What ever. This is the company that did my windows and sliding glass doors and the front door: Gilkey Windows. I'd have to dig in my files to see who I hired for the attic insulation, the insulated garage door (attached garage) and the door in the back of the garage (also triple pane, argon filled with UV film). The house was built in 1967 and I've had a lot of work done on it over the last 7 or 8 years. It has single pane windows that leaked like a sieve. This house is tight as a drum now. I can have the place at 72 inside when it's 105+ outside and the AC hardly breaks a sweat keeping it cool in summer. And in winter, its really cheap to heat. Still Renovating, though.
A few years ago I replaced all glass (windows, sliding glass doors, etc.) with triple pane, argon filled, and they also have a UV film on them. The difference (after also adding 18"+ of attic insulation) is unbelievable.
You do know, of course, that your reply files in the face of the GOP Platform for education. Sorry, no critical thinking allowed.;) (No points to give today but your posts are right on- +100)
No mod points to give today, but +100 - I wasn't directly involved until the 1980's but I do know the history and you're right on. I was working for a defense contractor and also saw quite a lot of the pre-history of what we have today.
I was even running a POTS BBS running BBS-PC on an Amiga 1000 from 1986 to 1990. Not the internet, I know, but my motivation was working with was the "internet" at work at the time. I started my first internet web site in 1995, all hand coded (no WYSIWYG program) and it went public on 5 January 1996 (that one is still online today).
I'm also in the "Stay Off My Lawn" stage of life and am continually amazed at the expansion and evolution of electronics and communications. When I was in college I was lucky to have a portable electric Olivetti typewriter and Sharp 4 function "portable" calculator which would run on AC or it's internal rechargeable batteries (I still have it in storage!). That Sharp was great for physics and math classes and it only did add, subtract, multiply and divide. I bet you, like me, remember the time period where slide rules became obsolete for all intents and purposes.
That's what I do. I have my general use browser (Firefox), and I "save" Chrome, Safari, IE, Camino, and Opera each for different things I do. While I don't use TOR or anything to hide my IP it does keep cookies separated. Personally I'm not at all worried about using my real name, though. When I Google search my full, real name there are hundreds of me in the US alone.
The only shirts I wear are T shirts (with flannel in the winter) and few of them have pockets, but I'd not keep a phone in a breast pocket. Every time you bend over, it falls out.
Mine doesn't. I wear T-shirts with a pocket or a dress white shirt every day and I've never had mine fall out.
I was happy with the B, but not with the C. I didn't feel cheated with a B. Attendance was something like 15% of the grade (that's not, to me, a "major" part of the grade) and I knew in advance. I worked a 40 hour week at a local hospital on the 11PM to 7AM (but you didn't actually get out of the hospital until 7.30AM) shift, and was taking 16 hours that semester. I remember I was taking an 8AM organic chemistry class so I always had to go to class in my "whites", and I was taking a couple of other science related courses which took a lot of time. Thinking back I did attend a few of the classes, but not many. It was one of those "if you read the book you know what will be on the test" courses.
This differs state to state in the US and differs by university as well. Where I went you paid a fee for each semester of which there were 3 (counting summer semester). There was no credit hours fee or "per class' fee. Typical was 15 hours. Some people took less. After my freshmen year I typically took 18 hours, but my adviser had to agree. And you could test out of any course. They had "special" tests for anyone who wanted to "test out" of a class. You pass the test and you got credit for the course and the grade you made on the test. It didn't cost me any more to take 18 hours than to take 12. It was a flat fee per semester. That was in the 1970's, though. I have no idea how they do it now where I went to school.
I disagree. When I was in college I had to study by back end off. I knew a number of guys that rarely went to class who were straight A students. There was one class I did take that I didn't have to go to class except for "quizzes" and exams and aced every one of them. The professor gave me a "C" because I never went to class. I appealed and ended up with a B, even thought I aced every quiz and every exam. It was a history class which was not in my major (I took it as an elective). The people in it were pretty stupid and it was a 300 level course.
