ok, been awhile since I've seen the film. I recognize him in several films usually uncredited, time to check imbd. I wonder if he was also one of the robots in Silent Running.
It seems to me his most iconic role was the gang leader in Time Bandits. My favorite part of him describing the "map."
Kenny, "He had only six days to make the world so there are a few holes. With this map [showing the space-time holes] why not use it to make ourselves stinking rich!"
Reminds me and other old timers the Doral cigarette TV commercials, and did the standup comedians have a field day with that one (though at the time I was quite young and didn't get it until later years).
Just about every site that has a VLC video link or a VLC video file or program has been excruciatingly difficult to use, at least for me. Either nothing happens or have to download all kinds of extensions I don't recognize, etc. It seems one has to be a Linux/Scripting/Network guru to make it work. I pretty much don't even bother to view anything that is VLC, I consider it not available and look to alternate means.
With so much surveillance technology being deployed I wonder if any has ever been used to spot taggers in progress. I see lots of cameras being deployed everywhere, there is also lots of youtube footage of all kinds of crazy stuff but none (at least I haven't found any) of graffiti taggers in progress. I see bridges and signs with extremely difficult access all marked up, I'm amazed they manage to reach these places and return safely instead of going splat in the middle lanes of a freeway.
For events like these, I drag out ye olde Motorola from the Reagan administration and leave the iPhone at home.
maybe one from the Truman administration and on lowband just to be sure. Nobody under 50 is aware of wireless below 50 MHz, http://www.wb6nvh.com/Moto42/F...
Give me great shows and programming, I'll figure out how to deal with the TV set (basically like every other gadget I will use only 10% of its features). Current TV is a 10 year old SD set (but it's a flat screen), I haven't seen a need to get a huge whiz bang 80inch set.
How about we could expect that if we turn 99 we would be able to hear and see as a 40 year old?
Reminds me of article about average age extending another 20 years, someone commented, "rather than 20 more years as a 80-something, I'd like 20 more years as a 20-something."
TLDR but I say first demonstrate to land a man on the Moon and bring him back safely before thinking of sending people to Mars. Moon is only three days away where Mars will always be 20 years away (they've been saying we'll put someone on Mars for past 50 years). Though having people on the Moon was done nearly 50 years ago, need to demonstrate it can be done again. i.e. do it occasionally it is a stunt. Do it routinely it is a business.
It's an expression like "film at 11" even though news stations haven't done film in decades. However, $5B in actual cash is a huge volume, a lot more than a mattress. I'm thinking the book by Bernie Rhodes "DB Cooper, the Real McCoy" talking about Richard McCoy who hijacked, jumped with $500K from a 727 but was caught few days later. His M.O. was very similar to the previous hijack by "Dan Cooper." When Richard arrived home he found it quite difficult to hide $500K, not much time to dig a deep hole or find someplace in the house to make it hard to find that large about of cash.
Speaking of mattresses, on subject of banks getting hacked, someone posted, "I bank with Sealy Posturepedic."
I'm surprised the flight controller didn't call for an abort.
Another mention in the book was a portion of descent called "dead man's zone." If a landing abort is commanded (the computer will first need to switch to Abort mode), LM first needs to shutdown descent engine, separate ascent stage from descent stage (there's a lot of stuff that happens on that one), and then fire the ascent engine. All this takes time and if too close to surface.... there comes a point too low for an abort.
Followup on the book "Apollo: Race to the Moon" that describes mission control consists of three major portions. MOCR that makes realtime decisions, Mission Evaluation Room (MER) that makes neartime decisions, and Spacecraft Analysis (SPAN) that interfaces MOCR and MER. The "captain" of MOCR is Flight Director, i.e. one of the shifts during Apollo is Gene Kranz as portrayed by Ed Harris in "Apollo 13." When there are systems that don't quite look right, they call MER that is a room with several tables with about 100 engineers, specialized in various systems. Neartime because they will get back to you later in the day or the next day on what problem and solution may be. Across these tables are blueprints, detailed documentations, and telephones for these guys to call various companies for even more details. Along the walls are monitors of data displays like in MOCR, from the picture I've need this room looks chaotic and noisy. The notable "captain" of MER is Don "Mad Don" Arabian. He got this name because many see him as mad, wild, cut-to-the-chase, slash-and-burn style of management. In the Murray and Cox book Don has said what he thinks of MOCR, "We don't need any fancy damn consoles or anything." Astronauts, "Not all of them are that smart." NASA HQ, "Hubcaps, useless ornamentation."
