Oh, I agree, Revit/Archicad are much more robust solutions. But in early massing phases, they're waaaay too much overhead for what's needed.
And believe it or not, there are a lot of firms out there not using BIM (like mine, but that's a whole different story), and for them Sketchup is the way to introduce digital 3D into the workflow.
True, but you are not the target market for this tool.
Ahh, but the GP is the target market for the book (as am I). And those in the target market know that Sketchup is the wrong tool. Therefore the book is a bit of a waste as it's advocating the wrong tool for the job.
That said, Sketchup does have a very valuable role in the architectural design process, and can be a useful tool for archviz, but really as an intermediary step, or for schematic uses.
And this is what happens when the US no longer has any manufacturing and produces very little real, tangible, goods or services. Between executives and shareholders wringing every last penny of quarterly profit at the expense of long-term goals, regulations and unions forcing unsustainable operating expenses, and skyrocketing education costs paired with plummeting education quality, long-term viability of the US business sector is caving.
The only thing the US has left that is of value on the global market is "intellectual property". This means regardless of whether you vote Republican or Democrat, you will get politicians that support crackdowns on piracy and extension of copyright protections.
50+ years and the toaster still doesn't work right.
Ironically, people are paying a lot of money for those classic 50's toasters because they work better than modern replacements. I have a hand-me-down from my grandmother that was recently serviced. Works great, beautiful chromed steel, and no way would I trade it for a $30 chrome-coated-plastic piece of crap.
Meanwhile my power utility, one of (if not the) largest in the nation, has been studying smart grids for at least 15 years now and still doesn't have it as an available service. Hell, they aren't even planning to have full implementation until 2030.
Actually, in the US, number portability is required to be free as well. That is, there is no charge for moving your number to another carrier.
What happens here is that new regulation forces extra costs on the carriers (harware, network upgrades, staffing, etc). Then, instead of just absorbing it as part of their normal operating costs, they pass it on to the customer (with a hefty profit margin) as an additional fee tacked onto the monthly bill. This way, they can sleazily continue to advertise their low Low LOW rates!
It isn't a tax; utilities also do it here with "investment recovery fees". It's a deceptive marketing tactic that allows companies to advertise rates much lower than what actual monthly bills will be. And they get away with it because in the tiny fine print of their ads, it reads something along the lines of "actual monthly bill may vary and is subject to taxes and mandatory fees"
Actually, these aren't taxes. They're implementation costs to the mobile carrier who then passes it on customer with a big fat up-charge to rake in extra profit.
The faster their drives fill up with garbage the faster they will burn through their profits, and maybe pull their fingers out of their backsides and protest against stupid laws.
Hahaha... yeah right. Instead what will happen is your ISP bill will go up as they start adding mandatory "Regulatory Compliance Fees" to cover the additional costs. In the US we have "911 Connectivity Fee" and the "Number Portability Fee" that are implemented by the mobile providers to cover their costs and jack up profits. These fees make your $50 advertised rate actually end up being a $70 monthly bill.
Oh, and they can't write and maintain the Web apps, but that's probably the least favorite part of my job (grumble, grumble...web apps for what should be an ordinary desktop aop...grumble, grumble).
Actually, if the web apps are built to be standards compliant, you should be happy. You can start replacing workstations with thin clients, Windows CE machines, or linux installs. Hell, even ChromeOS could be a suitable replacement.
I have been fighting for, and would love it, if our internal tools were rebuilt as web apps. As it is, maintaining these legacy pieces of crap built on Filemaker and other kludges are holding us back to older OS and workstation setups, and preventing us from doing "modern" office innovations like IMAP/ActiveSync or calendar invitations.
That only matters for getting into orbit. Once you're in orbit it doesn't matter anymore, and no deep-space propulsion technology we have would exhibit dangerous acceleration on passengers.
Where are the equivalent virii in 2010? I remember Code Red and Slammer and the really malicious code that was raping any system stupid enough to expose 135/137 and 445 to the world. I don't remember any malware of that league in recent memory.
That's because modern spyware is more focused on hijacking your machine to be part of distributed botnets. That means you don't want the user to realize the machine is compromised. As such, vandalism is less prominent in favor of the lucrative enterprise of selling access to the botnets.
If that's the case, all printers are vector printers, unless they raise the cartridge between pixels, which would be silly.
But that's not the case. Dot matrix, laser, inkjet, and phasers all lay down dots or pulses of their print medium, not lines. In a plotter, drawing is controlled specifically by movement along with "pen up/pen down" instructions.
Actually, it's converting the rasterized image back into 1d vector lines. Notice how it doesn't lift the pen between two contiguous "dots". That line makes it vector.
Although this project rasterized the page (printing dots), it could have just as easily been designed to set the pen down and then do continuous line art...
