There is a demand, thus a supply appears. Let's weigh the choices of pirating. Free high quality commercial free content I can watch instantly as many times as I want. No DRM. Any digital content ever produced can be obtained
OR
a cable service I pay too much for, with pre-set schedules, commercials louder than the program (which I'm now paying to watch) that I can't fast forward, pause, or rewind (unless I pay for it) and the content is locked into my cable box so I can't put it on my phone, ipod, ipad, or laptop.
Honestly, from a consumer business standpoint, it's a no fucking brainer.
You and I are very similar. I currently have a B.S in Information Technology.
Next Spring, I graduate with an B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. I'm also an automotive engineer working for Mercedes at the moment.
I also founded my school's first Society of Automotive Engineers chapter, and we're working on finishing the school's first Formula SAE Car.
I do not recommend a CS degree. That was my first degree before I switched it to IT. IMO CS will give you an unnecessary study into in depth facets of CS that you won't utilize as an ME. If you want to combine technology with engineering then pursue a degree in IT. It will be easier, give you more practical programming experience, teach you about databases, and allow the flexibility of taking several electives (which can be CS related courses).
You will also be subject to programming and controls classes during your ME studies. Your IT experience will give you a leg up against your peers.
You will amaze your ME friends when you can create a programming solution to an engineering problem on the computer.
I could have rooted my phone and tethered it, but I chose to get the 3G stick to be fair
Why in the fuck are you taking some non-existant bullshit moral high ground for a company that will fuck you seven ways from sunday without a moments notice and would charge you everytime you pressed a button on your phone if they could. Fuck all these companies to hell. I don't give a shit about their profit margin and I'll do anything and everything to screw them back.
Know what? Illegal shit happens all the time and the law doesn't give a shit because it's business. Think hiring illegal immigrants. Me thinks you don't have the perspective of a waitress. What's more important to a waitress busting her ass to pay her bills: Demanding more wages against the will of her boss and threatening legal action if he doesn't cooperate or making money? You decide smart guy.
As an engineer you'll draw the model in CAD using software like Solidworks. Then you'll use other software tools that let you program code to tell a CNC machine HOW to make your model from a solid block of aluminum. Then you feed the code into a CNC machine and let it go to work on the block. If you did everything correctly you have a new calculator case if you botched it, you have to start over.
A local machine shop will be able to help you with this. CAD software is expensive but if you're interested in learning, Google Sketchup is free and comes with TONS of online tutorials. It's the simplest of simplest of simple CAD programs but you can learn the basics using Sketchup.
at least it's free wifi for people inside the car. But yea, it's a bit dishonest to call this free public wifi. I'm not sure if slashdot interpreted the article incorrectly or if the company is just really inept and actually thinks thousands of moving wifi APs will create a sustainable public wifi network.
Gee...imagine that. Introduce a method that eliminates the need of ALL packaging costs, ware house storage, shipping costs, duplicating hardware, the initial cost of the physical media, the cost of printed manuals, and customers expect the price to go DOWN? Plus we have get the added benefit of DRM lock in! Who do they think they are? Don't they understand we need to profit at all costs?! The audacity.
Explain this to me. Water is renewable. It's not getting gobbled up. It's not getting ruined. We're not "running" out of drinking water. It's not syphoning out of the planet. The whole fucking planet is water. It's stupid easy to desalinate water and purify toxic water for drinking. My wife is always telling me about the water crisis. I'm like what fucking crisis? Water isn't going anywhere. Desalination is expensive but it will become cheaper when we need it. Supply and demand. Fossil fuels--THERE is something you should be worried about.
Well shit....I guess I was wrong. I assume your work for USA or NASA? We got the VIP tour, had to put on bunny suits and they took us all throughout the Orbiter Processing Facility and inside the shuttle. It freaking blew my mind that basically an entire building engulfs the orbiter for inspection. If you're on the outside of the structure, you really can't see the shuttle on the inside, just a HUGE steel structure. I think if more people had access to the VIP tour your average retard voter wouldn't think NASA is full of fail. They have no fucking clue at all what they're talking about. We also got to ride the elevator up on the launch pad. Boy is that fucking scary.
I've actually been inside the Atlantis. I was lucky enough to receive the VIP tour. I'm gonna glow your mind. The technicians there say *every inch* of wire is removed and closely examined after every launch. So yea, I would agree with OP, the shuttle basically gets gutted after launch. How much is replaced after each inspection I can't say.
Fun fact: the shuttle bay doors are only designed to be opened in space. If opened on earth their own weight would rip the hinges apart. During inspection the doors are supported by huge braces.:D Oblig Picture: http://imgur.com/7pBjO.jpg
See here's the thing. If piracy rates dropped to 0 tomorrow, DRM wouldn't vanish. Sales wouldn't sky rocket. You'd still hear execs screaming at the top of their lungs that piracy is killing the industry and harsher DRM is needed. The end state of DRM is control, not piracy. Ideally publishers want a closed platform (see consoles), where they can force micro-payments for DLC and updates. Also making you pay multiple times for the same product (see iTunes). So fuck you and your DRM. Stop fucking over the legitimate customer and focus on writing better games etc etc etc. Piracy will ALWAYS exist. Get over it and work around it. You can't control it.
