Mount a 'speaker' and 'microphone' inside the balloon. Drive the speaker with a 'chirp' and do an FFT, signal processing, on the result from the 'microphone'. Analyse the output for peaks. This will indicate how 'stressed' the balloon is overall but will also, possibly, pick up on localised 'stresses' whereby although it looks like the balloon is OK there is part of it that is going to 'give up' prematurely..... you start to get high frequency returns.
I can see possibly this one is not going to work but I'll float it anyway.
You want to launch before the balloon bursts and presumably burst occurs because the balloon has ceased to be stretchy enough.... it has become stiff.
Measure the differential pressure, internal to the balloon and external, and by looking at how it is changing over time you might/should/won't get an indicator as to how close the balloon is to bursting.
Assuming there is anything to the idea then it should be possible to run a set of destructive tests at ground level to gather data and provide for calibration... although temperature is likely to have a marked effect on the elasticity of the balloon.
"The execution of innocent people is death penalty opponents' strongest argument against nooses, electric chairs and gas chambers."
and then
"However, banging murderers up indefinitely just doesn't cut it for some people, so we're inviting suggestions as to how these perps could be made to really suffer."
"And the cookie control feature, whilst required by EU law and supported by the ICO, has been taken wholesale from somewhere else. I know this because I found the original last week and discounted it as ugly and overly intrusive."
Supported by the ICO....? Bwah-Hah-Hah
It also does not appear to provide you with an option to say 'fuck off to you and your cookies' but rather chooses to offer a redirect to some page that might describe how to control cookies in your browser. It's like that shit you get on some websites where you get a button to say you like an article but the crap button is missing.
Digital Inclusion... my Arse. Let's just make it really really hard for Joe[sephine] Punter to avoid us smearing GoogleShit all over their 'Browsing Experience'.
The Human Head is a major source of crufty crap that will rapidly shit all over that one, and others.
'Hi, thanks for taking the time. In my presentation I am going to demonstrate how we via; POP, FMCG, RTO, NPV, CLOUD, SaaS, Paas, NCP, RTI, NFC, SQL, PHP, JAVA and other important technologies will maximise return on "your" investment...
Click
Click
Click
...Oh. Sorry My PowerPoint Presentation appears to be having problems. Errrrrm
Click
Click
Click'
'That's OK. Obviously not your fault for running Windows Cruftware on a Nice Shiny Unibody. Perhaps I should mention that we are in a FaradApple Cage.'
Speaking as someone who knows bugger fuck all about this 'shite' then IPV4 gave you,
255*255*255*255 Blah Fucking IP addresses.
Ergo moving from IPV4 to IPV6 gives you two more Bytes and you get
255*255*255*255*255*255 Blah Fucking IP addresses.
Fuck me if I call it 'not' rocket science but next up you will want IPV7 and IPV8 for 'scalability'.
Stick another byte on the front end and you can scale up to IPV255
Yadda Yadda Yadda.
As stated I know bugger fuck all but would someone please NOT try to explain to me how it is so shit fucking hard to add another two bytes to an IP address in a manner that does not....
Naturally you need not bother.
As a self subscribed 'knuckle scraper' my brane processing power is mostly used to deal with extracting fluff from my navel should my eye things spot where it is and something to do with fingers and nails.
"I think government understand how important [it] is when you talk to them".
Fuck me mate. Which Planet did you arrive from?
Talking to Government about 'important stuff' is futile. They are too busy going 'Lah Lah' behind closed doors fondling their fondleslabs sacking each other and setting up a few nice earners from industrial lobbyists for when they get the boot for knowing fuck all and being spoon fed.
As I say... low temperature/condensate problem. Assuming a 'sealed unit', which it probably will be, just wait a bit longer for the business end to get down to temperature/[worse]condensate at ground level. Once again since the thing supplies its own oxidant it is not going to be bothered about the lack of it at altitude... if you do it in a bucket of dry ice then it is likely that it will not be seeing much atmospheric oxygen anyway... they probably come 'pre-sealed' anyway. Make the test worse, rip the seal out.
