And there's no way she's going to pass on his crazy-ass theory to destroy the asteroid to the president! Besides, he been living in their old geodesic dome cabin in the Ozarks without a cell phone, so we'd have to send a helicopter out to get him. They dragged him into the Situation Room reeking of booze and reefer - "Sure, you'll listen to me now, now that it's too late.."
Say, with tolerances off just enough so that it looks good on paper and when it's built, but when you actually try to fly the thing...and the Chinese spend the next five years working out the bugs.
We measure distance in miles, but fiber optic cable diameter in millimeters. We weigh deli products in pounds, but medicine in milligrams. We buy gasoline by the gallon, but soda comes in liter-size bottles. We parcel property in acres, but remote sensing satellites map the Earth in square meters.
While many countries mandate the use of the metric system by law, the U.S. Congress has repeatedly passed laws that encourage voluntary adoption of the metric system. We use a mixture of metric and customary units depending on the context. We also have a long tradition of voluntary standards and our bilingual system of measurement is part of that tradition.
I may be prejudiced by my upbringing, but I always broke it down to metric being the most scientific measurement system, while imperial is the most human, very much in the Spock vs Kirk kind of way.
Fahrenheit? 0 = friggin' cold, 100 = friggin' hot. How long is a foot? Approximately the size of your foot. You walked a kilometer? Big whoop. You walked a mile? That's a workout. A gallon of milk will last you the week, a gallon of gas will get you home. Putting up a wall? We're gonna need some 2x4s and 4x8s Even the concept of converting grandma's recipe for chocolate cake to metric give me hives.
Now fixing my car? Measuring out the baby's medicine? Sending a probe to Mars? Hells yes, use metric, are you kidding? But for day to day stuff, mine's a pint.
- I looked in that mailbox just now. There wasn't anything there.
- I know how you feel.
- Do you?
- It's only human you'd want to come to the defense of your fellow countryman. Vargas, don't worry. Go right ahead and say anything you want to. Folks'll bear your natural prejudice in mind.
- I saw that mailbox ten minutes ago, Captain. The mailbox was empty.
- Yeah, maybe you didn't notice.
- I opened it on my own tablet. I couldn't very well have failed to notice two thousand pirated MP3s.
- Tell any story you want to, Vargas. Go on sayin' it was empty. Folks'll understand.
- I'm sayin' more than that, Captain. You framed that boy. Framed him!
Make a $99 one aimed at kids. Doesn't produce anything really useful, but yes, you can print all kinds of cool-looking shit. It'd help if the plastic can be melted down and reused over and over like Play-Doh. An open API, plus mechanical hackability should be implicit in its design, if not necessarily condoned ('warranty void if broken' and so on.) Something like that would get the ball rolling.
And HELL NO! about selling them on the inkjet pricing model. Everyone hates inkjets for that very reason. We all know it's a scam, but we need to print stuff on paper once in awhile, so what ya gonna do? Your Average Joe doesn't need 3D printing, at least not yet. We want people to love 3D printers like they love their smartphones.
Thirty years from now, someone's going to take their Xbox out of the attic and say, "This is what daddy used to play games on!", hook it up to their 4 meter wide screen, somehow patch it to their Internet3 connection, only to realize MS went under twenty years earlier and the games are no longer playable.
~ Don't be sad Daddy! We could still play them in emulation!
~ Ah, it's not the same. Besides, no one bothered to make an emulator for this box. The games pretty much sucked.
These guys have been planning this since last year? What's to plan? What more would it take than a couple of guys with picks and sledgehammers to kink up the track? Perhaps a train buff out there could weigh in on this.
If an when there is a flying car, you can expect multi-tier licensing, say, starting with one tier that lets you tell your car where you want to go, and the car's autopilot takes you there, up to fully autonomous piloting, which would be hard to get and even harder to keep. "Throw trash out the car window? That's a groundin'. Flyin' in and out of flight corridors? That's a groundin'. Fly your car straight into the ground? Oh, you better believe that's a groundin'."
Creating a fusion reaction to create a very-hot-indeed metal plasma and spit the lot into outer space is one thing.
Creating a fusion reaction and containing the very-hot-indeed reaction inside a box, so you can draw off the heat to run a turbine, as multiple generations of despondent physicists will tell you, that's something else.
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And there's no way she's going to pass on his crazy-ass theory to destroy the asteroid to the president! Besides, he been living in their old geodesic dome cabin in the Ozarks without a cell phone, so we'd have to send a helicopter out to get him. They dragged him into the Situation Room reeking of booze and reefer - "Sure, you'll listen to me now, now that it's too late.."
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Say, with tolerances off just enough so that it looks good on paper and when it's built, but when you actually try to fly the thing...and the Chinese spend the next five years working out the bugs.
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We measure distance in miles, but fiber optic cable diameter in millimeters. We weigh deli products in pounds, but medicine in milligrams. We buy gasoline by the gallon, but soda comes in liter-size bottles. We parcel property in acres, but remote sensing satellites map the Earth in square meters.
While many countries mandate the use of the metric system by law, the U.S. Congress has repeatedly passed laws that encourage voluntary adoption of the metric system. We use a mixture of metric and customary units depending on the context. We also have a long tradition of voluntary standards and our bilingual system of measurement is part of that tradition.
