What happens when the ipad dies or doesn't turn on, and the crew *need* to get at that info?
True...almost all flights those books sit there doing nothing, but the *one* time you need them, you *need* them *right the *#$&@* now, and having your ipad be doa or fritz on you would be *A Very Bad Thing*. I'm sure you can save 38 pounds somewhere else on the plane.
You have two iPads (Captain and first officer). The chance of BOTH iPads failing to work at a critical junction are likely less than the chance the paper charts will get torn / ripped / tossed about the cabin in the event of something very bad happening.
These manuals are for routine work. The emergency checklists are still on paper. Laminated paper.
As I mentioned before, Alaska can't even begin to sell it's stranded natural gas. Even with a LNG facility near Anchorage (that is being mothballed). Even after 10 years of trying to put a deal together to build a simple, little tube to the lower 48. No, the economics of natural gas (at least at present) do not remotely come close to supporting a project this large. The Russians are much better off just hooking Siberian natural gas pipelines to Europe (where they have contracts at present).
We've got plenty of natural gas (in the time frame of financing and build out of this sort of project). There just isn't enough capital to get it to market cheap enough to be viable. Electricity is even worse. You have to produce it (admittedly not hard) then transport it enormous distances. Again, perfectly technically feasible but financially foolish.
And the problem with the proposed tunnel is that Alaska still can't figure out how to get people to pay for said 'wonderful' pipeline. 1/4 the distance, perhaps 1/10th the cost.....
Not a chance. Although Alaska is doing "OK" from the oil money we get, it is dwindling rapidly and everyone knows it. Alaska can't even afford to push a gas pipeline down to the lower 48 to sell off all of the neato natural gas we have. The economics of nat gas have gotten so bad that we've shut down the LNG facility that shipped it to Asia.
#3 Greedy Americans can be shown pictures of all the valuable things they can buy/sell, and it's just down the road from here.
"Just down the road"??? Look at a map of Alaska. Look at the distance from Alaska to anywhere else. One hella road.
#4 You can offshore the remains of your economy to Russia.
?
#5 A rail line will make it cheaper to bring in Chinese than Mexicans.
Perhaps disaffected Siberians, but it's not going to be cheaper than bulk freighters.
Russia exports oil, US imports oil. Sky high oil prices (courtesy of peak oil) mean lots of money coming in to pay for this. As for selling the oil to china, that's the point. Selling Alaska oil to china will pay more once the US defaults.
The problem is that high oil prices tend to be unsustainable in the decades long time frame necessary for infrastructure projects such as this. Think Colorado oil shale (and others). If prices go too high, demand collapses and prices go lower, thus making it very hard to support the financing on big projects. Besides, if you just want to push oil, it's a lot easier to build a pipeline than a railroad.
An actual direct-rail transport corridor from East Asia to the Americas would pay for itself. It would be costly up front, but as a transport corridor it would basically be akin to how opening up the North American frontier to rail created a whole series of economic opportunities.
Not really a good analogy. Punching rail through the central portion of North America allowed for local growth along the line which spread laterally over time. The prairies and low mountain environments were instantly exploitable by the American settlers. This is a rail / tunnel system In The Middle Of Fucking Nowhere. It's extremely harsh country on both sides. It has some resource wealth, quite a bit of it which is economically 'stranded' but the costs of this thing (and remember to double any cost proposal at the out set, you'll only be about 50% too low by the time it's finished) are enormous and really don't add up to the resource base.
This has been floated for the past couple of decades and pops up at odd times. The only thing I can see that it has going for it know is the low cost of borrowing.
Pretty much this. You are planning on building the worlds largest tunnel -- in the middle of Fucking Nowhere. On both sides. In the winter. Look at what it costs just to fly some milk into the smaller villages along the coast or even Dutch Harbor (which gets a fair amount of heavy transport going back and forth).
All for what? Just exactly what resources? Oil? Build a pipeline? Coal - shit, Alaska has tons of coal. It's just stranded. Too far away from anywhere to be economically useful. Vodka? Furry Hats?
And this nonsense about powerlines. Talk about expensive. Hell, we can even afford the Southeast Intertie, a tiny little transmission line in SE Alaska. Without the Brooks Range. Without the Alaska Range.
