(Oh, to pick a few nits about your dv budget... 7.2 km/s is orbital velocity; don't forget nearly 500 m/s of Earth rotational velocity. So if you ignore air and gravity drag, it's actually slightly under 7 km/s total delta-v, though air and gravity drag will usually add more than 2 km/s to that.)
7.5 km/s is orbital roughly. Still leaves up to 1.7 km/s which is pretty tight. OTOH, the payload could be a second stage, which gets you neatly around the problem.
Yeah I think a spaceplane should never go into orbit. Instead it should make suborbital hops. Non-aerodynamic payloads could be exchanged during the ballistic part of the flight.
The joy of the WII controller is that it uses only infrared light, which to my knowledge, has never been shown to be harmful to humans.
The Wii uses bluetooth, which is basically radio. A bit like short range wifi. Infrared should actually be more harmful than bluetooth because it uses higher energy photons.
Later I wondered why I had selected this person and realised that he had the worst formatted resume of the lot. This guy can't format a word document. He is a terrible typist. In fact he didn't seem to care how it looked.
I hope you aren't relying on this hire to manage your backups or do anything else that you deem critical. If his attention to detail is that lax on something that is presumably important to him, imagine how lax it'll be on something that's important to you.
This guy is called a geek by people who outsiders would probably call geeks. I don't have any problems with his attention to any technical detail though I have seen him skip important things like meals when his attention is focused on some interesting problem.
The last time I was in a team leader position I hired an intern. He turned out to be a great worker, unusually good unix skills and very self motivated. We don't do much selection for interns. Its just a matter of sitting down with the other managers and sifting through resumes.
Later I wondered why I had selected this person and realised that he had the worst formatted resume of the lot. This guy can't format a word document. He is a terrible typist. In fact he didn't seem to care how it looked.
But where the other applicants put four types of windows then "linux". He put four types of BSD, then linux then "windows". That may have been a factor for me but the lack of interest in presentation played a part as well.
ATC systems in my experience can identify an aircraft both by aircraft ID (ACID) or registration. Normally the registration will be the tail number. For an airliner the ACID may be the flight number.
I am sure a change of ACID can be accommodated as long as the registration remains the same.
G.W. Bush, as much as he is derided, didn't even call for such an emergency broadcast on of all days 9/11/2001.
9/11 sucked, but it wasn't a national emergency.
They stopped all civilian air traffic over the whole country for two days. The people who did that clearly thought they had a national emergency on their hands.
When I worked in management the Reply All button got a lot of use because I needed to keep higher up people in the loop on discussions I was having. Of course, I always checked recipients before sending.
One of the other times we went around in circles on this issue it was pointed out that the British had a rule of law which they enforced fairly well, so non-violence worked against them. It may not work in other contexts.
The Palestinians shot themselves in the foot(most revently) when they elected Hamas(whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel) as their government.
I think it is unrealistic and unfair to expect people in that situation to vote intelligently and elect a government with an interest in peace. Democracy hardly works that way in successful western countries. In a disaster area like Gaza it won't work at all.
Have you put together a clear, serious, constructive proposal for an alternative that spells out the pros and cons? If you haven't, its your own fault really. But if you have, and they don't listen, then yeah, "shit" about sums things up. At any other time, I'd say find better bosses and quit in that situation, but few have that option at the moment.
Yes I spent two years running the CM system. Before I moved into that area I did some investigation into migrating from CVS to bitkeeper. When the BK license issues became apparent I started trialling Mercurial, building migration infrastructure and using it for areas where a DSCM is a big help. I pushed for an open evaluation of tools we could move to and got pushed out of tha role as a result.
The real test will be whether the total energy efficiency exceeds that of creating hydrogen fuel via electrolysis as the MIT team that's been all over the news for the last year says they can now do cheaply and efficiently.
Hydrogen is a difficult fuel to handle. Compared with hydrocarbon gases it's much harder to ensure that there are no leaks. Most existing vehicles are designed to use liquid fuels.
Airliners would have to use liquid hydrogen, and thanks to NASA there is a lot of existing technology for that. The problem is that hydrogen in liquid and gaseous form has a low density so a 747 would almost need a shuttle external tank to get decent range.
I think the best way to use hydrogen is to combine it with carbon to make methane. Energy density per unit mass goes down, but per unit volume it goes way up.
Aye. I tend to think only of the US as having proper states, and most other countries having provinces
The Australian federal system was actually modelled on the US system in the late 1800s. Around that time we actually called ourselves the United States of Australia. We even inherited a few really bad ideas like allowing a state Premier (you would say Governor) personally appoint a replacement senator.
A hundred years ago it would have been taken for granted that some people are born to spend their lives breaking in horses and guiding people up and down mountains, while other people are born to spend their lives in a bank adding columns of numbers.
Now we have standardised education and kids are expected to be identical as if they were cookies cut from the same material. We shouldn't be surprised that some very young kids resist being moulded in a particular way. The real challenge is finding ways to take advantages of these differences.
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The main problem with a flying car is the number of certificates you need to get in order to be able to use it.
If you owned a plane and a car you would still need both certificates.
(Oh, to pick a few nits about your dv budget... 7.2 km/s is orbital velocity; don't forget nearly 500 m/s of Earth rotational velocity. So if you ignore air and gravity drag, it's actually slightly under 7 km/s total delta-v, though air and gravity drag will usually add more than 2 km/s to that.)
7.5 km/s is orbital roughly. Still leaves up to 1.7 km/s which is pretty tight. OTOH, the payload could be a second stage, which gets you neatly around the problem.
