I think he raises several valid points that are not getting fair coverage in the debate. At worst, you'll learn something about how to give a great presentation and the proper use of slides.
a) It assumes the wind at the ground station is near the wind speed and direction of the aircraft. This is almost always a wrong assumption, as the wind speed rapidly increases with altitude, and tends to cant in quite a different direction as well. For a sensor that has to be accurate within a knot or two, this is completely inadequate.
That's why I suggested the laser systems above - I don't understand exactly how they work, but by shining lasers through air masses they can determine wind speed, density, etc. Doppler RADAR's could probably be used too.
b) It assumes the GPS gives an accurate speed second by second. This is again, a poor assumption. GPS fundamentally determines position, and speed is derived from this over time, meaning it typically indicates how fast you were, a few seconds ago. For the second by second resolution you need, this is inadequate.
Surely this is a matter of sampling rate? GPS is dealing with microsecond-resolution calculations to even work.
c) It assumes that a way, in real time, of transmitting this information, deciding which ground stations to use, what interpolative formulae to use, mixed with the GPS data, can be reliably done.
Is there some reason to think this can't be worked out?
On transport category airplanes
What about private aviation?
When the Air France plane went missing, why did so many pilots jump to 'iced pitot tubes'? I got the impression from that they weren't very reliable? It sounds like with so many failure modes, they surely need a back-up system? (I'm all for 'unnecessary' redundancy when it comes to safety).
The other trouble with relying solely on pitot tube systems is they can't tell you anything about the air near you (like maybe a microburst forming above you?), only the air you're in.
Our whole family just had H1N1 and yet none of us could get a vaccine beforehand, not even our 2 year old daughter. If vaccine was available, all of us would have gotten it. To top the confusion, the doctor is still asking us to get the shot when it becomes available. Give me a frigging break.
Same here, and I'm pissed. I got the seasonal vaccine in early October and would have taken both had they been available.
This is the only aspect of healthcare that the Federal government has complete control over. This is how well it works.
Now what amazes me is that our daughter coughed for 2 days and then she was fine, while we are still sick after 3 weeks. Daycares must create some kind of mutant immune systems that put interspecies viruses to shame.
Yeah, our kids recovered quickly as well, but that's not surprising. In the Canadian study the highest mortality peaks were:
32 years old female first-nations heritage
The people they're prioritizing for vaccine aren't the most heavily affected, they're the ones people show the most emotional sympathy for. It's bad medicine, plain and simple (or call it politics if that's comforting).
As for why those are the worst victims, I don't really know, but there are several diseases where a strong immune response will do more damage than the vaccine. This could be one.
When I got my MBP (late 2006) it had a horrible burning-electronics smell after a couple weeks. If I hadn't already sold my iBook I would have returned it.
The odor was rather insidious, where it would lodge into my nose tissues such that I'd smell it for hours after leaving the computer, even outside.
I finally figured out that running SETI@Home for a few days would burn off all of whatever that crap was. I'm fairly certain it was really bad for me.
In my house, that month, Apple was the only smoker.
And apparently you dont undertand that people dont want ot hear about some bullshit accounting excuse. Its called marketing. Trotting out Sarbanes-Oxley jsut made them look like a tool. THere was NO legal requirement for them to do it in that manner, its all a simple matter of how you do your books.
Yup, it was a lie. I can't call it a last straw, but this action prompted the start of my move off Apple gear after more than 15 years. I wasn't really mad, per se, but it was indicative of company management in general. Then they delayed Leopard for iPhone, then they went after bloggers, etc.
Manufacturers claims? Is there even manufacturers??
Yeah, there are a few. I did some looking a few months back, and the real problem was torque. I worked out that the best grade one could take was 7%. I have more than that on my commute, so I stopped at that point. Most sensible cities were built in flat spots, so they're probably fine there.
Roughly 25% of the TVs on the market ALREADY meet the 2013 specification, with 50% meeting the 2011 specification.
The trick is the other 50% which either have to be entering production now for the 2011 deadline or are just off the market.
What they don't really consider is the power requirements of earning the extra $4-600 to upgrade to more efficient technology in the market. Hey, maybe SED will find a niche.
Obama got it because the whole world was overjoyed with having a non moron in charge of the worlds largest superpower, to top it off he could speak in real sentences !
That's the requirements list for "A Gold Star", not "a Nobel Peace Prize".
The tragedy are the people who didn't get it and deserved it.
It's an emergency when your airspeed indicator is malfunctioning, and it is the most direct indication of the amount of energy relative to the airstream your aircraft has. It's not something you want to muck with by putting multiple layers of indirection/abstraction (and thus additional things that can fail) between the sensors and the indicators.
The GP was mentioning failures too - why not have a backup system available if this is something which happens enough to be concerned about?
