I already suggested to them that they post the files in standard geometry formats such as IGES or STEP, formats that people can actually read and do something with. I have Unigraphics V18 through NX6, CATIA V5, and our own company internal CAD software. You have no idea how annoying it was to me to discover that the part files were *Pro/E* parts instead of UG parts.:) As far as CAD/CAM products in worldwide use, Pro/E plays second fiddle to UG and CATIA any day. I think it was silly for them to only release the Pro/E files.
This crap has weight, and by adding it to the aircraft, you're asking for recertification. Now, EADS is a very powerful EU company. If the EU wants to go ahead with an unfunded mandate to EADS to implement this system in Airbus aircraft, EADS can give a hearty "blow me" to the EU for trying to cut into their business. As it is, Airbus is beginning manufacturing in the United States because it is cheaper. The EU would put itself at a serious economic disadvantage if Airbus decided to increase its American business and cut European production because of *more* freedom in the US.
You're right, but there are also plenty of people who buy spindles of CDs and have 10-25% record failure rates on bad spindles. That is completely unacceptable.
No, the DDS4 drive wasn't cheap, but the value of the data it stores is worth millions, and is therefore quite worthwhile.
I miss MO drives. Its too bad they didn't make it. At home I have a Fujitsu 120MB drive and an Olympus Deltis 230MB drive that still work. But what does Blu-Ray use from MO technology? Blu-Ray is a pure optical format.
And let me know when your company data or your livelihood can be trusted to a flaky DVD-R.
When it comes to reliability, you get what you pay for with a $50 DVD burner and $1 DVD-R media. Most companies laugh at the lack of reliability of optical media, and all will happily pay for tapes and tape drives so they can know years from now they still have their data.
...so more of the same crap? I have tapes the size of my face that still work flawlessly, and actually get used every once in a while for retrieval of archived data. All my server backups are on tape, and all of my cluster backups are on tape. After three years of constantly writing and swapping tapes, I haven't had a single DDS4 tape go bad on me. The number of CD and DVD coasters on the other hand...
Sheesh, I was serious about bringing back Buckaroo Banzai and I got modded "funny." If you're on an 80's movie binge, perhaps you could cross a movie with slashdot and end up with a nerd's adventure across Africa in the summer blockbuster hit, "The Mods Must Be Crazy."
...which is a large Big 12 school, the biology, chemistry, and physics departments generally find it easier to just put the computers out in the hallways and wait for them to disappear. I've gotten all kinds of weird old hardware from them. There are also disgruntled IT staffers that have been here a while that will happily provide hardware to friendly fellow geeks instead of sending them to the dumpster. Those folks have gotten me AUI transceivers, a few SGI workstations, and a huge box of SGI software, including several releases of IRIX 6.5. Some of the other departments will pull a computer out of retirement to serve a specifc purpose. Since I work at a spinoff of the university, I asked nicely and got a P4/Celeron box to use as a server for a joint project, and a fully equipped, mint condition, never used Sun Blade 2000 for my desk...er...for another server.:)
I'm patiently waiting for the university to retire/throw out its 8-node Origin 2000.
"They are going to have to put in a chip in every single piece of hardware shipping out of every single manufacturer. "
Microsoft succeeded in getting the "Trusted Computing" crap shoved down our throats. Don't all new Intel based machines have a TC chip on them now? Look at all the DRM that the citizenry doesn't mind. Look at the new digital TV mandate. Everyone will need a new TV or a decoder box in the US *very* soon. Never underestimate what incredible things the government can accomplish to screw over its people.
I consistently can pull 926Kbps down on my Sprint HTC Apache in the middle of rural Jefferson, Douglas, and Franklin Counties, Kansas. In Lawrence I can get over 1Mbps down. I have made fun of everyone I've met around here who bought an iPhone for Internet access. I also have a friend who has T-Mobile's retarded little brother version of the Apache (can't remember the model, but it has a 200MHz OMAP versus the 416MHz XScale) and his data service is *atrociously* bad. Good thing we have municipal wifi in town.
I inherited a server running several Joomla/Mambo sites. Daily, I had about 10,000 scripted hack attempts. It was really a pain to have to sift through all that crap in the apache logs when I needed to find something. There were several different attacks made, and I had a bad feeling that one of these days I was going!@#$%HQ$IJG(WERMG@Q HACKED BY CHINESE
I couldn't agree more. If it weren't for the things rich people throw away or sell on the cheap, I'd never have had the chance to own several Mercedes and Volvo cars, Bang and Olufsen stereo system components, an HD LCD video projector, half of my computers, three of my last PDAs, and a pinball machine all before I turned 25 years old.
