Back in early 1980 I headed up a team of techs to install Wang VS systems all over China. I had to take a train to Harbin (far north) from Beijing because it was still too cold to fly there.
I was a visiting American scientist.. and as such in each province i visited the governor would have banquet in my honor and we would all drink wu-shing pigu (5-star beer) and eat great food. For those who know me personally know that I do not like being the center of attention so this was really out of my comfort zone.
Dr. Wang was in Beijing visiting his original homeland and kin, and I had the occasion to meet his siblings. For those who may not be aware, Dr. Wang (American-Chinese) was instrumental in developing core memory and created Wang Laboratories in the Boston, Massachusetts area..
I speak only a little Chinese so the old timers still spoke English back from when America and China were friends the first time. The country was opened up again in 1979 with President Nixon creating a trading partnership with them. Several places an individual from China would say I was the first American seen since before the Chiang Kei-Shek era.
What was funny (actually tragic) was two old timers who managed the Import-Export department in China decided they liked me and that I could be trusted so they wanted me to be their contact in the USA for their manufacturing... I thought to myself... this will go nowhere. And now it is a trillion dollar industry. I was always a great tech but lousy at business.
Anyway, installing all those computers and helping the programmers and operators in China to learn the systems has assisted in paving the way for China to emerge as one of the leaders in technology.
I have the utmost respect for their way of Being and thinking although it is quite different from the traditional USA methods.
I have/had a book written in the 1880's describing the failures of the priests and the cover-ups by the staff up to and including the Vatican. That book is now 130 years old (it was writing about the mid 1800's) and the situation has not changed in all that time.
My ex still has the book most likely. Next time I am in Edwardsville I will get it back.
I got a feeling that they wanted to have the bill pass and so looked for loopholes in which to ensure that it does.
Since the nay vote was 70 then the yea vote would have to be 140 just to be 2/3 so in reality they were 4 votes short. If the law said "Greater than 2/3 of the total vote" then they were 5 votes short.
Thanks for sharing your insights... I am left handed so spend most of my mind activity in the right side of the brain. Often times when I am multi-tasking such as talking while driving... I find that I constantly shift the focus between the two tasks.
As an example if I was making a left turn in downtown St. Louis with all the one-way streets, crazy drivers, and pedestrians then I would stop talking while executing the turn. Once the turn is completed then I start talking again. I am the same way when debugging code or solving a methodology problem... I don't talk but rather focus on the issue. Actually it is not that I don't talk, but rather that I can't.
Maybe it is because I have a very limited resource to share between the tasks... but it is my style and my partner thinks it is funny because she can easily and effortlessly do two things at once.
We swung the angles with theodolites which were highly accurate transits. Shooting Polaris (north star) and making the "current date & time" adjustments gave us a true north reference.
We would then transfer those angles down through a tube in the silo and finally transfer the angles to a first surface mirror (has no parallax) for internal references within the silo.
This was so if the weather was bad we would not have to work outside but use one of the two mirrors for reference. We had two mirrors so if one was tampered with by someone then the angle would be off between them and we would then know to re-establish the reference azimuth for them. This never happened to my knowledge as everyone had top-secret clearances with crypto endorsements.
We used the Wild-Heerbrugg T3-A theodolite for our work. This device had a light source that would allow us to align the reticle to a mirror or even another theodolite. There was also a microscope for reading the angular value derived as we worked down at the.1 arc second of angles.
Also remember that we were at the height of the tension with the USSR during this time period and we felt just having one more missile up and aimed accurately just might be the deterrence we needed to prevent a nuclear war.
We also had an experimental device that would give us true north by sensing the rotation of the Earth. I was on the team that tested it but I do not know if it ever went into production and field use or not.
The concept for a nuclear missile is if you could lighten the payload some more then it would go more deeply into enemy territory thus increasing the range and making the enemy more vulnerable. That is the reason for not attempting to extinquish the solid propellant but just disconnect from the 3rd stage at the proper moment.
It was a Minuteman I site. Minuteman II were not deployed until 1965 or so in Grand Forks North Dakota which is really cold in the winter. I spent several years there as well.
Both Minuteman I and Minuteman II worked in this way. I got out of the military just as the minuteman III was being prepared for deployment at I believe Whiteman AFB in Missouri so I really don't know if it operated in a different manner in the retro-rocket way.
The minuteman I was installed in the launch tube with its belly facing the target azimuth... so you can see that targets were much more restricted as they had to fall upon the trajectory line of the missile.
