QC does not have the power to enforce the legislation. They can pass all the laws they want but the ISPs only have to listen to the feds. It would take orders from Ottawa to make it so. Section 92.10 of the Constitution Act of 1867 grants Ottawa exclusive power over international and interprovincial transport and communication.
Now, if the gambling site is in QC then the Ass. Nat. can claim jurisdiction as this would be intraprovincial communication. Mmmmm, probably have to invoke the notwithstanding clause because of other constitutional issues. Best just to send the SQ in to plunder and pillage.
Kinda like municipalities that pass laws about communication towers. In the end, if the feds say it is ok then the towns/counties/provinces can go pound sand.
I've done this but it is a bit like peeing into the wind, especially if you are camping with friends or family.
Given that you want to get away but it is not doable to let go, I have two suggestions:
1. Make a plan to partner with someone so you can cover for each other. Life happens. You cannot be on call 7x24x365 forever. You won't like it and eventually your customers won't either. Certainly the significant people in your life will hate it. Get involved with a consulting partnership or form one yourself. If you like this way of working then make it work long term.
that said:
2. On call camping is all about planning and setting expectations. What is your on-call response time? 15 min means you can find a campground with some kind of connectivity coverage and stay there. Enjoy sleeping and eating and hanging out in a semi-isolated location. If you just have to check in every 24 hrs then you have a lot of flexibility and you probably won't have to bring much special with you.
Choices:
Low end: Just bring your cell and data plan, or scout out local wifi. Most park/camping/resort areas will have a small town nearby with various wifi options. Coin laundries have excellent wifi connectivity in my experience though usually not free.
High end: eh, under $1000 investment. Wilson cell boosters. Omni and directional cell antennas. 3g tends speed tends to be distance dependent and will slow down even with good signal. LTE is much better. I have made connections as far away as 80 miles. Horizon gets in the way usually but it helps if the tower is on a mountain top or if you are. Portability is a challenge but you can set up a backpack unit fairly easily with, say, 5Kg of extra booster, battery, charger weight. Or go wifi: ALFA wireless units with 1 or 2 watts and a good directional antenna can get you wifi at amazing distances but are limited because most access points are not set up with antennas outside a building. 8-> They tend to be low power and indoors. Portability is again an issue but doable. Climb to the top of Pyramid in Jasper and camp there. Line of sight will not be an issue but nail your tent down.
Higher high end: $2000 to $10,000. Satellite internet with a portable gps enabled self tracking dish in a fiberglass dome. You will probably want a portable generator. Also need a data plan at about 50 to 100 per month. You could carry a dish and transponder on a hike which would be awkward but could be quite fun. Tends to tie you down and prevent straying far from where you set up your base camp. Speeds can be quite good for streaming but ping times are in the 1000s of milliseconds. Usually have to pay a premium if you go over a couple of GB per month. Oh and usually a 1, 2, or 3 year contract. Um, and mountains can be an issue if they block the satellite view. Choose a North/South valley.
Ridiculously expensive high end: $100K or more. Bring your own tower and cellular repeater site. Get a trailer with a 40m telescoping tower, hydraulic stabilizer legs, and a mini network center. You should be able to get LTE almost anywhere with the correct setup. Add in the satellite transponder as backup. Camp near a fast moving mountain stream and setup a hydro electric supply. Plan where you are going to hike and run your own repeater with directed coverage to the area you will be traversing. Put a booster in your pack and attach a 2 meter buggy whip so you have continuous coverage. A blinking light on the top will aid rescuers when you get lost. Check regularly with your doctor for radiation induced growths in various locations on your body. Be aware that national park wardens take a dim view of this sort of setup.
I handled on call with a Wilson cellular booster in my truck and a portable wifi router with a 4g dongle. As long as you can get one bar on a cell results should be very good. I stuck around the campsite, drank coffee, cooked food, and read books. Nice but not full on hiking/camping.
Again, the best choice is leave it all behind. The most complex issue to deal with when camping should be how to make a banana boat on a campfire.
Your assumption is simply wrong. It can only be expressed as "not a number" and your code should catch this.
There are all sorts of examples to show how allowing div by zero leads to any desired numerical result and not necessarily zero or infinity. My fave is sin(1/x)/x.
