Health insurance? (Several hundred a month.) Child care? ($150/week for one child.) One-time expenses (a bed, a dorm fridge, a computer)? More like $35 a month for phone service? What, no utilities? No books? No pets? No work clothes? $50 a year for bus service? *chuckle*, and aren't you lucky to live somewhere that has public transportation, especially considering you're too poor to rent a U-Haul and move somewhere else. Otherwise, car expenses will eat you alive. Laundry? Or do you intend to go around smelling like an unwashed hippie? Haircuts? Or do you intend to cut your own, or grow dreds?
When you move out of your parents' basement and learn a little about the real cost of living, get back to us.
That's only correct for non-TSO-certified panel-mount and all handheld GPS receivers, which are used by some VFR and IFR pilots as position awareness aids to supplement their primary navigation aids (VORs, mostly).
There are, and have been for a number of years, panel-mount GPS receivers with RAIM capability, specifically certified to allow the GPS to be used as primary navigation, and to fly standalone GPS instrument approaches. The AIM describes this in several pages of detail:
"(from 1-1-21 (a)) GPS... provides highly accurate position and velocity information and precise time on a continuous global basis to an unlimited number of properly-equipped users. The system is unaffected by weather...
"GPS provides two levels of service: Standard Positioning Service (SPS) and Precise Positioning Service (PPS). SPS provides, to all users, horizontal positioning accuracy of 100 meters, or less, with a probability of 95 percent and 300 meters with a probability of 99.99 percent. PPS is more accurate than SPS; however, this is limited to authorized U.S. and allied military, federal government, and civil users who can satisfy specific U.S. requirements."
In other words, accuracy is no issue.
The AIM also describes in detail how IFR flight can be conducted usiong GPS as a primary navigational aid. Your receiver has to be TSO C-129 certified, and handheld units, at least at this time, don't qualify. We're talking panel-mounts only. Aircraft have to have alternate means of navigation available, but AIM also states "Active monitoring of alternative navigation is not required if the GPS receiver uses RAIM for integirty monitoring. GPS can be used in the US to fly instrument approaches, and under some circumstances can be used to replace or substitute for an ADF and DME.
GPS is pretty near perfect in determining your location; however, the data loaded on them can be imperfect or out-of-date. Your problem was outdated airspace data, not GPS inaccuracies.
And I didn't even mention the worst new irritant: the accumulated ringings of everyone's personal cellphones, all of which are set up to ring with the most annoying and lengthy ringtone possible, at the highest possible volume.
What is this 'knock' of which you speak? I haven't had an office with a door since I entered the IT industry in 1996. We live in cubes nowadays, most of us, which means we are interrupted not only by our own cube-lurkers and phone calls, but the cube conversations and phone calls of those ten or fifteen cubes that are within earshot, and don't even get me started on IM, and people who configure their email clients to alert them when they receive new email, in both their work and personal email accounts. Between that, a few useless staff meetings a day, a social visit here and there, tracking one's time to the hour, and your own telephone, it's a miracle anything ever gets done in Corporate America. I almost have to go home to get any work done these days.
You forget that much of the target audience for eBooks are already carting around an expensive PDA or laptop. All a good eBook reader plus books would do is add more benefit to offset the risks of carrying the devices around in the first place.
Although you have a point, I'd also point out that the reason we have iTunes or any other legal music download service is that 'illegal' competition from napster and the like forced the hand of the music industry. The music industry never (ok, not 'never', but certainly not for a long time and not on such a large scale) would have done such a thing on their own. This situation doesn't exist in the publishing world because of the comparative difficulty of 'pirating' paper books in electronic form. It takes a lot of scanning, typing, or some very illegal corporate espionage to achieve the equivalent when it comes to published materials.
Call me slow, but I really don't understand why HTML/CSS shouldn't be the format. All this talk of PDF and/or some newfangled committee-generated format puzzles me. User-customizable stylesheets should ameliorate most questions of format and readability. Don't like black text on a blinding white screen? Change your stylesheet. Like big print? Like things to wrap? Like things paginated rather than scrollinated? Want a text reader to read your novels to you on the train while you look out the window at the scenery? None of these things are particularly tricky.
Exactly! eBook prices would be much lower than the cost of an equivalent paperback, much like CD prices were significantly lower than cassettes and vinyl albums due to reduced production costs.
Genericizing is fine for a mass-mailing, but when you're job-seeking, you'll have much better luck if you customize at least your cover letter and your objective to match the job you're applying for.
One, you might notice that a lot of these patches address security issues. Two, it can be difficult to get vendor support for applications when your OS isn't up to patch.
Most email programs by default put a copy of the sent email in the Sent folder only after it has been sent. Not all 'notification' has to be in the form of a big fat alert box with an OK button.
