The IT system at my last job had rules like a new password every week, minimum 8 characters. No dictionary words. So one day I had to help an engineer with something. He had gone home but a co-worker helpfully told me the standard password for their team was yyyymmww where ww is the week number in the year. They might have had a few random letters in there to satisfy the filter. Its been a while.
Its easy enough these days to record video without making it obvious what you are doing. For example there are sun glasses with integrated cameras, and cameras in the form of a key fob. So if you want to record the cops don't do it by holding up your phone.
The four bit microcontroller inside my bicycle computer is turing complete. The 99c calc may have the same device inside. Consider using e-paper for the laptop screen and an arm microprocessor. Solid state storage. Take a lot of care with power. Maybe don't use batteries at all because charge/discharge cycle costs power.
I think this shows that the Earth is one of the worst places to operate machinery. Rats get in and eat your wires. Rain gets in and corrodes everything. On Mars, or better yet, in space, a well built machine can keep operating for much longer than on Earth.
I work in the industry but not for Lockheed. In their defence measurement units in aerospace are hopelessly messed up. Vertical distances are measured in feet except in Russia where they are in metres. Some horizontal distances are measured in nautical miles and others in kilometres. Vertical speeds are measured in metres per second in gliders and feet per second elsewhere. I think they should pick a date (say Jan 1 2020) and just change everything to SI units. There will definitely be disasters as a result but they won't have the ongoing confusion which exists presently. And the companies which supply the avionics and ATC systems will be delighted with the money they will earn.
In a sense, Steve Jobs renovated the shell of 20th century Apple to create 21st century Apple. The current version only really owes elements of the MacOS UI to the original macintosh. So Apple didn't really survive the revival.
This pic got me thinking about an alternate plot where Batty found out about replicants built without limited life span and infiltrated Tyrell corp to recruit Rachel to his cause.
The mid-infrared spectrum reveals crystalline substructure at 11.1, 16.1, 18.8, 23.6, 27.9, and 33.6 m superimposed on the broad 9.7 and 18 m amorphous silicate features; the substructure is well matched by the presence of the olivine end-member forsterite (Mg2SiO4).
So its basically spectroscopy. You plot amplitude vs wavelength for the light emitted by the star and associated material. Samples of different materials in the lab can be used to give you spectra for comparison. If you have a spectrum for kryptonite you could certainly plug it into the data.
I know that when simulators were developed for the space program the scenarios used focused primarily on failures. I work on ATC systems and their sims have very high fidelity but I don't know how much focus the operational people put on simulating dangerous situations, as opposed to demonstrating that they can work with normal traffic. I suspect that the challenging scenarios are mainly presented to trainees, while experienced controller just get refreshers which are a bit like a driving test, ie, you have this much traffic and you have to maintain appropriate separation given aircraft equipment type, etc.
I know a guy who runs a flying school and they have a couple of simple simulators for light aircraft. I have been telling him for years that he should charge for people just to come in and fly the sims.
I'm also skeptical because "corresponding volume of lift" isn't an aviation term I've ever heard before.
I mean, you fly into a volume of sink and the aircraft loses altitude. But there must be a nearby volume of air which is rising, because the amount of air has to balance out. So if the turbulence is caused by a thermal you have a column of lift in the middle, with sink surrounding it. It is convective motion. If the turbulence is a rotor (perhaps coming off a hill) then it is a rotating mass of air with a horizontal axis. You can also have transverse waves where horizontal flight will take you into the rising and falling bodies of the wave, giving you alternating lift and sink.
I remember that the $400 I dropped on a 10 MB drive for it was difficult to justify to the ex...so I didn't tell her about the $600 I spent on the EMS card.
You may be better informed than me; what I've read in the Spanish newspaper El País is that CVR indicates the pilots believed that none of the instruments was working.
The PDF linked from the article includes At 2 h 13 min 32, the PF said "we’re going to arrive at level one hundred" so that member of the crew had an altitude reading of 10000 feet, so at least that instrument was working.
That would be the elevator. A major control surface failure like that would qualify as the cause of the crash. But I think it is unlikely given the data so far.
Maybe there should be an official presidential robot. The secret service could make a new one for each new president. The robot would be humanoid in appearance and could stand in for the president in situations where he might be in danger such as public appearances and sleeping with the first lady (the robot would of course be anatomically correct). The robot would be teleoperated from special rooms in airforce one and the whitehouse. This would enable the president to use telepresence to sign bills like this as well as providing a "Buster" like capability to survive serious incidents. Come to think of it there could be a whole fleets of president shaped robots, so that the president could attend events in different parts of the world, separated by only a few minutes.
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Probably saves them money on customer support.
The IT system at my last job had rules like a new password every week, minimum 8 characters. No dictionary words. So one day I had to help an engineer with something. He had gone home but a co-worker helpfully told me the standard password for their team was yyyymmww where ww is the week number in the year. They might have had a few random letters in there to satisfy the filter. Its been a while.
1.21 jiggawatts of energy
Sir, this is not a number.
