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LukeTim

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  1. Sorry? How can you be at College without knowing what you will be studying? Also, I don\'t know how it is in other Unis, but the School of Computing Science at my Uni is atrocious. They don\'t teach about hardware at all, teach with Java and it\'s filled with students who have no idea (and for the most part don\'t even want to know) how a computer works... heck, they barely know what a computer is. It\'s all boring high-level crap to me. If you want to learn more about hardware and low-level programming, Computer Systems/Electronic and Computer Engineering could be better. Just a tip.
  2. I never meant that it was hard. I just meant that it is so long-winded and irritating to use that I absolutely hate it.
  3. Well, yeah, of course someone is going to have to deal with Assembly at some point. I\'d just rather that wasn\'t me. And if I really need control, I can write in C, half compile to Assembly Language, and then change that before completing the compilation to Machine Code.
  4. That\'s a fair point. But yeah, changing the pod\'s mass to 0 should suffice for now.
  5. I guess that\'s gonna be more useful when we get saving and persistence... for now you can launch the satellite and just ignore the pod.
  6. The problem I have with Assembly is that it takes SO bloody long to do anything. Why write in Assembly myself when I can use C and a good compiler (presumably written by an assembly expert) which can make the resulting assembly and machine code a shit load more efficient than I could ever make it? And it\'d take me a fraction of the time, with the same, if not better, result.
  7. If you set something spinning in space, presumably it will keep spinning due to lack of air resistance... so could you not just stick a magnet and a solenoid up in orbit and get the magnet spinning relative to the solenoid?
  8. I\'m not sure I understand how this is supposed to work... Is it a typical turbine generator and the counterweights make it turn during the orbit? Do they make it turn because of the orbit? Wouldn\'t that mean the period would be 24 hours and the current would be effectively 0A? Can\'t be that... IDGI.
  9. Can we please call them Flying Saucers and not call them U.F.O.s? It really gets on my tits when people call things which are clearly identified U.F.O.s.
  10. No. It\'s Kernited States of Ameriker.
  11. Since when did NASA send up Sputnik?
  12. Oh man, I wish I could have gone to a sixth form that did Computer Science. I would have been all over that shit. Didn\'t even know it was available at A-Level at all. Also, Visual Basic is teh lose. You poor thing.
  13. Please sign this petition: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/6271 The UK is pretty much the only major nation in which 'Engineer' is not a protected title, meaning anybody can be called (or can call themselves) an Engineer. A Doctor needs a Doctorate, an Architect needs an Architecture degree, but an Engineer can be anyone... usually a 'Gas Engineer' or 'Plumbing Engineer' who comes around the house to fix things. Not strictly an Engineer at all... This causes an image problem whereby people believe that Engineers simply fix things, rather than Design, Invent or, indeed, Engineer them. This needs to change. In the US, France, Germany etc. An Engineer is an Engineer. For some reason, in the UK, this is not always the case.
  14. I might change the wording a bit, but it gets me started. Thanks! lol @ Socket.
  15. In my final year of a Computer Systems Engineering course at Uni where I started out programming in my first year with JavaScript. Then we moved on to Java (This was the School of Computing Science which is terrible at my Uni), then later on my own Electronic Engineering School did some Programming with us in C and 68K Assembly (Ancient, I know... but Assembly is pretty similar wherever you go, right?) I\'ve done some C++ at work over the summer, and I thought it was okay, but I really love to code in C# in my spare time. Started out C# programming when trying to make games with XNA (still haven\'t managed to finish one. ) I really love programming Hardware, though. By which I mean programming PICs, Arduinos and things in C for fun DSP projects and other stuff like that.
  16. Electronic and Computer Engineering Student here.
  17. Okay, I am looking into applying for an MSc in Astronautics and Space Engineering at Cranfield University in the UK, and I know a lot of you work in the Space industry (and may have even done this very course). For the application, I need a personal statement about how the course will help my chosen career in space. I\'ve sat on my Netbook here for a good few hours and not been able to think of a single thing to put down. Can anyone help me start it? The lady I spoke to on the phone said don\'t write things like 'I have always dreamed of going to the stars'... But I can\'t really think of a way of getting across my passion for the subject and the career without stuff like that.
  18. This is awesome. Any chance of getting the craft file?
  19. But rendezvous - to a relative layman like myself - seems so much harder than a lunar injection. I just about understand Hohmann and Bi-elliptic transfers, but I haven't got a clue how to change the plane of orbit... it sounds really hard... and AFAIK it is a necessity for orbital rendezvous.
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