No sim can prepare you for G Forces without experiencing how they happen in the aircraft, and attempting to keep on working though them. Your hand with that heavy watch gets alot heavier as you pull G's, it might take more force for you to hit a switch, all important things to learn before a first time pilot gets in the air.
The sim sounds interesting but it's only a beginning, I can handle most G forces that I am likely to pull in a Pitts, but the gyroscopic forces are what I have trouble with.
A portion of the 5ghz band has already been de-regulated and is used by the 802.11a equipment. The problem is that there needs to be incentive (read profit more than cost) for them to implement it since they are private companies.
Because it will bring inroads of VoIP to the average Toshiba (in this case) computer user. Most users don't seek out Vonage, and the other companies, but if it's pre-installed they might try it and like it.
Also if they want a cordless one they can purchase a 802.11b access point and a e800 handheld, thus making more money for Toshiba.
People were saying that about the Helios, but you will find in the non-frontpage article (search is down so can't find it) I practically predicted that it will crash, not because of a lose of energy, but because thunderstorms can reach up wards of 50,000 ft, pop up quickly, and can wreck havoc on a 747, you think a long thin winged solar plane will work much better?
I wouldn't want one of those over my house, especially in a state like Texas or Florida where storms are an everyday fact of life.
The thing to remember is just because the feature is there doesn't nessarily mean that the user will use it.
A Windows user can use iTunes (which now is forced on you with Quicktime), CDex, and a number of other programs. It's like the old Netscape, IE debate.
Actually it can, but because there are so few Mac users, and hard to tell them apart from the Windows users, no one has bothered to write the program yet.
A base RV-4 is going to run about $55k, but his plane has a ton of custom modfications(many of which are for sale on the Vans Aircraft website), is certfied to a higher takeoff weight, and has more enchanced avionics.
I would say that he has sunk at least $70k in the aircraft, with about $10-20k in custom electronics that was donated to him.
I tested this bug on my systems when it was first announced. Mac IE is immune, as is Firebird, also all the browsers that run on top of IE are also immune. Seems only to be an issue with Vanilla IE.
That's called bleed air. It's a real pain in the butt to control. The F-4's used bleed air to lower the landing speed (don't ask me how it lowered the landing speed, that would take a wind tunnel), during combat the bleed air feed would come loose occasionally, ripping out the insides of the wing.
Bleed air is hard to use in combat aircraft for this reason. Please see my post here for how the VH-22 actually works.
Where is everyone coming up with this crazy idea that the VH-22 has tip jets that power it? That has nothing to do with it, and the rotor will still produce torque and P-factor.
The VH-22 in hover mode operates like the CH-47, and CH-46, it has two propellers that operate counter-routing to each other, that way the P-Factor and torque cancel each other out.
Also the VH-22 each engine sends some power to the mid-wing gear box, so it can drive the other router in case of an engine outage.
Thats because the Osprey wasn't designed for that mission profile, thats a mission profile better served by a traditional helos. The VH-22, at least what I am told from my USMC rotorhead friends, is going to replace their older CH-53's, but is keeping the newer CH-53E's, along with their UH-1Z's.
Also the Navy actually has an extensive fleet of fixed wing aircraft. Quite a few are for transport C-2A C-9B C-20G C-40
They also have quite a large collection of Cargo Rotary wing aircraft: CH-53 UH-60
fas.org the best source of US Military information if you don't have a library near by for Janes.
Err I screwed up this paragraph should be As a business owner I like this, and see where it can be used. Last year I received a set of test results for the new Boeing 777-300ER(nothing important because according to the results there was an issue with the testing equipment, and testing was canceled for the day), not once, not twice but three different times; I got it because in the users address book, the e-mail list that I was on, was next to one of the managers that was to recieve the report.
Actually most of their DRM efforts are aimed at Enterprise customers that want to control their data within their corporations, and data that they send out.
This has been happening for years, why do you think Adobe PDFs are so popular with corporate customers, even if they don't (or they can't be locked down) very few users have the writer/editor. So things like invoices, contracts and stuff can be sent out with some security.
