"they have scruples and no loyalties or moralities to anything unless it could ultimately hurt them like knowing a client is guilty through the clients own admission but hiding this fact."
You do realize that if a lawyer knows that his client is guilty, he is still obligated to provide the best defense he can give his client.
I run Mercurial and Git for different projects. Mercurial is for the majority of projects though. Its like Git, except it is written in python instead of C, it doesn't suck on Windows machines, its faster and more efficient, and its easier to work with. I get the feeling that a lot of people move to Git simply because Linus came up with it, and they completely ignore comparison against a real competitor like Mercurial.
As someone who lives in Lawrence, Kansas and works at a large consumer electronics company in Johnson County, Kansas, I can tell you that you are probably going to be a happier as a Sprint customer...
T-Mobile is very friendly to unlocked phones. My unlocked Blackberry with a European SIM card used to automatically connect to AT&T all the time in the US. However, after the AT&T outage debacle a couple weeks ago, it started only connecting to T-Mobile. Now it doesn't automatically connect to AT&T at all anymore.
I have a strong IT background in addition to being educated in Engineering Physics. My last two positions have been "crossovers". My engineering background allows me to participate in product development. My IT background speeds up the product lifecycle by giving me the power to effectively communicate project needs to the IT department. This makes the cost of product development go down and helps engineers/developers get what they need to do their jobs well.
"Really, Volvo has made safety their marketing gimmick for years. Are they safer? I don't know, but they sell on it."
Gimmick? Seriously? Read NHTSA and EuroNCAP reports. Read the stories of survivors from accidents. Read up on the number of safety inventions whose use they permit royalty free.
Its not a gimmick, its the result of hiring well educated and thoughtful engineers and a corporate philosophy of building a good product rather than maximizing profit by bleeding potential customers.
A GPS simulator? I hope you have a spare atomic clock lying around, because you'll need it. Oh, and you want to build this simulator? Operating an unlicensed transmitter is a federal crime. When I was working on navigation systems, to simulate I just disconnected the antenna and fed my system spoofed NMEA packets over its serial port.
Until OpenGL support is included in the driver, no enterprise linux graphics application will support ATI cards. I'm talking about the $30,000/seat graphics programs for linux that *only* support nvidia Quadro cards with nvidia drivers, because they conform to the OpenGL standard. OpenGL is still in use in a lot of places, and its not free or open-source.
"Here, you are quite wrong. Burt, and by extension Scaled, does not do production aircraft, but we do plenty of testing."
I clicked submit too quickly. I meant conventional testing. Don't get me wrong, I love CFD and structural FEA, but sometimes you can't beat a wind tunnel. Call me old fashioned.:p
"You believe incorrectly. The fastest turboprop in the world is the Tupelov Tu-95 bear bomber. The original Starship prototype (Rutan/Scaled model 115), the 85% scale technology demonstrator matched the top speed of the P180, and greatly exceeded it's takeoff and landing performance, two decades before the P180."
How about "fastest GA turboprop" then? I'd expect the scale model to match the P180, but as you said, that was a technology demonstrator, not something necessarily certifiable.
"This was not a production plane, only a prototype. The process to refine this aircraft into a certifiable production plane basically doomed the eventual craft that was made available for sale, because the FAA regulations at the time were only for aluminum aircraft, not an airframe made from composite materials. The Starship was supposed to be a replacement for the Beech King Air, not just a technology demonstrator. Because it was the first composite airframe to have to grind against government regulations that had no provisions for composite materials, it suffered the typical slings and arrows that pioneers tend to collect. Now, composites are becoming the norm in aerospace materials."
I know, getting new aircraft to production can be a nightmare.:) I feel your pain though. I worked on a recent Scaled VLJ that unfortunately didn't go into production actually (name omitted, but I'm sure you can guess what it was). That was where I got my first exposure to how annoying bringing a great idea to production in the aerospace world can be. You know, I always wondered where the prototype of that jet ended up. If that aircraft had gone into production, Eclipse probably wouldn't exist, Cessna would have scrambled to get the Mustang out, and Piper would have built something even stupider than the PiperJet.
The canard on the P180 isn't there simply for looks; its the key to a three-surface design. You're absolutely correct that it is not a Rutan design. The P180 had significant testing and analysis performed on it, something Rutan doesn't do much of. It was designed mostly by Dr. Jan Roskam. Where the Starship was made primarily as a technology demonstrator (composites) and to look cool, the P180 was built for performance. To date, I believe it is still the fastest turboprop aircraft in the world.
I know of two that are still airworthy, and I had the luck to actually get within 50 feet of one taxiing in Salina, Kansas. Raytheon did everything in its power to kill anything creative while they owned Hawker Beechcraft. To my knowledge, all the tooling was destroyed, and none of the aircraft data is being shared with anyone, so nobody else can copy it. There's one Starship sitting outside on the tarmac of an aircraft museum just on the outskirts of McConell AFB next door to Boeing IDS and across the street from Spirit Aerosystems. Sadly, its not in good shape, and it makes you feel bad that something so interesting and creative was killed.