When my old whole house AC went out, I had nothing. That taught me a lesson. I put in the 3 smaller individual units to eliminate a "single point of failure" issue. One may go down, but I have 2 "backups". It was a bit expensive - These ductless systems are. The aspect of zones is a plus, but not the main reason. I used to travel a lot before I retired back around 2003 and saw these things everywhere, even hanging off apartment balconies in places like Bangkok. I checked out Mitsubishi and Sanyo models. Both are pretty good from what I read at the time. I chose Mitsubishi and am very happy with them. In Asia I think I mostly saw Sanyos, if I remember correctly. I'm in my 60's and try to be as prepared as I can. Also, being ductless, they made more sense heat-loss wise since the old duct work is in the attic (all the old ducts in the house are sealed off).
You can get much the same effect with some types of window blinds. Mine are pleated with horizontal creases which pull down. Inside each are two thin silver foil liners. They work as "blackout" blinds and also reflect any rays that make it through the UV coating on the outside window panes. Probably not as effective as tinfoil directly on the windows, but these do pretty well.
The best is an auto-fail over transfer switch. I have a 17KW Kohler generator and matched transfer switch which takes 8 to 10 *seconds* from the time the utility power cuts off to it powering up the generator and switching over to the backup. Mine even does a weekly 20 minute run to make sure the generator is working. You can also get a module which sends a text message if the power goes out which is nice if you travel or are out a lot. All my computers and peripherals are on APC battery backups so other than lights going out for 8 to 10 seconds I never notice a blackout. NOTE: I can do electrical wiring but after speaking with my insurance agent they *required* installation by a licensed electrician.
106 degees F briefly here in West Chester, Ohio this afternoon. Started planning for global warming in 1996. Down sized to a small 1100 sq foot house. Between then and 2007 put an additional 20" insulation in attic and attic vents, replaced all external doors with insulated ones (including the garage door on the attached garage), put in all new triple pane, xenon(?) gas filled windows w/ UV blocking exterior panes, installed a Kohler natural gas 17KW backup generator with auto-failover, replaced central air conditioner with 3 smaller individual Mitsubishi ductless high efficiency 20 SEER AC units (2x 12K BTU and a "main" 24K BTU). I can cool this puppy down to 68 in weather like this without breaking a sweat (pun intended). I can pretty much take anything short of a direct hit by a tornado, or a significant earthquake, and stay cool (or warm in the winter). Planning is everything.
I doubt it. Monsanto will come up with some way to turn this into "...cyanide-producing grass..." is a feature, not a bug. Now - Get out there and buy and eat more beef!
So to finally have some sort of physical keyboard is really nice. It sure beats Apple and they're all about useability...wait no, that other thing; style. So now this has an actual serious chance of taking a bite out of the ipad market.
As if you can't buy one of the many, many keyboards available for the iPad. I will and do admit I'm not typing a novel so 100 WPM isn't important to me. On the other hand, if do have a lot of typing to do I use my desktop or laptop. I bought an iPad for leisure use, not for work. I did buy an external keyboard for my iPad but I *rarely* use it.
I didn't bother to go through the "removal" process. I hope it works for you. I did go back to the site and took a closer look and it has 6 entries for me from what I can tell - Some old stuff, some more recent stuff and what not. Different old phone numbers, addresses, etc. As to who uses it, mainly uninformed people who believe the information is correct, probably. To me it's been a game for a long time. For example - Four Facebook profiles, each with different information but very close to same name (I don't even use Facebook other than for posting links to some of my web sites). You can pretty much devalue data mining if you want to by planting stuff all around. In the late 1990's I used to plant stuff on newsgroups, for example.
You can screw them up if you want to. There are lots of blogs, forums and such where you can spread mis-information. A VPN account or two is nice to have especially if the service gives you multiple locations in multiple countries you can VPN to and surf from where ever. I can VPN to a Hong Kong server, for example, and browse from there. A bit of latency, but not a big deal. TOR can be put to good use when spreading mis-information, too. I use 5 different browsers on this computer alone (use a browser and clear the cache and the cookies and then close it, then use another browser for a while - Rinse and Repeat), and since I work on the internet I have 3 different ISPs/providers (I need the redundancy so they're a business expense) for a variety of IPs (but VPNs and TOR are better for that). In my case, having been doing web sites for over 15 years, I've planted a lot of fake information around over the years.
