I run a rooted Charge with an extended battery (not only for longer use, but also to improve the feel of the phone in my hand--it's just too thin in stock config). On 3G only, I can get 3 days' use with Tasker running in the background. 4G would drop to 2 days' use unless I was using it real heavy.
I recently re-flashed to a new Gingerbread-based ROM and started using CPU controls in Tasker. We'll see how that does over the next few days (I used the full battery up yesterday doing a lot of installation and setup work).
I have noticed that playing music actually runs the battery down relatively quickly.
The difference is that we aren't talking about a piece of consumer-grade hardware with no safety-critical application. Aviation-grade hardware has to be hardened against a wider environmental range, has less tolerance for bugs, and (most important from a cost standpoint) has to meet FAA standards. Then you get into regulatory requirements stating that permanent installations need to be certified or otherwise approved for each type of aircraft the equipment is going in.
The question is, though, what did they break? What did they disable? What functionality did they decide their users didn't need to be using any more? What nonsensical, unjustified, flavor-of-the-week changes did they make to the UI? And how long will it take me to fix everything back and regain all the things I lost with the "upgrade"?
waste of money to have manned exploration right now, we don't have the means to make sustainable space colony with 1 G field, nor will we for more than a century
And just how exactly do you think that technology develops? It doesn't just drop out of the sky, or magically happen. You have to work on it and successively improve your technology. Sitting on your hands for years is just going to leave you in the same place you were before.
What you're suggesting would be like humanity deciding on December 18, 1903, to not bother trying to build any more airplanes until we could build one to fly 300 people trans-Pacific at Mach.82 while watching a movie, eating filet mignon, and sipping wine.
These are trained and skills construction tradespeople. I was a scheduler at nuke plant, the contract workers made $50 to $120 an hour. Why, you ask? ask yourself, for example, what kind of "pipefitter" works with 16" diameter stainless pipe, in a rad area. A very well trained expensive one, that's who.
Yep. My wife does payroll for a company that does work on reactors. Those guys make very good money; hourly rates of $30+, plus per diem and time-and-a-half/double-time as appropriate. The "poor, uneducated" workers GP was referring to easily make twice as much or more than I make as an experienced engineer.
I don't know for sure, but I have a feeling those numbers are for deaths from acute radiation exposure--massive several-hunded rem doses that cause radiation sickness and death in a short time. It would be interesting (if impossible to find out) how many deaths were indirectly related (i.e., cancer caused b y cumulative exposure, etc).
But as you said, it's still safer than going to the grocery store.
Did it ever occur to you that those of us who don't live in the major metropolitan areas of Georgia don't want all the rules being made according to a bunch of city folk in Atlanta?
If you want a whole state full of "blue" city types, move up north.
Being made by the company requesting the patent, it doesn't count as prior art...
I was referring to the reference of Outlook/Exchange being worse ("a downgrade") than Oracle, and about Notes being even worse than both. Anyone who has used it will understand.
Yeah, no kidding. Where I work we use MS Outlook/Exchange (formerly Oracle, I can't believe we could actually find something that's a downgrade from THAT, but we managed),
I, too, have been labeled a member of (insert opposing group here) in many different situations. It gets annoying when the chain becomes:
You support position X -Party A supports position X as well. -Party A also supports position Y. -Therefore, I assume you also support position Y, and will therefore identify you as a member of Party A.
It's really bad when the chain becomes:
-You support position X. -Party A supports position X as well. -Party A also supports position Z. -(Random whackjob) supports position Z, as well as generally deplorable and completely unacceptable Position N. -Party A and (random whackjob) both support Z, so Party A must be made of (random whackjobs) and by implication support generally deplorable and completely unacceptable Position N. -Therefore, not only must you be a member of Party A (since you both support Position X), you must also therefore be a (random whackjob) who supports generally deplorable and completely unacceptable Position N. -Since you are assumed without evidence to be a (random whackjob) who supports generally deplorable and completely unacceptable Position N, all other statements you make are considered invalid.
