As long as it misses the atmosphere we are OK. The damage it would cause is a function of Kenetic energy (1/2MV^2) its just in this case M and V would be very large numbers.
Well it could work, but H-bar (Plank's constant) is so damn small. I assume they will take a few more observations over the next few weeks and figure out the orbit with much more accuracy.
One thing I learned doing a Sr Thesis in astrophysics. its always better to have more data points.
BSD represents some fine code, But I personally would stay away from the GNU/Hurd Kernel its been "almost ready" for 10 years or more, and shows no sign of getting much past that point any time soon. There may be some good ideas in there but it seems to be to a day late and a dollar short.
If you don't want to muck about in the linux kernel you can also look at a lot of the application code that is floating around. Gnumeric, GIMP, perl, MySQL, apache etc. Once again find something that needs doing and start doing it. They probably all could use some documentation somewhere (OK several of those projects have very good docs). Or could use testing or transation to a new language.
The other thing you could look at doing is start building a test suite for an application. Better tests are always useful.
I would guess that they will spend a bit on developing some apps (open office or gnome or kde maybe) that they need. But it will may not show up as a line item in the budget. Just have a few guys who would be developing stuff in house end up sending out some GPL code, under the radar more or less.
It is probably much easer for them to do that then to say put in the budget that they are spending X on linux application development. They now have a large vested intrest in making sure it works for them, and while they are at it, make it better for everyone else. Who cares how they budget it.
Also remember the V-22 is a totally new thing. Its not just a next generation of a cargo airplane like say the C-17 or a new helocopter. In some ways you might do well to compair it to a World War I era aircraft. Back when they were still trying to figure out how to make an airplane that could do a job and get home again.
In truth it is much more robust than that. The powerplant is I belive a more or less of the shelf Pratt and Whitney and many other things about it are also taken from other aircraft.
But when you flight test a totally new thing there will be problems. When the design is as radical as a V-22 they will be big problems. The next generation of the V-22 type ship will probably be much better.
I took a class at brandeis in the physics dept and we did PIC based stuff. We used an 8 bit Pic with i think 13 IO lines. It was a very good class and I learned a hell of a lot. We used PIC basic and assembler. (It was a physics class not computer science).
There was quite a bit of equipment we ended up needing, including the programer (to put the code on the chips) a breadboard (actually several) and a very good osilascope. If you have access to this kind of stuff it could be worth it.
One problem DIP profile chips are getting harder to come by. Surface mount chips are great for factory built stuff, but if you are playing with stuff at home (or in a school lab) not so good.
Well first of all I think the Columbia was closer to about 200,000 or even 300,000 ft. but more importantly they were moving at around Mach 17 when the ship broke up. Its not exactly the same thing.
If all else fails "haShem" litterally "The Name" is used my many frum Jews. When I want to sound pretentious (usually when I am in story teller mode) I will say "Ha Kadosh baruch hu" I.E "The holy one blessed is he". Normally I just say "G-d". It gets the point across the most clearly.
A smart company would find people like Mr ball and talk to him at length. What features does he want, what parts do his users find good bad etc. Linux is good but not perfect, lets talk to the folks who use it as a desktop for end users and see what they need. I see an opertunity here for some one if they are smart enough to take it.
For example it sounds like we need better accounting software. There is a place where someone could do some useful work. (With luck someone who knows something about accounting)
If instead of sending in the cops to raid him they had send him a polite letter explaining where there might be a problem it probably would have been very different. But they make the licences so crazy that you almost can't help violate them in one way or another if you have a lot of computers.
From the interview it sounds like they were trying to play by the rules, ok maybe their audits where not as good as they should be, but lets be honest most folks have better things to do then audit software once a month.
I assume your name in English is Joel. I don't remember what the hebrew spelling is. I can't look it up now as I am planning to move to Israel next week, so all of my books are packed and in storage until I can have them shipped over. However its one of those cases where you can transliterate the herbrew with or without the "W" and defend both as a reasonable thing to do. Both would be written the same way with hebre charecters.
I am an orthodox Jew, and it does make me twitch, but it could be worse, at least with this version i know that it is wrong. As for names from biblical times, it depends on the name and the langauge. I know lots of poeple with bibilical names who use the biblical (hebrew) spelling and pronouce it as such. Most of the guys I know named Joshua use Joshua not "Yehoshua" but my friend Jon is at least some of the time "Yonaton" or "Yonason". And I've know a few Shlomos (Solomon), Yaakovs (Isaac) as well as more than one Devorah and Rivka (Rebecca).
