It is total bullshit. I recall in years past one of the primary advantages for using PDFs was because you could trust them from random web links as if they were JPGs. I recall my professors saying not to send any homework in DOC format because of its silly security problems. Nowadays I IP get block notices from our admins the minute my PDF reader is outdated.. it is ridiculous.
Yea and 200kg is about 441lbs.. but as this is not in libraries-of-congress, the numbers are incomprehensible anyways.
Unfortunately this aint taught in school..
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A major component missing from engineering education - software or otherwise - is the design process. In retrospect, I think this is due to too many professors lacking real world experience outside academia. Basically most of them have never been involved in large, complicated projects. I don't know about everyone else's education, but in my school we had just one course devoted to the software engineering process and one course devoted to the electrical engineering process. In retrospect this lopsided mix of fundamentals and process is really at odds with how engineering really works.
It is shocking and unbelievable.. But its not the "military," its their contractors. It surprises me this doesn't happen more as honestly the very worst students who barely graduated engineering school could somehow always find a way to get a job at a defense contractor (coughRaytheon) after all the private sector employers laughed them out of the interview. Not to say there arn't cream-of-the-crop engineers in the DoD contractor world but I know they're in the minority. Flame on!
Waaay back in 2002 we built a similar device for lab rats for my senior EE project. A little helmet stuck electrodes into the rats brain and fed the signals to a little 2cm x 1cm backpack that had a little amp, mux, a2d and fm transmitter. Used to study what areas of the rats brain were responsible for drug addiction. They actually juiced the rats on cocaine. Hence ours was WAY COOLER and we were drunk half the time.:P
For anyone else who works on satellite RF systems.. 768KW = 89dBm.. say around a 10dB antenna at Least.. maybe 600km spacecraft altitude... then you have your 30dB antenna, 30dB gain amp..
Basically your -60dB front end filter covering s-band aint gunna do the trick methinks.. I've just spent several weeks specifying and designing a massive front end filter then saw this.. screw it, im goin to the bar.
Why is this news? Flip screen tablets have been around for about 5 years.. my Toshiba M209 from 2004 for example.. Is it relevant because they shrunk the overall thing and now its a "netbook" ?
These punks dont know who theyre messin with!! Me and my posse are put on our roller blades, spike our hair and take them out with our camouflage thirty three point six bee pee ess moh demz.
There are plenty of places that would be interesting to map that are closed to traffic but open to bikes. Many European cities have city-centers that are just so.
Yea they can have some interesting effects. I was in the amazon rainforest camping for the first time two weeks ago. After a day of just hiking around i closed my eyes and realized i was definitely hallucinating. I think it was something I was inhaling.. pretty much the same story each day until we were way out on the widest parts of the river on the boat for awhile.. strange..
I was having to write code to debug radar problems while on board one of NASAs P3 Orions (not technically The vomit comet but close enough)... in a thermal suit where the ambient temperature would go below zero at high altitudes then they would perform corkscrew dive maneuvers at some serious G-force to point the nadir looking antennas above the horizon back down to 300ft above the ocean where the temperature would spike over 100 degrees and the turbulence would throw you from the seat if not for the 6 point restraint. And the korean grad students were barfing their tuna fish sandwiches everywhere so the whole place smelled as can be expected. YOU KNOW NOTHING OF PAIN.
NASA employees are directly barred from lobbying as are all civil servants by the Hatch Act (wiki). Though people in congress do step in for specific projects now and then, notably Hubble and Sen. Barbara Mikulski, it is unfortunately rare.
matlab has plugins for excel so you can seamlessly move matrices back and forth between them. I guess this is a good book if you cant afford matlab.. but.. i dunno who would be using matlab and not even able to get a student license. Seems kinda pointless.
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It is total bullshit. I recall in years past one of the primary advantages for using PDFs was because you could trust them from random web links as if they were JPGs. I recall my professors saying not to send any homework in DOC format because of its silly security problems. Nowadays I IP get block notices from our admins the minute my PDF reader is outdated.. it is ridiculous.
For people interested in this sort of thing you should check out Celestia! Yes, it is open source. http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
Yea and 200kg is about 441lbs.. but as this is not in libraries-of-congress, the numbers are incomprehensible anyways.