Actually, the print driver is rasterizing an image (which is already the case for a bitmap anyways) and then this plotter (or the driver) is vectorizing it again into a series or horizontal lines. The pen doesn't lift and touch down for each dot (like a dot matrix would), two dots are continuously drawn together as a line. That makes it a vector plotter, only 1 dimensional in its drawing capabilities.
I'm sure it wouldn't take the creator of the whole project very long to add the ability to shift the paper back and forth to get true two-dimensional plotting, but as you pointed out, the difficulty there is implementing a vector drawing instruction set. HPGL is notoriously difficult.
Actually, it is a pen plotter, not a printer. It's a technology that was very common in architectural and engineering offices until it rapidly died off 10 years ago for inkjets.
Actually the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) assume an omniscient creator, which rules out #4. #4 is akin to deism, but in that philosophy, there is a predetermined outcome to the universe set by the creator.
I'll reject it, without any problems of cognitive dissonance - I'll assume the researchers didn't do their job correctly (nobody's perfect!) or it's biased research by people who've studied science but are under the influence of politics or funders.
That's rationalization. Until you make the assumption, you are in a state of cognitive dissonance. By assuming faults in the evidence you are rationalizing and attempting to reduce the cognitive dissonance. Your action is a direct result of being in that state.
Ah, but by maintaining tight application and review processes, Apple IS the publisher. They're not the developer, but they are the publisher, and definitely the distributor.
YouTube and ISPs fall into the safe-harbor clause of the DMCA because they do their filtering retroactively. In this case, Apple reviews every product before making it available. They've taken on the burden of being active content police, which removes any protection they might have.
I live in the UK. I used to get cable internet service from Virgin Media (the only cable provider in the country, because they bought up all the others). I would *love* to have had the quality of service that you guys above are complaining about from Comcast et al. Understand that Virgin Media works great until it breaks. Up to 50Mbps wherever you are, low latency, dropouts rare. When it breaks though, getting it fixed is a nightmare....
From your horror story, the only difference I see in comparison to Comcast/Cox/Time Warner, is that you can get up to 50Mbps.
For the most part, cable companies use subcontractors to perform the work (saves the company a lot in staffing, employment taxes, stocking parts, etc). The subcontractors are frequently single-man owner/operator shops. The cable co couldn't schedule things better even if they wanted to, because they don't have direct control over dispatch and what happens in the field.
It's a similar issue to how tow truck operators work. You call AAA and they dispatch a truck, but the truck isn't owned by AAA, it's a regionally subcontracted independent operator. Granted, AAA has a business model based entirely on quality service, so if they get complaints, they'll drop the tow truck operator. As you mentioned in the conclusion you came to, the cable companies are not focused at all on the quality of customer service because of their monopoly privileges.
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Oh, I agree, Revit/Archicad are much more robust solutions. But in early massing phases, they're waaaay too much overhead for what's needed.
And believe it or not, there are a lot of firms out there not using BIM (like mine, but that's a whole different story), and for them Sketchup is the way to introduce digital 3D into the workflow.
Ahh, but the GP is the target market for the book (as am I). And those in the target market know that Sketchup is the wrong tool. Therefore the book is a bit of a waste as it's advocating the wrong tool for the job.
That said, Sketchup does have a very valuable role in the architectural design process, and can be a useful tool for archviz, but really as an intermediary step, or for schematic uses.
This isn't wikipedia. Do a Google search on any of those phrases and you'll see that the evidence supports my position.
And this is what happens when the US no longer has any manufacturing and produces very little real, tangible, goods or services. Between executives and shareholders wringing every last penny of quarterly profit at the expense of long-term goals, regulations and unions forcing unsustainable operating expenses, and skyrocketing education costs paired with plummeting education quality, long-term viability of the US business sector is caving.
The only thing the US has left that is of value on the global market is "intellectual property". This means regardless of whether you vote Republican or Democrat, you will get politicians that support crackdowns on piracy and extension of copyright protections.
Ironically, people are paying a lot of money for those classic 50's toasters because they work better than modern replacements. I have a hand-me-down from my grandmother that was recently serviced. Works great, beautiful chromed steel, and no way would I trade it for a $30 chrome-coated-plastic piece of crap.
Meanwhile my power utility, one of (if not the) largest in the nation, has been studying smart grids for at least 15 years now and still doesn't have it as an available service. Hell, they aren't even planning to have full implementation until 2030.
Actually, in the US, number portability is required to be free as well. That is, there is no charge for moving your number to another carrier.
What happens here is that new regulation forces extra costs on the carriers (harware, network upgrades, staffing, etc). Then, instead of just absorbing it as part of their normal operating costs, they pass it on to the customer (with a hefty profit margin) as an additional fee tacked onto the monthly bill. This way, they can sleazily continue to advertise their low Low LOW rates!
