Most recently I designed and built a 3D printer using a lot of surplus machine parts. I designed it so I can print full size human skulls extracted from CT scan data. I have been developing my own design for an extruder for a 3D printer but I am very close to giving up on it. It is taking too much time and there are pother things I want to work on.
I graduated from the Az School of Dentistry and Oral health in 2011 when I was 52 years old. I have a classmate who is a couple months younger than me. Prior to the 4 years of dental school, I did two years of predental studies - all the stuff I didn't have in engineering school- organic chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, anatomy, physiology, etc.- at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo.
I spent a pretty good chunk of my savings from my first career to get educated for my second at the same time I was financing my wife's run at medical school. It was a financial set back but well worth it. Our combined income is now about 5X what I used to make as an engineer.
HP, Fujitsu, and TI among others. When I turned 42 the pressure to move into marketing or management started. I was not interested in either, so I continued to do engineering. Then the layoffs started. With each layoff, the next job became harder to find and hold. After a couple years and three jobs/layoffs, I saw the writing on the wall and went back to school for 6 years.
Now I am a dentist. My age and gray hair are appreciated as symbols of knowledge and experience by my patients (even though my experience doesn't match my appearance). Most of my patients thank me for the work I do, and I sleep well at night, secure in the knowledge that the work I did that day was valuable and helped someone to have a better life. This is the exact opposite of my engineering work- no thank yous, only the continual justifying of my job, fighting for vacation time, forget about the promised company-paid continuing education, and long hours of meaningless work on "important" projects that do things like let teen aged girls post selfies to Facebook.
Now I work a 40 hour, 4 -day week, and never, ever take work home with me. I have two 3 day weekends per month and one 4 day weekend per month. That leaves me time to pursue my hobby- engineering, of course. Sure, there's some stress on the job, like when an extraction isn't going well, or when I have to work on little kids, but I am compensated for it and it is very short duration.
Screw the high tech industry and the dopes who run it.
That's because the only freedom they care about is their freedom to buy guns (and its bastard child, the "stand your ground" laws that allow you to use deadly force against anyone you feel threatened by). For some reason that one trumps all others.
There is a lot of overlap between the hard core 2nd amendment defenders and the people who would like to trash the separation of church and state and turn the US into a theocracy, not unlike the Taliban in Afghanistan.
And further overlap among those who have stickers on their cars claiming to support our troops but will happily tell you what they would shoot them in the face if they tried to take away their guns.
You're witnessing a repeat of the fall of the Roman empire on a much bigger scale. It's going to get ugly.
as are our elections. Carefully calculated to project an illusion.
Cut NSA's funding for surveillance? How much does it cost the NSA to send letters demanding access and secrecy? What about the cost of maintaining all those servers and huge databases? Chump change. They'll unscrew a few lightbulbs and start stocking the employee restrooms with cheaper toilet paper.
Hold elections every two, four, or six years to elect politicians to run the government? A great way to give the masses the illusion that they are living in an actual democracy!
No. The people who lost bitcoins lost nothing. The people who exchanged bitcoins for actual money took advantage of the other type who thought bitcoins had some value.
Bitcoin is like a check. It represents a transfer of things that have value- i.e. physical products or services and money. The check itself has no value. The people who were piling up bitcoins made the mistake of thinking the "checks" were worth something.
"He continues to be oblivious about his own failure and the pain he has caused others. He is confirming that he is a self-absorbed narcissist with an inflated sense of self-confidence who has no remorse."
Either that or his head is firmly planted in reality and he, unlike many of the Mt Gox users, recognizes that bitcoins are worthless. No one lost a dime. People lost bitcoins ferchrissakes.
It's all just part of the vast liberal conspiracy, supported by the left wing media, to drain money from the treasury. Everyone with a brain and a bible knows the earth is 6K years old.
area. There were three airports and four train systems (or was it four airports and three train systems?). None of the trains went to any of the airports. I always figured the taxi union lobbied hard when it was time to decided the train line terminations. I think it has improved a little since the early 90s, but probably not much.
Let's get our own act together before we try forcing other to do the same.
That applies equally to carbon emissions and democratic elections. We produce about 3X as much CO2 per capita as China, but we're going to try to tell them how not to spoil the air we breathe? Our elections are a joke- held periodically to give the general populace the illusion of living in a democracy, yet we send advisers and observers to other countries to tell them how to do it right.
It's no wonder the rest of the world hates Americans.
