Yah, I have a lot of experience with radio, and had always thouht the levels were so low as to have neglible effects on human tissue. Then I had to have a tumor dug out of the side of my head, right next to where the antenna on my cell phone was. I agree, this is anecdotal at best...but now I'm not quite as ready to write off the potential for cell phone radiation causing damage as I was before.
Heck, quite a few years back, when UUCP was used to ship mail around, I was installing it on a system here. I didn't know the first thing about it, so when it asked for a phone number during installation, I thought, what the hell, and entered my home number, just so it would keep installing, thinking, I'd figure out what it wanted that number for and change it later. After that, for three weeks, I got woken up every night at 2:00 AM...thought it was a prank caller, until I realized, UUCP was using it for the default number to call to transfer mail...I finally figured it out and dope-slapped myself for being an idiot.
Heck, COBOL, with its friendly verbose english like keywords, was at one time (before most of you were born, when COBOL was a new thing) touted as a tool that would allow end users to create their own applications....
Back in the day, we used the built in mail package in VMS for our corporate e-mail package. VAXmail used your username as the FROM field, but since this was usually something like VQXC4995, or some such, the package allowed you to add a "personal name" string, which showed up in emails, along with your FROM username, so that people could tell who it came from without having to consult a table of usernames. Unless you looked at it, though, you wouldn't see yours normally. One night, a particularly annoying IT supervisor was incautious enough to leave himself signed on in the computer room. The operators, scamps everyone of them, took this opportunity to change his "personal name" string from his name, to "I Love You". It was a month later, and hundreds of emails sent by him, before anyone (the director of IT, as it turns out) called him up and said "Dave, what's with this I Love You message in all of your emails. He was mad for weeks, but never fiured out it was the operators that did it.
...the series of emails that went back and forth between some proto-spammer and an anti-spam advocate a while back? This was circa 1999. I think the proto-spammer was looking for a job as a developer, emailing his resume all over the place, and the anti-spam advocate took him to task over it. A really funny exchange of emails took place, with the job seeker acting nuttier and nuttier, and the distribution growing wider and wider. At the time, people speculated that the guy had easily scuttled any chance of ever being hired as a developer...wonder how it turned out. Wish I still had a pointer to it...Anyone else remember this?
That reminds me of what my ciruits analysis prof asked me when I picked the grade for my final exam in the course...he said "You aren't planning on becoming an electical engineer, are you?"...I looked at the test, which was covered in red ink corrections, and said "Not anymore."...
Interesting...but, what about all of the evolutionary adaptations in humans that are ascribed to their evolution as cursorial hunters, who could run down their prey? The human ability to continue rinning for long periods of time that are not present in other mammals? For example, the ability to cool ourselves by sweating? I studied biology a long time ago, and back then, these adaptations were supposed to have allowed early man to chase much faster animals until they were exhausted. Has this theory been discredited?
Neutrons are far more damaging than alpha particles. Alpha particles are charged, and are thus repelled by the nuclei of normal matter. Neutrons have no charge, and are not repelled by the nucleus - thus, they can enter the nucleus, and transmute normal matter into radioactive isotopes. This activation of normal matter makes neutron radiation the worst.
It's like the old physics puzzle says - if you have an alpha source, a beta source, a gamma source, and a neutron source, all of comparable "intensity", and you can throw one away, put one in your pocket, hold one at arms length, and swallow one, what do you do? You throw away the neutron source, to avoid activation, you put the alpha source in your pocket, since it will be stopped by the cloth of your inside pocket, you hold the beta at arm's length, since it has a range of about a foot or so in air, and you swallow the gamma source, since it penetrates so well, you might as well have it inside of you as outside.
That reminds me of a pal of mine, who works as a color printing expert in the graphics arts industry. Whenever we go to a consumer electronics store, he compulsively starts adjusting all of the TVs. When he starts out, they are all way over on contrast and brightness, and all look a lot different. After a few minutes, he's gotten them all looking as good as they can, and all pretty much the same in color rendition. Then, the sales guys notice and tell us to get out and never come back.
Rotary engines also powerd the Megola motorcycle. Made in Germany in the 1920s, the Megola's crankshaft was fixed to the front axle, and the cylinders spun around it inside the front wheel to propel it. Crazy bike...
Altjhough you have a point, that the atmosphere of Blade Runner no doubt inspired the atmosphere of Neuromancer, the actual plot of Neuromancer owes far more to "Gunhed" than to any other source. The whole how-to-kill-the-AI thing (say the forbidden word at the heart of it), and the stored personality that wanted to be shut off after it was over (the Dixie Flatline) came from Gunhed. Plus, Suzy Amis as the tough Texas Air Ranger probably inspired the character of Molly.
Here's the real problem...the bible, both old and new testaments, is riddled with contradictions...and as Bertrand Russell pointed out, you can reach any conclusion if you have contradictory premises. I wouldn't be surprised if you could conclude it was not a sin to kill all left handed people, if you select the correct parts of the bible to support the argument.
