Nov 8 - Asteroid passes by...
Nov 9 1400 hrs PST - U.S. tests the National Emergency Broadcast System for the first time nation-wide. Previously only local activations and system tests were done (any other former broadcasters rememebr the "Red Envelope" prominently posted in the booth?).
Mr. Shatner,
In your biography you mentioned that after Star Trek ended, you struggled to find work as an actor, even living out of your vehicle to travel to find work. Do you feel that this experience was a setback or an asset to your career?
OK - Physics lesson... Q: What happens at Mach 20+ during re-entry? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?
A: Coronal Plasma. Remenber back in the olden times when we'd lose contact with a re-entering capsule? The air friction caused a loss of radio contact. Now can you see why this is a Bad Idea for a readio-controlled craft?
I used to manage a RS back in the 90's (when we had to hit metrics for name gathering) and the main reasons for the name was 1) to gather addresses for the direct mail/catalog campaigns and 2) to personalize the receipts for TSP (the internal Service Plan. Additional benefits were return tracking, etc.
Once they stopped the Direct Mail (gee, I miss those flyers...), the company cancelled the name collection.
I agree the company has lost a lot of their "charm" as THE place to go for electronic accessories (wires, adaptors, etc) and become "just another electronics store" amongst a dwindling sea of retailers.
Anyone else know if they still require employees to pass Specialty Certification tests? Managers were required to pass all of them (I seem to recall that there were like 6 or 8 of them...).
Most likely the phone line is already Twisted Pair, so assuming it's CAT5, it's easy to change over to Ethernet. One idea I had was to install cameras at central points (doors, windows, etc) and set up tablet PC's with a simple web interface to pull up images from the cams.
Heard a noise at night? just go to the tablet on the wall, scan the cameras, and alert the authorities if necessary.
The original DC-X was a half-scale (IIRC) version just designed to demo the tech of "Landing on your own tailfire", and all the initial flights were tethered. Flew several times in '93 and '94, but the final flight in '96 experienced a hydraulic line failure in one of the struts, and tipped over. In a "full-up" system, a backup manual extender would have mitigated the problem.
*Mostly* correct, except the 3.11 references.
Windows 3.11/Workgroups was a "retooling" of Win 3.1 that added a LAN/WAN networking portion, as well as the first Windows Registry (reg.dat).
NT3 was NT 3.51 (one of the first iterations of the NT-class OS)
No need to "orbit" the Moon, stick it out at L1 - the LaGrangian point between the Moon and Earth. Or any of the other points.
For the less-than-cosmically-aware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point
He may have been the first to graduate from an accredited program in Space Law, but he is far from being the first "Space Lawyer" - Arthur Dula was practicing Space Law back in the early 80's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_M._Dula
Pardon me, but didn't they ("and we know who THEY are..." - Robert Anton Wilson) say the same thing about XP AND Windows Millenium Second Edition aka Vista??
You mean, like "Clicking text takes you to another page." or "Methods and apparatus for selecting a server to process a request" (the last one is real - US patent #7,320,131)
1. Absolutely correct. M$ has (or at least had prior to the move ot Bangalore, etc.) Team Managers, Tech Leads, Service Managers, ad nauseum looking at each and every case that's open longer than three days.
2. See above. Now - the TS front-line folks aren't supposed to think, just read off of Flash Cards.
3. Er - I do....?
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"Old School" FTW!!
Thank you - you have now been Pwned...
Nov 8 - Asteroid passes by...
Nov 9 1400 hrs PST - U.S. tests the National Emergency Broadcast System for the first time nation-wide. Previously only local activations and system tests were done (any other former broadcasters rememebr the "Red Envelope" prominently posted in the booth?).
Coincidence? I think not....
Mr. Shatner, In your biography you mentioned that after Star Trek ended, you struggled to find work as an actor, even living out of your vehicle to travel to find work. Do you feel that this experience was a setback or an asset to your career?
