No, the architect needs to be involved in all of that, for a number of reasons. If a building collapses, even if it's the engineer's fault, the architect is also going to get sued as well as have their reputation damaged.
Designing buildings involves lots of back and forth design and compromises between the architect and the engineers. If nothing else, the architect has to do a certain amount of coordination or else the plumbing lines and the electrical lines will end up in each others way, or there won't be enough space in the ceiling for the HVAC ducts to be run, etc.
The bulk of your time as an architect is spent dealing with stuff like that. You're lucky if for every 10 hours of that stuff if you can even find 10 minutes to think about making your building look good.
That sucks, maybe she should find a different school. That being said, while it is certainly important for an architect to consider the coordination of all the engineering stuff, it's also important that the architect not be afraid to stand their ground against the engineers from time to time. Your mechanical engineer will happily run their ducts right through the middle of all your nice spaces unless you tell them not to. A lot of structural engineers tend to be overly conservative at first, and it will take a little prodding before they figure out something that works without destroying some of your building's aesthetic qualities.
Anyways, architecture school is nothing like actual architecture. That's not a good thing in many ways, but that's how it is.
Folks have been telling you this for years, but many of you still don't seem to get it, so I'm going to repeat it yet again. People who don't want to pay to play your games are never going to pay to play your games. Either they'll find a way to play it for free, or they'll go find something else to spend their time on.
The average age of the gamer has been continuously increasing, and a bunch of us who grew up playing games are adults now and still playing. We're out of school, we work for a living, we have some disposable income, and we're willing to spend a portion of it on games. There are more people able, willing, and interested in spending money on video games than ever before. Worry about us more than you worry about the people who aren't interested in paying for your product. You'll never make any money off of them.
Now if the industry has grown itself too fast, or you've let development costs get too high, or whatever you've done to make your businesses unprofitable...well that's your problem, not mine. Blaming it on people who don't want to pay for your product will not get you any sympathy or extra profits. Sorry.
To be fair, almost every building material expands and contracts with temperature (and sometimes with moisture), but there are generally ways to design around it. That being said, trying to use structural elements as your a/c ducts is a terrible idea for a few reasons. As you said, steel is a terrible insulator, you'd likely have some serious condensation issues, and there's no way those steel tubes had anywhere near the cross section for efficient airflow. The fan units would probably have to push a ridiculous amount of air in order to actually get any circulation. Plus you'd have to cuts holes in your structure to let the air out. Also it seems like it would accelerate corrosion of your structure.
It's a terrible idea. Plus if you're going for an industrial look, some spiral a/c duct can look pretty cool.
This has been standard operating procedure for Apple for a long time. That doesn't make it right, but it also shouldn't be surprising. Although it's interesting how even with actions like this, Apple still generally rates higher in customer service than everyone else.
I don't know if you've noticed this, but the capabilities of technology tend to filter done the price scale rather quickly. 2010's $500 device is 2012's $100 device is 2014's "get two free when you switch to our network" device. It won't be long before just about every phone for sale is a smart phone.
What I do find nice about Master's degrees is that they generally show an interest in a particular subject beyond just going to college for 4 years because that's what my parents said I should do. Graduate programs are usually more focused than an undergrad degree.
Also your nonsense about spending too long on one problem and writing a big paper is silly. Almost anything worth doing in this world is inevitably going to involve many long days of monotonous work, stuff that is intensely unfun, but needs to be completed. In many industries, a project continuing for a year or even many years is not unusual. It's not a bad thing for an individual to have experienced that kind of grind and have had a chance to develop ways of coping with it.
Seriously, unless you're dead-set on working for a giant corporation, it's not that hard to find companies in any field that don't have a massive management system and an HR department. There are lots of small businesses where the handful of people who actually run the company are also the people who do most of the work.
It's not a big secret that large companies tend to develop big bureaucracies. If you go get a job at one of those companies, you shouldn't be surprised that you end up in the middle of that mess. If you don't want to deal with that, then go work for somewhere smaller.
