Billie Piper is Doctor Who helper

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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio
| Billie Piper is Doctor Who helper

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio
| Billie Piper is Doctor Who helper 05/26/2004 04:36 AM
eye candy in the new series of Doctor Who .. Billie Piper is Doctor Who helper .. play the Doctor's sidekick

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Doctor Who fans back Billie Piper

Doctor Who fans back Billie Piper 05/28/2004 03:28 AM
The choice of Billie Piper to play Doctor Who's new assistant delights many fans of the science fiction series.

Billie-Jo appeal decision due

Billie-Jo appeal decision due 07/16/2004 01:47 AM
Sion Jenkins is to find out if he has won an appeal against his conviction for murdering his foster daughter Billie-Jo.

Jenkins denies Billie-Jo murder

Jenkins denies Billie-Jo murder 09/13/2004 05:17 AM
Former deputy head teacher Sion Jenkins pleads not guilty at the Old Bailey to the murder of his foster daughter Billie-Jo.

Billie-Jo killer to begin appeal

Billie-Jo killer to begin appeal 06/28/2004 03:32 AM
A former deputy head teacher asks the Court of Appeal to overturn his conviction for the murder of his foster daughter.

Doctor, Doctor, It Hurts When I Wi-Fi

Doctor, Doctor, It Hurts When I Wi-Fi 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
Florida plastic surgeon offers free Wi-Fi for patients: The doctor has thought about security. They use a firewall and other details to protect patient privacy, and rotate their security key....

iPod Hasn't Paid The Piper Yet

iPod Hasn't Paid The Piper Yet 06/02/2004 07:59 PM
Apple at least appears to have learned some lessons from its earlier failures to leverage strong technology and the leading early market share in PCs. By Stephen Ellis, The Australian (via MyAppleMenu)

Waite Julie Piper

Waite Julie Piper 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
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Piper Jaffray initiates Apple coverage

Piper Jaffray initiates Apple coverage 04/30/2004 07:12 PM
Analysts at Piper Jaffray on Friday initiated coverage of Apple with a "market perform" rating...

The Pied Piper of Las Vegas Seems to
Have Perfect Pitch

The Pied Piper of Las Vegas Seems to
Have Perfect Pitch 06/03/2004 11:42 PM
In Las Vegas, the job of mythmaker falls to Billy Vassiliadis, adman, huckster, deal maker and fixer extraordinaire.

USB Piper Upgrades Cisco Systems to
'Outperform'

USB Piper Upgrades Cisco Systems to
'Outperform' 11/06/2003 12:19 PM
Business Week Nov 6 2003 10:53AM ET

Paying The Piper, Round 2: The Reportory
Grows

Paying The Piper, Round 2: The Reportory
Grows 10/30/2003 12:35 AM
The best music store-jukebox is Apple's iTunes, for a list of reasons as long as a Wagner opera. By David Pogue (New York Times via MyAppleMenu)

Piper Jaffray: iTMS key to future Apple
growth

Piper Jaffray: iTMS key to future Apple
growth 08/27/2004 02:15 PM
Piper Jaffray said earlier today that it thinks the iTunes Music Store could emerge as a driver for Apple's shares in fiscal 2005 and 2006...

Piper Jaffray: Mac market share to grow
over next two years

Piper Jaffray: Mac market share to grow
over next two years 09/27/2004 10:49 AM
Piper Jaffray said that over the next two years Apple will grow its market share ahead of expectations thanks to greater-than-expected adoption of iPods, which will translate into increased Mac sales...

James Dean died in a Porsche and boosted
sales; what about JFK, Jr. and Piper?

James Dean died in a Porsche and boosted
sales; what about JFK, Jr. and Piper? 03/17/2005 03:24 AM

At the Ralph Lauren car exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which opens to non-members on March 6, a plaque next to a 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder contains the following:

"In September 1955 legendary actor James Dean ... crashed his new 550 Spyder and was killed.  This tragic event immortalized the Porsche name and transformed a relatively small company into a very big business."

So... if it worked for Porsche with James Dean, how come it didn't work for Piper when JFK, Jr. crashed his Saratoga?  If anything you'd expect the truck-like family man's 6-seater Saratoga to have fared better than the rear-engined Porsche, which was notorious for hard-to-handle oversteer.

