"Someone to claim us, someone to follow Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo Someone to fool us, someone like you" - Bowie
âoeBig Brother is Watching You.â
âoeWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.â
âoeThe best books... are those that tell you what you know already.â
âoeNow I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.â â George Orwell, 1984
Truth isn't Truth. - Rudy Giuliani, speaking of Trump's Lies to America
By this time, most of the geeks here have made a Jacob's Ladder device.
These transmit power in exactly the same fashion as Tesla's machine, and have the same limitations; the electrostatic transmission effect falls off after a few feet.
It would have looked cool, until someone pulled funding, which is pretty much what happened.
Running one of these was also a choice between running this, or using Radio; these devices broadcast noise over every radio band, so we wouldn't be using radio or TV either.
And no one called me out for misspelling Asimov. (You did spell it correctly above, tho.):)
I'd definitely give it a shot, if I were falling from a plane, gravity difference or not; you KNOW what happens without trying it, lol.
Mythbusters broke Buster into pieces dropping him from a crane, trying the 'break the surface tension with a hammer" thing. But he landed pretty badly off axis, so IDK.
In the Rama story, a group of people jumped from a cliff into water, using their clothes as a braking mechanism.
I've actually calculated this; and it COULD work.
I won't be trying it unless there's no other option, but it goes like this:
Terminal velocity in the atmosphere is ~120mph in a "Spread Eagle" orientation, about 180mph in a pike position.
Hitting water at 180 will spatter you, but 120mph is right at the edge of what's possible; the guys that cliff dive are going close to that speed.
Hitting the water flat is going to splatter you, so you would have to use any available clothing to reduce your speed as much as possible, and transition to a CLEAN PIKE position as you hit the water.
Fit fake packages with every legal known allergy causing substance, and spray that on them; if they die, it wasn't your fault.
I'd prefer spraying them with Anthrax spores, but the Guys at Ft. Detrick won't answer my phone calls anymore, ever since my buddy died/killed himself.:(
The army guys wouldn't give me any VX or Sarin, even tho I said it was for "research purposes" on my neighbors cats. And Dogs. And Neighbors...
Anyone know anyone with Ebola? I'm asking for a friend...:)
They are actually accomplishing something, besides cost overruns.
We made heat shields that did a much harder job in the 60's, bringing Astronauts home; this is something harder?
LOL.
The SLS is overbudget, behind schedule, and will need Billions of dollars to finish.
What has NASA done since the 60's?
Fucked up the concept of a Reusable Space Plane to the point we lost Two Sets of Astronauts for Trivial reasons, and are riding to the Space Station with Russia, maybe?
It should be disbanded, and restarted by new people.
Along with the rest of the criminal conspiracy that is the Trump administration.
Between President Bone Spurs, Justice Rapist and Daughter Wife and the rest, it will be a nice reunion in a cozy prison somewhere, if there is any justice in the world.
The Fake News Special Prosecutor sure does have a lot of guilty pleas and convictions to be fake news, lol.
This is just one more example of them thinking they are above the law.
I'm sure we'll hear "But, But, But..." and some flimsy excuse, but after all the chants, and all the drummed up outrage directed at HC, she should have fucking known better.
Just wait, he'll nuke some poor country to take our minds off this, it will be hard to deflect this one.:)
I refuse to do peer review; I have yet to see a paper that was worth the effort used to make it.
The last one I was asked to do was by a distant colleagues son; it was twaddle, so I took his name off it and sent it to his uncle, who was in the field, asking what he thought of it.:)
I sent the uncles review directly to the guy that wrote the paper, and they never asked again. (It was a devastating review, and he knew immediately that I didn't write it, due to some easy errors.)
It's becoming a closed system, and money from publishing has overtaken the rigorousness needed to do the science.
I understand that only about 30% of papers can be repeated now; replication of results Used to be the minimum standard to be even called science, now publication itself is enough, in most cases.
I did like the way the CERN guys, when faced with an impossible answer, threw it out to the world, and then quickly announced when they finally found their 60ns cable problem.:)
I wish I had a dollar for everyone who forgets to pull the Collar on the lemo cable, not the cable itself, lol.
I'd like to do that, but most of the stuff I invent belongs to the corporation.:(
I designed and built a 300A fan driver on my time for a hobby application, and they wanted it, lol.
I can be evil, tho; I convinced a colleague that he could make a photon detector more sensitive by using a driven population inversion to amplify single photons.:) (random noise is a problem...:D ) We were drinking at Hooters at the time, lol.
He did try to patent it, before he got the joke.
I like the anecdote about the tungsten emitter; a lot of LEDs are tuned that way these days with quantum wells for certain energies.
We needed a source of electrons for an experiment awhile back, and they were afraid of xray generation from all my easy ideas, so they were amazed you could make lower energy electrons by shining UV light on metal.:O
I guess no one read the section of the book on Photoelectric effect; I read every paper Einstein published, long before I got a degree, lol.
Few people learn to connect the dots; I've studied in almost every discipline, at this point.
This year has been rocketry, and composite urethane fuels.:) It's a lot easier on paper, lol.
I have a long term experiment running to look into the variable radioactive decay some people have reported; it looks like there's something there, but it's too early to tell what it is. It's definitely not temperature variation. Maybe in another dozen years or so.:) Why it should vary on a yearly scale for certain decay reactions, and not others is curious to me, but it seems to do so in neutrino mediated decays. People invoke dark energy, dark matter, and a lot of speculation, but I prefer data first, speculation second, or even third.:)
ArXiv is a great place to find interesting things.:) Some are laughable, but some are interesting.
One of my best inventions was a current mirror and current ladder design I took out of a 1950's transistor databook.
It was Ge based transistors, and transferring the concept to 500V sot-23 transistors was straightforward.
Everyone in my group wanted to patent it, and I showed them the book, with the Quote "Everything old is new again."
They thought reusing an old concept was dirty somehow, lol.
It controlled a 1300V bias voltage with 0.01% accuracy, which did not work any other way; the transistors were arranged to cancel each others thermal drifts, and the guy that tried to use an opamp couldn't get within 10% over temperature.:)
I made the same circuit recently with vacuum tubes for an even higher bias voltage, 25kV, and it's within 1%; I think there's that much drift in the filament transfer function over temperature.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Like Halliburton, or the one Ollie North ran to bring in all the cocaine that started Regan's Drug War?
Lol.
"Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool us, someone like you" - Bowie
âoeBig Brother is Watching You.â
âoeWar is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.â
âoeThe best books... are those that tell you what you know already.â
âoeNow I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.â
â George Orwell, 1984
Truth isn't Truth. - Rudy Giuliani, speaking of Trump's Lies to America
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I hate to see the last of the reasonably honest sites go away, but hardocp has been a douchery since at least the late Bush years.
The Russian Trollery is alive and well; and the NRA-GOP guys really hate being called Faggots, lol.
A lot of my entertainment there has come from seeing how far I could go before being banned again, lol.
I liked the Reviews; the Body Public had some good members, but most are what you'd find everywhere else on the web, idiots, pretty much.
Sell out while the price is high, Kyle; you'll likely find that as soon as your reputation is gone, so will the Job be gone.
At least you know it was worth a few hundred grand to shut you up.
I'm pretty sure hardocp is the last site from the early internet days that hadn't changed a bunch; now it's all dipshits on YT.
I would post this on hardocp, but I'm banned for a while; fitting, I guess. :)
Not if you really want that "Maximum carry capacity of any flight" award.
That would take cremation pre-flight; but that would get that carry rate metric up to 20k per flight, and that's the important thing, the metrics.
Look at it this way, the airline has a 100% "Flight survival rate", even if it crashes! /s
A FedEx plane was seen circling the wreckage, looking for survivors.
Access to the area was delayed due to an unexpected number of broken down UPS trucks.
Film at 11. :)
By this time, most of the geeks here have made a Jacob's Ladder device.
These transmit power in exactly the same fashion as Tesla's machine, and have the same limitations; the electrostatic transmission effect falls off after a few feet.
It would have looked cool, until someone pulled funding, which is pretty much what happened.
Running one of these was also a choice between running this, or using Radio; these devices broadcast noise over every radio band, so we wouldn't be using radio or TV either.
So; No, it never worked, and never will work.
That's a lot these days. :D
And no one called me out for misspelling Asimov. (You did spell it correctly above, tho.) :)
I'd definitely give it a shot, if I were falling from a plane, gravity difference or not; you KNOW what happens without trying it, lol.
Mythbusters broke Buster into pieces dropping him from a crane, trying the 'break the surface tension with a hammer" thing.
But he landed pretty badly off axis, so IDK.
In the Rama story, a group of people jumped from a cliff into water, using their clothes as a braking mechanism.
I've actually calculated this; and it COULD work.
I won't be trying it unless there's no other option, but it goes like this:
Terminal velocity in the atmosphere is ~120mph in a "Spread Eagle" orientation, about 180mph in a pike position.
Hitting water at 180 will spatter you, but 120mph is right at the edge of what's possible; the guys that cliff dive are going close to that speed.
Hitting the water flat is going to splatter you, so you would have to use any available clothing to reduce your speed as much as possible, and transition to a CLEAN PIKE position as you hit the water.
It's a Steel Barrier , not an Iron Curtain.
Really.
Fit fake packages with every legal known allergy causing substance, and spray that on them; if they die, it wasn't your fault.
I'd prefer spraying them with Anthrax spores, but the Guys at Ft. Detrick won't answer my phone calls anymore, ever since my buddy died/killed himself. :(
The army guys wouldn't give me any VX or Sarin, even tho I said it was for "research purposes" on my neighbors cats. And Dogs. And Neighbors...
Anyone know anyone with Ebola? I'm asking for a friend... :)
Most people out shopping for Xmas are unlikely to be Muslims.
Way to fail, lol.
Has blown the lid off decorum.
Most lying politicians at least TRY not to look like a lying douchebag; Trump is now a definition for it.
If we can't put him in prison for what he's done, we have no "Justice System", it's a sham.
Just like he deserves.
They work only for Putin, and are against the American People.
Apparently, THIS was Gingrich's 100 days of power...
WinXX-x64 balready broke compatibility with old code; everyone with legacy code is stuck on WinXP32, or in some cases win7-x32.
That ship sailed, and is now sinking.
... and win98: ignore it.
If I have to, because of rampant vulnerabilities, I'll put it on the non-public net, and read email with a Linux machine.
Or an ipad.
Since Gamespy was murdered, Lan games are what we play, so fuck them.
And give it all to SpaceX.
They are actually accomplishing something, besides cost overruns.
We made heat shields that did a much harder job in the 60's, bringing Astronauts home; this is something harder?
LOL.
The SLS is overbudget, behind schedule, and will need Billions of dollars to finish.
What has NASA done since the 60's?
Fucked up the concept of a Reusable Space Plane to the point we lost Two Sets of Astronauts for Trivial reasons, and are riding to the Space Station with Russia, maybe?
It should be disbanded, and restarted by new people.
But now I'm forced to admit that people Really Are that stupid.
Whooda thunkit; A cheeto would being out the real America. :facepalm:
LOL.
Along with the rest of the criminal conspiracy that is the Trump administration.
Between President Bone Spurs, Justice Rapist and Daughter Wife and the rest, it will be a nice reunion in a cozy prison somewhere, if there is any justice in the world.
The Fake News Special Prosecutor sure does have a lot of guilty pleas and convictions to be fake news, lol.
