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#61
Posted 12 September 2011 - 04:46 PM
#63
Posted 14 September 2011 - 10:52 AM
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#68
Posted 18 September 2011 - 04:39 AM
Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the United Nations, was killed in a plane crash in Norther Rhodesia. (1961).
Patty Hearst, the daughter of noted newspaper publisher Randolph Hearst, was captured after a yearlong chase. She had been kidnapped, but later joined her captors in crimes including armed robbery. (1975)
#69
Posted 18 September 2011 - 07:10 AM
liftmech, on 18 September 2011 - 04:39 AM, said:
Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the United Nations, was killed in a plane crash in Norther Rhodesia. (1961).
Patty Hearst, the daughter of noted newspaper publisher Randolph Hearst, was captured after a yearlong chase. She had been kidnapped, but later joined her captors in crimes including armed robbery. (1975)
I recall watching these stories on the morning news. High school sophomore for the first; 1st year in this industry for the second... straight out of a Missouri commune.
#70
Posted 18 September 2011 - 01:48 PM
I did this
http://toughmudder.c...011-course-map/
Good job to Squaw Valley, you put on a good show!
Now it is time for a shower and a nap!
#71
Posted 18 September 2011 - 02:37 PM
cjb, on 18 September 2011 - 01:48 PM, said:
I did this
http://toughmudder.c...011-course-map/
Good job to Squaw Valley, you put on a good show!
Now it is time for a shower and a nap!
A globular experience - to be sure! Great idea!
#72
Posted 05 October 2011 - 04:45 PM
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And then find someone whose life is giving them vodka and have a party.
-Ron White
#73
Posted 06 October 2011 - 02:20 AM
Cupertino: Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs died on Wednesday. He was 56 years old. He had been battling cancer and other health issues for several years and had a rare form of pancreatic cancer. Apple announced his death late on Wednesday night without giving a specific cause.
The Silicon Valley icon, who gave the world the iPod and the iPhone, resigned as CEO of the world's largest technology corporation in August this year, handing the reins to current chief executive Tim Cook.
He helped change computers from a geeky hobbyist's obsession to a necessity of modern life at work and home, and in the process he upended not just personal technology but the cellphone and music industries.
In dark suit and bowtie, he is a computing-era carnival barker - eyebrows bouncing, hands gesturing, smile seductive and coy and a bit annoying. It's as if he's on his first date with an entire generation of consumers. And, in a way, he is.
It is January 24, 1984, and a young Steve Jobs is standing at centre stage, introducing to shareholders of Apple Computer Inc. the "insanely great" machine that he's certain will change the world: a beige plastic box called the Macintosh.
Here is the Wizard of Cupertino at the threshold of it all, years before the black mock turtleneck and blue jeans. He is utterly in command - of his audience and of his performance. All of the Jobs storytelling staples are emerging.
The hyperbole: "You have to see this display to believe it. It's incredible."
The villain: "And all of this power fits in a box that is one-third the size and weight of an IBM PC."
The tease: "Now I'd like to show you Macintosh in person. All of the images you are about to see on the large screen will be generated by what's in that bag."
He retreats into the shadows, pulls the inaugural Mac out of its satchel. He inserts a disk and boots up. Suddenly, on the screen - roughly pixelated by today's standards but, for 1984, stunning - a typeface rolls by to the theme from "Chariots of Fire." A picture of a geisha appears. Then a spreadsheet. Architectural renderings. A game of video chess. A bitmapped drawing of Steve Jobs dreaming of a Mac.
The computer speaks. "Hello. I'm Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag," it says. "It is with considerable pride that I introduce a man who's been like a father to me: Steve Jobs."
Applause shakes the place. Steven Paul Jobs, basking in it, tries not to grin. He fails. The future, at this moment, is his.