The minuteman II missile was installed always facing 90 degrees and would rotate upon launch to put its belly towards the target azimuth so it had many more target selections than its predecessor.
The missiles would always follow the great arc for maximum efficiencies and effect and the firing of the retro-rockets would determine the distance from the launch facility to the target area. Of course this was under the on-board computer's directions.
As a side note. All that was required was the GPS coordinates of the launch facility and the coordinates of the target area... the actual flight path was calculated by the missile's computer using the on-board gyro's input and programed coordinates of both the target and the launch site. We also gave the gyros an azimuth reference in the form of a collimated light as a reference as to where true north was.
Since the propellant was solid there was no way to extinguish it once it started burning so the need of the retro-rocket technique used to separate the 3rd stage and the warhead/guidance package.
That is what happens when it has been nearly 50 years ago... parts of one's memory can fade or be slightly confused. Thanks for the correction...
I am definitely not a poseur, however, as I help posture Malmstrom's birds, Ellsworth's birds, Minot's birds. Whiteman's birds and others including Vandenberg California where we fired Missiles out towards Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific.
My role was a member of the Combat Targeting Team... it was our job to optically aim the missile guidance system using theodolites and to program the on board computer and among other things program in the targets for the missile, the war plans (of which there were 100 at the time), whether the detonation would be a ground burst or an air burst for each separate war plan and target.
I had worked with the guy that did that back in 1964. I had TDY duty there in 1963 to assist in posturing the missiles initially.
What actually happened was that a modification to the communications panels required shutting down the comm gear. He use a screwdriver (instead of a fuse puller) to pop out the fuse and inadvertently shorted the V++ to chassis ground. This in itself did not do anything really bad, however there was a malfunction in the on-board computer that caused a branch in the software to blow the retro-rockets.
When the missile dropped off "strategic alert" the launch crew (located 20 miles away in an underground capsule) asked them to check on the guidance package. They illuminated the launch tube via the collimator port and saw that the warhead and the guidance package was gone... having fallen to the bottom of the launch tube.
Now about the retro-rockets... The range of a minute man is probably still classified but say that it is (as an example only) 5000 nautical miles... but say that the particular target you want to hit is only 4000 miles from the launch facility so as the final stage ( 3rd stage of the three rockets) passes over the proper location then the retro-rockets fire cause the warhead and the on-board computer to detach from the third stage and free fall ( actually it is more of a large parabolic curve from near space to either detonate as an air burst as it approaches nearer the Earth (most damaging) or to continue its flight and detonate at the ground level on impact(most contamination).
The accuracy in which the warhead can contact the target is astounding... even though my description of it sounds like it is trying to hit a basket in center field with a baseball being thrown... more likely is you can determine whether you want to hit the near side of the basket or the far side!
This is based on my working knowledge from the 60's... of course, a great deal has changed in the last 50 years with the merves (multiple entry - reentry vehicle)- means numerous warheads, and the "penetration aids" dropped to confuse the enemy as to which is the real warhead and which are radar look-a-like reflections.
I know you are a troll and it is ironic that I am marked as such in the above post. I like our (America's) freedom... in fact I served 8 years in the military on combat teams during the 60's from 1962 to 1970... defending our way of life. I was unable to serve more because the firing of the weaponry around me left me nearly deaf and unable to continue in the military. And to this day... I wear hearing aids to assist me in my communication and daily work.
I count myself fortunate though for many a good man did not return as I did and for that I am grateful and thank providence often for the opportunity to watch my children and grandchildren grow up.
Interestingly, over the years I find that I have lined up against the ACLU's positions more often than I agree with what they are attempting to accomplish... this particular case is just another example.
Back in 1970 I was programming in assembler on the CDC mainframes (3200 & 3300) in the Compass assembler language. Also it was not unusual to drop into machine code and code directly from the console and then save your program in machine code either to the printer or to the disk driver.
Now that was hands on... and I still miss it... sigh.
Also I programmed in Fortran and COBOL as higher languages.... but nothing like the power of assembler.
My hearing aids fit totally inside the ear so each ear had a plaster cast made so that the device would fit snuggly. The plaster casts were reproduced in shape and size into plastic (red for right, blue for left) and when installed would not leak sound which makes them whistle from the feedback.
The newer kind (had my old ones now about 5 years) apparently sits behind the ear with a tube that goes into the ear.and as you describe does not need a form fit end, but just a soft tube ending Supposedly the behind the ear variety is now better and the hair can hide it better as well... which i have less of each day:)
I will check with the VA to see what can be done... if anything.
