The collected works of hamei - Page 47

Grab all 5 and bring them home, start swapping parts. But O2's can be the most tempermental, finicky computer in the universe. Once you get a collection of parts that work, I'd do the quiet fan trick then plug it in, turn it on and leave it on. Mine ran for a year that way until a power failure dropped it off. I haven't started it since ... blew the disk, I think. It was an old disk anyhow. O2''s are maddening. They are adorable, great size, quiet, good for lots of stuff. But they will drive you crazy.

Gotta optimize that prooofit !

Here's the other side of that same coin : this afternoon I have to write an email to a company I am helping to buy some equipment in the US for $1,250,000. The US company could really use that money - they've been on the edge of bankruptcy several times over the past few years, I just checked their "webcacst" quarterly report, (God I hate "webcasts" and all that other Rich Internet Experience shit ! Put up a fucking text document, assbreaths ! Nobody but a fat ugly teenaged twat wants your stupid fucking loser webcast) and they are down 15% over the same quarter last year but of course, "things are looking up, we got an order for ten sets of Mouseketeeer hats !" Yeah right.

Anyway, they could really use the money. And if we buy it, the equipment goes to China so their competitors don't get machinery cheap to take away their work. I am representing one of the largest builders in the world for this type of equipment. You would think that these dipshits would take advantage of the opportunity to become buddies with some big players, you would think they would go out of their way to do a good job.

You would be wrong. They are trying to bait-and-switch us for an extra ten thou. My email will recommend that we back out of the deal due to fraud on the part of the US.

Fuck them. And fuck the horse they rode in on. My guys will buy from Germany. China avoids the US now as much as possible because American companies are total shit.

So they can take their little two dollar cheap-ass prooooofit and shove it up their rosy red asses. Hi Sky ! What brilliant business logic ! your precious fucking loser Hahvud University teaches !

And I will lose the commission Thanks, crooks

This isn't that easy a problem, unfortunately. You'd think there would be a good, simple, clean CAD program by now. But I don't know of one .... If you run Windows, I'd scrounge up a copy of Cadkey 7 (DOS). It's wireframe but 3D, does all the good stuff - hidden line removal, automated view placement on a drawing, shaded rendering, nice to use. I have an antique parametric thing from Computervision that's pretty cool, too. Comes on two floppies, runs in DOS.

But the thing is, at least for me, keeping up with two or three different apps is just too much trouble. So I use Pro/E for everything, even stupid little honeydos like this :

The Pro is kind of cumbersome for that but on the other hand, what you use all the time is what you're fast with.

Per your question, yes, dwg, dxf, iges, step, vrml, iv, obj, about a hundred other file formats. jpeg, even


Now we're getting into "use Irix all the time" which is a different subject. That's really only worth doing if you like Irix and are too stubborn to let the obnoxious corporate imaginary-property types push you around.

Anyway, I don't know mobileme but Thunderturd works fine with gmail. One of these days I intend to transfer over to Ishmail - it's niftier but I have too many old mails to sort through


I be da bitch, homey ! Open Orifice reads in everything but docx. Even Word on Windows does not read that shit, when some foo sends me one of those turds I have to do an online conversion. Idjuts. Ted is kind of weird but not all that bad for rtf. I think I like it better than Open Orifice and Winnders can read/write rtf.

Normally the Assist makes me do the various textfile-to-pdf conversions because I can do it faster and better from Irix. She'll print to a ps file from wahetever she is using, then I ps2pdf over the network, right in her shared directory. That actually works better than creating a pdf from within Illustrator or PhotoShop. Somehow, the real pdf's are always bornked in some fashion. Typically the margins but if I want to make a multi-page pdf, it's easier and you have more control from a command line. The Adobe apps always mess things up.


Ja, for USB you are screwed. But I can do most everything usb-ish that I need from firewire, so it's not such a problem. CF and SD cards are actually faster on my firewire than the Windows USB.

