On the bright side, I think they finally shows M$ is on their decline. They have no ability to grow successful additional businesses, so they are trying to "squeeze" as much out of their existing cash cow business as possible. I longterm side effects to doing this, though, is obvious.
I wouldnt know about an AoA. I have flown nearly a dozen different HP GA aircraft and have never seen one.
Also, detecting a stall depends more on the aircraft. Larger and underwing aircraft will give you slight shutter before they stall, and even when they do stall, then traditionally they will just lower their nose assuming the fuel tanks are balanced. This assumes a non-power on stall, of course. Some of the trainers, though, have some violent stall profiles, such as the Cessna 152/172. These aircraft will certainy train you to avoid stalls...:-)
We would have to disagree, because the thing I like about helicopters is the autorotation I would also disagree that an autorotation is more like falling. If an unexperienced person does it, then you might damage a strut, but a well executed autorotation can put the helicopter almost anywhere in one spot and without any damage. Something that is rare with an aircraft.
Also, all single engine high performance aircraft suffer from the same major problem, which is if anything goes wrong in the first 1500ft of takeoff, your chances of survival are very slim. Meaning, you dont have enough energy to turn around, and a 120mph hunk of metal does not like to land on anything but an airport... With a helicopter, autorotation allows you to not only live another day, but also most of the time provide minimal damage to the aircraft..
Sounds like a low tech form of load balancing... Dont these guys have the money to buy a good traffic shaping device?:-)
I do understand that many people might have bad experiences with the Comcast broadban, but I really like Comcast where I am. I have several VPN tunnels setup across multiple offices which is very nice and stable. Also, most of the time there speed is outstanding as long as my traffic shaping is good on the outbound side.
Helicopters are by design safer than a airplane... Experimental Helicopters have been around for along time now, and are very safe. Rotoway's Exec is one if the best if you ask me...
An airspeed indicator is almost critical on a airplane depending on its stall profile. Meaning, a Cessna 150/2 with a blocked airspeed indicator is a death trap on landing and takeoff.
It looks like from the pictures all this kid did was to get some blades to turn. He did get some national coverage, though...:-)
Or just build a autogyro, and not worry about individual blade pitch at all... You just rotate the entire set of blades. If you are going for cheap, safe, and low HP the autogyro concept is a considerably better design... It will never beat the dead on target placement that a standard helicopter cycled concept can offer, but it does not look that is what this kid is looking for anyway..:-)
Sounds like this kids needs to learn one of the best rules of egr of them all, which is do not re-invent the wheel.:-)
Pretty sharp kid. Give him a visa and send him to the US where he can better money than he could ever make back home.... Gee, and I wonder why these countries are not able to keep their most talented people?:-)
For me, the most exciting thing is the multiple desktops. I have for a long time been needing this functionality. Expose is nice, but when you have 20 windows open everything gets so small that it can get annoying. Seeing as my MacBookPro only supports 2G of ram, though, which as never been a problem with Tiger even when Fusion is running, but I hope that Leopard is equally kind on ram...
Its just FUD because M$ is afraid of the EU slipping from its grips... An example of this would be the Vista adoption rate in the EU... IP is an arms race. Yes, Eolas could definitely try something, but if M$ tried it then IBM would smear then against the wall like a bug with their "IP". What I find interesting is that the OSS world does not give enough credit for what IBM does for OSS... It is my opinion that without the help of IBM to Linux, M$ would have done considerable damage...
Because I strongly suspect there is an "agreement" with Sun/Microsoft on OO. This product is just way to threatening to MS longterm to not try to get some agreement with Sun in relation to how it is handled... Basically they would never want to get rid of it, but rather just slow/stagnate/bloated its development... That appears to be exactly what Sun is doing. It also helps explain IBM's entrance into the fray...
Considering that IBM has just put > 30 programmers fulltime working on OO (Yes I understand under a new name), isnt all of this squabbling kind of pointless?? Also, with this amount of squabbling going on, I really do have that IBM just forks their changes and continues to maintain the codebase with a fulltime staff. Someone needs it...
This article does not mention anything about the amount of resources required to run Windows Vista, which will eventually be the only game in town in the windows world... Vista could not run on any of these low cost devices just looking at their spec sheets... Also, the large number of users who are willing to pay >= $2K for laptops will go the Apple route, which cuts off their profitable "ultimate" side of things... So yes, in the longterm, it looks like M$ is going to be a little pinched in the marketplace..