On the other hand, I'm in my 60's and don't really care what info they come up with. It *is* admittedly entertaining to see some of the stuff companies like this come up with. When you're a bit bored, just sign up on some forums, make some extra Facebook accounts and stuff like that. Blog posts are another good place to put mis-information. The more mis-information you get out there the more unreliable anything a site like this can come up with is.
Well, with that in mind, I think I'll VPN to a provider in Britain and set up anther Facebook account and maybe another Twitter account. One can never have too many fake accounts!
It found me. But then again, I'm retired and my name and address is all over the internet having been doing web sites since 1995. Personally I couldn't care less what information it collects on me, but I'm sure a younger person would. I didn't pay the US$14.95 (or what ever it was) to see "everything", but I can see it has the wrong phone number but the right address for me. Then again, this isn't anything new. I remember in the mid- to late- 1990's there were several companies on the internet that did court record searches and the whole sha-bang and were very good. As always, a fair amount of misinformation, but that's typical in information gathering like this. I get a free credit record report from the "big three" in the US every year just because they have to provide it once a year free and there are errors in each one. I've never tried to get a correction because I don't care (having a FICA score of 815 and no need for credit to begin with). My bet is as many people use this to "spy" on their neighbors as do companies to "check out" prospective employees.
I'm retired but I do have a LinkedIn account and am "connected" to a lot of people in my old profession. Several people I know got very nice jobs through LinkedIn. One got a job as Director of Global Quality for a large Chinese company (and this person is from India) and has quite a nice salary.
I'm not much for social networks, and I don't spend time on LinkedIn but I use it and I personally think it's a good tool for many professionals. I have never gotten any spam from LinkedIn or LinkedIn "members'.
I put a rider on my home insurance policy which covers all my *personal use* electronic equipment. I can't remember how much it is a year, but it's not too much. But - If you use any of the equipment for business you have to get a business equipment policy (homeowners insurance typically won't cover anything used for business). I have about US$25K in various computers, external drives, wireless, (etc., etc.) equipment and my policy is US$220/year. YMMV
BTW - You want to make *sure* it is a *replacement cost* policy or they'll use a formula and pay you the "used" value, so if you have a 5 year old computer (for example) you'll get a fraction of the replacement cost. This is for both home owners and business. A friend had a house fire (aluminum wiring) and (for example) her washer was 9 or 10 years old - They gave her something like US$35 to replace it since she didn't have a *replacement cost* policy.
The pilots knew (or should have known) that the pitot tubes were suspect. There was a maintenance bulletin out for the pitot tubes and a replacement program was under way. They were being replaced on all of the aircraft because known failures had led to a design change to fix the known problem. It was a situation where the failure rate wasn't critical and there are two pitot tubes, so it wasn't a "ground the fleet" scenario. I'm retired, never flew for a living, and haven't flown for quite a few years (But I do still follow things), but I got my ATP license back in 1976 so I'm not a novice. Back when this happened I remember reading the bulletin about the pitot tubes. Also see "Airspeed Inconsistency": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 - So, the probability is both pitot tubes were iced. This led to some erroneous instrument readings such as air speed and the pilots freaked out.
One other thing - I keep seeing people here talking about how the pilots should have looked at their ground speed and known there was a problem. Air speed has nothing to do with ground speed. Technically you can be flying with a ground speed of zero, if the winds aloft at the aircraft's altitude are fast enough. A stall is in relation to actual aircraft air speed, which has nothing to do with the ground speed of the aircraft.
