People who make a lot of money wouldn't care so much. They would rather eat a few dollars more per week if it meant they didn't have to get their hands dirty. However, people who are on a budget would probably stick to plug-in charging if it saves them a few bucks a week.
One of the best approaches to fighting vandalism, especially graffiti is to keep painting over it. We have a building in NYC. Years ago it was constantly defaced with graffiti and the overall paint on the building looked a bit shabby. We had it painted but within a week the graffiti was back and it built up over the next few months. We called the painter who gave us the number of a graffiti removal service. For a monthly fee they would add us to a route and drive by once a week. If they spotted graffiti they would pull over and paint over it using the same color as our building or pressure wash it off.
After a few months of constant painting it began to taper off. After a year it virtually stopped and we didn't need the service any more. Now we keep our own paint and maybe once or twice a year we have to cover up some scribble.
Constantly covering up the scribbles deters the vandals as it takes away the "power" they feel by marking a piece of property.
"ie. the coke-snorting Americans whining about them. You wouldn't be the first to suggest this... particular approach, the winning the war on drugs; but I bet you'd learn some interesting things about who does drugs once the casualties start to pile up." Yes, a lot of Americans and Europeans would die. And I bet a lot of Canadians would as well.
I guess you're too lazy to read up on the subject and instead jump straight to bashing Americans. I know its easy and makes you feel better about yourself. But please try to at least make an effort to sound like a smug, smart ass. Here, I have done the work for you, since you appear to be incapable of doing it yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War#Effects_internationally Improved cooperation of Mexico with the U.S. led to the recent arrests of 755 Sinaloa cartel suspects in U.S. cities and towns, but the U.S. market is being eclipsed by booming demand for cocaine in Europe, where users now pay twice the going U.S. rate.
Ah shit, you're right. I forgot that the 386 didn't have an FPU and was confused by the 486SX/DX nomenclature.
Thinking back my father had two 386's at work. One a 386DX was for CAD and now that I think of it, it had a Cyrix "Fast Math" 387 FPU. Interesting thing was it had a slot which was two 8 bit ISA slots end-to-end that was a 32 bit expansion slot. Wasn't populated but was interesting. He also had a 386SX which was used for word processing and accounting/payroll. Later on we had two 486's.
At work I switched a majority of keyboards and mice to Microsoft Wireless 800 sets. Mouse uses two AA's and the keyboard uses two AAA's. Not one has failed to work and they are cheap, $25-$30 per set. Some keyboards/mice are in areas where morons spill acetone onto them and they don't get glued or fail to operate. Once a mouse was glued to a tabletop after an acetone spill. I used a hammer and cold chisel the remove it gently, sanded the bottom lightly on a belt sander and it was good to go. And the shop has plenty of electrical noise from electron beam welders and pulsed Nd:YAG lasers, never have they failed to operate.
My brother and I used the MS Intellimouse Optical for gaming before better mice came out for gaming. Perfect mouse for FPS's in its day as it had a button on each side so you could assign things like reload and alternate firing modes. That was around the time of Quake 2/3, Half Life/Team Fortress/Counter Strike and Unreal Tournament. Before that we had an Intellimouse Pro and were always cleaning out mouse cheese from the god damn rollers. both were very hearty mice and were slammed quite a bit during rages.
......And you don't have a greedy, egotistical douche bag looking to maximize profits in the short term for shareholders (his/her buddies) and bail out when the seas get rough (e.g. after they are done fucking every last penny out of the company).
The Asians have a sense of honor in their society and that is what makes them successful. A large, long lasting and profitable company that takes pride in its work is worth more to a CEO than the bottom line or how big his yacht is or how many whores he can screw. There is pride in the companys success, not their personal success. Maybe I am wrong but this is what I see and why Asian companies are always ahead of the game.
I bet most of the problem lies in the fact that the developers of these tools are hopelessly addicted to.net and Visual Studio. These tools are probably written in C# and are closely tied to complex GUI's that have hundreds of elements based on Windows Forms or WPF. If you tell them they have to switch to a new GUI toolkit for cross platform, abandon Visual Studio and have to change a lot of the code to be more *nix friendly, they will vomit blood.
