I have an SGI Indigo workstation, in addition to this wintel box. IBM VGA monitor. Both monitors were on a table in my basement, tower cases under the table out of the way, and since I was using it as a server, the SGI was always on.
A valve overhead developed a leak and, over the course of a weekend, dumped a gallon or so through *both* monitors.
Left 'em to dry out for a week, and they both came back okay.
For pictures of buildings, where the address is clearly visible, great. Friends wanted to take a picture of their kittens on the same rock they took pictures of their kittens on 5 years ago, but the rock was several states away, and out in the woods. No map to follow, and since they'd never planned to return after the first trip, they had to wander around for several hours to find the rock again. With a GPS code in the original picture, the only problem would be figuring out which CD-R the picture was on!
Call Jayco or Coachmen and ask for a bid to build a double-pop-out. That's a motor home where both sides slide out, creating a much larger (almost square) internal space. This should get you 8 or more "workstations", plus A/C, generator, "plumbing", etc.
As for the kit itself, I'd use something standardized, off-the-shelf, and reliable. If I were doing it, I'd get some nice Dell Optiplex boxes since they'll boot Linux, Win(whatever), or anything else you'd want. Possibly a couple Macs as well, not sure.
Make SURE whatever you use has removable hard drives, and get gel suspension storage to hold the drives when the mobile is "rolling".
Don't forget the engineers (yay!) to keep the Astronomers alive...
Seriously, though - the Wright Bros. weren't the first flyers, they were the first heavier-than-air flyers. The lighter-than-air (hot air balloon, helium, hydrogen) craft had been around for quite some time. Exploitation of an idea always requires both a workable idea (duh!) and an obvious reason to exploit it. Air travel had both - hot air balloons were used for battlefield recon as far back as the civil war, heavier-than-air meant much smaller and faster craft (sharks vs. whales) in the air. It's also a lot faster.(To quote the boxtops "Gimmie a ticket for an aeroplane - ain't got time to take a fast train".)
Now, we know space travel is a cool idea, but we haven't quite figured out the benefits yet. Sure, we could have built a base on the moon (and I wish we had!) but the how must wait for the why, and cool isn't enough.
Not sure if Heinlein meant for the rails themselves to provide boost, but then it's been a while since I read that one. I think he'd only intended to use the rails and a large mountain (Pike's Peak, Colorado IIRC) to provide a nice escape angle.
Makes perfect sense. True Marxist Communism is an outgrowth or end result of Capitalism. The Leninist/Stalinist implementation of Communism attempted to jump to the endgame without having achieved capitalism first, and failed. At least that's what the history profs around here say... Meow!
Well, I started out as a software tester. That means the programmers would write whatever, and I'd try to find bugs. From there, I learned some C and (more importantly) structured logic and how to write a flowchart, and moved across the hall as a junior programmer. After doing that for a year, I started learning Unix, first on some anchient DEC kit (this was pre-'99) and later on some SCO boxes. When I was "offered" a job (take it or take the door) writing VB for Windows NT 3.51, I quit and landed a new gig as an admin/programmer. After a couple years there I moved to my current admin-only gig.
I still write code, just now it's to do what I want on my irix box at home.
Stereo Litho is pretty cool; the shop I work for has a couple machines, and they're always busy. That aside, it's apparent that you didn't read the article completely - it addresses that the original pulley was aluminum, but that they're leaving the polycarbon replacement in until it fails "just to see". Since polycarbon is pretty tough stuff, it may surprise them. Meow
Umm, nothing except (a) lots of US foreign aid and (b) lots of US business investments and (c) lots of the same from Western Europe.
The biggest problem holding back mass cash infusions into the former Soviet bloc is the lack of "rule of law"; that is, the government encourages a "partnership" between a local shop and a multinational, then siezes control once the project is off the ground. In the most extreme form, there's a story around somewhere about the manger and employees of a Subway ejecting the American partners at gunpoint.
Two reasons. First, it's still fake-able. (Artist: Mija Cat, Title: Baba O'Riley could consist of me sitting quite still listening to a Who CD)
Second, it would require the artist to authorize and publish, rather than us, the satisfied fans. Want to bet that all the artists you like will make the effort?
Requires 2 or more boards, and at least 3 players.
Players can start on any board, each player gets dealt 5 country cards and can place 20 armies on those countries. All countries not occupied by a person are occupied by "peaceful natives".