I can see that. More and more people I know are spending more and more time on Facebook - Mostly just idling watching the status updates and stuff scroll by. I can even see it with people who are long time visitors to some of my forum web sites. These are people I know and have known for years. Lots of times I see them "idling" on both one of my sites and Facebook. The face of computing to the world is changing significantly which, in my opinion, is why so many people are now buying "appliances" such as iPads. I don't have any numbers, but my bet is while more and more people are "going online" every year, people are searching for things less and less in search engines such as Google and Bing. This isn't so much true of people here, but rather the population of the world in general want Twitter and Facebook (both to me are pretty useless). I'm not saying I think search is dying a fast death, but I do think their relevance to most people is slowly fading.
Or so they say. I tend to agree with one of the ARS posters: "Am I mistaken, are are all the numbers out from antivirus vendors, all people with a monetary stake in finding more infections rather than less? I do not recall seeing an independent verification of any count; did I miss one? Every time I read about an "independent" source "confirming" the numbers, it's another vendor with an obvious bias--the same vendors who have been exaggerating Mac threats for the past 7 years and more. I mean, if Fox News reported on how bad Obama was doing at something, and then was "confirmed" by WND, which was then corrected by NewsBusters which said it was worse than anyone had reported--well, would we really be giving them all much credence?
An article I'd like to see is one that explains why any of the numbers any of these vendors has released are reliable and to what degree, with evidence to support that. Does such an article exist, and if so, where? And if not, then why are we trusting obviously biased sources?"
The biggest dangers to Mac users these days from what I have seen are:
1) Hard disk dies and you don't have a bootable image. Even with Time Machine it was not easy for Mom to restore her apps, and had decided not to buy two extra hard disks, 1 for time machine and 1 for full image backup like superduper. I have a feeling this is more common than one would expect.
I've had one drive crash in the last 10 years and it was on a 2008 iMac. Replaced drive, booted from the Install disk, and the Time machine backup worked perfectly. Everything was restored. I also have a clone drive (I use CCC) which I update every other week. I actually expected the Time Machine backup to fail. I don't know why, but I did. I expected to end up using the clone drive for recovery. I will say that I believe Time Machine is only good for a full restore by booting from the Install disk (which I guess now are a thing of the past...).
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What ever. This is the company that did my windows and sliding glass doors and the front door: Gilkey Windows. I'd have to dig in my files to see who I hired for the attic insulation, the insulated garage door (attached garage) and the door in the back of the garage (also triple pane, argon filled with UV film). The house was built in 1967 and I've had a lot of work done on it over the last 7 or 8 years. It has single pane windows that leaked like a sieve. This house is tight as a drum now. I can have the place at 72 inside when it's 105+ outside and the AC hardly breaks a sweat keeping it cool in summer. And in winter, its really cheap to heat. Still Renovating, though.
A few years ago I replaced all glass (windows, sliding glass doors, etc.) with triple pane, argon filled, and they also have a UV film on them. The difference (after also adding 18"+ of attic insulation) is unbelievable.
You do know, of course, that your reply files in the face of the GOP Platform for education. Sorry, no critical thinking allowed. ;) (No points to give today but your posts are right on- +100)
No mod points to give today, but +100 - I wasn't directly involved until the 1980's but I do know the history and you're right on. I was working for a defense contractor and also saw quite a lot of the pre-history of what we have today.
I was even running a POTS BBS running BBS-PC on an Amiga 1000 from 1986 to 1990. Not the internet, I know, but my motivation was working with was the "internet" at work at the time. I started my first internet web site in 1995, all hand coded (no WYSIWYG program) and it went public on 5 January 1996 (that one is still online today).
I'm also in the "Stay Off My Lawn" stage of life and am continually amazed at the expansion and evolution of electronics and communications. When I was in college I was lucky to have a portable electric Olivetti typewriter and Sharp 4 function "portable" calculator which would run on AC or it's internal rechargeable batteries (I still have it in storage!). That Sharp was great for physics and math classes and it only did add, subtract, multiply and divide. I bet you, like me, remember the time period where slide rules became obsolete for all intents and purposes.
Your ticket price is not the real price. Amtraks ticket prices are Heavily subsidized.
So are the airlines. What's your point?
That's what I do. I have my general use browser (Firefox), and I "save" Chrome, Safari, IE, Camino, and Opera each for different things I do. While I don't use TOR or anything to hide my IP it does keep cookies separated. Personally I'm not at all worried about using my real name, though. When I Google search my full, real name there are hundreds of me in the US alone.
