And beyond being a pilot, he also owns an aircraft maintenance company Cardiff Aviation LTD. My wife works for Boeing in Seattle and he came to tour the facilities for the 787 and check out the new simulators they built for it. She personally escorted him around the few days he was here (after their concert) and said he is about the nicest guy she ever met. I told her to ask him if he was interested in starting a side project with me as an Iron Maiden cover band. He declined the offer. We're both huge fans (since the 80s, we're old). UP THE IRONS!
Agreed. What Amazon has provided me is literally hundreds of hours over the past decade where I don't have to drive around town to find the item I want. I am the problem, if it isn't on Amazon, it doesn't exist to me. I'm sorry it is at the expense of local businesses, I still say that is fair trade for a substantial amount of my life back not sitting in car driving around traffic hell we call Seattle.
Which is great. Like adding a settee to your living room, except bookstores to your city. It sounds like they are doing it backwards though. If I am an amazon customer in France but not in Paris, I want the cheapest price for a book. Why should I subsidize the decorations of the Parisians? You want book stores, make it like Disneyland and just have government owned storefronts to sell books as a facade. It doesn't matter if they turn a profit or not, they are decorations.
It was a different time. Kids today have advantages we would have killed for, sure, but they also face different problems. Parents also face dramatically different social and legal pressures.
Don't go running around with your reasonable and rational arguments. We'll have none of that here on/.
In 2000 I used an Amazon service known as Greenlight.com that was supposed to provide you with a no haggle car buying experience. I had just graduated from college, got married and wanted my first "real" car (at the time that real car was to be a VW Passat). I had never bought a car from a dealership before and the idea of no haggle had a lot of appeal. My experience was a total disaster. I picked our my car, color, options and they connected me with a local dealer that had the vehicle in stock. The model and trim I wanted was popular at the time so inventory was low and the local dealer wanted an additional $500 over the pre-negotiated price. I told them to get bent. $500 over the life of a car loan isn't much but it was the principal of the matter. I got real noisy with Amazon regarding their no-haggle "guarantee." I was blown off but vindicated a few months later when the service was killed. Here's to a better go at it this time. I'm saving my pennies for a Tesla. Amazon also had a state in Kozmo at the time, I hear that is coming back as well.
That is an extremely cynical view. What I see in this "sharing economy" is the creation of new market segments. Where I wouldn't consider a hotel for $150 and is the only thing available in the area I need/want to stay, I may stay in an AirBNB for $80. It isn't a lost sale for the hotel, I was never in the market for a $150 room. What this does do is provide greater fluidity to the economy and in turn that person that rented me the room has more money to put back into the system. This is a good thing.
It must have made it back in at some point because 3rd graders in my son's language immersion elementary school are doing square roots and long division while instruction is given in either Japanese or Spanish. This is not a gifted school, this is your plain old neighborhood public school that happens to be language immersion. In kindergarten, students were doing multi-digit addition and subtraction and expected to know the numeric value of currency and be able to add and subtract multiple units (12 pennies + 3 quarters + 5 nickles + 3 dollars = ?). I was stunned. We were doing multiplication tables in 3rd grade when I went into public school and that was a big deal.
From my limited perspective I don't know what all the noise is about regarding the curriculum getting soft in our public schools.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. Most commenters seem to believe that tenure is about prestige or money. That may be true in practice but tenure was originally developed for the reason you stated, to protect faculty and provide the freedom to openly discuss controversial ideas. That said I'm not certain tenure it its current form is ideal and is probably due for a shake up.
This is one of the worst videos/. has put up yet and the bar is incredibly low. No fault of the interviewee, the interviewer goes off on tangents about his sound system and social security. The question is never really answered. Here is the question I'd have liked to have had answered: Are Televisions on aggregate substantially better than they were 5-10 years ago when some of us bought our first HDTVs?
This. The Surface Pro and the Lenovo Helix also have the same digitizer used in wacom tablets. To say it isn't used for photoshop is absurd. I plan on picking up one of these two devices and will use it exclusively for audio and video production.
FWIW, you don't need a snorkel, you just need to keep positive pressure in the tailpipe. If you drop your RPMs, you create a backdraft which will suck water water into the exhaust system and kill the engine or what I like to call the "banana in the tailpipe" effect. I've forded many a river in my youth driving an 80s two wheel drive Toyota Hilux. Also got stuck a few times not following this rule.
It is a sad day on/. when the subject of the story posts an eloquent, intelligent response and only gets modded +3 interesting (rather than informative). But never mind this post, please continue to debate this story from a position of ignorance, it has never stopped us before.
get a fat pipe and watch online and don't let the media conglomerates tell you what is going to be on tonight. last I checked al jazeera had a website. that said, I'm glad we're getting a broader spectrum of voices on our air/cable waves.
When you shoot video you capture single pictures. When people are moving in these shots, the have motion blur. How much motion blur depends on how fast they are moving and how many shots per sec you take.