Speak for yourself. Four years of trying have gotten me three habaneros, a tiny green bell pepper, a few basil leaves, and a handful of cilantro. I must be Rappaccini's son or something.
As for the rest of it, I can do all the rest to some degree or another, but I had to make an effort and specifically make time to learn them. Some people can't do that because of time or money concerns, and I understand that. But I just can't understand people who don't want to learn anything, even when they have the means and opportunity.
My biggest use for the status bar is for verifying where links want to send me to (I don't allow sites to change the status text). It also helps me avoid opening blank tabs when I middle-click on links that turn out to have used javascript instead of a plain old URL (I mean, seariously, people... why the hell do you need f'ing javascript to make a simple link?) Taking that away entirely is a bad move from a security standpoint.
Popovers are distracting and sometimes require delays to be visible. The status bar stays in one place and responds instantly.
You lose some of the gravity and g-losses having to pitch up on launch.
There's also the big advantage that an air-launch system can launch into any desired inclination on short notice. Fixed launch sites have range-safety limitations on inclination and only intersect with a given orbit roughly twice a day; with air launch you simply* fly to an area that is clear of hazards in your desired launch direction, and launch. This is a big deal if you need something in orbit on short notice.
And yes, around where I live we do see planes on trains quite often but I think those are 757 bodies.
Close, but those are 737s. The 757 has been out of production for several years.
But back on subject, the LCF might be good for ferrying parts around; it is more suitable for regular airports. It just needs the correct equipment to open the tail.
The trick will be getting one; not only does Boeing own them all (but they're operated by Atlas Air, I believe), they aren't fully certified--Boeign is only allowed to use them to carry its own cargo, and no passengers.
That's exactly how it is in the aerospace field, too. Thank you for explaining it in better terms than I could.
I will say it does tick me off when (usually in response to flaws discovered in testing) people say things like "We have been using aluminum for a few decades, and we have computers now. There should be no excuses for any design that isn't perfect."
There's also a mental factor - there's no satisfaction to "getting home" after a long day of work
That's one of two reasons that I could never telecommute. When my ass clears the doorway on the way out, the part of my brain labeled "work" shuts off. It doesn't turn back on again until after I've arrived the next day and ingested a cup of coffee. Having that physical, visceral reminder that I'm no longer at work keeps me sane.
The other reason I couldn't do it is that I am easily distracted and would have a hard time getting work done.
The best option, I think, would be more flexible hours--I'd work 3-13s (or 14-13-13) and be done with things for the week.
-It's asynchronous, so you can still get information to people who are away from their desks, out sick, working different hours, etc. Phone calls and the internal IM system are used for informal or urgent things, but email still gets sent as a followup for anything important.
-It's handy for reference, since you can go back and look later.
-It's a great CYA tool, so when your boss walks up and says "why the hell did you do it that way?!" you can respond with "because you told me to" and back that up with proof. You can also use it to show that you made repeated efforts to get information and were ignored.
-It's a hell of a lot more professional than facebook.
Of course, I work in a compliance-driven industry that is conservative by nature (aerospace).
Among these are pretty much all the majors Slashdotters routinely deride as unemployable, including:
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 6.7%
HISTORY 6.5%
FINE ARTS 7.4%
DRAMA AND THEATER ARTS 7.1%
The study just lists employment. It says nothing about what kind of employment, or whether said employment is actually making use of the degree. I bet if we counted as employed only those who were doing a job that required a degree (any degree), the number would be much higher. And it would be higher still if we only counted people who were doing a job that required that specific degree. For all we know, the 92.9% of employed Drama and Fine Arts majors could be serving coffee at Starbucks.
Case in point: My wife's major was a BS in something similar to "history of technology" from a major university. She's now a self-taught bookkeeper. Prior to that, she worked retail because that was the only job she could find. Yeah, she's employed, but it's a crappy job at a poorly-run company. The chances she will ever find a job that actually uses her degree are about zero. She has stated more than once that, if she could do it over, she would have done industrial engineering.
We still go full steam ahead even though ships haven't burned coal for over a century
Ships with oil-fired boilers and those with nuclear reactors still heat water up to make steam and propel themselves. This phrase, at least, is still plenty relevant today.
