Pilots don't really care so much about their ground speed as they approach the runway, only their airspeed. You don't use more power going into a head wind, because using more power would increase your airspeed.
I have not read the book in question, so you might be addressing two separate things here, and I certainly have FAR fewer hours than you must (given your statement that you hold a commercial certificate) but the above appears as if you are missing an elementary point: on approach you DO need more power when dealing with a headwind--the extra power isn't used to increase your airspeed, but to lower the rate of descent. If you flew the same approach in a dead calm vs 10kts of headwind, you'd never make the runway.
I will grant the rest of your point though. If you go from 10kts to headwind to 10kts of tailwind on short final, your ground speed will be too high... but NOT because you were carrying too much power.
The Cosmos was not maneuverable vehicle at all. It was an abandoned hulk. What is your liability when you leave wreckage drifting in the shipping lanes?
While analogy is always suspect, imagine the following scenario:
MV Ecological Catastrophe, a supertanker, is cruising in shallow waters with a full load of crude oil. In the area is a submerged wreck--how it got there is unimportant, but it's there, and it's on the charts that the ship's master is using for navigation--whose height exceeds the draft of the tanker. Despite knowing the position of the wreck, and that his ship is on a course which will pass directly over it, the captain takes no action. Predictably, the good ship Ecological Catastrophe lives up to her name when she impacts the obstacle, spilling millions of gallons of crude in an accident that makes that of the Exxon Valdez look tame.
Where does the blame for this accident lie? If you think it's with the captain of the tanker, why is your conclusion any different than it was in the case of the Iridium and Cosmos satellites that we are discussing?
Iridium Satellite should file a claim against the Russians.
Typically, when it comes to right of way, the less maneuverable vehicle has the right of way (for example, a balloon has the right of way over a glider, which has the right of way over an airship, which has the right of way over an airplane. Similar rules apply to seaborne vessels.) Taking at face value the summary's statement that the Russian satellite was non-functional, it was clearly the duty of the operators of the Iridium satellite to take action. If you want to talk claims/liability, I'd say that the Iridium folks are on the hook for huge damages--through negligence they've created a massive hazard to navigation that will be a problem for... what, centuries?
So vote for Democrats, They are really swell; They'll screw up the country, And tax us to hell! But you knew all that When you voted for them. It's because you hated Bush
Looking at page 16 if the 1120mails.pdf, it looks as if intel pressed for the 915 to be branded "vista capable" and MS finally caved. That seems to be in line with what the GP claimed.
The problem is the 95% of people out there that use windows that either A) don't know how to use an alternative, or B) might prefer an alternative but don't have enough motivation.
Given that alternate browsers account for something like 20% market share, I think your "95% of people..." statistic isn't even close to accurate.
Also, you do know that ntbackup.exe is "a VSS aware backup program," right? Bonus: It's included at no charge from Microsoft.
Microsoft, in its "wisdom," removed ntbackup from Win2k8. The new built in "backup" application does not support tape drives, is not Exchange aware, has no granularity at all (you have a choice between "backup the whole damn computer" and "backup the system state") and creates system state backups that are absolutely massive--10GB plus for one domain controller I have.
I hadn't seen the idea of an "empty root" go away, so it looks like I need to catch up on a couple of things. If you get rid of the empty root, how do you cope with the root domain issues (i.e. I have company A and company B that, for political reasons, don't want the other to play in their sandbox... without an empty root, I don't think you can accomplish this, since one will be the root of the forest and have the enterprise admins group under their control.)
That said, I do agree with you on the idea of using a single domain and multiple OUs for related companies (I plan to implement something along these lines this year--currently only my organization is using AD, while my sister companies aren't using... anything. I'm responsible for implementing AD at the other half dozen sites (all separate companies) and I really wasn't keen on having almost 20 DCs for an organization that only has 500 users. Luckily, though, I shouldn't have to worry about the political issue noted above.)
One more question: Why not just combine the two AD forests into one tree, with the student account domain as a child domain of the teachers' domain?
In the summary, the poster mentioned wanting to reduce the number of physical servers from two to one. There's no way to do that with active directory (unless you virtualize) because each DC can only handle a single domain. Personally, I think the server count just for DCs is a big problem with the design of active directory. If you had two separate but related organizations, to do things the "right" way you'd need at least six domain controllers (two for an empty root, then two DCs for each of the production domains.)
This design will provide 10 MW @ 75% capacity for 20-30 years.
