I wish both of you the best and a speedy recovery to your wife. My brother had an appendectomy that the doctor screwed up a few years ago. The doctor ended up stitching up some major nerves and damaged them. The nerve damage led to near constant intense pain in his lower abdomen and reduced heart function. Thankfully he was on our parents' insurance, and our father works for the government, thus had excellent coverage. We've fought like hell for him, even getting him into the Mayo Clinic. That was when I realized how much having family and good people around can help. Even though we didn't get all the answers we needed at Mayo, the experience of family and doctors banding together to help was a major turning point and improved my brother's morale incredibly. His heart has improved with treatment now, but there are still days of excruciating pain when even the morphine doesn't help.
The bottom line is you have to fight. As someone who has been a professional in two fields, I have respect for the field of medicine. In general, I have respect for doctors. But I don't have ANY respect for any professional who doesn't admit their mistakes and causes people to suffer because of them. The only way to deal with those people is to fight, and fight hard. Its not a pleasant experience, but you've made it this far, you have to keep going. Know that right now things may be tight and costs may be high, but some malpractice insurance company and a good lawyer or too can help with that. Good luck to you both.
Because it means we are constantly deriving useful technologies from what we develop to kill. Note that the largest and most complex weapons platform mankind has ever created (a Nimitz class aircraft carrier) is providing power and desalinated water to people in Haiti right now. We built bombs to devastate Japan which led to the creation of the cleanest, most efficient power generation technology we have ever had. I could go on, but the list of useful technologies developed from weapons and warfare is huge.
"egulations in the USA require that the provider provide an unlock code so you can use it while traveling."
Good luck getting AT&T to give you an unlock code for any subsidized phone that is still within its contract period. They flat out refuse. I have loaned my unlocked phones to several friends who were AT&T customers that couldn't get their phones unlocked for international travel.
Inertial navigation is only useful if you have reference points. Also, AHRS sensors aren't perfect, require calibration, and require some math (i.e. Kalman filtering) to be useful.
With the FAA's NextGen mission, NDBs and VORs could be things of the past. As of right now, NDBs are getting shut down. VORs are only really useful if you have a chart anyway and know which one you are tuned into. DMEs are part of VORs and again are only useful if you have a chart and know which VOR/DME you are tuned into. ADFs are only useful for those who have them, I don't know of any aircraft built in the last 10 years that include an ADF. They are handy though, I used an ADF to listen to Cubs games, and could follow the needle to fly to Chicago. ILS systems are expensive and of limited use.
Everything you mentioned, except for GPS and LORAN, requires the user to have their own reference.
They are journalists and know crap about the actual engines. The T5 engine was a reasonable engine for the XC90, and the 3.2L I6 was not. The T5 engine is well established and has had most of the bugs worked out over the past 16 years. Volvo didn't build the XC90 so people could race it, it was built to haul stuff; the turbocharged 5-cylinder is good at that.
I can't wait until someone unleashes a trojan that nails the modding kiddies and Cyanogen fanbois.
1) Get trojan that includes malicious Android apk installed on PC. 2) Wait until Android device is connected by USB. 3) Have trojan run "adb install ph0nepwn3r.apk" or whatever which silently installs something nasty on the phone, bypassing interactive authorization. 4) ??? 5) Profit!
FD: I'm a big Android fan and contributor to the platform, repo, and Gerrit.
The situations you describe I'm generally okay with, as they are proper uses of the tool and handled by a developer on his workstation in his sandbox. You may understand proper configuration management methods, but there are hordes of fanbois and code monkeys out there who do not. My biggest problem with Git is its ease of abuse; it is very easy to misuse the tool and get yourself into difficult situations. A lot of the younger developers and engineers I work with rush through things because they depend more on the features of a tool than good practice.
If you're serious about configuration management, you shouldn't be rewriting history at all. Git allows developers to very easily commit SCM atrocities. If you make a mistake that gets committed and pushed to your mainline tree, deal with it, submit a new patch fixing it, and leave the mistake showing what happened. This provides for a transparent development process and accountability.
Git may be programmer friendly, but it isn't enterprise friendly at all.
"...how many of us take our comments beyond a Slashdot post?"
I took it beyond a post. I became a private pilot and haven't been on a commercial airliner since before I started flight training. If I need to go somewhere in the US, if driving is impractical, I'll rent or borrow an airplane. A friend of mine has done the same thing, and he even flew himself from Oklahoma to Jamaica with some family.
When I was in high school, I made some money by fixing people's computers for $20/hr. I'd get to their homes by riding my bicycle. Would anyone have seriously expected me to set up EFT or a merchant account? Everyone paid me by check.
When buying cars, I take a certified check (from my credit union) for a sizable fraction of the asking price. I then bring the remainder as cash in $50 or $100 bills. I can then bargain with the seller without having to carry as much cash on me.
