... at least for me but I missed the days when they showed old movies OTA on late nights. Saw all kinds of films I never would have known to exist. I only had to put with watching ads with Cal Worthington and his dog Spot (which can be anything from a tiger to an armadillo) and ambulance chasing lawyers saying, "If you are involved in a serious automobile accident, you need to seek legal advice immediately!" [don't bother calling paramedics].
Ice on the Arctic Ocean is decreasing. Which is why in recent times Russians are grumbling more about territorial rights of their northern borders, shipping companies are planning to make use of the fabled "Northern Passage," and oil companies doing more exploratory work in the Arctic Ocean.
There was a time when these items were moot because of so much ice it didn't make any difference what is at top of the world. With less ice pack, these people are taking interest. Alrighty, why is Arctic melting? Call it global warming or not, if that ice significantly decreases there ***will*** be major climate changes. Particularly the Atlantic Ocean convection flow (or whatever it's called) that provides warm air over England and western Europe. Note that London is about same latitude as Calgary but because of this ocean flow which provides warm air trending, UK and region doesn't have tons of snow every winter.
You're remembering a bad old scifi movie. 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' or something.
At least the Seaview had a secretary in high heels, Barbara Eden, dancing a fast charleston to trumpet by Frankie Avalon. Don't see that on actual subs.
this year was at friend's house on foothills overlooking San Jose, CA. Though a couple places with legit fireworks, rest of city had continuous launches of fireworks and lots of explosions. This went on from sunset to late at night. I wish I brought my camera to post what I observed at elevation. I had to wonder amount of arsenal that was stockpiled in the city, all black market and bootlegs. California ain't like Florida with the big Fireworks Stores where anyone 18 and over can buy explosives, rockets, and all kinds ordance.
There are people planning to get a barge or an old cruise ship, park it a little more than 12 miles off coast of USA. This vessel will have tech companies employing people so they don't have to deal with H-1B visas (which are quite difficult to get). Tourist visas don't have as many hoops to jump through so these people can go back and forth to shore. Stargate Atlantis, ultimate offshore micro-nation... maybe that's why they have that instead of placing a SG in Colorado (don't have to deal with visas for space aliens).
Post Of The Month! Great article, should be in a magazine illustrating difference of customer and consumer (which the latter is "they" don't care about them, only want them to consume).
I heard this before, and then of a presentation at local INCOSE meeting in November by Sam Araki who worked on the Corona program for Lockheed. He presented and showed how much effort was pumped into developing the electronics needed for these new recon satellites. And there was is serious need since we had not much knowledge of USSR military buildup. Unlike USSR, USA efforts resulted in huge turnouts of civilian products and uses. He also showed charts of why our economic recovery system is broken. Unlike previous economic downturns we were able to recover. In early 70s Lockheed Missiles and Space in Sunnyvale employed 28,000 people. Now this same place (LockMart) it is 8,000.
Think of all the advanced technologies we can learn from them (that is if they don't kill us). Unfortunately with this anti-alien attitude the country is taking i.e. Arizona, lots of luck of them landing in USA.
An interesting pic from this website that talks about space travel of how was perceived (science fiction fans relate more to human beings than to silicon chips). http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/macguffinite.php which has some interesting mentions, and something to think about with all this fanfare of "Man Will Conquer Space Soon."
Manned Space Stations
There actually was a pretty good MacGuffinite back in the 1950's: Manned space stations. Werner von Braun had it all figured out in Collier's magazine.
[snip]
Ironically NASA destroyed this. NASA's push for computing power led to the development of the transistor and integrated circuit. Suddenly you could make weather satellites, communication satellites, and spy satellites "manned" by a few cubic centimeters of electronics. Bye-bye MacGuffinite.
and another [space launch vehicles]
If you build it, they will come:
This approach is an expensive leap of faith, but it actually might work. The basic idea is to just assume that there is some marvelous MacGuffinite out in space. So you create a company that provides affordable surface to orbit transport service. With such services available, suddenly you'll have an entire planet full of entrepreneurs trying figure out a way to make it pay.
