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[Pipcard]

In early 2011, I barely knew how to make a skin.

 

[Ghostrider]

Imagine making cuts using razorblades today. :lol:

I've done that just this morning and I suspect it will happen again tomorrow morning.:lol:

 

[ex-orbinaut]

When you consider that sheet music is a sort of graph with the x-axis being time and the y-axis being pitch, and lines to help fix a reference, it doesn't surprise me that 1980s computers could do it, provided you set up the initial conditions just right.

The real challenge is reading accidentals and other wierd markings.

Yeah, I noticed on the demo video that the guy had to set the clef "option" :lol:, but as far as I could see it was able to handle ledgers. However, there simply must be something of a much better design around. With all computers can do when properly programmed, this seems like a "fiddle-sticks" challenge.

 

[ISProgram]

I DSCOVR'ed how to make a good gif today. Falcon 9 v1.1 launch on 2/11/15...

I'll be honest, this was just an excuse to use that pun.

 

[Bibi Uncle]

You mean like this, maybe?

Made me think of Mockinbird. Straight from Xerox PARC, this computer program made in 1980 was able to write music and play it back. It was the precursor of today's Sibelius and Finale.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

I have thought of this question before: how will archeologists of the 2X century find and read digital data of these dozens of years? Well someone else is thinking the same too: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/google-boss-warns-forgotten-century-email-photos-vint-cerf

 

[mojoey]

I'll be back for breakfast!

 

[kamaz]

I have thought of this question before: how will archeologists of the 2X century find and read digital data of these dozens of years?

It will be much more fun when they find our ceramic-based electronic modules and conclude it was jewellery.

A blue pendant with an L-shaped pattern, early 21st century.

 

[Andy44]

 

[Quick_Nick]

 

[Artlav]

On a random (plane porn) note, here is a photo log of the restoration of Tu-144 (CCCP-77106) in Monino aviation museum.
It's the only supersonic passenger plane other than Concorde.
http://fotografersha.livejournal.com/636256.html

 

[Fabri91]

On a related note, here some pictures I took a couple of years ago at the German museums of Speyer and Sinsheim: Imgur album

Among other things, there are a Concorde, a Tu-144 (it's possible to enter in both of them) and the Buran OK-GLI atmospheric flight test prototype.

 

[kamaz]

US Mission to NATO @USNATO

Amazing photo -- Polish MiG-29 from NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission seen from Lithuanian C-27 #Allies
Lithuania in NATO, PLinNATO, HQ AIRCOM and NATO

https://twitter.com/USNATO/status/565876306131582976/photo/1

 

[Andy44]

That looks like a painting.

 

[Anroalh12]

Avira is good.

 

[Andy44]

Like two hours ago I made the mistake of looking something about Archer up on tvtropes...I think I've finally snapped out of it and can hopefully salvage the rest of the evening.

 

[mojoey]

Do you want missed deadlines? Because that's how you get missed deadlines.

 

[Andy44]

Do you want missed deadlines? Because that's how you get missed deadlines.

Um, wait, I had something for this...

 

[RisingFury]

That looks like a painting.

I was thinking it looks like something out of a 1980's movie...

 

[Tycho]

Was feeling especially lazy this evening and in the mood for spaceflight, so I went on an eight-day round-trip in the stock DG from the ISS to Mir to the Moon on a free-return trajectory and back again to the ISS. Had just enough in the tank to make it back to the ISS, since the final rendezvous was the only fuel-efficient maneuver of the whole flight (by necessity, since I chose to neglect fuel consumption for the prior portions of the trip).

Now, tell me that wasn't a Tuesday evening (or at least an hour of it) well spent! :lol: