Speaking as one who served as Cubmaster for five years (my son graduated to Boy Scouts a year ago) I have some observations from running several derbies.
Graphite on the axles and check the axles for burrs (they are stamped nails, there is usually a ridge under the head).
Get the weight to be as close to the max allowed as possible. My Pack did weigh in the night before the race -- makes for less confusion before the derby. We had glue, drills, and extra weight on hand to find tune the cars to as close as our scale could get to the weight.
It helps if the car runs straight - bouncing off the guide slows things down.
From my observations, in most cases areodynamics has little to do with the performance of the car. We have had the last minute, painted block o' wood car finish in the top 5 (of 50).
And a comment aimed more at the Pack leadership - Let the boys handle their cars! I have seen several packs run their derbies where the scouts deposit their cars in the staging area, and that is the last the boy gets to touch his car until it the race is over. (Boring!) Our Pack the scout was the only person who could touch his car.
It does not hurt that our track electronics only records the first car across the finish - we have a 8 lane track, and take each den and use the den heat to sort the cars by speed (first one with 2 wins is fastest and is removed, then repeat until all the cars are placed in speed order). We then repeat this for each den. Once all the dens have raced, we start with slowest cars (the ones that placed 8th in the den heats) and race them against each other - the fastest of these cars fill the 7th place heat to 8 tracks. Repeat until racing the 1st place heat.
The main thing this did was cause the slowest cars to race the most... And occasionally we would have a car that would 'come from behind' in the pack heats to win or place.
At least around here, the county building inspectors could care less about the cable and phone cabling being to plan. All they care about is if the installed wireing (plumbing, frameing, etc) is to county code.
I have always heard the "don't trust the truss" comment refering to the wooden trusses used in newer construction. The ones with the little plate of 'nails' that dig approx 1 cm into the surface of the wood. Those I would expect to fail quickly in a fire...
10 years? IBM has been shipping a database based file system for more than 10 years. OS/400 (now iSeries) has a database filesystem, and has since it launch in 1988.
As far as I can remember, the system 38 had a db based file system too.
There was a guy at the MN State Fair two years ago with a RC car that had a fake (I hope!) skunk fur attached. He would quietly run it up to people walking around. Pretty amusing to see some of the reactions. No one quite climbed up on top of a table, but they came close.
External RF and computers do not get along very well. And the FCC says that it is up to the device to reject any interferance from licensed transmitters.
Often times the unconstitutionality comes out in the application of the law.
Personally I prefer that every single law expires four years after it is passed. Automatic die off of bad ideas (since it seems so difficult to repeal bad laws).
How about docking the congress critter's pay/pension for unconstitutional laws passed on their watch.
Cryptography's purpose is to hide information. The user who generates and uses that information determines if the hidden information is used for good or evil.
A gun's purpose is to fling a mass accuratly in a particular direction with great speed. The user of the gun picks the target, be that target for good or evil.
Either device (crypto or firearm) in the hands of someone bent on evil can be used to further evil. Just as either device can be used by someone to do good.
Never had to manually thread one, but we had one front loading drive that would occasionally get into a confused state that would require us to manually rewind the tape onto the removable spool.
Such fun, standing at the rack putting a blister on your finger rewinding the whole #$&!* tape.
There are amateur radio operators who have built the antenna systems and transmission equipment to do satellite control. They were using it to bounce their signals off the moon and back to earth.
These systems are expensive, but not out of reach of hobbyists. They are not what I would call stealthy though.
p>And then there was the time my high school chem class was doing the "what substances conduct electricity, in what states" experiment.
Each pair was given three things to test -
water (tap water)
salt (NaCl)
octane
We were to test each sample for conductivity at room temp and when heated.
Most of us recognized the folly of putting octane in a 3mL crucible over a Bunsen burner.
Not the pair of cheerleaders.
Size of flame and diameter of scorch marks on the ceiling left as an exercise for the reader.
Our science teacher really enjoyed the cheerleader's lack of common sense and excitability - he arranged a quiz, and lowered a pickled frog from a pulley in the ceiling to be sitting in front of their desk, at eye level while they were heads down working on the quiz... And the 'Miss Piggy and Kermit the frog' dance number with the fetal pig and pickled frog was a dramatic hit.
Ah the joys of private school...
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How about the talking trashcans at Taco Bell Express here in Rochester.
I keep looking for the Syrius Cybernetics Corp logo on it.
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Glad to see that some things at the North Avenue Trade School remain the same.
All undergraduate's average GPA while I was there was 2.45 ~ 2.5 range.
BS ICS 1988
"Oh shafts of Tech arise behold the falling of my GPA...."
Speaking as one who served as Cubmaster for five years (my son graduated to Boy Scouts a year ago) I have some observations from running several derbies.
Graphite on the axles and check the axles for burrs (they are stamped nails, there is usually a ridge under the head).
Get the weight to be as close to the max allowed as possible. My Pack did weigh in the night before the race -- makes for less confusion before the derby. We had glue, drills, and extra weight on hand to find tune the cars to as close as our scale could get to the weight.
It helps if the car runs straight - bouncing off the guide slows things down.
From my observations, in most cases areodynamics has little to do with the performance of the car. We have had the last minute, painted block o' wood car finish in the top 5 (of 50).
