By far, the majority of material used in regulated industry is reused internaly or recycled elsewhere, including most chemicals.
So I use 200 gallons of water to make a particular part in my C$C machine. That water is filtered and reused for the next part, or during the manufacture of that 1st part.
If I'm making a 2lb aluminum bracket, I might have to start with a 10 lb piece or larger of stock. I end up with 8 lbs of scrap, right?
Any water I 'use' is lost to evaporation, and the lost material from shavings is shipped off for scrap and made into a new piece of stock.
Quoting these 'material costs' or 'environmental costs' as they are impies that the excess material is not reused, but is instead just shipped off and put into a landfill or the ocean.
Grab a 2-U case and build what you have under . .. *GASP* WinXP. I hate to say it, but for this application, Windows running UIce for a remote interpolation prog seems to work best for me. I played with several different things, but the best performance/usability I've gotten is with XP and UIce using an AverTV card. Here's why:
1) The AverTV Studio card works best under Windows and has limited TIVO-like functionality and has a remote control that most IR remote apps will recognize. It's also suprising quality, and quite cheap. 2) UIce will direct keystrokes to any running prog, and any key on a remote can be designated to pracicaly any function, including mouse movement. 3) WinAmp has a nifty double-size function that makes it quite usable on the TV. I don't know if XMMS or any of it's ilk have this, though. 4) A 2-U case with stereo feet screwed to the bottom looks like a stereo componant, mayhaps an amp. 5) Guests can use the machine intuitively. They already understand how everything works for the most part, they just have to get used to using an IR remote for the computer.
Reasons why Windows isn't a good choice for this:
1) Security. Unless your machine is behind a firewall, I wouldn't recomend it. 2) Umm . . . you want to run Linux.
I've built the box, and am quite impressed with the results. I'll be putting up a page for what to use and blah and blah in about a month, once I've got the faceplate cut and installed.
-Dirk R. Sure, nobody asked me, but I knew they eventually would.
Use a 15" LCD, and encase it in a clear lucite box, vented at the top and bottom sides. Affix heavy duty snaps (you find them on the lapels of motorcycle highway jackets) at four corners, and use that to affix it to the side of a PC, with the PS for the LCD patched into the PS for the PC. Fabricate metal brackets for a holder for the keyboard and beside it a smallish vinyl toolbag affixed with the same snaps for mouse/ cables beside it.
Wait, aren't cartels illegal in the states? I mean, I seem to remember being taught in HS Civics that it is illegal for any group of companies to get together and arrange for price hikes (seen the localized gas hikes of 2000?), or to limit access of products to particular groups.
It seems to me that Corporate America and Civil America (that would be we citizens) have forgotten that cartels are illegal.
Is the BSA a form of cartel? I realize that they are independent, but what of the independent enforcers of Chicago in the 20s and 30s? They avoided prosecution by not being 'part of' the cartels they enforced.
In Texas (if I remember correctly), in order to deal deadly force to an intruder, he must be either armed, his activities actively leading you to believe that he intends to remove your safety or property by force. So, unless that Liscence Searching Dictator (LSD) comes through your window at 2AM, or is wielding a gun, you can't shoot him. It is, however, legal in Texas to protect yourself and/or your property with deadly force, if needed.
Just remember, no shooting that LSD during daylight hours.
It occurs to me that the largest issue with the legal knowlege base on this is that they know only what they are told, and with new technology, don't exactly have a way of researching the correct data. With those who are familiar with the technology, doing the research on the legal/social ramifications is fairly simple in comparison, as the data on the legal system, while convoluted, is certainly readily available, while finding documentation on, say, all possible applications of a means to manufacture self-replicating, self-repairing, mobile machines designed to build bridges and make key lime pie. I'm fairly certain that these immagined machines would not start making bridges OUT of key lime pie, but how does a layer know that?
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By far, the majority of material used in
regulated industry is reused internaly
or recycled elsewhere, including most
chemicals.
So I use 200 gallons of water to make
a particular part in my C$C machine.
That water is filtered and reused for
the next part, or during the manufacture
of that 1st part.