Please don't use it, "G-d" is a perfectly good word. That is not a good translitteration of the four letter name of G-d into english. We don't know how it was pronouced as the name was only said once a year by the Kohen Gadol (High priest) on Yom Kipor in Temple days. It should also be pointed out that there is no "W" sound in hebrew, nor is there a "J".
IANAL (or tax expert) but I am an american who has lived outside the US, (UK, and as of next week Israel) And if you are living outside the USA you still have to file a tax return but you get a major tax discount, (the first $70,000 or so is tax free). Even if you are being paid by an american company in american dollars via an american bank. If you look at the IRS web site www.irs.gov you will find some very helpfull information.
Well up to about 200 years ago you have to remember that fabric was *VERY* expensive. If you were to go to the fabric store today you could find a lot of fabric for under $10/yd (and the major inustreal types pay less) but back in the day when you had to do it all by hand it may have been like $100 a yard for fabric. As such you are going to make garments to have as little waste as posible.
the 2.2 kernel is basicly unchanging, but that does not mean that bugs don't get found from time to time. So he is incharge of the folks who fix those, as well as updates to drivers etc.
Good Luck with your MBA Alan! I went back to finish my BA at 28 and it was not easy to do in some ways, but it was really worth it.
If you deside to fix this yourself and you don't know what you are doing you may risk a fine, hell if you get a fine (and thats all) consider yourself luckey. This could fry someone working on it. Or start a fire. Just ask yourself, do you want to look your co worker's wife and kids in they eye and know that you could have saved the life of their husband or father?
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Then there is also this one...
Subject: URGENT special arrangement
FROM: GRIMHELM WORMTONGUE
DUNLAND
Dear sir and/or madame,
Salutations, I am GRIMHELM WORMTONGUE, The son of late Counsellor Grima Wormtongue of the Kingdom of Rohan.
My father was Chief Counsellor [equivalent to Prime Minister] to late lamented king Theoden of Rohan. In his position my father altogether legally and correctly acquired significant assets throughout Rohan in order to protect the Kingdom from enemy forces within and without.
In the course of lamentable events succeeding, my father was illegally deprived of office and expelled from the Kingdom. Before this he had with foresight already entirely legally deposited the sum of M.500,000,000,000 in gold with the Bank of Gondor (Minas Tirith).
While in exile in the north he was assaulted and murdered by a band of northern pigmies. His family was obliged to seek refuge in northern Dunland among some of our sympathisers.
My father left to me all documents necessary to retrieve the sum of gold aforesaid from the Bank of Gondor (Minas Tirith). However, in the current political circumstances my solicitor believes it unwise for me to attempt to make the trip from Dunland to Minas Tirith, and has recommended that I seek a trustworthy foreign business partner into whose account this money could be tranferred. This appears to be the best option as we are unable to open an account in Dunland. Therefore we are seeking your trustworthy assistance and cooperation.
You will provide information about your account that will enable a deposit to be made in your name. I will contact the Bank of Gondor (Minas Tirith) and inform them that the money is to be placed into your account. Upon completion of the transaction your share of the proceeds will be 15% net following deduction of all transfer fees, that is M.75,000,000,000. If the transaction goes well we also look forward to maintaining you as a profitable business partner for future ventures.
It goes without saying that I can expect your complete confidence and secrecy in keeping this matter under wraps prefatory to completion.
Thank you and ERU bless.
MR. GRIMHELM WORMTONGUE
Reply to Mr. Grimhelm Wormtongue
Subject: Re:Urgent Special Arrangement
To: Grimhelm Wormtongue, Dunland
Dear Mr. Wormtongue,
Thank you for your recent letter. I regret to inform you that your father, the late Grima Wormtongue (and our condolences to you - so sorry about the pigmy thing) had secured the services of the late Steward of Gondor, Denethor, who has recently passed on. Lord Denethor unfortunately had been ill for many months following the death of his eldest and most beloved son, Boromir (who himself met an untimely demise at the hands of brigands and murderers). During his illness, Lord Denethor sent most of the monies your father had to one Dark Lord. If you wish to contact him, you may do so at: The Dark Lord, Tower of Barad-d?r, Plains of Gorgoroth, Mordor. Unfortunately I do believe he is away on vacation and no date has been stated for his return.
