I was flying across southwestern Ohio in a Piper Saratoga and knew there was going to be a good baseball game on that night. The AM radio in the airplane had some trouble picking up WGN, so we switched over to the ADF and tuned it to 720kHz. We got the Cubs game nice and clear, and the ADF needle was pointing towards Chicago.
1) Give astronaut CD of latest pop music craze. 2) Have astronaut rip CD to MP3. 3) Create and host torrent of album from ISS. 4) Make RIAA go to orbit to subpoena astronaut. 5) ??? 6) Profit!
This might actually help us get a real commercial space program going.
He should have known about the possibility for dangerous winds given the area. He was probably flying VFR, instead of having filed an IFR flight plan, which is part of the reason it took so long to find him. He should have called a weather briefer before taking off to get the weather conditions and forecast for his trip. In flight he could have contacted FlightWatch for more up-to-date weather in case he noticed things were changing.
Keep in mind that rarely does a single event cause an airplane crash. It is quite often a series events culminating in a situation in which the pilot has no chance to save himself.
I did a LOT of work in wind energy while I was more an aerospace R&D guy.
1) Tell an aerospace engineer not to test something, and he will try not to bludgeon you with a cluebat. As an engineer, you are negligent if you do not consider every possible situation the turbine could experience. A wind turbine's natural environment can be reproduced in laboratory conditions for scale models. This reduces testing time and thus cost. It also allows for testing in conditions that the turbine will not experience, thus providing valuable data to determine safety and efficiency factors.
2) Full scale models are insanely expensive. Building a small scale model of turbine blades can cost thousands of dollars for an FDM model whose longest dimension is 15". Just using a rapid prototyping 3D printer to make one model whose longest dimension is 8" can cost several hundred dollars.
3) Wind tunnels are extremely helpful. The $300-$1000 per hour you spend in a wind tunnel testing your turbine will be much cheaper than the payout you make to some family because one of your turbines experienced some mode you didn't predict that caused it to destroy itself and send a blade into a minivan on a highway. Computer simulations can't do it all. And yes, I've witnessed a turbine hit a certain windspeed in a wind tunnel, and I heard the sounds change, and then saw the entire turbine shatter and blow down the tunnel.
When I tested turbines, I had a test stand that would tell you the turbine speed, forces and moments on the stand (axial, sideforce, lift, drag, pitching moment, yawing moment, rolling moment), power output, load, wind speed, and ambient temperature. The wind tunnel time was roughly $10,000 per week, but if you don't do this for a megawatt-class turbine, you risk destroying the turbine or killing someone.
When you are harnessing *megawatts* of power, for God's sake, you just don't leave things to chance.
Why buy a Toyota when American diesel cars are perfectly good? I miss my Vauxhall Zafira, which is a GM car. I had the 1.9L CDTi engine and the SRi trim package, 6-speed manual box, sport mode (which was awesome) and comfortably seated 7. It would get 35-40mpg (US) when loaded up for a European roadtrip. My friend's Ford Mondeo Ghia TDCI gets 42mpg (US), but a comparable US market Ford Fusion with a less powerful engine, fewer features, and lighter empty weight gets only 28mpg.
At the last company I worked at, I was instructed to block AOL users from accessing our product demo download page on the website. When users provided their info for a download, a link was generated with a hash that included their IP address (the IP was grabbed for directing users to the closest server). However, since AOL routes all their Internet traffic through a set of proxies, the IP presented to the web server would likely change with every access, thus making the links provided to users useless.
The reason I was instructed to block AOL users is because it was easier to not deal with emails consisting of "WHY CANT I DL UR FILEZ???????" from people who weren't going to by the product anyway than it was to actually fix the problem.
1) Disconnnect antenna from tracker. 2) Feed computer generated NMEA packets to tracking device. 3) "Yes sir, if my GPS says I drove the Indy 500 and came in second place, I must have." 4) Profit!
I used minidisc for all my portable audio needs until a couple years ago. I still keep a studio recorder in my home stereo rack. I have a funky yellowish gold portable player from Japan that was barely larger than the minidisc itself. It would go for a couple days on a NiMH battery. I also had a newer, portable MDLP player that I didn't use much. The little gold player did not support MDLP, but the sound quality on it was *phenomenal*. To complete the minidisc family, I had a Sony car stereo with in-dash minidisc player. In 2002, everyone thought its was amazing that they could see the name of the song on the screen of the car stereo. The mechanical parts in the car stereo gave out and it died.
