Even 'addicts' are rational consumers, they just have a warped set of values. As in, if I get burned by Frank the Dealer, I'm going to look for a new place to buy smack because I must have it, and throwing money at Frank isn't accomplishing that goal.
That could be true, if for no other reason than the fact that the material will be proprietary. My lab uses an Objet Connex 500 (with a voxel size of.04mmx.04x.02), but 3.5 kg of basically any material runs over $1000. This is in no small part because we must buy cartridges directly from the distributor (think of somebody with one of those "free" Dell printers with $50 ink, except there's no other competition).
You can't beat Lego Technics in terms of structural toys. They have, in my opinion, the very best 'complexity of what I can build/how hard they are to use' ratio there is, which seems like exactly what your kids want. My roommate just used them for his final project in a grad-level dynamics course to build one of these (not full-size, of course): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=par9zbTSN58
Not to mention the fact that the drugs would be much more trustworthy; nobody would risk cutting their product with something harmful if there were a legal paper trail back to their business. The other danger of cutting, even with a harmless substance, is that it's impossible to know the true concentration of the drug when you buy it. This is exceptionally significant when talking about drugs with low dose and high potency, like LSD. If the system were regulated with laws allowing the consumer to inquire exactly what's in the substances they buy, the system would be worlds safer.
Hey, I'm currently attending Harvey Mudd, and it seems to me like from just my experience here, 'math people' aren't destined to be number crunchers. Especially here, where augmenting engineering with liberal arts is intrinsic to the curriculum, I've been exposed different examples of science applied in fun and cool ways. For example:
We had a chem major who went on to run a winery.
cs majors who works on Hollywood special effects.
Two physics majors who are now astronauts.
One of the people I know is going to try and use his chem degree to restore old artwork. Another, an astrophysicist, is trying to spend a year abroad after he graduates in order to write a book about how different cultures perceive our universe.
Last year, we had a research team of engineers design surfboards for 9Fish (extensive testing sessions required *wink*).
The way I see it, most things that are 'fun' and 'cool' aren't pure math and science, but are never void of them either. The extent to which your daughter can apply a degree in technical fields, especially if she's *that* good at it, is limited only by her creativity.
I believe cancer may be the only 'natural' way to die. If we are lucky and healthy and live to be very old, the amount of times our cells divide goes up accordingly. Every time they do divide, there is a small chance for mutation, and a small chance of that mutation to be deleterious to our health. Apparently, genetics and lifestyle effect how often and to what extent these mutations occur. This is why I don't think cancer will ever be 'cured'; it's a disease we can only delay.
Seriously, one of the only reasons I bought my Eee is because it had solid state. Ultraportables need the smaller energy usage, as well as the increased durability. Throwing a faster cpu at this thing isn't going to matter because the next gen Eees are just getting the same thing.
This thing is ideal for students, or anyone else going away from home for a long period of time. I live in Connecticut and next year will be going to college in California. Instead of shelling out $1500 for a comparable laptop, I can get one of these instead and keep using my elderly notebook. It goes on the plane, it fits in a small dorm room, it has a pretty big hard drive. A winner in my book.
But where it does decrease the price of fuel, it increases the price of corn, the US's primary food export. This means higher prices for food worldwide, which could potentially result in famine or at least a drop in welfare. There isn't even enough farmland to create an ethanol-based economy; according to a Technology review article, if all the corn produced in the entire country was used for ethanol, it would only account for 12% of our energy needs. Put that research somewhere else.
It doesn't help that the only Advanced Placement computer science courses in high school are based on Java. If it's really a problem, it should be addressed here first.
Never really did see why they moved away fro C++.
I love how nobody mentioned the third rail *at all* when they were in the subways. I guess it could have been shut down because of the outages, but even then, they were pretty intermittent. A simple "Stick to the right because of the rail" would have sufficed, or a "Apparently, the electricity has stopped flowing".
Seemed kind of silly to be scared of flaming bums when there is enough volts to fry you ten times over two feet away.
There's plenty of good music around; stop being holier-than-though "I listen to what my parents did so I'm better than you" jerks. It just doesn't get popularized as much because the majority of the population likes bad music. I really doubt much has changed in regard to the quality of music in a few years, either. I think the problem here is that the CD companies aren't lowering their prices enough to compete with new technology. CDs won't become extinct by a long shot, just like radios didn't become extinct when the TV was invented.
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Even 'addicts' are rational consumers, they just have a warped set of values. As in, if I get burned by Frank the Dealer, I'm going to look for a new place to buy smack because I must have it, and throwing money at Frank isn't accomplishing that goal.
