Yes, but how many Stephen Colbert heads do you get per spool?
My problem with these 3d techs online is that there's no good way to know exactly how much you can DO with a given amount of raw material.
Untrue.
First you have a CAD model, which you can calculate worst-case amount of material. Then the model gets sliced so that the printer knows how to draw each layer. Nobody that prints does so with 100% infill, most cross sections are filled with a web of plastic at about 20% - 40%, sometimes even hollow. I like 30% and it's plenty strong: especially with honeycomb fills instead of just straight lines.
The slicing process is more than just snapping cross-sections but rather describes an entire toolpath (gcode) along with a calibrated extrusion distance for the filament. Calibration being volume of plastic per mm of filament intake, with fine adjustments for bridges and start/stop cycles for multiple islands. The upshot of this is, at the end of generating the gcode you have a very precise accounting for the amount of plastic used. Now, one could argue that the length of plastic used isn't as useful as mass, but everything you need can be calculated from that length.
The de-facto slicer, Skeinforge, will even happily calculate the cost of raw materials when it's done, if you provide it with a cost per kg.
Now, the real factor in my mind is TIME. I've printed out a compact storage case for a board game, a small base, about 100mm^2 x 60mm total not discounting for holes where I actually store the cards and things, and it took about 10 hours to print at 0.1 mm layer height, 50mm/s drawing speed, 300mm/s travel speed (on an Ultimaker, which is probably closer to a RepRap instead of a Thing-O-Matic design, although closer to the Replicator design). I could have printed at a more coarse layer height, sure, but I had the feeler gauges and things calibrated extremely well for 0.1mm so I just left it.
10 hours is a pretty long time to stay within earshot of the machine and it takes a lot of faith in the machine to let it running without a human around considering the potential for something to go wrong with heaters and such.
To be fair, I did print off a few plastic octopi for friends, about 40mm^2 x 20mm, in about 30 minutes, not including slicing time and all the time (and plastic) spent practicing, calibrating. But I chalk that up to the cost to generate the experience to become a competent operator.
Wrong answer to my post. People who talk like you end up giving more value to the criminals than to victims.I expect such from someone like you though to write a response like you did, and you fell for it.
I would KILL, perhaps even in a painful and gruesome manner, someone raping my wife or daughters, which is NOT humane to them, but is humane to my wife or daughters. You are confusing not being humane with being inhuman. There is a distinct difference.
This is precisely why, in civilized societies, there is dispassionate legal system. There's a line between punishment of justice and vengeance of bloodlust that can only be crossed in a might-makes-right anarchy.
I find your choice of handle to be rather curiously, if the quote reflects your true feelings.
It would be nice to imagine the people still have the power to take back control of their government like we've seen happening in less developed parts of the world recently - I wonder how true that is anymore.
Answer: not at all true anymore. In the name of national security there are warrant-less wiretaps, warrant-less GPS tracking, data-mining 3rd party databases to sidestep the restriction of building dossiers on citizens, militarized police, unrestrained use of weapons against citizens because they're "non-lethal", indefinite detention of US citizens, even killing US citizens without due process, all in the name of stomping out terrorism. Of course, the same government gets to decide who is and isn't a terrorist, and you better believe anyone that doesn't shut up, watch TV, secure debt, and buy buy buy is a terrorist. Unless they pay tithes to the election campaigns of the ruling class. Of which the word "campaign" is rather funny because the masses wouldn't dream of "wasting their vote" for someone who isn't a Republocrat.
The Bill of Rights? Restraints on Power? Checks and Balances? Merely a sentimental reminder of halcyon days.
But I think it's clear that very few people on Capital Hill give much of a shit about the side effects of this crap. The voices howling in opposition mean nothing compared to the 6 figures they're being paid by proponents of this bill.
Not only do they not understand, but they don't want to. There is no defense against willful ignorance.
Yup, it's pretty much lipservice so no one can say later that they didn't even entertain the sane side of the argument. Meanwhile I imagine the bought and paid congressional goons are just singing the Meow Mix jingle in their heads during these hearings.
Except you don't contribute. You shill. Then when you are found out, you create a new account and return to shill.
How is it a shill when it's a post with a link to a game that's discussed in TFS?
Maybe if the story was "The Death of Flight Simulators" and the frist post was "Oh, hay, no it isn't dead, check out this link", but I think your shill detection sensors are dialed in a little too sensitive.
