You're absolutely right as long as you are in small airplanes. Big airplanes however don't do well in small fields. This reminds of something else interesting though speaking of Big Planes and Gliding.
Nowhere in my post did I say autorotation is "simple" but I do disagree that it is a "major incident". Autorotation is autoration whether it be in a helicopter or an autogyro they are the very same thing. Freely rotating blades controlled by cyclic and collective. The only reason that Carter advertises superior autorotation is because of their high intertia rotor system. I do believe their system is superior to many rotorcraft simply in terms of inertia of the rotor system but helicopters vary widely in this characteristic. Many light helicopters, particularly non-turbine engine ones, have little rotor inertia (and big dead-man zones) larger turbine-driven helicopters can have huge amounts of inertia and very little dead-man zone. I do not, however, believe that the Carter copter is entirely without a "Dead-man's zone". At low airspeed/altitudes you are still operating entirely from the lift of the rotor system.
While the Carter Copter may be designed for great autorotation characteristics you are still working with a limited amount of rotational energy while making a routine vertical landing and if you miscalculate and run out of energy you could be in trouble. Landing a helicopter vertically if you miscalculate you can always hover and try again.
I think the Carter Copter is a great idea that I would like to see find fruition. I don't believe ALL of their advertising and while they may be a good alternative to many helicopter applications they certainly won't be able to replace the 80% of the market they claim simply because they can't hover. That said I'd love to own one.
Autorotating in a helicopter is not a major incident except when you have to do so abruptly at low altitude or low speed. Autogyros fly around all the time using nothing but autorotation. There's no reason that autorotation in a CarterCopter would be any "easier" than in a regular helicopter, they both work on the exact same principle.
Possibly the same reason you don't recognize, say, a car of the same model and appearance as yours when your see it driving down the street. R2D2 is probably far from only the unit like it. Do you think the droid factory made only one and quit? C3P0 on the other hand was drastically different in appearance from Episode I & II than in IV-VI and not the only example of his type either.
It would be interesting to know the specifics of the chemical reaction that is responsible for the opacity. Apparently the DVD is sealed and starts becoming opaque upon exposure to air. One wonders if you could watch (or copy) the DVD, seal it in bag with a vacuum sealer, keep it for a couple days and then pass it on to your buddy. Obviously it will eventually quit working but one could get multiple uses out of it instead of one. What about putting it in deep freeze to slow the chemical reaction?
What the post really should say is Lik Sang is back on-line again after the slashdotting the site got after the FIRST time this story was posted. Looks like you may see this story next week too.
One big issue I see with personal aircraft, particularly helicopters is noise. If your neighbor staring his uber-carbuerated muscle car at 6:30am is bad, just wait until he fires up the chopper. Freeway noise can carry for miles yet the indivual cars aren't particularly loud. Helicopters are very loud and clouds of them over cities would be deafening.
I think you miss the point. He's saying that IF the DMCA was around when the IBM PC came out we all would probably be less better off as far as the development of PC technology and the price of hardware.
The Mod chips Lik Sang were selling probably contained partial copies of the BIOS code from the X-box. Since the BIOS code is usually copyrighted this is a copyright violation. While I don't necessarily agree with what MS is doing Lik Sang should have been a little more cautious. They gave MS an easy legal device to threaten them with, copyright violations, when it would've been more difficult to assault them with DMCA in Hong Kong.
This isn't absolutely true. Otherwise healthy people who are for some reason immobile for long periods of time can develop DVT. Most people in comatose states in ICUs are on some form of DVT prophylaxis, regardless of age or preexisting health conditions. I've seen it happen in 40yo guys who were sitting around all the time with a cast on their leg.
If this guy was really that compacted I do wonder if he didn't Vagal himself out. If he hadn't drank any water for that long he could really throw his electrolytes off which could predispose him to heart arrhythmias.
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According to their website their endowment is $24 billion. That would be in cash and other securities, no copies of Office, etc. Gates presumably donated most of it, that's considerably more than $100million or 0.2% of his net worth. Whatever your problems with Gates and his company are he has donated a pretty substancial chunk of money, far more it seems than most people at that level of affluence, and deserves some credit.
Fifty dollars for the headset, software and 1 year of service is a steal! Most online games, MMPORPGs the biggest example, cost anywhere from $8-15/month per game. X-Box Live covers all the on-line games for the X-box. It will be interesting when and if games like Asheron's Call 2 and Star Wars Galaxies come out for the X-Box if they will cost extra. I would be questioning paying $10-15/month for SW:Galaxies on PC if I could play it and a whole other slew of games for $50/year.
Personally I think this will really take off, the main limitation being the relative scarcity of people with broadband access(compared to those with dial-up). If they start including the MMORPGs I think many PC gamers will give it a second look. Why upgrade to a Radeon 9700 Pro when for the same price I can buy an X-Box and several games? I also believe the single on-line service of Live is superior to Sony's and Nintendo's plans to let the developers run the on-line services for their games and may help X-Box gain some market share. It will be very interesting to see how this all shakes out.
