Adding a rotating portion to the station would be introducing a gyroscope. Doing so would be problematic.
Take a bicycle wheel, spin it on its axis and then try to tilt it.
How much fuel are you willing to spend to keep the station oriented the right way?
How much mechanicals are you willing to spend money on to steer the solar panels if you aren't going to be using thrusters to orient the whole station?
How big is your budget? Funding isn't unlimited. You need to make choices. If you go with a rotating section, what are you going to eliminate elsewhere to compensate for the cost?
The only lack of thinking in this case is on your part.
Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And I don't like it--one bit. Well, what do you know? It's nibblin' my toe. Oh, gee, It's up to my knee. Oh my, It's up to my thigh. Oh, fiddle, It's up to my middle. Oh, heck, It's up to my neck. Oh, dread, It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff . . .
From "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman:
Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches. Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys..."
There are typically signs that say that there are cameras. Indeed, in the Wallgreens down the road, there is a TV monitor facing the doors as you walk in just to say "Yes, if you shoplift, we've got tape"
This? This isn't about shoplifting. There are also no signs or any indication that this is going on.
I was just having difficulty wrapping my head around how to finish a 5-meter-long dimension to half a millimeter. Even finding a reference length to compare against would be difficult. I was just having difficulty wrapping my head around how to finish a 5-meter-long dimension to half a millimeter.
It's not difficult if you have the right measuring equipment. Nikon has a laser measurer that does very large volumes (aircraft sized) and is pretty darn accurate over large distances. It's expensive, but if the guys in the shop measure stuff like this on a regular basis, it's a big time saver.
In the old days, there were other methods that weren't nearly as convenient for such large distances.
Fortunately for everyone working in all shops and labs everywhere, STP, standard temperature and pressure, is room temperature and the sea level air pressure of a sunny day. Heat/cool the shop to 20C or 68F and you won't have any problems. A couple of degrees either way doesn't make much difference unless you get into really large pieces. And any small shop worth its salt will have an inspection room that is climate controlled to plus or minus a degree. If you do have a problem with the climate control, you can look up the temperature coefficient of the material you're using and adjust accordingly. But that's bogus. Close off a room, stick an HVAC unit on it with a good thermostat and you're good to go.
"Ordinary machining techniques are good down to 0.1%"
*a dark cloud appears above my head* I'll try to bite my lip and be civil about this..1% for a 25.4mm part is.0254mm, (1 inch, and.001 inch respectively, for SAE). Charles Babbage was able to meet that tolerance with the tools of the time - the builders of the modern Difference Engine empirically found they could indeed do so. When the Difference Engine was built using his old plans, they decided to take on the argument that Babbage couldn't possibly build his Difference Engine due to lack of technology. They found that argument to be bogus. Depending on what you're doing, that kind of tolerance these days may as well be plus or minus a mile, especially if you're sending something to be ground. With superfinishing (Supfina Inc., North Kingstown RI (my childhood hometown)) you're looking at microns or smaller.
Affordable glass scales and ballscrew retrofits have even made manual machining a lot more accurate. Drill 2 holes 500mm apart plus or minus.02 mm? All I've got is a rebuilt Bridgeport with glass scales? I've got AC that doesn't blow directly on the machine tool and shrink one side of it? NO PROBLEM.
Am I insulted? Yeah, a little bit. Bring coffee into the shop next time. Thanks.
-- BMO
l Postscript: Yesterday's thread about math made me angry, but since it was mobbed I didn't bother contributing. But I have to say this, yeah sure a lot of people go through their lives with just arithmetic, percentages, and a rough idea of area and volume. But if you want to build anything *interesting,* you'd better have paid attention to your geometry, trig, and calc teachers. Yeah, sure, computers do a lot of the bull-work calculation, but it's a good idea to have a good idea.
There are other languages in the world besides English, and the use of "libre" is far more accurate than Free or Open, because that's what it is, liberty. The world "libre" also reaches far more people because it has relations in all the rest of the Romance languages since they are all based upon the same rootstock of Latin. If you want to transliterate it to Liberty Office, then that's your business. But your comment reeks of bigotry and trolling, and well, just plain boorishness.
