I remember that as well though too big to take to San Francisco in a short time to get the prize money so whats-his-name only brought along the briqits but imagine if someone brought this beast to SF!
orbiting workshop for research on scientific matters
Skylab gave us lots of insight of space station occupancy from dealing with bone/muscle loss, designing crew quarters with vertical references, preparing daily task lists that are not so nitpicky on details.
“Skylab parties”
I remember news clips (yep, I'm that old) of various people entering in bomb shelters. In 1979, Air and Space magazine (or some other well known magazine) had a drawing showing structural ring and large water cylinders descending on a sleepy midwest town (oh the horror of Skylab is falling, Skylab is falling).
$10,000 prize to the first person to deliver a piece of Skylab debris
I remember that, the debris wasn't much, looked like charcoal briquits. I remember after STS-1 launch and missing tiles on the OMS pods, same SF newspaper offered a prize for first person to deliver a missing tile or portion. Columnist wrote, "We blew the bank on the Skylab prize so this award will be only one dollar."
possible to own a piece of Skylab debris today.
This reminds me I do own a piece of Skylab! A poster I bought from NSS as part of their fundraising campaigns is a Skylab poster with a one inch square of the O2 or water tank insulation. It's somewhere along with my stack of papers and posters of all kinds of various stuff (much of what I forgot).
We've yet to even return a human being on the Moon! What is with Mars? Yes it is interesting geological place but why live there? I don't see a huge land rush to settle the Gobi Desert even though it is a thousand times easier to settle there than Mars. Reason of no land rush is because it is a barren inhospitable place because it is obvious there is no good reason to live there. We only romanticize about Mars because it is so far away.
And then there is the phrase, "once you're in orbit, you're halfway to anywhere." Yeah right but I sure don't see much of anything that went beyond GEO, except for a very small number of spacecraft (all guvmint expenditures) compared to LEO/GEO. I think it is ***very difficult*** to get out of earth orbit, I'm no expert with Tsiolkovsky rocket equation or fully studied "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics" by Mueller, Bate, White but I think there are huge challenges such as need high ISP and a lot of fuel to achieve escape velocity. Then need to deal with radiation, consumables, and be able to fix things when they break (no Progress or Soyuz that can quickly respond).
Yes SpaceX has made great strides though in comparison US and Russia have slowed down. Recovering first stages provide interesting option but in the big picture can it all scale up? Apollo was a single mission only, Shuttle was very expensive and very tedious, Russia's equipment has its issues.
Besides Uber rants, wasn't there a time when ***only*** yellow cabs were allowed for taxis? I remember in 1990s traveling to NYC particularly at airport there were signs that only yellow cabs are allowed taxis, everyone else is forbidden so don't jump into those cabs.
Was it back in 1970s that cabbies were able to make a lot of money? Kind of like waitresses back then when they didn't have to declare tips as taxable income? Though the movie is fiction, watching Taxi Driver few months ago what stood out was the character was making a lot of money spending all his awake time on the road. In reality was it like that back in the days? Few other items that caught my interest was in beginning where Robert DeNiro character interviews for a cab driver job, manager asks for a chauffeur license which he has (I'm wonder that is something just don't simply get at a moments notice but maybe thats too much to explain in the movie). Another was the manager was reluctant to hire DeNiro but when asked about military service, DeNiro replied Marines Corps. Manager, "yeah, I was also in the Marines." (in other words, "You're hired!")
there is also this "cab medallions" worth big bucks. I could never figure this out, it seems everyone has strong opinions but little knowledge (typical of internet posts). It seems it has mythical aspects like what is said back in the days of tax rates at 94% but nobody ever paid that amount because in reality there were loopholes.
According to a friend that has spent enormous amount of time on sound systems, tubes are better. He said virtually everyone has become so accustomed to transistors sound systems, and now a new generation who only hear music on ipods and phones, their ears cannot distinguish various sounds from instruments. He is also a jazz fan, and is very meticulous of what he listens to (also goes into lot more detail than I can explain here). He also said it takes time to get accustomed to tube sound systems, I believe he mentioned the MacIntosh (nothing to do with the computer company) is regarded as a gold standard, stopped making amplifiers in 1970s but there is someone in SF bay area that can service them. After listening to jazz music on tube systems he claims he can hear certain notes that he cannot hear on transistor systems. I'll probably forward this topic to him though he rarely gets on forums and other places like slashdot.
But the first goal is to maximize commission-able revenue.
Give me a sales guy who knows my needs and systems, and can recommend solutions that will make my job easier, I will keep their email and phone # handy. Another real plus is being honest to recommend a product I'm not aware of instead of something I was first seeking but it was more expensive. Oh, and cut the show promoter, game show host, or Amway sales pitch technique.