You don't have to figure out the MacGuffinite(s), they will. All you have to do is make a reasonable profit off the people who have figured it out (or think they have). Remember, in the California Gold Rush of 1949, it was not the miners who grew rich, instead it was the merchants who sold supplies to the miners.
Another from the site:
Politics
I recently came across an amusing variation on the "If You Build it" argument. The subject was the US transcontinental railroad, with construction starting in the 1860s. In his book Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, author Richard White points out that there was no economic reason for building the railroad. The motivation was mostly political. Which is a plausible motive. After all, politics was the main driver behind NASA's Apollo moon program.
It seems to me we are chasing fables. There is the Pirate and the Cowboy as portrayed in the movies but what they portrayed really never existed. Now it seems who will join that group is the Spaceman.
and another thing that is really devastating is painting on cave walls of last hunting expedition. Other cavemen will be able to learn from Ug's hunting tactics and Ug will go out of business!
there were primary candidates who strongly opposed these kinds of foreign adventures by the US government.
There WERE... but seems like all candidates support these activities. The ones that opposed are those who will never get elected to the White House (i.e. Ron Paul and those from third parties). But regarding presidental election, people will argue their candidate whether it be Obama (some claim he is a secret communist) or Romney ("only free markets work"). Well that can simply lead into the tagline, "Capitalism is where man exploits man. In Communism it is the other way around."
You can make lotsa money at fast food joints, don't be the one flipping burgers (be the franchise owner or up)
You can make lotsa money at gas stations, don't be the one behind the counter (be an executive in one of their high rise offices)
You can make lotsa money stealing cash, don't be the one handling the cash (be one of them Wall St businessmen that lie, cheat, and steal from people everyday).
Yeah, like when we want to learn activities of foreign countries, we employ intelligence agents. When they do the same to us, we accuse them of using spies.
we'll be having the same debate about strong cryptography that we're now having about guns
what bugs me is all these gun rights activists advocating 2nd Amendment rights but typically are same that want to allow more warrentless search and surveillance, or they support politicians that want more warrentless search and surveillance. Sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised when liberatians stand up for both 2nd and 4th Amendment, though many times their first priority is 2nd Amendment at expense of the 4th. If the guvmint comes after you, it will not be armed troops but "we got a file on you."
Perhaps you should share some genuine concern for the effect it will have on humans.
Is Hawaii getting overrun by frogs? I saw a clip few years ago about frogs are not native to Hawaii, a retired couple moved to the islands but lately it has become very noisy with so many frogs croaking at night. This was example about concern of impact on native wildlife and on native crops, even for other lands, which can have huge economic impact of local farming. Also regarding "jet set" wildlife, is growing python population in Florida.
uhmm, ya know, I read all kinds of opinions and discussion. Here are a couple that illustrates this whole "colonizing space fallacy." Maybe we will have moon bases or on Mars but anyone counter these items?
Manned Space Stations
There actually was a pretty good MacGuffinite back in the 1950's: Manned space stations. Werner von Braun had it all figured out in Collier's magazine.
[snip]
Ironically NASA destroyed this. NASA's push for computing power led to the development of the transistor and integrated circuit. Suddenly you could make weather satellites, communication satellites, and spy satellites "manned" by a few cubic centimeters of electronics. Bye-bye MacGuffinite.
Colonization
I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people setting the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach.
[space launch vehicles] If you build it, they will come:
This approach is an expensive leap of faith, but it actually might work. The basic idea is to just assume that there is some marvelous MacGuffinite out in space. So you create a company that provides affordable surface to orbit transport service. With such services available, suddenly you'll have an entire planet full of entrepreneurs trying figure out a way to make it pay. You don't have to figure out the MacGuffinite(s), they will. All you have to do is make a reasonable profit off the people who have figured it out (or think they have). Remember, in the California Gold Rush of 1949, it was not the miners who grew rich, instead it was the merchants who sold supplies to the miners.
Politics
I recently came across an amusing variation on the "If You Build it" argument. The subject was the US transcontinental railroad, with construction starting in the 1860s. In his book Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, author Richard White points out that there was no economic reason for building the railroad. The motivation was mostly political. Which is a plausible motive. After all, politics was the main driver behind NASA's Apollo moon program.
let's just mine these damn things so we don't have to screw with third world countries, though kind of difficult to do right now (like everything else). If we do want to help Africans, help rebuild their water systems.
