If the airspeed sensors were acting wonky ( which Airbus thinks they might have been ), then a manual override is the ONLY way to save the plane, as the plane is flying with bad data.
I don't think there's any 'might' about it: the ACARS messages show various faults with the air data systems.
But the problem is actually the opposite of what you're implying here. When the Airbus autopilot saw the bad data it shut down and dumped the problem of flying the plane into the hands of the pilots.
Now, imagine you're in heavy turbulence in a thunderstorm at night at 37,000 feet and the autopilot shuts down, while at the same time you're getting conflicting airspeed readings from different systems, and the difference between stalling and tearing your tail off by overstressing it is about 50 knots. How would even Biggles manage to fly his way out of that?
"Why do administrations always set timetables beyond their terms?"
Is this a trick question?
By setting timetables beyond their terms they get the brownie points for passing some retarded law, but they know they won't be around for the shit-storm of public backlash when the law actually goes into practice.
Consider Kyoto, for example, which allowed the governments who ratified it to make a lot of fuss about how wonderfully 'green' they were, even though there was little to no possibility of most of them ever meeting the quota requirements which would be imposed many years later; by that time they'd probably be fat and happy on the lecture circuit while other politicos would be responsible for destroying their economy for no good reason to meet those quotas or the bad press if they failed to do so.
"Eventually the marxist will get their way. Everyone will drive a crappy car"
Uh, no. The Marxists want centralization of the means of transport in the hands of the state... if they get what they want, then the 'important people' will have Zil Limos while the rest of us will be stuck on the bus, where they can control us more easily.
"I don't see the sense of arguing that MPG should be regulated on a state-by-state basis (and neither does Obama, I suppose)."
In that case, maybe you could point out where exactly in the Constitution the Feds are given the power to prohibit auto manufacturers from building cars which don't meet some arbitrary MPG figure?
The Constitution deliberately put most of the law-making powers in the hands of the states with minimal powers for the Feds: that's why America took a civil war and a century of 'progressive' destruction of constitutional protections to get where it is today.
"I have little in common with someone on the opposite side of my state. No more than someone on the opposite side of the country."
And yet you believe that people on the other side of the country who have little in common with you should tell you what kind of car you can buy? Have you even considered how inconsistent your position is?
Unfortunately the CPU isn't very fast: if it's something where you can use the GPU to do much of the work then a cluster might well be a good move, but the raw CPU power isn't likely to compete in price/power/performance with just buying a few Core 2 Quad systems.
From what I remember, multi-threaded Atom 330 performance is similar to a low-end Pentium-4, or a Cray Y-MP.
Ion doesn't use Intel graphics. It uses Nvidia graphics.
That was kind of my point: the old Intel motherboards can't run games very well because of the crap chipset, whereas this one should be able to run them much better. My Atom runs Linux so I haven't really tried 3D games on it, but the Intel chipset graphics are similar to the one in my Windows laptop and that struggles even with old games.
Its main use will be for HTPC. Small, low power and quiet operation while delivering GPU accelerated 1080P content! Not to mention, relatively cheap.
Yeah, that's what I'm planning to use one for: my current MythTV box is an Atom 330 Intel motherboard and it's fine for SD but just doesn't have the CPU power to handle 1080 (or even 720 in many cases) playback in software. I'll also be waiting for something a bit less featureful before I buy though.
First thought that came to mind is that you might've been using a Retail disk for an OEM install. While I've seen OEM disks from different PC makers work on other brands, I've yet to see a Retail version work with an OEM serial number.
Yeah, probably more dumb-ass Windows crap like that.
Where I used to work my PC had a legitimate copy of XP, which was pre-SP1. Which meant that if I had to reinstall I couldn't just grab an SP2 CD from another PC, install it and type in the CD key, because -- horrors! -- it wasn't an SP2 key (or was it SP1 in those days, I forget). So Microsoft forced me to actually track down and install from a pre-SP1 XP CD, then install SP1 and SP2 on top, for no good reason whatsoever... in the time I worked for the company I probably wasted several days reinstalling as a result.