If they wanted to be cross platform from the start they would have used a more cross platform friendly language, GUI toolkits and ditch the whole IDE workflow for one using build scripts and a syntax aware text editor (IDE's suck).
When I say the following, believe me I am not bashing anyone, just pointing out a fact: Microsoft's tools make programmers lazy. Install Visual Studio, create a new project and you're off to building a program and everything is a click away.
The x86 external FPU started with the Intel 8087 which was launched during 1980. The 8087 was the FPU for the 8086, the first generation of x86. The 80286 followed the same logic using an external FPU, 80287.
The 386 was the first to integrate the FPU onto the CPU die in the DX line of 386's. The 386SX was a 386 without the FPU which depending on the computer/motherboard could be upgraded with a 387 coprocessor.
So: 386DX = 386+FPU 386SX = 386, no FPU
The 486 also followed the same logic offering a DX or SX version. There was an i487 FPU upgrade but it was a DX that simply disabled the 486SX and took over the CPU bus.
The Pentium was the first x86 CPU to include the FPU by default.
The police will have a drone deliver you handcuffs, directions on how to cuff yourself and instructions to wait for a patrol car.
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I have a better idea. Get a bunch of foam spheres, cut them in half and apply sticky tape to the flat side. Then get a plunger along with a whisk and put a sticky mount on each end. And as a bonus, hide the electronic guts of one of these inside of a half sphere and modify the switch to activate every 10 seconds. Bonus points if you attach a bigger speaker.
At the old Mack Truck testing facility (Now the Mack Museum) they have an anechoic chamber that was used to test sound output from their trucks. During the Macungie truck show (late june) they have a few extra trucks at the museum and put a few in the chamber as its quite large. Its not super quiet like the one in the article but it is a bit disorienting. Talking to a person next to you is difficult as your voice is muffled and people 20-30 feet away are barely audible. Having a conversation was unpleasant and we stopped talking after a few minutes. They even left the large door for the trucks to enter wide open and it was still very quiet. Its quite an amusing feeling when walking from the hallway into the chamber as suddenly the sound of people drops off as soon as you enter.
"So no, you won't be fishing up rusted nerve gas canisters."
So now how am I supposed to build up my stockpile? Being an evil genius post 9/11 is getting harder and harder these days. If it gets any worse i'll have to lay off my staff of henchmen, sell the assets to al qaeda and get a union job.
My 87 year old aunt has life alert which needs a POTS connection. My mother is caring for her and switched my aunt to Fios when it came to the neighborhood 2 years ago. After hurricane sandy my aunt lost power for two weeks (house wasn't flooded, downed trees took the power out). My mother stayed with her and they found that the phones were dead after only 8 hours. Thats it, the shitty backup battery lasts 8 hours. My mother and aunt were completely ignorant that the new system needs power to function and make calls. Verizon never stated that there was a need for power and that the system was useless in a prolonged blackout. So what use would life alert be or even making a simple phone call during a prolonged blackout?
So unless they can figure out a better backup system or more efficient electronics to last for a week or two then what is the point of moving to VOIP? Oh I get it, to save the phone companies more money.
It sounds like he might be running a PC based CNC system that uses a PC for control. You posted a DNC box that is for uploading programs via DNC which has always been serial. Some older PC based CNC controllers used the parallel port (especially common for stepper systems). Systems that used brushless servos typically used some type of dedicated hardware to close the servo loop and is commanded via the PC. Typically those were ISA cards with a DSP on board but also parallel based units were available.
I also support the PC based CNC systems at my place of work. The system is quite advanced and uses a real time subsystem which only supports Windows 2000/XP. One of the systems is XP and the others are Windows 2000. New software costs about 4k and depending on the drives used, may require new drives at a cost of $1700 per axis. We still have one DOS based CNC system left, an ISA/DSP card with proprietary vendor written software supported by one guy on planet earth. Since that system sees little use it is not worth to $30k+ to upgrade to a modern CNC system. And that price is just to keep the existing motors and stages, $60+k for a complete replacement.
