Posts by Getriebe

Re: Other uses

"3D printing is certainly for those situations where hard tooling is too expensive or when several iterations with slight changes need to be done before the design is finalized.

You might want to check out a process called powder forging that has become very common for automotive components.

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As per my comment above - not so much

Modern methods of making what you are calling hard tooling are so slick that the number off is relativley low. Time is money and doing a lot of one offs is time consuming.

As an interesting example (well it was to me) I had a job of doing some pre prod deisgns for watch cases (clockwork) but in the end we could go to Singapore where a manufacturer would make the die, and the sample watche cases for free. He made his money from the scrap 'brass' we supplied for the cases. And then he had the die for mods and then he almost always got the contract in the end to make a few hundred.

And powder forging as you call it, I called it sintering is useful only in certain situations.

Crash test requirements mean that certain physical charcteristics are needed which sintered doesn't necessarily have.

Re: Let me get this straight...

I work for a company that was quoted in New York, and has now gone private because of similar expectations. However much communication you did with analysists there were other influences in their reading of your position and so they would call the stock at the end of a qtr in almost random fashion.

The only slight reason I could give for SF is that there is a feeling in their sector that they hav epeaked and other offerings or no offering will eat their share, so unless they grow a lot they will fall. The MySpace of the CRM business

So will Shakespeare, after reading that English ;-)

Shakespeare! I was chanelling Beicon

Re: I read this and I think

Ahem ...

I think you are making assumptions about my sexuality, the driver's chromosome count, and how good looking the Intourist guide (minder) was.

Sexist pig!!

(for future ref, should you want, I have a mismatched pair of chromosomes, she definitely had a matched pair and the driver (ex Tank Corps) def. would have not looked at me however young and rosy I was)

Re: Single Point of Failure

"If this is the case then the real single point of failure lies somewhere in the management who let this architecture loose. I've worked in several large hosting environments, and the idea that you'd rely on a software based solution to manage access to all server instances without massively comprehensive and time consuming testing of new versions of the software smacks of poor risk management and trying to do things on the cheap - a complete no no for this type of service."

mmmm .... I do not think the reason for the failures is as simple as this

We have many servers in Azure and they continued to work. No one has reported to me any downtime for our customers I have to report to them.

I am surprised if the Pink Poodle is the same installation for all of their groups of servers, and so perhaps one or two were fucked but others weren't. But I am speculating.

Re: Ford Orion

"I recently had the opportunity to drive a model T."

So true. One needs to relearn driving to get one even crawling

But all Model Ts should be like this IMHO

http://www.2040cars.com/_content/cars/images/41/563441/003.jpg

Re: 2 things to know about Delcam.

"It used to (and for all I know still does) have it's own tool room for mfg press tools and dies (somewhat more unusual than a pinball machine in a software house)."

It certainly did. I used to work for them creating very complex surfaces and then making the item and/or the cavity.

I started with 7 axis machining and thought everyone had it! Wrong.

Re: 2 ceo's needed

"CEOs need vision. COOs need to kick ass.

Jobs + Cook."

Total agreement on this. On another post I said MSFT needs a Jack Welch like character - but of course the great helmsman had a bunch of great leaders in the shadows. He cast a long shaow.

If you are saying Nadella as CEO I am not certain he has the presence and the desire to make sacrifices to do the big job.

Right now they need a Georgy Zhukov character even.

"They need someone passionate about technology, not some stuffy middle-aged management type"

Why?

What are the reasons for this?

As a stuffy old middling manager I want to know your dislikes.

At the moment I reckon they need a Jack Welch character to come in and sort out the internecine warfare and layers of management. Then IMHO they would be able to see what their assets are

Re: Ahem, as a boss ...

"Sorry, I switched off after seeing 'empowering', 'enable', 'goals' and 'overall plan' in the same sentence."

Good post A+, would read again!

OK, dullard, if you were running an operation that was producting say 50 million of revenues a year and you had to sum up your style in a paragraph - what would you put?

Obviously I will watch and learn.

Re: Faggots? Yuck!

"Balls to you!

When I was a lad my Mum used to cook her own faggots, she'd often use the dripping from the previous day's roast to cook them, drop in a little bit of Bovril or Marmite and they were out of this world!

"

Marmite! Call child services now! She was abusing you.

Re: Think a little

Chris G - I make you right on all you have said there.

On power - the as the ironically moniker's Carniege says - there are local was of generating it but AFAIK there is a direct relationship to poverty and malarial breeding grounds in India. And if you come from some Pradesh the chance of you having a solar panel is small. The Indian states governments are trying to get these means of generating power out to the villages (with help from western benefactors) but as usual corruption is screwing it. And again AFAIK the power is being used for TV as it has been found the best way of getting information to rural poulations

On malaria, a few years ago my climbing friends did something in the Himalaya, came back via India and one went travelling. He caught malaria, ended up in hospital and was airlifted out. A guy who had summited an 8,000 meter peak was reduced to being unable to get out of bed. He still has not recovered completely 20 years later. Its not man flu.