Ah, but fixing the roads would just lead to the unemployment of guys who fix automobile suspension systems. Won't anybody think of them?
Whether or not the stimulus plan was a good way to fix the economy is out of my area of expertise, but I have noticed a ton of sorely needed roadwork happening in my town, and I'm very grateful that that is finally happening. The amount of road construction that's been going on around here in the past 6 months is amazing.
As others have mentioned, our sight is optimized towards daylight hours, because that's when humans are generally active. And while adding some cool night vision capabilities could certainly be useful in some cases, there's only so much room in the eyeball to shove more sensory cells in, and so any changes to allow infrared detection would likely come at the expense of reduced capabilities in the daytime. In the course of our evolution, that trade-off didn't work out.
Evolution is a series of biological compromises. With every advantage comes certain disadvantages. For an organism to gain new biological capabilities it must either drop/reduce some other capability or have its food/energy requirements increase. Ain't nothin' free in this world.
Even the heaviest of elements that you might come across here on earth are mostly empty space down on the atomic level. That's why it's possible for a teaspoon's volume worth of neutron star to contain millions of tons of mass. The ridiculous amount of gravity there has overcome some of the forces that give atoms their structure and squeezed out a bunch of that empty space.
Indeed, that is excellent advice. Although I would also suggest that it gets even worse, particularly when dealing with buildings. The enormous costs involve in actually construction a building means that you're usually doing all of the testing with the actual production model. It's not unheard of for mock-ups and such to be built, but they generally just model a small part of the building, so the way that a building works (or doesn't work) as a whole doesn't get tested until it's done and occupied, and by that point making any serious changes is really expensive and usually only happens if something has gone horribly wrong.
Ok, so you're comparing what Obama has accomplished in a year and a half to a similar occurrence that took 6 years, and you're complaining that he's moving too slowly?
Yeah, I've only spent a few minutes thinking about it, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a way of adequately insulating a tube car without completely destroying the character of it. Especially if you don't want to spend a fortune on fancy materials. Maybe from the outside it'd still look like a tube car, but on the inside it would feel entirely different.
While I see the appeal in reusing existing containers of various sorts, really the only benefits they offer as a building material is that they already exist and they've got some structural qualities. Other than that, their original design requirements are often rather harsh in terms of long term human habitation. A storage container is a miserable place to spend an afternoon. Just because you can spend a bunch of time and money making it comfortable doesn't mean that that is a good use of resources.
While the stuff you said is true, you're implying that contractors don't bear liability for their work, but they in fact do. If a foundation collapses because the drawings didn't have enough steel in the concrete, then you sue the architect. If it collapses because the contractor put less steel in the concrete than the drawings called for, then you sue the contractor. Well, in reality you probably sue everybody, but the contractor does have obligations to build to the drawings and can suffer legal consequences for failing to do so.
Yes, except that when you screw up, you've not only wasted some time, but you've also damaged a bunch of expensive materials that you have to pay for again.
I know software isn't easy, but when the costs for prototyping and experimenting are so much less than in the physical world, it's amazing how much software still doesn't work well.
We've got nowhere near the Greece level of debt problems, at least not in the near term. None of the actions of the global market show any signs of worry bout US debt, they're more than happy to lend the government money. National debt reduction right now should not be a priority for the US right now, the federal government's debt is not the cause of our current economic problems.
But if you really want to complain about the debt, a huge chunk of our current deficit has to do with a foolish administration starting two open ended wars, for which they not only didn't raise taxes, but actually continued with their previous plan to cut taxes. The country needs to accept the fact that there's no winning in these two wars, stop spending a bunch of money we don't have on them, and then raise our own taxes to start paying for the past 9 years of fighting that we've already got to deal with.
And your phone will still work just as well as the day you bought it (minus normal wear and tear or abuse, etc). In fact it probably works better, because there have been previous updates supported by your phone. Also who's to say that Apple will never release any more updates for the original iPhone? Maybe this issue works differently on the original. Maybe it's not a problem there. Maybe there's a different solution for it coming later. Or maybe nobody really cares.