I personally stopped playing flight sims in the early 90s and just seemed to forget they exist at all. I might actually try it out if it's free and the paid bonuses aren't obnoxiously staring me in the face every 2 minutes like other "free" games.
I think he's saying those languages make it easier to write bad code, "but that certainly doesn't make them bad languages."
I would argue that the whole point of using higher order languages is to make it easier to write good code, and a good language should discourage bad code. For example, strong typing can help with the latter.
Part of it, I think, is recognizing that we of flesh and blood aren't perfect and a good language definition, along with development tools for that language, can help pick up what we miss. For me, anyway, this is the driving force for being completely obsessed with warning-free cleanly-compiling code.
Does PHP have that kind of analysis (compilers or some kind of code analysis) to detect errors during design time or do you still have to wait until run time? Last time I was into PHP had to have been 5 years so I'd hope improvements have been made.
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Of course physicians can make better informed decisions, they are pragmatic and know the results and outcome of disease
But what about when their child gets sick? Do they make the same decisions then? It is one thing to make those decisions on your own, but what happens when it is applied to someone else you care for?
I assume the results are different.
IANAD, but I would hypothesize that doctors in general are smart people, and that smart people are more likely to be driven by reason and logic than make futile emotional efforts.
The software on your intranet must be a load of crap when it required them until last september to get compatability with IE > 6!
You'd be surprised at the quantity and degree of crappiness internal business-specific applications can get when no one wants to spend the money to develop properly.
Considering spacecraft are very good at keeping an atmosphere in a bubble and keeping things functional with airlocks, why couldn't they apply similar containment to a milling machine?
When you use "well regulated" in quotes, you give the impression that you do not believe it's well regulated. Fair enough, but to say that poorly implemented regulation means quality regulation isn't the answer is a bit much.
When reporting on the actions of congress, the typical format refers to a name and a party. Most of the time it includes a state, too. There's nothing any more biased about saying it was sponsored by Kay Hagan (D) than mentioning the Speaker of the House is John Boehner (R). Cosponsors are not the same as the sponsor, and if you look down party lines, you've got 2 D and 3 Rs there.
Have you considered a call to vote "THEM" out of office perhaps refers to anyone supporting this bill?
Seems like when some people want to be divisive they'll bend anything to make it look like some kind of master conspiracy. Such a shame Occam's razor doesn't do much for a compelling narrative.
Giving antibiotics to farm animals also doesn't help and genetically mutilated crops is an other example of the same problem of making bacteria drug resistant.
I was under the impression that the practice of using antibiotics as preventatives was a US thing and that the EU didn't allow it. Is that not that case?
[Citation needed]. How do you know that the second inventor didn't spend months and months working hard to come up with the idea? The mere fact that it's possible that two people can both eventually, through hard work, come up with the same solution doesn't mean the solution is obvious - it means we have two smart people.
The actions of Creative reveal whether it was obvious in the literal sense, which should match the legal sense (but does not for some strange reason).
Creative had a patent on an algorithm for shadows. Doom 3 had shadows. Evidently, the algorithm was so obvious that Creative "knew" id Software had infringed without even looking at what the Doom 3 code is actually doing. It's as if they knew there was no other way. Not sure about today's graphics research, but how would they be so certain they knew that at the time if it wasn't inherently obvious?
This country is full of fucking idiots that have no clue how engineering is performed. Just keep your misinformation to yourself and stop trying to make those around you dumber.
If I were a bettin' man, I'd say that since the general public perceives it as a failure, it will be leveraged to milk some more government spending. To keep us safe from communism / terrorists / pirates / ghosts / pirate ghosts.
The current problem with the electric car is energy storage. Batteries suck compared to petrol/diesel. Gas/go doesn't happen with batteries. Range is problematic, and even if you did get 300 miles out of a single charge, it's still 2-4 hours (in an ideal world, even) to do it again. Weight is problematic.
There seems to be this huge drive (ha, pun!) to use electric cars like one uses gasoline cars in that we ought to take a tube of something and shove it in a port and after a few minutes potential energy has filled the stores, be it electrical or chemical. I don't see why we couldn't have gas stations replaced with battery stations where you pull into a booth (like an automated car wash), push a button on your dash, and your existing battery releases it's locks so that a machine underneath can detach it the rest of the way and swap it out for a fully charged battery. The used battery goes off to a charging bank. When charged, it queues up in the outbox to get swapped in for the next guy. Batteries too old to hold a good charge are pulled aside for recycling and some new ones are cycled in every now and then.