According to wikipedia, the operating costs (not inclusive of construction cost) for that design are $0.05-0.13/kWh. On the other hand, if I remember the presentation I sat through six months ago correctly, the Westinghouse AP1000 design will cost around $0.035/kWh INCLUDING the cost of construction. You'd also have to build about a hundred of those Toshiba reactors to equal the capacity of one AP1000. That just doesn't seem economical... for something that small you'd be a lot better off building a gas turbine.
Currently there is an obsession with triple A games in the industry that go way beyond my comprehension. Everything is hype with graphics, most of the time to the detriment of gameplay, scenario and (the biggest blunder of all) art direction. Because everything now as to be REALISTISTIC!
Right now you are indicating how bitter you are that Obama won and you think that this is just another indication of how wrong he was for the job.
Honestly, I'm not bitter at all about the election outcome. I don't have any love for McCain, so I viewed the recent election as a choice between "bad" and "worse," with Obama playing the role of "worse." Personally, I picked "none of the above" when I voted.
That said, I certainly am worried. It's hard not to be, when the man who will be our president in a few short months has little real experience doing... well, anything, and whose platform consisted largely of rather nebulous concepts like "Hope" and "Change" with little (if any) detail to back them up, and who claims to be a political outsider while coming out of the Chicago political machine and surrounding himself with people like Biden, who are anything but outsiders.
Ideally, I'd like to see the next four years look like 1996-2000, and despite what you may think, I honestly hope that's what happens. However, while I am hoping for 1996, I am expecting 1976.
I guess this is what they mean by "Change you can believe in."
I know it's bad taste to respond to your own post, but I can't help doing so in this case.
I've been reading/posting on slashdot for eight or nine years now, and I'm pretty sure that the above is the first of my thousand or so posts to be modded -1 (though I'm willing to bet that this one will be the second.) All I can say to this is have fun, I've got plenty of karma to burn. But as you're modding me into oblivion, I'll leave you with a little question: are you REALLY that wrapped up in a candidate (sorry, president-elect) that you can't bear any criticism, even when it's warranted?
Get real, people--the writing was on the wall when Obama chose his vice president, and his cabinet choices are doing a good job of pounding nails into the coffin. "Change" was a myth sold to the credulous as a means of securing election, and that's all.
I wonder how all those security researchers feel after destroying a legitimate commercial enterprise and affecting a lot of people who weren't spammers.
Wait, are we talking about the same "legitimate commercial enterprise" mentioned in this story, the one that apparently came back from the dead just long enough to pass off control of a botnet? If anything, this followup story proves that McColo's death wasn't just justified, it was long overdue.
Evolution already does this, and quite well--it's been around for years (the first time I used it with my Exchange box was four or five years ago, and I had no issues with it.) Once upon a time, you had to pay for a piece of middleware to handle the MAPI connection, but that became part of the base package when Novell bought Ximian.
Yep, and physics is the new math, math is the new philosophy, and philosophy is the new political science. Political science is what it's always been, the alpha-discipline.
My thoughts here are that New York State did this entirely in the hope that some companies would refuse to collect the taxes. The state would then take these companies to court, and in discovery they would obtain customer lists. Cross referencing against tax returns will produce a list of people engaged in tax evasion, and the state can now go after these people directly.
Whether or not the law is upheld is immaterial--the information they want WILL be obtained, so either way, they win.
FWIW, there is very little on groklaw that can be called "reasoned opinion." Most of the stuff by PJ that is focused on the core cases is absolutely wonderful, and there are probably twenty or thirty people who bring plenty of insight to the discussion... but as for the rest? "Four legs good, two legs bad!" would not be an unfair description of the mindset, and sadly enough that sometimes applies to PJ herself.
I say this as someone with a three digit GL uid who has been following the SCO saga since day one.
I'll probably have to turn in my nerd card for suggesting this but if you've bothered to look at the obesity rate in this country you could probably make a pretty compelling argument for why physical education in this country needs to be expanded.
Who said anything about reducing phys-ed? No, I was talking about something more along the lines of "we have twenty year old text books that are falling apart because we cannot afford to buy new ones, but the football team gets new equipment every two years."
I think the biggest thing that can be done to "fix" education would be to make it the primary focus of schools! I'm all for extra curricular activities, but it seems that in many places in the US, those are treated as far, far, more important that actual learning. Sports is a great example of how the focus in schools has been taken off of education.
