I wonder how many of today's/.'ers remember doing this. To the best of my hazy recollection, I never had a "single sided" disk fail to format both sides.
When I first heard about it, I used a second disc to mark the location and an X-acto knife to cut the slot. I recall it being several months before tools to cut the slots started showing up in computer stores.
I also recall discussions about whether spinning the disk "backwards" would dislodge dirt trapped in the liner and cause premature failure of the disk. In hindsight it sure didn't seem to.
Because I'll get fired. Seriously, there are lots of things I like about my job. However, like most workplaces, they want everyone there during the same hours. So no, going to work an hour later is not an option.
A company I worked for in the past was very slow at paying expense accounts. Since I knew it was ending anyways, I just told them I was happy to travel, but they had to pay me cash up front and I'd document my expenses and return what I didn't spend. Strangely, they didn't have a problem with this, and always gave me more than I spent (but then, I never was the type to pad expense accounts). Since I was ferrying airplanes for them, I was traveling on the airlines one-way.
So, I was a middle-aged white male, paying cash at the last minute for a one-way ticket traveler, with an airplane headset and flying charts in my bag. How many times do you think I got the extra-special treatment?
Probably because the gas and electric companies don't start charging you many times your normal rate when you use "too much".
Maybe it isn't the same throughout the U.S., but in SoCal, that's PRECISELY how it works. Gas, electricity, AND water rates go up steeply as you use more and more.
Looking at my electric bill, the first jump after the "baseline" is ~2x, the 2nd is ~6x, and the third is ~8x.
I suspect some other major cities do this as well, but I grew up here, and it's just not a topic that comes up often.
Here's my comment from 2001. Comments on Moller are about 2/3 the way down. Only now he says 400 mph, and a picture of one maybe hovering, maybe with the wire airbrushed out.
FFS, THINK about the energy required to climb at 6000 fpm. A Gulfstream V has an initial climb rate of only 4200 fpm. It only goes down from there.
BTW, there's nothing magic about 10'. One can fly ultralights for instance much higher than that without a license. 10' is not listed in any regs anywhere.
Actually, the computers don't seperate air traffic at all. People do. All the computers do is show the controller approximately where in the sky the aircraft are, and they often don't do a very good job of even that. The primary means of collision avoidance remains "see and avoid".
The advetised rate of unemployment is 6%, but once people stop collecting their money, they're no longer counted.
You'd think that, but that turns out not to be true. They use sampling, as described here.
Of course this doesn't count the underemployed, and could be construed to not count the people who lost their jobs due to Katrina, as "Prevented from working by bad weather" is listed as a reason NOT to be counted as unemployed.
That being said, do I think they purposely skew the data to underreport unemployment? Of course they do.
I tried SuSe, Mandrake and one other I think. Problem was, every time I read a HowTo or other document, right after discussing how to do something, it always added "your distribution may do this differently." And surprise, surprise, they did. So I tried FreeBSD. I got the book "Absolute BSD" and went through that. And every example worked as published. Yes, I understand that this is due largely to the "FreeBSD is an operating system, Linux is a kernel" thing, but the problem I ran into was a lack of distribution-specific information for any given linux distribution.
FreeBSD was simply easier to understand for me. I do recognize that is a highly personal choice, though.
ATC does not deal in local time at all. Period. Theoretically, even student pilots file their flight plans with departure time in Zulu. (Will flight service accept flight plans if you specify "local" time? Yes, but they convert it to Zulu when they enter it into the system, and it doesn't actually get opened until the pilot calls up and opens it) Virtually nothing in the ATC system is automated at all, certainly nothing having to do with the actual movement of aircraft. The FAA's idea of "automated" is a recording for weathing information.
The only "automated" safety checks I know of are distance and position related, not time. The most common is when aircraft on instrument flight plans vary too much in altitude (+/- 300'), or when a controller lets two aircraft on instrument flight plans get too close together (seperation criteria varies by phase of flight). In these cases, a snitch program will alert the controller as to the problem. The vast majority of "safety checks" are built on procedures. "I'm [at the outer marker | on base leg] so I do my gear check here" type of check.
