I am not an aviator, so I consulted Wikipedia and recalled the thing about flight plans.
They are required in IFR (i.e., bad weather). They are not required in VFR, but are a good idea, in case this sort of thing happens.
After taking 5 different small-craft flights in the last week (vacation), I noted that a flight plan was filed only once - in heavy traffic around Denali. Weather the rest of the time was good enough, and the flights short enough, to not require a flight plan. Plus there weren't any ATC towers in Homer, Chitina, or McCarthy.
Also, consider that Fossett may not have known where he was going even after the plane was in the air. He might just have wanted to spend some quality time in the air with his craft, flying wherever he wanted to go.
Actually, it was so he could get his Northerly Island park (and occasional temporary stadium venue). Being an airport, Meigs Field never blocked anybody's condo view, and the Burnham Plan, Friends of the Park and other important people/organizations with easy access to local news organizations strongly frown on any further lakeshore development.
Well, those really bad reality shows have made a good mint - they're good for pitching to the 18-25 female market segment, and have profited (via advertising revenue) handsomely, I'm sure. I think stuff like "Viva La Bam" is for the 18-25 braindead male market segment.
There's no one out there that advertises to the 18-25 intelligent male segment. In terms of real, live, people-watching-TV-numbers, it just doesn't exist.
Some 18-25 intelligent females are all about Laguna Beach. The same reason the 26-40 female segment is all about Days of our Lives. Predictable, soapy, characters, relationships, and perceived connections to their real lives. Except the parts involving accidental deaths and alien abductions.
And the southern third; I've heard that while we up here in the northern third run our air conditioners about 1/7th as much as people in the south to. Also, the middle third of the country, being continental, is prone to wide variations in temperature.
I think that leaves a 250 mile radius around Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, and the west coast from San Francisco to the Oregon border. Yeah, I think we can manage 320 million people there...
Unlike earlier gasoline-electric hybrids, which run on a parallel system twinning battery power and a combustion engine, plug-in cars are designed to enable short trips powered entirely by the electric motor, using a battery that can be charged through an electric socket at home.
Also, an EV1 cost about $80,000 at the time, according to Wikipedia (and by extension the Washington Post).
The thing is, while GM may have been 'right' to terminate the EV1 program, the failure to keep pursuing R&D for hybrids will continue to haunt the company for many, many years, or until it declares bankruptcy. I believe that they think in hindsight, shelling out a billion dollars a year to keep up their technology lead would have paid back much more in terms of company image, and at present, cars that get more than 30 miles / gallon.
Keeping in mind this is Toyota, and Toyota has done a fantastic job with the strategy and execution of the Toyota Prius, the fact that the most reasonable plug-in they could produce could only go 8 miles, it makes you wonder:
Maybe GM didn't kill the electric car, and they were right all along?
As I discovered in a Super Paper Mario minigame a couple days ago, it turns out the controller knows what "level" is. There's a minigame where you tilt the controller left and right to control Mario (the island is what tilts as you tilt the controller) as he tries to grab things from the sky that are falling, and avoiding thwomps and other bad things that are falling from the sky. If I hold the controller perfectly horizontal to the ground, Mario doesn't move.
In addition, one of the items you can use requires an action that basically tells you to tilt the controller a certain direction. I wasn't pointing the controller at the IR devices when I tilted the controller in either case.
While Wii Carpentry probably isn't going to happen anytime soon, the controller has a good idea of what's going on around it without the benefit of the IR sensors. The IR sensors are used primarly when pointing at something on-screen. There seems to be an accelerometer inside that measures accurately how fast you're, well... accelerating the controller. And based on the above, I'm guessing the accelerometer measures tilt in 3 dimensions, so it provides an absolute reference that way as well.
Wii Fit looks like an extension of Wii Sports. And from the descriptions I got reading about it, it sounds interesting enough to play with, and I'm going to guess that more games (life-applications? I don't really know what this is anymore) will use it in the future. Surfing, anyone? It is something, again, that both my wife and I will enjoy.
It also seems to be a response to the 360's Yourself!Fitness, sales numbers of which I haven't been able to find in a hurry. More importantly, if it's accurate, it'll keep track of my weight and graph it better than the scale in the bathroom, mechanical pen, and printed out Excel spreadsheet.
The joystiq commentary was a waste of my 90 seconds. Three gamers whining and bitching that Nintendo doesn't come out with worthy sequels like they used to anymore. Useless. Because that worked out so well for them with the Gamecube.
It looks like where they're going with the Wii, they'll continue to print money for a few years to come.
Well... Google Maps does have traffic. Either it wasn't worth their time to import all that information, or they decided that the spaghetti of green, yellow and red got enough of the point across.
I'm still trying to figure out what 1.5 miles of laptops can do for me. Can anyone give equivalent conversions for 1.0 laptop-miles? Am I going to have to convert my values to the SI 1.62 laptop-kilometer?
It's a huge game from a huge name, and if EA is hoping to piggy-back a big announcement using the buzz of the game's release, it could be a good business decision to let the game sit for a while.
Someone should let EA know that buzz isn't a fixed quantity. You think you have it one day, and then in 2 years buzz depreciates into "just another game."
I hear they're extending the avian carrier transmission protocol to cover sherpas, while crafting an extension of the protocol to allow llamas and other hoofed animals...
Agreed; I'm a decent writer, but a submission isn't something that's written one-off. I write it once, go back, change verb tenses, double check links, fix sentences that don't sound right, and by the time I hit 'submit', I might still have missed something I introduced in a previous edit.
Which is why you'd think "editors" would actually, you know, edit.
First thought: So does this affect the prints I get from Walgreens?
I know persistent digital storage is the recommended solution, but it's not simple - CDs degrade given enough time, and my 3.5" floppy backups, if they're not all bad, aren't exactly accessible on Macs nowadays. And what comes after CDs? If I continue on the portable hard drive route, will that be a $300 investment in new HD technology every decade? Every 5 years? Just upload it all to Gmail?
More likely, the driver fell asleep, (or as a previous poster suggested, had a seizure).
The car was traveling well in excess of 55 mph judging by the force of impact, so it's probable that having a seizure or falling asleep elsewhere on the road would be fatal. But in other parts of the highway, you can survive driving off the road and brushing up against a wall, or even bouncing off a cable barrier. This driver had no chance up against a concerete toll barrier.
It's a case for not putting large concrete islands in the middle of tollways - open-road tolling is preferred.
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The near future. Mr. Stonebraker walks into a store.
Mr. Stonebraker: How much are these plums?
Checkout girl: Plums? They're $0.99, $1.39, $12.49, $15.99, $26.38, $13.37...
I am not an aviator, so I consulted Wikipedia and recalled the thing about flight plans.
They are required in IFR (i.e., bad weather). They are not required in VFR, but are a good idea, in case this sort of thing happens.
After taking 5 different small-craft flights in the last week (vacation), I noted that a flight plan was filed only once - in heavy traffic around Denali. Weather the rest of the time was good enough, and the flights short enough, to not require a flight plan. Plus there weren't any ATC towers in Homer, Chitina, or McCarthy.
Also, consider that Fossett may not have known where he was going even after the plane was in the air. He might just have wanted to spend some quality time in the air with his craft, flying wherever he wanted to go.
Actually, it was so he could get his Northerly Island park (and occasional temporary stadium venue). Being an airport, Meigs Field never blocked anybody's condo view, and the Burnham Plan, Friends of the Park and other important people/organizations with easy access to local news organizations strongly frown on any further lakeshore development.
Well, those really bad reality shows have made a good mint - they're good for pitching to the 18-25 female market segment, and have profited (via advertising revenue) handsomely, I'm sure. I think stuff like "Viva La Bam" is for the 18-25 braindead male market segment.
There's no one out there that advertises to the 18-25 intelligent male segment. In terms of real, live, people-watching-TV-numbers, it just doesn't exist.
Some 18-25 intelligent females are all about Laguna Beach. The same reason the 26-40 female segment is all about Days of our Lives. Predictable, soapy, characters, relationships, and perceived connections to their real lives. Except the parts involving accidental deaths and alien abductions.
And the southern third; I've heard that while we up here in the northern third run our air conditioners about 1/7th as much as people in the south to. Also, the middle third of the country, being continental, is prone to wide variations in temperature.
I think that leaves a 250 mile radius around Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, and the west coast from San Francisco to the Oregon border. Yeah, I think we can manage 320 million people there...
Well... we do... but the value of the questions the tool gives us is rather obscure.
I'll take a Mushroom and Swiss Intel with chips, please. Oh, and I'll also have floating point errors on the side.
As long as I get a chance to randomly receive $250 to $5,000 for each consonant. Bring it on!
Neither is Toyota's:
Also, an EV1 cost about $80,000 at the time, according to Wikipedia (and by extension the Washington Post).
The thing is, while GM may have been 'right' to terminate the EV1 program, the failure to keep pursuing R&D for hybrids will continue to haunt the company for many, many years, or until it declares bankruptcy. I believe that they think in hindsight, shelling out a billion dollars a year to keep up their technology lead would have paid back much more in terms of company image, and at present, cars that get more than 30 miles / gallon.
