Youngsters... We thought it was bad in the 80's at 3 to 1. Until I complained to a fellow co-op from Southern Tech (Southern Poly Tech to you young'ns ) and was briskly informed that southern had a ratio of 15:1.
Is GTRI still doing research into a continuous brewing process for beer?
I remember wet rush... Grumpy's, Pippin's, and when Junior's was next to the Engineer's book store.
God I feel old.
Escaped from Ma Tech's clutches in 1988 with a BS ICS...
Sophmore year at Ga Tech I had a math final (Calculus of Vectors and Spaces aka Magic Math ). The final was scheduled for 8am in Skiles -- the most sterotypical faceless classroom building on campus -- in a room on the third floor. Skiles is set into a hill - depending on which entrance you use, the third floor can be between one and four flights of stairs up, and the room layouts are pretty much identical from floor to floor.
So I go into the room, sit down... Don't recognize the other students sitting near me. They look a little older than me too... Prof hands out the test and we begin. I page through the test and the cold realization that while I understand the symbols, I have no idea what the mean when put together in that particular order. Then I realize that I am in the graduate section final room -- my section is up one more flight of stairs.
Setting: on a pirate ship, A Captain, a lookout, a cabin boy.
Lookout: Captain, there be one ship off the port bow. Captain: How many guns? Lookout: twelve guns. Captain: Prepare for battle! Cabin boy, get me my red jacket.
--after the battle, a while later--
Lookout: Captain, three ships off the starboard bow. Captain: How many guns? Lookout: 6, 12, and 8. Captain: We can take them... Prepare for battle! Bring me my red jacket!
--after the battle...--
Cabin Boy: Sir, why do you ask for your red jacket when we go into battle? Does it bring us luck? Captain: Aye, that it does. It brings luck to the men - As long as they see me standing, they will fight. The red jacket keeps them from seeing if the enemy has drawn blood.
Lookout: Captain! 15 Ships of the line off the port bow! Captain: Arr - we canna out run them... Prepare for battle! Cabin boy, bring me my brown pants!
--curtain-- Yes, I did spend too many summers at camp.
The best technical manual I have ever come across is "How to keep your volkswagen alive" by John Muir. It is the only car repair manual that I have ever read cover to cover for the pleasure of it. (Come to think of it, being stuck on summer camp staff might have had something to do with that too.)
Muir's writing style managed to explain both the steps to changing the timing of your Beetle's distributor cap, but also the why you would have a vacume vs mechanical advance distributor.
Speaking as one who supported several 5000+ line tools written in Rexx (and that is before all the includes were expanded!). Now to supress those IDSS memories again...
The stem variables - (the dotted arrays) are very very powerful. They can be nested and the index does not have to be numeric.
When I ran the Computers merit badge for a group of scouts last month, I covered requirement 8 "Is it permissible to accept a free copy of a computer game or program from a friend? Why or why not? " by talking about Copyright and the various licenses that can be used.
That Copyright is the temporary control that an author has over their work. The author can be out for the money (Closed source, like Microsoft) or out to be helpful (GPL and Open source, like Linux)... does not hurt that one of the points of the Scout Law is "Helpful"...
I ran the practical parts of the merit badge on Linux - a mix of Debian, Red Hat, and Knoppix.
No, this is Georgia Tech - they don't have Ivory Towers for research at Tech. They have Red Brick Towers. (And brick fountains, brick sidewalks, brick crosswalks, brick clyde crossings...)
This bit of nostalgia brought to you thanks to Clyde Robbins.
Amateur Radio Operators (HAMs) (Remember them from the BPL stories?) have to abide by "Third Party Agreements" See the list at http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/io/3r dparty.html . These agreements allow hams to pass messages to or from non-hams in other countries.
Oddly, Costa Rica is one of the countries that allows third party traffic.
Our raised floor used to be mopped on occasion -- no problems with water, more a budget thing.
The odd dead mouse under the floor can be a rude surprise when raising tiles. At least the air handling system did a good job of desiccating the corpse and removing any smell.
You also need smoke detection under the raised floor.
