Air travel in Australia is generally very safe because it is:
Relatively warm and dry - ice is not such an issue
Flat - very little terrain to run into
The population is small so air traffic is light - less chance of a collision
Additionally the civil aviation authority has always been run by a bunch of absolute pricks who always get their way, which tends to give them a lot of control over the aviation business, as opposed to letting the airlines run it themselves.
I know a guy who used to work for Qantas doing maintenance. After the incident with the oxygen tank he drew a picture for me of its position inside the aircraft. It was pretty clear to me that the tank or valve could easily have gone through the centre fuel tank. Funnily enough, there was one instance of that tank blowing up, wasn't there?
Or a configuration bug because the module which wrote diagnostic information to a data channel should have been set not to generate diagnostics at all.
the assholes who refuse to keep their seatbelt fastened while seated quickly
Actually I think a lot of the people who got hurt in this case were either in or waiting for the toilet. One could ask why the toilet doesn't have seat belts and why you have to stand to queue for the loo.
His mother definitely can't afford an expensive laptop and I can't see what a 7 year old will get out of a mac.
had the incredibly helpful and intuitive "64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BYTES FREE. READY." user interface as a 7 year old but it wasn't very long before I was happily hacking away at it.
Thats really my point. This boy already plays network games on his DS with my son. Having something to hack is the real advantage. The mac has nice applications but I question the extra outlay.
My nephew is a grade one student at a primary school in Victoria. The school uses macs so he has his heart set on a macbook for christmas. His mother definitely can't afford an expensive laptop and I can't see what a 7 year old will get out of a mac. I have been trying to steering them towards an eeepc. You can pick one up for $300 aud now, about one fifth the price of the mac.
So I am to gather that the current situation with Ford, GM and Chrysler is imaginary too.
Everybody knows that American and English cars are crap. The English car industry died 20 years ago because of this. The US industry is dying now but they made a great profit selling the same cars for 6 or 7 decades with minimal R&D. Now tesla (based on a lotus) may be creating a new US car market to suit the times. Bloody stupid that GM and Ford didn't do it when they had the money.
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But 2.6 is so complex with so many options which frankly mean nothing to me
This is why I use NetBSD for anything which needs customisation.
This is the first time ever an object has been identified to be on collision course with the earth and which has gone on to actually hit us.
Also, given the small size of the objetc I am amazed they pulled it off.
There was a suggestion made that this might be a booster from a mars probe because its orbit does take it close to mars, Another possibility is that it is a fragment of mars.
It might be a bit like echolocation. We all use it to some degree without being aware of it and some blind people have learnt to use it as a substitute for vision.
Obviously the skin can detect many wavelengths of light--I am having trouble jumping from this thought to the thought of the skin resolving those sensations into an image.
Blind people seem to be able to do that with braile. Maybe a pattern of bumps can work in a similar way to a pattern of warm spots on the skin.
The article doesn't say what the resolution is supposed to be. Most of us could detect a light globe a short distance behind us. Thats a kind of vision. Our skin reacts to infrared photons.
My mother is a teacher and used to work with children who were totally deaf and blind. I was amazed to see how aware they could be of their surroundings, and how much they could learn, though all of their communication was based on touch.
They keep creating weird architectural constraints. A windows application at my site needs to spend an hour or so generating a report. Recently it stopped working and the cause turned out to be an IT policy mandating automatic screen lock after 10 minutes of inactivity. Integration between our application and Microsoft office seems to go through the UI and this isn't allowed to work when the screen is locked.
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You can get carbon fiber bike frames now. Bucky paper just seems a new angle on carbon fiber.
Don't worry about it. They probably just mounted a scratch monkey.
Additionally the civil aviation authority has always been run by a bunch of absolute pricks who always get their way, which tends to give them a lot of control over the aviation business, as opposed to letting the airlines run it themselves.
So the autopilot ...jumped?
Needed to be blown up again.
"F*** the Tourists." A definite vote getter.
Not the ugly ones thanks.