I may be prejudiced by my upbringing, but I always broke it down to metric being the most scientific measurement system, while imperial is the most human, very much in the Spock vs Kirk kind of way.
Fahrenheit? 0 = friggin' cold, 100 = friggin' hot.
How long is a foot? Approximately the size of your foot.
You walked a kilometer? Big whoop. You walked a mile? That's a workout.
A gallon of milk will last you the week, a gallon of gas will get you home.
Putting up a wall? We're gonna need some 2x4s and 4x8s
Even the concept of converting grandma's recipe for chocolate cake to metric give me hives.
Now fixing my car? Measuring out the baby's medicine? Sending a probe to Mars? Hells yes, use metric, are you kidding? But for day to day stuff, mine's a pint.
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Einstein worked at the patent office. Just sayin'.
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- I looked in that mailbox just now. There wasn't anything there.
- I know how you feel.
- Do you?
- It's only human you'd want to come to the defense of your fellow countryman. Vargas, don't worry. Go right ahead and say anything you want to. Folks'll bear your natural prejudice in mind.
- I saw that mailbox ten minutes ago, Captain. The mailbox was empty.
- Yeah, maybe you didn't notice.
- I opened it on my own tablet. I couldn't very well have failed to notice two thousand pirated MP3s.
- Tell any story you want to, Vargas. Go on sayin' it was empty. Folks'll understand.
- I'm sayin' more than that, Captain. You framed that boy. Framed him!
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Quick! Put it on YouTube so everyone ... can... see... it.
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Q: So, girly, you like roller skatin'?
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| --> A: Yes --> Yeah, everybody loves roller skatin'..
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| --> A: No --> Yeah, everybody loves roller skatin'...
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Aaaannd I spot a mismatched tag. I don't deserve any mod points, I tells ya!
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<M2M>
<vehicle>
<ssid>rubber_duck</ssid>
<haul>timber</price>
<destination>Tulsa Town</destination>
<kph>160</kph>
<mode>convoy</mode>
<memo>we got a great big convoy</memo>
</vehicle>
<vehicle>
<ssid>big_ben</ssid>
<haul>hogs</price>
<destination>Tulsa Town</destination>
<kph>160</kph>
<mode>convoy</mode>
<memo>ain\'t she a beautiful sight?</memo>
</vehicle>
</M2M>
IIRC the other issue was the licensing of audio books, which text-to-speech readers would somewhat compete with.
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...installing Kindle for Android....
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Make a $99 one aimed at kids. Doesn't produce anything really useful, but yes, you can print all kinds of cool-looking shit. It'd help if the plastic can be melted down and reused over and over like Play-Doh. An open API, plus mechanical hackability should be implicit in its design, if not necessarily condoned ('warranty void if broken' and so on.) Something like that would get the ball rolling.
And HELL NO! about selling them on the inkjet pricing model. Everyone hates inkjets for that very reason. We all know it's a scam, but we need to print stuff on paper once in awhile, so what ya gonna do? Your Average Joe doesn't need 3D printing, at least not yet. We want people to love 3D printers like they love their smartphones.
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Thirty years from now, someone's going to take their Xbox out of the attic and say, "This is what daddy used to play games on!", hook it up to their 4 meter wide screen, somehow patch it to their Internet3 connection, only to realize MS went under twenty years earlier and the games are no longer playable.
~ Don't be sad Daddy! We could still play them in emulation!
~ Ah, it's not the same. Besides, no one bothered to make an emulator for this box. The games pretty much sucked.
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Been on my yearly Forbidden Prefixes lists since 2004 and STILL GOING STRONG!
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These guys have been planning this since last year? What's to plan? What more would it take than a couple of guys with picks and sledgehammers to kink up the track? Perhaps a train buff out there could weigh in on this.
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If an when there is a flying car, you can expect multi-tier licensing, say, starting with one tier that lets you tell your car where you want to go, and the car's autopilot takes you there, up to fully autonomous piloting, which would be hard to get and even harder to keep. "Throw trash out the car window? That's a groundin'. Flyin' in and out of flight corridors? That's a groundin'. Fly your car straight into the ground? Oh, you better believe that's a groundin'."
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...and all of this will happen again.
They use 1s and 0s where everyone else uses 0s and 1s.
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Isn't that kinda, y'know, a useful ability? I'm picturing steel compost bins full of snails and old deli containers.
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Da, may I have 10,000 PS4s please?
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For everyone that bombed out of getting their EE degree and switched to CS, can I get a WHOOOP WHOOOP!!
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So nearly complete. So nearly perfect! If you only have a Linux brain....
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"Joke" - what you don't get.~
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....this so-called "astronaut" wouldn't "fall" "into" a so-called "black hole" and "die".
Oh, forget it, you couldn't possibly understand the answer even if I deigned to explaining it to you.
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Creating a fusion reaction to create a very-hot-indeed metal plasma and spit the lot into outer space is one thing.
Creating a fusion reaction and containing the very-hot-indeed reaction inside a box, so you can draw off the heat to run a turbine, as multiple generations of despondent physicists will tell you, that's something else.
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