Any plane flying that has a computer system on it has the ability to do a hard boot of its systems. Often these happen automatically with watchdog timers, but most have a manual reboot. Keep in mind that for hte most part this is solid state stuff, so system reboots are a couple of seconds tops. Also, just about every system has at least a temporay backup to keep things running while the main system is rebooting.
An example is the F18 Super Hornet. Correctly we're working on have the ability to drive the HUD display from the fuel control computer. It needs to be able to drive it for 7 seconds, which is the amount of time it takes for the primary and secondary HUD systems to reboot.
Say what you want about the military, one thing they do when it comes to their planes is provide backup systems. You can fly a C130 using hand cranks in the fuselage to control the avionics (couple hundred cranks to fully elevate the flaps).
Actually, the company I work for makes the space toilet, as well as the space suit and several other systems for for the ISS. I can assure you that very few, if any, of the engineers are making $145,000. The head of Engineering probably makes about that much.
You make it sound like there is absoulutely no accountability, this couldn't be further from the truth. Financials are due every month and quartlery major programs have full reviews. Things are expensive because they are manufactured in extremely low volumn. Go ahead and look at what these systems are designed to do and how reliable they need to be, then take into the account that you are only producing maybe 3 or 4 of them.
Mass production is what makes things cheap. Virtually all of the work for these things, from tooling to wire harnesses to assembly, are done by hand.
This makes the assumption that the only US option to put things into space is on the shuttle. When you have a $500mil satellite you may want to spend the extra cash to send it up on the most reliable vehicle possible. This remains to be the shuttle.
Maybe that's because NASA knows that getting schools like UoF to help is really nothing more than PR. If you are going to waste your money, you might as well waste as little as you need.
Of course, you wouldn't go bankrupt if you have no mp3s. Thus the point of the removing them from the corporate network. While at work, for the most part you represent the company. Whether you agree with it or not, for the most part having these mp3s is illegal. The company takes the fall.
It completely boggles the mind that people have become so immune to the issue that they are willing to put their job at risk just so they can listen to music. Is it really worth it?
Did anyone actually read the article. (I read the cnn one, not the other). Despite what a lot of people are suggesting, this is not about making the code open or available to people so that they can hack their cars. It's about documenting what the diagnostic codes that the mechanics receive mean.
The post seems to imply that poor Mr automachanic lacks the equipment to interface with these cars. That is simply not true. What he lacks is the documentation that tells him that a '5642AGDS' returned from the fuel control systems means the plugs are not firing correctly.
I'm not saying this is not a good battle to fight, but at the very least it would be nice if people actually knew what they were fighting for.
That's nice, but you still have to pay for the house you just demolished. So you just paid $250k for a plot of land worth $50k so that you can destroy $200k of it and build another house on it for $200k. Thats some savings! (Prices are made up, take witha grain of salt).
The sheer weight (mass if you want to be anal) of the cable is enough to bend it over such a long weight. That 16oz hammer seems pretty light until you attach it to the end of a 2 meter long pole and try to hold it straight out.
Or, in Crocodile Hunter lingo, even the strongest snakes in the world can lift up and bite you in the nose if you pick them up and hold them by the tail. No idea if this is really true or not, but I believe I've heard something along those lines.
I didn't mention sports because it wasn't the topic on hand. Unfortunately, sports is a much bigger mess than the music industry. I can easily afford to buy CDs, trying being a family to a major league baseball game for under a couple of hundred bucks. Not to mention all the crap about broadcast rights. I live less than 2 hours away from NY, but because I'm in Mass and not NY/CT I'm expected to fork over almost $200/year to watch the Yanks. Give me a break.
Say what you want about Ted Turner, at least he's made the Braves accessible to their fans.
That being said, I do value sports a little bit more than music. For the most part I listen to music as something to fill an empty void. Sports is something I look forward to and plan trips around. Tho I guess for the occasional concert I can make the same claim.
Really, what is it with the belief that the artists deserve all this money? Why should they be making more than the 40/hr week factory worker, or the 80 hr/week resident nurse who is helping to save lives? Afterall, aren't all these artists doing this for the love of it?
I think artists are currently getting about what they deserve. If you think they deserve more, how about sending them a check to show it.
Now, that being said, this doesn't mean I agree with the labels gouging prices. All it means is I don't think its about who gets what cut.
Give me a break, its a web browser. I'm amazed at how the OS community can rally behind such a benign piece of software. It doesn't exactly run a nuke power plant or help us get to Mars. The fact that it amazes people meerly shows how pathetic the lives of alot of people are.
Because its a little more complex than simply handing over money to the airline industry. The majority of the 'bailout' money is in loan guarantees. The airlines don't have anywhere near enough cash on hand to purchase new planes. They need to borrow from banks, just like normal people borrow for a mortgage. Given the current climet banks now see these as risky. The government has stepped in and guaranteed these loans, similar to guaranteed student loans. That money is only to be used if an airline goes belly up.
I dislike giving money to coporations as much as everyone else, but this is a much bigger issue. It's not about keeping the CEOs of Boeing fat dumb and happy, it boils down to keeping an entire economy from crashing down into a major recession.