This is just one more example of them thinking they are above the law.
I'm sure we'll hear "But, But, But..." and some flimsy excuse, but after all the chants, and all the drummed up outrage directed at HC, she should have fucking known better.
Just wait, he'll nuke some poor country to take our minds off this, it will be hard to deflect this one. :)
I refuse to do peer review; I have yet to see a paper that was worth the effort used to make it.
The last one I was asked to do was by a distant colleagues son; it was twaddle, so I took his name off it and sent it to his uncle, who was in the field, asking what he thought of it. :)
I sent the uncles review directly to the guy that wrote the paper, and they never asked again. (It was a devastating review, and he knew immediately that I didn't write it, due to some easy errors.)
It's becoming a closed system, and money from publishing has overtaken the rigorousness needed to do the science.
I understand that only about 30% of papers can be repeated now; replication of results Used to be the minimum standard to be even called science, now publication itself is enough, in most cases.
I did like the way the CERN guys, when faced with an impossible answer, threw it out to the world, and then quickly announced when they finally found their 60ns cable problem. :)
I wish I had a dollar for everyone who forgets to pull the Collar on the lemo cable, not the cable itself, lol.
I like your site. :)
I'd like to do that, but most of the stuff I invent belongs to the corporation. :(
I designed and built a 300A fan driver on my time for a hobby application, and they wanted it, lol.
I can be evil, tho; I convinced a colleague that he could make a photon detector more sensitive by using a driven population inversion to amplify single photons. :) (random noise is a problem... :D ) We were drinking at Hooters at the time, lol.
He did try to patent it, before he got the joke.
I like the anecdote about the tungsten emitter; a lot of LEDs are tuned that way these days with quantum wells for certain energies.
We needed a source of electrons for an experiment awhile back, and they were afraid of xray generation from all my easy ideas, so they were amazed you could make lower energy electrons by shining UV light on metal. :O
I guess no one read the section of the book on Photoelectric effect; I read every paper Einstein published, long before I got a degree, lol.
Few people learn to connect the dots; I've studied in almost every discipline, at this point.
This year has been rocketry, and composite urethane fuels. :) It's a lot easier on paper, lol.
I have a long term experiment running to look into the variable radioactive decay some people have reported; it looks like there's something there, but it's too early to tell what it is. It's definitely not temperature variation. Maybe in another dozen years or so. :) :)
Why it should vary on a yearly scale for certain decay reactions, and not others is curious to me, but it seems to do so in neutrino mediated decays.
People invoke dark energy, dark matter, and a lot of speculation, but I prefer data first, speculation second, or even third.
ArXiv is a great place to find interesting things. :)
Some are laughable, but some are interesting.
You're not even wrong.
Leibniz obviously won, and the argument was long after people were using calculus. We still use his notation.
It's easy to dismiss someone who know how to do things; I still think of myself as a Tech, to distinguish myself from someone who merely thinks.
I actually build things.
A scientist is someone who uses Scientific principles; my various degrees have nothing to do with it at all.
All anecdotes are personal; how could it be any different?
A degree is easy to get, but I started with my hands, and still use them. I build all my own prototypes.
You sound like a dismissive twat; I'd bet all your friends laugh at you like I am. :)
One of my best inventions was a current mirror and current ladder design I took out of a 1950's transistor databook.
It was Ge based transistors, and transferring the concept to 500V sot-23 transistors was straightforward.
Everyone in my group wanted to patent it, and I showed them the book, with the Quote "Everything old is new again."
They thought reusing an old concept was dirty somehow, lol.
It controlled a 1300V bias voltage with 0.01% accuracy, which did not work any other way; the transistors were arranged to cancel each others thermal drifts, and the guy that tried to use an opamp couldn't get within 10% over temperature. :)
I made the same circuit recently with vacuum tubes for an even higher bias voltage, 25kV, and it's within 1%; I think there's that much drift in the filament transfer function over temperature. :)