You can't have long, stable chains of silicon only, but you can if the chain is made of alternating atoms of silicon and oxygen. The Si-O bond is stronger than the Si-Si bond. This is is the basis for the manufacture of silicones.
Word up! I bought a 1981 Mercedes 300D in 1991 for $5300. I've thrown more than that into keeping it running but it's a tough, easily repairable car with over 330,000 miles.
Imagine if you could still use an 8088-based IBM PC.
I was bullied or ignored all though school, and did the "hide in plain sight" thing. I've had to deal with depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder since then.
I've lived in the SF Bay Area for 4 years, and only in the last 2 weeks have I found a guy friend to do things with, partly because I refuse to let work define me.
Please, please find one friend who will let you cry on their shoulder.
What students really need are hidden cameras in the schools. If parents of bullies would actually see their little darlings tormenting and harassing they way they do, I can guarantee that some (not all) of the bullies would get a serious butt whipping and would *quickly* change their ways.
Don't I wish! More likely, denial will hit like a tornado. Those who do "change their ways" will likey revert back, with subsequent punishments becoming less effective.
I went through this shit on a near-daily basis in elementary and middle school, 1968 to 1973. The school authorities were clueless and blame-the-victim then, and I'm sad to see nothing has really changed.
Michael Collins (Apollo 11 CMP) wrote a memoir of his years with NASA, titled "Carrying the Fire," in which he mentioned Luminary as the LM guidance program and Colossus IIA ("I felt flea-like in its presence") as the corresponding CM program.
He said that at an Apollo 11 mission debrief, he registered his complaints about the number of times (850, IIRC) he had to command the computer; the point being that if he fell behind or some emergency intervened, he could easily have made fatal mistakes.
It's been a while since I read 2001. Clarke explained the process in the preface, and IIRC, it was screenplay first, book second.
Someone go find a library copy.:-)
The Computer Museum History Center has a KL-10 model in their collection. The museum is working toward a permanent display building at Moffett Field, but you can see part of the collection now if you go to one of their events.
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Read the book "Dark Sun" by Richard Rhodes. Gen. LeMay, as head of Strategic Air Command, USAF, was keeping his bombing lists from the head of the Tactical Air Command, USAF on the grounds that there was no "need-to-know." As TAC's fighter-bombers were supposed to tactical-nuke pathways for the SAC bombers (all this before long-range ballistic missiles), there should have been full coordination of planning between forces, but no.
I was a civil service software engineer (but, being the government, they called me an Electronics Engineer, Computer Science Specialty -- go figure) for the Navy at its test base at Point Mugu, CA from 1982 to 1989. Soon after I left they combined with China Lake (another California Navy test base) and civil servants were brought under an experimental, non-GS pay system that was supposed to make it easier to reward top performers than the old, laborious route of making them a "technical (vs. managerial) GS-13". Any Muguvians or China Lakers out there, and if so, how did it work?
schools are in cutthroat competition to attract the best students
Given the way the UC system did a slash-and-burn on the faculty in the early '90s recession, when state support was cut by 1/3, they have to have something to offer.
in the same town that the RIAA and MPAA are based in
Also the home of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Artists, and Performers, IIRC). Some years back, the LA Times detailed how their copyright enforcement lawyer went around to businesses demanding a license fee for the privilege of having music on the radio. ASCAP claimed uncompensated commercial use of copyrighted material. I remember that many LA-area businesses had the yellow ASCAP window sticker, so as not be shaken down twice.
There's enough deuterium in seawater, but where will the tritium and muons come from? Even raiding all the H-bombs in the world for tritium would not get you that much, and tritium production via neutron bombardment of heavy water is way expensive.
Apologies to whoever wrote the original for Disney.
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the universe go down the universe go down, the universe go down Just a spoonful of sugar helps the universe go down in a most dee-light-ful way!
Also, IIRC, George Leonard's 1968 book "Education and Ecstacy" foresaw merging of domains of knowledge through what he called cross-linked computer-aided instruction. Sounds a LOT like a hyperlink to me, and probably based on Vannevar Bush's ideas or systems like the old Plato learning system from Control Data Corp.
Systems software research will become more relevant when there are no more tricks to be pulled out of the faster-hardware bag. That's what motivated it in the days of the minicomputer and mainframe (one cpu, many users) model.
Probably not. To them, a computer is a computer whether it is an iMac or an IBM 390. When an EA-6B "Prowler" aircraft (four seats) clipped a gondola cable in Italy, the local paper ran a graphic of an A-6 "Intruder" (two seats). I knew the difference because I used to maintain Prowler software and had seen both planes many times. I emailed the paper, giving them a URL to a US Navy site with pictures so they could see the error.
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There's a phrase that comes to mind here.
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"Like rats leaving a sinking ship."
Are we sure that Earth is a good place to stay?
I can see it now, a bearded discourse on the differences between CodeRed MCMLXXXIII and MCMLXXXIV...
You can't have long, stable chains of silicon only, but you can if the chain is made of alternating atoms of silicon and oxygen. The Si-O bond is stronger than the Si-Si bond. This is is the basis for the manufacture of silicones.
