A bit off topic, but it is really a nice little rural town.
They also have a regional office for Rural Source (http://www.ruralsource.com). So there may be some area IT contractors that are working off that wind power.
The feedback section in the latest (April) issue of IFR magazine (http://www.ifr-magazine.com) contains a report indicating that a turned on Blackberry on board an aircraft was causing intermittent loss of the weather radar and GPS equipment (pilot determined it was whenever the flight was overflying cell phone towers and the equipment required multiple "reboots").
While it can be argued that the quality of the equipment and proximity of the Blackberry to the antenna probably caused the problem, it's easy to see why the FAA has concerns in this area. They want to be certain that such an occurrence (like leaving a Blackberry on) won't result in any accidents or incidents.
That said, I would venture a guess that many airline flights every day have some passenger that has left their Blackberry on and it checks for email periodically during the flight. Most likely those Blackberry units in the passenger compartment are far enough away from antenna to cause any real problems.
I can see 2 things this might assist with (not that I agree them):
1) They could change/tighten up the schedules if the boarding process goes quicker (that "take off at time x" will change as the airlines adapt to more efficient boarding). However, that implies the air traffic system/runways can handle the tighter schedules. Since many feel the system is already overloaded and can't handle any tighter scheduling, that makes this point moot. So let's discuss point #2:
2) Many system designers want to solve the crowded skies/overloaded system by putting larger aircraft in the system (think 500+ passengers per plane). That reduces/maintains the number of aircraft in the sky, but moves larger numbers of people. The larger planes will have even more pressure to spend less time on the ground (gotta keep that asset in the sky making money). So the biggest problem to solve is how to get so many people to board a large aircraft in a short amount of time. I've seen discussions that mention boarding multiple doors to the aircraft at once, etc. But that requires infrastructure change to airport terminals, etc. So quicker boarding might assist with this goal of larger planes.
While I understand the efficiency of the methods proposed by TFA, I'm in agreement that it probably wouldn't work in practice with humans. Personally, I'd love to see queuing theory applied to all sorts of lines in our daily lives. I hate getting in the slow line at the grocery store or bank, etc.
(disclaimer, I have a graduate degree in stats, so I'm all for efficiency)
> It will take another 30 years to convince people that they are ok.
I hope it will be less, but a quick look at how long ago the Hindenburg occurred vs people's continued negative attitude toward hydrogen fuel spells otherwise.
The uneducated sheeple won't change their views unless the media tells them to.
Garmin (GPS) is a big employer for folks with software skills. They are in Olathe -- KC metro area.
They're always looking for good folks to hire, even Linux skills. They even had a recruiting booth at LinuxWorld in SF last August. Garmin & Amazon were the only 2 booths doing recruiting-only at that show.
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Can somebody do a search on "sharks" in those laser patents? They might have something here!
Can brainwaves have accents or slurring?
I'd be a bit skeptical considering how speech recognition has worked out: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1123221217782777472#
I'm just saying...
I'm thinking we need a return of Adam Quark!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077066
They already found water on Mars a few years ago and posted on their website:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504/WaterOnMars2_gcc_big.jpg
> is this the "change" you were looking for?
;-)
I think you misunderstood the campaign slogan.
It's "Chains you can believe in".
You know why the Yahoo Computing Coop only has 2 doors?
Because if it was 4 doors, it'd be a Computing Sedan!
Thank you, I'll be here all night. Please tip your server.
> "may see the USAF looking to Europe for its next presidential aircraft."
Yeah, like that'll fly.
Thank you, I'll be all night. Be sure to tip your waitresses.
A bit off topic, but it is really a nice little rural town.
They also have a regional office for Rural Source (http://www.ruralsource.com). So there may be some area IT contractors that are working off that wind power.
> interference
The feedback section in the latest (April) issue of IFR magazine (http://www.ifr-magazine.com) contains a report indicating that a turned on Blackberry on board an aircraft was causing intermittent loss of the weather radar and GPS equipment (pilot determined it was whenever the flight was overflying cell phone towers and the equipment required multiple "reboots").
While it can be argued that the quality of the equipment and proximity of the Blackberry to the antenna probably caused the problem, it's easy to see why the FAA has concerns in this area. They want to be certain that such an occurrence (like leaving a Blackberry on) won't result in any accidents or incidents.
That said, I would venture a guess that many airline flights every day have some passenger that has left their Blackberry on and it checks for email periodically during the flight. Most likely those Blackberry units in the passenger compartment are far enough away from antenna to cause any real problems.
Retrofits *are* required starting 2 years later (07-Mar-2012).
(per this page: http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/bizav/1068-full.html#197351)
> Also, what difference would this truly make?
I can see 2 things this might assist with (not that I agree them):
1) They could change/tighten up the schedules if the boarding process goes quicker (that "take off at time x" will change as the airlines adapt to more efficient boarding). However, that implies the air traffic system/runways can handle the tighter schedules. Since many feel the system is already overloaded and can't handle any tighter scheduling, that makes this point moot. So let's discuss point #2:
2) Many system designers want to solve the crowded skies/overloaded system by putting larger aircraft in the system (think 500+ passengers per plane). That reduces/maintains the number of aircraft in the sky, but moves larger numbers of people. The larger planes will have even more pressure to spend less time on the ground (gotta keep that asset in the sky making money). So the biggest problem to solve is how to get so many people to board a large aircraft in a short amount of time. I've seen discussions that mention boarding multiple doors to the aircraft at once, etc. But that requires infrastructure change to airport terminals, etc. So quicker boarding might assist with this goal of larger planes.
While I understand the efficiency of the methods proposed by TFA, I'm in agreement that it probably wouldn't work in practice with humans. Personally, I'd love to see queuing theory applied to all sorts of lines in our daily lives. I hate getting in the slow line at the grocery store or bank, etc.
(disclaimer, I have a graduate degree in stats, so I'm all for efficiency)
> Why Alpine Message System (AMS)?
:)
Because Pine Message System sounded too whiney
A couple of years ago:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504/WaterOnMars2_gcc_big.jpg
> It will take another 30 years to convince people that they are ok.
I hope it will be less, but a quick look at how long ago the Hindenburg occurred vs people's continued negative attitude toward hydrogen fuel spells otherwise.
The uneducated sheeple won't change their views unless the media tells them to.
I would've assumed you were Czech according to this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_consumption_by_country
> six-monthly reminder
Except that now it is a 8 month/4 month reminder (this year's change of the 1st week of March to 1st week of Nov is now 8 months of DST).
So your batteries have to last twice as long during DST as during Standard Time.
Garmin (GPS) is a big employer for folks with software skills. They are in Olathe -- KC metro area.
They're always looking for good folks to hire, even Linux skills. They even had a recruiting booth at LinuxWorld in SF last August. Garmin & Amazon were the only 2 booths doing recruiting-only at that show.
I'm thinking we need a return of Adam Quark!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077066/