OK - Physics lesson... Q: What happens at Mach 20+ during re-entry? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? A: Coronal Plasma. Remenber back in the olden times when we'd lose contact with a re-entering capsule? The air friction caused a loss of radio contact. Now can you see why this is a Bad Idea for a readio-controlled craft?
...Is there an app for that?
Please define "we".... You and your wife? Together or separately?
"Was it a real windows 2000 cd, or just a pirated cd? "
Wouldn't matter, necessarily....
IIRC, late-90's computers didn't alway allow for booting off of the CD, albeit it was becoming more common.
Correct on all counts....
I used to manage a RS back in the 90's (when we had to hit metrics for name gathering) and the main reasons for the name was 1) to gather addresses for the direct mail/catalog campaigns and 2) to personalize the receipts for TSP (the internal Service Plan. Additional benefits were return tracking, etc.
Once they stopped the Direct Mail (gee, I miss those flyers...), the company cancelled the name collection.
I agree the company has lost a lot of their "charm" as THE place to go for electronic accessories (wires, adaptors, etc) and become "just another electronics store" amongst a dwindling sea of retailers.
Anyone else know if they still require employees to pass Specialty Certification tests? Managers were required to pass all of them (I seem to recall that there were like 6 or 8 of them...).
Most likely the phone line is already Twisted Pair, so assuming it's CAT5, it's easy to change over to Ethernet. One idea I had was to install cameras at central points (doors, windows, etc) and set up tablet PC's with a simple web interface to pull up images from the cams.
Heard a noise at night? just go to the tablet on the wall, scan the cameras, and alert the authorities if necessary.
Damn Romulans!
The original DC-X was a half-scale (IIRC) version just designed to demo the tech of "Landing on your own tailfire", and all the initial flights were tethered. Flew several times in '93 and '94, but the final flight in '96 experienced a hydraulic line failure in one of the struts, and tipped over. In a "full-up" system, a backup manual extender would have mitigated the problem.
Good info on the flights are found on NASA's Website http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/x-33/dc-xa.htm
McDonnell-Douglas did this almost 20 years ago - the DC-X (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-X), later known as the Delta Clipper.
OK - so it's spelled 'Betta', as in Siamese Fighting Fish.
Thanks for the spelling corrections, You Insensitive Clods....
ROFL
...Well, besides releasing Vista in the first place?
...Wait for it...
... a beta.
One of the default wallpapers in the Public Beta is a small fish in the middle of the screen. Not amusing until you realize that the fish is...
*Mostly* correct, except the 3.11 references. Windows 3.11/Workgroups was a "retooling" of Win 3.1 that added a LAN/WAN networking portion, as well as the first Windows Registry (reg.dat). NT3 was NT 3.51 (one of the first iterations of the NT-class OS)
Insert obvious Tom Cruise - Minority Report references here.
Yeah, I'd ahve used L5 as the example, but I didn't want to get into a copyright infringement suit with the National Space Society.... LOL.
No need to "orbit" the Moon, stick it out at L1 - the LaGrangian point between the Moon and Earth. Or any of the other points. For the less-than-cosmically-aware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point
He may have been the first to graduate from an accredited program in Space Law, but he is far from being the first "Space Lawyer" - Arthur Dula was practicing Space Law back in the early 80's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_M._Dula
Pardon me, but didn't they ("and we know who THEY are..." - Robert Anton Wilson) say the same thing about XP AND Windows Millenium Second Edition aka Vista??
Gee - what good is having power if you can't abuse it every once in a while?
You mean, like "Clicking text takes you to another page." or "Methods and apparatus for selecting a server to process a request" (the last one is real - US patent #7,320,131)
1. Absolutely correct. M$ has (or at least had prior to the move ot Bangalore, etc.) Team Managers, Tech Leads, Service Managers, ad nauseum looking at each and every case that's open longer than three days. 2. See above. Now - the TS front-line folks aren't supposed to think, just read off of Flash Cards. 3. Er - I do....?
Why does MS's "Security Cookbook" look like an 8-Ball with a little window in the bottom?