I was trained to goto Iraq but never went. Every fucking person under the sun owns an AK-47. It's a machismo thing. It was beat into my brain that someone carrying an AK47 isn't an enemy combatant and is NOT a justification for engagement. It only escalates when they point it at you.
Many of the posts suggest to pullout the coax and rewire with cat5e. My question to the community is why not Cat6? When I bulit a small network in my house I concluded that ca6 is slightly better than cat5e, especially for gigabit speeds. If you're going to wire your house why not use cat6?
Yay. I'm with you on this one. At the moment Rep Alan Grayson is a champion of truth, justice, etc etc. All the qualities you'd actually LIKE to see in a congressional representative. So I was a bit surprised when I read the headline. Then I clicked the link and realized it went to foxnews.com. Fox News has been trying to paint Rep. Grayson as a nutjob for a LONG time. He gets in the way of their agenda.
First line FTFA
My, my, my. Florida Rep. Alan Grayson wants to see one of his critics go directly to jail -- all over her use of the word "my."
A bit sensionalist don't ya think. I bet halfway through the article it talks about how he wants to kill babies and eat their brains. Well I chuckled, closed the link, and moved on.
Aw man! I'm so dumb!!! In 10 years of reading/. I never thought I'd be on the receiving end of a woosh. "I'm not one of those ultra nerds that doesn't get humor". I guess I can be.
In hindsight I can't believe I took the time to write an entire comment, edit it, and post it without realizing the sarcasm.
Yea that sonic boom you heard was the joke going over my head.:(
I'm not trolling. I'm curious. What is your proposal. America losing manufacturing is free market at work. China has no labor laws therefore they do things cheaply. We don't. Companies move to China. What can we do to compete with that?
Slashdot Mirror
Welcome to the free market: Supply & demand.
There is a demand, thus a supply appears. Let's weigh the choices of pirating. Free high quality commercial free content I can watch instantly as many times as I want. No DRM. Any digital content ever produced can be obtained
OR
a cable service I pay too much for, with pre-set schedules, commercials louder than the program (which I'm now paying to watch) that I can't fast forward, pause, or rewind (unless I pay for it) and the content is locked into my cable box so I can't put it on my phone, ipod, ipad, or laptop.
Honestly, from a consumer business standpoint, it's a no fucking brainer.
This affected Mercedes-Benz USA. One of their most important apps is a JavaWebStart. This explains the company wide failure we had.
You and I are very similar. I currently have a B.S in Information Technology.
Next Spring, I graduate with an B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. I'm also an automotive engineer working for Mercedes at the moment.
I also founded my school's first Society of Automotive Engineers chapter, and we're working on finishing the school's first Formula SAE Car.
I do not recommend a CS degree. That was my first degree before I switched it to IT. IMO CS will give you an unnecessary study into in depth facets of CS that you won't utilize as an ME. If you want to combine technology with engineering then pursue a degree in IT. It will be easier, give you more practical programming experience, teach you about databases, and allow the flexibility of taking several electives (which can be CS related courses).
You will also be subject to programming and controls classes during your ME studies. Your IT experience will give you a leg up against your peers.
You will amaze your ME friends when you can create a programming solution to an engineering problem on the computer.
Busy counting their profit and laughing over all the money you think they want to spend on IPV6 upgrades.
For EXTREME challenge limit yourself to 8 bits!
I could have rooted my phone and tethered it, but I chose to get the 3G stick to be fair
Why in the fuck are you taking some non-existant bullshit moral high ground for a company that will fuck you seven ways from sunday without a moments notice and would charge you everytime you pressed a button on your phone if they could. Fuck all these companies to hell. I don't give a shit about their profit margin and I'll do anything and everything to screw them back.
1. WePay
2. Google Checkout
3. Amazon Payment
Know what? Illegal shit happens all the time and the law doesn't give a shit because it's business. Think hiring illegal immigrants. Me thinks you don't have the perspective of a waitress. What's more important to a waitress busting her ass to pay her bills: Demanding more wages against the will of her boss and threatening legal action if he doesn't cooperate or making money? You decide smart guy.
As an engineer you'll draw the model in CAD using software like Solidworks. Then you'll use other software tools that let you program code to tell a CNC machine HOW to make your model from a solid block of aluminum. Then you feed the code into a CNC machine and let it go to work on the block. If you did everything correctly you have a new calculator case if you botched it, you have to start over.
A local machine shop will be able to help you with this. CAD software is expensive but if you're interested in learning, Google Sketchup is free and comes with TONS of online tutorials. It's the simplest of simplest of simple CAD programs but you can learn the basics using Sketchup.
Wait, you can detain and arrest people in the States as a citizen?
You sure fucking can...in theory :( I remember a group of people who tried to arrest Cheney. It went over as well as throwing a shoe @ bush.
at least it's free wifi for people inside the car. But yea, it's a bit dishonest to call this free public wifi. I'm not sure if slashdot interpreted the article incorrectly or if the company is just really inept and actually thinks thousands of moving wifi APs will create a sustainable public wifi network.
