i've got no opposition to eating bugs. i'm not growing my own though. I'm not growing them in my house. I've done it enough in the past to feed my reptiles. the fact is these guys stink. crickets, mealworms, dubias, they all are dirty and stinky and require a ton of cleaning. No thanks. let me know when i can go to the supermarket and just get what i'm going to cook that day.
i guess part of the problem with hovercraft is they are kind of fragile. the everglades is loaded with stumps hidden among the sawgrass that will tear the hovercraft's skirt open, then pffft your air cushion is leaking out and you are sinking.
shhh. don't post stuff implying it's beneficial to have a 'cubemate'. how many people do you want packed into a cube? If word gets out that two are good, it's just going to go up from there.
Kardashev defined a type-III civlilzation as one that used energy on the scale of galactic energy production, but gave no reasoning as to what a civilization would do that requires this much energy.
There is room for more than 2 or 3 competitors in any part of the car industry. The f-150 and tacoma seem to provide all anyone could possibly want in a truck. However, their existence isn't stopping chevy, dodge, nissan, etc from selling pickup trucks.
This would irk me so much. First i'd be pissed that the company was paying people to decorate the office. taking that money and just boosting the salaries of the engineers tends to make us happier. Second, i'd be insulted that they think i'm so shallow.
Finally, I'd be pissed at myself. Id suffer from cognitive dissonance knowing it was a cheap trick, but feeling giddy excitement with some pretty girl hanging around at my desk.
I love my neti pot! it makes me feel like i just experienced a huge surfing wipeout, but i never had to leave home!
They do a great job getting rid of nasal clogs without putting too much pressure on the inner ear. used appropriately, nasal irrigation is effective
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yeah. i have a hard time imagining myself bored with notch's wealth as well. I think the difference between us (well myself) and notch is we have aspirations and interests in the world beyond work. I work to enable the life i want to live, but i have a hard time really enveloping myself in my work. There's all this stuff i want to do, and most of it involves going out in the world and hanging out with people and doing things. I work enough to afford living in the bay area and not being a bum, but i know if i had that wealth, it would take me a LONG time before i found myself feeling unfulfilled.
I get the impression that Notch liked sitting in his basement and making minecraft. That's not a condemnation. It worked out well for him financially. Right now, i think he feels pressure from society to go out and party and travel, and he honestly never wanted it.
Myself, i'm looking at cutting out of work early today to go surfing. I will reap no financial rewards from it, but i'll feel fulfilled by it.
i'd just like them to be able to identify cat puke. they don't even have to be able to clean it up. just avoid it and maybe send me a tweet that it's there. the current state of technology is more like a cat puke spreading robot.
not only that, but facial recognition is just going to keep getting better. in a couple years. it's going to easily identify someone like bruce wayne in his batman costume.
I bet N. Korea will be the first country to permanently offset their phase. It'll be just like what happened to Geordi and Ensign Ro. Only it will be the whole country. Maybe someone will get out and explain how they can pass through walls, but don't fall through the floor.
ha! You just cleared up one of the great mysteries of my life! I remember sitting in paris watching the Eiffel tower begin twinkling at dusk. It was some ungodly late hour and I thought, "Man, how can it still be so light out? Paris must be way farther north than i originally thought."
i don't see anything in the article about computer control.
The new robot jumps by using a simple, light clasp (almost the entire body of the robot) that snaps shut via a heat-reactant spring after being zapped by an outside pulse of heat.
There's a lot to like about EVs, If i owned a house and could get a charger, i'd consider a tesla, and if there were an electric jeep wrangler, i'd be all over that thing. massive torque and the ability to roll over indefinitely seems pretty darn cool to me. There's one thing i'd really miss though: Manual Transmission
After a decade of owning an xterra with automatic transmission, i bought a used 6 speed miata. shifting gears is just so much fun. yeah, it's more work, but there's something really rewarding about nailing the perfect down shift, powering out of a turn, and shifting back. it doesn't matter that a modern automatic could do it better than me. it doesn't matter that an electric roadster would perform better. There's just something about knowing I did it.
facebook also benefited from the smartphone revolution. myspace was built around laying out a clunky website. Facebook's status update centric design was a natural fit for the tiny screen. it was the right thing at the right time to form this symbiotic relationship. facebook was a must have for your phone, and you wanted a phone that could post your status to facebook.
i think it would be cool if they could squeeze in a low power data connection, like the kindle used for whisper sync. Something that would allow connectivity when it lacks wifi or a phone connection. It would give enough bandwidth to get a text or a small picture, but little else.
oh, and it would be at no additional cost to me. sounds crazy, but amazon did manage to negotiate that with the carriers at one point.
or.. they wouldn't be able to survive here because they like a dry dead planet with almost no oxygen and water. Assuming the universe is engaged in this large scale panspermia, aren't we getting hit by alien microbes constantly? why would the ones we make be so much more dangerous?
That's reasonable. If people say they feel physically ill after eating gluten, who am I to argue? You know more than I do about how you feel. You have my sympathy.
It's the fervor with which some people claim gluten is poisoning humanity that I rail against.