Is this not just a low temperature/condensation ignition type problem?
Assuming the rocket supplies its own oxidant, which it will, then I would have thought sucking the air out would not matter too much. Condensate, low temperature, will be worst case at ground level so if your rocket ignites at the expected temperature at ground level it should be good to go at altitude.
Have a word with your 'local' mil-spec power supply developer/supplier, or indeed UoS. They should be able to loan you an environmental test box. They come with holes including the top where you can mount your rocket so it vents to atmosphere and controllers to dial an appropriate time/temperature curve. They are also 'portable' so you can stick things in the car park for testing.
Plus, and this might be a biggy, you can place the ignition box inside the chamber to check its performance out as well. At the moment you have it sitting outside of your present contraption.
Failing that just stick the whole thing in a bucket of dry ice for an appropriate amount of time and give it a wang. As I say... if it works at ground level it will/should go at altitude.
Beer because you can buy some with the money saved.
"Consider the fleas on the cat. They neither work nor toil for to sup blood. Yeh verily even the cat scoffs Whiskas to provide its blood to the fleas and all at no cost to itself, purr purr. Then ask yourselves 'Why should God interrupt that which he has created by tossing rocks at it ?' Be calm, be pure, tweet via your iPhone.. all is well.
Phorm (AIM: PHRM and PHRX) announces that on December 28th Kent Ertugrul, CEO and Chairman of the Company, transferred for nil consideration 2,594,412 shares in the Company to Value Trust Holdings Pte Ltd limited for tax planning purposes.
Well done 'that man'. Good to see you taking care of 'business'.
urrrrm whorrrp etc...
Presumably Apple has a patent on such activities. Narf Narf.
"The restriction is displayed when users run iBook Author, but only at the end of the e-book design process. At which point one might be prompted to go back and read the EULA - which wasn't displayed during the installation of the program:"
Not being one to RTFA but that seems like a nice summary.
FREE FRUITY PRETTY SHINY THINGS, FREE FREE FREE, EVER SO FREE GOSH LOOK ITS FREE AND SHINY.
I'll be wrong here but StuxNet was based on process control systems as implemented under Visual Basic as epitomised by.... Just a mo... the memory cells are failing... errrr... uhm..
I am seriously low quality but tomorrow I will be spending extra time in bed not buggering about with the XP install downstairs. I know it is shafted but fuck it and the person who fucked it and still uses it.
I'd upgrade them to Vista if I was feeling pissed. Is that any better?
"Facebook's IPO is on the horizon, so it's hardly surprising to see CEO Mark Zuckerberg sharpen his employees' focus on what are considered to be cornerstones that investors and shareholders expect from public companies: privacy and communication."
Would have been nice to have two on the way. Time to share knowledge and people as well as bits and pieces.
£24.7 million insurance for the Russian one.. That's $38.2 million dollars.
Let's see. Kent and his bunch of wankers at Phorm have burned $189.2 million dollars to date achieving fuck all. No... seriously. At least Russia got it off the launch pad and into orbit. Kent can't even get it up.... repeatedly.
$189.2M/$38.2M
That's 5 Mars missions!!!11*@*!!!!
Makes you wonder what else Institutional Investors are burning your PensionCash™ on when they could be funding Mars missions.
"For too long Britain's economy has been over-reliant on consumer debt and financial services. We want to rebalance the economy so that Britain makes things again - high-skilled, high-value manufacturing and engineering should be a central part of our long-term future."
Well... that statement just fucked the economy. Fucking Tory Twat. Has Thatchers tit finally dried up?
Plus it am packed wiv Lycopene wot is natures most powerful anti-oxyblobble which becomes more concerntrated by processing plus the body absorbs it better when digested wiv grease.
Crunchie Cat Food is also crunchie. Yum.. wiv lots of additional stuff.
My cat eats the crap bits from Crunchie Cat Food and leaves the good bits for me.
