The word is used mostly in a derogatory sense to describe a certain kind of feel-good story. The defining characteristic of glurge is that, while its purpose is to make the reader happy, the feel-good aspect is so overdone that it is more likely to nauseate rather than to inspire. Glurge often has a religious theme and is most commonly circulated via e-mail in the form of a chain letter.
Perhaps the design has been so obfuscated over the years that there actually *is* security by obfuscation. After all, how many armchair theorists/PhDs have actually triggered a nuclear explosion?
As graphics get closer to "good enough" reality, games will *have* to focus on gameplay over eye candy.
Not if you have enough hyped-up (testosterone-charged) pre-teen boys wanting the latest and greatest visuals. Marketers have only three adjectives to describe their product(s):
Latest, bestest, greatest.
The marketers have this all sewn up, and it don't take too many brains to figure it out.
Get 5%, make noise, look cool and the rest will follow. Do you actually think that the Beatles phenomenon was unstaged? Do you think that "cool" is spontaneous? It used to be, now it's not.
So what exactly *is* the difference between the high-end consumer cards and the "professional level" cards aside from cost? I'm talking about the relative cost difference for a $2000 card vs. a $750 one. Does the percieved quality scale well in real-world use?
How can the professional level cards be specialized for performance when there are so many professional applications out there - is each professional card custom-tweaked to each application?
Please forgive me, I remember the old days when one needed a $4000 videocard and a $10,000 machine to see real-time, semi-photorealistic graphics.
For a beginner, welding is anything but easy. Welding is a skill that takes a lot of practice and a bit of stamina as well. It takes a knowledge of metals and heat, how thickness of metal, temperature of the metal, the kind of metal (and in certain cases, if you are welding two similar, but not quite the same types of steel together, the knowledge of that), etc - to produce a good weld.
Good advice and great details (and beyond my competence level), but I think the project in question is a bit simpler than that.
See my lame-o collection of supposedly good links at pipingdesign.com/welding.html.
I don't find your "beginning to weld" document at your site.
I think this is an excellent idea. If you have a mechanical engineering department, ask a professor to initiate a class project to design and build what you need. AutoCAD should be available to the design students and there are sheet metal bending programs available for free (as evaluation-ware) on the net. Plastic construction is not really feasible for this "home-built" type of thing.
I'd like a followup on how this project develops if the decision is made to build the carts. BTW, what does one look like?
I was only putting forward a common misconception, relax.
Having worked in engineering (not the desktop kind, thank you) for, um, "many" years, I saw the big CAD move to Windows. This was largely a result of AutoCAD's decision to run on NT. Many of the CAD guys I talk to have no idea what is powering their fancy systems and in many cases it is Windows.
With the more powerful systems (i.e., big bucks per seat) the software cannot be modified by the users because it is closed source. This effectively dictates to the user how he can work.
Coming from a background of making drawings on paper, there is a lot left to do in the CAD world. Most of the wizz-bang benefits of CAD are oriented towards managers and people that extract information for their needed periodic reports, not the designer. That's just my opinion.
Open source CAD would be great in the sense that the actual users would be able to modify the program and have less reliance on management decisions and the marketing hype/lock-in of big vendors.
Of course, that would have to mean that people would have to be passionate about the concept of creating drawings. Most of those guys retired, got "downsized" or just left the business once CAD became dominant and hiring cheap CAD operators became a management priority.
On Aug. 30-31, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) in collaboration with Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) broadcast the sound of feeding humpback whale vocalizations in waters on both sides of the sluice gates in hopes this would coax the whale into returning to the Annapolis Basin and its natural habitat in the Bay of Fundy. Although the whale took interest in these sounds, even circling one of the transmitters, it did not exit the river. Nova Scotia Power has decided not to run the Tidal Plant this weekend. Our hydro dispatchers will be keeping the sluice gates open as much as possible to provide opportunity for the whale to leave. DFO has decided to take no further proactive measures for a few days to give the whale additional time to exit the river on its own at slack tide. If this has not occurred by Tuesday, Sept. 7, a resumption of proactive measures to encourage it to leave will be considered.
I think in this case, "proactive measures" meant spearing the thing and cooking it up for the locals, although that is not specified at the website.
The stereotypical image of Linux (smelly, overweight nerds wearing Star Trek T-shirts) compared to Microsoft (suit-wearing shmoozers with lunch budgets to burn) explains all this.
Decision makers tend to be more political and less technical in nature, that's how they got to be bosses.
Of course, this is not always true as there are companies that have tech-backgrounded managers that do a great job. Find one and work for them.
My clueless co-workers are constantly sending me MS Office formatted files...
That's because it is much more temporarily impressive to use colour, underlining and bold in messages to show that the writer is important and wants to be noticed.
