I think if you take a longer historical perspective then "Open Innovation" is what humans have normally have engaged in. It is only quite recently that patents and copyright etc. came on the scene to create "closed" environments. Imagine what would have happened if someone had patented fire, metallurgy, selective breeding (plants and animals) or copyrighted the musical scales !. Instead ideas travelled around openly, anyone could experiment, copy ideas etc.
> my guess is that is is not reliable enough when other instruments are available.
This would also be my guess: however if your standard instruments (e.g. from the pitot tubes) show impossible values, then GPS may be a better guide line, and is cheap to fit *as a backup*.
(One of the aims of the EU's Galileo is to improve vertical accuracy.)
I agree that airspeed and not ground-relative-speed determines stall/no-stall, but if your GPS showed you were rapidly descending then it would suggest that the airspeed indicators were wrong, and that pulling up would be a good option ?
Just wondering if a (backup) of GPS would have helped in this situation. IIRC the altitude accuracy of existing GPS is not brilliant, but surly it would have been useful ?
> Ergo, the external box that provides functions that any new TV can provide is not a growth market and is likely a doomed market.
I do not expect to buy a new TV when the old one breaks. TV = screen + speakers + tuner. Like Hi-Fi separates I will keep the bits I need, and only upgrade/change what is required. Of course some people may not like having many separate boxes, but I prefer the flexibility !
Do not forget that, unless you have very good sources, what we get *starts* from what the engineer said/thinks but is then filtered through local management/corporate management/PR dept./maybe government, and then the result is translated into English !!
I would guess that most Linux users are using the build provided by their distro. Perhaps posters here could specify their distro when posting good/bad reports. Single datapoint: my Firefox build on Gentoo works fine !
Maybe the Nuclear Industry is already using that Personality software that we keep reading about !
Which also leads to the question that, given that this is Slashdot, why are there so few/no conspiracy-theories here (e.g. are they really telling the truth about the radiation levels/risks ?).
> Well, there was that Jesus fellow, but the story wasn't nearly as good.
Too right: and you notice how the plot was full of internal contradictions ?! I thought it needed a good edit, but I read that it had already be edited at Nica-whats-its-name !
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I think if you take a longer historical perspective then "Open Innovation" is what humans have normally have engaged in. It is only quite recently that patents and copyright etc. came on the scene to create "closed" environments.
Imagine what would have happened if someone had patented fire, metallurgy, selective breeding (plants and animals) or copyrighted the musical scales !. Instead ideas travelled around openly, anyone could experiment, copy ideas etc.
Hotblack Desiato rocks :-))
I thought that was already in Earth orbit with John on board when I was a kid :-)
I still think it was cheating when they changed the Daleks to be able to float up stairs :-)
...I would rather have the illness ;-)
> my guess is that is is not reliable enough when other instruments are available.
This would also be my guess: however if your standard instruments (e.g. from the pitot tubes) show impossible values, then GPS may be a better guide line, and is cheap to fit *as a backup*.
(One of the aims of the EU's Galileo is to improve vertical accuracy.)
I agree that airspeed and not ground-relative-speed determines stall/no-stall, but if your GPS showed you were rapidly descending then it would suggest that the airspeed indicators were wrong, and that pulling up would be a good option ?
Just wondering if a (backup) of GPS would have helped in this situation. IIRC the altitude accuracy of existing GPS is not brilliant, but surly it would have been useful ?
> Ergo, the external box that provides functions that any new TV can provide is not a growth market and is likely a doomed market.
I do not expect to buy a new TV when the old one breaks. TV = screen + speakers + tuner. Like Hi-Fi separates I will keep the bits I need, and only upgrade/change what is required. Of course some people may not like having many separate boxes, but I prefer the flexibility !
Glad I am not the only person who has a sense of deja-vu when I open a new Slashdot nuclear story :-(
(I skim over the pro-nuclear arguments looking for something relevant to the actual story in question !)
Do not forget that, unless you have very good sources, what we get *starts* from what the engineer said/thinks but is then filtered through local management/corporate management/PR dept./maybe government, and then the result is translated into English !!
> why don't they share their method with Facebook
I would guess that Facebook do not really care about the real age of their users: the limit is more for legislators/concerned parents/PR.
> Why couldn't anyone?
I need a bigger screen, a keyboard and decent ergonomics. And they are a ridiculous price compared with commodity PCs.
I would guess that most Linux users are using the build provided by their distro.
Perhaps posters here could specify their distro when posting good/bad reports.
Single datapoint: my Firefox build on Gentoo works fine !
> ground troops
Sounds like Jack's back: next stop Libya ;-)
> New Heat Pump Will Last 10,000 Years
Still not long enough for use in a nuclear waste facility !!
> And further that there are new homes that are being built without setting up even some basic runs for modern say CAT6 wires?
Yep: I really regret not getting our new maisonette wired for ethernet and with TV sockets in the bedrooms :-(
> but I have school in a very concrete-and-steel building that has very poor phone reception
You could always try listening to that person standing at the front of the class. Maybe they have something interesting to say ;-)
> (who wants their kids to hear sex noises?)
Reminds me of the hilarious episode of Modern Families :-)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1627447/
Maybe the Nuclear Industry is already using that Personality software that we keep reading about !
Which also leads to the question that, given that this is Slashdot, why are there so few/no conspiracy-theories here (e.g. are they really telling the truth about the radiation levels/risks ?).
> is like thinking a Prius, a Tesla and a '69 Corvette all work the same way.
At a basic level they are all the same: 4 wheels, engine, gears, steering wheel, similar size. If they hit you they can still kill you.
> Well, there was that Jesus fellow, but the story wasn't nearly as good.
Too right: and you notice how the plot was full of internal contradictions ?!
I thought it needed a good edit, but I read that it had already be edited at Nica-whats-its-name !
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/07/japan-earthquake-tsunami-warning
- Tsunami warning cancelled
- Onagawa nuclear power plant lost power line, incl. for cooling the spent fuel pool, but the backup generator kicked in OK.
> You can invent only one television if you want, but you have to simultaneously invent two telephones.
Ehh ? Not sure what you mean, but surely to 'invert' TV you also have to 'invent' the transmitter and the programming to be aired ?
Do anyone know why the hell they choose black text on bright green background and not the more obvious, and common at the time, green on black ?