By your logic, all speakers of Romance languages are third world revolutionaries and hippie douchebags.
You are shallow and trolling and your ignorance shines through like the glisten on a fresh turd.
The point wasn't efficiency or practicality there.
The point was to make a piece of art, which is what this is.
If the person wanted to do "just" a paper terminal, one could probably find (well maybe not, it's been a while) a paper TTY (like an ASR33 or 43) to just plug into a serial port to USB adaptor and play Zork that way.
But that wouldn't be interesting, or fun. Reinventing an ASR33 through off-the-shelf components plus a used typewriter is.
There's Wikipedia then there's Conservapedia. The former has hourly bunfights about bias which results in many bias free articles, but also some spectacularly biased articles on both the left and the right, while the latter insists only on a right slant.
I will leave it as an exercise to the reader whether a biased (left or right) search engine is any good.
-- BMO - Obviously using a biased commie liberal Canadian spell-check, because Wikipedia doesn't get a squiggly underline but Conservapedia does.
If we're blocking your ads and you shove them down our throats, we simply won't visit. No biggie. The people who block ads have better things to do with their net usage than to fill out silly captchas just to get in.
Captchas as a means of fighting spam are already problematic and hostile to those with disabilities. To use them as a gateway is even more so.
Disney, you are not that important. Wrigley, you are not that important. The rest of you, you are not that important. It's no longer 1975 and everyone captive to 3 major television networks. We will go elsewhere.
Stop trying to shovel shit against the tide. You want us to see your ads? Stop them from being so obnoxious that we get so annoyed that we install the ad blockers. I will not punch your monkey.
Signed:
The smarter people of the Internet with disposable income.
That made me smile. That's an old ad from the dusty passages of time. You can clear out your dusty passages if you consume enough Netwons and drink some coffee. They're high in fiber!
Lucas could have asked, or paid him. But such dealings rarely see the light of day - they are signed over a bottle of single-malt and a couple of good cigars.
Pad describes the form factor, such as a legal pad.
There are only so many ways to describe the form factor of the ipad. Tablet, slate, pad, and... what else?
Apple can trademark an "iPad," because when you append letters and mis-spell, you no longer have an English (or other language) word. I (and the vast majority of people) have no problem with this. This is what many marketers get paid lots of bucks to do. For a long time, this was the only way you could get a trademark as purely English words were not allowed to have a trademark. I'm unsure when the use of purely English words was allowed, but it was a bad idea and it's caused no small amount of trouble since then.
For Apple to stretch the concept and claim the word "pad" for themselves is abuse of trademark and they should be slapped for it if they try to bring it to court.
Slashdotters get upset here at Monster Cable for suing an indoor golf business (and a lot of other small businesses that can't afford to defend themselves) by Monster Cable claiming the use of the word Monster in the name is exclusively theirs. We should get similarly upset at Apple if they try to claim the word "pad" for only their products.
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>Laster beam
Well, I've got a firster beam, but it keeps getting modded down.
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BMO
If it was Mythbusters, it was not a rocket, but another water heater.
--
BMO
I don't like Microsoft's market tactics, but the sooner they make the "Security Ecosystem" redundant the better.
We Linux geeks know how nice it is to not have to deal with dozens of "security" vendors.
--
BMO
Adding a rotating portion to the station would be introducing a gyroscope. Doing so would be problematic.
Take a bicycle wheel, spin it on its axis and then try to tilt it.
How much fuel are you willing to spend to keep the station oriented the right way?
How much mechanicals are you willing to spend money on to steer the solar panels if you aren't going to be using thrusters to orient the whole station?
How big is your budget? Funding isn't unlimited. You need to make choices. If you go with a rotating section, what are you going to eliminate elsewhere to compensate for the cost?
The only lack of thinking in this case is on your part.
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BMO
Actually, the Pennsylvania Dutch came from both the Low Countries (BENELUX) and Germany.
"Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it I can't say. People just liked it better that way!" - TMBG
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BMO
Oh, I'm being eaten
By a boa constrictor,
A boa constrictor,
A boa constrictor,
I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor,
And I don't like it--one bit.
