Um, probably more on the order of "cents" for that mass-market paperback. I did a couple stints in a bindery a few years ago. You're typical $80 to $120 hard cover college textbook only cost us about $1.80 to make. Yeah, that's one dollar and eighty cents per book. You could get into the gilded lettering and faux leather hardcovers, but that only added maybe another dollar or two to the unit cost.
Too many of the games being recommended are essentially programming trainers. Not every kid wants to learn programming. At least, not consciously. I always loved The Incredible Machine and had hoped a similar offering would appear for Linux someday. However, Phun (mentioned above) looks entertaining enough. Good for some basic physics lessons.
(OK, it was just a child's balloon, and I didn't hit it. But I really don't want to come across untrained idiots who can take my aircraft out of the sky if I hit them.)
I've seen those balloons as high as 20,000 feet. I thought they would have expanded and popped long before that altitude.
Fly along the east coast (NY, Teterboro, DC, etc.). I hate it out there, ATC always brings you down to around 6,000 feet 50 to 100 miles from your destination and now you're mixing it up with all the GA gnats who can't seem to figure out how to properly calibrate (or even turn on) their transponders. I've had so many friggin' close calls out there I refuse to fly single-pilot in that airspace now.
BTW, I have nothing against GA. Just the people that think they own the sky and have no regard for how incredibly crowded it has become in the past 20 years.
And some of those games were actually pretty good. I loved River Raid. And despite the numbing simplicity of Combat, I loved that one too. However, many were duds or just bad implementations of arcade games (e.g. Pac Man).
The sad thing about consoles is that the best console will always be the next console. I can remember my neighbor had the Odyssey (or maybe it was Odyssey II--whatever...) and I thought that was pretty amazing. Then, my uncle had the Intellivision. Whoa! Talk about awesome graphics!! The baseball characters now had arms AND legs! We've come a hell of a long way in the last 30-ish years, and I look forward to the future.
I know we're not voting here, but I think the most underrated console was the Neo-Geo. If you had the finances, you really could bring the arcade home.
There were so many other good machines that just didn't survive: the PC Engine/TG16 and the Sega Genesis come to mind. I wish I could have seen the Jaguar. Then there was Sony. Where the NES lifted the gaming industry out of their coma, the Playstation was the beginning of rehab on steroids.
Man, I gotta go find some emulators. I'm getting a wist of nostalgia.
Next to go: Blu-Ray. Who's still going to be buying plastic discs in 5-10 years time, when a significant amount of people actually have the hardware necessary for viewing HD content?
Agreed. This is one I'm going to sit out. Blu-Ray and HD are out at a time when they aren't needed or demanded. I haven't felt a need to go down to the local brick-n-mortar to pick up a plastic disc in the last three years. Blu/HD isn't going to change that. I think by the time the whole Blu/HD thing is settled, it will be too late. People will have moved on. Many of us already have.
Silliness aside, it is in fact called a Near Mid-Air Collision when two aircraft pass within 500 feet of each other. I have seen many, many, many aircraft pass directly overhead or below that were 1,000 feet from me. It's a little uncomfortable the first few times, but you eventually get accustomed to it. Not once was it a surprise to myself or the other aircraft's pilot.
I think it's silly. Stego is well known for not being very effective at truly obfuscating the fact that there's hidden data in a photo. Open the file in a hex editor and it's blatantly obvious there's data in the photo. Anyone with a modicum of knowledge could detect the presence of data, uh, with the possible exception of your local border security (sorry, oblig.). I'm suspicious about the study. If you wanted to hide data in a file, why would you then post that image to the web for all to see? Why not just email it to one or two... million people all spam-like and make sure at least one goes to your target? Most people will delete your spam without even suspecting anything. Then there are the few that would be curious. So, well, not a great idea either. I just don't think stego is what it could be, or what criminals expect it should be.
Did somebody actually pay for these tests? I would've done them for free about 5 years ago.
From my own experience, Nextel phones lose service in the general neighborhood of about 2,000 feet above ground, and my Cing..er AT&T service normally gives it up around 5,000 feet. I've never had a connection work above 18,000 feet speedin' along from 200 knots to 600 knots.