I work in Emergency Medical Services and there is a hard, fast rule in EMS. Your chances of surviving an otherwise unsurvivable accident are inversely proportional to your societal worth.
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Bill Gates is already a philanthropist. Whatever your opinion is on MS he is gives away more money to charitable causes than any other of the tech magnates and probably more than almost anyone else in the world. www.gatesfoundation.org
While the concept sounds cool this isn't really useful in the field for emergency care. Disposable electrical cauteries that do exactly the same thing have been around for years. Very rarely does someone die from external bleeding that could be cauterized. Those types of wounds can usually be controlled easily with direct pressure, pressure points, etc. What kills people is pulmonary injuries, internal bleeding and/or neurological injuries. If you get shot or stabbed, closing the entrance/exit wounds with cauterization does very little for you. All the serious damage is on the inside and the only answer is being taken to the O.R. This is particually true of gun shot wounds as the shockwave around the bullet cavitates the tissue around its path through the body doing massive damage, of course relative to the size and more so velocity KE=1/2 m * v^2.
The major problem I see with this is not demonstrating whether the video game playing is the cause or a symptom of the lack of concentration and social difficulties those in the study have. It seems just as or more likely that the people who were in the category that played the most may have always had social difficulty, lack of concentration and irritability (and these three conditions seem to exacerbate the others) and use video game playing as an escape or coping mechanism. It may be true that prolonged playing may worsen these conditions but it may also help people deal with them. This is particularly true with on-line games as people that are self-concious seem more comfortable socializing virtually for a multitude of reasons.
The words sound like you're saying megabyte and gigabyte with an impediment.
E.G.
"Jar-Jay hassa a puter with 512 mebibytes ofa RAM ansa 60 gibibytes of hard drive."
Say it to yourself and see...
The Pluto-Kupier Express needs to be developed and launched soon. There are two main reasons for this:
1) The launch window for setting a trajectory for Pluto that uses Jovian gravity assist lies between 2004-2006. This could signifigantly shorten the time it takes the probe to reach Pluto which could significantly effect the next reason.
2) Pluto is currently heading away from the perihelion in its abort, thus is headed away from the Sun (and Earth). As Pluto heads away from the sun the surface temperature decreases and the atmosphere progressively condenses, freezing to the surface of the planet. Planetary scientist are very anxious to study its atmosphere in a gaseous state, it is predicted to be completetly frozen by 2020. As Pluto takes 248 years to revolve around the sun it will be a LONG time before it's gas again.
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You're absolutely right as long as you are in small airplanes. Big airplanes however don't do well in small fields. This reminds of something else interesting though speaking of Big Planes and Gliding.
While the Carter Copter may be designed for great autorotation characteristics you are still working with a limited amount of rotational energy while making a routine vertical landing and if you miscalculate and run out of energy you could be in trouble. Landing a helicopter vertically if you miscalculate you can always hover and try again.
I think the Carter Copter is a great idea that I would like to see find fruition. I don't believe ALL of their advertising and while they may be a good alternative to many helicopter applications they certainly won't be able to replace the 80% of the market they claim simply because they can't hover. That said I'd love to own one.
Except when you glide a plane you better hope you are near an runway. When you autorotate a helicopter all you need is a relatively flat clearing.
Autorotating in a helicopter is not a major incident except when you have to do so abruptly at low altitude or low speed. Autogyros fly around all the time using nothing but autorotation. There's no reason that autorotation in a CarterCopter would be any "easier" than in a regular helicopter, they both work on the exact same principle.
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Possibly the same reason you don't recognize, say, a car of the same model and appearance as yours when your see it driving down the street. R2D2 is probably far from only the unit like it. Do you think the droid factory made only one and quit? C3P0 on the other hand was drastically different in appearance from Episode I & II than in IV-VI and not the only example of his type either.
It would be interesting to know the specifics of the chemical reaction that is responsible for the opacity. Apparently the DVD is sealed and starts becoming opaque upon exposure to air. One wonders if you could watch (or copy) the DVD, seal it in bag with a vacuum sealer, keep it for a couple days and then pass it on to your buddy. Obviously it will eventually quit working but one could get multiple uses out of it instead of one. What about putting it in deep freeze to slow the chemical reaction?
Yeah, what about all those independent contractors putting up aluminum siding. Who do you think they the terrorists are?
What the post really should say is Lik Sang is back on-line again after the slashdotting the site got after the FIRST time this story was posted. Looks like you may see this story next week too.
Tetris match of the century Kasparov vs. Deep Blue!! I think Gary can take him this time.