Is there anybody who can type as fast as they think? I'm not a great typist, but I can hit 90, and I can think, oh, I dunno, 3x that? How fast can "The FedEx Guy" talk or a speed-reader read?
But by economics, I mean, to be totally anachronistic - say you're a programmer in the world of skullcaps. Your employer wants you to learn Java. The 'capped programmer has the API's downloaded into his brain, as well as tons of example code that he remembers as having written. The regular programmer spends 3 years to get to the same point. As far as we know, the 'capped programmer can do something like this every day if he needs to. And who knows what kinds of brilliant insights will be possible with so much knowledge. Naturals can't even keep up, much less compete. 'Capped bosses won't want them, so they'll probably have to live amongst their own kind, to the extent that they're allowed to not be wiped out by vastly superior military technology.
So if you are good at studying, you can already max out the bandwidth your brain has for learning new things.
That assumes a few things though: that your occipital lobe is the highest bandwidth input possible, that visualizing symbols (words,numbers,etc.) is an efficient means of acquiring knowledge, that the brain couldn't learn faster if it had more efficient inputs, that direct memory creation isn't possible, and that your brain's wiring is optimal.
I don't think we really know the answers to any of those yet.
Which is why I trust SELinux less than most other flavors. Sure, I can look at the code, but what are the odds I'm looking at the right part of the code, and even if I am, what are the odds that I'll actually spot a weak point?
You and thirty thousand other security researchers from every industrialized nation on Earth. That's the thing, 'Open Source Community' contains three important words.
Besides, it's experimental. I'm sure in a few years they'll be shooting down all sorts of things. A laser equipped plane would make a fantastic precision assassination weapon.
Yep, take out your enemies, foreign and domestic. I wonder what needs to be done to get one of these in geosynchronous orbit.
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If you'd like to see the data from the sceptical view, check out Lord Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul on YouTube.
I think he raises several valid points that are not getting fair coverage in the debate. At worst, you'll learn something about how to give a great presentation and the proper use of slides.
a) It assumes the wind at the ground station is near the wind speed and direction of the aircraft. This is almost always a wrong assumption, as the wind speed rapidly increases with altitude, and tends to cant in quite a different direction as well. For a sensor that has to be accurate within a knot or two, this is completely inadequate.
That's why I suggested the laser systems above - I don't understand exactly how they work, but by shining lasers through air masses they can determine wind speed, density, etc. Doppler RADAR's could probably be used too.
b) It assumes the GPS gives an accurate speed second by second. This is again, a poor assumption. GPS fundamentally determines position, and speed is derived from this over time, meaning it typically indicates how fast you were, a few seconds ago. For the second by second resolution you need, this is inadequate.
Surely this is a matter of sampling rate? GPS is dealing with microsecond-resolution calculations to even work.
c) It assumes that a way, in real time, of transmitting this information, deciding which ground stations to use, what interpolative formulae to use, mixed with the GPS data, can be reliably done.
Is there some reason to think this can't be worked out?
On transport category airplanes
What about private aviation?
When the Air France plane went missing, why did so many pilots jump to 'iced pitot tubes'? I got the impression from that they weren't very reliable? It sounds like with so many failure modes, they surely need a back-up system? (I'm all for 'unnecessary' redundancy when it comes to safety).
The other trouble with relying solely on pitot tube systems is they can't tell you anything about the air near you (like maybe a microburst forming above you?), only the air you're in.
Our whole family just had H1N1 and yet none of us could get a vaccine beforehand, not even our 2 year old daughter. If vaccine was available, all of us would have gotten it. To top the confusion, the doctor is still asking us to get the shot when it becomes available. Give me a frigging break.
Same here, and I'm pissed. I got the seasonal vaccine in early October and would have taken both had they been available.
This is the only aspect of healthcare that the Federal government has complete control over. This is how well it works.
Now what amazes me is that our daughter coughed for 2 days and then she was fine, while we are still sick after 3 weeks. Daycares must create some kind of mutant immune systems that put interspecies viruses to shame.
Yeah, our kids recovered quickly as well, but that's not surprising. In the Canadian study the highest mortality peaks were:
32 years old
female
first-nations heritage
The people they're prioritizing for vaccine aren't the most heavily affected, they're the ones people show the most emotional sympathy for. It's bad medicine, plain and simple (or call it politics if that's comforting).
As for why those are the worst victims, I don't really know, but there are several diseases where a strong immune response will do more damage than the vaccine. This could be one.
The "biohazard" stuff is crap.
I wonder how they'd like the tables turned.
When I got my MBP (late 2006) it had a horrible burning-electronics smell after a couple weeks. If I hadn't already sold my iBook I would have returned it.
