There's a red Jeep running around the North Shore of Chicago with the license plate "MILFLVR" and, a Mercedes with "OMG WTF". In Lawrence, Kansas, there is a really hot mom with the license plate "MYLF". I pulled up along side her on the road one day, motioned for her to roll down her window, and proudly stated, "Yes."
In Douglas County, Kansas, we had a series of 1,000 license plates issued in 2001 starting with POO. You can still see a bunch of them driving around. Its kinda funny to point out to out of towners a minivan that's falling apart with a license plate like "POO 452".
The Mosin is more a long range deterrent rather than anything that would be useful indoors unless I mounted the bayonet. And while many are prone to sticky bolts, mine has only gotten sticky on me after a long day at the range; it usually cycles flawlessly. Besides, with HE rounds, its almost like having a grenade launcher.
If someone actually gets in, that's what my CZ-82 is for.
I suppose I could also always beat someone with the 91/30 if it came down to it, all the while making "In Soviet Russia..." jokes.
I live in Kansas, and I will be happily shooting 7.62x54R high-explosive and incendiary rounds this 4th of July. I can use those in my Dragunov or my 1891/30. My friend has a dead tractor that needs to go out in a blaze of glory...
Also, my home defense capabilities are pretty good I think.
One 1891/30 rifle: $75. Five 7.62x54R incendiary starburst rounds: $10. Having the ability to easily blow up or torch a car hundreds of yards away: Priceless.
I savor the right to revolt against 16 year olds armed with shotguns that try to break in to houses to steal Playstations. I live down the block from a house where that happened. 16 year old and 18 year old broke into a 20 year old acquaintance's home, the 20 year old woke up and grabbed his rifle, he shot one of the intruders, the other intruder blew the homeowner's face off.
I live in an open-carry city, but few people carry. I wish asshats like those kids would see more random citizens happily strolling around with what are usually high quality handguns and who are usually very proficient with them.
I do not believe there is a direct translator for Solidworks to NX. However, an IGES export of an assembly from Solidworks imports to NX very nicely, better than any other program I've seen actually. The assembly structure and part file structure is retained. In other words, if you have a single IGES file of an assembly of 20 parts that you exported from Solidworks, when NX opens the IGES file, it will break out the 20 parts into their part files, and create the assembly file.
As a side note, NX 5 (the current version of NX) was released for XP32, XP64, Linux (x86_64), Solaris (SPARCV9), AIX (POWER), HP-UX (PA-RISC), but NX 6 (due to be released any day now) will only be released for XP32, XP64, and Linux (x86_64). There is a huge move toward standardizing this software on Linux.
Siemens NX runs on Linux and is fully supported. I've been a user and beta tester for Unigraphics/NX CAD software for quite some time, and was one of the first people to ever run NX on Linux in a commercial environment. Siemens actually charges *less* for media and support for the Linux version than for the Windows version.
I currently have a mixed environment of CAD systems running on Windows, Linux, and Solaris. I have no interoperability problems with NX between them. In fact, the Linux version feels a little quicker and a little more stable. I don't know what the going price for SolidWorks is (I deal with Unigraphics/NX, CATIA and ACAD mostly) but if you just want solid and surface modeling and drafting capabilities, you might want to see how much those licensed features would cost for NX.
It can accelerate faster than that if you launch it into the sun, which is probably a good place for it. As I understand it, Microsoft is launching their next cluster into Sun, for no other reason than to annoy Jonathan Schwartz.
Did you hear about the Linux powered coffee maker that has ReiserFS on its hard drive?
If you push a button on it repeatedly it sprays steam in your eyes, then the pot smashes itself into your face, the power cord wraps around your neck suffocating you, then hides your burned and broken body forever.
Upon inquiry, the coffee maker will vigorously defend itself against accusation that the stains on the carpet are your blood and that they are in fact, just coffee stains.
Rarely have I seen an unsafe or uncourteous Volvo driver. Disclaimer: I am a Volvo driver myself. Expensive? When I bought my used V70 it cost the same amount as my coworker's brand new Toyota Corolla, our cars are only two years apart. I have every option and creature comfort except for navigation. He has...a Corolla. As an engineer, I chose my Volvo because it is well-designed and straightforward from an engineer's standpoint. He got...a Corolla.
My workstation loudly plays various audio clips and emails me the status from the syslog server.