Local stores are nice, I miss Action Computers on Lawrence Blvd in Sunnyvale, CA (next to HRO). Mainly used PCs but they used to have bins of various cables, connectors, accessories, boards, cases, housings, etc, etc, etc. and for very competitive prices. And they used to have old computers, got a Pentium2 PC for $30, loaded up Win98 OS and works great for programming old stuff (i.e. two-way radios). But lately (appears from new owners) have streamlined the store by getting rid of a lot of crap so the place is much cleaner. Problem is along with the junk they no longer stock, they also got rid of lot of misc stuff. I used to stop by to "stock up on supplies." It seemed every month or so I'm short of a VGA, s-video, serial, or a "special connector" of sorts. Now, I don't really bother and go to Frys or Microcenter to get stuff (new, meaning money that will go to China instead of staying here).
Stupid companies. Stop using booth babes. It makes the industry look adolescent in nature, and is disrespectful to all women, and even more disrespectful to women in tech.
That's what an elementary school teacher calls timed tests for math (give students 10 minutes to finish arithmetic test). She promoted math is more than just doing calculations (add, subtract, multiply, divide), she liked to have students do hands-on stuff like filling different shaped containers with beans (not cooked of course) to illustrate proportions. However, hands-on kinds of stuff is hard to measure with a number saying how well (or poor) student performance. So the admins always want timed-tests ("drill and kill!").
Slashdot Mirror
There was proposal to build "internet tubes" (and Sen. Stevens would have been right) but they later did it with wires.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/12/16/1920201/100-years-ago-no-free-broadband-pneumatic-tubes
... at least for me but I missed the days when they showed old movies OTA on late nights. Saw all kinds of films I never would have known to exist. I only had to put with watching ads with Cal Worthington and his dog Spot (which can be anything from a tiger to an armadillo) and ambulance chasing lawyers saying, "If you are involved in a serious automobile accident, you need to seek legal advice immediately!" [don't bother calling paramedics].
1. Russians
2. Shipping companies
3. Oil companies
Ice on the Arctic Ocean is decreasing. Which is why in recent times Russians are grumbling more about territorial rights of their northern borders, shipping companies are planning to make use of the fabled "Northern Passage," and oil companies doing more exploratory work in the Arctic Ocean.
There was a time when these items were moot because of so much ice it didn't make any difference what is at top of the world. With less ice pack, these people are taking interest. Alrighty, why is Arctic melting? Call it global warming or not, if that ice significantly decreases there ***will*** be major climate changes. Particularly the Atlantic Ocean convection flow (or whatever it's called) that provides warm air over England and western Europe. Note that London is about same latitude as Calgary but because of this ocean flow which provides warm air trending, UK and region doesn't have tons of snow every winter.
You're remembering a bad old scifi movie. 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' or something.
At least the Seaview had a secretary in high heels, Barbara Eden, dancing a fast charleston to trumpet by Frankie Avalon. Don't see that on actual subs.
this year was at friend's house on foothills overlooking San Jose, CA. Though a couple places with legit fireworks, rest of city had continuous launches of fireworks and lots of explosions. This went on from sunset to late at night. I wish I brought my camera to post what I observed at elevation. I had to wonder amount of arsenal that was stockpiled in the city, all black market and bootlegs. California ain't like Florida with the big Fireworks Stores where anyone 18 and over can buy explosives, rockets, and all kinds ordance.
Fortunately the good professors school posts the article for free: http://www.umflint.edu/som/images/Perry_WSJ_022511.pdf
thanks for the link! saved me lotsa time from sending WSJ my personal info.
There are people planning to get a barge or an old cruise ship, park it a little more than 12 miles off coast of USA. This vessel will have tech companies employing people so they don't have to deal with H-1B visas (which are quite difficult to get). Tourist visas don't have as many hoops to jump through so these people can go back and forth to shore. Stargate Atlantis, ultimate offshore micro-nation... maybe that's why they have that instead of placing a SG in Colorado (don't have to deal with visas for space aliens).
