The data from Cassini is handled by Goddard and if you want to play with it:
https://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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There are loads of examples of seemingly simple things that are purchased by companies and cost stpid amounts of money. The companies just pay the prices.
For ordinary folk buying stuff for home, I got a "Roughneck Dolly" from Wickes. Which is not a sex toy, but a four wheeled load skate for moving large bits of furniture. Cost £10, 200kg capacity.
Even dynamic ips stay for months or years on end in my experience, and changing once in a blue moon is trivial.
My current phone has 256 GB storage and everything I’m like to want to listen to is on it in lossless. No chance I’m going to hand over money to have music I already own delivered to me over the air.
My assumption, given the usual way these things happen, they’ve had some direct feedback and have created this keyboard in response to market demand. It is a neat little keyboard that includes a built in USB hub, which then enables more USB devices to be plugged in.
If the market for the Pi itself is large in Japan then it is a compliment to their community there to support their culture directly.
Pi documentation is published in some nice books that you can buy or have for free as pdf and numerous magazine publications some of them also free in electronic form, and my Japanese car has a wonderful printed manual that I’ve never needed to open.
Those beaches were terrible examples of camera tricks to make the places appear more crowded than they are. One paper was caught out using a 2019 photo with a building site that isn't there now.
And anyway, beaches are likely safer places to be.
Same with the pubs, people going to lengths to find the outlier situations and then cropping the photo to make it look more crowded.
Predicted increases in rates of infection connected to beaches and London protest marches didn't happen either.
I don't think some twat in the government breaking the lockdown is a reason for breaking the lockdown.
Not for grown ups anyway.
And the advice in England was plain enough. The problem is all the passive aggression against the government because people just don't want to play along.
I don't see how these phone apps can work reliably with all the variable conditions they have to deal with.
The Hong Kong wristband seems to be the better approach, would get better user adoption than an app, though 7 million devices is a lot, 65 million would be a bit too many.
I don't think the apps are much use though.
The Concorde wing requires rotation to a bigger angle for take off so the passengers are already feeling their weight pushed into the seat back, then its reheat thrust which doesn't relent after it has left the ground gives a feeling of going up much more steeply that you are. My flight was a joyride round the Bay of Biscay, so we we had no hold luggage and a light fuel load, which meant it went even better.
This article says nothing about range, but the point is to move well-heeled people around the planet in less time than it would normally take, whilst extracting a tiny tiny drop of their personal fortune which would amount to a very large amount of money. Being a business jet, the normal air terminal wait doesn't apply, the thing can load from a limousine very shortly before its slot and off it goes.
So a sector time from London to New York could be around 3 hours, instead of 10 or more. If I had so much money that it accumulates faster than I could spend it then I would do it.
I'm pleased I don't pay council tax in Solihull. Hope this doesn't trigger a chain reaction.
Think of all those contractors finishing the project with experience and skillsets. Other councils might take the already trodden path.
I don’t know why people are trying to argue against points I didn’t make. Of course these aircraft are long in the tooth now, and don’t compare well to more modern designs. But their longevity is unquestionable.
To emphasise what I was actually trying to say, I will ask: how many L1011 and how many DC-10 do you see in airports these days.
I'm not talking about pure turbojets and hydraulic actuators. When I said that I was talking about those aircraft as a platform for continued development, which is what they became over the decades. Of course only a stretched version of the airframe confguration survives and the latest versions off the line have totally different specs in everything from avionics to engines, but it remains that nothing from their contemporary rivals survives.
It is the foresight of those 60s engineers to design such a platform that might be learned from.
Only pushing the certification rules to its limits brought about the 737 problem, the Max is virtually a new aircraft.
Both 737 and 747 were 1960s engineering that formed the platform for continued update and improvement for decades and outlasted their Lockheed and McDonnell-Douglas rivals. In the 1960s engineers at Boeing were able to come up with such robust designs that were solidly businesslike and pragmatic and out and out market leaders.
You might say that 787 is of the same ilk, but it is so dependent on tech that it somehow feels like a more delicate bird. I do think that modern engineers could learn from that 1960s approach.
"I maybe stuck in my ways but I've got to the point of downloading the offline installer of Firefox to a USB using another machine, so that I don't ever open new edge or old edge"
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If you are that paranoid then you can ftp.mozzila.org or use WSL to curl one out.
Justifying something because Google (or if any competitor does it), doesn't make acceptable, either. That's just a slippery slope to the bottom.
True, but singling something out for criticism when it's is not alone in its transgression is also a bit rubbish.