I wonder if perhaps the noise reduction and stealth features came at a price of reduced performance.
Any helicopter can enter a state known as settling with power or vortex ring state. Basically the rotors downwash is recirculated around and back through the rotor. When operating close to high walls, a vortex ring can form very suddenly, and the pilot may not have sufficient room to recover.
I have DSL through AT&T. (They have some name for it, but basically it means I don't have phone service or anything, just the DSL). I then have vonage for my phone, and I use netflix streaming to a wii to get the majority of shows and movies. I also use playon.tv to watch hulu through the wii as well. That takes care of most of the "current" shows. Playon also has direct support for espn, syfy, cbs, pbs, amazon VOD, and several other web streams. All told, I pay $35/mo for the DSL, $11/mo for the netflix, and I paid a one time fee of $80 for playon.
Where did you pull that number from? According to their site it's $50 for a download or $60 for a CD shipped to your door.
Also, if you're going to use his numbers for linux (which included the price of the game) then you need to do it for windows (which did not) so add $45-$50 to the windows price of $100-$130, resulting in $145-$180. This isn't including the price of all the antivirus/spyware/etc crap that you've gotta buy to keep a win box functional.
I was at the summit, and spent a bit of time talking to the Garage Games guys. It turns out that the normal joe is the fastest growing market segment in gaming right now. Now stay at home moms are downloading simple "casual games" from places like gamehouse.com, and playing them. Guys are coming home from their accounting jobs and having a quick puzzle game to decompress. So, evidence is contradicting your assumption that only an elite few basement rats play games.
As cool as it sounds to not have a pulse, I have to wonder... what side effects could this cause. Looking at nature overall, it seems that everything is rhythmic. What if the pulse is used to keep the various parts of the body in sync. Yes, nerves probably do this, however, think about it. Every cell has respritory functions, and they are timed to coincide with a pulse. As a software engineer, a signal such as that would be hard to not take for granted. With no pulse, would your internal clock skew, so you start sleeping less or more? Any MD's or biologists have any data on this? Anyway, fun food for thought.
How did they profit from it? It was a free presentation about desktop linux, and how Linspire fills that niche. In order to profit from it, they would have to be selling it. Having it freely downloadable on the front page pretty much negates that. Ironically the section that had the images was about linux in general. Not even about linspire. And as for irresponsible behavior, sounds like all parties are at fault. Lindows for not getting permission, and the artist, AND the guy who found the time to set up a website and Jerry Springer this thing on Slashdot for handling it in such a National Enquierer way. Go slashdot. News for Nerds, stuff that matters?
Were you confused by BeOS? Were you confused by DOS? Should Apple sue either of them? If people are confused between "Windows XP" and "Lindows OS" then the court may rule so. However, Microsoft should not have been given a trademark for the term "Windows" And, when they did, they should have defended it uniformly. There are several products that play off of the "Windows Trademark" and none of them are being sued.
Just out of curiosity, when you use OS X, do you open OS's? No, you open WINDOWS, just like you did on the very first Mac. Somehow (nobody knows how, the records are all sealed) Microsoft got the trademark to the word "WINDOWS" This would be like Apple getting the trademark to OS when they make OS 8, OS 9, OS X etc.. , then suing the shit out of anybody that used the term OS to describe their... OS. Except in this case it's even more absurd since we're not dealing with an acronym, but an actual word that describes the interface.
How are the consumers hurt? They get LindowsOS and other Lindows related products. Microsoft either pays Lindows for all of this product, or doesn't. The only ones taking the risk are Lindows. They didn't have the consumers PAY anything. This is a way for californians who have been ripped off by MSFT to try something else (if they are interested) at no cost to themselves. As for the part of the letter where MSFT accuses Lindows of taking books and food off of school childrens plates, they aren't. They're taking windows off school childrens pc's And I can't understand how that is a bad thing. Kudos to lindows for doing this, and hopefully they can find a way to work this out. MSFT made a hard filing process on purpose. They're pissed off that lindows undermined it so that it was MORE beneficial for consumers.
>I'm not too sure about that. Linux distros aren't nearly as flexible as they need to be. When you take a Linux harddrive from one system to another, you almost always need to manually work-out one problem or another.