All you old timers remember the "we got a 1201 alarm" (or something like that) the LM computer indicating to Neal and Buzz it is taking in data too fast to handle. I was always puzzled by that story as what action can an astronaut do for something like that (unlike low fuel, high temperature, off course, loss of Bus A voltage, etc.), the book "Apollo: Race to the Moon" by Charles Murray and Catherine Cox gave a detailed explanation of that. Disclaimer: I'm extracting what I read 20 years ago so some details a little off.
Authors of this book interviewed many key and other notable people of the Apollo program but not much of any astronauts. That 1201 and similar alarms were intended for computer programmers for debugging (the digital display will flash certain numbers to indicate software problems). The LM software obviously thoroughly tested before flight but this situation occurred the Flight Dynamics Officer "FIDO" in MOCR heard this call on the loop. He then talked with one of his backroom guys (each one of those controllers in that "Mission Control" room, formally Mission Operations Control Room, has a group of guys with more monitors and indicators he can talk realtime intercom with). FIDO asked one of them should he call for an abort? One of the backroom guys said its ok as long as that particular alarm code doesn't occur again if a 1205 alarm is flagged. So FIDO says to Flight Director, "Flight, we're go as long as we don't see that code again [or 1205]." Flight says to Capcom they are go, which Capcom radios "you're go for landing."
So a 23 year old in the backroom says to a 27 year old in the main control room they are go for landing, who relayed it to Kranz and rest is history. If they said otherwise, then Pete Conrad would have been the first man on the moon.
I thought it was the Republican party that ended slavery and ended segregation in the schools of the south and state democrats were the ones that opposed it.
The R and D parties were different back then. Also the country is different now from what it was (which is why we cannot put a man on the moon like we did nearly 50 years ago).
This particular project doesn't connect to the Internet, but it is an example of what can be done with volunteers and without any revenue.
There are other hams that have created broadband mesh networks using Ubiquiti equipment (can use high power, some slivers of the 2.4GHz for just amateur radio, and cannot encrypt), some groups have a port to connect to internet. But that port is tightly controlled as don't want to be "surfing the web" visiting sites with data (smut and business) not allowed on amateur radio. I like to get in on this action, I've seen some of these places where hams set up a county wide network including VOIP phones. And the phones have landline voice quality! They mostly do this for fun and demonstrate to local govts this can also be used for emergency communications. And some of these officials allowed the hams to put some nodes on water tanks overlooking large areas.
However, the skills built up spending personal time doing this stuff can then use these skills to build an "internet service." Something like a place where you can connect direct to the internet without having to go through AT&T or Comcast, then shoot 5.8GHz or 2.4GHz to customers. Yes, it is clunky for those living in condos or apartments. I guess dialup to the rescue (don't laugh, many wifi sites are slower).
I wouldn't be concerned, and I haven't RTFA. This is usual every few years Russian guvmint makes an announcement of some grand new space vehicle, give it a few more years and it will be forgotten like Pet Rocks.
Not really, Dale Myers explains in this 2005 MIT Open Course Ware video in 1971 he was faced that last Skylab flight for 1973 could have been the last manned spaceflight for the US. At that time Apollo Soyuz was not scheduled. Myers and other high level NASA officials were aware of inherent limitations of the Shuttle. The STS program could have easily not occur if 1972 was not an election year and Nixon had to get delegates from California and Florida (even though McGovern was trailing way behind). Listen to Dale Myers explain, he was there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is one of 15 videos on systems engineering were MIT brought in several key people of the STS program. Including Kraft (I think) describing Frosch's meeting with Carter, "How much you need? Frosch, "$600 million." Carter, "I will get it." I was pleasantly surprised to see this story get more exposure. Though a partner like Mondale didn't help Shuttle but yet this is worth noting.
Many other fascinating aspects in this video series (gets me thinking ISS must have a whole host of stories of the good, the bad, and the marginal). Aaron Cohen describes how his friends showed the 747 can ferry the orbiter when they built a RC model. Cohen said this made so many things in design much easier (no need for jet engines on orbiter, 747 can carry orbiter from many places including those if orbiter had to make emergency landings). Other aspects like orbiter goes through 15 different flight regimes during entry (no way a human can manually pilot it from Mach 25 to subsonic), also several tons of lead were placed in aft of orbiter for CG control. Yep, several tons of "useless mass" was brought up and down on 135 flights.
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ok, been awhile since I've seen the film. I recognize him in several films usually uncredited, time to check imbd. I wonder if he was also one of the robots in Silent Running.
It seems to me his most iconic role was the gang leader in Time Bandits. My favorite part of him describing the "map."
Kenny, "He had only six days to make the world so there are a few holes. With this map [showing the space-time holes] why not use it to make ourselves stinking rich!"