The worst thing about cell phones, from my perspective in the "front office" is that I can hear them attempting to establish a connection with the cell network. It's an annoying static-like tapping noise in my headset at about 120 bpm. Nextel seems to be the worst, by that I mean, the loudest. I can frequently tell when someone has left their phone on during a flight because during the descent to the airport between about 5,000 and 2,000 feet you hear 'em trying to establish a connection with the network.
Now, with all that said, it's really more of a nuisance than it is a hazard. And for me, I just find it particularly annoying. Also, for those that choose not to disable their phone (or at the very least, put it into airplane mode), it will rapidly deplete your battery. So, if you like to leave your phone on, make sure you packed your charger.
It'd really make more sense to make onstar hardware installation optional, rather than wasting resources installing it in every car, and having a subset of buyers "disable" it after the fact.
However, overall, I'd imagine that it's less expensive to install the unit in every vehicle they can regardless of whether or not it's being used. Some sort of economy of scale there. Also, maybe, just someday, someone might get a bug up their @55 and say "Hey, I wonder what this On* thing is about anyway." They subscribe, and a new customer is born.
That's what I don't understand. Normally, the whole idea of having access to a corporate/private shuttle is to have the ability to fly to the airport that is closest to the meeting. That way you don't have to fly to the huge metro field then drive across town. A decent sized Learjet will be able to takeoff and land at a field as short as 4500 feet. This opens up a lot of options. Seems to me that the 767 would 1) not allow you to go to those smaller airports due to runway length requirements, and 2) the services required would be mostly found at the larger metro fields negating the advantages of going to the more conveniently located fields.
But hey, if it's just a party plane, who cares? You can probably find better clubs at KMIA than at KTEW.
By the way, the request for hammocks seems lavish, but is far from unusual. Duncan Aviation (and I'm sure others as well) have installed (or have been requested to install) all kinds of crazy things such as gold (yeah, Au) fixtures, trim, etc. Some folks from the Middle East has requested chairs that would always face Mecca regardless of the aircraft's position in space. And believe it or not, installing a DirecTV dish in the tail of a Citation X is more challenging that it may seem. These guys are hardly the first, but what strikes me as odd is that they are so blatantly (or, seemingly so) not using the aircraft to further their business. I could be wrong, but I think any broker would have recommended a more economical aircraft. One could operate a fleet of GIVs, Vs, Challengers, etc. for about the same as a 767 and those smaller aircraft would have more utility. However, probably not enough room for hammocks.
That would be an empty C172. With pax/fuel, and depending on model, it's about 1000 to 1100 kg.
Oh, and the (strong/foolproof!)linkage needed for the foldable wings.
Additionally, have you seen the bolts that hold a C172's wing to the fuselage? The entire system (strut/fairings/spar) appears frighteningly unsubstantial when in fact it is rather stout. If most people knew how that airplane was assembled, they'd never get one a small aircraft again.
"It is just a ridiculous situation. Why should I conform to them when I am consenting to the software... they should have software that conforms to me."
Next time I find myself in jail I'll be sure to request the Presidential Suite. Hopefully it has a thermostat on the wall so I can turn up the heat when it gets cold. Oh, and no roommates. I don't get along well with some people. I'd like a nice fridge and microwave in case I need to heat up a yummy Swanson breakfast or a Hungry Man dinner. Yeah, and cable TV, none of this satellite crap, unless I can get all the hockey games. Gotta see hockey.
I don't know why our criminals feel so entitled. You don't get punished in the U.S. anymore, you're coddled and pampered. God! It's so damn frustrating!
Sounds a lot like a typical oleo strut found on nearly all modern aircraft. Drive a rod whose diameter increases through a fixed opening and dampen the action with liquid. The idea has been around at least since the early 1900s and applied to all manner of shock-absorption needs. Sounds like a neat idea, but I wonder how well it will work since the idea is to increase the distance or time period (or both) over which the shock is applied. Small devices are already so small, will these air(liquid) bags be able to dampen enough given the limited space in which they'll be installed? Besides, isn't my hard drive already tested to 11g (or something like that? I don't remember).
The economy is great if you are rich- the economy is terrible if you are not rich. the fact of the matter is that I am working twice as long for 30k less than I was 10 years ago in a higher level job.
ECON 101: Free Market.
