Meaning the vacuum space encapsulating the liquid hydrogen storage vessel (in case there is a leak) or the relief line from the ullage space? Oh wait, it must be the former.
To go from 4GB to 8GB with that MacBook Pro will cost you twelve hundred dollars. I really have to wonder if the performance difference is worth that much. Doubling my older MBP's RAM to 4GB was ~$300, that's a reasonable price.
Waythehellago when I used to listen to music that was squiggly carved into vinyl (imagine scratching a point-ed stick across a flat rock - that's exactly what it sounded like in those days) I found that the diamond needle made the tunes sound like shit. So I sprang for the Moon rock needle and everything sounded much better. Then again, that was in my gasoline-powered turtleneck sweater days.
I read this today, and although it's not related to monitors it's at least somewhat relevant to graphics performance. NavisWorks is a CAD-type visualization program used in engineering and architecture to provide live fly-throughs (and other cool stuff) inside 3D models. Workstation cards cost about $800, while consumer-level cards cost about $150.
There are two types of graphics cards commercially available: workstation and consumer. Workstation graphics cards are much higher priced than consumer cards, because they generally offer more stable drivers and are tested and optimized to work across a wide range of leading CAD applications. Examples of current workstation quality graphics cards include NVIDIA Quadro® FX and ATI FireGL(TM).
Consumer graphics cards are usually relatively inexpensive. However, they are generally optimized for video games, and it is necessary that you install the latest driver versions as they are released. Examples of current consumer quality graphics cards include NVIDIA GeForce® FX and ATI Radeon(TM).
Autodesk performance testing has found that NavisWorks performs well on both workstation and consumer graphics cards, with neither offering any performance advantage over the other. It is strongly recommended that you buy the best card your budget can afford and keep the drivers up to date.
Look at it this way: if every software and computer "engineer" in the world evaporated tomorrow, "real" engineers would still be able to build stuff useful to people. If the reverse happened, it'd be uh-oh time on an extremely large scale.
Let's hope a revolution will take place before that.
Yes, let's all take to the streets with guns to resolve this social injustice. Are you a libarts grad or did you just drop out? I'm not ruling out the possibility of your mom's doctor having slippery fingers, though, so your outlook might not be your fault.
When I worked for [big industrial gas outfit, think major cryogenics] the company contributed to universities in order to have access to Ph.D research. Some of it was good, but the eggheads often "didn't know" (cough-cough) how to adapt/simplify things down to a useful industrial level. The really high-level results stuff was undoubtedly cherry-picked and not exposed to engineering-level people like myself. Those bastards! They should have told me everything!
Just a small pH change in the ocean can collapse the entire food chain.
Now that seems like a dramatic statement. One outcome of the "shrinking of the world" due to increased global communications is that each participant feels like they are a larger part of everything than they really are. TWIAVBP, get used to it.
Humans adapt to the environment, that's what we're good at and why we've been here for so long*. Intentionally trying to change the environment on a huge scale (other than just cleaning up real pollution) is a very bad idea for a multitude of reasons.
* Cue the replies from loonies who will make comparisons to bacteria, extraterrestrial aliens and various made-up deities.
Employees vs. contractors is always an interesting factor in economic uncertainty times. When rumours of job cuts start circulating the permies are first in line to shout about seniority and loyalty regardless of their skills and relative worth to the organization.
"But I filled out the timesheets correctly for 15 years and kissed the appropriate asses! Why should I be let go?!
Off-topic, but I used to do the 401 Montreal-Toronto 6-hour trip in winter fairly often. There were a few very scary times where headlights only reflected the snow back, so people turned on the 4 way flashers to get at least a periodic glimpse of where they were going.
That was back when I was young and "invincible", it scares me today to think I did that with my then wife in the car (much of the trips were basically controlled sliding requiring great reflexes).
The truckers on that route were heroes, slowing down the gung-ho, don't-give-a-damn drivers.
So how's BIM implementation going so far? Architects seem to hate it (whatever "it" is). In the process plant world, 3D is going fairly well, but that discipline tends to be more data-centric and complicated than architecture. Architecture is more art than engineering so it's less interested in selling it's soul to the infernal machine.
I seem to remember from my industrial gas engineering days that CO2 is heavier than air (that's why we'd put powered vents near the bottom of enclosures that air breathers might go into). Can we please all just move on to the next 'the-sky-is-falling' media-hyped scenario like the scarcity of fresh water? It's probably a scarier situation but many of the invested AGW people haven't caught on yet. Or at least not enough of them to build a "consensus" and unilaterally decide that the "science is settled".
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... intertank region of the external tank...
Meaning the vacuum space encapsulating the liquid hydrogen storage vessel (in case there is a leak) or the relief line from the ullage space? Oh wait, it must be the former.
That's "Eye-gore".
To go from 4GB to 8GB with that MacBook Pro will cost you twelve hundred dollars. I really have to wonder if the performance difference is worth that much. Doubling my older MBP's RAM to 4GB was ~$300, that's a reasonable price.
I sorta like the concept of free people too, I just don't know where I'd put them all.
I'm conflicted and can't decide. The fact that a SerpentMage and a SatanicPuppy are debating this in detail confuses me even more. Lawn, etc.