Once you control a continent, you may enter the Space Race. You give up your continent bonus for (roll a die) years, at the end of which time you may send (roll 3 dice) to another planet every year.
Landing site is determined by pulling a random country card; and yes, you can land on another player. War ensues.
The winner is either (a) the player who stays awake longest or (b) the player who has effective control of all planets.
They actually change out the wheels on passenger (and one would assume freight) trains between Siberia and China today, so if China is standard, they just use the same system...and possibly the same facility...
Dude, go take an economics 101 course, okay? Take it at night if you've got a real job.
First, MS hasn't put as much into R&D as they have into mergers & acquisitions. Buying up companies that have a new idea isn't called research, it's called stifling competition.
You also dispute the original article's assertion that there are no real alternatives. Yes, there is Linux. Yes, I use it. No, it's NOT ready for the corporate desktop. It's closer this year than it was last year, though.
As for OpCO jacking the price, they would be foolish to try it, although I suspect they will. The big advantage of Linux is that it has no cost. RedHat or Caldera or SuSe (to pick 3 in no order) provide a convenient package, and they pre-test for compatabilty, and provide support. That costs $$$, say about 1/3 to 1/4 of what WinME costs. Sure you want to make it 1/8?
Finally, keep in mind this is the first time MS has been up against a competitor they can't buy and can't beat for price points. It should be interesting...
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A very similar thing happened to me.
I have an SGI Indigo workstation, in addition to this wintel box. IBM VGA monitor. Both monitors were on a table in my basement, tower cases under the table out of the way, and since I was using it as a server, the SGI was always on.
A valve overhead developed a leak and, over the course of a weekend, dumped a gallon or so through *both* monitors.
Left 'em to dry out for a week, and they both came back okay.
Hardware can be fun.
For pictures of buildings, where the address is clearly visible, great.
Friends wanted to take a picture of their kittens on the same rock they took pictures of their kittens on 5 years ago, but the rock was several states away, and out in the woods.
No map to follow, and since they'd never planned to return after the first trip, they had to wander around for several hours to find the rock again.
With a GPS code in the original picture, the only problem would be figuring out which CD-R the picture was on!
I know it's offtopic, but this has always bugged me.
The entire phrase was "I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky".
I parse this to mean Mr. Clinton was informing Ms. Lewinsky he had not had sex with a third as-yet unnamed woman.
Mew.
I hope those are prototypes...they're pretty ugly.
I knew a human who built something like that once, except he used more wood so it looked a lot nicer.
Mew
Call Jayco or Coachmen and ask for a bid to build a double-pop-out. That's a motor home where both sides slide out, creating a much larger (almost square) internal space. This should get you 8 or more "workstations", plus A/C, generator, "plumbing", etc.
As for the kit itself, I'd use something standardized, off-the-shelf, and reliable. If I were doing it, I'd get some nice Dell Optiplex boxes since they'll boot Linux, Win(whatever), or anything else you'd want. Possibly a couple Macs as well, not sure.
Make SURE whatever you use has removable hard drives, and get gel suspension storage to hold the drives when the mobile is "rolling".
And don't skimp on the spare parts!
Meow!
Don't forget the engineers (yay!) to keep the Astronomers alive...
Seriously, though - the Wright Bros. weren't the first flyers, they were the first heavier-than-air flyers. The lighter-than-air (hot air balloon, helium, hydrogen) craft had been around for quite some time.
Exploitation of an idea always requires both a workable idea (duh!) and an obvious reason to exploit it.
Air travel had both - hot air balloons were used for battlefield recon as far back as the civil war, heavier-than-air meant much smaller and faster craft (sharks vs. whales) in the air. It's also a lot faster.(To quote the boxtops "Gimmie a ticket for an aeroplane - ain't got time to take a fast train".)
Now, we know space travel is a cool idea, but we haven't quite figured out the benefits yet. Sure, we could have built a base on the moon (and I wish we had!) but the how must wait for the why, and cool isn't enough.
Meow!
Not sure if Heinlein meant for the rails themselves to provide boost, but then it's been a while since I read that one.
I think he'd only intended to use the rails and a large mountain (Pike's Peak, Colorado IIRC) to provide a nice escape angle.
Meow.
Makes perfect sense.
True Marxist Communism is an outgrowth or end result of Capitalism.
The Leninist/Stalinist implementation of Communism attempted to jump to the endgame without having achieved capitalism first, and failed.
