GSM phones (ATT, T-Mobile) put the locating intelligence in the network; if your phone can talk to the towers, the network can locate you. CMDA systems (Sprint, Verizon) rely on new logic in the phone, which is why an FCC mandate for A-GPS in new phones was required. Because of the essential broadband nature of CDMA, that system required A-GPS,, whereas the TDMA single-channel system underlying GSM made triangulation practical.
But texting does not send this information. The SMS protocol is for a very short message, and since it's part of the GSM, there will be hell to pay at the French-dominated ITU to rework the SMS standard so *new* phones will have the logic to append a second message showing the location on transmissions to 9-1-1, 1-1-2, 9-9-9, et al. New logic is required, for if location data's sent with every message, then the sender is revealing their location to every message recipient, and won't *that* be popular.
The RatShack Franchise stores, however, are free to carry useful inventory. The one in Lincoln City carries Smith and Wesson titanium.44 Magnums, which is the best cure for a Dell I've ever found.
Err.. Many are, many aren't. The SL series uses a plastic case and omits the only reason I wanted one, the little LED at the top of the screen which illuminates the keyboard at night. Unfortunately, the Thinkpad was a gift, and I could not return it. Sucker beware, I guess.
This leaves EUREKA as the last show worth watching on the channel formerly known as SciFi. I suspect as soon as this season of DEXTER ends, we will yank out the DISH receivers, erect an antenna and install a Mythbuntu box. There's $960/year we will save; not bad.
There is a wee bit of difference between declaring support for Qt, and actually having a robust pool of independent developers. Symbian development has slowed to a crawl and developers are abandoning that market to go Android or (to a lesser extent) iOS. As a three-year owner of an E90, which was preceded by a 9300, I would stay far, far away from that Norwegian Blue named Symbian, and go to a platform which might actually outlast the hardware. Symbian is circling the drain, and with it, Qt.
"The shape of the bomb's reaction mass is critical to efficiency. The original project designed bombs with a reaction mass made of tungsten. The bomb's geometry and materials focused the X-rays and plasma from the core of nuclear explosive to hit the reaction mass. In effect each bomb would be a nuclear shaped charge."
Project Orion shows how to do it with current tech, creating meganewtons of thrust at very high exhaust velocity. Don't blow it up, just shove it out of the way with lotsa little nukes optimized for thrust, not radiation. Launch from near the magnetic north pole from a steel armored barge, with the first explosion using 100T of conventional explosive, and fallout will be very, very minimal.
Aircraft aren't designed to be good reflectors of heat; they soak it up, especially UPS birds in brown livery. A big bird sitting on concrete turns into an oven in very short order, and I speak from experience.
Likely you would need enabling legislation to allow traffic citations by such devices to have the force of law. Here in Oregon, it has been rolled out city by city over several years and still the legislature will not allow it statewide. The legislation would need to specify which court handles appeals; would the court object?
I ask because I find evidence the local chapter is prepared... and has become a model for at least one other large metro area:
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal Red Cross recruiting volunteers for Level 3 disaster response
{snip} The chief criteria for making Level 3 is the number of volunteers trained to combat a major disaster... So far, St. Louis is the only Level 3 chapter in the Midwest. Local chapters aren't required to lift themselves to Level 3{snip} The (Minneapolis-St. Paul) chapter, which is modeling its effort off of St. Louis', already has begun meeting with city mayors and business leaders in its Get Ready in 2007 campaign. According to St. Louis' estimates, costs to provide Red Cross disaster response for a Level 2 disaster are between $10,000 and $50,000, but a Level 3 response takes as much as $250,000. Get Ready requires several steps.{snip}
The dollar figures above show the Red Cross direct relief expenditures in a disaster, not the losses of disaster clients, FYI.
" Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that a serious earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone could result in "the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States," further predicting "widespread and catastrophic" damage across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and particularly Tennessee, where a 7.7 magnitude quake or greater would cause damage to tens of thousands of structures affecting water distribution, transportation systems, and other vital infrastructure." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone#Potential_for_future_earthquakeshttp://foxy955stl.com/national/jimgates/american-red-cross-offers-safety-tips-for-earthquakes/
Of course, Minneapolis has never prepared for hurricanes, nor has Detroit. Being far inland, over 600 miles inland, as is St. Louis, kinda reduces the risk of hurricanes, don'tcha think?