Waythehellago when I used to listen to music that was squiggly carved into vinyl (imagine scratching a point-ed stick across a flat rock - that's exactly what it sounded like in those days) I found that the diamond needle made the tunes sound like shit. So I sprang for the Moon rock needle and everything sounded much better. Then again, that was in my gasoline-powered turtleneck sweater days.
My apologies to Gern Blanston.
I read this today, and although it's not related to monitors it's at least somewhat relevant to graphics performance. NavisWorks is a CAD-type visualization program used in engineering and architecture to provide live fly-throughs (and other cool stuff) inside 3D models. Workstation cards cost about $800, while consumer-level cards cost about $150.
There are two types of graphics cards commercially available: workstation and consumer. Workstation graphics cards are much higher priced than consumer cards, because they generally offer more stable drivers and are tested and optimized to work across a wide range of leading CAD applications. Examples of current workstation quality graphics cards include NVIDIA Quadro® FX and ATI FireGL(TM).
Consumer graphics cards are usually relatively inexpensive. However, they are generally optimized for video games, and it is necessary that you install the latest driver versions as they are released. Examples of current consumer quality graphics cards include NVIDIA GeForce® FX and ATI Radeon(TM).
Autodesk performance testing has found that NavisWorks performs well on both workstation and consumer graphics cards, with neither offering any performance advantage over the other. It is strongly recommended that you buy the best card your budget can afford and keep the drivers up to date.
Source: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=11905783&linkID=10382101
I've noticed that Brits often pronounce the words, "were" and "we're" and "where" as sounding the same. Possible source for the errors.
Why is the latest iTunes update 75MB? My relatively small SSD can't keep up with these bloated patches.
However, the last few seasons have been fairly "meh" for me because it has turned almost completely into a soap opera.
Me too. That, and the horrible, trendy, "cutting-edge" shakey camera work.
Agreed. They're "Lost"
Look at it this way: if every software and computer "engineer" in the world evaporated tomorrow, "real" engineers would still be able to build stuff useful to people. If the reverse happened, it'd be uh-oh time on an extremely large scale.
Let's hope a revolution will take place before that.
Yes, let's all take to the streets with guns to resolve this social injustice. Are you a libarts grad or did you just drop out? I'm not ruling out the possibility of your mom's doctor having slippery fingers, though, so your outlook might not be your fault.
When I worked for [big industrial gas outfit, think major cryogenics] the company contributed to universities in order to have access to Ph.D research. Some of it was good, but the eggheads often "didn't know" (cough-cough) how to adapt/simplify things down to a useful industrial level. The really high-level results stuff was undoubtedly cherry-picked and not exposed to engineering-level people like myself. Those bastards! They should have told me everything!
Just a small pH change in the ocean can collapse the entire food chain.
Now that seems like a dramatic statement. One outcome of the "shrinking of the world" due to increased global communications is that each participant feels like they are a larger part of everything than they really are. TWIAVBP, get used to it.
Humans adapt to the environment, that's what we're good at and why we've been here for so long*. Intentionally trying to change the environment on a huge scale (other than just cleaning up real pollution) is a very bad idea for a multitude of reasons.
* Cue the replies from loonies who will make comparisons to bacteria, extraterrestrial aliens and various made-up deities.
The safest place to sit in a plane is in the back because the mountains are up front.
Employees vs. contractors is always an interesting factor in economic uncertainty times. When rumours of job cuts start circulating the permies are first in line to shout about seniority and loyalty regardless of their skills and relative worth to the organization.
"But I filled out the timesheets correctly for 15 years and kissed the appropriate asses! Why should I be let go?!
Off-topic, but I used to do the 401 Montreal-Toronto 6-hour trip in winter fairly often. There were a few very scary times where headlights only reflected the snow back, so people turned on the 4 way flashers to get at least a periodic glimpse of where they were going.
That was back when I was young and "invincible", it scares me today to think I did that with my then wife in the car (much of the trips were basically controlled sliding requiring great reflexes).
The truckers on that route were heroes, slowing down the gung-ho, don't-give-a-damn drivers.
there was one experiment [psychcentral.com] that suggests that suicides and crime may decrease when street lights are replaced with bluish lighting.
What's the theory behind that?
Loser, I have a 30" monitor! Small penis though, despite all the opportunities for enhancement.
I have an architectural background
So how's BIM implementation going so far? Architects seem to hate it (whatever "it" is). In the process plant world, 3D is going fairly well, but that discipline tends to be more data-centric and complicated than architecture. Architecture is more art than engineering so it's less interested in selling it's soul to the infernal machine.
Are you implying that this audience isn't interested in domes cities and artificial living environments??
Starlost: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069638/
"Writer Harlan Ellison, unhappy with changes made to his concept for the show, had his credit changed to the pseudonym "Cordwainer Bird.""
what goes up must come down
I seem to remember from my industrial gas engineering days that CO2 is heavier than air (that's why we'd put powered vents near the bottom of enclosures that air breathers might go into). Can we please all just move on to the next 'the-sky-is-falling' media-hyped scenario like the scarcity of fresh water? It's probably a scarier situation but many of the invested AGW people haven't caught on yet. Or at least not enough of them to build a "consensus" and unilaterally decide that the "science is settled".
Undersea cables, then and now:
http://opti-grab.ca/cables/