As a forty-ish father I loved "Around the Bend" (2004). I only saw it a few times recently because I stumbled upon it on one of the commercial-free movie channels.
It's almost as if marketers have no clue and default to explosions and similar distractions in order to attract the *real* market: kids that are easily manipulated.
Keep in mind that the one and only "technical discipline" now required for 95% of all businesses (regardless of field of activity) is IT.
IT is a wonderful thing but in some cases it lowers the barrier for involvement. eg, CAD operators being designated as designers simply because they know how to operate software efficiently.
The asker is a mechanical engineer, that's what he's interested in. Most everyone is rambling on about computer "engineering" or software "engineering" career advice. Myopia.
I hate the fact that most took a basic course their freshman year, and never even touched autocad during the rest of their time at school.
In my 25 years of experience in engineering, design and drafting (mostly for process plant facilities) it has always been the civil engineers that knew how to make good drawings and sketches by hand. Now you're telling me that the civil engineering students don't even bother to become proficient at CAD?
Perhaps this is because they realize that they risk getting pigeon-holed as a lowly computer operator if they show ability with CAD programs. On the other hand, the civil/structural field doesn't seem to have a lot of "cool vizzy 3D database-driven software" to play with as compared to other disciplines.
Yeah, and I bet it was "discovered" by a bunch of white guys of European descent. Why can't we just name new discoveries like this what the natives actually call them?
On the other hand, the maturing of a country/people (the US is just getting out of puberty) usually means less of a need to be firstest, fastest and bestest (or perhaps the need to be seen as being so). Personally, I don't really care if we all get smacked disastrously by some rogue asteroid and don't have a human legacy space colony to carry on the tradition. The romantic notions of "reaching for the stars" and populating other extraterrestrial worlds via space travel are pipe dreams from sci-fi enthusiasts who yearn for a better reality.
Thinking far into the future and speculating about "survival of the species" (but not for the stupider humans, of course, Darwin will somehow take care of that little problem) is always honourable and perceived as being enlightened, "worldly" and noble; Hey! Look at me, I'm caring about the future and my great, great, great, great grandchildren!
Pshhhh, like the typical space-obsessed vocal Slashdotter will ever pass down genes and have kids. Yeah, right.
Yet another meme (or is it an urban legend or just a common false "factoid") that keeps getting repeated. My theory is that if you can get enough people to beleive enough wrong or silly stuff (like the "i before e, except after c" fallacy), you can eventually convince them of virtually anything.
...would you rather keep sending billions of dollars to Bin Landenland...
Do you know who the top oil suppliers to the US are? America's Hat has quite a few gazillion beaverloads of the stuff and it's getting cheaper and cheaper to extract with better technology. Look up SAGD to start.
Congratulations to whoever renamed Slashback; the new term makes much more sense, as it can invoke a similar, appropriate word. It is also confusing for those that vaguely recall what to type a few years ago. Even better!
Plus, what goodies can the millionth Slashdot username expect, a free T-shirt? I seem to recall that the millionth post said something appropriate for a lot of the people here.
Thanks. I've done a fair amount of work with pressurized and cryogenic gases, but I didn't know the details in this situation. It makes sense to me now.
This is how most cryo installations work (eg. o2 for hospitals, n2 for industrial applications). Pumping cryogens can be a real problem, and most users don't need extremely cold liquids so ambient vaporizers are used.
What is up with the recent explosion in poker-related TV advertising, "celebrity poker" shows and poker spam?
Back during the cold war I remember hearing that the communists were playing chess (long-term strategy) while the US was playing poker (fake-out the sucker).
I'm a piping geek, thus my problem with terminology. "Pipelines" are large bore cylindrical structures that convey large quantities of fluids. What the shuttle uses is piping, not pipelines. To some of us there is a difference.
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As a forty-ish father I loved "Around the Bend" (2004). I only saw it a few times recently because I stumbled upon it on one of the commercial-free movie channels.
It's almost as if marketers have no clue and default to explosions and similar distractions in order to attract the *real* market: kids that are easily manipulated.
Oh boy, that was just short of a Godwin wasn't it. What's Betty Bowers up to these days?
Keep in mind that the one and only "technical discipline" now required for 95% of all businesses (regardless of field of activity) is IT.
IT is a wonderful thing but in some cases it lowers the barrier for involvement. eg, CAD operators being designated as designers simply because they know how to operate software efficiently.
The asker is a mechanical engineer, that's what he's interested in. Most everyone is rambling on about computer "engineering" or software "engineering" career advice. Myopia.
