I visited a year or so ago. There was a really nice retired govie/docent, and among the many interesting things was a variety of Enigma machines, including one or two that could be played with. It was fun to mess with crypto machines of that era, and see how the drum system inside worked.
It is a bit off the beaten path, but worth a visit if you are in the area.
EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) has been around for close to 40 years now. This, too isn't revolutionary, but the researchers might have come up with some improvements to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egr
I continue to be amazed by the number of left wing trolls that have taken up residence on Slashdot. Nicolas Sarkozy was elected by the majority in France, who clearly wanted change on a pretty significant scale. I am fascinated by the people here, largely not French, who want to criticize their decision. Number one: If you don't live there, it isn't your decision. Number two: Your "fascinating" comparisons to American politics, or better yet, Nazi or other authoritarian regimes are amateurish, and by now, very predictable.
What happened to the smart crowd that was the back bone of Slashdot? I suspect that they have come to the same conclusion that I did, and have lost interest in participating in the forums, due to the general immaturity and idiocy that shows up. The modding system fell apart when more of the dumb crowd became moderators.
There are soooo many lowlife druggies and "Punk" kids there, I am not surprised by this burglary. Saddened, but not surprised. What makes me mad is that the locals there tolerate the losers that do this. Portland really needs some tough law enforcement to clean up the town.
You would be surprised at how much the attitude that you bring with you affects what you are doing, how you feel about it, and your chances for future work. If you came in every day, trying your best, at the end of this, something better will come along. If you slack, or have a bad attitude, this will not only seem longer, more drudgerous, and sucky, it will show, and the impressions that others have of you will be negative, and you are less likely to get a good recommendation or get moved to something better.
Voice of experience. I am an old guy in the IT world, and have always managed to find better and better jobs along the way.
Don't some of you wonder why we need a new "enlightend" administration to save us? "Oh, bring back the Dems!" many will say. Oh yes, the Clipper chip people, I remember them well.
The basic problem is your ( not all of you, I know) belief that the federal government is the solution to your problems. Stem Cell research? Oh, this cannot happen without unrestricted federal spending. Public education is screwed? Let's get Ted Kennedy and President Bush to work together to create "No Child Left Behind", only to have Ted rip it after he helped create it.
The long term results of the Feds being involved is more slow moving, poorly engineered administrations like NASA. If the private sector had been invited into the space business 25 years ago, we would be much further along.
I am starting to think that this is a generational view. I am an older Gen X'er, and it seems that the younger Gen Y crowd is much more use to asking for solutions from their "Parents" (aka, the Government) than in doing for themselves.
You need to look at some GIS ( geographic information systems) http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html/ software to construct maps, measure distances, and do analysis of the data collected. There are some free versions, as well as one or two good commercial platforms. If you are doing this for charitable or scientific reasons, the companies will generally help you with free licenses.
Here is one quote that may be interesting: "Cartwright and Muilenberg downplayed rumors that they decided not to use Microsoft's Windows operating system in FCS because of security issues. The officials said they have made no such decision to date."
I am actually falling for a flame war with some guy who disagrees with me, but here I go.
I especially appreciate the fact that you choose to belittle me personally, by saying "though I doubt you'd be able to understand it." I tend to expect this with people from your political end of the spectrum, and you are bearing out this expectation.
Secondly, I am understanding that you are of the "live and let live" persuasion, where you are afraid of conflict, especially based on principals. I am perfectly willing to let you live under those aspirations, but I have seen the cold hard truth for myself in a few nasty parts of the world, where principle is maybe the one reason to fight. (For the record, I was one of the people that enforced the peace in Sarajevo, Bosnia in 1996. The Sarajevan population that lived with dignity and principle impressed the hell out of me, and inspires me to this day.)
Lastly, I think that there is a great resource distribution model that already exists, but isn't implmented enough: Capitalism. Again, I fully expect you to call me names or belittle me, as that seems to be your MO, but Capitalism, in all of its glory is what has created prosperity for the vast majority every time it is tried.
I am not sure why it is important to make the rest of the world "like us". This is some sort of dysfunctional, Oprah type philosophy, where it is important to be sensitive, and seek others approval for our actions. I would rather we acted on principals, in our own interests, than cheese up to whatever idiots are running other countries or the UN. It is a self defeating, and inherently sick philosophy that is based on the objective of pleasing others, and making them "like us." You might want to read a little Ayn Rand
University of Chicago, where I went for my CS degree, had a class where you wrote an Operating System as a project. In talking with my peers at work, many other colleges had a similar class, where students also wrote an OS. I am not sure what is so theoretically hard about doing this, especially when Linus turned this into a group project, and invited other interested people to assist. If college students can build a basic system in a quarter or semester of college, I suspect that the more dedicated types could whip out a really nice example in 6-12 months.
