+1 vote for Rhino if you want to spend a little money. Solidworks and Autocad are definitely better for large mechanical designs but they cost significantly more. Rhino is a good middle ground between the engineering needs and the purely aesthetic focused products. I would shy away from 3ds Max and Maya. Both work (we just finished a 3D printed project in 3ds max) but they're both focused more on film and games than printing.
It's illegal to own firearms in Chicago, so it should be a peaceful utopia (right)?
If you can drive 5 minutes out of town, a ban is essentially symbolic. That being said, those states with more gun control laws generally have fewer deaths. Hawaii for instance has very little gun violence and has some of the most strict gun laws. Hawaii is an interesting case since import/export laws are actually relatively easy to enforce seeing as it has no landlocked neighbors.
Regarding the kickstarter project, if it's DRM free, then why is one of the donation rewards "three digital copies" -- if there's no DRM, why would three copies be any different than one?
Ladies and gentlemen... this is a great example of why game companies are afraid of offering DRM free software.
I feel like this avoids the large problems with religion and science. Such as if God created the world, why does the world suck so much? To Quote C3PO "We seem to be made to suffer."
Darwinian evolution is like a dog show being a free for all dog fight in which only one dog escapes alive. We call that immoral but when God does it, it shows the greatness of his creation? And even then over billions of years God's evolution is on a pretty crappy track. We rely on carbohydrates instead of nuclear energy which could 'feed' us for centuries. We breath oxygen at an astronomical rate which makes 99.999999999999999999999999999% of the known universe uninhabitable. Our survivable temperature range is equally pathetic. We have no backup mechanism. Our communications protocol is slow and short ranged.
Imagine if you had a tablet that could only function between about 5c and 40c. Imagine if running the battery down on your tablet resulted in it permanently dying. Imagine if you couldn't make a copy of your system and restore should it be lost or stolen. Imagine if no components could ever be replaced or repaired. Imagine if your maximum network speed was about 100bits per second. And your wireless range at 100bps was about 50 feet. Imagine if your hdd could only store the general gist of a document you typed. Imagine if you accidentally cracked the side it would poor out coolant until in less than a minute it could never be rebooted.
If life on this planet was a product supposedly designed by engineers it would get 1 star. Sure we're pretty clever at problem solving and learning. But that's really our only skill and even then most organisms on earth are pretty much brain dead stupid (if they even have a brain).
This isn't something that could have happened from the "Fall of man" in the garden. We have mouths, digestive tracts, lungs, hearts and ears. Unless we in no way resembled humanity or life on earth as it exists today our form is the result of our function and our function is primitive and backwards. We're a trip and a blow to the head away from death. We're a pillow away from suffocation, we're a cold snap away from freezing. We're a bad design.
When the majority of state voters decide to not allow same sex marriage but the unelected judiciary orders it allowed anyway? Is that a failure of democracy?
Those who champion equality definitely have an unfair advantage. The constitution is designed such that minority rights can be protected. Populism can result in mob rule. If something is detrimental to society then the standard is low "Murderers shouldn't walk free and we should infringe their rights!" If however your argument is just "Gay people are icky we should discriminate against them!" judges tend to toss your law out as unconstitutional.
Slavery wasn't overturned by a vote. Segregation and mixed race marriage bans weren't overturned by a vote. There are lots of examples where the higher law "all people must be treated equally by the government" takes precedence over temporal squabbles on the details of who should be discriminated against.
It may be built with redundancy in mind, but apparently it still has at least one single point of failure.
It's extremely rare that an entire services goes down. Generally what happens is one region goes down. The fact that people don't *pay* for the full redundancy and fail-over protection doesn't mean it's not technically built into the system.
And that even assumes you're talking *to* a human.
90% of the time often in human interaction is interacting with *nothing*. You're either queued in line to talk to a person or on hold listening to bad music waiting for a human.
I don't mind human interaction. I mind spending 3x as long as the interaction will take waiting to talk to someone.
