In 1983, I visited WWVH, the American time-and-frequency standard broadcast facility in Hawaii, covering the Pacific. They used a magnetic drum for voice messages, such as "At the tone, the time will be exactly six hours, forty-two minutes Coordinated Universal Time."
I used to work with a software engineer who claimed to have found a seek pattern on an IBM disk drive that caused hardware failure, although he didn't say which parts failed.
I understanding what you are getting at; however, consider that a culture that values math will have more successful math-puzzle solvers than a culture that does not.
"Done Right" is key. Back in the 1960s, Xerox made money hand over fist with first-generation plain paper copiers, then threw much of that treasure away in ill-conceived acquisitions (SDS computers and that insurance company, whatever it was -- Crum & Forster?) and blowing emerging markets (laser printer and PC).
Michael Collins' memoir, "Carrying the Fire," included a table of radiation exposure for all the manned Gemini flights. Two readings were given; one for the commander, one for the pilot (who on some missions left the spacecraft to do some work outside). Gemini X, on which Collins was pilot, had the highest radiation levels, as their flight went in the South Atlantic magnetic anomoly, and others did not. Both are alive roughly 40 years later, in their mid-70s: not bad.
Disclaimer: I have a Ph.D. in chemistry but am not a marine environmental researcher.
What is happening is a massive die-off of many highly adapted species, which, directly or indirectly, depended on oceanic dissolved oxygen being higher, pH being slightly alkaline, and toxin levels being lower.
A big culprit here is phosphate and nitrate fertilizer runoff; read the series for all the details.
Re-evolution may take as long as the first time; don't hold your breath!
Yeah, I found out that out the hard way last winter, when my wife and I went from the Midwest USA to Portugal, via two hub airports. One bag arrived on a later flight, minus a nice 7.1 Mpixel Sony pocket camera I had bought ten months earlier. Bleep. At least I downloaded the last batch of pictures and erased the flash, prior to the flight.
I asked my old high school about accessing my "permanent record," with just such an end in mind. Unfortunately, I found out that it was school policy to destroy these records three years after graduation. Only grades are retained past that.
Blame the victim, then shred the evidence. And, this was a QUALITY public school!
Maybe you can't be fired, but if Congress defunds your project, and there are no others, and your seniority is low, you are laid off; known as a Reduction In Force (RIF).
Also, your boss can harass you and your co-workers, so you and they quit in disgust.
I had stablilty, working for Uncle Sam, but being priced out of much of the Southern California home market (in the days of 20% down as a hard minimum) was difficult to swallow for a near-compulsive saver.
I have an MS in ECE from UCSB, and a PhD in chemistry from UCLA, doing molecular spectroscopy experiments (Turbo Pascal for low-rate data acquisition and display) and intermolecular Raman spectrum simulation (VMS FORTRAN). I have also done FORTRAN on 4.2/SunOS and CDC Cyber 70/170.
I may get to do some numeric programming in my next contract for an avionics firm.
Any internal (as opposed to external, i.e. tarriff) tax was, according to the Constitution, apportioned among the states according to population. An amendment to the Constitution was required before income tax laws could be passed by Congress.
I thought they went from calling it NMR to MRI; I'd never seen "NMRI" in print. Yes, there is no ionizing radiation present, but: (1) there is a magnetic field present, a potentially dangerous one if it's switched on near ferromagnets -- there was a Bond movie in which this happened; and (2) it's used for imaging -- some used of NMR, such as identification of organic compounds, don't involve imaging. So I believe the new name is more descriptive.
Time zones do matter if you have to have meetings. Imagine an embedded project where one group is in San Jose, CA, USA, and one is in Haifa, Israel. 10 time zones! 7am meetings in one are 5pm in the other: no one is really sharp.
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Analog data, maybe voice.
In 1983, I visited WWVH, the American time-and-frequency standard broadcast facility in Hawaii, covering the Pacific. They used a magnetic drum for voice messages, such as "At the tone, the time will be exactly six hours, forty-two minutes Coordinated Universal Time."
I used to work with a software engineer who claimed to have found a seek pattern on an IBM disk drive that caused hardware failure, although he didn't say which parts failed.
couldn't show any cultural bias
I understanding what you are getting at; however, consider that a culture that values math will have more successful math-puzzle solvers than a culture that does not.
