I Personally prefer to just use two monitors, two computers seems like too much of a hassle to keep track of since I do a lot of back and forth work between applications like Excel and my CAD suite.
Actually one of the coolest features of NX is that you can model parametric parameters directly to an Excel spreadsheet. This spreadsheet can then have a series of equations to iterate the design of the part for optimization purposes and you can see the price/performance directly and the iterated part.
I use UGS NX daily at work for mechanical engineering related work. I believe we pay the price of a nice car a year in support costs from them which includes continuous product updates/certification/debugging.
When I have a problem with NX, I call them up, they look into the bug and within 1-2 months have it fixed.
For the price we pay in support, there is no way in hell we could afford to develop our own comparable system. Not to mention there is quite frankly nothing of value in the Open Source CAD/CAM Community.
Terrible reasons actually... If they had just decided to use Aluminum tanks instead of the(at the time) troublesome composite tanks they could have had the X-33 flying...
Exactly... Especially when the government decides to ban a book and all your copies of it mysteriously disappear... Maybe not in the USA, but I can see it happening in many other countries.
China decides to ban a book and everyones government provided ereader deletes it. Book burning of the 21st century.
Yes, but the robot will get much cheaper over time if they are being purchased and R&D costs are paid. I would much rather see robotics technology pushed forward then provide a handout to mule breeders.
Mules also happen to have their own logistics costs, are slower, less capable, and can not reach all the same terrains this robot can.
Yes yes, we've all heard the joke, The Soviets used a pencil, NASA spent millions on inventing the space pen. (More of a myth actually, see: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/613/1)
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Wow, great story.
Why waste your time trying to help fix the problem when you can use something that already works?
I Personally prefer to just use two monitors, two computers seems like too much of a hassle to keep track of since I do a lot of back and forth work between applications like Excel and my CAD suite.
Actually one of the coolest features of NX is that you can model parametric parameters directly to an Excel spreadsheet. This spreadsheet can then have a series of equations to iterate the design of the part for optimization purposes and you can see the price/performance directly and the iterated part.
I use UGS NX daily at work for mechanical engineering related work. I believe we pay the price of a nice car a year in support costs from them which includes continuous product updates/certification/debugging.
When I have a problem with NX, I call them up, they look into the bug and within 1-2 months have it fixed.
For the price we pay in support, there is no way in hell we could afford to develop our own comparable system. Not to mention there is quite frankly nothing of value in the Open Source CAD/CAM Community.
As a Mechanical Engineer I agree with you, I personally think we should raise NASA's budget an order of magnitude, but that's another story.
Great Idea, but look at the military budget vs NASAs budget!
What exactly are you going to do with that research paper?
Terrible reasons actually... If they had just decided to use Aluminum tanks instead of the(at the time) troublesome composite tanks they could have had the X-33 flying...
That's why you also look at the median income which is still well over 50k.
This is Australia not the US.
Interesting is that he had to give up his social networking and email passwords... That wouldn't fly in the USA.
loosing?
No, because what the government does is not theft. The government is giving the right to do what it does by the people.
Sorry, I meant that i7s were produced in America, not the USA specifically.
Made in Taiwan typically, Taiwan != China.
Yes, except for the fact that the i7s are produced in the USA.
Oh, and that IBM PowerPC isn't as fast as the i7 and won't run your x86 desktop applications. Different processors for different markets.
Yes, except for all of those x86, PowerPC and ARM CPUs produced in the USA.
Forget about the military CPUs.
Exactly... Especially when the government decides to ban a book and all your copies of it mysteriously disappear... Maybe not in the USA, but I can see it happening in many other countries.
China decides to ban a book and everyones government provided ereader deletes it. Book burning of the 21st century.
Yes, except for 66% of what he said, that's exactly how it works.
It wasn't one fell swoop, a lot of the engineers at Boston Dynamics are from MIT and were doing leg research there.
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/
Yes, well the OP is wrong to call it "Segway's" approach, it's used frequently by the military for aviation electronics.
The way the logic bug issue is solved is simple, 3 different teams design each computer, each team using a different set of logic.
It's ok, they'll just issue a critical safety patch.
I'm glad we agree. Once we tire of our robotic overlords we must engender the mules once again.
By 4chan you mean a bunch of nerdy teenagers?
Onoes what will they do!
Yes, but the robot will get much cheaper over time if they are being purchased and R&D costs are paid. I would much rather see robotics technology pushed forward then provide a handout to mule breeders.
Mules also happen to have their own logistics costs, are slower, less capable, and can not reach all the same terrains this robot can.
Yes yes, we've all heard the joke, The Soviets used a pencil, NASA spent millions on inventing the space pen. (More of a myth actually, see: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/613/1)