Does this mean his plans to become stinking rich with the map just didn't work out?
... with next slashdot story on "A Bit of Cash Can Keep Someone Off the Streets For 2 Years or More."
Reminds me and other old timers the Doral cigarette TV commercials, and did the standup comedians have a field day with that one (though at the time I was quite young and didn't get it until later years).
Just about every site that has a VLC video link or a VLC video file or program has been excruciatingly difficult to use, at least for me. Either nothing happens or have to download all kinds of extensions I don't recognize, etc. It seems one has to be a Linux/Scripting/Network guru to make it work. I pretty much don't even bother to view anything that is VLC, I consider it not available and look to alternate means.
no news for me. too much fatigue of ISPs claiming they have fastest internet like furniture and carpet stores saying they have a big sale.
With so much surveillance technology being deployed I wonder if any has ever been used to spot taggers in progress. I see lots of cameras being deployed everywhere, there is also lots of youtube footage of all kinds of crazy stuff but none (at least I haven't found any) of graffiti taggers in progress. I see bridges and signs with extremely difficult access all marked up, I'm amazed they manage to reach these places and return safely instead of going splat in the middle lanes of a freeway.
For events like these, I drag out ye olde Motorola from the Reagan administration and leave the iPhone at home.
maybe one from the Truman administration and on lowband just to be sure. Nobody under 50 is aware of wireless below 50 MHz, http://www.wb6nvh.com/Moto42/F...
in 3, 2, 1...
not that anyone will notice as we are all "alarm fatigued" of hacked databases.
In college, I remember a survey that claimed college men were having sex three times as often as college women.
same survey with last year's data that 78,965 people got married?
Give me great shows and programming, I'll figure out how to deal with the TV set (basically like every other gadget I will use only 10% of its features). Current TV is a 10 year old SD set (but it's a flat screen), I haven't seen a need to get a huge whiz bang 80inch set.
How about we could expect that if we turn 99 we would be able to hear and see as a 40 year old?
Reminds me of article about average age extending another 20 years, someone commented, "rather than 20 more years as a 80-something, I'd like 20 more years as a 20-something."
TLDR but I say first demonstrate to land a man on the Moon and bring him back safely before thinking of sending people to Mars. Moon is only three days away where Mars will always be 20 years away (they've been saying we'll put someone on Mars for past 50 years). Though having people on the Moon was done nearly 50 years ago, need to demonstrate it can be done again. i.e. do it occasionally it is a stunt. Do it routinely it is a business.
It's an expression like "film at 11" even though news stations haven't done film in decades. However, $5B in actual cash is a huge volume, a lot more than a mattress. I'm thinking the book by Bernie Rhodes "DB Cooper, the Real McCoy" talking about Richard McCoy who hijacked, jumped with $500K from a 727 but was caught few days later. His M.O. was very similar to the previous hijack by "Dan Cooper." When Richard arrived home he found it quite difficult to hide $500K, not much time to dig a deep hole or find someplace in the house to make it hard to find that large about of cash.
Speaking of mattresses, on subject of banks getting hacked, someone posted, "I bank with Sealy Posturepedic."
typical. blame the poor people for being poor and cause of all the problems.
I'm surprised the flight controller didn't call for an abort.
Another mention in the book was a portion of descent called "dead man's zone." If a landing abort is commanded (the computer will first need to switch to Abort mode), LM first needs to shutdown descent engine, separate ascent stage from descent stage (there's a lot of stuff that happens on that one), and then fire the ascent engine. All this takes time and if too close to surface.... there comes a point too low for an abort.
Followup on the book "Apollo: Race to the Moon" that describes mission control consists of three major portions. MOCR that makes realtime decisions, Mission Evaluation Room (MER) that makes neartime decisions, and Spacecraft Analysis (SPAN) that interfaces MOCR and MER. The "captain" of MOCR is Flight Director, i.e. one of the shifts during Apollo is Gene Kranz as portrayed by Ed Harris in "Apollo 13." When there are systems that don't quite look right, they call MER that is a room with several tables with about 100 engineers, specialized in various systems. Neartime because they will get back to you later in the day or the next day on what problem and solution may be. Across these tables are blueprints, detailed documentations, and telephones for these guys to call various companies for even more details. Along the walls are monitors of data displays like in MOCR, from the picture I've need this room looks chaotic and noisy. The notable "captain" of MER is Don "Mad Don" Arabian. He got this name because many see him as mad, wild, cut-to-the-chase, slash-and-burn style of management. In the Murray and Cox book Don has said what he thinks of MOCR, "We don't need any fancy damn consoles or anything." Astronauts, "Not all of them are that smart." NASA HQ, "Hubcaps, useless ornamentation."
but that baby sat on a monster with engines of 160,000,000 horsepower
All you old timers remember the "we got a 1201 alarm" (or something like that) the LM computer indicating to Neal and Buzz it is taking in data too fast to handle. I was always puzzled by that story as what action can an astronaut do for something like that (unlike low fuel, high temperature, off course, loss of Bus A voltage, etc.), the book "Apollo: Race to the Moon" by Charles Murray and Catherine Cox gave a detailed explanation of that. Disclaimer: I'm extracting what I read 20 years ago so some details a little off.
