...which are made by thermal shock, not chipping fyi. You heat the blade-to-be in the fire, then add drops of water where you want the edge to be. Little flakes pop off. It's the reason why you see a lot of chipped flint knives, but no "stone chipping" tools. Flint and obsidian are really susceptible to thermal shock, and were the preferred material, although I believe some jasper tools were found in the American Southwest.
The problem with this statement is that it implies the usage of binary but as such is nonsensical...
You are correct, of course. But perhaps a boolean operator could subtract the car from the equation, leaving a clean field and a more correct statement. I understand the series had a rather exclusive 'or that could be used for the purpose...
I prefer anonymity because if people were able to check what I say against my Permanent Record, they would find that I was the person who drew that "Hello, Sydney!" parrot on the footpath back in 1968. I can't afford that. Besides, I have an alabi and I live in another country now. Nice person, please don't mention the war.
Bearing in mind the average age of a/. reader, I think you should have provided footnotes to explain "logic card", "Seymour" and "CDC".
Quite correct, and I apologise.
"Logic card" meant a circuit board that contained a single logic element, such as a half-adder or a register.
"CDC" meant Control Data Corporation, whose first deliveries of 6000-series supercomputers were the reason IBM announced the System 360 and OS one year before the first prototype was seen.
"Seymour", single name, used to mean only one person -- Seymour Cray, father of the supercomputer and (among other things) inventor of the instruction pipeline cache. CDC 6600's were large pipelined multiprocessor machines with a 60-bit instruction and 128-bit arithmetic, back when IBM was focusing on pretty register light displays for their mainframes. The 6600's were first networked together in a scheme called "ARPANet" and were astoundingly powerful compared to any competition around at the time. Upon completion of the design, Seymour was heard to say "That's the last small computer I'm ever going to build".
Another Cray 'ism heard at Apple way back when; we'd just bought a Cray super to work some designs on the new Apple II's. "That's funny," said Cray; "I use an Apple II to design my computers".
But will they maintain the Arks we send out, after funding for their maintenance is cut off?
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Does this mean my stack will grow uncontrollably? What about garbage collection? Will this storage medium be under threat from BASIC instincts? Sic 'em, Friskit!
Not feel a thing? You'd feel plenty, as your blood boils and the capilliaries in your eyes rupture. Would take you a minute or two to wallow in freakish agony until the embolisms let you see-saw between stroke and cardiac failure before you pass out from the pain. With having the air run out (rather than "let out"), you'd have positive pressure and nothing to breathe -- CO2 poisoning would give you a headache, after which you'd pass out... forever.
Or you could simply throw a spanner or anything massive you could find, hard as you can, in the direction opposite where you want to go, and hope it's enough thrust to matter. Or simply let that long carbon fibre boom pluck you back first...
Agreed. FYI One trick to a good professional presentation during a technical interview is to wear a badly-fitting (but clean) suit with an inexpertly knotted tie. If you wear eyeglasses, make sure they're clean. It shows you made the effort, but are not at home looking like a marketing flack.
...Three or four hundred interviews for tech staff to my name (and had to live with the result); truth is, you can generally tell if someone's the goods in the first two minutes of the interview, irrespective of what they're wearing. When the chips are down, a necktie is a real annoyance, on you or the person watching over your shoulder.
The only way this isn't closer to carbon-neutral than burning oil is if the cow manure that is going to be burned for power would otherwise be buried deep underground, which I kind of doubt would happen...
Umm, it does. The technical innovation that permits this is called the "Plow".
A few decades ago in a small service bureau near LAX a visiting suit-and-tie type walked past and took exception to the engineer who was dressed in shirt and jeans and busily filing down a resistor on a logic card. Seems he wanted the miscreant fired/evicted for (a) not representing CDC to the public correctly, (b) obviously damaging a very rare and expensive piece of equipment, and (c) ignoring him. "That's Seymour," said the DC manager, "and I don't think you can fire him. And if he's filing down a resistor, I presume the computer will work better that way".
Please accept the above for the lovely second-hand urban myth that it is, one belonging to a CDC 6600 site where I was lucky enough to attend a few lectures.
... and harbour navigational markers, small vertical wind turbines to save a few quid on battery life.
I remember one inventor made a vertical turbine out of sawn-in-half (along cylindrical axis) 55-gallon barrels welded to a central post that pivoted off a bit of recycled auto wheel. Pulleys, fan belt and alternator also scrounged up from a wrecking yard to charge 12V batteries, which he then used to provide free 12V lighting to his house. Nice junkyard technology, can't remember where I saw it (Whole Earth Catalog perhaps?). I suspect modern plastic barrels would work equally well, if braced to keep the flex from dissipating too much of the captured wind into heat.
