I have a general saw, and it takes me seconds to take the guard on and off. It takes a lot longer to switch from my regular blade to the dado set. There are also a lot of aftermarket splitters that cost less than an overhead guard (the merlin splitter, the bies, etc). Plus you can get the penn state industries overarm guard for $250.
Also, your contention that the $500 dollar guard is too expensive is misguided, the price of a saw stop saw is something like $2800 dollars. For that much money, I can almost buy a European style sliding table saw.
The only thing that bugs me about my splitter is that I can't use it with my crosscut sled, but I'm working on a design to fix that now.
I've been reading about this (and talking to thel company about it long before it ever got produced). This is a good invention, but I wouldn't buy one. Here's why.
You can't cut green wood (wood that hasn't sat around long enough to get down to 10% water). I've gotten construction grade lumber that would easily have tripped this.
Most accidents on the TS aren't from people accidentally putting their hand in the path of the blade, it's from them either slipping (in which case they are essentially slapping the blade, and will still get a very serious cut), or from kickback. I believe (though I don't have a source) that most accidents are from kickback.
Also, many people take the blade guard that is included with their saw off becuase they think it gets in the way (which I've never really understood). If you were to look at the number of accidents on the TS, I would be willing to bet that most accidents involve a TS without a blade guard.
Most damning though, is that when this unit does go off, your saw blade (that you pay $100 a pop for) is rotated down into a block of aluminum, and gets welded there from the heat. Even if you can extracate the blade from that block, it wouldn't be safe to use it again, so you have to buy a new blade, and a new cartridge.
Table saws have been around for at least 100 years in their various forms and most woodworkers can still count to 10.
I'll be buying one. I think is just the fact that game consoles are being marketed to more gen x'ers and not starving college students and kids anymore.
No, disarming the populace isn't the first step. The first step is to create a scapegoat that can be used as justification for any action. Then you have the populace supporting your actions, and possibly enforcing those actions themselves. Scapesgoats have included Muslims(now), Communists(McCarthy),Jews(from biblical times onward, especially during WWII), any ethnic minority in Africa (forever).
That's not even including Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc.
How about we scrap the laptop idea, and give poor people food? I know if I was starving to death, I'd really want to check to see if someone emailed me a hamburger.
I think it's time that we bypassed them completely. With the advent of longer range wireless, as well as the proliferation of access points, we could theoretically setup a large peer to peer 'internet 2.0'. Granted the latency would be hell at this point, but we can work out the details later. This also opens the door for for satellite access etc to re-enter the market.
I'm a third party, and I can patch it right now without even touching the code. Just beat your hard drive with a hammer, and you will be immune to the exploit.
I have no idea what the side effects of this will be for your other applications (because I didn't do any regression testing), but I'm not MS, so I don't really care.
Mat
I call bullshit on this.
In the course of my job, I sometimes spend all day coding, and sometimes I spend all day in meetings, etc. After spending all day coding in emacs, I can definitely feel the strain in my wrists. They'll be sore for the rest of the evening and sometimes into the next day. While I thankfully haven't had a real problem with RSI (I've known people that are almost crippled by it), I do worry that it is only a matter of time before the inflamation builds to the point that it will interfere with my job.
Actually, that's a bad analogy. Stephen's use of ramps at his house to frame the positive and negative space, as well as the bold lines imposed by his use of lower counter tops really makes a statements along the lines of L.I. Kahn.
People use the 'code should be self documenting' excuse because they are lazy and don't want to take the time to actually write documentation.
If you are programming anything non-trivial, you are going to have sections of code that are obscure, and when you have to go back and fix a bug, or add functionality, you won't have any idea what the hell you were doing.
For example, I've written code that had to run on displays with 256 color palettes in windows. It involved saving the current palette when the window gained focus, and then restoring it when the window lost focus. But I couldn't even tell you how I did that now. If I had to go back and look at that code today, I'd have no idea what I was thinking. I do recall that is wasn't actually very many lines of code.