This has always been my wondering too... The hearing aid just contains a tiny amplifier that is mass produced along with a tiny microphone. The only part that is unique is the ear plug part that are form fitted to your uniquely shaped ear so as to stop the escape of sound which can contribute to annoying feedback.
I lost my hearing during the 60's from the rifles and pistols going off near my ears. So I have learned to cope best I can for nearly my whole adult lifetime with a combination of lip reading and hearing only partially. Compared with many of my brothers and sister who returned greatly scarred or died during their service then i count myself lucky in comparison and try never to complain.
In my case the loud violent sounds did not kill the nerves, rather it hardened the stapes (stirrup) so it would not transmit the vibrations from the anvil to the choclea so a #40 wire was inserted but it has a great Db loss so I am forced to wear hearing aids when I am out.
Surprisingly enough, the nerves (cochlea) of mine is more sensitive than most individuals and for me it is like wearing ear plugs all of the time thus reducing the volume of what i hear. The nerves are tested by bone conduction in transmitting the sound on the skull and measuring the point at which the sound can no longer be heard... typically there is a 5 to 10 Db loss from the sound having to penetrate the skull.
One of my hearing aids went out and I picked it up yesterday from repair and the fee was $325 to replace the amplifier in it. Another form of ripoff during the repair cycle.
I am mostly retired now and insurance nor social security does not cover these costs. I did like the parent poster and checked the cost of new hearing aids but the price was so high that the repair (with 6 month warranty) was the only reasonable solution.
Different from all of them to a significant degree. As if I am adopted or something, but I look just like my father. My brother uses his DNA test to look for past relatives.
Don't know if it was the nuclear radiation, space aliens changing my DNA, or something even more sinister than that... if something more sinister could exist:)
Speaking of that... I worked for 8 years with nuclear weapons (Minuteman missiles) sometimes having the warhead just inches from my skin/body.
Recently I had a DNA test for genealogy reasons ( distant lost relatives) and not only do I not match my current family's DNA, but I do not match anyone's DNA who is registered so far with ancestry.com... which is a bunch of people.
Hopefully the cell tower radiation will not create such a thing for the occupants.
Nice insight in handling the ship date opportunity.
My method was to carefully calculate (as well as possible) the ship date points of the various features/modules and when:
Writing mainly in a C environment then double the time estimate which is pretty accurate and the client is usually very pleased to see things fall in line ahead of the estimated dates
When writing in other languages (RoR, etc.) then it is tripled and the customers are still pleased.
And these clients and customers are where you get your referrals.
I know the differences of their, there, they're, I made the mistake and caught it after posting... sometimes I do like the idea that we could modify our own comment to fix the nagging issues such as spelling, punctuation or a missing word... but the downside is just too great... rewriting posts not to correct minor errors but to modify the content and thus the meaning as well.
Perhaps a trade off would be if the comment has not yet been replied to then it could be open for modification within a ten minute window or something along those lines... but when either the time limit has been exceeded or the comment has a response then editing it is inactivated.
Thanks for the spelling feedback. Posting late at night has its own set of expectations and potential opportunities for failure of many different kinds.
I wonder what it would be like to have to decide whether to sell your book or information for a slight profit or have your information available for many individuals who could use it for their own purposes.
I personally would prefer to share information for the good of humanity and yet I know that their are those that are in it for the money alone.
Rewind back about 20 years when Rambus stole many common knowledge ideas from JEDEC meetings and patented them as if they were their own... which they were not.
Back in those days the companies were trying to come up with something faster memory-wise and a lot of good ideas from many companies were talked about... and then suddenly RAMBUS owns the patents to these regardless of whom ever suggested the ideas..
I personally remember this occurring and that is why the Rambus name leave a bad taste in my mouth just like SCO.
Rambus has patents legally but not ethically.
Compare it to you and I talking about a neat idea over a couple of beers on a Friday night after work and I took all of your ideas... documented them and turned them in Monday morning to the boss as my ideas... how would you feel? That is exactly what happen with the public knowledge information from JEDEC.
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Back in early 1980 I headed up a team of techs to install Wang VS systems all over China. I had to take a train to Harbin (far north) from Beijing because it was still too cold to fly there.
I was a visiting American scientist.. and as such in each province i visited the governor would have banquet in my honor and we would all drink wu-shing pigu (5-star beer) and eat great food. For those who know me personally know that I do not like being the center of attention so this was really out of my comfort zone.