Hurry up and fuck off then. This is just another tired meme used on every story like this.
Some of us have already 'fucked off' precisely because of crap like this. 'If you don't like it then leave' is just another tired meme used by closet fascists on every story like this.
Anyone who chooses not to leave the UK when the government's police state ambitions are so blatant will hardly be able to complain when, if Labour win the next election, they're unable to leave because they're denied a passport or an exit visa.
MS needs to kill backwards compatibility and start over on windows.
True.
But backwards compatibility is the only real reason why people buy Windows, so by killing compatibility for technical reasons, they'd kill the commercial reason for using Windows.
The main issue here is that it is physical evidence, that is (ideally) objective rather than subjective.
Except your 'objective' evidence tells you very little about that person's driving ability, while your 'subjective' evidence tells you far more.
The problem is that if you were to start subjecting people to objective driving tests to determine whether they're safe to be on the road (measuring reaction times, etc), you lose the link to EVIL ALCOHOL and suddenly start taking away the licenses of people who are lousy drivers even when sober; which would be great for road safety, but not so good for anti-alcohol Nazis.
Even if it was a magical black box, it could be subject to scientific double-blind testing and you could measure the precision & accuracy of the magical black box.
How do you measure the precision and accuracy of a piece of software without the code?
You could test it a million times and still have it produce complete garbage because of a rare, random buffer overflow, or because it's coded to claim everyone using it is guilty every time the year/month/day/hour is the same as the programmer's mother's telephone number.
Because more than 50% of the population either work for the government or collect benefits of some kind, and they only need 22% of the votes to get a majority in parliament.
"And if 80+ dead in 1000+ cases worldwide so far(and they are mostly healthy and young) are not more than 'nervous hand wringing' to you, then you are a fool."
Except, um, no-one knows how many people caught this flu and had no serious problems, just like the majority of people infected outside Mexico. For all we know a million people caught it, a thousand became seriously sick and eighty died.
American experience seems to show that only a small fraction of people are seriously sick, and Mexican experience seems to show that a small fraction of the seriously sick die. Trying to extrapolate those figures into Doomsday scenarios is silly at this point.
"Glass (like, for example, your windscreen) blocks UV. So, they don't actually work when you're driving."
Except in my experience that's not really true.
I had this discussion with my optician last time I got a new pair of driving glasses, and they do darken while driving despite the fact that the windshield should block the UV (though, admittedly, not as dark as they used to go when I drove a convertible).
I can only guess that the windshield doesn't block the full range of frequencies that cause the glasses to darken.
So basically Manjoo is saying that copyright holders are obligated to make their works available to him in the format and timing he demands, or else he has the right to get them illegally?
A customer expecting the seller to sell him what he wants in order to get his money? Why, the very idea!
How much do you think a huge, high-power battery in your garage is going to cost you? Oddly, I don't need a huge gasoline tank in the garage to drive my car.
Read the thing again...they're asking for a loan, to be repaid...not a bailout.
And the difference is?
Either they don't have a business plan anyone is willing to invest in, in which case they're probably going to go bust and lose all that money, or they're going to the government to get a lower interest rate loan, in which case the taxpayer is subsidising their profits.
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If the airspeed sensors were acting wonky ( which Airbus thinks they might have been ), then a manual override is the ONLY way to save the plane, as the plane is flying with bad data.
I don't think there's any 'might' about it: the ACARS messages show various faults with the air data systems.
But the problem is actually the opposite of what you're implying here. When the Airbus autopilot saw the bad data it shut down and dumped the problem of flying the plane into the hands of the pilots.
Now, imagine you're in heavy turbulence in a thunderstorm at night at 37,000 feet and the autopilot shuts down, while at the same time you're getting conflicting airspeed readings from different systems, and the difference between stalling and tearing your tail off by overstressing it is about 50 knots. How would even Biggles manage to fly his way out of that?
"Plus, if you think about it, NASA doesn't have any issues shipping the main fuel tank assembly to florida."
If I remember correctly, the external tanks go to KSC by barge from the coast of Louisiana. Not so easy to sail a barge from Utah...
