I think I did have a diagram showing the coordinate system. What is even crazier is once they got the sled to work we came in for the acceptance test. They didn't get all the bugs worked out and the sled went to the end of the tack and instead of stopping just continued off the end throwing the carriage out of the shop into the parking lot.
I have a BS in mechanical engineering where I went to Rutgers full time and I have a BS in Computer Science that I got online at Florida State. I would say both experiences were about the same. I certainly never got a tailored experience from any professor at Rutgers.
I went to a regular 4 year college for mechanical engineering. I later wanted to do some graduate work not for a degree but just because I was interested. I took an online course in Intermediate Dynamics where they had the lectures available online and you submitted assignments online and had tests proctored. It was the best course I ever had.
I learn best by watching and listening. I don't do well taking notes so this was perfect for me. I could play the lecture and when I got confused I could play it over until I understood. If I really didn't understand I could email the professor. To me it was much better than going to class. Also the professor spoke very slowly and I found it difficult to pay attention. So I just played the video at two times speed and I could understand him much better.
Here is how I see it. You shouldn't be convicted of a crime unless the law is specific. If someone slips through an exception in the law then it should be up to the legislators to close the exception not for the executive and judge to interpret.
It depends on you point of view. As a citizen I would actually like to know what what the law actually means no matter how inconvenient it is to our rulers.
That reminds me of these lines we put in our requirements.
1.3 Definitions The following definitions are used throughout this document: “Shall” defines a requirement that requires a waiver if not performed. “Will” defines a function that is expected to be performed during the implementation of the Project’s Parts Program, however does not require a waiver when not performed. “Should” defines a “best practice” and is strongly recommended but does not require a waiver when not performed.
I wrote a contract for a Company to build a test sled that would accelerate a 100 kg mass at 30m/s^2 in the horizontal and vertical orientation. They undersized the system so it could only do it in the horizontal orientation. They tried to claim that in the vertical it is already accelerating at 1g due to gravity.
As Nancy Pelosi said we have to pass the law to find out what is in the law. I guess the new line should be you have to be charged with being a terrorist before you can find out how it is defined.
Try this. Say all Linux people donated the same except for Notch with $2k. Assume $150k for the group and an average $9.20 each. How many people total X and the average without notch $Y?
$150k=1*$2k + (X-1)*$Y $150k= $9.18 * (X)
X = 163k people $Y = 9.06
So he only changes it by 12 cents. Still not bad for one guy.
I'd consider myself average intelligence for a mechanical engineer whatever tht means. But the main thing I'm trying to teach my kids is to love learning for their own enjoyment. My daughter is very bright but IMHO is too needy. Kind of like Lisa Simpson where she is begging to be graded. I keep trying to reinforce that I am happy she is getting good grades but she needs to want to learn for her own reasons not for Daddy's love.
It took me a long time to develop this love maybe into my 30s. But now I take one graduate class a year just for the enjoyment. It is much easier now that they have all online classes you can do in your own time. I find it's much more enjoyable now.
1) There is a partnership between the Federal Reserve, Big Banks, and politicians. Here is how works. They all want to get and stay rich without actually producing anything of value. The biggest crooks are the banks. They basically get to create money out of nothing and lend it out for interest. They can pay themselves insane salaries because of this. By creating money they are no better than a common counterfeiter stealing the wealth of a nation. The reason they can do this is the politicians write the laws to make it legal for them to do it. What is in it for the politicians? Power. The banks counterfeiting allows the politicians to spend on every type of entitlement without raising taxes. They can do this because the Federal Reserve (head of the banking cartel) is there to buy treasury bonds. This way the crooked politicians stay in power to keep the laws on the books that keep the crooked bankers siphoning wealth off the country.
2) The solution is to return to commodity backed 100% reserve money. We could use paper money that is based on a fixed mass of the commodity. So you could have a 1 g, 5g, 25g Gold, Silver, Copper pieces. It would be like WOW but without an artificial exchange of 100 to 1 from each metal. These would be allowed to float which is pretty easy with today's communication.
We know how to make efficient engines no matter what the configuration. High temperatures and lean burning. Remember those 60mpg cars in the 80s?
The problem is we want clean air. I'm a libertarian and even I see that as a role for government.
When you run an engine hot or lean you make lots of NOx. So you need a catalytic converter. The problem there is they need a certain chemistry in order to turn the NOx back into NO2. Unfortunately they need close to a stoiciometric mixture. There has been some improvement with lean burn catalytic converters but that is where the work needs to be concentrated. If you come up with one that can take any exhaust mixture at any temperature and clean it up the rest is engineering.
