way too many people will open this without thinking twice.
Yep. In the systems engineering team where I work the sole purpose of email is to transmit word documents. Everybody launches the attachments without thinking about it.
But these are technical people. Just not unix(ish) people.
Thanks for the link. Its interesting that they really only tried low tech approaches. Lasers have more recently been used to digitise phonograph records, and I imagine that you could attack a surface with an electron microscope and digitally convert the profile to sounds.
Maybe a laser could even detect the original surface of a painting, under coatings which were added later.
I remember something from about 10 years ago about people running an LP pickup through the grooves made in paint by a painters brush. The idea is that sound makes the brush vibrate and records the sounds in the paint.
Apparently they were able to get the sound of the word "blue" out of a patch of blue paint so this painter must have been talking to himself (or somebody else) while he worked.
Yeah I had to use it seven years ago in my last job. I had no idea it was still around. The worst thing I saw was that the website for the company was a wrapper for the notes database interface in html. So you could leave the company and still have to deal with it.
If the invasion had gone to plan, the invading troops would have hit the bunkers before the Turkish troops and the invasion would have gone completely differently.
No computer or search-engine will ever replace the cozy books.
I disagree. I collect non-drm'd books and keep them on my PDA. I like having them with me so that I can read them on a whim. Otherwise I would have to drag a cubic metre of decaying paperbacks around with me.
In the past I have lent paper books to people and never got them back. Electronic information is better for me and I don't lose anything by not having it on paper.
But I won't agree to DRM. I may as well get the paper copy then.
People choose the BSD's for stability - or at least, they used to.
I don't know about FreeBSD, but I changed my servers to NetBSD because I needed stability, not so much in the sense of having it not crashing, but in the sense that I want the new version to have up to date software without having to rebuild my configuration totally each time.
So far, its working very well. The other advantages for me are that I can install NetBSD with a 200mb download and about 10 minutes of time. Linux distros tend to be a full CD, at least and more than an hour to install.
As for GPS (the most accurate versions) two appliances at opposite ends of a vessel together with suitable calculations would give you the orientation of the vessel. (I have no idea if this is ever done.)
My GPS will show the direction of north, provided that I am changing my position at the time. If I stop and turn, north is wrong.
That said, a decade in support will wear on a person.
Tell me about it. My dad worked most of his life in process control. Building networks in mines and factories. I am sure he had a lot of fun cruising the world with a toolbox and an ethernet analyser and being shot at in PNG.
Now the local branch of his company has turned into a phone support operation and it is totally the wrong type of work for him. He knows his stuff technically but the job is too structured for him. A 63 year old tech shouldn't have to take X number of calls per hour or get carpeted by management.
So he is retiring soon and I am trying to set him up with a business fixing valve amplifiers. He is old enough to have started out on valves and they have come back into fashion. If I had known he was being made to do this kind of work I would have been pursuading him to get out before his heart attack, not after.
but I'm not sure blue green algaes are suitable for this method of biodiesel production.
Neither am I but as you point out multiple solutions are going to be needed in the long term. Its a complicated way to run things but thats life.
Maybe an algae scoop on a river could generate enough energy to pump water through pipes (cutting down on evaporation) while increasing the total amount of usable water.
This is a great idea which lends itself to elegant (if small scale) energy projects.
No there were at least three of us. I was going to ask the GP the same question but you beat me to it. According to IMDb Young Einstein was an international hit.
shouldn't be too hard to rig something up, just in case.
I can't see a reason for there to be any electronic connection between the pressurised forward module and propulsion module of the progress spacecraft.
The astronaut would have to go EVA to rig up a way of controlling the engines (possibly as easy as starting a car from the engine compartment) while wearing a pressure suit.
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Yep. In the systems engineering team where I work the sole purpose of email is to transmit word documents. Everybody launches the attachments without thinking about it.
But these are technical people. Just not unix(ish) people.
Thanks for the link. Its interesting that they really only tried low tech approaches. Lasers have more recently been used to digitise phonograph records, and I imagine that you could attack a surface with an electron microscope and digitally convert the profile to sounds.
Maybe a laser could even detect the original surface of a painting, under coatings which were added later.
I remember something from about 10 years ago about people running an LP pickup through the grooves made in paint by a painters brush. The idea is that sound makes the brush vibrate and records the sounds in the paint.
Apparently they were able to get the sound of the word "blue" out of a patch of blue paint so this painter must have been talking to himself (or somebody else) while he worked.
Yeah I had to use it seven years ago in my last job. I had no idea it was still around. The worst thing I saw was that the website for the company was a wrapper for the notes database interface in html. So you could leave the company and still have to deal with it.
From my POV this seems like a strange thing to do now. A bit like us sending criminals to the moon.
And let me guess, google now know what food adwords to put up when those people are browsing the web.
Moving to Sydney would do it for me.
google.com.au has Australian themed logos all the time, notably on anzac day.
Where justice is in the hands of Philip Ruddock no less.
And we would not have that annual holiday.
I disagree. I collect non-drm'd books and keep them on my PDA. I like having them with me so that I can read them on a whim. Otherwise I would have to drag a cubic metre of decaying paperbacks around with me.
In the past I have lent paper books to people and never got them back. Electronic information is better for me and I don't lose anything by not having it on paper.
But I won't agree to DRM. I may as well get the paper copy then.
I don't know about FreeBSD, but I changed my servers to NetBSD because I needed stability, not so much in the sense of having it not crashing, but in the sense that I want the new version to have up to date software without having to rebuild my configuration totally each time.
So far, its working very well. The other advantages for me are that I can install NetBSD with a 200mb download and about 10 minutes of time. Linux distros tend to be a full CD, at least and more than an hour to install.
My GPS will show the direction of north, provided that I am changing my position at the time. If I stop and turn, north is wrong.
Tell me about it. My dad worked most of his life in process control. Building networks in mines and factories. I am sure he had a lot of fun cruising the world with a toolbox and an ethernet analyser and being shot at in PNG.
Now the local branch of his company has turned into a phone support operation and it is totally the wrong type of work for him. He knows his stuff technically but the job is too structured for him. A 63 year old tech shouldn't have to take X number of calls per hour or get carpeted by management.
So he is retiring soon and I am trying to set him up with a business fixing valve amplifiers. He is old enough to have started out on valves and they have come back into fashion. If I had known he was being made to do this kind of work I would have been pursuading him to get out before his heart attack, not after.
Why?
But not more reliable. Solar panels could be installed inside a hard shell of (say) lexan and easily survive a hurricane.
Sails and masts are likely to be damaged by the wind.
Who does? :)
Neither am I but as you point out multiple solutions are going to be needed in the long term. Its a complicated way to run things but thats life.
Maybe an algae scoop on a river could generate enough energy to pump water through pipes (cutting down on evaporation) while increasing the total amount of usable water.
This is a great idea which lends itself to elegant (if small scale) energy projects.
From now on I am going to refuse to pay the sewage part of my water bill. They can pay me for it.
Humans contain lipids.
Hmmmm. Alge infestation is a serious problem for inland waterways here in Australia.
No way! I'd go straight to google for an adwords account.
Then I would plan my retirement.
No there were at least three of us. I was going to ask the GP the same question but you beat me to it. According to IMDb Young Einstein was an international hit.
I can't see a reason for there to be any electronic connection between the pressurised forward module and propulsion module of the progress spacecraft.
The astronaut would have to go EVA to rig up a way of controlling the engines (possibly as easy as starting a car from the engine compartment) while wearing a pressure suit.
Personally I can't see it happening.
A bootleg software CD I bought in Malaysia had a bunch of Carpenters songs in the root directory. Same principle?