I certainly do not see Linux as a cheap knock off, but OSS in general is free, so it is kind of hard to push it as anything else other than cheap. Cost in OSS has no relation on quality, however, which actually is OSS's biggest business problem... Love it or hate it, but people associate low cost with cheap quality. That is just the way it is...
From my perspective, I hope we stop calling always calling it Linux, and rather just focus on the distro, such as "Ubuntu" or maybe "Dell OS"... The beauty of Linux is that it excels when it is in the background designed for specific tasks, such as in Tivo's, or even embedded devices.... For example, do we call Apple's OS "OSX NextStep/BSD"???:-)
If this isnt a PR pushed document, I dont know what is.... Of course Novell's business increased simply due to the fact of M$ handing out vouchers to people which M$ then ends up paying for when they give it to someone. What they would like to give the impression is that this makes people feel safe, so they go this route instead of the unsafe route with RedHat. You will also notice that they did not point out the Redhat had an amazing quarter as well with them attributing it to botched Vista rollout.... Hm... I wonder why they felt compelled to release this press release now??:-)
Why dont you just download everything P2P to "stick it" to iTunes and the other music services? That way you can stick it to them and keep your money away from your mouth...:-)
Let me state what I feel is the obvious... Selling music is a business that has come and gone... Having people just download mp3's will simply speed up its death. Because their business model resides on the availability of music, nothing they do at this point can save themselves, and certainly only getting $0.99 per song is not going to do it.. When you read thru their SEC published sales numbers, its like watching a train wreck in slow motion...
Yes, but my thought would be to modify the feature so that you can pick the "carrier" for the feature... Meaning, have several instead of just using Google only...
My thought would be if a master list exists for someone to put up a master site that does not keep up with the information, and put a patch into Firefox to have it pull from this site...
There is no secret to why Mozilla Firefox wants this feature. I suspect Google has agreed to pay then for the feature to be in Firefox, as I would think this data would be quite lucrative....
No, but they soon will be... The music industry as a whole is in the process of serious downsizing, and there is nothing that can be done about it. The internet basically destroyed their "we sell availablity to music" business model. Combine that with the record companies for years forcing people to purchase the entire album rather than the individual song they want, and you have a world of hurt still coming to them...
The end game is pretty well understood here in that it will be more M & A action. Because there are only a handful of players now, I suspect that the entire music industry will be sucked up by the much larger media companies, but they must fall further in value before this can happen. Also, their arrogance must reset as well... There is little doubt that the glory days are over..
People still do not understand open source, in that there is always a little friendly "nudging"... Because everything is out in the open, a few people upset means to some people that "Linux is in peril"... The reality of the situation is that business drives Linux development. I for one feel that if IBM did not contribute what it did, that Linux would only be a fraction of what it is today. Meaning, IBM, from my perspective, helped businesses see Linux as a viable business tool... I do not think that their contribution can be understated from that perspective...
So where does it go from here? Mostly what it is doing today... I would be shocked if it ever gets much traction on the desktop front simply due to no company putting the huge investment to continue advancing it and marketing it... The real success of Linux, I feel, will always be a background player... As far as the future in development... One market that I do not think people have realized enough it what I call "smart appliances" industry, in that using Linux on standard x86 hardware with OS/Database/Web support that you just plug in and run. Linux has allot of room to grow in this marketspace...
Wine needs a significant capital infusion if it will ever become truely viable in the commercial world... As long as the Patent / Copyright lawsuit potential hangs over it, no investment will ever be made. M$ uses this form of FUD to their advantage, which is why Wine is still in the situation it is... If the EU would simply put in a provision to protect such projects, you would shocked at the size of investments that would go into this sector...
Also, as far as the argument of not needing it... Over 6000 applications run on the Win32 API, and this will not change anytime soon. Needing the ability to run existing Win32 API applications is critical to any OS having a chance to survive in the marketplace, and is the prime reason why M$ is still holding their monopoly...
He undeniably "was" a great engineer... Unlike Jobs, he gave up real work along time ago.... Besides, an engineer voicing his opinions on individual product prices is like a business person voicing his opinion on the design of the product. He has no damn idea what he is talking about, and is simply showing his ignorance by talking about it...
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On the bright side, I think they finally shows M$ is on their decline. They have no ability to grow successful additional businesses, so they are trying to "squeeze" as much out of their existing cash cow business as possible. I longterm side effects to doing this, though, is obvious.