No, it really is that we're falling. After all, we did *invent* the Internet (and the personal computer, microprocessor, and transistor...). We had connectivity before any other country. Now other countries have had the technology handed to them and have surpassed our broadband connectivity. How is that "rising" when all the fundamentals were developed in the US? Its obvious that we have in fact fallen, and unfortunately for us here in the US, the biggest reason is greed.
You could have been far more insightful without showing your hatred of America.
If they want to enforce their licensing, they can't be anonymous. I think I see a major opportunity for the Russian military to show their might and perform a few practice attack missions.
Volvo Cars might be owned by Ford, but the engineering was still completely Swedish and had minimal input from Ford up to last year, with the phase-out of the P2 series. The S60 is the last *true* Volvo. Interestingly, now that Ford platforms are being used in Volvo cars, Ford is thinking about selling Volvo Cars. Volvo Aero is also a rebuilder and reseller of complete engines for commercial aircraft. They also manufactured complete engines for Saab fighter and interceptor aircraft. Their work in space systems is still limited to propulsion system components, I was hoping that they could get into larger systems or complete vehicles to give EADS a run for their money.
Wikipedia is useless unless you actually have some foundation of knowledge of the topic. I know Volvo (and Alan Mulally for that matter) extremely well.
What you suggest is what I run at our company. There are workstations running XP32, XP64, Suse Linux, Solaris, and IRIX, and servers running Win2003, Linux, and Solaris. The servers run most of the same software: Apache, MySQL, PHP; there are a few exceptions that are made to take advantage of the particular systems. The workstations run the same basic software: Firefox, Thunderbird, and Unigraphics NX; similarly there are exceptions for particular systems to take advantage of them. Engineers use Windows and some Linux. IT uses Linux, Solaris, and some Windows. But everyone runs the same core business programs.
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I already suggested to them that they post the files in standard geometry formats such as IGES or STEP, formats that people can actually read and do something with. I have Unigraphics V18 through NX6, CATIA V5, and our own company internal CAD software. You have no idea how annoying it was to me to discover that the part files were *Pro/E* parts instead of UG parts. :) As far as CAD/CAM products in worldwide use, Pro/E plays second fiddle to UG and CATIA any day. I think it was silly for them to only release the Pro/E files.
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This crap has weight, and by adding it to the aircraft, you're asking for recertification. Now, EADS is a very powerful EU company. If the EU wants to go ahead with an unfunded mandate to EADS to implement this system in Airbus aircraft, EADS can give a hearty "blow me" to the EU for trying to cut into their business. As it is, Airbus is beginning manufacturing in the United States because it is cheaper. The EU would put itself at a serious economic disadvantage if Airbus decided to increase its American business and cut European production because of *more* freedom in the US.
You're right, but there are also plenty of people who buy spindles of CDs and have 10-25% record failure rates on bad spindles. That is completely unacceptable.
No, the DDS4 drive wasn't cheap, but the value of the data it stores is worth millions, and is therefore quite worthwhile.
I miss MO drives. Its too bad they didn't make it. At home I have a Fujitsu 120MB drive and an Olympus Deltis 230MB drive that still work. But what does Blu-Ray use from MO technology? Blu-Ray is a pure optical format.
And let me know when your company data or your livelihood can be trusted to a flaky DVD-R.
When it comes to reliability, you get what you pay for with a $50 DVD burner and $1 DVD-R media. Most companies laugh at the lack of reliability of optical media, and all will happily pay for tapes and tape drives so they can know years from now they still have their data.
...so more of the same crap? I have tapes the size of my face that still work flawlessly, and actually get used every once in a while for retrieval of archived data. All my server backups are on tape, and all of my cluster backups are on tape. After three years of constantly writing and swapping tapes, I haven't had a single DDS4 tape go bad on me. The number of CD and DVD coasters on the other hand...
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I think that blogging with "just a few clicks of a mouse" is indicative of the level of actual content present in most blogs today.
That's right. Be alert, informed, and live in a state where any citizen can have class 3 weaponry.
MosesJones, thanks to you, the next program I write will have muppet extensions.
Sheesh, I was serious about bringing back Buckaroo Banzai and I got modded "funny." If you're on an 80's movie binge, perhaps you could cross a movie with slashdot and end up with a nerd's adventure across Africa in the summer blockbuster hit, "The Mods Must Be Crazy."
I'm waiting for the second Buckaroo Banzai movie. Come on, people, get to it. It would probably be very helpful for Jeff Goldblum's career.