If you are interested in EFI, ( even if you wish to keep your stock computer) check out megasquirt . I have learned more about how EFI works, and I plan to use megaquirt on my 65 barracuda. This type of garage/junkyard technology will keep older vehicles on the road, with better emissions and performance.
Is there some sort of reboot built into this gizmo? One would think that it would have a reboot timer built in, or that NASA could give it a reboot command to start the whole thing up again. I am hoping that this isn't too serious, either, and we can still recover from the error.
Hey, if you are up to it, you can build your own fuel and ignition management system. I am going to do this myself with my 65 barracuda.
Here is link http://www.bgsoflex.com/megasquirt.html
Let me know what you think!
I haven't read the book, but based on this review, it appears that Mr. Murray is using a similar method to Google's algorithm, that is, using the number of links and references to an author or a page to find what is most like what is judged as important or useful. It is interesting, because people's perceptions of this importance may change over time, and this ranking would probably change with it.
Okay, so somebody is going to be offended that his pet project/person/??? was excluded. However, I would say that there has been a concerted effort to include those of any minority group over the lifespan of the web, and that might actually skew results. For example, I just used Google to check three names, of eminent Agricultural Scientists, and found these results
George Washington Carver 147,000 hits
Luther Burbank 57,300 hits
Norman Borlaug 15,400 hits
What is interesting about this is that Norman Borlaug is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, for helping to win the war on hunger. He recieved the least amount of hits. George Washington Carver, I believe, recieved his number of hits primarily because of his race, as his accomplishments were probably comparable to the other two gentleman, and I certainly take nothing away from any of them or their accomplishments. It shows, I believe, the influence of the changes in culture over time, especially to include minorities in the West.
Hey Harvey, if you read the Wired article, Mr. Gold refers to finding oil 5 miles down through Granite shield material in Sweden. That sounds like a whole lotta proof to me. It shouldn't be there, if it did derive from fossil material.
The really long term problem is the loss of CO2 in the atmosphere, as more is put into Limestone over the millenia. We are worried about Global Warming over the short term ( which could easily be related to solar output, rather than man made activities), but over the course of millions of years, we have had steadily lost CO2, and the planet has become increasingly cooler.
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Nope, he is right.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s10e06-manbearpig
You sir, are an inflammatory idiot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zatoichi My favorite Japanese movies. Gotta love Shintaro Katsu's portrayal of a blind man.
http://www.leiasmetalbikini.com/index.html
I visited a year or so ago. There was a really nice retired govie/docent, and among the many interesting things was a variety of Enigma machines, including one or two that could be played with. It was fun to mess with crypto machines of that era, and see how the drum system inside worked.
It is a bit off the beaten path, but worth a visit if you are in the area.
EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) has been around for close to 40 years now. This, too isn't revolutionary, but the researchers might have come up with some improvements to it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egr
I continue to be amazed by the number of left wing trolls that have taken up residence on Slashdot. Nicolas Sarkozy was elected by the majority in France, who clearly wanted change on a pretty significant scale. I am fascinated by the people here, largely not French, who want to criticize their decision. Number one: If you don't live there, it isn't your decision. Number two: Your "fascinating" comparisons to American politics, or better yet, Nazi or other authoritarian regimes are amateurish, and by now, very predictable.
What happened to the smart crowd that was the back bone of Slashdot? I suspect that they have come to the same conclusion that I did, and have lost interest in participating in the forums, due to the general immaturity and idiocy that shows up. The modding system fell apart when more of the dumb crowd became moderators.
There are soooo many lowlife druggies and "Punk" kids there, I am not surprised by this burglary. Saddened, but not surprised. What makes me mad is that the locals there tolerate the losers that do this. Portland really needs some tough law enforcement to clean up the town.
You would be surprised at how much the attitude that you bring with you affects what you are doing, how you feel about it, and your chances for future work. If you came in every day, trying your best, at the end of this, something better will come along. If you slack, or have a bad attitude, this will not only seem longer, more drudgerous, and sucky, it will show, and the impressions that others have of you will be negative, and you are less likely to get a good recommendation or get moved to something better.
Voice of experience. I am an old guy in the IT world, and have always managed to find better and better jobs along the way.
Good luck, and make us Slashdotters proud of you!
Don't some of you wonder why we need a new "enlightend" administration to save us? "Oh, bring back the Dems!" many will say. Oh yes, the Clipper chip people, I remember them well.
The basic problem is your ( not all of you, I know) belief that the federal government is the solution to your problems. Stem Cell research? Oh, this cannot happen without unrestricted federal spending. Public education is screwed? Let's get Ted Kennedy and President Bush to work together to create "No Child Left Behind", only to have Ted rip it after he helped create it.
The long term results of the Feds being involved is more slow moving, poorly engineered administrations like NASA. If the private sector had been invited into the space business 25 years ago, we would be much further along.
I am starting to think that this is a generational view. I am an older Gen X'er, and it seems that the younger Gen Y crowd is much more use to asking for solutions from their "Parents" (aka, the Government) than in doing for themselves.
