Apple, please make a new 12" Macbook for those of us who travel and want the lightest weight possible. Less than 2 lbs, thinner than the Air, but without the compromises of the Neo. I'd pay more than the Air price for this. Or, make the Air lighter and thinner (to match the iPhone Air in approach?).
That's an interesting concept. We could take that concept in general, and a person could write 100 essays (that they publish on whatever platform), and these 100 essays could comprise their magnum opus.
This drives me nuts. I want to listen to an album, not a song. But I'm guessing this is an old-school POV that the younger demographic doesn't agree with.
This is mostly just using the keyboard to manipulate the rhythm/time performance of a pre-configured score. Interesting, but not what most would think of as jazz improvisation.
Not exactly. It is far more random than that. As far as I can tell, it plays random notes from a pre-loaded scale - occasionally chords, and punctuation marks play chords. Backspace plays a descending scale.
The aesthetics of it, including typography and sounds are very nice.
For years now I have used "-pinterest" on every regular search term I utilize (I bake that into any Google bookmark). Would applaud the removal of Pinterest from search results.
Google has given up on improving search, much like Microsoft did with IE6 when it became the dominant player. Only real competition would force them to start improving again.
Here is my own userscript that removes any matching URL portions from Google search. It does it in a fancy way with stylesheets so that you never see the Quora, etc results even temporarily before they're removed. It also fixes Google Images to link directly to images again, removes all the tracking URL obfuscations, and more.
I only use the script on my desktop, and so I've never seen an AMP result. I'd need to be able to use the 'inspect element' developer tool on mobile I suppose in order to see how to filter them. Not even sure the script works on mobile though.
Why does MCAS have to take control of trim at all? Would it not be sufficient to alert the pilot of an imminent stall situation so they can adjust the angle of attack themselves? Is it because doing so would put the MAX too far afield from the old 737 such that it would require simulator training?
There's an airworthiness rule requiring monotonically increasing yoke backpressure as the plane approaches a stall. It appears that the MAX violates this rule aerodynamically due to extra lift at high power generated by the high and forward nacelles, combined with the yoke being mechanically coupled. It can get easier to induce a stall as the plane approaches critical AoA.
This isn't directly the same thing as saying the MAX will stall itself: if you aren't pulling back on the yoke near critical AoA then you don't stall. It's just easier to stall with the yoke than regulations say it must be. MCAS "fixes" that handling issue.
I don't think an audible warning would be sufficient to turn unairworthy behavior into airworthy, so if all the assumptions above are correct, that's why it has to use trim -- or a stick pusher, but perhaps that wouldn't have enough control authority and also I'm not sure the MAX has a stick pusher, as opposed to just a stick shaker. It's a very mechanical cockpit, in general the forces you feel are coupled to aerodynamics, in stark contrast to an Airbus (or even more modern Boeing airframes).
In the working case, MCAS presumably triggers at a particular AoA, trims nose down (but is this a fixed amount and what is it?) which in effect requires more stick back pressure to maintain the angle of attack. Thing is, it seems like MCAS, again in the working case, has a trigger AoA and will incrementally nose down until it goes below some defined angle of attack - which is not really a stick force moderator alone. It's acting as a kind of AoA guardian.
Yes. MCAS is designed to make the Max handle like previous 737s when manually flying at high angle of attack. Without MCAS the handling would be different enough to require simulator training.
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