Back before UML was a common thing, I used to 'write' my code in comments and stubs, as a design. After I could read through the code as a narrative of what my app/service/dll did, I would actually fill in the stubs to make it work. This ended up saving me a lot of time in the long run, as I didn't really have much refactoring work to do while coding.
In most cases, I think template metaprogramming (in C++) is pedantic garbage. In this case however, you could probably use it to great effect (ie, the compiler will unroll your loops for you). The syntax is still pretty horrible though.
This is so misguided. Viewing a web page in a mobile device will be drastically different from phone to phone to pda, to web ipod (just wait, it's coming). Web page developers are going to have to resort to large conditionals based on the device viewing the page, and invariably, it will require breaking 'standards' to get a page to view correctly in the latest and greatest mobile device.
Plus, it's just kinda lame to force arbitrary rules on people.
While I had hoped that it would make it, those hopes weren't very high. Using a two wheeeled vehicle instead of a four wheel vehicle just adds needless compilications to the whole thing. A four (or three) wheeled vehicle can stop where it is while it tries to determine terrain etc. A two wheeled vehicle has to keep moving. If it wants to go backwards, it has to circle around.
Why, why, why, can't the editors change the links to use coralcache ? It's retarded that every story on slashdot concerns an article that no one can read. Is it really any wonder that people post without RTFA?
And now, we are going to start seeing exploits getting released for Opera. As well as articles about how IE is more secure than Opera. Just give it a little time, trust me.
I haven't been paying that much attention to what happened with cell service in Hurricane Katrina, but AFAIK, it was 'down' for quite some time. I think the infastructure 'going down' is a lot greater possibility than people think.
Probably your smartest move is just to have a lot of canned food and water and some medical supplies available so you can wait out whatever disaster should come your way.
I'm sure most of the people in N.O. weren't thinking, damn, I wish I could watch the latest INXS rockstar on my vcast phone:)
But, each enterprise app you run will have different requirements, but as a general rule, big enterprise customers use version of operating systems that are a couple of years old. That means, most of the bugs have been addressed, or are at least well known.
This means that most of the software the current/.'r is running, won't show up in enterprise level distributions for several years. So yeah, five years off doesn't sound that far off the mark.
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Also, your contention that the $500 dollar guard is too expensive is misguided, the price of a saw stop saw is something like $2800 dollars. For that much money, I can almost buy a European style sliding table saw.
The only thing that bugs me about my splitter is that I can't use it with my crosscut sled, but I'm working on a design to fix that now.
You can't cut green wood (wood that hasn't sat around long enough to get down to 10% water). I've gotten construction grade lumber that would easily have tripped this.
Most accidents on the TS aren't from people accidentally putting their hand in the path of the blade, it's from them either slipping (in which case they are essentially slapping the blade, and will still get a very serious cut), or from kickback. I believe (though I don't have a source) that most accidents are from kickback.
Also, many people take the blade guard that is included with their saw off becuase they think it gets in the way (which I've never really understood). If you were to look at the number of accidents on the TS, I would be willing to bet that most accidents involve a TS without a blade guard.
Most damning though, is that when this unit does go off, your saw blade (that you pay $100 a pop for) is rotated down into a block of aluminum, and gets welded there from the heat. Even if you can extracate the blade from that block, it wouldn't be safe to use it again, so you have to buy a new blade, and a new cartridge.
Table saws have been around for at least 100 years in their various forms and most woodworkers can still count to 10.
This just means that they can get warrants to tap your Vonage phone etc. This just brings your IP phone in parity with your land line.
I'll be buying one. I think is just the fact that game consoles are being marketed to more gen x'ers and not starving college students and kids anymore.
That's not even including Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc.
You obviously don't know what traffic is like in the SF Bay Area. During rush hour, you'd be working at 801.11b speeds.