A hump back bridge is one where the span is higher than the entry/exit ramps and generally has a short span. Drive your car over one too fast and.. Even at reasonable speeds then at the apex it feels like your stomach is rising out of your body. A similar effect would have been felt by the astronauts when the engines finished their burn and acceleration ceased. In the same way that the 'angry bird' rose then their stomachs would have done the same.
They paid 'tens of millions' to install it as well. Call that £20 million and install cost per user would be £100. No idea what the loss in bandwidth/data costs to website owners has been by having Dorfman wave his big network stick at their sites doing replay attacks.
Should have bought an iPhone like mine with a 'for shit' aerial from The Prophets.
I shall dial for two Pizzas using my patented Pizza ordering finger swipe. One for me and one for me. You may starve and have a Darwin award along with all the other non-iPhone users.
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Bear asks Pope why he shat in Bears mouth.
Pope claims to be Jewish quoting Google and Wikipedia.
Ballmer lets Bing admit he does not have clue.
Re: Differential Pressure Measurment?
Here's another one...
Mount a 'speaker' and 'microphone' inside the balloon. Drive the speaker with a 'chirp' and do an FFT, signal processing, on the result from the 'microphone'. Analyse the output for peaks. This will indicate how 'stressed' the balloon is overall but will also, possibly, pick up on localised 'stresses' whereby although it looks like the balloon is OK there is part of it that is going to 'give up' prematurely..... you start to get high frequency returns.
Differential Pressure Measurment?
I can see possibly this one is not going to work but I'll float it anyway.
You want to launch before the balloon bursts and presumably burst occurs because the balloon has ceased to be stretchy enough.... it has become stiff.
Measure the differential pressure, internal to the balloon and external, and by looking at how it is changing over time you might/should/won't get an indicator as to how close the balloon is to bursting.
Assuming there is anything to the idea then it should be possible to run a set of destructive tests at ground level to gather data and provide for calibration... although temperature is likely to have a marked effect on the elasticity of the balloon.
Anyway.. It's an idea.
Permanent Secretary
Not
Hmmmm Brazil is also Orkut
Is The Chocolate Factory losing 'share'?
Why Don't ARM
Tell them to all Feck Off and sort themselves out Proper Like?
Does not Compute..
"The execution of innocent people is death penalty opponents' strongest argument against nooses, electric chairs and gas chambers."
and then
"However, banging murderers up indefinitely just doesn't cut it for some people, so we're inviting suggestions as to how these perps could be made to really suffer."
.... Oh, perhaps you were 'aving a larf.
Moon Zero Two
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064691/
Re: Optional
"And the cookie control feature, whilst required by EU law and supported by the ICO, has been taken wholesale from somewhere else. I know this because I found the original last week and discounted it as ugly and overly intrusive."
Supported by the ICO....? Bwah-Hah-Hah
It also does not appear to provide you with an option to say 'fuck off to you and your cookies' but rather chooses to offer a redirect to some page that might describe how to control cookies in your browser. It's like that shit you get on some websites where you get a button to say you like an article but the crap button is missing.
Digital Inclusion... my Arse. Let's just make it really really hard for Joe[sephine] Punter to avoid us smearing GoogleShit all over their 'Browsing Experience'.
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/8540/cookieau.png
Here....
http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/3585/cookieb.png
Fixed it for you. Hope Martha likes the colour scheme.
Bollicks
The Human Head is a major source of crufty crap that will rapidly shit all over that one, and others.
'Hi, thanks for taking the time. In my presentation I am going to demonstrate how we via; POP, FMCG, RTO, NPV, CLOUD, SaaS, Paas, NCP, RTI, NFC, SQL, PHP, JAVA and other important technologies will maximise return on "your" investment...
Click
Click
Click
...Oh. Sorry My PowerPoint Presentation appears to be having problems. Errrrrm
Click
Click
Click'
'That's OK. Obviously not your fault for running Windows Cruftware on a Nice Shiny Unibody. Perhaps I should mention that we are in a FaradApple Cage.'
'Oh, ERM 'K Justin Bieber Man Glasses Then?'
Handbags at Dawn?
