Yes, I suppose you're right that it'll segfault but at the moment when it does, I won't be in the navy any more and will have no need for a happiness factor display.:) My job is like a like a Dilbert strip only worse. Its more like spending all day at the DMV. I spend hours doing non-work for every minute of "real work" (tm) that I accomplish. I dunno if its the navy, or if its nuclear power that I don't like but I'd rather have no involvement with either.
I'm in the navy stationed in guam. With the exception of typhoons we have almost no (very consistant) weather. Out of boredom I rigged up a pretty neat setup. I bought a serial, text-only 4 by 20 character LCD display. I wrote a program that every 5 minutes parses weather.com to determing the description of the weather, and temperature in Bat cave NC and writes it to the display. I can watch the temperatures change with the seasons from here in guam. It also displays a continuous(10 times a second) update of my happiness factor (time in the navy divided by time remaining). A picture of it can be found here
Also, I put up
a copy of the program to anybody that wants it.
Free neutrons have a half life of about 12 minutes. They B- decay and effectively become a hydrogen atom plus a neutrino. Even with the time dialation you would get from a neutron traveling really fast I find it hard to believe that any real amount of neutrons could survive what I envision as being a typical trip through space.
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Yes, I suppose you're right that it'll segfault but at the moment when it does, I won't be in the navy any more and will have no need for a happiness factor display. :) My job is like a like a Dilbert strip only worse. Its more like spending all day at the DMV. I spend hours doing non-work for every minute of "real work" (tm) that I accomplish. I dunno if its the navy, or if its nuclear power that I don't like but I'd rather have no involvement with either.
I'm in the navy stationed in guam. With the exception of typhoons we have almost no (very consistant) weather. Out of boredom I rigged up a pretty neat setup. I bought a serial, text-only 4 by 20 character LCD display. I wrote a program that every 5 minutes parses weather.com to determing the description of the weather, and temperature in Bat cave NC and writes it to the display. I can watch the temperatures change with the seasons from here in guam. It also displays a continuous(10 times a second) update of my happiness factor (time in the navy divided by time remaining).
A picture of it can be found here
Also, I put up a copy of the program to anybody that wants it.
Free neutrons have a half life of about 12 minutes. They B- decay and effectively become a hydrogen atom plus a neutrino. Even with the time dialation you would get from a neutron traveling really fast I find it hard to believe that any real amount of neutrons could survive what I envision as being a typical trip through space.