Speed of subject, frames (images) per second, and time of exposure per frame dictate how much blur there will be present. A fast moving subject at 48FPS with an exposure of 1/48 may also have motion blur. The chariot scenes in gladiator come to mind for the opposite effect at 24FPS. Scott set his exposure to 1/2000 or higher which even at a low FPS results in VERY crisp shots with no blur, you just need boatloads of light for an exposure time that short.
This is exactly why I cringe when I hear people saying "we need to replace that hardware because its been running for a few years now so might fail soon" - the chances of your brand new hardware going pop are often far higher than the tired old hardware. Eventually the old kit will of course die, but in my experience that is far further into the future than most people imagine.
I think that could be taken as generally true, particularly with RAM and CPU but I'm still seeing fallout from the electrolytic fluid/capacitor debacle from the 2000s. Power supplies and main/daughter boards are still failing unpredictably in older hardware. Even newer equipment has suffered as "new old stock" components were integrated in equipment manufactured after 2006. The tolerance of the capacitors was close enough to get them past the initial failure period but off enough to eventually cause problems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
You are joking of course. I've been shopping at amazon almost exclusively for the past 4 years and I'm a Washington resident; been paying my sales tax all along. The main reason why I don't shop locally is because I don't want to deal with people/traffic/time wasting looking for something when I can do it from my couch. I never use local shops as try before you buy, I never get that far, amazon's return policy is such I don't feel like there is any risk. I don't even buy my clothes locally anymore. While I may sound like a shill (or shut in) I am in no way affiliated with amazon, I just prefer to shop somewhere that has earned my business and works with my lifestyle. Driving anywhere in seattle sucks.
I have a boy but in that same age range. I too have been frustrated with the lack of quality apps. Mermaid waters is pretty good with math and matching games, math train is also decent as is superwhy but the best app I've found is Word Wizard. It is the speak and spell you always wanted. Very high quality app. The very best app I've seen is Redshift. Beats all the other star maps hands down. It is pricey but worth every penny. And before anyone gets uptight, no I am not associated with any of the developers in any way.
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And beyond being a pilot, he also owns an aircraft maintenance company Cardiff Aviation LTD. My wife works for Boeing in Seattle and he came to tour the facilities for the 787 and check out the new simulators they built for it. She personally escorted him around the few days he was here (after their concert) and said he is about the nicest guy she ever met. I told her to ask him if he was interested in starting a side project with me as an Iron Maiden cover band. He declined the offer. We're both huge fans (since the 80s, we're old). UP THE IRONS!
"...women prefer length..." I feel so lied to.
Agreed. What Amazon has provided me is literally hundreds of hours over the past decade where I don't have to drive around town to find the item I want. I am the problem, if it isn't on Amazon, it doesn't exist to me. I'm sorry it is at the expense of local businesses, I still say that is fair trade for a substantial amount of my life back not sitting in car driving around traffic hell we call Seattle.
Which is great. Like adding a settee to your living room, except bookstores to your city. It sounds like they are doing it backwards though. If I am an amazon customer in France but not in Paris, I want the cheapest price for a book. Why should I subsidize the decorations of the Parisians? You want book stores, make it like Disneyland and just have government owned storefronts to sell books as a facade. It doesn't matter if they turn a profit or not, they are decorations.
It was a different time. Kids today have advantages we would have killed for, sure, but they also face different problems. Parents also face dramatically different social and legal pressures.
Don't go running around with your reasonable and rational arguments. We'll have none of that here on /.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8740992
In 2000 I used an Amazon service known as Greenlight.com that was supposed to provide you with a no haggle car buying experience. I had just graduated from college, got married and wanted my first "real" car (at the time that real car was to be a VW Passat). I had never bought a car from a dealership before and the idea of no haggle had a lot of appeal. My experience was a total disaster. I picked our my car, color, options and they connected me with a local dealer that had the vehicle in stock. The model and trim I wanted was popular at the time so inventory was low and the local dealer wanted an additional $500 over the pre-negotiated price. I told them to get bent. $500 over the life of a car loan isn't much but it was the principal of the matter. I got real noisy with Amazon regarding their no-haggle "guarantee." I was blown off but vindicated a few months later when the service was killed. Here's to a better go at it this time. I'm saving my pennies for a Tesla. Amazon also had a state in Kozmo at the time, I hear that is coming back as well.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/consumer/autos/mauto779.htm
http://news.cnet.com/Amazon-invests-in-car-retailer-Greenlight/2100-1017_3-235946.html
Forcing someone to use a middle man by law is pants-on-head retarded.
To be fair, politicians prefer to be be known as mentally challenged.
That is an extremely cynical view. What I see in this "sharing economy" is the creation of new market segments. Where I wouldn't consider a hotel for $150 and is the only thing available in the area I need/want to stay, I may stay in an AirBNB for $80. It isn't a lost sale for the hotel, I was never in the market for a $150 room. What this does do is provide greater fluidity to the economy and in turn that person that rented me the room has more money to put back into the system. This is a good thing.
And I'll bet you that was a one-time incident after which they lost their commercial license. No more taxi driver.
you don't need to bet. he was suspended for 30 days.