"Done Right" is key. Back in the 1960s, Xerox made money hand over fist with first-generation plain paper copiers, then threw much of that treasure away in ill-conceived acquisitions (SDS computers and that insurance company, whatever it was -- Crum & Forster?) and blowing emerging markets (laser printer and PC).
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we are people exactly because we have the full spectrum of emotions
The mice have the full spectrum of emotions, too, which is why they were used as models for this study.
Personally, I'm in favor of being able to move out of an unwanted stuck emotional state; too depressed or too manic for comfort.
The last Win98 boxes I saw were un-networked embedded control units, vulnerable only to code- and script-bearing floppies.
http://gazetteonline.com/2006/08/10/Home/News/vana llencoverage.htm
Michael Collins' memoir, "Carrying the Fire," included a table of radiation exposure for all the manned Gemini flights. Two readings were given; one for the commander, one for the pilot (who on some missions left the spacecraft to do some work outside). Gemini X, on which Collins was pilot, had the highest radiation levels, as their flight went in the South Atlantic magnetic anomoly, and others did not. Both are alive roughly 40 years later, in their mid-70s: not bad.
Disclaimer: I have a Ph.D. in chemistry but am not a marine environmental researcher.
What is happening is a massive die-off of many highly adapted species, which, directly or indirectly, depended on oceanic dissolved oxygen being higher, pH being slightly alkaline, and toxin levels being lower.
A big culprit here is phosphate and nitrate fertilizer runoff; read the series for all the details.
Re-evolution may take as long as the first time; don't hold your breath!
that vending machine in the engineering student lounge, that chunked out sodas in 10 ounce bottles, is gone? Professor Lugananni must be VERY upset. :)
I didn't have a high powered laser, but I wanted one
You could go to grad school in chemistry, physics, or engineering and use powerful lasers, if you're still interested.
Yeah, I found out that out the hard way last winter, when my wife and I went from the Midwest USA to Portugal, via two hub airports. One bag arrived on a later flight, minus a nice 7.1 Mpixel Sony pocket camera I had bought ten months earlier. Bleep. At least I downloaded the last batch of pictures and erased the flash, prior to the flight.
Vacuum cleaner
Washer-dryer
Manual typewriter
Garage hand tools
Oh, I bet you meant high tech...
My high school had a Teletype connected to a university HP 2000 in 1974, but unfortunately, all we had access to was a BASIC interpreter.
A few years later a friend's dad let me run jobs on a CDC Cyber 70-something (may have been a 74). I actually saw that machine on a tour, in 1976.
I asked my old high school about accessing my "permanent record," with just such an end in mind. Unfortunately, I found out that it was school policy to destroy these records three years after graduation. Only grades are retained past that.
Blame the victim, then shred the evidence. And, this was a QUALITY public school!
Maybe you can't be fired, but if Congress defunds your project, and there are no others, and your seniority is low, you are laid off; known as a Reduction In Force (RIF).
Also, your boss can harass you and your co-workers, so you and they quit in disgust.
I had stablilty, working for Uncle Sam, but being priced out of much of the Southern California home market (in the days of 20% down as a hard minimum) was difficult to swallow for a near-compulsive saver.
I have an MS in ECE from UCSB, and a PhD in chemistry from UCLA, doing molecular spectroscopy experiments (Turbo Pascal for low-rate data acquisition and display) and intermolecular Raman spectrum simulation (VMS FORTRAN). I have also done FORTRAN on 4.2/SunOS and CDC Cyber 70/170.
I may get to do some numeric programming in my next contract for an avionics firm.
A huge demand for FORTRAN scientific programming? Where? I'd much rather be doing that.
everything can be quantified
As Einstein said, "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts."
Any internal (as opposed to external, i.e. tarriff) tax was, according to the Constitution, apportioned among the states according to population. An amendment to the Constitution was required before income tax laws could be passed by Congress.
More like 1963
I thought they went from calling it NMR to MRI; I'd never seen "NMRI" in print. Yes, there is no ionizing radiation present, but: (1) there is a magnetic field present, a potentially dangerous one if it's switched on near ferromagnets -- there was a Bond movie in which this happened; and (2) it's used for imaging -- some used of NMR, such as identification of organic compounds, don't involve imaging. So I believe the new name is more descriptive.
Time zones do matter if you have to have meetings. Imagine an embedded project where one group is in San Jose, CA, USA, and one is in Haifa, Israel. 10 time zones! 7am meetings in one are 5pm in the other: no one is really sharp.
the hot, loose women in the engineering field
:)
Such as the women here?