First note that f(x) = sin(1/x) is bounded by +1 and -1 but as x -> zero there is not even a limit. The sin frequency increases but it never tends towards any single value. Simple and wonderful.
Now try [sin(1/x)]/x, which has no upper or lower bounds and no limit as x -> zero. Beautiful.
Given your desire to simplify things, this function shows that setting div by zero to ANY number is as good as zero or max or any value you like. The logical conclusion is that any result with a div by zero in it is meaningless.
Coding calculations is very much about handling exceptions, such as div by zero, and controlling floating point accuracy. If you don't like dealing with what is required and if you don't understand why then perhaps you should leave the math to others. Seriously.
BTW, google will graph these functions for you... just enter "plot sin(1/x)/x" into the search dialogue.
I'm not so familiar with QC law but generally in Canada, damages have to be proven, real, and accurate. To get $100K in damages the plaintiff would have to show the loss and not just pull a number out of the air. Further, punitive damages are reserved, AFAIK, for situations that truly deserve punishment.
This is the "common sense" aspect of the case. The judge looked at the facts and quickly determined that there ain't no way to show any loss let alone $100K. There certainly is no basis for punishment either.
You want to sue for damages that haven't happened then go South.
RTFA 25 to 75 mhz is a span that includes many Earth originated communication sources including radio amateurs, RC toys, CB, PTP business, and broadcast.
One option is what you did here on/. . . . but in a planned campaign that includes getting the VLC org on your side.
Another is civil (small claims) court. No lawyer necessary and guaranteed to cost Dell more than you if they fight it. You are very likely to get a judgement on your side if Dell doesn't send a representative. You can have oodles of fun serving the judgement on Dell. I have gone to civil court twice and both times the judge was very good.
A bit of a windmill tilt since after all is said and done you could easily replace the speakers yourself for much less.
Your local state/provincial/federal government is bound to have a consumer affairs section which has an interest in making sure businesses treat consumers fairly. You could look into that.
Finally, go around the service desk if you can. See if you can make contact with someone other than a scripted service droid.
I had an HP inkjet that would not pick up paper no matter what I did. I had several trouble calls in with them while it was under warranty but nothing helped so I tossed the offender into the closet and got on with my life. About a year later (outside of the warranty) I happened to read online about a service kit from HP that would cure the problem. Free under warranty. Called HP up and you know they said too bad, so sad, your warranty has expired. They would sell the kit for $40 bucks plus shipping. Half the cost of the printer. I protested about my trouble calls and they said the tickets were no longer in the system.
On the off chance, I sent an email explaining my situation to the HP CEO as firstname.lastname@hp.com. Expecting nothing, I was floored when the next day I received a response from HP apologizing for the situation and that a kit plus a set of ink cartridges were being shipped to me.
I am sure that the email did not go to the CEO of the time (uh, about 8 yrs ago so...) but someone read the mail and dealt with it.
Nice, but I wasted at least 40 hours on the issue. Wayyyyyyyyyyy more value than the printer. I shudda just thrown the darn thing out at the first sign of trouble.
How upset are you? How much are you prepared to put into it.
Think of anything that happens to personal computers and servers on the internet now and then imagine automobiles being rooted and forced into remote servitude.
I like the way you think.
Combine this with NFC purchasing and the obesity/heart disease problem could go through the roof with massive line ups at Jack-In-De-Box or what ever your favourite fat delivery system is.
2. After-market engine performance and firewall firmware/hardware replacements
3. Advanced "radar" detectors which now become AIPS and AIDS (Authority Intrusion Prevention & Detection Systems)
4. Automotive GPS spoofs
etc etc
My guess is that since the NSA revelations, it is easy to give wing to any story about government intrusion into everyday life. It might even be true. I am sure that even if this story is out of the Weekly World News* bin, somebody in authority has given thought to the idea.
*things like: 26ft Chicken Caught in Texas and Alien Backs Bush in Election
Some of the fellas around me speculated that the "commies" sent us the rejects. I think things were just what they were with no evil planning.
I never saw any news stories about the issue but this was pre personal computing, pre widespread internet, and news gathering was a foot-and-mouth issue. The magnet item would never have surfaced. Probably because it is and would have been a non issue.
In the 1970's the semiconductor revolution was well established but there was still a lot of vacuum tube tech around, especially in the military. Equipment such as radio transmitters and high sensitivity receivers still used tubes because of unique properties they afforded or just because the tech just had not been updated.
