Most piston engine flights are a few hours or less. Hardly "hours". And anyone who knows anything about engines knows that they last much better when they spend most of their time on load at a constant RPM rather than idling , for example in traffic. This is why generators last so long but car engines generally don't (or at least they didn't, they're gettign better now).
Piston aero engines have a much easier life than car engines so theirs absolutely no reason they can't have a minor redesign to use unleaded fuel. At the end of the day all they do is turn a prop usually at a constant RPM. This quite literally is not rocket science.
"This isn't insightful, it's just wrong. Doors add no strength to the body of a car."
BS. Doors are an essential part of the strength of the car. The plug up what would otherwise be huge holes in the sides and designers have to be sure they crumple in the correct way upon impact. These days some even have strenthening bars in them for side impact protection.
"Pretty much anything you can touch on the outside of your car (roof excluded) is non-structural"
"Fabric isn't anywhere going to keep it's shape without a frame underneath."
Yes , but unless the frames structs are going to be an inch thick then I can't see it providing much crash resistance.
"During the communist era, Trabant cars' bodies were made out of compress cardboard."
Yes they were. And they were the biggest pile of junk ever to be called a car. Notice how the east germans abandoned them as soon as they could afford proper cars.
"Student: So which is right, then? Is the bowling ball accelerating towards the earth, or is the earth accelerating towards the bowling ball?
Professor: Which way makes the math easier?"
If your professor had a clue he'd have told you the right answer is they both accelerate towards each other. However the earth being so much bigger its movement is imperceptable.
Most cars (not trucks) these days are monocoque - they do not have a chassis. Therefor the strength of the vehicle is contained in the entire body as a whole from roof to doors to underbelly. About the only bits that don't matter are the wings over the wheels. Sure , theres extra crash protection built into the engine bay but thats in addition to the stregth of the rest of the vehicle. If you build a fabric car body you're back to using chassis' and the poor compromises they entail.
Learning a new language for a task is one thing. The benefits are obvious. Learning a new editor or IDE is not so obvious. They're simply tools to make your life easier to get a job done. If you already have a hammer you like then why be forced to use another hammer to bang in the same nails?
Yeah , right. You should try ADSL speeds where I live.
"Look, no small business has its own mail server."
Wtf are you talking about? How much does a budget PC with Linux and sendmail/postfix cost for christ sake?
Incidentaly , how will your business function on those occasions you lose your net access, and hence access to virtually every app you use? Also ask yourself why banks keep all their data in house in secure server rooms.
Sorry , but whoever is responsible for the IT in your company is obviously only interested in saving a few pennies and ease of admin for himself. Not the type of person I'd ever want near my systems.
"My answer to the OP's question "why haven't they fixed this bug" is "because no-one cares, and if you had any skill at your job at all, you wouldn't either"."
Sorry , are you just stupid or deliberately being an ass? I don';t have a choice about using PAC at work , nor do I have a choice about using Firefox. So please explain how this means I don't have any skill at my job or was that post just some feeble attempt at karma whoring?
Actually "pal" , it is when the bloody app is multi threaded and the whole damn lot hangs including editing windows just because some other page looked up a link that our DNS server choked on. You wait 3 mins for your browser to come back when you're trying to work and see how minor it is to you.
Then I won't hold my breath for this release to me any more reliable or stable than any other from the last N years. Its about time they stopped doing a Microsoft and dicking about with "coooo , its so preeetty" UI stuff and bloatware functionalty that no one needs and starting fixing bloody bugs!
Yeah mod me down fanboys, see if I care, I'm just a user,what do I know.
... why should antimatter be any different? In fact every particle with mass yet measured behaves the same way in gravity. I can't see any reason why antimatter should be any different.
Also if a DNS look up blocks every browser instance hangs.
I realise Firefox is free and a lot of people have put a lot of hard work in , but really , its just not good enough to be a viable 21st century browser. Its like using IE3 all over again.
I'm really getting tired of firefox crapping out on me (usually because of flash it has to be said) and because its running one big multi threaded app no matter how many windows you open or seperate instances you attempt to start, the whole lot disappear taking all my sessions with them. The current multi process option doesn't work. Have they added one yet that does because it really needs it if they can't sort out the reliability?
Presumably they make it multi threaded so it fits into Windows limited process model but surely a multi process version can't be hard to achieve!
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Most piston engine flights are a few hours or less. Hardly "hours". And anyone who knows anything about engines knows that they last much better when they spend most of their time on load at a constant RPM rather than idling , for example in traffic. This is why generators last so long but car engines generally don't (or at least they didn't, they're gettign better now).
Piston aero engines have a much easier life than car engines so theirs absolutely no reason they can't have a minor redesign to use unleaded fuel. At the end of the day all they do is turn a prop usually at a constant RPM. This quite literally is not rocket science.
"Not actually, but you believe what you wish."
Its not a case of believing , its a case of knowing. A friend of mine used to work in car crash testing.
"This isn't insightful, it's just wrong. Doors add no strength to the body of a car."
