Not Linux, but when the ELKS project started there was some discussion on a 6502 version. The main problem is the 6502 isn't very 'C' friendly. There is a *nix like OS called ACE and one called Lunix both are pretty cool to use.
General Dynamics made some pretty decent money selling $600 toilet seats to the government,
My father worked for GD in Ft.Worth, He told me about a $300 screwdriver a sub-contractor made. The reason for the outragous price was that they charged for all of the R&D time to design the thing and the time it took to frabricate it. When you take into account the machine time and the cost of the design work I'm amazed they could do it that cheap. Thats not to say that the Gov. dosen't get overcharged for things, just that it might not always be as bad as it seems.
I've built special tools back when I worked as a line mechanic. I made $25.00 per hour flat rate, if I spent 2 hours making the tool it cost me $50.00 for that tool plus materials. I knew a machinist that charged $100.00 per hour for mill work, so it wouldn't take long to rack-up $300.00. That dosen't even take into account exotic materials.
I've always seen the toilet seat example and wondered what the whole story was. I figure that it was a price based on a small number of seats that were designed for a specfic location like an aircraft. Required to meet Mil. Specs. and one from the local Home Despot wouldn't work. For the price I'll bet it's Aluminum (Brrr) and with a short run, mostly hand made.
Be careful, two kids were killed here by an exploding PVC pipe sprayer tank. they were pressureizing the tank to spray weeds and the tank came apart spraying them both with PVC shrapnel. Read the working pressure printed on the pipe and then calculate the pressure you created with acetylene.
A friend of mine launches coffee cans filled with concrete from a cannon he built from a tractor hydraulic Cyinder (10,000 psi working pressure). A little pyrodex and boom the can will travel a 1/2 mile. It's good to live in the boondocks when you do this kind of thing.
It has nothing to do with being stupid. It is the fact that a certification isn't worth anything. The wheel stud had a "L" stamped in the end of it. If he had been taught to think instead of memorizing uesless data that can be looked up in a manuel he wouldn't have had as many problems. He never learned how to put 2 and 2 together and come up with 4.
As to TEACHing him it's not my job to spend time teaching him how to do a job he said he could do. I worked on a staight commission, if I didn't have a work order I didn't make any money. If he had offered to pay me I would have been glad to teach him, but I had to make a living.
As far as teaching me, I'd bet he could have taught me how to run that $20,000 Sun Scope. The one in my school was mostly unused because my teacher thought you should be able to get along with out it. Now days the computer systems on most cars can be read with a simple handheld box that tells you things like, "#4 sparkplug needs replacing". Most mechanics are now just parts replacers.
And yes I can be an asshole sometimes, it tends to happen when you pass 40.
An automobile mechanic is certified and licensed because there are safety issues that can be fatal when a mechanic performs their duties improperly.
Where does this happen? I was a line mechanic for 20 years, I never was "certified" by anyone. Plumbers and barbers are licensed by the states to generate revenue more that to certify. At my videostore we make pizzas, we have to be inspected by the health dept. and issued a permit. That costs us $200.00, now the state has decided we need a person to be certified in food handeling that will cost another $79.00 to take the test.
When I worked as a mechanic my boss hired a kid fresh out of school. He had at least 20 certifications, the poor guy couldn't do anything with out $20,000 worth of test equipment. We worked on a commission of 60%, this guy couldn't make $100.00 per week because he was only ceritfied to use equipment that most shops won't have. One time, I watched him try to remove the lugnuts from an old Dodge for 15 minutes until I felt sorry for him and told him they were lefthanded threads. He had never seen a left hand lugnut before. Certification my ass.
If it's required by law it's more of a tax than anything else.
Non leathal weapons have some neet capabilites: you don't have to worry about firendly-fire. Just zap them all and sort them out at your leasure.
It won't work that way there is always someone that will die from non-lethal weapons. Rubber bullits, CS gas, the stuff the Russians used in that theater a while back. Someone will get hit in the wrong place or have a bad reaction.
Imagine this: A crowd of anti-american protesters starts protesting when we occupy France.
The Unites States might a war mongering imperialist nation, but why in the hell would we want France?
I don't know what the world would be like without evil, but I sure as hell would be willing to give it a shot before tossing the idea out the window.
How about Boring? The world needs a little evil to make things interesting, there will always be something that someone thinks is evil. It all varies with your point of view, ask a 100 people what evil is and you'll get a 100 different answers. It would be nice if everyone could get along a little better however.
BTW, I have an uncle that is Mormon, he and his whole family is so damn nice it's almost unbeliveable. If I'm around them for a few hours I feel like I'll go crazy.
(Mormons please note, he and his family are the only Mormons I know, I'm not saying all Mormons are too nice;-)
I first saw Anime in the 1960's starting with Astro Boy. Things like Gigantor, Eighth man, Battle for the planets, Speed Racer, Robo-Tech I watched because even with the butchering of the US broadcasters they still were better than most cartoons on TV.
