Well, in that case, I'm all for repenting, genuflecting and spending billions on possible, maybe solutions. After all, we might all actually die someday.
Generally speaking, I've found that unreasonable points of view come from ignorance or fear.
The fear of death is probably the ultimate, and that denied reality can colour a person's outlook to the point where *real* reality doesn't matter any more.
Bah, I'm getting philosophical and running out of beer. Trooper said, "We're here for a good time, not a long time". That's a pretty good outlook as long as you're not selfish along the way.
This is why "America" (as a concept) for many people is being lost. And it has nothing to do with evil communism causing it. America is eating itself as the dog-eat-dog economic philosophy allows scammers and those that will do just about anything to get ahead, get ahead.
In major cities, what is the price of an average home? What is driving this price up?
What is the average commercial debt level of a typical, employed American?
The synthetic fuel goals in northern Alberta keep getting funded by the billions for some reason (I'm currently working on a side project - nothing impressive to the average Slashdot reader). The cost of extraction is high, but the available resources are quite impressive.
Anyone want to take a shot as to why why all this money is being spent on crappy oil?
If you guessed self-sustainability for North America you're probably right. All the while we learn more about clean production, co-gen, etc.
If middle east oil dried-up tomorrow, we'd be able to supply the continent for quite a few decades, albeit at somewhat higher prices.
Do you actually work with the CAD programs yourself? I only ask because calling the technology "CAD/CAM" is a bit dated (no offence intended). Unless you're using the CAD to manufacture something, the CAM part is not really relevant to architectural drawings/models.
Since you seem to use ACAD, are you aware of upfront ezine?
I've been involved in the piping design/engineering business for over 20 years (drafting board-trained with T-squares and other ancient technologies - a dying art) but use software to make drawings these days.
Recently I've been exposed first-hand to programs like PDS which are very taxing on CPUs, storage and memory. (I.E., real-time zooming, rotation, panning, etc. in large 3D models). But my current understanding is that these programs would have to be re-written for true 64-bit operation and SMP (multi-threading) advantages.
I appreciate very well your comment about newbies knowing little about the "real" technology behind the software, and it's sad in a way. Graphic and technically-inclined people used to be able to learn a valued and unique manual/mental skill and use it for an entire career but now a lot of effort is spent just getting the damn machine to work. Not to mention the fragmenting of disciplines and responsibilities as CAD technical drawing skills have largely become a commodity.
Having said that, I have to admit that CAD is a very powerful tool assuming that it is implemented properly.
An exchange of goods and services... a virtual economy, where the currency is bandwidth.
Please let me know when I can pay my rent by offering "bandwidth" to the landlord. Or maybe you're thinking of a barter-type economy. If so, well, I design cryogenic piping and industrial plants as my form of bartering - how many of my neighbours/fellow citizens would realistically need my services?
Likely you were writing of music/movie sharing only though. Even in those cases, peoples' jobs often depend on the larger industry. This is not to defend the RIAA and others, but I find it ironic that so many of the "techno-elite" whine about offshoring while taking advantage of the technology to get stuff for free. This seems to be the ethos of the young these days - maybe it's a result of being "the ignored generation" after the baby boomers.
For the record, I don't fileshare and I buy my music and movies at retail stores. I think they are overpriced and would rather pay a buck for a song that I like than being forced to shell out for a whole album.
Blast it off into space and make art into reality (sort of). Sadly this film is not replayed on Space, Scream or DriveInClassics yet. As an aside, I've heard that Scream was moving into the states - any news on this? Jane Meikle is great and Scream has a funny "expose" on her real life.
Now, now, let's not be too harsh. What career opportunities exist for reformed spammers? No, seriously. We should be looking at rehabilitating them, possibly in a role that is inversely proportional to the annoyance and frustration that they have collectively foisted on the billions that they have plagued.
PS Does my use of the word, "foist" earn extra points?
I believe in rainbows and puppy dogs and fairy tales.
And I believe in the family - Mom and Dad and Grandma... and Uncle Tom, who waves his penis.
And I believe 8 of the 10 Commandments.
And I believe in going to church every Sunday, unless there's a game on.
And I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, wholesome and natural things... that money can buy.
And I believe it's derogatory to refer to a woman's breasts as "boobs", "jugs", "winnebagos" or "golden bozos"... and that you should only refer to them as "hooters".
And I believe you should put a woman on a pedestal... high enough so you can look up her dress.
And I believe in equality, equality for everyone... no matter how stupid they are, or how much better I am than they are.
And, people say I'm crazy for believing this, but I believe that robots are stealing my luggage.
And I believe I made a mistake when I bought a 30-story 1-bedroom apartment.
And I believe the Battle of the Network Stars should be fought with guns.
And I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was - an arctic region covered with ice.
And, lastly, I believe that of all the evils on this earth, there is nothing worse than the music you're listening to right now. That's what I believe.
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I have no degree whatsoever, but am also an idiot. Welcome to the club.
Car and Driver has been applying this overused term for control for so many years that it makes me want to puke with anger. Is it "dial-in" a la rotating something (aside from a steering wheel)?
