Back in '84, the first commercial programming job I did after retiring from the Army was to develop a networked C-64 send-and-receive Morse Code instruction program for the SF radiomen at Bragg. Ended up working very well indeed, but I can't find anyone at all out there now who learned from that system. (I didn't track the school or the code once it was done.)
Army got a real deal: $5000 for an indefinite license for the whole thing! (I was new in the programming field and wanted something to put in my resume.) Took me about 3 months for the whole project.
My favorite smart trick was to run data sorts in video RAM:-) Sure looked cool: you could see the data shuffling and falling into place:-)
Who hasn't seen the (usually live) video of long-suffering weathermen standing out there in a shiny wet rainjacket or suit, being blown away (and the godz alone know how the cameramen manage).
"Twitter user @gourdnibler captured a Weather Channel reporter struggling to stand upright and seemingly holding onto dear life — until the camera pans out a bit and captures two people casually strolling in the background."
Very very generous indeed of the donors, although I have to wonder:
- Any plans for the recipients to be encouraged to pay this back? - Will, or should, they ban DNFs from this program? (I've always had mixed feelings about the flood of foreigners coming into our educational systems, whether they plan to practice here or return home.)
(DNFs = "Dirty Nasty Foreigners", a running joke on one of my favorite forums, which incidentally is full of DNFs who find it funny)
I remember them around Nurnberg back when I was a teenager there. Pretty common, seemed to be quite useful. And yes, I remember a driver needing help to push one back from a sloping parking slot along a street:-)
I also recall them being banned from the Autobahns because they were too slow, but can't swear to that. The little putt-putt engine was quite distinctive, mostly due to its total lack of revs:-)
Perhaps we should train grizzly bears. Not to pick up trash and butts, but to attack directly the messy droppers! That would be solving the problem at its source, ne?
Maybe not grizzly bears: they'd be expensive to feed. Perhaps honey badgers?
A couple of years ago some fat cats in Charlotte tried to buy land to dig a sand mine here near my town of Red Springs NC. It didn't happen: town fathers were rightfully suspicious because of several misleading statements from the purchasers ("We want to build big mansions!"), the history of total environmental disaster aftermaths in nearby counties from similar sand mines, etc.
The word finally was that they wanted the sand (particularly good stuff for top-end glass, they were now saying), and of course they'd clean everything up.
Riiii-ight. Still, one wonders if our sand is as good as that pure quartz stuff up in the mountains. Numerous sand pits around here, part of our ancient history as a shallow sea bottom, but none particularly distinguished.
Uhhhh... since your engines are running when you enter the gate and when you leave, presumably you'd want your wing tips folded _before_ entering the gate, ne? And unfolded after you leave.
Incidentally, the Japanese A6M Zero had folding wingtips (albeit very small) in its early models. Later removed for simplicity, but there they were.
Great paper, that, with the images and all, the forum discussion, etc. Apparently, if those chaps can be believed (and they know a lot more than us wuffos, ne?), and "thrust" is coming from interaction with the Earth's magnetic field, a simple orbital test (e.g., send it up to the Space Lab and turn it on) won't be sufficient since it would still be in the Earth's magnetic field (sigh). Hmm, does _anything_ block a magnetic field?
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Back in '84, the first commercial programming job I did after retiring from the Army was to develop a networked C-64 send-and-receive Morse Code instruction program for the SF radiomen at Bragg. Ended up working very well indeed, but I can't find anyone at all out there now who learned from that system. (I didn't track the school or the code once it was done.)
Army got a real deal: $5000 for an indefinite license for the whole thing! (I was new in the programming field and wanted something to put in my resume.) Took me about 3 months for the whole project.
My favorite smart trick was to run data sorts in video RAM :-) Sure looked cool: you could see the data shuffling and falling into place :-)
Naw, it's turtles from there on down.
It won't be hard to fake, to fool those devices either.
https://ioshacker.com/how-to/f...
Who hasn't seen the (usually live) video of long-suffering weathermen standing out there in a shiny wet rainjacket or suit, being blown away (and the godz alone know how the cameramen manage).
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/a...
