Not free but reasonably priced and worth every penny. rebit.com keeps track of all changes, sends new versions of a file to a local harddisk, a network share or both. In case of a crash you can recover from a boot CD-ROM and I've used that to transfer my files to a new computer too. They have cloud-enabled versions too.
Every year we get at least one or two pieces of ice breaking from the main shield. Happens at both poles. It's normal.
And every year the article ends with some kind of fatalistic "IF blah blah blah we are DOOOMED!" Puhlease... We have worse things to worry about than fantasy threats.
Why is a variation on a theme worthy of a patent? There are plenty connector variations where multiple signal types are passed through the same physical connector. You can even custom order some of them from Tyco. This is not innovation, this is pure protectionism. Should be banned.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but that's not how it works in nuclear nor in aviation..
One of the main reasons things are behind in those industries is paper trails. Rules and regulations. It takes forever and lots of money to get this gear certified. Once certified, it takes an act of God to change it.
A PDP-11 isn't much more reliable than any other system. It has unreliable old-style linear power supplies, unreliable backplane connectors and all parts do fail eventually. Just because they weigh a hundred times more doesn't mean they are a hundred times more reliable.
With nothing more than RS-232 console lines, if at all, there will be little to worry about. If by chance there is a network connection on it, it will be Thick Ethernet (drilling a hole in the cable to attach a new system), and running a network stack that is nothing close to TCP/IP
Yup, but then someone will eventually be silly enough to hook it up to Internet and all hell would break lose. Better keep that PDP-11 around to do it's job. (BTW, PDP-11/05 with paper tape boot loader was my first encounter)
Old fart alert.. I started with VMS 3.x (boot on a Vax 11/730 with TU58 console tapes, ugghh).
On most VAX systems if you could access the boot prompt, you could specify an alternate ACL file at boot. On most systems there was no such file, so the system would boot and let you log in with full system privilege without a password.
Dutch citizen here (hello neighbor). Although many in my country also have dreams about solar and wind being the ultimate solution, it is so obvious that it won't even scratch the surface of our energy demand with this that new coal plants are being built here too. If it were up to me, I'd rather have a modern nuclear plant. Rather, I'd love for us to build 10 of them. 9 at the German border so we can export energy to Germany on a calm, cloudy day..
Video Genie EG3003 here. TRS-80 clone. I was 19 or so and into electronics. Friend of mine had a lightning strike nearby, fried his system. We tried for weeks to repair the machine until he gave up and bought another one. I was stuck with the smoldering remains.
So I cut each and every TTL chip from the two boards and replaced them one by one. That got it back to life! So once I has a computer, now what. Well, my friend was into Z80 assembly programming and after studying his code I made small changes, which became bigger and bigger. Eventually I built my own CP/M system from scratch, wrote my own BIOS routines and built a SASI harddisk interface for it. That experience launched my career as support engineer for a tape drive company, where I taught myself to program in C. I wrote tape drive diagnostics which are used even today.
Later I got into embedded stuff on Z80 and Atmel microcontrollers, which I still program today. That one lightning strike started it all. Thanks Sipke, for allowing me to futz with your system.
Writing very good specs means having a good understanding of the business needs for that project. Both getting to understand the needs and writing great specs take a lot of your time and effort.
So perhaps you should learn how to code yourself. Spend just as much time understanding the business problem, then write the specs in a brief way (you obviously know what you need to do anyway), then code it yourself. No miscommunication possible. Any bugs are yours and yours alone.
I'm pretty sure you will gain a lot of respect for those who do coding as a living..
Sounds plausible, although some of it still doesn't add up. Assuming the GPS satellite track isn't changing in reference to the physical Earth, then how would you determine the magnetic pole position using GPS? Use magnetic compasses at each base station and then triangulate perhaps?
When the poles move, it is all against a particular reference. Who says the crust isn't moving instead of the core? What is the reference?
Funny you should mention that. The heading says: "Scientists can locate the north and south poles to within 0.03 milliarcseconds by using Global Positioning System"
Could be me, but I was told that GPS does not work in the extreme Northern and Southern regions due to lack of satellite coverage? Like North of 84 degrees?
