Back then all employees, including engineers such as myself, had to sign in to a book each morning. At precisely 8:02 one of the office ladies came and picked up the books from each department and placed a little red stamp in place of the signatures of anyone who had not yet signed in. For the first hour or so of the day, most of the guys smoked and drank coffee and talked about last night's activities. I almost always arrived at 8:05 because I refused to board trains where people were being physically stuffed into the cars. I found that by waiting for 1 or 2 trains to go by, I could comfortably and safely just get on the train, but arrive 5 minutes late to work.
Once a month, every month, my kacho would lecture me about being on-time. I was required to write an explanation for each time I was late. I couldn't write one and make copies, I had to write on separate sheets of paper why I was late for each date that I was late, about 20 per month. This would take me the better part of half a day, what with coffee and bathroom breaks. It was absolutely comical.
One day I needed to send a document to the US. I checked the office supply cabinet for a large envelope and there were none, so I asked one of the office ladies where I could get an envelope. She handed me a form and said I should fill it out, then get the kacho's and bucho's signatures on it and take it to the General Affairs dept where they would file it and give me some envelopes. I asked if they were going to give me a pallet full of envelopes and she said, no, they usually give them out 3 or 4 at a time. I foolishly asked why she thinks they do this and she said I guess it's to keep people from taking them home. Then I asked how much do envelopes cost compared to the time required to fill out the form, get two signatures, and file the form. She said she never thought about it like that but that I might have a good point.
Japan has a long history of treating people like either children or machines. This concept doesn't surprise me at all.
I keep hearing that we need more STEM students in this country, so why don't our policies (other than increasing H1B visas) reflect that? First, either completely stop loaning money to people to study underwater basket weaving or start charging interest rates that are commensurate with the risk of default. Sure, you can borrow money to study underwater basket weaving- your rate will be 20%. You want to study EE or medicine? Your rate will be 1.5%.
And the goddamned law that prevents escape from student loan debt by anything but death has got to go. It's like we're living in a Dickens novel- except that it is worse because the debt is owed to the US government. Maybe we should start some debtor's prisons for all the people who can't pay their student loans off.
If I were a conspiracy nut I might think that the dramatic increase in student loan debt was intentionally engineered to separate millennials from the money they are soon to inherit from their boomer parents.
Except that 1/2 of them are now shown to be cheaters. There goes the trustworthiness, the technical training, and the unblemished record in one shot. Maybe they can work at the post office.
I doubt it. The strength and weight of CF are very dependent on the manufacturing technique used. CF bike frames are designed using software than can model the forces produced by the rider and road and the resulting effect on the CF frame including CF characteristics that result from the manufacturing techniques to be employed. The 3D printing technique is unlikely to produce a maximum strength or minimum weight frame, compared to the currently used CF frame manufacturing techniques.
It may not have the strength of CF done properly, but it will be much stronger than the alternatives like ABS and PLA. There are plenty of applications where that "between" strength is useful. The claim is that it is stiffer and stronger than 6061 aluminum. That means you don't have to go into a machine shop to cut a bunch of 6061 aluminum- you can print a part and get similar characteristics. The 3D printer doesn't care how complex the design is- it will produce it at much lower cost than a machine shop full of mills and guys who know how to run them.
or they will move their offices out of state. If they don't pay taxes, they get bad schools. If there really is a shortage of adequately educated people in the US, those CEOs are responsible, along with the state legislatures that are dumb enough to encourage their blackmail and race each other to the bottom (of tax revenues from large corporations). The problem is that CEOs feel no responsibility toward the communities in which their companies operate. Their only responsibility is to the shareholders and their own pockets.
1) LWYRUP! Don't talk to them, especially if you haven't done anything wrong- you have absolutely nothing to gain by cooperating. Don't let them search anything. Swallow the microSD card. If they haven't arrested you, don't go with them in the first place. If you did go with them and they didn't arrest you, walk out of the interview. If they have arrested you, call a lawyer.
2) I guess this means all the terrorists and Wall Street crooks who threaten national security are all behind bars or dead since the FBI has time to deal with this sort of nonsense.
A gram, second, and mole are fundamental units. They can be used in dimensional analysis. A Newton is a kg-m/s^2. I don't know what a Newton is, but I have experience with kg, meters, and seconds. I can use kg-m/s^2 in dimensional analysis to gain some insight about a calculation. A Newton? Not so much. You have to constantly translate named units into fundamental units to make sense of them.