Yeah I think a spaceplane should never go into orbit. Instead it should make suborbital hops. Non-aerodynamic payloads could be exchanged during the ballistic part of the flight.
This patent seems to be closer to Access Control Lists in VMS. They existed before 1990 of course. IPAT should sue HP.
The joy of the WII controller is that it uses only infrared light, which to my knowledge, has never been shown to be harmful to humans.
The Wii uses bluetooth, which is basically radio. A bit like short range wifi. Infrared should actually be more harmful than bluetooth because it uses higher energy photons.
I hope you aren't relying on this hire to manage your backups or do anything else that you deem critical. If his attention to detail is that lax on something that is presumably important to him, imagine how lax it'll be on something that's important to you.
This guy is called a geek by people who outsiders would probably call geeks. I don't have any problems with his attention to any technical detail though I have seen him skip important things like meals when his attention is focused on some interesting problem.
That explains the infinite improbability factor that gives links to pron sites from nearly every innocent search.
Google must employ somebody to keep the cup of tea warm otherwise their search tool will stop delivering results.
The last time I was in a team leader position I hired an intern. He turned out to be a great worker, unusually good unix skills and very self motivated. We don't do much selection for interns. Its just a matter of sitting down with the other managers and sifting through resumes.
Later I wondered why I had selected this person and realised that he had the worst formatted resume of the lot. This guy can't format a word document. He is a terrible typist. In fact he didn't seem to care how it looked.
But where the other applicants put four types of windows then "linux". He put four types of BSD, then linux then "windows". That may have been a factor for me but the lack of interest in presentation played a part as well.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/$PROJECT/$LOCALE/wiki/Main_Page
(Don't click on it. Expand the macros yourself :)
It works in China as I can confirm it.
https won't help you if the operators of the Firewall decide to proxy it.
Just imagine if the Chinese government used all this effort on something that was actually productive.
Then they wouldn't need as much government and millions of deserving people would be out of work.
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ATC systems in my experience can identify an aircraft both by aircraft ID (ACID) or registration. Normally the registration will be the tail number. For an airliner the ACID may be the flight number.
I am sure a change of ACID can be accommodated as long as the registration remains the same.
I wonder if it actually has an escape capsule? It'd be a great place to send the kids for time out.
G.W. Bush, as much as he is derided, didn't even call for such an emergency broadcast on of all days 9/11/2001. 9/11 sucked, but it wasn't a national emergency.
They stopped all civilian air traffic over the whole country for two days. The people who did that clearly thought they had a national emergency on their hands.
When I worked in management the Reply All button got a lot of use because I needed to keep higher up people in the loop on discussions I was having. Of course, I always checked recipients before sending.
That one tied up the network for some period of time.
Thats why I always use qmail for my Fuck You messages.
it worked for Gandhi
One of the other times we went around in circles on this issue it was pointed out that the British had a rule of law which they enforced fairly well, so non-violence worked against them. It may not work in other contexts.
What are they "defending themselves" from? Oh right, retaliation from their rocket attacks.
Rocket attacks by who? There is no evidence that the bulk of the individual people in Gaza are responsible for those attacks.
The Palestinians shot themselves in the foot(most revently) when they elected Hamas(whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel) as their government.
I think it is unrealistic and unfair to expect people in that situation to vote intelligently and elect a government with an interest in peace. Democracy hardly works that way in successful western countries. In a disaster area like Gaza it won't work at all.
Have you put together a clear, serious, constructive proposal for an alternative that spells out the pros and cons? If you haven't, its your own fault really. But if you have, and they don't listen, then yeah, "shit" about sums things up. At any other time, I'd say find better bosses and quit in that situation, but few have that option at the moment.
Yes I spent two years running the CM system. Before I moved into that area I did some investigation into migrating from CVS to bitkeeper. When the BK license issues became apparent I started trialling Mercurial, building migration infrastructure and using it for areas where a DSCM is a big help. I pushed for an open evaluation of tools we could move to and got pushed out of tha role as a result.
In my day job we are migrating to something totally new...clear case.
(shit).
a hollow attempt to massage our own egos anyway.
Yeah far better to work on your karma on /.
The real test will be whether the total energy efficiency exceeds that of creating hydrogen fuel via electrolysis as the MIT team that's been all over the news for the last year says they can now do cheaply and efficiently. Hydrogen is a difficult fuel to handle. Compared with hydrocarbon gases it's much harder to ensure that there are no leaks. Most existing vehicles are designed to use liquid fuels.
Airliners would have to use liquid hydrogen, and thanks to NASA there is a lot of existing technology for that. The problem is that hydrogen in liquid and gaseous form has a low density so a 747 would almost need a shuttle external tank to get decent range.
I think the best way to use hydrogen is to combine it with carbon to make methane. Energy density per unit mass goes down, but per unit volume it goes way up.
Aye. I tend to think only of the US as having proper states, and most other countries having provinces
The Australian federal system was actually modelled on the US system in the late 1800s. Around that time we actually called ourselves the United States of Australia. We even inherited a few really bad ideas like allowing a state Premier (you would say Governor) personally appoint a replacement senator.
If you're outside the states though, still why would a cop park facing oncoming traffic?
Yes, I live in Victoria, Australia. I suppose they park on the wrong side of the road because they think they can, and because it is convenient.
A hundred years ago it would have been taken for granted that some people are born to spend their lives breaking in horses and guiding people up and down mountains, while other people are born to spend their lives in a bank adding columns of numbers.
Now we have standardised education and kids are expected to be identical as if they were cookies cut from the same material. We shouldn't be surprised that some very young kids resist being moulded in a particular way. The real challenge is finding ways to take advantages of these differences.