CG is to far forward, it makes the nose heavier and you must apply downward force on the tail using the elevators to keep the nose up. This extra force creates drag and adds to the amount of lift the wings must create to stay in the air. All this creates drag and lowers efficiency. The problem though is you cannot just move the CG way to the aft or you make the aircraft unstable. If the CG is too far aft and you stall the aircraft cannot be brought out of the stall and will crash so for safety, you need the CG forward. The area between these two points is usually pretty small compared to the length of the aircraft and actually gets smaller as you approach the maximum operating weight.
So why does how much people weigh matter? Quite simply because you cannot exceed the maximum weight of the aircraft, and with today's tendency for people to be a bit porky makes it very easy to get overloaded. Plus, if you have an uneven distribution of porky people between front to back. Moving 100lbs of weight forward might be the difference between living or dying in a stall.
So yes, passenger weight matters, especially at high load factors where we are operating at or near the maximum ratings of the aircraft. And, now that people are weighing more and more, it matters more and more.
Every GPS System, --- was about to say excep --- hence the comma, but now I reconsider and emphasize: every GPS system has the option to adjust the timezone.
Every GPS receiver I've seen either displays time in GMT or automatically adjusts to local time by looking at it's location to figure out the time zone. Internally they are ALL GMT based to start, and only if they wish to display local time converts from there. So the GPS will need to know though some firmware upgrade that when it's in North Korea the time is GMT +- some new offset. If the GPS allows you to manually specify the offset from GMT, you are indeed just fine, but anything automated will require a software update.
Admittedly I don't use many GPS units that are not displaying just GMT anyway. I'm not generally using GPS for navigation, but as a time reference. I don't really care about the time display, plus all the systems which are deriving their local clocks from the GPS receiver already know Central Time...
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Personally, I buy hand tools for their durability and not necessarily their technical details. I want stuff that will last for decades and give reasonable results because I don't want to waste my time running out to the store to replace a broken tool.
If the $200 stethoscope lasts forever under normal use and the $0.30 version is easily broken in your pocket, give me the $200 version. If there is a $50 version that is nearly the best but works for my application and won't break on me every few weeks, I'll take that.
Sometimes cheap is just cheap.... Sometimes cheap really means disposable.
This is true with just about *any* tool. It's the hands running it that make it great...
Put a hand saw in the hands of an experienced carpenter and it will give you great results... Hand it to me and get results similar to what a hatchet could produce.
It is news because someone else can now make them.
A stethoscope? Oh please, they are hardly high tech devices and if you are handy, I'm guessing you could make one out of scrap plumbing parts that would work great...
Many corporations also have illegal "all you do outside of work is ours" clauses too.
So? What exactly are you trying to say? Surely corporations are allowed to protect their intellectual property from disclosure by putting their employees under contract to protect it?
Weight is about performance... How fast can you stop, climb etc which might affect safety... BALANCE though is all about safety. Have an AFT CG and approach a aerodynamic stall and it's going to be a very bad bad day for everybody.
weight is damned well about safety if you can't clear the trees at the end of the runway
Which is about "performance", specifically total takeoff distance over a 50' obstacle. Aircraft weight is among the primary variables used here with lighter being "better performance". Of course, performance can be a safety issue if there isn't enough performance available to avoid hitting something.
I'm just stressing that CG is a safety issue that most people don't realize exists. You can fly with an unsafe CG, the aircraft will still fly just fine. What it won't do is recover from an unsafe attitude if the speed gets too low. The plane will stall and will NOT recover..
Why (snip) are people treating this one like it's the first just because it's from iRobot?
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Sure.... They tip over...
Has anyone been able to find any pricing on this?
Or specs like battery life?
If you have to ask about the price, you cannot afford it... ;) Who cares about the battery life if it's like the vacuums they sell... It runs until the battery gets low, then automatically finds the charger to recharge... Wash rinse and repeat for as long as the grass keeps growing.
I'm a little baffled as to why any of that is needed?
I'm going to take a stab at explaining this....
"Fixed outdoor infrastructure" is required by the robot's design. This infrastructure allows the robot to navigate your backyard and emits RF in the process. Under FCC rules, this is not allowed for an unlicensed device.
It was, just attach the GoPro and set it loose in the yard...
for drone operators, but they approve a lawnmower? What in the hell is wrong with them?
Last I checked, the FCC is dominated by Democrat appointed commissioners, which means this isn't a Republican choice...
I assume you know that and are just trying to do some partisan trolling...
Did he sign a NDA when he was hired? If so, the company reaction wouldn't be that surprising.
Chances are... YES... I haven't started a job in nearly 2 decades that didn't require me to sign an NDA or some kind of agreement to that affect.
Chances are it WAS in the agreements he signed the first day of work.
With few exceptions, every place I've ever worked had boiler plate non-disclosure agreements that everybody was required to sign their first day. Most places even followed that up with training that explained what could and could not be said.
IMHO, it's NEVER a good idea to discuss work on ANY social media forum in any way. Stuff like this tends to come back to haunt you when you least expect it. It is an especially bad idea to complain about your work, past or present. It is just way to risky and could cause you trouble like this guy is in.
What you need is a REPLACABLE battery. That way, you can have a phone that lasts for as long as you wish by just replacing the battery as often as necessary. If you couple this with the ability to charge your spare batteries outside of the phone, you have the best of all worlds. As long as it lasts a few hours, who cares if you have a spare in your pocket...