Heck, I was consulting at a site once, doing some contract work on a MicroVAX being used for office automation, when the VP of IT came through, he insisted I come with him, and marched me into the room where the MicroVAX was. He launched into a 45 minute diatribe about how much he hated the machine, the business practices of DEC, and the field service as well. I was a little puzzled, but let him go on as long as he wanted. At the end, I could tell he was expecting a reply. It dawned on me, he thought I was a DEC employee, and wanted to hear what I had to say in defense. Instead, I told him, that I was a contractor here doing some work on the thing, not a DEC employee, and all he'd accomplished was wasting 0.75 hours I certainly was planning to bill him for. He started to turn red, but the manager who'd contracted me in showed up then and talked the guy down.
I know guys like you, who walk or bike to work in 100 degree 90% humidity weather. The whole time they are doing their hair-shirted self righteous chest beating, they typically stink to high heaven, because they've gotten themselves sweat soaked on the way to work, and the typical office environment doesn't have shower facilities. PU, you guys stink...
Didya read the part where the papparazzi was a passenger? On the plane in question? And not just a photog wandering on the tarmac? Apparently not. Hard to see how ya passed yer written, with such poor reading comprehension skills...'course, lot of folks just memorize the answers...sure hate to see how you do sorting out complicated ATC clearances & instructions...or how you do on a ramp check, with your breezy notion about who gets to see what documents. I actually have an acquaintance l who likes to ask to see the airworthiness certificate on each commercial flight he takes. It's part of his planespotting hobby. He says he gets some funny looks, but never has a hassle over it...except for one time, when they couldn't find it...he said the flight crew and airline folks were like a stirred up anthill until they found it.
>...by the FAA, not buy the first guy with a camera to ask.
Title 14: Aeronautics and Space
PART 91-GENERAL OPERATING AND FLIGHT RULES
Subpart C-Equipment, Instrument, and Certificate
Requirements...
(b) No person may operate a civil aircraft unless the
airworthiness certificate required by paragraph (a) of this
section or a special flight authorization issued under
91.715 is displayed at the cabin or cockpit entrance so
that it is legible to passengers or crew.
And the guy said he was a passenger on that flight, so it's gotta be where he can ask to take a look at it. You just failed your written test...don't cry, you can take it again after you get your CFI to give you an endorsement saying he's given you some additional training...time for you to hit the Gleim books again...
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Yah, I have a lot of experience with radio, and had always thouht the levels were so low as to have neglible effects on human tissue. Then I had to have a tumor dug out of the side of my head, right next to where the antenna on my cell phone was. I agree, this is anecdotal at best...but now I'm not quite as ready to write off the potential for cell phone radiation causing damage as I was before.
Heck, quite a few years back, when UUCP was used to ship mail around, I was installing it on a system here. I didn't know the first thing about it, so when it asked for a phone number during installation, I thought, what the hell, and entered my home number, just so it would keep installing, thinking, I'd figure out what it wanted that number for and change it later. After that, for three weeks, I got woken up every night at 2:00 AM...thought it was a prank caller, until I realized, UUCP was using it for the default number to call to transfer mail...I finally figured it out and dope-slapped myself for being an idiot.
Heck, COBOL, with its friendly verbose english like keywords, was at one time (before most of you were born, when COBOL was a new thing) touted as a tool that would allow end users to create their own applications....
Ummm...including the Albigensian Crusade?
Back in the day, we used the built in mail package in VMS for our corporate e-mail package. VAXmail used your username as the FROM field, but since this was usually something like VQXC4995, or some such, the package allowed you to add a "personal name" string, which showed up in emails, along with your FROM username, so that people could tell who it came from without having to consult a table of usernames. Unless you looked at it, though, you wouldn't see yours normally. One night, a particularly annoying IT supervisor was incautious enough to leave himself signed on in the computer room. The operators, scamps everyone of them, took this opportunity to change his "personal name" string from his name, to "I Love You". It was a month later, and hundreds of emails sent by him, before anyone (the director of IT, as it turns out) called him up and said "Dave, what's with this I Love You message in all of your emails. He was mad for weeks, but never fiured out it was the operators that did it.
...the series of emails that went back and forth between some proto-spammer and an anti-spam advocate a while back? This was circa 1999. I think the proto-spammer was looking for a job as a developer, emailing his resume all over the place, and the anti-spam advocate took him to task over it. A really funny exchange of emails took place, with the job seeker acting nuttier and nuttier, and the distribution growing wider and wider. At the time, people speculated that the guy had easily scuttled any chance of ever being hired as a developer...wonder how it turned out. Wish I still had a pointer to it...Anyone else remember this?
That reminds me of what my ciruits analysis prof asked me when I picked the grade for my final exam in the course...he said "You aren't planning on becoming an electical engineer, are you?"...I looked at the test, which was covered in red ink corrections, and said "Not anymore."...
Interesting...but, what about all of the evolutionary adaptations in humans that are ascribed to their evolution as cursorial hunters, who could run down their prey? The human ability to continue rinning for long periods of time that are not present in other mammals? For example, the ability to cool ourselves by sweating? I studied biology a long time ago, and back then, these adaptations were supposed to have allowed early man to chase much faster animals until they were exhausted. Has this theory been discredited?