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/backtrack/backtrack-0day-privilege-escalation/
Sarah dispels pregnancy rumours
Still putting shoes on her head then :-)
When are Ofcom Going to do something about...
Users of iShiny devices getting surcharged an extra 30% by Cupertino for their phone calls?
OK..
Who put Vanessa Felz in charge of the home office?
Re: It's only two more fricking Bytes
@ TCP Networks
No!
255*255*255*255 is 4,228,250,625 addresses.
This equates to 'about' 1 per person on Planet Earth.
255*255*255*255*255*255 is 274,941,996,890,625 addresses.
This represents a 65,025, probably plus a bit, increase in the population of Planet Earth.
Not very fucking likely...
Everyone gets one and 'nats', or whatever, the rest for their fridge/tv/vibrator plus gives www.gov the opportunity to snout.
As for adding another 12 fricking bytes. Which dumb fuck came up with that idea?
It's only two more fricking Bytes
Speaking as someone who knows bugger fuck all about this 'shite' then IPV4 gave you,
255*255*255*255 Blah Fucking IP addresses.
Ergo moving from IPV4 to IPV6 gives you two more Bytes and you get
255*255*255*255*255*255 Blah Fucking IP addresses.
Fuck me if I call it 'not' rocket science but next up you will want IPV7 and IPV8 for 'scalability'.
Stick another byte on the front end and you can scale up to IPV255
Yadda Yadda Yadda.
As stated I know bugger fuck all but would someone please NOT try to explain to me how it is so shit fucking hard to add another two bytes to an IP address in a manner that does not....
Naturally you need not bother.
As a self subscribed 'knuckle scraper' my brane processing power is mostly used to deal with extracting fluff from my navel should my eye things spot where it is and something to do with fingers and nails.
Fishing Line, Poles, Pulleys, Rotary Encoders
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/1656/mowerpos.png
Concrete
Put a few tonnes worth on the lawn. Stick the bot on top of it. Job's a good one.
Britten
"I think government understand how important [it] is when you talk to them".
Fuck me mate. Which Planet did you arrive from?
Talking to Government about 'important stuff' is futile. They are too busy going 'Lah Lah' behind closed doors fondling their fondleslabs sacking each other and setting up a few nice earners from industrial lobbyists for when they get the boot for knowing fuck all and being spoon fed.
Take Google as a case in point....
Oooooops Bugger...
As you were.
Re: Uhm..
As I say... low temperature/condensate problem. Assuming a 'sealed unit', which it probably will be, just wait a bit longer for the business end to get down to temperature/[worse]condensate at ground level. Once again since the thing supplies its own oxidant it is not going to be bothered about the lack of it at altitude... if you do it in a bucket of dry ice then it is likely that it will not be seeing much atmospheric oxygen anyway... they probably come 'pre-sealed' anyway. Make the test worse, rip the seal out.
Yadda Yadda Yadda Whatever.
Uhm..
Is this not just a low temperature/condensation ignition type problem?
Assuming the rocket supplies its own oxidant, which it will, then I would have thought sucking the air out would not matter too much. Condensate, low temperature, will be worst case at ground level so if your rocket ignites at the expected temperature at ground level it should be good to go at altitude.
Have a word with your 'local' mil-spec power supply developer/supplier, or indeed UoS. They should be able to loan you an environmental test box. They come with holes including the top where you can mount your rocket so it vents to atmosphere and controllers to dial an appropriate time/temperature curve. They are also 'portable' so you can stick things in the car park for testing.
Plus, and this might be a biggy, you can place the ignition box inside the chamber to check its performance out as well. At the moment you have it sitting outside of your present contraption.
Failing that just stick the whole thing in a bucket of dry ice for an appropriate amount of time and give it a wang. As I say... if it works at ground level it will/should go at altitude.
Beer because you can buy some with the money saved.
Here We Go..
<-- ICON
Makes Obama Look Like a Dumb Fuck.
'Sir! Yes! Sir!... You Control The Big Red Shiny Button Via Your iPAD! Sir!'
