This kid here just gives me the impression of a tool/brat/hipster and makes me annoyed before I even watch the video.
I was more distracted by the person on the left with the hipster haircut flipping their hair around, looking out the window, looking at the camera, etc. Then the guy that came in with the French press, started untangling his headphones, twirled around in his chair, poured coffee out of the french press.
especially since it doesn't have a camera. I use my camera all the time and think not including that will come back to haunt them.
They need to hold back on some feature so they can have some reason to release the Apple Watch 2. Just like the original iPad.
Just like how Open SSL would be a core functionality for many servers, yet there there are only 11 developers working on it.
People have said this for decades, hasn't happened yet.
Laptops and tablets are not what will kill the desktop. Laptops are slower, easier to steal or damage, harder/costlier to repair, have less storage, and are HORRIBLE for ergonomics. Any business swapping out desktops for laptops are idiots who haven't done the ROI. Tablets aren't any better.
Laptops are VERY popular in businesses. One reason is mobility: the ability to take the machine on a business trip or home to work (which companies like because they can get more free work from workers).
I have a Thinkpad T440 at work. Yes to work right on the machine wouldn't be good ergonomically, which is why I have 2x 23" monitors, and an external keyboard/mouse set, so at the office it's no different than a desktop. But I can easily undock the machine to take on a business trip.
Heck with Windows 7 you can just not activate and it goes into Winzip "You're on day 4053 of your 30 day trial" mode, and annoys you every boot, but otherwise functions.
All versions XP- 8.1 have been successfully "cracked"
Does this mean the current Pentiums you occasionally see are 22 year old chips? And the current Celerons are 17 years old?
There was the pilot who pulled off the amazing landing in the Hudson a few years ago. He was a rock star.
But, yes, I used to know people who did aircraft maintenance
I think more of Swissair 111 when I think "water landing". As a general rule, it's not considered something you'd want to be around for.
1549 was an intentional, controlled (the flight control surfaces worked) landing on the water.
Swissair hit the water uncontrolled, far faster than a reasonable landing speed.
A hangglider instructor once told me the exact opposite. He experimented with 3d simulators and abandoned them because after the use of the simulator, the pupils took twice as long to learn how to fly as the pupils who never used the simulator.
That sounds suspicious as they are used extensively by the airline industry.
Basic flying skills are taught hands on on real aircraft (eg: C-172), developing up to aircraft like Piper Seminole for multi-engine certification. Lots of time is spent flying these aircraft before ever being in the airline industry.
Where Simulators are a big help in the airline industry, to experienced pilots that know how to fly a plane, is:
-Cost: Operating an empty 737 or A330 for training purposes only would be prohibitively expensive. Simulators allow more crew to get training at lower cost.
-Procedure based training: Drilling over and over checklists. Checklists for normal operation, checklists for emergencies (eg: engine failure). By simulating these in the safety of a simulator, with a cockpit laid out exactly like the real plane (Not VR helmet, and not Microsoft Flight Sim with a keyboard), pilots will already be familiar with the scenario if faced with it in real life, and know where to reach for controls.
Fortunately with my car I was able to buy $7 keys on ebay, and got Home Depot to cut them, and could program them myself.
They had a regular keyway. Unfortunately newer cars (that aren't push-button start) tend to have odd keyways that they wouldn't be able to handle.
Or with GM you have to have and enter the code if you replace your car battery.
Really, does anyone want to steal GM parts?
I love her reference to Voyager episode The Cloud. Her coffee quote is a direct lift from Cpt. Janeway in that episode!
My favorite coffee quote is:
Janeway: Coffee, Black.
Computer: Make it yourself.
From The episode "Q2"
Maybe she'll pose for that one with the coffee maker aboard since she will be able to make it herself?
Wouldn't surprise me if they tried to sue. Note she has an ISS pin instead of Star fleet emblem, so I guess it's different enough. Somehow though I'm reminded of the episode "Live Fast and Prosper"
Publicity like this is hard to buy. Same as the tribute astronaut Terry Virts gave Leonard Nimoy over Boston.
I'm sure the Star Trek franchise played a small part in a number of astronauts' interest in space.
Or around a sharp corner.
I know as an anti-theft "feature", some makes have coding on the radio making it impossible to replace with another OEM radio.
Here's another one: Someone I know accidentally set off the airbags in their car (no collision). They replaced the bags, but the air bag light was still on. Toyota couldn't simply "reset the fault" and wanted to sell him a whole new air bag computer ($$$). He found some online outfit that will reset the computer.
Actually, it's more like what Apple did 16 years ago, since it's natural handwriting recognition, and the Palm required you to use a special alphabet.
The original palm pilot is 18 years old, and the original Newton is 22 years old.
Though Palm required you to learn a modified alphabet in the form of Graffiti, it had simpler strokes that were faster to enter, and it allowed more differentiation between characters by the device, and higher accuracy.
Then Graffiti 2 came out, which sucked, but was due to patent problems.
"The medium is the massage." -- Crazy Nigel