"Once their trade crosses state borders, it becomes interstate, and subject to federal regulation."
Another one who doesn't understand the interstate commerce clause. I see the youth indoctrination centers are doing a great job these days.
"Where in the Constitution does it say that the Fed cannot prohibit auto manufacturers from building cars which don't meet some arbitrary MPG figure?"
Have you actually read the Constitution? Because you clearly don't seem to understand it.
"I understand your point, but it is a fairly weak one."
The fact that the law is blatantly unconstitutional is a 'a fairly weak point'? You must be a 'progressive'.
"Also, couldn't the Fed pull out the interstate commerce clause for any car maker that makes cars to be sold in more than one state?"
No. I see you don't understand the interstate commerce clause either.
Seriously, you might want to actually read the Constitution -- and, better yet, what the people who wrote it said about it -- before posting.
"Why do administrations always set timetables beyond their terms?"
Is this a trick question?
By setting timetables beyond their terms they get the brownie points for passing some retarded law, but they know they won't be around for the shit-storm of public backlash when the law actually goes into practice.
Consider Kyoto, for example, which allowed the governments who ratified it to make a lot of fuss about how wonderfully 'green' they were, even though there was little to no possibility of most of them ever meeting the quota requirements which would be imposed many years later; by that time they'd probably be fat and happy on the lecture circuit while other politicos would be responsible for destroying their economy for no good reason to meet those quotas or the bad press if they failed to do so.
"Eventually the marxist will get their way. Everyone will drive a crappy car"
Uh, no. The Marxists want centralization of the means of transport in the hands of the state... if they get what they want, then the 'important people' will have Zil Limos while the rest of us will be stuck on the bus, where they can control us more easily.
"I don't see the sense of arguing that MPG should be regulated on a state-by-state basis (and neither does Obama, I suppose)."
In that case, maybe you could point out where exactly in the Constitution the Feds are given the power to prohibit auto manufacturers from building cars which don't meet some arbitrary MPG figure?
The Constitution deliberately put most of the law-making powers in the hands of the states with minimal powers for the Feds: that's why America took a civil war and a century of 'progressive' destruction of constitutional protections to get where it is today.
"I have little in common with someone on the opposite side of my state. No more than someone on the opposite side of the country."
And yet you believe that people on the other side of the country who have little in common with you should tell you what kind of car you can buy? Have you even considered how inconsistent your position is?
Unfortunately the CPU isn't very fast: if it's something where you can use the GPU to do much of the work then a cluster might well be a good move, but the raw CPU power isn't likely to compete in price/power/performance with just buying a few Core 2 Quad systems.
From what I remember, multi-threaded Atom 330 performance is similar to a low-end Pentium-4, or a Cray Y-MP.
Ion doesn't use Intel graphics. It uses Nvidia graphics.
That was kind of my point: the old Intel motherboards can't run games very well because of the crap chipset, whereas this one should be able to run them much better. My Atom runs Linux so I haven't really tried 3D games on it, but the Intel chipset graphics are similar to the one in my Windows laptop and that struggles even with old games.
Its main use will be for HTPC. Small, low power and quiet operation while delivering GPU accelerated 1080P content! Not to mention, relatively cheap.
Yeah, that's what I'm planning to use one for: my current MythTV box is an Atom 330 Intel motherboard and it's fine for SD but just doesn't have the CPU power to handle 1080 (or even 720 in many cases) playback in software. I'll also be waiting for something a bit less featureful before I buy though.
People seem to like to talk about which processor can run this game or that game, but it's not about the processor- it's about the graphics card.
Well, it's both; some games need more CPU power than others.
I'd guess that the Atom 330 would handle WoW's CPU requirements, but the crappy Intel chipset is probably too underpowered to handle the graphics.
First thought that came to mind is that you might've been using a Retail disk for an OEM install. While I've seen OEM disks from different PC makers work on other brands, I've yet to see a Retail version work with an OEM serial number.
Yeah, probably more dumb-ass Windows crap like that.