Authors of this book interviewed many key and other notable people of the Apollo program but not much of any astronauts. That 1201 and similar alarms were intended for computer programmers for debugging (the digital display will flash certain numbers to indicate software problems). The LM software obviously thoroughly tested before flight but this situation occurred the Flight Dynamics Officer "FIDO" in MOCR heard this call on the loop. He then talked with one of his backroom guys (each one of those controllers in that "Mission Control" room, formally Mission Operations Control Room, has a group of guys with more monitors and indicators he can talk realtime intercom with). FIDO asked one of them should he call for an abort? One of the backroom guys said its ok as long as that particular alarm code doesn't occur again if a 1205 alarm is flagged. So FIDO says to Flight Director, "Flight, we're go as long as we don't see that code again [or 1205]." Flight says to Capcom they are go, which Capcom radios "you're go for landing."
So a 23 year old in the backroom says to a 27 year old in the main control room they are go for landing, who relayed it to Kranz and rest is history. If they said otherwise, then Pete Conrad would have been the first man on the moon.
I thought it was the Republican party that ended slavery and ended segregation in the schools of the south and state democrats were the ones that opposed it.
The R and D parties were different back then. Also the country is different now from what it was (which is why we cannot put a man on the moon like we did nearly 50 years ago).
This particular project doesn't connect to the Internet, but it is an example of what can be done with volunteers and without any revenue.
There are other hams that have created broadband mesh networks using Ubiquiti equipment (can use high power, some slivers of the 2.4GHz for just amateur radio, and cannot encrypt), some groups have a port to connect to internet. But that port is tightly controlled as don't want to be "surfing the web" visiting sites with data (smut and business) not allowed on amateur radio. I like to get in on this action, I've seen some of these places where hams set up a county wide network including VOIP phones. And the phones have landline voice quality! They mostly do this for fun and demonstrate to local govts this can also be used for emergency communications. And some of these officials allowed the hams to put some nodes on water tanks overlooking large areas.
However, the skills built up spending personal time doing this stuff can then use these skills to build an "internet service." Something like a place where you can connect direct to the internet without having to go through AT&T or Comcast, then shoot 5.8GHz or 2.4GHz to customers. Yes, it is clunky for those living in condos or apartments. I guess dialup to the rescue (don't laugh, many wifi sites are slower).
Instead of "Made in [mainland] China" I like to see "All made in Taiwan!"
I wouldn't be concerned, and I haven't RTFA. This is usual every few years Russian guvmint makes an announcement of some grand new space vehicle, give it a few more years and it will be forgotten like Pet Rocks.
Not really, Dale Myers explains in this 2005 MIT Open Course Ware video in 1971 he was faced that last Skylab flight for 1973 could have been the last manned spaceflight for the US. At that time Apollo Soyuz was not scheduled. Myers and other high level NASA officials were aware of inherent limitations of the Shuttle. The STS program could have easily not occur if 1972 was not an election year and Nixon had to get delegates from California and Florida (even though McGovern was trailing way behind). Listen to Dale Myers explain, he was there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is one of 15 videos on systems engineering were MIT brought in several key people of the STS program. Including Kraft (I think) describing Frosch's meeting with Carter, "How much you need? Frosch, "$600 million." Carter, "I will get it." I was pleasantly surprised to see this story get more exposure. Though a partner like Mondale didn't help Shuttle but yet this is worth noting.
Many other fascinating aspects in this video series (gets me thinking ISS must have a whole host of stories of the good, the bad, and the marginal). Aaron Cohen describes how his friends showed the 747 can ferry the orbiter when they built a RC model. Cohen said this made so many things in design much easier (no need for jet engines on orbiter, 747 can carry orbiter from many places including those if orbiter had to make emergency landings). Other aspects like orbiter goes through 15 different flight regimes during entry (no way a human can manually pilot it from Mach 25 to subsonic), also several tons of lead were placed in aft of orbiter for CG control. Yep, several tons of "useless mass" was brought up and down on 135 flights.