HP’s 15-inch Spectre x360 is a huge 2-in-1 that is mighty impressive

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Writer
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    15-inch 2-in-1

    The Spectre x360 looks a lot like a MacBook at first glance, but the 2-in-1 has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.

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    All premium

    The metal body is super slick.

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    Lean and mean

    It’s beefy by tablet standards, but the Spectre x360 is pretty trim so far as 15-inch laptops go.

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    Bang and Olufsen sound

    BO signed off on the x360’s speakers and the teamup sounds good.

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    Hinge power

    The Spectre x360 does a backflip.

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    Tent mode

    In tablet presentation mode.

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    Port authority

    Comes with two USB 3.0 ports, a USB Type-C port, HDMI and mini DisplayPort.

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    Closed up

    The system cuts a slick profile when closed.

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    That hinge

    The Spectre x360 has curves to spare.

About this time last year, the first generation Spectre x360 was capturing the heart of tech journalists across the land with zippy internals, a solid build and an innovative yet simplistic swiveling design that does double duty as a laptop and tablet. The convertible-hybrid has returned a year wiser and significantly larger, sporting a few extra tricks.

HP has, thankfully, maintained the sleek, premium design that impressed everyone so much in 2015, scaling things up for a more substantial 15.6-inch display that really brings the system’s multimedia and multitasking capability to the forefront.

With a starting price

Article source: http://mashable.com/2016/03/13/hp-spectre-x360-15-inch-review/

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Museum gives public look at flying history

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Writer
The C-123 Thunderpig undergoing its annual inspection at the Air Heritage Museum at the Beaver County, Pennsylvania, airport. (Sam Moore photo)

In 1952 and 1953 there were a bunch of young guys who hung around Harry Yokel’s Sunoco station in the heart of Chippewa near Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

We were all enormously proud of our cars and used the little gas station as a headquarters where we met before setting off on the adventure of the evening.

Drag racing

At this same time they were building the Beaver County airport just a mile up the road, and after the runway was paved, we sneaked onto it a time or two to drag race. That was the last time I was at the airport until a few weeks ago when I visited the Air Heritage Museum which occupies a 14,400 square foot hanger there.

Airplane memorabilia

The museum has a room that’s filled with flying memorabilia, photos and paintings, models, uniforms and equipment, bomb sights, instrument panels and other aircraft parts, including some from the German Luftwaffe and the Imperial Japanese Air Force of World War Two.

Above this room is an extensive research library full of publications on pilot training, aircraft maintenance, aviation history, and a host of aeronautical subjects.

Jet fighters

Outside on the tarmac are parked two USAF jet fighter planes on static display, an F-15A Eagle and an F-4C Phantom II, along with a British Jet Provost T-3

Article source: https://www.farmanddairy.com/columns/museum-gives-public-look-at-flying-history/320906.html

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Guilty plea given in rash of storage-unit thefts | Butte Crime & Courts …

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Writer

A Butte man accused of a string of thefts from storage units pleaded guilty Thursday in a plea deal with county prosecutors.

Nicholas Jared Williams, 26, had previously denied the six counts of felony burglary for break-ins from October to December 2015. Butte district Judge Brad Newman ordered a presentence investigation.

Williams was initially charged with one count of felony burglary in late November 2015 after Butte-Silver Bow police responded to a report of a possible break-in at Sentry Storage, 1110 Hayes Ave. Williams was found hiding near a parked van, where a snowboard, helmet, and bag of tools including a lock cutter were located.

Shoe prints in the snow near the van and Sentry Storage matched the suspect’s shoes, police said.

Investigators began building a case against Williams after he was caught driving a stolen black 2014 Arctic Cat all-terrain vehicle on Dec. 16, 2015. In an interview with police, Williams denied taking the ATV, saying an associate drove it to his residence, court documents state.

He also denied knowledge of any of the thefts reported at Sentry Storage and Tecumseh Storage, 901 S. Washington St. When a warrant was obtained by police to search his home, Williams reiterated that he did not commit any of the thefts.

“He told us that he was ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time.’ He then stated that he had also been ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’ last month when he was arrested,” a Butte police officer stated in an affidavit.

The search yielded stolen property

Article source: http://mtstandard.com/crime-and-courts/guilty-plea-given-in-rash-of-storage-unit-thefts/article_a310ad4d-d65b-5e66-b284-937a7c69560a.html

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Aeronautics professor discusses the first global standards for aircraft emissions

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Writer

Aeronautics professor discusses the first global standards for aircraft emissions
“I see environmental issues as the largest existential threat to aviation; however I also see aviation as a critical link in solving worldwide environmental challenges,” John Hansman says.

