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China's now building commercial airliners?!¿@!¡

China's now building commercial airliners?!¿@!¡I think China will ultimately be very successful in airliners.To be sure, Chinese companies have made some big errors this year: Lead in children's toys, tainted pet food ingredients, and releasing pre-production automobiles for safety testing that kill all of the passengers in ordinary crashes. But,...

Tags: Airbus S.A.S., airliner, Boeing Co.

Discussion threads 2007-12-21

Thanks to CIA, your cellphone could catch terrorists

Thanks to CIA, your cellphone could catch terroristsCell phones? Not likely...This tech. will most likely be used to clean up satelite imaging from outer space, giving the feds the ability to focus on pin points instead of pin headed people.Cell phones? Not likely...This tech. will most likely be...

Tags: Cellular phones, Pentagon, cell phone, airliner, CIA

Discussion threads 2007-07-25

Additional Resources

An unusual day, part 2 (or "My lease is up! Now what?")

Smart Boards...Are Smart Boards such a great idea? Those projectors are all good and nice but there are other ways to achieve the same thing...The Interactive whiteboard is a compelling technology for teachers, it closely mimics what they're already used to. But there are weaknesses. Firstly using a whiteboard is...

Tags: Projectors, Tablets, Notebooks, projector, unusual day

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Software that automatically fixes itself, without shutting down

Invariant DetectionThis is supposing that the software is simple enough to determine invariants and not block valid code paths that are infrequently used. It sounds a lot like applying design by contract after the fact.Software That Fixes Itself?The headline implies an application that fixes itself. The article describes and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, invariant, software, Clearview, erroneous execution

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Apple claims jailbreaking will destroy cell towers

Apple claims jailbreaking will destroy cell towerscome on keep politics out of it"It?s good to know not every scare tactic from the Bush Administration has been eradicated. Things like companies yelling ?terrorism? to protect their bottom lines are still in good stead."Yada yada. Don't care. Bush isn't President...

Tags: Apple Inc., cell tower, Bush, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

JetDat A 2.0 (Mobile)

Looking for something to occupy your time on your next plane flight? Love commercial airliners and want to know more about them...a lot more? Ever get on a jetliner and wonder about how fast it will go, how many people it holds, how it compares to a 747 or the...

Tags: Mobile, Aircraft, Arkansoft, ****JetDat, Aerospace & Defense, Corporate Governance, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Pico projector phones by the end of this year?

Pico projector phones by the end of this year?Good for casual readingI picture myself lying in bed and projecting the pages of an ebook on the ceiling.Display technology is there, but not the powerThe prototype I saw had to be plugged in to project, otherwise it would drain the battery...

Tags: Projectors, Scanners, projector, laser, Pico projector phone, Microvision, image

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

Greening air travel?

Greening air travel?The V formation sounds like a good idea.But the vortexes following an airliner are pretty nasty. I can't argue that airliners are the worst polluters per passenger mile. I do know that the container ships pump out more C02 and other terraforming compounds than a whole...

Tags: climate change

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

Greening air travel?

A contest sponsored by an airliner maker is looking for good ideas to make air travel greener. For each passenger mile chalked up air travel is the worst producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Walking barefoot would be the best, of course. So getting greener would be a...

Tags: Contest, Airbus S.A.S., Web Site Development, Team Management, Internet, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-15

EC wants software makers held liable for code

EC wants software makers held liable for code ABOUT TIME!!!!This goes for everyone...Only in software can you find a known defect and then have to pay for the "upgrade" to fix the bug.Many states do this sort of thing with insurance companies every so oftenEither they'll require certain coverage and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Insurance, software, software company

Discussion threads 2009-05-11

JetDat (Pocket PC) 2.0b (Mobile)

Looking for something to occupy your time on your next plane flight? Love commercial airliners and want to know more about them...a lot more? Ever get on a jetliner and wonder about how fast it will go, how many people it holds, how it compares to a 747 or the...

Tags: Mobile, PC, Arkansoft, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software

Software downloads 2009-01-02

Will Kryptiq patent stand in the way of reform?

Will Kryptiq patent stand in the way of reform?Suppose a patented idea is the best idea?A patent is government enforcement of a reward for an idea lasting a limited period of time. Having and disseminating good ideas is beneficial to everyone, and paying for a patent is an ordinary...

Tags: Well Let, patent

Discussion threads 2008-12-23

JetDat 2.0b (Mobile)

Keep your trip itinerary organized and easily accessible, with flight numbers, departure and arrival times, gate numbers, etc. Make handy travel conversions between home and local currency, Fahrenheit to Celsius, and Imperial to Metric measurements. Photos and specifications of most common commerical airliners. History of the big...

Tags: Mobile, Arkansoft, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-11-21

Kindroid: Two Great Tastes that would taste great together

Kindroid: Two Great Tastes that would taste great togetherGet a netbookYou now try to present your absurd arguments in another post!I'm watching you Barney! ;)RE: Kindroid: Two Great Tastes that would taste great togetherAh, yes. The subject how electronic books would become popular (and even, possibly, replace paper-based books)...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, Kindroid, Sprint Communications

Discussion threads 2008-10-23

Airliners First Edition (Windows)

Airliners First Edition is a screen saver that has over 120 high quality airliner images. It features airlines that fly into Charlotte Douglas International Airport every day. This product was developed by amateur photographer Stephen MacPherson. His love for aviation drives him to get the action shots that others would...

Tags: Screensaver, Stephen MacPherson, Airliners First Edition, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-07-23

Business systems for a faster, flatter world

One of the biggest problems facing enterprises today is that the world is communicating faster than their IT systems can keep up with. This is particularly obvious in businesses that operate multinationally. Their managers collaborate and communicate daily across timezones and geographies by phone, email and Web conference, but their...

Tags: On-demand, NetSuite Inc., OneWorld Option, Sales Strategy, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Airport Security Concerns

Airport Security ConcernsHey Ryan, What's going onHow is life over at eWeek?RE: RE: Airport Security ConcernsWhat can I say, I'm a pretty boy, Ryan. They took my cologne too!...Hear hear! Spoken like a true patriot! ]:)To paraphrase:Those who sacrafice liberty for securty deserve neither.- Ben FranklinRE: Actually, it isn't...

Tags: Airport Security Concerns, airport security, security, liberty

Discussion threads 2008-02-29

Firm gets U.S. nod for quick passenger data checks

Firm gets U.S. nod for quick passenger data checksQuick Passenger Data ChecksHas anyone ever heard of fake ids -- or this is a concept I just thought of? I understand what they are trying to do, but it should have been taken care of BEFORE getting on the plane....

Tags: Vertical industries, Islamic, extremism, Islamic extremism, passenger data check, quick passenger data check, anti-American, government

Discussion threads 2008-02-20

Richard+Clarke+on+recent+Mideast+cable+outages

Richard+Clarke+on+recent+Mideast+cable+outages9/11Think about what would have happened on 9/11 if an airliner would have taken out 60 Hudson Street in Manhattan, rather than the WTC. The 60 Hudson office is one of the most dense international communications hubs in the world. Voice, data including TV network feeds, Internet...

Tags: Hudson

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

Fly the green skies at Mach 5

The European Union has launched in 2005 its Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies project LAPCAT. Several companies worked on this €7 million EU-funded project. For example, Popular Science reports that Reaction Engines Limited has designed an hydrogen-powered hypersonic airliner simply dubbed A2. This plane would fly at Mach 5...

Tags: Hydrogen, Plane, Concorde, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-31