I found a copy in the attic of the frat house where my girlfriend lived back in the 70's and left it in the crapper for 'light reading' to take one's mind off what should be an autonomous bodily function. After reading through it places like Houston and Denver will make a lot more sense.
By the way, it is a beautiful book with a Ferrari red cover. I have since purchased my own copy and have prominently it in the guest bathroom
>> OOP belongs in business... not in Molecular Dynamics.
>Yes, because in physics, nothing is like anything else. (rolls eyes)
First, let us assume a uniform, spherical keyboard...
"The IPCC has been forced to halve its predictions for sea-level rise by 2100, one of the key threats from climate change. It says improved data have reduced the upper estimate from 34 in to 17 in."
Before we go anyfurther, 17 inches *MAX* and not for *100* years.
For sure those big real to reel 9trac mag tape readers. They look sooo cool just bumping through a tape a few blocks at a time. Really looks best if you have several of them side by side.
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No Child Left Behind == Hold Back All Other Children
Unless we can get every other society to institute an "Office of Handicapper General" we will have to loose the NCLB.
During one of the recent oil busts (remember them?) an out of work geologist went to apply at Burger King. He was told "Sorry, all of our geologists have Masters Degrees."
If your field is in a bust that is all any degree is worth.
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You could just bounce laser beams off the corner reflectors that they left up there. The moon is big enough to allow you to shine a laser in the wrong place and then shine it where "they say they left the corner reflectors" and see a pulse come back.
I put 4 250 gig usb dirves in the car and drove them to my Mom's house about one hundred miles away. It took about a hundred minutes of driving, and workes out to 12 gigabit per second!
Of course, latency if a killer.
During the wait for Hurricane Rita I got all my old CB gear out of the shed where it had been collecting dust since 80's and figured out SWR etc.
There is a ham store in the strip mall beside IH45 at the end of my neighborhood where we would go to gawk at the traffic that was not moving. As it started to sink in what we might be in for I went into the store and bought a 2 meter hand held partly because I always wanted to play with it, I had several days to kill, and I might need it. I enjoyed using it as a scanner during the event. I got my liscence a few weeks later. I listen from time to time. I talk on it every once in a while to make sure it still works. I use it on trips. I will be getting a multi-band for the vacation this year and I look forward to trying to broadcast at a gigahertz!
>Just turn your compass around 180 degrees, then it'll be pointing South instead of North. Nope. If you take a northern hemisphere compass to the southern hemisphere it will not work. The magnetic lines point straight down at the poles, horizontal at the equator and some angle in between every where else. There has to be a counter weight on one end of the compass needle to keep it horizontal and not rubbing on the bottom of the case. When you switch hemispheres that weight has to move to the other end of the needle.
A former sweatshop employer of mine had operations in Columbia and in Alaska. They had separate compasses for jobs in each location. The hands that were not smart enough to figure out why you could not use the same compass in Columbia and Alaska are still working for that employer being justifiablly exploited.
>Should I do it, or just keep looking?
Yes and yes, and when you get a job keep looking. The process is called 'networking.' The last person that hired me did not need to do this personality stuff because we had worked together as volumteers in a professional society. I must advise you and everyone else reading this to do at least the following:
-Have lunch every week with someone that you know who works for a different company.
-Meet thier friends.
-Keep meeting with the ones that you hit it off with.
-Join a professional society and attend its meetings regularly, re-task your beer money to pay the dues *YOURSELF* - you will get more out of the meetings.
-Pay your own way to a convention once a year and renew your contacts and make new ones. Burn vacation time if you need to.
-When you go to a short course or other professional development function remember to meet people so that you can know who you might want to work for and who you might not want to work for.
In short make sure the *HIRING MANGANGER* at your next employer knows you before you apply. It really is a small world.
>The truth is, even if your patent is approved, the teeth of patent is >backed by your ability to take it into court.
I have learned something else about patents that make them valuable and that is while one patent may not be helpful, a cloud of patents surrounding an area of technology can be quit useful in negotiations with corporations that have big legal staffs. If you are an individual with one patent that is one thing. If you are part of mega-conglomerate and have 40 patents specific to a marketable product or service you can negotiate with you competition and maybe even B.S. your clients.
Damn Son, Question everything? Look, the earth is not flat, the earth revolves around the dad-burned sun, and despite what the Texas legislature lets high school students learn, the earth is very, very old. Would you have us teaching kids to question some more conventional wisdom like: -Chugg a 12 pack and you will puke and pass out, maybe not in that order -Drinking and driving is not good -Smoking cigarettes is bad -Don't run with sissors in your freakin mouth Must I go on?
The top of a typical small car is about mid throat level to most full size pickup truck drivers. Take a flat plate of steel and file the sides to a knife edge, then attach to the top of the small car with break away bolts so that when the pick up konks the little car the car flys away and the plate goes through the windshield of the pickup taking out its driver. At least then you would have a fair fight!
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Sprawl does not make sense to people who have never read "Total Atomic Defense"http://www.archive.org/details/totalatomic defen00kindrich
I found a copy in the attic of the frat house where my girlfriend lived back in the 70's and left it in the crapper for 'light reading' to take one's mind off what should be an autonomous bodily function. After reading through it places like Houston and Denver will make a lot more sense.
By the way, it is a beautiful book with a Ferrari red cover. I have since purchased my own copy and have prominently it in the guest bathroom
http://www.acdmuseum.org/
>> OOP belongs in business... not in Molecular Dynamics. >Yes, because in physics, nothing is like anything else. (rolls eyes) First, let us assume a uniform, spherical keyboard...
The reason for not looking at this is that someone (a looter, a government official, whoever) came and took all the fuel.
