A screw machine is a super-specialized brother of a turret lathe but a CNC mill can machine pretty much anything. So its a "specialized task" vs "general purpose" battle.
The article seems to focus on how the old machine uses punch cards to actuate instead of a PLC and some solenoids or servos, which seems irrelevant to making better lace. So its a binary data format battle.
The best machinist analogy I can come up with is claiming an old bridgeport with a PDP-8 CNC controller reading gcode off papertape somehow magically produces higher quality parts than my current Linux/EMC2 controller system, which I find unlikely.
One cap full for a bucket of water. It tasted terrible,
The water treatment guys screwed up. Chlorinated water shouldn't taste awful after purification, certainly not even as bad as swimming pool water. The "art" of chlorination is to use just enough hypochlorite to oxidize all the microbial life, anything over and above that is wasting supplies, aim for the "faintest taste of chlorine". Also you can aerate the water, just pouring it from cup to cup for a few minutes will help noticeably. Storing treated water after Cl dissipates will allow whatever was growing in there to start growing again, so theres little point in stockpiling treated water. The point I'm making is, assuming the water treatment dudes were not totally incompetent (which is possible despite 3rd world conditions), a canteen full of dog pee would be perfectly safe to drink after treatment, but won't taste good. So there's some reason other than Cl2 content that the water tastes horrible, and frankly you probably don't want to know why. Dead animal carcass upstream, manure runoff/sewage leakage upstream, dead fish suction-stuck to intake grates, etc. The foulest "treated" water seems to come from swamps full of decaying everything.
Now you want foul tasting treated water, try iodine purified water. That stuff is foul, but iodine stores better than chlorine compounds, more stable. Great for 3rd world. All halogens taste / smell pretty much the same and your Dr buddy might not have known better.
Its just a bag of activated charcoal. Great at filtering out larger organics, not so good with microbial life forms and minerals.
I bought "cassette tape" sized bags of activated charcoal for my tropical fish tanks in the 80s. Glad to see the technology reinvented.
I'm not sure any amount of AC can protect fish from nearby rotenone spraying, then again its very hard to prove that without the AC bags my fish would not have died, its not like I was about to tempt fate. Thus plenty of opportunity for psuedo-science. Which MIGHT be where this product is headed, maybe.
Makes me wonder what life will be like for someone who does charity work with the homeless.
You comment on it being used to deny loans, but I think it more likely it would be used to deny life/health/auto insurance. And frankly, that is a fair use.
Aside from eating out the garbage can (so far as I know) your other descriptions pretty accurately portray my ex-coworkers at an unnamed dying company... I escaped, but anyone still stuck working there or now unemployed, frankly should not be taking out a loan.
I don't know about you... but I haven't seen any LONG TERM study about other 3D technologies
Ask anyone currently alive about the "viewmaster" since "3d" tv is basically a moving pictures version of a viewmaster. With, frankly, all the long term staying power.
Viewmaster is old, old technology. There were training disks in WWII for the army although I've never seen them.
unfortunately that's just the sort of design process and forethought which was shunned at the place I worked at that time.
Ouch man, ouch. In the networking world we call that situation trying to solve a simple layer-8 problem using a very complicated layer-1 solution (or various other combos of numbers). I'm guessing rebooting was unacceptable because you had no backups / load balancers / load levelers / checkpointers / heartbeat monitor / hot standby disaster recovery / replication systems. Most places, reboots sound like a great time to test that gear, assuming you have it...
When you have around 1500 production servers to patch, such as with the memmap 0 bug last year, doing them one-by-one, or even in small batches, remotely over IP KVM takes a long-ass time.
One single line using pssh, dsh, dish, or no lines at all when using a very fancied up puppet configuration?
Do you like toggle in boot code over the IP KVM like a PDP-8 or what?
The ability to do something the hard way, does not prove the lack of existence of an easier way.
This could be due to many other factors than just alcohol. What about the food?
I have noticed that when I cook fresh homemade dishes made with wine or perhaps beer as a flavoring, I tend to polish off the bottle with the food. Homemade beer battered fish filets... Homemade salad dressings made with red wine... Homemade gravy deglazed with wine... Chicken marinated in wine... Mmmm.
On the other hand, yet another fast food burger does not rate my finest red wine.
My consumption of home cooked organic food is strongly correlated with my wine/beer consumption.
