Clothing optional. Linux. Oh noes! I need to wash my eyeballs now:| (I should link to that naked, bearded fat guy sitting in front of a computer...) But can't be bothered.
To take this post slightly on topic, I see no conspiracy here. The decision process for a huge retailer like Wal-mart is likely quite complex, not to mention unsentimental so if the business-case changes they will re-appear in the physical stores.
Does anyone btw own one of these machines? Are $200 good value for money?
I use wikipedia a lot since I can get quick, accurate-ish info. But at the same time, I am aware that if I really want some authority behind the facts, I have to go elsewhere. Wikpedia is a good starting point though.
Wikipedia is great if you keep this in mind, in fact it might even be better that people use a less perfect sorce of info if it keeps them on their intellectual, critical toes and does not accept anything printed as "the Truth(TM)"
Most (if not all) of the tools used for machining Titanium are exactly the same as for steel. In our business, titanium came in grades. Grade 2 for almost pure Ti, Grade 5 was alloyed to be hard (think it was Al and V in it) and there was Grade 7 fur surgical implants etc.
Apart from Grade 5 everything else was quite easy to machine. As mentioned by other posters forming sheet took a bit of work though. But the items we peoduced where usually huge enough to warrant hydraulic pressing anyway so it did not really matter.
As a bit of trivia, Ti is used in surgical screws and inplants because it bonds to bone-cells(or rather the other way around) and is generally tolerated by the immune system. This lead to any cuts and scratches with Ti-paricles in them to be very nasty. Quite often the Ti-residue actually led the cut to stay open, and let all other crap in while the immune system took a while to realize that there was something going on.
Why would one use a titanium jacket for a bullet, instead of whatever is ususally used (i would think some copper based stuff? At least I remeber that from the ammunition I saw in the military and on the occasional hunting trips I have attended) Would be interesting to know...
Titanium alloys, while being cool and all is still no silver bullet (aha, almost a pun in there) The strength-weight ration is worse than for steel, althought better than aluminium. The thing it has really going for it is resistance to corrosion. It also does not become as brittle in cold temperatures, but looses a lot of mechanical endurance in hight temperatures.
So for anything that are kept away from saltwater or acids and need to be high strength, steel alloys are still a good choice. Titanium is also a b*tch to weld. Although in this range price will be about the same for high strenght steel and grade 5 Ti.
Titanium has a really cool appeal to a lot of people though. So I guess some marketin-droid along the line must have been really good at his job =)
Yes, I have worked for a company specializing in making pipe fittings and equipment for the chemical industry and off-shore platforms. Titanium mostly but also other sexy alloys
There is nothing special or magical about diversity. I know that might break your heart, or go against everything you've been taught/programmed to think, but I'd take talent over diversity any day. I could care less about gender or race. I'd take 100 albino eunichs that were awesome web developers over a group of 100 average but perfectly racially/sexually diverse developers.
Well, while I actually tend to agree with this, the basic problem is that when you have hired 99 albino eunuchs might mighty 1337 skills, you are likely quite inclined to assume that the 100'th one also possess that brilliance on the sole account of being pale and nutless, and hire him over a tanned big-balled guy that is also brilliant but would "disturb the harmony of the workplace" or "Not quite fit in" This might look/sound like left-wing or tree-hugging hippie crap to you, but is reality for a lot of hard working people who deserve a break.
Yeah, let us know when you decide to join the rest of us in the 21st century. Hell, you even might get a "I for one welcome our Old Reactionnary Patriearchal Overlord" =P
As to briefly touch topic, IT as an industry is maturing. Good or bad I do not know but it is Inevitable. I came out of universtiy right after the Crash and at least in my surroundings there are a lot of nostalgic tales from "the boom days" but generally on furhter discussion, no-one really want to go back that route again. Could have something to do with a lot of them having kids and mortgauges now...
More women in the IT-field would increase the diversity generally a Good Thing (c)
Of course, AMD has tried to hide their laziness with the snazzy marketing name AM2. And yeah, I have got to admit that the name sounds pretty damn good. But in the end, isn't the socket itself more important than a mere name?
Snazzy name, yeah? I totally misread the headline as A2M...very Freudian indeed!
Well, I just use the USB-cable that comes with it to get the images over to my computer. It works ok, ofcourse you have to have your comupter nearby, but arenä't we all geeks in here? =)
Seriously, I have recently upgraded from a Sonyericsson T610 (crappy camera) to a W800i (better camera) and all of a sudden found lots of practical uses for it. Not to take family-album type photos, but for instance
-Take a picture of the bus time-table when I pass the bus-station so I can check when it is time to head back and not miss a twice-an-hour bus with a minute or two
-Take "before" pictures of stuff I disasesemble (like pulling out a lot of cables from a switchboard or something) to make it easier to put back together if I screw up and there is no documentation at hand
-Check if I missed a spot on the back of my head while shaving it =P
I also find it plenty good for taking "drunk party pictures" in situations I really hesitate to bring my "real" digital camera for fear of losing it or having it smashed in a brawl or getting puked on. (Yeah I know I should probably stop going to those social occasions...)
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There is plenty of research effort being put into this problem. I know a couple of people involved in this. They where trying to find predictive simulation methods to have the care drive itself in "stop-and-go" traffic jams. As with the self-parking car the technology itself is not the problem. The problem is achieving critical mass in users (for congestion-control systems for highways) Also insurance companies and the clutter of various national traffic laws provide hurdles more difficult to overcome than algotithms and microcntrollers.
There are also:
Path coverage (extremley complex and not practical to use in most cases, but for critical sub-systems it might come in handy)
Linear Code Sequence and Jump (LCSJ)
There are more, but these two on top of my head is worthy of inclusion in any discussion on coverage.
There are a lot of business-specific standards out there that specify use of coverage. Aerospace has one, vehicle control systems has one, pharmaceutical and nuclear system yet others. Guess wich one of these that has the _least_ strict standard for coverage? (Hint, Homer's workplace =)
But why is it only the whale bulls (are male whales called bulls in english to?) that have these then? If they have a purpose beside assisting in reproduction, for fighting or impressing the females then why would not the females also have them?
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Oh, try to put the price to $-10.00 and see what happens...you might get credited =)
(I should link to that naked, bearded fat guy sitting in front of a computer...) But can't be bothered.
To take this post slightly on topic, I see no conspiracy here. The decision process for a huge retailer like Wal-mart is likely quite complex, not to mention unsentimental so if the business-case changes they will re-appear in the physical stores.
Does anyone btw own one of these machines? Are $200 good value for money?
But Marine Biologists are Nerds too! ...or at the very least, I'm a Nerdy Marine Biologist you insensitive clod!
I use wikipedia a lot since I can get quick, accurate-ish info. But at the same time, I am aware that if I really want some authority behind the facts, I have to go elsewhere. Wikpedia is a good starting point though.
Wikipedia is great if you keep this in mind, in fact it might even be better that people use a less perfect sorce of info if it keeps them on their intellectual, critical toes and does not accept anything printed as "the Truth(TM)"
Most (if not all) of the tools used for machining Titanium are exactly the same as for steel.
In our business, titanium came in grades. Grade 2 for almost pure Ti, Grade 5 was alloyed to be hard (think it was Al and V in it) and there was Grade 7 fur surgical implants etc.
Apart from Grade 5 everything else was quite easy to machine. As mentioned by other posters forming sheet took a bit of work though. But the items we peoduced where usually huge enough to warrant hydraulic pressing anyway so it did not really matter.
As a bit of trivia, Ti is used in surgical screws and inplants because it bonds to bone-cells(or rather the other way around) and is generally tolerated by the immune system. This lead to any cuts and scratches with Ti-paricles in them to be very nasty. Quite often the Ti-residue actually led the cut to stay open, and let all other crap in while the immune system took a while to realize that there was something going on.
Well howzabout that!
Why would one use a titanium jacket for a bullet, instead of whatever is ususally used (i would think some copper based stuff? At least I remeber that from the ammunition I saw in the military and on the occasional hunting trips I have attended) Would be interesting to know...
Titanium alloys, while being cool and all is still no silver bullet (aha, almost a pun in there) The strength-weight ration is worse than for steel, althought better than aluminium. The thing it has really going for it is resistance to corrosion. It also does not become as brittle in cold temperatures, but looses a lot of mechanical endurance in hight temperatures.