I wouldn't say an explosion of "time consuming video tutorials" is a sign of eroding language skills at all. No matter whether you're trying to teach someone abstract physics, equipment maintenance, or anything else, the majority of people find such instruction much easier to understand when it is accompanied by some kind of visual aid. Seeing a picture of something aids comprehension; seeing a video or live presentation can help even more.
Further, it is often much simpler (and more importantly, faster) just to demonstrate something than to sit down and type out a lengthy explanation. I can set up a camera, do a video tutorial, and upload it to youtube in less time than it would take me to document the same process in text and pictures.
Overall, the trend towards more video in place of text has more to do with the easy availability of video capturing and editing equipment, and available bandwidth, than any failure of language skills.
Nothing in the Constitution gives Congress the right to deny people access to the Internet, therefore they have no power to do so.
Nothing in the Constitution gives Congress (or the federal government as a whole) the power to do a lot of the things that it does. But somewhere along the line, they turned the power to regulate "interstate commerce" into the power to regulate everything, under the supposed reasoning that pretty much anything could conceivably affect interstate commerce, therefore the feds could regulate everything. For example, growing your own plants (for food or otherwise) was purported to affect interstate commerce because, by growing your own, you weren't buying them from somewhere else, which might have been out of your state of residence. Ergo, you're affecting interstate commerce, and the feds can regulate.
That isn't to say the federal government shouldn't be doing some of the things that it does which aren't specifically enumerated. However, granting that power should have been done by amendment instead of handwaving or saying "we're going to do it anyway".
They did it by taking out loans to go to small private liberal-arts schools and getting useless degrees like (insert group) studies or ancient non-rhyming Sumerian poetry. They were then completely floored that employers weren't lining up outside their door to shower them with money and beg these people to come work for them.
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I run a rooted Charge with an extended battery (not only for longer use, but also to improve the feel of the phone in my hand--it's just too thin in stock config). On 3G only, I can get 3 days' use with Tasker running in the background. 4G would drop to 2 days' use unless I was using it real heavy.
I recently re-flashed to a new Gingerbread-based ROM and started using CPU controls in Tasker. We'll see how that does over the next few days (I used the full battery up yesterday doing a lot of installation and setup work).
I have noticed that playing music actually runs the battery down relatively quickly.
The difference is that we aren't talking about a piece of consumer-grade hardware with no safety-critical application. Aviation-grade hardware has to be hardened against a wider environmental range, has less tolerance for bugs, and (most important from a cost standpoint) has to meet FAA standards. Then you get into regulatory requirements stating that permanent installations need to be certified or otherwise approved for each type of aircraft the equipment is going in.
Don't Think
That should be "Don't Sink!"
The question is, though, what did they break? What did they disable? What functionality did they decide their users didn't need to be using any more? What nonsensical, unjustified, flavor-of-the-week changes did they make to the UI? And how long will it take me to fix everything back and regain all the things I lost with the "upgrade"?
waste of money to have manned exploration right now, we don't have the means to make sustainable space colony with 1 G field, nor will we for more than a century
And just how exactly do you think that technology develops? It doesn't just drop out of the sky, or magically happen. You have to work on it and successively improve your technology. Sitting on your hands for years is just going to leave you in the same place you were before.
What you're suggesting would be like humanity deciding on December 18, 1903, to not bother trying to build any more airplanes until we could build one to fly 300 people trans-Pacific at Mach .82 while watching a movie, eating filet mignon, and sipping wine.
These are trained and skills construction tradespeople. I was a scheduler at nuke plant, the contract workers made $50 to $120 an hour. Why, you ask? ask yourself, for example, what kind of "pipefitter" works with 16" diameter stainless pipe, in a rad area. A very well trained expensive one, that's who.
Yep. My wife does payroll for a company that does work on reactors. Those guys make very good money; hourly rates of $30+, plus per diem and time-and-a-half/double-time as appropriate. The "poor, uneducated" workers GP was referring to easily make twice as much or more than I make as an experienced engineer.