I'd wager it has something to do with the relative stress levels of the people.
Maybe dynamic stress level instead of static? Its possible to be quite relaxed, basically all the time, without booze.
Perhaps in a culture of obesity, "getting so stressed out you need to binge drink" is the only exercise they get, but at least they get SOME exercise. On the other hand, I'm fat and happy, and frankly I need the exercise, even if it would only be inwardly screaming against... whatever the heck it is that stresses out the drunkards.
This isn't anything new. Alcohol in moderation has been proven to reduce lots of types of disease and medical problems in those who only drink a little.
Did they correct for financial situation? Any college kid whom ran out of beer money knows what I'm talking about.
I have one of those, the Spartan board, not a Cray-1. I did not remember, but checked online and the Spartan board has a 66 MHz canned oscillator. So, his design probably uses two clock cycles per instruction cycle.
Probably also limited my the memory speed of whatever he's using for memory. 33 MHz equals what 30 ns access cycle?
The other is to do it in the direction of flow, with the system turned on.
Works better the closer the can of duster is to the fan... Until you knock a blade off the fan, either by hitting it with the tube of the duster or overreving it. Of course you can work around that by shutting off power and shoving the duster tube inside the device, until it starts knocking (poorly/barely attached) connectors off.
Its the type of task you can usually hack your way thru and doing a half-way job does well enough most of the time usually without damage, but actually doing it right is apparently harder than you expect.
What you must do is connect the device with an other prisoner, but in such a way that they do not know who the oter one is and if they are too far from each other, the device will explode
Well that's ass backwards. A better idea is put a device on all the gang members such that they explode if they get too close together, not too far apart. That would be an interesting new driveby technique, find a snitch and throw them from a moving car at your target at a high enough speed that the car wouldn't be caught in the kaboom...
Drug users poison themselves, and I find very few possession charges of "individual use" quantities of drugs that carry mandatory prison time...
Look again, as one idiot I knew in school found out the hard way, after the third or fourth or fifth or whatever possession charge it becomes a felony or whatever and you get time in the slammer. Right now you're thinking, how does a college student get busted that many times, well, its a lifetime count, and if you get busted every couple decades and you have gray hair... This will be the new wedge against the drug war, now that the ex-60s hippies with a record are graying but still want to party.
The same people that don't want to live near a prison won't want to live next to a current prisoner.
So, if the law is an offender can't live within 1000 feet, simply build a school or playground every 900 feet and its all good. This strategy is actively being done in my area. Admittedly, why you'd want to raise kids more than 1000 feet from a playground or school is a mystery to me, but it has the side effect of forcing the offenders into rooming houses literally built inside industrial parks... Which is not all that bad of an idea, unless your dream was always to live next door to a tannery or a chicken processing plant.
Why lifetime punishment is considered acceptable for a crime generally considered less severe than murder is a whole nother topic.
My knowledge of this is fuzzy second hand from my neighbor the ex-con, but they randomly call your house landline at all/most hours asking for you and you better answer using something very much like a secure-id fob inside the ankle bracelet. Later they download your ankle bracelet GPS data. If you didn't answer the phone you better have a good and valid ankle bracelet GPS reading stored at that time or some kind of valid excuse.
A bigger problem is ankle bracelets having iffy rx coverage inside a car/van.
Also, understanding the system doesn't work too well, the punishment wasn't all that severe for screwing up. The idea being that this would be used as an "in-between" not as a replacement. Most people completely misinterpret it as being a replacement for prison, when its 50/50 that its actually a replacement for outright complete freedom. The original article is pretty misguided.
You set a curfew. Either they are at work (at the times they are supposed to be working) or they are at home (at the other times). If they are not at home, the GPS system will detect that and alert the cops that they have broken the curfew (and may be committing a crime).
Too simplistic, doesn't work. People also need to eat, go to the dentist, go to the emergency room, go to the doctor, apply for work at a better job, go to the pharmacy, get their interview suit from the drycleaners, work unanticipated mandatory overtime, AA meetings "often" intentionally scheduled during prime drinking time, etc. And if the criminal either has kids living in their house or even just has kids at all, its pretty much free range as long as there is a tenuous connection to "its for the children".
I speak from experience given my neighbor has nearly double digit drunk driving convictions, and on his latest work-release / probation / house arrest / whatever the heck its called, he pretty much got around MORE than I did.
