Tsunami Warning in Phils NOW

Originally I studied Physics but I ended up in Computing amateur scientist, I keep up to date with current knowledge

again... wow! I never dreamed of getting a degree on Math or Physics or anything that has to do with math... I soooo hate math!

Yes that's true the moon moves a vast quantity of water every day and that does put regular stress and pressure on the sea floor, interestingly I do know of a scientist who has had great accuracy in predicting large quakes based upon his studies of varying gravity in the earth moon system, sure it was just last year I watched a Documentary about that. He also predicted the Sumatra quake in 2004 his work has some merit although he has not yet got past peer review as there are still a lot of sceptics.

Yes the moon's orbit while it is nearly circular is actually slightly elliptic and does vary over time, I wrote a spreadsheet program in 1987, for fun, that calculated the earth moon orbit radius at any time since 4713BC (I think) and any time up to 20,000 years from now, I was just getting into computing at the time

Well, right now we will all be thinking of our loved ones in Pinas. I am thankful that my mahal should be clear of any tsunami if it hits. Though after just watching some video taken from Japanese TV news, I have to say how sorry I feel for the Japanese right now

Salamat, luckily computing has very little to do with maths you only need to understand a bit of boolean algebra and the rest is just having a knack for the subject

if you understand Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT you can write computer programs for example a little ditty I was working on today as an example for some colleagues overseas

Those "if" statements have both "&&" which is AND "||" which is OR dont have a NOT example there

The thing I was really good at as a kid was technical drawing and computing requires the same kind of ability to visualise and imagine things in your head.

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Indeed it is a terrible tragedy for the Japanese people.

Only just found out an hour ago.. Was at a funeral this morning

Fuel tank explosion in the aftermath of the quake.

er.... :shock:

hehehehehehehe

You speak English and Tagalog (I guess if you are not Visyan )

I speak Computer and sometimes English well more often Scottish English

Thread drift sorry and it's a serious subject too but I'm just relieved the Phils got off lightly with no issues

Back in ye olden days of the internet, I figured out a way to hack chatboards.. Being a youngster I found it amusing to change the settings on a users webpage (changing another users font colour and size, usually to the same as the background). And because so many people did not know BIOS from BIO yogurt, I even used to clear chatrooms with people thinking that some internal security scan had found viruses and stuff on their computers....

Was all silly stuff to do, foolish at times but to a kid in college it was funny as well..

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nope not visayan (i wish I know how to speak bisaya) although my father is from romblon (mama is from Bulacan)... laking makati na ako e

I speak music :violin: and learning to speak scottish english! aye! this wee lass is learning how to speak scottish english :scotland: not scottish gealic! no way!

... I am relieved as well but the tsunami threat for Thailand and New Zealand has been lifted... no news for the Philippines yet...

Gaelic? Whether it is Irish, Welsh, Scottish or Cornish.. Get a room full of native speakers and somewhere in that room you will need a bucket - for the Phlegm

I started out hacking a Prime P400 at a college in Scotland.

One of these in fact (that's not me by the way )



The spec was something like this

although I'm pretty sure ours had much less storage, it also had about 30 terminals attached you had to wait about 5 seconds when you hit carriage return on the keyboard in the line editor before it would commit your line of program code or text

Ah those were the days, also used to muck about on a Burroughs mainframe with punch cards at Glasgow University

Och aye that's braw Yuna really good

I speak a little music as well but sadly I can't read it any more even though I was taught to read music when I was 11, forgot it all

I think the Phils is fine now it's way past the time when the waves would have past so no news is good news!

HAHAHA!!!