"What's to stop a ninja (hilarity not intended) from breaking someone's arm and threatening to do it again, or even breaking into the cock pit and doing the same?"
FFDO's... The ninja takes one shot at breaking down the cockpit door and receives an entire clip of bullets to the chest and face. The plane lands shortly thereafter and the passengers complain about the delay...
Greeeeaaaat... 87 more big orange stickers on the log-can saying that 100 out of the 146 seatback cameras are deferred. Hell, at my airline they can't even keep the little mechanisms that recline the seats working. I can't imagine maintaining several thousand little cameras will be high on their list of stuff to do.
The real reason this won't happen? Weight... Do you have any idea how much a system like that would weigh? Airlines are some of the most greedy and most cost-sensitive businesses in the world. They won't haul around thousands of pounds of surveillance gear for nothing. They'd much rather stick a few more sheep in some more tiny seats and charge them out the ass for everything. Or, better yet, load up an extra thousand pounds of cargo...
That being said, if it somehow gets legislated into existance, PLEASE give us access to the feed up front... Do you KNOW how much fun we could have with that from the cockpit? PA: "Will the woman sitting in 13E please turn a little to the right?... niiiiice... thank you"
Clearly you've never dealt with people who are ACTUALLY running an airline. Hell, the scheduling department at the airline I work for makes MS look not only competent, but downright benevolent.
I'm almost afraid to ask what the survival rate is for the people sitting up in FRONT of first class... I mean, they're the important ones! They deserve to live! (Though, I guess perhaps the alcohol will soften the blow a bit).
"I don't know if it's because we were the ones who were picked on in junior high, or what. But I do know that IT professionals are the most ill-treated group of highly-skilled professionals around."
Clearly you don't know any professional pilots. At least you guys get paid.... eesh...
You know, after reading the headline, I was really hoping that Washington had banned chemicals and industry freaks. I mean, who wants freaks around anyway? Especially industrial ones...
The problem with your argument there, is that some people actually ENJOY driving. For some of us, a car isn't JUST transport. I, for one, don't want to give up being able to enjoy driving. So, rather than putting us all into 100mpg cars powered by what equates to a lawnmower engine, how about these people focus on making real cars more fuel efficient rather than fundamentally changing what a car is. It's not us that's the problem, it's the technology. Hence this competition.
Worth playing, just for the physics...
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This is one of those games you can just screw around with for hours... Just run out to the highway with a couple of machine guns and shoot out tires... The cars will slide around a bit, and even catch and flip if they hit the right angle... (It's hilarious to watch the car slide sideways, the rims catch, and it flip over to land right on top of your agent)...
Sounds like an awesome idea. Chances are it's going to be used more to record normal flight data than for crash investigation. They're not aiming it at airliners. Most small single-engine piston airplanes are simple enough that the reason for the crash can be easily discerned from the wreckage. There aren't 300 redundant systems to go through. It's usually a case of "Hey, look, that piston is poking out through the engine block." or "Hmm, the 100 hour private pilot ran off the runway into a ditch trying to land in a 30kt crosswind". What it'll really be useful for is stuff like engine monitoring and whatnot. One of these reviewed by your mechanic at annual could make his job a LOT easier...
But I recently bought a brand new laptop. Dual core, 1GB of ram, etc etc... The thing came with Vista Home Premium installed... I figured I'd give it a shot. Straight out of the box, with a clean system the freaking thing used 679MB of RAM at IDLE!!!!! Thank you, I'll stick with XP.
TFA had it right when it mentioned being social... At least have a good time while you're spending 3 days out in the rain for a system that will probably fry itself 30 seconds after you turned it on... I made some good friends camping out for tickets to Game 7 of the 2003 Stanley Cup Finals...
Well, of course muscle cars don't compare with a brand new WRX or Evo... They were made 30-40 years ago! Compare them to the japanese cars of that era, then see which one fares better in the race... (And really, how many WRX owners are out rally racing in their cars?) Given the choice, I'd much rather have the Dodge charger or Stingray 'vette... Those at least sound like cars.. Real cars have that deep rumble that sets off the alarms of lesser vehicles and pisses off the elderly...
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3... All that beautiful 3d scenery and detailed rides, optimized by drunken chimpanzees... I've yet to see a box that can handle even a medium sized park without chugging like a frat boy on a thursday night...
Come on, who didn't try this in high school? You stand out in front of a liquor store and offer a simple "quest" to the various passers-by... Very rarely does it work, and sometimes you aggro some nasty stuff...
There you go... You could be God in the GTA universe.. Instead of a 40 foot cow, you could have a pet gang member... You could hurl the excrement at the west side, rather than another island, and instead of wanting grain and wood your subjects want beer and weed!
