The interesting thing is that DNA does NOT specify or describe entirely a creature, just as a piece of computer software, say Microsoft Office, means nothing without the context of an x86 processor, a BIOS, various peripherals, etc. DNA provides templates for actions within a context of a cellular system, which we do not fully understand yet.
The common distros put the source on seperate CD(s), you don't need to download or carry them around. But I still agree with you, in this day I think it is sufficient that source be put on web, put the burden of physical storage and obtaining the source on the person who wants it
Microsoft is growing and profitable having their developers do other things, until such time as they are held hugely financially liable for their bloated buggy crap they won't make that their prime focus
The companies where I've worked really didn't really want "smart objects" to go out the door anyway, only enough data so contractor or fabricator could do their work, not enough that competitors could steal ideas. The default dwg format isn't encrypted by the way, it's merely complicated, OpenDWG sounds very AutoCAD-centric too, how well is say a Pro/E or CATIA model going to fare in that format? Some vendors prefer IGES for vendor neutral format, maybe we should just beef that up.
well, the planet is more than 99.9999% rock and metal. But "hurting the planet" usually refers to harming that thin scum on it's outsides that we call "the biosphere"....quite possible we could permanently ruin that if we really tried.
Putting people in tin cans is useless to the long-term goal of colonizing space. What is really needed to go in that direction is robots, robots, robots. Robots to mine asteroids and moon, robots to assemble and walk space elavators, robots to survey and explore for resources and for the REALLY long term build huge telescopes in space so we can identify candidates for habitable planets.
Glad you brought up long-term effects of weightlessness. Let's also wait until we can build large, spinnable craft that give people a proper 1 g environment so their bone structures doesn't rot.
really?, I think the robotic exploration of mars and outer planets every bit as exciting as moon walks were. And no chance of astronauts being vaporized. Maybe we should put manned space missions on hold until we develop craft that aren't world's largest chemical bombs with low-end tactical nuclear yields. There's no scientific achievement that's been done by man in space that couldn't be done faster, better, cheaper, and safer by machine.
If I was in a small mechanical or ae shop, I'd just have one copy of AutoCAD and import/export to/from cheaper or free internal CADD package. A tad of autolisp goes a long way to automatically pretty up the outbound drawings. You'd only need to update every 5 years or so, so divide $3500 by 5 and it's not so bad
let's not launch a couple manned space missions and instead take the billions saved to plop a robot probe in one of these volcanoes to look for life in the underlying water layer.
besides, for personal use of AutoCAD, there's the obvious and naughty solution 8D Doesn't hurt my conscience any, I've req'd millions of dollars worth of the stuff at work
dude, R14 came out in 1997, if the price of AutoCAD and CADD stations isn't an insignificant chunk of your company's product development budget, your company either has less than 4 employees or is doomed, and you should be using hand drawings rather than CADD, it's faster
DXF has published spec, there are commercial apps such as Able Graphic Manager (and others, try googling something like "dxf bitmapped converter"), there are also converters for AutoCAD's own native DWG format to other vector formats. I myself find it best to just do screenshots of rendered models and drawings, better looking than any converter since there's just too many variables going to an extremely complex vector CADD file to bitmaps formats.
Some are, some aren't. Those whom Saddam took good care of certainly aren't happy, and those who would like the entire middle east to revert to the seventh century aren't. But this is a temporary situation, just today the government there asked for a timetable for the U.S. to leave, which is good, they want to take things into their own hands.
"turned a blind eye"? No, that's when we went to war and kicked Saddam out of Kuwait. Was this before you were born so you're hazy on the details? The civil war continued under Saddam, with him butchering and gassing his own countrymen, another piece of history maybe you were in diapers for? I'm a cocky piece of shit, but not an ignorant one.
nothing to the table? What would the middle east or China be like, where would they be, without western money? Better yet, where will the arab lands be when the world moves on to alternate energy sources. Answer: They will be primative shit holes (or more accurately. even more primative shitholes), with their minds and bodies imprisoned.. At least those in Iraq have a chance to build a better government for themselves (compared to dictatorship they had). You also seem to think that those who choose to be a soldier, a warrior, for a living should be outraged they might be asked to go and fight & risk death at a young age somewhere. Soldiers fight, kill and destroy stuff, it's in the job description and company policy handbook.
failed? how so, it's everywhere, from browsers to enterprise multi-tier architectures. sales of java-based application server infrastructure (weblogic, websphere, etc.) is growing at triple-digit rates each year. Of course, it's not the single one world standard Sun hoped for, but its sure not dying or stagnating. Sure, in the small and mid range scripting langauges are popular as a simpler way to get stuff done, and I hope that new virtual machines for these langauges in the future pose a real threat to java/j2ee. What else is there, CORBA (stagnating and dying for sure)? dot-net ?
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The interesting thing is that DNA does NOT specify or describe entirely a creature, just as a piece of computer software, say Microsoft Office, means nothing without the context of an x86 processor, a BIOS, various peripherals, etc. DNA provides templates for actions within a context of a cellular system, which we do not fully understand yet.