Burning the flag is the preferred method of disposing of a US flag that is beyond repair. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, VFWs, American Legions, etc will often hold flag retirements just for this purpose.
Very few of us will have the opportunity to keep the US flag out of the hands of an enemy, but many of us have flags that have flown and are in tatters.
If we are going to make burning the flag illegal, let's give the whole flag code teeth... No more car dealerships with a zillion flags, no more Kid Rock with a flag poncho, no more flag imprinted napkins...
Additionally this allows a person to vote even if all the "computerized ballot markers" are tied up. Just take a pen and sit down at a table... (subject to the individual voter's desire for privacy).
Reserve the machines for those who need (or really want) to use the machine.
I'm equally upset at Daley over Meigs, but they did not have to disassemble the the aircraft to get them out. The FAA granted a waiver to allow them to take off from the taxiways.
Still sucks though. And I still don't spend money in Chicago.
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War/Camping season rocks for getting exercise. Even if it is just hoofing it around camp, to and from the archery range, etc...
Petrus, Shire of Silfren Mere, Kingdom of Northshield
What's the ratio these days at Ma Tech, 1.5 to 1?
Youngsters... We thought it was bad in the 80's at 3 to 1. Until I complained to a fellow co-op from Southern Tech (Southern Poly Tech to you young'ns ) and was briskly informed that southern had a ratio of 15:1.
Is GTRI still doing research into a continuous brewing process for beer?
I remember wet rush... Grumpy's, Pippin's, and when Junior's was next to the Engineer's book store.
God I feel old.
Escaped from Ma Tech's clutches in 1988 with a BS ICS...
Sophmore year at Ga Tech I had a math final (Calculus of Vectors and Spaces aka Magic Math ). The final was scheduled for 8am in Skiles -- the most sterotypical faceless classroom building on campus -- in a room on the third floor. Skiles is set into a hill - depending on which entrance you use, the third floor can be between one and four flights of stairs up, and the room layouts are pretty much identical from floor to floor.
So I go into the room, sit down... Don't recognize the other students sitting near me. They look a little older than me too... Prof hands out the test and we begin. I page through the test and the cold realization that while I understand the symbols, I have no idea what the mean when put together in that particular order. Then I realize that I am in the graduate section final room -- my section is up one more flight of stairs.
How does that skit go... oh yea..
Setting: on a pirate ship, A Captain, a lookout, a cabin boy.
Lookout: Captain, there be one ship off the port bow.
Captain: How many guns?
Lookout: twelve guns.
Captain: Prepare for battle! Cabin boy, get me my red jacket.
--after the battle, a while later--
Lookout: Captain, three ships off the starboard bow.
Captain: How many guns?
Lookout: 6, 12, and 8.
Captain: We can take them... Prepare for battle! Bring me my red jacket!
--after the battle...--
Cabin Boy: Sir, why do you ask for your red jacket when we go into battle? Does it bring us luck?
Captain: Aye, that it does. It brings luck to the men - As long as they see me standing, they will fight. The red jacket keeps them from seeing if the enemy has drawn blood.
Lookout: Captain! 15 Ships of the line off the port bow!
Captain: Arr - we canna out run them... Prepare for battle! Cabin boy, bring me my brown pants!
--curtain--
Yes, I did spend too many summers at camp.
Well, I do have this one large vacuum tube for the system on my desk. Only about half my department has LCD displays...
APL on a Zenith?!?
That's the problem... APL was best on IBM terminals-- Like the 3270, or even a 5100.
Took the CS language survey course in college - APL on a Cyber 170 on ASCII terminals -- nasty three char tags in place of the operators.
Later I took a calculus course (Calculus of Vectors and Spaces, otherwise known as Magic Math) -- we used APL on a 370... much easier to understand.
My first thought was Lower Sideband.
Readability helps too.
The best technical manual I have ever come across is "How to keep your volkswagen alive" by John Muir. It is the only car repair manual that I have ever read cover to cover for the pleasure of it. (Come to think of it, being stuck on summer camp staff might have had something to do with that too.)
