Having grown up splitting enough wood to fill a 30'x30'x10' wood shed every year(not all of it was split but a lot was) and all of it by hand because I grew up poor as dirt I can tell you that it's not as bad as you think. The way this thing rotates is actually how you should split wood anyway, it just takes a ridiculous amount of practice to get it right. With a more traditional single bit axe(no maul, too heavy to swing for hours like I used to) you come down as hard as you can and then right at the moment of impact twist to transfer some of the inertia laterally causing a wider split. The only thing this changes is makes it a hell of a lot easier to do and more efficient because you can get consistent results.
We had a LaserJet II when I deployed with the Army in 2003. It had been in constant use all the preceding years and it's the only printer that made it through every single deployment. That thing went all over the desert, was filled with dirt and dust, bounced around in trucks, flown all over the place, shocked, dropped, banged and beaten. As far as I know it still works.
I know for certain that Amazon is building up some GPU in their compute data clusters. I wonder if they're going to start to offer a game streaming service like OnLive. That would actually be pretty cool if they did it, not only video streaming, but game streaming also.
The AF may not, but the Army does. Theirs are really well equipped too(as of just a couple years ago), the one I used to work on my car in had nice lifts, paint shops, experienced mechanics(professional), great tools, and lots of other perks. They had 40 bays and it was hard to get in to one because people were always in there doing things from just changing their oil to in my friend's case welding a truck frame back together after it cracked. Right next store was a wood working shop that was really well equipped, and if you stayed in the barracks they also picked out technically savvy people to handle basic building maintenance which required training and access to all sorts of shops and equipment. I really wish that we had them in the normal world now that I'm out. It was a fantastic resource that wasn't ridiculously expensive.
Oh man, IRIX. You know, that's still probably the fastest and most responsive DE that I've ever used. At least it was on good hardware, I think overall the user interface blew, but it was fast.
I think it would be interesting for the Maker community to come out with some part specs for this. Think a standard body and motor mounting structure that have interfaces to take different wing configurations, tail configurations, even wheels and whatnot. Kinda like an API for a plane model where you have a few basic standardized parts and you can then print out all manner of different things to try that just basically bolt onto those standards. They could probably do much the same for the quatro/hexa copters as well. Hell, there's probably a ton of applications that would benefit from a library of standard parts that you can build on.
I wish I had mod points for you. This statement is so very much the truth, I also believe in the rule of law, however I also believe in ethics and morality. It's a large reason I left the military after two war tours. Just because I was given an order didn't make that order right or just despite the lawfulness of it. It's also why I believe in civil disobedience and standing up for what's right.
I think a good tactic is to do what this guy did or something similar. Waste as much of their time as you can because they're not going to make any money off of you and the longer you tie them up the less profitable they are.
I know I'm responding to an AC here, but I think this needs to be said. Every cop is culpable for the actions of these bad cops because almost none of them stand up for what's right. What happens to these guys is they're put on paid vacation for a couple weeks until everyone forgets that they did something, no matter how heinous or egregious the violation was. When the rest of the police force stands up and starts throwing the bad cops out to the curb, then I'll stop lumping them in together. Until then, they're all in cahoots as far as I'm concerned and I'll avoid dealing with them by whatever means I have.
I don't actually, I wasn't even trying to be funny. I was showing the absurdity of an argument like that, saying that something is unimpressive merely because you can do it cheaper and smaller a different way doesn't make that way necessarily better. This is the first use of this, much like anything else it can get smaller and faster as time goes on. How much fun would it be to have a small 3D printer on your desk to rapid prototype boards? Things like this eventually lead there.
Not impressed, my vacuum tubes were plenty good enough for adding and subtracting. They're cheaper than those new "transistors" too. I can put an array of tubes together for much cheaper than you can put transistors on a board.
If this does nothing else but push the science of rocketry and space travel further then I'm all for it. If they succeed though, I can't wait to see what comes next. Haters be damned, I love that people still want to explore and see what's out there. You can't move the species forward by taking no risk at all.
Well, before that I'd honestly never posted AC before:P. I didn't know that the CAPTCHA was just for AC since I post fairly infrequently these days I actually thought it was something new. But when you say it like that, yes it was kinda stupid.
People often ask me why I decided to home school my children and love to say they'll be socially stunted. Here is the reason, when you can't rely on teachers or textbooks to teach actual science or the search for knowledge then they stop being able to teach. I want my children to be critical thinkers, ones that believe in the scientific method and have a strong curiosity of the world around them. Here's also a fun little thing for you, despite all the wonderful anecdotal evidence out there I bet that most of the time you couldn't separate a home schooled kid from a public schooled kid if the home schooled kid isn't one of the religious nutjobs(of whom there are far too many).