There's always some punk fresh out of school or some genius fresh off retirement that thinks he/she can do your job better (or he/she can actually do it better), faster, more efficiently, more cheaply, etc. You either gotta step up or stand aside and cry about it. It will never get better. Suck it up.
Seems kinda hypocritical that you would whine about rich folks, when in fact, you would probably like to have excess wealth yourself. Who wants to be poor? Would you haggle for a higher price at a car dealer? Do you think it would be better to pay $20 for a head of broccoli? Why should your employer? They obviously can get the talent for less money and it has nothing to do with the economy at large. The pool of talent has increased and you're being phased out.
You get what you can or you get out of the market.
And, I'm not sure what you would call rich. If (Federal) taxes were the only consideration, I would have no motivation to earn more. The more I make, the more I'm taxed.
Send me 10% of your income and I'll send you glowingly positive propaganda about the success of socialism.
By the way, it doesn't matter who's in the White House. It really doesn't. You can figure out how to work the system to your advantage either way. Democrats do things a certain way...work their system. Republicans do things a certain way...work their system. Politics is just a machine.
A single clinker, that is, an immature bean, can ruin an entire pot of coffee, imparting a bitter, burnt flavor. They will look lighter in color, may be smaller, and will be lighter in weight than other beens (sic), and you can remove them yourself.
Sounds like a quaker. They may also be somewhat malformed when compared to the rest of the beans (which helps when hand-sorting).
Olathe is a reasonably clean and decent looking city to boot. Garmin is based there. Hotels aren't cheap there either.
The comparison to Kansas was rather poorly selected. While the majority of the state seems desolate and forbidding, Kansas is basically the Intergalactic Headquarters of the aerospace industry. FlightSafety has a strong presence, Raytheon, Bombardier, etc.
By the way, the Learjet FlightSafety in Wichita uses a PDP-11 for the Lear 35 cockpit trainer. It was the first time I'd actually seen a PDP-11.
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Um, probably more on the order of "cents" for that mass-market paperback. I did a couple stints in a bindery a few years ago. You're typical $80 to $120 hard cover college textbook only cost us about $1.80 to make. Yeah, that's one dollar and eighty cents per book. You could get into the gilded lettering and faux leather hardcovers, but that only added maybe another dollar or two to the unit cost.
Maybe the DOJ stopped donating to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Too many of the games being recommended are essentially programming trainers. Not every kid wants to learn programming. At least, not consciously. I always loved The Incredible Machine and had hoped a similar offering would appear for Linux someday. However, Phun (mentioned above) looks entertaining enough. Good for some basic physics lessons.
Such is the reality of life anywhere.
(OK, it was just a child's balloon, and I didn't hit it. But I really don't want to come across untrained idiots who can take my aircraft out of the sky if I hit them.)
I've seen those balloons as high as 20,000 feet. I thought they would have expanded and popped long before that altitude.
Fly along the east coast (NY, Teterboro, DC, etc.). I hate it out there, ATC always brings you down to around 6,000 feet 50 to 100 miles from your destination and now you're mixing it up with all the GA gnats who can't seem to figure out how to properly calibrate (or even turn on) their transponders. I've had so many friggin' close calls out there I refuse to fly single-pilot in that airspace now.
BTW, I have nothing against GA. Just the people that think they own the sky and have no regard for how incredibly crowded it has become in the past 20 years.
For sheer longevity, if not volume of games.
And some of those games were actually pretty good. I loved River Raid. And despite the numbing simplicity of Combat, I loved that one too. However, many were duds or just bad implementations of arcade games (e.g. Pac Man).
The sad thing about consoles is that the best console will always be the next console. I can remember my neighbor had the Odyssey (or maybe it was Odyssey II--whatever...) and I thought that was pretty amazing. Then, my uncle had the Intellivision. Whoa! Talk about awesome graphics!! The baseball characters now had arms AND legs! We've come a hell of a long way in the last 30-ish years, and I look forward to the future.
I know we're not voting here, but I think the most underrated console was the Neo-Geo. If you had the finances, you really could bring the arcade home.
There were so many other good machines that just didn't survive: the PC Engine/TG16 and the Sega Genesis come to mind. I wish I could have seen the Jaguar. Then there was Sony. Where the NES lifted the gaming industry out of their coma, the Playstation was the beginning of rehab on steroids.
Man, I gotta go find some emulators. I'm getting a wist of nostalgia.