Also, preparing for one kind of emergency prepares one for most of the perils of other likely crises. Having a network of friends, knowing where to meet up if you can't get home, knowing who to call in emergency (since interstate long distance often works when local phone lines overload), preparing your house, keeping emergency money on hand (especially coins for payphones because cellphones are the first network to overload and fail in disaster) food and water on hand along with clothing and communications tools, knowing evac routes and where high ground is, all are applicable to multiple emergencies.
Lessons learned shows us learning the common skills and acquiring the commonly needed assets is the best investment of time and money, the core of the 'All Modes' preparedness approach sensible agencies apply to disaster preparedness.
Therefore, I must, again, ask for you to cite your source, and explain why a city six-hundred-miles inland _should_ prepare for a hurricane, when there are much more likely risks to consider.
That's what drove me away from Yahoo! Mail, the inadequate spam filtering. Google Mail's filtering was much better, so much better I let my 10 year e-mail address at Yahoo! go moldy and stale. It's still inadequate, six years later, whereas Google Mail does the job. Google's adding POP3 and IMAP access for free (Yahoo! charges) was just icing on the cake.
> Even if the customers entire website was down, it didn't matter. I heard that they only had 2 or 3 engineers working there to fix thousands of escalated tickets.
You heard wrong. Lots more engineers working on e-commerce.
> In contrast, one time I had my own site hosted by a local web hosting company selling some stuff, and I verified one morning that my site was down, and it wasn't my computer, internet connection, etc, so I sent in an email to tech support. In 2 minutes, I received an automated response acknowledging my issue and it informed me that some techs were working on the issue. In 15 minutes, I got another email from the techs themselves telling me more details about what went wrong and that they will have it fixed soon. In less than 3 hours, my site was back up and running!
ONE Anecdote? I can recall many, many quick resolutions when I worked Y! e-commerce support. Come back with a statistically valid sample.
To shield the flight crew, the nose section of the aircraft was modified to include a 12-ton lead and rubber shield.
That wasn't the only shielding, either; dozens of tons of water were used as a primary shield down by the reactor. Without shielding, neutron embrittlement will make the structural members easy to snap.
This is a parade I've rained on before. Put simply, airships are incompatible with modern logistics and so are not cost effective. Why? Because they rely on buoyancy. Unless you are prepared to waste the expensive gas,
Steam would be more efficient than hot air; steam rises, right? http://www.flyingkettle.com/ demonstrates the superiority of steam to hot air:
In the past, hydrogen, helium, methane, ammonia, and hot air have been used as lift gas. Hydrogen offers the best lifting performance of 11.19N/m3 in the ISA (International Standard Atmosphere), but its high flammability makes hydrogen politically unacceptable nowadays. Helium provides 10.36N/m3 lift and is completely safe, but it is very costly and is difficult to transport and supply. Methane provides only 5.39N/m3 lift and has no particular merit because it offers no safety advantages over hydrogen. Ammonia provides 4.97N/m3 lift, is fairly cheap, and is non-explosive and quite easy to transport and supply, but it is corrosive, toxic and malodorous, and has not found favor in practice.
Hot air must be kept hot by burning fuel, and buoyancy control can be performed by varying the fuel burning rate. Hot air is very cheap and easy to supply, and is completely safe, but it provides rather poor lift. In practice the temperature of the air in a hot-air balloon envelope varies between 100C and 120C, and thus the lift provided is between 2.7N/m3 and 3.2N/m3.
Steam as lift gas, either for an airship or a balloon, will have the following characteristics.
First, to remain gaseous at sea level pressure, steam must of course be maintained at a minimum temperature of 373K, i.e. 100C. Because the molecular weight of H2O is 18 while the average molecular weight of air is about 29, and taking temperature into account, the lift provided in the ISA by steam lift gas is 6.26N/m3. This is about 60% of the lift of helium and more than twice the lift of hot air.
