And what do we say to the god of death?
"Not today."
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Yes Chris, I think it's important to stress this point further. It is important not to be Chicken Licken.
In the story it says that the GPS system at the airport was a trial with new equipment, an experiment. Not part of the standard systems for day-to-day operation.
Both commercial and light aircraft do not rely upon GPS.
GPS is just one source of information for a pilot where available and much less important than other things such as radio triangulation, radio markers, dead reckoning, inertial navigation, and their eyesight.
A GPS jammer is not going to cause carnage in the skies or at the airport. Like Chris says, planes have been successfully navigated and landed at night and in adverse weather, regularly and reliably since long before GPS was invented. Many light aircraft pilots do not employ GPS as it is not necessary.
Today you deserve commendations for thoroughly removing any respect I had for your opinions and contributions to this site.
You are a horrible, self-important, opinionated and bigoted individual.
I hope that one day you should find yourself in need of the support of others, and maybe you will see the error of your ways.
You are incorrect, sir. On so many levels.
In a Diesel engine, the ignition is caused by the compression of the fuel-air mixture by the piston as described by annodomini.
"Diesel engines do not have a fuel-air mixture to ignite" - you have heard of the fire triangle, haven't you? Without both fuel and air there can be no combustion.
There are both four-stroke (mainly vehicle) and two-stroke (mainly marine) Diesel engines, but neither of those variations operate the way you describe.
"compression ignition, which is a different thing" - It is important to note that the single defining factor of a Diesel engine is the fact that the ignition occurs by compression. I would ask you to explain where you think the ignition would come from in your idea, but there's no point.
Finally, the result required to produce power in an internal combustion engine is an explosion (see icon), not a "slow burn".
I'm not sure where you're getting your information from but I suggest you visit the topic again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine
T-Mobile did this to me earlier in the year. They did indeed send me a letter with the words "you won't be able to cancel your contract early because of this..."
Of course I was unhappy when I received the letter. I, like many others worked on the assumption that the price was an inherent part of the contract and would be fixed for the duration.
However, they are only allowed to increase the prices in line with inflation once a year. For me this meant an increase of roughly £1.50 per month. I am part-way into an 18-month contract so overall this will cost me a total of about £25.
It's not worth making a fuss about really. It would have cost me more to buy the handset up front.
Generally I don't like Apple but I do use a MacBook for work. I spilled coffee on it and was told £700+ for repair. However due to some internal mix-up they gave me the wrong story and had me go down to the shop unnecessarily. That wasted my time and made me feel quite messed about - so in the end they gave me a brand new model for nothing.
So my verdict on AppleCare (based on this experience only) is doubleplusgood.
I usually have a lot of time for Lewis, but this article I have to disapprove of.
Yes, some things - especially new TVs, phone chargers and lighting - are disproportionately hyped.
However, the overall sentiment is that consumers should be aware of how much power they are using. Much effort and money has been poured in to getting people to think about these issues; articles such as this one are only undoing that beneficial hard work. We do not want this, as it will result in the general public getting the impression that being responsible about energy consumption is not important.
Through the use of a plug-in power meter I determined that some things unused or on standby in my (modest, 2-adult) household were using quite a bit of electricity. I saved *£200 per year* by turning suitable things off at the socket. This doesn't include things I need to be left on like the router.
If Destroy All Monsters's suggestion were to be followed, then it would completely remove the incentive for the vast majority of creative work to be produced world-wide.
As in, it really would Destroy the music, video, film, journalism, photography industries et al, and not only All Monsters.
I have some difficulty with the fact that they say you can export a VMDK but only one containing certain versions of Windows Server.
How is it fussy about the OS - it's just a disk image? It's a file containing binary 1s and 0s. You move that file to another machine, you mount it. The file doesn't care what file system it's formatted in, let alone what OS if any is installed...
Except it isn't, because the exact minutiae of your pub conversations are not recorded verbatim and published permanently for anyone in the world to call up with a simple web search.
So really we need the morons who use social networking to understand the implications of what they are doing.
The thing is, don't you already have backups on each of your devices that you sync with the cloud storage? I'm working off my experiences with Dropbox.
Of course if you wanted something more reliable you can add another device into the sync, perhaps a server or something similar. It would be easy to set up point-in-time archives and so on.
"He caused hundreds of pounds of damages in criminal damages"
"...which following earlier guilty pleas on the specimen charges."
Does this guy go around continually screwing up his face and making a groaning noise all the time from the sheer effort of trying to comprehend the world around him?
Pictured: a gentleman in possession of greater intelligence than said hack.
"more flexibility to develop courses of study in ICT that meet the needs of their pupils more effective,"
I really, really hope he didn't. Please tell me that this is Brid-Aine's typo and is not the standard of English that the head person in charge of education in Britain thinks is acceptable.
One does something more effectiveLY. Just to clarify in case anyone missed that. I despair.
Yes, me too. Even though I saw it was John Leyden and I know his articles are always full of idiotic drivel, I did not think he was so ignorant as to not understand the past tense.
"Are been"
Seriously, this is a grown man to whom somebody has seen fit to offer employment, the primary function of which is to write English.