What a ridiculous argument. Next you'll tell me that the reason gun nutz aren't all using BB guns to poke holes in targets is because they want to make bigger holes. Handguns are specifically designed to be used to kill people, that's why the bullets are the size they are and they contain as much powder in the shell as they do. Oh yes, they can also poke holes in paper targets, but that is NOT the primary intent of the designers and manufacturers of most hand guns.
You don't think that whole thing is done because he showed his gun and waved a flag- the flag of the government that he says doesn't exist? The feds stood down because they wanted to avoid a bloodbath in which a lot of people would have been killed for simply trying to seize Bundy's cattle to pay a debt he owes. The debt is still there and it will get paid. I'd say the feds showed remarkable restraint. The armed people who came to Bundy's defense showed themselves to be exactly what they are- dangerously violent people who should not be allowed to possess guns.
Yes, that's exactly what we want- every plane, bus, school, shopping mall, theater, etc., full of amateurs ready to pull the trigger on anyone they think is a threat. I guess we can chalk up the deaths from crossfire as having "bravely given their lives" in defense of the 2nd amendment. Yeah, sure, I can get behind THAT...
You've been watching too much TV. I suggest you turn off the tube and try socializing with people who haven't been so programmed. Here's a hint- don't make every conversation about guns.
You're a fool if you think that any gun you can get a Walmart is going to be a match for a soldier's weapon. If the government wants to oppress you they'll bring the heavy stuff and oppress the crap out of you. Your use of a gun merely guarantees that the situation will escalate and that you will end up dead.
This is one serious problem with people in the US in general and especially gun nutz -they have a very tenuous grasp on reality. Too much violent fantasy programming on TV and movies has people thinking that the threat of gun violence can solve any problem. It's a ridiculous idea that gets repeated over and over. Lenin would be proud of the NRA and Hollywood. The lie they have told has become reality.
handling. That's a big deal as screens get bigger. A curved surface is stiffer/stronger than a flat surface of the same area. That's one reason why all the sheet metal in cars is curved.
The marketing dept was charged with the task of selling the curve to the public so they came up with the BS about more realistic images.
To be an improvement it has to either perform better or cost less for equal performance. I'm not sure it does either.
Better performance: it would need to be faster or more precise/accurate. I don't think it's going to go faster without some very expensive motors and controllers, and how much precision/accuracy can you get when you're squirting molten plastic out of a nozzle that's 0.25 mm diameter or larger? The properties of the plastic and the temperature at which it extrudes are going to affect the precision/accuracy more than the motors that drive the system. How fast can you extrude the plastic and still have a print that doesn't pull itself apart? The stuff about steppers skipping steps doesn't seem to be a real-world problem.
Finally, a nit-picking correction. That machine shown is not a RepRap type machine. It is a delta-bot aka Rostok machine.
Most consumers don't have surface mount IC rework stations at their disposal to replace wifi chips, assuming the chips in question have the same package, pinout, and use all the same surrounding support components which they NEVER do.
So now you want a modular device in which that stuff plugs in and can be swapped. There goes the $100 price tag...
are not the ones that get the highest mileage ratings. Cars are not just transportation. Some people actually get pleasure out of driving, and some cars are definitely more pleasurable to drive than others. The ones that are most pleasurable, be they high end luxury sedans with all the comforts of your living room, or high performance sports car, get lousy fuel economy. That's the way it has always been and with the exception of electric sports cars, the way it's going to be for a long time to come.
Look at hybrid luxury sedans and SUVs. The advertising demonstrates that the hybrid stuff was added to improve performance and only slightly boosts fuel economy. People who buy those vehicles don't care about fuel economy because the cost of fuel is inconsequential to them. They care about performance and like the idea of being able to feel "green" as they drive their 2 ton SUV as if it were a Ferrari.
I believe that the human contribution to global warming is already tipped the balance so far that we won't recover from it. In another 200 years this planet is going to be a dessert. In the mean time, I want to get a Hummer. Not one of the tiny H3s that were made for girly-men who were worried about parking and fuel economy. I want one of the original beasts that could support rocket launchers. Then I want to convert it to burn coal, or better yet, lignite. I want to leave a sooty, greasy black trail everywhere I go that is visible from space. That will be my mark on history, my signature on this dying planet. THAT'S luxury driving!
deny our performance relative to the rest of the world?
We deny the age of the earth. We deny the existence of climate change or global warming and man's effect on it. We deny the concentration of wealth and power among a few and its potential and real harm. I could go on...
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Most recently I designed and built a 3D printer using a lot of surplus machine parts. I designed it so I can print full size human skulls extracted from CT scan data.
