Correct. I forgot to bring up the Low Earth Orbit Sat Phones (aka Iridium), which is another kettle of fish. The big problem there is limited channels, again, your not going to have the kind of bandwith you need for serious internet (note, I said serious, like multiple OC3 stuff).
Interestingly, NATO, with all their Sats, and Iridium (Remember, the US Military basically keeps them in business) is re-looking at HF radio comms. Ultra high speed 24 bit DSPs, and other technologies are making them clearer and more reliable (less dependent on operator skill), and they have the advantage of working when you have a limited sky view
One HUGE propblem with satcoms, and why satcom pretty much went away for telephone - latency. A geosync sat orbits at 26200 miles (roughly), making a 2 way trip (up and down) a 52400 mile trip from point A to point B, or making it take a tad over.28 seconds. Now wait for your ACK to come back, another.28 seconds, and think about what you have. A slow, limited bandwith link. Generally, Satcoms have become used in one way "broadcast" type trasmissions (send the 30 minute TV show up, don't worry about the 1/4 second, as they are recording on the toher side) OR "Ad-hoc" communications, where you don't KNOW where the other station will be (a ship on the ocean, a TV news crew that is in Akron today, and Iowa next week, and even then, they try to keep the signals off the birds unless it's breaking news. You try to get it to a local affiliate, and land line it back)
I still use them as note paper. About 8-9 years ago, I figured it would be cool to have some punch cards to remind me of "the old days". I found a company that was still making them, and I bought the minimum order - 2 boxes of I think 1000 cards each
I think I was in my first week of Computer Science class when I was taught the diagonal line trick. Paid off a couple of times.
I still have 2 boxes of cards! I bought them (unprinted on both sides) about 10 years ago - new! I use them as book marks/scrap/notepaper. Lots of fun when an old geek realizes what I'm using
I got lucky my second term at college. I was going to a commuter school, and living at home. Dad's job required him to drive around NYC in a full sized van, and one day, he came across a keypunch machine being tossed out. I think I hold the distinction among my geek friends of owning/using my own keypunch machine. Saved LOTS of time, as the backlog at college wasn't RUNNING the batch job, but the fact that they never had enough keypunch machines. You could wait hours to get one.
The 3rd semester, I got a computer with a Modem (boy that 300 baud modem was EXPENSIVE) The college was willing to give me a "Limited" on line account (a BIG deal) - the limit? I was not alowed to use a local terminal - I HAD to use dial up. Local terminals were for folks taking Jr/Sr level classes. I was lucky, the school was close enough that I was in the "local unlimited" zone, aka the phone calls were flat rate, untimed.
I've worked at a number of companies (mostly in Banking computer wise, and defense electronics when I was an electron pusher) where it was WRITTEN company policy that when you gave notice, you were told NOT to come back.
They didn't actually teminate you - you were put on "terminal leave" - and paid for the 2 weeks, but all your accounts were locked, and you were no longer allowed in the building. Security and your manager would pack your desk, and bring it to you. This even applied to people like guys on the assembly line, where they might have 10K worth (and more) of personal tools (remember, mechanics own their own hand tools, and good ones are not cheap). Your foreman packed your tools, removing any company tools (they are marked), and you could come pick up your tool boxes tomorrow
The idea of bring your broadside into the bow/stern of the enemy is called "Crossing the T", and is/was the standard tactic from, as you say, Nelson's era up until the end of "Gun ships" - aka the classic multiple cannon (actually rifles) of ships into the 1960s
Read the police report. The school security officer (a policeman) was asked to remove the girl from the classroom, and bring the girl to the principal's office. What happened there is what lead to the charges
We do, if I remember right It's the Presidential Medal of the Arts or some such - too tired to look it up. It's just that it generally takes place, and is covered in a one paragraph story on the Presidential Press release, and gets released as a short wire story, which no one picks up
I generally agree with you, but there are roads that are "silly". A for instance - NYC has a maximum speed limit of 50 mph, even for highways within the city.
Now, go look at the Clearview expressway. It is normally running under designed capacity, because they never finished the 2nd half. You have a level, 3 lane, straight (I don't think there is a curve on the highway) road, with a 50 MPH speed limit. Anywhere else in the state, it's be 55mph, and in most states 65+MPH.
