One of the biggest problems I face, as a designer of suspensions, is that hardly anybody can do 3d trig. Therefore, when asked to learn about multibody dynamics, there are few engineers available with the knowledge and confidence to do so. On the upside it guarantees that I will earn a hundred bucks an hour for consultancy work.
Sure, but the classes you are talking about are upper division undergrad classes, not high school classes. I took Compiler Design and Statics at the same time. Statics was painful, and Compilers were fun and easy. I dropped the EE, and ended up getting a CS degree, then an MS in CS.
But do keep up the good bridge work. When your bridges fail, people die. When my compilers fail, well, people *expect* computers to crash:)
We aboslutely need more female scientists. White lab coats and glasses are acceptable, but black fitted catsuits and stylish glasses are also acceptable.
I care. I fully expect cars to drive themselves before I become senile enough to have the keys taken away from me.
I consider myself an excellent driver, but recognize that relatively few people care about improving their driving skills. I would much rather they have access to gadgets that prevent them from smashing into me than not.
It would be even better if I could step into my car with a latte, cell phone, and laptop, ask the car to take me to the airport, and read slashdot along the way. My guess is that it will happen within 20 years.
Not for everybody. Personally, I want to be able to control my depth of field manually, do long exposures for scientific and astronomical work, and swap in long and short lenses. I can do that right now with my $60 film camera. The digital equivalent is still way out of my price range.
How many rolls of film do you shoot? Assuming you are buying in bulk and doing your own processing, you might be able to pay $10 for a roll of 36 exposures and processing. Expose 80 rolls (2880 frames) and you could have purchased a new Nikon d50.
DoF is no problem with a dSLR, pick a long or fast lens and you can get razor thin focus. Need something wide? Grab the sigma 10-20mm zoom, effectively the same focal length as a 15-30mm zoom on 35. Need something long for your astrophotography? Your 200mm telephoto lens is effectively a 300mm lens when mounted to a 1.5x (Nikon) dSLR.
Canon is better at long exposures than Nikon, but neither will go much beyond 30 seconds. That isn't a problem, though, because digital film is free. You can use your PC to schedule an infinite sequence of 10 second frames, and then stack them in any of a number of astrophotography software packages (several of which are free).
My Lomos and other "cheap" toy film cameras sit on a shelf because they are far more expensive to operate than my d70s.
Film cameras are a luxury product, not an economy product.
I understand that Bill Gates thinks Linux and Open Source Software are a Communist Plot to destroy his company. I also know that Fremont is the only neighborhood in Seattle with a larger than life statue of lenin. Isn't naming their next product after fremont going a bit far? Should we look for Microsoft Trotzky next?
>> the only real winner after a hybrid purchase is the environment.
>That is to say, everyone and everything on the planet.
What I don't see in the article is any reference to the heavy metals introduced into the environment by the massive battery systems present in a hybrid. Sure, you use less gas than a Ford Focus, and maybe about the same as a micro-car like the Smart or VW Lupo. But what is the impact of the battery system on the environment? I know the batteries in my laptops only last a few years before they need replacement. How long do Hybrid batteries last, and what is their environmental impact?
Well, the ship crashed, so we can easily surmise that it ran an ancient form of Windows. Perhaps even Windows 3.0. However, the ship must have been part of a trading network, so it could have had Windows 3.11 for workgroups.
Haven't we gone through this already? How many times have businesses floated this concept over the last couple of years?
The last one I remember was DiVX (not the popular codec, but the play-once DVD-alternative that flopped in the late '90s). You won't be surprised to learn that Microsoft acquired much of the DiVX team when their product finally failed.
PictureProject is a great little application. It works much like Apple's iPhoto, but seems to handle large quantities of files more easily. Serious photographers will want to use Photoshop as well, but I find PictureProject faster for browsing 5000 images than Adobe Bridge.
Are you sure? Whatever the outcome, the USA surely does not want to let China or the EU get ahead in that field...
Think that through carefully. TVs, microwaves, and computer parts are all made far more cheaply in china than in the USA. Imagine if you could walk in to wal-mart and book a chinese spaceflight for $500.
Doesn't sound so bad to let the Chinese in to the game, does it?
After a thorough investigation, we have concluded that sexually explicit material exists in a fully rendered, unmodified form on the final discs of all three platform versions of the game (i.e., PC CD-ROM, Xbox and PS2).
I'm shocked and offended that my PS2 version of GTA:SA includes hot coffee mode. Now, how do I gain access to it?
Slashdot Mirror
What, you get MSDN content from 1992?
yawn.
One of the biggest problems I face, as a designer of suspensions, is that hardly anybody can do 3d trig. Therefore, when asked to learn about multibody dynamics, there are few engineers available with the knowledge and confidence to do so. On the upside it guarantees that I will earn a hundred bucks an hour for consultancy work.
:)
Sure, but the classes you are talking about are upper division undergrad classes, not high school classes. I took Compiler Design and Statics at the same time. Statics was painful, and Compilers were fun and easy. I dropped the EE, and ended up getting a CS degree, then an MS in CS.