They aren't prohibited by law because the Movie industry took matters into their own hands. Do you see arcades and stores that sells games doing the same thing?
The big difference here is distribution. There are a limited number of places to go and see movies, so it's relatively simple for the movie theaters to self regulate themselves. Video games and arcades on the other hand are controled by thousands of individual companies, far to many for them all to agree to regulate themselves. All it takes is one small group to not play and the rest will have to follow because they are losing potential money.
A much closer analogy is video rental stores which generally are restricted by law to obey the ratings.
Are you the type of person afraid to go outside because an airplane may crash on your head? Or, all kidding aside, you are far more likely to be killed in your morning commute than an astronaut is to be struck be any sort of debris.
And to add a bit to your analogy, that highway would be over 25,000 miles long, with a relatively few objects traveling on it. Those objects are also traveling on pretty much the same course as you with a pretty a fairly close velocity.
As an aside, I happen to work for the company that makes the EMU and the studies have all been done. Suffice it to say there are alot of other more probable things that can go wrong than running into a fleck of paint off of an old booster.
Stop being paranoid. You are far more likely to be run over by a stampeding elephant outside your house than you currently are of being struck by space debris (assuming you were in space).
If you could collect all of the crap floating around in in orbit it probably wouldn't even fill a small landfill. You drive around in a car don't you? Rush hour traffic is a tad more congested than orbit is or will be in the distant future.
Those are great scary little pictures that they put up showing all the garbage forming a ring around the Earth. Of course those dots are probably 1000000 times larger than they are in real life, but they do a good job of scaring people.
Naturally these things need to be tracked but only for determining new orbits that need to be taken. By the time a cleanup is really needed technology will be able to present a viable solution. I don't see the point in spending millions/billions a year trying to solve it now and it certainly isn't worth losing sleep over.
Primarily the US has allowed Japan to build up their military because of proximity to Russian and China. For the past 30 or so years Japan/US relations have been very good and Japan is strategically located. Let the Japaneese people spend their own money to help us defend our bases in Okinawah(sp?).
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class plane {
Nice and simple. interfaces and abstract classes to do the same is not nearly so quickmove()
}
class boat {
move()
}
class flyingboat inherits plane, boat {
if(flying)
plane::move();
else
boat::move();
}
Get a life, please. Nobody should rant this long over a sig/movie.
Any plane flying that has a computer system on it has the ability to do a hard boot of its systems. Often these happen automatically with watchdog timers, but most have a manual reboot. Keep in mind that for hte most part this is solid state stuff, so system reboots are a couple of seconds tops. Also, just about every system has at least a temporay backup to keep things running while the main system is rebooting.
An example is the F18 Super Hornet. Correctly we're working on have the ability to drive the HUD display from the fuel control computer. It needs to be able to drive it for 7 seconds, which is the amount of time it takes for the primary and secondary HUD systems to reboot.
Say what you want about the military, one thing they do when it comes to their planes is provide backup systems. You can fly a C130 using hand cranks in the fuselage to control the avionics (couple hundred cranks to fully elevate the flaps).
Actually, the company I work for makes the space toilet, as well as the space suit and several other systems for for the ISS. I can assure you that very few, if any, of the engineers are making $145,000. The head of Engineering probably makes about that much.
You make it sound like there is absoulutely no accountability, this couldn't be further from the truth. Financials are due every month and quartlery major programs have full reviews. Things are expensive because they are manufactured in extremely low volumn. Go ahead and look at what these systems are designed to do and how reliable they need to be, then take into the account that you are only producing maybe 3 or 4 of them.
Mass production is what makes things cheap. Virtually all of the work for these things, from tooling to wire harnesses to assembly, are done by hand.
This makes the assumption that the only US option to put things into space is on the shuttle. When you have a $500mil satellite you may want to spend the extra cash to send it up on the most reliable vehicle possible. This remains to be the shuttle.
Maybe that's because NASA knows that getting schools like UoF to help is really nothing more than PR. If you are going to waste your money, you might as well waste as little as you need.
Only in the rest of world (at least parts)can a land based phone system be so fucked up that you have to pay by the minute for local calls.
You mean like Rockefeller(sp) and Carnegie? Never heard of them. Ask me the name of this joker in about 5 minutes and I'll have no clue.
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This is a clear case of someone that is very bored, has too much money, and likes to feed his ego. I bet he's hung like a flea
Of course, you wouldn't go bankrupt if you have no mp3s. Thus the point of the removing them from the corporate network. While at work, for the most part you represent the company. Whether you agree with it or not, for the most part having these mp3s is illegal. The company takes the fall.
It completely boggles the mind that people have become so immune to the issue that they are willing to put their job at risk just so they can listen to music. Is it really worth it?
Did anyone actually read the article. (I read the cnn one, not the other). Despite what a lot of people are suggesting, this is not about making the code open or available to people so that they can hack their cars. It's about documenting what the diagnostic codes that the mechanics receive mean.
The post seems to imply that poor Mr automachanic lacks the equipment to interface with these cars. That is simply not true. What he lacks is the documentation that tells him that a '5642AGDS' returned from the fuel control systems means the plugs are not firing correctly.
