People have been building boats from fibreglass for a long time. There is no difference between working with CF and working with fibreglass - it's just that CF is stronger and more expensive (and thus more difficult to cut).
Also, if you use the technique the Sweedes used (sandwich expandable foam between two CF layers), the hull is alot more buoyant than a steel hull - which means you can change the shape (within reason) to a more stealthy version.
Modification would be a bitch though! If you want to weld a new bracket to a steel hull it takes 5min from the inside or a few hours to do externally. If you try the same thing on a CF hull, it takes a few hours (12?) for the CF resin to go off. Forget trying to modify the exterior hull without a drydock. Also, in the event of wartime damage repairs you can weld a new plate over the hull and have it watertight and you are good to go. No chance with CF - it needs a completely dry environment (assuming you even have enough raw CF & resin in the first place - you can't just reuse old sections)
I've sold some stuff on ebay and had two returns. One was a 4 disk set of the Alien movies, but the guy returned it about a month after buying it because of "dvd rot". Fair enough.
The second one however, was for an external camera for a mobile phone. They were selling retail for 75 at the time, but I got mine free with the phone. I sold it for 50 (most were going to 35) to a guy. I sent it out, then two weeks after he got it he said it didn't work. I had already tested it, but what can you do? Call the guy a liar? Well, I refunded his money and when I got the camera back, I plugged it in and it worked perfectly. What I think really happened was that he found out he paid too much and that the quality was crap and wanted to "return it to place of purchase for a full refund".
So after that episode, I simply put a disclaimer at the bottom that there will be no refunds and all sales are final. I try to be as honest with descriptions as possible so there *should* be no problems.
Thats the most "ghetto" engine I've ever seen - look at those welds for gods sake!. This Guy has made a jet engine from kit parts, and a 9 cylinder radial engine from nothing but plans and blocks of aluminium. I've also seen a website somewhere (can't find it now) where a guy built a Wren MW54 jet engine from just the plans, machining all the parts himself.
The damn neverending light bulb in OpenOffice is much, much worse...
How true! I have just switched to oo.o and I almost fell off my chair when I first saw the lightbulb. I've never seen a post on here that says anything against it - although I've lost count of the number of kill clippy posts.
From what I've read, they will shoot enough raw footage per day for 3 seperate 60min movies. I also think you are overestimating the production costs on most porn movies. Im pretty sure you can make a movie (san distribution costs) for under 15 grand, including production, editing/post production and possibly even duplication ( Not that I would know or anything...
For some weird reason, immigrants have been coming to this country for over 100 years with some idea that this place was paradise, the streets were paved with gold, etc., just to wake up to bitter reality when they got here. Don't you guys ever watch the news? Or better yet, talk to other people that have already come here? Wake up! This country isn't any better than most out there. If you're looking for a better situation in your life, maybe you should try cleaning up your own backyard instead of abandoning your home and moving someplace else because you've heard some myths about it being wonderful there.
You obviously have never been outside the US. I have friends in Poland who work for around 50c per hour, because thats the only work they can get. In America (or most other 1st world countries), you can work hard and get ahead (relatively speaking)
Im no writing expert... (Im far, far from it) But don't the writing styles of both articles seem veeeeeery similar? Both are written in a british, light humoured way. Could be wrong of course.. Also, I haven't seen the bit where the pro-pirate article says it's from "A senior industry figure"
"Yeah... I'd like a half ounce of Chaos Engine, a Quarter of Xenon 2 and 20 Sensis"
Chaos Engine.. Xenon 2. Man, what memories and what awesome fucking games. I've done my fair share of pirating for the last 15+ years, but I've bought my fair share of games too. Not when I was 15 though - I had no cash of course. If it wasn't for piracy, I wouldn't have bought an Amiga.
And the guys that are acting as the hubs - ie. the major distributors, usually get so much stuff they are spending all their time copying cd's (disks in my day!) that they cant *play* the games. So why bust the guy that's giving you free advertising?
Zalman have brought out a computer case that is completely silent - no fans or moving parts of any kind, which means no dust. Has support for P4 and Athlon64 (but no Athlon XP sadly).
Agreed. The best manager I ever had used to say that if we were working more than 8 hours a day, 5 days a week then he had failed as a manager and wasn't doing his job properly.
Did everyone see this thread?. Thats the most replies I have seen (and in 3 months too) of any forum I have ever visited. That Optoma H30 must be hot shit..
They have a 15 pin dsub connector and do "VGA" resolutions with refresh rates up to 90hz. So it sounds like they wont look interlaced... full specs here
What resolution do you need? You can buy buy large monitors that do low res reasonably cheap - eg. Wells Gardner do 27 and 33 inch display monitors for the arcade game market.
its nice to see that big oil companies are helping fund a project like this too.
Oil companies will throw cash at anything that will be profitable for them. People love to say how big oil want to lock people into oil/fuel products - but that's not true.
They want to do anything that will make them the most money. If something else comes along, they will adapt. I did some work at BP energy trading and trust me, they would trade *anything* that would make them cash (when I left they were looking at weather futures).
Let me just say, there is no switching cost: you have been fooled. It's not your fault; Microsoft has been fooling billions of people the same way you have been fooled. Offset training and allocation of new resources in your company for purging out Microsoft as being standard operating costs (upgrade costs), not "switching" costs; it's a farce to think otherwise.
So there's no switching cost because you use the money you were allocated to spend anyway on upgrading?
