I'm not really able to challenge your statement. I will, however, cite that years ago I read one the pilot manuals for the Bombardier CL-65 (aka Canadair Regional Jet) which uses CF-34 engines. The manual did indicate that 80% of the thrust came from bypass air. Manuals prepared by the manufacturer do seem reasonably authoritative. If that figure is wrong, I'm merely repeating a wrong.
Jet engines are already de-facto propeller engines. If you call it a "Fan" it doesn't sound as scary as "Propeller." In a high bypass turbofan engine such as those found in most modern aircraft, most of the thrust is produced by the fan part of the turbofan. For example, the CF-34 jet engine has a bypass ratio of 80% or better. This means 80% of the thrust is produced by spinning a fan. Newer designs like the Rolls-Royce Trent 800 get 84% thrust from the bypass fan. Basically, anything that can create radial motion can be use to turn that fan. Electric, steam, compressed air,.... {insert physics here}.
Two points - one a nitpick (this is Slashdot) and the other an observation
When Expedia was launched, it was largely driven by WorldSpan when WorldSpan was owned by TWA, Delta and Northwest. Today it is much different, of course. At the time, it was thought that when American bought TWA, they paid about as much as their share of WorldSpan was worth and got the airline for free.
There is an old expression. The opposite of good isn't bad. It's good enough. Those driven to provide good will always be frustrated by those willing to accept good enough. Crowd sourcing logos and such is a perfect example of putting large numbers of good enough designers before an audience happy to accept good enough.
The industry still don't have a plan in case of BOP failure. On of the reasons the administration is fighting so hard to stop new work, it because they've asked industry experts what do you do the next time something like this happens and nobody knows what to do. The plan had been to never let a blowout happen.
All of this misses the point. The city has a contract with the cable company for FREE cable. I presume that there are televisions in break rooms at firehouses and other locations. The police dispatcher might have the weather channel on. In 1982, it was cheap and easy for Comcast to provide. Now that it's 2010, Comcast wants to discontinue analogue and decommission all the equipment needed to support it. It will save them a bundle.
Now, Comcast made a deal. Sorry Comcast, you have to honour it. I think Comcast should be allowed some latitude how to fulfill their obligations. Start with free converter boxes
He hit the nail on the head. The bank isn't half as worried about security as it is about the legal defendability of security. They're more interested in giving their lawyers leverage.
At a more fundamental level, a computer has a natural tendency to always do something or never do something. The whole idea of sometimes doing something is ripe for failure. you can get better and better at defining the rules for what sometimes means. But when a computer only understands legitimate versus illegitimate as a set of rules, the computer will fail because the rules failed.
I agree - Tech peer pressure is a poor reason for switching. XP's quality and stability have been Microsoft's albatross. (quality is relative, especially when comparing XP with Windows 2000 and NT4)
It's an old expression that the enemy of good isn't bad. The enemy of good is good enough. XP has been good enough for years and continues to be good enough.
What? Seriously? Apple knew who lost the phone when someone, possibly Jobs, walked into the team of testers and said, "Everyone hold up your phone." He looks around, "Mr. Powell, where is your phone?"
Redhat's success is a case against OpenSolaris. Oracle's customers fall into a spectrum between two ends. One one end are Blue Chip customers who pay top dollar for premium hardware, software and services for the promise of great horsepower at almost perfect reliability. On the other end are the customers who try to get the most of a meager budget. They'll put Linux on Dell and then decide if they can still afford an entry level Oracle DB.
There is, of couse, a range of customer between those poles and, frankly, OpenSolaris isn't on that spectrum because it isn't perceived to be better than either Linux or Solaris. When you can afford something "better" than Linux, you buy real Solaris.
The case that OpenSolaris helps future sysadmins get acquainted with the Solaris ecosystem is compelling, but negated if you allow "Personal Solaris" licenses of the binary only version.
All this makes be sad, because I've been using OpenSolaris for well over a year and I love it. It's totally rock solid and ZFS make storage administration a snap. If Oracle axes OpenSolaris, it will be a very sad day.
I'm in favour of the factory theft theory. All the pictures I saw of the label had "Sochet 1366" instead of "Socket 1366" and other various spelling mistakes.
And that may be fair. What I was trying illustrate is a kind of ridiculous commenting i've seen over the years. Management prescribed a certain quantity of comments. So there were many comments that read as follows:
/* increment the array index to the next position */ i++;
That comment added no value whatsoever. The i++ is already clear enough to anyone who calls himself or herself a C programmer. Additionally, this was long before the days color syntax highlighting, the useless comments actually got in the way of the code. The comments was the same monochrome green as the text. You had to read around comments to see the code.
Code is a language that expresses concepts in a way both computers and computer professionals understand. It is a simple language. When that simplicity fails to express the complexity, comments are required.
I've always subscribed to the theory that the code explains WHAT a program should do clearly enough that even a computer understands it.