I don't know for sure, but I have a feeling those numbers are for deaths from acute radiation exposure--massive several-hunded rem doses that cause radiation sickness and death in a short time. It would be interesting (if impossible to find out) how many deaths were indirectly related (i.e., cancer caused b y cumulative exposure, etc).
But as you said, it's still safer than going to the grocery store.
Did it ever occur to you that those of us who don't live in the major metropolitan areas of Georgia don't want all the rules being made according to a bunch of city folk in Atlanta?
If you want a whole state full of "blue" city types, move up north.
Who buys a luxary goods when they don't have a good steady source of income?
Quite a lot of people do. Then they whine about how they can't afford basic necessities and need government assistance to eat and house themselves.
Being made by the company requesting the patent, it doesn't count as prior art...
I was referring to the reference of Outlook/Exchange being worse ("a downgrade") than Oracle, and about Notes being even worse than both. Anyone who has used it will understand.
Yeah, no kidding. Where I work we use MS Outlook/Exchange (formerly Oracle, I can't believe we could actually find something that's a downgrade from THAT, but we managed),
I see your Outlook, and raise you Lotus Notes.
I, too, have been labeled a member of (insert opposing group here) in many different situations. It gets annoying when the chain becomes:
You support position X
-Party A supports position X as well.
-Party A also supports position Y.
-Therefore, I assume you also support position Y, and will therefore identify you as a member of Party A.
It's really bad when the chain becomes:
-You support position X.
-Party A supports position X as well.
-Party A also supports position Z.
-(Random whackjob) supports position Z, as well as generally deplorable and completely unacceptable Position N.
-Party A and (random whackjob) both support Z, so Party A must be made of (random whackjobs) and by implication support generally deplorable and completely unacceptable Position N.
-Therefore, not only must you be a member of Party A (since you both support Position X), you must also therefore be a (random whackjob) who supports generally deplorable and completely unacceptable Position N.
-Since you are assumed without evidence to be a (random whackjob) who supports generally deplorable and completely unacceptable Position N, all other statements you make are considered invalid.
Basic gardening is also super-easy
Speak for yourself. Four years of trying have gotten me three habaneros, a tiny green bell pepper, a few basil leaves, and a handful of cilantro. I must be Rappaccini's son or something.
As for the rest of it, I can do all the rest to some degree or another, but I had to make an effort and specifically make time to learn them. Some people can't do that because of time or money concerns, and I understand that. But I just can't understand people who don't want to learn anything, even when they have the means and opportunity.
My biggest use for the status bar is for verifying where links want to send me to (I don't allow sites to change the status text). It also helps me avoid opening blank tabs when I middle-click on links that turn out to have used javascript instead of a plain old URL (I mean, seariously, people... why the hell do you need f'ing javascript to make a simple link?) Taking that away entirely is a bad move from a security standpoint.
Popovers are distracting and sometimes require delays to be visible. The status bar stays in one place and responds instantly.
You lose some of the gravity and g-losses having to pitch up on launch.
There's also the big advantage that an air-launch system can launch into any desired inclination on short notice. Fixed launch sites have range-safety limitations on inclination and only intersect with a given orbit roughly twice a day; with air launch you simply* fly to an area that is clear of hazards in your desired launch direction, and launch. This is a big deal if you need something in orbit on short notice.
*relatively speaking
And yes, around where I live we do see planes on trains quite often but I think those are 757 bodies.
Close, but those are 737s. The 757 has been out of production for several years.
But back on subject, the LCF might be good for ferrying parts around; it is more suitable for regular airports. It just needs the correct equipment to open the tail.
The trick will be getting one; not only does Boeing own them all (but they're operated by Atlas Air, I believe), they aren't fully certified--Boeign is only allowed to use them to carry its own cargo, and no passengers.
That's exactly how it is in the aerospace field, too. Thank you for explaining it in better terms than I could.
I will say it does tick me off when (usually in response to flaws discovered in testing) people say things like "We have been using aluminum for a few decades, and we have computers now. There should be no excuses for any design that isn't perfect."
Wind tunnels and subscale models are still used in aerospace even with the availability of CFD and other computerized tools.