Another thing would be to stop trying to make everyone equal, and allow faster students to excel instead of teaching to the lowest common denominator.
They were able to make a roach cute. And no, not some Disneyesque anthropomorphic huggable buggable plushified abomination to be mass-marketed to yowling ankle-biters everywhere, no, no, no! This was a realistic roach, the kind that makes me reach for a shoe and go Khrushchev on its filthy self.
I had pretty much the same reaction... during the film I actually whispered to my wife, "the scene we just 'awwed' at was a roach gorging itself on a twinkie... only Pixar could do something like that."
For places with high-density population such as Manhattan, generating locally isn't feasible for now
I think you meant to say "For places with such a high density of NIMBY types as NYC and Long Island, generating it locally isn't feasible at all."
There are plenty of locations in NYC that you could site a power plant on. It's just that if you tried, it would take you decades to break ground because of the eight thousand lawsuits you'd face.
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I have not read the book in question, so you might be addressing two separate things here, and I certainly have FAR fewer hours than you must (given your statement that you hold a commercial certificate) but the above appears as if you are missing an elementary point: on approach you DO need more power when dealing with a headwind--the extra power isn't used to increase your airspeed, but to lower the rate of descent. If you flew the same approach in a dead calm vs 10kts of headwind, you'd never make the runway.
I will grant the rest of your point though. If you go from 10kts to headwind to 10kts of tailwind on short final, your ground speed will be too high... but NOT because you were carrying too much power.
While analogy is always suspect, imagine the following scenario:
MV Ecological Catastrophe, a supertanker, is cruising in shallow waters with a full load of crude oil. In the area is a submerged wreck--how it got there is unimportant, but it's there, and it's on the charts that the ship's master is using for navigation--whose height exceeds the draft of the tanker. Despite knowing the position of the wreck, and that his ship is on a course which will pass directly over it, the captain takes no action. Predictably, the good ship Ecological Catastrophe lives up to her name when she impacts the obstacle, spilling millions of gallons of crude in an accident that makes that of the Exxon Valdez look tame.
Where does the blame for this accident lie? If you think it's with the captain of the tanker, why is your conclusion any different than it was in the case of the Iridium and Cosmos satellites that we are discussing?
Typically, when it comes to right of way, the less maneuverable vehicle has the right of way (for example, a balloon has the right of way over a glider, which has the right of way over an airship, which has the right of way over an airplane. Similar rules apply to seaborne vessels.) Taking at face value the summary's statement that the Russian satellite was non-functional, it was clearly the duty of the operators of the Iridium satellite to take action. If you want to talk claims/liability, I'd say that the Iridium folks are on the hook for huge damages--through negligence they've created a massive hazard to navigation that will be a problem for... what, centuries?
Burma-Shave!
Looking at page 16 if the 1120mails.pdf, it looks as if intel pressed for the 915 to be branded "vista capable" and MS finally caved. That seems to be in line with what the GP claimed.
Given that alternate browsers account for something like 20% market share, I think your "95% of people..." statistic isn't even close to accurate.
Microsoft, in its "wisdom," removed ntbackup from Win2k8. The new built in "backup" application does not support tape drives, is not Exchange aware, has no granularity at all (you have a choice between "backup the whole damn computer" and "backup the system state") and creates system state backups that are absolutely massive--10GB plus for one domain controller I have.
I hadn't seen the idea of an "empty root" go away, so it looks like I need to catch up on a couple of things. If you get rid of the empty root, how do you cope with the root domain issues (i.e. I have company A and company B that, for political reasons, don't want the other to play in their sandbox... without an empty root, I don't think you can accomplish this, since one will be the root of the forest and have the enterprise admins group under their control.)
That said, I do agree with you on the idea of using a single domain and multiple OUs for related companies (I plan to implement something along these lines this year--currently only my organization is using AD, while my sister companies aren't using... anything. I'm responsible for implementing AD at the other half dozen sites (all separate companies) and I really wasn't keen on having almost 20 DCs for an organization that only has 500 users. Luckily, though, I shouldn't have to worry about the political issue noted above.)
In the summary, the poster mentioned wanting to reduce the number of physical servers from two to one. There's no way to do that with active directory (unless you virtualize) because each DC can only handle a single domain. Personally, I think the server count just for DCs is a big problem with the design of active directory. If you had two separate but related organizations, to do things the "right" way you'd need at least six domain controllers (two for an empty root, then two DCs for each of the production domains.)