Furflop, however .... sigh. Nekochan looks much nicer on Irix but a lot of places are screwed on an older browser. Luckily for me I don't like most of that crap

Oh. You wanted a drawing, not a model ? yes, can read and save as dwg, drw, tiff, etc. I can't really recommend Pro/E for basic drawings - whoever thought up their system was weird, but it does work.


Oh wait ! Just found my claim to fame as a computer artiste. You can laugh if you want ... did this in Amazon Paint, which is more interesting than the ... errr ... end result itself, I'd imagine ...

Looks good but ... errrrmm ... accurate ? I'm wondering what the heck they are doing ?

Ah, okay. 'cuz those teeth are just for decoration, don't try to use them for anything

There are tutorials on "How to Draw Gear Teeth" in Pro/e but they aren't correct there, either. You can get the tooth shape pretty close but the roots are never right. The roots are the really complicated parts. On a hobbed gear they are not too bad but a shaped gear has trochoidal fillets, way over my head math-wise.

As long as people recognize that CAD gear teeth are just decorative it's okay. It's when they start to think that these are real teeth that I could see problems arising. There is some specialized software that generates the correct shapes but it's not cheap. I guess (hope ?) that no one is going to be using consumer-grade cad programs to design gears for elevators, so we should be okay. But you never know

Real gear drawings never have teeth on them. They would be useless for making real parts. I don't know what good they do on CAD drawings either, except use up a lot of cpu cycles. Okay, they look cool

It got worse. Hard to believe but it really did ... this place in the US has been on the verge of bankruptcy about six times over the past five years. They had some stuff for sale. I talked one of the largest machine tool builders in the country into buying it. State-owned, gazillion-plus workers, direct connection to the treasury of China, that kind of thing.

First, the US imbeciles jerked us around as if my guys were some teenage girls getting their first car tuned up. We have cash money in hand to buy these clunkers, not too much, just a million, million and a half, breaking into the US, putting in a few lines for Ford and one for GM, nothing special. You'd think we'd be someone they'd want to be friends with. But no, these dickheads decide they're going to have a innernut auction instead, yeah, gonna get rich ! and jerk us around some more. THEN we get the big pressure, okay, come inspect the equipment, have to be here in three days, have to put up 20%, have to pay in full in 30 days, all that small-time hustler con artist bullshit but wtf, we'll take a look. Fly over from China and what do we see ? One out of three machines doesn't even run. Needs $40,000 in parts. Wtf ?

Businessmen, oh yeah.

US ? you fuckers are toast. It is not possible to survive like that.

We now return you to your 'cheapest capacitors on the planet, max profit' thread. Hahvud, whoooo-peee.

That's a spiffy photo. I love the lunchbox and the real tattoos. I'd guess the machinist was ex-Navy. He's actually using a drill head with a right-hand-cutting, left-hand-helix tapered reamer to taper ream those radial holes. Hard to tell but it looks like either the part is on a fixture sitting on an indexing table on top of a horizontal boring mill, or the drill head is mounted to the indexing table. More likely # 2. Notice the blue work shirt, no fucking clipboard, no fucking safety glasses, no gloves so we don't hurt our pretty widdow hands. Also the big lock on the toolbox and ... what's that molotov cocktail doing on the bench ?

It's a staged photo tho - cutter is not turning and no way that apron would stay that clean. I don't think those are gear teeth either - they look more like some sort of coupling ? Have you got a print to that, vish ? And are you sure this is from the 40's ? Did they have paper cups with the foldout handles then ?

When men were men ... wasn't it grand ?

If their spreadsheets were reality-based, then it would just be greed. But they are basing their decisions on fantasies, so they add stupidity to the mix.

Wind is dead in the US. Just about the only thing that uses 3 meter machines of this type in any volume is wind. Hence no market, honey chile. No buyers = low prices. Not a chance in hell they will get anywhere near what they think in an innernut auction.