Again, I don't know trains. Stepping on the tracks in front of on oncomming train is a human factors problem, not really related to time.
But planes won't be affected. Air traffic control is not time-based, it's position-based. Also, the time base for aviation is GMT ("Zulu") because of the potential to cross time zones, uneven application of DST, etc. It may result in a few people missing their flights the first year the time change is on a different day, but certainly no accidents.
I suspect trains are done in much the same way. Logically, it would seem they would almost have to be to account for delays, etc.
There needs to be a better system and lasers can be used to help out.
I agree, there needs to be a better a system, and lasers would be an enormous help. Unfortunately, the morons are only proposing this system for use around the D.C. restricted area. They aren't talking about using it for the myrid TFR's that pop up with so little notice. Sady, I think this is just grandstanding ("Oh look, we're protecting the nations' capital") rather than an honest attempt to make the system work better.
Correct, only slightly over half of the GA fleet has multiple radios. And the FAA does cite using the only radio for other communications as a reason not to be monitoring 121.5.
And when you know you're near the most politicaly charged restricted airspace in the country, is that really the best time to be making that call to FSS? Don't drop the airplane to fly the radio! Similarly, while there are about 15 uncontrolled airports near the boundry of the D.C. restricted area, only a couple are so close to the boundry and oriented in such a way that it could be a concern if you're flying a proper pattern.
As it happens, I'm all for the laser warning system. I think it's a great idea. I was only responding to the person who was asking what frequency you should be listening on. The first two of the original posters points were moot, because you're required to have a transponder to even be near the D.C. restricted area, so those airplanes definately have electrical systems.
Also, a lot of people here haven't bothered to read the article (big surprise there) because this system is only being considered for use around D.C., not for any other other myrid restricted areas, or even the presidential TFR's. I'd love to see it expanded to at least the TFR's that seem to pop up with almost no notice.
It's cutting off circulation to your brain. My personal counterexample:
I e-filed in mid-February, and got my refunds less than 2 weeks later (federal was actually within a week). I had all my rebates from Intuit before the end of February, including the federal e-file rebate.
I didn't get charged for filing either the state or federal returns until after the 1st of April. That's right, I had my rebate and my refunds for over a month before I got the actual charges for e-filing. So much for tracking my refunds to determine when to ding me.
By they way, total cost for TurboTax Deluxe, State, and Quicken Deluxe, after all rebates (Costco and Intuit), and including the $15 to file my state taxes as well as the sales tax on the original sales price of the software?
You're SUPPOSED to be listening on 121.5, though that doesn't have the force of law (yet).
The FAA stongly encourages all pilots to listen to 121.5 at all times unless there is a reason not to be, as in your description of aircraft without electrical systems. They would even like you to be listening to 121.5 even when communicating with ATC on another frequency. Most aviation audio panels support this if there are two recievers.
Keep in mind, the restricted area around D.C. lies well within the 30nm mode C "veil" around the major airports. What that means is, in order to be even NEAR the restricted area around D.C., you've got to have an altitude encoding transponder, and it has to be on. So any aircraft likely to accidentally penetrate the restricted area will have an electrical system. I doubt there's too many airplanes out there with transponders and no radios.
Ahhh, the BD-10 is a Jim Bede design, not a Rutan design.
And Raytheon bought back all the Starship airframes because the small number of them out there would have cost them far too much to support (spares, service, etc). In fact, there has been only one Starship accident, and that aircraft was rebuilt. The problems with the aircraft are performace related (basically, it's slow, burns too much gas, uses too much runway, and is difficult to load correctly), not safety related.
And yeah, most people in the production aircraft business don't think too highly of Rutan.
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Wow, MS just told the largest segment of the web that they can't use MS software! If the porno servers all have to convert to Apache as a result of this, at least we'll be able to get porn when the next IIS virus comes along.
A SoloTrek video shows a recent tethered hover test of the one person VTOL vehicle.The company has DARPA and NASA support and has carried out a number of sucessful wind tunnel and power tests.