A lot of small theaters use minidisc still since it is easy to integrate with professional sound systems (I've used minidisc gear with XLR plugs), minor edits are easy to do with a remote control, and the media is extremely reliable.
No, a handheld GPS would be useless. It can't give you airspeed or attitude. Also, you need line of sight to the satellites. Next time you're on an airliner, try and use a handheld GPS and see how well that works through the skin of the airplane. My Garmin GPSMAP 195 (an actual aviation handheld GPS) cannot always get a satellite fix in a commercial airliner. In an emergency, its not really a big deal where you are or what your groundspeed is. If you don't know your airspeed or attitude (the two things a GPS will *not* give you) you *will* die.
Disclaiminer: I am an aerospace engineer and a pilot.
"One million people, not all of which are American"
I'm guessing this includes you.
"the RIAA is using musicians, lawyer, lobbyists, radio, TV, magazines"
Let's see, lawyers, lobbyists, radio, TV, magazines are all things that the general public either don't have access to or can't afford to use to go on crusades. The soap box goes wherever you can put it; historically those who wanted to speak out did so by first speaking out on the streets. The general public doesn't have access to the things you mention.
"Yes, you did manage to do that didn't you. You did it. The RIAA didn't put them in power, your did. Looks like you didn't do a very good job at the ballot box, eh? That is your responsibility, so try again."
Unless you don't or can't vote its your responsibility too. Regardless of who gets elected, if the ballot box doesn't work out, then on to the next.
"Let's see. Two trials, two decisions you don't like, so it must be "bad lawyering"."
No, I call it "bad lawyering" because I have legal experience and have been in plenty of courtrooms, and there are several attorneys who currently practice law (and likely are better versed in the law than both of us) who have called it bad lawyering.
"if you can get a majority of the population to agree that it should be used, you can use the ammo box."
All it takes is one average or impoverished everyman to get hit with a ridiculous multimillion dollar verdict like the one here to feel like his life is being taken from him (and who wouldn't feel like that?) and he'd decide to use the ammo box for revenge. Its not that uncommon.
"Otherwise, you are just another selfish, self-centered, arrogant, extremist thug who is willing to resort to violence and murder to get his way."
No, I'm a realist. There are lot of people who feel like they have exhausted every avenue of hope and resort to the ammo box in all kinds of situations. What I'm saying is that I'd be willing to bet that people are going to start resorting to the ammo box soon if decisions like the one in this trial are held up. For better or worse, fear is a powerful tool. What fear does a record company executive have of the people whose lives they fight to ruin? Currently, its none. I've got a bad feeling that is going to change if things keep going in the direction they are.
Additionally, I didn't attack anyone, I simply stated where we stood. You made a conscious choice to personally attack me. If you want to see an "arrogant...thug" look in the mirror. Have a great evening.
You speak as if you're targeting me, just one person. No, the boxes are for the people, the masses. Like it or not, slashdot *is* a soap box with over one million voices. Also, we have managed to vote politicians into power that have their hands in the entertainment industry's pockets and now have appointed former RIAA lawyers to the DOJ, so there's your "ballot box." Now we've had a second trial with bad lawyering on both sides ending in a jury deciding a ridiculous and impossible punishment. Soap, ballot, jury.
Within the last couple of years, Verizon has opened its network to any CDMA device. You are freely able to bring a Sprint handset onto Verizon, provided you have the technical ability to load a Verizon PRL or can set your handset to default to Verizon's towers.
The HTC Apache is an interesting creature. It was apparently the last smartphone sold by Sprint that you could tether *without* a phone-as-modem plan. Also, tethered over USB I could consistently get 1Mbps connections. When in the middle of nowhere Kansas (which happens to be Sprint's backyard) untethered I could pull 2.5Mbps down no problem...and this was three and a half years ago.
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Please, please, please, tell me you are not naming your cats after Mac OS releases.
I was flying across southwestern Ohio in a Piper Saratoga and knew there was going to be a good baseball game on that night. The AM radio in the airplane had some trouble picking up WGN, so we switched over to the ADF and tuned it to 720kHz. We got the Cubs game nice and clear, and the ADF needle was pointing towards Chicago.
1) Give astronaut CD of latest pop music craze.
2) Have astronaut rip CD to MP3.
3) Create and host torrent of album from ISS.
4) Make RIAA go to orbit to subpoena astronaut.
