It depends on the satellite system in question. The Inmarsat service MH370 was using has good coverage on the Indian ocean. Other services do have spotty coverage, but it's not some big dead zone. It's a shame Iridium is so damn expensive, because this would be a great use case for it. You could easily cram a position report into a SMS message and send it via Iridium every few minutes, and the Iridium antennas are small and low power so they don't impact the aircraft much.
The service is available, but operating satellites costs money so the service costs money and cheapskate airlines don't like paying for a service they'll use only once in a blue moon. If planes were being regularly lost in the ocean this would probably be an easier case to make, but modern aircraft are so damn reliable that the expense is "wasted" most years.
I'd definitely advocate for this system for bush pilots and other such people who operate small aircraft over rugged terrain regularly, but they tend to be even more cost conscious than big airlines.
Have you seen those Snap glasses? They're fugly as hell. And they cost $130 a pair. And the camera on them isn't even all that good, and the battery life is mediocre. It's just a bad product all around that sold poorly. This really shouldn't be a shock.
the caller must wear headphones and press a button to switch between talking and listening.
Seems more like a battery free walkie talkie. Also, while I can understand how you can recieve with no battery (using old school crystal radio technology) the ability to transmit using no power is quite a surprise.
I built my own antenna and bolted it to some supports in the roof. It works gangbusters for pulling in channels 40+ miles away and only cost me about $20 in materials, plus a couple of hours to put it together and get it mounted. Mostly of the cost was the spool of aluminum grounding wire (intended for lightning rods).
OTA TV has gone through something of a resurgence after the switchover to digital. There are way more channels on the air today then there were 10 years ago. This happened at the same time cable started raising their prices unsustainably so people are coming back and finding all sorts of channels that they would actually watch. Combine this with inexpensive online streaming options and Cable's $70+ monthly price point is a bad joke.
In my area we have all of the big networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CW, 7 PBS channels), plus Cozi, MeTV, Charge, Comet, TBI, Bounce, Justice, GetTV, Grit, Escape, MyTV, Movies, HgI, Retro, ion, ThisTV, and a ton of foreign channels. The only things I'm missing even a little are FX and AMC.
These chips really put the squeeze on Intel's low end, which it has somewhat neglected for some years now.
The 1200 looks to trade off too much performance for the $20 savings though, so I expect it to show up in every piece of crap low end computer in 6 months.
Actually, that's not true. It won't show up until the APU version comes out so the OEMs can pair up the shitty cpu with some shitty graphics a slow spinning hard drive and not enough RAM to make a computer that clueless people everywhere will buy and then complain about to me.
This is what I understood. Intel came to the market a day late and a dollar short, it's no surprise that they got no traction. They were never going to see the profit margins they wanted in the field, so it never really made sense for them to enter the market in the first place, except as a hedge against missing out on the next big thing.
FreeBSD names the devices by the type of driver it uses. The em driver is used for Intel Pro/1000 type cards. If his system also had a Broadcom NIC in it the device would show up as bge0.
In theory I think it is possible to screw up the device numbering by moving cards around or adding/removing a card from the system, but in practice that doesn't tend to happen very often. It's more of a problem for people using USB NICs, but even then it's usually not an issue.
Would it be possible to get a CD burner built into the file manager again by default? The people who need it the most are people without internet access, and the dependency tree for brasero makes it a hassle to install offline.
My first reaction on seeing the words "verbal agreement" is "you got jack shit". Nothing happens in DC on just a verbal agreement, and definitely not some multi-billion dollar porkstravaganza.
Do you think he called Donald Trump directly and said "I'd like to do a bigly infrastructure project, would you like that?"
Also, is he planning to build a tunnel from DC to NYC? That would be by far the longest tunnel in the world. The current record holder is the Guangzhaou Metro tunnel, at 37.5 miles. This tunnel would be over 200 miles long, probably closer to 225.
You've never used a wok? The razor blade doesn't get it clean, you still need the rubbing compound to get the stain out. That and a good amount of elbow grease, especially if it was some sugary thing like a pie filling.