[Don't rush down to the MFA to see this exhibit.  There are much more interesting car collections at a lot of the U.S.'s car museums, including the one 30 miles west in Stow, Massachusetts at the Collings Foundation.]

Piper Jaffray: Macs to gain market share
in 2-3 years

Piper Jaffray: Macs to gain market share
in 2-3 years 03/17/2005 03:05 AM
Piper Jaffray expects Apple to gain share in the PC market over the next two to three years...

Innovo Group to Participate at the Piper
Jaffray Consumer Conference

Innovo Group to Participate at the Piper
Jaffray Consumer Conference 06/05/2005 11:54 PM
Market Wire May 26 2005 10:03AM GMT

Piper Malibu Mirage Transition Training
in Vero Beach, Florida

Piper Malibu Mirage Transition Training
in Vero Beach, Florida 02/07/2005 01:15 AM

I'm just finishing up transition training for the Piper Malibu Mirage airplane down in Vero Beach, Florida.  Vero Beach is the home of New Piper Aircraft, manufacturer of the Malibu, and is located on the SE Atlantic coast of Florida, halfway between Cape Canaveral and Miami/Ft. Lauderdale.

The Malibu is interesting because it is a personal airplane that actually can do most of the things that non-pilots believe any personal airplane ought to be able to do.  Imagine telling Joe Random that you own a small airplane.  He will imagine that this machine could get you from any place in the U.S. to any other place within a day or two.  Joe's imagination would conjure up an airplane that could fly through clouds, fly above the clouds, keep the occupants comfortable inside, and not inflict too much noise on the passengers.  An actual small airplane, e.g., a brand new $250,000 Cessna 172 or $400,000 Piper Saratoga (JFK, Jr's plane), can't do any of these things.  A basic airplane will have a basic piston engine that loses power the higher one climbs into the thin air of high altitudes, which contains fewer molecules of oxygen for combustion per unit volume.  Thus the little Cessna, for example, goes slower and slower as it climbs higher until finally it is using almost all of its feeble power to climb rather than to move forward.  A 172 isn't practical to operate above about 14,000'.  Clouds typically extend up to around 20,000' and therefore the Cessna is condemned to fly through the clouds rather than above them.

What's wrong with flying through the clouds?  In the summer the clouds contain embedded thunderstorms that can make an airplane impossible to control and it is difficult for a cloud-bound pilot to avoid those thunderstorms because one can't see out of a cloud.  In the winter the clouds contain ice that alters the airfoil and weighs down the airframe to the point that the airplane doesn't have enough power to hold altitude.  At all times of year clouds are typically bumpier than the air above the clouds.  A small plane can still get you places but you may have to wait many days for hazardous weather to clear.  Even with the best weather the average small plane is incredibly noisy, is unpressurized so passengers are exposed to the discomforts of breathing thin air or having an oxygen system stuck up their noses, and has no air conditioning.

The Piper Malibu has two turbochargers attached to its engine, making a total of 350 horsepower nearly up to its service ceiling of 25,000'.  This is high enough to get above most clouds most of the time.  Bleed air from the turbos is fed into the cabin for pressurization.  Two heaters cope with the -40 C temps at altitude while an air conditioner keeps folks cool closer to the ground.  At 25,000' it is so cold that the air isn't capable of holding much water and therefore the risk of accumulating ice is minimal.  However, one might have to climb up or descend down through an icing layer and therefore the Malibu comes with a heated propeller, some heated sensors for the instruments, and rubber boots on the leading edges of the wings and tail.  These rubber boots can be inflated by the pilot to crack ice off.

Basically the Malibu does everything that a jet-powered airplane does without the fuel consumption of a jet or the high initial cost of a jet (the same airframe is available with a jet engine driving a propeller; it is called a Piper Meridian and is about $700,000 more than the Malibu).  Introduced in 1984 only about 1000 have been built, including jet-powered versions.  It is difficult to get insurance for the Malibu because so many have been crashed.  These crashes fall into two categories:  (a) pushing weather, and (b) mechanical failure.  Because the airplane is so capable guys attempt getting through ice and around thunderstorms in a way that would never occur to them in a simpler airplane.  Because the airplane is so complex it is prone to failures that are simply not possible in a basic airplane.  If either turbocharger fails, for example, the engine oil can leak out and the engine will stop.  My old Diamond Star didn't have turbochargers, by comparison.  The Malibu does what an airliner does but without the redundancy.  So you have to be prepared to land the airplane in a field or on a road.  Because of these accidents the insurance companies require professional training before writing a policy.

