I've started to lay out and lace together wiring harnesses for my machines. This is actually pretty easy for monitors, so I start with them: one standard power plug, one data cord (either DVI or DisplayPort for my stuff) and typically one USB cable for the in-monitor hub. Once you've arranged your other hardware on the desk, you can then start grouping together other bundles and tying them off to your main trunk. You end up with a nice, sturdy, self-contained structure, rather than a tangled mess. Later additions can be threaded into the harness as needed, or if you use twist or velcro ties you can rebuild the harness on the fly.
It takes some upfront work, but the end result is satisfying and keeps the whole mess out of the way.
The US intentionally targeted a satellite on a re-entry trajectory, both to provide a plausible excuse (keeping the hydrazine tanks from reaching the ground intact and poisoning somebody) and to avoid making a killer cloud of orbital debris. China didn't have that degree of discretion.
On the other hand, we did accidentally EMP half the planet that one time.
So if somebody steals my Google Glasses, will they then proceed to run around town shouting that they're Manfred Macx, while I wander around in a functionally retarded state?
Rawhide: Dr. Banzai is using a laser to vaporize a pineal tumor without damaging the parthogenital plate. A subcutaneous microphone will allow the patient to transmit verbal instructions to his own brain. Observer: Like, "raise my left arm"? Rawhide: Or "throw the harpoon." People are gonna come from all over. This boy's an Eskimo.
Perhaps you haven't heard, but there's this liquidity crisis going on right now that makes banks *really* loathe to loan anything to anybody for any reason, least of all for a business venture. Kickstarter is helping a lot of people bridge that funding gap in other ways.
re: anime, the market there is not as deep as it might seem. Anime releases in the US market went though a huge boom-bust cycle a few years back. The BitTorrent download numbers made it look like a lucrative market, since a fair portion of the fanbase watched ~80% of the shows airing each season via fansubs. US licensees were buying up every mediocre property they could get their hands on, but it soon became apparent that US anime fans would, generally, only buy DVDs of shows that they loved madly. As a result, most of the US licensees went belly-up around 2007 or 08. These days, I get most of my anime through Crunchyroll, but when I count the number of shows I watch I think the amount spent per episode viewed is under $1 -- and I'm not sure I'd pay much more if it came to it. HBO would balk at handing out Game of Thrones for a buck a hit, and I'm not sure that they're wrong, but that may be what it takes to win the BitTorrent crowd over. Is it so surprising that they'd want to protect their current business strategy, in that context?
If Trimble wants four figures for SketchUp, they'll need to do a ton of work on the dimensioning and documentation tools. Producing a good, readable set of construction documents in LayOut is nearly impossible, but it's something the competing tools from Autodesk make simple. As it stands, $500 is a fair price for something that is great for modelling work, but has to paired with 3rd-party software to make a worthwhile drawing set.
I don't have any data to back it up, but my gut feeling is that there's no way that Google couldn't have been turning a profit on it. There was never much of a development team, and SketchUp Pro has long been a de-facto standard tool for architects and designers. At $500 a pop for Pro licenses, you don't have to sell many copies to pay for all your developers. That's before you count intangibles like free 3D data to improve your other services. SketchUp may be a better institutional fit for Trimble, but it almost certainly had to have been a net positive for Google's bottom line.
No, no, see risk-taking with no guarantee of success is all fine and well for you or I, but if it's the Ebil Big Gub'mint taking risks and doing cool stuff, it's a Waste Of Taxpayer Money, and therefore Very Bad.
Haha, not if you're a poor self-employed person! Go straight to the long form, do not pass go, do not collect a refund! Pardon me while I go cry in the corner.
Nope, you've got the gist of it. What you've really got to run these tools continuously over a period of time, so you can get a sense of where the problem link actually is. I had a similar issue with a college ISP many years ago, and didn't have any luck getting it resolved until I set up a script to run regular traceroutes and dump the output to a logfile, so I could go to the administration and say, "This is the IP of the thing that's broken. Fix it." I also had to include the above-linked graph to prove my point; apparently having an entire network segment go dark for hours at a time every day didn't raise any alarms over there.
