Originally posted by sonhouseOoops. Missed it. But I was holding a screaming kid at the time. Trying to calm him and not annoy too many patrons. Sigh.
Ah, you should rent part two, its precepts are almost possible,
generating time loops. MR FUSION was the name of the power unit
on the Delorian, it was in the opening scene.
Originally posted by sonhouse
thanks Mike. This piece started out as a kind of manual for the
car used in back to the future part 2, remember the wheels that tucked
in, etc. I got so carried away, I realized it would have to have way
more capability than that Delorian! I think it ended up being more
like a parody of that John Candy movie, you know, the one with
the spaceship looking strangely like a camper?
Another missing item in the manual (and on all MS manuals, I think)
What to do when the FAD hungs.
Call the next klingon help desk, and ask for advice. Bill is cold dead, and after at least 1 year, the support services for MS FAD will be of not use for you (your version is too old, moron!). If you are in a hurry. try downloading service pack 8673 version 256 from the proxy red dwarf star. Otherwise. you are fried. Sorry.
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Originally posted by LittleBeargrin...
Another missing item in the manual (and on all MS manuals, I think)
What to do when the FAD hungs.
Call the next klingon help desk, and ask for advice. Bill is cold dead, and after at least 1 year, the support services for MS FAD w ...[text shortened]... rom the proxy red dwarf star. Otherwise. you are fried. Sorry.
Thankx for the "red dwarf". I watched it, but forgot the name. I liked the cat. He was what a million years in a storage bin SHOULD do.
Originally posted by LittleBearI assume you mean Hangs up...
Another missing item in the manual (and on all MS manuals, I think)
What to do when the FAD hungs.
Call the next klingon help desk, and ask for advice. Bill is cold dead, and after at least 1 year, the support services for MS FAD will be of not use for you (your version is too old, moron!). If you are in a hurry. try downloading service pack 8673 version 256 from the proxy red dwarf star. Otherwise. you are fried. Sorry.
Like there you are accelerating like the proverbial bat out of hell
and the accelerator petal sticks wide open, 100,000 G's and counting.
Time starts to warp, its been going on for over 5 minutes, you fell
asleep at the wheel and you wake up and the whole view has gone
relativistic, your velocity now at 0.999 C. Saint Bill can be seen
in the aft window as a shadow around the sun, doing motions with his
hands across his throat, no mistaking the CUT IT OFF gesture.
You assume he is talking about a sex change operation and so
completely miss the approach to a small red dwarf......
Originally posted by sonhouseAhem. Don. If you look out the rear view... you see only black. You are outside the cone of information. If you look out the front, you see only 'extremely' blue light information. Ahem. Just a point of einsteinian relative truth.
I assume you mean Hangs up...
Like there you are accelerating like the proverbial bat out of hell
and the accelerator petal sticks wide open, 100,000 G's and counting.
Time starts to warp, its been going on for over 5 minutes, you fell
asleep at the wheel and you wake up and the whole view has gone
relativistic, your velocity now at 0.999 C. Saint Bil ...[text shortened]... ing about a sex change operation and so
completely miss the approach to a small red dwarf......
A cone exists behind and before. What can reach you at the speed of light? Well, obviously. A single point of light. The big bang. What can reach you from the past? Well. Obviously. The big bang. Figure that one out.
Originally posted by StarValleyWyYeah, I knew that, didn't want to interrupt the thread of my
Ahem. Don. If you look out the rear view... you see only black. You are outside the cone of information. If you look out the front, you see only 'extremely' blue light information. Ahem. Just a point of einsteinian relative truth.
A cone exists behind and before. What can reach you at the speed of light? Well, obviously. A single point of light. Th ...[text shortened]... big bang. What can reach you from the past? Well. Obviously. The big bang. Figure that one out.
incredibly witty comment with scientific reality🙂
Originally posted by StarValleyWyanother thing that happens is you are foreshortened, that is to say
Ahem. Don. If you look out the rear view... you see only black. You are outside the cone of information. If you look out the front, you see only 'extremely' blue light information. Ahem. Just a point of einsteinian relative truth.
A cone exists behind and before. What can reach you at the speed of light? Well, obviously. A single point of light. Th ...[text shortened]... big bang. What can reach you from the past? Well. Obviously. The big bang. Figure that one out.
you approach pancakeness the closer to C you get.
Fitzgerald contraction and all that. I imagine at the speed of light
you become a Planc Pancake.
