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[NukeET]

Playing around with NASSP (again), I found it! (Panel 3 center line, near bottom edge).

http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=304461&postcount=3544

 

[Notebook]

Not worth wasting a thread on, does anyone know what ship this is at Google Earth?

LAT 21.375854°
LON -157.984489°

Thanks N.

 

[Urwumpe]

They say you can never have too much storage, but I just can't see what anyone would ever need 5 TB for:blink: All the stuff I need to back up doesn't even come to 8 GB...

Record a week of football in HD with your modern TV? That is the rationale for me to buy a second external HDD soon. :lol:

 

[jedidia]

Actually, you can still hear others underwater, just not very loud. I know that from experience.

It appears that way because the frequencies are shifted. Sound actually propagates better in water than in air (which is why sonar is such a kick-ass detection device for submarines). Go for a dive and knock two large stones together: while the sound will be numb and bassy and you won't hear it that clearly, you'll be able to feel the energy propagated to your eardrums. It isn't a nice feeling, and I'd advice some care (don't knock them next to your ear, and don't do it if you have trouble with pressure equilization in the first place).

 

[Urwumpe]

Not worth wasting a thread on, does anyone know what ship this is at Google Earth?

LAT 21.375854°
LON -157.984489°

Thanks N.

Looks like a retired US helicopter carrier, possibly Iwo Jima class. Lacks the flat bow of the current US assault ships. The LPH-11 New Orleans was sunk as target in 2010 during RIMPAC. The white stripe at the bow looks like a blurred 11.

 

[tl8]

Iwo Jima class amphibious assault ship

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwo_Jima_class_amphibious_assault_ship"]Iwo Jima class amphibious assault ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iwo_Jima_(LPH-2)

Note sure which one though

 

[MattBaker]

It's the New Orleans, note that the image is from 1/1/2008 according to Google Earth and Wiki states: "In 2006, the ship was relocated to Pearl Harbor to be prepared for a 'SINKEX'."
So it's the New Orleans, waiting for it's fate.

Just read: "New Orleans next sailed onto the movie screen in November 1994 when astronaut Captain Jim Lovell, USN, director Ron Howard, and actors Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton came aboard to film several portions of the Oscar-winning film Apollo 13. She portrayed the then-decommissioned USS Iwo Jima, one of her sister ships."
So Tom Hanks and Jim Lovell were on that ship, shame it was destroyed...

 

[Quick_Nick]

So far summer has been forking HOT. Over 100F officially, thermometers I see read closer to 110 in the shade. Parking lots are around 120. (30 minutes IN the car probably turns your brain to scrambled eggs) Not to mention the heat index which adds around 10 degrees to the feeling.
Today is supposed to be stormy AND 102F. (image is from yesterday)

Notice the normal high is 92. Our thermometer read 91 long after sunset last night.

 

[n122vu]

Supposed to have above-100F temps here over the next few days starting tomorrow. They are saying it is a dry airmass, so minimal heat index expected (105F max). Drought conditions expected to persist as they have for the past few months, with burn bans over most of the southern half of the state, if not the entire state.

 

[Scav]

Playing around with NASSP (again), I found it! (Panel 3 center line, near bottom edge).

http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=304461&postcount=3544

Apollo 12?

 

[TMac3000]

It's been an unusually cool summer here in SC, often getting down in the 60's F at night. Quite a rarity here--we're really enjoying it

 

[C3PO]

Apollo 12?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12#Launch_and_transfer

Legendary EECOM John Aaron (the original NASA "steely eyed missile man") remembered the telemetry failure pattern from an earlier test when a power supply malfunctioned in the CSM Signal Conditioning Equipment (SCE). The SCE converts raw signals from instrumentation to standard voltages for the spacecraft instrument displays and telemetry encoders.

 

[mojoey]

So, wasn't all too impressed with Battlefield 3 on the Xbox. Played it on the PC, found it excellent...not so much on my console. Constant audio lag, it stopped in the middle of a firefight because it lost connection to EA online (wtf?), oh, and it will crash the Xbox OS, this happened three times. Once on uprising, once on Going Hunting, and one on Kaffarov.

