The average G.A. airplane (a 172 or a Cherokee/Warrior) will only hit 160 kts in a descent under power.
That is changing fast. The average GA airplane is a holdover from the 50s. Last year was the first year ever that new registrations of experimentals exceeded certified planes. Between 150 and 180mph is about what you can expect from the current crop of 2 and 4 place designs that utilize something on the order of 180Hp. Some of the Cozy/EZ type fast glass will do that on 120Hp.
My Dyke Delta will use a Mazda Rotary engine, run up close to 190Hp, and should cruise right at 180mph at 75% power.
I've never taken a serious train ride, but it seems like a reasonable means of going up and down the east coast.
If by "reasonable" you mean jerked around on a noisy, vibrating platform for hours on end as you pass the time in incredibly uncomfortable chairs, then, yeah, trains on the American east coast are probably your thing.
If I had mod points, you'd get them all. This is the most insightful comment I've read on this article.
Not only are people the same everywhere, they're the same "everytime". I used to wonder how people could subjagate themselves to a king, and allow someone to rule over them. How do you go from being free tribesmen to being 'subjects' of someone else. Then I attended a few homeowner's association meetings. I was flabergasted to see how willing people were to give up their rights to their own property in order to insure that a neighbor doesn't paint some shutters with the wrong color or park an RV in the backyard.
People are the same everywhere, which generally means they're mostly stupid sheep.
I generally agree with this, but Pineapple Racing has done an amazing job of posting some rotary engine rebuild videos that are really priceless (if you're trying to rebuild a rotary engine.) My son and I were stuck in trying to pull the engine from his 1995 Saturn, but we were able to pull up a couple YouTube videos that gave us the hints we needed to get the job done.
The flash and videos are mostly marketing junk, but it CAN be used for some pretty remarkable information sharing of things that just don't translate well in print.
What happens when you get lost or have a flat or other emergency?
Dude?! How about growing a pair, would ya'? Excuse my abrasiveness, but I didn't realize that signing a cell phone contract came with mandatory castration.
I don't get lost. First, I'm a man, and they'll take my man-card if I admit to being lost. Second, I actually carry a map in my car. It's an ancient device that consists of marks on a piece of paper. While primitive, the battery life and pixel resolution of the thing is phenomenal. You can store one in a seat pouch, and it will power right up years later when you need it. If I get disoriented, I read a street sign, pull over to the side, and re-orient myself by reading the map. Again, it's a matter of planning ahead further than my nose reaches.
If I have a flat, I change the damn tire. What else would I do?
If there is an "emergency", someone on the other end of a phone won't be of much help. I'll just handle it.
If OpenOffice is so good, why do it's advocates always have to say "oh it's just as good" etc?
If you came to my house trying to sell me an expensive lawn mower, I would send you away with the response that my cheap mower was "just as good". What do I mean by that? I mean that my mower spins a blade that cuts my grass to a certain height. That is all I need a mower to do. No amount of money above what I spent for my cheap mower would improve upon "blades of grass cut to X height". I'm not saying my mower is better than yours. I'm saying that all my expectations have been met.
Most people will use a word processor to type and print the occasional letter. Even in a business setting. Piling features, knobs, handles and switches on the typewriter doesn't improve the situation any. The expensive price tag doesn't improve anything. The cheap word processor isn't any better for the task at hand. It is simply sufficient.
The advocates you reference are simply aware of the scope of the problem space and don't delude themselves into thinking that extra menus or a large price tag make a difference.
How much of MSWord is loaded at boot time as part of the "operating system"? That will make it seem to load faster and use less memory, because it has hidden large parts of itself in other places.
OO.org used to have a "pre-load" option that should make the two equivalent, at least in the loading time.
Living without a cell phone does NOT equate to living like a hermit. Far from it. Most of the calls I see people making are for totally pointless bullshite calls that could have either been done 15 minutes ago when they were at home or the office, or could have waited 15 minutes until they got home. Not needing an electronic tether (noose?) because one can plan their life more than 30minutes ahead does not make one a hermit.
I happily live without a cell phone or pager, and I interact with other humans as much as I can stand.
The world needs no such of a thing. The last thing I need is a piece of equipment that will tell the cable company how many pieces of equipment I have connected to the Internet.
Currently, all Time-Warner can see is my Linux router running IPCop. That is all they need to see. How I choose to divide up my bandwidth budget between different boxes is my own business. They already use MAC address locking to make it a headache to switch the NIC connected to the cable box (you have to cycle the power when switching). Switch to IPv6, and they will limit each customer to one IPv6 address and we'll be doing some other type of weird NAT(ting).
We laugh that Anakin was able to take out the enemies entire army by blowing up one ship. Command and control need to be decentralized, we say.
But isn't it the case that commanders, by their nature, will always try to assume as much control as feasible? Most lack the ability to trust the outcome of a battle to someone else, especially someone who hasn't proven themselves to your level (else, they would be the commander).
You type "podcast" into Adept's search bar. Click on any applications that will tickle your itch (read the descriptions if you don't know). Click on the apply changes, then wait a few minutes.
I had to install Wine last night to run Megatune. Took a few mouse-clicks, all of 5 minutes, and typing the work 'wine'.
Other companies tried to compete with far superior products, but had their contracts dry up when Microsoft enforced per-processor liscensing.
Clearly they weren't "far superior", or customers would have preferred them.
They did. That's why the contracts "dried up" instead of "never existed in the first place." MS made it so that the computer manufacturer had to pay for MS-DOS even if the end customer wanted DR-DOS.
Because if I buy application to run on an IBM PC compatible platform, it won't run on RedHat Linux or Apple iPod. There is a Linux market, and an iPod market. In all cases, there are various and sundry products that you can purchase from different vendors to work within those markets.
There was come competition present in the DOS market. DR-DOS. This product was superior. The proof lies in the fact that MS rushed a DOS 5.0 product to market after years of not upgrading what was widely held to be a stinking POS, MS-DOS 4.0. The DR-DOS had features like undelete, color directory listings, and memory management. DRI signed on customers and were thriving. MS signed secret contracts with the DRI customers, such that the customers pulled their business from DRI.
There is monopoly creation and monopoly maintenance. Both can be done in legal ways. The way MS maintained their monopoly was not legal.
they have a lot of satisfied customers you don't hear from, who got stuck on their stuff, and swore by it.
they have a lot of satisfied customers you don't hear from, who got stuck with their stuff, and swore at it.
There. Fixed that for you. Truthfully, though, once they had the market locked down, and because of network effects there really wasn't much else to choose from.
If that were the case, I'd agree, but sneaking around in the middle of the night to bend the competitor's clubs is not luck. When the competition produces a better product, and yet can't sell it in volume because of your monopoly power, you can't claim to win because of a better product.
Remember per-processor liscensing (you pay MS when the box goes out the door, whether you load their OS or not). Remember secret pricing schemes (MS giving the software away so maintain their monopoly).
The they moved onto competitors like DR-DOS. The best MS had done in about 4 years was a POS call MS-DOS 4.0. DR-DOS 5.0 and the follow on, 6.0, revitalized desktop computing operating systems. The company had contracts, they were thriving.
The MS noticed and the contracts disappeared. It's not luck when you cut off the competition's "air supply".
We didn't used to. We used to break monopolies like ATT up. No longer. But then, we didn't used to have a global marketplace in most things; we didn't have the WTO, we didn't have jobs exported to other parts of the world, we didn't have Clinton and we didn't have Bush. It didn't seem that CEOs were psychopathic sociopaths like today's CEOs, and we didn't reward those CEOs for failure like we do now, and those CEOs didn't starve our lowest paid workers.
Wow! Such naivete is stunning. Simply stunning. Do a little history reading, for the love of Pete. Look into why unions were created, anything on the industrial revolution, or even one book on coal mines. Read about Pinkerton from someplace other than their corporate brochures. Sheeesh! The good ol' days weren't all that great.
Other companies tried to compete with far superior products, but had their contracts dry up when Microsoft enforced per-processor liscensing. If a company did choose to go with DR-DOS, MS would dump MS-DOS on the market at below market prices to lock out the competition.
Your the guy sitting on top of the HumVee. You're job is to continuously scan for suspicious activity. A mind numbingly boring job for the most part.
I would expect this to give the scanner's mind something to do, bringing their attention to much more activity. Most of which will be subsequently ignored, but occassionally it might make all the difference.
You're telling us that you were the smartest kid in school, but that you weren't smart enough to stop the dumbest kid from kicking your ass on a daily basis.
I would measure intelligence as an ability to manipulate and modify ones environment to suit one's needs. Not being able to avoid getting your ass beat doesn't sound very smart to me.
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My ticket cost me closer to $4500.
Trained in a Cherokee-141, and instructor time was $25/hr. I skipped ground school.
The average G.A. airplane (a 172 or a Cherokee/Warrior) will only hit 160 kts in a descent under power.