"A" Flying Spaghetti Monster??????!!!!!!! You polythestic pagan infidel, there is only ONE True Monstrous Saucy Pasta Meatballed Levitator!
most dead things won't form fossils, so likely we won't ever see or know every critter that's ever existed.
pfft, that's the best case. How about "three days of the condor" where they come in and machine-gun your whole branch office just to be safe?
The common distros put the source on seperate CD(s), you don't need to download or carry them around. But I still agree with you, in this day I think it is sufficient that source be put on web, put the burden of physical storage and obtaining the source on the person who wants it
Right on. As they shrivel into nonrelevence bet they control even of java.
Microsoft is growing and profitable having their developers do other things, until such time as they are held hugely financially liable for their bloated buggy crap they won't make that their prime focus
The companies where I've worked really didn't really want "smart objects" to go out the door anyway, only enough data so contractor or fabricator could do their work, not enough that competitors could steal ideas. The default dwg format isn't encrypted by the way, it's merely complicated, OpenDWG sounds very AutoCAD-centric too, how well is say a Pro/E or CATIA model going to fare in that format? Some vendors prefer IGES for vendor neutral format, maybe we should just beef that up.
well, the planet is more than 99.9999% rock and metal. But "hurting the planet" usually refers to harming that thin scum on it's outsides that we call "the biosphere"....quite possible we could permanently ruin that if we really tried.
Putting people in tin cans is useless to the long-term goal of colonizing space. What is really needed to go in that direction is robots, robots, robots. Robots to mine asteroids and moon, robots to assemble and walk space elavators, robots to survey and explore for resources and for the REALLY long term build huge telescopes in space so we can identify candidates for habitable planets.
Glad you brought up long-term effects of weightlessness. Let's also wait until we can build large, spinnable craft that give people a proper 1 g environment so their bone structures doesn't rot.
really?, I think the robotic exploration of mars and outer planets every bit as exciting as moon walks were. And no chance of astronauts being vaporized. Maybe we should put manned space missions on hold until we develop craft that aren't world's largest chemical bombs with low-end tactical nuclear yields. There's no scientific achievement that's been done by man in space that couldn't be done faster, better, cheaper, and safer by machine.
If I was in a small mechanical or ae shop, I'd just have one copy of AutoCAD and import/export to/from cheaper or free internal CADD package. A tad of autolisp goes a long way to automatically pretty up the outbound drawings. You'd only need to update every 5 years or so, so divide $3500 by 5 and it's not so bad
Clinton's frontmost lobe was very active, in the mouth of an intern
or they're in the water fishing for space probes
let's not launch a couple manned space missions and instead take the billions saved to plop a robot probe in one of these volcanoes to look for life in the underlying water layer.
besides, for personal use of AutoCAD, there's the obvious and naughty solution 8D Doesn't hurt my conscience any, I've req'd millions of dollars worth of the stuff at work
since bionic appendages can now have feeling, how about "Bionic Penile Enlargement Now" jokes?
dude, R14 came out in 1997, if the price of AutoCAD and CADD stations isn't an insignificant chunk of your company's product development budget, your company either has less than 4 employees or is doomed, and you should be using hand drawings rather than CADD, it's faster
DXF has published spec, there are commercial apps such as Able Graphic Manager (and others, try googling something like "dxf bitmapped converter"), there are also converters for AutoCAD's own native DWG format to other vector formats. I myself find it best to just do screenshots of rendered models and drawings, better looking than any converter since there's just too many variables going to an extremely complex vector CADD file to bitmaps formats.
Some are, some aren't. Those whom Saddam took good care of certainly aren't happy, and those who would like the entire middle east to revert to the seventh century aren't. But this is a temporary situation, just today the government there asked for a timetable for the U.S. to leave, which is good, they want to take things into their own hands.
"turned a blind eye"? No, that's when we went to war and kicked Saddam out of Kuwait. Was this before you were born so you're hazy on the details? The civil war continued under Saddam, with him butchering and gassing his own countrymen, another piece of history maybe you were in diapers for? I'm a cocky piece of shit, but not an ignorant one.
usually gallium arsenide or sometimes gallium nitride.
nothing to the table? What would the middle east or China be like, where would they be, without western money? Better yet, where will the arab lands be when the world moves on to alternate energy sources. Answer: They will be primative shit holes (or more accurately. even more primative shitholes), with their minds and bodies imprisoned.. At least those in Iraq have a chance to build a better government for themselves (compared to dictatorship they had). You also seem to think that those who choose to be a soldier, a warrior, for a living should be outraged they might be asked to go and fight & risk death at a young age somewhere. Soldiers fight, kill and destroy stuff, it's in the job description and company policy handbook.
failed? how so, it's everywhere, from browsers to enterprise multi-tier architectures. sales of java-based application server infrastructure (weblogic, websphere, etc.) is growing at triple-digit rates each year. Of course, it's not the single one world standard Sun hoped for, but its sure not dying or stagnating. Sure, in the small and mid range scripting langauges are popular as a simpler way to get stuff done, and I hope that new virtual machines for these langauges in the future pose a real threat to java/j2ee. What else is there, CORBA (stagnating and dying for sure)? dot-net ?
to a Fundamentalist Pastafarian, that would be idolatry, to make a likeless of His Saucy Meatballed Noodliness that couldn't be eaten