Power issues: "I just canna dooooo it captain, I just DON'T HAVE THE POWERRRRR!" (spoken as Scotty) Load average on any server reaching 15 times the number of CPUs:: "Shut 'er down, Clancy! She's pumpin' mud!" (Spoken with an Oklahoman twang) User reaching disk quota: " [username, pulled from voicemail system] is looking at porn!" (my voice) Overheating: "Coolant Leak! Coolant leak, everybody! We need to eject the warp core!" (Geordi LaForge) Whenever an unfriendly client triggers the IDS: "Do you expect me to talk? No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!" (you can figure that one out for yourselves...)
That has always been my most sincere wish. However, I'm young, not as highly educated as the chief engineer/company president, and so that doesn't happen.
Never mind the fact that all the workstations and servers work, all the strange high-end scientific and engineering software works, and the network never goes down.
I'd mod you up but I felt a reply to reinforce your statement would be better.
I have a shortwave transmitter (Hallicrafters HT-37) and receiver (Hallicrafters SX-110) that were both built in 1959 if memory serves me right. To this day, they work flawlessly. I replaced a broken tube in the SX-110, but the giant 6146 driver tubes still in the HT-37 have kept on going. I have had the set for 10 trouble free years. I know that I can trust it to keep going too. In case of the apocalypse, global thermonuclear war, or a network infrastructure breakdown, the people who will still have a method of long range communication will be the hams with their 50 year old tube sets.
Even though the hardware in your MacBook Pro and the Dell are practically the same? Seriously, what's the difference? Apple isn't a premium product anymore. It used to be, now its just shiny. I'm not trolling, I own a ton of old Apple gear that I love. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge Dell fan, but I would take a Precision laptop over a MacBook Pro any day.
Also I will see your $600 iPhone and raise you my faster, more capable, higher data rate, and extremely reliable HTC Apache. Running Linux.
No doubt in my mind it is for nothing but cheap workers. The company I work at (a small yet world renowned aerospace consulting firm located in the United States) has eliminated its American workforce over the past three years, replacing them with H1-B workers. I'm the last one, and I'm on the way out. I gave my heart and soul to the company and helped them see successes and achieve accomplishments thought previously impossible. In return I never saw a pay raise, received practically no benefits, and had to take a second job to pay the bills (and no, I don't live that extravagantly). With the downturn in the economy, the last American consulting engineer quit because he was forced to work on too many projects and stay late without overtime. I finally started getting hit with this and I said to hell with it, for everything I do I deserve better treatment. I received a conditional job offer from a large aerospace and defense OEM. I told the president of our company about this so he would have time to find a replacement for me. Within a week, he offered my job to a foreign student, who accepted.
Today I began training my replacement, who is on OPT. By the time I leave, the company will consist of a president (on green card), vice president/marketing director (US citizen that the president married and who shows up when she feels like it or gets bored with shopping or working out), two consulting engineers (H1-B visa holders), one R&D/instrumentation engineer (on OPT (my replacement)), and the secretary (US citizen). Yes, the only hard working American employee will be the secretary. Now, some might say that the the foreign engineers are just as high quality as their American counterparts. No. One of them has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Aerospace engineering, and when I asked for a #2 Phillips screwdriver, he stared at me blankly and stared at the screwdriver set not knowing what it was. Also, all of the novel and creative R&D concepts came from the American engineers that worked here. We designed and invented things while the H1-B workers slaved away at analyzing work someone else had done or churning out numbers from a test I developed and ran.
Why keep the foreign workers? Because they are happy not having lives. They are happy living in indentured servitude to The Company. Even the Indian H1-B worker doesn't mind not seeing his wife. These are the employees they hold onto, those that do nothing but work and sleep. They don't care that they aren't getting paid nearly what their education should be worth. They'd have nothing to save for or spend it on anyway. No need to ever buy a house and own property. No desire to have a complete family. Their dream is to work, and they can't see anything beyond that; they are the perfect workers. If that is the new "American Dream," then I am disgusted at what it has become.
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There's a red Jeep running around the North Shore of Chicago with the license plate "MILFLVR" and, a Mercedes with "OMG WTF". In Lawrence, Kansas, there is a really hot mom with the license plate "MYLF". I pulled up along side her on the road one day, motioned for her to roll down her window, and proudly stated, "Yes."
