The 777 is considerably larger than the A330 (and considerably more expensive per unit), there is no reason why the AF could not dismiss the 777 and still pick a larger aircraft than the 767 - Boeing was in no position at all to offer the 787, the only other aircraft they had which is smaller than the 777 but larger than the 767.
It isn't simply a case of picking larger aircraft until one runs out of some to choose from.
Would the Upkeep bouncing bomb from the Chastise mission during WWII fit on this list at all? Its certainly more 'spooky' than some others on that list (airborne laser, vehicle defence et al).
Coincidentally, yesterday was the 65th anniversary of the missions, and there was a reenactment at the dam in the UK that the Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron trained at. They were to later be called the Dambusters.
Actually, density is more of a problem than you would think - most cargo aircraft bulk out before they reach their MTOW (Maximum Takeoff Weight), and the same for passenger aircraft (as baggage is relatively bulky but light compared to cargo).
Cargo is also much more lucrative than passengers (check out Singapore Airlines operating late night passenger flights routinely with a dozen or so passengers on - they make the money running cargo in the aircraft belly).
So you cannot simply add tanks to the cargo compartments as that is lost revenue. There is little place else you can add tankage to, especially when you take into account weight and balance issues (the aircraft has to be balanced within certain parameters before it can safely take off).
A lower weight fuel also presents other problems, as most modern passenger aircraft use trim tanks in the tail, where quantities of fuel are pumped to during flight in order to balance the aircraft during cruise. Lower the weight of fuel much and you lose that ability, which means costly amendments to aircraft.
Yes, I am closely linked to the aviation business...
Hydrogen requires a fourfold volume increase to supply the same energy as its vastly lower density. Thats a four fold increase in something you have to store within the aircraft.
I know it won't make a blind bit of difference to you, but under current plans, MS doesn't actually stop supporting XP for 2154 days. Thats 2109 days longer than your number.
for example, i just had to add a mime type into IIS. it took about a minute, because i had to remote login through RDP. waiting for that to connect, then waiting for a usable desktop, then clicking through the drill downs, then switching to the right tab, then clicking some buttons took about 99% of that time.
if there was a text config file i could easily open it in notepad from my own desktop (because i would have it's drive mapped), ctrl-f for "mime" or something, and that would be it. There is a text config file, its called the Metabase and its XML based. Three solutions to your problem:
Turn on Metabase editing on the fly, add your mime type via whatever text editor you wish and IIS should pick it up within 5 minutes.
Add it to the metabase and then cycle the IIS service.
How is the public getting ripped off? Someone is spending time, money and effort to take the same source anyone else can and enhance it - why should that added time, money and effort then be freely available to anyone else? Everyone has access to the same original version, so get your own copy and do the enhancement yourself, there is absolutely nothing stopping you making that investment and even releasing if you wish.
Who the fuck modded me troll? Giving the previous poster *exactly* what he wanted, access to an open source implementation he can vet to his hearts content, and thats trolling here these days?
I guess thats what happens when you give 12 year olds mod points. Infantile.
The Linux runtime is being supplied by Moonlight, from the Mono team - its opensource and is available from here http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight - vet away.
Implied? Easy - 'you can bet there is more behind that push than just "somebody" at Skype', which is another variation on a common Slashdot groupthink theme in that any legal issue brought against Linux, the GPL etc has to be the devious work of Microsoft.
Who, if not Microsoft, do you think the original parent was implying? The list isn't very long, this is Slashdot after all.
B - shooting down the GPL - you can bet there is more behind that push than just "somebody" at Skype
great to speculate.... I'm pretty sure this conspiracy theory will soon rank right up there alongside aliens at Area 51, the JFK shooting, the thousand mile carburetor and other notorious theories.
If Microsoft wanted to legally challenge the GPL, they could easily set up a dummy corporation with huge amounts of money whose sole employees are top notch lawyers and their only job is to build a case and fight it. They wouldn't be doing it piecemeal through half arsed efforts through companies that hold no fealty to them.
Spreadsheets are a throwaway item - you can dump the data to them, do the analysis you want, and bin the intermediate steps in a matter of a few minutes leaving you with the condensed overview you were always looking for. It takes significantly longer to setup an Access database to do the same thing.
And yes, I speak from experience. My company is currently moving away from a 20 year old UNIX based legacy system where most of the reporting is done via CSV dumps (routinely greater than 65,000 rows) and Excel - Excel is easy to use, easy to pick up and most of our userbase already has a grounding in it which means there needs to be zero IT interaction with these people when they need data analysis. They know what they want, and they know how to get it - the spreadsheets are in existence for half a day maximum. We can't say the same about Access.
Its all very well and good to say 'use a database', but theres a whole load of shit that comes with that statement that takes time, money and ability to do. There is a significant portion of the market that is stuck using legacy systems that date back to the ark, systems that can write out ascii text files and thats about it - thats when it starts paying to get creative, and spreadsheets are a fantastic way to be creative with very little outlay.