Dr. Wang was in Beijing visiting his original homeland and kin, and I had the occasion to meet his siblings. For those who may not be aware, Dr. Wang (American-Chinese) was instrumental in developing core memory and created Wang Laboratories in the Boston, Massachusetts area..
I speak only a little Chinese so the old timers still spoke English back from when America and China were friends the first time. The country was opened up again in 1979 with President Nixon creating a trading partnership with them. Several places an individual from China would say I was the first American seen since before the Chiang Kei-Shek era.
What was funny (actually tragic) was two old timers who managed the Import-Export department in China decided they liked me and that I could be trusted so they wanted me to be their contact in the USA for their manufacturing... I thought to myself... this will go nowhere. And now it is a trillion dollar industry. I was always a great tech but lousy at business.
Anyway, installing all those computers and helping the programmers and operators in China to learn the systems has assisted in paving the way for China to emerge as one of the leaders in technology.
I have the utmost respect for their way of Being and thinking although it is quite different from the traditional USA methods.
Well there is good news and bad news. The technology is developed and working... that is the good news.
It is manufactured by Toyota ... that is the bad news.
Hope they have a black box attached like the government mandates the aircraft industry to have.
I meant to say that I once had a book... that was the purpose of the slash between "have" and "had" but you are right... I am old as dirt.
My girlfriend/partner is three years younger than my oldest daughter.
The down side of having a younger girlfriend is she still has to go to her work and whether I do any work or not is up to me.
I have/had a book written in the 1880's describing the failures of the priests and the cover-ups by the staff up to and including the Vatican. That book is now 130 years old (it was writing about the mid 1800's) and the situation has not changed in all that time.
My ex still has the book most likely. Next time I am in Edwardsville I will get it back.
I got a feeling that they wanted to have the bill pass and so looked for loopholes in which to ensure that it does.
Since the nay vote was 70 then the yea vote would have to be 140 just to be 2/3 so in reality they were 4 votes short. If the law said "Greater than 2/3 of the total vote" then they were 5 votes short.
Thanks for sharing your insights... I am left handed so spend most of my mind activity in the right side of the brain. Often times when I am multi-tasking such as talking while driving... I find that I constantly shift the focus between the two tasks.
As an example if I was making a left turn in downtown St. Louis with all the one-way streets, crazy drivers, and pedestrians then I would stop talking while executing the turn. Once the turn is completed then I start talking again. I am the same way when debugging code or solving a methodology problem... I don't talk but rather focus on the issue. Actually it is not that I don't talk, but rather that I can't.
Maybe it is because I have a very limited resource to share between the tasks... but it is my style and my partner thinks it is funny because she can easily and effortlessly do two things at once.
We swung the angles with theodolites which were highly accurate transits. Shooting Polaris (north star) and making the "current date & time" adjustments gave us a true north reference.
We would then transfer those angles down through a tube in the silo and finally transfer the angles to a first surface mirror (has no parallax) for internal references within the silo.
This was so if the weather was bad we would not have to work outside but use one of the two mirrors for reference. We had two mirrors so if one was tampered with by someone then the angle would be off between them and we would then know to re-establish the reference azimuth for them. This never happened to my knowledge as everyone had top-secret clearances with crypto endorsements.
We used the Wild-Heerbrugg T3-A theodolite for our work. This device had a light source that would allow us to align the reticle to a mirror or even another theodolite. There was also a microscope for reading the angular value derived as we worked down at the .1 arc second of angles.
Also remember that we were at the height of the tension with the USSR during this time period and we felt just having one more missile up and aimed accurately just might be the deterrence we needed to prevent a nuclear war.
We also had an experimental device that would give us true north by sensing the rotation of the Earth. I was on the team that tested it but I do not know if it ever went into production and field use or not.
The concept for a nuclear missile is if you could lighten the payload some more then it would go more deeply into enemy territory thus increasing the range and making the enemy more vulnerable. That is the reason for not attempting to extinquish the solid propellant but just disconnect from the 3rd stage at the proper moment.
It was a Minuteman I site. Minuteman II were not deployed until 1965 or so in Grand Forks North Dakota which is really cold in the winter. I spent several years there as well.
Both Minuteman I and Minuteman II worked in this way. I got out of the military just as the minuteman III was being prepared for deployment at I believe Whiteman AFB in Missouri so I really don't know if it operated in a different manner in the retro-rocket way.
The minuteman I was installed in the launch tube with its belly facing the target azimuth... so you can see that targets were much more restricted as they had to fall upon the trajectory line of the missile.
