Put "Avare" on you phone. It is open source. GPS receiver is on in airplane mode. You'll need to hold the phone near a window in most planes to get a satellite lock, but I got a lock in a center seat on a recent flight. Put "GPS Status" on your phone. It seems to be able to get a satellite lock faster than other apps. Getting a GPS lock before you get on the plane also seems to help. Download the airport plates along with the maps, and you can track your plane as you taxi out to the runway.
Don't bother. Download Avare. You'll have to hold it close to a window to get GPS reception inside the metal tube. But it gives you all the relevant information for free.
I like to predict at what speed the plane will leave the ground.
Yes, they were very different in many ways but Air France 447 drew attention to the lack of AoA feedback in the cockpit. And then 10 years later Boeing goes and makes AoA warnings OPTIONAL in their new plane (this on top of the other fundamental flaws in their AoA correction system.) 447 was a sign that designers needed to think more carefully about AoA safety and ergonomics, that's my point, but instead Boeing managed to commit several huge bone-headed oversights.
I took a different lesson away from the compare/contrast.
The problem with Airbus was that they allowed a single sensor to command major control inputs. It was a stupid engineering decision that the subsequently fixed by having the computer cross check multiple sensors.
The problem with the Boeing was that they allowed a single sensor to command major control inputs. It was stupid beyond belief. So stupid, I'm reticent to even call it an engineering decision, because that would imply that it was being made someone competent in the state of the are. Airbus had just recently had a major scandal due to the same issue. Every aviation accident gets report and the authorities maintain databases so that we can all learn from past mistakes. Boeing making the same STUPID mistake, right after Airbus is unforgivable.
If you have an Android device, download the Avare app. It provides you with the same sectional map that pilots use. And it is much better than the map that the airlines show you. You have to download the correct maps for the section of the country you'll be flying over.
You'll need to hold it near the window on many airplanes for it to get a GPS signal. But, once it locks, you'll get all the airspeed and ETA data that the airlines have. You'll have more fun tracking which of the airways the airplane uses.
No one is forcing you to give away anything. That is what your bi-weekly retention is for. You can walk away any time you want and keep all your ideas.
How many of those high level investigators on the Mueller team have been fired? Strok, Page, McCabe, etc. . .
What was Mueller and his 17 angry democrats able to pin on Trump? (And let's be fair, Mueller knew the collusion narrative was a hoax when the was hired.)
Now we have Obama's and Clinton's lawyer going down for the same charges as Manafort.
Expect more names soon as Barr gets his investigation into spying spun up.
an embedded tiny computer running MINIX in every Intel CPU sold (outside the US gov), combined with a low speed wireless interface on ALL Intel motherboards (unless the computer is in a Faraday cage) makes external exploits crude by comparison.
Faraday cage? You mean like those metal boxes that most people put their motherboards in?
I think the researchers fail to understand a few things as well. GP is correct— the ways hybrids improve include regenerative braking, increased starting torque, potentially simplified transmissions... and that is about it. From an energy perspective, a long-haul truck isn’t going to benefit much from a hybrid design, but there are minor gains (~1-2%?).
Driving up through Florida from Miami to Jacksonville, I'd agree with you. But, as soon as you approach Atlanta, that battery is going to pay for itself in dollars and health benefits. The hills on I-85 around Atlanta are steep, and the road is packed. Car drivers won't speed up on the downhill so that you can get a running start at the next incline, so you end up burning your brakes on the downhill and dropping down to 35mph with the hammer down on the uphill. A battery pack replacing a dead axle (the tractor has one and the trailer has two), will save you brakes on the downhill and help you maintain speed over the next without spewing tar out the stack.
That gets the attention of a lot of people, especially the leftist media.
It's amazing how you people never bring up "other people's money" when billionaires get local taxpayers to pay for the sports stadiums for their professional ball teams.
Umm? It's amazing that you pay so little attention. That has been a big issue for conservatives MULTIPLE times, and they complain long and loud about it.
What is with all the pie-in-the-sky, replace-everything-at-once plans. A large trucking company will order hundreds of trucks at a time, and spec the exact same engine for the last batch of hundreds they bought. The last thing they want to do is have to stock parts for 50 different models in their service centers.
You wanna get electrics into trucking. Start by selling an axle with an integrated motor and small battery pack. Call it an "overdrive" axle to give it a catchy name. All it would do is help with acceleration from stop, climbing hills, and braking on hills. Create axles for both tractors and trailers. 18-wheelers have a dumb axle on the tractor, and two on the trailer.