I've also been working on computers for about 20 years, and I agree with you. For PCs, I've only ever seen one or two PSU failures, and in the enterprise world, I had 3 of 12 PSUs fail in a big Sun rack. None of my personal machines have ever had a PSU failure.
I agree, it would be great to have a shuttle at the Cosmosphere. They have the outdoor space, they have the political pull, and they have a well established collection already. Currently, they have the Apollo 13 command module and the Mercury 7 Liberty Bell. Getting an orbiter is entirely possible.
True, there isn't the same quantity of tornados, but this year I did my fair share of chasing through Johnson, Douglas, and Franklin counties. We even had to evacuate to the basement in August when a tornado came rolling through south of Olathe.
What are you talking about? 64-bit computing is coming here slowly? I jumped on 64-bit computing 10 years ago with a DEC Alphastation, and a Sun Ultra 10 after that.
The kids these days have no respect for what brought them to where they are today.
Well, I should say "mostly Outlook." Evolution has issues with our AD implementation (thanks, Microsoft!) and we make extensive use of "Public Folders" in Exchange, and I have no idea if Evolution can handle those. But it does get actual engineering use from time to time when I need to replicate issues on other windows engineering workstations. Unfortunately, a VM isn't an option. I'm not a fan of watching the Core2 Duo in the windows box sitting idle most of the time, but its the best option given IT standardization and support needs.
The city I live in pulled it off. There's over 70k people in Lawrence, and the Lawrence Freenet service is pretty good. I've been able to download torrents at 100K/sec. Oh, and Lawrence Freenet uses the same PePWave boxes that Earthlink used in Philadelphia, so you can't blame the client side hardware...
We were traditionally a windows company. However, the number of linux boxes is growing rapidly in engineering. I have a windows box, a linux box, and a dual-boot laptop. I can do most everything on my linux box, the windows box is mostly for using Outlook (we run Exchange) and having an environment common to the one engineers on windows machines have. The laptop is for small scale experiments. All in all its a great setup for me.
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"they have scruples and no loyalties or moralities to anything unless it could ultimately hurt them like knowing a client is guilty through the clients own admission but hiding this fact."
You do realize that if a lawyer knows that his client is guilty, he is still obligated to provide the best defense he can give his client.
"the best thing for them to do is put them all on projects with a 3-7 year horizon"
Do you have any idea how big you're asking them to make the IE standards compliance team?
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I run Mercurial and Git for different projects. Mercurial is for the majority of projects though. Its like Git, except it is written in python instead of C, it doesn't suck on Windows machines, its faster and more efficient, and its easier to work with. I get the feeling that a lot of people move to Git simply because Linus came up with it, and they completely ignore comparison against a real competitor like Mercurial.
As someone who lives in Lawrence, Kansas and works at a large consumer electronics company in Johnson County, Kansas, I can tell you that you are probably going to be a happier as a Sprint customer...
T-Mobile is very friendly to unlocked phones. My unlocked Blackberry with a European SIM card used to automatically connect to AT&T all the time in the US. However, after the AT&T outage debacle a couple weeks ago, it started only connecting to T-Mobile. Now it doesn't automatically connect to AT&T at all anymore.
I have a strong IT background in addition to being educated in Engineering Physics. My last two positions have been "crossovers". My engineering background allows me to participate in product development. My IT background speeds up the product lifecycle by giving me the power to effectively communicate project needs to the IT department. This makes the cost of product development go down and helps engineers/developers get what they need to do their jobs well.
"Really, Volvo has made safety their marketing gimmick for years. Are they safer? I don't know, but they sell on it."
Gimmick? Seriously? Read NHTSA and EuroNCAP reports. Read the stories of survivors from accidents. Read up on the number of safety inventions whose use they permit royalty free.
Its not a gimmick, its the result of hiring well educated and thoughtful engineers and a corporate philosophy of building a good product rather than maximizing profit by bleeding potential customers.
A GPS simulator? I hope you have a spare atomic clock lying around, because you'll need it. Oh, and you want to build this simulator? Operating an unlicensed transmitter is a federal crime. When I was working on navigation systems, to simulate I just disconnected the antenna and fed my system spoofed NMEA packets over its serial port.
Until OpenGL support is included in the driver, no enterprise linux graphics application will support ATI cards. I'm talking about the $30,000/seat graphics programs for linux that *only* support nvidia Quadro cards with nvidia drivers, because they conform to the OpenGL standard. OpenGL is still in use in a lot of places, and its not free or open-source.
"Here, you are quite wrong. Burt, and by extension Scaled, does not do production aircraft, but we do plenty of testing."
