You don't have a 100MB Ethernet connection to the internet!
Ok, so maybe in the unlikely event that your college is 100Mbit within the dorms (the few that I know of are all 10Mbit, and even some still have Cat 3 strung), I seriously doubt that you have anything more than a full T3 to the internet at large. A T3 is only 45Mbit/s. And you're lucky if you even have a T3 dedicated to drom internet use.
Not to mention *weight*. You know how much it would weigh to wire each seat with cat5, and include the necessary jacks, hubs/switches, etc? It would weigh way too much to be feasable, unless it could somehow be integrated with the current wiring in place (which I seriously doubt). The weight that would be spent on cabling would be better spent hauling passengers or cargo... where the airline actually makes money.
The MEL only applies to components of the aircraft that would otherwise render the aircraft unairworthy if they were to fail. A busted entertainment system would not render the aircraft unairworthy, so therefore it would not be included in the MEL.
No person may operate, nor may the operator or pilot in command of an aircraft allow the operation of, any portable electronic device on any of the following U.S.-registered civil aircraft... except for... any other portable electronic device that the operator of the aircraft has determined will not cause interference with the navigation or communication system on the aircraft on which it is to be used.
So it only applies to U.S.-registered airplanes (although I bet the JARs have a similar section), and if the operator (air carrier) determines that there is no problem, that is allowed.
Yes, not only are they common, they're actively solicited. I can't tell you how many times after filing or opening my flight plan, Flight Service has come back in a cheerful voice and said "We'd appreciate any pilot reports you could provide while in flight."
For non-pilots, a pilot report (or PIREP for short), is a weather report filed while in flight.
Sounds like typical bullying to me. If these screenshots/whatever were acquired via legal means (ie. not espionage or anything...) I don't see how Nintendo could object. After all, it basically amounts to free advertising for them.
Companies such as Autodesk have been going after used sales of AutoCad for awhile now, and some license agreements do not let you resell it. And even if you do resell it, the software would probably not be complete, i.e. with support and all.
Unfortunately this is a trend in software that is gaining momentum. That's why I love open source software!
Face it, speed sells. If the average consumer was to pick between a (top-of-the-line) 733Mhz G4 and a even middle-of-the-road 1Ghz Athlon, guess which one they're going to pick. Now, don't give me the crap about how Macs aren't for the average consumer or whatever, but face it, this is a problem for Apple. It's a shame that they're being held back by Motorola when their Mac OS X is so wonderful. But boy does it need it's CPU cycles.
I know this is a way off, but do you see any reason why DirectX support would not be possible? Or would it just require too much manpower that it wouldn't be feasable?
Even if Microsoft were to make their own linux distro, the *required* stuff would be open source, but all the Microsoft-contributed code would be closed. You better believe it. They will probably port over their Windows toolkit, and any versions of Office/IE/whatever that they make for linux will be dependent on their toolkit and ultimately their linux distro. If they're smart, they'll probably even make the underlying stuff freely downloadable and charge for the fancy windowing and UI (a la Mac OS X). They probably won't even use X.
That article brings up good points... they'll just capitalize on all the R&D that the linux companies have done. Typical tactics. Heh... MS execs are probably even reading this right now saying "hmm, that's a good idea, maybe we should look into this!"
No commercial airplane will ever fly without pilots in any of our lifetime.
While we may have the technology to do it, it's not mature enough yet. And I'm not even sure that it would be possible. No airplane has the capability to do a autopilot takeoff, and while many have the capability to do an autolanding, it's possible at maybe 10 or 15 runways in the US. (By autolanding, I mean a full autolanding, flying an ILS approach to standard minimums and requiring the pilots to take over the approach and hand-fly it from there obviously doesn't count.) I can guarantee you that the FAA would not certificate and aircraft airworthy without pilots. That is a good thing in my opinion. The FAA does not even allow pilots to use GPS as their sole means of navigation flying IFR -- they must have a VOR tuned in and set to the proper course.
So, in short, while it's possible for an airplane to reduce the pilot's workload by 90%, that last 10% will never disappear. At least not in our lifetime for commercial (ie people-carrying) aircraft.
