Day off work, so I did the spark plugs in my car. One white One tan One smashed One cross threaded What the actual fuck.
One of my classes requires we use Microsoft Word/Powerpoint/Project manager 2016 and Autodesk 2016 because they are "the most modern tools on the market which every professional uses". I am not a fan... The school computers don't even have enough RAM to run CAD properly, and neither of my laptops like running any of those Microsoft programs. Performance on them is absolutely terrible (though both laptops have been running poor in general, I need to look into that when I have some time...). Microsoft is allowing me to use their Word Online thing but it is saying my school account key is not active or whatever, and Autodesk keeps saying that "there is an issue with your serial number, please try again in 30mn". I find Microsoft word/power point to just be completely inferior to Google docs/slides in every single way, and Microsoft is really expensive. I just find CAD to have no advantages and a couple annoying issues, though I don't really know it or blender so my opinions there don't really have a decent foundation. Next year I have to take a computer design class, I am sure they will use some Auto desk program too... Not sure I am going to survive an entire semester of Microsoft products; I guess I'm going to try doing the next assignment in a Google doc and converting it to a .docx. I'll still have to look everything over in Word because I hear most converters can do some funky things, but its a lot better than typing up the whole thing in Word. As for the school computers not having enough RAM for the programs the school requires us to use... I don't even know... It's a problem... At least I got MATLAB last semester, I like it.
It's probable. Of the two most major catastrophic suspension bridge collapses in American history (Tacoma-Narrows and Silver Bridges), only the Tacoma-Narrows was captured on film. Edit: Is this... like a thing? I thought for sure that the whole, 'how do cranes get so tall?' thing was just me, but going by the comments it's an extremely common itch in the brain.
Be grateful that you get Autodesk. We're stuck with Siemens NX and it pisses me off everyday. Autodesk is much more user-friendly and easier to use.
We use SketchUp at school, even though I use Blender. Pisses me off that they won't let me use a better modeling program that I know more about.
Although it's not on the same bridge in the movie (The bridge is real as well, although if I remember correctly, it's in Seattle.), it's most likely with how the CGI plays in FD5 is somehow inspired by the Tacoma-Narrows bridge, except the twist is that on the Tacoma-Narrows bridge, nobody died, while in FD5, about nearly all the people on that bridge died, except for one.
That's pretty cool. Neat, how engineers cook up solutions to problems. One of my favorite machines, purely by virtue of its method of locomotion: Oh, I feel you. In my senior year of high school, I was talked into competing in a national 3d visualization competition by some instructors at my tech school, who had seen some of my Blender work. Although I wasn't skilled enough at the time for a competition of this scale anyway, our sponsor insisted we use a badly outdated program called Swift 3D. I recommended Blender at least once, suggesting that one could do more in Blender, but was told that the issue was my familiarity with the program, not the program's shortcomings (for instance, only the default materials can have normal/bump maps in Swift). Only by colossally failing at the national level was the program identified as a big part of the problem (none of our judges or fellow competitors had ever heard of it, and our medium-high end hardware would've taken twice the competition's duration to render the assigned 30-second video). Supposedly, she switched to 3DS Max the next year.
Yep. Looks like it's just the digitizer. I replaced enough of those at my old job. We had to replace atleast 6 a day each. Fairly sure I have PTSD from it..
Some screens, like the one on Oneplus One, have the touch screen built together with the digitizer. I have never cracked mine, but my friend got a tiny crack on his opo and it stopped working. I read this is a universal problem with that phone but I assume there are others built similarly. The LCD will never die from a crack like that tho. It is it's own new layer underneath just glued to the digitizer. You can put some pressure on it even, it won't fail.
That bridge is actually in Vancouver. I live right near it and drive over it all the time. Loads of movies are filmed here (no really, like, all of them) so I'm not surprised to see it. https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.3145...Zs-xYKmQRkMDdxoZP4Eg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