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Kuja's posting on gamefaqs, with responders' posts:o ard=2000075&topic=25527152&page=0
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?b
One of the metalgearsolid.org's admins tells his story here:= &threadid=1777029&highlight=metalgearsolidorg
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s
When you move out of your parents' basement and learn a little about the real cost of living, get back to us.
There are, and have been for a number of years, panel-mount GPS receivers with RAIM capability, specifically certified to allow the GPS to be used as primary navigation, and to fly standalone GPS instrument approaches. The AIM describes this in several pages of detail:
"(from 1-1-21 (a)) GPS... provides highly accurate position and velocity information and precise time on a continuous global basis to an unlimited number of properly-equipped users. The system is unaffected by weather...
"GPS provides two levels of service: Standard Positioning Service (SPS) and Precise Positioning Service (PPS). SPS provides, to all users, horizontal positioning accuracy of 100 meters, or less, with a probability of 95 percent and 300 meters with a probability of 99.99 percent. PPS is more accurate than SPS; however, this is limited to authorized U.S. and allied military, federal government, and civil users who can satisfy specific U.S. requirements."
In other words, accuracy is no issue.
The AIM also describes in detail how IFR flight can be conducted usiong GPS as a primary navigational aid. Your receiver has to be TSO C-129 certified, and handheld units, at least at this time, don't qualify. We're talking panel-mounts only. Aircraft have to have alternate means of navigation available, but AIM also states "Active monitoring of alternative navigation is not required if the GPS receiver uses RAIM for integirty monitoring. GPS can be used in the US to fly instrument approaches, and under some circumstances can be used to replace or substitute for an ADF and DME.
Otherwise, I agree with you, and I'm a CFII/MEI.
In a cubicle farm, thrown paperwads have their uses. I recommend this only in less-formal IT environments.
You haven't been there for a while, have you? :D
And I didn't even mention the worst new irritant: the accumulated ringings of everyone's personal cellphones, all of which are set up to ring with the most annoying and lengthy ringtone possible, at the highest possible volume.
What is this 'knock' of which you speak? I haven't had an office with a door since I entered the IT industry in 1996. We live in cubes nowadays, most of us, which means we are interrupted not only by our own cube-lurkers and phone calls, but the cube conversations and phone calls of those ten or fifteen cubes that are within earshot, and don't even get me started on IM, and people who configure their email clients to alert them when they receive new email, in both their work and personal email accounts. Between that, a few useless staff meetings a day, a social visit here and there, tracking one's time to the hour, and your own telephone, it's a miracle anything ever gets done in Corporate America. I almost have to go home to get any work done these days.
I will give that a try.
You forget that much of the target audience for eBooks are already carting around an expensive PDA or laptop. All a good eBook reader plus books would do is add more benefit to offset the risks of carrying the devices around in the first place.
Although you have a point, I'd also point out that the reason we have iTunes or any other legal music download service is that 'illegal' competition from napster and the like forced the hand of the music industry. The music industry never (ok, not 'never', but certainly not for a long time and not on such a large scale) would have done such a thing on their own. This situation doesn't exist in the publishing world because of the comparative difficulty of 'pirating' paper books in electronic form. It takes a lot of scanning, typing, or some very illegal corporate espionage to achieve the equivalent when it comes to published materials.
Call me slow, but I really don't understand why HTML/CSS shouldn't be the format. All this talk of PDF and/or some newfangled committee-generated format puzzles me. User-customizable stylesheets should ameliorate most questions of format and readability. Don't like black text on a blinding white screen? Change your stylesheet. Like big print? Like things to wrap? Like things paginated rather than scrollinated? Want a text reader to read your novels to you on the train while you look out the window at the scenery? None of these things are particularly tricky.
So did she thank you or slap you when you explained all the caveats of this gift?
Oh, wait...
Genericizing is fine for a mass-mailing, but when you're job-seeking, you'll have much better luck if you customize at least your cover letter and your objective to match the job you're applying for.
is an empennage. It's behind the fuselage.
With enough 'headwind', even a completely noaerodynamic rooftop will fly :)
Oh, I'm always around in one form or another ;)
Suuuuure you did. Hint: it's not LiveJournal.
What would we do with no alert boxes or status bar messages or progress bars?
Here comes the new comment, same as the old 60 comments...
that story repetition is somewhat normal at slashdot. I for onw welcome our duplicate-posting overlords!
One, you might notice that a lot of these patches address security issues. Two, it can be difficult to get vendor support for applications when your OS isn't up to patch.
Most email programs by default put a copy of the sent email in the Sent folder only after it has been sent. Not all 'notification' has to be in the form of a big fat alert box with an OK button.
Perhaps that code would have no use to other programmers...