Smacks of somebody trying to make a fast buck off of slow train.
1994 and 2400 baud? You were behind the times. In 1994, 14.4kbps was standard and 28.8kbps wasn't uncommon. That's the era of the P75 - P100 socket 5 Pentiums with 4-16MB ram, double or quad-speed CD ROMs, and 14" - 17" CRTs with a maximum resolution of 1024x768 or 1280x1024. With a good graphics card (3dfx Voodoo Rush or Riva TNT), you *might* have gotten 640x480 Quake at 30 fps. Back then, AOL really did suck - 700ms+ ping times and per-hour billing.
btw, a few BBSes still exist. Try telnetting to bbs.goldengate.net.
Christ. Slashdot has turned into a virtual nursing home.
Personally, I believe that our ancestors interbred with a race of cybernetic humans and humans who came here on a spaceship called a "Battlestar," and that is how we came to be. I think that makes as much sense as any other religious explanation.
Well that does help to explain a number of your posts.
32 bits is quite useful in HDR (High Dynamic Range) manipulations. (64 is probably overkill.) Just because I/O devices have a limited bit depth, it doesn't follow that image manipulation should be limited to same. 16 bit depth allows you to do heavy manipulation on RGB images without posterization or pixelation. Yes, you typically collapse the image to 8 bit before printing / viewing but you need the higher bit depth in order to avoid trouble during the manipulation phase. HDR is 32 bit for the same reason.
And, just to be pedantic, there are 16 bit printers and 10 bit LCD screens. They're very high end and from what I've seen not necessary for most use although there probably are times when it's important. It's a big world out there.
1% can be an awful lot of money left on the table. Corporations that ignore a subset of the market because it's only 1% tend not to do well in the long term.
Apple is just laughing their tits off at that concept, mate...
1% hell, they ignore the bottom 50% and still do fine. Adobe doesn't give a shit about the bottom of the market. It costs one hell of a lot of money to support a product. They're barely interested in supporting Apple at what, 10% market share, much less Linux.
Big whoppee! IS slashdot being used as a marketing spam engine like bitcoin to get any news out on Apple? Gimme a break!
All right, you want that Slashdot start covering Michelle Bachman? Sarah Palin? Ponies?
We've already run through the 'beat up Google / Microsoft / RIM and bog help us, HP" this week. What else are we supposed to do here? Besides, tangled amongst the Apple hate and the weak jokes (and I might add, several run on sentences and NO 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' jokes) is a description of a rather cool alert system and the social reasons why it's important.
Obviously, this is of only intellectual (and I use the term loosely) value. From what I gather, the importance of the system is it forces cell phones to make an audible / tactile alert in the event of an imminent quake. Apparently many Japanese leave their phones on 'silent' so as not to be obnoxious jerks in public. This system would be of limited utility in the US since everyone's cell phone is set to wail some god awful discordant noise at volume 11 at all times.
Would have been sweet if they'd been able to develop an algorithm to detect an impending earthquake from the slight vibrations in the iPhone itself. Then it could work no matter where you are. Oh well.
Not so much for the iPhone, but for a MacBook, there is something fun. Amuse your friend(s), scare your coworkers! Look like you're doing real work!
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I could just see someone writing a computer virus that causes the planes to fly to Cuba.
Just about as likely as this sort of thing happening.
What happens when the ipad dies or doesn't turn on, and the crew *need* to get at that info?
True...almost all flights those books sit there doing nothing, but the *one* time you need them, you *need* them *right the *#$&@* now, and having your ipad be doa or fritz on you would be *A Very Bad Thing*. I'm sure you can save 38 pounds somewhere else on the plane.
You have two iPads (Captain and first officer). The chance of BOTH iPads failing to work at a critical junction are likely less than the chance the paper charts will get torn / ripped / tossed about the cabin in the event of something very bad happening.
These manuals are for routine work. The emergency checklists are still on paper. Laminated paper.
As I mentioned before, Alaska can't even begin to sell it's stranded natural gas. Even with a LNG facility near Anchorage (that is being mothballed). Even after 10 years of trying to put a deal together to build a simple, little tube to the lower 48. No, the economics of natural gas (at least at present) do not remotely come close to supporting a project this large. The Russians are much better off just hooking Siberian natural gas pipelines to Europe (where they have contracts at present).