Um, and exactly what do you do when the engine dies? Oh, yeah, that's right, YOU die. The rotors are too small to have enough inertia for successful auto-rotation. DARPA and NASA support do not signify this will ever be available to the public, or even USED in the military. If anything, this is a "see where the technology goes" program, not something anyone envisions ever being viable. Did you LOOK at the video? That isn't a "teathered FLIGHT", that's hanging from a wire. No proof of ability to actually produce enough lift to fly under it's own power. No proof of any kind of controlability when not supported by the wire.
Meanwhile, the CarterCopter RotorWing demonstrator may soon show for the first time that a vehicle with a rotor can safely achieve very high airspeeds (e.g.400-500 mph) where the tip speed is actually slower than the vehicle speed. This has been a great project to follow since they are so open and honest about the various problems and fixes during the development.
Umm, what about all that DRAG from the rotor system? Sure, they've "solved" retreating blade stall by flying the thing on the wing at altitude, but since the rotor system is still turning, the energy to turn the rotors is pure drag. You mean Gulfstream and Bombardie and Cessna have wasted all that money making thier aircraft aerodynamic? The Gulfstream IV is only certified to 45,000. They obviously aren't going to power the "real" one with a piston engine, but even a turbine will only output a fraction of sea level power at that altitude. So far, they've achieved something like 2000 feet, and they've only crashed 3 times!
Just wish Moller was as transparent about the Skycar. At least a video and some images were recently posted showing the nose of the craft lifting off under its own power.
Moller. How long has this guy been promising "real soon now"? And the pics show the nose being lifted by "2 of the 4 front engines". How many engines are in the back? Probably at least 4 more. Where is all the fuel to run all these engines going to be stored? And oh, by the way, Avgas is about 6lb/gal. At his claimed speed of 350mph, and 15 miles/gallon, that works out to 23 gallons per hour. Total. For ALL the engines, not each engine. Wonder why most twins suck around 15-18 gal/hour/side and don't go anywhere near that fast? And, oh, by the way, looks like if you run it out of fuel, you die.
Aviation is full of this kind of crap. Even Eclipse, a relatively convential design promising a 365 knot jet for under $900k is smoking crack. They claim first flight will be July 2002 with certification by the end of 2003. Not a chance. Even presuming that thier first aircraft is fully conformed and doesn't need any tweaks requireing more than extreamly minor redesign, you can't certify a twin jet in 18 months. There's too much flying, too much testing, too much red tape to cut through.
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Hole punch? No, my CDO wouldn't allow that. Not that I would have ever been confused with a "cool kid" anyways.
(CDO is like OCD, only the letters are arranged alphabetically, as they belong)
I wonder how many of today's /.'ers remember doing this. To the best of my hazy recollection, I never had a "single sided" disk fail to format both sides.
When I first heard about it, I used a second disc to mark the location and an X-acto knife to cut the slot. I recall it being several months before tools to cut the slots started showing up in computer stores.
I also recall discussions about whether spinning the disk "backwards" would dislodge dirt trapped in the liner and cause premature failure of the disk. In hindsight it sure didn't seem to.
Because I'll get fired. Seriously, there are lots of things I like about my job. However, like most workplaces, they want everyone there during the same hours. So no, going to work an hour later is not an option.
No,
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
A company I worked for in the past was very slow at paying expense accounts. Since I knew it was ending anyways, I just told them I was happy to travel, but they had to pay me cash up front and I'd document my expenses and return what I didn't spend. Strangely, they didn't have a problem with this, and always gave me more than I spent (but then, I never was the type to pad expense accounts). Since I was ferrying airplanes for them, I was traveling on the airlines one-way.
So, I was a middle-aged white male, paying cash at the last minute for a one-way ticket traveler, with an airplane headset and flying charts in my bag. How many times do you think I got the extra-special treatment?
Every. Single. Time.
Maybe it isn't the same throughout the U.S., but in SoCal, that's PRECISELY how it works. Gas, electricity, AND water rates go up steeply as you use more and more.
Looking at my electric bill, the first jump after the "baseline" is ~2x, the 2nd is ~6x, and the third is ~8x.
I suspect some other major cities do this as well, but I grew up here, and it's just not a topic that comes up often.