Those glass rangetops have some drawbacks. Your pans need to have completely flat bottoms or they heat unevenly for one. They also don't put out as much heat, so if you're cooking something that needs very high heat they don't work as well. Finally, if you do spill something on it and it burns it can be a bitch to clean the burned on residue off of the surface. You have to use rubbing compound to get it clean.
Dips in solar production like that 8-16 hour period when the sun is below the horizon? Especially in winter when the days are short and people are heating their home with electric?
Going all battery is probably the wrong solution. Stored hydropower and other such systems will probably need to be part of the plan.
Which is an exciting prospect once they figure out how to price them reasonably. It's really hard to pay 4x the price of a month of Netflix for one season of one show.
The shows are already completely produced before they get any of that data. There's no "you are three shows in and nobody is watching, you're cancelled". You always get at least one full season on Netflix. Also, unlike traditional television the viewership ratings aren't immediately available. They trickle in over the months as people decide (or not) to watch the show.
Scooby Doo was split across a whole bunch of series though. It's true the original Scooby Doo was only 25 eps, but that was followed up by over a dozen Scooby Doo series, including the ones where they had lots of guest starts, ones with Scrappy Doo, etc...
They never showed the body, it cuts out right before he gets the saw. I thought the point of that was Jonas is working with Whispers and lying through his teeth. I'm sure that was going to be part of Season 3 since the gang rounded him up at the end of Season 2.
If you want to talk about killing characters off, the most heartfelt death on the show is when Van Damme died. The replacement was just not the same.
Jon Snow happened to die in close proximity to the person who can bring people back from the dead (or at least make them undead). It doesn't seem likely to me that GRRM intends to leave him buried in the ground. In the books the Hound is almost certainly in that monastery village thing. It's never stated directly, but the book talks about a dude with his description who showed up with a horse matching Stranger's description when one of the characters visits. It's pretty obviously the Hound, and I fully expect the books to track closely with the show on that plotline if they are ever released.
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It depends on the satellite system in question. The Inmarsat service MH370 was using has good coverage on the Indian ocean. Other services do have spotty coverage, but it's not some big dead zone. It's a shame Iridium is so damn expensive, because this would be a great use case for it. You could easily cram a position report into a SMS message and send it via Iridium every few minutes, and the Iridium antennas are small and low power so they don't impact the aircraft much.
The service is available, but operating satellites costs money so the service costs money and cheapskate airlines don't like paying for a service they'll use only once in a blue moon. If planes were being regularly lost in the ocean this would probably be an easier case to make, but modern aircraft are so damn reliable that the expense is "wasted" most years.
I'd definitely advocate for this system for bush pilots and other such people who operate small aircraft over rugged terrain regularly, but they tend to be even more cost conscious than big airlines.
It is that most heinous of crimes, theft of money.
Have you seen those Snap glasses? They're fugly as hell. And they cost $130 a pair. And the camera on them isn't even all that good, and the battery life is mediocre. It's just a bad product all around that sold poorly. This really shouldn't be a shock.
So they funded him by buying goods and services with money? Motherfucker, that's a JOB!
The tone also helps people make sure they have their tuners setup properly when they're waiting for their code word. It's like a dialtone.
Seems more like a battery free walkie talkie. Also, while I can understand how you can recieve with no battery (using old school crystal radio technology) the ability to transmit using no power is quite a surprise.
Those guys are still nuts over the Grey Hoverman, which I found to be supremely disappointing. It was no better than rabbit ears when I tried it.
I built my own antenna and bolted it to some supports in the roof. It works gangbusters for pulling in channels 40+ miles away and only cost me about $20 in materials, plus a couple of hours to put it together and get it mounted. Mostly of the cost was the spool of aluminum grounding wire (intended for lightning rods).
The plans
OTA TV has gone through something of a resurgence after the switchover to digital. There are way more channels on the air today then there were 10 years ago. This happened at the same time cable started raising their prices unsustainably so people are coming back and finding all sorts of channels that they would actually watch. Combine this with inexpensive online streaming options and Cable's $70+ monthly price point is a bad joke.
In my area we have all of the big networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CW, 7 PBS channels), plus Cozi, MeTV, Charge, Comet, TBI, Bounce, Justice, GetTV, Grit, Escape, MyTV, Movies, HgI, Retro, ion, ThisTV, and a ton of foreign channels. The only things I'm missing even a little are FX and AMC.