Why stop with the current crop of units named after people? A m/s^2 describes acceleration. Why don't we just call it a Smith (or whoever). Then a Newton will become a kg-Smith. Nothing wrong with that... And what about 1/sec? Let's call that a George. Now a speed can be expressed as a m-George! A Newton can be converted to a kg-m-George^2. 1 Smith = 1 m-George^2. Great! That will help people understand physics!
That's the big trend these days. We must respect everyone's opinions equally. It doesn't matter if they are expert in a specific field or know nothing but what they see on the "news". All are of equal value. That's why we don't tell kids who are getting F's (do any of them get those any more?) that they are stupid. We let them find out what the world thinks of dummies after we push them along and graduate them. Then they find out that they are dopes and can't get/keep a job that pays a living wage (are there any of those any more?) and start taking antidepressants.
The US is in the death throws of democracy. Future generations (in other countries) will study this period of US history to try to figure out what happened. How did stupidity and ignorance get elevated to virtues?
specifically, Roger Ailes, knows exactly what he is doing. The dumbing down of Americans falls right in line with getting a Republican elected to the white house. I'm at a loss to understand why that is so important, but I'm $ure he ha$ his rea$on$.
People are already bought and sold for sexual and other forms of slavery. Now you're going to start a new underground business in which people are bought and sold for harvesting organs. Or maybe when they no longer provide satisfaction in the sexual realm because they've become too old, too scarred up, or just complain too much, they can still provide a return on the investment in them by harvesting their organs and selling them to the highest bidder. Hell, why stop at internal organs? You can probably make some nice leather goods from the skin, soap from the fat, and glue from the bones. Oh wait, didn't someone already do that?
I don't know what else to think of someone who tries to deny what I actually deal with every day. Maybe instead of calling them astroturfers I should call them after that other big group of habitual deniers- Republicans?
No, I think it more likely that slashdot would be infiltrated by astroturfers than Republicans, many of whom would probably deny the existence of computers. There are certainly a lot of people who earn their living sorting out MS OS problems here, and if they want to keep that gravy-train running, they have to support MS at every turn. Yes, I think astroturfer fits.
That's EXACTLY the same sort of crap people have said before. I use Linux on my laptop. I have a win 7 machine because a few critical pieces of software, such as the CAD programs I use frequently, and a media server, have no equivalents (that I have been able to find) available in Linux. No it isn't crapware, it's stuff I use daily, and over time the boot process has slowed even without adding run-time programs. I run virus and malware scans frequently using a bootable linux rescue disc to ensure the machine is clean. I don't download pirated software, use bittorrent, click on weird links, or do anything else that would load weird and undesirable stuff on my machine.
Like XP and Win 95 before it, Win 7 is suffering from an ever increasing rate of "security" "updates" many of which require rebooting the machine.
The difference here is that the linux distros are free and MS charges big bucks for their OS's. When you pay for a product you expect it to work properly- well, maybe YOU don't, but I do.
in the past the astroturfers and other MS fans said I was full of crap because I said my computer took 10 minutes to boot to a useable state. Screw all of you. I stand by my past assertions that MS OS's are crap- they always have been and always will be.
When are they going to figure out what causes my Win 7 to take 10 minutes to boot to a useable state? Maybe in 2025...
But we're happy to pay CEOs to party and entertain, and others who stuff balls through hoops millions, so why not? In terms of their impact on people's lives the pay scales would be reversed if, as a society, we valued that sort of thing. But we value entertainment more, so F the engineers.
I don't have a problem with 3D scanner per se, just small, low resolution scanners than can't scan objects much bigger than a salt shaker. I don't see the value in it. Instances where that capability would be truly useful are so unusual that it would not be worth dropping $500, at least not to me. I can't think of a single use for it.
As I said, large scanners that can scan a person's face, a pet, a whole person, a car, etc. would be useful if resolution were high enough. When that technology comes down in price I will be impressed and may even drop some $. There are a few hand-held scanners that are approaching what I would consider useful at reasonable prices and I have no doubt that in a year or two they will become much better, but putting small objects on a turntable and getting a poor quality scan is not for me.
I don't think the scanning software produces an object file that is anything less than awful to try to edit. You're going to need CAD skillz, and if you have those, a 3D scanner is even closer to pointless.
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We used to have corruption, then we legalized it through the Citizens United vs FEC case. It IS the system now.
Back then all employees, including engineers such as myself, had to sign in to a book each morning. At precisely 8:02 one of the office ladies came and picked up the books from each department and placed a little red stamp in place of the signatures of anyone who had not yet signed in. For the first hour or so of the day, most of the guys smoked and drank coffee and talked about last night's activities. I almost always arrived at 8:05 because I refused to board trains where people were being physically stuffed into the cars. I found that by waiting for 1 or 2 trains to go by, I could comfortably and safely just get on the train, but arrive 5 minutes late to work.