If highly trained humans can refuel, change all the wheels, and do all sorts of less visible things on a Formula 1 racer during a pit stop in less than 5 seconds, imagine what a machine, being careful and methodical, could accomplish in 5 minutes.
Obviously this needs agreement over some standardization, but there's already some level of standardization that allows any model consumer car to refuel at any branded gas station, after all.
It is valuable and informative, but a little chart doesn't really tell the whole story. There is no way to upgrade the hardware in your phone without flat out getting a new phone.
Yes, IOS upgrades are available pretty deep in the lineup, but I've seen plenty of "halp my iphone is slow now that I'm on IOS 4" threads on forums. I'm not affected so I don't dig deeply so I might be wrong about this but most of the time the advice is to restore the phone to factory settings (basically, installing those new features).
Google seems to be on the side of "if it can't run well, you don't want it" while Apple seems to be on the side of "let's put these features that might not work well on your phone, it'll help drive home how much you should want the new one." That's the stuff that would be lost of the casual user since the features : computing power ratio is just not understood to them.
Your point is a good one, but can only hold water in a vacuum. "Freeing" countries involves war: blood spilled, innocents killed, things blown up, cities turned rubble. Hope is good, sure, but when you're going to order people into graves and nullify great amounts of energy building a society, I'd like a little more evidence of net good than just "some hope".
none of these agencies are authorized by the constitution anyway. maybe you're a nutjob for thinking they shouldn't have to follow the law when assuming any random power they can think of.
But but but a butterfly flapped it's wings and that affected interstate commerce.
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Yes, but how many Stephen Colbert heads do you get per spool?
My problem with these 3d techs online is that there's no good way to know exactly how much you can DO with a given amount of raw material.
Untrue.
First you have a CAD model, which you can calculate worst-case amount of material. Then the model gets sliced so that the printer knows how to draw each layer. Nobody that prints does so with 100% infill, most cross sections are filled with a web of plastic at about 20% - 40%, sometimes even hollow. I like 30% and it's plenty strong: especially with honeycomb fills instead of just straight lines.
The slicing process is more than just snapping cross-sections but rather describes an entire toolpath (gcode) along with a calibrated extrusion distance for the filament. Calibration being volume of plastic per mm of filament intake, with fine adjustments for bridges and start/stop cycles for multiple islands. The upshot of this is, at the end of generating the gcode you have a very precise accounting for the amount of plastic used. Now, one could argue that the length of plastic used isn't as useful as mass, but everything you need can be calculated from that length.
The de-facto slicer, Skeinforge, will even happily calculate the cost of raw materials when it's done, if you provide it with a cost per kg.
Now, the real factor in my mind is TIME. I've printed out a compact storage case for a board game, a small base, about 100mm^2 x 60mm total not discounting for holes where I actually store the cards and things, and it took about 10 hours to print at 0.1 mm layer height, 50mm/s drawing speed, 300mm/s travel speed (on an Ultimaker, which is probably closer to a RepRap instead of a Thing-O-Matic design, although closer to the Replicator design). I could have printed at a more coarse layer height, sure, but I had the feeler gauges and things calibrated extremely well for 0.1mm so I just left it.
10 hours is a pretty long time to stay within earshot of the machine and it takes a lot of faith in the machine to let it running without a human around considering the potential for something to go wrong with heaters and such.
To be fair, I did print off a few plastic octopi for friends, about 40mm^2 x 20mm, in about 30 minutes, not including slicing time and all the time (and plastic) spent practicing, calibrating. But I chalk that up to the cost to generate the experience to become a competent operator.
Wrong answer to my post. People who talk like you end up giving more value to the criminals than to victims.I expect such from someone like you though to write a response like you did, and you fell for it.
I would KILL, perhaps even in a painful and gruesome manner, someone raping my wife or daughters, which is NOT humane to them, but is humane to my wife or daughters. You are confusing not being humane with being inhuman. There is a distinct difference.
This is precisely why, in civilized societies, there is dispassionate legal system. There's a line between punishment of justice and vengeance of bloodlust that can only be crossed in a might-makes-right anarchy.
I find your choice of handle to be rather curiously, if the quote reflects your true feelings.