Always remember, the poster is trying to rattle the feathers of overly sensitive people such as yourself. You know how to fight back? Just don't reply. If no one acknowledges them then they have no reason to try and post stuff like that. The anonymous gp is laughing right now knowing that you fell for their trap.
With a 4 digit UID you should be old enough to realize that there are people on the internet who are asholes. Grow up and save your anger for real problems in the world. Not some anonymous coward on/.
So we put an ad in yo ad so you can watch ads to watch ads.
Seriously fuck you to whoever thought it would be a good idea to force us to watch an ad before we watch what essentially is an ad. I immediately stopped watching.
Though I 100% agree with you, you also have to account for the various languages of the world. I used this site: http://www.nicetranslator.com/, selected every language (including Klingon!) and translated "save". Now since I am not a linguist, save might not be used the same way in each language so this isn't very accurate. But if you look, some languages have more than four characters, and as many as 11 or so. So your UI elements would have to resize which may interfere with the layout and cause overlap or other problems.
A universal symbol that means save would be much better and so far the floppy disk is that symbol. But the new generation of kids don't even know what a floppy is. So you run into that problem. A new universal symbol that won't become outdated is needed.
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I thought Texas was Mordor?
Glad to see you are level headed enough to say sorry. Again I am sorry to have lashed out.
People who make a lot of money wouldn't care so much. They would rather eat a few dollars more per week if it meant they didn't have to get their hands dirty. However, people who are on a budget would probably stick to plug-in charging if it saves them a few bucks a week.
Sitting in a street isn't costing a mega company lots of money money with plenty of politibucks to donate.
One of the best approaches to fighting vandalism, especially graffiti is to keep painting over it. We have a building in NYC. Years ago it was constantly defaced with graffiti and the overall paint on the building looked a bit shabby. We had it painted but within a week the graffiti was back and it built up over the next few months. We called the painter who gave us the number of a graffiti removal service. For a monthly fee they would add us to a route and drive by once a week. If they spotted graffiti they would pull over and paint over it using the same color as our building or pressure wash it off.
After a few months of constant painting it began to taper off. After a year it virtually stopped and we didn't need the service any more. Now we keep our own paint and maybe once or twice a year we have to cover up some scribble.
Constantly covering up the scribbles deters the vandals as it takes away the "power" they feel by marking a piece of property.
"ie. the coke-snorting Americans whining about them. You wouldn't be the first to suggest this... particular approach, the winning the war on drugs; but I bet you'd learn some interesting things about who does drugs once the casualties start to pile up."
Yes, a lot of Americans and Europeans would die. And I bet a lot of Canadians would as well.
I guess you're too lazy to read up on the subject and instead jump straight to bashing Americans. I know its easy and makes you feel better about yourself. But please try to at least make an effort to sound like a smug, smart ass. Here, I have done the work for you, since you appear to be incapable of doing it yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War#Effects_internationally
Improved cooperation of Mexico with the U.S. led to the recent arrests of 755 Sinaloa cartel suspects in U.S. cities and towns, but the U.S. market is being eclipsed by booming demand for cocaine in Europe, where users now pay twice the going U.S. rate.
OOPS! Bet you didn't see that one coming ... did you?
http://newamericamedia.org/2013/02/mexican-drug-cartels-eye-spain-as-their-new-home.php
http://www.mexicogulfreporter.com/2013/04/mexican-drug-cartels-have-strong.html
http://www.irishexaminer.com/analysis/mexican-drug-cartels-eye-europe-238202.html
Sorry to be a dick but as an American I am tired of ignorant people outside of the USA painting every American as an ignorant slob.
Ah shit, you're right. I forgot that the 386 didn't have an FPU and was confused by the 486SX/DX nomenclature.