Come on DICE...

 

[Mattyv]

Thermodynamics professor,

Y U no talk about Thermodynamics?

Seriously why are you talking about silicon-based life forms?

 

[MattBaker]

After 11 hours of fighting during the last two days I declare the Second Trojan War has ended! After Trojan troops conquered (I guess I have to find a woman's name now) Caitlin and brought her to the country of BlueScreens our Greek (quick look in my wallet, yeah, Greek) soldiers were able to defeat them!

 

[SolarLiner]

So, wasn't all too impressed with Battlefield 3 on the Xbox. Played it on the PC, found it excellent...not so much on my console. Constant audio lag, it stopped in the middle of a firefight because it lost connection to EA online (wtf?), oh, and it will crash the Xbox OS, this happened three times. Once on uprising, once on Going Hunting, and one on Kaffarov.

Come on DICE...

Battlefield 3 is not optimised for Xbox. And remember we're in a Microsoft OS. I never have audio lags or DICE disconnexion on my PS3 ...
There is a lot of time since the last time I played BF3 ... I should play whit it a litle bit tomorrow ...

 

[Scav]

--rant.--


So I got a call yesterday from this lady who saw my resume online. This was good news, as I am currently in employment transition.

After extensive digging, though . . . I found out who she was, what the company was, and what they wanted me to do:

First off, she was not a HR recruiter/generalist/specialist as I originally supposed (hoped). Nope . . . she was a customer service representative, and I had to get through three different people to get her on the phone (after a ten minute lag between her leaving a message on my phone and my conversing with her).

Second . . . the company is a landscaping/grounds-keeping outfit. My wondering at what this has to do with I.T. was answered pretty succintly: It does not. My original hope was that the company was in need of an I.T. person . . .

. . . but they weren't, and that wasn't the best of it. The best part was the fact the company wanted me as a 'neighborhood sales representative' -- going door to door in strange neighborhoods, knocking on doors of people I don't know, getting maybe five seconds of dialogue in an effort at combining lead generation with actual sales.

Lasting impression: I got two different emails from three different people to take away from all of this; one of which included the promised 'information packet' I'd need to read through before my interview (which contained the most basic, tersely-worded foreword about the company and said nothing about the actual position. An address/directions to the company were not provided, nor was specific contact information forthcoming).

As footnoted in the second email, an apology was made, indicating the sender needed to use someone else's email account to send said email.

I know I need a job, but I think I'll pass on this one . . .

:facepalm:

/rant.

 

[n122vu]

For the longest time, I used to get calls from an insurance agency, wanting me to be a salesman. Claiming they'd seen my resume on Monster. Really? Did you see my resume, or just my name? Because if you'd actually READ my resume, you'd have not only seen that I have a degree in programming, but that my objective is to find such a position in the area.

One time, just for grins, I went to an interview with them. The guy loved my application and was all but ready to hire me on the spot. I just had to take an online survey before I left to see exactly what part of the company I'd fit best in. After an hour of answering questions about customer service, which I had a lot of experience in due to various positions in many different restaurant settings (fast food, full service, asst. mgmt, trainer), he comes out and tells me that unfortunately they cannot offer me a position at this time as my scores indicated I would not be a good fit for the insurance sales business. :uhh: Really? You don't say?

 

[TMac3000]

I know what you guys mean. I have an accounting degree, and now I spend four months out the year working in a tax office for minimum wage. Not that I'm complaining mind you--I love the job but...you know.

CPA here I come!lease:

 

[Scav]

And see, the thing is, I don't think Lady Behind The Phone bothered to actually read my resume (as -2VU alluded to). My major is in networking development. It might be a stretch, but since when does a networking development student who is currently working as a configuration technician with an established I.T. company have anything to do with cold sales?

Furthermore, as a customer service representative (at least, that's what I'm assuming her usage of the acronym 'CSR' meant), what is she even doing going fishing like that?

:shrug: