Indeed. The "GE Corporate Network" published this under the title, "'Free energy' or 'voodoo science'?" It doesn't mean they've been scammed - at best you could say they shouldn't have published at all, as with a "Man Claims Sky is not Blue" story.
Incidentally, "testa rossa" is Italian for "redhead" -- I believe it was a reference to the fact that at least some of these had red valve covers (or something like that -- anyone know?) in the engine. Most are red to go with the meaning of the name.
If by "some of these" you include the original TR from the '50s, you're right. I think the official model name was the 250MM, but if I'm wrong, someone will correct me. Hell, if I'm right someone will correct me...
I'm not into online multiplayer games, but it occurred to me: Wouldn't it be sweet if the cheat detector could redirect the cheater to another server? A server reserved for cheaters?
Moreover, if Gracenote were the 'winner', they might still want to have the settlement sealed. Why? So that smaller firms do not know what Roxio paid for the rights to use CDDB. This allows Gracenote to charge different (higher!) prices to smaller vendors less able to fight them.
IBM's Transaction Processing Facility morphed out of Airline Control Program (ACP) about 1976 or so. I have heard claims that some instances have been running continuously since installation. You can even maintain uptime across hardware upgrades + software upgrades. Current versions even ship with Apache:-).
A fuel cell-powered airplane is being worked on. Admittedly, it's not an airliner, but it's still the same problems, just on a smaller scale.
Size matters. Even if it worked perfectly for a small aircraft, it wouldn't be right for an airliner. The article discusses a 10-15kW fuel cell; a low-to-mid range jet engine is in the 20-40MW range. Even assuming you could scale up the fuel cell 400-fold, could you do it without scaling up the weight of the system (and fuel storage system) 400-fold? As an APU, this would be wonderful, especially if it's the electricity you're looking for. As a propulsive force, especially for a large aircraft, you're pretty limited (i.e., subsonic speeds, prop noise, duration, etc).
Actually, jet fuel can explode, but it's damned hard to do it. You've got to vaporize the fuel and mix it thoroughly, then ignite it. Gaseous H2 is way more explosive.
I graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering in the mid-80s. I faced a similar choice as yours - too burned out for grad school, civilian jobs were scarce and uncertain, and the military was desperate for engineers. I chose the Air Force, was commissioned, and served 5 years. Here are my thoughts:
If you want to make the military your career, you won't be a programmer for very long (if at all). What the services need are leaders; except for a lucky few (who camp in the research labs or service academies, and usually have PhDs) after your first assignment you'll be directing the work of others, rather than doing it yourself.
Ask what your first two or three assignments will be like. If you are interested in graduate studies, ask what the opportunities are. The Air Force runs the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) near Dayton, Oh; the Naval Postgraduate School is in Monterey, CA in Leland Stanford's old mansion. Don't know about Army and Marines opportunities.
If someone makes a promise, get it in writing. In the words of Yogi Berra, "A verbal contract ain't worth the paper it's written on"
Of all the services I talked to, only the Air Force was able to guarantee that I would be working as an engineer. The best the marines and army could offer was 'commo officer'. That means you run the radios and telephones. On the plus side, you get to do plenty of camping in fun places like Korea and Camp Lejeune. The Navy offered me an engineering officer position. That's running a powerplant, at sea, for months at a time. I grew up a Navy brat, and knew how hard that life is, and couldn't see doing it for 20 years.
The pay isn't as good as in the 'real' world, especially compared to high tech jobs. There are some tax breaks and perks that help offset that. It might not be as big a deal just out of college, but as time goes by it could become one. The problem is even worse for techies who are civilian employees of the military, but their job security is better.
Did anyone tell you that you have to put in 20 years to draw retirement pay? and that pay maxes out at 30 years at about 50%? Sounds good? Did they mention every few years you come up for promotion? and that if you don't make it twice in a row, you leave the game with nothing?
The military are not the only Uniformed Services. Have you considered the Public Health Service, or the National Oceanigraphic and Atmospheric Administration?
If you're really sharp, and can pass an extensive background check, consider a career in the intelligence agencies - NSA, NRO, CIA, etc. NSA is even running a program that pays for a graduate degree in exchange for service. On my background check, I had to list every address I had lived in the last 10 years (7 - Navy brat, duh). They even interviewed my neighbors, checked the computerized crime records, and probably ran credit checks.
It serves them right for adding that big red "SELF DESTRUCT" button. Of course, it didn't help that the Mad Scientist (er, Project Director) just stood there boasting about taking over the world instead of firing the dang thing.
If that's a choice you knowingly make, and your ISP allows it, fine. But what if it's a lazy or ignorant administrator? Suppose someone launches a forged email, from the CEO, with a company address? To all employees and the press? Evil grin:
As you know, times are tough. We're each going to have to give a little more, and make some sacrifices. Except for me. I've been giving it to that babe in accounting, and we've both been screwing the books. We're leaving for Rio with all the cash that wasn't nailed down!
Show me again where EITHER story says the Chinese government has anything to do with the core being pulled. According to the story, it is ARM that is rattling the sabers. You're going to do your cause more damage than good if you replace facts with rhetoric.
that the first lab, or first part of each lab, should be spent analyzing errors introduced by the equipment! That would be no different than running a control sample through a chromatograph before running unknowns, or verifying a signal generator's output before testing a circuit. It would be a good lesson in the real world - like the old aphorism
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
Anything written by Isaac Asimov. The physics will be a bit dated, but the chemistry and engineering haven't changed as much. And the history of science hasn't changed at all:-) Even his guide to the Bible and the Homeric epics are good intros to those periods of history. I'm not to sure about that psychohistory stuff - check again in about 3000 years.
Well, all the simulators I worked with either ran on custom or near custom hardware (anyone remember the Harris NightHawk?), and/or used REAL hardware to 'simulate' subsystems. That is, the simulation porvided the external world, fed the simulated sensor inputs into an actual flight control computer.
The city of Lebanon, Oh has had great success using their system. It's run by the city's Electrical department for Cable TV & reading electric meters. They added high speed internet access - that's working well also. Of course, the local cable companies hate it - prices are only slightly cheaper, but profits go to the city to improve the service. The City is also looking into offering local phone service as well.
Wouldn't it be fair if double-clicking on the required MSN icon brought up a notedpad window with the instructions for downloading Internet Explorer, and the 27 steps required to install it and configure it to run when the icon was clicked?
Wouldn't that give users a fair choice?
Microsoft seems to think so in the case of Kodak's picture processing format, or Sun's Java files.
I wonder how much this list will affect future measurements? I know that when I saw "edonkey" on the Top 10 declining searches, I did a search to see what it was...
Teachers' unions (and I'm speaking of the NEA, the behemoth here in the US) can be the worst. First of all, they certainly aren't getting done what they supposedly exist to do -- getting teachers paid more. My hunch is that they actually are keeping salaries down by not allowing school districts to evaluate teachers and introduce competition.
Contrawise, some teachers unions are actively promoting teacher evaluation. See the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers' experiment. Instead of seniority, it uses a objective skills evaluation as a basis for pay. From the article:
Teachers will be evaluated in 16 areas within four domains: planning and preparing for student learning; creating an environment for learning; teaching for learning; and professionalism.
Based on their scores, teachers would be placed in a category: apprentice, novice, career, advanced or accomplished. Each ranking is assigned a pay range.
A starting novice teacher would make $30,000. An accomplished teacher would make up to $62,500. The range matches the seniority scale.
This doesn't mean unions are always a good thing - only that they can be.
And then, the more obvious way to detect stealthy planes is to just blanket the whole sky with your radar, and whatever part _doesn't_ show up must be some kind of overhead flying object.
Blanketing the whole sky with your radar is just begging for a visit from the LART fairy. If there's not a flight of defense suppression aircraft (in the US, the "Wild Weasels"), there's probably one or more HARM (Highspeed Anti-Radiation Missiles) onboard the attack aircraft.
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Man! Imagine a beowulf cluster of ...; On second thought, let's not.
Indeed. The "GE Corporate Network" published this under the title, "'Free energy' or 'voodoo science'?" It doesn't mean they've been scammed - at best you could say they shouldn't have published at all, as with a "Man Claims Sky is not Blue" story.
If by "some of these" you include the original TR from the '50s, you're right. I think the official model name was the 250MM, but if I'm wrong, someone will correct me. Hell, if I'm right someone will correct me...
I'm not into online multiplayer games, but it occurred to me: Wouldn't it be sweet if the cheat detector could redirect the cheater to another server? A server reserved for cheaters?
Moreover, if Gracenote were the 'winner', they might still want to have the settlement sealed. Why? So that smaller firms do not know what Roxio paid for the rights to use CDDB. This allows Gracenote to charge different (higher!) prices to smaller vendors less able to fight them.
No, the article said it was a keychain drive. You never find your keys behind the Garfield mug. They're always between the couch cushions.
IBM's Transaction Processing Facility morphed out of Airline Control Program (ACP) about 1976 or so. I have heard claims that some instances have been running continuously since installation. You can even maintain uptime across hardware upgrades + software upgrades. Current versions even ship with Apache :-).
Size matters. Even if it worked perfectly for a small aircraft, it wouldn't be right for an airliner. The article discusses a 10-15kW fuel cell; a low-to-mid range jet engine is in the 20-40MW range. Even assuming you could scale up the fuel cell 400-fold, could you do it without scaling up the weight of the system (and fuel storage system) 400-fold? As an APU, this would be wonderful, especially if it's the electricity you're looking for. As a propulsive force, especially for a large aircraft, you're pretty limited (i.e., subsonic speeds, prop noise, duration, etc).
Actually, jet fuel can explode, but it's damned hard to do it. You've got to vaporize the fuel and mix it thoroughly, then ignite it. Gaseous H2 is way more explosive.
It serves them right for adding that big red "SELF DESTRUCT" button. Of course, it didn't help that the Mad Scientist (er, Project Director) just stood there boasting about taking over the world instead of firing the dang thing.
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Show me again where EITHER story says the Chinese government has anything to do with the core being pulled. According to the story, it is ARM that is rattling the sabers.
You're going to do your cause more damage than good if you replace facts with rhetoric.
It would be a good lesson in the real world - like the old aphorism
Anything written by Isaac Asimov. The physics will be a bit dated, but the chemistry and engineering haven't changed as much. And the history of science hasn't changed at all :-) Even his guide to the Bible and the Homeric epics are good intros to those periods of history. I'm not to sure about that psychohistory stuff - check again in about 3000 years.
Well, all the simulators I worked with either ran on custom or near custom hardware (anyone remember the Harris NightHawk?), and/or used REAL hardware to 'simulate' subsystems. That is, the simulation porvided the external world, fed the simulated sensor inputs into an actual flight control computer.
For one example of the current art, see dsix
The city of Lebanon, Oh has had great success using their system. It's run by the city's Electrical department for Cable TV & reading electric meters. They added high speed internet access - that's working well also. Of course, the local cable companies hate it - prices are only slightly cheaper, but profits go to the city to improve the service. The City is also looking into offering local phone service as well.
Liberty Basic is sure fun. It lists not being Visual Basic as a virtue!
Sheesh! Doesn't anyone visit snopes anymore?
Wouldn't it be fair if double-clicking on the required MSN icon brought up a notedpad window with the instructions for downloading Internet Explorer, and the 27 steps required to install it and configure it to run when the icon was clicked?
Wouldn't that give users a fair choice?
Microsoft seems to think so in the case of Kodak's picture processing format, or Sun's Java files.
naw, a real old fart would complain that hardware hacking died when attendance at the Model Railroad Club meetings fell of...
I wonder how much this list will affect future measurements? I know that when I saw "edonkey" on the Top 10 declining searches, I did a search to see what it was...
Teachers' unions (and I'm speaking of the NEA, the behemoth here in the US) can be the worst. First of all, they certainly aren't getting done what they supposedly exist to do -- getting teachers paid more. My hunch is that they actually are keeping salaries down by not allowing school districts to evaluate teachers and introduce competition.
Contrawise, some teachers unions are actively promoting teacher evaluation. See the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers' experiment. Instead of seniority, it uses a objective skills evaluation as a basis for pay. From the article:
Teachers will be evaluated in 16 areas within four domains: planning and preparing for student learning; creating an environment for learning; teaching for learning; and professionalism.
Based on their scores, teachers would be placed in a category: apprentice, novice, career, advanced or accomplished. Each ranking is assigned a pay range.
A starting novice teacher would make $30,000. An accomplished teacher would make up to $62,500. The range matches the seniority scale.
This doesn't mean unions are always a good thing - only that they can be.
And then, the more obvious way to detect stealthy planes is to just blanket the whole sky with your radar, and whatever part _doesn't_ show up must be some kind of overhead flying object.
Blanketing the whole sky with your radar is just begging for a visit from the LART fairy. If there's not a flight of defense suppression aircraft (in the US, the "Wild Weasels"), there's probably one or more HARM (Highspeed Anti-Radiation Missiles) onboard the attack aircraft.