Also the nice thing about Kiosks is that you can get a ton of data on screen through a GUI. Imagine how long it would take to review a credit card statement online. "Ok read me this month's statement..." it would take an hour. And then you can't visualize and compare. Or imagine picking a seat on an airplane "I want to be near the wing but not too far back but..."
Similarly if you have some really complex and abstract problem that nobody would ever think to code into a machine--human interaction is invaluable.
An OTA HDTV signal is about 20mbit/s. Now the rub is, most PVRs have the option to record at least two channels simultaniously. And it later needs to be read back out, then re-encoded, and written later -- real-time encoding is very, very processor intensive if you want any kind of quality. 5400 is fine for storing. It's not good for encoding/decoding simultaniously. The other thing is, budget 5400 RPM drives have smaller buffers. Which means they're going to be a lot slower for something like video.
20Mbps is 2MB per second.
1 hour of HD video is going to be about 7GB at that bitrate. If you put a minimum amount of RAM into a PVR... like 3GB it can buffer at least 3-4 minutes of uncompressed HD video. If you assume 3 streams that's a minute long buffer for the encoder, which is more than enough for a hardware H264 encoder which can handle 2 streams simultaneously. You only really need about 1-2 seconds of buffer. 2GB for 2 streams of video would be serious overkill. You could hold most of a TV program in RAM for playback and not touch the HDD while encoding 2 streams without breaking a sweat. And since it's a sequential write a 5400rpm HDD could handle 20MBs easy. That's 10 20mbps HDTV streams.
I mean something else. I mean that Google Docs' Spreadsheet app is lousy and Office 365 lets me do everything I need to do online while also using normal excel on the desktop.
Office 365 is extremely feature limited but it does everything I need to do in a browser. When I'm using a real computer I can just use excel. With Google Docs you're always trapped in a sub-par website.
The reason the new Chromebook Pixel has been panned by reviewers is simple:
On a normal laptop: You can run chrome and every other application. On the Pixel: You can only run chrome.
So why would I pay the same price for a device which limits what I can run? Windows 8 tablets have tradeoffs from their ARM/Windows RT compatriots. They have worse battery life, they weigh more and they cost more. The Pixel is like paying $1200 for a windows tablet that only ran IE.
The last time I bought an LG phone it died 4 times in 2 months and then battery broke a few months later. I've never seen a decent LG smart phone.
If they're shotgunning the OSes hoping for success then they're barking up the wrong tree. LG is the problem not Android, Windows, Ubuntu or Firefox and the solution needs to be from LG: better devices.
Office 365 lets me use Excel to setup my spreadsheets and then enter in data via a web service.
Google Docs always require spreadsheet.
So... no. Chromebook isn't enough. Spreadsheets in the problem, not the hardware. I already have a laptop perfectly capable of running Chrome. And I chose to use excel.
I would disagree with that assessment. I've been to a lot of conferences and I find quotes like this enormously offensive:
Moreover, unlike some highly charged other topics in the technical world, it is very unlikely that your audience has a uniformly, or even widely-held, negative opinion of harassment and assault.
Fuck you ADA. They just said that the vast majority of geeks at technical conferences lack a negative opinion of harassment and assault.
I attended a tech heavy school that was 80% male in my program. I asked fellow female students if they ever felt discriminated or harassed and all of the ones I talked to said they had a great experience with the school and didn't feel like they were being discriminated against. If the statistics of "25% of women of college age have experienced a rape attempt" are true then by that metric the school I attended was a safe haven from the rest of the world.
This is what happens when you give anyone power without having balance and checks to keep them in line.
There are balances and checks. It's called the "legal system". It's why 2nd Amendment ideologues are so deluded.
When the government infringes your rights... you are not within your rights to start shooting them in response. And even if you are "within your rights" they'll just shoot and kill you since being alive and sued is better than dead.
There are plenty of checks and balances. At this point you file a claim that the government has illegally seized your property. And if they did then the courts will give you back your property. If they didn't then there was no need for balances and checks since you did something wrong.