The only shirts I wear are T shirts (with flannel in the winter) and few of them have pockets, but I'd not keep a phone in a breast pocket. Every time you bend over, it falls out.
Mine doesn't. I wear T-shirts with a pocket or a dress white shirt every day and I've never had mine fall out.
I was happy with the B, but not with the C. I didn't feel cheated with a B. Attendance was something like 15% of the grade (that's not, to me, a "major" part of the grade) and I knew in advance. I worked a 40 hour week at a local hospital on the 11PM to 7AM (but you didn't actually get out of the hospital until 7.30AM) shift, and was taking 16 hours that semester. I remember I was taking an 8AM organic chemistry class so I always had to go to class in my "whites", and I was taking a couple of other science related courses which took a lot of time. Thinking back I did attend a few of the classes, but not many. It was one of those "if you read the book you know what will be on the test" courses.
This differs state to state in the US and differs by university as well. Where I went you paid a fee for each semester of which there were 3 (counting summer semester). There was no credit hours fee or "per class' fee. Typical was 15 hours. Some people took less. After my freshmen year I typically took 18 hours, but my adviser had to agree. And you could test out of any course. They had "special" tests for anyone who wanted to "test out" of a class. You pass the test and you got credit for the course and the grade you made on the test. It didn't cost me any more to take 18 hours than to take 12. It was a flat fee per semester. That was in the 1970's, though. I have no idea how they do it now where I went to school.
I disagree. When I was in college I had to study by back end off. I knew a number of guys that rarely went to class who were straight A students. There was one class I did take that I didn't have to go to class except for "quizzes" and exams and aced every one of them. The professor gave me a "C" because I never went to class. I appealed and ended up with a B, even thought I aced every quiz and every exam. It was a history class which was not in my major (I took it as an elective). The people in it were pretty stupid and it was a 300 level course.
When my old whole house AC went out, I had nothing. That taught me a lesson. I put in the 3 smaller individual units to eliminate a "single point of failure" issue. One may go down, but I have 2 "backups". It was a bit expensive - These ductless systems are. The aspect of zones is a plus, but not the main reason. I used to travel a lot before I retired back around 2003 and saw these things everywhere, even hanging off apartment balconies in places like Bangkok. I checked out Mitsubishi and Sanyo models. Both are pretty good from what I read at the time. I chose Mitsubishi and am very happy with them. In Asia I think I mostly saw Sanyos, if I remember correctly. I'm in my 60's and try to be as prepared as I can. Also, being ductless, they made more sense heat-loss wise since the old duct work is in the attic (all the old ducts in the house are sealed off).
You can get much the same effect with some types of window blinds. Mine are pleated with horizontal creases which pull down. Inside each are two thin silver foil liners. They work as "blackout" blinds and also reflect any rays that make it through the UV coating on the outside window panes. Probably not as effective as tinfoil directly on the windows, but these do pretty well.
The best is an auto-fail over transfer switch. I have a 17KW Kohler generator and matched transfer switch which takes 8 to 10 *seconds* from the time the utility power cuts off to it powering up the generator and switching over to the backup. Mine even does a weekly 20 minute run to make sure the generator is working. You can also get a module which sends a text message if the power goes out which is nice if you travel or are out a lot. All my computers and peripherals are on APC battery backups so other than lights going out for 8 to 10 seconds I never notice a blackout. NOTE: I can do electrical wiring but after speaking with my insurance agent they *required* installation by a licensed electrician.
106 degees F briefly here in West Chester, Ohio this afternoon. Started planning for global warming in 1996. Down sized to a small 1100 sq foot house. Between then and 2007 put an additional 20" insulation in attic and attic vents, replaced all external doors with insulated ones (including the garage door on the attached garage), put in all new triple pane, xenon(?) gas filled windows w/ UV blocking exterior panes, installed a Kohler natural gas 17KW backup generator with auto-failover, replaced central air conditioner with 3 smaller individual Mitsubishi ductless high efficiency 20 SEER AC units (2x 12K BTU and a "main" 24K BTU). I can cool this puppy down to 68 in weather like this without breaking a sweat (pun intended). I can pretty much take anything short of a direct hit by a tornado, or a significant earthquake, and stay cool (or warm in the winter). Planning is everything.
