It would be interesting to know how long these printed artificial limbs will hold up compared to a conventional prosthetic limb. It would also be interesting to know how much a conventional prosthetic could be made for w/o all of the overhead. I realize that in the US there's a ton of money dumped into testing, trials, FDA approval, lawyers and fear of being sued. But why can't conventional prosthetic limbs be made in countries like this without all of the legal BS? Obviously they can be printed w/o it. I don't know what the average yearly wage is in Sudan, but $100 could be a rather sizable amount of money. Regardless, good for Mr. Ebeling for trying to make a difference.
"gas giant that had the bulk of its atmosphere ripped away by stellar radiation"
I take your extinction-level supervolcano and I raise you an atmosphere-shredding red dwarf formation!
(Who's going to be the main actor for that movie?)
Chuck Norris. He's the only one who can save a planet in that kind of disaster. He'll probably have to slo-mo spinning roundhouse kick that red dwarf's ass into a black hole.or another dimension.
Springsteen is Mr. Mumbles. It's difficult to understand anything he sings.
While that particular lyric is indeed hard to understand (and for the record: "revved up like a deuce another runner in the night"), in general I don't think Springsteen is hard to understand.
If that's what you hear when you listen to the Springsteen version, then it must be very hard for you to hear, as it it is "cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night" (for the record).
But I will also note that the most popular recording of that song (at least in the states) is not Springsteen, but Manfred Mann's Earth Band
In the Manfred Mann version the line was changed to the "revved up like a deuce..." As far as I know, Springsteen never recorded a version with the changed lyrics.
The lyrics are "revved up like a deuce" in the Manfred Mann version. Or "cut loose like a deuce" in the Springsteen version. The term "Deuce" is a shortened version of "Deuce coupe" Which refers to a 1932 Ford coupe, and sometimes used to refer to any two door Ford hot rod. But the term deuce was originally used in reference to the "2" in the 1932 model year. Springsteen once joked that the song wasn't popular until Manfred Mann changed the lyrics to be about a feminine hygiene product.
While most people probably don't do large compiles, the video compression is just for shows I record. In my case, it just happens to happen on a PC, others might use an appliance for that. My filesystem isn't particularly CPU intensive but no filesystem uses zero cycles.
The people not doing any of that probably wouldn't fully utilize the full speed of a single core either, so it's not much of an issue.
I suppose we can assume that there is somehow a way to remain on the "surface" of the atmosphere, since Jupiter obviously has no surface that we could build anything to withstand the pressures of. And overcome the issues with the 400 mph upper atmospheric wind speed. For the purpose of weight savings, we can also assume that the fryer will not be made of stainless steel like a normal fryer would be. This is also a good thing as the magnetic field at this distance is estimated to be at around 1 Tesla. It's probably still going to cause all kinds of issues.
But the real kicker is the radiation. A person who is exposed to 30 Sv or more in a short period of time will be dead in 24 to 48 hours. Io averages a little over 400Km distance from Jupiter. At that distance you would receive 36 Sv in a single 24 hour period. So the radiation and magnetic field are probably going to play hell with any kind of electronics, or electric heating element. And good luck using gas as an electrical arc will probably cause an oxygen tank to explode. But let's say we somehow find a way to work around all those problems. Just how do we keep the fries from getting cold and mushy in the time it takes to get them to us at our survivable distance from Jupiter? I can barely get fries home from McDonald's w/o my wife telling me I took too long and that the fries are disgusting.
There are no UFOs / alien abductions / meteors in the civilized places of New York City, or Los Angelas.
And that's because the last time they tried to land in both New York and Los Angeles they were found in an alley naked and beaten with a garden hose up their ass and their spacecraft stripped on cinder blocks. So much for "civilized places"....
These are NYC and LA police we are talking about. They're already pissed off that some dumb-ass is driving around on the streets w/o a tag or proper lighting. On top of that, they have flames shooting out of the back of the ship/car, and have a couple thousand dollars in illegal ground effects lighting blinding the hell out of other motorists. Then when they ask for a drivers license and registration these bastards not only don't provide either, they respond with some sort of clicking and beeping sounds. I don't know the specific LAPD or NYPD guidelines about finding kidnapped humans in the trunk either, but I'd say they got off with a warning.
IT was an UFO we shot down but we are calling it some kind of weather equipment
Let's not jump to conclusions, yet. We must correlate this with reports of missing persons, anal probings, and the number of cows that have been turned inside-out in the area.
How would a "pure Android desktop" work? Last time I checked, Applications for Android, for example, were allowed to assume that the screen size never changes after installation. This led to a window management policy of all maximized all the time, which isn't always the best choice for a 21-24" desktop monitor.