"New technologies that use fossil fuels should not raise the cost of electricity more than 35 percent, while still capturing more than 90 percent of the resulting carbon dioxide. Based on the current tests with the research-scale plants, Fan and his team believe that they can meet or exceed that requirement"
good luck selling that
Yeah. You have to be pretty desperate to keep people in coal mines in order to advocate a technology that costs even more than Wind.
I don't know that it's a race to the bottom. A news story this morning mentioned that wages had remained stagnant since 2001. Except 2001 you could be trained chimpanzee that knew HTML and make $100k a year. So maybe we're just finally purging all of the bullshit employees from the dot-com employment orgy.
All together I don't have that much sympathy. Most of those graybeards are libertarians who don't believe in any protectionism so... welcome to the free market.
Wouldn't it be even better if they just didn't produce seeds at all?
That works great with watermelons. But if you are growing... I don't know... wheat. Or corn. It's a little problematic if your lush green fields don't actually produce any product to sell.
First define "unwanted" and then tell me how you determine them without them actually happening? Let's say for instance they cross pollinate with another crop and sterilize that crop as well. Which in turn cross pollinates ad nauseum until there are no fertile seeds. Far fetched perhaps but not unthinkable.
As we all can remember from the terrible seedless Watermelon apocalypse that swept the land taking all vegetation with it, this is just too great of a risk to take! We must remember the dangers of producing plants without seeds!
I was talking about the same product.:P Sometimes you have an amazing product but it gets knee capped by marketing deciding that it needs to be something else.
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+1 vote for Rhino if you want to spend a little money. Solidworks and Autocad are definitely better for large mechanical designs but they cost significantly more. Rhino is a good middle ground between the engineering needs and the purely aesthetic focused products. I would shy away from 3ds Max and Maya. Both work (we just finished a 3D printed project in 3ds max) but they're both focused more on film and games than printing.
It's illegal to own firearms in Chicago, so it should be a peaceful utopia (right)?
If you can drive 5 minutes out of town, a ban is essentially symbolic. That being said, those states with more gun control laws generally have fewer deaths. Hawaii for instance has very little gun violence and has some of the most strict gun laws. Hawaii is an interesting case since import/export laws are actually relatively easy to enforce seeing as it has no landlocked neighbors.
To your point: you're far more likely to die as a commercial fisherman, roofer or electrician than a cop.
When you remove that element for good, your monthly fuel consumption will drop to zero.
But then the MPG is terrible.
If you let a car sit and you lose X ml of gasoline to evaporation while traveling 0 miles your MPG is 0. Even a leadfoot can beat 0mpg.
Regarding the kickstarter project, if it's DRM free, then why is one of the donation rewards "three digital copies" -- if there's no DRM, why would three copies be any different than one?
Ladies and gentlemen... this is a great example of why game companies are afraid of offering DRM free software.
I feel like this avoids the large problems with religion and science. Such as if God created the world, why does the world suck so much? To Quote C3PO "We seem to be made to suffer."
Darwinian evolution is like a dog show being a free for all dog fight in which only one dog escapes alive. We call that immoral but when God does it, it shows the greatness of his creation? And even then over billions of years God's evolution is on a pretty crappy track. We rely on carbohydrates instead of nuclear energy which could 'feed' us for centuries. We breath oxygen at an astronomical rate which makes 99.999999999999999999999999999% of the known universe uninhabitable. Our survivable temperature range is equally pathetic. We have no backup mechanism. Our communications protocol is slow and short ranged.
Imagine if you had a tablet that could only function between about 5c and 40c. Imagine if running the battery down on your tablet resulted in it permanently dying. Imagine if you couldn't make a copy of your system and restore should it be lost or stolen. Imagine if no components could ever be replaced or repaired. Imagine if your maximum network speed was about 100bits per second. And your wireless range at 100bps was about 50 feet. Imagine if your hdd could only store the general gist of a document you typed. Imagine if you accidentally cracked the side it would poor out coolant until in less than a minute it could never be rebooted.