I hate the fact that most took a basic course their freshman year, and never even touched autocad during the rest of their time at school.
In my 25 years of experience in engineering, design and drafting (mostly for process plant facilities) it has always been the civil engineers that knew how to make good drawings and sketches by hand. Now you're telling me that the civil engineering students don't even bother to become proficient at CAD?
Perhaps this is because they realize that they risk getting pigeon-holed as a lowly computer operator if they show ability with CAD programs. On the other hand, the civil/structural field doesn't seem to have a lot of "cool vizzy 3D database-driven software" to play with as compared to other disciplines.
NLK Consultants as in Nystrom, Lee and Kobayashi?
It's RS Ophiuchi
Yeah, and I bet it was "discovered" by a bunch of white guys of European descent. Why can't we just name new discoveries like this what the natives actually call them?
This is why it annoys me to hear people bleating about wanting affordable space travel within their lifetime "so that we can preserve the human race".
If this guy can tap dance also, he's hired!
But seriously folks, 28 year-old mechanical engineers are notorious for their ability to do everything.
The page you linked to clearly shows that the Persian Gulf (a handful of tiny countries) supplies a quarter of our oil. What's your point again?
That increasing supply (or at least threatening to) from other sources might be an alternative?
Are you a geologist familiar with the region and are you aware of what's happening up there now with newer extraction and power generation methods?
The "insult" was inferred, not intended.
On the other hand, the maturing of a country/people (the US is just getting out of puberty) usually means less of a need to be firstest, fastest and bestest (or perhaps the need to be seen as being so). Personally, I don't really care if we all get smacked disastrously by some rogue asteroid and don't have a human legacy space colony to carry on the tradition. The romantic notions of "reaching for the stars" and populating other extraterrestrial worlds via space travel are pipe dreams from sci-fi enthusiasts who yearn for a better reality.
Thinking far into the future and speculating about "survival of the species" (but not for the stupider humans, of course, Darwin will somehow take care of that little problem) is always honourable and perceived as being enlightened, "worldly" and noble; Hey! Look at me, I'm caring about the future and my great, great, great, great grandchildren!
Pshhhh, like the typical space-obsessed vocal Slashdotter will ever pass down genes and have kids. Yeah, right.
Instead they are hearing about what Paris Hilton sucked last month
Very, very funny.
Yet another meme (or is it an urban legend or just a common false "factoid") that keeps getting repeated. My theory is that if you can get enough people to beleive enough wrong or silly stuff (like the "i before e, except after c" fallacy), you can eventually convince them of virtually anything.
...all forms of power generation involve side impacts, such as siltation (the buildup of silt behind dams, which must either be removed...
Is this (removal of siltation) a real problem though? That's actually a no-brainer and I can't figure out why you included it.
...would you rather keep sending billions of dollars to Bin Landenland...
Do you know who the top oil suppliers to the US are? America's Hat has quite a few gazillion beaverloads of the stuff and it's getting cheaper and cheaper to extract with better technology. Look up SAGD to start.
Congratulations to whoever renamed Slashback; the new term makes much more sense, as it can invoke a similar, appropriate word. It is also confusing for those that vaguely recall what to type a few years ago. Even better!
Plus, what goodies can the millionth Slashdot username expect, a free T-shirt? I seem to recall that the millionth post said something appropriate for a lot of the people here.
Lock up your hookers, money, cigars and booze!
Oh, sorry, I thought we were talking about Bender.
Thanks. I've done a fair amount of work with pressurized and cryogenic gases, but I didn't know the details in this situation. It makes sense to me now.
This is how most cryo installations work (eg. o2 for hospitals, n2 for industrial applications). Pumping cryogens can be a real problem, and most users don't need extremely cold liquids so ambient vaporizers are used.
What is up with the recent explosion in poker-related TV advertising, "celebrity poker" shows and poker spam?
Back during the cold war I remember hearing that the communists were playing chess (long-term strategy) while the US was playing poker (fake-out the sucker).
Nah, I was just being pedantic and detail-obsessed. Thanks for the reply.
I'm a piping geek, thus my problem with terminology. "Pipelines" are large bore cylindrical structures that convey large quantities of fluids. What the shuttle uses is piping, not pipelines. To some of us there is a difference.
There are pipelines in space now? Cool.
The leak is more likely nitrogen, but there is no way of knowing that.
Excuse me? The shuttle must be one of the most redundantly-instrumented efforts ever built and they don't know what's leaking?
My buddy at work just got a MS in web design
People can actually get an MS in web design?
Or does "MS" in this case refer to some local school's "specialty" definition like a PhD in Wicker Furniture.