Finally we'll have quality 3D acceleration on a laptop running linux. Combined with the nvidia drivers (ok, so they're not open source, but closed source is better than no source), one can finally have a decently fast setup.
The ATI cards seem to work fine, but have always been lacking in the performance area.
As I recall, I was asking on the status of the project, which would seem to imply that we're pursuing the same bit of information. At least I looked up the link instead of just blindly replying that it "doesn't exist."
As for "calling someone who cares," shouldn't you follow your own advice? After all, why do you continue to post about GNOME if you think it's such a bad thing? Why did you even read this article, anyway?
Oh sorry, didn't realize that there was a requirement on slashdot to only post articles about shipping products. As a matter of fact, I'm glad there isn't, because then slashdot would become pretty lame...
Have you even used GNOME? It's very nice -- runs fast, never crashes, and is very flexible. It's about ten times better than that Windows 2000 box you used to type that comment on.
Now back to playing with your lame stack of cellphones. What exactly can the internet on my phone do for me?
Take a look at this: GNOME on PDA article on Slashdot. So yes, it did happen, and while it may be a "bloated ball of shit," it does run on a "reasonable PDA."
So why don't in the future you refrain from opening your mouth without knowing what you talk about...
Whatever happened to the port of GNOME to PDAs? I remember reading about it here awhile ago but haven't heard anything lately. Personally, I think both groups have a ton of work to do trimming stuff down so it's usable on a 30MHz processor with little RAM. I just can't wait until we start having GNOME vs. KDE flamewars on an iPaq!
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You don't have a 100MB Ethernet connection to the internet!
Ok, so maybe in the unlikely event that your college is 100Mbit within the dorms (the few that I know of are all 10Mbit, and even some still have Cat 3 strung), I seriously doubt that you have anything more than a full T3 to the internet at large. A T3 is only 45Mbit/s. And you're lucky if you even have a T3 dedicated to drom internet use.
Not to mention *weight*. You know how much it would weigh to wire each seat with cat5, and include the necessary jacks, hubs/switches, etc? It would weigh way too much to be feasable, unless it could somehow be integrated with the current wiring in place (which I seriously doubt). The weight that would be spent on cabling would be better spent hauling passengers or cargo... where the airline actually makes money.
The MEL only applies to components of the aircraft that would otherwise render the aircraft unairworthy if they were to fail. A busted entertainment system would not render the aircraft unairworthy, so therefore it would not be included in the MEL.
According to 14 CFR 91.21:
No person may operate, nor may the operator or pilot in command of an aircraft allow the operation of, any portable electronic device on any of the following U.S.-registered civil aircraft... except for... any other portable electronic device that the operator of the aircraft has determined will not cause interference with the navigation or communication system on the aircraft on which it is to be used.
So it only applies to U.S.-registered airplanes (although I bet the JARs have a similar section), and if the operator (air carrier) determines that there is no problem, that is allowed.
Yes, not only are they common, they're actively solicited. I can't tell you how many times after filing or opening my flight plan, Flight Service has come back in a cheerful voice and said "We'd appreciate any pilot reports you could provide while in flight."
For non-pilots, a pilot report (or PIREP for short), is a weather report filed while in flight.
Sounds like typical bullying to me. If these screenshots/whatever were acquired via legal means (ie. not espionage or anything...) I don't see how Nintendo could object. After all, it basically amounts to free advertising for them.
I have one question -- how the hell do I copy a car?
Companies such as Autodesk have been going after used sales of AutoCad for awhile now, and some license agreements do not let you resell it. And even if you do resell it, the software would probably not be complete, i.e. with support and all.
Unfortunately this is a trend in software that is gaining momentum. That's why I love open source software!
Face it, speed sells. If the average consumer was to pick between a (top-of-the-line) 733Mhz G4 and a even middle-of-the-road 1Ghz Athlon, guess which one they're going to pick. Now, don't give me the crap about how Macs aren't for the average consumer or whatever, but face it, this is a problem for Apple. It's a shame that they're being held back by Motorola when their Mac OS X is so wonderful. But boy does it need it's CPU cycles.