Word up! I bought a 1981 Mercedes 300D in 1991 for $5300. I've thrown more than that into keeping it running but it's a tough, easily repairable car with over 330,000 miles.
Imagine if you could still use an 8088-based IBM PC.
WWJD? (J == Thomas Jefferson, UVA founder)
How sad, that you feel the need to hide.
I was bullied or ignored all though school, and did the "hide in plain sight" thing. I've had to deal with depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder since then.
I've lived in the SF Bay Area for 4 years, and only in the last 2 weeks have I found a guy friend to do things with, partly because I refuse to let work define me.
Please, please find one friend who will let you cry on their shoulder.
What students really need are hidden cameras in the schools. If parents of bullies would actually see their little darlings tormenting and harassing they way they do, I can guarantee that some (not all) of the bullies would get a serious butt whipping and would *quickly* change their ways.
Don't I wish! More likely, denial will hit like a tornado. Those who do "change their ways" will likey revert back, with subsequent punishments becoming less effective.
I went through this shit on a near-daily basis in elementary and middle school, 1968 to 1973. The school authorities were clueless and blame-the-victim then, and I'm sad to see nothing has really changed.
The Apollo guidance computers were programmed in assembler, not FORTRAN.
Michael Collins (Apollo 11 CMP) wrote a memoir of his years with NASA, titled "Carrying the Fire," in which he mentioned Luminary as the LM guidance program and Colossus IIA ("I felt flea-like in its presence") as the corresponding CM program.
He said that at an Apollo 11 mission debrief, he registered his complaints about the number of times (850, IIRC) he had to command the computer; the point being that if he fell behind or some emergency intervened, he could easily have made fatal mistakes.
"Now that the TV reception is okay, the programs are lousy."
-- Charles M. Schulz, via Lucy Van Pelt
It's been a while since I read 2001. Clarke explained the process in the preface, and IIRC, it was screenplay first, book second. Someone go find a library copy. :-)
The Computer Museum History Center has a KL-10 model in their collection. The museum is working toward a permanent display building at Moffett Field, but you can see part of the collection now if you go to one of their events.
Read the book "Dark Sun" by Richard Rhodes. Gen. LeMay, as head of Strategic Air Command, USAF, was keeping his bombing lists from the head of the Tactical Air Command, USAF on the grounds that there was no "need-to-know." As TAC's fighter-bombers were supposed to tactical-nuke pathways for the SAC bombers (all this before long-range ballistic missiles), there should have been full coordination of planning between forces, but no.
The Soviets launched Mir believing it would last 5 years, not 14. "Oh, don't worry about the mold, there won't be that much in five years."
I was a civil service software engineer (but, being the government, they called me an Electronics Engineer, Computer Science Specialty -- go figure) for the Navy at its test base at Point Mugu, CA from 1982 to 1989. Soon after I left they combined with China Lake (another California Navy test base) and civil servants were brought under an experimental, non-GS pay system that was supposed to make it easier to reward top performers than the old, laborious route of making them a "technical (vs. managerial) GS-13". Any Muguvians or China Lakers out there, and if so, how did it work?
schools are in cutthroat competition to attract the best students
Given the way the UC system did a slash-and-burn on the faculty in the early '90s recession, when state support was cut by 1/3, they have to have something to offer.
in the same town that the RIAA and MPAA are based in
Also the home of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Artists, and Performers, IIRC). Some years back, the LA Times detailed how their copyright enforcement lawyer went around to businesses demanding a license fee for the privilege of having music on the radio. ASCAP claimed uncompensated commercial use of copyrighted material. I remember that many LA-area businesses had the yellow ASCAP window sticker, so as not be shaken down twice.
There's enough deuterium in seawater, but where will the tritium and muons come from? Even raiding all the H-bombs in the world for tritium would not get you that much, and tritium production via neutron bombardment of heavy water is way expensive.
The long-term drift of the Earth's rotational axis works against an anchor, also.
Apologies to whoever wrote the original for Disney.
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the universe go down
the universe go down, the universe go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the universe go down
in a most dee-light-ful way!
Wasn't that an OST episode?
Also, IIRC, George Leonard's 1968 book "Education and Ecstacy" foresaw merging of domains of knowledge through what he called cross-linked computer-aided instruction. Sounds a LOT like a hyperlink to me, and probably based on Vannevar Bush's ideas or systems like the old Plato learning system from Control Data Corp.
Systems software research will become more relevant when there are no more tricks to be pulled out of the faster-hardware bag. That's what motivated it in the days of the minicomputer and mainframe (one cpu, many users) model.
Maybe they were overwhelmed by dialog boxes popping up and were just doing whatever it took to make the dern thing go away.
Probably not. To them, a computer is a computer whether it is an iMac or an IBM 390. When an EA-6B "Prowler" aircraft (four seats) clipped a gondola cable in Italy, the local paper ran a graphic of an A-6 "Intruder" (two seats). I knew the difference because I used to maintain Prowler software and had seen both planes many times. I emailed the paper, giving them a URL to a US Navy site with pictures so they could see the error.
Visible and UV radiation (i.e. sunlight), maybe?
BTW, Area 51 is so secret an airline pilot on a flight from St. Louis to San Francisco pointed it out to us, off to the south.