However, when a modern engineer is developing a part, does he still use a pen and paper to design the diagram? Of course not! The object is designed in detail in a CAD program.
If it is a genuinely unique part, yes, it is usually done with pen(cil) and paper. It is very important to work out as much detail as possible in your head and dump it to paper before passing the concept along to the CAD people. That's because CAD, 3D or not, gets very expensive very fast. Usually though, there is a pre-existing part that can be suitably modified - that's way cheaper but you still want to put ideas on paper and think things through as much as possible first. Many people jump from idea to trying to get funding without doing the homework and often get bogged-down.
Don't get me wrong, I think this technology is brilliant and especially so for prototyping and manufacturing small runs of custom components. Very cool.
I do believe much of the status is self-conceived more than socially conferred (ie, these people are driven by the need to feel better than others, to exult in the moral superiority obtained by having acted righteously or refrained from sin, etc.), though they tend to find each other and build echo chambers to validate these inner assessments (how much of the internet can be described this way...?)
I agree that planes are really safe, I fly often these days (about 18,000km over the past 10 months). My driving experience is in dense cities (Montreal, Toronto) that also have dedicated 3+ lanes each way for the autoroutes.
So these drunk drivers just fall from the sky, do they? Tip: drive a car with a glass sunroof, that way you'll see them coming.
Honestly though, if you are driving reasonably and are aware of cross-traffic you are extremely unlikely to have a serious collision. Is accident avoidance a serious matter? I think so.
That's a vague statement bordering on irresponsibility.
If you are a defensive driver, no it's not just an illusion of control. Sure, freak accidents do happen, but being aware of your surroundings and being able to react effectively drastically reduces the likelihood of having to talk to insurance investigators.
"Software used to manage the design and manufacture of the 555-seat A380 at Airbus's Hamburg engineering center isn't fully compatible with that used at company headquarters in Toulouse, France, say current and former Airbus executives, including Charles Champion, who headed the A380 program until September. That's why hundreds of small changes to electrical wiring in the A380 snowballed into at least a year's delay in delivering the world's biggest passenger aircraft and $2.5 billion in lost profit."
I don't always have time to check it out on CBC but the episodes I've seen were decent and featured some really creepy-looking aliens - cool and surprising!
Any competent driving or racing course will teach you to "look well ahead" and think in seconds rather than MPH. One thing I often notice is drivers waiting at a traffic light (already within the intersection) that have their front wheels already turned in the direction they want to go.
If the car gets rear-ended, it gets T-boned (left turns) into oncoming traffic or hits innocent pedestrians (right turns).
Of course, defensive drivers care about what is happening behind as well as in front.
Even worse is the type that is constantly trying to make people prove themselves to them by withholding information to see if their subordinate is "smart enough" to come to the same conclusions (and then berate them if they don't either due to a difference of opinion or a crucial missing piece of information).
Well said. You're already at +5 Insightful, so I save a mod point!
I work from home [...] on a triplehead workstation in my living room.
Dude, that's so lame nowadays. Dual screens were trendy 4 years ago and then Matrox upped the ante to 3 with the Parhelia. Really cool graphics geeks have four monitors now!
Joking aside, the quad setup is not all that great as the desk surface is too high to comfortably view the upper screens and I'm not ready to shell out for a 30" Apple or Dell (although doing so would supposedly get SLI to work).
Slashdot Mirror
Once I perfect unobtanium I'm going to sell it to HP as the medium to printbuild anything you could ever want. I just need seed funding.
However, when a modern engineer is developing a part, does he still use a pen and paper to design the diagram? Of course not! The object is designed in detail in a CAD program.
If it is a genuinely unique part, yes, it is usually done with pen(cil) and paper. It is very important to work out as much detail as possible in your head and dump it to paper before passing the concept along to the CAD people. That's because CAD, 3D or not, gets very expensive very fast. Usually though, there is a pre-existing part that can be suitably modified - that's way cheaper but you still want to put ideas on paper and think things through as much as possible first. Many people jump from idea to trying to get funding without doing the homework and often get bogged-down.
