I'd trust an iPad with a titanium (vs the current aluminum) rear cover, Corning's Gorillia Glass for the front screen, and the solid state-only parts inside over a laptop any day. How much laptop/electronics repair do you plan to do in orbit? Not even Amazon Prime is getting parts to you. I'm sure Apple would be happy to have Foxconn build hardened versions for the marketing value.
iPad + two fans + assembly on it = control panel that can come to you or follow you around. You could even video conference with mission control if the facetime on ipad 2.0 rumors are true.
Fine line there chief. I almost joined the Air Force Reserves as a loadmaster, as I wanted to help on peaceful/humanitarian missions moving supplies to where they're needed (I dig logistics quite a bit). Once you're in for X number of years, what happens when the political winds change and some asshole like Bush is in charge? You don't get to opt out all of a sudden just because the "contract" has materially changed.
Oppose the war, support the good the armed forces has the capability to do.
I don't know of any not-for-profit that has access to the logistics system the US military has (and no, Fedex doesn't count).
I built one of the MakerBot plastic 3D printers (from the kit). I can print LEGO blocks without a problem (not that I would though, I've got far more important things to build like plastic prototypes before I send the SketchUp file off to be milled from a piece of steel/aluminum).
Most of that stems from CS programs being behind the times. Too much theory, not enough real-world application. Not all of it should be code, as theory is necessary. But CS folks should be graduating knowing both high-level ideas on why you write code in certain ways, and the tools of the trade.
After interviewing with an HFT firm in Chicago and understanding how their business worked (I was to work with the CTO to help squeeze every last microsecond out of their trading infrastructure colo'd at markets around the world), I cashed my entire 401k/IRAs out of the stock market. I might as well go to a casino.
How much did Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity make on shoestring budgets? >$10 million? Your point, it has real world examples to back it up.
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Tesla is supplying the entire drivetrain.
I'm sorry that aerodynamic requirements don't fit your aesthetic views. File a bug report. =)
Diesel is more expensive in the US because we have a low-sulfur requirement now, which is more expensive for refineries to produce.
OH SNAP
I'd trust an iPad with a titanium (vs the current aluminum) rear cover, Corning's Gorillia Glass for the front screen, and the solid state-only parts inside over a laptop any day. How much laptop/electronics repair do you plan to do in orbit? Not even Amazon Prime is getting parts to you. I'm sure Apple would be happy to have Foxconn build hardened versions for the marketing value.
iPad + two fans + assembly on it = control panel that can come to you or follow you around. You could even video conference with mission control if the facetime on ipad 2.0 rumors are true.
Already working on this with an array of Kinects at a mocap studio in Chicago.
I use what I already have (and have paid for). If I ever start building aerospace/high-performance racing parts, I might look at something else.
SketchUp for the quick/dirty/imprecise stuff, AutoCAD for the high quality stuff.
Fine line there chief. I almost joined the Air Force Reserves as a loadmaster, as I wanted to help on peaceful/humanitarian missions moving supplies to where they're needed (I dig logistics quite a bit). Once you're in for X number of years, what happens when the political winds change and some asshole like Bush is in charge? You don't get to opt out all of a sudden just because the "contract" has materially changed.
Oppose the war, support the good the armed forces has the capability to do.
I don't know of any not-for-profit that has access to the logistics system the US military has (and no, Fedex doesn't count).
I'd assume they're recharging radios, GPS devices, or even a Predator ground station, not an iPhone ;)
Blame the one (politicians) wielding the sword, not the sword itself.
I built one of the MakerBot plastic 3D printers (from the kit). I can print LEGO blocks without a problem (not that I would though, I've got far more important things to build like plastic prototypes before I send the SketchUp file off to be milled from a piece of steel/aluminum).
Most of that stems from CS programs being behind the times. Too much theory, not enough real-world application. Not all of it should be code, as theory is necessary. But CS folks should be graduating knowing both high-level ideas on why you write code in certain ways, and the tools of the trade.
Excellent. Those of us who both write and use open source can appreciate that. You ready for GSOC 2011?
http://code.google.com/soc/
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After interviewing with an HFT firm in Chicago and understanding how their business worked (I was to work with the CTO to help squeeze every last microsecond out of their trading infrastructure colo'd at markets around the world), I cashed my entire 401k/IRAs out of the stock market. I might as well go to a casino.
You don't necessarily need an airgap. You just need the network so that you can read SCADA status info and alert based on that.
http://www.stearns.org/doc/one-way-ethernet-cable.html
Be able to read from WAN->SCADA, but never be able to write.
How much did Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity make on shoestring budgets? >$10 million? Your point, it has real world examples to back it up.
There are going to be *a lot* off pissed off people when 3D at-home printing/replication takes off and is refined.
The solution is simple then: We must tie music tracks to gold!
Insert McBane "THATS THE JOKE" pic here.
I'd never take my Roadster to the salt flats. If I'm going to the flats, I'm going to break a ground speed record. Anything less is a waste of time.
That would make sense, as long as they're tied to the property and not the owner/borrower.
*Reads your post as I drag files into my 100GB Dropbox folder*
HAH! Good luck with that champ.
Holy shit. Chapter 7 doesn't discharge HOA fees?