It seems many have taken a casual post I did and expanded it way into many other assertions. Geez, lighten' up. But then I guess that's why some people write long dissertations or vague in their posts so they don't get slammed.
Let me add while all you/. complain about govt gathering information and metadata and surveillance, tools like this enable the govt to squash those that challenge The System like MLK Jr. and his staff
The main bad assumption: That one would mine an asteroid for any one resource. Platinum/water etc.
A book (I forgot title, I read it 30 years ago) about settling the west in 1800s mention a silver mine that went bankrupt because after all the work, including buildings, tools, water, etc. for the workers and extensive tunneling they found little silver to make it worthwhile. Then someone else came along (ah, all that infrastructure ready to go) and mined for copper and became stinking rich.
I did not just have to wage war in Afghanistan and Iraq and against al Qaeda; I also had to battle the bureaucratic
An article about commanders fighting each other about plans and egos, it mentioned during WWII Gen. Marshall arrives at his office early in morning. During the day he has to fight the British, fight the Soviets, fight the French, fight the Belguims, fight the Dutch, fight the Aussies, fight the Canadians,. Then late at night when Marshall returns home, his wife reminds him that he needs to fight the Germans.
Reading comments here and there, it seems overall those in power are smart enough to game the system. All kinds of articles and speeches and ideas, etc. etc. but in the end those in power get more power and wealth while us commoners get less. Then you have the high earners realizing they pay for majority of expense to maintain govt (I will use services such as roads, schools, air traffic controllers, food inspectors. Not expenses in other places like Iraq), but yet they find low earners are benefitting from all these free road and school use. They are screaming "socialism" (though nobody in United States can describe what it is). And depressing is the commoners in masses cheer it on while they are getting less.
and the disinterest by government in protecting industries from industrial espionage, then wondering why some foreign company has the same technology for a lot cheaper.
I was thinking with more and more offshoring these other countries don't need spies, we will send the stuff to them.
Folks love to point out at how well Google, Yahoo, etc.. are adding to the economy, but they only have a few thousand employees.
and unlike Kodak, they pay less taxes. And since you have fewer middle class with W2 forms, that's less people to collect income taxes. Then there is less money for infrastructure (roads, schools, etc). But then we've been slammed for decades that taxes are bad. Result is a two tier system, i.e. there's a violent ridden ghetto right between Facebook and Google.
that's what https://archive.org/ is for, I love this site and I've donated money to them, you all should do the same. They may not have everything but I'm able to find sites that used to exist, including some of my own that I inadvertently lost, and recover information.
heh, I heard from someone who served in the sub service that in the early years of nuclear subs, Rickover personally interviewed all prospective sub officers. One candidate he said "go inside the closet and close the door." Hours later, Rickover opens the door, "why in the hell are you still in this closet?" Another candidate Rickover said, "piss me off." So the candidate takes a model ship on Rickover's desk and tosses it out the window. I'm sure Rickover had more insightful questions for potential sub officers but these two stories sound like good ones and just had to post, maybe for some laughs this holiday season.
Interesting listing of people, all have interesting stories.
First impressions when you first see someone can have an effect on how you perceive them. There is titles, i.e. professor at Caltech but many are bankrupt these days, i.e. there's lots of presidents of one man companies that are struggling or account executive (salesman). It seems it all comes down to the person. Some people when you hear the name or see them, you pay attention to what they say or write. And others are regarded as gasbags. It gets difficult at times, someone dressed like a slob but you may want to listen when they talk (you may learn something you cannot find in a book). Others dressed impeccably but are basically dufus. Then it can be the other way around. Or they may appear fantastically brilliant (or idiot) but has time goes on you may learn they are not that smart (or on the verge of innovative breakthrough).
A government project with the main players reading a religious text? No way that would work today.
Exactly. Back then it was no big deal, there may have been a few that bitched but most would not think of it as promoting Christianity but as a general observation of this tiny speck of soil, water, and air in the midst of extremely large volume of black space. And back then the country was not as religious as it is today.