Next to go: Blu-Ray. Who's still going to be buying plastic discs in 5-10 years time, when a significant amount of people actually have the hardware necessary for viewing HD content?
Agreed. This is one I'm going to sit out. Blu-Ray and HD are out at a time when they aren't needed or demanded. I haven't felt a need to go down to the local brick-n-mortar to pick up a plastic disc in the last three years. Blu/HD isn't going to change that. I think by the time the whole Blu/HD thing is settled, it will be too late. People will have moved on. Many of us already have.
I keep mine in a false filling in my tooth!
Hmm, I thought "surely you're talking about df -h."
Tried 'em both.
hrmfph!
Silliness aside, it is in fact called a Near Mid-Air Collision when two aircraft pass within 500 feet of each other. I have seen many, many, many aircraft pass directly overhead or below that were 1,000 feet from me. It's a little uncomfortable the first few times, but you eventually get accustomed to it. Not once was it a surprise to myself or the other aircraft's pilot.
I think it's silly. Stego is well known for not being very effective at truly obfuscating the fact that there's hidden data in a photo. Open the file in a hex editor and it's blatantly obvious there's data in the photo. Anyone with a modicum of knowledge could detect the presence of data, uh, with the possible exception of your local border security (sorry, oblig.). I'm suspicious about the study. If you wanted to hide data in a file, why would you then post that image to the web for all to see? Why not just email it to one or two ... million people all spam-like and make sure at least one goes to your target? Most people will delete your spam without even suspecting anything. Then there are the few that would be curious. So, well, not a great idea either. I just don't think stego is what it could be, or what criminals expect it should be.
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Did somebody actually pay for these tests? I would've done them for free about 5 years ago.
From my own experience, Nextel phones lose service in the general neighborhood of about 2,000 feet above ground, and my Cing..er AT&T service normally gives it up around 5,000 feet. I've never had a connection work above 18,000 feet speedin' along from 200 knots to 600 knots.
The worst thing about cell phones, from my perspective in the "front office" is that I can hear them attempting to establish a connection with the cell network. It's an annoying static-like tapping noise in my headset at about 120 bpm. Nextel seems to be the worst, by that I mean, the loudest. I can frequently tell when someone has left their phone on during a flight because during the descent to the airport between about 5,000 and 2,000 feet you hear 'em trying to establish a connection with the network.
Now, with all that said, it's really more of a nuisance than it is a hazard. And for me, I just find it particularly annoying. Also, for those that choose not to disable their phone (or at the very least, put it into airplane mode), it will rapidly deplete your battery. So, if you like to leave your phone on, make sure you packed your charger.
There was an article buried in all those ads? My ADD addled brain couldn't get past the second page.
I probably just "don't get it", but wouldn't fair use apply here?
It'd really make more sense to make onstar hardware installation optional, rather than wasting resources installing it in every car, and having a subset of buyers "disable" it after the fact.
However, overall, I'd imagine that it's less expensive to install the unit in every vehicle they can regardless of whether or not it's being used. Some sort of economy of scale there. Also, maybe, just someday, someone might get a bug up their @55 and say "Hey, I wonder what this On* thing is about anyway." They subscribe, and a new customer is born.
That's what I don't understand. Normally, the whole idea of having access to a corporate/private shuttle is to have the ability to fly to the airport that is closest to the meeting. That way you don't have to fly to the huge metro field then drive across town. A decent sized Learjet will be able to takeoff and land at a field as short as 4500 feet. This opens up a lot of options. Seems to me that the 767 would 1) not allow you to go to those smaller airports due to runway length requirements, and 2) the services required would be mostly found at the larger metro fields negating the advantages of going to the more conveniently located fields.
But hey, if it's just a party plane, who cares? You can probably find better clubs at KMIA than at KTEW.
By the way, the request for hammocks seems lavish, but is far from unusual. Duncan Aviation (and I'm sure others as well) have installed (or have been requested to install) all kinds of crazy things such as gold (yeah, Au) fixtures, trim, etc. Some folks from the Middle East has requested chairs that would always face Mecca regardless of the aircraft's position in space. And believe it or not, installing a DirecTV dish in the tail of a Citation X is more challenging that it may seem. These guys are hardly the first, but what strikes me as odd is that they are so blatantly (or, seemingly so) not using the aircraft to further their business. I could be wrong, but I think any broker would have recommended a more economical aircraft. One could operate a fleet of GIVs, Vs, Challengers, etc. for about the same as a 767 and those smaller aircraft would have more utility. However, probably not enough room for hammocks.