Heh, I've been using Lindows for a while and believe it or not, you can take the hard drive out of one box and drop it into another one, and it'll boot, redetect everything, and go on it's merry way. I've tried the same hard drive in three different machines. All running different hardware (ati and nvidia vid cards, and a different NIC in each) I applaud Lindows for this move. If white-box makers would sell a system with no OS, and now there's an OS, better for the end-user, better for the white-box maker (they can list it as ready to go instead of bare,) and better for Lindows. Not so good for Microsoft. Ah well.
Then maybe it is advantageous that a "dumbed down" version of Linux is preinstalled on these machines. They can then start using the computer. Once they have gotten their basic computing tasks out of the way, they can sit down and play with the mechanism. They can finally lean what the hell all this Linux nonsense is. They didn't have to learn what rxvt is. Nor whether they need the "Apache" to use their computer. Ohh, and get this, they didn't have to learn how to translate a bitmask and figure out those bloody permissions. (what the hell does 750 mean again? Let me call my friendly neighborhood linux tech. Oh wait, he said he wouldn't talk to me anymore) However, if he wants to learn those (now that he has linux, no thanks to all those elitists) concepts, he has the ability to. And he only had to pay USD $200. Not a bad bargin!
I can see your questions, and with regard to social interaction, school gets out between 2:00 and 4:00 (depending on region, grade, etc...) which leaves at least two hours (by the strictest standards) of social time. To illustrate this point, while growing up, almost all of my friends didn't attend the same schools as I did (I grew up on a district border) Yet I had plenty of social interaction. While at school, I didn't have much social interaction with anybody, yet after school, I played "broomstick baseball" rode bikes, etc, and developed necessary social skills for being a productive member of society. One of my best friends was home-taught and started teaching me physics while we were in the "sixth grade" age group. Last I heard, he was working on his second BS (He would be 23 now.) He is definitely an exception, but evidence of what can happen with homeschooling.
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I wonder if perhaps the noise reduction and stealth features came at a price of reduced performance.
Any helicopter can enter a state known as settling with power or vortex ring state. Basically the rotors downwash is recirculated around and back through the rotor. When operating close to high walls, a vortex ring can form very suddenly, and the pilot may not have sufficient room to recover.
Here's a link describing the condition.
http://www.cybercom.net/~copters/aero/settling.html
Not necessarily a limitation of any modifications, just a general limitation of helicopters.
I knew that helicopter ground school would come in useful eventually! :-)
I have DSL through AT&T. (They have some name for it, but basically it means I don't have phone service or anything, just the DSL). I then have vonage for my phone, and I use netflix streaming to a wii to get the majority of shows and movies. I also use playon.tv to watch hulu through the wii as well. That takes care of most of the "current" shows. Playon also has direct support for espn, syfy, cbs, pbs, amazon VOD, and several other web streams. All told, I pay $35/mo for the DSL, $11/mo for the netflix, and I paid a one time fee of $80 for playon.
Where did you pull that number from? According to their site it's $50 for a download or $60 for a CD shipped to your door.
Also, if you're going to use his numbers for linux (which included the price of the game) then you need to do it for windows (which did not) so add $45-$50 to the windows price of $100-$130, resulting in $145-$180. This isn't including the price of all the antivirus/spyware/etc crap that you've gotta buy to keep a win box functional.
I was at the summit, and spent a bit of time talking to the Garage Games guys. It turns out that the normal joe is the fastest growing market segment in gaming right now. Now stay at home moms are downloading simple "casual games" from places like gamehouse.com, and playing them. Guys are coming home from their accounting jobs and having a quick puzzle game to decompress. So, evidence is contradicting your assumption that only an elite few basement rats play games.
As cool as it sounds to not have a pulse, I have to wonder... what side effects could this cause. Looking at nature overall, it seems that everything is rhythmic. What if the pulse is used to keep the various parts of the body in sync. Yes, nerves probably do this, however, think about it. Every cell has respritory functions, and they are timed to coincide with a pulse. As a software engineer, a signal such as that would be hard to not take for granted. With no pulse, would your internal clock skew, so you start sleeping less or more? Any MD's or biologists have any data on this? Anyway, fun food for thought.
