I'm on Spectrum (née Charter) and am on native IPV6. (Pasadena area)
They've actually had it for a while, but I didn't get it until I recently bought a new Cable Modem.
And today's "The Los Angeles Angles of Anaheim" continues flying that banner. "The The Angels Angels of Anaheim" if you translated "Los Angeles" to English.
But they're not the only ones. "La Brea" is "the tar", so we also have "The The Tar Tar Pits" in "The La Brea Tar Pits.".
(never mind that Anaheim isn't even in Los Angeles County)
Again, you misinterpret the requirement. Go to liveatc.net and go browse the non-English speaking feeds. You won't find one that's exclusively English.
You misinterpret the ICAO requirement. It only states that English be made available and be spoken proficiently on both the pilot and controller side. It does not say it must be used. "shall demonstrate language proficiency" not "shall be used". Find me a quote in 164 that says "English shall be used." You can't.
The first sentence "Therefore, pilots on international flights shall demonstrate language proficiency in either English or the language used by the station on the ground."
In other words, if you don't speak the local language, English is the default for both sides, that way a German pilot in Russia can drop to English if he or she doesn't speak Russian. Or he can use Russian if he knows it.
There are Prop 65 stickers on car windows already. "This car contains and is manufactured with stuff that gives you cancer."
I bought a car a month ago and that sticker didn't even make it off the lot before I took it off. One on the driver's side and one on the passenger side.
You'd have to have a hell of a lot of built-up voltage to jump through the plastic casing, through the air gap to the non-grounded metal on the PC board, and then from there across the air gap to the USB grounding shield.
It's not the direct zap from your finger, it's the induced charge.
You're negatively charged, and hold one end of the USB stick. The EM field you are generating pushes all the positive charge to the other end of the stick. Usually the USB plug.
Your stick approaches the USB port, which is neutral and/or grounded and the positive end of the USB stick discharges through whatever you plugged it into.
It is even worse with grounded materials. Bring a positive charge near something grounded, and all the positive charges run away into the ground. Unground the device when the positive charged object is still around and now your device is net negatively charged. Plug that device into something and *zap*, ESD.
Since Perl is pretty loosely typed, Once it overflows its int type, it'll become a float type, then it'll just keep growing till it hits infinity.
Or until, in float, you run out of precision in the mantissa so that you can't fit 1 and the number in the same range. The proverbial 3000000000000000 + 1 = 3000000000000000.
For IEEE754 32 bit float, that's about 24 bits worth of float, so about 16,777,216 is the biggest for single precision float.
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
int i;
float j = 16777210;
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
printf("%f\n", j);
j = j + 1;
}
return 0;
}
Several of us in the Netrek community consulted with a set of patent defense lawyers back in 2000 to use Netrek as prior art to kill Patent number 5,822,523 claims 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6, which also killed 6018766 I think.
I didn't get involved in consulting for the Goldberg patent, but I did in 2000. Had a few long face to face meetings with the defense's lawyers, showed them the game, did a technical presentation, presented a few packet logs, and got a few free meals out of it. From that, they understood the claims well enough that they got the appropriate declarations from the appropriate original developers.
The result of which the defense submitted a motion to declare the claims invalid, and the judge had a draft ruling granting the motion and was about to issue a final ruling, but the plaintiffs either dropped the case, or settled out of court. The parties were Lipstream vs. HearMe. (Lipstream were the defendants, HearMe the plaintiffs)
I have a PDF copy of the ruling somewhere in my archives. It used to be on netrek.org, but got dropped in a recent site-move and redesign.
If GPS fails, they just go down to the next lower level of surveillance. Heck, they often go right down to the original method of ATC control where pilots report their position over a fix, and estimated time to the next fix and people on the ground with pencil, paper, and a stopwatch separate traffic blind. That happens whenever RADAR fails, and if you believe Don Brown at AvWeb, columnist and former NACTA safety rep (retired) at Atlanta Center, RADAR going down isn't a rare event.
JPL, while a NASA center, is really an FFRDC. JPL employees are not Civil Servants. They're Caltech employees and government contractors.
Most work done for the government for hire has ownership rights for the company doing the work. That's the only way you can get private industry to do anything. The government gets what it pays for, and the company doing the work maintains ownership of the product.
If the government pays for something, the government, by contract, gets a non-exclusive and free license to use whatever it pays for in other government projects. For example, say Company A develops a widget under government contract. The government may also be paying Company B for developing a prototype for "System B". If company B knows about company A's widget, and decides that it would be useful in "System B", they can ask the government to transfer the IP to company B under the free use license to do the development work. The government doesn't want to pay to develop the same thing more than once.