By the mid 70's it was difficult to get a reliable tube supplier located in a NATO country. Soviet Russia was still firmly in the heated glass bottle camp with a high level of supply capability.
That's when the USSR became a NATO supplier.
From personal experience, I know much of civil and military stock of NATO vacuum tube parts were sourced from Russian or other Warsaw pact sources.
Mind you, I never saw a Soviet back door in a 12AT7. Neither did I see any performance issues or increased in-service failure rates. More stuff failed right out of the box but that was the case with the old stock we had that was sourced from Canada, the US, the UK and so on.
... when migrating aliens get their heads ( er... extended body parts? ) caught in these 6 pack devil traps and can no longer execute their primary function:
Yes the description may be flawed but seems to me that this is essentially a technique that has been in use for a long time, at least back to the 1950's, with systems like surveillance radar where several ping round trips are superimposed (added together). Involves delaying/storing the received signal and adding back together in a time correlated manner. Noise tends to reduce and object reflections tend to reinforce resulting in an effective improvement in the signal to noise ratio. In the early days, analog delay lines were used which also introduced noise but which would also cancel out.
With high performance computing it is not hard to imagine compensating for and correlating frame position, observer location, time etc.
Even if the object has a velocity such that there is no reflection signal increase, background noise will be decreased.
That's well under the base speed on the QEII or Highway 63 on a Friday night (Alberta).
FYI: Notes for the understandably confused -
--- QEII is the fast pipe between Edmonton and Calgary which, every weekend, appear to exchange urban populations at a rate limited only by asphalt, wind resistance, and whatever protective limits are programmed into engines.
--- Highway 63 is the deadly route between Edmonton and Ft McMurray (oil mines)
The RCMP set up speed traps but it's a bit like swatting snowflakes in a blizzard.
70mph same same 113 km/h
In Alberta, you can usually travel at 10km/h over the limit (100 or 110 on most highways) without getting a ticket. On the QEII where the limit is 110, if I travel at 120 km/h then I have to stick in the slow lane while vehicle after vehicle passes me rapidly.
Alberta has the second highest provincial fatality rate in Canada but pales in comparison with Saskatchewan which is 50% higher.
Yukon T. and NWT have double Alberta's already high rate.
Yeah, I agree. I did that sort of thing for a long time and it has many downsides to counter the upsides. A lot of folk make it work though but there has to be serious emotional resilience, life pattern flexibility and commitment by both partners. Kids do fine as long as they see overall stability and don't get forgotten about.
Again, companies do what they need to attract workers into positions that make serious demands on their lives. When a whole community lives that way, the community culture gets weird.
Not a one-company town . . . a mining town with lots of big players.
The similarities are:
- lots of money and opportunities for multiple players (companies). Think of Silicon Valley as a huge mining operation. There is a rich field of opportunity for players that get it right. - many of the workers plan to work long hours and sacrifice personal time to make a bundle and become financially independent early in life - the companies do a what they can to facilitate the 'nose to the grindstone' crowd - the community suffers (in my opinion) from this money-work-golden-payoff culture
One of the things I noticed in San Jose (haven't been there for 10 years) was the way the community shut down early in the evening. Hard to find a place to eat after 9pm. Maybe that has changed but a restaurant manager said nobody goes out late because they are all up early. Ft Mac is the same except for the yahoo/cowboy bars. When the restaurants close says a lot about how much leisure time people in a community are allowing themselves. Also means no after-show late crowds.
Just saying that the clean living Silicon Valley industry has numerous attributes usually associated with the dirty end of the industrial spectrum: mining towns. Busing workers is part of it. Boom/bust cycling is another.
The plants send out buses to pick up workers early in the morning, pretty much door to door service. Sys admins, truck drivers, and execs. BTW: truck drivers (big trucks - 400 ton) are highly valued, more so than lowly sys admins/IT workers.
Buses come early and suburb house lights are all out by 10pm. Next day same same all over again.
Lots of money to be made and not a lot of folk believe they are in a long term position.
As much as I am in favour of eliminating environmental lead where possible, at least some research shows that firing range lead does not migrate into the surrounding environment or leach into ground water; it basically stays put. Containing and covering may be sufficient for rehabilitation purposes although leaving the lead in place may not be a good thing in the long run. You never know when there will be a price to be paid because of an unforeseen issue.
