I may follow the same path. I use my old netbook as an emergency backup laptop. Mostly to take notes. Since it has a real keyboard, even if small, it is handy to have around. Great to know it can run a modern OS.
One of the first programs I had to modify was a COBOL program written in 1968. Over time, the source code had gone missing. I tracked down a yellowed, falling apart compile listing, and realize the program had never been copied off cards. It was also written in backward indentation, where command lines start at the beginning, and control lines like IF statements are indented. This allows you to move the working lines around. I ended up typing in the code from the compile listing, and ended up only missing 4 periods. Of course, when I got it working, I then had to make the requested change.
The Marianas are volcanic islands on top of tall peaks above the deepest part of the ocean. The depth goes from miles to feet in a relatively short time. When a storm passes, the storm surge has to compress to pass through the island chain gaps. This would cause havoc with anything laid between them.
Take it from someone who has used them. It is a collaborative system. The system continues to work if you knock out one piece. Each vehicle has a computer on board with all the data it needs for situational awareness. You need larger data sites to process the data. It is so much easier to type in a supply request than try to read it to someone over a radio with voice. Cuts down transmission times and errors. All those requests need to be gathered together and forwarded to a higher headquarters, so they need some kind of processing center. If that one is knocked out, you send it to the backup site. If you are not in communication range, your system holds it until you are. Same way with enemy contact reports. They are gathered together, processed and then the results shared with everyone. Now you know about the minefield on your route that was reported by another unit.
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As long as we are testing old hardware.
I may follow the same path. I use my old netbook as an emergency backup laptop. Mostly to take notes. Since it has a real keyboard, even if small, it is handy to have around. Great to know it can run a modern OS.
I keep a box of those. I hand them out to people when we talk about old technology.
At work, I used every version of OS/2 from 1.1 to 4.0. Including Microsoft OS/2.
We have a Windows 95 machine doing the same thing.
One of the first programs I had to modify was a COBOL program written in 1968. Over time, the source code had gone missing. I tracked down a yellowed, falling apart compile listing, and realize the program had never been copied off cards. It was also written in backward indentation, where command lines start at the beginning, and control lines like IF statements are indented. This allows you to move the working lines around. I ended up typing in the code from the compile listing, and ended up only missing 4 periods. Of course, when I got it working, I then had to make the requested change.
you initiate the feather to soon and cause the spaceship to break up.
Pear Pimples for Hairy Fishnuts!
Why are everyone against neutrinos? Why not a nice pro-neutrino detector. How about some support for our tiny mass brethren?
THE HYPNOTOAD
They have been torturing people for years with the APA style guide. Ask any grad student.
http://www.landoflittlehorses....
Hail Hydra!
The Little Ice Age followed immediately after the Medieval Warm Period. Just because it is warm doesn't mean it can't get cold.
Excuse me, but REAL programmers use butterflies.
The Marianas are volcanic islands on top of tall peaks above the deepest part of the ocean. The depth goes from miles to feet in a relatively short time. When a storm passes, the storm surge has to compress to pass through the island chain gaps. This would cause havoc with anything laid between them.
Next they will be requiring us to write in French. When will it end?
And they will start calling her again.
I can't wait for the musical numbers!
Why are they on trial?
Take it from someone who has used them. It is a collaborative system. The system continues to work if you knock out one piece. Each vehicle has a computer on board with all the data it needs for situational awareness. You need larger data sites to process the data. It is so much easier to type in a supply request than try to read it to someone over a radio with voice. Cuts down transmission times and errors. All those requests need to be gathered together and forwarded to a higher headquarters, so they need some kind of processing center. If that one is knocked out, you send it to the backup site. If you are not in communication range, your system holds it until you are. Same way with enemy contact reports. They are gathered together, processed and then the results shared with everyone. Now you know about the minefield on your route that was reported by another unit.
Say no more...
How do know that YOU are not a computer?
They don't want us to take pictures of their homeworld.
I'm glad the ISS crew won't suffocate now.