If the "System B" prototype is successful enough that Company B wants to make a product of it and sell it, either to the government, or to the public, Company B either has to develop Company A's widget on their own dime, or negotiate a commercial license for the widget.
I'm trying to remember where, but I read some author positing that given our experience with Earth languages, that if ever we meet any extra-terrestrials, no matter how many, that in their native language, the name of their home planet will most likely to translate to "dirt" just like it does for us.
And then you have exemptions like LAX, where all 4 runways point the same direction. (currently, 069/249 magnetic) that break the +/- 5 degree rule. There are actually 4 parallel runways and not 2 sets of parallel runways pointing slightly different directions. Current standards for naming only go up to 3 parallel runways (Left/Center/Right) An example is Chicago Midway. For LAX, they just gave up and called one set 7/25 and the other 6/24.
I haven't actually flown to EAA's Airventure at OshKosh myself, but don't they do that during the Expo week? I.e. "Aircraft A, Cleared to land Runway 2-7 on the blue dot, Aircraft B, Cleared to land Runway 2-7 on the Red dot, Aircraft C, Cleared to land Runway 2-7 on the Green Dot."
Ah, yes. Here it is, The Wittman NOTAM, page 10. Except I got the colors wrong, its White, Green, and Orange.
Um, you might want to try:
http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/tasks/tmr/
Most of those pictures are of an older version of IRobot's chassis, the UrbanII.
We've been on the Packbot chassis for a while, but not on the TMR program. That program ended about 3 years ago.
It also didn't help that Jurgen Prochnow was on the bridge too.
During the Depth Charging, err.. I mean Bombing, I started thinking "When did they start showing Das Boot instead of Wing Commander, and wasn't Das Boot better than this?"
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I'm on Spectrum (née Charter) and am on native IPV6. (Pasadena area) They've actually had it for a while, but I didn't get it until I recently bought a new Cable Modem.
And today's "The Los Angeles Angles of Anaheim" continues flying that banner. "The The Angels Angels of Anaheim" if you translated "Los Angeles" to English. But they're not the only ones. "La Brea" is "the tar", so we also have "The The Tar Tar Pits" in "The La Brea Tar Pits.". (never mind that Anaheim isn't even in Los Angeles County)
NASA didn't get the units mixed up. LockMart did.
You just have to look at how badly JSC allowed the Saturn V to deteriorate to have some idea why it didn't go to Houston.
Again, you misinterpret the requirement. Go to liveatc.net and go browse the non-English speaking feeds. You won't find one that's exclusively English.
You misinterpret the ICAO requirement. It only states that English be made available and be spoken proficiently on both the pilot and controller side. It does not say it must be used. "shall demonstrate language proficiency" not "shall be used". Find me a quote in 164 that says "English shall be used." You can't.
The first sentence "Therefore, pilots on international flights shall demonstrate language proficiency in either English or the language used by the station on the ground."
In other words, if you don't speak the local language, English is the default for both sides, that way a German pilot in Russia can drop to English if he or she doesn't speak Russian. Or he can use Russian if he knows it.
"PP-ASEL-IA"
Until the Coral Cache caches the "We've been slashdotted" page.
It was a re-do of the Mars Polar Lander. (Failed due to an un-debounced landing sensor switch).
Phoenix rose from the ashes of MPL.
For reference, the mast cams on MER (the one on the left) are at eye-level for a person 5'8"-5'10" ish tall.
I don't use noscript, but have been noticing lots of disabled copying on more and more websites.
The simple fix I use is to Ctrl-U/View source and copy from that window.
You haven't bought a car in California recently?
There are Prop 65 stickers on car windows already. "This car contains and is manufactured with stuff that gives you cancer."
I bought a car a month ago and that sticker didn't even make it off the lot before I took it off. One on the driver's side and one on the passenger side.
You'd have to have a hell of a lot of built-up voltage to jump through the plastic casing, through the air gap to the non-grounded metal on the PC board, and then from there across the air gap to the USB grounding shield.
It's not the direct zap from your finger, it's the induced charge.
You're negatively charged, and hold one end of the USB stick. The EM field you are generating pushes all the positive charge to the other end of the stick. Usually the USB plug.
Your stick approaches the USB port, which is neutral and/or grounded and the positive end of the USB stick discharges through whatever you plugged it into.
It is even worse with grounded materials. Bring a positive charge near something grounded, and all the positive charges run away into the ground. Unground the device when the positive charged object is still around and now your device is net negatively charged. Plug that device into something and *zap*, ESD.
Since Perl is pretty loosely typed, Once it overflows its int type, it'll become a float type, then it'll just keep growing till it hits infinity.
Or until, in float, you run out of precision in the mantissa so that you can't fit 1 and the number in the same range. The proverbial 3000000000000000 + 1 = 3000000000000000.