Half of the training involves ground school in which one learns as much as possible about all of the airplane's systems, e.g., the hydraulic pump and lines that drive the landing gear up and down.  This is important in case you're flying around and the landing gear won't come down or the magic three green lights that indicate "down and locked" won't come on.  This actually happened to me a few times in the last two weeks.  Twice I put the gear lever down and nothing happened.  It turned out that the hydraulic pump circuit breaker had popped.  One, after a 6.5-hour flight at high altitude, I put the gear down and only two of the three lights went on.  A little in-the-air debugging and the last light lit up but the gear might have been down all the time and the switch frozen.

Most of the flight training involves the student wearing special googles or a hood that obscures everything except the instruments on the panel.  This simulates instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), which is where things tend to get challenging.  My instructor was Ron Cox, former head of training for Piper Aircraft and then Simcom and previously a helicopter pilot in Vietnam.  Ron covered up all the instruments with a chart and had me do some turns climbs and descents purely by feel.  "Now you're JFK, Jr.," he noted (kind of odd that JFK, Jr. is the canonical example of a confused pilot even among long-time aviation nerds), and whisked the chart away.  I was supposed to be straight and level.  My body was uncertain as to its orientation relative to gravity.  The instruments showed the airplane in a steep climbing turn, an "unusual attitude" that needed to be corrected with a combination of throttle and yoke.  Many hours were spent doing instrument approaches to various airports on Florida's Atlantic coast.  An instrument approach involves flying to a specified point in space and then flying a specified path in three dimensions down to a point where the pilot either sees the runway or executes a "missed approach" procedure by climbing up and proceeding to a published holding position and driving the airplane around in ovals.

Because so many Malibu engines have quit in flight, a great emphasis is placed on practicing engine failures in the clouds.  You wear the hood and the instructor pulls back the throttle and you have to figure out if there are any airports within gliding distance then set up the airplane for best gliding performance (90 knots) and make it down to a runway without pulling the hood off until the last 1000' or so.  One great thing about the Malibu is that it glides better than 10:1, i.e., if you're up at 25,000' (5 miles) you can glide more than 50 miles horizontally.

I came away from the training with some improved flying skills and an appreciation for all the things that can wrong in a Malibu.  My personal summary:  the airplane can do just about everything that an airliner can do but there isn't much redundancy so it isn't wise to do the things that the airlines do, e.g., overfly truly horrible weather or fly into low instrument conditions.  An airliner will have multiple engines, hydraulic pumps, etc. and will be piloted by two full-time professionals in front.

[Incidentally, last year's hurricanes hit Vero Beach very hard.  It appears that all pedestrian streets were destroyed, along with most sidewalks.  All the bookstores are gone as well as every classical music radio station.  Every person under age 55 not employed in the service industry was apparently killed.  The only things that are left here are gated communities full of rather old rather rich people, strip malls, real estate brokers, urology offices and MRI scanning centers.]

Piper Jaffray raises Apple target price
on iPod sales

Piper Jaffray raises Apple target price
on iPod sales 06/01/2004 03:53 PM
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has raised his estimates for Apple based on continued growth of "other" products such as iPods and software...

Inhibitex to Present at the 17th Annual
Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference

Inhibitex to Present at the 17th Annual
Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference 02/01/2005 09:05 PM
Market Wire Jan 20 2005 9:13PM GMT

GNU Hosting Helper

GNU Hosting Helper 04/15/2004 11:49 PM
First Release

Hero Helper X 1.5

Hero Helper X 1.5 12/03/2003 05:00 PM
An aid to the popular HeroGames role playing system. It helps GM’s and players during gaming sessions.

AA Helper Library 0.1

AA Helper Library 0.1 09/23/2004 02:34 AM
A library of helper functions for aalib users.