Like my mom told me: "Always wear clean underwear in case you die in an accident".
You might look at a report from 2004 from Virginia tech, although I don't know what bias the researchers brought to the study:
Donald Rimstidt, a professor in the Department of Geosciences, College of Science at Virginia Tech, will report the conclusions of a five-year study at the 116th national meeting of the Geological Sciences of America in Denver Nov. 7-10. [2004]... "We were invited by the U.S. Forest Service to look at the shooting range in the National Forest near Blacksburg."
The researchers' survey found 11 metric tons of shot in the shotgun range and 12 metric tons of lead bullets in the rifle range. "These ranges are 10 years old. Most of the lead shot has accumulated on about four or five acres. Some shots have been into the woods, which cover hundreds of acres," Rimstidt said.... However some lead escapes, he said. "But we learned that it is absorbed in the top few inches of soil and does not migrate beyond that," Rimstidt said. "Lead is not very mobile. It does not wash away in surface or ground water."
Another finding is that there are large amounts of lead in the trees near the shooting range – but not in a large percentage of the trees, Rimstidt said. "If and when those trees are harvested, they would be contaminated with lead "
Fisheries and Wildlife professor Pat Scanlon was an investigator on the project until his death in 2003. "He found no evidence that birds were eating shot, but this portion of the research was not completed," Rimstidt said. "We are not saying that wildlife would not ingest lead, but it does not appear to be a problem on this range. Other shooting ranges may be different."
If a complete cleanup is required then it can be costly. A 15 hectare site near Edmonton cost about 6.5M CAD to fix up in 2006.
BTW: That range had been in use for over 20 years and there was no spread of contamination off of the site on the surface or into the ground/water table.
The explanation given is not exactly correct and likely is the narrative the pilot gave to keep from losing his license/job, or perhaps other consequences given the nature of the regime at the time. The pictures appear to have been taken some time after the accident (rust on panels) and it is likely not the original location. Looks like it was dragged away.
No dependency on computers necessary for people to do stupid things. We blame automation but incompetence, failure to follow procedures, complacency, and dysfunctional cultural norms (ethnic or professional) are often a major contributor to disasters.
At a desert oil production station (Gialo) in Libya in the 80's a pilot crashed an LAA F27 passenger plane carrying field workers when he attempted a landing on the old runway instead of the new one.
The day was perfectly clear: not a cloud in the sky. Visibility was extremely good. Virtually no wind.
The old runway had been dusted over with crushed white Saharan calichi which made it fade into the surrounding background of light tan hardpan and sand. To further discourage use of the old runway, loads of rock had been dumped in piles down the centre end to end.
The new runway was inline with and off the end of the old. Brand spanking new asphalt, black as midnight, complete with high contrast runway markings and looking like big black stripe on a pale background. A blindman in a snowstorm could not miss the dang thing; it fairly screamed LAND HERE.
The NOTAMs were updated properly and anyone flying into Gialo would see the runway info as the first item.
Nonetheless, the pilot made his usual approach over the station like he had done many many times previous and did not realize the mistake until he was just about to touch down. Pulled up but a wheel caught a rock pile and he pranged the nose into the old strip. Go figure.
No one was killed and as far as I saw, they all walked off. One fella (a Brit of some flavour) had been sleeping and stepped out saying 'What's all the fuss about?". We turned him about and, gazing at the bent props, crushed nose and broken gear, he said: "Felt like a regular landing to me."
If it's 'worthless' why are you even bothering to read anything here, let alone comment? Anyways, my insult was directed at the original AC and his/her ignorant comment ---- not ALL AC commentators. Seemed very clear.
Anonymous commenting is fine by me but 'no guts' same same 'coward' as in AC . . .
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QC does not have the power to enforce the legislation. They can pass all the laws they want but the ISPs only have to listen to the feds. It would take orders from Ottawa to make it so. Section 92.10 of the Constitution Act of 1867 grants Ottawa exclusive power over international and interprovincial transport and communication.
Now, if the gambling site is in QC then the Ass. Nat. can claim jurisdiction as this would be intraprovincial communication. Mmmmm, probably have to invoke the notwithstanding clause because of other constitutional issues. Best just to send the SQ in to plunder and pillage.