You need to look at some GIS ( geographic information systems) http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html/ software to construct maps, measure distances, and do analysis of the data collected. There are some free versions, as well as one or two good commercial platforms. If you are doing this for charitable or scientific reasons, the companies will generally help you with free licenses.
Hi all,
o s-02-17-05.asp
Lynxworks can say whatever they want, but the Army isn't picking an OS until 2006. See this link: http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2005/0214/web-fcs
Here is one quote that may be interesting:
"Cartwright and Muilenberg downplayed rumors that they decided not to use Microsoft's Windows operating system in FCS because of security issues. The officials said they have made no such decision to date."
You, sir, are a jerk.
I am actually falling for a flame war with some guy who disagrees with me, but here I go.
I especially appreciate the fact that you choose to belittle me personally, by saying "though I doubt you'd be able to understand it." I tend to expect this with people from your political end of the spectrum, and you are bearing out this expectation.
Secondly, I am understanding that you are of the "live and let live" persuasion, where you are afraid of conflict, especially based on principals. I am perfectly willing to let you live under those aspirations, but I have seen the cold hard truth for myself in a few nasty parts of the world, where principle is maybe the one reason to fight. (For the record, I was one of the people that enforced the peace in Sarajevo, Bosnia in 1996. The Sarajevan population that lived with dignity and principle impressed the hell out of me, and inspires me to this day.)
Lastly, I think that there is a great resource distribution model that already exists, but isn't implmented enough: Capitalism. Again, I fully expect you to call me names or belittle me, as that seems to be your MO, but Capitalism, in all of its glory is what has created prosperity for the vast majority every time it is tried.
I am not sure why it is important to make the rest of the world "like us". This is some sort of dysfunctional, Oprah type philosophy, where it is important to be sensitive, and seek others approval for our actions. I would rather we acted on principals, in our own interests, than cheese up to whatever idiots are running other countries or the UN. It is a self defeating, and inherently sick philosophy that is based on the objective of pleasing others, and making them "like us." You might want to read a little Ayn Rand
University of Chicago, where I went for my CS degree, had a class where you wrote an Operating System as a project. In talking with my peers at work, many other colleges had a similar class, where students also wrote an OS. I am not sure what is so theoretically hard about doing this, especially when Linus turned this into a group project, and invited other interested people to assist. If college students can build a basic system in a quarter or semester of college, I suspect that the more dedicated types could whip out a really nice example in 6-12 months.
Greg
Beastron could kick its ass in a fight, I bet. Don't get me started on those Toyo studio characters, either!
If you are interested in EFI, ( even if you wish to keep your stock computer) check out megasquirt . I have learned more about how EFI works, and I plan to use megaquirt on my 65 barracuda. This type of garage/junkyard technology will keep older vehicles on the road, with better emissions and performance.
Is there some sort of reboot built into this gizmo? One would think that it would have a reboot timer built in, or that NASA could give it a reboot command to start the whole thing up again. I am hoping that this isn't too serious, either, and we can still recover from the error.
Good Luck, little Spirit.
I am not sure that we really need another.
Hey, if you are up to it, you can build your own fuel and ignition management system. I am going to do this myself with my 65 barracuda. Here is link http://www.bgsoflex.com/megasquirt.html Let me know what you think!
I haven't read the book, but based on this review, it appears that Mr. Murray is using a similar method to Google's algorithm, that is, using the number of links and references to an author or a page to find what is most like what is judged as important or useful. It is interesting, because people's perceptions of this importance may change over time, and this ranking would probably change with it.
Okay, so somebody is going to be offended that his pet project/person/??? was excluded. However, I would say that there has been a concerted effort to include those of any minority group over the lifespan of the web, and that might actually skew results. For example, I just used Google to check three names, of eminent Agricultural Scientists, and found these results
George Washington Carver 147,000 hits
Luther Burbank 57,300 hits
Norman Borlaug 15,400 hits
What is interesting about this is that Norman Borlaug is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, for helping to win the war on hunger. He recieved the least amount of hits. George Washington Carver, I believe, recieved his number of hits primarily because of his race, as his accomplishments were probably comparable to the other two gentleman, and I certainly take nothing away from any of them or their accomplishments. It shows, I believe, the influence of the changes in culture over time, especially to include minorities in the West.
Hey Harvey, if you read the Wired article, Mr. Gold refers to finding oil 5 miles down through Granite shield material in Sweden. That sounds like a whole lotta proof to me. It shouldn't be there, if it did derive from fossil material.
Hi all,
The really long term problem is the loss of CO2 in the atmosphere, as more is put into Limestone over the millenia. We are worried about Global Warming over the short term ( which could easily be related to solar output, rather than man made activities), but over the course of millions of years, we have had steadily lost CO2, and the planet has become increasingly cooler.