Well, what do you know?
It's nibblin' my toe.
Oh, gee,
It's up to my knee.
Oh my,
It's up to my thigh.
Oh, fiddle,
It's up to my middle.
Oh, heck,
It's up to my neck.
Oh, dread,
It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff . . .
Shel Silverstein
From "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman:
Indie theaters is where it's at.
Fresh baked goods. Good coffee. Couches. No fucking cameras.
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BMO
There are typically signs that say that there are cameras. Indeed, in the Wallgreens down the road, there is a TV monitor facing the doors as you walk in just to say "Yes, if you shoplift, we've got tape"
This? This isn't about shoplifting. There are also no signs or any indication that this is going on.
That's the difference.
--
BMO
Some people get spam with a title like "Riga Girls Go Like This"
The genesis...
http://www.archive.org/download/weepies_2004-09-18_live_in_ohio.shnf/weepies_2004-09-18_live_in_ohio_24_introduction.ogg
the song:
http://www.archive.org/download/weepies_2004-09-18_live_in_ohio.shnf/weepies_2004-09-18_live_in_ohio_25_riga_girls.ogg
--
BMO
There's a "brightness" knob on my TV, but that never seems to work either.
--
BMO
I was just having difficulty wrapping my head around how to finish a 5-meter-long dimension to half a millimeter. Even finding a reference length to compare against would be difficult. I was just having difficulty wrapping my head around how to finish a 5-meter-long dimension to half a millimeter.
It's not difficult if you have the right measuring equipment. Nikon has a laser measurer that does very large volumes (aircraft sized) and is pretty darn accurate over large distances. It's expensive, but if the guys in the shop measure stuff like this on a regular basis, it's a big time saver.
In the old days, there were other methods that weren't nearly as convenient for such large distances.
You should ask them what they did.
Hexagon AB makes CMMs you can drive cars into.
--
BMO
Fortunately for everyone working in all shops and labs everywhere, STP, standard temperature and pressure, is room temperature and the sea level air pressure of a sunny day. Heat/cool the shop to 20C or 68F and you won't have any problems. A couple of degrees either way doesn't make much difference unless you get into really large pieces. And any small shop worth its salt will have an inspection room that is climate controlled to plus or minus a degree. If you do have a problem with the climate control, you can look up the temperature coefficient of the material you're using and adjust accordingly. But that's bogus. Close off a room, stick an HVAC unit on it with a good thermostat and you're good to go.
--
BMO
Actual machinist/toolmaker here:
"Ordinary machining techniques are good down to 0.1%"
*a dark cloud appears above my head* I'll try to bite my lip and be civil about this. .1% for a 25.4mm part is .0254mm, (1 inch, and .001 inch respectively, for SAE). Charles Babbage was able to meet that tolerance with the tools of the time - the builders of the modern Difference Engine empirically found they could indeed do so. When the Difference Engine was built using his old plans, they decided to take on the argument that Babbage couldn't possibly build his Difference Engine due to lack of technology. They found that argument to be bogus. Depending on what you're doing, that kind of tolerance these days may as well be plus or minus a mile, especially if you're sending something to be ground. With superfinishing (Supfina Inc., North Kingstown RI (my childhood hometown)) you're looking at microns or smaller.
Affordable glass scales and ballscrew retrofits have even made manual machining a lot more accurate. Drill 2 holes 500mm apart plus or minus .02 mm? All I've got is a rebuilt Bridgeport with glass scales? I've got AC that doesn't blow directly on the machine tool and shrink one side of it? NO PROBLEM.
Am I insulted? Yeah, a little bit. Bring coffee into the shop next time. Thanks.
--
BMO
l Postscript: Yesterday's thread about math made me angry, but since it was mobbed I didn't bother contributing. But I have to say this, yeah sure a lot of people go through their lives with just arithmetic, percentages, and a rough idea of area and volume. But if you want to build anything *interesting,* you'd better have paid attention to your geometry, trig, and calc teachers. Yeah, sure, computers do a lot of the bull-work calculation, but it's a good idea to have a good idea.