The odor was rather insidious, where it would lodge into my nose tissues such that I'd smell it for hours after leaving the computer, even outside.
I finally figured out that running SETI@Home for a few days would burn off all of whatever that crap was. I'm fairly certain it was really bad for me.
In my house, that month, Apple was the only smoker.
Liberal? Apple is liberal? Apple stands on big government not on the liberal idea of small government.
Yeah, I think FDR beat us on that one.
And apparently you dont undertand that people dont want ot hear about some bullshit accounting excuse. Its called marketing. Trotting out Sarbanes-Oxley jsut made them look like a tool. THere was NO legal requirement for them to do it in that manner, its all a simple matter of how you do your books.
Yup, it was a lie. I can't call it a last straw, but this action prompted the start of my move off Apple gear after more than 15 years. I wasn't really mad, per se, but it was indicative of company management in general. Then they delayed Leopard for iPhone, then they went after bloggers, etc.
Manufacturers claims? Is there even manufacturers??
Yeah, there are a few. I did some looking a few months back, and the real problem was torque. I worked out that the best grade one could take was 7%. I have more than that on my commute, so I stopped at that point. Most sensible cities were built in flat spots, so they're probably fine there.
The folly isn't so much in building it there as in rebuilding it there.
My letters to legislators suggesting they create parks in NOLA and build some bullet trains to a new inland city went unanswered.
SED is for the videophile.
The trick is the other 50% which either have to be entering production now for the 2011 deadline or are just off the market.
What they don't really consider is the power requirements of earning the extra $4-600 to upgrade to more efficient technology in the market. Hey, maybe SED will find a niche.
+= "On The Internet".
That's the requirements list for "A Gold Star", not "a Nobel Peace Prize".
The tragedy are the people who didn't get it and deserved it.
Seriously, these guys need a DVD player, it's easier to go dumpster diving than to kill a bunch of people.
Great show, on Netflix, check it out, especially the episode where the tech workers do a nude calendar for charity.
If other programs also seem to mess up in a similar way I would say the printer driver is screwed.
Ah, good thought. I just tried eog and gwenview to go through both stacks, and each has similar problems.
Oddly enough, the CUPS test page looks pretty good (bright reds, yellows, etc.)
If you went geosynchronous you'd need a constellation of them to get proper, full globe coverage.
true, but you only need one to control your own population.
Oh, I mean, um, to protect the country from inbound missiles.
It's an emergency when your airspeed indicator is malfunctioning, and it is the most direct indication of the amount of energy relative to the airstream your aircraft has. It's not something you want to muck with by putting multiple layers of indirection/abstraction (and thus additional things that can fail) between the sensors and the indicators.
The GP was mentioning failures too - why not have a backup system available if this is something which happens enough to be concerned about?
Oh, I agree, a long-term strategy is the best one. It just doesn't seem to be the one in use here.
Is there anybody who can type as fast as they think? I'm not a great typist, but I can hit 90, and I can think, oh, I dunno, 3x that? How fast can "The FedEx Guy" talk or a speed-reader read?
But by economics, I mean, to be totally anachronistic - say you're a programmer in the world of skullcaps. Your employer wants you to learn Java. The 'capped programmer has the API's downloaded into his brain, as well as tons of example code that he remembers as having written. The regular programmer spends 3 years to get to the same point. As far as we know, the 'capped programmer can do something like this every day if he needs to. And who knows what kinds of brilliant insights will be possible with so much knowledge. Naturals can't even keep up, much less compete. 'Capped bosses won't want them, so they'll probably have to live amongst their own kind, to the extent that they're allowed to not be wiped out by vastly superior military technology.
Maemo, I meant, not n900.
Right, my point is only developers actually know what the iPhone's OS is called. Same with the 'Nokia OS', for actual users.
As for the Serengeti, I'm ready for a change back to my primal human roots.
Don't worry, the economy is going to see to that anyway. I'm finishing up my greenhouse on Saturday.
So if you are good at studying, you can already max out the bandwidth your brain has for learning new things.
That assumes a few things though: that your occipital lobe is the highest bandwidth input possible, that visualizing symbols (words,numbers,etc.) is an efficient means of acquiring knowledge, that the brain couldn't learn faster if it had more efficient inputs, that direct memory creation isn't possible, and that your brain's wiring is optimal.
I don't think we really know the answers to any of those yet.
You and thirty thousand other security researchers from every industrialized nation on Earth. That's the thing, 'Open Source Community' contains three important words.
Yep, take out your enemies, foreign and domestic. I wonder what needs to be done to get one of these in geosynchronous orbit.
It's possible that he "fixes" the Klingon language
They say our language influences our thought patterns, maybe even of young children.
What's Klingon for "give me the fucking bottle before I disembowel you and curse your ancestors?"