I've worked in manufacturing for many years. While CNC machining is awesome there are a few thing to consider.
The machine can only move the part relative to the cutters and change out the cutters. You still have to hold the part. In order to make parts quickly you have to have high cutter speeds and feed rates. This produces considerable force on the parts and the have to be held securely to achieve the tolerances. Then you have the problem of where you are holding the parts needs to be machined so you have to transfer the part to another setup. Also parts are designed to be as light as possible and that often makes then difficult to hold and machine. Sometimes with a thin part you need to machine the outside and them put it in a tight fitting pocket so that when you machine the inside it doesn't flex against the cutter force.
And that is just a few of the problems you have with just one fabrication process.
Here is another example. I sent a part out for quote that had about $50 in aluminum in it. The quote I got back for 5 parts was $1000. I learned I needed only one and asked to revise the quote. The cost for one was $750. All of the cost was in making the tools and fixtures to hold the part. The machining cost was practically nothing,
The problem with 1. is who gets to determine how much that invention should have cost? I've worked with interns that have taken weeks to do a problem I can do in 5 minutes. Just because someone spent time and money doing something doesn't justify it's cost.
Your point 2 doesn't make sense. Anything can be reversed engineered.
You have a naturally limited monopoly that is a function of how innovative your product is. If it's a small increase you gain a small advantage. If you come up with something really revolutionary than it will take longer to be copied. Plus people know who the innovators are and reward them with a premium. Why do you think people spend so much money on Apple Products?
Do you know why movies are made in Hollywood California and not New York? Back then Edison had the patent on motion pictures he acted as the censor and only allowed "moral" productions. So the creative film makers moved as far away from Edison in order to get away from the patent enforcement. That happened to be California. The law was so lax out there that they were free to make the movies they, and most of the public, wanted. Think of the big US studios and they were all of the people that violated Edison's Patents.
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Can imagine the crap she gets when she suggests maybe they should go on a cruise or buy a new car?
I'm not sure what the exchange rate is.
I think I did have a diagram showing the coordinate system. What is even crazier is once they got the sled to work we came in for the acceptance test. They didn't get all the bugs worked out and the sled went to the end of the tack and instead of stopping just continued off the end throwing the carriage out of the shop into the parking lot.
Yeah. I'll go tell my CEO I want to do it that way. Here's how to contact him.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
I have a BS in mechanical engineering where I went to Rutgers full time and I have a BS in Computer Science that I got online at Florida State. I would say both experiences were about the same. I certainly never got a tailored experience from any professor at Rutgers.
So they should change pricing where you are charged per minute of interaction. Like those late night commercials.
I went to a regular 4 year college for mechanical engineering. I later wanted to do some graduate work not for a degree but just because I was interested. I took an online course in Intermediate Dynamics where they had the lectures available online and you submitted assignments online and had tests proctored. It was the best course I ever had.
I learn best by watching and listening. I don't do well taking notes so this was perfect for me. I could play the lecture and when I got confused I could play it over until I understood. If I really didn't understand I could email the professor. To me it was much better than going to class. Also the professor spoke very slowly and I found it difficult to pay attention. So I just played the video at two times speed and I could understand him much better.
Here is how I see it. You shouldn't be convicted of a crime unless the law is specific. If someone slips through an exception in the law then it should be up to the legislators to close the exception not for the executive and judge to interpret.
It depends on you point of view. As a citizen I would actually like to know what what the law actually means no matter how inconvenient it is to our rulers.
That reminds me of these lines we put in our requirements.
1.3 Definitions
The following definitions are used throughout this document:
“Shall” defines a requirement that requires a waiver if not performed.
“Will” defines a function that is expected to be performed during the implementation of the Project’s Parts Program, however does not require a waiver when not performed.
“Should” defines a “best practice” and is strongly recommended but does not require a waiver when not performed.
I wrote a contract for a Company to build a test sled that would accelerate a 100 kg mass at 30m/s^2 in the horizontal and vertical orientation. They undersized the system so it could only do it in the horizontal orientation. They tried to claim that in the vertical it is already accelerating at 1g due to gravity.
Just remember in law school they only teach you the government view of the law.
As Nancy Pelosi said we have to pass the law to find out what is in the law. I guess the new line should be you have to be charged with being a terrorist before you can find out how it is defined.
Oh wait that would be if we actually lived in a republic. Never mind.
Try this.
Say all Linux people donated the same except for Notch with $2k.
Assume $150k for the group and an average $9.20 each.
How many people total X and the average without notch $Y?