I clicked submit too quickly. I meant conventional testing. Don't get me wrong, I love CFD and structural FEA, but sometimes you can't beat a wind tunnel. Call me old fashioned. :p
"You believe incorrectly. The fastest turboprop in the world is the Tupelov Tu-95 bear bomber. The original Starship prototype (Rutan/Scaled model 115), the 85% scale technology demonstrator matched the top speed of the P180, and greatly exceeded it's takeoff and landing performance, two decades before the P180."
How about "fastest GA turboprop" then? I'd expect the scale model to match the P180, but as you said, that was a technology demonstrator, not something necessarily certifiable.
"This was not a production plane, only a prototype. The process to refine this aircraft into a certifiable production plane basically doomed the eventual craft that was made available for sale, because the FAA regulations at the time were only for aluminum aircraft, not an airframe made from composite materials. The Starship was supposed to be a replacement for the Beech King Air, not just a technology demonstrator. Because it was the first composite airframe to have to grind against government regulations that had no provisions for composite materials, it suffered the typical slings and arrows that pioneers tend to collect. Now, composites are becoming the norm in aerospace materials."
I know, getting new aircraft to production can be a nightmare. :) I feel your pain though. I worked on a recent Scaled VLJ that unfortunately didn't go into production actually (name omitted, but I'm sure you can guess what it was). That was where I got my first exposure to how annoying bringing a great idea to production in the aerospace world can be. You know, I always wondered where the prototype of that jet ended up. If that aircraft had gone into production, Eclipse probably wouldn't exist, Cessna would have scrambled to get the Mustang out, and Piper would have built something even stupider than the PiperJet.
The canard on the P180 isn't there simply for looks; its the key to a three-surface design. You're absolutely correct that it is not a Rutan design. The P180 had significant testing and analysis performed on it, something Rutan doesn't do much of. It was designed mostly by Dr. Jan Roskam. Where the Starship was made primarily as a technology demonstrator (composites) and to look cool, the P180 was built for performance. To date, I believe it is still the fastest turboprop aircraft in the world.
I know of two that are still airworthy, and I had the luck to actually get within 50 feet of one taxiing in Salina, Kansas. Raytheon did everything in its power to kill anything creative while they owned Hawker Beechcraft. To my knowledge, all the tooling was destroyed, and none of the aircraft data is being shared with anyone, so nobody else can copy it. There's one Starship sitting outside on the tarmac of an aircraft museum just on the outskirts of McConell AFB next door to Boeing IDS and across the street from Spirit Aerosystems. Sadly, its not in good shape, and it makes you feel bad that something so interesting and creative was killed.
I've also been working on computers for about 20 years, and I agree with you. For PCs, I've only ever seen one or two PSU failures, and in the enterprise world, I had 3 of 12 PSUs fail in a big Sun rack. None of my personal machines have ever had a PSU failure.
I agree, it would be great to have a shuttle at the Cosmosphere. They have the outdoor space, they have the political pull, and they have a well established collection already. Currently, they have the Apollo 13 command module and the Mercury 7 Liberty Bell. Getting an orbiter is entirely possible.
True, there isn't the same quantity of tornados, but this year I did my fair share of chasing through Johnson, Douglas, and Franklin counties. We even had to evacuate to the basement in August when a tornado came rolling through south of Olathe.
Being out in Kansas, its kind of expected that we have some totally awesome storm chasing vehicles.
What are you talking about? 64-bit computing is coming here slowly? I jumped on 64-bit computing 10 years ago with a DEC Alphastation, and a Sun Ultra 10 after that.
The kids these days have no respect for what brought them to where they are today.
I hear that. I knew a guy who was in law school whose name was Case Collard. Great name for a lawyer/investigator.
Doxide is what you get when Linux documentation geeks consume Doxygen.
What did my knockoff power mac and scanner ever do to you?!
Red Flag Linux opensources YOU!
Well, I should say "mostly Outlook." Evolution has issues with our AD implementation (thanks, Microsoft!) and we make extensive use of "Public Folders" in Exchange, and I have no idea if Evolution can handle those. But it does get actual engineering use from time to time when I need to replicate issues on other windows engineering workstations. Unfortunately, a VM isn't an option. I'm not a fan of watching the Core2 Duo in the windows box sitting idle most of the time, but its the best option given IT standardization and support needs.
The city I live in pulled it off. There's over 70k people in Lawrence, and the Lawrence Freenet service is pretty good. I've been able to download torrents at 100K/sec. Oh, and Lawrence Freenet uses the same PePWave boxes that Earthlink used in Philadelphia, so you can't blame the client side hardware...
We were traditionally a windows company. However, the number of linux boxes is growing rapidly in engineering. I have a windows box, a linux box, and a dual-boot laptop. I can do most everything on my linux box, the windows box is mostly for using Outlook (we run Exchange) and having an environment common to the one engineers on windows machines have. The laptop is for small scale experiments. All in all its a great setup for me.