designtofly

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by designtofly 17y ago
It is not traded in the same form it was prior to the bankruptcy. It was delisted from the NSYE and its symbol was changed. It is now GMGMQ and is traded over-the-counter (OTC). [1] This is the method that most penny stocks are traded throu
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by designtofly 17y ago
Aircraft with Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) are certified to use GPS as a primary navigation source. [1] [2] [1] http://www8.garmin.com/support/faqs/faq.jsp?faq=221 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System
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by designtofly 17y ago
No, the GPS is not a reliable backup device. The issue is not latency. Aircraft GPS systems generally update faster than 1 Hz, which is plenty fast for most things. The real issue is that GPS gives you the ground speed, and not the airspeed
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by designtofly 17y ago
Credit to iends who found this during the previous discussion of this topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662254 Original thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662200
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No more free labor(money.cnn.com)
55 points by designtofly 17y ago|16 comments
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by designtofly 17y ago
It seems that the reason that this type of strategy is so rampant and insidious is because it makes it easy to substantiate cost cutting goals using unrealistic bids from inexperienced subcontractors. The costs that often go neglected in th
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by designtofly 17y ago
Only if you believe Elon's side of the story (I don't). If you believe Martin Eberhard, here is his take: Martin: "The 2-speed transmission was the first major edict to come from Elon, and though I thought it was an unnecessary risk for the
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Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website(time.com)
42 points by designtofly 17y ago|29 comments
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by designtofly 17y ago
You're correct in that being in the "coffin corner" is not dangerous in itself. In straight-and-level flight, if you go any faster, the extra drag will slow you down. If you reduce your thrust from your engines, you will slow down and lose
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by designtofly 17y ago
"Thunderstorms are the "tallest" weather phenomena that we experience here on the ground. An "average" height of thunderstorms is 30,000, however, depending on atmospheric conditions (i.e., the height of the tropopause) some thunderstorms c
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by designtofly 18y ago
The answer is right there on the linked page. Q: How is Mathematica Home Edition different from the professional version of Mathematica? Mathematica Home Edition is a fully functional version of Mathematica Professional with the same featur
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by designtofly 18y ago
I completely agree with you! The same should be said for genetic algorithms. I don't understand the obsession around here with both ANN and GA. They are interesting tools, but they are not some holy grail with unlimited applications. Both o
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by designtofly 18y ago
The physical phenomenon is called multipath and can become an incredibly difficult and important problem in many applications (e.g. radar guided missiles). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath
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by designtofly 18y ago
The analysis you linked to does not refute anything said here. In fact, the conclusions of the study you showed are a necessary assumption for this problem (that each gender has an equal probability and independent of birth order). This pro
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Seller's remorse: How I nearly lost my company - and then got it back.(money.cnn.com)
1 points by designtofly 18y ago|1 comments
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by designtofly 18y ago
I would advocate a system similar to that used in trademark infringement cases. From http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tm.htm If a party owns the rights to a particular trademark, that party can sue subsequent parties
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by designtofly 18y ago
There is no "Tim Daily" that is employed by the AISD. http://www.austinisd.org/inside/directory/index.phtml?alpha=...
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by designtofly 18y ago
What's also interesting is how it will affect what airliners look like. These engines pose a very significant problem for integration onto an aircraft. Projected diameters for an engine of this type range from 12-17 feet. Compare this with
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by designtofly 18y ago
Yes, it is generally true. There is not a big dependence on flight speed because the inlet on jet engines slows down the flow before it enters the engine. So even though an airliner might be flying at Mach 0.85, the face of the engine only
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by designtofly 18y ago
That was certainly a big part of it. Jet engines, although revolutionary, were developed only about 40 years after heavier-than-air flight began. It's hard to group all jet engines into a single category and discuss trends of the entire gro
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by designtofly 18y ago
As a concept, there is nothing revolutionary about it. This was explored quite a bit back in the 1980s. It is a natural consequence of the physics of how engines operate most efficiently and is well known. So it wouldn't suggest that a GA w
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by designtofly 18y ago
Yes, propeller based engines are much more efficient. They don't waste quite as much energy "throwing" air out the back. It is generally true regardless of size. However, using a propeller does limit the speed of the plane. In fact, an airl
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by designtofly 18y ago
I prefer: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1066 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1067
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The true meaning of Twitter(money.cnn.com)
7 points by designtofly 18y ago|12 comments
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by designtofly 18y ago
First of all, the proper link to the original source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4219452.ht... I do not agree with the conclusion. They used a small sample size (20) and they did not correct for any differences in p
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by designtofly 18y ago
I'm appalled that someone with a HBS MBA and so many claimed executive positions held would dismiss something as important as the legality of this business model with something so cavalier as, "I would point out here that I have not looked
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Life at Basecamp - Six Months In(money.cnn.com)
21 points by designtofly 18y ago|12 comments
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by designtofly 18y ago
No. It was downvoted because it contributed nothing to the discussion. Saying 'thanks for your opposing view' is as useless as saying 'I agree' and nothing else.
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by designtofly 18y ago
This rant has nothing to do with the fundamentals of the company. It is a complaint about the under-performing stock. While I am a believer in the free market, I hardly think that the stock price is the be-all indicator. Let's face it, the
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by designtofly 18y ago
I think this is a horrible idea. There's virtually no hardware functionality that can't be attained cheaply in the OEM chip market. My guess is that Apple wants to introduce embedded DRM/locks at the hardware level that cannot be circumvent

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