Alarm fatigue is what it's called. When there is simply one alert after another and becomes routine, then it really is not an alert after all (or at least how your brain will be conditioned).
Blow it up and do it right! If you can't get it right in 15 years, you likely won't get it right in a thousand
I don't know much about java or script or javascript but I like what you said. For past 15 years there has been various scripting stuff comes and goes. Some browsers will work, then they won't then later the same browser can display a webpage. Standards are vague ( and we all know what standards are, ability to choose from several).
Interesting question about they can afford such a plane. I could not help but noticed the aircraft, "Queen of Sheba" that reminded me of this movie, Solomon and Sheba, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053290/?ref_=sr_1
funny like this one, "If Boeing is made by fat uneducated Americans, Airbus is built by chain-smoking French surrender monkeys, royal-loving British soccer hooligans with bad haircuts, and Germans who are so boring I can't even think of anything to say to denigrate their culture with."
I prefer a mission to Europa that includes a submarine to go into the water below the ice to take pics of the little fishies (if any). Yes, Europa is ****far more difficult**** than Mars. But a Mars sample would be cool, will provide excellent comparison to Martian meteoroids from Antartica. Now if we can also send somebody beyond LEO, then we can say (in the words of one of controllers at Houston MOCR after Apollo 8 TLI), "Finally we get to go someplace!"
Exactly. Some years ago a PBS documentary about airplane crashes where FO (co-pilot) sensed something is out of place but too intimidated to challenge the Captain. Decades ago, CRM was very dependent on the Captain's ego. Some like to take the co-pilot under their tutelage and train them to eventually be pilot-in-command. Others said, "get out of my way, do something useful, go make some coffee." Though when we get to jets, CRM was not that extreme but it was still subtle. Couple examples was a plane that ran out of gas (I think it was early 90s) because they had an inflight emergency and captain was busy gathering info and making decisions. Co-pilot observes fuel getting lower and lower but hesitated to interrupt the captain. Pilot-In-Command should provide "opening" to accept conflicting information. Another example this documentary had was a captain saying one incident where flight plan was cruise altitude of 32K, when after takeoff and switching to Departure, Departure said to level off at 27K. However this captain had 32K (FL 320) affixed in his mind, that while rapidly climbing through 25K the FO said, "weren't we going to 27?" Captain immediately realized his error and backed off on the throttle, "OMG, I could have had a altitude bust or worse."
I think the strongest correlation was made between birthrate and the educational level of women..
there was a program on PBS, a reasonably employed woman (not rich but not poor) in India said when she was a young girl, she noticed the more well-to-do families had fewer children than the poor families with lots of children. She determined to not have a lot of children with she married, and get an education before marriage. Documentary went on to illustrate that is not easy for women to do because much of the culture consider women should not have rights to make those kinds of decisions.
These programs are operating within the bounds of the laws as written and voted upon by congress. People have a right to be angry with the program but they should be equally angry that their congressional representatives have voted to keep these laws in place that validate these lawful programs.
as Moof123 wrote, "Hitler was lawfully elected and his SS all worked within the law." And yes we supposably vote out reps but there is basically only two parties which both vote the same on these laws. Now if we can get a sizable portion of representatives from other parties (Greens, Libertarians, etc)... though all these differences make grind govt to a halt. Oh wait, that's already happening (except for the secret stuff).
I was thinking all of sudden there's lots of discussion regarding missile attack on TWA 800 (I thought that whole event was pretty much settled by now). Maybe part of filling up media time to reduce time talking about recent NSA abuses.
This would shock americans but the Chinese of 700 years had ships bigger than any in Europe that could travel farther and were more advanced with magnetic compasses and watertight compartments.
There was a discussion about how some Chinese loathed when emperor in 1300s abandoned their ocean going fleet (a "what if" they continued and sailed to Europe, Americas, etc. the world would have become quite different). However, someone else pointed out though their ships were very large with trips to India and Africa, the technology was same as smaller vessels that traveled along coastlines (could not venture into open waters). Such ships were big and expensive to operate and really didn't provide more capability. Unlike the Europeans smaller vessels used new techniques to allow sailing across the open oceans. I think China policy makers want to not repeat same mistakes as former emperors did.