I know this is a way off, but do you see any reason why DirectX support would not be possible? Or would it just require too much manpower that it wouldn't be feasable?
Even if Microsoft were to make their own linux distro, the *required* stuff would be open source, but all the Microsoft-contributed code would be closed. You better believe it. They will probably port over their Windows toolkit, and any versions of Office/IE/whatever that they make for linux will be dependent on their toolkit and ultimately their linux distro. If they're smart, they'll probably even make the underlying stuff freely downloadable and charge for the fancy windowing and UI (a la Mac OS X). They probably won't even use X.
That article brings up good points... they'll just capitalize on all the R&D that the linux companies have done. Typical tactics. Heh... MS execs are probably even reading this right now saying "hmm, that's a good idea, maybe we should look into this!"
Or just use wget.
http://www.heckard.com/mspacman/pacproj.htm
And yes, he has done the wiring -- all the good stuff's on the next page. Those pictures should be complete also.
http://www.heckard.com/mspacman/pacproj.htm
we'll try this again, with proper tags :-)
ftp://ftp.heckard.com/pub/netscape6/
http://www.heckard.com/pub/netscape6/
A fast mirror of Netscape 6 will be available at ftp://ftp.heckard.com/pub/netscape6/http://www.hec kard.com/pub/netscape6/
I'm working on downloading it now, should be done shortly. Netscape sites are really, really slow.
Yes, but I was talking about commercial, passenger carrying aircraft, not military fighters.
How would that be any different? Would you fly on the equivalent of a RC aircraft?
No commercial airplane will ever fly without pilots in any of our lifetime.
While we may have the technology to do it, it's not mature enough yet. And I'm not even sure that it would be possible. No airplane has the capability to do a autopilot takeoff, and while many have the capability to do an autolanding, it's possible at maybe 10 or 15 runways in the US. (By autolanding, I mean a full autolanding, flying an ILS approach to standard minimums and requiring the pilots to take over the approach and hand-fly it from there obviously doesn't count.) I can guarantee you that the FAA would not certificate and aircraft airworthy without pilots. That is a good thing in my opinion. The FAA does not even allow pilots to use GPS as their sole means of navigation flying IFR -- they must have a VOR tuned in and set to the proper course.
So, in short, while it's possible for an airplane to reduce the pilot's workload by 90%, that last 10% will never disappear. At least not in our lifetime for commercial (ie people-carrying) aircraft.
Finally we'll have quality 3D acceleration on a laptop running linux. Combined with the nvidia drivers (ok, so they're not open source, but closed source is better than no source), one can finally have a decently fast setup.
The ATI cards seem to work fine, but have always been lacking in the performance area.
As I recall, I was asking on the status of the project, which would seem to imply that we're pursuing the same bit of information. At least I looked up the link instead of just blindly replying that it "doesn't exist."
As for "calling someone who cares," shouldn't you follow your own advice? After all, why do you continue to post about GNOME if you think it's such a bad thing? Why did you even read this article, anyway?
You're probably thinking of DDT.
Oh sorry, didn't realize that there was a requirement on slashdot to only post articles about shipping products. As a matter of fact, I'm glad there isn't, because then slashdot would become pretty lame...
Have you even used GNOME? It's very nice -- runs fast, never crashes, and is very flexible. It's about ten times better than that Windows 2000 box you used to type that comment on.
Now back to playing with your lame stack of cellphones. What exactly can the internet on my phone do for me?
Take a look at this: GNOME on PDA article on Slashdot. So yes, it did happen, and while it may be a "bloated ball of shit," it does run on a "reasonable PDA."
So why don't in the future you refrain from opening your mouth without knowing what you talk about...
Whatever happened to the port of GNOME to PDAs? I remember reading about it here awhile ago but haven't heard anything lately. Personally, I think both groups have a ton of work to do trimming stuff down so it's usable on a 30MHz processor with little RAM. I just can't wait until we start having GNOME vs. KDE flamewars on an iPaq!