5) ???
6) Profit!
This might actually help us get a real commercial space program going.
He should have known about the possibility for dangerous winds given the area. He was probably flying VFR, instead of having filed an IFR flight plan, which is part of the reason it took so long to find him. He should have called a weather briefer before taking off to get the weather conditions and forecast for his trip. In flight he could have contacted FlightWatch for more up-to-date weather in case he noticed things were changing.
Keep in mind that rarely does a single event cause an airplane crash. It is quite often a series events culminating in a situation in which the pilot has no chance to save himself.
Its also a hop, skip, and a jump from USAF and NASA facilities at Edwards AFB, and a whole bunch of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works people live there.
No, it doesn't have all those flashy features, but you had to hack and upgrade your ipaq to do what the M5 was designed for.
I see you just reinvented my Garmin iQue M5...
I did a LOT of work in wind energy while I was more an aerospace R&D guy.
1) Tell an aerospace engineer not to test something, and he will try not to bludgeon you with a cluebat. As an engineer, you are negligent if you do not consider every possible situation the turbine could experience. A wind turbine's natural environment can be reproduced in laboratory conditions for scale models. This reduces testing time and thus cost. It also allows for testing in conditions that the turbine will not experience, thus providing valuable data to determine safety and efficiency factors.
2) Full scale models are insanely expensive. Building a small scale model of turbine blades can cost thousands of dollars for an FDM model whose longest dimension is 15". Just using a rapid prototyping 3D printer to make one model whose longest dimension is 8" can cost several hundred dollars.
3) Wind tunnels are extremely helpful. The $300-$1000 per hour you spend in a wind tunnel testing your turbine will be much cheaper than the payout you make to some family because one of your turbines experienced some mode you didn't predict that caused it to destroy itself and send a blade into a minivan on a highway. Computer simulations can't do it all. And yes, I've witnessed a turbine hit a certain windspeed in a wind tunnel, and I heard the sounds change, and then saw the entire turbine shatter and blow down the tunnel.
When I tested turbines, I had a test stand that would tell you the turbine speed, forces and moments on the stand (axial, sideforce, lift, drag, pitching moment, yawing moment, rolling moment), power output, load, wind speed, and ambient temperature. The wind tunnel time was roughly $10,000 per week, but if you don't do this for a megawatt-class turbine, you risk destroying the turbine or killing someone.
When you are harnessing *megawatts* of power, for God's sake, you just don't leave things to chance.
Why buy a Toyota when American diesel cars are perfectly good? I miss my Vauxhall Zafira, which is a GM car. I had the 1.9L CDTi engine and the SRi trim package, 6-speed manual box, sport mode (which was awesome) and comfortably seated 7. It would get 35-40mpg (US) when loaded up for a European roadtrip. My friend's Ford Mondeo Ghia TDCI gets 42mpg (US), but a comparable US market Ford Fusion with a less powerful engine, fewer features, and lighter empty weight gets only 28mpg.
Every dead technology has those that cling to it. You must be the last Atmos user.
At the last company I worked at, I was instructed to block AOL users from accessing our product demo download page on the website. When users provided their info for a download, a link was generated with a hash that included their IP address (the IP was grabbed for directing users to the closest server). However, since AOL routes all their Internet traffic through a set of proxies, the IP presented to the web server would likely change with every access, thus making the links provided to users useless.
The reason I was instructed to block AOL users is because it was easier to not deal with emails consisting of "WHY CANT I DL UR FILEZ???????" from people who weren't going to by the product anyway than it was to actually fix the problem.
1) Disconnnect antenna from tracker.
2) Feed computer generated NMEA packets to tracking device.
3) "Yes sir, if my GPS says I drove the Indy 500 and came in second place, I must have."
4) Profit!
The F-35 design, engineering, analysis, and lifecycle management is done entirely in software from Siemens.
Perhaps the senators would like a larger gun with which to shoot their feet.
I used minidisc for all my portable audio needs until a couple years ago. I still keep a studio recorder in my home stereo rack. I have a funky yellowish gold portable player from Japan that was barely larger than the minidisc itself. It would go for a couple days on a NiMH battery. I also had a newer, portable MDLP player that I didn't use much. The little gold player did not support MDLP, but the sound quality on it was *phenomenal*. To complete the minidisc family, I had a Sony car stereo with in-dash minidisc player. In 2002, everyone thought its was amazing that they could see the name of the song on the screen of the car stereo. The mechanical parts in the car stereo gave out and it died.