I'm not saying this is not a good battle to fight, but at the very least it would be nice if people actually knew what they were fighting for.
You mean a year or two after the Swiss? Spain? Portugal? Sweden? All of these European counties at least initially claimed neutrality.
That's nice, but you still have to pay for the house you just demolished. So you just paid $250k for a plot of land worth $50k so that you can destroy $200k of it and build another house on it for $200k. Thats some savings! (Prices are made up, take witha grain of salt).
Nukes that never could have been dropped had the Marines/Army not been around to take the islands needed to take off from.
House is not a very good example. You don't own the house until it's paid off, which the vast majority of houses aren't.
They come in the mail. All of them on a nice convenient to misplace or lose sheet of paper.
The sheer weight (mass if you want to be anal) of the cable is enough to bend it over such a long weight. That 16oz hammer seems pretty light until you attach it to the end of a 2 meter long pole and try to hold it straight out.
Or, in Crocodile Hunter lingo, even the strongest snakes in the world can lift up and bite you in the nose if you pick them up and hold them by the tail. No idea if this is really true or not, but I believe I've heard something along those lines.
I didn't mention sports because it wasn't the topic on hand. Unfortunately, sports is a much bigger mess than the music industry. I can easily afford to buy CDs, trying being a family to a major league baseball game for under a couple of hundred bucks. Not to mention all the crap about broadcast rights. I live less than 2 hours away from NY, but because I'm in Mass and not NY/CT I'm expected to fork over almost $200/year to watch the Yanks. Give me a break.
Say what you want about Ted Turner, at least he's made the Braves accessible to their fans.
That being said, I do value sports a little bit more than music. For the most part I listen to music as something to fill an empty void. Sports is something I look forward to and plan trips around. Tho I guess for the occasional concert I can make the same claim.
Really, what is it with the belief that the artists deserve all this money? Why should they be making more than the 40/hr week factory worker, or the 80 hr/week resident nurse who is helping to save lives? Afterall, aren't all these artists doing this for the love of it?
I think artists are currently getting about what they deserve. If you think they deserve more, how about sending them a check to show it.
Now, that being said, this doesn't mean I agree with the labels gouging prices. All it means is I don't think its about who gets what cut.
Honestly, a lockpick set? Chances are when you need them they'll be locked in your room.
Give me a break, its a web browser. I'm amazed at how the OS community can rally behind such a benign piece of software. It doesn't exactly run a nuke power plant or help us get to Mars. The fact that it amazes people meerly shows how pathetic the lives of alot of people are.
Because its a little more complex than simply handing over money to the airline industry. The majority of the 'bailout' money is in loan guarantees. The airlines don't have anywhere near enough cash on hand to purchase new planes. They need to borrow from banks, just like normal people borrow for a mortgage. Given the current climet banks now see these as risky. The government has stepped in and guaranteed these loans, similar to guaranteed student loans. That money is only to be used if an airline goes belly up.
I dislike giving money to coporations as much as everyone else, but this is a much bigger issue. It's not about keeping the CEOs of Boeing fat dumb and happy, it boils down to keeping an entire economy from crashing down into a major recession.
They aren't prohibited by law because the Movie industry took matters into their own hands. Do you see arcades and stores that sells games doing the same thing?
The big difference here is distribution. There are a limited number of places to go and see movies, so it's relatively simple for the movie theaters to self regulate themselves. Video games and arcades on the other hand are controled by thousands of individual companies, far to many for them all to agree to regulate themselves. All it takes is one small group to not play and the rest will have to follow because they are losing potential money.
A much closer analogy is video rental stores which generally are restricted by law to obey the ratings.
Are you the type of person afraid to go outside because an airplane may crash on your head? Or, all kidding aside, you are far more likely to be killed in your morning commute than an astronaut is to be struck be any sort of debris.
And to add a bit to your analogy, that highway would be over 25,000 miles long, with a relatively few objects traveling on it. Those objects are also traveling on pretty much the same course as you with a pretty a fairly close velocity.
As an aside, I happen to work for the company that makes the EMU and the studies have all been done. Suffice it to say there are alot of other more probable things that can go wrong than running into a fleck of paint off of an old booster.
Stop being paranoid. You are far more likely to be run over by a stampeding elephant outside your house than you currently are of being struck by space debris (assuming you were in space).
If you could collect all of the crap floating around in in orbit it probably wouldn't even fill a small landfill. You drive around in a car don't you? Rush hour traffic is a tad more congested than orbit is or will be in the distant future.
Those are great scary little pictures that they put up showing all the garbage forming a ring around the Earth. Of course those dots are probably 1000000 times larger than they are in real life, but they do a good job of scaring people.
Naturally these things need to be tracked but only for determining new orbits that need to be taken. By the time a cleanup is really needed technology will be able to present a viable solution. I don't see the point in spending millions/billions a year trying to solve it now and it certainly isn't worth losing sleep over.
Primarily the US has allowed Japan to build up their military because of proximity to Russian and China. For the past 30 or so years Japan/US relations have been very good and Japan is strategically located. Let the Japaneese people spend their own money to help us defend our bases in Okinawah(sp?).