In Douglas County, Kansas, we had a series of 1,000 license plates issued in 2001 starting with POO. You can still see a bunch of them driving around. Its kinda funny to point out to out of towners a minivan that's falling apart with a license plate like "POO 452".
The Mosin is more a long range deterrent rather than anything that would be useful indoors unless I mounted the bayonet. And while many are prone to sticky bolts, mine has only gotten sticky on me after a long day at the range; it usually cycles flawlessly. Besides, with HE rounds, its almost like having a grenade launcher.
If someone actually gets in, that's what my CZ-82 is for.
I suppose I could also always beat someone with the 91/30 if it came down to it, all the while making "In Soviet Russia..." jokes.
I live in Kansas, and I will be happily shooting 7.62x54R high-explosive and incendiary rounds this 4th of July. I can use those in my Dragunov or my 1891/30. My friend has a dead tractor that needs to go out in a blaze of glory...
Also, my home defense capabilities are pretty good I think.
One 1891/30 rifle: $75.
Five 7.62x54R incendiary starburst rounds: $10.
Having the ability to easily blow up or torch a car hundreds of yards away: Priceless.
I savor the right to revolt against 16 year olds armed with shotguns that try to break in to houses to steal Playstations. I live down the block from a house where that happened. 16 year old and 18 year old broke into a 20 year old acquaintance's home, the 20 year old woke up and grabbed his rifle, he shot one of the intruders, the other intruder blew the homeowner's face off.
I live in an open-carry city, but few people carry. I wish asshats like those kids would see more random citizens happily strolling around with what are usually high quality handguns and who are usually very proficient with them.
I do not believe there is a direct translator for Solidworks to NX. However, an IGES export of an assembly from Solidworks imports to NX very nicely, better than any other program I've seen actually. The assembly structure and part file structure is retained. In other words, if you have a single IGES file of an assembly of 20 parts that you exported from Solidworks, when NX opens the IGES file, it will break out the 20 parts into their part files, and create the assembly file.
As a side note, NX 5 (the current version of NX) was released for XP32, XP64, Linux (x86_64), Solaris (SPARCV9), AIX (POWER), HP-UX (PA-RISC), but NX 6 (due to be released any day now) will only be released for XP32, XP64, and Linux (x86_64). There is a huge move toward standardizing this software on Linux.
Siemens NX runs on Linux and is fully supported. I've been a user and beta tester for Unigraphics/NX CAD software for quite some time, and was one of the first people to ever run NX on Linux in a commercial environment. Siemens actually charges *less* for media and support for the Linux version than for the Windows version.
I currently have a mixed environment of CAD systems running on Windows, Linux, and Solaris. I have no interoperability problems with NX between them. In fact, the Linux version feels a little quicker and a little more stable. I don't know what the going price for SolidWorks is (I deal with Unigraphics/NX, CATIA and ACAD mostly) but if you just want solid and surface modeling and drafting capabilities, you might want to see how much those licensed features would cost for NX.
It can accelerate faster than that if you launch it into the sun, which is probably a good place for it. As I understand it, Microsoft is launching their next cluster into Sun, for no other reason than to annoy Jonathan Schwartz.
"Whooooaaaaaaa.....China Probe."
Did you hear about the Linux powered coffee maker that has ReiserFS on its hard drive?
If you push a button on it repeatedly it sprays steam in your eyes, then the pot smashes itself into your face, the power cord wraps around your neck suffocating you, then hides your burned and broken body forever.
Upon inquiry, the coffee maker will vigorously defend itself against accusation that the stains on the carpet are your blood and that they are in fact, just coffee stains.
In Communist China, Microsoft probes YOU!
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Rarely have I seen an unsafe or uncourteous Volvo driver. Disclaimer: I am a Volvo driver myself. Expensive? When I bought my used V70 it cost the same amount as my coworker's brand new Toyota Corolla, our cars are only two years apart. I have every option and creature comfort except for navigation. He has...a Corolla. As an engineer, I chose my Volvo because it is well-designed and straightforward from an engineer's standpoint. He got...a Corolla.
My workstation loudly plays various audio clips and emails me the status from the syslog server.
Power issues: "I just canna dooooo it captain, I just DON'T HAVE THE POWERRRRR!" (spoken as Scotty)
Load average on any server reaching 15 times the number of CPUs:: "Shut 'er down, Clancy! She's pumpin' mud!" (Spoken with an Oklahoman twang)
User reaching disk quota: " [username, pulled from voicemail system] is looking at porn!" (my voice)
Overheating: "Coolant Leak! Coolant leak, everybody! We need to eject the warp core!" (Geordi LaForge)
Whenever an unfriendly client triggers the IDS: "Do you expect me to talk? No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!" (you can figure that one out for yourselves...)