You're right that it's starting to change. About 4 years ago I landed an exempt position that normally requires a degree, but because I had demonstrated my skills as a tech they were willing to take the risk. I've since moved up very quickly by working hard and making sure that I'm better than my peers with degrees, most of whom seem content to rest on their laurels and do the minimum. Two years ago, the company changed the policy that you have to have a degree to get into a position like the one I started in as exempt. There is a waiver process, but it's almost impossible to get through. Our management hates it because there are more people like myself in lower positions that they would love to promote up, but their hands are tied. Whereas we frequently get people now that have degrees, but have no experience and quite frequently expect to be paid more than their actual worth. That's not to say that some of the recent hires aren't good, we do have some that are, but it would be nice to promote those people that have demonstrated talent and are itching to move up, but have no degree. The one nice consolation is it really grinds some people's asses that a guy with no degree is promoted above them, but I'm lucky enough to have gotten in before the company came down with that stupid policy.
If you don't like it and can't think of anything to do with it great. Please move aside and let those of us that want to figure out things to do with it enjoy our moment where a computer that is pretty open source from the ground up gets its moment in the sun.
I know I'm posting to an AC here, but I want to point something out.
"Backups simply are not really an option past 20+ terabytes of storage, and simply not feasible if the storage is volatile in nature."
He was claiming that it's not feasible to back up more than 20+ TB of storage when in fact it is. I was pointing out that yes you can, but it's pretty expensive.
You're fairly wrong there, you can actually back that much data up. You just have to be willing to pay for some seriously large tape libraries and they're not cheap. We're in the process of installing a 700TB array with a 1.5PB tape library backup. You just have to do the backups using filesystem snapshots and run them pretty much constantly.
My google-fu is failing me here. I'm trying to determine if this is a lightwater reactor, some type of breeder, or some other configuration. If it's another lightwater I'm feeling a little "meh" about it. Despite being Gen III+ if it's lightwater we'll still have a ton of waste to take care of and I find that a little disheartening.
I'm guessing that you were never in a combat arms part of the military. Everything's a weapon. You at some point have to trust people to do the right thing.
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Having grown up splitting enough wood to fill a 30'x30'x10' wood shed every year(not all of it was split but a lot was) and all of it by hand because I grew up poor as dirt I can tell you that it's not as bad as you think. The way this thing rotates is actually how you should split wood anyway, it just takes a ridiculous amount of practice to get it right. With a more traditional single bit axe(no maul, too heavy to swing for hours like I used to) you come down as hard as you can and then right at the moment of impact twist to transfer some of the inertia laterally causing a wider split. The only thing this changes is makes it a hell of a lot easier to do and more efficient because you can get consistent results.
We had a LaserJet II when I deployed with the Army in 2003. It had been in constant use all the preceding years and it's the only printer that made it through every single deployment. That thing went all over the desert, was filled with dirt and dust, bounced around in trucks, flown all over the place, shocked, dropped, banged and beaten. As far as I know it still works.
I know for certain that Amazon is building up some GPU in their compute data clusters. I wonder if they're going to start to offer a game streaming service like OnLive. That would actually be pretty cool if they did it, not only video streaming, but game streaming also.
The AF may not, but the Army does. Theirs are really well equipped too(as of just a couple years ago), the one I used to work on my car in had nice lifts, paint shops, experienced mechanics(professional), great tools, and lots of other perks. They had 40 bays and it was hard to get in to one because people were always in there doing things from just changing their oil to in my friend's case welding a truck frame back together after it cracked. Right next store was a wood working shop that was really well equipped, and if you stayed in the barracks they also picked out technically savvy people to handle basic building maintenance which required training and access to all sorts of shops and equipment. I really wish that we had them in the normal world now that I'm out. It was a fantastic resource that wasn't ridiculously expensive.
Are car designers responsible for drunk drivers?
INDY were garbage, it was great on the Onyx3 or Tezro(basically the same thing) systems.
Oh man, IRIX. You know, that's still probably the fastest and most responsive DE that I've ever used. At least it was on good hardware, I think overall the user interface blew, but it was fast.
I think it would be interesting for the Maker community to come out with some part specs for this. Think a standard body and motor mounting structure that have interfaces to take different wing configurations, tail configurations, even wheels and whatnot. Kinda like an API for a plane model where you have a few basic standardized parts and you can then print out all manner of different things to try that just basically bolt onto those standards. They could probably do much the same for the quatro/hexa copters as well. Hell, there's probably a ton of applications that would benefit from a library of standard parts that you can build on.