Comments should fill in the gaps and answer the questions of WHY and HOW. For example, if I'm using a common pattern or idiom, I like to highlight that. I like to use the Delegation Pattern when doing SAX parsing of XML in Java. Rather that explain what the Delegation Pattern is about, I'll just cite the pattern name, add a link, and explain the nuances of that particular implementation and move on.
From the tone of the article, it seems like the courthouse maintained an unprotected access point. The article talks about it being available in the streets immediately surrounding the building. There is a huge leap from that to being an ISP. The community used it. Then someone abused it and the county got a nasty letter about it. I have no doubt that the County Solicitor advised the County Commissioners to deactivate or password protect the access point or risk severe legal exposure. It is a regrettable and loathsome decision for the community, but the right one for the county.
I agree, when a store locks their gear down, I feel like they presume I'm a theft. It does affect my purchasing habits. I like the presumption of trust I get when I walk through an Apple store versus Best Buy.
However, it would be a simple to matter to have a rolling cage that is kept in the back and rolled in and out before and after the store closes so that the easy-to-carry, high-value merchandise could be secured. It may take 20 minutes in the morning and 20 more in the evening.
It's usually L/100Km. Lower numbers are better. My ten year old Jetta Diesel gets good economy between 5 and 5.5 Litres/100Km. So 0.98 L/100Km is a wildly fantastic number - and as noted, comes with a lot of footnotes, assumptions and small print.
It would not be unreasonable that a CA issued a wildcard certificate. That said, I hope all the major CA's would add anyone caught abusing their wildcard certs to their CRL.
While all this is plausible, of course, the 12 is octal for a UNIX newline and the 50 is the '@' symbol; let us not forget that there are a lot of assumptions being made here and a lot of speculation.
Most of those are meta-data about the sequences. I think relational databases work brilliantly in that context. Specially when you pull data from many of the world-wide institutions (NCBI, EMBL, KEGG) all of whom have their own accession IDs for the same things.
Another place where relational databases work brilliantly is gene names and symbols. As an example, HOP (Entrez 84525) was renamed to HOPX a few months back. We only store the Entrez ID in our tables and then join to a gene table to get gene symbols. Thus when changes come (and they do) it's easier to re-export the data.
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I'm not really able to challenge your statement. I will, however, cite that years ago I read one the pilot manuals for the Bombardier CL-65 (aka Canadair Regional Jet) which uses CF-34 engines. The manual did indicate that 80% of the thrust came from bypass air. Manuals prepared by the manufacturer do seem reasonably authoritative. If that figure is wrong, I'm merely repeating a wrong.
Jet engines are already de-facto propeller engines. If you call it a "Fan" it doesn't sound as scary as "Propeller." In a high bypass turbofan engine such as those found in most modern aircraft, most of the thrust is produced by the fan part of the turbofan. For example, the CF-34 jet engine has a bypass ratio of 80% or better. This means 80% of the thrust is produced by spinning a fan. Newer designs like the Rolls-Royce Trent 800 get 84% thrust from the bypass fan. Basically, anything that can create radial motion can be use to turn that fan. Electric, steam, compressed air, .... {insert physics here}.
Two points - one a nitpick (this is Slashdot) and the other an observation
When Expedia was launched, it was largely driven by WorldSpan when WorldSpan was owned by TWA, Delta and Northwest. Today it is much different, of course. At the time, it was thought that when American bought TWA, they paid about as much as their share of WorldSpan was worth and got the airline for free.
There is an old expression. The opposite of good isn't bad. It's good enough. Those driven to provide good will always be frustrated by those willing to accept good enough. Crowd sourcing logos and such is a perfect example of putting large numbers of good enough designers before an audience happy to accept good enough.
The industry still don't have a plan in case of BOP failure. On of the reasons the administration is fighting so hard to stop new work, it because they've asked industry experts what do you do the next time something like this happens and nobody knows what to do. The plan had been to never let a blowout happen.
While some meaningful exceptions do exist, SVG is really not much more than an XML based implementation of Postscript.
All of this misses the point. The city has a contract with the cable company for FREE cable. I presume that there are televisions in break rooms at firehouses and other locations. The police dispatcher might have the weather channel on. In 1982, it was cheap and easy for Comcast to provide. Now that it's 2010, Comcast wants to discontinue analogue and decommission all the equipment needed to support it. It will save them a bundle. Now, Comcast made a deal. Sorry Comcast, you have to honour it. I think Comcast should be allowed some latitude how to fulfill their obligations. Start with free converter boxes
He hit the nail on the head. The bank isn't half as worried about security as it is about the legal defendability of security. They're more interested in giving their lawyers leverage.
At a more fundamental level, a computer has a natural tendency to always do something or never do something. The whole idea of sometimes doing something is ripe for failure. you can get better and better at defining the rules for what sometimes means. But when a computer only understands legitimate versus illegitimate as a set of rules, the computer will fail because the rules failed.