... every one of them says they don't have quotas,...
I asked a cousin, deputy sheriff, about quotas, he said there are none. He then said there are days where he gets one call after another, no time to stop and give someone a ticket (unless it is a gross violation) because he has to respond to calls. Then there are slow days with not much happening, supervisor will look at activity logs of long periods of no calls and might question lack of patrol activity. Cousin said it's real easy to rack up lots of tickets (lots of drivers committing violations).
Whenever I see articles about Uber, or when people say how they can make good money doing Uber, reminds me of this mention by Chris Johnson below. But with a self-driving car then no opportunity for people the "join the cult."
It's designed to make maximum use of crazy people and force the others to live up to that standard or be fired.
I'll define 'crazy Uber people' not as 'danger to customers', but 'people who are bringing more value in terms of vehicle, skill and desire to please, than they are getting back in pay and benefits'. So the crazy Uber person is the one who keeps buying a new Lexus or whatever, vacuums their car three times a day and busts their ass to outperform all the other Uber drivers, so they can continue to win out over anybody else seeking to be a driver.
The key factor is that they are giving more than they get back, in the belief that they're cornering some kind of market or buying in to something important.
If you make a business that relies on people like this, you can demolish anybody else because you've worked out how to get voluntary unpaid labor, like the Amazon exec who was said to use her own money to hire subcontractors to do more. As long as there are people who are willing to do that, the market breaks and Amazon/Uber get to do what Wal-Mart did in small towns, break the back of other market participants so they can't break even or continue.
Another way to be a crazy Uber person is to put more depreciation and wear and tear on your car than you can afford to repair (or replace). It's easy to be crazy in these ways. It's externalities which are easy to overlook. These Amazon/Uber business models are designed to leverage that kind of crazy as hard as possible, and kick out everybody who's not willing to lose (one way or another) on the deal. Psychology is useful in getting people to buy into this stuff.
you better be nice and leave a good tip. If you haven't seen the movie, these cabs are programmed to run you down if you leave the cab with a snide remark.
Being at the mercy of someone like Zuckerberg is unacceptable, and I prefer to keep my private live *private*.
I don't need Facebook, period.
One thing certain is there are many groups that use FB to distribute activities, events, local happenings, etc. on FB. Ballroom dancing in Silicon Valley for example makes extensive use of FB. If you are into ballroom dancing, either social or competitive, you gotta be on FB or you will not be in the loop of workshops, lessons from notable instructors, competitions, parties, etc.
There was an article (Wired or ?) where they interviewed Wheeler. One of the topics he talked about was back in the days when TV was almost all OTA, TV stations wanted to maintain control which prevented choices and squelched technical advancement that cable TV can offer. Wheeler continued that now it is the cable companies that want to maintain control, prevent choices, and squelch technical advancement (or something like that from what I remember in the article).
It seems every fifth story on/. and other forums are sites that have been hacked (with 10s of millions of accounts, I think the hackers will be dead of old age by the time they go through each one). I don't even read the details anymore, boy who cried wolf syndrome, or "alarm fatigue" as noted in safety circles (get so many alarms people ignore them including fire alarm that responds to a real fire).
Didn't you get the memo? Mars will always be 20 years away and so far that schedule has been consistent for past 50 years. We no longer talk about the Moon because if we did (it is only 3 days away) then someone has to come up with some serious money to build a transfer vehicle and lander now. Nobody from Musk to NASA wants to do that so they present Mars plans (and let some other smucks 20 years into the future to come up with money for transfer vehicle and lander).
That is a really interesting article, though here is link to entire article at http://www.wired.com/2015/07/s... and I've squandered much of my work time reading this. It seems USSR allocated a lot of people with lots of time to do this detailed field work. Google can do the same as they have tens of $billions$ of extra cash.
Whoever may win will have numerous officials (military, state dept, several other agencies) who will not give the President deference like they traditionally have done. So get ready for some embarrassing moments. Oh also various diplomats from various countries.
Of course I ignore it, I forwarded the article to a friend and up pops a message, "Chrome has detected unusual behavior" (crap, I and friend ain't using Chrome!)
Seems to me all these are all "computer security has expired! click here to update [and pay money]."
However, multiple warnings lead to "alarm fatigue" i.e. part of a situation that caused a B1 in flight test to crash. Lots of warning lights for low/moderate stuff, crew acknowledge the alarms and proceed on. Then comes CG warning but they didn't pay much attention to it, until the aircraft tilts and stalls. from http://www.nasa.gov/connect/eb...
I remember the STAR journal from way back when. Monthly publication about 1 inch thick, listed science, technical, and research papers. A paragraph abstract for each paper, cost and where to order. I haven't seen what has become of it. There are sites like this http://naca.larc.nasa.gov/ and this http://www.sti.nasa.gov/ though I haven't gone through them lately. It can be very tedious finding stuff. I remember few years ago when it was pulled offline ("OMG the Chinese are stealing ALL our secrets!") which was a huge setback (basically defeated all what NASA stands for). When I do search through it, I find a lot of esoteric papers of narrow focus.
I remember ordering a couple things from STAR journal in 1970s, most things were incomprehensible for me. Small paper on "What Everyone Should Know About Solving Differential Equations" and "Space Construction Database." The SCD was a whopping 500 page document (not a book but with really long staples) illustrating different space structures carried out by the Space Shuttle with lists of materials and assembly times. One structure was a huge platform that looks like ISS but a communications platform at 23,000 miles GSO. One platform to hold several "satellites" kind of like a mountain top with a hundred repeaters and TV relay stations.
Third parties are too extreme for most people which they only can win a few city councils and school boards. If situation is like we have now, then they get attention for presidential election. They first need to get congressional seats, however, maybe the political machine is set so ***only*** those accepted by the R or D party can make a reasonable run. i.e. no way can a athlete compete in the Olympics without major sponsorship from a commercial company. So result is any moderate will have to engage with one of the two parties and will have to carry that Party's agenda. The extremists will carry on their agenda (oh wait, we got some of them now in the major parties).
USA political system is too entrenched with the 2-party system like football is the USA sport. Only two teams, only one can win and the other loses. A participant ***must*** be a member of NFL. Everyone else are spectators with little influence on game result, they can cheer or boo but none have any idea what upcoming game plays are (players huddle, coach-to-quarterback comms are encrypted). Teams will use whatever means fair and unfair to win the game, unless umpire or referee calls foul.
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I remember that as well though too big to take to San Francisco in a short time to get the prize money so whats-his-name only brought along the briqits but imagine if someone brought this beast to SF!
orbiting workshop for research on scientific matters
Skylab gave us lots of insight of space station occupancy from dealing with bone/muscle loss, designing crew quarters with vertical references, preparing daily task lists that are not so nitpicky on details.
“Skylab parties”
I remember news clips (yep, I'm that old) of various people entering in bomb shelters. In 1979, Air and Space magazine (or some other well known magazine) had a drawing showing structural ring and large water cylinders descending on a sleepy midwest town (oh the horror of Skylab is falling, Skylab is falling).
$10,000 prize to the first person to deliver a piece of Skylab debris
I remember that, the debris wasn't much, looked like charcoal briquits. I remember after STS-1 launch and missing tiles on the OMS pods, same SF newspaper offered a prize for first person to deliver a missing tile or portion. Columnist wrote, "We blew the bank on the Skylab prize so this award will be only one dollar."
possible to own a piece of Skylab debris today.
This reminds me I do own a piece of Skylab! A poster I bought from NSS as part of their fundraising campaigns is a Skylab poster with a one inch square of the O2 or water tank insulation. It's somewhere along with my stack of papers and posters of all kinds of various stuff (much of what I forgot).
We've yet to even return a human being on the Moon! What is with Mars? Yes it is interesting geological place but why live there? I don't see a huge land rush to settle the Gobi Desert even though it is a thousand times easier to settle there than Mars. Reason of no land rush is because it is a barren inhospitable place because it is obvious there is no good reason to live there. We only romanticize about Mars because it is so far away.
And then there is the phrase, "once you're in orbit, you're halfway to anywhere." Yeah right but I sure don't see much of anything that went beyond GEO, except for a very small number of spacecraft (all guvmint expenditures) compared to LEO/GEO. I think it is ***very difficult*** to get out of earth orbit, I'm no expert with Tsiolkovsky rocket equation or fully studied "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics" by Mueller, Bate, White but I think there are huge challenges such as need high ISP and a lot of fuel to achieve escape velocity. Then need to deal with radiation, consumables, and be able to fix things when they break (no Progress or Soyuz that can quickly respond).
Yes SpaceX has made great strides though in comparison US and Russia have slowed down. Recovering first stages provide interesting option but in the big picture can it all scale up? Apollo was a single mission only, Shuttle was very expensive and very tedious, Russia's equipment has its issues.
oh just usual bitching on the forums for me.