Had they used the clearly superior RAD-50 encoding, they could have stored THINK with a mere 384 atoms as opposed to 480.
I'm just glad they didn't use EBCDIC.
It would be nice to imagine the people still have the power to take back control of their government like we've seen happening in less developed parts of the world recently - I wonder how true that is anymore.
Answer: not at all true anymore. In the name of national security there are warrant-less wiretaps, warrant-less GPS tracking, data-mining 3rd party databases to sidestep the restriction of building dossiers on citizens, militarized police, unrestrained use of weapons against citizens because they're "non-lethal", indefinite detention of US citizens, even killing US citizens without due process, all in the name of stomping out terrorism. Of course, the same government gets to decide who is and isn't a terrorist, and you better believe anyone that doesn't shut up, watch TV, secure debt, and buy buy buy is a terrorist. Unless they pay tithes to the election campaigns of the ruling class. Of which the word "campaign" is rather funny because the masses wouldn't dream of "wasting their vote" for someone who isn't a Republocrat.
The Bill of Rights? Restraints on Power? Checks and Balances? Merely a sentimental reminder of halcyon days.
But I think it's clear that very few people on Capital Hill give much of a shit about the side effects of this crap. The voices howling in opposition mean nothing compared to the 6 figures they're being paid by proponents of this bill.
Not only do they not understand, but they don't want to. There is no defense against willful ignorance.
Yup, it's pretty much lipservice so no one can say later that they didn't even entertain the sane side of the argument. Meanwhile I imagine the bought and paid congressional goons are just singing the Meow Mix jingle in their heads during these hearings.
Except you don't contribute. You shill. Then when you are found out, you create a new account and return to shill.
How is it a shill when it's a post with a link to a game that's discussed in TFS?
Maybe if the story was "The Death of Flight Simulators" and the frist post was "Oh, hay, no it isn't dead, check out this link", but I think your shill detection sensors are dialed in a little too sensitive.
I personally stopped playing flight sims in the early 90s and just seemed to forget they exist at all. I might actually try it out if it's free and the paid bonuses aren't obnoxiously staring me in the face every 2 minutes like other "free" games.
Well, there is a SLIGHT problem with using a tattoo for this purpose. Which should become obvious on your second night on the town.
I think he's saying those languages make it easier to write bad code, "but that certainly doesn't make them bad languages."
I would argue that the whole point of using higher order languages is to make it easier to write good code, and a good language should discourage bad code. For example, strong typing can help with the latter.
Part of it, I think, is recognizing that we of flesh and blood aren't perfect and a good language definition, along with development tools for that language, can help pick up what we miss. For me, anyway, this is the driving force for being completely obsessed with warning-free cleanly-compiling code.
Does PHP have that kind of analysis (compilers or some kind of code analysis) to detect errors during design time or do you still have to wait until run time? Last time I was into PHP had to have been 5 years so I'd hope improvements have been made.
Of course physicians can make better informed decisions, they are pragmatic and know the results and outcome of disease
But what about when their child gets sick? Do they make the same decisions then? It is one thing to make those decisions on your own, but what happens when it is applied to someone else you care for?
I assume the results are different.
IANAD, but I would hypothesize that doctors in general are smart people, and that smart people are more likely to be driven by reason and logic than make futile emotional efforts.
...there is significant cost in producing that app before the duplication takes place, and many app developers like to eat.
Filthy habit, that. I'm trying to quit.
The software on your intranet must be a load of crap when it required them until last september to get compatability with IE > 6!
You'd be surprised at the quantity and degree of crappiness internal business-specific applications can get when no one wants to spend the money to develop properly.
Considering spacecraft are very good at keeping an atmosphere in a bubble and keeping things functional with airlocks, why couldn't they apply similar containment to a milling machine?
When you use "well regulated" in quotes, you give the impression that you do not believe it's well regulated. Fair enough, but to say that poorly implemented regulation means quality regulation isn't the answer is a bit much.
When reporting on the actions of congress, the typical format refers to a name and a party. Most of the time it includes a state, too. There's nothing any more biased about saying it was sponsored by Kay Hagan (D) than mentioning the Speaker of the House is John Boehner (R). Cosponsors are not the same as the sponsor, and if you look down party lines, you've got 2 D and 3 Rs there.
Have you considered a call to vote "THEM" out of office perhaps refers to anyone supporting this bill?