I agree. However Microsoft doesn't exactly seem to be making the best choices for a desktop interface on a 21-24" monitor these days either. What they've done with Win 8.1 under the hood is great. But then they made that bastard child of a hybrid desktop/phone interface.
No kidding. I feel like I've just been visited by the Ghost of GeoCities Past.
Well he is using X10 modules. Actually I think you have the time period about right. I remember seeing this site back sometime in the mid to late 90' for the first time.
I'm from Germany. Our truck drivers aren't even considered particularly insane in global comparison, I suppose. Yet you often see them tailgating, minute-long overtaking because the difference in velocity is just so small, going leftmost lane, and so on. Basically the only thing a truck can/not/ do anymore is speeding, since they are all required to have speed limiters.
Perhaps the speed limiters have something to do with this?
While I have seen truck drivers do some questionable things on occasion, most wrecks I've seen involved some idiotic driver in a car.
That's most likely because cars outnumber trucks by far
Sorry, I should have been more specific. When I see an accident involving a truck it was usually the driver of the car that was the cause. Not that I'm saying this is always the case. I have a friend who was almost killed by a truck driver who ran a red light. There are also many roads in the US where the truck traffic is equal to, or even more than the car traffic.
Well your place might differ (though unlikely) but over here every other track is tailgating either a slow car or another truck.
I don't see trucks tailgating cars very often. But I see them tailgating each other on occasion.
the best we can say is "yeah, we don't like it either".
Unfortunately, when our politicians act like douchebags, it reflects on us all. And, sadly, I suspect in many countries where this is occurring those of us who disagree with it are vastly outnumbered by the ones who think that it's OK..
I don't think so. I have a feeling that those who don't like it do out number those who find such behavior appalling. The problem is, is that it doesn't seem there is any way to fix it within the framework any longer. The politicians/lawyers have warped and twisted the system to the point that it no longer serves "we the people" but the politicians themselves. I'm sure it probably always did to a point, but it's almost palpable now. Sadly we don't even have a good option for who to vote for any longer. Our last two presidents were voted into office on good wishes and little else. Bush was going to be reach across the aisle and work with both parties and focus on internal matters and avoid "nation building" and deficit reduction... Our current president was going to close Gitmo, cure global warming and give us unicorns and rainbows. My father has gotten to the point that he simply votes against whomever the incumbent is. If the incumbent is running unchallenged, he uses the write in.
I hope I'm wrong, but I fear we have crossed the line where things can be fixed in a peaceable manner. I don't think we've come to the point where it will take an all out revolt to fix things. But I do fear there may come a time where riots will start occurring. Or even worse, the American people have become so complacent and distracted, that all of the diversions will keep us placated indefinitely. Then we are truly lost.
But I know how boring a long drive can be. Can you imagine if that's all you did all day long, everyday?
Yeah it might be as boring as being a patent examiner. Good thing boring jobs like that don't gve PhD's time to spend on thought experiments...
Yes, and if a patent examiner falls asleep at their desk they could what? Poke their eye out with a pen? They aren't moving 40 tons at highway speeds are they? And yes, I got the Einstein reference.
Your average truck driver might have literally no idea about the invovled physics, and this is very often reflected in idiotic and dangerous truck driver behaviour.
I don't know where you are from, but judging by the spelling you use for "behaviour" it's not the US, so I can't speak for your particular location. While I have seen truck drivers do some questionable things on occasion, most wrecks I've seen involved some idiotic driver in a car. People in cars seem to thing they can weave in and out of truck traffic and that the truck behind them can stop just as fast as they can. Obviously it doesn't work that way.
I'm not a truck driver, but I'm sure most have a good enough grasp on the importance of the physics, even if they don't understand the mathematics and physical properties behind it. I've hauled trailers with SUV sized vehicles and it is very evident that you can't stop on a dime, or take a turn the same way a Porsche can. That's why most truckers quickly back off from cars that weave in front of them. Granted some get pissed and don't. But I'm sure they know better. I can imagine it would become rather frustrating after a while. Not that I'm justifying it.
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"Pay per shot".
We already have that. They're called Casinos.
Or prostitutes.
It would be interesting to know how long these printed artificial limbs will hold up compared to a conventional prosthetic limb. It would also be interesting to know how much a conventional prosthetic could be made for w/o all of the overhead. I realize that in the US there's a ton of money dumped into testing, trials, FDA approval, lawyers and fear of being sued. But why can't conventional prosthetic limbs be made in countries like this without all of the legal BS? Obviously they can be printed w/o it. I don't know what the average yearly wage is in Sudan, but $100 could be a rather sizable amount of money. Regardless, good for Mr. Ebeling for trying to make a difference.
