That situation exists today in the form of tethered high-altitude balloons used for border surveillance...I believe there are 15 of them along the US/Mexican border. They have to be charted carefully, but so far the aviation community has dealt with them.
They don't just do that on the phone: I once rode in a tourist-class seat next to a lawyer who spent the time reading and annotating depositions in a big-buck personal injury case on his tray table, and I spent the time reading it all. There was stuff that his opposition would have been very glad to have...;-)
Back when my wife was teaching HS English I used to help her grade term papers and likewise caught quite a few copiers. One was particularly funny: one student had taken the information from an encyclopedia and paraphrased it without understanding it, resulting in just the sort of incomprehensible sentences you'd expect. Then he lent it to another student who copied it verbatim, errors and all. Those two papers got taped to the classroom door...;-)
OTOH, in my own 8th-grade days I was assigned to do a paper on "the history of mapmaking". I worked my nerdy little adolescent ass off on it, and the teacher downgraded me because "Your paragraph headings are all wrong." When I complained, she pointed out a page in the World Book Encyclopedia and said "See here? Those are the right headings."
I've never even heard of PE for anything software related
My former employer, a California aerospace outfit, ran into something like that around 1970 when it opened a good-sized operation in Denver. There was some bit of paperwork with the city and county that involved listing the number of engineers on the payroll, and the local PE association cried foul: local ordinances forbade representing someone as an "engineer" who didn't have a PE license.
We replied that we would be delighted to come into compliance, and would they please send over eight hundred license applications, a copy of the sample test, eight hundred PE Assn membership applications, and when would their next officer election be?
Some of the combustion in an afterburner takes place outside the engine, but it contributes essentially no thrust...only the heat generated before or in the exhaust nozzle adds to the thrust.
Remember, a flame is a stream of gas hot enough to be ionized, not necessarily a region where combustion is taking place. The long flame of an afterburner is mostly gas that was reheated in the burner; since it comes out of the engine hot, it continues to expand, which represents wasted energy. That's why afterburners are used sparingly: they give a lot more thrust but burn fuel out of all proportion to it.
If it weren't for the Marquis de Lafayette, Admiral de Grasse, General Rochambeau and a million livres of French money, we'd be speaking English today...
The money France spent winning our revolution for us bankrupted the court of Louis XVI and set off their revolution. Lafayette aligned himself with the moderate Girondist party and asked George Washington to return his favors; Washington replied that we were having a really poor year and maybe some other time. The radical Jacobins hijacked the French Revolution and France collapsed into bloody chaos; the Italian-born Napoleon rode into the breach to restore order in France and spread the bloody chaos clear to Moscow, bankrupting France again.
1914-18: Twice our military participation for three times as long, 12 times the casualties.
1940: Care to guess who was holding the German Army back from Dunkirk while the British Army took to the boats?
You can tell the version by the model number...the information is on linksysinfo.org. But it's not too important, because any WRT54g you find in a brick-and-mortar store today is almost certainly version 5 or higher. These units use VMWorks which makes them cheaper to make because it uses less RAM and flash memory. Not that the price has come down, of course.
However version 4 is not really gone: it's now called the WRT54GL, still runs Linux, will accept the third-party firmwares, and sells mostly via online dealers at a higher price.
Interesting link on that page, about exploiting dead celebrities: Yet a new company by the name of KeepYouSafe.com has thrown caution to wind with its issuance of a press release headlined: "ANNA NICOLE SMITH WOULD BE SIX FEET UNDER IF SHE HAD KEEPYOUSAFE.COM."
Back in the day, the National Lampoon got sued over a spoof VW ad showing a Beetle floating in water (which they will do, for a while). Caption: "If Teddy Kennedy had driven a VW, he'd be President today."
FTFA: Now, with heat-spreaders and heatsinks both widely used, OCZ is taking the next step in terms of memory module cooling, a step which some might questions and others will be impressed by. Water cooling.
Seems clear enough to me. If these guys said the next step is integrating the module and the cooler, you'd have a defensible claim.
Not that it looks like a very smart step...if either the cooling block or the memory module fails, you replace the entire unit.