It is 27 years later now, and Steve Jobs has exited the stage he managed so well. We are left with the talismans of his talent, a tech diaspora: the descendants of that original Mac. The iPod and iTunes, Nanos and Shuffles and Classics and Touches. The Apple Store. The iPhone and the App Store and the iPad 2. They are part of the cultural fabric - tools that make our lives easier and, some insist, sexier and more streamlined.
But taken together, what do they mean? Are they merely gadgets and services that sold well, that answered the market's needs for humans of the late 20th and early 21st centuries? Did Jobs' prickly perfectionism - born, some said, of outsized ego - merely create a whole run of really useful tools? Or is something more elemental at play here?
Jobs the CEO, Jobs the technologist and futurist, Jobs the inventor and innovator and refiner of others' ideas: All of them, in the end, relied upon another Steve Jobs who sewed the others together and bottled their lightning: Steve Jobs the storyteller, spinning the tale of our age and of his own success, and making it happen as he went.
From his earliest days with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, he was a half step ahead of the rest of us, innovating and inventing and creating and doggedly marketing it all by building a lifestyle around it. From Apple's personal computers, he harnessed the new and repackaged the existing to create something fresh, something more.
Beyond his measurable successes, though, Steve Jobs claims one spot in history above all others: He realized what we wanted before we understood it ourselves.
We wanted easy to use. We wanted to lose ourselves in what our gadgets did. We wanted sleek, cool, streamlined - things that weren't always associated with consumer electronics. We wanted the relationship between object fetish and functionality to be indistinguishable. We wanted to touch the future without seams that would yank us out of our communion with our machines. We wanted, in short, intricate simplicity.
To Jobs, the above sentences might have been commandments. They were used to denounce - in a friendly manner, but always pointed - what Apple cast as the corporate, bland chaos of the PC culture that IBM and Microsoft were creating.
In Jobs' hands those principles were potent weapons. Apple's successes and missteps are well known, but things seemed to accumulate voltage when they passed through the switching station of Jobs' brain.
"There are two sides of it. One is the interface design side. The other is his ability to persuade major media outlets and others to work with him," says Edward Tenner, a technology historian and author of "Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity."
"His personal mystique," Tenner says, "became a self-fulfilling prophecy."
__________________
#74
Posted 06 October 2011 - 04:55 AM
Kicking Horse, on 06 October 2011 - 02:20 AM, said:
Cupertino: Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs died on Wednesday. He was 56 years old. He had been battling cancer and other health issues for several years and had a rare form of pancreatic cancer. Apple announced his death late on Wednesday night without giving a specific cause.
The Silicon Valley icon, who gave the world the iPod and the iPhone, resigned as CEO of the world's largest technology corporation in August this year, handing the reins to current chief executive Tim Cook.
He helped change computers from a geeky hobbyist's obsession to a necessity of modern life at work and home, and in the process he upended not just personal technology but the cellphone and music industries.
In dark suit and bowtie, he is a computing-era carnival barker - eyebrows bouncing, hands gesturing, smile seductive and coy and a bit annoying. It's as if he's on his first date with an entire generation of consumers. And, in a way, he is.
It is January 24, 1984, and a young Steve Jobs is standing at centre stage, introducing to shareholders of Apple Computer Inc. the "insanely great" machine that he's certain will change the world: a beige plastic box called the Macintosh.
Here is the Wizard of Cupertino at the threshold of it all, years before the black mock turtleneck and blue jeans. He is utterly in command - of his audience and of his performance. All of the Jobs storytelling staples are emerging.
The hyperbole: "You have to see this display to believe it. It's incredible."
The villain: "And all of this power fits in a box that is one-third the size and weight of an IBM PC."
The tease: "Now I'd like to show you Macintosh in person. All of the images you are about to see on the large screen will be generated by what's in that bag."
He retreats into the shadows, pulls the inaugural Mac out of its satchel. He inserts a disk and boots up. Suddenly, on the screen - roughly pixelated by today's standards but, for 1984, stunning - a typeface rolls by to the theme from "Chariots of Fire." A picture of a geisha appears. Then a spreadsheet. Architectural renderings. A game of video chess. A bitmapped drawing of Steve Jobs dreaming of a Mac.