Don't get me wrong, I think this technology is brilliant and especially so for prototyping and manufacturing small runs of custom components. Very cool.
http://www.emachineshop.com/demo/index.htm
I thought slashdot started 10 years ago, not "5 or 6".
Interesting post:
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http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2423#comment-17629
I do believe much of the status is self-conceived more than socially conferred (ie, these people are driven by the need to feel better than others, to exult in the moral superiority obtained by having acted righteously or refrained from sin, etc.), though they tend to find each other and build echo chambers to validate these inner assessments (how much of the internet can be described this way...?)
Design engineers should stick to pretty body changes...
Chris Bangle should be fired as a car stylist.
But the rest of the world depends on the US for over-the-top stuff! What would we do without the US's constant swinging from one extreme to another?
I'm not a pot smoker, but when was the last time a government admitted it was wrong?
Please mod up to +5, funny.
No, not this post, dummy, the one before it.
I agree that planes are really safe, I fly often these days (about 18,000km over the past 10 months). My driving experience is in dense cities (Montreal, Toronto) that also have dedicated 3+ lanes each way for the autoroutes.
So these drunk drivers just fall from the sky, do they? Tip: drive a car with a glass sunroof, that way you'll see them coming.
Honestly though, if you are driving reasonably and are aware of cross-traffic you are extremely unlikely to have a serious collision. Is accident avoidance a serious matter? I think so.
That's a vague statement bordering on irresponsibility.
If you are a defensive driver, no it's not just an illusion of control. Sure, freak accidents do happen, but being aware of your surroundings and being able to react effectively drastically reduces the likelihood of having to talk to insurance investigators.
"Software used to manage the design and manufacture of the 555-seat A380 at Airbus's Hamburg engineering center isn't fully compatible with that used at company headquarters in Toulouse, France, say current and former Airbus executives, including Charles Champion, who headed the A380 program until September. That's why hundreds of small changes to electrical wiring in the A380 snowballed into at least a year's delay in delivering the world's biggest passenger aircraft and $2.5 billion in lost profit."
Cute alliteration headline, n'est-ce pas? Useless, though, ya Looser.
I don't always have time to check it out on CBC but the episodes I've seen were decent and featured some really creepy-looking aliens - cool and surprising!
You have to look ahead.
Any competent driving or racing course will teach you to "look well ahead" and think in seconds rather than MPH. One thing I often notice is drivers waiting at a traffic light (already within the intersection) that have their front wheels already turned in the direction they want to go.
If the car gets rear-ended, it gets T-boned (left turns) into oncoming traffic or hits innocent pedestrians (right turns).
Of course, defensive drivers care about what is happening behind as well as in front.
What would happen to car insurance company profits?
Is Google hiring Bill(ion)-level people?
Maybe they should be called "Executive Editors" then. Taco, sorry for that suggestion way back when.
Yeah, but can you competently install and maintain slash? Burn!
If, on the remote possibility that you can, contact me.
Even worse is the type that is constantly trying to make people prove themselves to them by withholding information to see if their subordinate is "smart enough" to come to the same conclusions (and then berate them if they don't either due to a difference of opinion or a crucial missing piece of information).
Well said. You're already at +5 Insightful, so I save a mod point!
With four cores, you can play your game AND burn a disc AND have some crap going in the background and not have to care unless you become I/O-bound.
You mean like RAM management?
Shouldn't the above been modded as funny, not insightful?
I work from home [...] on a triplehead workstation in my living room.
Dude, that's so lame nowadays. Dual screens were trendy 4 years ago and then Matrox upped the ante to 3 with the Parhelia. Really cool graphics geeks have four monitors now!
Joking aside, the quad setup is not all that great as the desk surface is too high to comfortably view the upper screens and I'm not ready to shell out for a 30" Apple or Dell (although doing so would supposedly get SLI to work).
At least it had a cool car. Compare front ends:
g eles-Auto-Show/2008-Audi-R8---LA-Auto-Show.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/tkan/audi/i_robot_rsq1.jpg
http://cars.about.com/od/autoshows/ig/2006-Los-An