I learned programming from typing in listings from Compute! magazine. The worst was before I had a tape drive and would type 'run' after 6 hours of typing and the whole thing would just lock up. Or turn funny colors and then lock up.
But the things I learned on my little 8 bit computer got me more software and engineering jobs than did my electrical degree and also a patent on a sprite concept on some advanced graphics hardware. None of the other engineers were aware of sprites....
My large, two door 22.5cuft refrigerator uses about 1kwh/day. I get on average 6 hours of sunlight/day. So 1kwh/6h = 166w(p), one small panel. Summer, I get 13 hours of sunlight an worse case winter is 4.7 hours of sunlight. Coincidentally, the refrigerator uses a lot less electricity the winter. Worse case, I'd need a 225w panel, which is what I have. 12 of them and I've never run out.
It had to have been something like that. This was proven in my first semester freshman engineering class when everyone was supposed to group brainstorm ideas (brainstorming is when you come up with ideas with no regard to their technical efficacy or feasibility) then later on evaluate them. Solar power was the topic of that class that particular semester and every semester there would be a different topic like dams or garbage dumps, just happened to get solar power so studied it in depth.
As a physicist I've always wondered this too. I also wonder how a supposedly intelligent tech website like/. has all of these people promoting ideas with little technical (or physics based) merit. But then I wonder why movies don't also. I guess from work experience it's a matter of getting the people with the money to trust the right people who know what they're doing.
The C64 came out in 1982. It is listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest-selling single computer model of all time, with independent estimates placing the number sold between 10 and 17 million units. Everyone I new had a computer in HS in he 1980's and BBSing was huge among all of my friends. For the last 30 years I have been kicking back, drinking beer and watching all the software that I used as a kid get hyped as the newest and greatest thing ever, now with electrolytes and UX (but the same thing really). Remember vax [mycray]$send? It allowed you to send one line of text to anyone on the system, or a list of people if you wanted. talk, phone, mail. The last "new" piece of software that I've seen is mathematica, and its basically a copy of MIT's thema mixed with LISP and a killer front end. That was 30 years ago.
Luckily, or unluckily, I got tired of most of it long before the.com crazes and was able to avoid the downfalls.
Obviously you have never seen a shuttle. It is mostly a 1960's design and looks like a WWII bomber. The computers and systems were ancient, even after the upgrade, only the engines are very impressive. But you're just a fast food worker who likes wings in space. No fooling you.
They were also supposedly designed for a two week turn around. It may have been political and even if it wasn't, they were horrible machines from both safety engineering and financial aspects. The really should have cut their losses after the first flight and started over, but too many people would have looked bad. That's where the real political failure was.
But almost all groundwork today will be obsolete decades before anyone gets around to doing anything for real. What needs to be done now (and since the 60's really) is to reduce launch costs.
When launch costs are $25k/kg, you get one probe ever 3 years. When launch costs are $25/kg, you get hundreds or thousands of probes per year. If you had a 100% reusable, no maintenance vehicle, energy costs are $3/kg. It's like the difference between mainframes and PC. At $25/kg I would mount my own probe expedition to Europa mission.
A falcon 9 costs ~$60M/vehicle, the same price as a B737. Their complexity is roughly the same and BA builds 50 737s/month.
Low flight rate was one of the reasons the air force was forced into using the shuttle - to get the rates up. That made NASA change their original design to something usable for them (them being the air force who did not want it in the first place) which ultimately made it unusable for everyone.
I once started to write some software to analyze books and find all sentence structure on a book, but got too lazy and quit.lso could not find any data sets.
While all parsable sentences is unbounded, the ones limted to human understanding are.
Slashdot Mirror
Never forget what we traded it for. Three times more energetic than the LHC.
Education costs are about the cheapest they've ever been
I think wolfram has a better chance with cellular automa.
But the things I learned on my little 8 bit computer got me more software and engineering jobs than did my electrical degree and also a patent on a sprite concept on some advanced graphics hardware. None of the other engineers were aware of sprites....
having enough panels
My large, two door 22.5cuft refrigerator uses about 1kwh/day. I get on average 6 hours of sunlight/day. So 1kwh/6h = 166w(p), one small panel. Summer, I get 13 hours of sunlight an worse case winter is 4.7 hours of sunlight. Coincidentally, the refrigerator uses a lot less electricity the winter. Worse case, I'd need a 225w panel, which is what I have. 12 of them and I've never run out.
It had to have been something like that. This was proven in my first semester freshman engineering class when everyone was supposed to group brainstorm ideas (brainstorming is when you come up with ideas with no regard to their technical efficacy or feasibility) then later on evaluate them. Solar power was the topic of that class that particular semester and every semester there would be a different topic like dams or garbage dumps, just happened to get solar power so studied it in depth.
As a physicist I've always wondered this too. I also wonder how a supposedly intelligent tech website like /. has all of these people promoting ideas with little technical (or physics based) merit. But then I wonder why movies don't also. I guess from work experience it's a matter of getting the people with the money to trust the right people who know what they're doing.
I use wire cutters. Better than nail clippers. Learn blacksmithing. There are youtube videos on how to make them. Before it's too late.
Luckily, or unluckily, I got tired of most of it long before the .com crazes and was able to avoid the downfalls.
Netscape was the web. I was using the internet (and its predecessors a decade before that).
I did this for a couple of decades and comfortably retired.
I have many times. So what? There was even a movie that showed people doing this.
Obviously you have never seen a shuttle. It is mostly a 1960's design and looks like a WWII bomber. The computers and systems were ancient, even after the upgrade, only the engines are very impressive. But you're just a fast food worker who likes wings in space. No fooling you.
https://www.rt.com/usa/199480-...
Aircraft are also required to have something like less than 1 death in 10^13 hours of operation. The shuttle was closer to 1 death per hour.
The whole space station thing is an embarrassment from a science perspective.
They were also supposedly designed for a two week turn around. It may have been political and even if it wasn't, they were horrible machines from both safety engineering and financial aspects. The really should have cut their losses after the first flight and started over, but too many people would have looked bad. That's where the real political failure was.
When launch costs are $25k/kg, you get one probe ever 3 years. When launch costs are $25/kg, you get hundreds or thousands of probes per year. If you had a 100% reusable, no maintenance vehicle, energy costs are $3/kg. It's like the difference between mainframes and PC. At $25/kg I would mount my own probe expedition to Europa mission.
A falcon 9 costs ~$60M/vehicle, the same price as a B737. Their complexity is roughly the same and BA builds 50 737s/month.
Low flight rate was one of the reasons the air force was forced into using the shuttle - to get the rates up. That made NASA change their original design to something usable for them (them being the air force who did not want it in the first place) which ultimately made it unusable for everyone.
as many french emigrating as us citizens getting the hell out of the US
US population is five times greater than france. http://www.wolframalpha.com/in... so french emigration per capita rates are much higher.
Are doctors exempt? Or maybe the guy who designed a multimillion dollar satellite that just freaked out?
While all parsable sentences is unbounded, the ones limted to human understanding are.
Same reason they took out tv screens at checkout lines.
Housing is 35%, but schools barely show up. And median school debt is under $15k, median household income is over $50k.
Minimum wage is $10/hr in CA.