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i've got no opposition to eating bugs. i'm not growing my own though. I'm not growing them in my house. I've done it enough in the past to feed my reptiles. the fact is these guys stink. crickets, mealworms, dubias, they all are dirty and stinky and require a ton of cleaning. No thanks. let me know when i can go to the supermarket and just get what i'm going to cook that day.
i guess part of the problem with hovercraft is they are kind of fragile. the everglades is loaded with stumps hidden among the sawgrass that will tear the hovercraft's skirt open, then pffft your air cushion is leaking out and you are sinking.
shhh. don't post stuff implying it's beneficial to have a 'cubemate'. how many people do you want packed into a cube? If word gets out that two are good, it's just going to go up from there.
good thing i've still got the unlimited data! i KNEW i wasn't just throwing money away!
Kardashev defined a type-III civlilzation as one that used energy on the scale of galactic energy production, but gave no reasoning as to what a civilization would do that requires this much energy.
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There is room for more than 2 or 3 competitors in any part of the car industry. The f-150 and tacoma seem to provide all anyone could possibly want in a truck. However, their existence isn't stopping chevy, dodge, nissan, etc from selling pickup trucks.
This would irk me so much. First i'd be pissed that the company was paying people to decorate the office. taking that money and just boosting the salaries of the engineers tends to make us happier. Second, i'd be insulted that they think i'm so shallow.
Finally, I'd be pissed at myself. Id suffer from cognitive dissonance knowing it was a cheap trick, but feeling giddy excitement with some pretty girl hanging around at my desk.
I love my neti pot! it makes me feel like i just experienced a huge surfing wipeout, but i never had to leave home!
They do a great job getting rid of nasal clogs without putting too much pressure on the inner ear. used appropriately, nasal irrigation is effective source
yeah. i have a hard time imagining myself bored with notch's wealth as well. I think the difference between us (well myself) and notch is we have aspirations and interests in the world beyond work. I work to enable the life i want to live, but i have a hard time really enveloping myself in my work. There's all this stuff i want to do, and most of it involves going out in the world and hanging out with people and doing things. I work enough to afford living in the bay area and not being a bum, but i know if i had that wealth, it would take me a LONG time before i found myself feeling unfulfilled.
I get the impression that Notch liked sitting in his basement and making minecraft. That's not a condemnation. It worked out well for him financially. Right now, i think he feels pressure from society to go out and party and travel, and he honestly never wanted it.
Myself, i'm looking at cutting out of work early today to go surfing. I will reap no financial rewards from it, but i'll feel fulfilled by it.
i'd just like them to be able to identify cat puke. they don't even have to be able to clean it up. just avoid it and maybe send me a tweet that it's there. the current state of technology is more like a cat puke spreading robot.
it's washington, and pot is legal there. we all know it cures everything and is the healthiest activity you can engage in. so. GO FOR IT!
not only that, but facial recognition is just going to keep getting better. in a couple years. it's going to easily identify someone like bruce wayne in his batman costume.
I bet N. Korea will be the first country to permanently offset their phase. It'll be just like what happened to Geordi and Ensign Ro. Only it will be the whole country. Maybe someone will get out and explain how they can pass through walls, but don't fall through the floor.
ha! You just cleared up one of the great mysteries of my life! I remember sitting in paris watching the Eiffel tower begin twinkling at dusk. It was some ungodly late hour and I thought, "Man, how can it still be so light out? Paris must be way farther north than i originally thought."
mystery solved.
The new robot jumps by using a simple, light clasp (almost the entire body of the robot) that snaps shut via a heat-reactant spring after being zapped by an outside pulse of heat.
It sounds like it is controlled by a hair dryer.
There's a lot to like about EVs, If i owned a house and could get a charger, i'd consider a tesla, and if there were an electric jeep wrangler, i'd be all over that thing. massive torque and the ability to roll over indefinitely seems pretty darn cool to me. There's one thing i'd really miss though: Manual Transmission
After a decade of owning an xterra with automatic transmission, i bought a used 6 speed miata. shifting gears is just so much fun. yeah, it's more work, but there's something really rewarding about nailing the perfect down shift, powering out of a turn, and shifting back. it doesn't matter that a modern automatic could do it better than me. it doesn't matter that an electric roadster would perform better. There's just something about knowing I did it.
i guess the point is to take the moral high ground.
facebook also benefited from the smartphone revolution. myspace was built around laying out a clunky website. Facebook's status update centric design was a natural fit for the tiny screen. it was the right thing at the right time to form this symbiotic relationship. facebook was a must have for your phone, and you wanted a phone that could post your status to facebook.
One is to be respectful and polite, the old way.
So, the bums playing shitty music on the sidewalk, begging for handouts is what people should aspire to?
so i'm not the only one who has noticed the parallels between the online world and the streets of san francisco.
it's taken me a long time to be able to solder smt components. how am i supposed to work with a single molecule!?
i think it would be cool if they could squeeze in a low power data connection, like the kindle used for whisper sync. Something that would allow connectivity when it lacks wifi or a phone connection. It would give enough bandwidth to get a text or a small picture, but little else.
oh, and it would be at no additional cost to me. sounds crazy, but amazon did manage to negotiate that with the carriers at one point.
It certainly has uses. The problem for me is the value doesn't match up with the asking price.
no, the other crosby, named after the search engine.
oh yeah, Yahoo Crosby! i love that guy!
or.. they wouldn't be able to survive here because they like a dry dead planet with almost no oxygen and water. Assuming the universe is engaged in this large scale panspermia, aren't we getting hit by alien microbes constantly? why would the ones we make be so much more dangerous?
That's reasonable. If people say they feel physically ill after eating gluten, who am I to argue? You know more than I do about how you feel. You have my sympathy.
It's the fervor with which some people claim gluten is poisoning humanity that I rail against.