Future generations won't have SUVs no matter what happens with AGW.
Why not start making the move away from them before we guzzle the last drops of one of our most precious resources in the most stupid way possible (ie. burn it and turn it into greenhouse gas just so you can commute to work in a truck).
Those sensors made old temperatures look warmer then they really were. Old temperature data had to be adjusted downwards to compensate, making modern readings higher by comparison.
(Yes, they've moved them...and these days they measure temperatures via satellite, not manually-read thermometers)
Quantum computers are useful for the following class of problem:
1. The only way to solve it is to guess answers repeatedly and check them,
2. There are n possible answers to check,
3. Every possible answer takes the same amount of time to check, and
4. There are no clues about which answers might be better: generating possibilities randomly is just as good as checking them in some special order.
If your problem doesn't look like that then quantum computers won't help.
what you mean is that pilots must remain proficient in Cat 3 and 3a approaches - so they must maintain currency with those procedures by performing one every once in a while. This currency can also be accomplished in a simulator.
IANAP but some of the postings on that page infer that it's also part of the aircraft's ongoing certification. If a pilot isn't happy with a landing he has to log it as a fault and it will be investigated.
Just reading some comments on that page... one poster says the reason pilots don't do more autolandings is that they're required to do a minimum number of manual landings to keep their licenses.:-)
This would definitely need some major changes to aircraft design, you'd only be able to do it on routes with autotakeoff/autolanding capabilities, but I wouldn't say it was impossible.
OTOH you don't really save much by not having the extra human. If you divide his salary by the number of flights made every year he's not very expensive (maybe $60 on a two-hour flight...)
Commercial airliner landings are hard on purpose. If you try to land softly you run a lot more risks from gusts of wind, etc. making you rise up into the air again and losing control.
It's much safer to slam it down and be sure. The airframe is designed to take it.
Government corruption is so rampant that pretty trying to organize pretty much anything on a large scale will fail. The only way to help is to get in there where the normal people live and solve their daily problems (water, food...). Things will only improve when they've got some free time left over after the daily subsistence tasks for other stuff. Free time equals education and building.
I think you can buy them online for about $100 each. I bet you'd get a discount if you bought 1000.
If they can do 6000 liters of water then the price is probably competitive with teabags. I guess it depends on how people are organized and how they pay for them. Individuals won't have $100 to spend but governments and humanitarian programs will.
Avatar constantly cut back and forth between totally different field depths. Just as your eyes were figuring out where you were, bam!, you'd be somewhere else. For me that causes way more headache then anything else.
Directors will have to stop doing that if 3D is ever going to work - all depth changes have to be gradual and/or less frequent.
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Future generations won't have SUVs no matter what happens with AGW.
Why not start making the move away from them before we guzzle the last drops of one of our most precious resources in the most stupid way possible (ie. burn it and turn it into greenhouse gas just so you can commute to work in a truck).
Those sensors made old temperatures look warmer then they really were. Old temperature data had to be adjusted downwards to compensate, making modern readings higher by comparison.
(Yes, they've moved them...and these days they measure temperatures via satellite, not manually-read thermometers)
...and the new sports stadium is essential, how else are they going to attract students?
There's this thing where you can block people or even entirely remove them from your 'friends'...
Huh? Isn't the US government the one behind it? They're hardly likely to drop it...
I like to think "democracy", ie. the fast growing Pirate Party and subsequent loss of votes.
Translation: "More than 50%" - enough to win.
Are you not using Google DNS? Set your DNS servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 ...
Quantum computers are useful for the following class of problem:
1. The only way to solve it is to guess answers repeatedly and check them,
2. There are n possible answers to check,
3. Every possible answer takes the same amount of time to check, and
4. There are no clues about which answers might be better: generating possibilities randomly is just as good as checking them in some special order.
If your problem doesn't look like that then quantum computers won't help.
(source: wikipedia )
TPB works fine for me...
what you mean is that pilots must remain proficient in Cat 3 and 3a approaches - so they must maintain currency with those procedures by performing one every once in a while. This currency can also be accomplished in a simulator.
IANAP but some of the postings on that page infer that it's also part of the aircraft's ongoing certification. If a pilot isn't happy with a landing he has to log it as a fault and it will be investigated.
Just reading some comments on that page... one poster says the reason pilots don't do more autolandings is that they're required to do a minimum number of manual landings to keep their licenses. :-)
Commercial airlines are already required by law to do a certain percentage of their landings automatically. They just don't tell you...
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In theory the copilot reads the checklists and takes over if something happens to the pilot.
If the aircraft can takeoff/land itself and read checklists to the pilot then it can do everything today's copilot does.
PS: Commercial airlines are already required by law to do a certain percentage of their landings automatically, they just don't advertise it widely...
Can't the checklists be read out by a machine...?
This would definitely need some major changes to aircraft design, you'd only be able to do it on routes with autotakeoff/autolanding capabilities, but I wouldn't say it was impossible.
OTOH you don't really save much by not having the extra human. If you divide his salary by the number of flights made every year he's not very expensive (maybe $60 on a two-hour flight...)
Commercial airliner landings are hard on purpose. If you try to land softly you run a lot more risks from gusts of wind, etc. making you rise up into the air again and losing control.
It's much safer to slam it down and be sure. The airframe is designed to take it.
I found it completely vacuous. What on earth is he on about?
It was but a single "stepping stone" toward the music industry's goal of having people "remunerated for their talent time, effort and ability".
You could start by paying them the royalties you promised them...
PS: Who chose a barely-remembered 1980s singer to redesign the Internets for us?
Do we get consultancy fees for our opinions/expertise? This is a "massively expensive" commercial venture....
Government corruption is so rampant that pretty trying to organize pretty much anything on a large scale will fail. The only way to help is to get in there where the normal people live and solve their daily problems (water, food...). Things will only improve when they've got some free time left over after the daily subsistence tasks for other stuff. Free time equals education and building.
My bad, the price I remembered was in pounds. They're $149 each and $300 for the jerrycan version: http://www.lifesaverusaonline.com/
I think you can buy them online for about $100 each. I bet you'd get a discount if you bought 1000.
If they can do 6000 liters of water then the price is probably competitive with teabags. I guess it depends on how people are organized and how they pay for them. Individuals won't have $100 to spend but governments and humanitarian programs will.
1. Yes, that's the point (might be a bit more than 500ml).
2. Not everybody is as impatient as you seem to be.
3. It's good old activated carbon again. There's plenty of info out there...
Leave the bottle in the sun for six hours to kill them (use a transparent PET bottle).
The filter in the article is just an ordinary active carbon filter. This is waaay better.
Cameron ... "Avatar ... 3D done right"
Avatar constantly cut back and forth between totally different field depths. Just as your eyes were figuring out where you were, bam!, you'd be somewhere else. For me that causes way more headache then anything else.
Directors will have to stop doing that if 3D is ever going to work - all depth changes have to be gradual and/or less frequent.