The airbus does not have a stick shaker, as there is no kind of force feedback on the side stick (aside from it being locked in the neutral position when the autopilot is on). The only indication of a stall in alternate law (when the fly by wire is degraded, which was the case for AF447) is a "STALL STALL STALL" aural message and the indication on the Primary Flight Display that the speed is in the barber's pole section of the speed tape. The part about the warning being inhibited below 60kts is correct.
Lots of long haul airliners have a separate bunk, however they are only useable for flights with more than two crew members, as at least two pilots have to be in the flight deck at any time. Most flights under 8 hours only have two pilots, in which case the only option is for the pilots to take turns to rest in their seat if they are too exhausted.
This outage prompted me to look for an easy way to backup my mail. I use the webmail interface, and don't necessarily want to put some time into configuring a mail client that I would not use for backup purposes only.
A google search returned Gmail Backup, apparently designed for the sole purpose of backing up Gmail. I have to wait until I'm home tonight to test it, but I was wondering if by chance some slashdotters would have tested it already. The app seems promissing, but I want to make sure that it's indeed working, as I don't want to find out the backup is crap the day Gmail collapses.
I used to agree with the slashdot crowd that glossy==bad, until I had to use a glossy screen on my work laptop.
The glossy screens give you a better contrast, at the cost of pretty bad reflections on the darker areas of your screen. While I agree that the reflection may be a huge problem for the professionals working with anything related to images, I think that glossy screens are a better fit for the professionals that mostly deal with text and numbers. The characters are usually black on white, so the increased contrast gives you increased legibility. The glare is a non-issue, since the background is white.
When do you teach a new driver how to break. When the car is standing still, when he first got it moving forward OR when it is approaching a concrete pillar at 120 km an hour in a snowstorm?
Well, that concrete pillar will surely help him break!
About a month ago I contacted the company to enquire about delivery costs in the UK. I was told it would range between 40 and 50$, almost as much as the keyboard itself. And then there's always the risk of having to pay import duty on it...
I've been searching the internet for a distributor in Europe which would hopefully allow to have a lower price, but I have not found any. Is there really no other way than paying the incredibly high postage fees to get one in Europe?
One of the French presidential candidate for the upcoming elections, Ségolène Royale, made the same move a while ago. See a screenshot of the virtual campaign.
Leela: "Fry, you're wasting your life sitting in front of that TV. You need to get out and see the real world!" Fry: "But this is HDTV! It's got better resolution than the real world!"
There are plenty of software that allow to stress-test the processor in order to ensure that the CPU is stable at the voltages that are set, such as prime95, that is mentioned in the article. It does not take "endless hours" to do that either: you just set the voltage you want to use, launch the stress-test utility, go to bed, and check if there are any errors in the morning... Then you can effectively determine the minimum voltage that is required to keep a stable system.
A big advantage Notebook Hardware Control (NHC) has over the RMClock utility is that it does not override the power scheme setting that are applied by the computer's manufacturer's software: for example, using NHC I can define the different voltages applied for every multiplier, but still use the IBM utility that came with my thinkpad to choose whether I want the lowest/highest/whatever multiplier, whereas the RMclock utility takes control over everything.
Another thing to take into account is that NHC has many more functions, such as temperature monitoring, GPU undervolting, HDD SMART monitoring, and so on...
I also read somewhere (do not remember where, and I did not bother comparing myself), that the CPU occupation was lower with NHC than it is with RMClock (even though it has more functionalities).
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The airbus does not have a stick shaker, as there is no kind of force feedback on the side stick (aside from it being locked in the neutral position when the autopilot is on). The only indication of a stall in alternate law (when the fly by wire is degraded, which was the case for AF447) is a "STALL STALL STALL" aural message and the indication on the Primary Flight Display that the speed is in the barber's pole section of the speed tape. The part about the warning being inhibited below 60kts is correct.
Lots of long haul airliners have a separate bunk, however they are only useable for flights with more than two crew members, as at least two pilots have to be in the flight deck at any time. Most flights under 8 hours only have two pilots, in which case the only option is for the pilots to take turns to rest in their seat if they are too exhausted.
WHOOSH!
Seriously can somebody mod the GP Funny?
This outage prompted me to look for an easy way to backup my mail. I use the webmail interface, and don't necessarily want to put some time into configuring a mail client that I would not use for backup purposes only.
A google search returned Gmail Backup, apparently designed for the sole purpose of backing up Gmail. I have to wait until I'm home tonight to test it, but I was wondering if by chance some slashdotters would have tested it already. The app seems promissing, but I want to make sure that it's indeed working, as I don't want to find out the backup is crap the day Gmail collapses.
I used to agree with the slashdot crowd that glossy==bad, until I had to use a glossy screen on my work laptop.
The glossy screens give you a better contrast, at the cost of pretty bad reflections on the darker areas of your screen. While I agree that the reflection may be a huge problem for the professionals working with anything related to images, I think that glossy screens are a better fit for the professionals that mostly deal with text and numbers. The characters are usually black on white, so the increased contrast gives you increased legibility. The glare is a non-issue, since the background is white.
Maybe the user would mind the screen being turned away from him, and located between him and the wacom tablet though...
When do you teach a new driver how to break. When the car is standing still, when he first got it moving forward OR when it is approaching a concrete pillar at 120 km an hour in a snowstorm?
Well, that concrete pillar will surely help him break!
About a month ago I contacted the company to enquire about delivery costs in the UK. I was told it would range between 40 and 50$, almost as much as the keyboard itself. And then there's always the risk of having to pay import duty on it...
I've been searching the internet for a distributor in Europe which would hopefully allow to have a lower price, but I have not found any. Is there really no other way than paying the incredibly high postage fees to get one in Europe?
A few days ago, Scott Addams was exporing this same idea in a post on the Dilbert Blog. I suppose he must have been reading TFA.
One of the French presidential candidate for the upcoming elections, Ségolène Royale, made the same move a while ago. See a screenshot of the virtual campaign.
Leela: "Fry, you're wasting your life sitting in front of that TV. You need to get out and see the real world!"
Fry: "But this is HDTV! It's got better resolution than the real world!"
So... she mailed the students to tell them to quit using computers in class, in order to promote communication, instead of telling them directly.
There are plenty of software that allow to stress-test the processor in order to ensure that the CPU is stable at the voltages that are set, such as prime95, that is mentioned in the article. It does not take "endless hours" to do that either: you just set the voltage you want to use, launch the stress-test utility, go to bed, and check if there are any errors in the morning... Then you can effectively determine the minimum voltage that is required to keep a stable system.
A big advantage Notebook Hardware Control (NHC) has over the RMClock utility is that it does not override the power scheme setting that are applied by the computer's manufacturer's software: for example, using NHC I can define the different voltages applied for every multiplier, but still use the IBM utility that came with my thinkpad to choose whether I want the lowest/highest/whatever multiplier, whereas the RMclock utility takes control over everything.
Another thing to take into account is that NHC has many more functions, such as temperature monitoring, GPU undervolting, HDD SMART monitoring, and so on...
I also read somewhere (do not remember where, and I did not bother comparing myself), that the CPU occupation was lower with NHC than it is with RMClock (even though it has more functionalities).