'But he gets to sack people....'
'Sir! Yes! Sir!... You Control The Big Red Shiny Button Via Your iPAD! Sir!'
God would not do this to us.
"Consider the fleas on the cat. They neither work nor toil for to sup blood. Yeh verily even the cat scoffs Whiskas to provide its blood to the fleas and all at no cost to itself, purr purr. Then ask yourselves 'Why should God interrupt that which he has created by tossing rocks at it ?' Be calm, be pure, tweet via your iPhone.. all is well.
YAY!!!!!!
Obviously taking lessons from Kent..
http://www.phorm.com/assets/reports/Director_Dealing_27-Dec-2011.pdf
28 December 2011
Phorm, Inc. ("Phorm" or the "Company")
Director Dealing
Phorm (AIM: PHRM and PHRX) announces that on December 28th Kent Ertugrul, CEO and Chairman of the Company, transferred for nil consideration 2,594,412 shares in the Company to Value Trust Holdings Pte Ltd limited for tax planning purposes.
Well done 'that man'. Good to see you taking care of 'business'.
urrrrm whorrrp etc...
Presumably Apple has a patent on such activities. Narf Narf.
Nipples!!!!!
I insist that the balloon[s] are topped off with great big throbbing erect nipples... err, to improve the vertical ascent aerodynamics.
You can also put huge chainsaws on the leading edge of the wings to cut the guy ropes on release.
Also useful for landing if any trees or people get in the way.
Eh...
FaceArse fails to protect their sheep and some politico who has signed up, been bought, for a share of the fleece has a ming about things.
It must be one of those Days of the Week that includes the letters 'd' 'a' and 'y' in its name.
Bloody sheep farmers. Next thing you know they will be sticking up fences all over the place.
Evolution
See.. knobs don't come with clitoral stimulators and they do not bend the right way for the G spot. Ergo there is no G spot... or clitoris.
Eh ?
"The restriction is displayed when users run iBook Author, but only at the end of the e-book design process. At which point one might be prompted to go back and read the EULA - which wasn't displayed during the installation of the program:"
Not being one to RTFA but that seems like a nice summary.
FREE FRUITY PRETTY SHINY THINGS, FREE FREE FREE, EVER SO FREE GOSH LOOK ITS FREE AND SHINY.
Oh, by the way....
Eh?
Not very 'JCB' is it?
Couldn't they have done a deal with Doc Martens?
Oi! Oi! Oi!
Erm... maybe not then.
Hmmmm
Just the right size to fit in a Smartie.
What's the exchange rate?
Fine
1) Reckless Flying.
2) Fly Tipping.
3) Shit Parking.
4) Driving the wrong way around a one way crater.
5) Inappropriate use of full beam laser disturbing oncoming traffic.
6) ETC
"The chances of anything coming from Earth are a Million to One They Said. The Chances Of Anything Coming From Earth Are A Million To One but......"
'Oh Do Shut The Fuck Up. Are we going to Ticket it when it gets here?'
'Sir! Yes! Sir!'
StuxNet
I'll be wrong here but StuxNet was based on process control systems as implemented under Visual Basic as epitomised by.... Just a mo... the memory cells are failing... errrr... uhm..
Nope... Hang on. I'll get there eventually..
National Instruments.. LabView
http://www.ni.com/
Appreciated
The title is the message.
Thanks for the reminder.
I am seriously low quality but tomorrow I will be spending extra time in bed not buggering about with the XP install downstairs. I know it is shafted but fuck it and the person who fucked it and still uses it.
I'd upgrade them to Vista if I was feeling pissed. Is that any better?
'Knock Knock'
'Oh, hello. How can I help?'
'Come for your grannies kidneys.'
'Pardon?'
'You know.'
'I really have no idea...'
'Now now Sir. Downloaded Really Useful Tool Version 1.06?'
'Yes..'
'Fair enough. I'll just start up my chainsaw.'
'Also upgraded to Really Useful Tool Version 1.07 Boss.'