I have been developing my own design for an extruder for a 3D printer but I am very close to giving up on it. It is taking too much time and there are pother things I want to work on.
I graduated from the Az School of Dentistry and Oral health in 2011 when I was 52 years old. I have a classmate who is a couple months younger than me. Prior to the 4 years of dental school, I did two years of predental studies - all the stuff I didn't have in engineering school- organic chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, anatomy, physiology, etc.- at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo.
I spent a pretty good chunk of my savings from my first career to get educated for my second at the same time I was financing my wife's run at medical school. It was a financial set back but well worth it. Our combined income is now about 5X what I used to make as an engineer.
HP, Fujitsu, and TI among others. When I turned 42 the pressure to move into marketing or management started. I was not interested in either, so I continued to do engineering. Then the layoffs started. With each layoff, the next job became harder to find and hold. After a couple years and three jobs/layoffs, I saw the writing on the wall and went back to school for 6 years.
Now I am a dentist. My age and gray hair are appreciated as symbols of knowledge and experience by my patients (even though my experience doesn't match my appearance). Most of my patients thank me for the work I do, and I sleep well at night, secure in the knowledge that the work I did that day was valuable and helped someone to have a better life. This is the exact opposite of my engineering work- no thank yous, only the continual justifying of my job, fighting for vacation time, forget about the promised company-paid continuing education, and long hours of meaningless work on "important" projects that do things like let teen aged girls post selfies to Facebook.
Now I work a 40 hour, 4 -day week, and never, ever take work home with me. I have two 3 day weekends per month and one 4 day weekend per month. That leaves me time to pursue my hobby- engineering, of course. Sure, there's some stress on the job, like when an extraction isn't going well, or when I have to work on little kids, but I am compensated for it and it is very short duration.
Screw the high tech industry and the dopes who run it.
and put all that carbon into the air where it belongs!
Who comes up with this stuff?
That's because the only freedom they care about is their freedom to buy guns (and its bastard child, the "stand your ground" laws that allow you to use deadly force against anyone you feel threatened by). For some reason that one trumps all others.
There is a lot of overlap between the hard core 2nd amendment defenders and the people who would like to trash the separation of church and state and turn the US into a theocracy, not unlike the Taliban in Afghanistan.
And further overlap among those who have stickers on their cars claiming to support our troops but will happily tell you what they would shoot them in the face if they tried to take away their guns.
You're witnessing a repeat of the fall of the Roman empire on a much bigger scale. It's going to get ugly.
as are our elections. Carefully calculated to project an illusion.
Cut NSA's funding for surveillance? How much does it cost the NSA to send letters demanding access and secrecy? What about the cost of maintaining all those servers and huge databases? Chump change. They'll unscrew a few lightbulbs and start stocking the employee restrooms with cheaper toilet paper.
Hold elections every two, four, or six years to elect politicians to run the government? A great way to give the masses the illusion that they are living in an actual democracy!
No. The people who lost bitcoins lost nothing. The people who exchanged bitcoins for actual money took advantage of the other type who thought bitcoins had some value.
Bitcoin is like a check. It represents a transfer of things that have value- i.e. physical products or services and money. The check itself has no value. The people who were piling up bitcoins made the mistake of thinking the "checks" were worth something.
"He continues to be oblivious about his own failure and the pain he has caused others. He is confirming that he is a self-absorbed narcissist with an inflated sense of self-confidence who has no remorse."
Either that or his head is firmly planted in reality and he, unlike many of the Mt Gox users, recognizes that bitcoins are worthless. No one lost a dime. People lost bitcoins ferchrissakes.
It's all just part of the vast liberal conspiracy, supported by the left wing media, to drain money from the treasury. Everyone with a brain and a bible knows the earth is 6K years old.
area. There were three airports and four train systems (or was it four airports and three train systems?). None of the trains went to any of the airports. I always figured the taxi union lobbied hard when it was time to decided the train line terminations. I think it has improved a little since the early 90s, but probably not much.
Let's get our own act together before we try forcing other to do the same.
That applies equally to carbon emissions and democratic elections. We produce about 3X as much CO2 per capita as China, but we're going to try to tell them how not to spoil the air we breathe? Our elections are a joke- held periodically to give the general populace the illusion of living in a democracy, yet we send advisers and observers to other countries to tell them how to do it right.
It's no wonder the rest of the world hates Americans.
One more time, please, I didn't get it the first three times...
Bitcoin to me...
What a ridiculous argument. Next you'll tell me that the reason gun nutz aren't all using BB guns to poke holes in targets is because they want to make bigger holes.