Just like GP says: on most cars, with the mirrors properly adjusted, a vehicle exiting the field of view of the rear-view mirror will simultaneously cross into the side mirrors, and exit the side mirrors as it enters your peripheral vision. A quick sideways glance may be required to pick it back up at this point, but in most cases it should be nearly alongside you once it's out of the mirrors (this is not strictly true in, say, a convertible with the top up, but it still holds in most cases). This isn't to discount the importance of a good long look before changing lanes, but generally, you should be able to have constant 360-degree situational awareness without craning your neck around the B-pillars.
Nobody's ever been able to make a rotary or turbine engine that can match a reciprocating-piston engine for efficiency and reliability in a real world scenario. And it's not for lack of trying, either -- aerospace companies would kill to eke that kind of fuel efficiency out of their turbines, and Mazda worked for decades to make a rotary that doesn't burn fuel like a carb'ed big block and that doesn't require a complete teardown and rebuild every 100k miles or so. Yes, there are disadvantages to the piston design, but so far nothing else has managed to overcome the inherent advantages it has in efficiency of combustion. It may happen someday, but it hasn't happened yet.
Anyone who's been paying attention should know by now that the vast majority of hybrids on the market are pure marketing/greenwashing hype. They got a big early boost from the first hybrids to market, the original Prius and Insight, but very little since has lived up to the promise of those first two. If you look closely at those two cars, you'll quickly realize why -- they were designed from the ground up for fuel efficiency, and their hybrid motors were only a part of that strategy. The original Insight, for example, has a body made entirely from aluminum, with a minimized frontal area and vanishingly low coefficient of drag. In spite of its heavy battery pack, the Insight managed to be lighter than any other US-market car at the time. Its engine was a purpose-built, low-displacement 3-cylinder engine made with as much aluminum, magnesium and plastic as the designers could get away with. The electric motor was integrated into the flywheel, minimizing the extra weight of the hybrid system by allowing it to perform two functions simultaneously. The hybrid system helps, but the vast majority of the first-gen Insight's fuel efficiency comes from these things. Tuners have pulled the whole drivetrain out and replaced it with a 200-horsepower Civic Si engine, and still managed almost 50 miles per gallon out of the chassis!
From the above, it's pretty clear that hybrid drivetrains are just a piece of the fuel-efficiency puzzle -- yet ever since those first two cars hit the market, manufacturers have been tacking electric motors to otherwise ordinary cars and selling them to gullible consumers as the saviors of Earth. The electric motors are a little more efficient at low speeds, but everywhere else they're just additional dead weight that the gas engine has to drag around. Is it any surprise that these half-baked hybrids don't perform as advertised?
An architecture firm I contract for was trying to submit a handful of their projects for energy efficiency tax credits. This involved assembling a set of drawings and CAD files for a outside consultant to create energy models of the buildings in question. Architects are required to retain these drawings for about ten years for liability reasons, so this should be easy right...?
Haha, wrong! Sure, they retained the drawings... digitally. But nobody bothered to check that all of the cross-referenced CAD files got saved, or that the links inside of them them weren't broken when they got moved to near-line storage, or that consultant drawings were saved, or that Jimmy The Intern hadn't linked in a dozen files from his desktop for the sake of expediency and never got around to moving them to central storage before he went back to college, and then IS wiped his account. What should have been a quick dive into the archives turned into a three-month-long wild goose chase. Let's just say that I got really familiar with the large-format scanner and the AutoCAD Reference Manager tool.
Geez, and I thought all the antifreeze on the ground at the typical U-Pull-It was hazardous. I can't wait until the self-service spaceship salvage yards give you hydrazine poisoning!
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I've started to lay out and lace together wiring harnesses for my machines. This is actually pretty easy for monitors, so I start with them: one standard power plug, one data cord (either DVI or DisplayPort for my stuff) and typically one USB cable for the in-monitor hub. Once you've arranged your other hardware on the desk, you can then start grouping together other bundles and tying them off to your main trunk. You end up with a nice, sturdy, self-contained structure, rather than a tangled mess. Later additions can be threaded into the harness as needed, or if you use twist or velcro ties you can rebuild the harness on the fly.