No, since inauguration day is January 20, 2009, I highly doubt Bush will leave office until 2009.
Here's my comment from 2001. Comments on Moller are about 2/3 the way down. Only now he says 400 mph, and a picture of one maybe hovering, maybe with the wire airbrushed out.
FFS, THINK about the energy required to climb at 6000 fpm. A Gulfstream V has an initial climb rate of only 4200 fpm. It only goes down from there.
BTW, there's nothing magic about 10'. One can fly ultralights for instance much higher than that without a license. 10' is not listed in any regs anywhere.
If you think the "computers" the FAA uses are so great, please read what an actual controller has to say about them (and a lot of other subjects as well).
Computers don't keep the tin apart, people do.
Of course this doesn't count the underemployed, and could be construed to not count the people who lost their jobs due to Katrina, as "Prevented from working by bad weather" is listed as a reason NOT to be counted as unemployed.
That being said, do I think they purposely skew the data to underreport unemployment? Of course they do.
I tried Linux *FIRST*
I tried SuSe, Mandrake and one other I think. Problem was, every time I read a HowTo or other document, right after discussing how to do something, it always added "your distribution may do this differently." And surprise, surprise, they did. So I tried FreeBSD. I got the book "Absolute BSD" and went through that. And every example worked as published. Yes, I understand that this is due largely to the "FreeBSD is an operating system, Linux is a kernel" thing, but the problem I ran into was a lack of distribution-specific information for any given linux distribution.
FreeBSD was simply easier to understand for me. I do recognize that is a highly personal choice, though.
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The only "automated" safety checks I know of are distance and position related, not time. The most common is when aircraft on instrument flight plans vary too much in altitude (+/- 300'), or when a controller lets two aircraft on instrument flight plans get too close together (seperation criteria varies by phase of flight). In these cases, a snitch program will alert the controller as to the problem. The vast majority of "safety checks" are built on procedures. "I'm [at the outer marker | on base leg] so I do my gear check here" type of check.
Again, I don't know trains. Stepping on the tracks in front of on oncomming train is a human factors problem, not really related to time.
I suspect trains are done in much the same way. Logically, it would seem they would almost have to be to account for delays, etc.
And when you know you're near the most politicaly charged restricted airspace in the country, is that really the best time to be making that call to FSS? Don't drop the airplane to fly the radio! Similarly, while there are about 15 uncontrolled airports near the boundry of the D.C. restricted area, only a couple are so close to the boundry and oriented in such a way that it could be a concern if you're flying a proper pattern.
As it happens, I'm all for the laser warning system. I think it's a great idea. I was only responding to the person who was asking what frequency you should be listening on. The first two of the original posters points were moot, because you're required to have a transponder to even be near the D.C. restricted area, so those airplanes definately have electrical systems.
Also, a lot of people here haven't bothered to read the article (big surprise there) because this system is only being considered for use around D.C., not for any other other myrid restricted areas, or even the presidential TFR's. I'd love to see it expanded to at least the TFR's that seem to pop up with almost no notice.
I e-filed in mid-February, and got my refunds less than 2 weeks later (federal was actually within a week). I had all my rebates from Intuit before the end of February, including the federal e-file rebate.
I didn't get charged for filing either the state or federal returns until after the 1st of April. That's right, I had my rebate and my refunds for over a month before I got the actual charges for e-filing. So much for tracking my refunds to determine when to ding me.
By they way, total cost for TurboTax Deluxe, State, and Quicken Deluxe, after all rebates (Costco and Intuit), and including the $15 to file my state taxes as well as the sales tax on the original sales price of the software?
$28.
You're SUPPOSED to be listening on 121.5, though that doesn't have the force of law (yet).
The FAA stongly encourages all pilots to listen to 121.5 at all times unless there is a reason not to be, as in your description of aircraft without electrical systems. They would even like you to be listening to 121.5 even when communicating with ATC on another frequency. Most aviation audio panels support this if there are two recievers.