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"What's to stop a ninja (hilarity not intended) from breaking someone's arm and threatening to do it again, or even breaking into the cock pit and doing the same?" FFDO's... The ninja takes one shot at breaking down the cockpit door and receives an entire clip of bullets to the chest and face. The plane lands shortly thereafter and the passengers complain about the delay...
Greeeeaaaat... 87 more big orange stickers on the log-can saying that 100 out of the 146 seatback cameras are deferred. Hell, at my airline they can't even keep the little mechanisms that recline the seats working. I can't imagine maintaining several thousand little cameras will be high on their list of stuff to do.
The real reason this won't happen? Weight... Do you have any idea how much a system like that would weigh? Airlines are some of the most greedy and most cost-sensitive businesses in the world. They won't haul around thousands of pounds of surveillance gear for nothing. They'd much rather stick a few more sheep in some more tiny seats and charge them out the ass for everything. Or, better yet, load up an extra thousand pounds of cargo... That being said, if it somehow gets legislated into existance, PLEASE give us access to the feed up front... Do you KNOW how much fun we could have with that from the cockpit? PA: "Will the woman sitting in 13E please turn a little to the right?... niiiiice... thank you"
Clearly you've never dealt with people who are ACTUALLY running an airline. Hell, the scheduling department at the airline I work for makes MS look not only competent, but downright benevolent.
Forget making the planes act more like swallows, what they really need to work on is getting the flight attendants to swallow...
This first post was written on a hacked e-voting machine. That is all.
I'm almost afraid to ask what the survival rate is for the people sitting up in FRONT of first class... I mean, they're the important ones! They deserve to live! (Though, I guess perhaps the alcohol will soften the blow a bit).
Is this really even necessary? Un-mothball a couple SR-71s. Is there even anything that can bring one of those down?
"I don't know if it's because we were the ones who were picked on in junior high, or what. But I do know that IT professionals are the most ill-treated group of highly-skilled professionals around." Clearly you don't know any professional pilots. At least you guys get paid.... eesh...
You know, after reading the headline, I was really hoping that Washington had banned chemicals and industry freaks. I mean, who wants freaks around anyway? Especially industrial ones...
The problem with your argument there, is that some people actually ENJOY driving. For some of us, a car isn't JUST transport. I, for one, don't want to give up being able to enjoy driving. So, rather than putting us all into 100mpg cars powered by what equates to a lawnmower engine, how about these people focus on making real cars more fuel efficient rather than fundamentally changing what a car is. It's not us that's the problem, it's the technology. Hence this competition.
This is one of those games you can just screw around with for hours... Just run out to the highway with a couple of machine guns and shoot out tires... The cars will slide around a bit, and even catch and flip if they hit the right angle... (It's hilarious to watch the car slide sideways, the rims catch, and it flip over to land right on top of your agent)...
Sounds like an awesome idea. Chances are it's going to be used more to record normal flight data than for crash investigation. They're not aiming it at airliners. Most small single-engine piston airplanes are simple enough that the reason for the crash can be easily discerned from the wreckage. There aren't 300 redundant systems to go through. It's usually a case of "Hey, look, that piston is poking out through the engine block." or "Hmm, the 100 hour private pilot ran off the runway into a ditch trying to land in a 30kt crosswind". What it'll really be useful for is stuff like engine monitoring and whatnot. One of these reviewed by your mechanic at annual could make his job a LOT easier...
But I recently bought a brand new laptop. Dual core, 1GB of ram, etc etc... The thing came with Vista Home Premium installed... I figured I'd give it a shot. Straight out of the box, with a clean system the freaking thing used 679MB of RAM at IDLE!!!!! Thank you, I'll stick with XP.
You mean, consumers might somehow be offended by being bent over by major corporation after major corporation??? When did this happen???
TFA had it right when it mentioned being social... At least have a good time while you're spending 3 days out in the rain for a system that will probably fry itself 30 seconds after you turned it on... I made some good friends camping out for tickets to Game 7 of the 2003 Stanley Cup Finals...
Well, of course muscle cars don't compare with a brand new WRX or Evo... They were made 30-40 years ago! Compare them to the japanese cars of that era, then see which one fares better in the race... (And really, how many WRX owners are out rally racing in their cars?) Given the choice, I'd much rather have the Dodge charger or Stingray 'vette... Those at least sound like cars.. Real cars have that deep rumble that sets off the alarms of lesser vehicles and pisses off the elderly...
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3... All that beautiful 3d scenery and detailed rides, optimized by drunken chimpanzees... I've yet to see a box that can handle even a medium sized park without chugging like a frat boy on a thursday night...
Come on, who didn't try this in high school? You stand out in front of a liquor store and offer a simple "quest" to the various passers-by... Very rarely does it work, and sometimes you aggro some nasty stuff...
There you go... You could be God in the GTA universe.. Instead of a 40 foot cow, you could have a pet gang member... You could hurl the excrement at the west side, rather than another island, and instead of wanting grain and wood your subjects want beer and weed!