I doubt it. Monsanto will come up with some way to turn this into "...cyanide-producing grass..." is a feature, not a bug. Now - Get out there and buy and eat more beef!
So to finally have some sort of physical keyboard is really nice. It sure beats Apple and they're all about useability...wait no, that other thing; style. So now this has an actual serious chance of taking a bite out of the ipad market.
As if you can't buy one of the many, many keyboards available for the iPad. I will and do admit I'm not typing a novel so 100 WPM isn't important to me. On the other hand, if do have a lot of typing to do I use my desktop or laptop. I bought an iPad for leisure use, not for work. I did buy an external keyboard for my iPad but I *rarely* use it.
I didn't bother to go through the "removal" process. I hope it works for you. I did go back to the site and took a closer look and it has 6 entries for me from what I can tell - Some old stuff, some more recent stuff and what not. Different old phone numbers, addresses, etc. As to who uses it, mainly uninformed people who believe the information is correct, probably. To me it's been a game for a long time. For example - Four Facebook profiles, each with different information but very close to same name (I don't even use Facebook other than for posting links to some of my web sites). You can pretty much devalue data mining if you want to by planting stuff all around. In the late 1990's I used to plant stuff on newsgroups, for example.
You can screw them up if you want to. There are lots of blogs, forums and such where you can spread mis-information. A VPN account or two is nice to have especially if the service gives you multiple locations in multiple countries you can VPN to and surf from where ever. I can VPN to a Hong Kong server, for example, and browse from there. A bit of latency, but not a big deal. TOR can be put to good use when spreading mis-information, too. I use 5 different browsers on this computer alone (use a browser and clear the cache and the cookies and then close it, then use another browser for a while - Rinse and Repeat), and since I work on the internet I have 3 different ISPs/providers (I need the redundancy so they're a business expense) for a variety of IPs (but VPNs and TOR are better for that). In my case, having been doing web sites for over 15 years, I've planted a lot of fake information around over the years.
On the other hand, I'm in my 60's and don't really care what info they come up with. It *is* admittedly entertaining to see some of the stuff companies like this come up with. When you're a bit bored, just sign up on some forums, make some extra Facebook accounts and stuff like that. Blog posts are another good place to put mis-information. The more mis-information you get out there the more unreliable anything a site like this can come up with is.
Well, with that in mind, I think I'll VPN to a provider in Britain and set up anther Facebook account and maybe another Twitter account. One can never have too many fake accounts!
It found me. But then again, I'm retired and my name and address is all over the internet having been doing web sites since 1995. Personally I couldn't care less what information it collects on me, but I'm sure a younger person would. I didn't pay the US$14.95 (or what ever it was) to see "everything", but I can see it has the wrong phone number but the right address for me. Then again, this isn't anything new. I remember in the mid- to late- 1990's there were several companies on the internet that did court record searches and the whole sha-bang and were very good. As always, a fair amount of misinformation, but that's typical in information gathering like this. I get a free credit record report from the "big three" in the US every year just because they have to provide it once a year free and there are errors in each one. I've never tried to get a correction because I don't care (having a FICA score of 815 and no need for credit to begin with). My bet is as many people use this to "spy" on their neighbors as do companies to "check out" prospective employees.
I'm retired but I do have a LinkedIn account and am "connected" to a lot of people in my old profession. Several people I know got very nice jobs through LinkedIn. One got a job as Director of Global Quality for a large Chinese company (and this person is from India) and has quite a nice salary.
I'm not much for social networks, and I don't spend time on LinkedIn but I use it and I personally think it's a good tool for many professionals. I have never gotten any spam from LinkedIn or LinkedIn "members'.
