OH NOES!!!1! Why hasn't the tech industry ever thought of this problem!!
We're DOOOMED I tells ya.
Jeez. Look. Smarter people than you are working on this, OK? Ever heard of multisession CD's? The UDF standard?
You don't have to burn your 50GB again. In the case of multisession CD's, you just spend 3 minutes and burn a 15MB new session. In the case of UDF, you just burn the file to CD (via a UDF packet writer) and the UDF filesystem takes care of the nitty-gritty , all transparent to you.
If you're lucky with your software, you can even pick which session you want to use later on, giving you various revisions of your hypothetical word file to work with.
That's exactly what we use undergound - leaky feeders with repeater/amp modules every thousand feet or so. Coupled with standard VHF radios it works ok. It also carries a "PED" - a one-way text pager that's embedded in the battery pack for my caplamp.
But yet, it's still a pain in the ass. If you cant see a leaky feeder hanging from the roof, there's no comms. It's strictly line-of-sight. Even though it's armoured cable, a ton of rock will easily crush it.
So forget using leaky feeder cable for rescue.
If I could just get a text pager that worked outside the range of a leaky feeder, I'd be happy. This looks like it might be a solution.
I work underground in a workshop repairing mining gear. At the level of this workshop (600m) the rock strata is approximately 60-70 million years old. It's not going anywhere in the human timescale. In geological timescales, it's actually going very slowly down.
Bury it deep somewhere geologically stable in the centre of a large continent and erase all surface features. Again, anyone smart enough to find it then (eg, by subsurface mapping) is smart enough to deal with it. If not, well geez, we tried our best.
Leave it unmarked and buried deep in an area that has no mineral deposits or anything worth mining. No-one will know, so no-one will want to go snooping for treasure. To get to it, you'll have to know that something's there in the first place. To dig that far you'll need tech. If you've got the tech to drop a shaft down 1000ft, well, you'll have all the gear necessary (and normally, on-hand)to detect radioactivity.
Hardly new - D1's been doing this in Australia for 18 months or so.
Of course, they're pretty coy about it being a mythtv build.
And the exchange rate is something like 40,000 NZ Sheep Barter Units to the USD, so it's pretty cheap really. If you could get one shipped over, that is. And if you crazy americans would adhere to proper standards, like PAL and DVB-T.
The problem with earphones is that you miss a lot of physical cues that the music is too loud. For example :
If you're sitting in front of your stereo and your innards are thumping in time to the music, you get the idea that it's probably a little loud. You don't get this physical effect wearing earphones.
If the person next to you at a party is moving their lips but you can't hear them, you get the idea that it's a little loud. With earphones, you think "Oh, I've just got earphones in."
All these kinds of missed cues help you to tell when the volume's too loud. If you played music back in a room at the level you normally can achieve with earphones, you'd have people cringing.
Yes, but 250MPH winds at 750Pa are fuck-all really.
I'm sure one of our aerodynamic guru's here on slashdot could calculate the wind load on a person at that speed and pressure - I'd wager it's not enough to knock you over.
The only problem you might have is more wear on your suit from 250MPH dust particles zinging past.
You could always have a small recording package that jettisons at (say) 10,000 feet. After 10 seconds of tumbling deceleration you'll probably be subsonic. Release a drogue chute then and it'll land fine.
Actually, you can use Tivo to snag a whole lot of educational programming that they miss when they are in school. Discovery, Science Channel, even public television, have a lot of good kid centric shows on between 8A-12P (central) that Tivo can snag and they can watch as wanted/needed. Sesame Street is still good too.
I agree with all that, except for the sesame street bit. It's really gone downhill. No, seriously. I'm showing my age here, but I recall watching the episode where they dealt with the death of Mr Hooper. Now that was one tough subject to get through. Nowadays it seems that it (and most kids shows) are all happy touchy-feely, "the world is a wonderful place" stuff. The lesson kids need to learn is yes, you might want to be an astronaut, but someone still has to be out there unblocking sewers.Sesame Street is a little early to learn it - everyone needs their innocence. But I think it's starting them down the path to unrealistic expectations, and one hell of a fall later on in life.