These chips really put the squeeze on Intel's low end, which it has somewhat neglected for some years now.
The 1200 looks to trade off too much performance for the $20 savings though, so I expect it to show up in every piece of crap low end computer in 6 months.
Actually, that's not true. It won't show up until the APU version comes out so the OEMs can pair up the shitty cpu with some shitty graphics a slow spinning hard drive and not enough RAM to make a computer that clueless people everywhere will buy and then complain about to me.
Tom Wheeler's FCC was much better about communicating with the public. The feedback mechanisms that Pai is ignoring were set up by that FCC.
I don't know what is worse, that Donald Trump treats the newsmedia like Dug from Up, or that it works.
This is what I understood. Intel came to the market a day late and a dollar short, it's no surprise that they got no traction. They were never going to see the profit margins they wanted in the field, so it never really made sense for them to enter the market in the first place, except as a hedge against missing out on the next big thing.
FreeBSD names the devices by the type of driver it uses. The em driver is used for Intel Pro/1000 type cards. If his system also had a Broadcom NIC in it the device would show up as bge0.
In theory I think it is possible to screw up the device numbering by moving cards around or adding/removing a card from the system, but in practice that doesn't tend to happen very often. It's more of a problem for people using USB NICs, but even then it's usually not an issue.
Would it be possible to get a CD burner built into the file manager again by default? The people who need it the most are people without internet access, and the dependency tree for brasero makes it a hassle to install offline.
My first reaction on seeing the words "verbal agreement" is "you got jack shit". Nothing happens in DC on just a verbal agreement, and definitely not some multi-billion dollar porkstravaganza.
Do you think he called Donald Trump directly and said "I'd like to do a bigly infrastructure project, would you like that?"
Also, is he planning to build a tunnel from DC to NYC? That would be by far the longest tunnel in the world. The current record holder is the Guangzhaou Metro tunnel, at 37.5 miles. This tunnel would be over 200 miles long, probably closer to 225.
You've never used a wok? The razor blade doesn't get it clean, you still need the rubbing compound to get the stain out. That and a good amount of elbow grease, especially if it was some sugary thing like a pie filling.
Those glass rangetops have some drawbacks. Your pans need to have completely flat bottoms or they heat unevenly for one. They also don't put out as much heat, so if you're cooking something that needs very high heat they don't work as well. Finally, if you do spill something on it and it burns it can be a bitch to clean the burned on residue off of the surface. You have to use rubbing compound to get it clean.
Dips in solar production like that 8-16 hour period when the sun is below the horizon? Especially in winter when the days are short and people are heating their home with electric?
Going all battery is probably the wrong solution. Stored hydropower and other such systems will probably need to be part of the plan.
Which is an exciting prospect once they figure out how to price them reasonably. It's really hard to pay 4x the price of a month of Netflix for one season of one show.
The shows are already completely produced before they get any of that data. There's no "you are three shows in and nobody is watching, you're cancelled". You always get at least one full season on Netflix. Also, unlike traditional television the viewership ratings aren't immediately available. They trickle in over the months as people decide (or not) to watch the show.
Scooby Doo was split across a whole bunch of series though. It's true the original Scooby Doo was only 25 eps, but that was followed up by over a dozen Scooby Doo series, including the ones where they had lots of guest starts, ones with Scrappy Doo, etc...
They never showed the body, it cuts out right before he gets the saw. I thought the point of that was Jonas is working with Whispers and lying through his teeth. I'm sure that was going to be part of Season 3 since the gang rounded him up at the end of Season 2.
If you want to talk about killing characters off, the most heartfelt death on the show is when Van Damme died. The replacement was just not the same.
Jon Snow happened to die in close proximity to the person who can bring people back from the dead (or at least make them undead). It doesn't seem likely to me that GRRM intends to leave him buried in the ground. In the books the Hound is almost certainly in that monastery village thing. It's never stated directly, but the book talks about a dude with his description who showed up with a horse matching Stranger's description when one of the characters visits. It's pretty obviously the Hound, and I fully expect the books to track closely with the show on that plotline if they are ever released.