The idiots won't listen to the informed about composite materials in aircraft. I fly a composite aircraft every week (Diamond DA40XL) and holy crap, it hasn't ripped itself apart. Its light, fast, nimble, and enjoyable to fly. I've also been witness to a composite aircraft (USAF Diamond DA20) crashing into trees at 40kts. The pilot survived with only minor scratches, and while the wings ripped off at the root and the horizontal stabilizer broken off, the cockpit material was unscathed. Using carbon fiber and fiberglass, the aircraft did its job and saved the pilot's life.
This is very true in aerospace. When Raytheon was busy driving RAC (now Hawker Beechcraft) into the ground and having mass firings, it was not uncommon to see people in the Cessna cafeteria reunited with former coworkers. There was an outright exodus from RAC to Cessna.
For me, I went from a small ( 20 employees) aerospace design firm to a huge, international aviation and electronics company, and right off the bat I met two former employees of my immediate past employer, a former coworker's brother (who was in the same field), three former fellow classmates of mine, and one guy from a company that had partnered with my immediate past employer.
"On that mood, do you think the privately owned weapons by USA civilians would be of much use against the USA army power, nukes and all included? I don't think so."
I think so. There are how many soldiers in the US Army? And how many civilians on continental US soil? And how many of those civilians have military training?
There are lots of weapons that the Army doesn't have that civilians do (highly reliable commie weapons) and lots weapons the Army can't have due to a lack of support infrastructure (again, mostly old commie weapons). Another interesting factor is that the Army is forbidden from using expanding rounds, while there is nothing prohibiting civilians from using them. The WW2 era Tokarev is still one of the most powerful pistols in the world, and JHP 7.62x25 rounds are extremely deadly.
If you think the government would detonate a nuclear weapon on US soil, you've watched Independence Day or zombie movies too many times.
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This is paraphrasing what Steve Jobs said to a developer that Apple's lawyers didn't like.
...and Fujitsu has had serious business making and selling tablet computers for almost 20 years.
I run my own Android build based on AOSP on my G1 on T-Mobile. They don't care, why should they?
In Soviet Russia, blog hypes yo...wait a second...
I wish both of you the best and a speedy recovery to your wife. My brother had an appendectomy that the doctor screwed up a few years ago. The doctor ended up stitching up some major nerves and damaged them. The nerve damage led to near constant intense pain in his lower abdomen and reduced heart function. Thankfully he was on our parents' insurance, and our father works for the government, thus had excellent coverage. We've fought like hell for him, even getting him into the Mayo Clinic. That was when I realized how much having family and good people around can help. Even though we didn't get all the answers we needed at Mayo, the experience of family and doctors banding together to help was a major turning point and improved my brother's morale incredibly. His heart has improved with treatment now, but there are still days of excruciating pain when even the morphine doesn't help.
The bottom line is you have to fight. As someone who has been a professional in two fields, I have respect for the field of medicine. In general, I have respect for doctors. But I don't have ANY respect for any professional who doesn't admit their mistakes and causes people to suffer because of them. The only way to deal with those people is to fight, and fight hard. Its not a pleasant experience, but you've made it this far, you have to keep going. Know that right now things may be tight and costs may be high, but some malpractice insurance company and a good lawyer or too can help with that. Good luck to you both.
I, for one, would welcome our Space-Australian speaking overlords.
And who have been prime contractors for NASA vehicles in the past? Surprise! Lockheed Martin and Boeing!
Uh, in case you weren't aware, they make a few products for the ocean.
Yes, it does have a few GB of flash storage.
Because it means we are constantly deriving useful technologies from what we develop to kill. Note that the largest and most complex weapons platform mankind has ever created (a Nimitz class aircraft carrier) is providing power and desalinated water to people in Haiti right now. We built bombs to devastate Japan which led to the creation of the cleanest, most efficient power generation technology we have ever had. I could go on, but the list of useful technologies developed from weapons and warfare is huge.
"egulations in the USA require that the provider provide an unlock code so you can use it while traveling."
Good luck getting AT&T to give you an unlock code for any subsidized phone that is still within its contract period. They flat out refuse. I have loaned my unlocked phones to several friends who were AT&T customers that couldn't get their phones unlocked for international travel.
In Soviet NASA, Outlook nukes YOU from orbit.
Inertial navigation is only useful if you have reference points. Also, AHRS sensors aren't perfect, require calibration, and require some math (i.e. Kalman filtering) to be useful.