Of course, a carefully thought-out, insightful and direct message goes largely unnoticed.
In most organizations there is so much email flying around that many just ignore most of it. A lot of people do not understand (and actually abuse) the concept of CC. It's a signal to noise problem.
Is the tech world's redefinition of the term diluting its original meaning?
It's interesting to note that the tech definition seems to be popularly eclipsing the traditional meaning (read the link above to see what I mean).
A quick re-education for those under 30:
RAM=male sheep
ROM=Royal Ontario Museum
Memory=something in your head
Monitor= A heavily ironclad warship of the 19th century
Mouse=rodent
Snopes=William Faulkner character
Slash=a cut or swinging move
Dot=. or period
Feel free to add your own examples, I've left many out just to spark creativity on a boring Saturday.
If you total up the stuff needed to make you (daddy and mommy's resource consumption up to the point where you were able to look after yourself) you might be surprised.
Solution? Kill yourself and be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
...too many jobs and natural resource earnings would be at stake for countrys to consider ditching it right now
Isn't that the same reason that the variuos ridiculous income (and other) tax codes never get simplified?
Just imagine the horror of unemployed accountants ravaging the countryside, it'd be like that movie where people get turned into zombies and then the *real* zombies would get pissed-off cause it'd cut into their domination of the zombie market. Well, OK, maybe I'm hyperbolizing - zombie accountants would probably just morph into insurance salesmen, but that in itself sets off a whole nother class of raging white collars.
One might wonder if pre-1900 (plus or minus 20 years) wars were waged simply as a form of entertainment for the pre-existing royal elite.
Prior to the end of WW1 (with it's carnage largely caused by machines with remote-kill capability like howitzers, mines and airplanes), going to war was an honourable thing that proved loyalty to God and country.
Because of video technology developed during and after WW1 the reality of war became less and less acceptable as the home guard got to see the gruesome results.
There appears to still be some people that like to see gruesome results.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glurge
The word is used mostly in a derogatory sense to describe a certain kind of feel-good story. The defining characteristic of glurge is that, while its purpose is to make the reader happy, the feel-good aspect is so overdone that it is more likely to nauseate rather than to inspire. Glurge often has a religious theme and is most commonly circulated via e-mail in the form of a chain letter.
...and why should I care?
Hmmm...after doing some sleuthing, I see that this is a technology-fest where people promise things to willing receptacles. Neat!
UncleAl, is that you?
Perhaps the design has been so obfuscated over the years that there actually *is* security by obfuscation. After all, how many armchair theorists/PhDs have actually triggered a nuclear explosion?
As graphics get closer to "good enough" reality, games will *have* to focus on gameplay over eye candy.
Not if you have enough hyped-up (testosterone-charged) pre-teen boys wanting the latest and greatest visuals. Marketers have only three adjectives to describe their product(s):
Latest, bestest, greatest.
The marketers have this all sewn up, and it don't take too many brains to figure it out.
Get 5%, make noise, look cool and the rest will follow. Do you actually think that the Beatles phenomenon was unstaged? Do you think that "cool" is spontaneous? It used to be, now it's not.
1) jimmah
2)
Thanks for my first laugh-out-loud moment of the day.
Execs want all this stuff to impress people with their high-tech toys
This is not necessarily true. In cases where the technology is used appropriately, it can be extremely effective.
If you still have it handy, check out the nutrition information box on the package. Does one serving contain a measurable amount of fiber?
If you eat the box it does, but you likely won't enjoy the experience.
Then again, some people might not have brain cells to spare and have to use them all up in one shot in order to...uh...something, I forget.
Or implement the Buffalo Theory.
So what exactly *is* the difference between the high-end consumer cards and the "professional level" cards aside from cost? I'm talking about the relative cost difference for a $2000 card vs. a $750 one. Does the percieved quality scale well in real-world use?
How can the professional level cards be specialized for performance when there are so many professional applications out there - is each professional card custom-tweaked to each application?
Please forgive me, I remember the old days when one needed a $4000 videocard and a $10,000 machine to see real-time, semi-photorealistic graphics.
For a beginner, welding is anything but easy. Welding is a skill that takes a lot of practice and a bit of stamina as well. It takes a knowledge of metals and heat, how thickness of metal, temperature of the metal, the kind of metal (and in certain cases, if you are welding two similar, but not quite the same types of steel together, the knowledge of that), etc - to produce a good weld.
Good advice and great details (and beyond my competence level), but I think the project in question is a bit simpler than that.
See my lame-o collection of supposedly good links at pipingdesign.com/welding.html.
I don't find your "beginning to weld" document at your site.
I think this is an excellent idea. If you have a mechanical engineering department, ask a professor to initiate a class project to design and build what you need. AutoCAD should be available to the design students and there are sheet metal bending programs available for free (as evaluation-ware) on the net. Plastic construction is not really feasible for this "home-built" type of thing.