How did they profit from it? It was a free presentation about desktop linux, and how Linspire fills that niche. In order to profit from it, they would have to be selling it. Having it freely downloadable on the front page pretty much negates that. Ironically the section that had the images was about linux in general. Not even about linspire. And as for irresponsible behavior, sounds like all parties are at fault. Lindows for not getting permission, and the artist, AND the guy who found the time to set up a website and Jerry Springer this thing on Slashdot for handling it in such a National Enquierer way. Go slashdot. News for Nerds, stuff that matters?
Were you confused by BeOS? Were you confused by DOS? Should Apple sue either of them? If people are confused between "Windows XP" and "Lindows OS" then the court may rule so. However, Microsoft should not have been given a trademark for the term "Windows" And, when they did, they should have defended it uniformly. There are several products that play off of the "Windows Trademark" and none of them are being sued.
-Joe
Just out of curiosity, when you use OS X, do you open OS's? No, you open WINDOWS, just like you did on the very first Mac. Somehow (nobody knows how, the records are all sealed) Microsoft got the trademark to the word "WINDOWS" This would be like Apple getting the trademark to OS when they make OS 8, OS 9, OS X etc.. , then suing the shit out of anybody that used the term OS to describe their... OS. Except in this case it's even more absurd since we're not dealing with an acronym, but an actual word that describes the interface.
-Joe
How are the consumers hurt? They get LindowsOS and other Lindows related products. Microsoft either pays Lindows for all of this product, or doesn't. The only ones taking the risk are Lindows. They didn't have the consumers PAY anything. This is a way for californians who have been ripped off by MSFT to try something else (if they are interested) at no cost to themselves. As for the part of the letter where MSFT accuses Lindows of taking books and food off of school childrens plates, they aren't. They're taking windows off school childrens pc's And I can't understand how that is a bad thing. Kudos to lindows for doing this, and hopefully they can find a way to work this out. MSFT made a hard filing process on purpose. They're pissed off that lindows undermined it so that it was MORE beneficial for consumers.
>I'm not too sure about that. Linux distros aren't nearly as flexible as they need to be. When you take a Linux harddrive from one system to another, you almost always need to manually work-out one problem or another.
Heh, I've been using Lindows for a while and believe it or not, you can take the hard drive out of one box and drop it into another one, and it'll boot, redetect everything, and go on it's merry way. I've tried the same hard drive in three different machines. All running different hardware (ati and nvidia vid cards, and a different NIC in each)
I applaud Lindows for this move. If white-box makers would sell a system with no OS, and now there's an OS, better for the end-user, better for the white-box maker (they can list it as ready to go instead of bare,) and better for Lindows. Not so good for Microsoft. Ah well.
Then maybe it is advantageous that a "dumbed down" version of Linux is preinstalled on these machines. They can then start using the computer. Once they have gotten their basic computing tasks out of the way, they can sit down and play with the mechanism. They can finally lean what the hell all this Linux nonsense is. They didn't have to learn what rxvt is. Nor whether they need the "Apache" to use their computer. Ohh, and get this, they didn't have to learn how to translate a bitmask and figure out those bloody permissions. (what the hell does 750 mean again? Let me call my friendly neighborhood linux tech. Oh wait, he said he wouldn't talk to me anymore) However, if he wants to learn those (now that he has linux, no thanks to all those elitists) concepts, he has the ability to. And he only had to pay USD $200. Not a bad bargin!
I can see your questions, and with regard to social interaction, school gets out between 2:00 and 4:00 (depending on region, grade, etc...) which leaves at least two hours (by the strictest standards) of social time. To illustrate this point, while growing up, almost all of my friends didn't attend the same schools as I did (I grew up on a district border) Yet I had plenty of social interaction. While at school, I didn't have much social interaction with anybody, yet after school, I played "broomstick baseball" rode bikes, etc, and developed necessary social skills for being a productive member of society. One of my best friends was home-taught and started teaching me physics while we were in the "sixth grade" age group. Last I heard, he was working on his second BS (He would be 23 now.) He is definitely an exception, but evidence of what can happen with homeschooling.
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