Whats the point of having a link in the article to the US exchange rate? I think the practice of having too many links on a page makes it completely unreadable.. (eg. wikipedia)
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People have been building boats from fibreglass for a long time. There is no difference between working with CF and working with fibreglass - it's just that CF is stronger and more expensive (and thus more difficult to cut).
Also, if you use the technique the Sweedes used (sandwich expandable foam between two CF layers), the hull is alot more buoyant than a steel hull - which means you can change the shape (within reason) to a more stealthy version.
Modification would be a bitch though! If you want to weld a new bracket to a steel hull it takes 5min from the inside or a few hours to do externally. If you try the same thing on a CF hull, it takes a few hours (12?) for the CF resin to go off. Forget trying to modify the exterior hull without a drydock. Also, in the event of wartime damage repairs you can weld a new plate over the hull and have it watertight and you are good to go. No chance with CF - it needs a completely dry environment (assuming you even have enough raw CF & resin in the first place - you can't just reuse old sections)
I've sold some stuff on ebay and had two returns. One was a 4 disk set of the Alien movies, but the guy returned it about a month after buying it because of "dvd rot". Fair enough.
The second one however, was for an external camera for a mobile phone. They were selling retail for 75 at the time, but I got mine free with the phone. I sold it for 50 (most were going to 35) to a guy. I sent it out, then two weeks after he got it he said it didn't work. I had already tested it, but what can you do? Call the guy a liar? Well, I refunded his money and when I got the camera back, I plugged it in and it worked perfectly. What I think really happened was that he found out he paid too much and that the quality was crap and wanted to "return it to place of purchase for a full refund".
So after that episode, I simply put a disclaimer at the bottom that there will be no refunds and all sales are final. I try to be as honest with descriptions as possible so there *should* be no problems.
This info was mentioned in the referenced slashdot story.
Thats the most "ghetto" engine I've ever seen - look at those welds for gods sake!. This Guy has made a jet engine from kit parts, and a 9 cylinder radial engine from nothing but plans and blocks of aluminium. I've also seen a website somewhere (can't find it now) where a guy built a Wren MW54 jet engine from just the plans, machining all the parts himself.
How true! I have just switched to oo.o and I almost fell off my chair when I first saw the lightbulb. I've never seen a post on here that says anything against it - although I've lost count of the number of kill clippy posts.
From what I've read, they will shoot enough raw footage per day for 3 seperate 60min movies. I also think you are overestimating the production costs on most porn movies. Im pretty sure you can make a movie (san distribution costs) for under 15 grand, including production, editing/post production and possibly even duplication (
Not that I would know or anything...
yeah, thats why I offer to make free off-site backups for other people using bittorrent...
I live on a remote South Pacific island you insensitive clod!
You obviously have never been outside the US. I have friends in Poland who work for around 50c per hour, because thats the only work they can get. In America (or most other 1st world countries), you can work hard and get ahead (relatively speaking)
Im no writing expert... (Im far, far from it) But don't the writing styles of both articles seem veeeeeery similar? Both are written in a british, light humoured way. Could be wrong of course.. Also, I haven't seen the bit where the pro-pirate article says it's from "A senior industry figure"
Chaos Engine.. Xenon 2. Man, what memories and what awesome fucking games. I've done my fair share of pirating for the last 15+ years, but I've bought my fair share of games too. Not when I was 15 though - I had no cash of course. If it wasn't for piracy, I wouldn't have bought an Amiga.
And the guys that are acting as the hubs - ie. the major distributors, usually get so much stuff they are spending all their time copying cd's (disks in my day!) that they cant *play* the games. So why bust the guy that's giving you free advertising?
... and how exactly will that help the OP in XP?
Zalman have brought out a computer case that is completely silent - no fans or moving parts of any kind, which means no dust. Has support for P4 and Athlon64 (but no Athlon XP sadly).
8 hours is a short hop.
Try flying London->Sydney. 23 hours in the air, plus a 1 hour layover in Singapore since they can't carry enough fuel for a single flight.
Agreed. The best manager I ever had used to say that if we were working more than 8 hours a day, 5 days a week then he had failed as a manager and wasn't doing his job properly.
Yeah, but how long until it dries out?
Did everyone see this thread?. Thats the most replies I have seen (and in 3 months too) of any forum I have ever visited. That Optoma H30 must be hot shit..
They have a 15 pin dsub connector and do "VGA" resolutions with refresh rates up to 90hz. So it sounds like they wont look interlaced... full specs here
What resolution do you need? You can buy buy large monitors that do low res reasonably cheap - eg. Wells Gardner do 27 and 33 inch display monitors for the arcade game market.
Thats okay, because I like pizza!
Hey, a programmer's gotta eat.
Is that anything like a moot point?
I have no mouth but I must scream!
Interestingly, there is also a request for speakers.
Oil companies will throw cash at anything that will be profitable for them. People love to say how big oil want to lock people into oil/fuel products - but that's not true.
They want to do anything that will make them the most money. If something else comes along, they will adapt. I did some work at BP energy trading and trust me, they would trade *anything* that would make them cash (when I left they were looking at weather futures).
So there's no switching cost because you use the money you were allocated to spend anyway on upgrading?
er, yarite.
Whats the point of having a link in the article to the US exchange rate? I think the practice of having too many links on a page makes it completely unreadable.. (eg. wikipedia)