I'd like a followup on how this project develops if the decision is made to build the carts. BTW, what does one look like?
That's the Buffalo theory"
I was only putting forward a common misconception, relax.
Having worked in engineering (not the desktop kind, thank you) for, um, "many" years, I saw the big CAD move to Windows. This was largely a result of AutoCAD's decision to run on NT. Many of the CAD guys I talk to have no idea what is powering their fancy systems and in many cases it is Windows.
With the more powerful systems (i.e., big bucks per seat) the software cannot be modified by the users because it is closed source. This effectively dictates to the user how he can work.
Coming from a background of making drawings on paper, there is a lot left to do in the CAD world. Most of the wizz-bang benefits of CAD are oriented towards managers and people that extract information for their needed periodic reports, not the designer. That's just my opinion.
Open source CAD would be great in the sense that the actual users would be able to modify the program and have less reliance on management decisions and the marketing hype/lock-in of big vendors.
Of course, that would have to mean that people would have to be passionate about the concept of creating drawings. Most of those guys retired, got "downsized" or just left the business once CAD became dominant and hiring cheap CAD operators became a management priority.
This is from the country that clubs to death cute, fuzzy baby seals with their pleading, emotive eyes on a regular basis. Canadians are secretly evil.
http://www.nspower.ca/AboutUs/WhatsNew/WhalePre
On Aug. 30-31, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) in collaboration with Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) broadcast the sound of feeding humpback whale vocalizations in waters on both sides of the sluice gates in hopes this would coax the whale into returning to the Annapolis Basin and its natural habitat in the Bay of Fundy. Although the whale took interest in these sounds, even circling one of the transmitters, it did not exit the river. Nova Scotia Power has decided not to run the Tidal Plant this weekend. Our hydro dispatchers will be keeping the sluice gates open as much as possible to provide opportunity for the whale to leave. DFO has decided to take no further proactive measures for a few days to give the whale additional time to exit the river on its own at slack tide. If this has not occurred by Tuesday, Sept. 7, a resumption of proactive measures to encourage it to leave will be considered.
I think in this case, "proactive measures" meant spearing the thing and cooking it up for the locals, although that is not specified at the website.
The stereotypical image of Linux (smelly, overweight nerds wearing Star Trek T-shirts) compared to Microsoft (suit-wearing shmoozers with lunch budgets to burn) explains all this.
Decision makers tend to be more political and less technical in nature, that's how they got to be bosses.
Of course, this is not always true as there are companies that have tech-backgrounded managers that do a great job. Find one and work for them.
My clueless co-workers are constantly sending me MS Office formatted files...
That's because it is much more temporarily impressive to use colour, underlining and bold in messages to show that the writer is important and wants to be noticed.
Of course, a carefully thought-out, insightful and direct message goes largely unnoticed.
In most organizations there is so much email flying around that many just ignore most of it. A lot of people do not understand (and actually abuse) the concept of CC. It's a signal to noise problem.
Is the tech world's redefinition of the term diluting its original meaning?
It's interesting to note that the tech definition seems to be popularly eclipsing the traditional meaning (read the link above to see what I mean).
A quick re-education for those under 30:
RAM=male sheep
ROM=Royal Ontario Museum
Memory=something in your head
Monitor= A heavily ironclad warship of the 19th century
Mouse=rodent
Snopes=William Faulkner character
Slash=a cut or swinging move
Dot=. or period
Feel free to add your own examples, I've left many out just to spark creativity on a boring Saturday.
If you total up the stuff needed to make you (daddy and mommy's resource consumption up to the point where you were able to look after yourself) you might be surprised.
Solution? Kill yourself and be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Isn't that the same reason that the variuos ridiculous income (and other) tax codes never get simplified?
Just imagine the horror of unemployed accountants ravaging the countryside, it'd be like that movie where people get turned into zombies and then the *real* zombies would get pissed-off cause it'd cut into their domination of the zombie market. Well, OK, maybe I'm hyperbolizing - zombie accountants would probably just morph into insurance salesmen, but that in itself sets off a whole nother class of raging white collars.
That reminds me; why is tidal power not more widely used? Building islands is expensive but if the long term results are positive, why not?
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act...
Hold on now, those names sound like furriners, and maybe even French. What's up here?
One might wonder if pre-1900 (plus or minus 20 years) wars were waged simply as a form of entertainment for the pre-existing royal elite.
Prior to the end of WW1 (with it's carnage largely caused by machines with remote-kill capability like howitzers, mines and airplanes), going to war was an honourable thing that proved loyalty to God and country.
Because of video technology developed during and after WW1 the reality of war became less and less acceptable as the home guard got to see the gruesome results.
There appears to still be some people that like to see gruesome results.