"gas giant that had the bulk of its atmosphere ripped away by stellar radiation"
I take your extinction-level supervolcano and I raise you an atmosphere-shredding red dwarf formation! (Who's going to be the main actor for that movie?)
Chuck Norris. He's the only one who can save a planet in that kind of disaster. He'll probably have to slo-mo spinning roundhouse kick that red dwarf's ass into a black hole.or another dimension.
Springsteen is Mr. Mumbles. It's difficult to understand anything he sings.
While that particular lyric is indeed hard to understand (and for the record: "revved up like a deuce another runner in the night"), in general I don't think Springsteen is hard to understand.
If that's what you hear when you listen to the Springsteen version, then it must be very hard for you to hear, as it it is "cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night" (for the record).
But I will also note that the most popular recording of that song (at least in the states) is not Springsteen, but Manfred Mann's Earth Band
In the Manfred Mann version the line was changed to the "revved up like a deuce..." As far as I know, Springsteen never recorded a version with the changed lyrics.
I'm saving up for this puppy.
Liberace? Is that you?
WRAPPED UP LIKE A DOUCHE!!
The lyrics are "revved up like a deuce" in the Manfred Mann version. Or "cut loose like a deuce" in the Springsteen version. The term "Deuce" is a shortened version of "Deuce coupe" Which refers to a 1932 Ford coupe, and sometimes used to refer to any two door Ford hot rod. But the term deuce was originally used in reference to the "2" in the 1932 model year. Springsteen once joked that the song wasn't popular until Manfred Mann changed the lyrics to be about a feminine hygiene product.
Skynet? More like attack of the nerds.
Contact lenses AND glasses? No thanks. I've worn both but never at the same time and I have no intention of entering double hell.
They'll go great with the suspenders and a belt.
While most people probably don't do large compiles, the video compression is just for shows I record. In my case, it just happens to happen on a PC, others might use an appliance for that. My filesystem isn't particularly CPU intensive but no filesystem uses zero cycles.
The people not doing any of that probably wouldn't fully utilize the full speed of a single core either, so it's not much of an issue.
You seem to be forgetting gamers.
Because you can never have too many cores that you aren't using most of the time.
Sure you can, and 640 is obviously the threshold. Nobody would ever need more than that.
# I-I'm only a dolphin, ma'am.
...If you made them on Jupiter?
I suppose we can assume that there is somehow a way to remain on the "surface" of the atmosphere, since Jupiter obviously has no surface that we could build anything to withstand the pressures of. And overcome the issues with the 400 mph upper atmospheric wind speed. For the purpose of weight savings, we can also assume that the fryer will not be made of stainless steel like a normal fryer would be. This is also a good thing as the magnetic field at this distance is estimated to be at around 1 Tesla. It's probably still going to cause all kinds of issues.
But the real kicker is the radiation. A person who is exposed to 30 Sv or more in a short period of time will be dead in 24 to 48 hours. Io averages a little over 400Km distance from Jupiter. At that distance you would receive 36 Sv in a single 24 hour period. So the radiation and magnetic field are probably going to play hell with any kind of electronics, or electric heating element. And good luck using gas as an electrical arc will probably cause an oxygen tank to explode. But let's say we somehow find a way to work around all those problems. Just how do we keep the fries from getting cold and mushy in the time it takes to get them to us at our survivable distance from Jupiter? I can barely get fries home from McDonald's w/o my wife telling me I took too long and that the fries are disgusting.
Whirling hot oil around at high speed, in a kitchen. What could go wrong?
Can't wait to see how someone's frozen turkey will turn out in one of these next Thanksgiving. It'll be like an angry birds reality show.
My bank still uses os/2 on their ATMs.
Do they also wear "Team OS/2" t-shirts?
They should called a biologist as its obviously a flying turtle.
Couldn't be. Gamera gives off more of a pinkish hue than green.
And that's because the last time they tried to land in both New York and Los Angeles they were found in an alley naked and beaten with a garden hose up their ass and their spacecraft stripped on cinder blocks. So much for "civilized places"....
These are NYC and LA police we are talking about. They're already pissed off that some dumb-ass is driving around on the streets w/o a tag or proper lighting. On top of that, they have flames shooting out of the back of the ship/car, and have a couple thousand dollars in illegal ground effects lighting blinding the hell out of other motorists. Then when they ask for a drivers license and registration these bastards not only don't provide either, they respond with some sort of clicking and beeping sounds. I don't know the specific LAPD or NYPD guidelines about finding kidnapped humans in the trunk either, but I'd say they got off with a warning.