But do keep up the good bridge work. When your bridges fail, people die. When my compilers fail, well, people *expect* computers to crash
We aboslutely need more female scientists. White lab coats and glasses are acceptable, but black fitted catsuits and stylish glasses are also acceptable.
How long until I can buy them by the gross at wal-mart?
I care. I fully expect cars to drive themselves before I become senile enough to have the keys taken away from me.
I consider myself an excellent driver, but recognize that relatively few people care about improving their driving skills. I would much rather they have access to gadgets that prevent them from smashing into me than not.
It would be even better if I could step into my car with a latte, cell phone, and laptop, ask the car to take me to the airport, and read slashdot along the way. My guess is that it will happen within 20 years.
Not for everybody. Personally, I want to be able to control my depth of field manually, do long exposures for scientific and astronomical work, and swap in long and short lenses. I can do that right now with my $60 film camera. The digital equivalent is still way out of my price range.
How many rolls of film do you shoot? Assuming you are buying in bulk and doing your own processing, you might be able to pay $10 for a roll of 36 exposures and processing. Expose 80 rolls (2880 frames) and you could have purchased a new Nikon d50.
DoF is no problem with a dSLR, pick a long or fast lens and you can get razor thin focus. Need something wide? Grab the sigma 10-20mm zoom, effectively the same focal length as a 15-30mm zoom on 35. Need something long for your astrophotography? Your 200mm telephoto lens is effectively a 300mm lens when mounted to a 1.5x (Nikon) dSLR.
Canon is better at long exposures than Nikon, but neither will go much beyond 30 seconds. That isn't a problem, though, because digital film is free. You can use your PC to schedule an infinite sequence of 10 second frames, and then stack them in any of a number of astrophotography software packages (several of which are free).
My Lomos and other "cheap" toy film cameras sit on a shelf because they are far more expensive to operate than my d70s.
Film cameras are a luxury product, not an economy product.
I find this new policy annoying.
And no one has mentioned Algernon?
I would like to take this opportunity to announce that I am willing to move the US to IPv6 for $24 billion.
So, how long until we can buy discount chinese-made ultraSPARC chips at Wal-Mart?
What's this funny receptacle I feel on the back of my neck? I don't remember it being here before...
I understand that Bill Gates thinks Linux and Open Source Software are a Communist Plot to destroy his company. I also know that Fremont is the only neighborhood in Seattle with a larger than life statue of lenin. Isn't naming their next product after fremont going a bit far? Should we look for Microsoft Trotzky next?
>> the only real winner after a hybrid purchase is the environment.
>That is to say, everyone and everything on the planet.
What I don't see in the article is any reference to the heavy metals introduced into the environment by the massive battery systems present in a hybrid. Sure, you use less gas than a Ford Focus, and maybe about the same as a micro-car like the Smart or VW Lupo. But what is the impact of the battery system on the environment? I know the batteries in my laptops only last a few years before they need replacement. How long do Hybrid batteries last, and what is their environmental impact?
Maybe New York and Germany both need some more happy product.
Does it run Linux?
Well, the ship crashed, so we can easily surmise that it ran an ancient form of Windows. Perhaps even Windows 3.0. However, the ship must have been part of a trading network, so it could have had Windows 3.11 for workgroups.
Only something dramatic, such as a major volcanic eruption, could cause enough cooling to miss setting a new record.
That is exactly what was running through my head the last time I flew from Seattle to LA. Right Over St. Helens.
Somewhere in redmond, someone is using that slashdot story to make the case for Microsoft getting into play-once disk technology.
Haven't we gone through this already? How many times have businesses floated this concept over the last couple of years?
The last one I remember was DiVX (not the popular codec, but the play-once DVD-alternative that flopped in the late '90s). You won't be surprised to learn that Microsoft acquired much of the DiVX team when their product finally failed.
It will probably be easier to register than the Zeppelin NT offered a few years back.
If a basic Windows box requires 256 MB of video RAM to run, then Macintosh OS X on x86 will definitely be the less expensive PC.
OK, who is going to post the text of the flamewar?
PictureProject is a great little application. It works much like Apple's iPhoto, but seems to handle large quantities of files more easily. Serious photographers will want to use Photoshop as well, but I find PictureProject faster for browsing 5000 images than Adobe Bridge.
More BSD on the desktop can only be a good thing. Now that OS X is my primary desktop platform, I'm running into more and more BSD-Linux issues.
Are you sure? Whatever the outcome, the USA surely does not want to let China or the EU get ahead in that field...
Think that through carefully. TVs, microwaves, and computer parts are all made far more cheaply in china than in the USA. Imagine if you could walk in to wal-mart and book a chinese spaceflight for $500.
Doesn't sound so bad to let the Chinese in to the game, does it?
After a thorough investigation, we have concluded that sexually explicit material exists in a fully rendered, unmodified form on the final discs of all three platform versions of the game (i.e., PC CD-ROM, Xbox and PS2).
I'm shocked and offended that my PS2 version of GTA:SA includes hot coffee mode. Now, how do I gain access to it?