Hey there, good buddy, I'm with you; passed double nickels a long time ago, and still got it on cruise.
What's your handle? Oops, that's old tech.
Last ten years: Python, LaTeX, xslt (ok, xslt has got to be my un-favorite programming language, maybe it's mastered me instead of the other way around), sfst.
Eh, no talk stink! I turn 65 next month. And I've gone through more adaptation than most people our age. I'm now on my fifth favorite programming language (FORTRAN, Pascal, Lisp, Prolog, now Python; that doesn't count my unfavorite programming languages, like C, or my more exotic languages, like lexc/xfst and sfst.)
That doesn't mean I have to like changes, when there's no good reason for them. Menus just work fine for me, and they are written with alphabetic words, not hieroglyphics, thank you. (If I could get rid of the useless icons, the ribbon would become a badly organized menu.)
I'm hoping that some day the Ribbon will go the same way as New Coke, Windows 8, tail fins on cars, and the new-and-improved Google Maps. (Ok, the latter is just a hope.)
Briggs-Meyer is another theory that seems to assume U-shaped curves. For that reason (ok, other reasons too...) I'm skeptical of it. Why shouldn't most people score in the middle of the various personality scales B-M uses?
"For aircraft, altitude is still always reported in feet, presumably because changing would inevitably cost lives during the transition." Didn't someone try that on Mars? No lives were lost, but still.
But I _am_ fluent in the slide rule. Or at least I was in the 60s and 70s, and I still know how to use the C/D scales. I could probably figure out most of the others if you gave me a few minutes.
Morse code, not so much, my Boy Scout skills were barely enough to pass. And I've never heard Morris code.
Thanks. I used to be on one of those steam turbine ships, a guided missile destroyer built in the early 60s. And yes, we could burn most kinds of oil (fortunately we were burning s.t. a little cleaner than they used to, which meant less cleaning of the boilers). The Navy had a few more steam turbine ships built up through the early 70s, as I recall (mostly destroyer escorts), but afaik they gave up on fossil-fuel steam turbines after that. Nucs are of course still steam turbines.
I don't understand. Not saying you're wrong, I just don't understand. Power usage already goes up and down, every time my heat pump comes on, say. I wouldn't think the power coming from solar panels would fluctuate that much. Sure, a cloud goes over the sun, or the sun comes out from the cloud. Does it make that much difference? Is the problem that the cloud/sun is more or less synchronized over a large number of houses that have solar, whereas the heat pumps are not?
Nucs have steam turbines, but most modern warships (destroyers and such-like) have gas turbines. I was on one of the oil-fired steam turbine destroyers, the USS Goldsborough, last of the Adams-class to be decommissioned, and afaik (tell me if I'm wrong!) the last steam powered US destroyer (DDG). It had 1200psi steam, 975 degrees of superheat, and the plant was a bear to maintain. We estimated 5000 valves in the engineering spaces (including air lines, oil lines, and so forth, not just steam). From what I hear, the new gas turbine destroyers are much easier to keep in running shape. (Of course my ship was the best one:-).)
Not diesel engines, oil-fired steam turbines. (She might have had some diesels to power emergency electrical generators, I suppose. Destroyers of that era did; I know, I was on one.)
Why would an aircraft carrier have such a thick hull? They were in general designed for speed, unlike battleships. The Independence was built on a light cruiser hull; later light cruisers had a 3.5 to 5 inch belt, to protect from torpedoes. I don't know what thickness of a belt the Independence might have had, but I doubt it was more than that. And the belt would only have been there around the side, not (I think) on the bottom of the hull. So I doubt these radioactive barrels are all that well protected (and of course the hull has been flooded since the day it sunk).
Maybe they borrowed the idea from Microsoft Outlook. The new version says things like "We didn't find any messages to show here." We? What, are they my nurse?
How do you get routing on OpenStreetMap? oops, I see it now (non-obvious icon). Is there any way to change a route (like you can drag a point on a route in google maps), or show traffic?