I agree with you 100% - except, that the shuttle and space station programs don't advance these goals, rather they impeded them.
Neutrons are far more damaging than alpha particles. Alpha particles are charged, and are thus repelled by the nuclei of normal matter. Neutrons have no charge, and are not repelled by the nucleus - thus, they can enter the nucleus, and transmute normal matter into radioactive isotopes. This activation of normal matter makes neutron radiation the worst. It's like the old physics puzzle says - if you have an alpha source, a beta source, a gamma source, and a neutron source, all of comparable "intensity", and you can throw one away, put one in your pocket, hold one at arms length, and swallow one, what do you do? You throw away the neutron source, to avoid activation, you put the alpha source in your pocket, since it will be stopped by the cloth of your inside pocket, you hold the beta at arm's length, since it has a range of about a foot or so in air, and you swallow the gamma source, since it penetrates so well, you might as well have it inside of you as outside.
That reminds me of a pal of mine, who works as a color printing expert in the graphics arts industry. Whenever we go to a consumer electronics store, he compulsively starts adjusting all of the TVs. When he starts out, they are all way over on contrast and brightness, and all look a lot different. After a few minutes, he's gotten them all looking as good as they can, and all pretty much the same in color rendition. Then, the sales guys notice and tell us to get out and never come back.
Rotary engines also powerd the Megola motorcycle. Made in Germany in the 1920s, the Megola's crankshaft was fixed to the front axle, and the cylinders spun around it inside the front wheel to propel it. Crazy bike...
Shucks, I've had it backwards for a long time. Thanks for the correction.
Altjhough you have a point, that the atmosphere of Blade Runner no doubt inspired the atmosphere of Neuromancer, the actual plot of Neuromancer owes far more to "Gunhed" than to any other source. The whole how-to-kill-the-AI thing (say the forbidden word at the heart of it), and the stored personality that wanted to be shut off after it was over (the Dixie Flatline) came from Gunhed. Plus, Suzy Amis as the tough Texas Air Ranger probably inspired the character of Molly.
Here's the real problem...the bible, both old and new testaments, is riddled with contradictions...and as Bertrand Russell pointed out, you can reach any conclusion if you have contradictory premises. I wouldn't be surprised if you could conclude it was not a sin to kill all left handed people, if you select the correct parts of the bible to support the argument.
It would have taken gigawatts? How many gigawatts? Maybe, 1.21 gigawatts?
Heck, I was consulting at a site once, doing some contract work on a MicroVAX being used for office automation, when the VP of IT came through, he insisted I come with him, and marched me into the room where the MicroVAX was. He launched into a 45 minute diatribe about how much he hated the machine, the business practices of DEC, and the field service as well. I was a little puzzled, but let him go on as long as he wanted. At the end, I could tell he was expecting a reply. It dawned on me, he thought I was a DEC employee, and wanted to hear what I had to say in defense. Instead, I told him, that I was a contractor here doing some work on the thing, not a DEC employee, and all he'd accomplished was wasting 0.75 hours I certainly was planning to bill him for. He started to turn red, but the manager who'd contracted me in showed up then and talked the guy down.
Something is different? Maybe your metabolism is running hotter?
I know guys like you, who walk or bike to work in 100 degree 90% humidity weather. The whole time they are doing their hair-shirted self righteous chest beating, they typically stink to high heaven, because they've gotten themselves sweat soaked on the way to work, and the typical office environment doesn't have shower facilities. PU, you guys stink...
Bunch of monkeys on the ceiling, sir! Grab your egg-and-fours and let's get the bacon delivered!
So, sometimes you eat the giant cassowary, sometimes the giant cassowary eats you...
Didya read the part where the papparazzi was a passenger? On the plane in question? And not just a photog wandering on the tarmac? Apparently not. Hard to see how ya passed yer written, with such poor reading comprehension skills...'course, lot of folks just memorize the answers...sure hate to see how you do sorting out complicated ATC clearances & instructions...or how you do on a ramp check, with your breezy notion about who gets to see what documents. I actually have an acquaintance l who likes to ask to see the airworthiness certificate on each commercial flight he takes. It's part of his planespotting hobby. He says he gets some funny looks, but never has a hassle over it...except for one time, when they couldn't find it...he said the flight crew and airline folks were like a stirred up anthill until they found it.
>...by the FAA, not buy the first guy with a camera to ask. Title 14: Aeronautics and Space PART 91-GENERAL OPERATING AND FLIGHT RULES Subpart C-Equipment, Instrument, and Certificate Requirements ...
(b) No person may operate a civil aircraft unless the
airworthiness certificate required by paragraph (a) of this
section or a special flight authorization issued under
91.715 is displayed at the cabin or cockpit entrance so
that it is legible to passengers or crew.
And the guy said he was a passenger on that flight, so it's gotta be where he can ask to take a look at it. You just failed your written test...don't cry, you can take it again after you get your CFI to give you an endorsement saying he's given you some additional training...time for you to hit the Gleim books again...
You should have continued to wind them up by asking to see the airworthiness certificate, which all planes have to have available for inspection...
Yah, they hadda build one with dials that go to 11.