IT was an UFO we shot down but we are calling it some kind of weather equipment
Let's not jump to conclusions, yet. We must correlate this with reports of missing persons, anal probings, and the number of cows that have been turned inside-out in the area.
How would a "pure Android desktop" work? Last time I checked, Applications for Android, for example, were allowed to assume that the screen size never changes after installation. This led to a window management policy of all maximized all the time, which isn't always the best choice for a 21-24" desktop monitor.
I agree. However Microsoft doesn't exactly seem to be making the best choices for a desktop interface on a 21-24" monitor these days either. What they've done with Win 8.1 under the hood is great. But then they made that bastard child of a hybrid desktop/phone interface.
Next up wee have Sky Net.
Slow down there AC. We need to get WOPR first.
April 1?
Win 7 is still available.
No kidding. I feel like I've just been visited by the Ghost of GeoCities Past.
Well he is using X10 modules. Actually I think you have the time period about right. I remember seeing this site back sometime in the mid to late 90' for the first time.
(Which, coincidentally, is what would happen if the red/blue states and red/blue Representatives actually started working together
The last time that happened we started bombing Iraq over WMDs and passed the patriot act.
I'm from Germany. Our truck drivers aren't even considered particularly insane in global comparison, I suppose. Yet you often see them tailgating, minute-long overtaking because the difference in velocity is just so small, going leftmost lane, and so on. Basically the only thing a truck can /not/ do anymore is speeding, since they are all required to have speed limiters.
Perhaps the speed limiters have something to do with this?
While I have seen truck drivers do some questionable things on occasion, most wrecks I've seen involved some idiotic driver in a car.
That's most likely because cars outnumber trucks by far
Sorry, I should have been more specific. When I see an accident involving a truck it was usually the driver of the car that was the cause. Not that I'm saying this is always the case. I have a friend who was almost killed by a truck driver who ran a red light. There are also many roads in the US where the truck traffic is equal to, or even more than the car traffic.
Well your place might differ (though unlikely) but over here every other track is tailgating either a slow car or another truck.
I don't see trucks tailgating cars very often. But I see them tailgating each other on occasion.
the best we can say is "yeah, we don't like it either".
Unfortunately, when our politicians act like douchebags, it reflects on us all. And, sadly, I suspect in many countries where this is occurring those of us who disagree with it are vastly outnumbered by the ones who think that it's OK..
I don't think so. I have a feeling that those who don't like it do out number those who find such behavior appalling. The problem is, is that it doesn't seem there is any way to fix it within the framework any longer. The politicians/lawyers have warped and twisted the system to the point that it no longer serves "we the people" but the politicians themselves. I'm sure it probably always did to a point, but it's almost palpable now. Sadly we don't even have a good option for who to vote for any longer. Our last two presidents were voted into office on good wishes and little else. Bush was going to be reach across the aisle and work with both parties and focus on internal matters and avoid "nation building" and deficit reduction... Our current president was going to close Gitmo, cure global warming and give us unicorns and rainbows. My father has gotten to the point that he simply votes against whomever the incumbent is. If the incumbent is running unchallenged, he uses the write in.
I hope I'm wrong, but I fear we have crossed the line where things can be fixed in a peaceable manner. I don't think we've come to the point where it will take an all out revolt to fix things. But I do fear there may come a time where riots will start occurring. Or even worse, the American people have become so complacent and distracted, that all of the diversions will keep us placated indefinitely. Then we are truly lost.
But I know how boring a long drive can be. Can you imagine if that's all you did all day long, everyday?
Yeah it might be as boring as being a patent examiner. Good thing boring jobs like that don't gve PhD's time to spend on thought experiments...
Yes, and if a patent examiner falls asleep at their desk they could what? Poke their eye out with a pen? They aren't moving 40 tons at highway speeds are they? And yes, I got the Einstein reference.
Your average truck driver might have literally no idea about the invovled physics, and this is very often reflected in idiotic and dangerous truck driver behaviour.
I don't know where you are from, but judging by the spelling you use for "behaviour" it's not the US, so I can't speak for your particular location. While I have seen truck drivers do some questionable things on occasion, most wrecks I've seen involved some idiotic driver in a car. People in cars seem to thing they can weave in and out of truck traffic and that the truck behind them can stop just as fast as they can. Obviously it doesn't work that way.
I'm not a truck driver, but I'm sure most have a good enough grasp on the importance of the physics, even if they don't understand the mathematics and physical properties behind it. I've hauled trailers with SUV sized vehicles and it is very evident that you can't stop on a dime, or take a turn the same way a Porsche can. That's why most truckers quickly back off from cars that weave in front of them. Granted some get pissed and don't. But I'm sure they know better. I can imagine it would become rather frustrating after a while. Not that I'm justifying it.