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GSM phones (ATT, T-Mobile) put the locating intelligence in the network; if your phone can talk to the towers, the network can locate you. CMDA systems (Sprint, Verizon) rely on new logic in the phone, which is why an FCC mandate for A-GPS in new phones was required. Because of the essential broadband nature of CDMA, that system required A-GPS,, whereas the TDMA single-channel system underlying GSM made triangulation practical.
But texting does not send this information. The SMS protocol is for a very short message, and since it's part of the GSM, there will be hell to pay at the French-dominated ITU to rework the SMS standard so *new* phones will have the logic to append a second message showing the location on transmissions to 9-1-1, 1-1-2, 9-9-9, et al. New logic is required, for if location data's sent with every message, then the sender is revealing their location to every message recipient, and won't *that* be popular.
And none of them can auto-locate from a text message, the largest flaw in this concept.
Still in place in Clackamas and Multnomah counties, haven't dialed 9-1-1 in Washington for years.
RatShack Corporate stores don't carry jack.
The RatShack Franchise stores, however, are free to carry useful inventory. The one in Lincoln City carries Smith and Wesson titanium .44 Magnums, which is the best cure for a Dell I've ever found.
> Lenovo thinkpads are friggin tanks.
Err.. Many are, many aren't. The SL series uses a plastic case and omits the only reason I wanted one, the little LED at the top of the screen which illuminates the keyboard at night. Unfortunately, the Thinkpad was a gift, and I could not return it. Sucker beware, I guess.
Perhaps he rooted /. in order to acquire a lower SlashID.
This leaves EUREKA as the last show worth watching on the channel formerly known as SciFi. I suspect as soon as this season of DEXTER ends, we will yank out the DISH receivers, erect an antenna and install a Mythbuntu box. There's $960/year we will save; not bad.
And, let's not forget, you can run diesels on biodiesel fuel unmodded, or, with minor mods, SVO. Result; much less harmful exhaust.
There is a wee bit of difference between declaring support for Qt, and actually having a robust pool of independent developers. Symbian development has slowed to a crawl and developers are abandoning that market to go Android or (to a lesser extent) iOS. As a three-year owner of an E90, which was preceded by a 9300, I would stay far, far away from that Norwegian Blue named Symbian, and go to a platform which might actually outlast the hardware. Symbian is circling the drain, and with it, Qt.
I can hardly wait for the sequel involving the Insane Clown Posse.
"The shape of the bomb's reaction mass is critical to efficiency. The original project designed bombs with a reaction mass made of tungsten. The bomb's geometry and materials focused the X-rays and plasma from the core of nuclear explosive to hit the reaction mass. In effect each bomb would be a nuclear shaped charge."
Project Orion shows how to do it with current tech, creating meganewtons of thrust at very high exhaust velocity. Don't blow it up, just shove it out of the way with lotsa little nukes optimized for thrust, not radiation. Launch from near the magnetic north pole from a steel armored barge, with the first explosion using 100T of conventional explosive, and fallout will be very, very minimal.
Aircraft aren't designed to be good reflectors of heat; they soak it up, especially UPS birds in brown livery. A big bird sitting on concrete turns into an oven in very short order, and I speak from experience.
Ah, but the target market are hams, not humans.... de K7AAY
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Likely you would need enabling legislation to allow traffic citations by such devices to have the force of law. Here in Oregon, it has been rolled out city by city over several years and still the legislature will not allow it statewide. The legislation would need to specify which court handles appeals; would the court object?
I ask because I find evidence the local chapter is prepared... and has become a model for at least one other large metro area:
The dollar figures above show the Red Cross direct relief expenditures in a disaster, not the losses of disaster clients, FYI.
Of course, history shows other risks are much more likely in St. Louis, such as
flood
http://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/re/articles/?id=1880
tornados http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/weather/1927tornado.htm http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/cyclone.htm
earthquake:
and zombie attack http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2007-02-07/news/doomsday-disciples/full/-1/
Of course, Minneapolis has never prepared for hurricanes, nor has Detroit. Being far inland, over 600 miles inland, as is St. Louis, kinda reduces the risk of hurricanes, don'tcha think?
