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Finding Airfoil Data For Amateur Projects?
An anonymous reader asks: "I am an aerospace engineering student who is engaged in an amateur project. A major hurdle I am having is finding modern airfoil data which can be used for a non-profit project. As most aerospace engineers know, just about all modern airfoil data are guarded industry secrets, so building an amateur project that requires precise airfoil data is difficult, because of the lack of available modern information. There is plenty of dated airfoil data from the 1960s or earlier, but my project requires access to modern data. Note that I do not have access to a wind tunnel to procure this data on my own. Where would one find free modern airfoil data for use in an amateur project?"
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warning to slashdotters, this is being moderated down quickly and called a troll or offtopic but its dead on and 100% true.
please pay heed to this warning.
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Your UID is being tracked, it's not Anonymous. Lots of people post lots of things to Slashdot as AC only because they believe it is really anonymous - it isn't. They hunt "trolls" (non-karma whores and non-group thinking bots) down.
This is true. I used to be a bit more freestyle and witty AC and be a nice guy logged in [basically a karma whore]. After a short while, I could no longer moderate. Slashdot does brand AC posts with IP and then map them back to users. They lie about AC, AC doesn't exist if you re-use ip addresses.
Big brother is watching. So while I might be a "troll" a lot of the AC things I said were to protect myself from Slash-bot groupthink. They punished me for voicing my opinion freestyle.
They also revoke moderation FOREVER - $rtbl it is called, for any moderations of any post that have been secretly flagged annoying [Slashcode has hidden flags viewable by editors]. If you *EVER* mod up something an editor secretly marked annoying you NEVER moderate again, ever - ever even if your karma is capped.
Also, Slashdot uses the friends system to track "trolls." Mark a troll you find funny as a friend *bang* $rtbl never to moderate ever again. My real account had many many good friends who had good karma, and a few funny trolls later, no more moderation for that account. Again, Slashdot is spying on its users to make the people who find certain things funny uneligible to moderate. You will never moderate again if you are a friend of a "foe or freak" of an editor.
So AC is a scam here. Hitler-Malda screws AC posts in the ass. So now all you can do is go 100% AC, or , as they expect you to, KARMA WHORE. And it is so lame and unfair and probably illegal as they lie about anonymity.
Protect yourself. Try and use proxies or a super good second browser with proxies that you never log into such as Opera (which makes it very easy to delete all private data). Thank you.
Yesterday I arrived at the office sat down at my desk and turned on my brand new Athalon XP 3000+. Nothing seemed to happen not which is not entirely surprising. I tried again and still no luck. At this point I was getting worried. I had a look behind my computer's case and everything was plugged in and looked normal. I immediately picked up the phone to dial the helpdesk for assistance. The helpdesk asked me to check the power bar under my desk. I immediately realised it was in the off position. I quickly fliped the power bar switch to the on posisition and turned on my pc. To my amazement the pc booted up fine.
William Gates
if I wasn't so busy keeping the script kiddies out of the redhat boxs and trying to figure out how a 10-year old perl scrip is supposed to work and writing an interrupt driver in x86 assy.
I guess you're not too busy with that stuff, otherwise you wouldn't be wasting your precious time flaming somebody on Slashdot.
Maybe if you crapflood enough, then yes, they may track you down and shitlist you, but if you're somewhat below a certain ratio of trolls to groupthink, then nothing happens. At my peak I've trolled a good 4 times to every on topic post, and I'm still able to moderate. I've even trolled FP and forgot to post as AC. Besides, the editors are too busy playing EverCrack and sodomizing barnyard animals to give a rats ass about a few trolls.
And even if all this was true, I don't fucking care. I'll just create another account.
Got any proof?
Does this mean we'll have less trolling going on? Oh please say yes.
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Sorry, "the rest of the world"? Most of the rest of the world doesn't speak English. In the English-speaking world, most native speakers are American.
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Aren't most English speaker from India?
I was specifically talking about native speakers, where the answer is most certainly no. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=E NG gives the totaly number of native English speakers as 341 million as of 1999. It's safe to say that the US, with a population of 290 million, contains a comfortable majority of those. That same site gives the total population of English speakers, native and non-native, at 508 million, and I think the US gets a majority even there.
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Like others have said consistency is very important. When I go to Dunkin Donuts I know what I'm going to get. (although the service sucks) Customer Service is just as important. Experience what the customer experiences! Call your own phones to see how you are treated... Order your own products to experience the experience. This will tell you how your customer feels. I can't count the times I've had rude or unhelpful customer service reps.
Good luck...