I put a rider on my home insurance policy which covers all my *personal use* electronic equipment. I can't remember how much it is a year, but it's not too much. But - If you use any of the equipment for business you have to get a business equipment policy (homeowners insurance typically won't cover anything used for business). I have about US$25K in various computers, external drives, wireless, (etc., etc.) equipment and my policy is US$220/year. YMMV
BTW - You want to make *sure* it is a *replacement cost* policy or they'll use a formula and pay you the "used" value, so if you have a 5 year old computer (for example) you'll get a fraction of the replacement cost. This is for both home owners and business. A friend had a house fire (aluminum wiring) and (for example) her washer was 9 or 10 years old - They gave her something like US$35 to replace it since she didn't have a *replacement cost* policy.
The pilots knew (or should have known) that the pitot tubes were suspect. There was a maintenance bulletin out for the pitot tubes and a replacement program was under way. They were being replaced on all of the aircraft because known failures had led to a design change to fix the known problem. It was a situation where the failure rate wasn't critical and there are two pitot tubes, so it wasn't a "ground the fleet" scenario. I'm retired, never flew for a living, and haven't flown for quite a few years (But I do still follow things), but I got my ATP license back in 1976 so I'm not a novice. Back when this happened I remember reading the bulletin about the pitot tubes. Also see "Airspeed Inconsistency": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 - So, the probability is both pitot tubes were iced. This led to some erroneous instrument readings such as air speed and the pilots freaked out.
One other thing - I keep seeing people here talking about how the pilots should have looked at their ground speed and known there was a problem. Air speed has nothing to do with ground speed. Technically you can be flying with a ground speed of zero, if the winds aloft at the aircraft's altitude are fast enough. A stall is in relation to actual aircraft air speed, which has nothing to do with the ground speed of the aircraft.
I can see that. More and more people I know are spending more and more time on Facebook - Mostly just idling watching the status updates and stuff scroll by. I can even see it with people who are long time visitors to some of my forum web sites. These are people I know and have known for years. Lots of times I see them "idling" on both one of my sites and Facebook. The face of computing to the world is changing significantly which, in my opinion, is why so many people are now buying "appliances" such as iPads. I don't have any numbers, but my bet is while more and more people are "going online" every year, people are searching for things less and less in search engines such as Google and Bing. This isn't so much true of people here, but rather the population of the world in general want Twitter and Facebook (both to me are pretty useless). I'm not saying I think search is dying a fast death, but I do think their relevance to most people is slowly fading.
Or so they say. I tend to agree with one of the ARS posters: "Am I mistaken, are are all the numbers out from antivirus vendors, all people with a monetary stake in finding more infections rather than less? I do not recall seeing an independent verification of any count; did I miss one? Every time I read about an "independent" source "confirming" the numbers, it's another vendor with an obvious bias--the same vendors who have been exaggerating Mac threats for the past 7 years and more. I mean, if Fox News reported on how bad Obama was doing at something, and then was "confirmed" by WND, which was then corrected by NewsBusters which said it was worse than anyone had reported--well, would we really be giving them all much credence? An article I'd like to see is one that explains why any of the numbers any of these vendors has released are reliable and to what degree, with evidence to support that. Does such an article exist, and if so, where? And if not, then why are we trusting obviously biased sources?"
BBC - BBS - The Documentary - Find it. It's really good. 8 episodes. Some of it is on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnSz-Hb9LQY
The biggest dangers to Mac users these days from what I have seen are: 1) Hard disk dies and you don't have a bootable image. Even with Time Machine it was not easy for Mom to restore her apps, and had decided not to buy two extra hard disks, 1 for time machine and 1 for full image backup like superduper. I have a feeling this is more common than one would expect.
I've had one drive crash in the last 10 years and it was on a 2008 iMac. Replaced drive, booted from the Install disk, and the Time machine backup worked perfectly. Everything was restored. I also have a clone drive (I use CCC) which I update every other week. I actually expected the Time Machine backup to fail. I don't know why, but I did. I expected to end up using the clone drive for recovery. I will say that I believe Time Machine is only good for a full restore by booting from the Install disk (which I guess now are a thing of the past...).