$150k=1*$2k + (X-1)*$Y
$150k= $9.18 * (X)
X = 163k people
$Y = 9.06
So he only changes it by 12 cents. Still not bad for one guy.
They should release a bundle with 0 games.
I have a feeling Notch's $2000 donation might skew the results a bit.
You could put her in an inflatable hyperbaric chamber.
http://www.healingdives.com/1994.html
I'd like to backup and get remotely wiped.
I'd consider myself average intelligence for a mechanical engineer whatever tht means. But the main thing I'm trying to teach my kids is to love learning for their own enjoyment. My daughter is very bright but IMHO is too needy. Kind of like Lisa Simpson where she is begging to be graded. I keep trying to reinforce that I am happy she is getting good grades but she needs to want to learn for her own reasons not for Daddy's love.
It took me a long time to develop this love maybe into my 30s. But now I take one graduate class a year just for the enjoyment. It is much easier now that they have all online classes you can do in your own time. I find it's much more enjoyable now.
1) There is a partnership between the Federal Reserve, Big Banks, and politicians. Here is how works. They all want to get and stay rich without actually producing anything of value. The biggest crooks are the banks. They basically get to create money out of nothing and lend it out for interest. They can pay themselves insane salaries because of this. By creating money they are no better than a common counterfeiter stealing the wealth of a nation. The reason they can do this is the politicians write the laws to make it legal for them to do it. What is in it for the politicians? Power. The banks counterfeiting allows the politicians to spend on every type of entitlement without raising taxes. They can do this because the Federal Reserve (head of the banking cartel) is there to buy treasury bonds. This way the crooked politicians stay in power to keep the laws on the books that keep the crooked bankers siphoning wealth off the country.
2) The solution is to return to commodity backed 100% reserve money. We could use paper money that is based on a fixed mass of the commodity. So you could have a 1 g, 5g, 25g Gold, Silver, Copper pieces. It would be like WOW but without an artificial exchange of 100 to 1 from each metal. These would be allowed to float which is pretty easy with today's communication.
We know how to make efficient engines no matter what the configuration. High temperatures and lean burning. Remember those 60mpg cars in the 80s?
The problem is we want clean air. I'm a libertarian and even I see that as a role for government.
When you run an engine hot or lean you make lots of NOx. So you need a catalytic converter. The problem there is they need a certain chemistry in order to turn the NOx back into NO2. Unfortunately they need close to a stoiciometric mixture. There has been some improvement with lean burn catalytic converters but that is where the work needs to be concentrated. If you come up with one that can take any exhaust mixture at any temperature and clean it up the rest is engineering.
I've worked in manufacturing for many years. While CNC machining is awesome there are a few thing to consider.
The machine can only move the part relative to the cutters and change out the cutters. You still have to hold the part. In order to make parts quickly you have to have high cutter speeds and feed rates. This produces considerable force on the parts and the have to be held securely to achieve the tolerances. Then you have the problem of where you are holding the parts needs to be machined so you have to transfer the part to another setup. Also parts are designed to be as light as possible and that often makes then difficult to hold and machine. Sometimes with a thin part you need to machine the outside and them put it in a tight fitting pocket so that when you machine the inside it doesn't flex against the cutter force.
And that is just a few of the problems you have with just one fabrication process.
Here is another example. I sent a part out for quote that had about $50 in aluminum in it. The quote I got back for 5 parts was $1000. I learned I needed only one and asked to revise the quote. The cost for one was $750. All of the cost was in making the tools and fixtures to hold the part. The machining cost was practically nothing,
The problem with 1. is who gets to determine how much that invention should have cost? I've worked with interns that have taken weeks to do a problem I can do in 5 minutes. Just because someone spent time and money doing something doesn't justify it's cost.
Your point 2 doesn't make sense. Anything can be reversed engineered.
You have a naturally limited monopoly that is a function of how innovative your product is. If it's a small increase you gain a small advantage. If you come up with something really revolutionary than it will take longer to be copied. Plus people know who the innovators are and reward them with a premium. Why do you think people spend so much money on Apple Products?
Words have meaning.
Scarce - deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand : not plentiful or abundant
So once an idea is created it isn't bound by supply. You can come up with an idea and everyone can take that idea without you losing it.
Do you know why movies are made in Hollywood California and not New York? Back then Edison had the patent on motion pictures he acted as the censor and only allowed "moral" productions. So the creative film makers moved as far away from Edison in order to get away from the patent enforcement. That happened to be California. The law was so lax out there that they were free to make the movies they, and most of the public, wanted. Think of the big US studios and they were all of the people that violated Edison's Patents.