Now, introduce larger, bolt-on battery packs. Provides acceleration and hill-climbing power for longer. Saves more braking on longer descents. Stores more of that braking energy for later use.
Now, add solar panels to cover that trailer.
In each instance, an independent operator or a fleet owner can slowly wade a little further into the electric world without obsoleting everything they're currently running. A few thousand dollars for an axle compares favorably with an aftermarket replacement, especially when the replacement can be expected to pay for itself in engine wear, brake wear, and fuel costs.
Besides, the giant bags of money buying politician meme is kinda silly, because it is inefficient from the corporation's perspective.
Which makes more sense:
A) Constantly paying a ransom to keep the politician voting for your concern on every bill that comes up.
B) Finding politicians that leaned a little in your direction, then paying a little to support them and keep them in office.
If I were in Congress, I could not fathom selling a vote for a few tens of thousands. We're talking about selling off my honor and possibly damaging my country. A vote for a bill like NN would be worth at least a million. But, if I were inclined to support NN, then I wouldn't be upset that Google contributed a $10K to my relection effort.
Mitch and Nancy get their power from the people that would be voting on said bills. And the people that don't want to be called out on either side of the issue could just vote "present", like the Dems did on the Green New Deal.
Meanwhile, Democrats are make themselves rich while claiming to take care of you, while dividing everyone into smaller and smaller aggrieved groups. I have no idea how anyone votes Democrat unless they're leftist racist idiots.
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Smart ones don't.
I came out with a 4-year degree and a total of $15k in debt while supporting a wife and two children.
Put "Avare" on you phone. It is open source. GPS receiver is on in airplane mode. You'll need to hold the phone near a window in most planes to get a satellite lock, but I got a lock in a center seat on a recent flight. Put "GPS Status" on your phone. It seems to be able to get a satellite lock faster than other apps. Getting a GPS lock before you get on the plane also seems to help. Download the airport plates along with the maps, and you can track your plane as you taxi out to the runway.
Don't bother. Download Avare. You'll have to hold it close to a window to get GPS reception inside the metal tube. But it gives you all the relevant information for free.
I like to predict at what speed the plane will leave the ground.
Haven't flown a domestic flight lately have you? Hint: They don't hire stewardesses on looks anymore.
Wouldn't you be pissed off if you had to babysit 130 people jammed into seats with barely any wiggle room?
Yes, they were very different in many ways but Air France 447 drew attention to the lack of AoA feedback in the cockpit. And then 10 years later Boeing goes and makes AoA warnings OPTIONAL in their new plane (this on top of the other fundamental flaws in their AoA correction system.) 447 was a sign that designers needed to think more carefully about AoA safety and ergonomics, that's my point, but instead Boeing managed to commit several huge bone-headed oversights.
I took a different lesson away from the compare/contrast.
The problem with Airbus was that they allowed a single sensor to command major control inputs. It was a stupid engineering decision that the subsequently fixed by having the computer cross check multiple sensors.
The problem with the Boeing was that they allowed a single sensor to command major control inputs. It was stupid beyond belief. So stupid, I'm reticent to even call it an engineering decision, because that would imply that it was being made someone competent in the state of the are. Airbus had just recently had a major scandal due to the same issue. Every aviation accident gets report and the authorities maintain databases so that we can all learn from past mistakes. Boeing making the same STUPID mistake, right after Airbus is unforgivable.
Download Avare to that tablet, along with the maps. It's open source. No ads. You can also download weather.
If you have an Android device, download the Avare app. It provides you with the same sectional map that pilots use. And it is much better than the map that the airlines show you. You have to download the correct maps for the section of the country you'll be flying over.
You'll need to hold it near the window on many airplanes for it to get a GPS signal. But, once it locks, you'll get all the airspeed and ETA data that the airlines have. You'll have more fun tracking which of the airways the airplane uses.
Bring it on, you socialist racist. That is, if you're willing to leave you're mother's basement.
No one is forcing you to give away anything. That is what your bi-weekly retention is for. You can walk away any time you want and keep all your ideas.
???? Seriously????
How many of those high level investigators on the Mueller team have been fired? Strok, Page, McCabe, etc. . .
What was Mueller and his 17 angry democrats able to pin on Trump? (And let's be fair, Mueller knew the collusion narrative was a hoax when the was hired.)