You'd have a valid complaint if Apple/AT&T said sorry, your phone is too old, we're canceling your service. But that's not what they're doing. They're not taking anything away from your original iPhone.
Yeah, when you're 80 years old, your hands shake constantly, your fingers are crippled with arthritis, and your eyes are entirely incapable of seeing the tiny embossed +/- directions as you try to replace the batteries in the TV remote, I'm sure you'll be so glad that nobody ever released a useful product that someone 1/3 your age would find pointless and insulting.
I feel like I say this almost every time a bunch of computer geeks start talking about being entirely self taught: Just be glad that your passion is in a field with a basically zero cost of entry, and hardly any legal liability. The nature of software allows you to prototype, test, and modify your creations in a way that allows you to learn and develop much more quickly and cheaply than most professions.
Those of us who still have real physical aspects to our work are saddled with the fact that physical materials are often unwieldy and expensive, and making mistakes can cost a lot more than time. A good college program will provide you with a physically and legally safer environment in which to make mistakes and learn from them. And hopefully surround you with a wide variety of experienced people who are willing to help you learn from the mistakes they've already made.
First off, in typical use, I've never seen a car consistently get the MPG that's stuck on its window when you buy it. And second, what particular claim in Apple's advertising would you base this lawsuit on. I can't say for sure that I've seen everything that Apple has said about the phone, but I'd be surprised if they made any specific guarantees about reception quality.
"It's not as good as I had hoped" isn't a good basis for a legal case.
All that being said, the antenna design does seem to be pretty bad. But bad as in you take it back to the store and get your money back. Not bad as in lets file a lawsuit!
The idea that you could successfully develop an Windows application without access to a copy of Windows is ridiculous. Even if you wrote all the code and compiled it on linux, you wouldn't be able to test it properly.
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No, the architect needs to be involved in all of that, for a number of reasons. If a building collapses, even if it's the engineer's fault, the architect is also going to get sued as well as have their reputation damaged.
Designing buildings involves lots of back and forth design and compromises between the architect and the engineers. If nothing else, the architect has to do a certain amount of coordination or else the plumbing lines and the electrical lines will end up in each others way, or there won't be enough space in the ceiling for the HVAC ducts to be run, etc.
The bulk of your time as an architect is spent dealing with stuff like that. You're lucky if for every 10 hours of that stuff if you can even find 10 minutes to think about making your building look good.
That sucks, maybe she should find a different school. That being said, while it is certainly important for an architect to consider the coordination of all the engineering stuff, it's also important that the architect not be afraid to stand their ground against the engineers from time to time. Your mechanical engineer will happily run their ducts right through the middle of all your nice spaces unless you tell them not to. A lot of structural engineers tend to be overly conservative at first, and it will take a little prodding before they figure out something that works without destroying some of your building's aesthetic qualities.
Anyways, architecture school is nothing like actual architecture. That's not a good thing in many ways, but that's how it is.
Folks have been telling you this for years, but many of you still don't seem to get it, so I'm going to repeat it yet again. People who don't want to pay to play your games are never going to pay to play your games. Either they'll find a way to play it for free, or they'll go find something else to spend their time on.
The average age of the gamer has been continuously increasing, and a bunch of us who grew up playing games are adults now and still playing. We're out of school, we work for a living, we have some disposable income, and we're willing to spend a portion of it on games. There are more people able, willing, and interested in spending money on video games than ever before. Worry about us more than you worry about the people who aren't interested in paying for your product. You'll never make any money off of them.
Now if the industry has grown itself too fast, or you've let development costs get too high, or whatever you've done to make your businesses unprofitable...well that's your problem, not mine. Blaming it on people who don't want to pay for your product will not get you any sympathy or extra profits. Sorry.
