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Post by greypanther » Wed, 3. May 17, 23:59

Not sure how I feel about this US released photo, taken by a US photographer, of the moment she died.

yet I still had to look... :(
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Post by Bishop149 » Thu, 4. May 17, 13:48

The photos were published with the permission of the Clayton family.
I hope they also sought such permission from the families of the two Afghan soldiers who also died and unlike the photographer are actually IN the picture.
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Post by greypanther » Sat, 6. May 17, 01:01

Ah, here you go, a sincere gentleman, brokering a deal, with an honest foreign dignitary. :roll:
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Post by Terre » Sat, 6. May 17, 10:28

Open Rights Group - Is your site being blocked
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Post by burger1 » Sat, 6. May 17, 17:44

Getting closer to Tatooine moisture farming.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/ ... desert-air

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Post by Tracker001 » Mon, 8. May 17, 10:56

John we have a report that Micro Wave antenna SPVLCA65 @ Bear creek rd. signal is failing . We need it checkout ASAP
John reports. Found the probable cause

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Post by pjknibbs » Thu, 11. May 17, 20:07

Mass Effect: Andromeda may be the last ME game we ever see--the team that made it has been broken up and the series put on indefinite hold:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/vi ... ut-on-Hold

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Post by red assassin » Fri, 12. May 17, 11:30

pjknibbs wrote:Mass Effect: Andromeda may be the last ME game we ever see--the team that made it has been broken up and the series put on indefinite hold:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/vi ... ut-on-Hold
I feel like this is completely the wrong lesson to take from what happened to Andromeda...
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Post by pjknibbs » Fri, 12. May 17, 14:43

red assassin wrote: I feel like this is completely the wrong lesson to take from what happened to Andromeda...
To learn the *right* lesson would require a degree of self-awareness that EA, sadly, appears to lack. :wink:

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Post by greypanther » Sat, 13. May 17, 21:42

A message to all the expert coders on the forum, NASA needs your help!
Nasa is seeking help from coders to speed up the software it uses to design experimental aircraft.

It is running a competition that will share $55,000 (£42,000) between the top two people who can make its FUN3D software run up to 10,000 times faster.

The FUN3D code is used to model how air flows around simulated aircraft in a supercomputer.

The software was developed in the 1980s and is written in an older computer programming language called Fortran.
Can anyone here help? :)
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Post by mrbadger » Sat, 13. May 17, 21:58

Fortran?

Yuck....

Nasa have bucket loads of outdated and slow software they are still using. I wrote my own version of one of their tools I declined to use when I was an undergrad, and bettered it easily with just a few months work.

That *prize* wouldn't be considered a decent enticement for a consultant, so I hope they're offering more than just the money aspect.
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Post by brucewarren » Sat, 13. May 17, 22:10

To be fair there's probably a lot of old FORTRAN code kicking around.

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Post by greypanther » Sat, 13. May 17, 22:38

Well, to be fair you two would not be asked because:
The sensitive nature of the code means the competition is only open to US citizens who are over 18.
So: :P

I have been told the odd American does use this forum too... :roll:
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Post by mrbadger » Sat, 13. May 17, 23:02

I wouldn't want to write any code for NASA even if I could, I don't like they way they operate as an organisation.

I've worked with them in academia in the past, and it wasn't easy. You have to jump through far too many secrecy loops for far too little gain.

They need to modernise in a BIG way.

In fact I was offered the chance to do my Ph.d with them, working on the Mars Rover program, but declined the offer without hesitation. Unless you are a US citizen it is virtually pointless.
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Post by Morkonan » Sun, 14. May 17, 22:16

The call for coders experienced in Really Old Languages has been going out from NASA for years/decades. All the old coders are dying off and they have some legacy systems that they just can't change. Lesson's learned, I suppose - Don't launch a computer you can't do a low-level update on... Then again, imagine if they tried to upgrade something and missed a bug - Oops, guess we need to send a tech out to one of the Voyagers! Gonna be an expensive house-call.

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Post by Morkonan » Mon, 15. May 17, 08:07

Can't stop laughing...

(Wirty Dords) - https://imgur.com/gallery/HcmPY

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Post by Morkonan » Tue, 16. May 17, 20:41

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZERI42eRU

But... why?

Next up, a move about soup-can labels.

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Post by clakclak » Tue, 16. May 17, 22:09

Ladies and Gentlemen I present the King of Thailand: https://i.imgur.com/FnsDgcn.jpg

Backround: He is suing facebook to get rid of pics like this one.
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Post by brucewarren » Tue, 16. May 17, 22:56

Was expecting Yul Brynner. Went away disappointed.

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