Keep in mind, the restricted area around D.C. lies well within the 30nm mode C "veil" around the major airports. What that means is, in order to be even NEAR the restricted area around D.C., you've got to have an altitude encoding transponder, and it has to be on. So any aircraft likely to accidentally penetrate the restricted area will have an electrical system. I doubt there's too many airplanes out there with transponders and no radios.
Apparently, everyone in New Jersey and Oregon.
They don't seem to be a state, according to the linked site. However Washington D.C. has been elevated to statehood.
Ahhh, the BD-10 is a Jim Bede design, not a Rutan design.
And Raytheon bought back all the Starship airframes because the small number of them out there would have cost them far too much to support (spares, service, etc). In fact, there has been only one Starship accident, and that aircraft was rebuilt. The problems with the aircraft are performace related (basically, it's slow, burns too much gas, uses too much runway, and is difficult to load correctly), not safety related.
And yeah, most people in the production aircraft business don't think too highly of Rutan.
pf has been available in ports for quite a while. Although it only works on the 5.x branch, I'm running it as my firewall on an old 166mhz Pentium.
Personally, I find FreeBSD easier to deal with, but that's just me.
Actually, California City did not issue an internet cafe moratorium. As the article states, Garden Grove, a city in California issued the moratorium.
When I first read the title, I thought, "Wow, I didn't know Cal City *HAD* internet cafe's." Oh well, at least the story has it right.
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Wow, MS just told the largest segment of the web that they can't use MS software! If the porno servers all have to convert to Apache as a result of this, at least we'll be able to get porn when the next IIS virus comes along.
A SoloTrek video shows a recent tethered hover test of the one person VTOL vehicle.The company has DARPA and NASA support and has carried out a number of sucessful wind tunnel and power tests.
Um, and exactly what do you do when the engine dies? Oh, yeah, that's right, YOU die. The rotors are too small to have enough inertia for successful auto-rotation. DARPA and NASA support do not signify this will ever be available to the public, or even USED in the military. If anything, this is a "see where the technology goes" program, not something anyone envisions ever being viable. Did you LOOK at the video? That isn't a "teathered FLIGHT", that's hanging from a wire. No proof of ability to actually produce enough lift to fly under it's own power. No proof of any kind of controlability when not supported by the wire.
Meanwhile, the CarterCopter RotorWing demonstrator may soon show for the first time that a vehicle with a rotor can safely achieve very high airspeeds (e.g.400-500 mph) where the tip speed is actually slower than the vehicle speed. This has been a great project to follow since they are so open and honest about the various problems and fixes during the development.
Umm, what about all that DRAG from the rotor system? Sure, they've "solved" retreating blade stall by flying the thing on the wing at altitude, but since the rotor system is still turning, the energy to turn the rotors is pure drag. You mean Gulfstream and Bombardie and Cessna have wasted all that money making thier aircraft aerodynamic? The Gulfstream IV is only certified to 45,000. They obviously aren't going to power the "real" one with a piston engine, but even a turbine will only output a fraction of sea level power at that altitude. So far, they've achieved something like 2000 feet, and they've only crashed 3 times!
Just wish Moller was as transparent about the Skycar. At least a video and some images were recently posted showing the nose of the craft lifting off under its own power.
Moller. How long has this guy been promising "real soon now"? And the pics show the nose being lifted by "2 of the 4 front engines". How many engines are in the back? Probably at least 4 more. Where is all the fuel to run all these engines going to be stored? And oh, by the way, Avgas is about 6lb/gal. At his claimed speed of 350mph, and 15 miles/gallon, that works out to 23 gallons per hour. Total. For ALL the engines, not each engine. Wonder why most twins suck around 15-18 gal/hour/side and don't go anywhere near that fast? And, oh, by the way, looks like if you run it out of fuel, you die.
Aviation is full of this kind of crap. Even Eclipse, a relatively convential design promising a 365 knot jet for under $900k is smoking crack. They claim first flight will be July 2002 with certification by the end of 2003. Not a chance. Even presuming that thier first aircraft is fully conformed and doesn't need any tweaks requireing more than extreamly minor redesign, you can't certify a twin jet in 18 months. There's too much flying, too much testing, too much red tape to cut through.
Nothing to see here, move along.