I have a box with about 200 3.5" floppy disks of facility data. And another box with several laser disks from HP data systems (1980s that ran RMB) because those floppies could only store four hours of data. Data is not "scientific" but facility pressure, temperature, stresses, etc. Don't know what to do with all this, I don't think is important like data from Voyager or Pioneer but one never knows. We don't have the equipment anymore to read it. Maybe we can find it used, ebay perhaps? I remember those HP instrument controllers ***never crash***. There may have been times when someone pulls the power cord. Only crashes I experienced was inadvertent divide by zero so the program halts. But. the data is still there including values in the variables i.e. TSPTEMP still has temperature data.
Simply getting something to the moon is extremely difficult, if it is easy there would be all kinds of spacecraft going there (geez, I see zillions of PPT and occasional technology demonstrators). So whoever country builds up a usable infrastructure to utilize lunar resources, they can simply say piss off to everyone else.
Hmmm, this could create problems when have-nots will wage war with the haves. But at times reminds me when Ming Dynasty didn't think much of their massive navies and they were faced more with land based enemies than ocean based. But then couple hundred years later comes ocean going gun boats from Europe and dominate the region.
Interesting discussion particularly "risk "ear burn-out" from so many replays such that you cannot recognize quality anymore." Sometimes at ballroom dance studios bring in a live bands, though many are not the greatest (the really good bands are quite expensive) but they can be fun. I also learn by "hands-on" experience when the beat tends to shift around or speeds up (I remember one band began a slow waltz that evolved into viennese waltz). But then at other ballroom dance events, Autumn Classic or Intl Grand Ball dancesport competitions were they brought in live bands. Ross Mitchell band http://www.rossmitchellband.com/ played at Autumn Classic and this is where you can ***clearly*** hear the phrasing and watching how competitors accentuate their movements to the music. I vividly remember how one couple ended a cha-cha with a solid line right on beat of the last "4 count" of the eight measure. Mostly at studios it is DJ music, some songs the orchestration has variations but yet can still feel how the phrasing is moving so delivering various moves to the music can be done relatively easy. Other songs tend to be monotonous and lack "substance" so it's difficult to dance it with feeling. Of course what helps is when the lady is an excellent dancer so she can present a nice "picture" as long as the man provides consistent lead with a good frame.
Some months ago there was an article discussed here on./ about someone analyzed current music and showed that much of it does indeed sound the same because many musicians use auto-pitch or some other digital means to fix impurities of the voice and instruments.
and it seems they also post comments. Wording begins like it is a real person with a related comment, then it veers off into how he got a hot date on gogetbids dot com or some other BS.
Not cell phones, but there have definitely been phones available. Some planes even had handsets embedded in the back of the headrests.
I thought they got rid of those years ago after 9-11. I remember prior and these phones were useful, there have been a few times when I had to make short but important calls.
I have always left my phone on in flights. It doesn't get a signal at altitude, and definitely not over the middle of the ocean. It's really only when you are near takeoff or landing.
This is what confuses me. We know many people were making cell calls from the doomed planes of 9-11 but also I've read about skydivers trying to make cellphone calls while under canopy. The idea was while after free fall portion and deploying the main, hey make a call to say how that 8-way was outstanding. They said the phone would never connect when they were up in the air (trying to connect to more than one tower so the system gets confused?). But as soon as they are on the ground, the phone connects.
I haven't been able try some of this myself, I really like to get hands-on experience in connectivity. Following rules and regulations is another matter. But then don't most people text nowadays?
Discus is bad for site owners, it gives an external entity control over their sites comments and therefore content.