I know a guy who used to work for Qantas doing maintenance. After the incident with the oxygen tank he drew a picture for me of its position inside the aircraft. It was pretty clear to me that the tank or valve could easily have gone through the centre fuel tank. Funnily enough, there was one instance of that tank blowing up, wasn't there?
Some times normal cable actuated controls fail in strange ways too.
Or a configuration bug because the module which wrote diagnostic information to a data channel should have been set not to generate diagnostics at all.
I did something like that for my son on ubuntu. He wanted a dock like on the macs at the shop so I installed a gdesklets app which looks similar.
put the jet into a 197-meter nosedive.
the assholes who refuse to keep their seatbelt fastened while seated quickly
Actually I think a lot of the people who got hurt in this case were either in or waiting for the toilet. One could ask why the toilet doesn't have seat belts and why you have to stand to queue for the loo.
His mother definitely can't afford an expensive laptop and I can't see what a 7 year old will get out of a mac.
had the incredibly helpful and intuitive "64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BYTES FREE. READY." user interface as a 7 year old but it wasn't very long before I was happily hacking away at it.
Thats really my point. This boy already plays network games on his DS with my son. Having something to hack is the real advantage. The mac has nice applications but I question the extra outlay.
My nephew is a grade one student at a primary school in Victoria. The school uses macs so he has his heart set on a macbook for christmas. His mother definitely can't afford an expensive laptop and I can't see what a 7 year old will get out of a mac. I have been trying to steering them towards an eeepc. You can pick one up for $300 aud now, about one fifth the price of the mac.
So I am to gather that the current situation with Ford, GM and Chrysler is imaginary too.
Everybody knows that American and English cars are crap. The English car industry died 20 years ago because of this. The US industry is dying now but they made a great profit selling the same cars for 6 or 7 decades with minimal R&D. Now tesla (based on a lotus) may be creating a new US car market to suit the times. Bloody stupid that GM and Ford didn't do it when they had the money.
But 2.6 is so complex with so many options which frankly mean nothing to me
This is why I use NetBSD for anything which needs customisation.
Interestingly when I had EEGs for my seizure disorder I had to relax for about half an hour before the EEG would start to collect usable data.
Or is that what passes off as hacking these days?
Sadly, yes.
The short notice is because the object is very small. An object big enough to be a real threat is more likely to be detected a long way out.
This is the first time ever an object has been identified to be on collision course with the earth and which has gone on to actually hit us.
Also, given the small size of the objetc I am amazed they pulled it off.
There was a suggestion made that this might be a booster from a mars probe because its orbit does take it close to mars, Another possibility is that it is a fragment of mars.
I saw another estimate of about a 1000 which is close enough.
Then once they've fully entered the atmosphere astronomers refer to them as "Cosmic World Destroyers.".
But only for a short time.
It might be a bit like echolocation. We all use it to some degree without being aware of it and some blind people have learnt to use it as a substitute for vision.
Obviously the skin can detect many wavelengths of light--I am having trouble jumping from this thought to the thought of the skin resolving those sensations into an image.
Blind people seem to be able to do that with braile. Maybe a pattern of bumps can work in a similar way to a pattern of warm spots on the skin.
The article doesn't say what the resolution is supposed to be. Most of us could detect a light globe a short distance behind us. Thats a kind of vision. Our skin reacts to infrared photons.
My mother is a teacher and used to work with children who were totally deaf and blind. I was amazed to see how aware they could be of their surroundings, and how much they could learn, though all of their communication was based on touch.
They keep creating weird architectural constraints. A windows application at my site needs to spend an hour or so generating a report. Recently it stopped working and the cause turned out to be an IT policy mandating automatic screen lock after 10 minutes of inactivity. Integration between our application and Microsoft office seems to go through the UI and this isn't allowed to work when the screen is locked.
Ah... so a parachute is required for skydiving. Thanks for letting us know.
Its required for everybody on the aircraft. Normally the pilot will wear an emergency chute such as a slimpack.