I've always liked animation even the limited animation of anime, sure some of it sucks just don't watch the stuff that sucks. I don't care if it's Japanese, French, Spanish, German, or yes even Disney. If it appeals to you watch it, don't watch something just because someone else thinks its kewl. I watch Anime because I enjoy seeing the different styles of animation and the good stories. I don't care if it's Dubbed, Subbed, or Original.
I remember a guy in Lubbock 35 years ago that had a whole store that sold nothing but bootleg 8-track tapes. I guess ol' Roy would be about 80 now. Now the RIAA has started to crack down?
Anyway, keep in mind that these movies cost often over 1.00E+8 dollars to make. It's reasonable for MPAA members to expect a healty 5 or 10 percent profit on they're effort.
Keep in mind that the studios keep as much as 90% of the admission price. The theaters only make money on the popcorn and candy, thats why its so expensive. Second run theaters will get better deals on older movies, sometimes as low as 35% to the studios. So if you want to hurt the studios see movies in second run theaters and don't go to them in the first 3 weeks or so after they are released.
Other thoughts: how about TV via DSL/other broadband in 5-10 years??? I think it's possible. Satellite - definitely possible.
My local telephone co./ISP is rolling out Digital TV over DSL. I haven't heard how much money or how many channels yet. Don't know exactly when , I've been told after the first of the year (2003).
Not only that but the porn people will have all of the big media companys on their side.
I wonder if Acacia will sue the ad companies that use Flash for ads? A patent for downloading (transmitting) multimedia is dumber than the BT hyperlink patent. I wonder if it includes FTP servers?
The original GiTS was released worldwide at the theaters. The DVD is one of the few non-bootleg anime no css/region dvds ever produced. I won't hold my breath thinking the next one will be the same.
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Dude, it was designed and built by a chick.
Her name is Jeri Ellsworth.
Not Linux, but when the ELKS project started there was some discussion on a 6502 version. The main problem is the 6502 isn't very 'C' friendly. There is a *nix like OS called ACE and one called Lunix both are pretty cool to use.
To hell with moving, we need to import a few of them to replace our legislators with.
General Dynamics made some pretty decent money selling $600 toilet seats to the government,
.00 for that tool plus materials. I knew a machinist that charged $100.00 per hour for mill work, so it wouldn't take long to rack-up $300.00. That dosen't even take into account exotic materials.
My father worked for GD in Ft.Worth, He told me about a $300 screwdriver a sub-contractor made. The reason for the outragous price was that they charged for all of the R&D time to design the thing and the time it took to frabricate it. When you take into account the machine time and the cost of the design work I'm amazed they could do it that cheap. Thats not to say that the Gov. dosen't get overcharged for things, just that it might not always be as bad as it seems.
I've built special tools back when I worked as a line mechanic. I made $25.00 per hour flat rate, if I spent 2 hours making the tool it cost me $50
I've always seen the toilet seat example and wondered what the whole story was. I figure that it was a price based on a small number of seats that were designed for a specfic location like an aircraft. Required to meet Mil. Specs. and one from the local Home Despot wouldn't work. For the price I'll bet it's Aluminum (Brrr) and with a short run, mostly hand made.
Be careful, two kids were killed here by an exploding PVC pipe sprayer tank. they were pressureizing the tank to spray weeds and the tank came apart spraying them both with PVC shrapnel. Read the working pressure printed on the pipe and then calculate the pressure you created with acetylene.
A friend of mine launches coffee cans filled with concrete from a cannon he built from a tractor hydraulic Cyinder (10,000 psi working pressure). A little pyrodex and boom the can will travel a 1/2 mile. It's good to live in the boondocks when you do this kind of thing.
Don't know about that, but it makes a cool new karma sig.
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Wow what do you know... they let Canadians moderate.
+2 Funny to -1 Troll in 30 sec.
Hmmm a troll maybe? Oh well....
It has nothing to do with being stupid. It is the fact that a certification isn't worth anything. The wheel stud had a "L" stamped in the end of it. If he had been taught to think instead of memorizing uesless data that can be looked up in a manuel he wouldn't have had as many problems. He never learned how to put 2 and 2 together and come up with 4.
As to TEACHing him it's not my job to spend time teaching him how to do a job he said he could do. I worked on a staight commission, if I didn't have a work order I didn't make any money. If he had offered to pay me I would have been glad to teach him, but I had to make a living.
As far as teaching me, I'd bet he could have taught me how to run that $20,000 Sun Scope. The one in my school was mostly unused because my teacher thought you should be able to get along with out it. Now days the computer systems on most cars can be read with a simple handheld box that tells you things like, "#4 sparkplug needs replacing". Most mechanics are now just parts replacers.
