Yeah I have just been though it all agin with my lawyer clients. Every email virus they get hit by they have to "let me know my servers are infected"...
Each time I explain that email is insecure and people can forge your email address then point out that it is unlikely that the windows virus has infected my linux mail server...
I don't know of any alloys that can take the sustained temperatures and pressures required for re-entry.
Even if suitably temperature resistant alloys can be found I do not believe it will have the same heat resistance as a ceramic tile/blanket - mostly in terms of conductivity, abrasion and preserving structural integrity. Due to the difficulty of large segment manufacturing the wing will also still probably involve a number of joints between alloy plates - ie. like the tiles it has strong and weak points.
Additionally, this will not increase resilience to wing penetration in the slightest. The disruption of the boundary layer, combined with the partial reversal in wing stress (gasses now trying to escape the wing from the inside, instead of the usual compressive pressure) would still cause catastrophic failure in my view.
I agree that you should determine the relative importance of your OT pay with respect to your job. I do NOT agree that "OT doesn't exist in IT".
When you are routinely instructed(sic) to perform OT for no reward, frequently on mundane tasks, and you are neither intellectually or financially rewarded for your time and effort you are in a lose-lose situation - there is no incentive for an employee to perform under these conditions and it quickly engenders employer/employee dissatisfaction and conflict.
As others have noted standing up for your rights may end up with your job going elsewhere. So you need to make the decision in light of this fact, and perhaps with acceptance that you may require a new job.
I have had employers try and swindle me out of various rights (often through illegal contract clauses) and have had to confront them on these issues. I have always made a point of directly approaching the Director involved, supplying them with copies of the relevant legislation and asking them to rectify the situation. Most of them are more than willing to comply and avoid the risk of investigation and penalties.
Finally, talk to your fellow employees regarding the problem you are facing and any resolutions achieved. I approached one employee regarding their contracted sick/holiday days being barely half of the federally mandated level. This was quickly rectified in MY case, but each of the other employees was kept in the dark and not given their entitlements until they fought for them. If I had not discussed it with them the employer would have continued to exploit them.
It would take an enormous amount of energy to have a discernable effect.
The main problem (apart from collecting sufficient energy from the air flow) is the inverse square attenuation of the emitted EM field. Recall if you will that the boundary layer forms "several inches" away from the leading edge of the wing.
A seemingly non-intuitive way of reducing the drag coefficient would be to mount a plasma cannon on the front (underside) of the shuttle. This allows the incident gases to receive initial momentum from the plasma instead of the airframe, it also utilizes the fact the friction between two gasses/plasmas is less than the friction between a gas and a solid (the same reason surf boards are made rough now instead of smooth).
Of course we could take a leaf from the Russians and use blanket insulators instead of the current tiles - or more likely a blanket could be used as an "emergency patch" in the case of a similar event in the future.
It is well accepted (and easily measurable) in HCI that yellow/black edges are the easiest and most accurate to perceive.
In terms of the glare I would suggest that you do not use a dark background. Glare is by definition reflected light so by using a dark background you increase the perceived glare.
On a different vein, my glasses are treated with an anti-reflective coating that allows people to see my eyes instead of white discs (and makes night driving a pleasure instead of a stress). Does anyone know of any screens that incorporate this sort of technology?
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Keen would be good but I would really love Stunts (released under various names in various countries I believe) and Death Rally remade.
Secret Weapons Of The Luftwaffe was a lot of fun too - I actually hired the XBox remake called Secret Weapons Over Normandy the other day, and then we were blacked out all night by a huge electrical storm... I decided it must be an air raid and went to bed.:)
This is one of those fascinating conundrums of Open Source. You end up in the position of needing the docs to learn how the hell to use it so you can write docs of your own.
Sometime the code comments are enough, sometimes they aren't. Japanese might be a problem.:)
I feel I should put in a plug for Linux Live at this point.
Although I haven't used it myself it is what the slax distribution was created with.