We've got plenty of natural gas (in the time frame of financing and build out of this sort of project). There just isn't enough capital to get it to market cheap enough to be viable. Electricity is even worse. You have to produce it (admittedly not hard) then transport it enormous distances. Again, perfectly technically feasible but financially foolish.
(sorry about all of the parentheses)
Well, looking at how the south east of the US are both very religious and constantly hit by tornados, floods and the like...
My theory is that it has something to do with the prevalence of Sundrop and/or Cheerwine in those parts.
Nope. Trailers. God hates trailers.
Why do you hate America?
And the problem with the proposed tunnel is that Alaska still can't figure out how to get people to pay for said 'wonderful' pipeline. 1/4 the distance, perhaps 1/10th the cost.....
#1 It involves jobs during an recession
A couple thousand, true enough
#2 Alaska has oil money to pay for this.
Not a chance. Although Alaska is doing "OK" from the oil money we get, it is dwindling rapidly and everyone knows it. Alaska can't even afford to push a gas pipeline down to the lower 48 to sell off all of the neato natural gas we have. The economics of nat gas have gotten so bad that we've shut down the LNG facility that shipped it to Asia.
#3 Greedy Americans can be shown pictures of all the valuable things they can buy/sell, and it's just down the road from here.
"Just down the road"??? Look at a map of Alaska. Look at the distance from Alaska to anywhere else. One hella road.
#4 You can offshore the remains of your economy to Russia.
?
#5 A rail line will make it cheaper to bring in Chinese than Mexicans.
Perhaps disaffected Siberians, but it's not going to be cheaper than bulk freighters.
Again, I repeat, the purpose of government is to provide tangible benefits, not theoretical ones.
Yes, tangible benefits for you and the expense of someone else.
I'm sure that everyone would like the government to spend 20 billion dollars on something that would benefit them and perhaps a few others.
Russia exports oil, US imports oil. Sky high oil prices (courtesy of peak oil) mean lots of money coming in to pay for this. As for selling the oil to china, that's the point. Selling Alaska oil to china will pay more once the US defaults.
The problem is that high oil prices tend to be unsustainable in the decades long time frame necessary for infrastructure projects such as this. Think Colorado oil shale (and others). If prices go too high, demand collapses and prices go lower, thus making it very hard to support the financing on big projects. Besides, if you just want to push oil, it's a lot easier to build a pipeline than a railroad.
An actual direct-rail transport corridor from East Asia to the Americas would pay for itself. It would be costly up front, but as a transport corridor it would basically be akin to how opening up the North American frontier to rail created a whole series of economic opportunities.
Not really a good analogy. Punching rail through the central portion of North America allowed for local growth along the line which spread laterally over time. The prairies and low mountain environments were instantly exploitable by the American settlers. This is a rail / tunnel system In The Middle Of Fucking Nowhere. It's extremely harsh country on both sides. It has some resource wealth, quite a bit of it which is economically 'stranded' but the costs of this thing (and remember to double any cost proposal at the out set, you'll only be about 50% too low by the time it's finished) are enormous and really don't add up to the resource base.
This has been floated for the past couple of decades and pops up at odd times. The only thing I can see that it has going for it know is the low cost of borrowing.
Pretty much this. You are planning on building the worlds largest tunnel -- in the middle of Fucking Nowhere. On both sides. In the winter. Look at what it costs just to fly some milk into the smaller villages along the coast or even Dutch Harbor (which gets a fair amount of heavy transport going back and forth).
All for what? Just exactly what resources? Oil? Build a pipeline? Coal - shit, Alaska has tons of coal. It's just stranded. Too far away from anywhere to be economically useful. Vodka? Furry Hats?
And this nonsense about powerlines. Talk about expensive. Hell, we can even afford the Southeast Intertie, a tiny little transmission line in SE Alaska. Without the Brooks Range. Without the Alaska Range.
Smacks of somebody trying to make a fast buck off of slow train.
Nope. I lived on the east coast for 25 years and this was the first time I've ever felt an earthquake.