"The Taxi and Limousine Commission is moving to suspend Himon’s hack license for 30 days".
http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/08/22/cabbie-blames-cyclist-he-hit-and-bike-lanes-for-midtown-curb-jump-crash/
curvature of the earth? so 12 miles max, unless your on top of the burj dubai or something, radio or otherwise.
It must have made it back in at some point because 3rd graders in my son's language immersion elementary school are doing square roots and long division while instruction is given in either Japanese or Spanish. This is not a gifted school, this is your plain old neighborhood public school that happens to be language immersion. In kindergarten, students were doing multi-digit addition and subtraction and expected to know the numeric value of currency and be able to add and subtract multiple units (12 pennies + 3 quarters + 5 nickles + 3 dollars = ?). I was stunned. We were doing multiplication tables in 3rd grade when I went into public school and that was a big deal.
From my limited perspective I don't know what all the noise is about regarding the curriculum getting soft in our public schools.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. Most commenters seem to believe that tenure is about prestige or money. That may be true in practice but tenure was originally developed for the reason you stated, to protect faculty and provide the freedom to openly discuss controversial ideas. That said I'm not certain tenure it its current form is ideal and is probably due for a shake up.
This is one of the worst videos /. has put up yet and the bar is incredibly low. No fault of the interviewee, the interviewer goes off on tangents about his sound system and social security. The question is never really answered. Here is the question I'd have liked to have had answered: Are Televisions on aggregate substantially better than they were 5-10 years ago when some of us bought our first HDTVs?
This. The Surface Pro and the Lenovo Helix also have the same digitizer used in wacom tablets. To say it isn't used for photoshop is absurd. I plan on picking up one of these two devices and will use it exclusively for audio and video production.
FWIW, you don't need a snorkel, you just need to keep positive pressure in the tailpipe. If you drop your RPMs, you create a backdraft which will suck water water into the exhaust system and kill the engine or what I like to call the "banana in the tailpipe" effect. I've forded many a river in my youth driving an 80s two wheel drive Toyota Hilux. Also got stuck a few times not following this rule.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morvi_dam_failure
It is a sad day on /. when the subject of the story posts an eloquent, intelligent response and only gets modded +3 interesting (rather than informative). But never mind this post, please continue to debate this story from a position of ignorance, it has never stopped us before.
get a fat pipe and watch online and don't let the media conglomerates tell you what is going to be on tonight. last I checked al jazeera had a website. that said, I'm glad we're getting a broader spectrum of voices on our air/cable waves.
I should of mentioned the reason why.
When you shoot video you capture single pictures. When people are moving in these shots, the have motion blur. How much motion blur depends on how fast they are moving and how many shots per sec you take.
Speed of subject, frames (images) per second, and time of exposure per frame dictate how much blur there will be present. A fast moving subject at 48FPS with an exposure of 1/48 may also have motion blur. The chariot scenes in gladiator come to mind for the opposite effect at 24FPS. Scott set his exposure to 1/2000 or higher which even at a low FPS results in VERY crisp shots with no blur, you just need boatloads of light for an exposure time that short.
Look up "bathtub curve" sometime.
This is exactly why I cringe when I hear people saying "we need to replace that hardware because its been running for a few years now so might fail soon" - the chances of your brand new hardware going pop are often far higher than the tired old hardware. Eventually the old kit will of course die, but in my experience that is far further into the future than most people imagine.
I think that could be taken as generally true, particularly with RAM and CPU but I'm still seeing fallout from the electrolytic fluid/capacitor debacle from the 2000s. Power supplies and main/daughter boards are still failing unpredictably in older hardware. Even newer equipment has suffered as "new old stock" components were integrated in equipment manufactured after 2006. The tolerance of the capacitors was close enough to get them past the initial failure period but off enough to eventually cause problems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
Also the same reason PAL is 50hz, Europe uses a different AC frequency. Both NTSC and PAL were synchronized to our respective power systems.
"Some would say that the earth is OUR moon but that would belittle the name of the moon, which is, the Moon" - ignignokt. long live the moon.
You are joking of course. I've been shopping at amazon almost exclusively for the past 4 years and I'm a Washington resident; been paying my sales tax all along. The main reason why I don't shop locally is because I don't want to deal with people/traffic/time wasting looking for something when I can do it from my couch. I never use local shops as try before you buy, I never get that far, amazon's return policy is such I don't feel like there is any risk. I don't even buy my clothes locally anymore. While I may sound like a shill (or shut in) I am in no way affiliated with amazon, I just prefer to shop somewhere that has earned my business and works with my lifestyle. Driving anywhere in seattle sucks.
I have a boy but in that same age range. I too have been frustrated with the lack of quality apps. Mermaid waters is pretty good with math and matching games, math train is also decent as is superwhy but the best app I've found is Word Wizard. It is the speak and spell you always wanted. Very high quality app. The very best app I've seen is Redshift. Beats all the other star maps hands down. It is pricey but worth every penny. And before anyone gets uptight, no I am not associated with any of the developers in any way.