Thinking back my father had two 386's at work. One a 386DX was for CAD and now that I think of it, it had a Cyrix "Fast Math" 387 FPU. Interesting thing was it had a slot which was two 8 bit ISA slots end-to-end that was a 32 bit expansion slot. Wasn't populated but was interesting. He also had a 386SX which was used for word processing and accounting/payroll. Later on we had two 486's.
At work I switched a majority of keyboards and mice to Microsoft Wireless 800 sets. Mouse uses two AA's and the keyboard uses two AAA's. Not one has failed to work and they are cheap, $25-$30 per set. Some keyboards/mice are in areas where morons spill acetone onto them and they don't get glued or fail to operate. Once a mouse was glued to a tabletop after an acetone spill. I used a hammer and cold chisel the remove it gently, sanded the bottom lightly on a belt sander and it was good to go. And the shop has plenty of electrical noise from electron beam welders and pulsed Nd:YAG lasers, never have they failed to operate.
My brother and I used the MS Intellimouse Optical for gaming before better mice came out for gaming. Perfect mouse for FPS's in its day as it had a button on each side so you could assign things like reload and alternate firing modes. That was around the time of Quake 2/3, Half Life/Team Fortress/Counter Strike and Unreal Tournament. Before that we had an Intellimouse Pro and were always cleaning out mouse cheese from the god damn rollers. both were very hearty mice and were slammed quite a bit during rages.
Im sure once he was seated in the oval office he was politely told "This is how the game works Mr. President." and promptly shut the fuck up.
......And you don't have a greedy, egotistical douche bag looking to maximize profits in the short term for shareholders (his/her buddies) and bail out when the seas get rough (e.g. after they are done fucking every last penny out of the company).
The Asians have a sense of honor in their society and that is what makes them successful. A large, long lasting and profitable company that takes pride in its work is worth more to a CEO than the bottom line or how big his yacht is or how many whores he can screw. There is pride in the companys success, not their personal success. Maybe I am wrong but this is what I see and why Asian companies are always ahead of the game.
I bet most of the problem lies in the fact that the developers of these tools are hopelessly addicted to .net and Visual Studio. These tools are probably written in C# and are closely tied to complex GUI's that have hundreds of elements based on Windows Forms or WPF. If you tell them they have to switch to a new GUI toolkit for cross platform, abandon Visual Studio and have to change a lot of the code to be more *nix friendly, they will vomit blood.
If they wanted to be cross platform from the start they would have used a more cross platform friendly language, GUI toolkits and ditch the whole IDE workflow for one using build scripts and a syntax aware text editor (IDE's suck).
When I say the following, believe me I am not bashing anyone, just pointing out a fact: Microsoft's tools make programmers lazy. Install Visual Studio, create a new project and you're off to building a program and everything is a click away.
The x86 external FPU started with the Intel 8087 which was launched during 1980. The 8087 was the FPU for the 8086, the first generation of x86. The 80286 followed the same logic using an external FPU, 80287.
The 386 was the first to integrate the FPU onto the CPU die in the DX line of 386's. The 386SX was a 386 without the FPU which depending on the computer/motherboard could be upgraded with a 387 coprocessor.
So:
386DX = 386+FPU
386SX = 386, no FPU
The 486 also followed the same logic offering a DX or SX version. There was an i487 FPU upgrade but it was a DX that simply disabled the 486SX and took over the CPU bus.
The Pentium was the first x86 CPU to include the FPU by default.
Even though the oil/gas companies are diversified I am sure they are also behind their customers, the power companies.
If your cat is shitting on your bed and in your shoes then youre doing it wrong.
Simple solution for drone thieves:
The police will have a drone deliver you handcuffs, directions on how to cuff yourself and instructions to wait for a patrol car.
I have a better idea. Get a bunch of foam spheres, cut them in half and apply sticky tape to the flat side. Then get a plunger along with a whisk and put a sticky mount on each end. And as a bonus, hide the electronic guts of one of these inside of a half sphere and modify the switch to activate every 10 seconds. Bonus points if you attach a bigger speaker.