You can tell Doc Brown then.
in a fender bender or whatever, they would leave little trace that they or anything that touches them ever existed
Could save a fortune in tow trucks.
As long as the capacitors don't store 1.21 jiggawatts of energy it should be okay.
Its easy enough these days to record video without making it obvious what you are doing. For example there are sun glasses with integrated cameras, and cameras in the form of a key fob. So if you want to record the cops don't do it by holding up your phone.
The four bit microcontroller inside my bicycle computer is turing complete. The 99c calc may have the same device inside. Consider using e-paper for the laptop screen and an arm microprocessor. Solid state storage. Take a lot of care with power. Maybe don't use batteries at all because charge/discharge cycle costs power.
I think this shows that the Earth is one of the worst places to operate machinery. Rats get in and eat your wires. Rain gets in and corrodes everything. On Mars, or better yet, in space, a well built machine can keep operating for much longer than on Earth.
I work in the industry but not for Lockheed. In their defence measurement units in aerospace are hopelessly messed up. Vertical distances are measured in feet except in Russia where they are in metres. Some horizontal distances are measured in nautical miles and others in kilometres. Vertical speeds are measured in metres per second in gliders and feet per second elsewhere. I think they should pick a date (say Jan 1 2020) and just change everything to SI units. There will definitely be disasters as a result but they won't have the ongoing confusion which exists presently. And the companies which supply the avionics and ATC systems will be delighted with the money they will earn.
The guy in the next cube from me keeps going Oh merde fucking excel but I can't figure out what gender excel belongs too..
Heinlein fan, right?
In a sense, Steve Jobs renovated the shell of 20th century Apple to create 21st century Apple. The current version only really owes elements of the MacOS UI to the original macintosh. So Apple didn't really survive the revival.
The presence of kryptonite at HOPS-68 is certainly an interesting observation.
Ah right. I just pasted that in from the article without considering character sets.
Edit: MOTD says What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn? -- Peter S. Beagle, "The Last Unicorn"
This pic got me thinking about an alternate plot where Batty found out about replicants built without limited life span and infiltrated Tyrell corp to recruit Rachel to his cause.
The linked abstract says:
The mid-infrared spectrum reveals crystalline substructure at 11.1, 16.1, 18.8, 23.6, 27.9, and 33.6 m superimposed on the broad 9.7 and 18 m amorphous silicate features; the substructure is well matched by the presence of the olivine end-member forsterite (Mg2SiO4).
So its basically spectroscopy. You plot amplitude vs wavelength for the light emitted by the star and associated material. Samples of different materials in the lab can be used to give you spectra for comparison. If you have a spectrum for kryptonite you could certainly plug it into the data.
I know that when simulators were developed for the space program the scenarios used focused primarily on failures. I work on ATC systems and their sims have very high fidelity but I don't know how much focus the operational people put on simulating dangerous situations, as opposed to demonstrating that they can work with normal traffic. I suspect that the challenging scenarios are mainly presented to trainees, while experienced controller just get refreshers which are a bit like a driving test, ie, you have this much traffic and you have to maintain appropriate separation given aircraft equipment type, etc.
I know a guy who runs a flying school and they have a couple of simple simulators for light aircraft. I have been telling him for years that he should charge for people just to come in and fly the sims.
Okay I understand that now, but its not going to work in many places yet.
How does a web server not on my network get my MAC address?
I'm also skeptical because "corresponding volume of lift" isn't an aviation term I've ever heard before.
I mean, you fly into a volume of sink and the aircraft loses altitude. But there must be a nearby volume of air which is rising, because the amount of air has to balance out. So if the turbulence is caused by a thermal you have a column of lift in the middle, with sink surrounding it. It is convective motion. If the turbulence is a rotor (perhaps coming off a hill) then it is a rotating mass of air with a horizontal axis. You can also have transverse waves where horizontal flight will take you into the rising and falling bodies of the wave, giving you alternating lift and sink.
I remember that the $400 I dropped on a 10 MB drive for it was difficult to justify to the ex...so I didn't tell her about the $600 I spent on the EMS card.
Why do you have to justify things to your ex?
Most of their instruments still worked
You may be better informed than me; what I've read in the Spanish newspaper El País is that CVR indicates the pilots believed that none of the instruments was working.
The PDF linked from the article includes At 2 h 13 min 32, the PF said "we’re going to arrive at level one hundred" so that member of the crew had an altitude reading of 10000 feet, so at least that instrument was working.
That would be the elevator. A major control surface failure like that would qualify as the cause of the crash. But I think it is unlikely given the data so far.
Maybe there should be an official presidential robot. The secret service could make a new one for each new president. The robot would be humanoid in appearance and could stand in for the president in situations where he might be in danger such as public appearances and sleeping with the first lady (the robot would of course be anatomically correct). The robot would be teleoperated from special rooms in airforce one and the whitehouse. This would enable the president to use telepresence to sign bills like this as well as providing a "Buster" like capability to survive serious incidents. Come to think of it there could be a whole fleets of president shaped robots, so that the president could attend events in different parts of the world, separated by only a few minutes.