Some of you may laugh but there were many interesting techie sites on Geocities. Nowadays you have to wad through thousands of "techie" websites that were assembled by sales and marketing people, all good click-bait but lack in anything worthwhile. Since almost all are commercial companies trying to get top listed on Google, like ebay have to go through thousands of commercial sites (which pretty much present the same cheap crap from China) before finding a website created by someone who is smart and yet willing to share. i.e. CapeCanaveral
Going somewhat OT but I wonder how many start-ups of back in days were really start-ups? I remember many of these "entrepreneurships" had only one customer (not in first year but year after year) such as Lockheed, Tandem Computers, Rolm, etc.
It didn't actually leave the Solar system. It entered "interstellar space" which means the Solar wind is basically negligible, but it is still well within the influence of the Sun's gravity. It's similar to saying that a rocket has left Earth because it escaped the atmosphere, despite the fact that it is still very much influenced by the Earth.
Classified0 writes:
Voyager 2 is traveling at about 16 km/s
The speed of light, c, is about 299792 km/s.
Time dilation is t' = t*sqrt(1-v2/c2 )
The factor then is 0.999999997
41 years is about 1293861600 seconds, and multiplying by the factor gives about 1293861596 seconds. So, Voyager 2 is about 4 seconds younger because of time dilation.
abacadabraupyourass writes:
“Voyager 1 will not approach another star for nearly 40,000 years, even though it is moving at such great speed. But it will be in orbit around the centre of our galaxy with all its stars for billions of years.”
For some reason, while pondering about our short time here trying to rip our planet to pieces, it hit me how insanely large the universe is. And particularly, how tiny we are in the grand scheme of things.
You have summed up just how big our Solar System is and yet puny compared to the Milky Way galaxy (nice post). Though a screamer at 36K mph, a fraction of a snail's pace in terms getting to another star. Overall to think it was launched so many years ago, and think about various items on the spacecraft with company tags with model and serial numbers, and many of these companies no longer existing.
Only thing I found on FTA was obscure religious channels and channels of languages I don't understand (which these looked like QVC). Even with paid feeds, these didn't seem to be much unless you want 50 hockey channels and content like that. NASA TV is pretty boring, PBS is good but don't need a dish. It would be nice if there was CSPAN from FTA which is very interesting on the weekends, https://www.c-span.org/history as compared during the week the live feeds are mainly staged speeches of senate and congress (generally not much content).
They'll take taxpayer money to fund their R&D without giving any of those developments back.
Interesting point, it seemed like back in the days of real space technology spinoffs that also included where individuals can get real techie information to do stuff. One example is Larry Baysinger W4EJA who built a VHF receiver to eavesdrop on Apollo 11 radio transmissions, http://www.arrl.org/eavesdropp... based on available information at the time. These days almost everything on the internet is generic illustrations from PPT presentations.
The ***good stuff*** is kept closely guarded by these private companies. i.e. nobody knows what SpaceX can do or what its plans are except what Elon says at press conferences.
Attempts to criminalize copyright infringement by proposing felony penalties have never succeeded because copyright infringement is a civil offense not a criminal one.
Consider a felony conviction will also result no longer able to vote. Another method of voter suppression brought on by "liberal Hollywood?"
It is up to you to prepare yourself for all things in life, from starting a family to retirement to your own burial.
Considering half of children live in poverty and start the school day hungry (it wasn't up to them to choose where they were born), maybe that's the way things are. Alan Greenspan talked about the growing wealth inequality commenting something like the human intellect really doesn't know how to address this issue.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?...
Overall comments on this thread by just about everyone are depressing and example why people vote for politicians that make policy against people's best interests.
It's been said California pioneers many things that other states later follow. And we see all these new companies in new buildings developing new technologies but surrounded by tent cities and people living in RVs and cars on the streets. Will this become the norm of 21st century living standards? So far it seems ***nobody*** has any idea how to deal with this imbalance. There may be articles about homeless and certain charity drives but nobody knows how to deal with large companies buying up portions of cities and accumulating billions more.