'Wife's liver as well then. Better get the other chainsaw.'
'Boss! Yes! Boss!'
'What on Earth?'
'Just show us where the donors are Sir and we'll be on our way....'
Wuh??!!??
"Facebook's IPO is on the horizon, so it's hardly surprising to see CEO Mark Zuckerberg sharpen his employees' focus on what are considered to be cornerstones that investors and shareholders expect from public companies: privacy and communication."
See Title
Yay!!!!!
Extreme engineering....
Would have been nice to have two on the way. Time to share knowledge and people as well as bits and pieces.
£24.7 million insurance for the Russian one.. That's $38.2 million dollars.
Let's see. Kent and his bunch of wankers at Phorm have burned $189.2 million dollars to date achieving fuck all. No... seriously. At least Russia got it off the launch pad and into orbit. Kent can't even get it up.... repeatedly.
$189.2M/$38.2M
That's 5 Mars missions!!!11*@*!!!!
Makes you wonder what else Institutional Investors are burning your PensionCash™ on when they could be funding Mars missions.
No Shit Politicians
David Cameron..
"For too long Britain's economy has been over-reliant on consumer debt and financial services. We want to rebalance the economy so that Britain makes things again - high-skilled, high-value manufacturing and engineering should be a central part of our long-term future."
Well... that statement just fucked the economy. Fucking Tory Twat. Has Thatchers tit finally dried up?
As any fule kno that the tomato is a fruit.
Plus it am packed wiv Lycopene wot is natures most powerful anti-oxyblobble which becomes more concerntrated by processing plus the body absorbs it better when digested wiv grease.
Crunchie Cat Food is also crunchie. Yum.. wiv lots of additional stuff.
My cat eats the crap bits from Crunchie Cat Food and leaves the good bits for me.
Hugz & Purz
A hump back bridge is one where the span is higher than the entry/exit ramps and generally has a short span. Drive your car over one too fast and.. Even at reasonable speeds then at the apex it feels like your stomach is rising out of your body. A similar effect would have been felt by the astronauts when the engines finished their burn and acceleration ceased. In the same way that the 'angry bird' rose then their stomachs would have done the same.
Warning...
Hump Back Bridge.
40 years...?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/15/the_first_forty_years_of_intel_microprocessors/
?
Wonder if the time to do something might have do something with the ground station using directed huge amounts of power saying.
<font size="HUGE">FUCKING DO THIS</font>
Before the Voyager repeatedly meeps
<font size="tiny>ok</font>
and the return message via HUGE aerial arrays on Earth cross-correlate the repetitive weeny signal enough times to believe Voyager has done as asked.
Perhaps Intelligent life might have replied.
"PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP with your irritating transmissions.... We have done it for you. OK!"
Here you go...
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/marc-burgess/4/973/624
Oh sorry. He is a CIO, Chief Information Officer, or perhaps a CLIO, Chief Lack of Information Officer.
In respect of Security/Privacy catch Marc, I am guessing it is him, on,
http://tobymeres.net
During Dr Richard Clayton's presentations where amongst other interjections he manages to come up with the classic...
'So What?'
Apparently
They paid 'tens of millions' to install it as well. Call that £20 million and install cost per user would be £100. No idea what the loss in bandwidth/data costs to website owners has been by having Dorfman wave his big network stick at their sites doing replay attacks.
So...
Not available in 405 line grey and lighter grey with visible vertical scan lines and mono-phonics...
What's that mate?
Phone not working?
Front end receiver buggered by Solar Flares?
Awwwwh Shame.
Should have bought an iPhone like mine with a 'for shit' aerial from The Prophets.
I shall dial for two Pizzas using my patented Pizza ordering finger swipe. One for me and one for me. You may starve and have a Darwin award along with all the other non-iPhone users.
Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha.
I will be wrong.
The reference to 3.1..... Windows Write?
A text editor that....
I'll get my ZimmerFrame.
No one should have to resign just for having an opinion.
Unless it harms the hive and the whips request it.
Oh... Televisions
I'll get me coat.
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