Kinda like municipalities that pass laws about communication towers. In the end, if the feds say it is ok then the towns/counties/provinces can go pound sand.
I've done this but it is a bit like peeing into the wind, especially if you are camping with friends or family.
Given that you want to get away but it is not doable to let go, I have two suggestions:
1. Make a plan to partner with someone so you can cover for each other. Life happens. You cannot be on call 7x24x365 forever. You won't like it and eventually your customers won't either. Certainly the significant people in your life will hate it. Get involved with a consulting partnership or form one yourself. If you like this way of working then make it work long term.
that said:
2. On call camping is all about planning and setting expectations. What is your on-call response time? 15 min means you can find a campground with some kind of connectivity coverage and stay there. Enjoy sleeping and eating and hanging out in a semi-isolated location. If you just have to check in every 24 hrs then you have a lot of flexibility and you probably won't have to bring much special with you.
Choices:
Low end: Just bring your cell and data plan, or scout out local wifi. Most park/camping/resort areas will have a small town nearby with various wifi options. Coin laundries have excellent wifi connectivity in my experience though usually not free.
High end: eh, under $1000 investment. Wilson cell boosters. Omni and directional cell antennas. 3g tends speed tends to be distance dependent and will slow down even with good signal. LTE is much better. I have made connections as far away as 80 miles. Horizon gets in the way usually but it helps if the tower is on a mountain top or if you are. Portability is a challenge but you can set up a backpack unit fairly easily with, say, 5Kg of extra booster, battery, charger weight. Or go wifi: ALFA wireless units with 1 or 2 watts and a good directional antenna can get you wifi at amazing distances but are limited because most access points are not set up with antennas outside a building. 8-> They tend to be low power and indoors. Portability is again an issue but doable. Climb to the top of Pyramid in Jasper and camp there. Line of sight will not be an issue but nail your tent down.
Higher high end: $2000 to $10,000. Satellite internet with a portable gps enabled self tracking dish in a fiberglass dome. You will probably want a portable generator. Also need a data plan at about 50 to 100 per month. You could carry a dish and transponder on a hike which would be awkward but could be quite fun. Tends to tie you down and prevent straying far from where you set up your base camp. Speeds can be quite good for streaming but ping times are in the 1000s of milliseconds. Usually have to pay a premium if you go over a couple of GB per month. Oh and usually a 1, 2, or 3 year contract. Um, and mountains can be an issue if they block the satellite view. Choose a North/South valley.
Ridiculously expensive high end: $100K or more. Bring your own tower and cellular repeater site. Get a trailer with a 40m telescoping tower, hydraulic stabilizer legs, and a mini network center. You should be able to get LTE almost anywhere with the correct setup. Add in the satellite transponder as backup. Camp near a fast moving mountain stream and setup a hydro electric supply. Plan where you are going to hike and run your own repeater with directed coverage to the area you will be traversing. Put a booster in your pack and attach a 2 meter buggy whip so you have continuous coverage. A blinking light on the top will aid rescuers when you get lost. Check regularly with your doctor for radiation induced growths in various locations on your body. Be aware that national park wardens take a dim view of this sort of setup.
I handled on call with a Wilson cellular booster in my truck and a portable wifi router with a 4g dongle. As long as you can get one bar on a cell results should be very good. I stuck around the campsite, drank coffee, cooked food, and read books. Nice but not full on hiking/camping.
Again, the best choice is leave it all behind. The most complex issue to deal with when camping should be how to make a banana boat on a campfire.
I calculate
You check for div by zero
Is that too complicated for you Carl?
Your assumption is simply wrong. It can only be expressed as "not a number" and your code should catch this.
There are all sorts of examples to show how allowing div by zero leads to any desired numerical result and not necessarily zero or infinity. My fave is sin(1/x)/x.
First note that f(x) = sin(1/x) is bounded by +1 and -1 but as x -> zero there is not even a limit. The sin frequency increases but it never tends towards any single value. Simple and wonderful.
Now try [sin(1/x)]/x, which has no upper or lower bounds and no limit as x -> zero. Beautiful.
Given your desire to simplify things, this function shows that setting div by zero to ANY number is as good as zero or max or any value you like. The logical conclusion is that any result with a div by zero in it is meaningless.