Slashdot Mirror
And how much will the hail insurance cost...
rj
Well, first, we weren't married yet and second, we help each other. Maybe that's why we've been married for forty-five years.
rj
We all have our own demons.
rj
That situation exists today in the form of tethered high-altitude balloons used for border surveillance...I believe there are 15 of them along the US/Mexican border. They have to be charted carefully, but so far the aviation community has dealt with them.
rj
rj
It is from where I'm sitting...one side of a conversation is much more intrusive than both sides. It's a drop-the-other-shoe thing.
rj
Well, of course he'd be above getting Photoshop via torrent...
rj
Back when my wife was teaching HS English I used to help her grade term papers and likewise caught quite a few copiers. One was particularly funny: one student had taken the information from an encyclopedia and paraphrased it without understanding it, resulting in just the sort of incomprehensible sentences you'd expect. Then he lent it to another student who copied it verbatim, errors and all. Those two papers got taped to the classroom door...;-)
OTOH, in my own 8th-grade days I was assigned to do a paper on "the history of mapmaking". I worked my nerdy little adolescent ass off on it, and the teacher downgraded me because "Your paragraph headings are all wrong." When I complained, she pointed out a page in the World Book Encyclopedia and said "See here? Those are the right headings."
rj
My former employer, a California aerospace outfit, ran into something like that around 1970 when it opened a good-sized operation in Denver. There was some bit of paperwork with the city and county that involved listing the number of engineers on the payroll, and the local PE association cried foul: local ordinances forbade representing someone as an "engineer" who didn't have a PE license.
We replied that we would be delighted to come into compliance, and would they please send over eight hundred license applications, a copy of the sample test, eight hundred PE Assn membership applications, and when would their next officer election be?
Last we ever heard from them.
rj
Remember, a flame is a stream of gas hot enough to be ionized, not necessarily a region where combustion is taking place. The long flame of an afterburner is mostly gas that was reheated in the burner; since it comes out of the engine hot, it continues to expand, which represents wasted energy. That's why afterburners are used sparingly: they give a lot more thrust but burn fuel out of all proportion to it.
rj
rj
No...they ensure that there is somebody aboard who (a) knows how to get the airplane down safely and (b) knows he will die if he doesn't.
rj
...is surrounded by an event horizon.
rj
The money France spent winning our revolution for us bankrupted the court of Louis XVI and set off their revolution. Lafayette aligned himself with the moderate Girondist party and asked George Washington to return his favors; Washington replied that we were having a really poor year and maybe some other time. The radical Jacobins hijacked the French Revolution and France collapsed into bloody chaos; the Italian-born Napoleon rode into the breach to restore order in France and spread the bloody chaos clear to Moscow, bankrupting France again.
1914-18: Twice our military participation for three times as long, 12 times the casualties.
1940: Care to guess who was holding the German Army back from Dunkirk while the British Army took to the boats?
Damn slackers just aren't up to a good fight.
rj
I'll back that up...if I didn't know, I'd have taken for granted he was a Merkin graduate of a Midwestern state U.
rj (65 years in Florida, Georgia, Ohio, California & Colorado)
-204 if you count my marriage.
Diane Keaton & Woody Allen, Sleeper
rj
Oops, sorry, I duped #18399803.
rj
We had that beat in 1960:
http://www.bpmlegal.com/wpogo.html
rj
You can tell the version by the model number...the information is on linksysinfo.org. But it's not too important, because any WRT54g you find in a brick-and-mortar store today is almost certainly version 5 or higher. These units use VMWorks which makes them cheaper to make because it uses less RAM and flash memory. Not that the price has come down, of course.
However version 4 is not really gone: it's now called the WRT54GL, still runs Linux, will accept the third-party firmwares, and sells mostly via online dealers at a higher price.
rj
Quite so, but you have to start somewhere...;-)
rj
Roughly a 22,000 mile technicality.
rj
Back in the day, the National Lampoon got sued over a spoof VW ad showing a Beetle floating in water (which they will do, for a while). Caption: "If Teddy Kennedy had driven a VW, he'd be President today."
rj
Seems clear enough to me. If these guys said the next step is integrating the module and the cooler, you'd have a defensible claim.
Not that it looks like a very smart step...if either the cooling block or the memory module fails, you replace the entire unit.
rj
Been done. There's a two-stage system on the market (I think the ad was in CPU Mag) that uses a Peltier device to cool the water.
rj
http://www.koolance.com/shop/default.php?cPath=29_ 56&osCsid=28547a1202b3942d29d4a39bc4ed1984
rj