Then simply "decorate" the security bot. Your defaced security r2-d2 should now look something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dalek_2010_Redesign.jpg
EXTERMINATE!
At the old Mack Truck testing facility (Now the Mack Museum) they have an anechoic chamber that was used to test sound output from their trucks. During the Macungie truck show (late june) they have a few extra trucks at the museum and put a few in the chamber as its quite large. Its not super quiet like the one in the article but it is a bit disorienting. Talking to a person next to you is difficult as your voice is muffled and people 20-30 feet away are barely audible. Having a conversation was unpleasant and we stopped talking after a few minutes. They even left the large door for the trucks to enter wide open and it was still very quiet. Its quite an amusing feeling when walking from the hallway into the chamber as suddenly the sound of people drops off as soon as you enter.
"So no, you won't be fishing up rusted nerve gas canisters."
So now how am I supposed to build up my stockpile? Being an evil genius post 9/11 is getting harder and harder these days. If it gets any worse i'll have to lay off my staff of henchmen, sell the assets to al qaeda and get a union job.
So what happens when the power goes out?
My 87 year old aunt has life alert which needs a POTS connection. My mother is caring for her and switched my aunt to Fios when it came to the neighborhood 2 years ago. After hurricane sandy my aunt lost power for two weeks (house wasn't flooded, downed trees took the power out). My mother stayed with her and they found that the phones were dead after only 8 hours. Thats it, the shitty backup battery lasts 8 hours. My mother and aunt were completely ignorant that the new system needs power to function and make calls. Verizon never stated that there was a need for power and that the system was useless in a prolonged blackout. So what use would life alert be or even making a simple phone call during a prolonged blackout?
So unless they can figure out a better backup system or more efficient electronics to last for a week or two then what is the point of moving to VOIP? Oh I get it, to save the phone companies more money.
It sounds like he might be running a PC based CNC system that uses a PC for control. You posted a DNC box that is for uploading programs via DNC which has always been serial. Some older PC based CNC controllers used the parallel port (especially common for stepper systems). Systems that used brushless servos typically used some type of dedicated hardware to close the servo loop and is commanded via the PC. Typically those were ISA cards with a DSP on board but also parallel based units were available.
I also support the PC based CNC systems at my place of work. The system is quite advanced and uses a real time subsystem which only supports Windows 2000/XP. One of the systems is XP and the others are Windows 2000. New software costs about 4k and depending on the drives used, may require new drives at a cost of $1700 per axis. We still have one DOS based CNC system left, an ISA/DSP card with proprietary vendor written software supported by one guy on planet earth. Since that system sees little use it is not worth to $30k+ to upgrade to a modern CNC system. And that price is just to keep the existing motors and stages, $60+k for a complete replacement.
Always remember, the poster is trying to rattle the feathers of overly sensitive people such as yourself. You know how to fight back? Just don't reply. If no one acknowledges them then they have no reason to try and post stuff like that. The anonymous gp is laughing right now knowing that you fell for their trap.
With a 4 digit UID you should be old enough to realize that there are people on the internet who are asholes. Grow up and save your anger for real problems in the world. Not some anonymous coward on /.
How else is computerworld supposed to generate ad revenue?
So we put an ad in yo ad so you can watch ads to watch ads.
Seriously fuck you to whoever thought it would be a good idea to force us to watch an ad before we watch what essentially is an ad. I immediately stopped watching.
Though I 100% agree with you, you also have to account for the various languages of the world. I used this site: http://www.nicetranslator.com/, selected every language (including Klingon!) and translated "save". Now since I am not a linguist, save might not be used the same way in each language so this isn't very accurate. But if you look, some languages have more than four characters, and as many as 11 or so. So your UI elements would have to resize which may interfere with the layout and cause overlap or other problems.
A universal symbol that means save would be much better and so far the floppy disk is that symbol. But the new generation of kids don't even know what a floppy is. So you run into that problem. A new universal symbol that won't become outdated is needed.
Brilliant!