But all these "managers" read some story in Reader's Digest about this here new high-tech world where we'll all get rich buying and selling each other virtual hamburgers, so by god theyr'e gonna get me some a thet.

They are stupid stupid stupid and I'd laugh my ass off at them - just like last time two years ago when we wanted to buy a machine for $260,000 but they were gonna have theirselves a innernut auction ! so they got $85,000 instead. Rich, I tell you ! Rich ! We'll reach 250,000 households ! (None of which want a $900,000 gear cutting machine but hey now ! that part of the equation is too complex for their Hahvud-eddicated pea brains !)

Alas, one can't escape one's environoment. The stupidity of American management is drowning us all Finance ! Finance ! The brilliant quants with their advanced algorithms have conquered the boom-bust cycle !

They've conquered something, all right. They conquered California's brilliant PUC and ripped off the citizens for a few hundred million, in just one financier-designed scam. At least Whitey is honest.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-h ... 850.column

Fucking loser thief bastards, you guys are swamped with them. Take these goddamned idjuts out of their little ivory towers and give them a real job at real middle class salaries and rebuild a United States that actually knows something. The fact is, the Cultural Revolution was a good thing. Y'all need to re-educate a large portion of your society, preferably in a coal mine. Picking onions would do as a second choice.

"iPhones are so special !" Yeah right, you morons. Go eat an iPhone. Drive one home after work. Cook on it. Wash your clothes in it. Do anything useful with it beyond retarded blather about what your cat ate for breakfast, I dare you.


Nothing's changed much over the years, has it ?

I think it's nice, Mr Hakimoto. Loads fast, gives all relevant information in an organized manner.

It doesn't like my proxy. No, I am not hot-linking to your images

Your dental department - very lacking in upperwork. How can anyone tolerate the dentist office without a little friendly rub ?

Your security guards don't seem to be very well armed. I hope they just set aside the AK's for the photo ?

Pretty neat. Nice job

A. Da-umn, somebody done whacked dat sucka wit da oogly stick !

B.
People are strange
when they are selling
some old worthless garbage
on the fleabay ...

More ! More ! Very cool (imo, at least).

Interesting .... I thought that was fifties. Look at the printing on the cup, too Definitely WW II vintage

If you think the top button buttoned looks dorky, it does, but if you don't button up tight the red-hot chips find their way down the front of your chest, burning their own trail of tears on the way. They also get in your ears and make a sizzling sound. There's nothing like the smell of burning ear in the morning ...

$500 for an ugly, empty box.

Such a deal.

The banksters caused that war, too. And the one before that. And the one before that.

Are people ever going to learn ?


I'll try to get back on track ... onion, cf the ProCad program in regards to teeth : not so useful even for decorations. In the real world one needs to create 14.5* pressure angle, 20* pa, 22.5* pa would be nice, 25* pa for sure nowadays, and 30* pa for involute splines. One also needs to be able to set the whole depth. There's shaper depth, hob depth, split pitch, pre-grind, pre-shave and splines that I can think of off the top of my head.

Roots should either be flat root or full fillet, need to be able to choose.

I wonder if it will accept non-integer, decimal fractional pitches ? That's common in helical gears.

Circular pitch is an odd inclusion since the only thing that commonly uses circular pitch is wormgears. This program won't draw a wormgear. So what's the point ?

It would be nice if it could draw sprockets - that might actually be useful in the real world because one could make special sprockets on a milling machine with a small end mill. I knew a place making bicycle parts that did that. But it doesn't.

I mean, like too much stuff nowadays, it's kind of neat that you can easily make something that looks like a gear and that would be really nice in Illustrator, for example, but for a cad program, this is really lacking in functionality.

I don't mean to sound like an old grump all the time but sheesh. They went to all the trouble to do half the job. They got the program to where it looked good, then quit. How about making the program really useful ? Not enough proooofit in that ? Or they just don't know what they are doing ?