From discussion, since its virtually impossible to live outside prison under house arrest, no one does, and it simply means the parole officer bullies folks she/he doesn't like as an individual or as a (protected minority) group. Being a married with children white semi-educated good ole boy sorta-middle class sportsfan, coincidentally pretty much identical to his parole officer with the exception of adding a serious drinking problem, he had few hassles, but I'm told minorities tend to have a very rough time of it.
I've been lusting after a full copy of the OED since I was introduced to it in my Freshman year of High School. However, as a poor college student majoring in Math,
So, the physics guys lust after a full set of Feynmans lectures, the CS guys lust after a full set of Knuth, most of the rest of the guys lust after the ladies, but you're trying to tell me the math majors lust after a dictionary?
Work is now progressing on the 3rd edition, but it's still a decade or more away from completion
My job is killing too many brain cells (my own, I mean). Thats more like a thirty year release cycle. As you can see, Debian has nothing to be concerned about. So that means more like $6000 of online revenue vs less than $1000 for the printed product.
At $295 per year, and govt subsidized toner, paper, and labor, I think you'd be better off printing the whole thing out, rather than subscribing for decades.
So obviously it isn't about the money, it's about the technology
Sometimes mergers happen to eliminate the competition. If you axe a $200M competitor, you can probably increase your revenues more than $200M because less competition means higher prices for everyone... Sure they're not going to ten-tuple, but its not going to take $2B/$200M = 10 years to pay for itself. Maybe, like 5 to 7 years?
Also, sometimes a merger means patents etc that a cheapy competitor couldn't afford to enforce, can now be cashed in.
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A screw machine is a super-specialized brother of a turret lathe but a CNC mill can machine pretty much anything. So its a "specialized task" vs "general purpose" battle.
The article seems to focus on how the old machine uses punch cards to actuate instead of a PLC and some solenoids or servos, which seems irrelevant to making better lace. So its a binary data format battle.
The best machinist analogy I can come up with is claiming an old bridgeport with a PDP-8 CNC controller reading gcode off papertape somehow magically produces higher quality parts than my current Linux/EMC2 controller system, which I find unlikely.
One cap full for a bucket of water. It tasted terrible,
The water treatment guys screwed up. Chlorinated water shouldn't taste awful after purification, certainly not even as bad as swimming pool water. The "art" of chlorination is to use just enough hypochlorite to oxidize all the microbial life, anything over and above that is wasting supplies, aim for the "faintest taste of chlorine". Also you can aerate the water, just pouring it from cup to cup for a few minutes will help noticeably. Storing treated water after Cl dissipates will allow whatever was growing in there to start growing again, so theres little point in stockpiling treated water. The point I'm making is, assuming the water treatment dudes were not totally incompetent (which is possible despite 3rd world conditions), a canteen full of dog pee would be perfectly safe to drink after treatment, but won't taste good. So there's some reason other than Cl2 content that the water tastes horrible, and frankly you probably don't want to know why. Dead animal carcass upstream, manure runoff/sewage leakage upstream, dead fish suction-stuck to intake grates, etc. The foulest "treated" water seems to come from swamps full of decaying everything.
Now you want foul tasting treated water, try iodine purified water. That stuff is foul, but iodine stores better than chlorine compounds, more stable. Great for 3rd world. All halogens taste / smell pretty much the same and your Dr buddy might not have known better.
Its just a bag of activated charcoal. Great at filtering out larger organics, not so good with microbial life forms and minerals.
I bought "cassette tape" sized bags of activated charcoal for my tropical fish tanks in the 80s. Glad to see the technology reinvented.
I'm not sure any amount of AC can protect fish from nearby rotenone spraying, then again its very hard to prove that without the AC bags my fish would not have died, its not like I was about to tempt fate. Thus plenty of opportunity for psuedo-science. Which MIGHT be where this product is headed, maybe.
Makes me wonder what life will be like for someone who does charity work with the homeless.
You comment on it being used to deny loans, but I think it more likely it would be used to deny life/health/auto insurance. And frankly, that is a fair use.
Aside from eating out the garbage can (so far as I know) your other descriptions pretty accurately portray my ex-coworkers at an unnamed dying company... I escaped, but anyone still stuck working there or now unemployed, frankly should not be taking out a loan.
Whats this "these days" quote? Confusing "it is and always has been bad" with "it must have been better in the good ole days"?