Catholic? Anglican? Methodist? Lutheran?
I was thinking the same thing. I've happily removed Google Earth and Picasa. I just don't find either application particularly interesting.
Take a standard Cessna 172. About 750kg
That would be an empty C172. With pax/fuel, and depending on model, it's about 1000 to 1100 kg.
Oh, and the (strong/foolproof!)linkage needed for the foldable wings.
Additionally, have you seen the bolts that hold a C172's wing to the fuselage? The entire system (strut/fairings/spar) appears frighteningly unsubstantial when in fact it is rather stout. If most people knew how that airplane was assembled, they'd never get one a small aircraft again.
Next time I find myself in jail I'll be sure to request the Presidential Suite. Hopefully it has a thermostat on the wall so I can turn up the heat when it gets cold. Oh, and no roommates. I don't get along well with some people. I'd like a nice fridge and microwave in case I need to heat up a yummy Swanson breakfast or a Hungry Man dinner. Yeah, and cable TV, none of this satellite crap, unless I can get all the hockey games. Gotta see hockey.
I don't know why our criminals feel so entitled. You don't get punished in the U.S. anymore, you're coddled and pampered. God! It's so damn frustrating!
Yes! Brilliant! How about Cuba, Venezuela, Qatar, China, Kurdistan, etc. ?
Sounds a lot like a typical oleo strut found on nearly all modern aircraft. Drive a rod whose diameter increases through a fixed opening and dampen the action with liquid. The idea has been around at least since the early 1900s and applied to all manner of shock-absorption needs. Sounds like a neat idea, but I wonder how well it will work since the idea is to increase the distance or time period (or both) over which the shock is applied. Small devices are already so small, will these air(liquid) bags be able to dampen enough given the limited space in which they'll be installed? Besides, isn't my hard drive already tested to 11g (or something like that? I don't remember).
The economy is great if you are rich- the economy is terrible if you are not rich. the fact of the matter is that I am working twice as long for 30k less than I was 10 years ago in a higher level job.
ECON 101: Free Market.
There's always some punk fresh out of school or some genius fresh off retirement that thinks he/she can do your job better (or he/she can actually do it better), faster, more efficiently, more cheaply, etc. You either gotta step up or stand aside and cry about it. It will never get better. Suck it up.
Seems kinda hypocritical that you would whine about rich folks, when in fact, you would probably like to have excess wealth yourself. Who wants to be poor? Would you haggle for a higher price at a car dealer? Do you think it would be better to pay $20 for a head of broccoli? Why should your employer? They obviously can get the talent for less money and it has nothing to do with the economy at large. The pool of talent has increased and you're being phased out.
You get what you can or you get out of the market.
And, I'm not sure what you would call rich. If (Federal) taxes were the only consideration, I would have no motivation to earn more. The more I make, the more I'm taxed.
Send me 10% of your income and I'll send you glowingly positive propaganda about the success of socialism.
By the way, it doesn't matter who's in the White House. It really doesn't. You can figure out how to work the system to your advantage either way. Democrats do things a certain way...work their system. Republicans do things a certain way...work their system. Politics is just a machine.
A single clinker, that is, an immature bean, can ruin an entire pot of coffee, imparting a bitter, burnt flavor. They will look lighter in color, may be smaller, and will be lighter in weight than other beens (sic), and you can remove them yourself.
Sounds like a quaker. They may also be somewhat malformed when compared to the rest of the beans (which helps when hand-sorting).
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I didn't have a girlfriend in college.
Olathe is a reasonably clean and decent looking city to boot. Garmin is based there. Hotels aren't cheap there either.
The comparison to Kansas was rather poorly selected. While the majority of the state seems desolate and forbidding, Kansas is basically the Intergalactic Headquarters of the aerospace industry. FlightSafety has a strong presence, Raytheon, Bombardier, etc.
By the way, the Learjet FlightSafety in Wichita uses a PDP-11 for the Lear 35 cockpit trainer. It was the first time I'd actually seen a PDP-11.