How about we scrap the laptop idea, and give poor people food? I know if I was starving to death, I'd really want to check to see if someone emailed me a hamburger.
I believe you meant to say Heisenburg's page.
I think it's time that we bypassed them completely. With the advent of longer range wireless, as well as the proliferation of access points, we could theoretically setup a large peer to peer 'internet 2.0'. Granted the latency would be hell at this point, but we can work out the details later. This also opens the door for for satellite access etc to re-enter the market.
I have no idea what the side effects of this will be for your other applications (because I didn't do any regression testing), but I'm not MS, so I don't really care. Mat
I call bullshit on this.
In the course of my job, I sometimes spend all day coding, and sometimes I spend all day in meetings, etc. After spending all day coding in emacs, I can definitely feel the strain in my wrists. They'll be sore for the rest of the evening and sometimes into the next day. While I thankfully haven't had a real problem with RSI (I've known people that are almost crippled by it), I do worry that it is only a matter of time before the inflamation builds to the point that it will interfere with my job.
Actually, that's a bad analogy. Stephen's use of ramps at his house to frame the positive and negative space, as well as the bold lines imposed by his use of lower counter tops really makes a statements along the lines of L.I. Kahn.
If you are programming anything non-trivial, you are going to have sections of code that are obscure, and when you have to go back and fix a bug, or add functionality, you won't have any idea what the hell you were doing.
For example, I've written code that had to run on displays with 256 color palettes in windows. It involved saving the current palette when the window gained focus, and then restoring it when the window lost focus. But I couldn't even tell you how I did that now. If I had to go back and look at that code today, I'd have no idea what I was thinking. I do recall that is wasn't actually very many lines of code.
Back before UML was a common thing, I used to 'write' my code in comments and stubs, as a design. After I could read through the code as a narrative of what my app/service/dll did, I would actually fill in the stubs to make it work. This ended up saving me a lot of time in the long run, as I didn't really have much refactoring work to do while coding.
how is this different from using a permenent marker to black out the same section?
In most cases, I think template metaprogramming (in C++) is pedantic garbage. In this case however, you could probably use it to great effect (ie, the compiler will unroll your loops for you). The syntax is still pretty horrible though.
Plus, it's just kinda lame to force arbitrary rules on people.
While I had hoped that it would make it, those hopes weren't very high. Using a two wheeeled vehicle instead of a four wheel vehicle just adds needless compilications to the whole thing. A four (or three) wheeled vehicle can stop where it is while it tries to determine terrain etc. A two wheeled vehicle has to keep moving. If it wants to go backwards, it has to circle around.
Even though they didn't make it, hats off to 'em.
Anyone know why they wouldn't use http://firebird.sourceforge.net/> ? I've used interbase in the past and I thought it was pretty damn good.
I believe the last generation of voodoo cards had a unit similar to that. It used a heat pipe unit to draw air directly from outside the case.
MS and RIAA battling it out. I don't know who I should be hurling the vile invective against. Too...much...for..my...slashdot...brain. *pop*
*That's a joke BTW*
Why, why, why, can't the editors change the links to use coralcache ? It's retarded that every story on slashdot concerns an article that no one can read. Is it really any wonder that people post without RTFA?
And now, we are going to start seeing exploits getting released for Opera. As well as articles about how IE is more secure than Opera. Just give it a little time, trust me.
I haven't been paying that much attention to what happened with cell service in Hurricane Katrina, but AFAIK, it was 'down' for quite some time. I think the infastructure 'going down' is a lot greater possibility than people think.
Probably your smartest move is just to have a lot of canned food and water and some medical supplies available so you can wait out whatever disaster should come your way.
I'm sure most of the people in N.O. weren't thinking, damn, I wish I could watch the latest INXS rockstar on my vcast phone :)
This means that most of the software the current /.'r is running, won't show up in enterprise level distributions for several years. So yeah, five years off doesn't sound that far off the mark.