I see more webpages outsourcing to Discus, probably because managing comments on webpages is a huge timepit and that is just moderating posts. There is also all the "mechanics" of keeping the lists going. But outsourcing leads to other issues (one of many we all argue about on/.), one is loss of capability and control (i.e. counterfeit chips or backdoors in manufactured systems from China).
bought it used some years ago for $30 from WeirdStuff, still has the price tag. I loaded Win98 from a CD of my previous PC when it died (purchased in the days when they provided OS on a CD). Still use it here and there, i.e. running programming software for older 2-way radios. But also have newer PC (win7 laptop). I know many people dumped their Win7 PCs and ran out and bought Win8, I don't understand why as their Win7 was perfectly fine. Now all they do is bitch about Win8 on mailing lists.
You mean to say licensed. Regarding terms, "license" means a government grant for one to perform work. "Certified" means have passed qualifications usually by a non-profit non-legislative body. i.e. doctors need a license to practice, certificate from Microsoft shows you are knowledgable about a specific software (ok there are many pros and cons on this one). Regarding "Engineer" you need to be licensed to practice engineering. In fact you can't call yourself an engineer unless you are licensed. But then, i.e. Silicon Valley, who cares as there's lots of engineers that do engineering. Except for civil engineering, they are very critical and demanding on being licensed.
One thing about being licensed if you screw up, people can contact Dept of Consumer Affairs and make a fuss. They also can find out where you are so before you pound that PE stamp on those drawings, you are probably going to be sure it is all been performed above minimum competency.
But it all comes down to what can you do? Are you competent? Do you know your stuff? Can you address problems to management or the customer so it doesn't end up as surprise disaster? Or are you simply stuck in a Dilbert situation which sounds like many of the programmers were in this healthcare.gov website.
Solyndra went bankrupt in 2011 and 'coincidentally' prices plummeted at the same time.
A discussion I heard from someone that lives in east SF bay area said the *big* unwritten story of Solyndra is they were driven out of business when China flooded the market with cheap solar panels. Solyndra's panels work on cloudy days but were expensive. They received federal funding to help with their business, China was concerned so with heavily subsidized panels they were able to flood the market because it was very good deal for buyers. However those cheap Chinese panels don't work on cloudy days, made of poor construction. Solyndra couldn't compete in such a market so they went bankrupt. I heard Solyndra still has the IP and could restart when all these people that bought the cheap panels then realize these were really not cheap (there's installation costs, loss of use on cloudy days especially for those in Seattle area). Another item this person mentioned is most of the jobs created by Solyndra are those bolting panels to rooftops as much of the manufacturing is done by robots.
...will be really bad? Other day southbound 280 in Cupertino area had couple accidents so I took Homestead and it was worse. I imagine Stevens Creek was terrible as well. I heard Apple has 10,000 employees scattered about in numerous buildings throughout Cupertino but here they will be gathered in one location. Agg, traffic in that area may be so bad cars will not work, faster to walk.
But then I remember back in 20th century when HP was ran by Bill and Dave, and those buildings slated for the chute had the best engineers ever working in them. Test equipment that was premium, much of that stuff from back then still sells high value even when it is all beat up with 20 year old cal stickers.
thanks for discussing hook turns, hazards involved, and accidents like this are avoidable (don't do hook turns). I've read many incident reports in Parachutist magazine and on rec.skydiving of highly experienced jumpers misjudging hookturn approaches.
San Jose, CA had its 95th Veterans Day Parade but there have been discussion this may be the last (dwindling sponsorships and fewer people involved with military). There are fewer military veterans. There was a time (WWII) when everyone was in the military or they had close family member in the military. Then later (Vietnam war) they still need a lot of military because back then in addition to combat troops, lots of privates and sailors needed to work the mess hall, clean toilets, repair equipment, and stand guard. Nowadays many of those positions are done by contractors. And now they will replace combat troops with robots? Obviously no (but maybe yes?).
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you are a racist. how else do you take this:
It seems many have taken a casual post I did and expanded it way into many other assertions. Geez, lighten' up. But then I guess that's why some people write long dissertations or vague in their posts so they don't get slammed.