All that is left in the account at the Bank of Gondor of the original M.500,000,000,000 is M.01. So sorry. If you wish, you may consider investing this small amount into a fund that has a promising future and you may find your money growing over the years to come. I suggest, if I may, the fund called "Osgiliath Rebuilders Inc." It has good solid backing from the recently crowned King of Gondor, Lord Aragorn, who, it seems, has many resources at his command, having received many gifts and treasures from Dwarves and Elves during his coronation.
If I can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to send a courier.
I belive there are some good people around Nigeria, but they are not sending out the spams. Of late I have taken to trying to toy with them. I am mostly asking them to send a new car to me or my agent as a show of good faith.
So far I no new cars have shown up in my driveway:).
There is also the issue of maintaining the technologie. If we want to build rockets in 10 years we can't turn everything off then turn it back on in 8 years when we need it. For one thing the parts will rust. But more importantly there are a lot of very well educated and trained people in this kind of thing, and you can't expect them to sit on their hands for a bunch of years then come back to work.
Maintining human capital is very important in an industry with only a few players.
But I don't think de-regulation is a major part of this. The california problems were cronic problems that went on over a long period of time.
As far as it is known now (3 hrs into the event) this is a one time deal due to equipment failure. In the summer due to Air Conditioning and other things power grids run very near the max so if something major fails then you are running much above 100%, this starts blowing breakers and shutting things down. The radio just said in 3 minutes 21 plants shut down, so once things start to fail and they can fail fast.
The cause of this is (near as I can tell) not the same as what hit california a few years ago. What happened on the west coast was a result of stupid policy. They fixed the retail cost of power, while the marginal cost of generating power is very much dependant on the market cost of oil or natural gas. At some point it cost more to generate the power then they were allowed to charge for it.
Now this appears to be some form of equipment failure on a hot day when the grid was running close to its max load. With luck the power will come back up soon and the power grid folks will fiddle with things to make it harder for this to happen again.
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As long as it misses the atmosphere we are OK. The damage it would cause is a function of Kenetic energy (1/2MV^2) its just in this case M and V would be very large numbers.
Well it could work, but H-bar (Plank's constant) is so damn small. I assume they will take a few more observations over the next few weeks and figure out the orbit with much more accuracy.
One thing I learned doing a Sr Thesis in astrophysics. its always better to have more data points.
BSD represents some fine code, But I personally would stay away from the GNU/Hurd Kernel its been "almost ready" for 10 years or more, and shows no sign of getting much past that point any time soon. There may be some good ideas in there but it seems to be to a day late and a dollar short.
If you don't want to muck about in the linux kernel you can also look at a lot of the application code that is floating around. Gnumeric, GIMP, perl, MySQL, apache etc. Once again find something that needs doing and start doing it. They probably all could use some documentation somewhere (OK several of those projects have very good docs). Or could use testing or transation to a new language.
The other thing you could look at doing is start building a test suite for an application. Better tests are always useful.
I would guess that they will spend a bit on developing some apps (open office or gnome or kde maybe) that they need. But it will may not show up as a line item in the budget. Just have a few guys who would be developing stuff in house end up sending out some GPL code, under the radar more or less.
It is probably much easer for them to do that then to say put in the budget that they are spending X on linux application development. They now have a large vested intrest in making sure it works for them, and while they are at it, make it better for everyone else. Who cares how they budget it.
Also remember the V-22 is a totally new thing. Its not just a next generation of a cargo airplane like say the C-17 or a new helocopter. In some ways you might do well to compair it to a World War I era aircraft. Back when they were still trying to figure out how to make an airplane that could do a job and get home again.
In truth it is much more robust than that. The powerplant is I belive a more or less of the shelf Pratt and Whitney and many other things about it are also taken from other aircraft.
But when you flight test a totally new thing there will be problems. When the design is as radical as a V-22 they will be big problems. The next generation of the V-22 type ship will probably be much better.
I took a class at brandeis in the physics dept and we did PIC based stuff. We used an 8 bit Pic with i think 13 IO lines. It was a very good class and I learned a hell of a lot. We used PIC basic and assembler. (It was a physics class not computer science).
There was quite a bit of equipment we ended up needing, including the programer (to put the code on the chips) a breadboard (actually several) and a very good osilascope. If you have access to this kind of stuff it could be worth it.