To be fair, almost every building material expands and contracts with temperature (and sometimes with moisture), but there are generally ways to design around it. That being said, trying to use structural elements as your a/c ducts is a terrible idea for a few reasons. As you said, steel is a terrible insulator, you'd likely have some serious condensation issues, and there's no way those steel tubes had anywhere near the cross section for efficient airflow. The fan units would probably have to push a ridiculous amount of air in order to actually get any circulation. Plus you'd have to cuts holes in your structure to let the air out. Also it seems like it would accelerate corrosion of your structure.
It's a terrible idea. Plus if you're going for an industrial look, some spiral a/c duct can look pretty cool.
This has been standard operating procedure for Apple for a long time. That doesn't make it right, but it also shouldn't be surprising. Although it's interesting how even with actions like this, Apple still generally rates higher in customer service than everyone else.
The bar has been set very low in the industry.
I don't know if you've noticed this, but the capabilities of technology tend to filter done the price scale rather quickly. 2010's $500 device is 2012's $100 device is 2014's "get two free when you switch to our network" device. It won't be long before just about every phone for sale is a smart phone.
What I do find nice about Master's degrees is that they generally show an interest in a particular subject beyond just going to college for 4 years because that's what my parents said I should do. Graduate programs are usually more focused than an undergrad degree.
Also your nonsense about spending too long on one problem and writing a big paper is silly. Almost anything worth doing in this world is inevitably going to involve many long days of monotonous work, stuff that is intensely unfun, but needs to be completed. In many industries, a project continuing for a year or even many years is not unusual. It's not a bad thing for an individual to have experienced that kind of grind and have had a chance to develop ways of coping with it.
Seriously, unless you're dead-set on working for a giant corporation, it's not that hard to find companies in any field that don't have a massive management system and an HR department. There are lots of small businesses where the handful of people who actually run the company are also the people who do most of the work.
It's not a big secret that large companies tend to develop big bureaucracies. If you go get a job at one of those companies, you shouldn't be surprised that you end up in the middle of that mess. If you don't want to deal with that, then go work for somewhere smaller.
Ah, but fixing the roads would just lead to the unemployment of guys who fix automobile suspension systems. Won't anybody think of them?
Whether or not the stimulus plan was a good way to fix the economy is out of my area of expertise, but I have noticed a ton of sorely needed roadwork happening in my town, and I'm very grateful that that is finally happening. The amount of road construction that's been going on around here in the past 6 months is amazing.
As others have mentioned, our sight is optimized towards daylight hours, because that's when humans are generally active. And while adding some cool night vision capabilities could certainly be useful in some cases, there's only so much room in the eyeball to shove more sensory cells in, and so any changes to allow infrared detection would likely come at the expense of reduced capabilities in the daytime. In the course of our evolution, that trade-off didn't work out.
Evolution is a series of biological compromises. With every advantage comes certain disadvantages. For an organism to gain new biological capabilities it must either drop/reduce some other capability or have its food/energy requirements increase. Ain't nothin' free in this world.
Even the heaviest of elements that you might come across here on earth are mostly empty space down on the atomic level. That's why it's possible for a teaspoon's volume worth of neutron star to contain millions of tons of mass. The ridiculous amount of gravity there has overcome some of the forces that give atoms their structure and squeezed out a bunch of that empty space.
The universe is a crazy place.
That could certainly be a solution, but it would also completely destroy the visual appeal of the existing tube car.
Indeed, that is excellent advice. Although I would also suggest that it gets even worse, particularly when dealing with buildings. The enormous costs involve in actually construction a building means that you're usually doing all of the testing with the actual production model. It's not unheard of for mock-ups and such to be built, but they generally just model a small part of the building, so the way that a building works (or doesn't work) as a whole doesn't get tested until it's done and occupied, and by that point making any serious changes is really expensive and usually only happens if something has gone horribly wrong.
Ok, so you're comparing what Obama has accomplished in a year and a half to a similar occurrence that took 6 years, and you're complaining that he's moving too slowly?
Yeah, I've only spent a few minutes thinking about it, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a way of adequately insulating a tube car without completely destroying the character of it. Especially if you don't want to spend a fortune on fancy materials. Maybe from the outside it'd still look like a tube car, but on the inside it would feel entirely different.