If life on this planet was a product supposedly designed by engineers it would get 1 star. Sure we're pretty clever at problem solving and learning. But that's really our only skill and even then most organisms on earth are pretty much brain dead stupid (if they even have a brain).
This isn't something that could have happened from the "Fall of man" in the garden. We have mouths, digestive tracts, lungs, hearts and ears. Unless we in no way resembled humanity or life on earth as it exists today our form is the result of our function and our function is primitive and backwards. We're a trip and a blow to the head away from death. We're a pillow away from suffocation, we're a cold snap away from freezing. We're a bad design.
He is free to write whatever he wants. His first amendment isn't being infringed.
When the majority of state voters decide to not allow same sex marriage but the unelected judiciary orders it allowed anyway? Is that a failure of democracy?
Those who champion equality definitely have an unfair advantage. The constitution is designed such that minority rights can be protected. Populism can result in mob rule. If something is detrimental to society then the standard is low "Murderers shouldn't walk free and we should infringe their rights!" If however your argument is just "Gay people are icky we should discriminate against them!" judges tend to toss your law out as unconstitutional.
Slavery wasn't overturned by a vote. Segregation and mixed race marriage bans weren't overturned by a vote. There are lots of examples where the higher law "all people must be treated equally by the government" takes precedence over temporal squabbles on the details of who should be discriminated against.
It may be built with redundancy in mind, but apparently it still has at least one single point of failure.
It's extremely rare that an entire services goes down. Generally what happens is one region goes down. The fact that people don't *pay* for the full redundancy and fail-over protection doesn't mean it's not technically built into the system.
And that even assumes you're talking *to* a human.
90% of the time often in human interaction is interacting with *nothing*. You're either queued in line to talk to a person or on hold listening to bad music waiting for a human.
I don't mind human interaction. I mind spending 3x as long as the interaction will take waiting to talk to someone.
Also the nice thing about Kiosks is that you can get a ton of data on screen through a GUI. Imagine how long it would take to review a credit card statement online. "Ok read me this month's statement..." it would take an hour. And then you can't visualize and compare. Or imagine picking a seat on an airplane "I want to be near the wing but not too far back but..."
Similarly if you have some really complex and abstract problem that nobody would ever think to code into a machine--human interaction is invaluable.
There is a HUGE difference between accidentally saying "million" instead of "thousand" and deliberately articulating an idiotic position.
False Equivalency is why we can't develop a sane conservative party in this country.
An OTA HDTV signal is about 20mbit/s. Now the rub is, most PVRs have the option to record at least two channels simultaniously. And it later needs to be read back out, then re-encoded, and written later -- real-time encoding is very, very processor intensive if you want any kind of quality. 5400 is fine for storing. It's not good for encoding/decoding simultaniously. The other thing is, budget 5400 RPM drives have smaller buffers. Which means they're going to be a lot slower for something like video.
20Mbps is 2MB per second.
1 hour of HD video is going to be about 7GB at that bitrate. If you put a minimum amount of RAM into a PVR... like 3GB it can buffer at least 3-4 minutes of uncompressed HD video. If you assume 3 streams that's a minute long buffer for the encoder, which is more than enough for a hardware H264 encoder which can handle 2 streams simultaneously. You only really need about 1-2 seconds of buffer. 2GB for 2 streams of video would be serious overkill. You could hold most of a TV program in RAM for playback and not touch the HDD while encoding 2 streams without breaking a sweat. And since it's a sequential write a 5400rpm HDD could handle 20MBs easy. That's 10 20mbps HDTV streams.
HDDs are not going to be a problem for a PVR.
I mean something else. I mean that Google Docs' Spreadsheet app is lousy and Office 365 lets me do everything I need to do online while also using normal excel on the desktop.
Office 365 is extremely feature limited but it does everything I need to do in a browser. When I'm using a real computer I can just use excel. With Google Docs you're always trapped in a sub-par website.