I wish I had mod points for you. This statement is so very much the truth, I also believe in the rule of law, however I also believe in ethics and morality. It's a large reason I left the military after two war tours. Just because I was given an order didn't make that order right or just despite the lawfulness of it. It's also why I believe in civil disobedience and standing up for what's right.
I think a good tactic is to do what this guy did or something similar. Waste as much of their time as you can because they're not going to make any money off of you and the longer you tie them up the less profitable they are.
I know I'm responding to an AC here, but I think this needs to be said. Every cop is culpable for the actions of these bad cops because almost none of them stand up for what's right. What happens to these guys is they're put on paid vacation for a couple weeks until everyone forgets that they did something, no matter how heinous or egregious the violation was. When the rest of the police force stands up and starts throwing the bad cops out to the curb, then I'll stop lumping them in together. Until then, they're all in cahoots as far as I'm concerned and I'll avoid dealing with them by whatever means I have.
I don't actually, I wasn't even trying to be funny. I was showing the absurdity of an argument like that, saying that something is unimpressive merely because you can do it cheaper and smaller a different way doesn't make that way necessarily better. This is the first use of this, much like anything else it can get smaller and faster as time goes on. How much fun would it be to have a small 3D printer on your desk to rapid prototype boards? Things like this eventually lead there.
Not impressed, my vacuum tubes were plenty good enough for adding and subtracting. They're cheaper than those new "transistors" too. I can put an array of tubes together for much cheaper than you can put transistors on a board.
If this does nothing else but push the science of rocketry and space travel further then I'm all for it. If they succeed though, I can't wait to see what comes next. Haters be damned, I love that people still want to explore and see what's out there. You can't move the species forward by taking no risk at all.
Well, before that I'd honestly never posted AC before :P. I didn't know that the CAPTCHA was just for AC since I post fairly infrequently these days I actually thought it was something new. But when you say it like that, yes it was kinda stupid.
Dammit, posted AC. That'll learn me to not log in.
People often ask me why I decided to home school my children and love to say they'll be socially stunted. Here is the reason, when you can't rely on teachers or textbooks to teach actual science or the search for knowledge then they stop being able to teach. I want my children to be critical thinkers, ones that believe in the scientific method and have a strong curiosity of the world around them. Here's also a fun little thing for you, despite all the wonderful anecdotal evidence out there I bet that most of the time you couldn't separate a home schooled kid from a public schooled kid if the home schooled kid isn't one of the religious nutjobs(of whom there are far too many).
There's valid criticism and then there's just being an asshole, they're very different.
You're right that it's starting to change. About 4 years ago I landed an exempt position that normally requires a degree, but because I had demonstrated my skills as a tech they were willing to take the risk. I've since moved up very quickly by working hard and making sure that I'm better than my peers with degrees, most of whom seem content to rest on their laurels and do the minimum. Two years ago, the company changed the policy that you have to have a degree to get into a position like the one I started in as exempt. There is a waiver process, but it's almost impossible to get through. Our management hates it because there are more people like myself in lower positions that they would love to promote up, but their hands are tied. Whereas we frequently get people now that have degrees, but have no experience and quite frequently expect to be paid more than their actual worth. That's not to say that some of the recent hires aren't good, we do have some that are, but it would be nice to promote those people that have demonstrated talent and are itching to move up, but have no degree. The one nice consolation is it really grinds some people's asses that a guy with no degree is promoted above them, but I'm lucky enough to have gotten in before the company came down with that stupid policy.
If you don't like it and can't think of anything to do with it great. Please move aside and let those of us that want to figure out things to do with it enjoy our moment where a computer that is pretty open source from the ground up gets its moment in the sun.
I know I'm posting to an AC here, but I want to point something out. "Backups simply are not really an option past 20+ terabytes of storage, and simply not feasible if the storage is volatile in nature." He was claiming that it's not feasible to back up more than 20+ TB of storage when in fact it is. I was pointing out that yes you can, but it's pretty expensive.
You're fairly wrong there, you can actually back that much data up. You just have to be willing to pay for some seriously large tape libraries and they're not cheap. We're in the process of installing a 700TB array with a 1.5PB tape library backup. You just have to do the backups using filesystem snapshots and run them pretty much constantly.
My google-fu is failing me here. I'm trying to determine if this is a lightwater reactor, some type of breeder, or some other configuration. If it's another lightwater I'm feeling a little "meh" about it. Despite being Gen III+ if it's lightwater we'll still have a ton of waste to take care of and I find that a little disheartening.
I'm guessing that you were never in a combat arms part of the military. Everything's a weapon. You at some point have to trust people to do the right thing.
Do you remember SGI? Their lineup was all MIPS prior to the ORIGIN 4000 and Altix lines. Those were capable of scaling up to thousands of processors.