This closely ties in with the recent article about college students being unable to decipher credit card agreements.
Basically : If you cannot read an End User License Agreement and understand what it is saying, you need to improve your English skills. NOW.
Legalese is the last bastion of specifically correct, carefully worded, properly formed English. Even words such as "shall" or "should" - the meaning of which can usually be inferred in everyday English - are often explicitly defined to avoid confusion. And you can be damned sure that Legalese is not going anywhere soon. If you can't comprehend Legalese (or any form of complex English), you're going to end up in a whole lot of trouble one day down the track. If you can comprehend it, you essentially have a grasp of the correct structure and form of Modern English.
The leet-speak, IM'ing crowd can poo-pooh it as much as they want, but learning correct English will serve you well in the future.
These were fired at elevations of from 60 to 90 degrees from a 16 inch naval gun (on loan from the U.S.) which was located in Barbados. The gun was bored out to 16.5 inches and made into a smooth-bore cannon. Altitudes of approximately 500,000 to 600,000 feet (100 miles, 160 km) were projected for this arrangement, and early trial reported in the reference cited went as high as 112 km. Martlet vehicles carried instruments made from discrete solid-state electronics - they were potted in a mix of epoxy and sand (!) and the designers did not seem to have any real trouble getting the electronic to survive the launch acceleration which peaked at approximately 20,000 g.
I'm pointing out a sad fact of life. Really, I don't care if you post on slashdot in leet-speak. Try sending an email to a client like that and you'll lose your contract.
You use language to get your point across to someone else. If you can't correctly use the language, your point will not be recieved very well. And that point you're trying to make might be the one that gets you off the unemployment line. Or stops your boss from firing you when you make an honest mistake. Or persuades your wife to come back to you (again). All these things require clear communication. Mangled spelling and grammar does not help you in the slightest.
So again, I don't care what you post here. But if what you post here resembles your grasp of the language, please, for your sake - not mine - improve it.
is puncuatian gonna be part of our final grade, ohh grate teachar of slashdot postars.
It fucking well will be in real life. If you can't spell or put together a proper sentence, you will go nowhere fast.
Any job application / report to a customer / business proposal instantly loses its authority in the eyes of the recipient if said recipient detects a spelling or grammatical error. Think about that before applying the sarcasm on with a trowel next time.
breaking the cable supporting an elevator will not bring you crashing to Earth.
Unless you happen to ride the one I ride every day, which descends 1km down to where I work at the bottom of a mine. No brakes. It's a pretty fat cable holding it, but there's still a disturbing amount of cable stretch at the bottom level, which causes the whole elevator to slowly oscillate up and down about 4 or 5 inches when it reaches that platform.
I try to think light,happy thoughts when I'm on it.:-)
Well, when they build these, they can put a big spring down there. Happy?
I reckon the guide rails could taper in a bit when you reached the bottom of the shaft - say, over the last 20ft. Your falling car could then wedge itself in and stop slower than just hitting the deck. You could survive decelerating from 100mph in 20ft, although you'd be pretty pissed off about it.
Probably end up just crushing the car like a coke can though:-/
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OH NOES!!!1! Why hasn't the tech industry ever thought of this problem!!
We're DOOOMED I tells ya.
Jeez. Look. Smarter people than you are working on this, OK?
Ever heard of multisession CD's?
The UDF standard?
You don't have to burn your 50GB again. In the case of multisession CD's, you just spend 3 minutes and burn a 15MB new session. In the case of UDF, you just burn the file to CD (via a UDF packet writer) and the UDF filesystem takes care of the nitty-gritty , all transparent to you.
If you're lucky with your software, you can even pick which session you want to use later on, giving you various revisions of your hypothetical word file to work with.
So don't panic.
Both of those tell you where you are (actually, the cellestial version will only tell you where you are with the aid of an accurate clock).
Polar, or circumpolar stars can tell you the direction of the pole, and from there you can infer your approximate heading fairly easily.
Polaris (in the northern hemisphere) and a small trick using the southern cross and pointers in the southern hemisphere do the job ok.
Let me help you with your brain :
:-)
Greek and Latin Roots
Now be grateful - I could have modded you offtopic instead.
Suddenly nuclear doesn't seem like such a bad option :)
Pfft. You're talking to geeks here.
If there was a device that minced 3 kittens an hour and gave you an extra 5 fps in quake, we'd be all over it.
That's exactly what we use undergound - leaky feeders with repeater/amp modules every thousand feet or so. Coupled with standard VHF radios it works ok. It also carries a "PED" - a one-way text pager that's embedded in the battery pack for my caplamp.
But yet, it's still a pain in the ass. If you cant see a leaky feeder hanging from the roof, there's no comms. It's strictly line-of-sight. Even though it's armoured cable, a ton of rock will easily crush it.
So forget using leaky feeder cable for rescue.
If I could just get a text pager that worked outside the range of a leaky feeder, I'd be happy. This looks like it might be a solution.
I work underground in a workshop repairing mining gear. At the level of this workshop (600m) the rock strata is approximately 60-70 million years old. It's not going anywhere in the human timescale. In geological timescales, it's actually going very slowly down.
Bury it deep somewhere geologically stable in the centre of a large continent and erase all surface features. Again, anyone smart enough to find it then (eg, by subsurface mapping) is smart enough to deal with it. If not, well geez, we tried our best.
Leave it unmarked and buried deep in an area that has no mineral deposits or anything worth mining. No-one will know, so no-one will want to go snooping for treasure. To get to it, you'll have to know that something's there in the first place. To dig that far you'll need tech. If you've got the tech to drop a shaft down 1000ft, well, you'll have all the gear necessary (and normally, on-hand)to detect radioactivity.
Hardly new - D1's been doing this in Australia for 18 months or so.
Of course, they're pretty coy about it being a mythtv build.
And the exchange rate is something like 40,000 NZ Sheep Barter Units to the USD, so it's pretty cheap really. If you could get one shipped over, that is. And if you crazy americans would adhere to proper standards, like PAL and DVB-T.
(ducks and runs for cover)
The problem with earphones is that you miss a lot of physical cues that the music is too loud.
For example :
If you're sitting in front of your stereo and your innards are thumping in time to the music, you get the idea that it's probably a little loud. You don't get this physical effect wearing earphones.
If the person next to you at a party is moving their lips but you can't hear them, you get the idea that it's a little loud. With earphones, you think "Oh, I've just got earphones in."
All these kinds of missed cues help you to tell when the volume's too loud. If you played music back in a room at the level you normally can achieve with earphones, you'd have people cringing.
The sad part is all those decimal places and 33 1/3 (or 33h 20m) is more precise.
Open source? Check
Open standards? Check ( note: skype is not open in this regard )
Quality product? Check check check
Huge business impact? Check
Easy to use windows GUI? BZZZZZZZT.
Sorry. Asterisk fails to pass muster.
Yes, but 250MPH winds at 750Pa are fuck-all really.
I'm sure one of our aerodynamic guru's here on slashdot could calculate the wind load on a person at that speed and pressure - I'd wager it's not enough to knock you over.
The only problem you might have is more wear on your suit from 250MPH dust particles zinging past.
Forget calling 911 anymore.
Here's the real number, it's :
wait, you *are* a stonecutter member, aren't you?
You could always have a small recording package that jettisons at (say) 10,000 feet. After 10 seconds of tumbling deceleration you'll probably be subsonic. Release a drogue chute then and it'll land fine.
Actually, you can use Tivo to snag a whole lot of educational programming that they miss when they are in school. Discovery, Science Channel, even public television, have a lot of good kid centric shows on between 8A-12P (central) that Tivo can snag and they can watch as wanted/needed. Sesame Street is still good too.
I agree with all that, except for the sesame street bit. It's really gone downhill. No, seriously. I'm showing my age here, but I recall watching the episode where they dealt with the death of Mr Hooper. Now that was one tough subject to get through. Nowadays it seems that it (and most kids shows) are all happy touchy-feely, "the world is a wonderful place" stuff. The lesson kids need to learn is yes, you might want to be an astronaut, but someone still has to be out there unblocking sewers.Sesame Street is a little early to learn it - everyone needs their innocence. But I think it's starting them down the path to unrealistic expectations, and one hell of a fall later on in life.
Bah! He needs to learn how to use HTML.
This closely ties in with the recent article about college students being unable to decipher credit card agreements.
Basically :
If you cannot read an End User License Agreement and understand what it is saying, you need to improve your English skills. NOW.
Legalese is the last bastion of specifically correct, carefully worded, properly formed English. Even words such as "shall" or "should" - the meaning of which can usually be inferred in everyday English - are often explicitly defined to avoid confusion. And you can be damned sure that Legalese is not going anywhere soon. If you can't comprehend Legalese (or any form of complex English), you're going to end up in a whole lot of trouble one day down the track. If you can comprehend it, you essentially have a grasp of the correct structure and form of Modern English.
The leet-speak, IM'ing crowd can poo-pooh it as much as they want, but learning correct English will serve you well in the future.
It seems not - from here
These were fired at elevations of from 60 to 90 degrees from a 16 inch naval gun (on loan from the U.S.) which was located in Barbados. The gun was bored out to 16.5 inches and made into a smooth-bore cannon. Altitudes of approximately 500,000 to 600,000 feet (100 miles, 160 km) were projected for this arrangement, and early trial reported in the reference cited went as high as 112 km. Martlet vehicles carried instruments made from discrete solid-state electronics - they were potted in a mix of epoxy and sand (!) and the designers did not seem to have any real trouble getting the electronic to survive the launch acceleration which peaked at approximately 20,000 g.
I'm pointing out a sad fact of life. Really, I don't care if you post on slashdot in leet-speak. Try sending an email to a client like that and you'll lose your contract.
You use language to get your point across to someone else. If you can't correctly use the language, your point will not be recieved very well. And that point you're trying to make might be the one that gets you off the unemployment line. Or stops your boss from firing you when you make an honest mistake. Or persuades your wife to come back to you (again). All these things require clear communication. Mangled spelling and grammar does not help you in the slightest.
So again, I don't care what you post here. But if what you post here resembles your grasp of the language, please, for your sake - not mine - improve it.
I boldly predict that 50 years from now, personal re-entry a-la MOOSE will be an extreme sport :-)
is puncuatian gonna be part of our final grade, ohh grate teachar of slashdot postars.
It fucking well will be in real life. If you can't spell or put together a proper sentence, you will go nowhere fast.
Any job application / report to a customer / business proposal instantly loses its authority in the eyes of the recipient if said recipient detects a spelling or grammatical error. Think about that before applying the sarcasm on with a trowel next time.
Hmm. A smaller version of MOOSE would almost do the trick for the reentry one. Would need a bit of avionics though.
(Goes off to look up old General Electric patents)
breaking the cable supporting an elevator will not bring you crashing to Earth.
:-)
Unless you happen to ride the one I ride every day, which descends 1km down to where I work at the bottom of a mine. No brakes. It's a pretty fat cable holding it, but there's still a disturbing amount of cable stretch at the bottom level, which causes the whole elevator to slowly oscillate up and down about 4 or 5 inches when it reaches that platform.
I try to think light,happy thoughts when I'm on it.
Well, when they build these, they can put a big spring down there. Happy?
:-/
I reckon the guide rails could taper in a bit when you reached the bottom of the shaft - say, over the last 20ft. Your falling car could then wedge itself in and stop slower than just hitting the deck. You could survive decelerating from 100mph in 20ft, although you'd be pretty pissed off about it.
Probably end up just crushing the car like a coke can though
Even in Lima the UV index today is 11. By comparision in Miami it is 3 and in New Jersey it is 1.
.au we get a UV index of 17 (er, they call it "extreme") on occasion.
Jeez, I hope we're not on the same index - where I am in