It takes some upfront work, but the end result is satisfying and keeps the whole mess out of the way.
The US intentionally targeted a satellite on a re-entry trajectory, both to provide a plausible excuse (keeping the hydrazine tanks from reaching the ground intact and poisoning somebody) and to avoid making a killer cloud of orbital debris. China didn't have that degree of discretion.
On the other hand, we did accidentally EMP half the planet that one time.
So if somebody steals my Google Glasses, will they then proceed to run around town shouting that they're Manfred Macx, while I wander around in a functionally retarded state?
Rawhide: Dr. Banzai is using a laser to vaporize a pineal tumor without damaging the parthogenital plate. A subcutaneous microphone will allow the patient to transmit verbal instructions to his own brain.
Observer: Like, "raise my left arm"?
Rawhide: Or "throw the harpoon." People are gonna come from all over. This boy's an Eskimo.
Whoosh!
T-squares, my friend, T-squares. Preferably the ones with the cast-aluminum heads --- they can be very persuasive.
"People with viable ideas can borrow money."
Perhaps you haven't heard, but there's this liquidity crisis going on right now that makes banks *really* loathe to loan anything to anybody for any reason, least of all for a business venture. Kickstarter is helping a lot of people bridge that funding gap in other ways.
We build our own machines?
re: anime, the market there is not as deep as it might seem. Anime releases in the US market went though a huge boom-bust cycle a few years back. The BitTorrent download numbers made it look like a lucrative market, since a fair portion of the fanbase watched ~80% of the shows airing each season via fansubs. US licensees were buying up every mediocre property they could get their hands on, but it soon became apparent that US anime fans would, generally, only buy DVDs of shows that they loved madly. As a result, most of the US licensees went belly-up around 2007 or 08. These days, I get most of my anime through Crunchyroll, but when I count the number of shows I watch I think the amount spent per episode viewed is under $1 -- and I'm not sure I'd pay much more if it came to it. HBO would balk at handing out Game of Thrones for a buck a hit, and I'm not sure that they're wrong, but that may be what it takes to win the BitTorrent crowd over. Is it so surprising that they'd want to protect their current business strategy, in that context?
That's a no-go -- the trademark is already registered to Apple's biological weapons division.
If Trimble wants four figures for SketchUp, they'll need to do a ton of work on the dimensioning and documentation tools. Producing a good, readable set of construction documents in LayOut is nearly impossible, but it's something the competing tools from Autodesk make simple. As it stands, $500 is a fair price for something that is great for modelling work, but has to paired with 3rd-party software to make a worthwhile drawing set.
I don't have any data to back it up, but my gut feeling is that there's no way that Google couldn't have been turning a profit on it. There was never much of a development team, and SketchUp Pro has long been a de-facto standard tool for architects and designers. At $500 a pop for Pro licenses, you don't have to sell many copies to pay for all your developers. That's before you count intangibles like free 3D data to improve your other services. SketchUp may be a better institutional fit for Trimble, but it almost certainly had to have been a net positive for Google's bottom line.
No, no, see risk-taking with no guarantee of success is all fine and well for you or I, but if it's the Ebil Big Gub'mint taking risks and doing cool stuff, it's a Waste Of Taxpayer Money, and therefore Very Bad.
Haha, not if you're a poor self-employed person! Go straight to the long form, do not pass go, do not collect a refund! Pardon me while I go cry in the corner.
Nope, you've got the gist of it. What you've really got to run these tools continuously over a period of time, so you can get a sense of where the problem link actually is. I had a similar issue with a college ISP many years ago, and didn't have any luck getting it resolved until I set up a script to run regular traceroutes and dump the output to a logfile, so I could go to the administration and say, "This is the IP of the thing that's broken. Fix it." I also had to include the above-linked graph to prove my point; apparently having an entire network segment go dark for hours at a time every day didn't raise any alarms over there.
