Subtractive manufacturing is fairly wasteful of primary material resources.
With that said, I snickered at his mention of how cheap steel would be. I would expect that the biggest expense of his rig isn't going to be the metal... it's going to be Argon. My last refill was $75 for a 45cu/ft tank. He's going to need to figure out how to enclose the entire rig in a sealed (positive pressure vented) box to help conserve gas. Just imagine... an enclosure big enough to do an 8' piece of art... 8^3=512cu/ft. It's a good idea, but there are still some hurdles before this is in the price range of the average Joe.
Unfortunately this makes your Identity EASIER to steal... since filing cabinets' auditing systems are easy to bypass, and it's hard to know if the data has been accessed/stolen. The inside job is far too easy with this scenario.
Are you sure they aren't handing you a pre-made card? If you are opening a new account, they could give you any card (because your card number is not associated with your account number anymore)
I agree the equipment isn't that expensive... but printing flat cards with the photo of your choice attracts more customers than embossed cards do.
The cost of catering to the masses I'm afraid.
My credit union prints their own cards... which don't have a relief on the printed data... so they can issue them directly from the branch. If you want relief on your card, you have to order it through the mail. So I guess I'm not eating at Chang's tonight
It's more like a case of people pushing the goal posts back to where they originally were, after some over zealous AI zealot moved them forward to make his failure look like a success...
I'm really curious about what the underlayment of these panels is going to look like. You can't just throw them down in the dirt, and presumably if there is enough of a gap between panels to pull one out of the ground, then there is enough space for water to seep beneath it. How do they deal with drainage? How do you maintain the crown of the road to ensure proper shedding of water? I don't doubt the characteristics of the panel so much as I doubt the details of the implementation.
I'm all out of mod points... but I gotta prop this up! Hell YES! I loved this game, and I loved playing with dual joysticks! I'd buy it in a heartbeat... or half a heartbeat if it was on Steam.
I would totally agree with this except for one issue. Many rural drivers spend A LOT of time on dirt/unimproved/farm roads. These roads are NOT maintained by any federal or state agency. The only way to fairly evaluate miles driven on roads that SHOULD be taxed is a GPS tracker... but then you're handing the government the keys to the castle if you are giving them a GPS record of all your travels. So as it stands I'm not really happy with either way.
The reality is that government programs in general subsidize many things that it's truly unfair to ask the general population to pay for, but we do. Some examples: Finding red diesel is sometimes too difficult for machine operators, so they just buy regular diesel at the higher tax rate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... Tire retailers charge a disposal fee on a set of tires, even if you re-purpose the tire for something else (tire swing, front bumper cover, etc). Oil change shops are required to charge an oil disposal fee, even if you bring your own oil (think high performance synthetics), even though when you buy said oil, the same tax was charged. Similarly, if you change your own oil and burn it in a waste oil heater, you still have paid the disposal tax. The government really gives you no recourse for this nickel and dime over-taxing, it's just accepted that there is some give and take in the system.
I think the real rub here is that while people generally want to do good for the environment, nothing motivates like money. If you feel you are actually saving money by driving a hybrid/EV, way more people will commit. If you tax the snot out of it, then all the sudden going green doesn't look so good. This type of conflict of interest is what brings out the conspiracy theorists... claiming the oil industry is behind the taxation of EVs and such.
As an aside, and partially to steer this back towards the issue of driverless cars, I personally feel that all of this driverless car tech still has a long way to go. Referring to the story about driverless cars http://hardware.slashdot.org/s..., I often wonder how well google's cars would stack up to a decent snowstorm here in Utah. Deciding when to pull over and wait for a plow truck to follow is something that takes feel... something that must be built into driverless cars before I see them being widely adopted.
...that cloud services make a lot of sense when you want your product (website) closer to the consumer (other users distributed around the world). It makes no sense at all when you want to put your product (intranet site) closer to the consumer (users distributed around said office). As previously stated, in the former situation, you reduce your connectivity risk, assuming the cloud service has better connection redundancy than you can provide (probability of link failure * number of independent links) but in the latter situation it increases your risk because the connections are not independent, as a successful connection requires both the office connection and the cloud connection to be working (probability of link failure / number of dependent links).