I just read the manual, yes, you can override the radio button settings, which makes it a lot more useful. There's still some stuff that could cause problems but consdering there might be a thousand total users of Riscos, it's not a bad deal

I wonder why he didn't just use entry fields ? That would have made life a lot easier. Or an entry field with a default number that you can override ? That's pretty common, works okay.

(If you get into this, module sucks for gear teeth. It's upside-down and backwards. Diametral pitch feels difficult at first but after you get your mind around it, it makes much more sense than module.)

Consider yourself lucky. One bad thing about having Flop3 on Irix, I had about given up on the web but now am using it more. It's a mostly-pointless struggle. If I couldn't go there at all I'd just write it off and save myself a lot of aggravation.


@hakimoto : go for it ! have the german guy grow a beard and give him all the authorities, and they'll never know what's in the other room

Eating some fresh corn right now ... the neighbor got up early and went to the vegetable market to get it.

The country people come in really early with the freshest veggies and stand outside the vegetable market to sell but if you want to get them, you have to get there before 6:30. Around seven the policemen come and chase them away. Every day

Now, in the US the heavily-armed police would come early as a surprise one day to take them away and put them behind bars for five-to-life or some other fascist shit.

Here, we figure that the heck, if a few people want to get up at dawn to get the best vegetables, fine. And if a few country people can't afford all the b.s. that goes with having a regulated stand in the vegetable market, fine. And if a few people want to take the risk that these veggies have cooties, also fine. Our choice.

Freedom ... pretty cool, isn't it ? You guys should try it some time.

Your photo is cooler but since we're talking Irix, made this with the O2 .... induction hardening instead of flame but similar idear .... No, the silly transition in the middle was not my idear. I have bad taste but not that bad !

Whoooosh !!


Fascist Farmer's Market :

Second Thursday of every month 4th Street will be closed from Lincoln Avenue to E Street from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Prosepctive vendors may apply at city hall, 312 Lootens Place. Fee is $125 for a permit. Bring photo I.D.


Evil repressive commie Zhabei daily life :

Fang pi and Da du zi borrow the village truck without telling anyone. They load it up with watermelons and drive in to the city at 3:00 a.m. Find a residential area, choose an intersetion, pull into the middle and stop. Start yelling at the top of their lungs, "Xi gua ! Hao pian yi ! Hao chi de xi gua !" and bickering over the price with the dozens of grandpas out to buy vegetables. Traffic piles up all around them. After an hour or so a policeman notices and asks them to move out of the middle of the street. They argue for twenty minutes then grudgingly push the truck unto the right hand lane so that the buses have something to avoid, waking up their passengers.

Meanwhile, Xiao hong pedals up on his freight tricycle with about thirty cardboard boxes full of movies on DVD. In ten minutes there are fifteen people pawing thr0ugh the latest movies and trying to bargain the price down. No, he won't sell Avatar for less than seventy-five cents.

Across the street an unsuspecting foreigner walks past a bar. Yeah, it's open. If there's still people inside, why close ? There's money to be made ! Four girls rush out and grab the foreigner by the arms and legs, drag him inside to relieve him of that excess wallet weight. "Just one drink ! Just have one drink !" (for the entire bar, all fifty girls.)

Oops ! seven o'clock, time for the policemen to make everyone leave. Cops with no guns, no walkie-talkies, no sticks, no swagger, just walk along telling people to clear the road, people have to go to work ... no drivers' licenses checked, nobody wants-and-warranted, no vehicle registrations run, no harrassment, just please get the heck out of the street ...


Yes it is. If you got out of that police state for a while you might recognize one


Probably here too. I just don't get up that early

The fish, tho ... ocean fish would be great. I am more than bored with river pig and bird-flu chicken wings

Considering that I have about fifty years experience living in the United States and twenty in China for comparison (some concurrent, I admit) I would say that no, I am not wrong. You live in a large nicely-landscaped outdoor prison. How do you like those emerald green glasses ?

