my MSc dissertation ... contain the line: "If you're reading this congratulations, give me a call and I'll buy you a pint." (Complete with my mobile number) - nobody has ever called.
Now THAT is appalling. You'd like to think somebody read your MSc.
DaddyHoggy wrote:
In my final couple of years with MOD having been ticked off for having an incomplete Glossary of Terms/Acronym list once - I then added "TARDIS - Time and Relative Dimensions In Space" to said Glossary for every subsequent report - nobody ever noticed.
Having done my time with the MOD, I bet a few did notice but just smiled. The sense of humour in the MOD is, well, special. It was a British Army Major who explained to me why soldiers are called "pongos" when I asked why they refer to themselves that way.
I got a £110k project business case signed off for Leeds City Council; it had at least 12 signatories and 30 reviewers. Lurking in the middle of the document was the phrase "... not that anybody will ever bother reading this crap, so I don't really know why I'm bothering anyway." Nobody queried it.
It makes me wonder about what is really in these 200 page judicial reviews, government inquiries and £billion business cases.
Flying a Cobra Mk I Cobbie 3 with nothing but Explorers Club.OXP and a beam laser 4 proper lasers for company Dropbox referral link 2GB of free space online + 500 Mb for the referral: good for securing work-in-progress.
my MSc dissertation ... contain the line: "If you're reading this congratulations, give me a call and I'll buy you a pint." (Complete with my mobile number) - nobody has ever called.
Now THAT is appalling. You'd like to think somebody read your MSc.
I’ve read a few dissertations in my time, but I suspect I’ve accidentally skipped a paragraph or three in most of the ones I wasn’t translating or proofreading. :-)
@SandJ - as far as I know it was read by my two internal examiners and the external examiner. There was many hundreds of pages of tables and plots explaining the mechanics of how to map the internal state of a back-propagation Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Network after it has been trained, so, other than some quotes from Green Day (who I was listening to A LOT during the write up) at the start of each Chapter, it's pretty dry - I can imagine why the words were missed.
I do feel it's a good example of how Oolite is a fast action space game rather than a realistic space simulator, though. If it was realistic, accelerating enough to travel a couple hundred kilometres in twenty seconds (part of that while in a planetary atmosphere) and then pulling into a dock at that speed without decelerating to match the station would be realistically fatal in any of several ways. LOL
Frontier and First Encounters are just like that, and flying the long distances (up to several days) works just fine. Thanks for auto navigation and time acceleration