That is changing fast. The average GA airplane is a holdover from the 50s. Last year was the first year ever that new registrations of experimentals exceeded certified planes. Between 150 and 180mph is about what you can expect from the current crop of 2 and 4 place designs that utilize something on the order of 180Hp. Some of the Cozy/EZ type fast glass will do that on 120Hp.
My Dyke Delta will use a Mazda Rotary engine, run up close to 190Hp, and should cruise right at 180mph at 75% power.
I've never taken a serious train ride, but it seems like a reasonable means of going up and down the east coast.
If by "reasonable" you mean jerked around on a noisy, vibrating platform for hours on end as you pass the time in incredibly uncomfortable chairs, then, yeah, trains on the American east coast are probably your thing.
Apart from that, people are the same everywhere
If I had mod points, you'd get them all. This is the most insightful comment I've read on this article.
Not only are people the same everywhere, they're the same "everytime". I used to wonder how people could subjagate themselves to a king, and allow someone to rule over them. How do you go from being free tribesmen to being 'subjects' of someone else. Then I attended a few homeowner's association meetings. I was flabergasted to see how willing people were to give up their rights to their own property in order to insure that a neighbor doesn't paint some shutters with the wrong color or park an RV in the backyard.
People are the same everywhere, which generally means they're mostly stupid sheep.
I had a neighbor call the police to report that my son was trying to step on a bird.
My response was, "Are they wanting to give him a ticket, or an Olympic Medal?"
Beam. Two birds with one beam.
Sheesh!! Slashdotters.
I generally agree with this, but Pineapple Racing has done an amazing job of posting some rotary engine rebuild videos that are really priceless (if you're trying to rebuild a rotary engine.) My son and I were stuck in trying to pull the engine from his 1995 Saturn, but we were able to pull up a couple YouTube videos that gave us the hints we needed to get the job done.
The flash and videos are mostly marketing junk, but it CAN be used for some pretty remarkable information sharing of things that just don't translate well in print.
What happens when you get lost or have a flat or other emergency?
Dude?! How about growing a pair, would ya'? Excuse my abrasiveness, but I didn't realize that signing a cell phone contract came with mandatory castration.
I don't get lost. First, I'm a man, and they'll take my man-card if I admit to being lost. Second, I actually carry a map in my car. It's an ancient device that consists of marks on a piece of paper. While primitive, the battery life and pixel resolution of the thing is phenomenal. You can store one in a seat pouch, and it will power right up years later when you need it. If I get disoriented, I read a street sign, pull over to the side, and re-orient myself by reading the map. Again, it's a matter of planning ahead further than my nose reaches.
If I have a flat, I change the damn tire. What else would I do?
If there is an "emergency", someone on the other end of a phone won't be of much help. I'll just handle it.
If OpenOffice is so good, why do it's advocates always have to say "oh it's just as good" etc?
If you came to my house trying to sell me an expensive lawn mower, I would send you away with the response that my cheap mower was "just as good". What do I mean by that? I mean that my mower spins a blade that cuts my grass to a certain height. That is all I need a mower to do. No amount of money above what I spent for my cheap mower would improve upon "blades of grass cut to X height". I'm not saying my mower is better than yours. I'm saying that all my expectations have been met.
Most people will use a word processor to type and print the occasional letter. Even in a business setting. Piling features, knobs, handles and switches on the typewriter doesn't improve the situation any. The expensive price tag doesn't improve anything. The cheap word processor isn't any better for the task at hand. It is simply sufficient.
The advocates you reference are simply aware of the scope of the problem space and don't delude themselves into thinking that extra menus or a large price tag make a difference.
Careful with those comparisons.
How much of MSWord is loaded at boot time as part of the "operating system"? That will make it seem to load faster and use less memory, because it has hidden large parts of itself in other places.
OO.org used to have a "pre-load" option that should make the two equivalent, at least in the loading time.
Living without a cell phone does NOT equate to living like a hermit. Far from it. Most of the calls I see people making are for totally pointless bullshite calls that could have either been done 15 minutes ago when they were at home or the office, or could have waited 15 minutes until they got home. Not needing an electronic tether (noose?) because one can plan their life more than 30minutes ahead does not make one a hermit.
I happily live without a cell phone or pager, and I interact with other humans as much as I can stand.
The world needs no such of a thing. The last thing I need is a piece of equipment that will tell the cable company how many pieces of equipment I have connected to the Internet.