I go to the article that begins, "Project will reinforce China's growing influence on global trade and weaken US dominance over a key shipping route." and off to the side are several articles, "Edward Snowden: Russia offers to consider asylum request" and "NSA snooping: Obama under pressure as senator denounces 'act of treason'." Well you can see what this will lead to.
like a trilobite of sorts. however, our rovers don't have a big enough shovel. It seems many people are getting bored with Mars, it has been said (and I agree) don't send another rover unless you bring something back. It would be nice to have another rover that can explore regions where geologists really want to go (but difficult to do the engineering to get it there), but with NASA has a flat budget and it will become more difficult to simply sustain the budgets as they are.
OTOH with so many spacecraft that are operating beyond their planned lifetime, these operating costs drain funding from developmental programs (should we let them die, i.e. Spirit and Opportunity, so we can get on with new stuff?). What about spacecraft to Europa (there's lots more water there, and is there little fishies under the ice?) unless the radiation is so intense don't bother to plan a mission which survivability is zilch?
Regarding Curiosity, it is providing extensive data per sampling, mapping, photos, etc. and provides much excitement for researchers studying the planet. I think issue is such excitement is seen as pretty dry stuff among the general public. Perhaps Mars has a identity problem. We have this huge fascination that seems fueled by science fiction and we get caught up in a human mission to Mars, and one person on another forum called such a mission a myth (it ain't gonna happen with current budgets and only chemical propulsion). Excluding Dennis Tito's flyby which seems to be feasible but not easy.
maybe going OT here but this morning while digging through files on my Mac G3, I found a Mosaic application (transferred from my Performa back in 1990s) and so I fired it up and see how it views Google and Yahoo. Not that great with a lot of text of the script, but it downloaded those pages fast (this G3 uses dialup). It can still be used to search the web (again fast as it doesn't have any ability to run all them script and cannot download all the ads).
When you have a shoulder ENG camera like the news guys, then people think you are media so you can access (depending on situation) areas not normally available to typical camcorder person. But trend is towards smaller cameras and pretty soon if you have a shoulder cam even if it is a Panasonic P2 HD, everyone will think "old technology." I also see trend of TV set going the wayside as more people watch video on their phones or computers (in a small youtube window), which you can't blame them as television programming has become really bad these days (i.e. Syfy is now a wrestling channel, History is now WWII channel, Discovery is ?, etc.). So for video the iPhone may be just fine, but you still need to have skill (using your brain) to compose a good video.
So how will someone of journalistic differentiate themselves from the commoners with iPhones? I say you need a team of three: A cameraman with a midsize cam all tricked out with a mic on a cylindrical shock absorber, rectangle LED lamp, and a dual antenna diversity wireless mic receiver. Talent can be a pretty girl. But should have a soundman with mic in a big fussy sock on a long boom and packs a extensive sound set on his belly with several slider potentiometers and many diversity receiver antennas. Oh, and the soundman should be a 20-something with piercings and tatoos.
Exactly. Taking a good photo takes skill, and to find someone that can take good photos is ***really difficult*** as photos by most people are really bad. They may be great in terms of focus and color balance but terrible in framing and composition of shot (like as if what does this picture mean anyway? it seems emotion doesn't match the story). Give a skilled photog a good camera and then you get ***really fantastic*** pictures. However, I've found it can be difficult to simply find a good photog in spite there are many more pros out there. I've seen some with outstanding work but when hired them to do pics for things like engineering society gatherings, their results are not that great. So I guess the iPhone wins.
Og comes up with a superior spear, shares it with rest of tribe ("its open source") but gets taken to court for because he was not licensed. Og documents his experience (drawings in a cave) but someone yells copyright infringement and drawings are erased.
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Alarm fatigue is what it's called. When there is simply one alert after another and becomes routine, then it really is not an alert after all (or at least how your brain will be conditioned).
Blow it up and do it right! If you can't get it right in 15 years, you likely won't get it right in a thousand
I don't know much about java or script or javascript but I like what you said. For past 15 years there has been various scripting stuff comes and goes. Some browsers will work, then they won't then later the same browser can display a webpage. Standards are vague ( and we all know what standards are, ability to choose from several).