Not even during sex?
Ah, I forgot where I was posting for a second. Mea Culpa.
1994 and 2400 baud? You were behind the times. In 1994, 14.4kbps was standard and 28.8kbps wasn't uncommon. That's the era of the P75 - P100 socket 5 Pentiums with 4-16MB ram, double or quad-speed CD ROMs, and 14" - 17" CRTs with a maximum resolution of 1024x768 or 1280x1024. With a good graphics card (3dfx Voodoo Rush or Riva TNT), you *might* have gotten 640x480 Quake at 30 fps. Back then, AOL really did suck - 700ms+ ping times and per-hour billing.
btw, a few BBSes still exist.
Try telnetting to bbs.goldengate.net.
Christ. Slashdot has turned into a virtual nursing home.
Interesting that Colorado got a M5.3 (which is rare). OMG. The End Is Near!
USGS link
Personally, I believe that our ancestors interbred with a race of cybernetic humans and humans who came here on a spaceship called a "Battlestar," and that is how we came to be. I think that makes as much sense as any other religious explanation.
Well that does help to explain a number of your posts.
Deweirdifier
Now, if that isn't a concise analysis of what's wrong with Open Source projects like GIMP.....
This is not your father's imaging paradigm....
32 bits is quite useful in HDR (High Dynamic Range) manipulations. (64 is probably overkill.) Just because I/O devices have a limited bit depth, it doesn't follow that image manipulation should be limited to same. 16 bit depth allows you to do heavy manipulation on RGB images without posterization or pixelation. Yes, you typically collapse the image to 8 bit before printing / viewing but you need the higher bit depth in order to avoid trouble during the manipulation phase. HDR is 32 bit for the same reason.
And, just to be pedantic, there are 16 bit printers and 10 bit LCD screens. They're very high end and from what I've seen not necessary for most use although there probably are times when it's important. It's a big world out there.
1% can be an awful lot of money left on the table. Corporations that ignore a subset of the market because it's only 1% tend not to do well in the long term.
Apple is just laughing their tits off at that concept, mate...
1% hell, they ignore the bottom 50% and still do fine. Adobe doesn't give a shit about the bottom of the market. It costs one hell of a lot of money to support a product. They're barely interested in supporting Apple at what, 10% market share, much less Linux.
If Mars has a biology, it may involve sulfur a lot more than the Earth's does, so this is very interesting from the standpoint of seeding life between the two planets.
Or it just might be that hot sulfur conditions might be a good way to start life rolling. Convergent evolution.
More specifically what appear to be fossil remains of microbes that lived in beach sand.
Like Jersey Shore?
Big whoppee! IS slashdot being used as a marketing spam engine like bitcoin to get any news out on Apple? Gimme a break!
All right, you want that Slashdot start covering Michelle Bachman? Sarah Palin? Ponies?
We've already run through the 'beat up Google / Microsoft / RIM and bog help us, HP" this week. What else are we supposed to do here? Besides, tangled amongst the Apple hate and the weak jokes (and I might add, several run on sentences and NO 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' jokes) is a description of a rather cool alert system and the social reasons why it's important.
Obviously, this is of only intellectual (and I use the term loosely) value. From what I gather, the importance of the system is it forces cell phones to make an audible / tactile alert in the event of an imminent quake. Apparently many Japanese leave their phones on 'silent' so as not to be obnoxious jerks in public. This system would be of limited utility in the US since everyone's cell phone is set to wail some god awful discordant noise at volume 11 at all times.
Would have been sweet if they'd been able to develop an algorithm to detect an impending earthquake from the slight vibrations in the iPhone itself. Then it could work no matter where you are. Oh well.
Not so much for the iPhone, but for a MacBook, there is something fun. Amuse your friend(s), scare your coworkers! Look like you're doing real work!
Kinda a neat, pointless application.
Right! Good for detection radiation in the range of "OMG, your hair is falling out! or "What's that shiny glow coming from?".
Just a little late for anything useful.
And thank you, no, I'm not interested in beta testing it.
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We don't need no stinking badgers.
Or just paste this handy graphic on the wall and just mutely point to it when Luser has a question.