Not just getting harder, but more expensive. The major discoveries made at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th century were "cheap." Now in order to explore the nature of reality even further, it often requires that millions if not billions of dollars be spent to build specialty equipment in order to verify findings.
Reminds me of an article or a youtube vid (I can't immediately what and where) which described big discoveries by individuals in 19th century and early 20th century but in more recent times a collection of people (one has an idea but another got the money to demonstrate it). Or maybe using a real estate analogy, kind of like in 1890 when the Census Dept declared the frontier is closed (all properties in the west US have been settled)?
Reminds me talking with a former Marine describing when his squad were "lost" while on a exercise at night, they had maps and compass but were not sure where they were and where to go. One of their team was one guy, not that smart but he can look up at the sky and intuitively figure out the proper direction of travel. He couldn't explain how it did it, in fact couldn't explain anything but had that knowledge of navigation.
I remember back in the day when I turned 18, went to DMV to get a license. then shortly after got my first car. $300 junker, yeah! now I get to go cruisin'. These days I can easily see why millennials would not pursue such, why? to go cruising in a traffic jam?
Here in SF bay area not much option, public transportation ok in some areas, bad in many others. Problem is the mindset of everybody in this country (rail transportation, and ***real*** bike lanes unimaginable) but wait maybe the millennials will detour from baby boomer thinking. I have read a lot of congestion caused by additional cars such as Uber and Lyft as I see these as "constant commuters" as usually the car is parked at home or at work but only on the road during between. Uber cars are on the road constantly.
I real stink I have are car commercials that show how fun it is to drive with wide open roads or city roads with no other cars (yeah, need the world become like "I am Legend" or "the Omega Man"). Cmon' how many people really like to drive, I say very few percent. Rest of us smucks just use it to get from point A to B.
Excellent post, your mention of "When you start demanding substantial cuts this is what happens." reminds me of your other essay, "There is no Left" which described austerity is gospel. Then people bitch why the guvmint doesn't do anything in response to disasters.
in the Union. Always has been. Not because of taxes, but because people want to live there.
About time someone has said this. I never could figure out why people bitch about taxes when housing in good areas is in the millions. There are places where housing is much less (Oroville) but there's a reason why there is no building boom like in Silicon Valley (really, look at all the construction projects). So much for business leaving Calif in droves (I haven't seen it except the outsourcing of middle class jobs).
Old guy here, I have seen pretty much every old movie so there's not much missing for me. No need to watch Ben Hur or Singing In The Rain three times a month. Now what would interest me are old movies ***rarely*** shown if any. If want to watch Diana Dors and Mamie Van Doren movies, probably buy the DVD. Trudyscousin posted about buy your own discs which many perceive as retrogrades but with your own media you have control.
Regarding old movies, back in the 1950s there were several major movie studios and something like 400 movies per year were produced. I'm sure many were stinkers but there probably some films that if were seen again probably be highly acclaimed. I think many of those films are long gone due to deterioration. If film still good, it could be the copyright owner still demands huge sum of money to have it broadcasted (note that copyrights never expire i.e. Mickey Mouse court rulings). But then there's some renegades out there that taped on VHS back in 1980s when TV stations showed old movies late at night. Occasionally someone will post on a list videotape copy for sale.
Disclaimer: Didn't RTFA, going straight to comment. My observation is young people are not rushing out to get a car like I did when I turned 18. Cars last longer, more expensive unlike my first car was a $300 junker. These days there may be old cars but not junkers, i.e. smog requirements tighter and if car doesn't pass smog can't get it registered. Then there are tighter insurance requirements, don't have insurance can't get a license. Back then you could still get a license and register the car if don't have insurance. Also once you have all that, for here in Silicon Valley, the traffic is horrible. Go to places like San Francisco there is no place to park so a car is useless. I see for a lot of young people they can do Uber and Lyft so.... is a car needed?
I still have a car, regularly use it. But then I've been established for many years.
Those communicators from TOS didn't have texting, video, pictures. What they did have was broadcast quality audio with entire planetary coverage with no dropouts (except when Klingons are present) and no data caps. And the batteries lasted forever.