A lot of small theaters use minidisc still since it is easy to integrate with professional sound systems (I've used minidisc gear with XLR plugs), minor edits are easy to do with a remote control, and the media is extremely reliable.
Pshaw, I can yank CPUs out of my Sun E6500 without losing uptime. :)
No, a handheld GPS would be useless. It can't give you airspeed or attitude. Also, you need line of sight to the satellites. Next time you're on an airliner, try and use a handheld GPS and see how well that works through the skin of the airplane. My Garmin GPSMAP 195 (an actual aviation handheld GPS) cannot always get a satellite fix in a commercial airliner. In an emergency, its not really a big deal where you are or what your groundspeed is. If you don't know your airspeed or attitude (the two things a GPS will *not* give you) you *will* die.
Disclaiminer: I am an aerospace engineer and a pilot.
"One million people, not all of which are American"
I'm guessing this includes you.
"the RIAA is using musicians, lawyer, lobbyists, radio, TV, magazines"
Let's see, lawyers, lobbyists, radio, TV, magazines are all things that the general public either don't have access to or can't afford to use to go on crusades. The soap box goes wherever you can put it; historically those who wanted to speak out did so by first speaking out on the streets. The general public doesn't have access to the things you mention.
"Yes, you did manage to do that didn't you. You did it. The RIAA didn't put them in power, your did. Looks like you didn't do a very good job at the ballot box, eh? That is your responsibility, so try again."
Unless you don't or can't vote its your responsibility too. Regardless of who gets elected, if the ballot box doesn't work out, then on to the next.
"Let's see. Two trials, two decisions you don't like, so it must be "bad lawyering"."
No, I call it "bad lawyering" because I have legal experience and have been in plenty of courtrooms, and there are several attorneys who currently practice law (and likely are better versed in the law than both of us) who have called it bad lawyering.
"if you can get a majority of the population to agree that it should be used, you can use the ammo box."
All it takes is one average or impoverished everyman to get hit with a ridiculous multimillion dollar verdict like the one here to feel like his life is being taken from him (and who wouldn't feel like that?) and he'd decide to use the ammo box for revenge. Its not that uncommon.
"Otherwise, you are just another selfish, self-centered, arrogant, extremist thug who is willing to resort to violence and murder to get his way."
No, I'm a realist. There are lot of people who feel like they have exhausted every avenue of hope and resort to the ammo box in all kinds of situations. What I'm saying is that I'd be willing to bet that people are going to start resorting to the ammo box soon if decisions like the one in this trial are held up. For better or worse, fear is a powerful tool. What fear does a record company executive have of the people whose lives they fight to ruin? Currently, its none. I've got a bad feeling that is going to change if things keep going in the direction they are.
Additionally, I didn't attack anyone, I simply stated where we stood. You made a conscious choice to personally attack me. If you want to see an "arrogant...thug" look in the mirror. Have a great evening.
"ex-chancellor Schroeder is now board member of GazProm, a Russian gas giant."
See what happens when NASA loses funding? Russia goes and claims Jupiter, changes its name, and has it run by Germans.
You speak as if you're targeting me, just one person. No, the boxes are for the people, the masses. Like it or not, slashdot *is* a soap box with over one million voices. Also, we have managed to vote politicians into power that have their hands in the entertainment industry's pockets and now have appointed former RIAA lawyers to the DOJ, so there's your "ballot box." Now we've had a second trial with bad lawyering on both sides ending in a jury deciding a ridiculous and impossible punishment. Soap, ballot, jury.
We are now officially past soap, ballot, and jury.
Not in the UK. Hybrids are way more expensive in maintenance and are less economical than a large amount of the diesel cars there.
Well I highly suggest that next time you have a bad headache, you start munching on tree bark instead of taking an aspirin.
Within the last couple of years, Verizon has opened its network to any CDMA device. You are freely able to bring a Sprint handset onto Verizon, provided you have the technical ability to load a Verizon PRL or can set your handset to default to Verizon's towers.
The HTC Apache is an interesting creature. It was apparently the last smartphone sold by Sprint that you could tether *without* a phone-as-modem plan. Also, tethered over USB I could consistently get 1Mbps connections. When in the middle of nowhere Kansas (which happens to be Sprint's backyard) untethered I could pull 2.5Mbps down no problem...and this was three and a half years ago.
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