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...which are made by thermal shock, not chipping fyi. You heat the blade-to-be in the fire, then add drops of water where you want the edge to be. Little flakes pop off. It's the reason why you see a lot of chipped flint knives, but no "stone chipping" tools. Flint and obsidian are really susceptible to thermal shock, and were the preferred material, although I believe some jasper tools were found in the American Southwest.
Just don't let the Kzinti have one without the proper TASP.
I didn't think that anyone believed that a tack was the 'sharpest'
You've obviously never laid or removed carpet. There may be sharper points, but those tacks get personal.
You are correct, of course. But perhaps a boolean operator could subtract the car from the equation, leaving a clean field and a more correct statement. I understand the series had a rather exclusive 'or that could be used for the purpose...
Or in front, or to the side if you wish. In Space, nobody can see you stream...
Why does this statement remind me of William Proxmire?
Oh...
I believe it should be coloured so as to be less apparently tasty and nutritious to the giant Space Goats known to be frequenting the area.
I think that's Litigophilia. See Groklaw for your fix.
I prefer anonymity because if people were able to check what I say against my Permanent Record, they would find that I was the person who drew that "Hello, Sydney!" parrot on the footpath back in 1968. I can't afford that. Besides, I have an alabi and I live in another country now. Nice person, please don't mention the war.
(RUR -- Rossum's Universal Robots)
This would not be the first time that science has followed science fiction. Imagination is always first car in the clue train.
I blame the fluff between the neurons that comes from having ideas in off-line storage too long. Some of dem bitz is getting negatized.
Quite correct, and I apologise.
"Logic card" meant a circuit board that contained a single logic element, such as a half-adder or a register.
"CDC" meant Control Data Corporation, whose first deliveries of 6000-series supercomputers were the reason IBM announced the System 360 and OS one year before the first prototype was seen.
"Seymour", single name, used to mean only one person -- Seymour Cray, father of the supercomputer and (among other things) inventor of the instruction pipeline cache. CDC 6600's were large pipelined multiprocessor machines with a 60-bit instruction and 128-bit arithmetic, back when IBM was focusing on pretty register light displays for their mainframes. The 6600's were first networked together in a scheme called "ARPANet" and were astoundingly powerful compared to any competition around at the time. Upon completion of the design, Seymour was heard to say "That's the last small computer I'm ever going to build".
Another Cray 'ism heard at Apple way back when; we'd just bought a Cray super to work some designs on the new Apple II's. "That's funny," said Cray; "I use an Apple II to design my computers".
Obviously, Imperial units are required here. They are disorganised, with few you could point to and say "there's a true Litre".
But will they maintain the Arks we send out, after funding for their maintenance is cut off?
Does this mean my stack will grow uncontrollably? What about garbage collection? Will this storage medium be under threat from BASIC instincts? Sic 'em, Friskit!
Or you could simply throw a spanner or anything massive you could find, hard as you can, in the direction opposite where you want to go, and hope it's enough thrust to matter. Or simply let that long carbon fibre boom pluck you back first...
...Three or four hundred interviews for tech staff to my name (and had to live with the result); truth is, you can generally tell if someone's the goods in the first two minutes of the interview, irrespective of what they're wearing. When the chips are down, a necktie is a real annoyance, on you or the person watching over your shoulder.
In India, cow pats are a major fuel. No ...ah, kidding.
Umm, it does. The technical innovation that permits this is called the "Plow".
Forget cows, I want to go Tractor Tipping.
Could be worse -- if Sony bought out Apple we'd have a new generation of Beta Macs
Please accept the above for the lovely second-hand urban myth that it is, one belonging to a CDC 6600 site where I was lucky enough to attend a few lectures.
8E9 web pages. Call Gregory.
Mygosh! I didn't realise the Brittanica had such a powerful lobby!
I remember one inventor made a vertical turbine out of sawn-in-half (along cylindrical axis) 55-gallon barrels welded to a central post that pivoted off a bit of recycled auto wheel. Pulleys, fan belt and alternator also scrounged up from a wrecking yard to charge 12V batteries, which he then used to provide free 12V lighting to his house. Nice junkyard technology, can't remember where I saw it (Whole Earth Catalog perhaps?). I suspect modern plastic barrels would work equally well, if braced to keep the flex from dissipating too much of the captured wind into heat.