Besides Uber rants, wasn't there a time when ***only*** yellow cabs were allowed for taxis? I remember in 1990s traveling to NYC particularly at airport there were signs that only yellow cabs are allowed taxis, everyone else is forbidden so don't jump into those cabs.
Was it back in 1970s that cabbies were able to make a lot of money? Kind of like waitresses back then when they didn't have to declare tips as taxable income? Though the movie is fiction, watching Taxi Driver few months ago what stood out was the character was making a lot of money spending all his awake time on the road. In reality was it like that back in the days? Few other items that caught my interest was in beginning where Robert DeNiro character interviews for a cab driver job, manager asks for a chauffeur license which he has (I'm wonder that is something just don't simply get at a moments notice but maybe thats too much to explain in the movie). Another was the manager was reluctant to hire DeNiro but when asked about military service, DeNiro replied Marines Corps. Manager, "yeah, I was also in the Marines." (in other words, "You're hired!")
there is also this "cab medallions" worth big bucks. I could never figure this out, it seems everyone has strong opinions but little knowledge (typical of internet posts). It seems it has mythical aspects like what is said back in the days of tax rates at 94% but nobody ever paid that amount because in reality there were loopholes.
According to a friend that has spent enormous amount of time on sound systems, tubes are better. He said virtually everyone has become so accustomed to transistors sound systems, and now a new generation who only hear music on ipods and phones, their ears cannot distinguish various sounds from instruments. He is also a jazz fan, and is very meticulous of what he listens to (also goes into lot more detail than I can explain here). He also said it takes time to get accustomed to tube sound systems, I believe he mentioned the MacIntosh (nothing to do with the computer company) is regarded as a gold standard, stopped making amplifiers in 1970s but there is someone in SF bay area that can service them. After listening to jazz music on tube systems he claims he can hear certain notes that he cannot hear on transistor systems. I'll probably forward this topic to him though he rarely gets on forums and other places like slashdot.
But the first goal is to maximize commission-able revenue.
Give me a sales guy who knows my needs and systems, and can recommend solutions that will make my job easier, I will keep their email and phone # handy. Another real plus is being honest to recommend a product I'm not aware of instead of something I was first seeking but it was more expensive. Oh, and cut the show promoter, game show host, or Amway sales pitch technique.
... every one of them says they don't have quotas, ...
I asked a cousin, deputy sheriff, about quotas, he said there are none. He then said there are days where he gets one call after another, no time to stop and give someone a ticket (unless it is a gross violation) because he has to respond to calls. Then there are slow days with not much happening, supervisor will look at activity logs of long periods of no calls and might question lack of patrol activity. Cousin said it's real easy to rack up lots of tickets (lots of drivers committing violations).
Whenever I see articles about Uber, or when people say how they can make good money doing Uber, reminds me of this mention by Chris Johnson below. But with a self-driving car then no opportunity for people the "join the cult."
It's designed to make maximum use of crazy people and force the others to live up to that standard or be fired.
I'll define 'crazy Uber people' not as 'danger to customers', but 'people who are bringing more value in terms of vehicle, skill and desire to please, than they are getting back in pay and benefits'. So the crazy Uber person is the one who keeps buying a new Lexus or whatever, vacuums their car three times a day and busts their ass to outperform all the other Uber drivers, so they can continue to win out over anybody else seeking to be a driver.
The key factor is that they are giving more than they get back, in the belief that they're cornering some kind of market or buying in to something important.
If you make a business that relies on people like this, you can demolish anybody else because you've worked out how to get voluntary unpaid labor, like the Amazon exec who was said to use her own money to hire subcontractors to do more. As long as there are people who are willing to do that, the market breaks and Amazon/Uber get to do what Wal-Mart did in small towns, break the back of other market participants so they can't break even or continue.
Another way to be a crazy Uber person is to put more depreciation and wear and tear on your car than you can afford to repair (or replace). It's easy to be crazy in these ways. It's externalities which are easy to overlook. These Amazon/Uber business models are designed to leverage that kind of crazy as hard as possible, and kick out everybody who's not willing to lose (one way or another) on the deal. Psychology is useful in getting people to buy into this stuff.
As they say, a cult.
you better be nice and leave a good tip. If you haven't seen the movie, these cabs are programmed to run you down if you leave the cab with a snide remark.
Didn't you get the memo? Only little people pay taxes.
this one seemed to be the best answer, http://www.theverge.com/2016/9...
Being at the mercy of someone like Zuckerberg is unacceptable, and I prefer to keep my private live *private*.
I don't need Facebook, period.