BS. Doors are an essential part of the strength of the car. The plug up what would otherwise be huge holes in the sides and designers have to be sure they crumple in the correct way upon impact. These days some even have strenthening bars in them for side impact protection.
"Pretty much anything you can touch on the outside of your car (roof excluded) is non-structural"
Sorry , you're talking out of your rear end.
"Fabric isn't anywhere going to keep it's shape without a frame underneath."
Yes , but unless the frames structs are going to be an inch thick then I can't see it providing much crash resistance.
"During the communist era, Trabant cars' bodies were made out of compress cardboard."
Yes they were. And they were the biggest pile of junk ever to be called a car. Notice how the east germans abandoned them as soon as they could afford proper cars.
"Student: So which is right, then? Is the bowling ball accelerating towards the earth, or is the earth accelerating towards the bowling ball?
Professor: Which way makes the math easier?"
If your professor had a clue he'd have told you the right answer is they both accelerate towards each other. However the earth being so much bigger its movement is imperceptable.
What does sex in a boat and yankee beer have in common?
They're both f***** close to water.
Most cars (not trucks) these days are monocoque - they do not have a chassis. Therefor the strength of the vehicle is contained in the entire body as a whole from roof to doors to underbelly. About the only bits that don't matter are the wings over the wheels. Sure , theres extra crash protection built into the engine bay but thats in addition to the stregth of the rest of the vehicle. If you build a fabric car body you're back to using chassis' and the poor compromises they entail.
Learning a new language for a task is one thing. The benefits are obvious. Learning a new editor or IDE is not so obvious. They're simply tools to make your life easier to get a job done. If you already have a hammer you like then why be forced to use another hammer to bang in the same nails?
Didn't happen though did it, in fact I got a +5. Thanks for playing.
"The net is only getting faster"
Yeah , right. You should try ADSL speeds where I live.
"Look, no small business has its own mail server."
Wtf are you talking about? How much does a budget PC with Linux and sendmail/postfix cost for christ sake?
Incidentaly , how will your business function on those occasions you lose your net access, and hence access to virtually every app you use? Also ask yourself why banks keep all their data in house in secure server rooms.
Sorry , but whoever is responsible for the IT in your company is obviously only interested in saving a few pennies and ease of admin for himself. Not the type of person I'd ever want near my systems.
Since you've been modded down to zero I think you might have made the wrong call there friend.
"My answer to the OP's question "why haven't they fixed this bug" is "because no-one cares, and if you had any skill at your job at all, you wouldn't either"."
Sorry , are you just stupid or deliberately being an ass? I don';t have a choice about using PAC at work , nor do I have a choice about using Firefox. So please explain how this means I don't have any skill at my job or was that post just some feeble attempt at karma whoring?
Every large corporations uses a PAC files you idiot. Where do you work , on the checkout at Walmart?
"Who in their right mind uses proxy auto config, anyway?"
Many many companies.
"If you've got a bunch of desktops in an organization, they should all be properly set statically by IT,"
Why bother statically allocating 10,000 odd IP addresses if you can get DHCP to do it for you for free?
Wow , like maybe you didn't have DNS issues? Wow , like you'd think someone would be able to like put 2 + 2 together. Wow.
"How is this a critical bug,"
Which definition of "hang" arn't you familiar with?
"what does he use--Internet Explorer? "
On Linux? That'd be a first.
"Firefox 3 is the best browser out there in terms of functionality, features, reliability, security, and availability."
Whatever you say fanboy.
"Software has bugs, and nitpicking without pointing out BETTER alternatives is kind of stupid."
A major bug that hasn't been fixed for 4 years isn't what I'd call nitpicking.
Actually "pal" , it is when the bloody app is multi threaded and the whole damn lot hangs including editing windows just because some other page looked up a link that our DNS server choked on. You wait 3 mins for your browser to come back when you're trying to work and see how minor it is to you.
You a firefox dev by any chance?
.. a bug fix not making a release and sitting on a major bug for *4 YEARS*
Works fine for me.
..that have been around for years such as this one:
,what do I know.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235853
Then I won't hold my breath for this release to me any more reliable or stable than any other from the last N years. Its about time they stopped doing a Microsoft and dicking about with "coooo , its so preeetty" UI stuff and bloatware functionalty that no one needs and starting fixing bloody bugs!
Yeah mod me down fanboys, see if I care, I'm just a user
... why should antimatter be any different? In fact every particle with mass yet measured behaves the same way in gravity. I can't see any reason why antimatter should be any different.
I have Opera at home but at work we have to use firefox on linux or firefox/IE on windows.
Also if a DNS look up blocks every browser instance hangs.
I realise Firefox is free and a lot of people have put a lot of hard work in , but really , its just not good enough to be a viable 21st century browser. Its like using IE3 all over again.
I'm really getting tired of firefox crapping out on me (usually because of flash it has to be said) and because its running one big multi threaded app no matter how many windows you open or seperate instances you attempt to start, the whole lot disappear taking all my sessions with them. The current multi process option doesn't work. Have they added one yet that does because it really needs it if they can't sort out the reliability?
Presumably they make it multi threaded so it fits into Windows limited process model but surely a multi process version can't be hard to achieve!