In VMC, yes. If you're in IMC in certain air spaces, it is the ATCs responsibility to maintain separation, not yours (because you might not have the information needed to avoid a collision, but the ATC will).

If course, you're still responsible for following instructions, but you can't necessarily blame an IMC mid-air on the pilots.

I think the Amiga was pretty revolutionary when it launched. Without any accessories, it had stereo sound output and pretty impressive color graphics. And it was affordable (esp. the 500). PCs didn't really get anywhere close in that department until the whole Multimedia PC thing happened in the early 90s.

I like this idea. And it's the perfect present for anyone you know that are curious about getting into electronics.

I think it would be a very good idea for them to get some prominent bloggers to do a review of the first kit.

Dave Jones.

Yep!

Yep. That's my personal experience as well. Looked at FogBugz several times, but the pricing always put us off. Eventually Atlassian came around and made a good enough product.

Light aircraft engines are already _very_ reliable, you'll most likely spend a career flying without ever experiencing a failure. The most popular GA motor, the Lycoming O-360, has been in production for something like 60 years, and is pretty much "debugged" as far as engines go. Still, failures do happen (most often because of user error). You can switch to turboprops, and you'll get more reliability, but higher costs. You can switch to a multi-engine plane, but again costs are higher.

An electrical motor which can provide backup assistance without causing further single points of failure is a nice add-on if they can make it work (I'd be sceptical about trusting this thing without extensive testing.)

> FogCreek should have bit the bullet and re-wrote their application in an open, standardized cross-platform system.

Ah, so you happen to know better than Joel how much resources they had available at the time, how long the rewrite would have taken, how much it would have affected their ability to ship new features?

Fog Creek was a much smaller company back when they wrote Wasabi. Postponing the rewrite until they had more resources to spare was probably a good decision.

> No shit. If you want to harm the US, its not a negative action. Else, its a goddamn negative action. I'm trying really hard to figure out why else you would make that argument.

How hard have you tried? Do you honestly think nothing good can come out of this for US citizens?

Has it ever been established that the documents he leaked contained information on operatives?

Your comment is focused about how terrible the GPL is for you as a developer. But the GPL was not created to make life easy for you as a developer, it was made to increase the freedoms of the end users.