One thing certain is there are many groups that use FB to distribute activities, events, local happenings, etc. on FB. Ballroom dancing in Silicon Valley for example makes extensive use of FB. If you are into ballroom dancing, either social or competitive, you gotta be on FB or you will not be in the loop of workshops, lessons from notable instructors, competitions, parties, etc.
TNG, DS9, others never did much for me. Maybe it's because female crew of TOS had the sexy shirts, go-go boots, big hair, thick mascara.
There was an article (Wired or ?) where they interviewed Wheeler. One of the topics he talked about was back in the days when TV was almost all OTA, TV stations wanted to maintain control which prevented choices and squelched technical advancement that cable TV can offer. Wheeler continued that now it is the cable companies that want to maintain control, prevent choices, and squelch technical advancement (or something like that from what I remember in the article).
If you need food, then just uber over to the grocery store. FFS, why steal it from the bees?
Surely you must be joking. (for those clueless cave dwellers, food comes from farms not supermarkets).
It seems every fifth story on /. and other forums are sites that have been hacked (with 10s of millions of accounts, I think the hackers will be dead of old age by the time they go through each one). I don't even read the details anymore, boy who cried wolf syndrome, or "alarm fatigue" as noted in safety circles (get so many alarms people ignore them including fire alarm that responds to a real fire).
Didn't you get the memo? Mars will always be 20 years away and so far that schedule has been consistent for past 50 years. We no longer talk about the Moon because if we did (it is only 3 days away) then someone has to come up with some serious money to build a transfer vehicle and lander now. Nobody from Musk to NASA wants to do that so they present Mars plans (and let some other smucks 20 years into the future to come up with money for transfer vehicle and lander).
That is a really interesting article, though here is link to entire article at http://www.wired.com/2015/07/s... and I've squandered much of my work time reading this. It seems USSR allocated a lot of people with lots of time to do this detailed field work. Google can do the same as they have tens of $billions$ of extra cash.
just like the bossa nova, disco, macarena.
Whoever may win will have numerous officials (military, state dept, several other agencies) who will not give the President deference like they traditionally have done. So get ready for some embarrassing moments. Oh also various diplomats from various countries.
Of course I ignore it, I forwarded the article to a friend and up pops a message, "Chrome has detected unusual behavior" (crap, I and friend ain't using Chrome!)
Seems to me all these are all "computer security has expired! click here to update [and pay money]."
However, multiple warnings lead to "alarm fatigue" i.e. part of a situation that caused a B1 in flight test to crash. Lots of warning lights for low/moderate stuff, crew acknowledge the alarms and proceed on. Then comes CG warning but they didn't pay much attention to it, until the aircraft tilts and stalls. from http://www.nasa.gov/connect/eb...
I remember the STAR journal from way back when. Monthly publication about 1 inch thick, listed science, technical, and research papers. A paragraph abstract for each paper, cost and where to order. I haven't seen what has become of it. There are sites like this http://naca.larc.nasa.gov/ and this http://www.sti.nasa.gov/ though I haven't gone through them lately. It can be very tedious finding stuff. I remember few years ago when it was pulled offline ("OMG the Chinese are stealing ALL our secrets!") which was a huge setback (basically defeated all what NASA stands for). When I do search through it, I find a lot of esoteric papers of narrow focus.
I remember ordering a couple things from STAR journal in 1970s, most things were incomprehensible for me. Small paper on "What Everyone Should Know About Solving Differential Equations" and "Space Construction Database." The SCD was a whopping 500 page document (not a book but with really long staples) illustrating different space structures carried out by the Space Shuttle with lists of materials and assembly times. One structure was a huge platform that looks like ISS but a communications platform at 23,000 miles GSO. One platform to hold several "satellites" kind of like a mountain top with a hundred repeaters and TV relay stations.
Third parties are too extreme for most people which they only can win a few city councils and school boards. If situation is like we have now, then they get attention for presidential election. They first need to get congressional seats, however, maybe the political machine is set so ***only*** those accepted by the R or D party can make a reasonable run. i.e. no way can a athlete compete in the Olympics without major sponsorship from a commercial company. So result is any moderate will have to engage with one of the two parties and will have to carry that Party's agenda. The extremists will carry on their agenda (oh wait, we got some of them now in the major parties).
USA political system is too entrenched with the 2-party system like football is the USA sport. Only two teams, only one can win and the other loses. A participant ***must*** be a member of NFL. Everyone else are spectators with little influence on game result, they can cheer or boo but none have any idea what upcoming game plays are (players huddle, coach-to-quarterback comms are encrypted). Teams will use whatever means fair and unfair to win the game, unless umpire or referee calls foul.
My political Gripe Of The Month.