To quote from their website: "Linux Live is a set of bash scripts which allows you to create own LiveCD from every Linux distribution. Just install your favourite distro, remove all unnecessary files (for example man pages and all other files which are not important for you) and then download and run these scripts. "
Gimmick schimmick. Playing tennis against your mates, facing the aliens with your little brother, videos of YOU getting air of the halfpipe at Mt Bulla, MMORPG's where you can actually create yourself (or your cat, dog, potplant, genitalia - as other posters have noted...).
Personally, I think the head of my two year old boy would be perfect in wrestling games...
A large electrical storm was busy trying to pump megawatts of power into the dishes used by NASA near canberra australia about the same time as Spirit went coy. Lovely pictures of big dishes and bigger bolts of lightning on the news.
I'm not saying it caused the failure, but I'm sure it didn't help...
Yeah it's hard to react when things just seem so bizarre.... and a scoob before work doesn't help .:)
I had the reverse problem with a Director of Development who liked to punch at peoples faces (to within an inch or so) as part of the daily office interaction.
We had very little to do with each other and all was well. Until one day I took in an ADO interface I had been working on which was not how he had requested (would have helped if he actually understood SQL...) and the bastard punched at my face.
Now I am 6'2" and come from a family of 6 boys - the largest of which is 6'6" and weighs around 120-130Kg. If someone tries to punch you in the face, you try and stop it - ie. block the punch and punch straight back.
So here I am, scooping his arm into an elbow lock and hauling back to smear his nose across his face when I manage to get control over my reactions again and stop my fist... fucking ridiculous...
Not exactly job related but I have a few corpse tales to tell:
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My uncle was a cop in rural australia and was often the first person on the scene of an accident. He was called out to an abandoned car one day and found a corpse in the car that had been "ripening" for the last week or two in the 40 degree Celcius heat.
The car was cleaned and put up for sale by the next of kin, but 8 years down the track the car is still up for sale... it doesn't matter what you do, nothing gets rid of the smell of death. It just seems to permeate all surfaces, even the plastic!
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When I was going to uni, we had just gotten the lease on a large run-down "student hovel" nearby and was in the process of moving in.
One of the neighbours suddenly appeared saying "Hi, I work in a morgue and the smell coming from that house is the very distinctive smell of a putrefying human body."
My reply was something along the lines of "Oh".
So we all troop inside the labyrinthine house and start searching. As I worked my way towards the back of the house the smell got stronger, I found a small door going under one of the downstairs internal staircases and opened it. At the back of the tiny cupboard the wall lining had been jimmied off the struts and inexpertly replaced.... I was starting to get a bit nervous as I peeled back the gyprock, wondering if a rotting corpse was going to fall onto my lap.
Nothing dropped out and I crawled around the dirt under the house with a torch and a few snakes... but no corpse.
Eventually the neighbour came round and told us that she had run the rotting leaves (from a tree at the back of the house) through a spectrometer at work and found that it releases exactly the same proteins as a rotting human corpse.... cool.
It is known by the common name "Tree of Heaven" here, although my friends and I all renamed it "Tree of Death" after this experience. It's not a nice feeling to search your house for a corpse.
The day I waved my job administering SCO servers good bye was the happiest of my life.
The only consolation while working there was to help several clients to covertly replace their SCO boxes with various Linux distributions.
My (ex-)boss found out about one of the installations and sent a long letter which basically said - "You get no support"... Luckily that is of little consequence as IT JUST WORKS on all of the linux distributions. All of the clients still on SCO call up at least once a week, generally for expensive manual data repairs after their server has (once again) crashed and corrupted a $10mill pay/invoice run.
As you say "The FCC has limits to human exposure to RF energy". Your implication there is that these limits are indeed safe.
Now I am not saying it is NOT safe, but I certainly would not flatly assert that either PBL or the FCC regs are safe.
I have been watching with interest a number of RF experiments that investigate the effects of ELF, HF, non-globular cell orientation, corona effects etc. The results have been extremely variable and rarely if ever seem to mesh with accepted "standards" - Hence I would err on the side of conservatism at this juncture.