Let me add while all you /. complain about govt gathering information and metadata and surveillance, tools like this enable the govt to squash those that challenge The System like MLK Jr. and his staff
that was back in 20th century when the US had a Constitution and three branches of govt for checks and balances.
The main bad assumption: That one would mine an asteroid for any one resource. Platinum/water etc.
A book (I forgot title, I read it 30 years ago) about settling the west in 1800s mention a silver mine that went bankrupt because after all the work, including buildings, tools, water, etc. for the workers and extensive tunneling they found little silver to make it worthwhile. Then someone else came along (ah, all that infrastructure ready to go) and mined for copper and became stinking rich.
I did not just have to wage war in Afghanistan and Iraq and against al Qaeda; I also had to battle the bureaucratic
An article about commanders fighting each other about plans and egos, it mentioned during WWII Gen. Marshall arrives at his office early in morning. During the day he has to fight the British, fight the Soviets, fight the French, fight the Belguims, fight the Dutch, fight the Aussies, fight the Canadians,. Then late at night when Marshall returns home, his wife reminds him that he needs to fight the Germans.
Reading comments here and there, it seems overall those in power are smart enough to game the system. All kinds of articles and speeches and ideas, etc. etc. but in the end those in power get more power and wealth while us commoners get less. Then you have the high earners realizing they pay for majority of expense to maintain govt (I will use services such as roads, schools, air traffic controllers, food inspectors. Not expenses in other places like Iraq), but yet they find low earners are benefitting from all these free road and school use. They are screaming "socialism" (though nobody in United States can describe what it is). And depressing is the commoners in masses cheer it on while they are getting less.
and the disinterest by government in protecting industries from industrial espionage, then wondering why some foreign company has the same technology for a lot cheaper.
I was thinking with more and more offshoring these other countries don't need spies, we will send the stuff to them.
Folks love to point out at how well Google, Yahoo, etc.. are adding to the economy, but they only have a few thousand employees.
and unlike Kodak, they pay less taxes. And since you have fewer middle class with W2 forms, that's less people to collect income taxes. Then there is less money for infrastructure (roads, schools, etc). But then we've been slammed for decades that taxes are bad. Result is a two tier system, i.e. there's a violent ridden ghetto right between Facebook and Google.
that's what https://archive.org/ is for, I love this site and I've donated money to them, you all should do the same. They may not have everything but I'm able to find sites that used to exist, including some of my own that I inadvertently lost, and recover information.
+ Admiral Hyman Rickover, Chief of Naval Reactors
daring and told all the fools around them to f
heh, I heard from someone who served in the sub service that in the early years of nuclear subs, Rickover personally interviewed all prospective sub officers. One candidate he said "go inside the closet and close the door." Hours later, Rickover opens the door, "why in the hell are you still in this closet?" Another candidate Rickover said, "piss me off." So the candidate takes a model ship on Rickover's desk and tosses it out the window. I'm sure Rickover had more insightful questions for potential sub officers but these two stories sound like good ones and just had to post, maybe for some laughs this holiday season.
Interesting listing of people, all have interesting stories.
First impressions when you first see someone can have an effect on how you perceive them. There is titles, i.e. professor at Caltech but many are bankrupt these days, i.e. there's lots of presidents of one man companies that are struggling or account executive (salesman). It seems it all comes down to the person. Some people when you hear the name or see them, you pay attention to what they say or write. And others are regarded as gasbags. It gets difficult at times, someone dressed like a slob but you may want to listen when they talk (you may learn something you cannot find in a book). Others dressed impeccably but are basically dufus. Then it can be the other way around. Or they may appear fantastically brilliant (or idiot) but has time goes on you may learn they are not that smart (or on the verge of innovative breakthrough).
A government project with the main players reading a religious text? No way that would work today.
Exactly. Back then it was no big deal, there may have been a few that bitched but most would not think of it as promoting Christianity but as a general observation of this tiny speck of soil, water, and air in the midst of extremely large volume of black space. And back then the country was not as religious as it is today.