Last month, the United States and 22 other countries agreed to the first-ever global carbon emissions standards for commercial aircraft. The standards, set by the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), are estimated to reduce carbon emissions by more than 650 million tons between 2020 and 2040—roughly equal to the emissions produced by 140 million cars in a single year.


The standards will apply to

Article source: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-aeronautics-professor-discusses-global-standards.html

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Hilker: In Canada, doing TV right – The Denver Post

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Writer

TV executives in the U.S. and Canada have long argued that the best value for your money comes through packages of hundreds of channels. The Canadian

We should all move to Canada, eh?

North of the border, people have affordable prescription drugs, great whiskey, and now something even better: sensible cable and satellite television packages for consumers.

Our neighbors make things happen. TV providers up there are in the midst of creating “pick-and-pay” options for viewers. Starting Dec. 1, after subscribing to a basic service package, they will be able to select individual channels they want access to.

And — ta-dah! — they won’t get or pay for the ones they don’t want to watch.

This advancement has received very little media coverage in the United States, but it might be the greatest innovation in communication since smoke signals.

Our household can watch 433 channels on cable, but the monthly bill is rapidly approaching four figures. I watch ESPN, but not E!, EWIN, ENCORE, ENCORE Classic, or Esquire. Food Network is good, but not FX, FXX, FYI or Fuse.

The transition, which had been mandated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), is being made in two stages. As of March 1, TV providers had to offer a basic package, mostly comprised of Canadian and U.S. networks,

Article source: http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_29627070/hilker-canada-doing-tv-right

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March 10 forecast: Marginal risk for severe storms

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Writer

Advisories, Watches and Warnings: A coastal flood advisory in effect until 6 PM Thursday.  Strong south winds of 20-30+ mph are pushing water onshore.  Tides are running 2 – 3 .5 feet above normal

Flash flood watch in effect until noon Saturday.  There is a risk for rainfall of 6-10-12 inches.  The heaviest rain looks like it will fall Friday morning and also Saturday afternoon.  Do not drive across flooded roads.  

Wind advisory in effect until 6 PM Thursday.  Winds are out of the South at 20-30 mph.  Winds gusted to 53 mph today at the Airport. This makes driving difficult.

Thursday: Marginal risk severe storms.  Mostly cloudy, warm, humid and windy with a  90% chance of rain.  Some locally heavy rain possible. 

Friday: Very real risk of flooding.  Heavy rain moves slowly across SELA.  Getting to school and work may be difficult. Rain lingers  through morning and dies down in the afternoon.  Highs near 70.

Saturday: Another round of very heavy rain is forecast to move across the area in the late morning and afternoon.  Flooding possible.  Highs near 70 to low 70s.

Discussion: The upper low moves east and our weather improves Sunday.  The sun will come out.  Highs mid to upper 70s.  Sunny to partly cloudy skies forecast through Tuesday with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s.

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Article source: http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/march-10-forecast-marginal-risk-for-severe-storms/38440222

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Cool Jobs: The power of wind

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Writer

Classroom tornado drills were routine for Harold Brooks as he grew up near St. Louis, Mo. And like many people, he thought tornadoes were fascinating. What else is powerful enough to flip over a train or hurl a saw blade into a tree? “I just didn’t know why they were cool back then,” he says.

Now Brooks works on tornado research. He’s a meteorologist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Oklahoma in Norman run that facility.

Read on to meet a scientist and two engineers who work with wind. Brooks and his team study tornadoes to help people plan for those destructive twisters. Nettie Roozeboom and her group look at how wind affects planes, buildings and other structures. And Kathryn Johnson and others study wind power to help make renewable energy more practical and cost-effective.

Some of their research just might blow you away.

Tracking tornadoes

Tornadoes can cause awful destruction. Yet they start with plain old wind. “The basic processes that lead to the air moving around in a room can manage to put together something like a tornado,” says Brooks. How? It starts, he says, with little differences in the density of air. To set the stage for a twister, those differences must be really big and “concentrated in a really small area.”

Nationwide, the United States has more than 1,000 tornadoes each year. Experts rate them on the EF (for Enhanced Fujita)

Article source: https://student.societyforscience.org/article/cool-jobs-power-wind

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