Muir's writing style managed to explain both the steps to changing the timing of your Beetle's distributor cap, but also the why you would have a vacume vs mechanical advance distributor.
Need more range than WiFi?
Google APRS
Of course, you need at least a Tech Ham license...
One man's script is another's application...
Speaking as one who supported several 5000+ line tools written in Rexx (and that is before all the includes were expanded!). Now to supress those IDSS memories again...
The stem variables - (the dotted arrays) are very very powerful. They can be nested and the index does not have to be numeric.
When I ran the Computers merit badge for a group of scouts last month, I covered requirement 8 "Is it permissible to accept a free copy of a computer game or program from a friend? Why or why not? " by talking about Copyright and the various licenses that can be used.
That Copyright is the temporary control that an author has over their work. The author can be out for the money (Closed source, like Microsoft) or out to be helpful (GPL and Open source, like Linux)... does not hurt that one of the points of the Scout Law is "Helpful"...
I ran the practical parts of the merit badge on Linux - a mix of Debian, Red Hat, and Knoppix.
Team OS/2 was the OS/2 fan's group...
No way, shape, or form supported by Microsoft, since by that point MS was well into the Windows over everything mode.
Got to pick that nit...
"on a CGA monitor - on an XT - with 1 floppy drive"...
That would be the PC... The XT was the first major revision after the PC. The XT's main feature was that it came with a 10MB hard drive.
Never watched Wallace and Gromit's A Close Shave?
Light on, door closed, compressor off.
Might not make it to 100C but it will get to 100F, especially once the fermentation/decay gets going.
Very happy that I have about 3 hours to get the image of what the fridge would smell like out of my head before lunch time.
You know you have been listening to too much political discussion when you parse DNC as "Democratic National Committee" rather than "Do Not Call"....
No, this is Georgia Tech - they don't have Ivory Towers for research at Tech. They have Red Brick Towers. (And brick fountains, brick sidewalks, brick crosswalks, brick clyde crossings...)
This bit of nostalgia brought to you thanks to Clyde Robbins.
-Peter, who graduated from Ma Tech in 1988.
You are probably right.
Amateur Radio Operators (HAMs) (Remember them from the BPL stories?) have to abide by "Third Party Agreements" See the list at http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/io/3r dparty.html . These agreements allow hams to pass messages to or from non-hams in other countries.
Oddly, Costa Rica is one of the countries that allows third party traffic.
Linderman's is good... but darned near any Belgian beer is good (even Gueze was good fresh).
Of course, we rarely get fresh Belgian beer here in the states, seems like most sits in container on a hot dock for a while (yuck).
Have you tried New Glarus's (URL:http://www.newglarusbrewing.com/) Raspberry Tart or Belgian Red? Very nice beers....
Our raised floor used to be mopped on occasion -- no problems with water, more a budget thing.
The odd dead mouse under the floor can be a rude surprise when raising tiles. At least the air handling system did a good job of desiccating the corpse and removing any smell.
You also need smoke detection under the raised floor.
Burning the flag is the preferred method of disposing of a US flag that is beyond repair. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, VFWs, American Legions, etc will often hold flag retirements just for this purpose.
Very few of us will have the opportunity to keep the US flag out of the hands of an enemy, but many of us have flags that have flown and are in tatters.
If we are going to make burning the flag illegal, let's give the whole flag code teeth... No more car dealerships with a zillion flags, no more Kid Rock with a flag poncho, no more flag imprinted napkins...
Only half tongue in cheek.
That would be iSeries, thank you.
Some of us do do useful things on AS/400^h^h^h^h^h^hiSeries boxes.
Hunting leaks with a broomstick is due to the pressure... the same process is used to find high pressure steam leaks.
Additionally this allows a person to vote even if all the "computerized ballot markers" are tied up. Just take a pen and sit down at a table... (subject to the individual voter's desire for privacy).
Reserve the machines for those who need (or really want) to use the machine.
I'm equally upset at Daley over Meigs, but they did not have to disassemble the the aircraft to get them out. The FAA granted a waiver to allow them to take off from the taxiways.
Still sucks though. And I still don't spend money in Chicago.