Of course you are 100% correct when it comes to interference - no surpises there though.:)
I just finished Dervish is Digital and enjoyed it immensely.
The legal aspect of the novel was quite intriguing - a novel (pun) approach towards the cyberpunk ethos. A constructed reality normally amazingly devoid of lawyers... I guess we are all idealists at heart...
Yeah I have done it. The only real problem I had was getting a non-standard extension cable with odd cable colours, took a bit of experimentation (and a lot of solder).
It works like a dream, the only problem being that you have to either not use the trigger buttons or set them to digital - no PC games/emulators seem to support analog buttons. Which is a shame as I love driving games...
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Each time I explain that email is insecure and people can forge your email address then point out that it is unlikely that the windows virus has infected my linux mail server...
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Even if suitably temperature resistant alloys can be found I do not believe it will have the same heat resistance as a ceramic tile/blanket - mostly in terms of conductivity, abrasion and preserving structural integrity. Due to the difficulty of large segment manufacturing the wing will also still probably involve a number of joints between alloy plates - ie. like the tiles it has strong and weak points.
Additionally, this will not increase resilience to wing penetration in the slightest. The disruption of the boundary layer, combined with the partial reversal in wing stress (gasses now trying to escape the wing from the inside, instead of the usual compressive pressure) would still cause catastrophic failure in my view.
I could of course be completely wrong. :)
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When you are routinely instructed(sic) to perform OT for no reward, frequently on mundane tasks, and you are neither intellectually or financially rewarded for your time and effort you are in a lose-lose situation - there is no incentive for an employee to perform under these conditions and it quickly engenders employer/employee dissatisfaction and conflict.
As others have noted standing up for your rights may end up with your job going elsewhere. So you need to make the decision in light of this fact, and perhaps with acceptance that you may require a new job.
I have had employers try and swindle me out of various rights (often through illegal contract clauses) and have had to confront them on these issues. I have always made a point of directly approaching the Director involved, supplying them with copies of the relevant legislation and asking them to rectify the situation. Most of them are more than willing to comply and avoid the risk of investigation and penalties.
Finally, talk to your fellow employees regarding the problem you are facing and any resolutions achieved. I approached one employee regarding their contracted sick/holiday days being barely half of the federally mandated level. This was quickly rectified in MY case, but each of the other employees was kept in the dark and not given their entitlements until they fought for them. If I had not discussed it with them the employer would have continued to exploit them.
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The main problem (apart from collecting sufficient energy from the air flow) is the inverse square attenuation of the emitted EM field. Recall if you will that the boundary layer forms "several inches" away from the leading edge of the wing.
A seemingly non-intuitive way of reducing the drag coefficient would be to mount a plasma cannon on the front (underside) of the shuttle. This allows the incident gases to receive initial momentum from the plasma instead of the airframe, it also utilizes the fact the friction between two gasses/plasmas is less than the friction between a gas and a solid (the same reason surf boards are made rough now instead of smooth).
Of course we could take a leaf from the Russians and use blanket insulators instead of the current tiles - or more likely a blanket could be used as an "emergency patch" in the case of a similar event in the future.
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In terms of the glare I would suggest that you do not use a dark background. Glare is by definition reflected light so by using a dark background you increase the perceived glare.
On a different vein, my glasses are treated with an anti-reflective coating that allows people to see my eyes instead of white discs (and makes night driving a pleasure instead of a stress). Does anyone know of any screens that incorporate this sort of technology?
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Bah I say.
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Secret Weapons Of The Luftwaffe was a lot of fun too - I actually hired the XBox remake called Secret Weapons Over Normandy the other day, and then we were blacked out all night by a huge electrical storm... I decided it must be an air raid and went to bed. :)
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Sometime the code comments are enough, sometimes they aren't. Japanese might be a problem. :)
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Although I haven't used it myself it is what the slax distribution was created with.