According to wikipedia, the operating costs (not inclusive of construction cost) for that design are $0.05-0.13/kWh. On the other hand, if I remember the presentation I sat through six months ago correctly, the Westinghouse AP1000 design will cost around $0.035/kWh INCLUDING the cost of construction. You'd also have to build about a hundred of those Toshiba reactors to equal the capacity of one AP1000. That just doesn't seem economical... for something that small you'd be a lot better off building a gas turbine.
I think VGCats put it best in this comic.
What, do you and G'Kar strangle each other on Centauri Prime or something?
Honestly, I'm not bitter at all about the election outcome. I don't have any love for McCain, so I viewed the recent election as a choice between "bad" and "worse," with Obama playing the role of "worse." Personally, I picked "none of the above" when I voted.
That said, I certainly am worried. It's hard not to be, when the man who will be our president in a few short months has little real experience doing... well, anything, and whose platform consisted largely of rather nebulous concepts like "Hope" and "Change" with little (if any) detail to back them up, and who claims to be a political outsider while coming out of the Chicago political machine and surrounding himself with people like Biden, who are anything but outsiders.
Ideally, I'd like to see the next four years look like 1996-2000, and despite what you may think, I honestly hope that's what happens. However, while I am hoping for 1996, I am expecting 1976.
I know it's bad taste to respond to your own post, but I can't help doing so in this case.
I've been reading/posting on slashdot for eight or nine years now, and I'm pretty sure that the above is the first of my thousand or so posts to be modded -1 (though I'm willing to bet that this one will be the second.) All I can say to this is have fun, I've got plenty of karma to burn. But as you're modding me into oblivion, I'll leave you with a little question: are you REALLY that wrapped up in a candidate (sorry, president-elect) that you can't bear any criticism, even when it's warranted?
Get real, people--the writing was on the wall when Obama chose his vice president, and his cabinet choices are doing a good job of pounding nails into the coffin. "Change" was a myth sold to the credulous as a means of securing election, and that's all.
I guess this is what they mean by "Change you can believe in."
Wait, are we talking about the same "legitimate commercial enterprise" mentioned in this story, the one that apparently came back from the dead just long enough to pass off control of a botnet? If anything, this followup story proves that McColo's death wasn't just justified, it was long overdue.
Evolution already does this, and quite well--it's been around for years (the first time I used it with my Exchange box was four or five years ago, and I had no issues with it.) Once upon a time, you had to pay for a piece of middleware to handle the MAPI connection, but that became part of the base package when Novell bought Ximian.
http://xkcd.com/435/
My thoughts here are that New York State did this entirely in the hope that some companies would refuse to collect the taxes. The state would then take these companies to court, and in discovery they would obtain customer lists. Cross referencing against tax returns will produce a list of people engaged in tax evasion, and the state can now go after these people directly.
Whether or not the law is upheld is immaterial--the information they want WILL be obtained, so either way, they win.
FWIW, there is very little on groklaw that can be called "reasoned opinion." Most of the stuff by PJ that is focused on the core cases is absolutely wonderful, and there are probably twenty or thirty people who bring plenty of insight to the discussion... but as for the rest? "Four legs good, two legs bad!" would not be an unfair description of the mindset, and sadly enough that sometimes applies to PJ herself.
I say this as someone with a three digit GL uid who has been following the SCO saga since day one.
Who said anything about reducing phys-ed? No, I was talking about something more along the lines of "we have twenty year old text books that are falling apart because we cannot afford to buy new ones, but the football team gets new equipment every two years."
I think the biggest thing that can be done to "fix" education would be to make it the primary focus of schools! I'm all for extra curricular activities, but it seems that in many places in the US, those are treated as far, far, more important that actual learning. Sports is a great example of how the focus in schools has been taken off of education.
Another thing would be to stop trying to make everyone equal, and allow faster students to excel instead of teaching to the lowest common denominator.
I had pretty much the same reaction... during the film I actually whispered to my wife, "the scene we just 'awwed' at was a roach gorging itself on a twinkie... only Pixar could do something like that."
Compared with 480i, 720p is definitely "high definition."
I think you meant to say "For places with such a high density of NIMBY types as NYC and Long Island, generating it locally isn't feasible at all."
There are plenty of locations in NYC that you could site a power plant on. It's just that if you tried, it would take you decades to break ground because of the eight thousand lawsuits you'd face.