The minuteman II missile was installed always facing 90 degrees and would rotate upon launch to put its belly towards the target azimuth so it had many more target selections than its predecessor.
The missiles would always follow the great arc for maximum efficiencies and effect and the firing of the retro-rockets would determine the distance from the launch facility to the target area. Of course this was under the on-board computer's directions.
As a side note. All that was required was the GPS coordinates of the launch facility and the coordinates of the target area... the actual flight path was calculated by the missile's computer using the on-board gyro's input and programed coordinates of both the target and the launch site. We also gave the gyros an azimuth reference in the form of a collimated light as a reference as to where true north was.
Since the propellant was solid there was no way to extinguish it once it started burning so the need of the retro-rocket technique used to separate the 3rd stage and the warhead/guidance package.
You are right... it is MIRV
That is what happens when it has been nearly 50 years ago... parts of one's memory can fade or be slightly confused. Thanks for the correction...
I am definitely not a poseur, however, as I help posture Malmstrom's birds, Ellsworth's birds, Minot's birds. Whiteman's birds and others including Vandenberg California where we fired Missiles out towards Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific.
My role was a member of the Combat Targeting Team... it was our job to optically aim the missile guidance system using theodolites and to program the on board computer and among other things program in the targets for the missile, the war plans (of which there were 100 at the time), whether the detonation would be a ground burst or an air burst for each separate war plan and target.
I had worked with the guy that did that back in 1964. I had TDY duty there in 1963 to assist in posturing the missiles initially.
What actually happened was that a modification to the communications panels required shutting down the comm gear. He use a screwdriver (instead of a fuse puller) to pop out the fuse and inadvertently shorted the V++ to chassis ground. This in itself did not do anything really bad, however there was a malfunction in the on-board computer that caused a branch in the software to blow the retro-rockets.
When the missile dropped off "strategic alert" the launch crew (located 20 miles away in an underground capsule) asked them to check on the guidance package. They illuminated the launch tube via the collimator port and saw that the warhead and the guidance package was gone... having fallen to the bottom of the launch tube.
Now about the retro-rockets... The range of a minute man is probably still classified but say that it is (as an example only) 5000 nautical miles... but say that the particular target you want to hit is only 4000 miles from the launch facility so as the final stage ( 3rd stage of the three rockets) passes over the proper location then the retro-rockets fire cause the warhead and the on-board computer to detach from the third stage and free fall ( actually it is more of a large parabolic curve from near space to either detonate as an air burst as it approaches nearer the Earth (most damaging) or to continue its flight and detonate at the ground level on impact(most contamination).
The accuracy in which the warhead can contact the target is astounding... even though my description of it sounds like it is trying to hit a basket in center field with a baseball being thrown... more likely is you can determine whether you want to hit the near side of the basket or the far side!
This is based on my working knowledge from the 60's... of course, a great deal has changed in the last 50 years with the merves (multiple entry - reentry vehicle)- means numerous warheads, and the "penetration aids" dropped to confuse the enemy as to which is the real warhead and which are radar look-a-like reflections.
Damn Tom, They moved Santa Fe from New Mexico to California?
Cool... that probably raised the IQ in both places.
I know you are a troll and it is ironic that I am marked as such in the above post.
I like our (America's) freedom... in fact I served 8 years in the military on combat teams during the 60's from 1962 to 1970... defending our way of life. I was unable to serve more because the firing of the weaponry around me left me nearly deaf and unable to continue in the military. And to this day... I wear hearing aids to assist me in my communication and daily work.
I count myself fortunate though for many a good man did not return as I did and for that I am grateful and thank providence often for the opportunity to watch my children and grandchildren grow up.
Interestingly, over the years I find that I have lined up against the ACLU's positions more often than I agree with what they are attempting to accomplish... this particular case is just another example.
Back in 1970 I was programming in assembler on the CDC mainframes (3200 & 3300) in the Compass assembler language. Also it was not unusual to drop into machine code and code directly from the console and then save your program in machine code either to the printer or to the disk driver.
Now that was hands on... and I still miss it... sigh.
Also I programmed in Fortran and COBOL as higher languages.... but nothing like the power of assembler.
My hearing aids fit totally inside the ear so each ear had a plaster cast made so that the device would fit snuggly. The plaster casts were reproduced in shape and size into plastic (red for right, blue for left) and when installed would not leak sound which makes them whistle from the feedback.