A major component missing from engineering education - software or otherwise - is the design process. In retrospect, I think this is due to too many professors lacking real world experience outside academia. Basically most of them have never been involved in large, complicated projects. I don't know about everyone else's education, but in my school we had just one course devoted to the software engineering process and one course devoted to the electrical engineering process. In retrospect this lopsided mix of fundamentals and process is really at odds with how engineering really works.
This is an ENTIRE FIELD in the satellite remote sensing community.. Theres so many papers on improving limited satellite imagery its nauseating. Browse.. http://www.igarss09.org/Papers/RegularProgram_MS.asp
Lolz, yea they really should have pulled out a cutting torch and cut out the middle third of the shuttle. :)
It is shocking and unbelievable.. But its not the "military," its their contractors. It surprises me this doesn't happen more as honestly the very worst students who barely graduated engineering school could somehow always find a way to get a job at a defense contractor (coughRaytheon) after all the private sector employers laughed them out of the interview. Not to say there arn't cream-of-the-crop engineers in the DoD contractor world but I know they're in the minority. Flame on!
Waaay back in 2002 we built a similar device for lab rats for my senior EE project. A little helmet stuck electrodes into the rats brain and fed the signals to a little 2cm x 1cm backpack that had a little amp, mux, a2d and fm transmitter. Used to study what areas of the rats brain were responsible for drug addiction. They actually juiced the rats on cocaine. Hence ours was WAY COOLER and we were drunk half the time. :P
This is ridiculous, my friend showed this to me on his G1 along time ago.
*..rimshot*
For anyone else who works on satellite RF systems.. 768KW = 89dBm.. say around a 10dB antenna at Least.. maybe 600km spacecraft altitude... then you have your 30dB antenna, 30dB gain amp.. Basically your -60dB front end filter covering s-band aint gunna do the trick methinks.. I've just spent several weeks specifying and designing a massive front end filter then saw this.. screw it, im goin to the bar.
Why is this news? Flip screen tablets have been around for about 5 years.. my Toshiba M209 from 2004 for example.. Is it relevant because they shrunk the overall thing and now its a "netbook" ?
These punks dont know who theyre messin with!! Me and my posse are put on our roller blades, spike our hair and take them out with our camouflage thirty three point six bee pee ess moh demz.
There are plenty of places that would be interesting to map that are closed to traffic but open to bikes. Many European cities have city-centers that are just so.
Yea they can have some interesting effects. I was in the amazon rainforest camping for the first time two weeks ago. After a day of just hiking around i closed my eyes and realized i was definitely hallucinating. I think it was something I was inhaling.. pretty much the same story each day until we were way out on the widest parts of the river on the boat for awhile.. strange..
The ambient temperature outside was probably in the 80s or 90s.. the sunlight on the plane is what caused the amazing cooking action.
I was having to write code to debug radar problems while on board one of NASAs P3 Orions (not technically The vomit comet but close enough)... in a thermal suit where the ambient temperature would go below zero at high altitudes then they would perform corkscrew dive maneuvers at some serious G-force to point the nadir looking antennas above the horizon back down to 300ft above the ocean where the temperature would spike over 100 degrees and the turbulence would throw you from the seat if not for the 6 point restraint. And the korean grad students were barfing their tuna fish sandwiches everywhere so the whole place smelled as can be expected. YOU KNOW NOTHING OF PAIN.
That school is SO metal!!
same here, i read "Astronaut Loses Stools While Performing an EVA" and shuddered.
If you didnt vote for Cthulhu today as a write-in im very worried about your sanity being had for breakfast. Hes here!! Look busy!!
CTHULHU & PALIN 2012!!!
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NASA employees are directly barred from lobbying as are all civil servants by the Hatch Act (wiki). Though people in congress do step in for specific projects now and then, notably Hubble and Sen. Barbara Mikulski, it is unfortunately rare.
hilarious! When love turns sour the only friend myopic geeks can reach out to is slashdot.
matlab has plugins for excel so you can seamlessly move matrices back and forth between them. I guess this is a good book if you cant afford matlab.. but.. i dunno who would be using matlab and not even able to get a student license. Seems kinda pointless.