Now we have Obama's and Clinton's lawyer going down for the same charges as Manafort.
Expect more names soon as Barr gets his investigation into spying spun up.
an embedded tiny computer running MINIX in every Intel CPU sold (outside the US gov), combined with a low speed wireless interface on ALL Intel motherboards (unless the computer is in a Faraday cage) makes external exploits crude by comparison.
Faraday cage? You mean like those metal boxes that most people put their motherboards in?
Not a bug. That's a feature.
The "virtual telescope" is made bigger by having a detector further away.
I think the researchers fail to understand a few things as well. GP is correct— the ways hybrids improve include regenerative braking, increased starting torque, potentially simplified transmissions... and that is about it. From an energy perspective, a long-haul truck isn’t going to benefit much from a hybrid design, but there are minor gains (~1-2%?).
Driving up through Florida from Miami to Jacksonville, I'd agree with you. But, as soon as you approach Atlanta, that battery is going to pay for itself in dollars and health benefits. The hills on I-85 around Atlanta are steep, and the road is packed. Car drivers won't speed up on the downhill so that you can get a running start at the next incline, so you end up burning your brakes on the downhill and dropping down to 35mph with the hammer down on the uphill. A battery pack replacing a dead axle (the tractor has one and the trailer has two), will save you brakes on the downhill and help you maintain speed over the next without spewing tar out the stack.
That gets the attention of a lot of people, especially the leftist media.
It's amazing how you people never bring up "other people's money" when billionaires get local taxpayers to pay for the sports stadiums for their professional ball teams.
Umm? It's amazing that you pay so little attention. That has been a big issue for conservatives MULTIPLE times, and they complain long and loud about it.
Because he is talking about something. . .ANYTHING. . . other than reparations?
And it isn't a pipe dream of an idea:
https://www.trucks.com/2018/05...
https://www.truckinginfo.com/1...
This is going to be the way the industry moves forward.
What is with all the pie-in-the-sky, replace-everything-at-once plans. A large trucking company will order hundreds of trucks at a time, and spec the exact same engine for the last batch of hundreds they bought. The last thing they want to do is have to stock parts for 50 different models in their service centers.
You wanna get electrics into trucking. Start by selling an axle with an integrated motor and small battery pack. Call it an "overdrive" axle to give it a catchy name. All it would do is help with acceleration from stop, climbing hills, and braking on hills. Create axles for both tractors and trailers. 18-wheelers have a dumb axle on the tractor, and two on the trailer.
Now, introduce larger, bolt-on battery packs. Provides acceleration and hill-climbing power for longer. Saves more braking on longer descents. Stores more of that braking energy for later use.
Now, add solar panels to cover that trailer.
In each instance, an independent operator or a fleet owner can slowly wade a little further into the electric world without obsoleting everything they're currently running. A few thousand dollars for an axle compares favorably with an aftermarket replacement, especially when the replacement can be expected to pay for itself in engine wear, brake wear, and fuel costs.
Besides, the giant bags of money buying politician meme is kinda silly, because it is inefficient from the corporation's perspective.
Which makes more sense:
A) Constantly paying a ransom to keep the politician voting for your concern on every bill that comes up.
B) Finding politicians that leaned a little in your direction, then paying a little to support them and keep them in office.
If I were in Congress, I could not fathom selling a vote for a few tens of thousands. We're talking about selling off my honor and possibly damaging my country. A vote for a bill like NN would be worth at least a million. But, if I were inclined to support NN, then I wouldn't be upset that Google contributed a $10K to my relection effort.
So, I want to know where all the Senators running for President stand on the idiotic Green New Deal. Unfortunately, they all voted "present".
Mitch and Nancy get their power from the people that would be voting on said bills. And the people that don't want to be called out on either side of the issue could just vote "present", like the Dems did on the Green New Deal.
Responding to myself to add a "fer instance":
The vote to show the Mueller report got significant support in the Senate, didn't it?
A bill that has significant support in the Senate, maybe?
he's the one who started the lie about the "War on Coal"
I haven't seen anything that Mitch has done for the people of Kentucky. Nothing.
You can't make this stuff up, people.
Do you even realize that Kentucky has a large coal industry?
Meanwhile, Democrats are make themselves rich while claiming to take care of you, while dividing everyone into smaller and smaller aggrieved groups. I have no idea how anyone votes Democrat unless they're leftist racist idiots.