Posts by Mark 85 12882 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
Reckon they'll be paying a bit more attention when booking and choosing a carrier based upon fleet going forward......
Don't hold your breath or bet the family home on that one. People don't even care which airline they on much less which plane because they want their travel schedule to be met.
Nope, not quite the same flight characteristics. The use of the larger engines meant they moved them forward for ground clearance and thus the CG of the aircraft moved also. This caused problems during the power of climb out. Good pilots (for some value of good...maybe better trained and more experience?) didn't have a problem compensating. However, the trend (just like everywhere else, is towards more automation and thus saving money on training. I can see some parallels here with the MAX and also with the automobile world of "autopilots". The tech really isn't mature enough yet.
Footnote, there were other options during design such as lengthening the landing so the CG would have to be moved forward. Costs were most likely why they didn't as a software/hardware fix would be cheaper than a redesign to put the CG where it belonged.
Indeed. I guess I owe a beer. ---------->
This sure does seem to be a case of "guilty until proven innocent". What's next fingerprint scanners at crosswalks requiring everyone to get checked? And even being innocent he gets fined. Is there signs or some rule of law that says you must show your face to a camera?
It would seem that a failsafe would be built in. Now if it's actually triggered such that the weapons are recalled is a different question. The catch is what you discuss are the deliverables, not the means to get them to the "target". AI is that means but not the payload. I think a cruise missile, ICBM, etc. can be triggered by a command to self-destruct but perhaps not.
just for funsies to attack Facebook headquarters, Mark Zuckerberg's home
There's a problem with that? Ok.. I'll be serious. That could and will be problem once the tech is available and some country decides to hand it out to another countries "freedom fighters:. At that point, who ever has the best and most will win and it won't be humanity. We humans will just be collateral damage.
Some sort of info using noise and cameras to track incoming rounds and suggest where they're coming from is probably possible now, and mini-homing missiles must be possible as well.
According to several articles at places like this one: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz, these are already well into development. Things are moving faster than most of us realize.
Stupidity and greed are usually what dives acquisitions. Also add in a bit of quest for more power. The fact HP skimped on their due diligence points to the fact the board was in a hurry and just wanted to acquire them. The morning after scene was probably a bit of the classic "what the hell did we do last night" thing that one usually has after a night of pub crawling.
Marketing never finds out as they don't listen to the guys having to do the real work.
Let's just face the fact that marketing hasn't a clue about schedules, design work, or even what the product does. They just like to jump up and down, party with the customers, and generally make nusciences of themselves because "any attention is good attention".
Exactly. I've heard some people claim that this won't be a problem because <cough> the Chinese <cough> pay the tariff. BS.. the customer pays it and the money goes to the US government. IF the Chinese were paying it, then that might be good for us citizens as maybe federal taxes could go down. But.... never happen.
Explicit reasons why would elevate the conversation to a more adult level,
It's not just this President. Nor those who ran in the last election. All of our leaders (politicians the lot) have become enamored of the "sound bite" ant that goes back at least as far as Johnson. For once, I just wish they'd shut up and do their job. If Hillary or Snaders had one, I'd be doing the same thing.
This one is particularly bad in that he hammers on old issues into the ground, tweets whatever pops into his mind (repeatedly and daily) in an effort to get attention. Let's add that he's not filled a bunch of vacant department top management positions. If he'd stop making himself a target by beating on the other side, they'd probably leave him alone but it's a battle of sound bits and no one will win. We the people will lose in the long run.
I dearly love this country but not the clowns running it and they are getting worse by the week.
I wouldn't be sure he has "handlers". From everything in the press (both sides) he's does what he wants and if anyone tells him different... they're gone pretty quick. Your concept of the Titanic applies well here. Sooner or later, there will be the big iceberg and it won't be pretty.
Well , this has obviously come about from a new "save paper / double sided by default" initiative - very admirable.
Don't give them ideas: "Read the side with your name on it. When done, mail it to the person on the other side. Thank you for helping us save trees and printing costs."
It however appears to be in Chubb's best interest NOT to publish the post-mortem since the reason is probably something on the lines of what you wrote there, and admitting this schoolboy error would result in not retaining a customer such as you and many others.
The catch is: "Where do you go then?" Seems every insurance company is getting hit by stupidiy, usually hacked but this one is different. Still... they've all (for the most part) been named and shamed and with no apparent flashback to the bottom line or customer numbers.
As for running for a year, seems like they were just loading the truck, letting it drive off and then loading up the next one. No running involved until the place is empty. Besides, a running person is a dead give away, better to walk away at normal pace with newspaper under your arm.
I'd prefer port if you have any and don't mind as it's rather late in the evening here.
I guessing this is an intermediate step in air combat. Most of the current generation fighters can outperform the pilot. That is, g-forces and flesh bags are not a good mix. The AI isn't mature enough to other than simple things and air to air combat isn't that simple to do.
Companies by marketing weasels and bean counters do not value either technical excellence or human relationships. Thus they do not value experience, 'lifers', and grey hairs for their knowledge and relationships.
And yet, I'd bet that those same companies buy from companies where manglement has a relationship with sales types. But they don't want that in their "house".
This seems really stupid to me. Get rid of the those with knowledge and experience and replace them "cheaper" people with little knowledge and no experience. Bottom line rules apply though to increase profits. Pity that the company (and the others) won't enforce that rule on the senior management and the board.
The biggest catch is the weasel wording being used by gov and FB and lets add Google and few others to that. There isn't a product in the traditional sense in that the users are the product. Lawmakers really don't seem to be able to get their heads around this (unless it's election time) then the users ... err... voters get all the BS tossed at them.
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