Even if these events are related, it could also be that global warming is caused by the shift of the poles, not the other way around.
Climate changes. Has done that for millions of years. Poles have moved all over the map as well. The core of the earth rotates at a different speed than the crust. Also for millions of years. No-one has a full understanding of the entire complex interactions. Studies like these will be cause for government bodies to invent new taxes and levies to "stop the poles from moving".
Let's face it people, there is nothing we can do, accept it and deal with it.
If you no longer are in control of the driving decisions, you are just a passenger. So why would you even want to own it? Just make all of them equal, paint them in equal colors and make them part of a public transportation infrastructure. Rent them by the minute/mile like a taxi.
The game "Adventure" started out as a command line saying "You are in a cave. To the north you see a door...". That was the state of gaming in the early eighties. Totally harmless. Today various games based on that early virtual world principle are so immersive and realistic that fanatic players can get PTSS from playing it.
Yes, version 1.0 of Google Glass will not be able to do what I described. But fast-forward 5 to 10 years and see what is possible then. My objection is not on today's limited functionality, but on what version x.y in 2020 will be able to do.
Your GoPro will record your surrounding, and you have the right to do that. Google Glass will go a bit further and augment your view with information about anything and anyone around you. How about labels with all faces you look at, reading "John; Age 34, last visited website milf.com", "Mindy; Age 17, just had breast cancer"..
I do not need that kind of information, and I object to living in a society where others would see labels on me and my family with 'mined' information.
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As this is a total scam, why would they not assign 419 to it?
How is it relevant to mention a weight of 3 tons in a weightless environment??
Not free but reasonably priced and worth every penny. rebit.com keeps track of all changes, sends new versions of a file to a local harddisk, a network share or both. In case of a crash you can recover from a boot CD-ROM and I've used that to transfer my files to a new computer too. They have cloud-enabled versions too.
Every year we get at least one or two pieces of ice breaking from the main shield. Happens at both poles. It's normal.
And every year the article ends with some kind of fatalistic "IF blah blah blah we are DOOOMED!"
Puhlease... We have worse things to worry about than fantasy threats.
Why is a variation on a theme worthy of a patent? There are plenty connector variations where multiple signal types are passed through the same physical connector. You can even custom order some of them from Tyco. This is not innovation, this is pure protectionism. Should be banned.
This. "Need' is the most overrated word today.
Where are my mod points when I "need" them.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but that's not how it works in nuclear nor in aviation..
One of the main reasons things are behind in those industries is paper trails. Rules and regulations. It takes forever and lots of money to get this gear certified. Once certified, it takes an act of God to change it.
A PDP-11 isn't much more reliable than any other system. It has unreliable old-style linear power supplies, unreliable backplane connectors and all parts do fail eventually. Just because they weigh a hundred times more doesn't mean they are a hundred times more reliable.
With nothing more than RS-232 console lines, if at all, there will be little to worry about. If by chance there is a network connection on it, it will be Thick Ethernet (drilling a hole in the cable to attach a new system), and running a network stack that is nothing close to TCP/IP
Yup, but then someone will eventually be silly enough to hook it up to Internet and all hell would break lose.
Better keep that PDP-11 around to do it's job.
(BTW, PDP-11/05 with paper tape boot loader was my first encounter)
$ mc ncp set executor state off
So much for networking...
Old fart alert.. I started with VMS 3.x (boot on a Vax 11/730 with TU58 console tapes, ugghh).
On most VAX systems if you could access the boot prompt, you could specify an alternate ACL file at boot. On most systems there was no such file, so the system would boot and let you log in with full system privilege without a password.
Dutch citizen here (hello neighbor). Although many in my country also have dreams about solar and wind being the ultimate solution, it is so obvious that it won't even scratch the surface of our energy demand with this that new coal plants are being built here too. If it were up to me, I'd rather have a modern nuclear plant. Rather, I'd love for us to build 10 of them. 9 at the German border so we can export energy to Germany on a calm, cloudy day..