One problem DIP profile chips are getting harder to come by. Surface mount chips are great for factory built stuff, but if you are playing with stuff at home (or in a school lab) not so good.
Well first of all I think the Columbia was closer to about 200,000 or even 300,000 ft. but more importantly they were moving at around Mach 17 when the ship broke up. Its not exactly the same thing.
If all else fails "haShem" litterally "The Name" is used my many frum Jews. When I want to sound pretentious (usually when I am in story teller mode) I will say "Ha Kadosh baruch hu" I.E "The holy one blessed is he". Normally I just say "G-d". It gets the point across the most clearly.
A smart company would find people like Mr ball and talk to him at length. What features does he want, what parts do his users find good bad etc. Linux is good but not perfect, lets talk to the folks who use it as a desktop for end users and see what they need. I see an opertunity here for some one if they are smart enough to take it.
For example it sounds like we need better accounting software. There is a place where someone could do some useful work. (With luck someone who knows something about accounting)
If instead of sending in the cops to raid him they had send him a polite letter explaining where there might be a problem it probably would have been very different. But they make the licences so crazy that you almost can't help violate them in one way or another if you have a lot of computers.
From the interview it sounds like they were trying to play by the rules, ok maybe their audits where not as good as they should be, but lets be honest most folks have better things to do then audit software once a month.
I assume your name in English is Joel. I don't remember what the hebrew spelling is. I can't look it up now as I am planning to move to Israel next week, so all of my books are packed and in storage until I can have them shipped over. However its one of those cases where you can transliterate the herbrew with or without the "W" and defend both as a reasonable thing to do. Both would be written the same way with hebre charecters.
I am an orthodox Jew, and it does make me twitch, but it could be worse, at least with this version i know that it is wrong. As for names from biblical times, it depends on the name and the langauge. I know lots of poeple with bibilical names who use the biblical (hebrew) spelling and pronouce it as such. Most of the guys I know named Joshua use Joshua not "Yehoshua" but my friend Jon is at least some of the time "Yonaton" or "Yonason". And I've know a few Shlomos (Solomon), Yaakovs (Isaac) as well as more than one Devorah and Rivka (Rebecca).
Ok I hang out with religous Jews.
Please don't use it, "G-d" is a perfectly good word. That is not a good translitteration of the four letter name of G-d into english. We don't know how it was pronouced as the name was only said once a year by the Kohen Gadol (High priest) on Yom Kipor in Temple days. It should also be pointed out that there is no "W" sound in hebrew, nor is there a "J".
IANAL (or tax expert) but I am an american who has lived outside the US, (UK, and as of next week Israel) And if you are living outside the USA you still have to file a tax return but you get a major tax discount, (the first $70,000 or so is tax free). Even if you are being paid by an american company in american dollars via an american bank. If you look at the IRS web site www.irs.gov you will find some very helpfull information.
Good Luck to you and have a safe trip!
I'll stick to my slide rule thanks.
Well up to about 200 years ago you have to remember that fabric was *VERY* expensive. If you were to go to the fabric store today you could find a lot of fabric for under $10/yd (and the major inustreal types pay less) but back in the day when you had to do it all by hand it may have been like $100 a yard for fabric. As such you are going to make garments to have as little waste as posible.
the 2.2 kernel is basicly unchanging, but that does not mean that bugs don't get found from time to time. So he is incharge of the folks who fix those, as well as updates to drivers etc.
Good Luck with your MBA Alan! I went back to finish my BA at 28 and it was not easy to do in some ways, but it was really worth it.
If you deside to fix this yourself and you don't know what you are doing you may risk a fine, hell if you get a fine (and thats all) consider yourself luckey. This could fry someone working on it. Or start a fire. Just ask yourself, do you want to look your co worker's wife and kids in they eye and know that you could have saved the life of their husband or father?
Then there is also this one...
Subject: URGENT special arrangement
FROM: GRIMHELM WORMTONGUE
DUNLAND
Dear sir and/or madame,
Salutations, I am GRIMHELM WORMTONGUE, The son of late Counsellor Grima Wormtongue of the Kingdom of Rohan.
My father was Chief Counsellor [equivalent to Prime Minister] to late lamented king Theoden of Rohan. In his position my father altogether legally and correctly acquired significant assets throughout Rohan in order to protect the Kingdom from enemy forces within and without.