And yes I can be an asshole sometimes, it tends to happen when you pass 40.
An automobile mechanic is certified and licensed because there are safety issues that can be fatal when a mechanic performs their duties improperly.
Where does this happen? I was a line mechanic for 20 years, I never was "certified" by anyone. Plumbers and barbers are licensed by the states to generate revenue more that to certify. At my videostore we make pizzas, we have to be inspected by the health dept. and issued a permit. That costs us $200.00, now the state has decided we need a person to be certified in food handeling that will cost another $79.00 to take the test.
When I worked as a mechanic my boss hired a kid fresh out of school. He had at least 20 certifications, the poor guy couldn't do anything with out $20,000 worth of test equipment. We worked on a commission of 60%, this guy couldn't make $100.00 per week because he was only ceritfied to use equipment that most shops won't have. One time, I watched him try to remove the lugnuts from an old Dodge for 15 minutes until I felt sorry for him and told him they were lefthanded threads. He had never seen a left hand lugnut before. Certification my ass.
If it's required by law it's more of a tax than anything else.
How about we just /. their server ?
Non leathal weapons have some neet capabilites: you don't have to worry about firendly-fire. Just zap them all and sort them out at your leasure.
It won't work that way there is always someone that will die from non-lethal weapons. Rubber bullits, CS gas, the stuff the Russians used in that theater a while back. Someone will get hit in the wrong place or have a bad reaction.
Imagine this: A crowd of anti-american protesters starts protesting when we occupy France.
The Unites States might a war mongering imperialist nation, but why in the hell would we want France?
You'll have to make that Iraq... There is no eastern block anymore.
I don't know what the world would be like without evil, but I sure as hell would be willing to give it a shot before tossing the idea out the window.
;-)
How about Boring? The world needs a little evil to make things interesting, there will always be something that someone thinks is evil. It all varies with your point of view, ask a 100 people what evil is and you'll get a 100 different answers. It would be nice if everyone could get along a little better however.
BTW, I have an uncle that is Mormon, he and his whole family is so damn nice it's almost unbeliveable. If I'm around them for a few hours I feel like I'll go crazy.
(Mormons please note, he and his family are the only Mormons I know, I'm not saying all Mormons are too nice
Well maybe three groups....
I first saw Anime in the 1960's starting with Astro Boy. Things like Gigantor, Eighth man, Battle for the planets, Speed Racer, Robo-Tech I watched because even with the butchering of the US broadcasters they still were better than most cartoons on TV.
I've always liked animation even the limited animation of anime, sure some of it sucks just don't watch the stuff that sucks. I don't care if it's Japanese, French, Spanish, German, or yes even Disney. If it appeals to you watch it, don't watch something just because someone else thinks its kewl. I watch Anime because I enjoy seeing the different styles of animation and the good stories. I don't care if it's Dubbed, Subbed, or Original.
You mean something like this?
Well it might be, until the control computer bluescreens and the thing slaps you against the floor a few times.
I remember a guy in Lubbock 35 years ago that had a whole store that sold nothing but bootleg 8-track tapes. I guess ol' Roy would be about 80 now. Now the RIAA has started to crack down?
Anyway, keep in mind that these movies cost often over 1.00E+8 dollars to make. It's reasonable for MPAA members to expect a healty 5 or 10 percent profit on they're effort.
Keep in mind that the studios keep as much as 90% of the admission price. The theaters only make money on the popcorn and candy, thats why its so expensive. Second run theaters will get better deals on older movies, sometimes as low as 35% to the studios. So if you want to hurt the studios see movies in second run theaters and don't go to them in the first 3 weeks or so after they are released.
Other thoughts: how about TV via DSL/other broadband in 5-10 years??? I think it's possible. Satellite - definitely possible.
My local telephone co./ISP is rolling out Digital TV over DSL. I haven't heard how much money or how many channels yet. Don't know exactly when , I've been told after the first of the year (2003).
When did Slashdotters NOT support the porno industry?
Remember this is the "Patent it all and let the courts sort it out" U.S. Patent Office you are talking about.
Not only that but the porn people will have all of the big media companys on their side.
I wonder if Acacia will sue the ad companies that use Flash for ads?
A patent for downloading (transmitting) multimedia is dumber than the BT hyperlink patent. I wonder if it includes FTP servers?
a crew of hot-looking Russkie ... women
Man how times have changed. During the cold war that would have been an oxymoron.
The original GiTS was released worldwide at the theaters. The DVD is one of the few non-bootleg anime no css/region dvds ever produced. I won't hold my breath thinking the next one will be the same.
Sorry but he didn't write DCSS, some guy in germany did and remained anonymous. Jon tested it and posted it to the newsgroup.
All of the programs will be still under copyright for at least 25 more years.