For IEEE754 32 bit float, that's about 24 bits worth of float, so about 16,777,216 is the biggest for single precision float.
#include <stdio.h> int main(void) { int i; float j = 16777210; for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) { printf("%f\n", j); j = j + 1; } return 0; }
16777210.000000
16777211.000000
16777212.000000
16777213.000000
16777214.000000
16777215.000000
16777216.000000
16777216.000000
16777216.000000
16777216.000000
Note the saturation at 216.
Several of us in the Netrek community consulted with a set of patent defense lawyers back in 2000 to use Netrek as prior art to kill Patent number 5,822,523 claims 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6, which also killed 6018766 I think.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5822523.html
I didn't get involved in consulting for the Goldberg patent, but I did in 2000. Had a few long face to face meetings with the defense's lawyers, showed them the game, did a technical presentation, presented a few packet logs, and got a few free meals out of it. From that, they understood the claims well enough that they got the appropriate declarations from the appropriate original developers.
The result of which the defense submitted a motion to declare the claims invalid, and the judge had a draft ruling granting the motion and was about to issue a final ruling, but the plaintiffs either dropped the case, or settled out of court. The parties were Lipstream vs. HearMe. (Lipstream were the defendants, HearMe the plaintiffs)
I have a PDF copy of the ruling somewhere in my archives. It used to be on netrek.org, but got dropped in a recent site-move and redesign.
If GPS fails, they just go down to the next lower level of surveillance. Heck, they often go right down to the original method of ATC control where pilots report their position over a fix, and estimated time to the next fix and people on the ground with pencil, paper, and a stopwatch separate traffic blind. That happens whenever RADAR fails, and if you believe Don Brown at AvWeb, columnist and former NACTA safety rep (retired) at Atlanta Center, RADAR going down isn't a rare event.
http://www.avweb.com/news/sayagain/
--Carlos V.
JPL, while a NASA center, is really an FFRDC. JPL employees are not Civil Servants. They're Caltech employees and government contractors.
Most work done for the government for hire has ownership rights for the company doing the work. That's the only way you can get private industry to do anything. The government gets what it pays for, and the company doing the work maintains ownership of the product.
If the government pays for something, the government, by contract, gets a non-exclusive and free license to use whatever it pays for in other government projects. For example, say Company A develops a widget under government contract. The government may also be paying Company B for developing a prototype for "System B". If company B knows about company A's widget, and decides that it would be useful in "System B", they can ask the government to transfer the IP to company B under the free use license to do the development work. The government doesn't want to pay to develop the same thing more than once.
If the "System B" prototype is successful enough that Company B wants to make a product of it and sell it, either to the government, or to the public, Company B either has to develop Company A's widget on their own dime, or negotiate a commercial license for the widget.
--Carlos V.
Don't eat the pie.
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=613386
I'm trying to remember where, but I read some author positing that given our experience with Earth languages, that if ever we meet any extra-terrestrials, no matter how many, that in their native language, the name of their home planet will most likely to translate to "dirt" just like it does for us.
And then you have exemptions like LAX, where all 4 runways point the same direction. (currently, 069/249 magnetic) that break the +/- 5 degree rule. There are actually 4 parallel runways and not 2 sets of parallel runways pointing slightly different directions. Current standards for naming only go up to 3 parallel runways (Left/Center/Right) An example is Chicago Midway. For LAX, they just gave up and called one set 7/25 and the other 6/24.
http://www.airnav.com/airport/klax
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism"
--Thomas Jefferson
--Carlos V.
I haven't actually flown to EAA's Airventure at OshKosh myself, but don't they do that during the Expo week? I.e. "Aircraft A, Cleared to land Runway 2-7 on the blue dot, Aircraft B, Cleared to land Runway 2-7 on the Red dot, Aircraft C, Cleared to land Runway 2-7 on the Green Dot."
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Ah, yes. Here it is, The Wittman NOTAM, page 10. Except I got the colors wrong, its White, Green, and Orange.
http://www.airventure.org/2004/flying/notam_200
--Carlos V.
Um, you might want to try: http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/tasks/tmr/ Most of those pictures are of an older version of IRobot's chassis, the UrbanII. We've been on the Packbot chassis for a while, but not on the TMR program. That program ended about 3 years ago.
Nope. Still getting the poorly rendered Slashdot pages here. Heck, the bug even hit the first time I clicked the "reply to this" link to write this.
Haven't hit the cache bug yet, but it has only been 30 minutes or so.
And Jacuzzi. I'm sure there are many others.
--Carlos V.
During the Depth Charging, err.. I mean Bombing, I started thinking "When did they start showing Das Boot instead of Wing Commander, and wasn't Das Boot better than this?"