LukeTim

Well, all I said was that the first character in the string is a lot more easily decrypted than the rest of them... which is a clue as to how the cipher works.

Here I am, I guess. It\'s an old photo, about 4 years now, but I like it.

Sorry. I guess I assumed too much about your existing knowledge. I didn\'t mean to make you feel stupid or anything. Sorry, again. As I said, I am not sure how to go about deciphering this... well, I know exactly how because I designed it, but if I had no idea what the cipher was, I wouldn\'t really know. I just know how to design them (well, basic ones)... breaking them is a different story.

Well, one clue is that the initial character is a simple addition of the key value to the original character (it wraps around, too, so the characters always remain within the ASCII range 32 to 126). The rest of the characters are not so simply encrypted. Actually, sorry. I am not sure how you would go about decrypting this sort of cipher. I\'ve never tried it, I just like to design them.

Okay so I spent the evening designing a cipher and implementing it in Javascript for the fun of it and, aside from how lame that may or may not sound, I am just wondering how good it is. Anyone here know anything about Cryptography? Anyone want to try cracking this: ^;+.h4r\'-}$?n0=u\3,%7i0$z? You can try cracking it as is, or just try finding the key with my decrypter: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2434899/cryptography.html If no one is interested in this, we could just talk about Cryptography... I find it a fascinating subject.

I like the SR-71, just for the fact that it looks badass and flys so damn high.

22 here. Glad to see I am no where near youngest. I always got the impression that this place was full of industry professionals and amateur nerds who were like 27+ and as a result felt a bit intimidated given my very limited knowledge and experience.

LOVE this stuff. It\'s all so inspiring. I just recently bought the album for $5... it is on a choose-what-you-pay site: http://melodysheep.bandcamp.com/album/symphony-of-science-bundle-v12

Heh, my PC at work was (and will be again next summer) i7. Intel integrated graphics, though so it didn\'t run brilliantly... But we do make the intel integrated graphics, so that\'s a kinda funny thing.

I totally agree. It\'s still, of course, great fun even though you don\'t need to spend much time on it.

Awesome! When I was at work over the summer I would play KSP. I\'d launch into a crappy orbit at lunchtime, and then make corrections using the Orbital Calculator throughout the afternoon, and then I\'d deploy my satellite (usually just an SAS module). Fun times!

I dunno, I just never managed to do it. Always had too much vertical velocity and ran out of fuel early.

Agreed. This is definitely needed.

I accidentally did it earlier. I was well pissed off.

Fixed. For the sake of Nova\'s sanity.

Awesome. But why is Kerbin\'s Ocean so yellow?

Wow. That really is outstanding!

I got into Munar orbit and then crashed. And I made .

The fact that I can actually get into orbit and do interesting in KSP means it wins for me. I could never reach orbit in Orbiter... if I wanted to do anything interesting I would have to spawn in orbit.

I think I managed to design a rocket capable of reaching The Mun last night. Not sure whether it can get back, but I\'ll have to wait and see. I\'ll be very proud of it even if I manage a fly-by.

MUNSHOT!!!

I wouldn\'t put it past Jeb to do something that reckless.

Thanks for this. I now have a totally awesome wallpaper for my Phone.

Mine is from 1837. Babbage\'s Analytical Engine. Runs KSP real smooth, like. Seriously, though... Core2Quad Q6600 2.4GHz 4GB 667MHz RAM Gigabyte G33-DS2R mATx Motherboard Powercolor stock 4850 Win7 Pro Built in July 2008.

Robotics Engineering, sweet choice. CS can be good. A few years ago, the CS course at my University was a lot better. They taught about Computer Hardware and Architecture, and even basic Electronics... which I think is essential for any person to know if they are going to program (and, indeed, study computing as a science) effectively. Unfortunately, the two guys who gave those lectures moved over to my Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering school, and then the CS school went way downhill. At least I get the benefit of their teaching anyway. I would hate to be doing CS at my Uni nowadays. As for Java, I just find it so redundant and irritating. Unfortunately, they make me use it in my CS modules. It\'s weird that you don\'t really have any idea what your Degree is gonna be though. In the UK we apply for specific degree programmes, so we know straight away what we\'ll be getting into. That\'s not to say you can\'t switch degree programme once you\'re in, though, which is what I did (I was going to do Chemical Engineering). I think it\'s probably better not to know at first, though... and to have some choice, and a taste of what you could do before deciding.