To quote from their website:
"Linux Live is a set of bash scripts which allows you to create own LiveCD from every Linux distribution. Just install your favourite distro, remove all unnecessary files (for example man pages and all other files which are not important for you) and then download and run these scripts. "
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Gimmick schimmick. Playing tennis against your mates, facing the aliens with your little brother, videos of YOU getting air of the halfpipe at Mt Bulla, MMORPG's where you can actually create yourself (or your cat, dog, potplant, genitalia - as other posters have noted...).
Personally, I think the head of my two year old boy would be perfect in wrestling games...
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I'm not saying it caused the failure, but I'm sure it didn't help...
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I thought it should have been title "Cellular automatons successfully model yet another cellular matrix feedback system."
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I had the reverse problem with a Director of Development who liked to punch at peoples faces (to within an inch or so) as part of the daily office interaction.
We had very little to do with each other and all was well. Until one day I took in an ADO interface I had been working on which was not how he had requested (would have helped if he actually understood SQL...) and the bastard punched at my face.
Now I am 6'2" and come from a family of 6 boys - the largest of which is 6'6" and weighs around 120-130Kg. If someone tries to punch you in the face, you try and stop it - ie. block the punch and punch straight back.
So here I am, scooping his arm into an elbow lock and hauling back to smear his nose across his face when I manage to get control over my reactions again and stop my fist... fucking ridiculous...
Mind you, he didn't do that again...
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My uncle was a cop in rural australia and was often the first person on the scene of an accident. He was called out to an abandoned car one day and found a corpse in the car that had been "ripening" for the last week or two in the 40 degree Celcius heat.
The car was cleaned and put up for sale by the next of kin, but 8 years down the track the car is still up for sale... it doesn't matter what you do, nothing gets rid of the smell of death. It just seems to permeate all surfaces, even the plastic!
2.
When I was going to uni, we had just gotten the lease on a large run-down "student hovel" nearby and was in the process of moving in.
One of the neighbours suddenly appeared saying "Hi, I work in a morgue and the smell coming from that house is the very distinctive smell of a putrefying human body."
My reply was something along the lines of "Oh".
So we all troop inside the labyrinthine house and start searching. As I worked my way towards the back of the house the smell got stronger, I found a small door going under one of the downstairs internal staircases and opened it. At the back of the tiny cupboard the wall lining had been jimmied off the struts and inexpertly replaced.... I was starting to get a bit nervous as I peeled back the gyprock, wondering if a rotting corpse was going to fall onto my lap.
Nothing dropped out and I crawled around the dirt under the house with a torch and a few snakes... but no corpse.
Eventually the neighbour came round and told us that she had run the rotting leaves (from a tree at the back of the house) through a spectrometer at work and found that it releases exactly the same proteins as a rotting human corpse.... cool.
It is known by the common name "Tree of Heaven" here, although my friends and I all renamed it "Tree of Death" after this experience. It's not a nice feeling to search your house for a corpse.
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The only consolation while working there was to help several clients to covertly replace their SCO boxes with various Linux distributions.
My (ex-)boss found out about one of the installations and sent a long letter which basically said - "You get no support"... Luckily that is of little consequence as IT JUST WORKS on all of the linux distributions. All of the clients still on SCO call up at least once a week, generally for expensive manual data repairs after their server has (once again) crashed and corrupted a $10mill pay/invoice run.
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As you say "The FCC has limits to human exposure to RF energy". Your implication there is that these limits are indeed safe.
Now I am not saying it is NOT safe, but I certainly would not flatly assert that either PBL or the FCC regs are safe.
I have been watching with interest a number of RF experiments that investigate the effects of ELF, HF, non-globular cell orientation, corona effects etc. The results have been extremely variable and rarely if ever seem to mesh with accepted "standards" - Hence I would err on the side of conservatism at this juncture.
Of course you are 100% correct when it comes to interference - no surpises there though. :)
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The legal aspect of the novel was quite intriguing - a novel (pun) approach towards the cyberpunk ethos. A constructed reality normally amazingly devoid of lawyers... I guess we are all idealists at heart...
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It works like a dream, the only problem being that you have to either not use the trigger buttons or set them to digital - no PC games/emulators seem to support analog buttons. Which is a shame as I love driving games...
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