"Twitter user @gourdnibler captured a Weather Channel reporter struggling to stand upright and seemingly holding onto dear life — until the camera pans out a bit and captures two people casually strolling in the background."
https://twitter.com/twitter/st...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
and the loss of our local power and cable:
I'm re-reading the entire Destroyermen series by Taylor Anderson. Great stuff; I love alternate histories and navy stuff.
Oh oh ... I'd better change mine right away!
"Top Psychic's Head Explodes"
http://content.time.com/time/a...
Sigh ... now THAT was news! I mean, what would the world be without Bat Boy!
Man, isn't that great? Not only news, but science and even Art!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://vimeo.com/44545006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
From the heart of American Media Inc., of course, which lives on with National Enquirer and who knows what else?
Wot? Who, us? Naw, how could that possibly be? Tell me it ain't so, Joe!
You may not want blue light.
https://www.allaboutvision.com...
Odd ... wasn't all the source code available at one point for Firefox or its predecessor anyway?
Very very generous indeed of the donors, although I have to wonder:
- Any plans for the recipients to be encouraged to pay this back?
- Will, or should, they ban DNFs from this program? (I've always had mixed feelings about the flood of foreigners coming into our educational systems, whether they plan to practice here or return home.)
(DNFs = "Dirty Nasty Foreigners", a running joke on one of my favorite forums, which incidentally is full of DNFs who find it funny)
I remember them around Nurnberg back when I was a teenager there. Pretty common, seemed to be quite useful. And yes, I remember a driver needing help to push one back from a sloping parking slot along a street :-)
I also recall them being banned from the Autobahns because they were too slow, but can't swear to that. The little putt-putt engine was quite distinctive, mostly due to its total lack of revs :-)
Ah ... so that Universal Service Fund is being looked after by the FCC. Well, we know there are no worries about THAT, right?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/d...
I donno about that "space suit" though. What will THAT thing look like and act if you put even half an atmosphere of pressure into it?
The Pillsbury Doughboy?
True that.
True that.
Perhaps we should train grizzly bears. Not to pick up trash and butts, but to attack directly the messy droppers! That would be solving the problem at its source, ne?
Maybe not grizzly bears: they'd be expensive to feed. Perhaps honey badgers?
A couple of years ago some fat cats in Charlotte tried to buy land to dig a sand mine here near my town of Red Springs NC. It didn't happen: town fathers were rightfully suspicious because of several misleading statements from the purchasers ("We want to build big mansions!"), the history of total environmental disaster aftermaths in nearby counties from similar sand mines, etc.
The word finally was that they wanted the sand (particularly good stuff for top-end glass, they were now saying), and of course they'd clean everything up.
Riiii-ight. Still, one wonders if our sand is as good as that pure quartz stuff up in the mountains. Numerous sand pits around here, part of our ancient history as a shallow sea bottom, but none particularly distinguished.
[sniff] Wish _I_ had a dopamine center brain implant :-(
Heh, tell that to Nawth Ca'lina. Those pukes at the capitol even stole the lottery profits!
Silly wabbit! You think Trump worries about treaties?
Obviously not a Monty Python fan.
Uhhhh ... since your engines are running when you enter the gate and when you leave, presumably you'd want your wing tips folded _before_ entering the gate, ne? And unfolded after you leave.
Incidentally, the Japanese A6M Zero had folding wingtips (albeit very small) in its early models. Later removed for simplicity, but there they were.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IDeZ...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
Again, it hardly seems worth the effort, but Boeing should know what they're doing.
Great paper, that, with the images and all, the forum discussion, etc. Apparently, if those chaps can be believed (and they know a lot more than us wuffos, ne?), and "thrust" is coming from interaction with the Earth's magnetic field, a simple orbital test (e.g., send it up to the Space Lab and turn it on) won't be sufficient since it would still be in the Earth's magnetic field (sigh). Hmm, does _anything_ block a magnetic field?
One has to wonder how long it can cross Jupiter's orbit (in the opposite direction, no less) before the two eventually meet?
I'm sure the encounter will be more detrimental to the asteroid than to Jupiter.