...driven by lunatics 200kph or more no matter if the road is dry or below solid ice. But they are few and far between and you sure know why.
You reminded me of one of my Toronto-Montreal trips back when I was invincible. It was during a blizzard (couldn't see even 100 feet ahead, pretty much a whiteout), and those goddam 18-wheeler truck drivers kept passing me and then slowing down in front of me. Those bastards!
Back when I was working with the R&D department of a major industrial gas manufacturer *cough*not*Linde*cough* their marketing department was looking to commercialize the idea of tire-filling with nitrogen. Apparently there are a bunch of advantages as a result of studies done with truck fleets, etc. It's pretty expensive though, and if you're a real sucker they'll try to get you to fill them up with helium so that your vehicule experiences less unsprung weight.
Does anyone know who does the cryogenic-related design for the shuttle? It's basically only simple pressure vessels and piping moving at a thousand miles per second.
My kid (now 14) got into computing because I bought a 486DX just to play Doom, fart around with AutoCAD and explore CompuServe. He was pretty young at the time and that was when the Broderbund software was popular, so discovering all the bits was entertaining for him and me (watching him discover). I wonder if that stuff is still popular for the 3 to 5 year-olds.
Me, I'm just an older fart that got into it later in life but I'm looking into high-powered specialty engineering software at this time. It's very interesting to understand how software works (and what the author was thinking) even though I haven't programmed anything more complicated than an HP 41c calculator.
I can't hope to comment intelligently in this discussion since I'm only smrt smart, but shouldn't this newly-discovered natural resource be busy working on cold fusion or causing world peace with his sheer brainpower?
Oh, wait, he's going to be a TV star and that trumps all.
You are right, of course. Your new project is to convince 20 million or so less-competent/aware people to use throw-away email addresses. Then again, if you're one of the people benefiting from the scam I'm wasting my time.
Eh? How's he screwing people? He's asking them to sign up under him
That's the problem. Even if 5 out of 10 sign into the "program", you have just sold out addresses to "trusted partners" for the rest (for your own motives). Have you sent email greetng cards lately? Do tech-savvy friends now hate you for it?
I hope I never see an anti-spam comment from you here.
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Well, in that case, I'm all for repenting, genuflecting and spending billions on possible, maybe solutions. After all, we might all actually die someday.
Generally speaking, I've found that unreasonable points of view come from ignorance or fear.
The fear of death is probably the ultimate, and that denied reality can colour a person's outlook to the point where *real* reality doesn't matter any more.
Bah, I'm getting philosophical and running out of beer. Trooper said, "We're here for a good time, not a long time". That's a pretty good outlook as long as you're not selfish along the way.
This is why "America" (as a concept) for many people is being lost. And it has nothing to do with evil communism causing it. America is eating itself as the dog-eat-dog economic philosophy allows scammers and those that will do just about anything to get ahead, get ahead.
In major cities, what is the price of an average home? What is driving this price up?
What is the average commercial debt level of a typical, employed American?
Moofie, I am appalled at your apparent lack of insight. My great great great grandchildren might be affected by this, you insensitive bastard.
Agreed. It's also helpful to point out supposed mistakes of the past 100 years without offering any reasonable alternatives.
Then again, the morons of the world keep electing non-Gaia candidates so I guess we're all doomed.
I'm planning to be smiling and giving a full-up "cheers!" to the asteroid that wipes us out. Last I heard, this was going to be next Wednesday.
The synthetic fuel goals in northern Alberta keep getting funded by the billions for some reason (I'm currently working on a side project - nothing impressive to the average Slashdot reader). The cost of extraction is high, but the available resources are quite impressive.
Anyone want to take a shot as to why why all this money is being spent on crappy oil?
If you guessed self-sustainability for North America you're probably right. All the while we learn more about clean production, co-gen, etc.
If middle east oil dried-up tomorrow, we'd be able to supply the continent for quite a few decades, albeit at somewhat higher prices.
Do you actually work with the CAD programs yourself? I only ask because calling the technology "CAD/CAM" is a bit dated (no offence intended). Unless you're using the CAD to manufacture something, the CAM part is not really relevant to architectural drawings/models.
Since you seem to use ACAD, are you aware of upfront ezine?
I've been involved in the piping design/engineering business for over 20 years (drafting board-trained with T-squares and other ancient technologies - a dying art) but use software to make drawings these days.
Recently I've been exposed first-hand to programs like PDS which are very taxing on CPUs, storage and memory. (I.E., real-time zooming, rotation, panning, etc. in large 3D models). But my current understanding is that these programs would have to be re-written for true 64-bit operation and SMP (multi-threading) advantages.
I appreciate very well your comment about newbies knowing little about the "real" technology behind the software, and it's sad in a way. Graphic and technically-inclined people used to be able to learn a valued and unique manual/mental skill and use it for an entire career but now a lot of effort is spent just getting the damn machine to work. Not to mention the fragmenting of disciplines and responsibilities as CAD technical drawing skills have largely become a commodity.
Having said that, I have to admit that CAD is a very powerful tool assuming that it is implemented properly.
An exchange of goods and services... a virtual economy, where the currency is bandwidth.