Coding calculations is very much about handling exceptions, such as div by zero, and controlling floating point accuracy. If you don't like dealing with what is required and if you don't understand why then perhaps you should leave the math to others. Seriously.
BTW, google will graph these functions for you... just enter "plot sin(1/x)/x" into the search dialogue.
endless frabjousity
Really. Not being sarcastic.
I'm not so familiar with QC law but generally in Canada, damages have to be proven, real, and accurate. To get $100K in damages the plaintiff would have to show the loss and not just pull a number out of the air. Further, punitive damages are reserved, AFAIK, for situations that truly deserve punishment.
This is the "common sense" aspect of the case. The judge looked at the facts and quickly determined that there ain't no way to show any loss let alone $100K. There certainly is no basis for punishment either.
You want to sue for damages that haven't happened then go South.
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RTFA 25 to 75 mhz is a span that includes many Earth originated communication sources including radio amateurs, RC toys, CB, PTP business, and broadcast.
oh, and sorry I forgot to be polite:
FUCK BETA, and the Mobile edition while you are at it.
... will it work with my Lightning connector? ... will it drain my battery?
One option is what you did here on /. . . . but in a planned campaign that includes getting the VLC org on your side.
Another is civil (small claims) court. No lawyer necessary and guaranteed to cost Dell more than you if they fight it. You are very likely to get a judgement on your side if Dell doesn't send a representative. You can have oodles of fun serving the judgement on Dell. I have gone to civil court twice and both times the judge was very good.
In Alberta: http://www.albertacourts.ab.ca...
A bit of a windmill tilt since after all is said and done you could easily replace the speakers yourself for much less.
Your local state/provincial/federal government is bound to have a consumer affairs section which has an interest in making sure businesses treat consumers fairly. You could look into that.
Finally, go around the service desk if you can. See if you can make contact with someone other than a scripted service droid.
I had an HP inkjet that would not pick up paper no matter what I did. I had several trouble calls in with them while it was under warranty but nothing helped so I tossed the offender into the closet and got on with my life. About a year later (outside of the warranty) I happened to read online about a service kit from HP that would cure the problem. Free under warranty. Called HP up and you know they said too bad, so sad, your warranty has expired. They would sell the kit for $40 bucks plus shipping. Half the cost of the printer. I protested about my trouble calls and they said the tickets were no longer in the system.
On the off chance, I sent an email explaining my situation to the HP CEO as firstname.lastname@hp.com. Expecting nothing, I was floored when the next day I received a response from HP apologizing for the situation and that a kit plus a set of ink cartridges were being shipped to me.
I am sure that the email did not go to the CEO of the time (uh, about 8 yrs ago so ...) but someone read the mail and dealt with it.
Nice, but I wasted at least 40 hours on the issue. Wayyyyyyyyyyy more value than the printer. I shudda just thrown the darn thing out at the first sign of trouble.
How upset are you? How much are you prepared to put into it.
Have fun.
Awww . . . you're already worrying about what the overlords will do. What they don't know won't hurt me.
Yes! Exactly.
Think of anything that happens to personal computers and servers on the internet now and then imagine automobiles being rooted and forced into remote servitude.
I like the way you think.
Combine this with NFC purchasing and the obesity/heart disease problem could go through the roof with massive line ups at Jack-In-De-Box or what ever your favourite fat delivery system is.
1. Jailbreaking vulnerable car systems
2. After-market engine performance and firewall firmware/hardware replacements
3. Advanced "radar" detectors which now become AIPS and AIDS (Authority Intrusion Prevention & Detection Systems)
4. Automotive GPS spoofs
etc etc
My guess is that since the NSA revelations, it is easy to give wing to any story about government intrusion into everyday life. It might even be true. I am sure that even if this story is out of the Weekly World News* bin, somebody in authority has given thought to the idea.
*things like: 26ft Chicken Caught in Texas and Alien Backs Bush in Election
Yup, exactly. Bad wording on my part.
Some of the fellas around me speculated that the "commies" sent us the rejects. I think things were just what they were with no evil planning.
I never saw any news stories about the issue but this was pre personal computing, pre widespread internet, and news gathering was a foot-and-mouth issue. The magnet item would never have surfaced. Probably because it is and would have been a non issue.
Cheers
From the Department of FWIW.