This sounds like a repeat of the Google News fiasco some years ago. They replaced a good interface with a bad one. The response of a preliminary test group was reportedly negative (I wasn't in that group), and when they made the change for real, there were literally thousands of comments on their forum saying how bad people thought it was, and not a single comment in favor of the change. (Ok, there was one, but it was explicitly tongue-in-cheek.) Did Google listen? No. A couple months after the change they made a few more tweaks, supposedly in response to the negative comments, but didn't really address the issues. I left Google News, and I believe many others did too.
Google is like Microsoft: they know better. (Except Microsoft apparently has repented of Windows 8, and they repented a long time ago over Clippie and Microsoft Bob. I've never seen Google repent of their evil.)
Interesting. So does the Kozai effect explains why Mercury (and maybe Venus) doesn't have any moons, unlike (say) Mars, which is presumably too far away from the perturber Sun? (Or maybe Phobos and Deimos entered Martian orbit too recently for the Kozai effect to have, well, taken effect.)
Ok, reading further about the Kozai mechanism (http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravity/articles/kozai.html), apparently it's only relevant to satellites that have (roughly) non-equatorial orbits. So I suppose if Messenger (or a natural moon of Mercury) were in an equatorial orbit, it would be (more) stable, right? (The formula they give implies zero eccentricity at an inclination of about 39 degrees. The formula gives an imaginary number if the inclination is less than that; I'm not sure what an imaginary number means in that context.)
I live near The Other Washington (the one near Maryland), and I'll gladly change places with you. (I have lived in Seattle and its environs before, although I don't recall having fought nature.)
> If climate change is causing damage, it will also require spending > public money to fix and adapt, and probably more because it means > there's less time to take the proper action. By that argument, the > burden of evidence is on those who advocate nothing is happening.
As one of the suppliers of that public money, I disagree. I want to see evidence that my taxes are going towards a problem, not towards someone's pocketbook.
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Hey there, good buddy, I'm with you; passed double nickels a long time ago, and still got it on cruise.
What's your handle? Oops, that's old tech.
Last ten years: Python, LaTeX, xslt (ok, xslt has got to be my un-favorite programming language, maybe it's mastered me instead of the other way around), sfst.
eh?
Eh, no talk stink! I turn 65 next month. And I've gone through more adaptation than most people our age. I'm now on my fifth favorite programming language (FORTRAN, Pascal, Lisp, Prolog, now Python; that doesn't count my unfavorite programming languages, like C, or my more exotic languages, like lexc/xfst and sfst.)
That doesn't mean I have to like changes, when there's no good reason for them. Menus just work fine for me, and they are written with alphabetic words, not hieroglyphics, thank you. (If I could get rid of the useless icons, the ribbon would become a badly organized menu.)
I'm hoping that some day the Ribbon will go the same way as New Coke, Windows 8, tail fins on cars, and the new-and-improved Google Maps. (Ok, the latter is just a hope.)
Briggs-Meyer is another theory that seems to assume U-shaped curves. For that reason (ok, other reasons too...) I'm skeptical of it. Why shouldn't most people score in the middle of the various personality scales B-M uses?
"For aircraft, altitude is still always reported in feet, presumably because changing would inevitably cost lives during the transition." Didn't someone try that on Mars? No lives were lost, but still.
And Spinel is a naturally occurring mineral.
But I _am_ fluent in the slide rule. Or at least I was in the 60s and 70s, and I still know how to use the C/D scales. I could probably figure out most of the others if you gave me a few minutes.
Morse code, not so much, my Boy Scout skills were barely enough to pass. And I've never heard Morris code.
But what I want to know is, why was the crew of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65, not the other one) didn't recognize Sulu.
Thanks.
I used to be on one of those steam turbine ships, a guided missile destroyer built in the early 60s. And yes, we could burn most kinds of oil (fortunately we were burning s.t. a little cleaner than they used to, which meant less cleaning of the boilers). The Navy had a few more steam turbine ships built up through the early 70s, as I recall (mostly destroyer escorts), but afaik they gave up on fossil-fuel steam turbines after that. Nucs are of course still steam turbines.
Where do gas turbines used on Navy ships land on this? (sorry 'bout the pun...)
The problem is the latency
I don't understand. Not saying you're wrong, I just don't understand.