First let us remember reading:1 0/2110211n ews/2006/12/10/nclimate10.xml)
2 5/0458231&from=rss
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/
And if we had clicked through and read we would have found:
"The IPCC has been forced to halve its predictions for sea-level rise by 2100, one of the key threats from climate change. It says improved data have reduced the upper estimate from 34 in to 17 in."
Before we go anyfurther, 17 inches *MAX* and not for *100* years.
Now just the other day we find:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/
"For the first time the rising ocean levels have washed away an inhabited island."
Clearly, one of these is Barbra Striesand.
Now, let me quote you:
"I have been obligated to change my point of view by the increasing body of evidence here."
Please review the evidence *HERE* and consider the point of view that 'what is in the news' is just FUD.
The rest of you need to decide if FUD shuold be refuted *ONLY BY CERTIAN PEOPLE SOMEONE HAS APPROVED*.
For sure those big real to reel 9trac mag tape readers. They look sooo cool just bumping through a tape a few blocks at a time. Really looks best if you have several of them side by side.
No Child Left Behind == Hold Back All Other Children Unless we can get every other society to institute an "Office of Handicapper General" we will have to loose the NCLB.
Asteroid belt probablly.
Funny, I thought it was more like
>PIP [7,11]=DU0:[7,1]SOURCE.BIN/NV
During one of the recent oil busts (remember them?) an out of work geologist went to apply at Burger King. He was told "Sorry, all of our geologists have Masters Degrees." If your field is in a bust that is all any degree is worth. >/
You could just bounce laser beams off the corner reflectors that they left up there. The moon is big enough to allow you to shine a laser in the wrong place and then shine it where "they say they left the corner reflectors" and see a pulse come back.
>can't even manage 30 - tied to read a 8" floppy recently? I have a PDP 11 over there that booted off one last summer. >/
My prev employer has a CT machine run by RSX-11 on an 11/34. PIP is a hoot! I really liked using the programers console to enter boot code.
I bleed to National instruments so that I can use thier graphical programming language. If anyone knows an alternative pipe up.
I put 4 250 gig usb dirves in the car and drove them to my Mom's house about one hundred miles away. It took about a hundred minutes of driving, and workes out to 12 gigabit per second! Of course, latency if a killer.
During the wait for Hurricane Rita I got all my old CB gear out of the shed where it had been collecting dust since 80's and figured out SWR etc.
There is a ham store in the strip mall beside IH45 at the end of my neighborhood where we would go to gawk at the traffic that was not moving. As it started to sink in what we might be in for I went into the store and bought a 2 meter hand held partly because I always wanted to play with it, I had several days to kill, and I might need it. I enjoyed using it as a scanner during the event. I got my liscence a few weeks later. I listen from time to time. I talk on it every once in a while to make sure it still works. I use it on trips. I will be getting a multi-band for the vacation this year and I look forward to trying to broadcast at a gigahertz!
>Just turn your compass around 180 degrees, then it'll be pointing South instead of North.
Nope. If you take a northern hemisphere compass to the southern hemisphere it will not work. The magnetic lines point straight down at the poles, horizontal at the equator and some angle in between every where else. There has to be a counter weight on one end of the compass needle to keep it horizontal and not rubbing on the bottom of the case. When you switch hemispheres that weight has to move to the other end of the needle.
A former sweatshop employer of mine had operations in Columbia and in Alaska. They had separate compasses for jobs in each location. The hands that were not smart enough to figure out why you could not use the same compass in Columbia and Alaska are still working for that employer being justifiablly exploited.
I nominate Anna Nichole Smith for marrying the rich oil man and her step-son for litigating her to the Supreme Court.
I had to change a bunch of 'int' to 'long' to get something to compile.
>Should I do it, or just keep looking? Yes and yes, and when you get a job keep looking. The process is called 'networking.' The last person that hired me did not need to do this personality stuff because we had worked together as volumteers in a professional society. I must advise you and everyone else reading this to do at least the following: -Have lunch every week with someone that you know who works for a different company. -Meet thier friends. -Keep meeting with the ones that you hit it off with. -Join a professional society and attend its meetings regularly, re-task your beer money to pay the dues *YOURSELF* - you will get more out of the meetings. -Pay your own way to a convention once a year and renew your contacts and make new ones. Burn vacation time if you need to. -When you go to a short course or other professional development function remember to meet people so that you can know who you might want to work for and who you might not want to work for. In short make sure the *HIRING MANGANGER* at your next employer knows you before you apply. It really is a small world.
>But don't bet on it ever having real value.
See below
>The truth is, even if your patent is approved, the teeth of patent is
>backed by your ability to take it into court.
I have learned something else about patents that make them valuable and that is while one patent may not be helpful, a cloud of patents surrounding an area of technology can be quit useful in negotiations with corporations that have big legal staffs. If you are an individual with one patent that is one thing. If you are part of mega-conglomerate and have 40 patents specific to a marketable product or service you can negotiate with you competition and maybe even B.S. your clients.
Damn Son,
Question everything?
Look, the earth is not flat, the earth revolves around the dad-burned sun, and despite what the Texas legislature lets high school students learn, the earth is very, very old.
Would you have us teaching kids to question some more conventional wisdom like:
-Chugg a 12 pack and you will puke and pass out, maybe not in that order
-Drinking and driving is not good
-Smoking cigarettes is bad
-Don't run with sissors in your freakin mouth
Must I go on?
AMD laptops only have displays of 1200X800 with the ONE exception of the Acer Ferrari. This is why AMD laptop sales lag Intel.
The top of a typical small car is about mid throat level to most full size pickup truck drivers. Take a flat plate of steel and file the sides to a knife edge, then attach to the top of the small car with break away bolts so that when the pick up konks the little car the car flys away and the plate goes through the windshield of the pickup taking out its driver. At least then you would have a fair fight!