I have a box with about 200 3.5" floppy disks of facility data. And another box with several laser disks from HP data systems (1980s that ran RMB) because those floppies could only store four hours of data. Data is not "scientific" but facility pressure, temperature, stresses, etc. Don't know what to do with all this, I don't think is important like data from Voyager or Pioneer but one never knows. We don't have the equipment anymore to read it. Maybe we can find it used, ebay perhaps? I remember those HP instrument controllers ***never crash***. There may have been times when someone pulls the power cord. Only crashes I experienced was inadvertent divide by zero so the program halts. But. the data is still there including values in the variables i.e. TSPTEMP still has temperature data.
Simply getting something to the moon is extremely difficult, if it is easy there would be all kinds of spacecraft going there (geez, I see zillions of PPT and occasional technology demonstrators). So whoever country builds up a usable infrastructure to utilize lunar resources, they can simply say piss off to everyone else.
Hmmm, this could create problems when have-nots will wage war with the haves. But at times reminds me when Ming Dynasty didn't think much of their massive navies and they were faced more with land based enemies than ocean based. But then couple hundred years later comes ocean going gun boats from Europe and dominate the region.
uhmmm, a million dollars is not that much money, maybe ask for a little more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTmXHvGZiSY
Interesting discussion particularly "risk "ear burn-out" from so many replays such that you cannot recognize quality anymore." Sometimes at ballroom dance studios bring in a live bands, though many are not the greatest (the really good bands are quite expensive) but they can be fun. I also learn by "hands-on" experience when the beat tends to shift around or speeds up (I remember one band began a slow waltz that evolved into viennese waltz). But then at other ballroom dance events, Autumn Classic or Intl Grand Ball dancesport competitions were they brought in live bands. Ross Mitchell band http://www.rossmitchellband.com/ played at Autumn Classic and this is where you can ***clearly*** hear the phrasing and watching how competitors accentuate their movements to the music. I vividly remember how one couple ended a cha-cha with a solid line right on beat of the last "4 count" of the eight measure. Mostly at studios it is DJ music, some songs the orchestration has variations but yet can still feel how the phrasing is moving so delivering various moves to the music can be done relatively easy. Other songs tend to be monotonous and lack "substance" so it's difficult to dance it with feeling. Of course what helps is when the lady is an excellent dancer so she can present a nice "picture" as long as the man provides consistent lead with a good frame.
Some months ago there was an article discussed here on ./ about someone analyzed current music and showed that much of it does indeed sound the same because many musicians use auto-pitch or some other digital means to fix impurities of the voice and instruments.
and it seems they also post comments. Wording begins like it is a real person with a related comment, then it veers off into how he got a hot date on gogetbids dot com or some other BS.
Not cell phones, but there have definitely been phones available. Some planes even had handsets embedded in the back of the headrests.
I thought they got rid of those years ago after 9-11. I remember prior and these phones were useful, there have been a few times when I had to make short but important calls.
I have always left my phone on in flights. It doesn't get a signal at altitude, and definitely not over the middle of the ocean. It's really only when you are near takeoff or landing.
This is what confuses me. We know many people were making cell calls from the doomed planes of 9-11 but also I've read about skydivers trying to make cellphone calls while under canopy. The idea was while after free fall portion and deploying the main, hey make a call to say how that 8-way was outstanding. They said the phone would never connect when they were up in the air (trying to connect to more than one tower so the system gets confused?). But as soon as they are on the ground, the phone connects.
I haven't been able try some of this myself, I really like to get hands-on experience in connectivity. Following rules and regulations is another matter. But then don't most people text nowadays?
Discus is bad for site owners, it gives an external entity control over their sites comments and therefore content.