Please let me know when I can pay my rent by offering "bandwidth" to the landlord. Or maybe you're thinking of a barter-type economy. If so, well, I design cryogenic piping and industrial plants as my form of bartering - how many of my neighbours/fellow citizens would realistically need my services?
Likely you were writing of music/movie sharing only though. Even in those cases, peoples' jobs often depend on the larger industry. This is not to defend the RIAA and others, but I find it ironic that so many of the "techno-elite" whine about offshoring while taking advantage of the technology to get stuff for free. This seems to be the ethos of the young these days - maybe it's a result of being "the ignored generation" after the baby boomers.
For the record, I don't fileshare and I buy my music and movies at retail stores. I think they are overpriced and would rather pay a buck for a song that I like than being forced to shell out for a whole album.
Isn't that the American Way though? Confuse them all, and let-the-market-sort-it-out/chips-fall-where-they-
I'm just curious - what type of CAD/CAM work are you doing?
Blast it off into space and make art into reality (sort of). Sadly this film is not replayed on Space, Scream or DriveInClassics yet. As an aside, I've heard that Scream was moving into the states - any news on this? Jane Meikle is great and Scream has a funny "expose" on her real life.
Now, now, let's not be too harsh. What career opportunities exist for reformed spammers? No, seriously. We should be looking at rehabilitating them, possibly in a role that is inversely proportional to the annoyance and frustration that they have collectively foisted on the billions that they have plagued.
PS Does my use of the word, "foist" earn extra points?
[ heavy music starts to play ]
"What I Believe."
I believe in rainbows and puppy dogs and fairy tales.
And I believe in the family - Mom and Dad and Grandma... and Uncle Tom, who waves his penis.
And I believe 8 of the 10 Commandments.
And I believe in going to church every Sunday, unless there's a game on.
And I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, wholesome and natural things... that money can buy.
And I believe it's derogatory to refer to a woman's breasts as "boobs", "jugs", "winnebagos" or "golden bozos"... and that you should only refer to them as "hooters".
And I believe you should put a woman on a pedestal... high enough so you can look up her dress.
And I believe in equality, equality for everyone... no matter how stupid they are, or how much better I am than they are.
And, people say I'm crazy for believing this, but I believe that robots are stealing my luggage.
And I believe I made a mistake when I bought a 30-story 1-bedroom apartment.
And I believe the Battle of the Network Stars should be fought with guns.
And I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was - an arctic region covered with ice.
And, lastly, I believe that of all the evils on this earth, there is nothing worse than the music you're listening to right now. That's what I believe.
I have no degree whatsoever, but am also an idiot. Welcome to the club.
Car and Driver has been applying this overused term for control for so many years that it makes me want to puke with anger. Is it "dial-in" a la rotating something (aside from a steering wheel)?
You reminded me of one of my Toronto-Montreal trips back when I was invincible. It was during a blizzard (couldn't see even 100 feet ahead, pretty much a whiteout), and those goddam 18-wheeler truck drivers kept passing me and then slowing down in front of me. Those bastards!
Back when I was working with the R&D department of a major industrial gas manufacturer *cough*not*Linde*cough* their marketing department was looking to commercialize the idea of tire-filling with nitrogen. Apparently there are a bunch of advantages as a result of studies done with truck fleets, etc. It's pretty expensive though, and if you're a real sucker they'll try to get you to fill them up with helium so that your vehicule experiences less unsprung weight.
Does anyone know who does the cryogenic-related design for the shuttle? It's basically only simple pressure vessels and piping moving at a thousand miles per second.
Just wondering, is that your real name?
Thanks,
Hugh Jass
My kid (now 14) got into computing because I bought a 486DX just to play Doom, fart around with AutoCAD and explore CompuServe. He was pretty young at the time and that was when the Broderbund software was popular, so discovering all the bits was entertaining for him and me (watching him discover). I wonder if that stuff is still popular for the 3 to 5 year-olds.
Me, I'm just an older fart that got into it later in life but I'm looking into high-powered specialty engineering software at this time. It's very interesting to understand how software works (and what the author was thinking) even though I haven't programmed anything more complicated than an HP 41c calculator.
I guess the key here is which way IcarusMoth was facing after the drawers were dropped...
you don't need a big towel, since the wind will blow you dry when you get out of the water
My nipples explode with delight!
I can't hope to comment intelligently in this discussion since I'm only smrt smart, but shouldn't this newly-discovered natural resource be busy working on cold fusion or causing world peace with his sheer brainpower?
Oh, wait, he's going to be a TV star and that trumps all.
You are right, of course. Your new project is to convince 20 million or so less-competent/aware people to use throw-away email addresses. Then again, if you're one of the people benefiting from the scam I'm wasting my time.
Best of luck.
Wanna go REALLY far back? They still owe a shitload for help in WW2.
Eh? How's he screwing people? He's asking them to sign up under him
That's the problem. Even if 5 out of 10 sign into the "program", you have just sold out addresses to "trusted partners" for the rest (for your own motives). Have you sent email greetng cards lately? Do tech-savvy friends now hate you for it?
I hope I never see an anti-spam comment from you here.