And even before then (1970) there was Improved Mobile Telephone Service IMTS (full duplex!) where the control head with handset, pulse dial, and a real bell (I have one of those, it is big and scary) but most of the electronics is a suitcase size box located in the trunk (I don't have this beast). Back then only the stinking rich had car phones, these phones were marveled by many watching Banacek TV series who had one in his Rolls Royce limo. Rolls Royce still sells cars with a place for a IMTS style car phone.
Besides the very rich, ham radio people back in the days did phone patching so they can use a 2-way (half duplex) to make phone calls. Don't know who does phone patching anymore, probably lost knowledge.
FCC has no authority on [insert your favorite communications mode here]. At times it sure seems like it when 2-way radio bitch about FCC not enforcing regulations (which is true as enforcement bureau has little resources). To me it seems FCC focuses on auctioning spectrum. At least Part 90 manufacturers and users tend keep themselves within operating limits, and the hams are generally reasonable (yes, there's a few troublemakers).
But wait, this kind thing has happened before when radio was the new high tech thing there was no regulation. Then the govt stepped in, many stations didn't like it so they got the courts to rule against the Commerce Dept saying they had no enforcement authority (all this happened around 1920). Gordon West wrote in his book after this court ruling radio stations went wild, changing freq, varying power levels, etc. the radio spectrum became such a mess many people stopped listening to radio. Then the 1934 Communications Act was enabled with more teeth to regulate. So.... will The Internet become such a mess people will stop using it? Or parts of it become useless? There's already gripe sessions about Reddit and Facebook going the way of Digg, Myspace, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
one wrong thought gets you kicked off of all of the platforms.
it's also asking a question in tech forums supported by companies, ask in the wrong dept and you are banned for life.
Some of you may laugh but there were many interesting techie sites on Geocities. Nowadays you have to wad through thousands of "techie" websites that were assembled by sales and marketing people, all good click-bait but lack in anything worthwhile. Since almost all are commercial companies trying to get top listed on Google, like ebay have to go through thousands of commercial sites (which pretty much present the same cheap crap from China) before finding a website created by someone who is smart and yet willing to share. i.e. CapeCanaveral
or use 63,000 feet, the Armstrong Line, where the body needs a spacesuit.
Going somewhat OT but I wonder how many start-ups of back in days were really start-ups? I remember many of these "entrepreneurships" had only one customer (not in first year but year after year) such as Lockheed, Tandem Computers, Rolm, etc.
FactualNeutronStar writes:
It didn't actually leave the Solar system. It entered "interstellar space" which means the Solar wind is basically negligible, but it is still well within the influence of the Sun's gravity. It's similar to saying that a rocket has left Earth because it escaped the atmosphere, despite the fact that it is still very much influenced by the Earth.
Classified0 writes:
Voyager 2 is traveling at about 16 km/s /c2 )
The speed of light, c, is about 299792 km/s.
Time dilation is t' = t*sqrt(1-v2
The factor then is 0.999999997
41 years is about 1293861600 seconds, and multiplying by the factor gives about 1293861596 seconds. So, Voyager 2 is about 4 seconds younger because of time dilation.
abacadabraupyourass writes:
“Voyager 1 will not approach another star for nearly 40,000 years, even though it is moving at such great speed. But it will be in orbit around the centre of our galaxy with all its stars for billions of years.”
For some reason, while pondering about our short time here trying to rip our planet to pieces, it hit me how insanely large the universe is. And particularly, how tiny we are in the grand scheme of things.
You have summed up just how big our Solar System is and yet puny compared to the Milky Way galaxy (nice post). Though a screamer at 36K mph, a fraction of a snail's pace in terms getting to another star. Overall to think it was launched so many years ago, and think about various items on the spacecraft with company tags with model and serial numbers, and many of these companies no longer existing.