Keeping in mind this is Toyota, and Toyota has done a fantastic job with the strategy and execution of the Toyota Prius, the fact that the most reasonable plug-in they could produce could only go 8 miles, it makes you wonder:
Maybe GM didn't kill the electric car, and they were right all along?
Sid Meier, be that you???
Inflation Happens
As I discovered in a Super Paper Mario minigame a couple days ago, it turns out the controller knows what "level" is. There's a minigame where you tilt the controller left and right to control Mario (the island is what tilts as you tilt the controller) as he tries to grab things from the sky that are falling, and avoiding thwomps and other bad things that are falling from the sky. If I hold the controller perfectly horizontal to the ground, Mario doesn't move.
In addition, one of the items you can use requires an action that basically tells you to tilt the controller a certain direction. I wasn't pointing the controller at the IR devices when I tilted the controller in either case.
While Wii Carpentry probably isn't going to happen anytime soon, the controller has a good idea of what's going on around it without the benefit of the IR sensors. The IR sensors are used primarly when pointing at something on-screen. There seems to be an accelerometer inside that measures accurately how fast you're, well... accelerating the controller. And based on the above, I'm guessing the accelerometer measures tilt in 3 dimensions, so it provides an absolute reference that way as well.
Wii Fit looks like an extension of Wii Sports. And from the descriptions I got reading about it, it sounds interesting enough to play with, and I'm going to guess that more games (life-applications? I don't really know what this is anymore) will use it in the future. Surfing, anyone? It is something, again, that both my wife and I will enjoy.
It also seems to be a response to the 360's Yourself!Fitness, sales numbers of which I haven't been able to find in a hurry. More importantly, if it's accurate, it'll keep track of my weight and graph it better than the scale in the bathroom, mechanical pen, and printed out Excel spreadsheet.
The joystiq commentary was a waste of my 90 seconds. Three gamers whining and bitching that Nintendo doesn't come out with worthy sequels like they used to anymore. Useless. Because that worked out so well for them with the Gamecube.
It looks like where they're going with the Wii, they'll continue to print money for a few years to come.
Been there, done that. :-)
Well... Google Maps does have traffic. Either it wasn't worth their time to import all that information, or they decided that the spaghetti of green, yellow and red got enough of the point across.
Ob. link: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.779399,-122. 419281&spn=0.76413,1.2854&z=10&om=1&layer=t
I'm still trying to figure out what 1.5 miles of laptops can do for me. Can anyone give equivalent conversions for 1.0 laptop-miles? Am I going to have to convert my values to the SI 1.62 laptop-kilometer?
Unless either company decides to buy all its stock back or liquidate itself in the time period of three seconds... why does this matter?
Someone should let EA know that buzz isn't a fixed quantity. You think you have it one day, and then in 2 years buzz depreciates into "just another game."
I hear they're extending the avian carrier transmission protocol to cover sherpas, while crafting an extension of the protocol to allow llamas and other hoofed animals...
Lego sex, Bible style!
I have no idea what the guy who made that site's credentials are, but it's still hilarious.
Agreed; I'm a decent writer, but a submission isn't something that's written one-off. I write it once, go back, change verb tenses, double check links, fix sentences that don't sound right, and by the time I hit 'submit', I might still have missed something I introduced in a previous edit.
Which is why you'd think "editors" would actually, you know, edit.
Do they get paid for this? Can I be one?
First thought: So does this affect the prints I get from Walgreens?
I know persistent digital storage is the recommended solution, but it's not simple - CDs degrade given enough time, and my 3.5" floppy backups, if they're not all bad, aren't exactly accessible on Macs nowadays. And what comes after CDs? If I continue on the portable hard drive route, will that be a $300 investment in new HD technology every decade? Every 5 years? Just upload it all to Gmail?
Second thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream
The name of the guy they took most of the quotes in the article from. Or, the sound most people make upon discovering their backups are bad.
This could be more interesting if, say, upon a blue screen, a laser immediately shot forth from the PC and slowly aimed at your balls, 007 style.
More likely, the driver fell asleep, (or as a previous poster suggested, had a seizure).
The car was traveling well in excess of 55 mph judging by the force of impact, so it's probable that having a seizure or falling asleep elsewhere on the road would be fatal. But in other parts of the highway, you can survive driving off the road and brushing up against a wall, or even bouncing off a cable barrier. This driver had no chance up against a concerete toll barrier.
It's a case for not putting large concrete islands in the middle of tollways - open-road tolling is preferred.