It isn't a tax; utilities also do it here with "investment recovery fees". It's a deceptive marketing tactic that allows companies to advertise rates much lower than what actual monthly bills will be. And they get away with it because in the tiny fine print of their ads, it reads something along the lines of "actual monthly bill may vary and is subject to taxes and mandatory fees"
Actually, these aren't taxes. They're implementation costs to the mobile carrier who then passes it on customer with a big fat up-charge to rake in extra profit.
Hahaha... yeah right. Instead what will happen is your ISP bill will go up as they start adding mandatory "Regulatory Compliance Fees" to cover the additional costs. In the US we have "911 Connectivity Fee" and the "Number Portability Fee" that are implemented by the mobile providers to cover their costs and jack up profits. These fees make your $50 advertised rate actually end up being a $70 monthly bill.
Actually, if the web apps are built to be standards compliant, you should be happy. You can start replacing workstations with thin clients, Windows CE machines, or linux installs. Hell, even ChromeOS could be a suitable replacement.
I have been fighting for, and would love it, if our internal tools were rebuilt as web apps. As it is, maintaining these legacy pieces of crap built on Filemaker and other kludges are holding us back to older OS and workstation setups, and preventing us from doing "modern" office innovations like IMAP/ActiveSync or calendar invitations.
That only matters for getting into orbit. Once you're in orbit it doesn't matter anymore, and no deep-space propulsion technology we have would exhibit dangerous acceleration on passengers.
How? By sending something that travels faster than the crew transport? Then why not just make the crew transport go faster?
That's because modern spyware is more focused on hijacking your machine to be part of distributed botnets. That means you don't want the user to realize the machine is compromised. As such, vandalism is less prominent in favor of the lucrative enterprise of selling access to the botnets.
But that's not the case. Dot matrix, laser, inkjet, and phasers all lay down dots or pulses of their print medium, not lines. In a plotter, drawing is controlled specifically by movement along with "pen up/pen down" instructions.
Actually, it's converting the rasterized image back into 1d vector lines. Notice how it doesn't lift the pen between two contiguous "dots". That line makes it vector.
Actually, the print driver is rasterizing an image (which is already the case for a bitmap anyways) and then this plotter (or the driver) is vectorizing it again into a series or horizontal lines. The pen doesn't lift and touch down for each dot (like a dot matrix would), two dots are continuously drawn together as a line. That makes it a vector plotter, only 1 dimensional in its drawing capabilities.
I'm sure it wouldn't take the creator of the whole project very long to add the ability to shift the paper back and forth to get true two-dimensional plotting, but as you pointed out, the difficulty there is implementing a vector drawing instruction set. HPGL is notoriously difficult.
Actually, it is a pen plotter, not a printer. It's a technology that was very common in architectural and engineering offices until it rapidly died off 10 years ago for inkjets.
I love the Lego figures going along for a ride.
Actually the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) assume an omniscient creator, which rules out #4. #4 is akin to deism, but in that philosophy, there is a predetermined outcome to the universe set by the creator.
Seriously.... this has got to be the only website out there that is pushing a font without actually providing any preview of what it looks like.
He's just using electricity to separate water into H2 and O2 (google electrolysis). Then combining them together. The waste is H20 and heat.
This is exactly what a fuel cell does.
That's rationalization. Until you make the assumption, you are in a state of cognitive dissonance. By assuming faults in the evidence you are rationalizing and attempting to reduce the cognitive dissonance. Your action is a direct result of being in that state.
Ah, but by maintaining tight application and review processes, Apple IS the publisher. They're not the developer, but they are the publisher, and definitely the distributor.
YouTube and ISPs fall into the safe-harbor clause of the DMCA because they do their filtering retroactively. In this case, Apple reviews every product before making it available. They've taken on the burden of being active content police, which removes any protection they might have.
From your horror story, the only difference I see in comparison to Comcast/Cox/Time Warner, is that you can get up to 50Mbps.
For the most part, cable companies use subcontractors to perform the work (saves the company a lot in staffing, employment taxes, stocking parts, etc). The subcontractors are frequently single-man owner/operator shops. The cable co couldn't schedule things better even if they wanted to, because they don't have direct control over dispatch and what happens in the field.
It's a similar issue to how tow truck operators work. You call AAA and they dispatch a truck, but the truck isn't owned by AAA, it's a regionally subcontracted independent operator. Granted, AAA has a business model based entirely on quality service, so if they get complaints, they'll drop the tow truck operator. As you mentioned in the conclusion you came to, the cable companies are not focused at all on the quality of customer service because of their monopoly privileges.
Not as long as social engineering is possible.