At least a reach around is enjoyable for one of those involved....

In a crowded lift* - not so much

* elevator for those with a language stuck in the 1700's

Re: Genuine Question:

Glue makes the machine harder to recycle by standar meas. But if you were doing it in industrail quantites there are a few tricks - eg use utrasonics to make the glue melt. But apart from the moral PoV I'm not clear what the economic value of breaking a Surface or Ithing down to its component parts is at EOL.

Re: Microsoft in profit shocker

Sarbanes Oxley has no relevance to 'writing off' - its to do with accuracy and timeliness of presenting the accounds. The fact they clearly stated what they did keeps them within GAAP

"tech companies that are successful and generate the most money are actually in and around Cambridge"

That's contentious; I would like to see numbers on that. Maybe you’re right in EBITDA land but on genuine cash flowing into vault (and not out again) I reckon dull Thames corridor is generally the winner

As a Brummie who lives in London, and loves it, there is no way I would think of working In Brum or Yam Yam land, or worse for the Hanson mild drinkers, starting a business there again

Re: Windows RT will not be killed by MS

"All you need is a dock that provides keyboard/monitor/network when at your desk" exists already - albeit for Pro and Pro 2 - and a nice bit of kit it is. I reckon it will come to Surace 2 as well.

On RT as the future - yes for end points - it allows them to leave the years of x86 behind. Well thats what I hear from our Seattle based MSFT bloke

Re: All new Nokia tablet....=]

++ Surely in Microsofts brave new future ++

I thought the future was a touch version of Office written for ARM. Do you know summat I don't?

Re: But for how long?

spot on.

lots of techies in and arond reading / brackers - but the big ponderous companies. london is where most of the fun stuff is. which is why i live in london, way too much interest to leave behind

no caps - eating executive sandwich with a hand

Re: Maybe what's needed is

"It's called a fuel tankk. "

I think a whooosshh picture is called for

As someone posted on here a few days back, don't tell some past owners of the Pinto that fuel tank can take dings - quite a few turned into fireballs.

The reason a modern car is so rarely burtsing into flames is because of 'elf & Sfatey mate rules generated in the US and here. Design and position of the fuel tank is what keeps them safe.

Also petrol was a distant third in early car design - electrics and steam were miles ahead. Now only if we had picked steam - max torque at stall, complete and controlled combustion, almost any fuel .....

Re: Windows just works ....

"One cleaner already down-voted me ... go on, lets count the idiots on el reg."

One of the cleaners here. Except I don't change hard disk - I have people who do that for me.

And from many many metrics we have gathered whilst I have been in project management within the field of global infrastructure design, build and support we always come back to MSFT.

So if my analysis doesn't equal yours, your scant world view might be challenged

BTW - It was suggested that I come here to take a look at el buitre for an different view and amusement. One result is the change in hiring questions - to dig out closed minded and stupid people like you who appear not to understand what your role is.

Thanks for backing up my extreme prejudices

Re: Steam OS for games, Google Docs / something else for the office work

"I have contacts in the engineering departments of many large companies and zero of them are even considering a move away from Windows..."

My experience also. Colleagues in world wide support for something like 1,800 companies between quarter to 5 billion £ turnover - none are talking about any sort of change. Slow take up of Win 8, certainly.

Re: Slipped place

Oi! I said that over 300 years ago.

Re: @The last doughnut

"Weren't spreadsheets supposed to emulate - well, paper (as in 2-D) spreadsheets? (As I first heard them called, though Wikipedia says they're worksheets, apparently.) MS isn't the only one guilty in that case"

Yes. I am old enough to remember a time before Visicalc, and so whole walls of a financial or engineering departments in big companies would be coated with paper into which people wrote numbers and then did calcs and carried results.

The growth of Apple 2e was based on Visicalc replacing this method, and then Lotus 123 on IBM (bigger spreadsheet and a few snazzy clacs) swept it away - and the rest follows.

Re: Past lives

Or not appeared in a D H Lawrence novel.

Re: Who cares

"All software sucks, all hardware sucks."

Yup, and it always will - just get used to it

I am looking forward to getting a job back in compressible fluid flow and casting technology. The equations are so much easier

Re: logical

@noominy.noom - yup thats about it.

But I would argue that IT should be ahead of the game and evangelizing new products (vapour, hard, soft or bland) so they are in the decision when it’s being made.

Too often IT just trails and so has to cope with sometimes poor decisions and also are not in the right place to understand the company’s goals.

Re: run out of cats?

Neither Croydon or Hull have decent surf

Re: What about fitness-for-purpose?

"(When was the last time you could buy leaded petrol?). "

In the pits at Santa Pod - moohaha

"room full of sweaty nerds or champagne and tier 1 chicks...."

As an ex-deck gorillia from my yoof - I'm with you. Sorta made you want to win, a bit more

Re: That's 9 million.....

Phillippe - the other two are with me - and so I can get 100% of the global WP population in agreement that 6tag is as good as the iOS version. ergo your first proposition is wrong.

Re: @Lester

el piloto va a caer en el llano, parece