And a comment aimed more at the Pack leadership - Let the boys handle their cars! I have seen several packs run their derbies where the scouts deposit their cars in the staging area, and that is the last the boy gets to touch his car until it the race is over. (Boring!) Our Pack the scout was the only person who could touch his car.
It does not hurt that our track electronics only records the first car across the finish - we have a 8 lane track, and take each den and use the den heat to sort the cars by speed (first one with 2 wins is fastest and is removed, then repeat until all the cars are placed in speed order). We then repeat this for each den. Once all the dens have raced, we start with slowest cars (the ones that placed 8th in the den heats) and race them against each other - the fastest of these cars fill the 7th place heat to 8 tracks. Repeat until racing the 1st place heat.
The main thing this did was cause the slowest cars to race the most... And occasionally we would have a car that would 'come from behind' in the pack heats to win or place.
What is your issue with semi-automatics?
Or the IBM System/32...
That would be the "Georgia Institute of Technology," otherwise known as Georgia Tech.
If I am remembering right,
5x5(x9) Signal report....
A 1..5 rating for signal strength (5 being strong signal)
A 1..5 rating on signal clarity (5 being clear)
and
only for CW contacts
A 1..9 indication of code quality (solid tone, no chirp, etc).
A strong, clear, properly formed CW signal would be reported as 559. Since the code quality does not matter for voice, 5x5 is loud and clear.
At least around here, the county building inspectors could care less about the cable and phone cabling being to plan. All they care about is if the installed wireing (plumbing, frameing, etc) is to county code.
You do know that Linux will run on a logical partition on an AS/400 ^h^h^h^h^h^h iSeries?
See http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/linux / eqs.html for more details.
I have always heard the "don't trust the truss" comment refering to the wooden trusses used in newer construction. The ones with the little plate of 'nails' that dig approx 1 cm into the surface of the wood. Those I would expect to fail quickly in a fire...
Not loaded gun in checked luggage - unloaded, locked case.
10 years? IBM has been shipping a database based file system for more than 10 years. OS/400 (now iSeries) has a database filesystem, and has since it launch in 1988.
As far as I can remember, the system 38 had a db based file system too.
There was a guy at the MN State Fair two years ago with a RC car that had a fake (I hope!) skunk fur attached. He would quietly run it up to people walking around. Pretty amusing to see some of the reactions. No one quite climbed up on top of a table, but they came close.
Don't forget - If RF can get out, RF can get in.
External RF and computers do not get along very well. And the FCC says that it is up to the device to reject any interferance from licensed transmitters.
Often times the unconstitutionality comes out in the application of the law.
Personally I prefer that every single law expires four years after it is passed. Automatic die off of bad ideas (since it seems so difficult to repeal bad laws).
How about docking the congress critter's pay/pension for unconstitutional laws passed on their watch.
Or send a char string that matches the sequence on the chain....
According to dad, this would cause all the hammers (all 132 of them) to fire at once. Wham!
Usually the printer would start walking...
He also wrote a program that would print braille. Just take the ribbon out of the printer and then print the 2x6 patterns with the full stop char.
It did tend to wear out the chains...
Oh yea - the IBM System 3.
Closer analogy than you think.
Cryptography's purpose is to hide information. The user who generates and uses that information determines if the hidden information is used for good or evil.
A gun's purpose is to fling a mass accuratly in a particular direction with great speed. The user of the gun picks the target, be that target for good or evil.
Either device (crypto or firearm) in the hands of someone bent on evil can be used to further evil. Just as either device can be used by someone to do good.
Never had to manually thread one, but we had one front loading drive that would occasionally get into a confused state that would require us to manually rewind the tape onto the removable spool.
Such fun, standing at the rack putting a blister on your finger rewinding the whole #$&!* tape.
The RF facilities are not that hard to build.
There are amateur radio operators who have built the antenna systems and transmission equipment to do satellite control. They were using it to bounce their signals off the moon and back to earth.
These systems are expensive, but not out of reach of hobbyists. They are not what I would call stealthy though.
Search google for "EME" or "Moonbounce"...
Clarke may not have predicted tightbeam, but Heinlein did mention it in a number of his stories - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress leaps to mind.
Also had compression of the data being sent to reduce transmit time...
It exists - several breweries (Rogue is only one that springs to mind at the moment), beg your local homebrewer, or learn to brew ;->
Coffee Porter - yum
Similar joys searching for pages on LaTeX...
Each pair was given three things to test -
We were to test each sample for conductivity at room temp and when heated.
Most of us recognized the folly of putting octane in a 3mL crucible over a Bunsen burner.
Not the pair of cheerleaders.
Size of flame and diameter of scorch marks on the ceiling left as an exercise for the reader.
Our science teacher really enjoyed the cheerleader's lack of common sense and excitability - he arranged a quiz, and lowered a pickled frog from a pulley in the ceiling to be sitting in front of their desk, at eye level while they were heads down working on the quiz... And the 'Miss Piggy and Kermit the frog' dance number with the fetal pig and pickled frog was a dramatic hit.
Ah the joys of private school...
How about the talking trashcans at Taco Bell Express here in Rochester.
I keep looking for the Syrius Cybernetics Corp logo on it.
You mean a file system like IBM's OS/400 has had since '88?