Seems like when some people want to be divisive they'll bend anything to make it look like some kind of master conspiracy. Such a shame Occam's razor doesn't do much for a compelling narrative.
Giving antibiotics to farm animals also doesn't help and genetically mutilated crops is an other example of the same problem of making bacteria drug resistant.
I was under the impression that the practice of using antibiotics as preventatives was a US thing and that the EU didn't allow it. Is that not that case?
Do they also throw objects on the ground in front of her?
[Citation needed]. How do you know that the second inventor didn't spend months and months working hard to come up with the idea? The mere fact that it's possible that two people can both eventually, through hard work, come up with the same solution doesn't mean the solution is obvious - it means we have two smart people.
The actions of Creative reveal whether it was obvious in the literal sense, which should match the legal sense (but does not for some strange reason).
Creative had a patent on an algorithm for shadows. Doom 3 had shadows. Evidently, the algorithm was so obvious that Creative "knew" id Software had infringed without even looking at what the Doom 3 code is actually doing. It's as if they knew there was no other way. Not sure about today's graphics research, but how would they be so certain they knew that at the time if it wasn't inherently obvious?
PETS (People for the Ethical Treatment of Statues) added that Mario is sending the message that it's ok to pretend to be a statue.
This country is full of fucking idiots that have no clue how engineering is performed. Just keep your misinformation to yourself and stop trying to make those around you dumber.
If I were a bettin' man, I'd say that since the general public perceives it as a failure, it will be leveraged to milk some more government spending. To keep us safe from communism / terrorists / pirates / ghosts / pirate ghosts.
Because they could have hired 11,000 US workers and they wouldn't have had this problem.
Yes, they could hire 11,000 US workers to test every single part - if Congress would increase the defense budget.
Funny, I read that as hiring 11,000 US workers to restart our electronics manufacturing capability.
Bytes are kind of weird. Can't they give these number in terms of Library of Congress?
The current problem with the electric car is energy storage. Batteries suck compared to petrol/diesel. Gas/go doesn't happen with batteries. Range is problematic, and even if you did get 300 miles out of a single charge, it's still 2-4 hours (in an ideal world, even) to do it again. Weight is problematic.
There seems to be this huge drive (ha, pun!) to use electric cars like one uses gasoline cars in that we ought to take a tube of something and shove it in a port and after a few minutes potential energy has filled the stores, be it electrical or chemical. I don't see why we couldn't have gas stations replaced with battery stations where you pull into a booth (like an automated car wash), push a button on your dash, and your existing battery releases it's locks so that a machine underneath can detach it the rest of the way and swap it out for a fully charged battery. The used battery goes off to a charging bank. When charged, it queues up in the outbox to get swapped in for the next guy. Batteries too old to hold a good charge are pulled aside for recycling and some new ones are cycled in every now and then.
If highly trained humans can refuel, change all the wheels, and do all sorts of less visible things on a Formula 1 racer during a pit stop in less than 5 seconds, imagine what a machine, being careful and methodical, could accomplish in 5 minutes.
Obviously this needs agreement over some standardization, but there's already some level of standardization that allows any model consumer car to refuel at any branded gas station, after all.
It is valuable and informative, but a little chart doesn't really tell the whole story. There is no way to upgrade the hardware in your phone without flat out getting a new phone.
Yes, IOS upgrades are available pretty deep in the lineup, but I've seen plenty of "halp my iphone is slow now that I'm on IOS 4" threads on forums. I'm not affected so I don't dig deeply so I might be wrong about this but most of the time the advice is to restore the phone to factory settings (basically, installing those new features).
Google seems to be on the side of "if it can't run well, you don't want it" while Apple seems to be on the side of "let's put these features that might not work well on your phone, it'll help drive home how much you should want the new one." That's the stuff that would be lost of the casual user since the features : computing power ratio is just not understood to them.
You're right, why even bother?
I guess "no hope" > "some hope" in your world.
Your point is a good one, but can only hold water in a vacuum. "Freeing" countries involves war: blood spilled, innocents killed, things blown up, cities turned rubble. Hope is good, sure, but when you're going to order people into graves and nullify great amounts of energy building a society, I'd like a little more evidence of net good than just "some hope".
none of these agencies are authorized by the constitution anyway. maybe you're a nutjob for thinking they shouldn't have to follow the law when assuming any random power they can think of.
But but but a butterfly flapped it's wings and that affected interstate commerce.