Only thing I found on FTA was obscure religious channels and channels of languages I don't understand (which these looked like QVC). Even with paid feeds, these didn't seem to be much unless you want 50 hockey channels and content like that. NASA TV is pretty boring, PBS is good but don't need a dish. It would be nice if there was CSPAN from FTA which is very interesting on the weekends, https://www.c-span.org/history as compared during the week the live feeds are mainly staged speeches of senate and congress (generally not much content).
They'll take taxpayer money to fund their R&D without giving any of those developments back.
Interesting point, it seemed like back in the days of real space technology spinoffs that also included where individuals can get real techie information to do stuff. One example is Larry Baysinger W4EJA who built a VHF receiver to eavesdrop on Apollo 11 radio transmissions, http://www.arrl.org/eavesdropp... based on available information at the time. These days almost everything on the internet is generic illustrations from PPT presentations.
The ***good stuff*** is kept closely guarded by these private companies. i.e. nobody knows what SpaceX can do or what its plans are except what Elon says at press conferences.
Attempts to criminalize copyright infringement by proposing felony penalties have never succeeded because copyright infringement is a civil offense not a criminal one.
Consider a felony conviction will also result no longer able to vote. Another method of voter suppression brought on by "liberal Hollywood?"
It is up to you to prepare yourself for all things in life, from starting a family to retirement to your own burial.
Considering half of children live in poverty and start the school day hungry (it wasn't up to them to choose where they were born), maybe that's the way things are. Alan Greenspan talked about the growing wealth inequality commenting something like the human intellect really doesn't know how to address this issue. https://www.c-span.org/video/?...
Overall comments on this thread by just about everyone are depressing and example why people vote for politicians that make policy against people's best interests.
It's been said California pioneers many things that other states later follow. And we see all these new companies in new buildings developing new technologies but surrounded by tent cities and people living in RVs and cars on the streets. Will this become the norm of 21st century living standards? So far it seems ***nobody*** has any idea how to deal with this imbalance. There may be articles about homeless and certain charity drives but nobody knows how to deal with large companies buying up portions of cities and accumulating billions more.
Not just getting harder, but more expensive. The major discoveries made at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th century were "cheap." Now in order to explore the nature of reality even further, it often requires that millions if not billions of dollars be spent to build specialty equipment in order to verify findings.
Reminds me of an article or a youtube vid (I can't immediately what and where) which described big discoveries by individuals in 19th century and early 20th century but in more recent times a collection of people (one has an idea but another got the money to demonstrate it). Or maybe using a real estate analogy, kind of like in 1890 when the Census Dept declared the frontier is closed (all properties in the west US have been settled)?
The real problem with jamming GPS is high-speed communications links that rely on a very accurate timing source,
I heard Wall Street uses GPS to coordinate transfers, does this mean jamming GPS can send the US back to Oct 1929?
Reminds me talking with a former Marine describing when his squad were "lost" while on a exercise at night, they had maps and compass but were not sure where they were and where to go. One of their team was one guy, not that smart but he can look up at the sky and intuitively figure out the proper direction of travel. He couldn't explain how it did it, in fact couldn't explain anything but had that knowledge of navigation.
does this mean people will no longer be eager to dump all those VOR stations scattered about the country?
I remember back in the day when I turned 18, went to DMV to get a license. then shortly after got my first car. $300 junker, yeah! now I get to go cruisin'. These days I can easily see why millennials would not pursue such, why? to go cruising in a traffic jam?
Here in SF bay area not much option, public transportation ok in some areas, bad in many others. Problem is the mindset of everybody in this country (rail transportation, and ***real*** bike lanes unimaginable) but wait maybe the millennials will detour from baby boomer thinking. I have read a lot of congestion caused by additional cars such as Uber and Lyft as I see these as "constant commuters" as usually the car is parked at home or at work but only on the road during between. Uber cars are on the road constantly.
I real stink I have are car commercials that show how fun it is to drive with wide open roads or city roads with no other cars (yeah, need the world become like "I am Legend" or "the Omega Man"). Cmon' how many people really like to drive, I say very few percent. Rest of us smucks just use it to get from point A to B.