Of course, that rules out an IOS device, sorry Apple.....
I mean what's really the benefit of getting the latest phone? Note 4 has a removable battery and a microsd card. It has a great screen, can be used as a vr screen. Honestly why bother getting anything else?
Totally agree... I have a note 4 and I'm very pleased with this phone. It has a reasonably strong multi core processor, lots of RAM and a lot of flash that can be easily and cheaply extended with the microSD card. Battery life is not great under heavy use but in standby it will easily last the whole day away from the charger. However, the battery is quickly replaced if you carry a spare or two.
Personally, I carry my Note 4 in a wallet style case that easily stores my two spare batteries. Should I happen to not be near a charger and bored so I'm using the phone for entertainment, I can get around 4 hours out of a battery so 3 gets me a full 12 hours of non-stop entertainment.
No, they made my bags stay behind.... I got to go and they promised to send my bags on the next flight... Of course this was pre 9/11. Now days, I believe that bags and passengers go together by rule.
Of course, the really funny thing for me was that all that was in my bag was a suit, shoes and a change of underwear and they said I could carry what I needed out of the bag. So I grabbed literally everything in the bag and collected the empty bag the next day on my way home.
All true, but there is one more part, balance. Aircraft must be balanced front to back or they become uncontrollable under certain conditions. This requires that you know how much everything weighs, but also where it is loaded on the aircraft.
Too expensive and would need to be nearly 100% reliable.
Weight and Balance are both critical for safe flying. It's just way to easy and cheaper to weigh stuff before you load it, then calculate the weight and balance of the loaded aircraft.
Weight is about performance... How fast can you stop, climb etc which might affect safety... BALANCE though is all about safety. Have an AFT CG and approach a aerodynamic stall and it's going to be a very bad bad day for everybody.
Just saying.
They do exactly this, but it's expensive... After any major overhaul, they actually put the aircraft on scales and weigh it to verify that their weight and balance calculations are what they expect. You have to jack up the aircraft to get the scales under it. It takes time and labor to do this.
It's easier, faster and cheaper to just weigh stuff as you load the aircraft and then calculate the affect this has on weight and balance.
I've never really understood the stupid luggage limits,
You do understand that aircraft have design limits for weight and balance right? Seems pretty obvious to me that there is a safety issue with how much stuff you throw onto or allow to walk onto an aircraft weighs..
No, usually they pull the lowest cost ticket holders off first... I've had my luggage left behind a number of times for weight and balance issues, even had to leave carryon's behind once when taking a really small (8 seat) flight that was completely sold out.
Seriously, has this ever been a problem?
YES!
This is a common issue in commercial AND private aviation. Weight and balance is *critical* to flying safely and as load factors increase and aircraft sizes decrease it becomes very necessary to be more and more accurate. Let me explain why this is.
First is total weight. Aircraft are designed to handle a maximum takeoff and landing weight safely. The calculated performance numbers for the aircraft are based on it's weight. Now for a 777 another 100 lbs might be unnoticeable, but for a C150 I can assure you it is. Being over weight affects take off performance, necessary runway lengths, maximum rate of climb, and stopping distances on aborted takeoffs. It affects landing configurations, cross wind tolerances, and breaking distances. If you are in a position where you are depending on the performance of the aircraft, safety demands that you not be overweight.
Balance is next. Balance has to do with where the center of gravity is on the aircraft. The CG must fall within a very narrow range for both efficiency and safety's sake. If the CG is to far forward, it makes the nose heavier and you must apply downward force on the tail using the elevators to keep the nose up. This extra force creates drag and adds to the amount of lift the wings must create to stay in the air. All this creates drag and lowers efficiency. The problem though is you cannot just move the CG way to the aft or you make the aircraft unstable. If the CG is too far aft and you stall the aircraft cannot be brought out of the stall and will crash so for safety, you need the CG forward. The area between these two points is usually pretty small compared to the length of the aircraft and actually gets smaller as you approach the maximum operating weight.
So why does how much people weigh matter? Quite simply because you cannot exceed the maximum weight of the aircraft, and with today's tendency for people to be a bit porky makes it very easy to get overloaded. Plus, if you have an uneven distribution of porky people between front to back. Moving 100lbs of weight forward might be the difference between living or dying in a stall.
So yes, passenger weight matters, especially at high load factors where we are operating at or near the maximum ratings of the aircraft. And, now that people are weighing more and more, it matters more and more.
I just use cannibus. Done. No shrinks, no medications wrecking my liver.
How do you think your body processes THC though your system?
Every GPS System, --- was about to say excep --- hence the comma, but now I reconsider and emphasize: every GPS system has the option to adjust the timezone.
Every GPS receiver I've seen either displays time in GMT or automatically adjusts to local time by looking at it's location to figure out the time zone. Internally they are ALL GMT based to start, and only if they wish to display local time converts from there. So the GPS will need to know though some firmware upgrade that when it's in North Korea the time is GMT +- some new offset. If the GPS allows you to manually specify the offset from GMT, you are indeed just fine, but anything automated will require a software update.
Admittedly I don't use many GPS units that are not displaying just GMT anyway. I'm not generally using GPS for navigation, but as a time reference. I don't really care about the time display, plus all the systems which are deriving their local clocks from the GPS receiver already know Central Time...