A customer has a relationship with the provider
Post Of The Month! Great article, should be in a magazine illustrating difference of customer and consumer (which the latter is "they" don't care about them, only want them to consume).
slides used by Sam Araki, http://www.incose.org/sfbac/2011events/111108Presentation-50YearsInSpace_v5.pdf
yep, it's a myth. But there was a time when there was hardware development, but the chip companies didn't sprout up in the orchards by themselves, http://www.inc.com/eric-schurenberg/inconvenient-history-of-silicon-valley.html
I heard this before, and then of a presentation at local INCOSE meeting in November by Sam Araki who worked on the Corona program for Lockheed. He presented and showed how much effort was pumped into developing the electronics needed for these new recon satellites. And there was is serious need since we had not much knowledge of USSR military buildup. Unlike USSR, USA efforts resulted in huge turnouts of civilian products and uses. He also showed charts of why our economic recovery system is broken. Unlike previous economic downturns we were able to recover. In early 70s Lockheed Missiles and Space in Sunnyvale employed 28,000 people. Now this same place (LockMart) it is 8,000.
Think of all the advanced technologies we can learn from them (that is if they don't kill us). Unfortunately with this anti-alien attitude the country is taking i.e. Arizona, lots of luck of them landing in USA.
Manned Space Stations
There actually was a pretty good MacGuffinite back in the 1950's: Manned space stations. Werner von Braun had it all figured out in Collier's magazine.
[snip]
Ironically NASA destroyed this. NASA's push for computing power led to the development of the transistor and integrated circuit. Suddenly you could make weather satellites, communication satellites, and spy satellites "manned" by a few cubic centimeters of electronics. Bye-bye MacGuffinite.
and another [space launch vehicles]
If you build it, they will come:
This approach is an expensive leap of faith, but it actually might work. The basic idea is to just assume that there is some marvelous MacGuffinite out in space. So you create a company that provides affordable surface to orbit transport service. With such services available, suddenly you'll have an entire planet full of entrepreneurs trying figure out a way to make it pay.
You don't have to figure out the MacGuffinite(s), they will. All you have to do is make a reasonable profit off the people who have figured it out (or think they have). Remember, in the California Gold Rush of 1949, it was not the miners who grew rich, instead it was the merchants who sold supplies to the miners.
Another from the site:
Politics
I recently came across an amusing variation on the "If You Build it" argument. The subject was the US transcontinental railroad, with construction starting in the 1860s. In his book Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, author Richard White points out that there was no economic reason for building the railroad. The motivation was mostly political. Which is a plausible motive. After all, politics was the main driver behind NASA's Apollo moon program.
It seems to me we are chasing fables. There is the Pirate and the Cowboy as portrayed in the movies but what they portrayed really never existed. Now it seems who will join that group is the Spaceman.
and another thing that is really devastating is painting on cave walls of last hunting expedition. Other cavemen will be able to learn from Ug's hunting tactics and Ug will go out of business!
there were primary candidates who strongly opposed these kinds of foreign adventures by the US government.
There WERE... but seems like all candidates support these activities. The ones that opposed are those who will never get elected to the White House (i.e. Ron Paul and those from third parties). But regarding presidental election, people will argue their candidate whether it be Obama (some claim he is a secret communist) or Romney ("only free markets work"). Well that can simply lead into the tagline, "Capitalism is where man exploits man. In Communism it is the other way around."
You can make lotsa money at fast food joints, don't be the one flipping burgers (be the franchise owner or up)
You can make lotsa money at gas stations, don't be the one behind the counter (be an executive in one of their high rise offices)
You can make lotsa money stealing cash, don't be the one handling the cash (be one of them Wall St businessmen that lie, cheat, and steal from people everyday).
Yeah, like when we want to learn activities of foreign countries, we employ intelligence agents. When they do the same to us, we accuse them of using spies.
we'll be having the same debate about strong cryptography that we're now having about guns
what bugs me is all these gun rights activists advocating 2nd Amendment rights but typically are same that want to allow more warrentless search and surveillance, or they support politicians that want more warrentless search and surveillance. Sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised when liberatians stand up for both 2nd and 4th Amendment, though many times their first priority is 2nd Amendment at expense of the 4th. If the guvmint comes after you, it will not be armed troops but "we got a file on you."