In February 2006, the Hotel Maria Isabel Sheraton hotel (a franchise of the Sheraton group) in Mexico City was ordered by the US Treasury Department to throw out a group of Cuban officials who were staying there, because their presence violated US law and the Sheraton Group was an American company. In complying with the requirement, the hotel broke local law and faced $500,000 fines before the situation was smoothed over.
Just an idea, since my US government is all about supporting an open and free Cuba, it might not be bad idea to lead some sort of initiative to proliferate computers to the people. I know the government might frown upon something like this, but it would give America the moral high ground, which is something neither side has been worthy of so far. Sorry, but your government is all about supporting a decades old grudge and nothing else - your government deals with and indeed in some cases support regimes far worse than Cuba.
There is no reason any import market has to be a black market, Cuba is free to trade with the rest of the world, including Europe, and as such has an open market to exploit.
I have never, ever heard the "could care less" version prior to very recently on the internet - everyone I know uses "couldn't care less" and also consider the "could care less" version wrong. I have never heard "could care less" on any TV show or movie, its always "couldn't care less". I have never seen "could care less" used in any book I have read (and I am a prolific reader - about a dozen novels in April alone), its always "couldn't care less".
A quick survey in a dozen IRC channels also find that "couldn't care less" is the preferred version, with most people saying "could care less" is wrong.
Another quick survey of the surround 5 tables in the pub I am currently sat also find "could care less" brings puzzlement, with everyone agreeing "couldn't care less" is the correct version.
Bearing all that in mind, while it may be 'recognised' by certain publications, common usage is apparently very small, with the alternative being much more common around the world.
How the *fuck* does two non-MS applications (Peachtree is owned and sold by Sage Software, and QuickBooks is sold by Inuit Inc) lacking a feature have *anything* to do with Microsoft?! Blame the fucking owners!
The reason GPS is 'shared' with the world is because Differential GPS made the 'Selective Availability' method of denial (it introduced an error into the signal that only authorised receiving units could correct) unusable - the addition of Differential GPS automatically corrected the SA error. So the US turned it off.
In May 2007 a young child went missing from a tourist resort in Spain - you probably know her name, its Madeleine McCann.
During September 2007, her parents were named suspects in her disappearance, because traces of Madeleines DNA was found in the car the McCanns hired 25 days after her disappearance.
There was no blood stains, there was no hairs - the DNA came from microscopic traces.
The amount of material that can be found and identified these days is extremely small in size, there doesn't have to be 'quite a stain' at all, even at significant periods of time afterward.
Sky was central to the Battle Star Galactica remake - they financed the mini series and most of the first season, which was why the UK got it before the US and Canada. I enjoy the BSG remake, so the B7 remake should be worth at least the benefit of the doubt.
Actually the F-117 had a relatively low cost as it was mostly built from off the shelf components with a custom airframe - only the airframe itself was designed from scratch. The USAF lists the F-117 as having a unit price of about $45m a piece, compared with $142m a piece for the F-22 Raptor. And thats with a very short production run (less than 50 F-117s were built).
The F-117 was also used in Kosovo, not just Iraq and Panama.
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Mass renaming files? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320167
The 777 is considerably larger than the A330 (and considerably more expensive per unit), there is no reason why the AF could not dismiss the 777 and still pick a larger aircraft than the 767 - Boeing was in no position at all to offer the 787, the only other aircraft they had which is smaller than the 777 but larger than the 767.
It isn't simply a case of picking larger aircraft until one runs out of some to choose from.
Would the Upkeep bouncing bomb from the Chastise mission during WWII fit on this list at all? Its certainly more 'spooky' than some others on that list (airborne laser, vehicle defence et al).
Coincidentally, yesterday was the 65th anniversary of the missions, and there was a reenactment at the dam in the UK that the Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron trained at. They were to later be called the Dambusters.
Video footage here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7405514.stm
Actually, density is more of a problem than you would think - most cargo aircraft bulk out before they reach their MTOW (Maximum Takeoff Weight), and the same for passenger aircraft (as baggage is relatively bulky but light compared to cargo).
Cargo is also much more lucrative than passengers (check out Singapore Airlines operating late night passenger flights routinely with a dozen or so passengers on - they make the money running cargo in the aircraft belly).
So you cannot simply add tanks to the cargo compartments as that is lost revenue. There is little place else you can add tankage to, especially when you take into account weight and balance issues (the aircraft has to be balanced within certain parameters before it can safely take off).
A lower weight fuel also presents other problems, as most modern passenger aircraft use trim tanks in the tail, where quantities of fuel are pumped to during flight in order to balance the aircraft during cruise. Lower the weight of fuel much and you lose that ability, which means costly amendments to aircraft.
Yes, I am closely linked to the aviation business...
Hydrogen requires a fourfold volume increase to supply the same energy as its vastly lower density. Thats a four fold increase in something you have to store within the aircraft.
Neal Asher *needs* to be added to that list - some of the best SciFi I have read in a while.
I know it won't make a blind bit of difference to you, but under current plans, MS doesn't actually stop supporting XP for 2154 days. Thats 2109 days longer than your number.