In the 1970's the semiconductor revolution was well established but there was still a lot of vacuum tube tech around, especially in the military. Equipment such as radio transmitters and high sensitivity receivers still used tubes because of unique properties they afforded or just because the tech just had not been updated.
By the mid 70's it was difficult to get a reliable tube supplier located in a NATO country. Soviet Russia was still firmly in the heated glass bottle camp with a high level of supply capability.
That's when the USSR became a NATO supplier.
From personal experience, I know much of civil and military stock of NATO vacuum tube parts were sourced from Russian or other Warsaw pact sources.
Mind you, I never saw a Soviet back door in a 12AT7. Neither did I see any performance issues or increased in-service failure rates. More stuff failed right out of the box but that was the case with the old stock we had that was sourced from Canada, the US, the UK and so on.
... when migrating aliens get their heads ( er ... extended body parts? ) caught in these 6 pack devil traps and can no longer execute their primary function:
** probing anal orifices **
A sad discovery indeed.
Yes the description may be flawed but seems to me that this is essentially a technique that has been in use for a long time, at least back to the 1950's, with systems like surveillance radar where several ping round trips are superimposed (added together). Involves delaying/storing the received signal and adding back together in a time correlated manner. Noise tends to reduce and object reflections tend to reinforce resulting in an effective improvement in the signal to noise ratio. In the early days, analog delay lines were used which also introduced noise but which would also cancel out.
With high performance computing it is not hard to imagine compensating for and correlating frame position, observer location, time etc.
Even if the object has a velocity such that there is no reflection signal increase, background noise will be decreased.
. . . 70mph! Nonsense!
That's well under the base speed on the QEII or Highway 63 on a Friday night (Alberta).
FYI: Notes for the understandably confused -
--- QEII is the fast pipe between Edmonton and Calgary which, every weekend, appear to exchange urban populations at a rate limited only by asphalt, wind resistance, and whatever protective limits are programmed into engines.
--- Highway 63 is the deadly route between Edmonton and Ft McMurray (oil mines)
The RCMP set up speed traps but it's a bit like swatting snowflakes in a blizzard.
70mph same same 113 km/h
In Alberta, you can usually travel at 10km/h over the limit (100 or 110 on most highways) without getting a ticket. On the QEII where the limit is 110, if I travel at 120 km/h then I have to stick in the slow lane while vehicle after vehicle passes me rapidly.
Alberta has the second highest provincial fatality rate in Canada but pales in comparison with Saskatchewan which is 50% higher.
Yukon T. and NWT have double Alberta's already high rate.
Yeah, I agree. I did that sort of thing for a long time and it has many downsides to counter the upsides. A lot of folk make it work though but there has to be serious emotional resilience, life pattern flexibility and commitment by both partners. Kids do fine as long as they see overall stability and don't get forgotten about.
Again, companies do what they need to attract workers into positions that make serious demands on their lives. When a whole community lives that way, the community culture gets weird.
Not a one-company town . . . a mining town with lots of big players.
The similarities are:
- lots of money and opportunities for multiple players (companies). Think of Silicon Valley as a huge mining operation. There is a rich field of opportunity for players that get it right.
- many of the workers plan to work long hours and sacrifice personal time to make a bundle and become financially independent early in life
- the companies do a what they can to facilitate the 'nose to the grindstone' crowd
- the community suffers (in my opinion) from this money-work-golden-payoff culture
One of the things I noticed in San Jose (haven't been there for 10 years) was the way the community shut down early in the evening. Hard to find a place to eat after 9pm. Maybe that has changed but a restaurant manager said nobody goes out late because they are all up early. Ft Mac is the same except for the yahoo/cowboy bars. When the restaurants close says a lot about how much leisure time people in a community are allowing themselves. Also means no after-show late crowds.
Just saying that the clean living Silicon Valley industry has numerous attributes usually associated with the dirty end of the industrial spectrum: mining towns. Busing workers is part of it.
Boom/bust cycling is another.
Not perfect comparison but curious I think . . .
Oil sands workers in Ft. McMurray.
The plants send out buses to pick up workers early in the morning, pretty much door to door service. Sys admins, truck drivers, and execs. BTW: truck drivers (big trucks - 400 ton) are highly valued, more so than lowly sys admins/IT workers.