If I'm making a 2lb aluminum bracket,
I might have to start with a 10 lb piece
or larger of stock. I end up with 8 lbs
of scrap, right?
Any water I 'use' is lost to evaporation,
and the lost material from shavings is
shipped off for scrap and made into a
new piece of stock.
Quoting these 'material costs' or
'environmental costs' as they are impies
that the excess material is not reused,
but is instead just shipped off and put
into a landfill or the ocean.
Bleh.
-Dirk R.
Subject says it all.
Subject says it all.
-Dirk
If you believed me, then why did you try to stop
the fan with your hand?
Grab a 2-U case and build what you have under . . .
*GASP*
WinXP. I hate to say it, but for this application, Windows running UIce for a remote interpolation prog seems to work best for me. I played with several different things, but the best performance/usability I've gotten is with XP and UIce using an AverTV card. Here's why:
1) The AverTV Studio card works best under Windows and has limited TIVO-like functionality and has a remote control that most IR remote apps will recognize. It's also suprising quality, and quite cheap.
2) UIce will direct keystrokes to any running prog, and any key on a remote can be designated to pracicaly any function, including mouse movement.
3) WinAmp has a nifty double-size function that makes it quite usable on the TV. I don't know if XMMS or any of it's ilk have this, though.
4) A 2-U case with stereo feet screwed to the bottom looks like a stereo componant, mayhaps an amp.
5) Guests can use the machine intuitively. They already understand how everything works for the most part, they just have to get used to using an IR remote for the computer.
Reasons why Windows isn't a good choice for this:
1) Security. Unless your machine is behind a firewall, I wouldn't recomend it.
2) Umm . . . you want to run Linux.
I've built the box, and am quite impressed with the results. I'll be putting up a page for what to use and blah and blah in about a month, once I've got the faceplate cut and installed.
-Dirk R.
Sure, nobody asked me, but I knew they eventually would.
I had to go shave my bed. I go kind of nuts when
I hear or read corporate buzzwords.
-Dirkr
Eat wet cement, get stoned.
Use a 15" LCD, and encase it in a clear lucite /
box, vented at the top and bottom sides. Affix
heavy duty snaps (you find them on the lapels
of motorcycle highway jackets) at four corners,
and use that to affix it to the side of a PC,
with the PS for the LCD patched into the PS for
the PC. Fabricate metal brackets for a holder
for the keyboard and beside it a smallish vinyl
toolbag affixed with the same snaps for mouse
cables beside it.
It's what I did, and it works wonderfuly.
-Bume, baby
Wait, aren't cartels illegal in the states? I mean, I seem to remember being taught in HS Civics that it is illegal for any group of companies to get together and arrange for price hikes (seen the localized gas hikes of 2000?), or to limit access of products to particular groups.
It seems to me that Corporate America and Civil America (that would be we citizens) have forgotten that cartels are illegal.
Is the BSA a form of cartel? I realize that they are independent, but what of the independent enforcers of Chicago in the 20s and 30s? They avoided prosecution by not being 'part of' the cartels they enforced.
"Damn the Man. Save the Empire." -Empire Records
In Texas (if I remember correctly), in order to deal deadly force to an intruder, he must be either armed, his activities actively leading you to believe that he intends to remove your safety or property by force. So, unless that Liscence Searching Dictator (LSD) comes through your window at 2AM, or is wielding a gun, you can't shoot him. It is, however, legal in Texas to protect yourself and/or your property with deadly force, if needed.
Just remember, no shooting that LSD during daylight hours.
It occurs to me that the largest issue with the legal knowlege base on this is that they know only what they are told, and with new technology, don't exactly have a way of researching the correct data. With those who are familiar with the technology, doing the research on the legal/social ramifications is fairly simple in comparison, as the data on the legal system, while convoluted, is certainly readily available, while finding documentation on, say, all possible applications of a means to manufacture self-replicating, self-repairing, mobile machines designed to build bridges and make key lime pie. I'm fairly certain that these immagined machines would not start making bridges OUT of key lime pie, but how does a layer know that?
I remember when GM first introduced their electric car for lease only. Anyone remember the car named the GM 'Impact'??