Power usage already goes up and down, every time my heat pump comes on, say. I wouldn't think the power coming from solar panels would fluctuate that much. Sure, a cloud goes over the sun, or the sun comes out from the cloud. Does it make that much difference? Is the problem that the cloud/sun is more or less synchronized over a large number of houses that have solar, whereas the heat pumps are not?
Speak for yourself, human!
Nucs have steam turbines, but most modern warships (destroyers and such-like) have gas turbines. I was on one of the oil-fired steam turbine destroyers, the USS Goldsborough, last of the Adams-class to be decommissioned, and afaik (tell me if I'm wrong!) the last steam powered US destroyer (DDG). It had 1200psi steam, 975 degrees of superheat, and the plant was a bear to maintain. We estimated 5000 valves in the engineering spaces (including air lines, oil lines, and so forth, not just steam). From what I hear, the new gas turbine destroyers are much easier to keep in running shape. (Of course my ship was the best one :-).)
Not diesel engines, oil-fired steam turbines. (She might have had some diesels to power emergency electrical generators, I suppose. Destroyers of that era did; I know, I was on one.)
Why would an aircraft carrier have such a thick hull? They were in general designed for speed, unlike battleships. The Independence was built on a light cruiser hull; later light cruisers had a 3.5 to 5 inch belt, to protect from torpedoes. I don't know what thickness of a belt the Independence might have had, but I doubt it was more than that. And the belt would only have been there around the side, not (I think) on the bottom of the hull. So I doubt these radioactive barrels are all that well protected (and of course the hull has been flooded since the day it sunk).
Maybe they borrowed the idea from Microsoft Outlook. The new version says things like "We didn't find any messages to show here." We? What, are they my nurse?
How do you get routing on OpenStreetMap? oops, I see it now (non-obvious icon). Is there any way to change a route (like you can drag a point on a route in google maps), or show traffic?
This sounds like a repeat of the Google News fiasco some years ago. They replaced a good interface with a bad one. The response of a preliminary test group was reportedly negative (I wasn't in that group), and when they made the change for real, there were literally thousands of comments on their forum saying how bad people thought it was, and not a single comment in favor of the change. (Ok, there was one, but it was explicitly tongue-in-cheek.) Did Google listen? No. A couple months after the change they made a few more tweaks, supposedly in response to the negative comments, but didn't really address the issues. I left Google News, and I believe many others did too.
Google is like Microsoft: they know better. (Except Microsoft apparently has repented of Windows 8, and they repented a long time ago over Clippie and Microsoft Bob. I've never seen Google repent of their evil.)
And if I'm not friendly?
Interesting. So does the Kozai effect explains why Mercury (and maybe Venus) doesn't have any moons, unlike (say) Mars, which is presumably too far away from the perturber Sun? (Or maybe Phobos and Deimos entered Martian orbit too recently for the Kozai effect to have, well, taken effect.)
Ok, reading further about the Kozai mechanism (http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravity/articles/kozai.html), apparently it's only relevant to satellites that have (roughly) non-equatorial orbits. So I suppose if Messenger (or a natural moon of Mercury) were in an equatorial orbit, it would be (more) stable, right? (The formula they give implies zero eccentricity at an inclination of about 39 degrees. The formula gives an imaginary number if the inclination is less than that; I'm not sure what an imaginary number means in that context.)
H Plus?
I live near The Other Washington (the one near Maryland), and I'll gladly change places with you. (I have lived in Seattle and its environs before, although I don't recall having fought nature.)
Tree rings from the coast mean nothing for Bakersfield... Tree rings are a poor substitute for calibrated thermometers.
I thought this was about drought, not temperature? And for the state of California, not the city of Bakersfield.
Ok, the borders of California are not necessarily where the drought begins/ ends, but still. We're supposedly talking climate, not microclimate.
> If climate change is causing damage, it will also require spending
> public money to fix and adapt, and probably more because it means
> there's less time to take the proper action. By that argument, the
> burden of evidence is on those who advocate nothing is happening.
As one of the suppliers of that public money, I disagree. I want to see evidence that my taxes are going towards a problem, not towards someone's pocketbook.
And yes, I realize the irony of that...
Agreeing with you, AC: Saying the Big Bang is wrong because it came from a priest is simply ad hominem, and displays a deeply anti-religion bias.