Also, preparing for one kind of emergency prepares one for most of the perils of other likely crises. Having a network of friends, knowing where to meet up if you can't get home, knowing who to call in emergency (since interstate long distance often works when local phone lines overload), preparing your house, keeping emergency money on hand (especially coins for payphones because cellphones are the first network to overload and fail in disaster) food and water on hand along with clothing and communications tools, knowing evac routes and where high ground is, all are applicable to multiple emergencies.
Lessons learned shows us learning the common skills and acquiring the commonly needed assets is the best investment of time and money, the core of the 'All Modes' preparedness approach sensible agencies apply to disaster preparedness.
Therefore, I must, again, ask for you to cite your source, and explain why a city six-hundred-miles inland _should_ prepare for a hurricane, when there are much more likely risks to consider.
That's what drove me away from Yahoo! Mail, the inadequate spam filtering. Google Mail's filtering was much better, so much better I let my 10 year e-mail address at Yahoo! go moldy and stale. It's still inadequate, six years later, whereas Google Mail does the job. Google's adding POP3 and IMAP access for free (Yahoo! charges) was just icing on the cake.
Would you please cite your source for the Red Cross willful unpreparedness?
> Even if the customers entire website was down, it didn't matter. I heard that they only had 2 or 3 engineers working there to fix thousands of escalated tickets.
You heard wrong. Lots more engineers working on e-commerce.
> In contrast, one time I had my own site hosted by a local web hosting company selling some stuff, and I verified one morning that my site was down, and it wasn't my computer, internet connection, etc, so I sent in an email to tech support. In 2 minutes, I received an automated response acknowledging my issue and it informed me that some techs were working on the issue. In 15 minutes, I got another email from the techs themselves telling me more details about what went wrong and that they will have it fixed soon. In less than 3 hours, my site was back up and running!
ONE Anecdote? I can recall many, many quick resolutions when I worked Y! e-commerce support. Come back with a statistically valid sample.
OK it you want to lethally irradiate the crew. Quoth the Intertubes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_X-6#Nuclear_Test_Aircraft
That wasn't the only shielding, either; dozens of tons of water were used as a primary shield down by the reactor. Without shielding, neutron embrittlement will make the structural members easy to snap.
This is a parade I've rained on before. Put simply, airships are incompatible with modern logistics and so are not cost effective. Why? Because they rely on buoyancy. Unless you are prepared to waste the expensive gas,
So? Don't use expensive gas, use steam instead
Steam would be more efficient than hot air; steam rises, right? http://www.flyingkettle.com/ demonstrates the superiority of steam to hot air:
In the past, hydrogen, helium, methane, ammonia, and hot air have been used as lift gas. Hydrogen offers the best lifting performance of 11.19N/m3 in the ISA (International Standard Atmosphere), but its high flammability makes hydrogen politically unacceptable nowadays. Helium provides 10.36N/m3 lift and is completely safe, but it is very costly and is difficult to transport and supply. Methane provides only 5.39N/m3 lift and has no particular merit because it offers no safety advantages over hydrogen. Ammonia provides 4.97N/m3 lift, is fairly cheap, and is non-explosive and quite easy to transport and supply, but it is corrosive, toxic and malodorous, and has not found favor in practice.
Hot air must be kept hot by burning fuel, and buoyancy control can be performed by varying the fuel burning rate. Hot air is very cheap and easy to supply, and is completely safe, but it provides rather poor lift. In practice the temperature of the air in a hot-air balloon envelope varies between 100C and 120C, and thus the lift provided is between 2.7N/m3 and 3.2N/m3.
Steam as lift gas, either for an airship or a balloon, will have the following characteristics.
First, to remain gaseous at sea level pressure, steam must of course be maintained at a minimum temperature of 373K, i.e. 100C. Because the molecular weight of H2O is 18 while the average molecular weight of air is about 29, and taking temperature into account, the lift provided in the ISA by steam lift gas is 6.26N/m3. This is about 60% of the lift of helium and more than twice the lift of hot air.
1. Money. Are you Delos D. Harriman? (look it up)
2. Every nation on the planet regulates amateur radio.