That could be true, if for no other reason than the fact that the material will be proprietary. My lab uses an Objet Connex 500 (with a voxel size of .04mmx.04x.02), but 3.5 kg of basically any material runs over $1000. This is in no small part because we must buy cartridges directly from the distributor (think of somebody with one of those "free" Dell printers with $50 ink, except there's no other competition).
You can't beat Lego Technics in terms of structural toys. They have, in my opinion, the very best 'complexity of what I can build/how hard they are to use' ratio there is, which seems like exactly what your kids want. My roommate just used them for his final project in a grad-level dynamics course to build one of these (not full-size, of course): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=par9zbTSN58
Not to mention the fact that the drugs would be much more trustworthy; nobody would risk cutting their product with something harmful if there were a legal paper trail back to their business. The other danger of cutting, even with a harmless substance, is that it's impossible to know the true concentration of the drug when you buy it. This is exceptionally significant when talking about drugs with low dose and high potency, like LSD. If the system were regulated with laws allowing the consumer to inquire exactly what's in the substances they buy, the system would be worlds safer.
Hey, I'm currently attending Harvey Mudd, and it seems to me like from just my experience here, 'math people' aren't destined to be number crunchers. Especially here, where augmenting engineering with liberal arts is intrinsic to the curriculum, I've been exposed different examples of science applied in fun and cool ways. For example: We had a chem major who went on to run a winery. cs majors who works on Hollywood special effects. Two physics majors who are now astronauts. One of the people I know is going to try and use his chem degree to restore old artwork. Another, an astrophysicist, is trying to spend a year abroad after he graduates in order to write a book about how different cultures perceive our universe. Last year, we had a research team of engineers design surfboards for 9Fish (extensive testing sessions required *wink*). The way I see it, most things that are 'fun' and 'cool' aren't pure math and science, but are never void of them either. The extent to which your daughter can apply a degree in technical fields, especially if she's *that* good at it, is limited only by her creativity.
I believe cancer may be the only 'natural' way to die. If we are lucky and healthy and live to be very old, the amount of times our cells divide goes up accordingly. Every time they do divide, there is a small chance for mutation, and a small chance of that mutation to be deleterious to our health. Apparently, genetics and lifestyle effect how often and to what extent these mutations occur. This is why I don't think cancer will ever be 'cured'; it's a disease we can only delay.
Where would Disney be without the Brothers Grimm? Don't you mean Shakespeare?
Seriously, one of the only reasons I bought my Eee is because it had solid state. Ultraportables need the smaller energy usage, as well as the increased durability. Throwing a faster cpu at this thing isn't going to matter because the next gen Eees are just getting the same thing.
This thing is ideal for students, or anyone else going away from home for a long period of time. I live in Connecticut and next year will be going to college in California. Instead of shelling out $1500 for a comparable laptop, I can get one of these instead and keep using my elderly notebook. It goes on the plane, it fits in a small dorm room, it has a pretty big hard drive. A winner in my book.
But where it does decrease the price of fuel, it increases the price of corn, the US's primary food export. This means higher prices for food worldwide, which could potentially result in famine or at least a drop in welfare. There isn't even enough farmland to create an ethanol-based economy; according to a Technology review article, if all the corn produced in the entire country was used for ethanol, it would only account for 12% of our energy needs. Put that research somewhere else.
It doesn't help that the only Advanced Placement computer science courses in high school are based on Java. If it's really a problem, it should be addressed here first. Never really did see why they moved away fro C++.
I love how nobody mentioned the third rail *at all* when they were in the subways. I guess it could have been shut down because of the outages, but even then, they were pretty intermittent. A simple "Stick to the right because of the rail" would have sufficed, or a "Apparently, the electricity has stopped flowing". Seemed kind of silly to be scared of flaming bums when there is enough volts to fry you ten times over two feet away.
That's exactly how I felt; everything after seemed tacked on.
There's plenty of good music around; stop being holier-than-though "I listen to what my parents did so I'm better than you" jerks. It just doesn't get popularized as much because the majority of the population likes bad music. I really doubt much has changed in regard to the quality of music in a few years, either. I think the problem here is that the CD companies aren't lowering their prices enough to compete with new technology. CDs won't become extinct by a long shot, just like radios didn't become extinct when the TV was invented.
It's now not possible to log out of chat or switch to "busy" icon without changing to the older version- the whole toolbar usually gotten after clicking on my name is gone in 2.0.