Never flown an autogyro before, but I would guess it autorotates just like a helicopter.
I wouldnt know about an AoA. I have flown nearly a dozen different HP GA aircraft and have never seen one.
:-)
Also, detecting a stall depends more on the aircraft. Larger and underwing aircraft will give you slight shutter before they stall, and even when they do stall, then traditionally they will just lower their nose assuming the fuel tanks are balanced. This assumes a non-power on stall, of course. Some of the trainers, though, have some violent stall profiles, such as the Cessna 152/172. These aircraft will certainy train you to avoid stalls...
We would have to disagree, because the thing I like about helicopters is the autorotation I would also disagree that an autorotation is more like falling. If an unexperienced person does it, then you might damage a strut, but a well executed autorotation can put the helicopter almost anywhere in one spot and without any damage. Something that is rare with an aircraft.
Also, all single engine high performance aircraft suffer from the same major problem, which is if anything goes wrong in the first 1500ft of takeoff, your chances of survival are very slim. Meaning, you dont have enough energy to turn around, and a 120mph hunk of metal does not like to land on anything but an airport... With a helicopter, autorotation allows you to not only live another day, but also most of the time provide minimal damage to the aircraft..
Sounds like a low tech form of load balancing... Dont these guys have the money to buy a good traffic shaping device? :-)
I do understand that many people might have bad experiences with the Comcast broadban, but I really like Comcast where I am. I have several VPN tunnels setup across multiple offices which is very nice and stable. Also, most of the time there speed is outstanding as long as my traffic shaping is good on the outbound side.
Helicopters are by design safer than a airplane... Experimental Helicopters have been around for along time now, and are very safe. Rotoway's Exec is one if the best if you ask me...
An airspeed indicator is almost critical on a airplane depending on its stall profile. Meaning, a Cessna 150/2 with a blocked airspeed indicator is a death trap on landing and takeoff.
:-)
It looks like from the pictures all this kid did was to get some blades to turn. He did get some national coverage, though...
Yes I agree... 133HP is ideal for an autogyro, though.. I am sure he could get 120mph+ if he had gone this route instead....
Or just build a autogyro, and not worry about individual blade pitch at all... You just rotate the entire set of blades. If you are going for cheap, safe, and low HP the autogyro concept is a considerably better design... It will never beat the dead on target placement that a standard helicopter cycled concept can offer, but it does not look that is what this kid is looking for anyway.. :-)
:-)
Sounds like this kids needs to learn one of the best rules of egr of them all, which is do not re-invent the wheel.
Pretty sharp kid. Give him a visa and send him to the US where he can better money than he could ever make back home.... Gee, and I wonder why these countries are not able to keep their most talented people? :-)
For me, the most exciting thing is the multiple desktops. I have for a long time been needing this functionality. Expose is nice, but when you have 20 windows open everything gets so small that it can get annoying. Seeing as my MacBookPro only supports 2G of ram, though, which as never been a problem with Tiger even when Fusion is running, but I hope that Leopard is equally kind on ram...
I really question if Microsoft would like to know what I REALLY think about them... :-)
Its just FUD because M$ is afraid of the EU slipping from its grips... An example of this would be the Vista adoption rate in the EU... IP is an arms race. Yes, Eolas could definitely try something, but if M$ tried it then IBM would smear then against the wall like a bug with their "IP". What I find interesting is that the OSS world does not give enough credit for what IBM does for OSS... It is my opinion that without the help of IBM to Linux, M$ would have done considerable damage...
Because I strongly suspect there is an "agreement" with Sun/Microsoft on OO. This product is just way to threatening to MS longterm to not try to get some agreement with Sun in relation to how it is handled... Basically they would never want to get rid of it, but rather just slow/stagnate/bloated its development... That appears to be exactly what Sun is doing. It also helps explain IBM's entrance into the fray...
Considering that IBM has just put > 30 programmers fulltime working on OO (Yes I understand under a new name), isnt all of this squabbling kind of pointless?? Also, with this amount of squabbling going on, I really do have that IBM just forks their changes and continues to maintain the codebase with a fulltime staff. Someone needs it...
This article does not mention anything about the amount of resources required to run Windows Vista, which will eventually be the only game in town in the windows world... Vista could not run on any of these low cost devices just looking at their spec sheets... Also, the large number of users who are willing to pay >= $2K for laptops will go the Apple route, which cuts off their profitable "ultimate" side of things... So yes, in the longterm, it looks like M$ is going to be a little pinched in the marketplace..