One big issue I see with personal aircraft, particularly helicopters is noise. If your neighbor staring his uber-carbuerated muscle car at 6:30am is bad, just wait until he fires up the chopper. Freeway noise can carry for miles yet the indivual cars aren't particularly loud. Helicopters are very loud and clouds of them over cities would be deafening.
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I think you miss the point. He's saying that IF the DMCA was around when the IBM PC came out we all would probably be less better off as far as the development of PC technology and the price of hardware.
The Mod chips Lik Sang were selling probably contained partial copies of the BIOS code from the X-box. Since the BIOS code is usually copyrighted this is a copyright violation. While I don't necessarily agree with what MS is doing Lik Sang should have been a little more cautious. They gave MS an easy legal device to threaten them with, copyright violations, when it would've been more difficult to assault them with DMCA in Hong Kong.
This isn't absolutely true. Otherwise healthy people who are for some reason immobile for long periods of time can develop DVT. Most people in comatose states in ICUs are on some form of DVT prophylaxis, regardless of age or preexisting health conditions. I've seen it happen in 40yo guys who were sitting around all the time with a cast on their leg. If this guy was really that compacted I do wonder if he didn't Vagal himself out. If he hadn't drank any water for that long he could really throw his electrolytes off which could predispose him to heart arrhythmias.
According to their website their endowment is $24 billion. That would be in cash and other securities, no copies of Office, etc. Gates presumably donated most of it, that's considerably more than $100million or 0.2% of his net worth. Whatever your problems with Gates and his company are he has donated a pretty substancial chunk of money, far more it seems than most people at that level of affluence, and deserves some credit.
Fifty dollars for the headset, software and 1 year of service is a steal! Most online games, MMPORPGs the biggest example, cost anywhere from $8-15/month per game. X-Box Live covers all the on-line games for the X-box. It will be interesting when and if games like Asheron's Call 2 and Star Wars Galaxies come out for the X-Box if they will cost extra. I would be questioning paying $10-15/month for SW:Galaxies on PC if I could play it and a whole other slew of games for $50/year. Personally I think this will really take off, the main limitation being the relative scarcity of people with broadband access(compared to those with dial-up). If they start including the MMORPGs I think many PC gamers will give it a second look. Why upgrade to a Radeon 9700 Pro when for the same price I can buy an X-Box and several games? I also believe the single on-line service of Live is superior to Sony's and Nintendo's plans to let the developers run the on-line services for their games and may help X-Box gain some market share. It will be very interesting to see how this all shakes out.
I work in Emergency Medical Services and there is a hard, fast rule in EMS. Your chances of surviving an otherwise unsurvivable accident are inversely proportional to your societal worth.
Bill Gates is already a philanthropist. Whatever your opinion is on MS he is gives away more money to charitable causes than any other of the tech magnates and probably more than almost anyone else in the world. www.gatesfoundation.org
While the concept sounds cool this isn't really useful in the field for emergency care. Disposable electrical cauteries that do exactly the same thing have been around for years. Very rarely does someone die from external bleeding that could be cauterized. Those types of wounds can usually be controlled easily with direct pressure, pressure points, etc. What kills people is pulmonary injuries, internal bleeding and/or neurological injuries. If you get shot or stabbed, closing the entrance/exit wounds with cauterization does very little for you. All the serious damage is on the inside and the only answer is being taken to the O.R. This is particually true of gun shot wounds as the shockwave around the bullet cavitates the tissue around its path through the body doing massive damage, of course relative to the size and more so velocity KE=1/2 m * v^2.
The major problem I see with this is not demonstrating whether the video game playing is the cause or a symptom of the lack of concentration and social difficulties those in the study have. It seems just as or more likely that the people who were in the category that played the most may have always had social difficulty, lack of concentration and irritability (and these three conditions seem to exacerbate the others) and use video game playing as an escape or coping mechanism. It may be true that prolonged playing may worsen these conditions but it may also help people deal with them. This is particularly true with on-line games as people that are self-concious seem more comfortable socializing virtually for a multitude of reasons.
The words sound like you're saying megabyte and gigabyte with an impediment. E.G. "Jar-Jay hassa a puter with 512 mebibytes ofa RAM ansa 60 gibibytes of hard drive." Say it to yourself and see...
The Pluto-Kupier Express needs to be developed and launched soon. There are two main reasons for this: 1) The launch window for setting a trajectory for Pluto that uses Jovian gravity assist lies between 2004-2006. This could signifigantly shorten the time it takes the probe to reach Pluto which could significantly effect the next reason. 2) Pluto is currently heading away from the perihelion in its abort, thus is headed away from the Sun (and Earth). As Pluto heads away from the sun the surface temperature decreases and the atmosphere progressively condenses, freezing to the surface of the planet. Planetary scientist are very anxious to study its atmosphere in a gaseous state, it is predicted to be completetly frozen by 2020. As Pluto takes 248 years to revolve around the sun it will be a LONG time before it's gas again.
Real cheap. $3.46 on compgeeks.com.