In '72, I saw the HP advertizement in Scientific American. I ordered it by calling HP directly. I had to send them a bank check for $400.00. I had to wait more than three months; into the beginning of third year in U of M Engineering school.
It finally arrived in late September.
So how did I handle it? It was the only one on campus that I was aware of. I took it to my professors and asked if I could use it in class and on exams. After they wiped the drool away, they all said yes.
It saw the greatest use in the dorm, loaned to engineers taking surveying. I adopted a policy of loaning it to anyone in the dorm (Bursely Hall) that asked to borrow it. Everyone knew it belonged to me. It always came back.
Predictions: Talking about calculators in class that same year (1972), I took a three ring notebook turned it sideways opened it and suggested the facing cover would be the display screen and the keyboard would be where the pages were held; a personal laptop computer. I had to wait another twenty years for it to arrive on my desk.
Worst experiance with it: I missed an 'A' in a mechanical design course by one point. I took a square root (one key stroke) instead of cube root (x raised to the y) on the final exam. The professor wouldn't budge.
I wish I still had it. After graduation, I loaned to to my employer's wife for to calculate discounts in a flower & plant store she was running. The store was broken into and it was stolen. They paid for a later model (21 or 25??).
I didn't like little leather case that came with it; too insubstantial. I bought a zippered bible cover and a bakelite case at Radio Shack. I trimmed the case to fit inside the bible cover and then lined the case with nylon lined neoprene to absorb shock. The 35 fit perfectly inside. I still have case. I keep my LCD multi-meter in it.
If I had it I would probably have it mounted on the wall in my office.
Think Harry Poter folks. Kids and a few adults want a magic wand. They want motions and actions to go with it. They want it personalized to accomodate their behavior. They want to augment the performance with additional features. It is similar to a Swiss Army knife, but not sharp; like the first palm devices, but not geeky; like a full pocket protector, but not nerdy.
I've been at it in nearly every capacity for 30 years. Happily married for 27 with three daughters ages 20-25. I have been on more death marches than I care to remember.
Suggestions: 1. Continuously set and reset expectations of both your family and employer about your own behavior: where you will be, what you are doing, what your plans are, what your interest and commitments are. Fundamentally, COMMUNICATE! 2. Apologize to the appropriate people when you fail to live up to the expectations you have set. Set an example to your family on how to apologize when you screw up. You will screw up and they need a good example of humility. 3. Demonstrate you value people: family and fellow employees. There will always be another death march, but there may not be another kindergarten graduation. 4. Tell your employer, if they don't tell you first, that the work place must be fair. If they expect a death march, then you need to be compensated for time-off spent on possibly short notice life marches with the family. It's a two way street. 5. Love God, Love your Family, don't give a damn for what anyone else thinks!
Drag is greater on the left wing because of tile damage so there is flight computer induced yawing and rolling to stay on course. What happens if the yawing and rolling become dynamically unstable? The craft is damaged so it doesn't react normally and the flight computer doesn't know the damage exists. When does correction become unstable enough to pitch the shuttle over or provoke occilations that cause break up?
Are the puffs in the shuttle wake additude jets trying to maintain course, but provoking instability in a damaged craft?
Has anyone run any computer simulations on a damaged shuttle to see how it would behave in an attempt to stay on flight path?
Jerry Pournelle has suggested making it a prize competition. You want a space station? The US government puts up a prize (I forget Jerry's number) of say $7.5 Billion to the first outfit that can put it in orbit, service it for some number of months and reach an operational cost at some fixed value, depreciation, etc. Do the same for a moon base, just juggle the numbers. No pre-payment! Outcome: competition, cooperation, risk taking, all kinds of good stuff. No more cost plus fiascos or bloated bureaucracies
"To be creative, it's not necessary that you're seeing a new thing, but that you're looking at the same things in a new way" - Dieter Gruen
I am heavily involved in e-commerce. ESR points are valid and well made. However, I think the issue can be taken into another venue which is not far from Quake: "The Art of War", Sun Tzu. Cheating is exactly what you want to achieve in a war using any means possible to achieve them: limited disclosure, deception, technology, etc. The issue is the same that ESR makes regarding open source; if you know all the cheating that goes on prior to, and in the midst of a battle, it...changes the behavior of developers. Which may then change the game, because the rules (requirements) are no longer the same.
E-commerce communities must war/defend against any entity, hostile or otherwise, that would encroach on the territory established for commerce.
So many comments, so little time.....
"There is nothing new. Everything is just smaller, faster, and cheaper, with more layers of the protocol stack at no additional cost." csfenton
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In '72, I saw the HP advertizement in Scientific American. I ordered it by calling HP directly. I had to send them a bank check for $400.00. I had to wait more than three months; into the beginning of third year in U of M Engineering school.