I certainly do not see Linux as a cheap knock off, but OSS in general is free, so it is kind of hard to push it as anything else other than cheap. Cost in OSS has no relation on quality, however, which actually is OSS's biggest business problem... Love it or hate it, but people associate low cost with cheap quality. That is just the way it is...
:-)
From my perspective, I hope we stop calling always calling it Linux, and rather just focus on the distro, such as "Ubuntu" or maybe "Dell OS"... The beauty of Linux is that it excels when it is in the background designed for specific tasks, such as in Tivo's, or even embedded devices.... For example, do we call Apple's OS "OSX NextStep/BSD"???
If this isnt a PR pushed document, I dont know what is.... Of course Novell's business increased simply due to the fact of M$ handing out vouchers to people which M$ then ends up paying for when they give it to someone. What they would like to give the impression is that this makes people feel safe, so they go this route instead of the unsafe route with RedHat. You will also notice that they did not point out the Redhat had an amazing quarter as well with them attributing it to botched Vista rollout.... Hm... I wonder why they felt compelled to release this press release now?? :-)
Why dont you just download everything P2P to "stick it" to iTunes and the other music services? That way you can stick it to them and keep your money away from your mouth... :-)
Let me state what I feel is the obvious... Selling music is a business that has come and gone... Having people just download mp3's will simply speed up its death. Because their business model resides on the availability of music, nothing they do at this point can save themselves, and certainly only getting $0.99 per song is not going to do it.. When you read thru their SEC published sales numbers, its like watching a train wreck in slow motion...
Yes, but my thought would be to modify the feature so that you can pick the "carrier" for the feature... Meaning, have several instead of just using Google only...
My thought would be if a master list exists for someone to put up a master site that does not keep up with the information, and put a patch into Firefox to have it pull from this site...
There is no secret to why Mozilla Firefox wants this feature. I suspect Google has agreed to pay then for the feature to be in Firefox, as I would think this data would be quite lucrative....
No, but they soon will be... The music industry as a whole is in the process of serious downsizing, and there is nothing that can be done about it. The internet basically destroyed their "we sell availablity to music" business model. Combine that with the record companies for years forcing people to purchase the entire album rather than the individual song they want, and you have a world of hurt still coming to them...
The end game is pretty well understood here in that it will be more M & A action. Because there are only a handful of players now, I suspect that the entire music industry will be sucked up by the much larger media companies, but they must fall further in value before this can happen. Also, their arrogance must reset as well... There is little doubt that the glory days are over..
People still do not understand open source, in that there is always a little friendly "nudging"... Because everything is out in the open, a few people upset means to some people that "Linux is in peril"... The reality of the situation is that business drives Linux development. I for one feel that if IBM did not contribute what it did, that Linux would only be a fraction of what it is today. Meaning, IBM, from my perspective, helped businesses see Linux as a viable business tool... I do not think that their contribution can be understated from that perspective...
So where does it go from here? Mostly what it is doing today... I would be shocked if it ever gets much traction on the desktop front simply due to no company putting the huge investment to continue advancing it and marketing it... The real success of Linux, I feel, will always be a background player... As far as the future in development... One market that I do not think people have realized enough it what I call "smart appliances" industry, in that using Linux on standard x86 hardware with OS/Database/Web support that you just plug in and run. Linux has allot of room to grow in this marketspace...
Wine needs a significant capital infusion if it will ever become truely viable in the commercial world... As long as the Patent / Copyright lawsuit potential hangs over it, no investment will ever be made. M$ uses this form of FUD to their advantage, which is why Wine is still in the situation it is... If the EU would simply put in a provision to protect such projects, you would shocked at the size of investments that would go into this sector...
Also, as far as the argument of not needing it... Over 6000 applications run on the Win32 API, and this will not change anytime soon. Needing the ability to run existing Win32 API applications is critical to any OS having a chance to survive in the marketplace, and is the prime reason why M$ is still holding their monopoly...
He undeniably "was" a great engineer... Unlike Jobs, he gave up real work along time ago.... Besides, an engineer voicing his opinions on individual product prices is like a business person voicing his opinion on the design of the product. He has no damn idea what he is talking about, and is simply showing his ignorance by talking about it...