Normally I am not a fan of the 3D printer hysteria. But in this case, one would be nice

The design of the feet isn't bad, it's the philosophy behind it. Fasteners cost money. The skins have to be molded anyhow, .0003 g of ABS costs nothing. Assembly is push-and-twist instead of collecting four screws, eight washers, and four nuts which are not free, then putting it together with a torque-controlled screwdriver.

But in the long run, customers take it up the arse.

Not sure whose fault that is ... people are self-punishingly short-sighted, while companies would and do screw us for $ .0005 per unit no matter what.

Hunt and gather, I say. Let's live in teepees and spend our spare time making whoopee

No, at Taylor-Winfield ...


Yes, they were. But since they couldn't return 30% per day on borrowed money and they had real assets, they are now just a gravestone to American capabilities.


I just do resizing, then cut and stitch pieces together. A few titles once in a while. Mencoder works pretty well for that kind of thing.


They probably make different models. Does your purchasing agent know how to run a lathe ?


Once upon a time I was doing something on the Monarch when I hear this muffled gurgling clanking noise behind me. We had three Monarchs, my buddy liked the 17" MoriSeiki in the corner. When you hit the go lever it would shit-n-git. The go handle had this weird lockout on it that was a pain so the owner of the shop removed it. You know it's common to have all kinds fof crap sitting on the apron, Morg was tightening the jaws, a box of tool bits on the apron got knocked off, fell down onto the go handle in reverse, grabbed Morg and threw him over the top of the chuck into the chip pan headfirst. Luckily for him the jaws were only sticking out about an eighth inch, so there he was with his head in the chip pan gurgling, the chuck was wacking away at his belt buckle right near the family jewels, tick tick tick, and I was laughing my ass off.

I did turn the lathe off and rescue him.

Don't ever leave the chuck key in the chuck. It is not safe

Seriously, I know of another case where a guy had a chuck wrench slammed through his chest. He died. Bad idea to leave the key in, ever.


Take a photo, we can probably make you an rtf file that you could print onto some sticky paper to glue over the heiroglyphics. Of course, if we're feeling mischievous that day .....

The entire ruling class of the United States is looking for Mr Goodbar ... we know where that ends up

How can people be so stupid ? We aren't living in caves anymore, we have books and history.

Are my eyes bad or does the "before" picture look better than the "after" ?

http://web.archive.org/web/199902192102 ... ly96sm.htm

I meant a photo of the plate with the feeds and speeds

Did you need a little bigger machine, for when you want to put your boss between centers and turn his head to a point ?

I think that's the point

Read the book.

Ah yes, some talented and hard-working newcomer to the AP China bureau discovered one of the Small World amusement parks that were popular twenty years ago. We can only hope that one day soon she will visit a water town, so she can breathlessly inform the world what tourist traps they are.

Then perhaps, as a reward, the AP can send her to the Southwest where she can write insightful articles about the abandoned dinosaurland parks, the rattlesnake museums, and the decrepit miniature golf courses. What shabby, silly, amusing people those Americans are ...

The thing is, Oskar, not that China is so wonderful. China certainly has its share of 'peculiarities' and there's plenty to criticize.

But what China does not do is parade around the world giving everyone else lectures about "freedom and democracy" concurrent with blocking elections because they would lose. And China does not self-righteously invade other countries because they dislike the other country's leaders. Nor do they talk and talk "rule of law" while stomping all over the country's constitution. They certainly do make mistakes but at least they aren't self-righteous incompetent hypocrites, like some nations are. It's that holier-than-thou lecturing by a guy who has sex with the neighbor's pig three times a week that really gets to people.

I cannot think of one new car or motorcycle I would want. Not one.

Well, maybe the BMW Z3. Then you could wear a Donald Duck suit and drive around going "quaaaack quackquack quack quackquack quack ..."

That might be kind of entertaining.

The temperature rises at night and goes down during the day ? Is that a daily pattern, Classy ? And if so, have you wondered why ?

Old, little audio utility, at 2 pixels wide it's not so good for me, but looks kind of cool under a microscope ...