Ya wanna see defective? Several times in the last couple of years I have purchased Nics, mainboards, soundcards and once a 300$ display card that when I open the box, the thing has been crushed into unuseability or has burn/scratch marks on it. When I take it back to the store, I am the one that gets snickered at or refused replacement. I have taken to buying the product, Opening the container right there at the register (something that is almost ALWAYS refused to me before I pay for it) and making sure the damn thing at least looks useable. The fact is, when I buy a sealed product, I expect the damn thing to work. The big chains are the worst offenders and I have stopped going to those places unless I can't find the thing elsewhere.
I know I am being dense, but I have a machine that rotates these vinyl disks at a fixed rate. It has a stylus that fits into the groove on the surface of this artifact, and you can hear the music with an amazing clarity. This idea of optically scanning the surface is fascinating but I prefer the old fashioned way of doing things. The main problem is that this machine just destroys the CD disks that are all the rage now.
I read about this a couple of days ago. I noticed the fact that the people at Durham University got ahold of it. She coulda gotten maybe $5,000 US for that rock. Seems there is a rule amongst Astronomers that if you get hit by a meteorite, it belongs to you. Just my two cents...
In Costa Rica, the geckos were everywhere, on the walls, the windows and the ceiling. I actually took a bit of effort to get them loose. There were thousands of them. They are really neat animals. I wish I could do that, I'd hang on the ceiling at the White House....
While scramjets raise the possibility of Sydney to London flights in two hours, they are set to revolutionise the launch of small space payloads, such as communications satellites, by substantially lowering costs. They have the added benefit that they do not even have to carry most of their propellant as they use oxygen from the atmosphere.
This is a nice fairy tale but when the military decides to use this technology it will become unavailable for use by the general public. The most obvious use would be lightening fast attack jets that could hit a target from a base 15,000 miles away and 30 or 40 miles altitude and be back to base before the news hits the media. Then the attacker could say something like "it wasn't us man, all our planes are here at home." Never underestimate the evil of the military-industrial complex or the politicians that profit from it.
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CNC is sexy? you must be a little kid, CNC can be operated by any chimpanzee with a few minuites of instruction. I have been a machinist for 15 years and every time I hear how wonderful a CNC mill is I wanna puke. The primary purpose of computerized machine tools is to reduce the cost of labor in manufacturing. CNC requires NO SKILL. It means a 6 year old can safely operate it. And of course, be paid accordingly. If ya can't make it without computers, yer gonna be in trouble when you can't find a decent programmer because the industry has eliminated manual machining, and nobody really knows what they're doing. And incidentally, the speeds and feedrates are dictated by the materials being cut, not the available machine tools. If you try to treat titanium like aluminium, yer gonna smoke cutters no matter what kind of machine you have.
Steel IS an alloy, the fact is good quality steel has more than just low carbon iron and chromium, the higher alloys such as 4140 and 4340 have 1% and 3% nickel respectively. The purpose is to slow down the aging process without sacrificing potential hardness. ALL steels have some sulphur to aid in mallability and machinability, but the more sulphur added weakens the metal in terms of low temperature yeild strengths, which is a measure of how brittle a metal is at a standard temperature. Tensile strength is measured at the first measurable point of stretch for a 25mm bar at 65 deg F. The lower alloys such as 1018 and 1020 have lower carbon levels and almost no chromium. Thus they cannot be hardened in a heat treat process the way the 4000 series can. All these metals are easily machined. I wonder what the machinability is of this new alloy. Tensile strength and hardness properties dictate available processes to all metalworking and I would like a few dozen pounds just to play with. Maybe make meself a new cleidheammor.
There was a Charlie Chaplin movie, silent, made in 1926? that was about a glazier(Charlie) who needed to drum up some business, so he employed a small boy to run around town, breaking windows. The victims of this nefarious window breaking were then offered "discounts" if they purchased charlies services. Odd, how history seems to repeat itself....
What Pax Americana? the only empire is that of giant oil and Bush at the helm with blinders on. One thing about ground transport, you can carry more people at lower cost than aircraft, and you cant fly them into buildings.
My pop solved this problem last year, with copper mesh underneath the new siding he had put on his house. He also limited the nework to only a smaller area, running printers and such. And the copper mesh wasnt all that expensive. He now is interference free. The trouble is, he also has to go outside to use his cellphone, and the cordless phone wont work outside the house. Trade-offs are a bitch.