While I see the appeal in reusing existing containers of various sorts, really the only benefits they offer as a building material is that they already exist and they've got some structural qualities. Other than that, their original design requirements are often rather harsh in terms of long term human habitation. A storage container is a miserable place to spend an afternoon. Just because you can spend a bunch of time and money making it comfortable doesn't mean that that is a good use of resources.
While the stuff you said is true, you're implying that contractors don't bear liability for their work, but they in fact do. If a foundation collapses because the drawings didn't have enough steel in the concrete, then you sue the architect. If it collapses because the contractor put less steel in the concrete than the drawings called for, then you sue the contractor. Well, in reality you probably sue everybody, but the contractor does have obligations to build to the drawings and can suffer legal consequences for failing to do so.
Yes, except that when you screw up, you've not only wasted some time, but you've also damaged a bunch of expensive materials that you have to pay for again.
I know software isn't easy, but when the costs for prototyping and experimenting are so much less than in the physical world, it's amazing how much software still doesn't work well.
We've got nowhere near the Greece level of debt problems, at least not in the near term. None of the actions of the global market show any signs of worry bout US debt, they're more than happy to lend the government money. National debt reduction right now should not be a priority for the US right now, the federal government's debt is not the cause of our current economic problems.
But if you really want to complain about the debt, a huge chunk of our current deficit has to do with a foolish administration starting two open ended wars, for which they not only didn't raise taxes, but actually continued with their previous plan to cut taxes. The country needs to accept the fact that there's no winning in these two wars, stop spending a bunch of money we don't have on them, and then raise our own taxes to start paying for the past 9 years of fighting that we've already got to deal with.
Wow, they've sure been doing a great job fooling the consumers. I've never heard about anybody complaining that their iPhone drops calls.
And your phone will still work just as well as the day you bought it (minus normal wear and tear or abuse, etc). In fact it probably works better, because there have been previous updates supported by your phone. Also who's to say that Apple will never release any more updates for the original iPhone? Maybe this issue works differently on the original. Maybe it's not a problem there. Maybe there's a different solution for it coming later. Or maybe nobody really cares.
You'd have a valid complaint if Apple/AT&T said sorry, your phone is too old, we're canceling your service. But that's not what they're doing. They're not taking anything away from your original iPhone.
Yes you do, by law.
Yeah, when you're 80 years old, your hands shake constantly, your fingers are crippled with arthritis, and your eyes are entirely incapable of seeing the tiny embossed +/- directions as you try to replace the batteries in the TV remote, I'm sure you'll be so glad that nobody ever released a useful product that someone 1/3 your age would find pointless and insulting.
I feel like I say this almost every time a bunch of computer geeks start talking about being entirely self taught: Just be glad that your passion is in a field with a basically zero cost of entry, and hardly any legal liability. The nature of software allows you to prototype, test, and modify your creations in a way that allows you to learn and develop much more quickly and cheaply than most professions.
Those of us who still have real physical aspects to our work are saddled with the fact that physical materials are often unwieldy and expensive, and making mistakes can cost a lot more than time. A good college program will provide you with a physically and legally safer environment in which to make mistakes and learn from them. And hopefully surround you with a wide variety of experienced people who are willing to help you learn from the mistakes they've already made.
First off, in typical use, I've never seen a car consistently get the MPG that's stuck on its window when you buy it. And second, what particular claim in Apple's advertising would you base this lawsuit on. I can't say for sure that I've seen everything that Apple has said about the phone, but I'd be surprised if they made any specific guarantees about reception quality.
"It's not as good as I had hoped" isn't a good basis for a legal case.
All that being said, the antenna design does seem to be pretty bad. But bad as in you take it back to the store and get your money back. Not bad as in lets file a lawsuit!
The idea that you could successfully develop an Windows application without access to a copy of Windows is ridiculous. Even if you wrote all the code and compiled it on linux, you wouldn't be able to test it properly.