Interesting question about they can afford such a plane. I could not help but noticed the aircraft, "Queen of Sheba" that reminded me of this movie, Solomon and Sheba, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053290/?ref_=sr_1
funny like this one, "If Boeing is made by fat uneducated Americans, Airbus is built by chain-smoking French surrender monkeys, royal-loving British soccer hooligans with bad haircuts, and Germans who are so boring I can't even think of anything to say to denigrate their culture with."
No, women are from Venus.
You mean like these gals (actually I enjoyed watch Zsa Zsa), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052104/?ref_=sr_1
I prefer a mission to Europa that includes a submarine to go into the water below the ice to take pics of the little fishies (if any). Yes, Europa is ****far more difficult**** than Mars. But a Mars sample would be cool, will provide excellent comparison to Martian meteoroids from Antartica. Now if we can also send somebody beyond LEO, then we can say (in the words of one of controllers at Houston MOCR after Apollo 8 TLI), "Finally we get to go someplace!"
Exactly. Some years ago a PBS documentary about airplane crashes where FO (co-pilot) sensed something is out of place but too intimidated to challenge the Captain. Decades ago, CRM was very dependent on the Captain's ego. Some like to take the co-pilot under their tutelage and train them to eventually be pilot-in-command. Others said, "get out of my way, do something useful, go make some coffee." Though when we get to jets, CRM was not that extreme but it was still subtle. Couple examples was a plane that ran out of gas (I think it was early 90s) because they had an inflight emergency and captain was busy gathering info and making decisions. Co-pilot observes fuel getting lower and lower but hesitated to interrupt the captain. Pilot-In-Command should provide "opening" to accept conflicting information. Another example this documentary had was a captain saying one incident where flight plan was cruise altitude of 32K, when after takeoff and switching to Departure, Departure said to level off at 27K. However this captain had 32K (FL 320) affixed in his mind, that while rapidly climbing through 25K the FO said, "weren't we going to 27?" Captain immediately realized his error and backed off on the throttle, "OMG, I could have had a altitude bust or worse."
I think the strongest correlation was made between birthrate and the educational level of women..
there was a program on PBS, a reasonably employed woman (not rich but not poor) in India said when she was a young girl, she noticed the more well-to-do families had fewer children than the poor families with lots of children. She determined to not have a lot of children with she married, and get an education before marriage. Documentary went on to illustrate that is not easy for women to do because much of the culture consider women should not have rights to make those kinds of decisions.
These programs are operating within the bounds of the laws as written and voted upon by congress. People have a right to be angry with the program but they should be equally angry that their congressional representatives have voted to keep these laws in place that validate these lawful programs.
as Moof123 wrote, "Hitler was lawfully elected and his SS all worked within the law." And yes we supposably vote out reps but there is basically only two parties which both vote the same on these laws. Now if we can get a sizable portion of representatives from other parties (Greens, Libertarians, etc)... though all these differences make grind govt to a halt. Oh wait, that's already happening (except for the secret stuff).
All part of damage control -
I was thinking all of sudden there's lots of discussion regarding missile attack on TWA 800 (I thought that whole event was pretty much settled by now). Maybe part of filling up media time to reduce time talking about recent NSA abuses.
Squirrel!
and partner Moose? constantly being threatened by Boris and Natasha?
We keep our DEC racks to stack up 19-inch NI and Agilent data acquisition hardware, works great.
Since they all drink coffee, and if there are severe shortages, all functions will stop except those deemed critical.
This would shock americans but the Chinese of 700 years had ships bigger than any in Europe that could travel farther and were more advanced with magnetic compasses and watertight compartments.
There was a discussion about how some Chinese loathed when emperor in 1300s abandoned their ocean going fleet (a "what if" they continued and sailed to Europe, Americas, etc. the world would have become quite different). However, someone else pointed out though their ships were very large with trips to India and Africa, the technology was same as smaller vessels that traveled along coastlines (could not venture into open waters). Such ships were big and expensive to operate and really didn't provide more capability. Unlike the Europeans smaller vessels used new techniques to allow sailing across the open oceans. I think China policy makers want to not repeat same mistakes as former emperors did.