At least that's what the history profs around here say...
Meow!
I don't have cable.
I don't have a dish.
I won't buy into XM or Sirius until I can get a "$400 for a lifetime subscription" deal.
Meow
The amount is immaterial, it's the model that's broken.
All this is is corporations seeing how much money they've poured into building a "web presence", and trying to figure out how to recoup.
My answer is - if you don't know why your company should have a web presence, perhaps yours shouldn't.
Meow
Well, I started out as a software tester. That means the programmers would write whatever, and I'd try to find bugs.
From there, I learned some C and (more importantly) structured logic and how to write a flowchart, and moved across the hall as a junior programmer.
After doing that for a year, I started learning Unix, first on some anchient DEC kit (this was pre-'99) and later on some SCO boxes.
When I was "offered" a job (take it or take the door) writing VB for Windows NT 3.51, I quit and landed a new gig as an admin/programmer.
After a couple years there I moved to my current admin-only gig.
I still write code, just now it's to do what I want on my irix box at home.
Of course, I'm a cat. Your mileage may vary.
Meow
But... But telling them off is the FUN part!
but to let those out, you need a hammer.
Hmmm.
If it's anything like our Stereo Litho kit, you won't get much colour selection.
Stereo Litho is pretty cool; the shop I work for has a couple machines, and they're always busy.
That aside, it's apparent that you didn't read the article completely - it addresses that the original pulley was aluminum, but that they're leaving the polycarbon replacement in until it fails "just to see". Since polycarbon is pretty tough stuff, it may surprise them.
Meow
Technically, this is incorrect.
Had he said that they'd be shot by a person of specific ethnicity, then he'd be racist.
As to D.C.'s insanely high crime rate, it's more a function of economics than race, so it would be more accurate to call him an economist...
Meow.
Nothing to loose?
Umm, nothing except (a) lots of US foreign aid and (b) lots of US business investments and (c) lots of the same from Western Europe.
The biggest problem holding back mass cash infusions into the former Soviet bloc is the lack of "rule of law"; that is, the government encourages a "partnership" between a local shop and a multinational, then siezes control once the project is off the ground. In the most extreme form, there's a story around somewhere about the manger and employees of a Subway ejecting the American partners at gunpoint.
Two reasons.
First, it's still fake-able. (Artist: Mija Cat, Title: Baba O'Riley could consist of me sitting quite still listening to a Who CD)
Second, it would require the artist to authorize and publish, rather than us, the satisfied fans. Want to bet that all the artists you like will make the effort?
Meow
(grin)
Y'know, at least they're going after those infringing, rather than those providing the service....
Multi-planet Risk!
Requires 2 or more boards, and at least 3 players.
Players can start on any board, each player gets dealt 5 country cards and can place 20 armies on those countries. All countries not occupied by a person are occupied by "peaceful natives".
Once you control a continent, you may enter the Space Race. You give up your continent bonus for (roll a die) years, at the end of which time you may send (roll 3 dice) to another planet every year.
Landing site is determined by pulling a random country card; and yes, you can land on another player. War ensues.
The winner is either (a) the player who stays awake longest or (b) the player who has effective control of all planets.
They actually change out the wheels on passenger (and one would assume freight) trains between Siberia and China today, so if China is standard, they just use the same system...and possibly the same facility...
But accepting your caveats, requires an outside sphere...i.e. Mars or Luna.
Meow.
(Hoping to be the first cat on Mars...)
I keep a 486 around for just that reason... ('course, it runs Linux...)
Dude, go take an economics 101 course, okay? Take it at night if you've got a real job.
First, MS hasn't put as much into R&D as they have into mergers & acquisitions. Buying up companies that have a new idea isn't called research, it's called stifling competition.
You also dispute the original article's assertion that there are no real alternatives. Yes, there is Linux. Yes, I use it. No, it's NOT ready for the corporate desktop. It's closer this year than it was last year, though.
As for OpCO jacking the price, they would be foolish to try it, although I suspect they will. The big advantage of Linux is that it has no cost. RedHat or Caldera or SuSe (to pick 3 in no order) provide a convenient package, and they pre-test for compatabilty, and provide support. That costs $$$, say about 1/3 to 1/4 of what WinME costs. Sure you want to make it 1/8?
Finally, keep in mind this is the first time MS has been up against a competitor they can't buy and can't beat for price points. It should be interesting...
Meow.