It finally arrived in late September.
So how did I handle it? It was the only one on campus that I was aware of. I took it to my professors and asked if I could use it in class and on exams. After they wiped the drool away, they all said yes.
It saw the greatest use in the dorm, loaned to engineers taking surveying. I adopted a policy of loaning it to anyone in the dorm (Bursely Hall) that asked to borrow it. Everyone knew it belonged to me. It always came back.
Predictions: Talking about calculators in class that same year (1972), I took a three ring notebook turned it sideways opened it and suggested the facing cover would be the display screen and the keyboard would be where the pages were held; a personal laptop computer. I had to wait another twenty years for it to arrive on my desk.
Worst experiance with it: I missed an 'A' in a mechanical design course by one point. I took a square root (one key stroke) instead of cube root (x raised to the y) on the final exam. The professor wouldn't budge.
I wish I still had it. After graduation, I loaned to to my employer's wife for to calculate discounts in a flower & plant store she was running. The store was broken into and it was stolen. They paid for a later model (21 or 25??).
I didn't like little leather case that came with it; too insubstantial. I bought a zippered bible cover and a bakelite case at Radio Shack. I trimmed the case to fit inside the bible cover and then lined the case with nylon lined neoprene to absorb shock. The 35 fit perfectly inside. I still have case. I keep my LCD multi-meter in it.
If I had it I would probably have it mounted on the wall in my office.
Think Harry Poter folks. Kids and a few adults want a magic wand. They want motions and actions to go with it. They want it personalized to accomodate their behavior. They want to augment the performance with additional features. It is similar to a Swiss Army knife, but not sharp; like the first palm devices, but not geeky; like a full pocket protector, but not nerdy.
I've been at it in nearly every capacity for 30 years. Happily married for 27 with three daughters ages 20-25. I have been on more death marches than I care to remember.
Suggestions:
1. Continuously set and reset expectations of both your family and employer about your own behavior: where you will be, what you are doing, what your plans are, what your interest and commitments are. Fundamentally, COMMUNICATE!
2. Apologize to the appropriate people when you fail to live up to the expectations you have set. Set an example to your family on how to apologize when you screw up. You will screw up and they need a good example of humility.
3. Demonstrate you value people: family and fellow employees. There will always be another death march, but there may not be another kindergarten graduation.
4. Tell your employer, if they don't tell you first, that the work place must be fair. If they expect a death march, then you need to be compensated for time-off spent on possibly short notice life marches with the family. It's a two way street.
5. Love God, Love your Family, don't give a damn for what anyone else thinks!
Proverbs 3:5-6
Ever see a paper airplane flip over?
Drag is greater on the left wing because of tile damage so there is flight computer induced yawing and rolling to stay on course. What happens if the yawing and rolling become dynamically unstable? The craft is damaged so it doesn't react normally and the flight computer doesn't know the damage exists. When does correction become unstable enough to pitch the shuttle over or provoke occilations that cause break up?
Are the puffs in the shuttle wake additude jets trying to maintain course, but provoking instability in a damaged craft?
Has anyone run any computer simulations on a damaged shuttle to see how it would behave in an attempt to stay on flight path?
Learn to think critically and at the same time don't take yourself so seriously that you become overly critical.
A good mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Flying is easy. Landing, well one bad landing can ruin your whole day....
Jerry Pournelle has suggested making it a prize competition. You want a space station? The US government puts up a prize (I forget Jerry's number) of say $7.5 Billion to the first outfit that can put it in orbit, service it for some number of months and reach an operational cost at some fixed value, depreciation, etc. Do the same for a moon base, just juggle the numbers. No pre-payment! Outcome: competition, cooperation, risk taking, all kinds of good stuff. No more cost plus fiascos or bloated bureaucracies
"To be creative, it's not necessary that you're seeing a new thing, but that you're looking at the same things in a new way" - Dieter Gruen
I am heavily involved in e-commerce. ESR points are valid and well made. However, I think the issue can be taken into another venue which is not far from Quake: "The Art of War", Sun Tzu. Cheating is exactly what you want to achieve in a war using any means possible to achieve them: limited disclosure, deception, technology, etc. The issue is the same that ESR makes regarding open source; if you know all the cheating that goes on prior to, and in the midst of a battle, it ...changes the behavior of developers. Which may then change the game, because the rules (requirements) are no longer the same.
E-commerce communities must war/defend against any entity, hostile or otherwise, that would encroach on the territory established for commerce.
So many comments, so little time.....
"There is nothing new. Everything is just smaller, faster, and cheaper, with more layers of the protocol stack at no additional cost." csfenton