Originally posted by sonhouseBTW speaking of Fitzgerald, ever hear of the gay Irishmen?
another thing that happens is you are foreshortened, that is to say
you approach pancakeness the closer to C you get.
Fitzgerald contraction and all that. I imagine at the speed of light
you become a Planc Pancake.
Pat Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzpatrick?
Originally posted by sonhouse
I assume you mean Hangs up...
Like there you are accelerating like the proverbial bat out of hell
and the accelerator petal sticks wide open, 100,000 G's and counting.
Time starts to warp, its been going on for over 5 minutes, you fell
asleep at the wheel and you wake up and the whole view has gone
relativistic, your velocity now at 0.999 C. Saint Bil ...[text shortened]... ing about a sex change operation and so
completely miss the approach to a small red dwarf......
You are right! (sorry for my bad apelling/grammar)
And I tell you a secret:
I'm a mad rocket scientist. 🙂
Take it for sure, I'd prefer a GNU (LINUX based) FAD. 🙂
Please visit my work home page:
http://www.citefa.gov.ar
aye! it is in spanish! sorry, may be in the future we'll have an intl page... 🙁
Originally posted by LittleBearDon't worry about it. Some of us do read spanish. In your talking points you talk about the need to investigate the methods and compontents.
You are right! (sorry for my bad apelling/grammar)
And I tell you a secret:
I'm a mad rocket scientist. 🙂
Take it for sure, I'd prefer a GNU (LINUX based) FAD. 🙂
Please visit my work home page:
http://www.citefa.gov.ar
aye! it is in spanish! sorry, may be in the future we'll have an intl page... 🙁
Realizar investigaciones aplicadas y desarrollos de sistemas de armas, subsistemas y componentes.
Want to effect investigations (and deeds) transfering private knowledge to public domain.
Efectuar investigaciones aplicadas y desarrollos tecnológicos, tendientes a satisfacer requerimientos cívico-militares mediante transferencias de tecnología a la industria pública o privada.
Bring into existence that which can be imagined by the technologies available, in spite of the barriers.
Producir series de equipos, sistemas de armas, o tecnologías resultantes de su actividad en magnitud apropiada para la normalización tecnológica operacional de los desarrollos realizados.
Enable the ? Nation to keep up with the Jone's? QED... america?
Efectuar la homologación de los materiales y equipos que determine el Ministerio de Defensa.
Provide support for the success of these ideas and the instigation of these technologies.
Promover las acciones que aseguren el mantenimiento y actualización de las capacidades científicas y tecnológicas del Organismo.
I like your site very much. Well done LittleBear. Forgive my total lack of language. You do ten times better than I.
Originally posted by LittleBearHi LittleBear! Not all of your site is in spanish! I found the link
You are right! (sorry for my bad apelling/grammar)
And I tell you a secret:
I'm a mad rocket scientist. 🙂
Take it for sure, I'd prefer a GNU (LINUX based) FAD. 🙂
Please visit my work home page:
http://www.citefa.gov.ar
aye! it is in spanish! sorry, may be in the future we'll have an intl page... 🙁
to the US Naval Institute! Also under general interest links you have
one that is "Nacionales y regionales en : Barnews/Argentina"
doesn't work, it goes nowhere. Oh well.
BTW my daughter and son in law live in Brazil, near Maceio if you
know that area, where the tip of Brazil sticks out most easterly.
Heather teaches music at the University there and her husband
Gandhi teaches statistical physics. They had papers in Nature and
others. Imagine trying to take the board exams in music in
Portuguese! The sulfage in Portugal is differant from the sulfage
elsewhere. In most countries, you have Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do.
and the Chromatic ones between Do Di Re Ri Mi Ma etc.
Thats it. but in Portuguese system you have a differant set of sulfage
for each key, have no idea what the symbols are but instead of
12 differant names, you have 12^2 (144) names, a differant sulfage
for each of the 12 keys! So first she had to learn Portuguese,
then the 12x12 separate sulfage names, THEN take a teachers board
exam to teach music at university level, all in Portuguese of course,
no English allowed. She did it though! Gandhi is incredible too.
He and his family emigrated to Brazil from Tamil Nadu in India when
he was about 3 years old so Brazil was his home as far as he was
concerned. They met at a Bahai meeting (a mid eastern religion)
while he was getting his Phd in statistical physics at Boston University
and she was getting her Masters in Music at Wesleyan, her BFA at
Berkelee school of music in Boston. So Gandhi was so poor he could
not afford books, just barely had enough money for tuition and living.