Currently, all Time-Warner can see is my Linux router running IPCop. That is all they need to see. How I choose to divide up my bandwidth budget between different boxes is my own business. They already use MAC address locking to make it a headache to switch the NIC connected to the cable box (you have to cycle the power when switching). Switch to IPv6, and they will limit each customer to one IPv6 address and we'll be doing some other type of weird NAT(ting).
That's because the rabid Java supporters got jobs.
We laugh that Anakin was able to take out the enemies entire army by blowing up one ship. Command and control need to be decentralized, we say.
But isn't it the case that commanders, by their nature, will always try to assume as much control as feasible? Most lack the ability to trust the outcome of a battle to someone else, especially someone who hasn't proven themselves to your level (else, they would be the commander).
You type "podcast" into Adept's search bar. Click on any applications that will tickle your itch (read the descriptions if you don't know). Click on the apply changes, then wait a few minutes.
I had to install Wine last night to run Megatune. Took a few mouse-clicks, all of 5 minutes, and typing the work 'wine'.
Other companies tried to compete with far superior products, but had their contracts dry up when Microsoft enforced per-processor liscensing.
Clearly they weren't "far superior", or customers would have preferred them.
They did. That's why the contracts "dried up" instead of "never existed in the first place." MS made it so that the computer manufacturer had to pay for MS-DOS even if the end customer wanted DR-DOS.
Because if I buy application to run on an IBM PC compatible platform, it won't run on RedHat Linux or Apple iPod. There is a Linux market, and an iPod market. In all cases, there are various and sundry products that you can purchase from different vendors to work within those markets.
There was come competition present in the DOS market. DR-DOS. This product was superior. The proof lies in the fact that MS rushed a DOS 5.0 product to market after years of not upgrading what was widely held to be a stinking POS, MS-DOS 4.0. The DR-DOS had features like undelete, color directory listings, and memory management. DRI signed on customers and were thriving. MS signed secret contracts with the DRI customers, such that the customers pulled their business from DRI.
There is monopoly creation and monopoly maintenance. Both can be done in legal ways. The way MS maintained their monopoly was not legal.
they have a lot of satisfied customers you don't hear from, who got stuck on their stuff, and swore by it.
they have a lot of satisfied customers you don't hear from, who got stuck with their stuff, and swore at it.
There. Fixed that for you.
Truthfully, though, once they had the market locked down, and because of network effects there really wasn't much else to choose from.
If that were the case, I'd agree, but sneaking around in the middle of the night to bend the competitor's clubs is not luck. When the competition produces a better product, and yet can't sell it in volume because of your monopoly power, you can't claim to win because of a better product.
Remember per-processor liscensing (you pay MS when the box goes out the door, whether you load their OS or not). Remember secret pricing schemes (MS giving the software away so maintain their monopoly).
The they moved onto competitors like DR-DOS. The best MS had done in about 4 years was a POS call MS-DOS 4.0. DR-DOS 5.0 and the follow on, 6.0, revitalized desktop computing operating systems. The company had contracts, they were thriving.
The MS noticed and the contracts disappeared. It's not luck when you cut off the competition's "air supply".
We didn't used to. We used to break monopolies like ATT up. No longer. But then, we didn't used to have a global marketplace in most things; we didn't have the WTO, we didn't have jobs exported to other parts of the world, we didn't have Clinton and we didn't have Bush. It didn't seem that CEOs were psychopathic sociopaths like today's CEOs, and we didn't reward those CEOs for failure like we do now, and those CEOs didn't starve our lowest paid workers.
Wow! Such naivete is stunning. Simply stunning. Do a little history reading, for the love of Pete. Look into why unions were created, anything on the industrial revolution, or even one book on coal mines. Read about Pinkerton from someplace other than their corporate brochures. Sheeesh! The good ol' days weren't all that great.
IBM PC compatible operating systems.
Other companies tried to compete with far superior products, but had their contracts dry up when Microsoft enforced per-processor liscensing. If a company did choose to go with DR-DOS, MS would dump MS-DOS on the market at below market prices to lock out the competition.
Your the guy sitting on top of the HumVee. You're job is to continuously scan for suspicious activity. A mind numbingly boring job for the most part.
I would expect this to give the scanner's mind something to do, bringing their attention to much more activity. Most of which will be subsequently ignored, but occassionally it might make all the difference.
What do you want to bet that the only thing these binoculars register is 'tits'.
And how would that be a waste of money?
You're telling us that you were the smartest kid in school, but that you weren't smart enough to stop the dumbest kid from kicking your ass on a daily basis.
I would measure intelligence as an ability to manipulate and modify ones environment to suit one's needs. Not being able to avoid getting your ass beat doesn't sound very smart to me.