Gimp Mac Helper

Gimp Mac Helper 07/01/2004 03:57 AM
MacClipboard 0.2 "Low Carb" release

Perfect Helper

Perfect Helper 06/30/2004 02:14 PM
User don't really want a good knowledge base to consult when things go wrong -- they want the problem to be instantly diagnosed and fixed for them. By Sandy McMurray (via MyAppleMenu)

Hero Helper X 2.0

Hero Helper X 2.0 09/11/2004 12:04 AM
Aid for the popular Hero Games role playing system.

Neopets Helper 1.4

Neopets Helper 1.4 02/18/2004 02:26 AM
A program to control your neopets account from the command line.

Hotspot Helper

Hotspot Helper 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
MediaTracker is offering a low-cost way for venues to manage their hotspots: The management software, ControlAP, costs $149 and can support several platforms and both external APs plugged into a computer or an internal wireless card. Because the software is Java based, it can be run from a handheld with a wireless card. "It's a do-it-yourself mechanism to control hotspots," said Dario Laverde, MediaTracker's founder. "The initial target is cafes and small store fronts." The software enables a captive portal Web page where end users can sign in or see a welcome page if the hot spot is free. For now, a cafe may decide to offer 30 minutes of free use, then require customers to approach the counter where they pay the barista for additional use. A cafe could also ask customers to buy another coffee in exchange for additional use rather than set a price based on time, Laverde suggested. An employee authorizes additional use from a computer behind the counter where the ControlAP software can be integrated with existing point-of-sale software. The next version of ControlAP will support credit card billing. The software logs traffic and allows a cafe to block URLs or users by MAC address. It can be used to manage wired connections, too, so a cafe that may have some wired computers available for customers can manage those together with users of the Wi-Fi network from the same tool. Laverde says that thousands of people have downloaded the free version of the software, which is meant to serve as a trial version because it limits simultaneous users to five and offers stripped-down features. The full version of the software was just introduced this week. MediaTracker isn't alone in the market chasing independent cafes that don't want to partner with any of the larger hotspot operators, but it does offer some unique differences from its competitors. Surf and Sip, for example, offers a hosted hotspot management solution that either costs $50 per month if the hotspot is free for users, or 25 percent of profits for a paid location. Sputnik offers a robust solution for managing hotspots but is designed for the small to medium-sized hotspot operator that has multiple locations. AirPath Wireless also offers a hotspot management solution but seems to be targeting larger hot spot operators--Sprint uses AirPath's solution. NoCatAuth is also an option but appropriate mostly for technical folks....

Rune Helper

Rune Helper 12/21/2003 07:25 AM
Rune Helper Errors

Astronaut's little helper

Astronaut's little helper 12/30/2003 01:32 AM
NASA is working on a canteloupe-sized "Personal Satellite Assistant" for astronauts designed to follow them around during space walks and record their activities via streaming...

Archmage Helper

Archmage Helper 11/15/2003 04:24 AM
Shimlar script added

Australian Simulation to present the
complete Piper Warrior package for
Microsoft™ Flight Simulator

Australian Simulation to present the
complete Piper Warrior package for
Microsoft™ Flight Simulator 07/28/2004 06:27 PM
Mantracourt Jul 28 2004 11:06PM GMT

Toggle SEC Helper Menu 1.0.1

Toggle SEC Helper Menu 1.0.1 02/15/2004 11:53 AM
This script will quickly and easily toggle (enable/disable) the menu of Sony Ericsson Clicker. The menu is provided by an application named "SEC Helper", which is part of Sony Ericsson Clicker.

Tray Helper 4.3 released

Tray Helper 4.3 released 07/22/2004 10:02 PM
Techzonez Jul 23 2004 2:11AM GMT

Javac Compiler Helper 0.1.6

Javac Compiler Helper 0.1.6 06/14/2004 06:05 PM
A wrapper for the javac standard compiler.

squid-nufw-helper 1.0-rc1

squid-nufw-helper 1.0-rc1 07/27/2004 09:21 PM
A Single Sign On module for Squid.

Tray Helper 4.2 released

Tray Helper 4.2 released 05/09/2004 03:46 PM

Tray Helper 4.6 released

Tray Helper 4.6 released 12/27/2004 03:30 PM

Research Project Helper

Research Project Helper 02/10/2004 05:29 PM
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