From another forum: "OK, Japanese writing on barge, phone number of Japanese company on barge... it must be from Nebraska."
Perhaps you should share some genuine concern for the effect it will have on humans.
Is Hawaii getting overrun by frogs? I saw a clip few years ago about frogs are not native to Hawaii, a retired couple moved to the islands but lately it has become very noisy with so many frogs croaking at night. This was example about concern of impact on native wildlife and on native crops, even for other lands, which can have huge economic impact of local farming. Also regarding "jet set" wildlife, is growing python population in Florida.
uhmm, ya know, I read all kinds of opinions and discussion. Here are a couple that illustrates this whole "colonizing space fallacy." Maybe we will have moon bases or on Mars but anyone counter these items?
from Rocketpunk and MacGuffinite, http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/macguffinite.php
There actually was a pretty good MacGuffinite back in the 1950's: Manned space stations. Werner von Braun had it all figured out in Collier's magazine. [snip]
Ironically NASA destroyed this. NASA's push for computing power led to the development of the transistor and integrated circuit. Suddenly you could make weather satellites, communication satellites, and spy satellites "manned" by a few cubic centimeters of electronics. Bye-bye MacGuffinite.
I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people setting the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach.
This approach is an expensive leap of faith, but it actually might work. The basic idea is to just assume that there is some marvelous MacGuffinite out in space. So you create a company that provides affordable surface to orbit transport service. With such services available, suddenly you'll have an entire planet full of entrepreneurs trying figure out a way to make it pay. You don't have to figure out the MacGuffinite(s), they will. All you have to do is make a reasonable profit off the people who have figured it out (or think they have). Remember, in the California Gold Rush of 1949, it was not the miners who grew rich, instead it was the merchants who sold supplies to the miners.
I recently came across an amusing variation on the "If You Build it" argument. The subject was the US transcontinental railroad, with construction starting in the 1860s. In his book Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, author Richard White points out that there was no economic reason for building the railroad. The motivation was mostly political. Which is a plausible motive. After all, politics was the main driver behind NASA's Apollo moon program.
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let's just mine these damn things so we don't have to screw with third world countries, though kind of difficult to do right now (like everything else). If we do want to help Africans, help rebuild their water systems.
Local stores are nice, I miss Action Computers on Lawrence Blvd in Sunnyvale, CA (next to HRO). Mainly used PCs but they used to have bins of various cables, connectors, accessories, boards, cases, housings, etc, etc, etc. and for very competitive prices. And they used to have old computers, got a Pentium2 PC for $30, loaded up Win98 OS and works great for programming old stuff (i.e. two-way radios). But lately (appears from new owners) have streamlined the store by getting rid of a lot of crap so the place is much cleaner. Problem is along with the junk they no longer stock, they also got rid of lot of misc stuff. I used to stop by to "stock up on supplies." It seemed every month or so I'm short of a VGA, s-video, serial, or a "special connector" of sorts. Now, I don't really bother and go to Frys or Microcenter to get stuff (new, meaning money that will go to China instead of staying here).
I would prefer having real people from the companies instead of models.
I'd prefer having booth babes style themselves like this, http://www.geocities.ws/lollophotos/gina74.html though the dress may get kind of hot in the convention center.
Stupid companies. Stop using booth babes. It makes the industry look adolescent in nature, and is disrespectful to all women, and even more disrespectful to women in tech.
Perhaps get someone like this, http://blog.makezine.com/2012/05/19/jeri-ellsworth-rocks-a-commodore-64-keytar/
If you gotta go, may as well do it on a astronomical significant day.
That's what an elementary school teacher calls timed tests for math (give students 10 minutes to finish arithmetic test). She promoted math is more than just doing calculations (add, subtract, multiply, divide), she liked to have students do hands-on stuff like filling different shaped containers with beans (not cooked of course) to illustrate proportions. However, hands-on kinds of stuff is hard to measure with a number saying how well (or poor) student performance. So the admins always want timed-tests ("drill and kill!").