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Why Bush's visit to Southern California is a bad thing
President Bush is coming to visit Southern California this Thursday in order to see the damage from the fires. He is expected to deliver news of federal aid, talk to some of the local citizens, firefighters, and politicians.
Unfortunately, whereever he flies, there is a T.F.R (Temporary Flight Restriction) grounding all traffic within 60 miles of his plane.
If he lands pretty much anywhere in Southern California, firefighting air traffic is effectively stopped from being able to do water drops while he's in the air. (That's around 7.2 million acres around him)
While he's on the ground, the TFR shrinks, but will still have an effect.
Please Mr. Bush, do a broadcast and explain why you want to protect the thing we need most... Air based fire fighting.
Unfortunately, whereever he flies, there is a T.F.R (Temporary Flight Restriction) grounding all traffic within 60 miles of his plane.
If he lands pretty much anywhere in Southern California, firefighting air traffic is effectively stopped from being able to do water drops while he's in the air. (That's around 7.2 million acres around him)
While he's on the ground, the TFR shrinks, but will still have an effect.
Please Mr. Bush, do a broadcast and explain why you want to protect the thing we need most... Air based fire fighting.
USB 3.0 to increase theorietical speeds 10x, ouch!
This Crave article tells of USB 3.0, which they report should show up in systems in 2009 or 2010.
Since it will include Fiber as well as the traditional copper, it will be backwards compatible with USB 2.0, but will also be able to speed data along at a theoretical 4.8Gbps.
Keep in mind this is theoretical. (see this article about why USB 2.0 at 480Mbps is theoritically faster than Firewire at 400Mbps, but in reality doesn't tend to perform that way)
Your computer has to do all the work in managing that transfer, so while your system might be busy keeping a USB 2.0 device fed, it will have to be many times busier to keep a USB 3.0 device fed.
Systems are not going to increase their overall speeds by a factor of 10 in the next two years, so expect to see system performance drop as a result.
On the plus side, while your system is working harder to move that data, it will move faster, so you won't have an impact for quite as long.
We've already got Network cards offloading processing for various networking related tasks, how much longer will it be
before someone builds a USB co-processor? (which would kind of make it like the firewire devices... a processor for each device, it just happens to be on the other end of the cable)
Since it will include Fiber as well as the traditional copper, it will be backwards compatible with USB 2.0, but will also be able to speed data along at a theoretical 4.8Gbps.
Keep in mind this is theoretical. (see this article about why USB 2.0 at 480Mbps is theoritically faster than Firewire at 400Mbps, but in reality doesn't tend to perform that way)
Your computer has to do all the work in managing that transfer, so while your system might be busy keeping a USB 2.0 device fed, it will have to be many times busier to keep a USB 3.0 device fed.
Systems are not going to increase their overall speeds by a factor of 10 in the next two years, so expect to see system performance drop as a result.
On the plus side, while your system is working harder to move that data, it will move faster, so you won't have an impact for quite as long.
We've already got Network cards offloading processing for various networking related tasks, how much longer will it be
before someone builds a USB co-processor? (which would kind of make it like the firewire devices... a processor for each device, it just happens to be on the other end of the cable)
Stargate SG-1 Theme song Lyrics
I always got the Stargate SG-1 DVDs as soon as they came out, but I finally started catching up on going through all the bonus material.
On the 5th Season DVD, in the directors commentary, Peter Deluise made up the following lyrics.
Someone captured it over on Google Video: SG-1 Theme song lyrics sung
Dorky but Awesome!
On the 5th Season DVD, in the directors commentary, Peter Deluise made up the following lyrics.
Stargate,
It’s a great big world...
With a great big swirl
that you step inside
to another world.
We’re talkin Stargate,
It’s a crazy trip,
You can go quite far
and you don’t need a car
or even a ship.
There’s Colonel O’Neill and Carter and Daniel and Teal’c.
Look out for that Goa’uld.
Someone captured it over on Google Video: SG-1 Theme song lyrics sung
Dorky but Awesome!
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