Just buy, beg or borrow an old electronic keyboard. Much more fun for an 18 month old. (Was for mine)
Critical step - set the volume control to a "tolerable level" then drool epoxy all over it so it can't be adjusted.
Without that step, I'd have gone completely F-ing insane.
I don't know about you... but I haven't seen any LONG TERM study about other 3D technologies
Ask anyone currently alive about the "viewmaster" since "3d" tv is basically a moving pictures version of a viewmaster. With, frankly, all the long term staying power.
Viewmaster is old, old technology. There were training disks in WWII for the army although I've never seen them.
unfortunately that's just the sort of design process and forethought which was shunned at the place I worked at that time.
Ouch man, ouch. In the networking world we call that situation trying to solve a simple layer-8 problem using a very complicated layer-1 solution (or various other combos of numbers). I'm guessing rebooting was unacceptable because you had no backups / load balancers / load levelers / checkpointers / heartbeat monitor / hot standby disaster recovery / replication systems. Most places, reboots sound like a great time to test that gear, assuming you have it...
When you have around 1500 production servers to patch, such as with the memmap 0 bug last year, doing them one-by-one, or even in small batches, remotely over IP KVM takes a long-ass time.
One single line using pssh, dsh, dish, or no lines at all when using a very fancied up puppet configuration?
Do you like toggle in boot code over the IP KVM like a PDP-8 or what?
The ability to do something the hard way, does not prove the lack of existence of an easier way.
This could be due to many other factors than just alcohol. What about the food?
I have noticed that when I cook fresh homemade dishes made with wine or perhaps beer as a flavoring, I tend to polish off the bottle with the food. Homemade beer battered fish filets... Homemade salad dressings made with red wine... Homemade gravy deglazed with wine... Chicken marinated in wine... Mmmm.
On the other hand, yet another fast food burger does not rate my finest red wine.
My consumption of home cooked organic food is strongly correlated with my wine/beer consumption.
I'd wager it has something to do with the relative stress levels of the people.
Maybe dynamic stress level instead of static? Its possible to be quite relaxed, basically all the time, without booze.
Perhaps in a culture of obesity, "getting so stressed out you need to binge drink" is the only exercise they get, but at least they get SOME exercise. On the other hand, I'm fat and happy, and frankly I need the exercise, even if it would only be inwardly screaming against... whatever the heck it is that stresses out the drunkards.
This isn't anything new. Alcohol in moderation has been proven to reduce lots of types of disease and medical problems in those who only drink a little.
Did they correct for financial situation? Any college kid whom ran out of beer money knows what I'm talking about.
Why, cray tell, does it run so slowly?
I have one of those, the Spartan board, not a Cray-1. I did not remember, but checked online and the Spartan board has a 66 MHz canned oscillator. So, his design probably uses two clock cycles per instruction cycle.
Probably also limited my the memory speed of whatever he's using for memory. 33 MHz equals what 30 ns access cycle?
Someday, in the far future, Gmail may be almost as good as Gnus.
Old saying: all operating systems are destined to reinvent unix, poorly.
New saying: all applications are destined to reinvent emacs, poorly.
The other is to do it in the direction of flow, with the system turned on.
Works better the closer the can of duster is to the fan... Until you knock a blade off the fan, either by hitting it with the tube of the duster or overreving it. Of course you can work around that by shutting off power and shoving the duster tube inside the device, until it starts knocking (poorly/barely attached) connectors off.
Its the type of task you can usually hack your way thru and doing a half-way job does well enough most of the time usually without damage, but actually doing it right is apparently harder than you expect.
What you must do is connect the device with an other prisoner, but in such a way that they do not know who the oter one is and if they are too far from each other, the device will explode
Well that's ass backwards. A better idea is put a device on all the gang members such that they explode if they get too close together, not too far apart. That would be an interesting new driveby technique, find a snitch and throw them from a moving car at your target at a high enough speed that the car wouldn't be caught in the kaboom...
Drug users poison themselves, and I find very few possession charges of "individual use" quantities of drugs that carry mandatory prison time...
Look again, as one idiot I knew in school found out the hard way, after the third or fourth or fifth or whatever possession charge it becomes a felony or whatever and you get time in the slammer. Right now you're thinking, how does a college student get busted that many times, well, its a lifetime count, and if you get busted every couple decades and you have gray hair... This will be the new wedge against the drug war, now that the ex-60s hippies with a record are graying but still want to party.