I go to the article that begins, "Project will reinforce China's growing influence on global trade and weaken US dominance over a key shipping route." and off to the side are several articles, "Edward Snowden: Russia offers to consider asylum request" and "NSA snooping: Obama under pressure as senator denounces 'act of treason'." Well you can see what this will lead to.
like a trilobite of sorts. however, our rovers don't have a big enough shovel. It seems many people are getting bored with Mars, it has been said (and I agree) don't send another rover unless you bring something back. It would be nice to have another rover that can explore regions where geologists really want to go (but difficult to do the engineering to get it there), but with NASA has a flat budget and it will become more difficult to simply sustain the budgets as they are.
OTOH with so many spacecraft that are operating beyond their planned lifetime, these operating costs drain funding from developmental programs (should we let them die, i.e. Spirit and Opportunity, so we can get on with new stuff?). What about spacecraft to Europa (there's lots more water there, and is there little fishies under the ice?) unless the radiation is so intense don't bother to plan a mission which survivability is zilch?
Regarding Curiosity, it is providing extensive data per sampling, mapping, photos, etc. and provides much excitement for researchers studying the planet. I think issue is such excitement is seen as pretty dry stuff among the general public. Perhaps Mars has a identity problem. We have this huge fascination that seems fueled by science fiction and we get caught up in a human mission to Mars, and one person on another forum called such a mission a myth (it ain't gonna happen with current budgets and only chemical propulsion). Excluding Dennis Tito's flyby which seems to be feasible but not easy.
sometimes I can watch this stuff for (a very long time).
hey, where's the "In Soviet Russia..." jokes?
nothing to worry about, move along you commoners.
maybe going OT here but this morning while digging through files on my Mac G3, I found a Mosaic application (transferred from my Performa back in 1990s) and so I fired it up and see how it views Google and Yahoo. Not that great with a lot of text of the script, but it downloaded those pages fast (this G3 uses dialup). It can still be used to search the web (again fast as it doesn't have any ability to run all them script and cannot download all the ads).
When you have a shoulder ENG camera like the news guys, then people think you are media so you can access (depending on situation) areas not normally available to typical camcorder person. But trend is towards smaller cameras and pretty soon if you have a shoulder cam even if it is a Panasonic P2 HD, everyone will think "old technology." I also see trend of TV set going the wayside as more people watch video on their phones or computers (in a small youtube window), which you can't blame them as television programming has become really bad these days (i.e. Syfy is now a wrestling channel, History is now WWII channel, Discovery is ?, etc.). So for video the iPhone may be just fine, but you still need to have skill (using your brain) to compose a good video.
So how will someone of journalistic differentiate themselves from the commoners with iPhones? I say you need a team of three: A cameraman with a midsize cam all tricked out with a mic on a cylindrical shock absorber, rectangle LED lamp, and a dual antenna diversity wireless mic receiver. Talent can be a pretty girl. But should have a soundman with mic in a big fussy sock on a long boom and packs a extensive sound set on his belly with several slider potentiometers and many diversity receiver antennas. Oh, and the soundman should be a 20-something with piercings and tatoos.
Exactly. Taking a good photo takes skill, and to find someone that can take good photos is ***really difficult*** as photos by most people are really bad. They may be great in terms of focus and color balance but terrible in framing and composition of shot (like as if what does this picture mean anyway? it seems emotion doesn't match the story). Give a skilled photog a good camera and then you get ***really fantastic*** pictures. However, I've found it can be difficult to simply find a good photog in spite there are many more pros out there. I've seen some with outstanding work but when hired them to do pics for things like engineering society gatherings, their results are not that great. So I guess the iPhone wins.
A concept illustrated by Lee J. Ames from the 1959 book "Man’s Reach Into Space" by Roy A. Gallant. http://mfwright.com/spacebailout.html
"WTF, man, you're not allowed to hide behind stuff!" Washington thinking, "Well, yeah, but... we're winning."
ain't it a bitch when someone doesn't "fight fair." I believe a similar complaint was made during Vietnam War when VC didn't wear uniforms.
"In your face from outer space" - Motto of the USAF Space Warfare Center, Falcon AFB.
but can they perform dual use missions such as "Space Patrol" on wandering asteroids? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbYjzZIQwlw
Og comes up with a superior spear, shares it with rest of tribe ("its open source") but gets taken to court for because he was not licensed. Og documents his experience (drawings in a cave) but someone yells copyright infringement and drawings are erased.