No kidding. It's not as if a PID controller is hard to do in analog circuitry.

So, the title says the developers were replaced, but the summary says the leadership was replaced.

TFA would seem to indicate that two people were taken out of leadership roles and replaced with a third guy.

A rectangle is a parallelogram, but not a trapezoid (depending on who you ask).

I have always thought a trapezoid was a quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides, but not two. If it has two pairs, then it's a parallelogram (or a rectangle if the angle between adjacent sides just happens to be 90 degrees). Believe it or not, however, there seem to be those tho think a trapezoid should be allowed to have two pairs of parallel sides (thereby making it a parallelogram).

Math people are weird.

It's not so much that terrorists have won, but much more that police departments get paid more for envisioning ever more over-reactionary and retarded ways to respond to things.

By convincing town boards that it is necessary to respond to a toy robot with a SWAT team, bomb squad, and a 200-strong terror response force, they can generate a ton of revenue from the town coffers that they get to spend on tacticool gear, weapons, and stuff.

Just hit the refresh button and more often than not, you get the video without the ad.

Seriously, kids downloading music poses what threat, exactly, to national security?

One more piece of evidence that our government is just a puppet of deep-pocketed corporations and special interest groups.

I'm starting to think N. Korea is spot on...

The "alert level" was Orange August 2006 until now. It was just an excuse to implement far-reaching "security" measures to strip people of their freedom in exchange for the illusion of security.

The odds of dying from cancer caused by the X-ray backscatter systems are higher than the odds of being killed by a terrorist on a flight. I'd rather take my chances with the terrorists.

I believe my bundle price is $57.99. I actually get more like 40-42Mbit down as well. When I reupped my contract in July they offered me the 50/50 for $89.99. This was, of course, one month before they eliminated the "premium" for no-contract service. Grumble...

I've had 35/35 for a while, and I could have 50/50 if I wanted to pay another $30/mo for it.

Wow, you don't read so well, do you?

Here's my quote: "A growth rate of 1000% per year would mean going up 1000 times over three years, not 30 times."

Let's dissect:

"A growth rate of 1000% per year" means it grows 10 times every year.

"would mean going up 1000 times over three years" means that, after three years, growing at 10 times per year, the original number would increase by a factor of 1000.

Let's say the initial value is 5.

After 1 year, it goes up 1000%, so 5 becomes 50.
In the second year, the value starts at 50 and goes up another 1000%, so 50 becomes 500.
In the third year, the value starts at 500 and goes up yet another amazing 1000%, so 500 becomes 5000.

5000 divided by 5 is 1000. So, over three years, the initial value has grown... sit down... get ready... 1000 times!

Do you understand it yet, or do I need to break it down into even simpler terms? I can use smaller numbers if you wish, and possibly even explain how you can compute this using only the fingers you already have.

A growth rate of 1000% per year would mean going up 1000 times over three years, not 30 times.

Increasing 30 times over three years is a growth rate of about 311% per annum.

Yeah kids can put a stop to flying for sure. I guess it's a matter of priorities. My wife and I have ZERO desire for kids, so I get to have an airplane and my wife can have horses instead. It doesn't mean we're "rich." It just means we have different priorities.

My point was, though, that it's not as expensive as everyone thinks, and you certainly don't have to be "rich" to do it.

Hahaha... you're kidding right?

Step one: Buy a VFR Cherokee 140 or similar for $20K
Step two: Find flight instructor and pay them $20/hr for lessons (that's a lot more than an FBO will pay them)

For less than the cost of a midrange sedan, you can have an airplane and your lessons. You can spend $10K later to upgrade your panel to IFR and get your instrument rating.

General Aviation is not the extravagant thing that class-warfare liberals and the big airlines would have you think it is.

Americans in general are a lot more willing to prolong life, regardless of the expense, and regardless of the quality of that life. I, for one, would prefer to check out of the game at a younger age with good health rather than spending 10 miserable years in a nursing home shitting on myself.