Buses come early and suburb house lights are all out by 10pm. Next day same same all over again.
Lots of money to be made and not a lot of folk believe they are in a long term position.
As much as I am in favour of eliminating environmental lead where possible, at least some research shows that firing range lead does not migrate into the surrounding environment or leach into ground water; it basically stays put. Containing and covering may be sufficient for rehabilitation purposes although leaving the lead in place may not be a good thing in the long run. You never know when there will be a price to be paid because of an unforeseen issue.
Like my mom told me: "Always wear clean underwear in case you die in an accident".
You might look at a report from 2004 from Virginia tech, although I don't know what bias the researchers brought to the study:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041104005801.htm
Donald Rimstidt, a professor in the Department of Geosciences, College of Science at Virginia Tech, will report the conclusions of a five-year study at the 116th national meeting of the Geological Sciences of America in Denver Nov. 7-10. [2004] ...
"We were invited by the U.S. Forest Service to look at the shooting range in the National Forest near Blacksburg."
The researchers' survey found 11 metric tons of shot in the shotgun range and 12 metric tons of lead bullets in the rifle range. "These ranges are 10 years old. Most of the lead shot has accumulated on about four or five acres. Some shots have been into the woods, which cover hundreds of acres," Rimstidt said. ...
However some lead escapes, he said. "But we learned that it is absorbed in the top few inches of soil and does not migrate beyond that," Rimstidt said. "Lead is not very mobile. It does not wash away in surface or ground water."
Another finding is that there are large amounts of lead in the trees near the shooting range – but not in a large percentage of the trees, Rimstidt said. "If and when those trees are harvested, they would be contaminated with lead "
Fisheries and Wildlife professor Pat Scanlon was an investigator on the project until his death in 2003. "He found no evidence that birds were eating shot, but this portion of the research was not completed," Rimstidt said. "We are not saying that wildlife would not ingest lead, but it does not appear to be a problem on this range. Other shooting ranges may be different."
If a complete cleanup is required then it can be costly. A 15 hectare site near Edmonton cost about 6.5M CAD to fix up in 2006.
BTW: That range had been in use for over 20 years and there was no spread of contamination off of the site on the surface or into the ground/water table.
Just sayin'
Pictures and official description at
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19869999-1
The explanation given is not exactly correct and likely is the narrative the pilot gave to keep from losing his license/job, or perhaps other consequences given the nature of the regime at the time. The pictures appear to have been taken some time after the accident (rust on panels) and it is likely not the original location. Looks like it was dragged away.
No dependency on computers necessary for people to do stupid things. We blame automation but incompetence, failure to follow procedures, complacency, and dysfunctional cultural norms (ethnic or professional) are often a major contributor to disasters.
At a desert oil production station (Gialo) in Libya in the 80's a pilot crashed an LAA F27 passenger plane carrying field workers when he attempted a landing on the old runway instead of the new one.
The day was perfectly clear: not a cloud in the sky. Visibility was extremely good. Virtually no wind.
The old runway had been dusted over with crushed white Saharan calichi which made it fade into the surrounding background of light tan hardpan and sand. To further discourage use of the old runway, loads of rock had been dumped in piles down the centre end to end.
The new runway was inline with and off the end of the old. Brand spanking new asphalt, black as midnight, complete with high contrast runway markings and looking like big black stripe on a pale background. A blindman in a snowstorm could not miss the dang thing; it fairly screamed LAND HERE.
The NOTAMs were updated properly and anyone flying into Gialo would see the runway info as the first item.
Nonetheless, the pilot made his usual approach over the station like he had done many many times previous and did not realize the mistake until he was just about to touch down. Pulled up but a wheel caught a rock pile and he pranged the nose into the old strip. Go figure.
No one was killed and as far as I saw, they all walked off. One fella (a Brit of some flavour) had been sleeping and stepped out saying 'What's all the fuss about?". We turned him about and, gazing at the bent props, crushed nose and broken gear, he said: "Felt like a regular landing to me."
So ....
If it's 'worthless' why are you even bothering to read anything here, let alone comment? Anyways, my insult was directed at the original AC and his/her ignorant comment ---- not ALL AC commentators. Seemed very clear.
Anonymous commenting is fine by me but 'no guts' same same 'coward' as in AC . . .
Why you felt a need is beyond my ken.
Cheers