Once a month, every month, my kacho would lecture me about being on-time. I was required to write an explanation for each time I was late. I couldn't write one and make copies, I had to write on separate sheets of paper why I was late for each date that I was late, about 20 per month. This would take me the better part of half a day, what with coffee and bathroom breaks. It was absolutely comical.
One day I needed to send a document to the US. I checked the office supply cabinet for a large envelope and there were none, so I asked one of the office ladies where I could get an envelope. She handed me a form and said I should fill it out, then get the kacho's and bucho's signatures on it and take it to the General Affairs dept where they would file it and give me some envelopes. I asked if they were going to give me a pallet full of envelopes and she said, no, they usually give them out 3 or 4 at a time. I foolishly asked why she thinks they do this and she said I guess it's to keep people from taking them home. Then I asked how much do envelopes cost compared to the time required to fill out the form, get two signatures, and file the form. She said she never thought about it like that but that I might have a good point.
Japan has a long history of treating people like either children or machines. This concept doesn't surprise me at all.
I keep hearing that we need more STEM students in this country, so why don't our policies (other than increasing H1B visas) reflect that? First, either completely stop loaning money to people to study underwater basket weaving or start charging interest rates that are commensurate with the risk of default. Sure, you can borrow money to study underwater basket weaving- your rate will be 20%. You want to study EE or medicine? Your rate will be 1.5%.
And the goddamned law that prevents escape from student loan debt by anything but death has got to go. It's like we're living in a Dickens novel- except that it is worse because the debt is owed to the US government. Maybe we should start some debtor's prisons for all the people who can't pay their student loans off.
If I were a conspiracy nut I might think that the dramatic increase in student loan debt was intentionally engineered to separate millennials from the money they are soon to inherit from their boomer parents.
Except that 1/2 of them are now shown to be cheaters. There goes the trustworthiness, the technical training, and the unblemished record in one shot. Maybe they can work at the post office.
Once again, this time in English, please.
I doubt it. The strength and weight of CF are very dependent on the manufacturing technique used. CF bike frames are designed using software than can model the forces produced by the rider and road and the resulting effect on the CF frame including CF characteristics that result from the manufacturing techniques to be employed. The 3D printing technique is unlikely to produce a maximum strength or minimum weight frame, compared to the currently used CF frame manufacturing techniques.
It may not have the strength of CF done properly, but it will be much stronger than the alternatives like ABS and PLA. There are plenty of applications where that "between" strength is useful. The claim is that it is stiffer and stronger than 6061 aluminum. That means you don't have to go into a machine shop to cut a bunch of 6061 aluminum- you can print a part and get similar characteristics. The 3D printer doesn't care how complex the design is- it will produce it at much lower cost than a machine shop full of mills and guys who know how to run them.
Plus, users need an instant & easy way to identify if their version is legit to ease their minds.
How about searching for "ibgcc" on your computer? Seems instant enough.
or they will move their offices out of state. If they don't pay taxes, they get bad schools. If there really is a shortage of adequately educated people in the US, those CEOs are responsible, along with the state legislatures that are dumb enough to encourage their blackmail and race each other to the bottom (of tax revenues from large corporations). The problem is that CEOs feel no responsibility toward the communities in which their companies operate. Their only responsibility is to the shareholders and their own pockets.
And LE and government WILL target the poor. They know what happens when they target the rich. Sad, but very true.
If he was wearing prescription google glass, he definitely wasn't poor.
1) LWYRUP! Don't talk to them, especially if you haven't done anything wrong- you have absolutely nothing to gain by cooperating. Don't let them search anything. Swallow the microSD card. If they haven't arrested you, don't go with them in the first place. If you did go with them and they didn't arrest you, walk out of the interview. If they have arrested you, call a lawyer.
2) I guess this means all the terrorists and Wall Street crooks who threaten national security are all behind bars or dead since the FBI has time to deal with this sort of nonsense.
A gram, second, and mole are fundamental units. They can be used in dimensional analysis. A Newton is a kg-m/s^2. I don't know what a Newton is, but I have experience with kg, meters, and seconds. I can use kg-m/s^2 in dimensional analysis to gain some insight about a calculation. A Newton? Not so much. You have to constantly translate named units into fundamental units to make sense of them.