The newer kind (had my old ones now about 5 years) apparently sits behind the ear with a tube that goes into the ear.and as you describe does not need a form fit end, but just a soft tube ending Supposedly the behind the ear variety is now better and the hair can hide it better as well... which i have less of each day :)
I will check with the VA to see what can be done... if anything.
Thanks for the feedback on this. This is new information for me so I will check with them.
Again thanks.
This has always been my wondering too... The hearing aid just contains a tiny amplifier that is mass produced along with a tiny microphone. The only part that is unique is the ear plug part that are form fitted to your uniquely shaped ear so as to stop the escape of sound which can contribute to annoying feedback.
I lost my hearing during the 60's from the rifles and pistols going off near my ears. So I have learned to cope best I can for nearly my whole adult lifetime with a combination of lip reading and hearing only partially. Compared with many of my brothers and sister who returned greatly scarred or died during their service then i count myself lucky in comparison and try never to complain.
In my case the loud violent sounds did not kill the nerves, rather it hardened the stapes (stirrup) so it would not transmit the vibrations from the anvil to the choclea so a #40 wire was inserted but it has a great Db loss so I am forced to wear hearing aids when I am out.
Surprisingly enough, the nerves (cochlea) of mine is more sensitive than most individuals and for me it is like wearing ear plugs all of the time thus reducing the volume of what i hear. The nerves are tested by bone conduction in transmitting the sound on the skull and measuring the point at which the sound can no longer be heard... typically there is a 5 to 10 Db loss from the sound having to penetrate the skull.
One of my hearing aids went out and I picked it up yesterday from repair and the fee was $325 to replace the amplifier in it. Another form of ripoff during the repair cycle.
I am mostly retired now and insurance nor social security does not cover these costs. I did like the parent poster and checked the cost of new hearing aids but the price was so high that the repair (with 6 month warranty) was the only reasonable solution.
And some of us never grow up and thus we still enjoy such things and remain eternally youthful... and I guess eternally hopeful as well.
I always suspected you eldavojohn too were likewise eternally young from your many posts.
Different from all of them to a significant degree. As if I am adopted or something, but I look just like my father. My brother uses his DNA test to look for past relatives.
Don't know if it was the nuclear radiation, space aliens changing my DNA, or something even more sinister than that... if something more sinister could exist :)
Speaking of that... I worked for 8 years with nuclear weapons (Minuteman missiles) sometimes having the warhead just inches from my skin/body.
Recently I had a DNA test for genealogy reasons ( distant lost relatives) and not only do I not match my current family's DNA, but I do not match anyone's DNA who is registered so far with ancestry.com... which is a bunch of people.
Hopefully the cell tower radiation will not create such a thing for the occupants.
Actually it is * KB977165 only that needs to be un-installed.
Nice insight in handling the ship date opportunity.
My method was to carefully calculate (as well as possible) the ship date points of the various features/modules and when:
Writing mainly in a C environment then double the time estimate which is pretty accurate and the client is usually very pleased to see things fall in line ahead of the estimated dates
When writing in other languages (RoR, etc.) then it is tripled and the customers are still pleased.
And these clients and customers are where you get your referrals.
I know the differences of their, there, they're, I made the mistake and caught it after posting... sometimes I do like the idea that we could modify our own comment to fix the nagging issues such as spelling, punctuation or a missing word... but the downside is just too great... rewriting posts not to correct minor errors but to modify the content and thus the meaning as well.
Perhaps a trade off would be if the comment has not yet been replied to then it could be open for modification within a ten minute window or something along those lines... but when either the time limit has been exceeded or the comment has a response then editing it is inactivated.
Thanks for the spelling feedback. Posting late at night has its own set of expectations and potential opportunities for failure of many different kinds.
I wonder what it would be like to have to decide whether to sell your book or information for a slight profit or have your information available for many individuals who could use it for their own purposes.
I personally would prefer to share information for the good of humanity and yet I know that their are those that are in it for the money alone.
Rewind back about 20 years when Rambus stole many common knowledge ideas from JEDEC meetings and patented them as if they were their own... which they were not.
Back in those days the companies were trying to come up with something faster memory-wise and a lot of good ideas from many companies were talked about... and then suddenly RAMBUS owns the patents to these regardless of whom ever suggested the ideas..
I personally remember this occurring and that is why the Rambus name leave a bad taste in my mouth just like SCO.
Rambus has patents legally but not ethically.
Compare it to you and I talking about a neat idea over a couple of beers on a Friday night after work and I took all of your ideas... documented them and turned them in Monday morning to the boss as my ideas... how would you feel? That is exactly what happen with the public knowledge information from JEDEC.