A lot of people are asking how laptops could've caused the crew of Northwest Flight 188 to overfly MSP ? According to the NTSB, using laptops on the flight deck is strictly prohibited during flight, but even a quick glance at the tray table on each side of the Airbus A320 family flight deck shows how a laptop monitor could easily block the pilot's navigation display . The tray table is available to both crew members because Airbus uses a sidestick controller rather than the center yoke
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Tag: DistractionPost written by Leo Babauta . Follow me on Twitter . As someone who does most of his work on the web, I’ve developed some habits to allow me to work quickly, without distraction, so that I can get my work done easily. When I see others browse the web, it sometimes surprises me how far behind they are, and when others see me browse the web they’re surprised at how quick I am. I’m not bragging — I know there are web monkeys faster than me. But I thought I’d share some of my tricks for the
This article has been published at RLSLOG.net - visit our site for full content. F4CG again Released an awesome Mini Racing game Monster Trucks Nitro ! EnjoY Drive massive Monster trucks over crazy cool tracks . Monster trucks plus jumps plus stunts plus physics plus nitro-boosts should amount to a game that is more fun than this actually is. It’s a good distraction for sure, as long as you’re content with racing the same twenty-something tracks repeatedly in order to gain medal
Bangor, Maine – Hog Bay Software today releases WriteRoom.iPhone 2.1. For people who want to write and take notes on their iPhone. WriteRoom is a distraction free writing environment. Unlike Notes, WriteRoom provides a clean interface and tether free syncing. Version 2.1 adds: * TextExpander support * Optional startup password * Settings are now accessed within app * New option to lock screen orientation * Sync service is out of beta and is open sourced To celebrate the integration of Wr
I’ve read a lot of useful articles recently and I thought I’d share some of these with you. They’re not all directly related to assistive and adaptive technology but they are all things I think that all Mac users should take a look at. This weekend I’ll share ones related to OS X, and next week the iPod/iPhone ones I’ve collected: There’s a new blog worth watching - Minimal Mac - by Patrick R Hone. He’s writing about a “clean, uncluttered, distraction free computing experience”. Many posts
iPhone World.ca writes : Our experience is yours at iPhone Bootcamp in Germany, September 21-25, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Veitshöchheim - July 2, 2009 - Our experience is yours at iPhone Bootcamp in Germany, September 21-25, 2009 Big Nerd Ranch Europe, premier provider of week-long, intensive training classes for Mac and iPhone programmers, announces a new date for its leading iPhone Bootcamp at the distraction free setting of Kloster Eberbach, near Frankfurt, Germany. Septe
[ awww … isn’t that cute? They’re running µTorrent together…] So. The 15in. laptop in the back is a 3 year old Dell Inspiron 1501, the noble brick that has been my one and only computer for longer than my last four blogging gigs and which has duly served (and will continue to serve for a while yet; not enough scratch in the ol’ grouch bag to buy the replacement — looking at a Dell Studio 17 with like $500 worth of extra RAM for that) as the behind-the-scenes engine, platform, and inter
Did you know that you can fuse a jet booster on the back of a Beetle? I stumbled on Ron Patrick’ Website yesterday and saw that this was possible and it is legal to drive, as long as you dont use the boosters I think. Totally out of this world but a cool invention.
This is a my street-legal jet car on full afterburner. The car has two engines: the production gasoline engine in the front driving the front wheels and the jet engine in the back. The idea is that you drive around legally on the gasoline engine and when you want to have some fun, you spin up the jet and get on the burner (you can start the jet while driving along on the gasoline engine). The car was built because I wanted the wildest street-legal ride possible. With this project, I was able to use some stuff I learned while getting my fancy engineering degree (I have a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University) to design a street-legal jet car without the distraction of how other people have done it in the past – because no one has. I don’t know how fast the car will go and probably never will. The car was built to thrill me, not kill me. That doesn’t stop me from the occasional blast on the highway though.
Here’s my wife’s Honda Metropolitan scooter. She wants it to go faster than 40 mph. So I have these two little JFS 100 jet engines and I am thinking how to put them on the scooter. Engines are 50 lbm each so weight is an issue. Will probably use air-start with a carbon fiber tank of compressed air. That saves weight since batteries will then not be needed.
Source: Ron Patrick Stuff
Wonder would VW consider selling this model to the masses.