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(...) The current Air & Space magazine has an article on people who are building their own flight sims. Quite an interesting read. Here's the web page for one of them: (URL) was another that was using a car for the enclosure... Three cheers to (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That is seriously cool. A fisheye projection TV onto a rounded dome with monitors just for the instrument panels would be even cooler though. As for this comment "K, this guy has waaaay too much time/money/whatever..." I would say that if ANY (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) In early mainframes the byte size varied quite a bit (pun intended). The first mainframe I worked on was a Univac 1100 which had a 36 bit word which could be referenced as either six 6-bit bytes or four 9-bit bytes. A byte is generally defined (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(URL) that works for EQ, count me in... Dave K (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Other-sized bytes are much older than that. I think 8 bits became the standard in the 60s or early 70s. I believe the PDP-10, a 36-bit computer, used 9-bit bytes. Hmmm. We've got this thing called "The Internet". I bet it's good for finding (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I've been around computer hardware since the intel 8008 (about 1978), and a byte has always been 8 bits, and a nibble 4 bits. I do not claim to know all architectures though). In some machines 16 bits is a word, and in others a half word, 32 (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I didn't know there was an off-topic.geek group, but I agree that's where this should go. :) I'd be interested in seeing hardware that defines a byte other then 8 bits. I don't know if there is some programming language that redefines a byte, (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Actually a byte is whatever you define it to be - a nibble is generally half a byte, and a word is generally 2 bytes. I haven't seen a machine using 4 bit bytes, but I've seen 8, 16, 32 and 64. And I'm sure there are other weird ones floating (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Did ozbricks.net change their login procedure again? It used to be .... login: username@ozbrick.net pass: x Did they change the format again? (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hello, 35.7% for me. I seems highly weighted for gaming either computer or other. I did fudge a bit on some things that I 'used' to do but don't now. I was honest though on some I thought I might know the answer to, but was not 100% sure. I (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Peter Newman's utterance expressed in news:Law11-OE61ygIDd...tmail.com: (...) Yep - that is what I mean too - sorry if I wasn't clear about it :) In Denmark the old type of non-rechargeable batteries are called "brunsten" which translated gives (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) All mass has gravity, Gravity is a function of mass. a pinhead floating in space has a gravitational force, but the moons is a lot bigger and could override the pinheads, thus pulling or "Attracting" it towards it. (Though I'm sure flowers and (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) Note I said "there's no friction", not "there's no gravity". Of course there's gravity in space - otherwise we wouldn't know which way was up! The Capacitor-Relayed Open Charged Kinetics battery system is definitely below the main hull of the (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Pendulums don't work in the absence of gravity, and they really only work with the largest gravitic pull from their location, whether it be from a single source or closely clustered combined sources. The moon exerts the largest gravitic pull (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) It's like a pendulum, I guess, but in space (which is where the earth is), there's no friction, so it just keeps going - backward and forward ad infinitum. The sea monkey explanation was a good one too, just not the right one. IMO. (...) The (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Sea Monkeys. (...) Heck, they're even building a MoonBase on it! (...) 2a) The sea has a natural tendency to want to stop moving, agitating untold numbers of Sea Monkey colonies. 2b) The Sea Monkeys, worried that their vast underwater domains (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) Almost there, but not quite. The moon does rotate, but it has slowed down to the point were one lunar day is equal to one lunar year (yes, on the moon, every day is your birthday). If it had stopped spinning altogether in relation to Earth, (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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Quoting Richie Dulin <rdulin@REMOVEmla.com.au>: (...) *blink* Wow. Ok, It's taken me a long time to figure out just how I want to approach this. 1) the water shifting side to side - how do you think this happens if not from the gravitational pull of (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) I'm no scientist, but I'll give it a go anyway... (...) I suspect that the water shifting from side to side counteracts the moon's lack of rotation (through the conservation of energy), thus stopping it exploding. Where the moon may run into (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, FTX)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars Gjerløw Jørgensen" <lgjPURGE@jyde.dk> To: <lugnet.off-topic.ge...ugnet.com> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 10:47 AM Subject: Re: Rechargeable Batteries - with correct link :) <snip> </snip> (...) drops (...) (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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