Handguns are specifically designed to be used to kill people, that's why the bullets are the size they are and they contain as much powder in the shell as they do. Oh yes, they can also poke holes in paper targets, but that is NOT the primary intent of the designers and manufacturers of most hand guns.
You don't think that whole thing is done because he showed his gun and waved a flag- the flag of the government that he says doesn't exist? The feds stood down because they wanted to avoid a bloodbath in which a lot of people would have been killed for simply trying to seize Bundy's cattle to pay a debt he owes. The debt is still there and it will get paid. I'd say the feds showed remarkable restraint. The armed people who came to Bundy's defense showed themselves to be exactly what they are- dangerously violent people who should not be allowed to possess guns.
Yes, that's exactly what we want- every plane, bus, school, shopping mall, theater, etc., full of amateurs ready to pull the trigger on anyone they think is a threat. I guess we can chalk up the deaths from crossfire as having "bravely given their lives" in defense of the 2nd amendment. Yeah, sure, I can get behind THAT...
You've been watching too much TV. I suggest you turn off the tube and try socializing with people who haven't been so programmed. Here's a hint- don't make every conversation about guns.
You're a fool if you think that any gun you can get a Walmart is going to be a match for a soldier's weapon. If the government wants to oppress you they'll bring the heavy stuff and oppress the crap out of you. Your use of a gun merely guarantees that the situation will escalate and that you will end up dead.
This is one serious problem with people in the US in general and especially gun nutz -they have a very tenuous grasp on reality. Too much violent fantasy programming on TV and movies has people thinking that the threat of gun violence can solve any problem. It's a ridiculous idea that gets repeated over and over. Lenin would be proud of the NRA and Hollywood. The lie they have told has become reality.
handling. That's a big deal as screens get bigger. A curved surface is stiffer/stronger than a flat surface of the same area. That's one reason why all the sheet metal in cars is curved.
The marketing dept was charged with the task of selling the curve to the public so they came up with the BS about more realistic images.
Why don't they just buy iHome while they're at it? Then they'll control 90% of the iCrap market.
To be an improvement it has to either perform better or cost less for equal performance. I'm not sure it does either.
Better performance: it would need to be faster or more precise/accurate. I don't think it's going to go faster without some very expensive motors and controllers, and how much precision/accuracy can you get when you're squirting molten plastic out of a nozzle that's 0.25 mm diameter or larger? The properties of the plastic and the temperature at which it extrudes are going to affect the precision/accuracy more than the motors that drive the system. How fast can you extrude the plastic and still have a print that doesn't pull itself apart? The stuff about steppers skipping steps doesn't seem to be a real-world problem.
Finally, a nit-picking correction. That machine shown is not a RepRap type machine. It is a delta-bot aka Rostok machine.
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Most consumers don't have surface mount IC rework stations at their disposal to replace wifi chips, assuming the chips in question have the same package, pinout, and use all the same surrounding support components which they NEVER do.
So now you want a modular device in which that stuff plugs in and can be swapped. There goes the $100 price tag...
are not the ones that get the highest mileage ratings. Cars are not just transportation. Some people actually get pleasure out of driving, and some cars are definitely more pleasurable to drive than others. The ones that are most pleasurable, be they high end luxury sedans with all the comforts of your living room, or high performance sports car, get lousy fuel economy. That's the way it has always been and with the exception of electric sports cars, the way it's going to be for a long time to come.
Look at hybrid luxury sedans and SUVs. The advertising demonstrates that the hybrid stuff was added to improve performance and only slightly boosts fuel economy. People who buy those vehicles don't care about fuel economy because the cost of fuel is inconsequential to them. They care about performance and like the idea of being able to feel "green" as they drive their 2 ton SUV as if it were a Ferrari.
I believe that the human contribution to global warming is already tipped the balance so far that we won't recover from it. In another 200 years this planet is going to be a dessert. In the mean time, I want to get a Hummer. Not one of the tiny H3s that were made for girly-men who were worried about parking and fuel economy. I want one of the original beasts that could support rocket launchers. Then I want to convert it to burn coal, or better yet, lignite. I want to leave a sooty, greasy black trail everywhere I go that is visible from space. That will be my mark on history, my signature on this dying planet. THAT'S luxury driving!
got rid of ALL the employees!
I suggest they start at the top!
deny our performance relative to the rest of the world?
We deny the age of the earth.
We deny the existence of climate change or global warming and man's effect on it.
We deny the concentration of wealth and power among a few and its potential and real harm.
I could go on...
USA! USA! USA! USA!