But Adobe PDFs rely on a simple password security, so anyone with the password (or cracked) can edit it, also it's an open format, so other editors can simply ignore the password.
The DRM in Office 2003, and in the new Windows OS's is an attempt to prevent that from happening and make the administration of it alot easier, instead of using a password, you can specify specific users/groups within the corporation can modify, or even read the document. This would also apply with forwarding of e-mail.
As a business owner I like this, and see where it can be used. Last year I received a set of test results for the new Boeing 777-300ER(nothing important because according to the results there was an issue with the testing equipment, and testing was canceled for the day), not once, not twice but three different times; I got it because in the users address book, the e-mail list that I was on, was next to the e-mail list that I subscribe to.
I see in business applications that DRM might be the solution to the problem of information leakage. But I would like to see it to be restricted to be used only with Active Directory systems, that way it can't be used outside businesses.
The biggest problem schools seem to have would be kids messing with the system. Using MandrakeMove (or the first major one Knoppix), from a read only source (such as a compact flash card), and require the kids to have a USB Key (or another compact flash card).
Might be the future of school PCs, or at least computers that are open to the public without a login.
It really pisses me off when I have to open a Novell or Microsoft support incident (which cost $300 each) and they give me someone in India who I can't understand...
I am pretty sure that Microsoft phone support is US based (at least during normal business hours), because all the techs that I have dealt with have not had any accent, and were able to make small talk (talking about sports, etc).
I have dealt with the India tech support and they were horrible. My issue had to do with running a non-native resolution on my LCD display, they had me re-start, blah, blah, blah, finally he gave up on that issue.
About a week later I stumbled across the Dell Support forums, sure enough the fix for my issue was the second stickied post on that forum. A basic issue and they couldn't even handle that.
A couple of months later, just a month after my warranty expired I called, this time it was it was even worse. The first time I called I was on hold for 40 minutes, finally when one of their techs got on the phone, their phone system was so bad that they couldn't hear me. Tried a second time, same result.
Finally on my third try it worked (I have already wasted 2 hours on hold) and I got to talk to them about my LCD lamp inverter over heating (an issue that was minor, and fixed with reboot 6 months before, not worth shipping my laptop in for a month of service, like last time), they not only told me I was out of luck, but when I asked for a manager; the manager literally yelled at me.
That was my last straw with Dell, I promptly called up my Dell sales rep and canceled the server order that I placed a couple of days before. Dell lost $250,000 of my business because of their horrible tech support.
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The sim sounds interesting but it's only a beginning, I can handle most G forces that I am likely to pull in a Pitts, but the gyroscopic forces are what I have trouble with.
When was the last time traffic / bandwidth increased on the roads near you before traffic jams became major?
From your link:
(1) to relieve congestion between Christiansburg and Blacksburg...
A government will only provide you the minimal service, it's up to you (the consumer) to hire a private company to get better service.
In there is some pretty good information on what NoCat Internet is using for their network, and how to setup you own.
Until the first thunderstorm pops up and knocks it down like the Helios.
Theres an old saying in flying:
A thunderstorm is natures way of saying up yours.
A portion of the 5ghz band has already been de-regulated and is used by the 802.11a equipment. The problem is that there needs to be incentive (read profit more than cost) for them to implement it since they are private companies.
Also if they want a cordless one they can purchase a 802.11b access point and a e800 handheld, thus making more money for Toshiba.
I wouldn't want one of those over my house, especially in a state like Texas or Florida where storms are an everyday fact of life.
Well at least it's better than royalties on our MP3 players and CD-R's, and those of us that want to use other programs can.
A Windows user can use iTunes (which now is forced on you with Quicktime), CDex, and a number of other programs. It's like the old Netscape, IE debate.
Same thing for me. If I rip my songs myself there is no DRM either, at least with CDex, never tried it with WM9 because I have an iPod and need MP3's.
DLL Hell is pretty much gone, DRM issues with WM9, what about the DRM in the AAC's? You can run a different media player.