SO many people spped on this road (it's the shortest route from the LIE to the Throgs Neck Bridge) than NYC Highway 3 sets up speed traps constantly. ALL the locals know this - they also know that they don't setup 1, or even 2 in a row (people got smart to that), but often 3 or 4
The BEST is to have a real traffic engineer design it, and then NOT have the Point Haired Bosses and the politicians play games with the speed limits and designs so that the intersection works as designed
RE don't delude yourself you have any kind of relationship with a TV Character
Well, I do work with an actor who blew up the Enterprise on ST:TNG, and we've been to dinner socially and the like, so I'd like to delude myself I have a relationship with that actor;)
It's OK if you can't manage it. I remember when Dad passed, some folks had funny stories about Dad (including a time he was arrested that I didn't know about!! - and I was in my 30s when it happened - charges dismissed). I was unable to make the jokes Dad would have appreciated, but I myself appreciated hearing them
Of course, this is not a theoretical question for me - I have an 11 YO daughter - of course, her Mom and I (I should say my wife - just to make readers realize we are together) have said "Yep, she gets the vaccine" - it's just the MD wants to wait another 3 months becuase she just had a set of vaccines a few weeks back
I worked for a consulting company, and there were some odd things we added in along the way (this is for on site work) - we spec'd that we got the company standard desk, chair, wastebaskets, phones and the like - aka they could not stick us in the corner, in the back, in the dar, with a broken chair and desk
Other things we eventually wrote in - SWAG - if the members of the team (besides us) were going to be given sawg for being on the team, we had in the contract that WE had to get the swag too (That came after the time my boss - before I worked for him, and he was working for ME - didn't get a hat and tee shirt for the project because he was 'just a contractor' - he and I were co-leads on the project)
When I say "consistant routine", I'm talking about simple things - what to have for breakfast, where to eat lunch, etc - I've deliberately narrowed my choices here, and have a "default", and I use the extra CPU cycles to read a book, read a new white paper, listen to some new Music etc
CPR and First Aid - yep, done that, time for a re-cert. NWS storm spotter - ditto. Local Amateur Radio Emergency Service - County Asst Coordinator
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Correct. I forgot to bring up the Low Earth Orbit Sat Phones (aka Iridium), which is another kettle of fish. The big problem there is limited channels, again, your not going to have the kind of bandwith you need for serious internet (note, I said serious, like multiple OC3 stuff).
Interestingly, NATO, with all their Sats, and Iridium (Remember, the US Military basically keeps them in business) is re-looking at HF radio comms. Ultra high speed 24 bit DSPs, and other technologies are making them clearer and more reliable (less dependent on operator skill), and they have the advantage of working when you have a limited sky view
One HUGE propblem with satcoms, and why satcom pretty much went away for telephone - latency. A geosync sat orbits at 26200 miles (roughly), making a 2 way trip (up and down) a 52400 mile trip from point A to point B, or making it take a tad over .28 seconds. Now wait for your ACK to come back, another .28 seconds, and think about what you have. A slow, limited bandwith link. Generally, Satcoms have become used in one way "broadcast" type trasmissions (send the 30 minute TV show up, don't worry about the 1/4 second, as they are recording on the toher side) OR "Ad-hoc" communications, where you don't KNOW where the other station will be (a ship on the ocean, a TV news crew that is in Akron today, and Iowa next week, and even then, they try to keep the signals off the birds unless it's breaking news. You try to get it to a local affiliate, and land line it back)
I still use them as note paper. About 8-9 years ago, I figured it would be cool to have some punch cards to remind me of "the old days". I found a company that was still making them, and I bought the minimum order - 2 boxes of I think 1000 cards each
Bronx Science by any chance?
I think I was in my first week of Computer Science class when I was taught the diagonal line trick. Paid off a couple of times.
I still have 2 boxes of cards! I bought them (unprinted on both sides) about 10 years ago - new! I use them as book marks/scrap/notepaper. Lots of fun when an old geek realizes what I'm using
I got lucky my second term at college. I was going to a commuter school, and living at home. Dad's job required him to drive around NYC in a full sized van, and one day, he came across a keypunch machine being tossed out. I think I hold the distinction among my geek friends of owning/using my own keypunch machine. Saved LOTS of time, as the backlog at college wasn't RUNNING the batch job, but the fact that they never had enough keypunch machines. You could wait hours to get one.
The 3rd semester, I got a computer with a Modem (boy that 300 baud modem was EXPENSIVE) The college was willing to give me a "Limited" on line account (a BIG deal) - the limit? I was not alowed to use a local terminal - I HAD to use dial up. Local terminals were for folks taking Jr/Sr level classes. I was lucky, the school was close enough that I was in the "local unlimited" zone, aka the phone calls were flat rate, untimed.
Those were the days
Strip out the screws/magnets (always good for the hardware bin), and throw the rest away?
Microcenter is still around. Here on Long Island, no Fry's, but we do have a Microcenter
Of course, I guess NYC will have to change their own web pages - an example
http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/26/Q203/default.htm
Ah, airplanes? Specificly - fighter jets.
I've worked at a number of companies (mostly in Banking computer wise, and defense electronics when I was an electron pusher) where it was WRITTEN company policy that when you gave notice, you were told NOT to come back.
They didn't actually teminate you - you were put on "terminal leave" - and paid for the 2 weeks, but all your accounts were locked, and you were no longer allowed in the building. Security and your manager would pack your desk, and bring it to you. This even applied to people like guys on the assembly line, where they might have 10K worth (and more) of personal tools (remember, mechanics own their own hand tools, and good ones are not cheap). Your foreman packed your tools, removing any company tools (they are marked), and you could come pick up your tool boxes tomorrow
Or as it has been said "Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics"
Until you brought up Torpedos, I was going to say "Tell it to the Graf Spee"
The idea of bring your broadside into the bow/stern of the enemy is called "Crossing the T", and is/was the standard tactic from, as you say, Nelson's era up until the end of "Gun ships" - aka the classic multiple cannon (actually rifles) of ships into the 1960s
Or just go home at the end of the day, and don't come back
Read the police report. The school security officer (a policeman) was asked to remove the girl from the classroom, and bring the girl to the principal's office. What happened there is what lead to the charges
I expect that this won't work - typical of any government research project 11 years out.
It's an idea they have - won't work
We do, if I remember right It's the Presidential Medal of the Arts or some such - too tired to look it up. It's just that it generally takes place, and is covered in a one paragraph story on the Presidential Press release, and gets released as a short wire story, which no one picks up
I generally agree with you, but there are roads that are "silly". A for instance - NYC has a maximum speed limit of 50 mph, even for highways within the city.
Now, go look at the Clearview expressway. It is normally running under designed capacity, because they never finished the 2nd half. You have a level, 3 lane, straight (I don't think there is a curve on the highway) road, with a 50 MPH speed limit. Anywhere else in the state, it's be 55mph, and in most states 65+MPH.
SO many people spped on this road (it's the shortest route from the LIE to the Throgs Neck Bridge) than NYC Highway 3 sets up speed traps constantly. ALL the locals know this - they also know that they don't setup 1, or even 2 in a row (people got smart to that), but often 3 or 4
The BEST is to have a real traffic engineer design it, and then NOT have the Point Haired Bosses and the politicians play games with the speed limits and designs so that the intersection works as designed
(sounds like the problems in software design)
RE don't delude yourself you have any kind of relationship with a TV Character
Well, I do work with an actor who blew up the Enterprise on ST:TNG, and we've been to dinner socially and the like, so I'd like to delude myself I have a relationship with that actor ;)
It's OK if you can't manage it. I remember when Dad passed, some folks had funny stories about Dad (including a time he was arrested that I didn't know about!! - and I was in my 30s when it happened - charges dismissed). I was unable to make the jokes Dad would have appreciated, but I myself appreciated hearing them
Because a Watt hour is NOT a "basic" unit
A Watt is a unit. A Watt Hour is a watt TIMES one hour aka watt*hour - or if you understand algebra watthour
Remember, when you get done with an equation, the UNITS have to match TOO
Of course, this is not a theoretical question for me - I have an 11 YO daughter - of course, her Mom and I (I should say my wife - just to make readers realize we are together) have said "Yep, she gets the vaccine" - it's just the MD wants to wait another 3 months becuase she just had a set of vaccines a few weeks back
I worked for a consulting company, and there were some odd things we added in along the way (this is for on site work) - we spec'd that we got the company standard desk, chair, wastebaskets, phones and the like - aka they could not stick us in the corner, in the back, in the dar, with a broken chair and desk
Other things we eventually wrote in - SWAG - if the members of the team (besides us) were going to be given sawg for being on the team, we had in the contract that WE had to get the swag too (That came after the time my boss - before I worked for him, and he was working for ME - didn't get a hat and tee shirt for the project because he was 'just a contractor' - he and I were co-leads on the project)
When I say "consistant routine", I'm talking about simple things - what to have for breakfast, where to eat lunch, etc - I've deliberately narrowed my choices here, and have a "default", and I use the extra CPU cycles to read a book, read a new white paper, listen to some new Music etc
CPR and First Aid - yep, done that, time for a re-cert. NWS storm spotter - ditto. Local Amateur Radio Emergency Service - County Asst Coordinator