Where I used to work my PC had a legitimate copy of XP, which was pre-SP1. Which meant that if I had to reinstall I couldn't just grab an SP2 CD from another PC, install it and type in the CD key, because -- horrors! -- it wasn't an SP2 key (or was it SP1 in those days, I forget). So Microsoft forced me to actually track down and install from a pre-SP1 XP CD, then install SP1 and SP2 on top, for no good reason whatsoever... in the time I worked for the company I probably wasted several days reinstalling as a result.
Hurry up and fuck off then. This is just another tired meme used on every story like this.
Some of us have already 'fucked off' precisely because of crap like this. 'If you don't like it then leave' is just another tired meme used by closet fascists on every story like this.
Anyone who chooses not to leave the UK when the government's police state ambitions are so blatant will hardly be able to complain when, if Labour win the next election, they're unable to leave because they're denied a passport or an exit visa.
MS needs to kill backwards compatibility and start over on windows.
True.
But backwards compatibility is the only real reason why people buy Windows, so by killing compatibility for technical reasons, they'd kill the commercial reason for using Windows.
The main issue here is that it is physical evidence, that is (ideally) objective rather than subjective.
Except your 'objective' evidence tells you very little about that person's driving ability, while your 'subjective' evidence tells you far more.
The problem is that if you were to start subjecting people to objective driving tests to determine whether they're safe to be on the road (measuring reaction times, etc), you lose the link to EVIL ALCOHOL and suddenly start taking away the licenses of people who are lousy drivers even when sober; which would be great for road safety, but not so good for anti-alcohol Nazis.
Even if it was a magical black box, it could be subject to scientific double-blind testing and you could measure the precision & accuracy of the magical black box.
How do you measure the precision and accuracy of a piece of software without the code?
You could test it a million times and still have it produce complete garbage because of a rare, random buffer overflow, or because it's coded to claim everyone using it is guilty every time the year/month/day/hour is the same as the programmer's mother's telephone number.
Then how does the Labour party stay in power??
Because more than 50% of the population either work for the government or collect benefits of some kind, and they only need 22% of the votes to get a majority in parliament.
"And if 80+ dead in 1000+ cases worldwide so far(and they are mostly healthy and young) are not more than 'nervous hand wringing' to you, then you are a fool."
Except, um, no-one knows how many people caught this flu and had no serious problems, just like the majority of people infected outside Mexico. For all we know a million people caught it, a thousand became seriously sick and eighty died.
American experience seems to show that only a small fraction of people are seriously sick, and Mexican experience seems to show that a small fraction of the seriously sick die. Trying to extrapolate those figures into Doomsday scenarios is silly at this point.
"Glass (like, for example, your windscreen) blocks UV. So, they don't actually work when you're driving."
Except in my experience that's not really true.
I had this discussion with my optician last time I got a new pair of driving glasses, and they do darken while driving despite the fact that the windshield should block the UV (though, admittedly, not as dark as they used to go when I drove a convertible).
I can only guess that the windshield doesn't block the full range of frequencies that cause the glasses to darken.
So basically Manjoo is saying that copyright holders are obligated to make their works available to him in the format and timing he demands, or else he has the right to get them illegally?
A customer expecting the seller to sell him what he wants in order to get his money? Why, the very idea!
Buy a different car instead. This isn't meant to be all things to all people.
So, again: how many people are going to pay _fifty thousand dollars_ for a car they can only drive around their home town?
Hmm, you think maybe there's a reason why Tesla can't find anyone eager to lend them this money?
Er, so, you get gasoline for free?
Er, so you get electricity for free?
How much do you think a huge, high-power battery in your garage is going to cost you? Oddly, I don't need a huge gasoline tank in the garage to drive my car.
Why do you need fast charging for local trips?
What do you do about the trips that _aren't_ local?
If you're going to buy a car purely for local trips, why would you even want a $50,000 behemoth when you could stick some batteries in a Fiat 500?
Read the thing again...they're asking for a loan, to be repaid...not a bailout.
And the difference is?
Either they don't have a business plan anyone is willing to invest in, in which case they're probably going to go bust and lose all that money, or they're going to the government to get a lower interest rate loan, in which case the taxpayer is subsidising their profits.