Just like GP says: on most cars, with the mirrors properly adjusted, a vehicle exiting the field of view of the rear-view mirror will simultaneously cross into the side mirrors, and exit the side mirrors as it enters your peripheral vision. A quick sideways glance may be required to pick it back up at this point, but in most cases it should be nearly alongside you once it's out of the mirrors (this is not strictly true in, say, a convertible with the top up, but it still holds in most cases). This isn't to discount the importance of a good long look before changing lanes, but generally, you should be able to have constant 360-degree situational awareness without craning your neck around the B-pillars.
As previously mentioned, most drivers set their mirrors such that the wing mirrors are completely redundant with the center mirror, and don't cover any of the bind spots that they should be. Here's a great how-to on properly adjusting your mirrors from Car and Driver.
Philatelists Push Petition Pfhor Pluto Probe Postage
(I'm guessing that reference will fly right over the heads of quite a few...)
"Proposing" would be a better choice, since it avoids adding "to."
In short maybe Homo Astra (or something like that, I don't know Latin).
I'm leaning towards Abh, myself.
Nobody's ever been able to make a rotary or turbine engine that can match a reciprocating-piston engine for efficiency and reliability in a real world scenario. And it's not for lack of trying, either -- aerospace companies would kill to eke that kind of fuel efficiency out of their turbines, and Mazda worked for decades to make a rotary that doesn't burn fuel like a carb'ed big block and that doesn't require a complete teardown and rebuild every 100k miles or so. Yes, there are disadvantages to the piston design, but so far nothing else has managed to overcome the inherent advantages it has in efficiency of combustion. It may happen someday, but it hasn't happened yet.
Anyone who's been paying attention should know by now that the vast majority of hybrids on the market are pure marketing/greenwashing hype. They got a big early boost from the first hybrids to market, the original Prius and Insight, but very little since has lived up to the promise of those first two. If you look closely at those two cars, you'll quickly realize why -- they were designed from the ground up for fuel efficiency, and their hybrid motors were only a part of that strategy. The original Insight, for example, has a body made entirely from aluminum, with a minimized frontal area and vanishingly low coefficient of drag. In spite of its heavy battery pack, the Insight managed to be lighter than any other US-market car at the time. Its engine was a purpose-built, low-displacement 3-cylinder engine made with as much aluminum, magnesium and plastic as the designers could get away with. The electric motor was integrated into the flywheel, minimizing the extra weight of the hybrid system by allowing it to perform two functions simultaneously. The hybrid system helps, but the vast majority of the first-gen Insight's fuel efficiency comes from these things. Tuners have pulled the whole drivetrain out and replaced it with a 200-horsepower Civic Si engine, and still managed almost 50 miles per gallon out of the chassis!
From the above, it's pretty clear that hybrid drivetrains are just a piece of the fuel-efficiency puzzle -- yet ever since those first two cars hit the market, manufacturers have been tacking electric motors to otherwise ordinary cars and selling them to gullible consumers as the saviors of Earth. The electric motors are a little more efficient at low speeds, but everywhere else they're just additional dead weight that the gas engine has to drag around. Is it any surprise that these half-baked hybrids don't perform as advertised?
An architecture firm I contract for was trying to submit a handful of their projects for energy efficiency tax credits. This involved assembling a set of drawings and CAD files for a outside consultant to create energy models of the buildings in question. Architects are required to retain these drawings for about ten years for liability reasons, so this should be easy right...?
Haha, wrong! Sure, they retained the drawings... digitally. But nobody bothered to check that all of the cross-referenced CAD files got saved, or that the links inside of them them weren't broken when they got moved to near-line storage, or that consultant drawings were saved, or that Jimmy The Intern hadn't linked in a dozen files from his desktop for the sake of expediency and never got around to moving them to central storage before he went back to college, and then IS wiped his account. What should have been a quick dive into the archives turned into a three-month-long wild goose chase. Let's just say that I got really familiar with the large-format scanner and the AutoCAD Reference Manager tool.
I am ashamed of how quickly I read that.
That doesn't thin out the field much.
Geez, and I thought all the antifreeze on the ground at the typical U-Pull-It was hazardous. I can't wait until the self-service spaceship salvage yards give you hydrazine poisoning!