...which is a large Big 12 school, the biology, chemistry, and physics departments generally find it easier to just put the computers out in the hallways and wait for them to disappear. I've gotten all kinds of weird old hardware from them. There are also disgruntled IT staffers that have been here a while that will happily provide hardware to friendly fellow geeks instead of sending them to the dumpster. Those folks have gotten me AUI transceivers, a few SGI workstations, and a huge box of SGI software, including several releases of IRIX 6.5. Some of the other departments will pull a computer out of retirement to serve a specifc purpose. Since I work at a spinoff of the university, I asked nicely and got a P4/Celeron box to use as a server for a joint project, and a fully equipped, mint condition, never used Sun Blade 2000 for my desk...er...for another server. :)
I'm patiently waiting for the university to retire/throw out its 8-node Origin 2000.
"They are going to have to put in a chip in every single piece of hardware shipping out of every single manufacturer. "
Microsoft succeeded in getting the "Trusted Computing" crap shoved down our throats. Don't all new Intel based machines have a TC chip on them now? Look at all the DRM that the citizenry doesn't mind. Look at the new digital TV mandate. Everyone will need a new TV or a decoder box in the US *very* soon. Never underestimate what incredible things the government can accomplish to screw over its people.
I'm going to install Plan9 on my laptop when I go to the UK this summer. I can't wait to see what happens.
I consistently can pull 926Kbps down on my Sprint HTC Apache in the middle of rural Jefferson, Douglas, and Franklin Counties, Kansas. In Lawrence I can get over 1Mbps down. I have made fun of everyone I've met around here who bought an iPhone for Internet access. I also have a friend who has T-Mobile's retarded little brother version of the Apache (can't remember the model, but it has a 200MHz OMAP versus the 416MHz XScale) and his data service is *atrociously* bad. Good thing we have municipal wifi in town.
I inherited a server running several Joomla/Mambo sites. Daily, I had about 10,000 scripted hack attempts. It was really a pain to have to sift through all that crap in the apache logs when I needed to find something. There were several different attacks made, and I had a bad feeling that one of these days I was going!@#$%HQ$IJG(WERMG@Q HACKED BY CHINESE
I couldn't agree more. If it weren't for the things rich people throw away or sell on the cheap, I'd never have had the chance to own several Mercedes and Volvo cars, Bang and Olufsen stereo system components, an HD LCD video projector, half of my computers, three of my last PDAs, and a pinball machine all before I turned 25 years old.
No, it really is that we're falling. After all, we did *invent* the Internet (and the personal computer, microprocessor, and transistor...). We had connectivity before any other country. Now other countries have had the technology handed to them and have surpassed our broadband connectivity. How is that "rising" when all the fundamentals were developed in the US? Its obvious that we have in fact fallen, and unfortunately for us here in the US, the biggest reason is greed.
You could have been far more insightful without showing your hatred of America.
Slashdot,er, slashdots you?
If they want to enforce their licensing, they can't be anonymous. I think I see a major opportunity for the Russian military to show their might and perform a few practice attack missions.
Volvo Cars might be owned by Ford, but the engineering was still completely Swedish and had minimal input from Ford up to last year, with the phase-out of the P2 series. The S60 is the last *true* Volvo. Interestingly, now that Ford platforms are being used in Volvo cars, Ford is thinking about selling Volvo Cars. Volvo Aero is also a rebuilder and reseller of complete engines for commercial aircraft. They also manufactured complete engines for Saab fighter and interceptor aircraft. Their work in space systems is still limited to propulsion system components, I was hoping that they could get into larger systems or complete vehicles to give EADS a run for their money.
Wikipedia is useless unless you actually have some foundation of knowledge of the topic. I know Volvo (and Alan Mulally for that matter) extremely well.
See? Some people do welcome their robotic overlords.
Volvo is already in the aviation business. Now just imagine if they started building spacecraft. :)
What you suggest is what I run at our company. There are workstations running XP32, XP64, Suse Linux, Solaris, and IRIX, and servers running Win2003, Linux, and Solaris. The servers run most of the same software: Apache, MySQL, PHP; there are a few exceptions that are made to take advantage of the particular systems. The workstations run the same basic software: Firefox, Thunderbird, and Unigraphics NX; similarly there are exceptions for particular systems to take advantage of them. Engineers use Windows and some Linux. IT uses Linux, Solaris, and some Windows. But everyone runs the same core business programs.
The SuckIt Rootkit can already patch the kernel on the fly without root access I believe.