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The trends now are unassigned seating, and Bleacher Seating

Never mind that a lot of these trends that exist in "hip tech companies": (open office, unassigned seating, bleachers) are also in areas with really expensive realestate, so everything has to be done to increase density, and it isn't really applicable to flyover states with lots of cheap realestate. There's a cargo cult of "Must follow teh Googles, teh Facebook, and teh Apple"

they could always do it this way - vertical forest. https://www.dezeen.com/2018/01...

SIP is there for your protection and the protection of OSX.

If you really want to get rid of the app, here is how to enable/disable SIP.

Apple is trying to clean things up under the covers. They have a new modern filesystem (APFS) added SIP back in El Cap which was a solid security move. I realize things have been a bit shaky lately, but I blame on moving 12,000 people into the new spaceship campus . I am surprised all the developers haven't quit.

As the space ship establishes a new workplace morphology, things will get better. Maybe the ex-NSA'ers will head to Apple and bolster security even more.

(which can likely never be self-driving)

You are wrong

And in many places skateboarding, roller skates/blades, horseback riding and the rest are not allowed in great parts of the city.

I just looked at her work in images.google. Do not want. They are not really that pleasing to look at. I like the Roman/Greek and large medieval/renaissance buildings - golden ratio, "perfect" aesthetics. These Zaha works are just ugly and trying to be different and lead to higher cost, hard to maintain with that comes leaks and I don't think they are aesthetically pleasing.

Completely agree. She always came across to me as a self-righteous individual who had no qualms about wasting other people's money. Based on her whining about losing the Tokyo stadium, I would guess she was a pain to work with as well.

The problem is (as Makerbot has discovered) that it's really a solution in search of a market. The average person has no use for this technology beyond perhaps a part or toy or whatever a couple of times a year at best, and even then the piece is relatively high due to the cost of materials. That's what's killing the industry (along with all the IP wrangling) and that's why Makerbot is laying off workers and has closed their retail stores. http://www.greenwichtime.com/b... http://www.dezeen.com/2015/06/...

German auto brand Volkswagen's XL1, which it claims is the most fuel-efficient production car ever made, has been named the winner of the Transport category at Designs of the Year 2014.
http://www.dezeen.com/2014/05/...

You may have seen this advert in the Goodwood Festival of Speed programme and are wondering how we determined that the XL1 was the worldâ(TM)s most fuel-efficient hybrid production vehicle.
http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/ab...

And it's a looker.

DBI has built control rooms for other agencies. Here's their portfolio. They did the new White House Situation Room (which looks reasonable), the National Counterterrorism Center (overdid the lighting effects), Lockheed Martin (looks like a movie set, overhead lighting grids and all), a NASA auditorium (just rows of seats and some big screens), GeoEye (overdid the ceiling design), Defense Information Security Agency (fancy ceiling, lots of Eames chairs.)

But only for the NSA facility did they really go over the top. This is the silliest control center design since the Moscow United electric power control center The layout makes no sense. The person in the "Captain's chair" is in front, and can't see what everybody else is doing. The "captains chair" has no controls or screens of its own, so whomever sits there cannot do anything except shout orders.

A common setup in operational control centers, especially USAF and NASA, is to have the ability for each station to look at screens of other stations in view-only mode. (Originally this was done with an actual channel selector and an analog cable TV system). When something important is happening, a lot of people may need to look at one display. This eliminates everybody crowding around the station that has the key information at the moment. Once you have that, the physical layout doesn't matter as much.

The result is that most modern military command centers are rather boring - they look like a help-desk operation. The current NORAD center looks much less impressive than its predecessors. In the field, a bunch of laptops in a tent can operate as a command center. A modern tactical operations center looks like that, not like one of these fancy overdecorated rooms.

When you use "perverting" and "friendship or love of another another human being" and "nuts" in the same post it just brings this other application of 3D Printing to mind.

Now you can print your own toys at home! No need for plain brown wrapper packaging!

Scaffolding, applying 6+ inches of insulation boards (glued and secured with "nails") on all outer walls, weather protection, paint job, remove scaffold. It's not exactly witchcraft. And I have seen it done a few dozens of time. The roof is somewhat harder (depending on shape), but still nothing a skilled contractor shouldn't be able to pull off rather quickly. Take a look at countries where there are financial incentives (like cheap credits) for insulating houses. 6 months is twice the time the Chinese estimated for building the worlds largest tower.

The increased mass gives a flywheel effect, meaning the pedal goes through top dead center easier.
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So, by going to carbon fiber (lighter, and most likely stiffer), they'll most likely negate any benefits!

Here's the thing: carbon fiber does not have to be stiff.
You can go out today and buy carbon fiber leaf or coil springs.
carbon fiber cranks are nothing new to the (off)road bicycling word.
And haven't you heard about the amputee athletes who run on carbon fiber legs?

But the main reason for using carbon fiber is lighter weight, and if your system depends on extra rotating mass,
then there's absolutely nothing to be gained by making the crank out of super light carbon fiber.
If Mr. Z-Crank wants springier, he can just choose a different metal alloy and keep the same mass.

The contest winner has 3 legs and 2 arms, +3 additional attachment points. I hate to sound this terrible, but this is Iceland we're talking about, not Southern California. They probably don't need wall-to-wall high-voltage wires.

Humanoid statues can hold cables with their elbows, shoulders, top of their head, middle of their chest etc.
Not just with their hands - like real humans.

And if you think that humanoid pylons are impractical - get a load of these ugly things. No pun intended.
And then try imagining servicing one of those nightmares.

Your link is very broken ... Took a few tries to figure out this link.

There's some real CFL art that's much more impressive than this LED art. (For those who don't want to click, it's CFLs, but the tubes aren't compact, but big and swirly and pretty. I'll go back to my psychoactive drugs now, thanks :-)

!HAVEFUN!

http://www.aerosml.com/galleryML866.htm
http://www.dezeen.com/2007/12/11/aeroscraft-ml866/
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4242974.html
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/haa.htm

It may be true to a certain degree in the West, but in Africa where 15 million have died from AIDS, and 24 million are infected, it's clearly not so 'easy' to prevent.

Errr... the problem with HIV/AIDS in Africa is a cultural and economic one, not one of "can't be prevented."

The use of condoms drastically reduces infection rates. The problem that I've been reading about in Africa is that condoms are not utilized because they interfere too much in the love making process (ie, takes too long to put them on, and they're too expensive). A prototype device is being introduced here to try and address those issues.

Spread of this disease is preventable (which was the GP post's point); efforts to educate and provide the protection would be immediately effective versus waiting for a scientific cure... which would also have to be made available cheaply enough to help impoverished Africa (ie, not for many years after being made available on the market).