The computer speaks. "Hello. I'm Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag," it says. "It is with considerable pride that I introduce a man who's been like a father to me: Steve Jobs."
Applause shakes the place. Steven Paul Jobs, basking in it, tries not to grin. He fails. The future, at this moment, is his.
It is 27 years later now, and Steve Jobs has exited the stage he managed so well. We are left with the talismans of his talent, a tech diaspora: the descendants of that original Mac. The iPod and iTunes, Nanos and Shuffles and Classics and Touches. The Apple Store. The iPhone and the App Store and the iPad 2. They are part of the cultural fabric - tools that make our lives easier and, some insist, sexier and more streamlined.
But taken together, what do they mean? Are they merely gadgets and services that sold well, that answered the market's needs for humans of the late 20th and early 21st centuries? Did Jobs' prickly perfectionism - born, some said, of outsized ego - merely create a whole run of really useful tools? Or is something more elemental at play here?
Jobs the CEO, Jobs the technologist and futurist, Jobs the inventor and innovator and refiner of others' ideas: All of them, in the end, relied upon another Steve Jobs who sewed the others together and bottled their lightning: Steve Jobs the storyteller, spinning the tale of our age and of his own success, and making it happen as he went.
From his earliest days with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, he was a half step ahead of the rest of us, innovating and inventing and creating and doggedly marketing it all by building a lifestyle around it. From Apple's personal computers, he harnessed the new and repackaged the existing to create something fresh, something more.
Beyond his measurable successes, though, Steve Jobs claims one spot in history above all others: He realized what we wanted before we understood it ourselves.
We wanted easy to use. We wanted to lose ourselves in what our gadgets did. We wanted sleek, cool, streamlined - things that weren't always associated with consumer electronics. We wanted the relationship between object fetish and functionality to be indistinguishable. We wanted to touch the future without seams that would yank us out of our communion with our machines. We wanted, in short, intricate simplicity.
To Jobs, the above sentences might have been commandments. They were used to denounce - in a friendly manner, but always pointed - what Apple cast as the corporate, bland chaos of the PC culture that IBM and Microsoft were creating.
In Jobs' hands those principles were potent weapons. Apple's successes and missteps are well known, but things seemed to accumulate voltage when they passed through the switching station of Jobs' brain.
"There are two sides of it. One is the interface design side. The other is his ability to persuade major media outlets and others to work with him," says Edward Tenner, a technology historian and author of "Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity."
"His personal mystique," Tenner says, "became a self-fulfilling prophecy."
__________________
An unhappy "today" that reminds us of great yesterdays. Jobs was the master of the man-machine interface. Bye Steve.

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This post has been edited by Emax: 06 October 2011 - 05:08 AM
#75
Posted 30 November 2011 - 06:35 AM
Today, both Wal-Mart and Amazon - the two heavy-hitters in the retail realm - came out in opposition to BLISTER PACKS (they called them clam-shell packs).
http://www.skilifts....s&fromsearch=1.
These two "patient zeros" of the planet's garbage pandemic "pointed out" that this piss-poor packaging solution is wasteful, annoying and hazardous to the consumer.
Thank the cosmic puppeteers - every now and then, common sense escapes from it's man-made prison.
This post has been edited by Emax: 30 November 2011 - 06:42 AM
#78
Posted 08 December 2011 - 05:49 AM
This allows for very few - if any - drilled-and-tapped holes in system backboards. It also simplifies system assembly and board change-out.
#79
Posted 08 December 2011 - 08:17 AM
#80
Posted 08 December 2011 - 09:06 AM
aug, on 08 December 2011 - 08:17 AM, said:
True enough - we'll never see this scheme used in space vehicles - but steel backpanels are available for all NEMA enclosures. Those who already have aluminum back panels are stuck.
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