There's also a mental factor - there's no satisfaction to "getting home" after a long day of work
That's one of two reasons that I could never telecommute. When my ass clears the doorway on the way out, the part of my brain labeled "work" shuts off. It doesn't turn back on again until after I've arrived the next day and ingested a cup of coffee. Having that physical, visceral reminder that I'm no longer at work keeps me sane.
The other reason I couldn't do it is that I am easily distracted and would have a hard time getting work done.
The best option, I think, would be more flexible hours--I'd work 3-13s (or 14-13-13) and be done with things for the week.
Email is still king where I work.
-It's asynchronous, so you can still get information to people who are away from their desks, out sick, working different hours, etc. Phone calls and the internal IM system are used for informal or urgent things, but email still gets sent as a followup for anything important.
-It's handy for reference, since you can go back and look later.
-It's a great CYA tool, so when your boss walks up and says "why the hell did you do it that way?!" you can respond with "because you told me to" and back that up with proof. You can also use it to show that you made repeated efforts to get information and were ignored.
-It's a hell of a lot more professional than facebook.
Of course, I work in a compliance-driven industry that is conservative by nature (aerospace).
Among these are pretty much all the majors Slashdotters routinely deride as unemployable, including:
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 6.7%
HISTORY 6.5%
FINE ARTS 7.4%
DRAMA AND THEATER ARTS 7.1%
The study just lists employment. It says nothing about what kind of employment, or whether said employment is actually making use of the degree. I bet if we counted as employed only those who were doing a job that required a degree (any degree), the number would be much higher. And it would be higher still if we only counted people who were doing a job that required that specific degree. For all we know, the 92.9% of employed Drama and Fine Arts majors could be serving coffee at Starbucks.
Case in point: My wife's major was a BS in something similar to "history of technology" from a major university. She's now a self-taught bookkeeper. Prior to that, she worked retail because that was the only job she could find. Yeah, she's employed, but it's a crappy job at a poorly-run company. The chances she will ever find a job that actually uses her degree are about zero. She has stated more than once that, if she could do it over, she would have done industrial engineering.
We still go full steam ahead even though ships haven't burned coal for over a century
Ships with oil-fired boilers and those with nuclear reactors still heat water up to make steam and propel themselves. This phrase, at least, is still plenty relevant today.
I wouldn't say an explosion of "time consuming video tutorials" is a sign of eroding language skills at all. No matter whether you're trying to teach someone abstract physics, equipment maintenance, or anything else, the majority of people find such instruction much easier to understand when it is accompanied by some kind of visual aid. Seeing a picture of something aids comprehension; seeing a video or live presentation can help even more.
Further, it is often much simpler (and more importantly, faster) just to demonstrate something than to sit down and type out a lengthy explanation. I can set up a camera, do a video tutorial, and upload it to youtube in less time than it would take me to document the same process in text and pictures.
Overall, the trend towards more video in place of text has more to do with the easy availability of video capturing and editing equipment, and available bandwidth, than any failure of language skills.
Nothing in the Constitution gives Congress the right to deny people access to the Internet, therefore they have no power to do so.
Nothing in the Constitution gives Congress (or the federal government as a whole) the power to do a lot of the things that it does. But somewhere along the line, they turned the power to regulate "interstate commerce" into the power to regulate everything, under the supposed reasoning that pretty much anything could conceivably affect interstate commerce, therefore the feds could regulate everything. For example, growing your own plants (for food or otherwise) was purported to affect interstate commerce because, by growing your own, you weren't buying them from somewhere else, which might have been out of your state of residence. Ergo, you're affecting interstate commerce, and the feds can regulate.
That isn't to say the federal government shouldn't be doing some of the things that it does which aren't specifically enumerated. However, granting that power should have been done by amendment instead of handwaving or saying "we're going to do it anyway".
They did it by taking out loans to go to small private liberal-arts schools and getting useless degrees like (insert group) studies or ancient non-rhyming Sumerian poetry. They were then completely floored that employers weren't lining up outside their door to shower them with money and beg these people to come work for them.