With the FAA's NextGen mission, NDBs and VORs could be things of the past. As of right now, NDBs are getting shut down. VORs are only really useful if you have a chart anyway and know which one you are tuned into. DMEs are part of VORs and again are only useful if you have a chart and know which VOR/DME you are tuned into. ADFs are only useful for those who have them, I don't know of any aircraft built in the last 10 years that include an ADF. They are handy though, I used an ADF to listen to Cubs games, and could follow the needle to fly to Chicago. ILS systems are expensive and of limited use.
Everything you mentioned, except for GPS and LORAN, requires the user to have their own reference.
They are journalists and know crap about the actual engines. The T5 engine was a reasonable engine for the XC90, and the 3.2L I6 was not. The T5 engine is well established and has had most of the bugs worked out over the past 16 years. Volvo didn't build the XC90 so people could race it, it was built to haul stuff; the turbocharged 5-cylinder is good at that.
I'm not a big celebrity and I've given up flying commercially domestically. I either borrow my friend's airplane or rent one.
I can't wait until someone unleashes a trojan that nails the modding kiddies and Cyanogen fanbois.
1) Get trojan that includes malicious Android apk installed on PC.
2) Wait until Android device is connected by USB.
3) Have trojan run "adb install ph0nepwn3r.apk" or whatever which silently installs something nasty on the phone, bypassing interactive authorization.
4) ???
5) Profit!
FD: I'm a big Android fan and contributor to the platform, repo, and Gerrit.
"While we're at it, someone should go over and explain it to Peter Mandelson and Lily Allen."
So long as the explanation is done with a bat.
The situations you describe I'm generally okay with, as they are proper uses of the tool and handled by a developer on his workstation in his sandbox. You may understand proper configuration management methods, but there are hordes of fanbois and code monkeys out there who do not. My biggest problem with Git is its ease of abuse; it is very easy to misuse the tool and get yourself into difficult situations. A lot of the younger developers and engineers I work with rush through things because they depend more on the features of a tool than good practice.
If you're serious about configuration management, you shouldn't be rewriting history at all. Git allows developers to very easily commit SCM atrocities. If you make a mistake that gets committed and pushed to your mainline tree, deal with it, submit a new patch fixing it, and leave the mistake showing what happened. This provides for a transparent development process and accountability.
Git may be programmer friendly, but it isn't enterprise friendly at all.
"...how many of us take our comments beyond a Slashdot post?"
I took it beyond a post. I became a private pilot and haven't been on a commercial airliner since before I started flight training. If I need to go somewhere in the US, if driving is impractical, I'll rent or borrow an airplane. A friend of mine has done the same thing, and he even flew himself from Oklahoma to Jamaica with some family.
I know of two dealers in the Chicago area that will accept a personal check for a brand new Audi or BMW and let you drive away with it.
When I was in high school, I made some money by fixing people's computers for $20/hr. I'd get to their homes by riding my bicycle. Would anyone have seriously expected me to set up EFT or a merchant account? Everyone paid me by check.
When buying cars, I take a certified check (from my credit union) for a sizable fraction of the asking price. I then bring the remainder as cash in $50 or $100 bills. I can then bargain with the seller without having to carry as much cash on me.
The idiots won't listen to the informed about composite materials in aircraft. I fly a composite aircraft every week (Diamond DA40XL) and holy crap, it hasn't ripped itself apart. Its light, fast, nimble, and enjoyable to fly. I've also been witness to a composite aircraft (USAF Diamond DA20) crashing into trees at 40kts. The pilot survived with only minor scratches, and while the wings ripped off at the root and the horizontal stabilizer broken off, the cockpit material was unscathed. Using carbon fiber and fiberglass, the aircraft did its job and saved the pilot's life.
This is very true in aerospace. When Raytheon was busy driving RAC (now Hawker Beechcraft) into the ground and having mass firings, it was not uncommon to see people in the Cessna cafeteria reunited with former coworkers. There was an outright exodus from RAC to Cessna.
For me, I went from a small ( 20 employees) aerospace design firm to a huge, international aviation and electronics company, and right off the bat I met two former employees of my immediate past employer, a former coworker's brother (who was in the same field), three former fellow classmates of mine, and one guy from a company that had partnered with my immediate past employer.
"On that mood, do you think the privately owned weapons by USA civilians would be of much use against the USA army power, nukes and all included? I don't think so."
I think so. There are how many soldiers in the US Army? And how many civilians on continental US soil? And how many of those civilians have military training?
There are lots of weapons that the Army doesn't have that civilians do (highly reliable commie weapons) and lots weapons the Army can't have due to a lack of support infrastructure (again, mostly old commie weapons). Another interesting factor is that the Army is forbidden from using expanding rounds, while there is nothing prohibiting civilians from using them. The WW2 era Tokarev is still one of the most powerful pistols in the world, and JHP 7.62x25 rounds are extremely deadly.
If you think the government would detonate a nuclear weapon on US soil, you've watched Independence Day or zombie movies too many times.