There are other languages in the world besides English, and the use of "libre" is far more accurate than Free or Open, because that's what it is, liberty. The world "libre" also reaches far more people because it has relations in all the rest of the Romance languages since they are all based upon the same rootstock of Latin. If you want to transliterate it to Liberty Office, then that's your business. But your comment reeks of bigotry and trolling, and well, just plain boorishness.
By your logic, all speakers of Romance languages are third world revolutionaries and hippie douchebags.
You are shallow and trolling and your ignorance shines through like the glisten on a fresh turd.
--
BMO
The point wasn't efficiency or practicality there.
The point was to make a piece of art, which is what this is.
If the person wanted to do "just" a paper terminal, one could probably find (well maybe not, it's been a while) a paper TTY (like an ASR33 or 43) to just plug into a serial port to USB adaptor and play Zork that way.
But that wouldn't be interesting, or fun. Reinventing an ASR33 through off-the-shelf components plus a used typewriter is.
--
BMO
There's Wikipedia then there's Conservapedia. The former has hourly bunfights about bias which results in many bias free articles, but also some spectacularly biased articles on both the left and the right, while the latter insists only on a right slant.
I will leave it as an exercise to the reader whether a biased (left or right) search engine is any good.
--
BMO - Obviously using a biased commie liberal Canadian spell-check, because Wikipedia doesn't get a squiggly underline but Conservapedia does.
You didn't read the whole paper.
If you did, you'd see that he said you could do away with the keyboard and make a capacitive screen for finger input.
You can't just skim it and look at the sketches. You have to read the paper.
--
BMO
This is like, really, really late, but sometimes I go to my old posts to see if someone replied that I missed.
Take that google search and then click on video.
Get creeped out.
Really.
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BMO
YOU ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT.
If we're blocking your ads and you shove them down our throats, we simply won't visit. No biggie. The people who block ads have better things to do with their net usage than to fill out silly captchas just to get in.
Captchas as a means of fighting spam are already problematic and hostile to those with disabilities. To use them as a gateway is even more so.
Disney, you are not that important. Wrigley, you are not that important. The rest of you, you are not that important. It's no longer 1975 and everyone captive to 3 major television networks. We will go elsewhere.
Stop trying to shovel shit against the tide. You want us to see your ads? Stop them from being so obnoxious that we get so annoyed that we install the ad blockers. I will not punch your monkey.
Signed:
The smarter people of the Internet with disposable income.
Excuse me, but the _child_ was 4.
In what world do 4 year olds have even the foggiest notion of responsibility?
Please refrain from looking like a heartless stupid bastard in the future.
--
BMO
That made me smile. That's an old ad from the dusty passages of time. You can clear out your dusty passages if you consume enough Netwons and drink some coffee. They're high in fiber!
--
BMO
Wasn't Asimov alive when Star Wars came out?
Lucas could have asked, or paid him. But such dealings rarely see the light of day - they are signed over a bottle of single-malt and a couple of good cigars.
--
BMO
It's called "Internet Performance Art"
Now it's an art.
Now it's protected.
--
BMO
Pad describes the form factor, such as a legal pad.
There are only so many ways to describe the form factor of the ipad. Tablet, slate, pad, and... what else?
Apple can trademark an "iPad," because when you append letters and mis-spell, you no longer have an English (or other language) word. I (and the vast majority of people) have no problem with this. This is what many marketers get paid lots of bucks to do. For a long time, this was the only way you could get a trademark as purely English words were not allowed to have a trademark. I'm unsure when the use of purely English words was allowed, but it was a bad idea and it's caused no small amount of trouble since then.
For Apple to stretch the concept and claim the word "pad" for themselves is abuse of trademark and they should be slapped for it if they try to bring it to court.
Slashdotters get upset here at Monster Cable for suing an indoor golf business (and a lot of other small businesses that can't afford to defend themselves) by Monster Cable claiming the use of the word Monster in the name is exclusively theirs. We should get similarly upset at Apple if they try to claim the word "pad" for only their products.
--
BMO