The reason the new Chromebook Pixel has been panned by reviewers is simple:
On a normal laptop: You can run chrome and every other application.
On the Pixel: You can only run chrome.
So why would I pay the same price for a device which limits what I can run? Windows 8 tablets have tradeoffs from their ARM/Windows RT compatriots. They have worse battery life, they weigh more and they cost more. The Pixel is like paying $1200 for a windows tablet that only ran IE.
The last time I bought an LG phone it died 4 times in 2 months and then battery broke a few months later. I've never seen a decent LG smart phone.
If they're shotgunning the OSes hoping for success then they're barking up the wrong tree. LG is the problem not Android, Windows, Ubuntu or Firefox and the solution needs to be from LG: better devices.
Office 365 lets me use Excel to setup my spreadsheets and then enter in data via a web service.
Google Docs always require spreadsheet.
So... no. Chromebook isn't enough. Spreadsheets in the problem, not the hardware. I already have a laptop perfectly capable of running Chrome. And I chose to use excel.
I would disagree with that assessment. I've been to a lot of conferences and I find quotes like this enormously offensive:
Moreover, unlike some highly charged other topics in the technical world, it is very unlikely that your audience has a uniformly, or even widely-held, negative opinion of harassment and assault.
Fuck you ADA. They just said that the vast majority of geeks at technical conferences lack a negative opinion of harassment and assault.
I attended a tech heavy school that was 80% male in my program. I asked fellow female students if they ever felt discriminated or harassed and all of the ones I talked to said they had a great experience with the school and didn't feel like they were being discriminated against. If the statistics of "25% of women of college age have experienced a rape attempt" are true then by that metric the school I attended was a safe haven from the rest of the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM
This is what you're looking for specificaly
"High-Speed Anti Radiation Missile". It does one thing and one thing only, blow up jammers.
This is what happens when you give anyone power without having balance and checks to keep them in line.
There are balances and checks. It's called the "legal system". It's why 2nd Amendment ideologues are so deluded.
When the government infringes your rights... you are not within your rights to start shooting them in response. And even if you are "within your rights" they'll just shoot and kill you since being alive and sued is better than dead.
There are plenty of checks and balances. At this point you file a claim that the government has illegally seized your property. And if they did then the courts will give you back your property. If they didn't then there was no need for balances and checks since you did something wrong.
"New technologies that use fossil fuels should not raise the cost of electricity more than 35 percent, while still capturing more than 90 percent of the resulting carbon dioxide. Based on the current tests with the research-scale plants, Fan and his team believe that they can meet or exceed that requirement"
good luck selling that
Yeah. You have to be pretty desperate to keep people in coal mines in order to advocate a technology that costs even more than Wind.
I don't know that it's a race to the bottom. A news story this morning mentioned that wages had remained stagnant since 2001. Except 2001 you could be trained chimpanzee that knew HTML and make $100k a year. So maybe we're just finally purging all of the bullshit employees from the dot-com employment orgy.
All together I don't have that much sympathy. Most of those graybeards are libertarians who don't believe in any protectionism so... welcome to the free market.
Wouldn't it be even better if they just didn't produce seeds at all?
That works great with watermelons. But if you are growing... I don't know... wheat. Or corn. It's a little problematic if your lush green fields don't actually produce any product to sell.
Seedless wheat defeats the whole point.
First define "unwanted" and then tell me how you determine them without them actually happening? Let's say for instance they cross pollinate with another crop and sterilize that crop as well. Which in turn cross pollinates ad nauseum until there are no fertile seeds. Far fetched perhaps but not unthinkable.
As we all can remember from the terrible seedless Watermelon apocalypse that swept the land taking all vegetation with it, this is just too great of a risk to take! We must remember the dangers of producing plants without seeds!
Never forget!
Typically every notable university I've ever heard of gives their students a "Free" copy of Microsoft Office.
I was talking about the same product. :P Sometimes you have an amazing product but it gets knee capped by marketing deciding that it needs to be something else.