One of the big surprises when the first star wars came out was the fact that it was hugely successful. The cast and writing teams were blown away by the total success of the project. It would seem to me that adding characters to the originals and re-editing the whole progression to make it more like a whole story, rather rather than a group of individual viniettes would do the story nothing but good.
and hey, I liked jar-jar, dammit. If I had a tongue like his I'd never leave the house....
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Ya wanna see defective? Several times in the last couple of years I have purchased Nics, mainboards, soundcards and once a 300$ display card that when I open the box, the thing has been crushed into unuseability or has burn/scratch marks on it. When I take it back to the store, I am the one that gets snickered at or refused replacement. I have taken to buying the product, Opening the container right there at the register (something that is almost ALWAYS refused to me before I pay for it) and making sure the damn thing at least looks useable. The fact is, when I buy a sealed product, I expect the damn thing to work. The big chains are the worst offenders and I have stopped going to those places unless I can't find the thing elsewhere.
I have seen a copy of this and I'm gonna go out and get it.
I'm a sci fi freak
Why, do you miss Disco that much?
I know I am being dense, but I have a machine that rotates these vinyl disks at a fixed rate. It has a stylus that fits into the groove on the surface of this artifact, and you can hear the music with an amazing clarity. This idea of optically scanning the surface is fascinating but I prefer the old fashioned way of doing things. The main problem is that this machine just destroys the CD disks that are all the rage now.
I read about this a couple of days ago. I noticed the fact that the people at Durham University got ahold of it. She coulda gotten maybe $5,000 US for that rock.
Seems there is a rule amongst Astronomers that if you get hit by a meteorite, it belongs to you.
Just my two cents...
In Costa Rica, the geckos were everywhere, on the walls, the windows and the ceiling. I actually took a bit of effort to get them loose. There were thousands of them. They are really neat animals. I wish I could do that, I'd hang on the ceiling at the White House....
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CNC is sexy? you must be a little kid, CNC can be operated by any chimpanzee with a few minuites of instruction. I have been a machinist for 15 years and every time I hear how wonderful a CNC mill is I wanna puke. The primary purpose of computerized machine tools is to reduce the cost of labor in manufacturing. CNC requires NO SKILL. It means a 6 year old can safely operate it. And of course, be paid accordingly. If ya can't make it without computers, yer gonna be in trouble when you can't find a decent programmer because the industry has eliminated manual machining, and nobody really knows what they're doing. And incidentally, the speeds and feedrates are dictated by the materials being cut, not the available machine tools. If you try to treat titanium like aluminium, yer gonna smoke cutters no matter what kind of machine you have.
Steel IS an alloy, the fact is good quality steel has more than just low carbon iron and chromium, the higher alloys such as 4140 and 4340 have 1% and 3% nickel respectively. The purpose is to slow down the aging process without sacrificing potential hardness. ALL steels have some sulphur to aid in mallability and machinability, but the more sulphur added weakens the metal in terms of low temperature yeild strengths, which is a measure of how brittle a metal is at a standard temperature. Tensile strength is measured at the first measurable point of stretch for a 25mm bar at 65 deg F. The lower alloys such as 1018 and 1020 have lower carbon levels and almost no chromium. Thus they cannot be hardened in a heat treat process the way the 4000 series can. All these metals are easily machined. I wonder what the machinability is of this new alloy. Tensile strength and hardness properties dictate available processes to all metalworking and I would like a few dozen pounds just to play with. Maybe make meself a new cleidheammor.
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There was a Charlie Chaplin movie, silent, made in 1926? that was about a glazier(Charlie) who needed to drum up some business, so he employed a small boy to run around town, breaking windows. The victims of this nefarious window breaking were then offered "discounts" if they purchased charlies services. Odd, how history seems to repeat itself....
What Pax Americana? the only empire is that of giant oil and Bush at the helm with blinders on. One thing about ground transport, you can carry more people at lower cost than aircraft, and you cant fly them into buildings.
My pop solved this problem last year, with copper mesh underneath the new siding he had put on his house. He also limited the nework to only a smaller area, running printers and such. And the copper mesh wasnt all that expensive. He now is interference free. The trouble is, he also has to go outside to use his cellphone, and the cordless phone wont work outside the house. Trade-offs are a bitch.
One of the big surprises when the first star wars came out was the fact that it was hugely successful. The cast and writing teams were blown away by the total success of the project. It would seem to me that adding characters to the originals and re-editing the whole progression to make it more like a whole story, rather rather than a group of individual viniettes would do the story nothing but good.
and hey, I liked jar-jar, dammit. If I had a tongue like his I'd never leave the house....