It's kind of like "backwash" when you've got 500gb of log files to process, why would you move those files through the coffee straw that is your internet connection, so that an offsite system can process the files, then return the processed data back through said coffee straw... when the alternative is to just process it on site?
Similar to the metal powder sintering question above... MIG welding is an additive process that could be used to make 3D parts, similar to the way a plasma CAM cuts out parts.... is there any hope that 3D printing will go this direction or is it too imprecise to make decent parts?
That indeed was my point... I had a friend once who was a cricket subscriber... one day out of whimsy he used the web developer plugin in firefox to change methods from get to post, and without submitting ANY information at all he was logged in as a random cricket subscriber (we guessed it was actually the last successful session)... He never reported it because he was scared of being accused of hacking (this was before responsible disclosure was a thing). The point is carriers are stupid, and they are the gatekeepers for things like this.
However, it should be pointed out, that it is very likely that some hacker somewhere has imagined the glory of being the one to wipe out all iPhones on the planet... it's just that nobody has been successful so far.
As I said above in another response... collective eggs, meet singular basket.
It's funny how you immediately jump to the "the immediate response on/." bit. Use some critical thinking here: Right now, phones have become a critical lifeline to a lot of people... not just for playing flappybird.
The original article was about creating a *standard* for disabling all phones. Collective eggs, meet singular basket.
It's not just about resolution and frames per second... it's about color depth, shading complexity, depth of field, reflection, iridescence and phong. There are TONS of other dimensions that could be included in games that can benefit from a faster GPU. Parent post is somewhat naive... Games should play like hollywood movies at 60fps before we even talk about slowing down.
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Subtractive manufacturing is fairly wasteful of primary material resources.
With that said, I snickered at his mention of how cheap steel would be. I would expect that the biggest expense of his rig isn't going to be the metal... it's going to be Argon. My last refill was $75 for a 45cu/ft tank. He's going to need to figure out how to enclose the entire rig in a sealed (positive pressure vented) box to help conserve gas. Just imagine... an enclosure big enough to do an 8' piece of art... 8^3=512cu/ft. It's a good idea, but there are still some hurdles before this is in the price range of the average Joe.
My safe word is "Apples."
for air gapped backups.
Unfortunately this makes your Identity EASIER to steal... since filing cabinets' auditing systems are easy to bypass, and it's hard to know if the data has been accessed/stolen. The inside job is far too easy with this scenario.
Are you sure they aren't handing you a pre-made card? If you are opening a new account, they could give you any card (because your card number is not associated with your account number anymore) I agree the equipment isn't that expensive... but printing flat cards with the photo of your choice attracts more customers than embossed cards do. The cost of catering to the masses I'm afraid.
My credit union prints their own cards... which don't have a relief on the printed data... so they can issue them directly from the branch. If you want relief on your card, you have to order it through the mail. So I guess I'm not eating at Chang's tonight
Oh... that made me laugh! I've started developing a mental filter for the phrase "One weird..." because it is used so damn much.
It's more like a case of people pushing the goal posts back to where they originally were, after some over zealous AI zealot moved them forward to make his failure look like a success...
I'm really curious about what the underlayment of these panels is going to look like. You can't just throw them down in the dirt, and presumably if there is enough of a gap between panels to pull one out of the ground, then there is enough space for water to seep beneath it. How do they deal with drainage? How do you maintain the crown of the road to ensure proper shedding of water? I don't doubt the characteristics of the panel so much as I doubt the details of the implementation.
I'm all out of mod points... but I gotta prop this up! Hell YES! I loved this game, and I loved playing with dual joysticks! I'd buy it in a heartbeat... or half a heartbeat if it was on Steam.
.... the username 'Escort Wagon' painted a picture in my head that had nothing to do with cars. I'm still smiling about it. Thanks for that.
I would totally agree with this except for one issue. Many rural drivers spend A LOT of time on dirt/unimproved/farm roads. These roads are NOT maintained by any federal or state agency. The only way to fairly evaluate miles driven on roads that SHOULD be taxed is a GPS tracker... but then you're handing the government the keys to the castle if you are giving them a GPS record of all your travels. So as it stands I'm not really happy with either way.