Overall it's a couple of Zealots fighting it out, I say we tape razorblades to their feet and start taking bets.
Actually it can, but because there are so few Mac users, and hard to tell them apart from the Windows users, no one has bothered to write the program yet.
I would say that he has sunk at least $70k in the aircraft, with about $10-20k in custom electronics that was donated to him.
I tested this bug on my systems when it was first announced. Mac IE is immune, as is Firebird, also all the browsers that run on top of IE are also immune. Seems only to be an issue with Vanilla IE.
Bleed air is hard to use in combat aircraft for this reason. Please see my post here for how the VH-22 actually works.
The VH-22 in hover mode operates like the CH-47, and CH-46, it has two propellers that operate counter-routing to each other, that way the P-Factor and torque cancel each other out.
Also the VH-22 each engine sends some power to the mid-wing gear box, so it can drive the other router in case of an engine outage.
The CRW I assume refers to their gearing system and how they control the aircraft in hover.
Also the Navy actually has an extensive fleet of fixed wing aircraft. Quite a few are for transport
C-2A
C-9B
C-20G
C-40
They also have quite a large collection of Cargo Rotary wing aircraft:
CH-53
UH-60
fas.org the best source of US Military information if you don't have a library near by for Janes.
Err I screwed up this paragraph should be
As a business owner I like this, and see where it can be used. Last year I received a set of test results for the new Boeing 777-300ER(nothing important because according to the results there was an issue with the testing equipment, and testing was canceled for the day), not once, not twice but three different times; I got it because in the users address book, the e-mail list that I was on, was next to one of the managers that was to recieve the report.
This has been happening for years, why do you think Adobe PDFs are so popular with corporate customers, even if they don't (or they can't be locked down) very few users have the writer/editor. So things like invoices, contracts and stuff can be sent out with some security.
But Adobe PDFs rely on a simple password security, so anyone with the password (or cracked) can edit it, also it's an open format, so other editors can simply ignore the password.
The DRM in Office 2003, and in the new Windows OS's is an attempt to prevent that from happening and make the administration of it alot easier, instead of using a password, you can specify specific users/groups within the corporation can modify, or even read the document. This would also apply with forwarding of e-mail.
As a business owner I like this, and see where it can be used. Last year I received a set of test results for the new Boeing 777-300ER(nothing important because according to the results there was an issue with the testing equipment, and testing was canceled for the day), not once, not twice but three different times; I got it because in the users address book, the e-mail list that I was on, was next to the e-mail list that I subscribe to.
I see in business applications that DRM might be the solution to the problem of information leakage. But I would like to see it to be restricted to be used only with Active Directory systems, that way it can't be used outside businesses.
I believe an earlier article said that it appeared that he sniffed a password to the box.
Might be the future of school PCs, or at least computers that are open to the public without a login.
Obviously you didn't hear about the computers for the Gyro system on the F-16's crashing. Wasn't Windows, just crappy software.
I am pretty sure that Microsoft phone support is US based (at least during normal business hours), because all the techs that I have dealt with have not had any accent, and were able to make small talk (talking about sports, etc).
About a week later I stumbled across the Dell Support forums, sure enough the fix for my issue was the second stickied post on that forum. A basic issue and they couldn't even handle that.
A couple of months later, just a month after my warranty expired I called, this time it was it was even worse. The first time I called I was on hold for 40 minutes, finally when one of their techs got on the phone, their phone system was so bad that they couldn't hear me. Tried a second time, same result.
Finally on my third try it worked (I have already wasted 2 hours on hold) and I got to talk to them about my LCD lamp inverter over heating (an issue that was minor, and fixed with reboot 6 months before, not worth shipping my laptop in for a month of service, like last time), they not only told me I was out of luck, but when I asked for a manager; the manager literally yelled at me.
That was my last straw with Dell, I promptly called up my Dell sales rep and canceled the server order that I placed a couple of days before. Dell lost $250,000 of my business because of their horrible tech support.