I agree - Tech peer pressure is a poor reason for switching. XP's quality and stability have been Microsoft's albatross. (quality is relative, especially when comparing XP with Windows 2000 and NT4)
It's an old expression that the enemy of good isn't bad. The enemy of good is good enough. XP has been good enough for years and continues to be good enough.
You are correct. Unless the ISP requires you to install their certificate authority they can't forge a certificate that matches "google.com".
What? Seriously? Apple knew who lost the phone when someone, possibly Jobs, walked into the team of testers and said, "Everyone hold up your phone." He looks around, "Mr. Powell, where is your phone?"
Redhat's success is a case against OpenSolaris. Oracle's customers fall into a spectrum between two ends. One one end are Blue Chip customers who pay top dollar for premium hardware, software and services for the promise of great horsepower at almost perfect reliability. On the other end are the customers who try to get the most of a meager budget. They'll put Linux on Dell and then decide if they can still afford an entry level Oracle DB.
There is, of couse, a range of customer between those poles and, frankly, OpenSolaris isn't on that spectrum because it isn't perceived to be better than either Linux or Solaris. When you can afford something "better" than Linux, you buy real Solaris.
The case that OpenSolaris helps future sysadmins get acquainted with the Solaris ecosystem is compelling, but negated if you allow "Personal Solaris" licenses of the binary only version.
All this makes be sad, because I've been using OpenSolaris for well over a year and I love it. It's totally rock solid and ZFS make storage administration a snap. If Oracle axes OpenSolaris, it will be a very sad day.
I'm in favour of the factory theft theory. All the pictures I saw of the label had "Sochet 1366" instead of "Socket 1366" and other various spelling mistakes.
When Elephants fight, it's the grass that gets hurt.
And that may be fair. What I was trying illustrate is a kind of ridiculous commenting i've seen over the years. Management prescribed a certain quantity of comments. So there were many comments that read as follows:
That comment added no value whatsoever. The i++ is already clear enough to anyone who calls himself or herself a C programmer. Additionally, this was long before the days color syntax highlighting, the useless comments actually got in the way of the code. The comments was the same monochrome green as the text. You had to read around comments to see the code.
Code is a language that expresses concepts in a way both computers and computer professionals understand. It is a simple language. When that simplicity fails to express the complexity, comments are required.
I've always subscribed to the theory that the code explains WHAT a program should do clearly enough that even a computer understands it.
Comments should fill in the gaps and answer the questions of WHY and HOW. For example, if I'm using a common pattern or idiom, I like to highlight that. I like to use the Delegation Pattern when doing SAX parsing of XML in Java. Rather that explain what the Delegation Pattern is about, I'll just cite the pattern name, add a link, and explain the nuances of that particular implementation and move on.
From the tone of the article, it seems like the courthouse maintained an unprotected access point. The article talks about it being available in the streets immediately surrounding the building. There is a huge leap from that to being an ISP. The community used it. Then someone abused it and the county got a nasty letter about it. I have no doubt that the County Solicitor advised the County Commissioners to deactivate or password protect the access point or risk severe legal exposure. It is a regrettable and loathsome decision for the community, but the right one for the county.
I agree, when a store locks their gear down, I feel like they presume I'm a theft. It does affect my purchasing habits. I like the presumption of trust I get when I walk through an Apple store versus Best Buy.
However, it would be a simple to matter to have a rolling cage that is kept in the back and rolled in and out before and after the store closes so that the easy-to-carry, high-value merchandise could be secured. It may take 20 minutes in the morning and 20 more in the evening.
Twitter isn't as reliable as IRC.
It's usually L/100Km. Lower numbers are better. My ten year old Jetta Diesel gets good economy between 5 and 5.5 Litres/100Km. So 0.98 L/100Km is a wildly fantastic number - and as noted, comes with a lot of footnotes, assumptions and small print.
A keyboard that can Auto Capitalize as I type. The would be awesome.
It would not be unreasonable that a CA issued a wildcard certificate. That said, I hope all the major CA's would add anyone caught abusing their wildcard certs to their CRL.
While all this is plausible, of course, the 12 is octal for a UNIX newline and the 50 is the '@' symbol; let us not forget that there are a lot of assumptions being made here and a lot of speculation.
Genome wide association studies. http://www.genome.gov/20019523
Most of those are meta-data about the sequences. I think relational databases work brilliantly in that context. Specially when you pull data from many of the world-wide institutions (NCBI, EMBL, KEGG) all of whom have their own accession IDs for the same things.
Another place where relational databases work brilliantly is gene names and symbols. As an example, HOP (Entrez 84525) was renamed to HOPX a few months back. We only store the Entrez ID in our tables and then join to a gene table to get gene symbols. Thus when changes come (and they do) it's easier to re-export the data.