I suggest also installing Trumpet Winsock in order to be able dial in to what is known as "the internet"
Don't be silly. Use the AOL CD that arrives for free on your doorstep. Every day!
Video Genie EG3003 here. TRS-80 clone. I was 19 or so and into electronics. Friend of mine had a lightning strike nearby, fried his system. We tried for weeks to repair the machine until he gave up and bought another one. I was stuck with the smoldering remains.
So I cut each and every TTL chip from the two boards and replaced them one by one. That got it back to life! So once I has a computer, now what.
Well, my friend was into Z80 assembly programming and after studying his code I made small changes, which became bigger and bigger. Eventually I built my own CP/M system from scratch, wrote my own BIOS routines and built a SASI harddisk interface for it. That experience launched my career as support engineer for a tape drive company, where I taught myself to program in C. I wrote tape drive diagnostics which are used even today.
Later I got into embedded stuff on Z80 and Atmel microcontrollers, which I still program today.
That one lightning strike started it all. Thanks Sipke, for allowing me to futz with your system.
They 0wn Hackathon!
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/05/03/the-word-hackathon-has-been-trademarked-in-germany/
If your tests find zero errors then the bugs are in your test procedures as well.
Writing very good specs means having a good understanding of the business needs for that project.
Both getting to understand the needs and writing great specs take a lot of your time and effort.
So perhaps you should learn how to code yourself. Spend just as much time understanding the business problem, then write the specs in a brief way (you obviously know what you need to do anyway), then code it yourself. No miscommunication possible. Any bugs are yours and yours alone.
I'm pretty sure you will gain a lot of respect for those who do coding as a living..
Sounds plausible, although some of it still doesn't add up. Assuming the GPS satellite track isn't changing in reference to the physical Earth, then how would you determine the magnetic pole position using GPS? Use magnetic compasses at each base station and then triangulate perhaps?
When the poles move, it is all against a particular reference. Who says the crust isn't moving instead of the core? What is the reference?
Funny you should mention that. The heading says: "Scientists can locate the north and south poles to within 0.03 milliarcseconds by using Global Positioning System"
Could be me, but I was told that GPS does not work in the extreme Northern and Southern regions due to lack of satellite coverage? Like North of 84 degrees?
Even if these events are related, it could also be that global warming is caused by the shift of the poles, not the other way around.
Climate changes. Has done that for millions of years. Poles have moved all over the map as well. The core of the earth rotates at a different speed than the crust. Also for millions of years. No-one has a full understanding of the entire complex interactions. Studies like these will be cause for government bodies to invent new taxes and levies to "stop the poles from moving".
Let's face it people, there is nothing we can do, accept it and deal with it.
And incorrect at that. Other than the article suggests, 0xFFFF != 255
Considering 2 engines for VTOL (the tested engine in the article resembles a Rotax 912 100hp of 125 pounds) means this is an impossible mission.
Oh, and this class of aircraft which you can fly without a pilot's license is illegal in many countries around the world.
If you no longer are in control of the driving decisions, you are just a passenger. So why would you even want to own it? Just make all of them equal, paint them in equal colors and make them part of a public transportation infrastructure. Rent them by the minute/mile like a taxi.
The game "Adventure" started out as a command line saying "You are in a cave. To the north you see a door...". That was the state of gaming in the early eighties. Totally harmless. Today various games based on that early virtual world principle are so immersive and realistic that fanatic players can get PTSS from playing it.
Yes, version 1.0 of Google Glass will not be able to do what I described. But fast-forward 5 to 10 years and see what is possible then. My objection is not on today's limited functionality, but on what version x.y in 2020 will be able to do.
Your GoPro will record your surrounding, and you have the right to do that. Google Glass will go a bit further and augment your view with information about anything and anyone around you. How about labels with all faces you look at, reading "John; Age 34, last visited website milf.com", "Mindy; Age 17, just had breast cancer"..
I do not need that kind of information, and I object to living in a society where others would see labels on me and my family with 'mined' information.