How is the public getting ripped off? Someone is spending time, money and effort to take the same source anyone else can and enhance it - why should that added time, money and effort then be freely available to anyone else? Everyone has access to the same original version, so get your own copy and do the enhancement yourself, there is absolutely nothing stopping you making that investment and even releasing if you wish.
Who the fuck modded me troll? Giving the previous poster *exactly* what he wanted, access to an open source implementation he can vet to his hearts content, and thats trolling here these days?
I guess thats what happens when you give 12 year olds mod points. Infantile.
The Linux runtime is being supplied by Moonlight, from the Mono team - its opensource and is available from here http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight - vet away.
Define 'Free computer program' - can a GPLed font be embedded in a BSD licensed application? CDDL licensed? LGPLed?
Implied? Easy - 'you can bet there is more behind that push than just "somebody" at Skype', which is another variation on a common Slashdot groupthink theme in that any legal issue brought against Linux, the GPL etc has to be the devious work of Microsoft.
Who, if not Microsoft, do you think the original parent was implying? The list isn't very long, this is Slashdot after all.
If Microsoft wanted to legally challenge the GPL, they could easily set up a dummy corporation with huge amounts of money whose sole employees are top notch lawyers and their only job is to build a case and fight it. They wouldn't be doing it piecemeal through half arsed efforts through companies that hold no fealty to them.
The US were given cutoff access to Galileo - that's why the Chinese are wary of it.
Spreadsheets are a throwaway item - you can dump the data to them, do the analysis you want, and bin the intermediate steps in a matter of a few minutes leaving you with the condensed overview you were always looking for. It takes significantly longer to setup an Access database to do the same thing.
And yes, I speak from experience. My company is currently moving away from a 20 year old UNIX based legacy system where most of the reporting is done via CSV dumps (routinely greater than 65,000 rows) and Excel - Excel is easy to use, easy to pick up and most of our userbase already has a grounding in it which means there needs to be zero IT interaction with these people when they need data analysis. They know what they want, and they know how to get it - the spreadsheets are in existence for half a day maximum. We can't say the same about Access.
Its all very well and good to say 'use a database', but theres a whole load of shit that comes with that statement that takes time, money and ability to do. There is a significant portion of the market that is stuck using legacy systems that date back to the ark, systems that can write out ascii text files and thats about it - thats when it starts paying to get creative, and spreadsheets are a fantastic way to be creative with very little outlay.
In February 2006, the Hotel Maria Isabel Sheraton hotel (a franchise of the Sheraton group) in Mexico City was ordered by the US Treasury Department to throw out a group of Cuban officials who were staying there, because their presence violated US law and the Sheraton Group was an American company. In complying with the requirement, the hotel broke local law and faced $500,000 fines before the situation was smoothed over.
You do realise that real experience beats textbooks hands down any day of the week, right?
There is no reason any import market has to be a black market, Cuba is free to trade with the rest of the world, including Europe, and as such has an open market to exploit.
I have never, ever heard the "could care less" version prior to very recently on the internet - everyone I know uses "couldn't care less" and also consider the "could care less" version wrong. I have never heard "could care less" on any TV show or movie, its always "couldn't care less". I have never seen "could care less" used in any book I have read (and I am a prolific reader - about a dozen novels in April alone), its always "couldn't care less".
A quick survey in a dozen IRC channels also find that "couldn't care less" is the preferred version, with most people saying "could care less" is wrong.
Another quick survey of the surround 5 tables in the pub I am currently sat also find "could care less" brings puzzlement, with everyone agreeing "couldn't care less" is the correct version.
Bearing all that in mind, while it may be 'recognised' by certain publications, common usage is apparently very small, with the alternative being much more common around the world.
How the *fuck* does two non-MS applications (Peachtree is owned and sold by Sage Software, and QuickBooks is sold by Inuit Inc) lacking a feature have *anything* to do with Microsoft?! Blame the fucking owners!
The reason GPS is 'shared' with the world is because Differential GPS made the 'Selective Availability' method of denial (it introduced an error into the signal that only authorised receiving units could correct) unusable - the addition of Differential GPS automatically corrected the SA error. So the US turned it off.
In May 2007 a young child went missing from a tourist resort in Spain - you probably know her name, its Madeleine McCann.
During September 2007, her parents were named suspects in her disappearance, because traces of Madeleines DNA was found in the car the McCanns hired 25 days after her disappearance.
There was no blood stains, there was no hairs - the DNA came from microscopic traces.
The amount of material that can be found and identified these days is extremely small in size, there doesn't have to be 'quite a stain' at all, even at significant periods of time afterward.
Sky was central to the Battle Star Galactica remake - they financed the mini series and most of the first season, which was why the UK got it before the US and Canada. I enjoy the BSG remake, so the B7 remake should be worth at least the benefit of the doubt.
Actually the F-117 had a relatively low cost as it was mostly built from off the shelf components with a custom airframe - only the airframe itself was designed from scratch. The USAF lists the F-117 as having a unit price of about $45m a piece, compared with $142m a piece for the F-22 Raptor. And thats with a very short production run (less than 50 F-117s were built).
The F-117 was also used in Kosovo, not just Iraq and Panama.