Excellent! First article I see after watching this. 2027 is only 17 years away!!! :D
Gee...imagine that. Introduce a method that eliminates the need of ALL packaging costs, ware house storage, shipping costs, duplicating hardware, the initial cost of the physical media, the cost of printed manuals, and customers expect the price to go DOWN? Plus we have get the added benefit of DRM lock in! Who do they think they are? Don't they understand we need to profit at all costs?! The audacity.
Explain this to me. Water is renewable. It's not getting gobbled up. It's not getting ruined. We're not "running" out of drinking water. It's not syphoning out of the planet. The whole fucking planet is water. It's stupid easy to desalinate water and purify toxic water for drinking. My wife is always telling me about the water crisis. I'm like what fucking crisis? Water isn't going anywhere. Desalination is expensive but it will become cheaper when we need it. Supply and demand. Fossil fuels--THERE is something you should be worried about.
Well shit....I guess I was wrong. I assume your work for USA or NASA? We got the VIP tour, had to put on bunny suits and they took us all throughout the Orbiter Processing Facility and inside the shuttle. It freaking blew my mind that basically an entire building engulfs the orbiter for inspection. If you're on the outside of the structure, you really can't see the shuttle on the inside, just a HUGE steel structure. I think if more people had access to the VIP tour your average retard voter wouldn't think NASA is full of fail. They have no fucking clue at all what they're talking about. We also got to ride the elevator up on the launch pad. Boy is that fucking scary.
I've actually been inside the Atlantis. I was lucky enough to receive the VIP tour. I'm gonna glow your mind. The technicians there say *every inch* of wire is removed and closely examined after every launch. So yea, I would agree with OP, the shuttle basically gets gutted after launch. How much is replaced after each inspection I can't say.
Fun fact: the shuttle bay doors are only designed to be opened in space. If opened on earth their own weight would rip the hinges apart. During inspection the doors are supported by huge braces. :D
Oblig Picture:
http://imgur.com/7pBjO.jpg
http://imgur.com/qzxT6.jpg
http://imgur.com/2SPRA.jpg
http://imgur.com/EUxbD.jpg
See here's the thing. If piracy rates dropped to 0 tomorrow, DRM wouldn't vanish. Sales wouldn't sky rocket. You'd still hear execs screaming at the top of their lungs that piracy is killing the industry and harsher DRM is needed. The end state of DRM is control, not piracy. Ideally publishers want a closed platform (see consoles), where they can force micro-payments for DLC and updates. Also making you pay multiple times for the same product (see iTunes). So fuck you and your DRM. Stop fucking over the legitimate customer and focus on writing better games etc etc etc. Piracy will ALWAYS exist. Get over it and work around it. You can't control it.
Are your purposely talking out of your ass?
Conventional weapons have largely met their match against fixed fortified positions.
Hardly, sir.
http://www.strimoo.com/video/10901473/Bunker-Buster-MySpaceVideos.html
and this from 1994, 16 years ago, where our bunker buster cuts through 20 feet of reinforced concrete like butter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11vZHrsJWjU
I was trained to goto Iraq but never went. Every fucking person under the sun owns an AK-47. It's a machismo thing. It was beat into my brain that someone carrying an AK47 isn't an enemy combatant and is NOT a justification for engagement. It only escalates when they point it at you.
You just couldn't do it.
Many of the posts suggest to pullout the coax and rewire with cat5e. My question to the community is why not Cat6? When I bulit a small network in my house I concluded that ca6 is slightly better than cat5e, especially for gigabit speeds. If you're going to wire your house why not use cat6?
Yay. I'm with you on this one. At the moment Rep Alan Grayson is a champion of truth, justice, etc etc. All the qualities you'd actually LIKE to see in a congressional representative. So I was a bit surprised when I read the headline. Then I clicked the link and realized it went to foxnews.com. Fox News has been trying to paint Rep. Grayson as a nutjob for a LONG time. He gets in the way of their agenda.
First line FTFA
My, my, my. Florida Rep. Alan Grayson wants to see one of his critics go directly to jail -- all over her use of the word "my."
A bit sensionalist don't ya think. I bet halfway through the article it talks about how he wants to kill babies and eat their brains. Well I chuckled, closed the link, and moved on.
Nothing to see here folks.
I see now. I stopped reading after the first line. I didn't read the stuff about waterfalls, fusion, 50 years etc. Funny, man. :D
WHOOOOOOSH!
Aw man! I'm so dumb!!! In 10 years of reading /. I never thought I'd be on the receiving end of a woosh. "I'm not one of those ultra nerds that doesn't get humor". I guess I can be.
In hindsight I can't believe I took the time to write an entire comment, edit it, and post it without realizing the sarcasm.
Yea that sonic boom you heard was the joke going over my head. :(
I'm not trolling. I'm curious. What is your proposal. America losing manufacturing is free market at work. China has no labor laws therefore they do things cheaply. We don't. Companies move to China. What can we do to compete with that?