Why stop with the current crop of units named after people? A m/s^2 describes acceleration. Why don't we just call it a Smith (or whoever). Then a Newton will become a kg-Smith. Nothing wrong with that... And what about 1/sec? Let's call that a George. Now a speed can be expressed as a m-George! A Newton can be converted to a kg-m-George^2. 1 Smith = 1 m-George^2. Great! That will help people understand physics!
Oops, I missed another. Your post should have read "lose all sense", not "loose all sense".
You're welcome!
You're right, I missed that. Not careful enough in my proofing before posting.
As someone mentioned below, it's "toe the line" not "tow the line".
I guess no one's perfect.
That's the big trend these days. We must respect everyone's opinions equally. It doesn't matter if they are expert in a specific field or know nothing but what they see on the "news". All are of equal value. That's why we don't tell kids who are getting F's (do any of them get those any more?) that they are stupid. We let them find out what the world thinks of dummies after we push them along and graduate them. Then they find out that they are dopes and can't get/keep a job that pays a living wage (are there any of those any more?) and start taking antidepressants.
The US is in the death throws of democracy. Future generations (in other countries) will study this period of US history to try to figure out what happened. How did stupidity and ignorance get elevated to virtues?
specifically, Roger Ailes, knows exactly what he is doing. The dumbing down of Americans falls right in line with getting a Republican elected to the white house. I'm at a loss to understand why that is so important, but I'm $ure he ha$ his rea$on$.
People are already bought and sold for sexual and other forms of slavery. Now you're going to start a new underground business in which people are bought and sold for harvesting organs. Or maybe when they no longer provide satisfaction in the sexual realm because they've become too old, too scarred up, or just complain too much, they can still provide a return on the investment in them by harvesting their organs and selling them to the highest bidder. Hell, why stop at internal organs? You can probably make some nice leather goods from the skin, soap from the fat, and glue from the bones. Oh wait, didn't someone already do that?
I don't know what else to think of someone who tries to deny what I actually deal with every day. Maybe instead of calling them astroturfers I should call them after that other big group of habitual deniers- Republicans?
No, I think it more likely that slashdot would be infiltrated by astroturfers than Republicans, many of whom would probably deny the existence of computers. There are certainly a lot of people who earn their living sorting out MS OS problems here, and if they want to keep that gravy-train running, they have to support MS at every turn.
Yes, I think astroturfer fits.
That's EXACTLY the same sort of crap people have said before. I use Linux on my laptop. I have a win 7 machine because a few critical pieces of software, such as the CAD programs I use frequently, and a media server, have no equivalents (that I have been able to find) available in Linux. No it isn't crapware, it's stuff I use daily, and over time the boot process has slowed even without adding run-time programs. I run virus and malware scans frequently using a bootable linux rescue disc to ensure the machine is clean. I don't download pirated software, use bittorrent, click on weird links, or do anything else that would load weird and undesirable stuff on my machine.
Like XP and Win 95 before it, Win 7 is suffering from an ever increasing rate of "security" "updates" many of which require rebooting the machine.
The problem is MS and Windows. It's all crap!
The difference here is that the linux distros are free and MS charges big bucks for their OS's. When you pay for a product you expect it to work properly- well, maybe YOU don't, but I do.
in the past the astroturfers and other MS fans said I was full of crap because I said my computer took 10 minutes to boot to a useable state. Screw all of you. I stand by my past assertions that MS OS's are crap- they always have been and always will be.
When are they going to figure out what causes my Win 7 to take 10 minutes to boot to a useable state? Maybe in 2025...
But we're happy to pay CEOs to party and entertain, and others who stuff balls through hoops millions, so why not? In terms of their impact on people's lives the pay scales would be reversed if, as a society, we valued that sort of thing. But we value entertainment more, so F the engineers.
That is a completely different sort of scanner than a small device that scans even smaller objects placed on a turntable.
I don't have a problem with 3D scanner per se, just small, low resolution scanners than can't scan objects much bigger than a salt shaker. I don't see the value in it. Instances where that capability would be truly useful are so unusual that it would not be worth dropping $500, at least not to me. I can't think of a single use for it.
As I said, large scanners that can scan a person's face, a pet, a whole person, a car, etc. would be useful if resolution were high enough. When that technology comes down in price I will be impressed and may even drop some $. There are a few hand-held scanners that are approaching what I would consider useful at reasonable prices and I have no doubt that in a year or two they will become much better, but putting small objects on a turntable and getting a poor quality scan is not for me.
I don't think the scanning software produces an object file that is anything less than awful to try to edit. You're going to need CAD skillz, and if you have those, a 3D scanner is even closer to pointless.