"4. Respect your IT pro's opinions."
That has always been my most sincere wish. However, I'm young, not as highly educated as the chief engineer/company president, and so that doesn't happen.
Never mind the fact that all the workstations and servers work, all the strange high-end scientific and engineering software works, and the network never goes down.
I'd mod you up but I felt a reply to reinforce your statement would be better.
I have a shortwave transmitter (Hallicrafters HT-37) and receiver (Hallicrafters SX-110) that were both built in 1959 if memory serves me right. To this day, they work flawlessly. I replaced a broken tube in the SX-110, but the giant 6146 driver tubes still in the HT-37 have kept on going. I have had the set for 10 trouble free years. I know that I can trust it to keep going too. In case of the apocalypse, global thermonuclear war, or a network infrastructure breakdown, the people who will still have a method of long range communication will be the hams with their 50 year old tube sets.
"going to "silent mode" whenever the phone's gps detects it has entered into a meeting room."
Maybe the patent was rejected because GPS requires line of sight to a satellite, and ceilings and walls make that really difficult...
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Even though the hardware in your MacBook Pro and the Dell are practically the same? Seriously, what's the difference? Apple isn't a premium product anymore. It used to be, now its just shiny. I'm not trolling, I own a ton of old Apple gear that I love. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge Dell fan, but I would take a Precision laptop over a MacBook Pro any day.
Also I will see your $600 iPhone and raise you my faster, more capable, higher data rate, and extremely reliable HTC Apache. Running Linux.
Didn't AMD win out with the standard for 64-bit x86 instructions?
Isn't this just miniaturizing what Cray used to do? They had processor/system boards in fluorinert, IBM has processor cores in water.
In Soviet Spain, inquisition expects YOU!
Solaris 10 will run on sparcv9 (64-bit) processors, AMD64 processors, and x86 processors.
Also, NT4 could run on MIPS RISC R4400 processors. I still have an original installation pack for NT4 workstation.
No doubt in my mind it is for nothing but cheap workers. The company I work at (a small yet world renowned aerospace consulting firm located in the United States) has eliminated its American workforce over the past three years, replacing them with H1-B workers. I'm the last one, and I'm on the way out. I gave my heart and soul to the company and helped them see successes and achieve accomplishments thought previously impossible. In return I never saw a pay raise, received practically no benefits, and had to take a second job to pay the bills (and no, I don't live that extravagantly). With the downturn in the economy, the last American consulting engineer quit because he was forced to work on too many projects and stay late without overtime. I finally started getting hit with this and I said to hell with it, for everything I do I deserve better treatment. I received a conditional job offer from a large aerospace and defense OEM. I told the president of our company about this so he would have time to find a replacement for me. Within a week, he offered my job to a foreign student, who accepted.
Today I began training my replacement, who is on OPT. By the time I leave, the company will consist of a president (on green card), vice president/marketing director (US citizen that the president married and who shows up when she feels like it or gets bored with shopping or working out), two consulting engineers (H1-B visa holders), one R&D/instrumentation engineer (on OPT (my replacement)), and the secretary (US citizen). Yes, the only hard working American employee will be the secretary. Now, some might say that the the foreign engineers are just as high quality as their American counterparts. No. One of them has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Aerospace engineering, and when I asked for a #2 Phillips screwdriver, he stared at me blankly and stared at the screwdriver set not knowing what it was. Also, all of the novel and creative R&D concepts came from the American engineers that worked here. We designed and invented things while the H1-B workers slaved away at analyzing work someone else had done or churning out numbers from a test I developed and ran.
Why keep the foreign workers? Because they are happy not having lives. They are happy living in indentured servitude to The Company. Even the Indian H1-B worker doesn't mind not seeing his wife. These are the employees they hold onto, those that do nothing but work and sleep. They don't care that they aren't getting paid nearly what their education should be worth. They'd have nothing to save for or spend it on anyway. No need to ever buy a house and own property. No desire to have a complete family. Their dream is to work, and they can't see anything beyond that; they are the perfect workers. If that is the new "American Dream," then I am disgusted at what it has become.
17%? Thats almost 20%!