In the course of lamentable events succeeding, my father was illegally deprived of office and expelled from the Kingdom. Before this he had with foresight already entirely legally deposited the sum of M.500,000,000,000 in gold with the Bank of Gondor (Minas Tirith).
While in exile in the north he was assaulted and murdered by a band of northern pigmies. His family was obliged to seek refuge in northern Dunland among some of our sympathisers.
My father left to me all documents necessary to retrieve the sum of gold aforesaid from the Bank of Gondor (Minas Tirith). However, in the current political circumstances my solicitor believes it unwise for me to attempt to make the trip from Dunland to Minas Tirith, and has recommended that I seek a trustworthy foreign business partner into whose account this money could be tranferred. This appears to be the best option as we are unable to open an account in Dunland. Therefore we are seeking your trustworthy assistance and cooperation.
You will provide information about your account that will enable a deposit to be made in your name. I will contact the Bank of Gondor (Minas Tirith) and inform them that the money is to be placed into your account. Upon completion of the transaction your share of the proceeds will be 15% net following deduction of all transfer fees, that is M.75,000,000,000. If the transaction goes well we also look forward to maintaining you as a profitable business partner for future ventures.
It goes without saying that I can expect your complete confidence and secrecy in keeping this matter under wraps prefatory to completion.
Thank you and ERU bless.
MR. GRIMHELM WORMTONGUE
Reply to Mr. Grimhelm Wormtongue
Subject: Re:Urgent Special Arrangement
To: Grimhelm Wormtongue, Dunland
Dear Mr. Wormtongue,
Thank you for your recent letter. I regret to inform you that your father, the late Grima Wormtongue (and our condolences to you - so sorry about the pigmy thing) had secured the services of the late Steward of Gondor, Denethor, who has recently passed on. Lord Denethor unfortunately had been ill for many months following the death of his eldest and most beloved son, Boromir (who himself met an untimely demise at the hands of brigands and murderers). During his illness, Lord Denethor sent most of the monies your father had to one Dark Lord. If you wish to contact him, you may do so at: The Dark Lord, Tower of Barad-d?r, Plains of Gorgoroth, Mordor. Unfortunately I do believe he is away on vacation and no date has been stated for his return.
All that is left in the account at the Bank of Gondor of the original M.500,000,000,000 is M.01. So sorry. If you wish, you may consider investing this small amount into a fund that has a promising future and you may find your money growing over the years to come. I suggest, if I may, the fund called "Osgiliath Rebuilders Inc." It has good solid backing from the recently crowned King of Gondor, Lord Aragorn, who, it seems, has many resources at his command, having received many gifts and treasures from Dwarves and Elves during his coronation.
If I can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to send a courier.
Elbereth!
Faramir, Steward of Gondor
I belive there are some good people around Nigeria, but they are not sending out the spams. Of late I have taken to trying to toy with them. I am mostly asking them to send a new car to me or my agent as a show of good faith.
:).
So far I no new cars have shown up in my driveway
There is also the issue of maintaining the technologie. If we want to build rockets in 10 years we can't turn everything off then turn it back on in 8 years when we need it. For one thing the parts will rust. But more importantly there are a lot of very well educated and trained people in this kind of thing, and you can't expect them to sit on their hands for a bunch of years then come back to work.
Maintining human capital is very important in an industry with only a few players.
I have NPR on and from what they said it looks light a lightning strike at a plant in Niagra Falls NY may be the cause of this.
There will always be weather events (lightning, snow/ice etc) that will cause power problems.
In case people are wondering how the power grid works, here is an article on howstuffworks.com on how
The power grid works
But I don't think de-regulation is a major part of this. The california problems were cronic problems that went on over a long period of time.
As far as it is known now (3 hrs into the event) this is a one time deal due to equipment failure. In the summer due to Air Conditioning and other things power grids run very near the max so if something major fails then you are running much above 100%, this starts blowing breakers and shutting things down. The radio just said in 3 minutes 21 plants shut down, so once things start to fail and they can fail fast.
The cause of this is (near as I can tell) not the same as what hit california a few years ago. What happened on the west coast was a result of stupid policy. They fixed the retail cost of power, while the marginal cost of generating power is very much dependant on the market cost of oil or natural gas. At some point it cost more to generate the power then they were allowed to charge for it.
Now this appears to be some form of equipment failure on a hot day when the grid was running close to its max load. With luck the power will come back up soon and the power grid folks will fiddle with things to make it harder for this to happen again.