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5-Axis Robot Carves Metal Like Butter 277

Posted by kdawson on Friday April 09, 2010 @01:13PM from the measure-your-head-very-carefully dept.

kkleiner sends along an amazing video of what robot-controlled machining is coming to. "Industrial robots are getting precise enough that they're less like dumb machines and more like automated sculptors producing artwork. Case in point: Daishin's Seki 5-axis mill. The Japanese company celebrated its 50th anniversary last year by using this machine to carve ... a full-scale motorcycle helmet out of one piece of aluminum. No breaks, no joints, the 5-Axis mill simply pivots and rotates to carve metal at some absurd angles. Every cut is guided by sophisticated 3-D design software (Openmind’s HyperMill)."

MS — Dropping IE6 Support "Not an Option" 374

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @03:31PM from the die-already dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft wants to see IE6 gone as much as anyone else, but the company isn't going to make the decision for its users anytime soon. The software giant has been pushing IE6 and IE7 users to move to IE8 ever since it arrived in March 2009, but it's still up to the user to make the final decision to upgrade: 'The engineering point of view on IE6 starts as an operating systems supplier. Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product. We keep our commitments. Many people expect what they originally got with their operating system to keep working whatever release cadence particular subsystems have. As engineers, we want people to upgrade to the latest version. We make it as easy as possible for them to upgrade. Ultimately, the choice to upgrade belongs to the person responsible for the PC.'" Of course some big Web sites aren't waiting for Microsoft. Reader Yamir writes, "Google's Orkut, a social networking service popular in Brazil and India, has started warning IE6 users that the browser will no longer be supported. Just last month, YouTube started showing a similar message."

Comment Re:Media (Score 1) 1467

by sebvajda on Thursday February 09, 2006 @09:24PM (#14683733) Attached to: Danish, Western Websites Under Attack

Yeah right, but it goes both ways of course. - "Occidental" media: according to this, a group of people demonstrated in Jakarta (8,792,000 inhabitants) in Indonesia (around 200 millions inhabitants) "outside the offices of Indonesian daily Rakyat Merdeka ('Independent People') over the paper's decision to reproduce a series cartoons satirising the Prophet Mohammed".

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