So for anything that are kept away from saltwater or acids and need to be high strength, steel alloys are still a good choice. Titanium is also a b*tch to weld. Although in this range price will be about the same for high strenght steel and grade 5 Ti.
Titanium has a really cool appeal to a lot of people though. So I guess some marketin-droid along the line must have been really good at his job =)
Yes, I have worked for a company specializing in making pipe fittings and equipment for the chemical industry and off-shore platforms. Titanium mostly but also other sexy alloys
There is nothing special or magical about diversity. I know that might break your heart, or go against everything you've been taught/programmed to think, but I'd take talent over diversity any day. I could care less about gender or race. I'd take 100 albino eunichs that were awesome web developers over a group of 100 average but perfectly racially/sexually diverse developers.
Well, while I actually tend to agree with this, the basic problem is that when you have hired 99 albino eunuchs might mighty 1337 skills, you are likely quite inclined to assume that the 100'th one also possess that brilliance on the sole account of being pale and nutless, and hire him over a tanned big-balled guy that is also brilliant but would "disturb the harmony of the workplace" or "Not quite fit in" This might look/sound like left-wing or tree-hugging hippie crap to you, but is reality for a lot of hard working people who deserve a break.
Yeah, let us know when you decide to join the rest of us in the 21st century. Hell, you even might get a "I for one welcome our Old Reactionnary Patriearchal Overlord" =P
As to briefly touch topic, IT as an industry is maturing. Good or bad I do not know but it is Inevitable. I came out of universtiy right after the Crash and at least in my surroundings there are a lot of nostalgic tales from "the boom days" but generally on furhter discussion, no-one really want to go back that route again. Could have something to do with a lot of them having kids and mortgauges now...
More women in the IT-field would increase the diversity generally a Good Thing (c)
Snazzy name, yeah? I totally misread the headline as A2M...very Freudian indeed!
...Got arrested, got lucky...
;-)
Man, I know slashdotters are starved for sex but this seems to be quite a desperate measure to get some, eh?
Well, I just use the USB-cable that comes with it to get the images over to my computer. It works ok, ofcourse you have to have your comupter nearby, but arenä't we all geeks in here? =) Seriously, I have recently upgraded from a Sonyericsson T610 (crappy camera) to a W800i (better camera) and all of a sudden found lots of practical uses for it. Not to take family-album type photos, but for instance -Take a picture of the bus time-table when I pass the bus-station so I can check when it is time to head back and not miss a twice-an-hour bus with a minute or two -Take "before" pictures of stuff I disasesemble (like pulling out a lot of cables from a switchboard or something) to make it easier to put back together if I screw up and there is no documentation at hand -Check if I missed a spot on the back of my head while shaving it =P I also find it plenty good for taking "drunk party pictures" in situations I really hesitate to bring my "real" digital camera for fear of losing it or having it smashed in a brawl or getting puked on. (Yeah I know I should probably stop going to those social occasions...) -
There is plenty of research effort being put into this problem. I know a couple of people involved in this. They where trying to find predictive simulation methods to have the care drive itself in "stop-and-go" traffic jams. As with the self-parking car the technology itself is not the problem. The problem is achieving critical mass in users (for congestion-control systems for highways) Also insurance companies and the clutter of various national traffic laws provide hurdles more difficult to overcome than algotithms and microcntrollers.
I can't believe they left out the slide rule watch! (Yes, it exists) Maybe it's an age thing...
There are also: Path coverage (extremley complex and not practical to use in most cases, but for critical sub-systems it might come in handy) Linear Code Sequence and Jump (LCSJ) There are more, but these two on top of my head is worthy of inclusion in any discussion on coverage. There are a lot of business-specific standards out there that specify use of coverage. Aerospace has one, vehicle control systems has one, pharmaceutical and nuclear system yet others. Guess wich one of these that has the _least_ strict standard for coverage? (Hint, Homer's workplace =)
But why is it only the whale bulls (are male whales called bulls in english to?) that have these then? If they have a purpose beside assisting in reproduction, for fighting or impressing the females then why would not the females also have them?