I see more webpages outsourcing to Discus, probably because managing comments on webpages is a huge timepit and that is just moderating posts. There is also all the "mechanics" of keeping the lists going. But outsourcing leads to other issues (one of many we all argue about on /.), one is loss of capability and control (i.e. counterfeit chips or backdoors in manufactured systems from China).
" but I saw all the good bands." so says the bumper sticker. Not sure how it fits in this discussion but I just had to post it.
bought it used some years ago for $30 from WeirdStuff, still has the price tag. I loaded Win98 from a CD of my previous PC when it died (purchased in the days when they provided OS on a CD). Still use it here and there, i.e. running programming software for older 2-way radios. But also have newer PC (win7 laptop). I know many people dumped their Win7 PCs and ran out and bought Win8, I don't understand why as their Win7 was perfectly fine. Now all they do is bitch about Win8 on mailing lists.
Are you certified as an engineer?
You mean to say licensed. Regarding terms, "license" means a government grant for one to perform work. "Certified" means have passed qualifications usually by a non-profit non-legislative body. i.e. doctors need a license to practice, certificate from Microsoft shows you are knowledgable about a specific software (ok there are many pros and cons on this one). Regarding "Engineer" you need to be licensed to practice engineering. In fact you can't call yourself an engineer unless you are licensed. But then, i.e. Silicon Valley, who cares as there's lots of engineers that do engineering. Except for civil engineering, they are very critical and demanding on being licensed.
One thing about being licensed if you screw up, people can contact Dept of Consumer Affairs and make a fuss. They also can find out where you are so before you pound that PE stamp on those drawings, you are probably going to be sure it is all been performed above minimum competency.
But it all comes down to what can you do? Are you competent? Do you know your stuff? Can you address problems to management or the customer so it doesn't end up as surprise disaster? Or are you simply stuck in a Dilbert situation which sounds like many of the programmers were in this healthcare.gov website.
Solyndra went bankrupt in 2011 and 'coincidentally' prices plummeted at the same time.
A discussion I heard from someone that lives in east SF bay area said the *big* unwritten story of Solyndra is they were driven out of business when China flooded the market with cheap solar panels. Solyndra's panels work on cloudy days but were expensive. They received federal funding to help with their business, China was concerned so with heavily subsidized panels they were able to flood the market because it was very good deal for buyers. However those cheap Chinese panels don't work on cloudy days, made of poor construction. Solyndra couldn't compete in such a market so they went bankrupt. I heard Solyndra still has the IP and could restart when all these people that bought the cheap panels then realize these were really not cheap (there's installation costs, loss of use on cloudy days especially for those in Seattle area). Another item this person mentioned is most of the jobs created by Solyndra are those bolting panels to rooftops as much of the manufacturing is done by robots.
...will be really bad? Other day southbound 280 in Cupertino area had couple accidents so I took Homestead and it was worse. I imagine Stevens Creek was terrible as well. I heard Apple has 10,000 employees scattered about in numerous buildings throughout Cupertino but here they will be gathered in one location. Agg, traffic in that area may be so bad cars will not work, faster to walk.
But then I remember back in 20th century when HP was ran by Bill and Dave, and those buildings slated for the chute had the best engineers ever working in them. Test equipment that was premium, much of that stuff from back then still sells high value even when it is all beat up with 20 year old cal stickers.
thanks for discussing hook turns, hazards involved, and accidents like this are avoidable (don't do hook turns). I've read many incident reports in Parachutist magazine and on rec.skydiving of highly experienced jumpers misjudging hookturn approaches.
San Jose, CA had its 95th Veterans Day Parade but there have been discussion this may be the last (dwindling sponsorships and fewer people involved with military). There are fewer military veterans. There was a time (WWII) when everyone was in the military or they had close family member in the military. Then later (Vietnam war) they still need a lot of military because back then in addition to combat troops, lots of privates and sailors needed to work the mess hall, clean toilets, repair equipment, and stand guard. Nowadays many of those positions are done by contractors. And now they will replace combat troops with robots? Obviously no (but maybe yes?).