So from undergrad days all the way to Phd, never bought a single
book! Beg, borrow, go to the library a LOT, etc, all the way without
buying a single book! That is something in my view, eh!
Originally posted by sonhouse(thanks Mike!)
Hi LittleBear! Not all of your site is in spanish! I found the link
to the US Naval Institute! Also under general interest links you have
one that is "Nacionales y regionales en : Barnews/Argentina"
doesn't work, it goes nowhere. Oh well.
BTW my daughter and son in law live in Brazil, near Maceio if you
know that area, where the tip of Brazil stic ...[text shortened]... ibrary a LOT, etc, all the way without
buying a single book! That is something in my view, eh!
Hi sonhouse.
Yes, I know. There are links to foreign sites. of course!
But let me to put that clear: this is not *my* site. This is the site of an argentinian goverment institute dedicated to researrch and development. And I am only a humble employed. But a proud one.
I'm working at CITEFA since 27 years now 🙂 I started my career at the institute designing SPRM (solid propellant rocket motors). Now I'm working in the guidance and simulation department.
Oh well!
Here we are turning on the musical aspect of the thread!
There are a lot of termperaments. For me, and i am a little fascist on it, there are one and only one perfect temperamenrt : the well tempered scale by Bach (my idol!).
Another temperaments should be allowed. Why? because the string instruments allows you to play an "inexistent" note in the known scales.
That is why I love strings quartets. It is in my agenda to compose one... It is a great challenge.
I should, if I get my retirenment, and leave my chess vicious apart... 🙂
cheers
Originally posted by LittleBearWell there are certainly more scales than the well tempered, which
(thanks Mike!)
Hi sonhouse.
Yes, I know. There are links to foreign sites. of course!
But let me to put that clear: this is not *my* site. This is the site of an argentinian goverment institute dedicated to researrch and development. And I am only a humble employed. But a proud one.
I'm working at CITEFA since 27 years now 🙂 I started my caree ...[text shortened]... lenge.
I should, if I get my retirenment, and leave my chess vicious apart... 🙂
cheers
BTW was only exemplified by Bach not invented by him. I assume
you know the math behind the scale, the 12th root of two?
I played with that, as well as a lot of other people! Stringed
instruments like guitar are well suited to getting between the notes
by bending the strings, at least you can go UP in frequency easily,
not so easy to go down! But, it gives you the opportunity to get to
all those notes between the well tempered scale. Thats what blues
guys like me do all the time.(Actually I play more than just blues,
but several folk idioms, see my site, just a poster for now with
mis-spellings and we are going to correct that soon, but anyway
its www.thegladsmiths.com thats our band)
Anyway I did some playing with the math and realized you could just
use any number like the 13th root of two also, it gives you 13 notes
in a scale and the 13th note is then the octave so the whole thing
is skewed, each note slightly higher in pitch than its 12 note version.
18th root of two is neat, it has a lot of notes in common with the
12 tone scale and of course again comes to the octave on the
18th note. If you use th 24th root of two you get a note exactly halfway
between the notes of the 12 tone scale. I hear tell of some guys
making an instrument, don't know if its a real acoustic one or built
in software like a synth but the scale goes 43rd root of two. The big
differance here is besides getting in more notes than even the 24th
root is you get an ability to have defined notes that automatically
have "blues scales" built in as well as most of the microtunings used
most anywhere in the world. The obvious problem is how to make
a keyboard where you have 43 notes per octave. So a 5 octave
keyboard like on a piano would have 215 keys, they would probably
have to be laid out like an organ, a main set of keys with adjacent
keys going up in other rows, like maybe 4 separate rows of keys,
can you imagine Mozart getting hold of a keyboard like that?"😉
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Originally posted by sonhouseYou do know that "smith" is the most proud name in human language? The "maker". The "smith". I wish to god that I get to be with you sometime. Maybe I can find out the next Millward reunion and meet you there? A thousand drums by two thousand people... with the myth of legend being sung at the fifty foot fire? Tweek yer' interest?
Well there are certainly more scales than the well tempered, which
BTW was only exemplified by Bach not invented by him. I assume
you know the math behind the scale, the 12th root of two?
I played with that, as well as a lot of other pe ...[text shortened]... ,
can you imagine Mozart getting hold of a keyboard like that?"😉