Excellent post, your mention of "When you start demanding substantial cuts this is what happens." reminds me of your other essay, "There is no Left" which described austerity is gospel. Then people bitch why the guvmint doesn't do anything in response to disasters.
in the Union. Always has been. Not because of taxes, but because people want to live there.
About time someone has said this. I never could figure out why people bitch about taxes when housing in good areas is in the millions. There are places where housing is much less (Oroville) but there's a reason why there is no building boom like in Silicon Valley (really, look at all the construction projects). So much for business leaving Calif in droves (I haven't seen it except the outsourcing of middle class jobs).
... telling them NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!!!
This has gots to be the most off-the-wall comparison of two different kinds of people ever.
Old guy here, I have seen pretty much every old movie so there's not much missing for me. No need to watch Ben Hur or Singing In The Rain three times a month. Now what would interest me are old movies ***rarely*** shown if any. If want to watch Diana Dors and Mamie Van Doren movies, probably buy the DVD. Trudyscousin posted about buy your own discs which many perceive as retrogrades but with your own media you have control.
Regarding old movies, back in the 1950s there were several major movie studios and something like 400 movies per year were produced. I'm sure many were stinkers but there probably some films that if were seen again probably be highly acclaimed. I think many of those films are long gone due to deterioration. If film still good, it could be the copyright owner still demands huge sum of money to have it broadcasted (note that copyrights never expire i.e. Mickey Mouse court rulings). But then there's some renegades out there that taped on VHS back in 1980s when TV stations showed old movies late at night. Occasionally someone will post on a list videotape copy for sale.
Disclaimer: Didn't RTFA, going straight to comment. My observation is young people are not rushing out to get a car like I did when I turned 18. Cars last longer, more expensive unlike my first car was a $300 junker. These days there may be old cars but not junkers, i.e. smog requirements tighter and if car doesn't pass smog can't get it registered. Then there are tighter insurance requirements, don't have insurance can't get a license. Back then you could still get a license and register the car if don't have insurance. Also once you have all that, for here in Silicon Valley, the traffic is horrible. Go to places like San Francisco there is no place to park so a car is useless. I see for a lot of young people they can do Uber and Lyft so.... is a car needed?
I still have a car, regularly use it. But then I've been established for many years.
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or in their pocket (Star Trek).
Those communicators from TOS didn't have texting, video, pictures. What they did have was broadcast quality audio with entire planetary coverage with no dropouts (except when Klingons are present) and no data caps. And the batteries lasted forever.
And even before then (1970) there was Improved Mobile Telephone Service IMTS (full duplex!) where the control head with handset, pulse dial, and a real bell (I have one of those, it is big and scary) but most of the electronics is a suitcase size box located in the trunk (I don't have this beast). Back then only the stinking rich had car phones, these phones were marveled by many watching Banacek TV series who had one in his Rolls Royce limo. Rolls Royce still sells cars with a place for a IMTS style car phone.
Besides the very rich, ham radio people back in the days did phone patching so they can use a 2-way (half duplex) to make phone calls. Don't know who does phone patching anymore, probably lost knowledge.
FCC has no authority on [insert your favorite communications mode here]. At times it sure seems like it when 2-way radio bitch about FCC not enforcing regulations (which is true as enforcement bureau has little resources). To me it seems FCC focuses on auctioning spectrum. At least Part 90 manufacturers and users tend keep themselves within operating limits, and the hams are generally reasonable (yes, there's a few troublemakers).
But wait, this kind thing has happened before when radio was the new high tech thing there was no regulation. Then the govt stepped in, many stations didn't like it so they got the courts to rule against the Commerce Dept saying they had no enforcement authority (all this happened around 1920). Gordon West wrote in his book after this court ruling radio stations went wild, changing freq, varying power levels, etc. the radio spectrum became such a mess many people stopped listening to radio. Then the 1934 Communications Act was enabled with more teeth to regulate. So.... will The Internet become such a mess people will stop using it? Or parts of it become useless? There's already gripe sessions about Reddit and Facebook going the way of Digg, Myspace, etc.