The same people that don't want to live near a prison won't want to live next to a current prisoner.
So, if the law is an offender can't live within 1000 feet, simply build a school or playground every 900 feet and its all good. This strategy is actively being done in my area. Admittedly, why you'd want to raise kids more than 1000 feet from a playground or school is a mystery to me, but it has the side effect of forcing the offenders into rooming houses literally built inside industrial parks... Which is not all that bad of an idea, unless your dream was always to live next door to a tannery or a chicken processing plant.
Why lifetime punishment is considered acceptable for a crime generally considered less severe than murder is a whole nother topic.
My knowledge of this is fuzzy second hand from my neighbor the ex-con, but they randomly call your house landline at all/most hours asking for you and you better answer using something very much like a secure-id fob inside the ankle bracelet. Later they download your ankle bracelet GPS data. If you didn't answer the phone you better have a good and valid ankle bracelet GPS reading stored at that time or some kind of valid excuse.
A bigger problem is ankle bracelets having iffy rx coverage inside a car/van.
Also, understanding the system doesn't work too well, the punishment wasn't all that severe for screwing up. The idea being that this would be used as an "in-between" not as a replacement. Most people completely misinterpret it as being a replacement for prison, when its 50/50 that its actually a replacement for outright complete freedom. The original article is pretty misguided.
You set a curfew. Either they are at work (at the times they are supposed to be working) or they are at home (at the other times). If they are not at home, the GPS system will detect that and alert the cops that they have broken the curfew (and may be committing a crime).
Too simplistic, doesn't work. People also need to eat, go to the dentist, go to the emergency room, go to the doctor, apply for work at a better job, go to the pharmacy, get their interview suit from the drycleaners, work unanticipated mandatory overtime, AA meetings "often" intentionally scheduled during prime drinking time, etc. And if the criminal either has kids living in their house or even just has kids at all, its pretty much free range as long as there is a tenuous connection to "its for the children".
I speak from experience given my neighbor has nearly double digit drunk driving convictions, and on his latest work-release / probation / house arrest / whatever the heck its called, he pretty much got around MORE than I did.
From discussion, since its virtually impossible to live outside prison under house arrest, no one does, and it simply means the parole officer bullies folks she/he doesn't like as an individual or as a (protected minority) group. Being a married with children white semi-educated good ole boy sorta-middle class sportsfan, coincidentally pretty much identical to his parole officer with the exception of adding a serious drinking problem, he had few hassles, but I'm told minorities tend to have a very rough time of it.
nor does he think it will really have much impact on the Xbox momentum.
Thats not "momentum", its more like the "acceleration of gravity", 9.8 m/s/s DOWN DOWN DOWN
http://gamingbolt.com/xbox-360-lifetime-sales-reach-42-million
"The shipment for the previous 12 months, however, has fallen from 11.2 million units to 10.3 million units, an 8 percent drop."
I've been lusting after a full copy of the OED since I was introduced to it in my Freshman year of High School. However, as a poor college student majoring in Math,
So, the physics guys lust after a full set of Feynmans lectures, the CS guys lust after a full set of Knuth, most of the rest of the guys lust after the ladies, but you're trying to tell me the math majors lust after a dictionary?
Work is now progressing on the 3rd edition, but it's still a decade or more away from completion
My job is killing too many brain cells (my own, I mean). Thats more like a thirty year release cycle. As you can see, Debian has nothing to be concerned about. So that means more like $6000 of online revenue vs less than $1000 for the printed product.
At $295 per year, and govt subsidized toner, paper, and labor, I think you'd be better off printing the whole thing out, rather than subscribing for decades.
They release every 20 years, not 10 years. And the paper copy doesn't magically crumble into dust when the next edition is released.
So its more like $4000 online vs much less than $1000 for printed copy over the same interval.
They don't seem to get many "hits" when divided by the number of entries/articles.
So obviously it isn't about the money, it's about the technology
Sometimes mergers happen to eliminate the competition. If you axe a $200M competitor, you can probably increase your revenues more than $200M because less competition means higher prices for everyone... Sure they're not going to ten-tuple, but its not going to take $2B/$200M = 10 years to pay for itself. Maybe, like 5 to 7 years?
Also, sometimes a merger means patents etc that a cheapy competitor couldn't afford to enforce, can now be cashed in.