The reality is that government programs in general subsidize many things that it's truly unfair to ask the general population to pay for, but we do. Some examples: Finding red diesel is sometimes too difficult for machine operators, so they just buy regular diesel at the higher tax rate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... Tire retailers charge a disposal fee on a set of tires, even if you re-purpose the tire for something else (tire swing, front bumper cover, etc). Oil change shops are required to charge an oil disposal fee, even if you bring your own oil (think high performance synthetics), even though when you buy said oil, the same tax was charged. Similarly, if you change your own oil and burn it in a waste oil heater, you still have paid the disposal tax. The government really gives you no recourse for this nickel and dime over-taxing, it's just accepted that there is some give and take in the system.
I think the real rub here is that while people generally want to do good for the environment, nothing motivates like money. If you feel you are actually saving money by driving a hybrid/EV, way more people will commit. If you tax the snot out of it, then all the sudden going green doesn't look so good. This type of conflict of interest is what brings out the conspiracy theorists... claiming the oil industry is behind the taxation of EVs and such.
As an aside, and partially to steer this back towards the issue of driverless cars, I personally feel that all of this driverless car tech still has a long way to go. Referring to the story about driverless cars http://hardware.slashdot.org/s..., I often wonder how well google's cars would stack up to a decent snowstorm here in Utah. Deciding when to pull over and wait for a plow truck to follow is something that takes feel... something that must be built into driverless cars before I see them being widely adopted.
15 years is a long time to kick ass... I'm not sure why Elon WOULDN'T want to own EV batteries for 15 years.
Obvious troll is obvious.
...that cloud services make a lot of sense when you want your product (website) closer to the consumer (other users distributed around the world). It makes no sense at all when you want to put your product (intranet site) closer to the consumer (users distributed around said office). As previously stated, in the former situation, you reduce your connectivity risk, assuming the cloud service has better connection redundancy than you can provide (probability of link failure * number of independent links) but in the latter situation it increases your risk because the connections are not independent, as a successful connection requires both the office connection and the cloud connection to be working (probability of link failure / number of dependent links).
It's kind of like "backwash" when you've got 500gb of log files to process, why would you move those files through the coffee straw that is your internet connection, so that an offsite system can process the files, then return the processed data back through said coffee straw... when the alternative is to just process it on site?
If only I had mod points, I'd mod this up!
As has been stated over and over again above and below this post: There are not infinite bugs either. Are you seriously going to defend that point?
You should be ashamed of your apathy.
Similar to the metal powder sintering question above... MIG welding is an additive process that could be used to make 3D parts, similar to the way a plasma CAM cuts out parts.... is there any hope that 3D printing will go this direction or is it too imprecise to make decent parts?
...Token Ring is back?
That indeed was my point... I had a friend once who was a cricket subscriber... one day out of whimsy he used the web developer plugin in firefox to change methods from get to post, and without submitting ANY information at all he was logged in as a random cricket subscriber (we guessed it was actually the last successful session)... He never reported it because he was scared of being accused of hacking (this was before responsible disclosure was a thing). The point is carriers are stupid, and they are the gatekeepers for things like this.
However, it should be pointed out, that it is very likely that some hacker somewhere has imagined the glory of being the one to wipe out all iPhones on the planet... it's just that nobody has been successful so far.
As I said above in another response... collective eggs, meet singular basket.
It's funny how you immediately jump to the "the immediate response on /." bit. Use some critical thinking here: Right now, phones have become a critical lifeline to a lot of people... not just for playing flappybird.
The original article was about creating a *standard* for disabling all phones. Collective eggs, meet singular basket.
... until someone hacks into a carriers network, and deactivates and wipes EVERY PHONE on the carriers registry.
... if he wants to be paid only when each employee under his direction is 100% satisfied in their employment. See how long that shit flies.
It's not just about resolution and frames per second... it's about color depth, shading complexity, depth of field, reflection, iridescence and phong. There are TONS of other dimensions that could be included in games that can benefit from a faster GPU. Parent post is somewhat naive... Games should play like hollywood movies at 60fps before we even talk about slowing down.