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Re:Cairo Desktop Environment on Sunday December 08, 2019 @02:21PM (#21737648)
I don’t think that’s true. Everything takes ~20 seconds to index my machine. I think Everything reads NTFS file table directly. Maybe you didn’t give it Admin privileges?
I pay for one personal account and then just share a page with my spouse and then she can put anything she wants in it, including creating subpages. It works great for us.
Re:Dole Food Had Too Many Shares on Friday February 17, 2017 @02:30PM (#13670981)
Taking a company private is when a company buys back all the publicly traded shares, so that one can no longer purchase shares in the company on a publicly traded market. Usually a company doesn't have enough cash to accomplish this, so they take on additional debt or outside investment to afford buying all of the publicly available shares.
Re:A330 flight control laws saved Voyager, inquiry finds on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @08:41PM (#13603908)
FYI

  dynamic_pressure = 0.5 * ref_density * equivalent_airspeed^2
Its not a function of indicated airspeed. Indicated airspeed needs to be corrected for the compressibility of air to obtain the equivalent airspeed. At low airspeeds/altitudes, the indicated airspeed and equivalent airspeed are very close, so your equation would hold up just fine.

As a result at higher altitudes and faster speeds, the red line on an indicated airspeed gauge would be variable to account for the effects of compressibility.

Re:A330 flight control laws saved Voyager, inquiry finds on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @10:57PM (#13595601)
Just so you know the forces are actually proportional to the square of equivalent airspeed which is indicated airspeed adjusted for the compressibility of the air at the sensor. Indicated airspeed is still a better number than true airspeed for approximating the aero forces
Re:Apple Said to Work on Mac Chip That Would Lessen Intel Role on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:30PM (#13546037)
I believe the licensing deal would terminate if AMD is sold
Re:How Qantas Ferried an Engine on the Wing of a 747 on Saturday January 09, 2016 @11:19AM (#10871738)
I would guess it's a flutter problem. Flutter is when an aircraft becomes dynamically unstable due to the interaction between the aircraft structure and the air around it. Certain aircraft are more prone to flutter than others such that it occurs at speeds closer to its max airspeed. The type of engine and how it's attached to the wing can have a big effect on flutter since it's a large mass that's hanging off the wing. As a result the same aircraft with different engines can have significantly different flutter properties.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroelastic_flutter#Flutter

Not necessarily. The weight of the vehicle is offset by the friction of the wheels on the wall.

Imagine an ant. It doesn't have an external force such as a propeller. It can climb up walls but it can't fly in any capacity.

Re:Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence on Monday November 16, 2015 @12:06AM (#10572716)
Yea you've got it mostly right. It's based on a statistical distribution derived from actual flight data.
Re:Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence on Sunday November 15, 2015 @11:43AM (#10570088)
It's the maximum load you would expect to see in the life of the aircraft