From TFA:
"...his reign lasted just 26 months and ended with his death on the battlefield at Bosworth in 1485. He was given a low-key burial in the church of Greyfriars in the center of Leicester, but the location of his grave was lost when the building was demolished in the 16th century.
A team of historians, though, were determined to find the body. Archaeologists used ground-penetrating radar on the site of the former priory, and were able to locate the skeleton beneath a parking lot after only a few days of digging."
sitting in my basement; not the pretty white ones, but the brown ones they send you when you need to send your poorly-produced, unreliable, overpriced, first-generation Macbook Pro back for AppleCare service. I got tired of sending it in, so I had a few extra boxes.
Seems kinda limiting. When I look at these machines I see the potential to make all sorts of stuff that normally I would have to contract out to a machine shop (which for 1 or 2 of an item is not very cost effective)... but if the thing is going to start breaking down after a few months or years that kinda limits applications.
The two standard printing materials for the RepRap family of printers (and their descendants, like the MakerBot) are the biodegradable PLA, and standard petroleum-based ABS.
PLA will degrade over time, but only under certain environmental conditions; it's unlikely to fall apart in normal use (most industrial thermophilic composting processes run at pretty high temperatures (60C and up). I guess you probably shouldn't use it to print an industrial composter.
ABS is ABS, and whatever you make with it will be around forever, so print your PLA composter with this instead.
The language in the book is an essential part of the storytelling. I generally don't like that sort of thing either; however, Hoban used it very intentionally as a pacing device, as well as to reveal things to the reader that the limited narrator didn't understand. It's very effective, although it does take some getting used to.
Also, the late, great Russell Hoban's post-apocalyptic masterpiece, Riddley Walker. And if you want non-fiction, I really enjoyed In the Shadow Of the Moon, part of Francis French and Colin Burgess's People's History of Spaceflight series.
And then there is always SkyMall.
The motivation behind this is not to protect oblivious smartphone users, but for people with visual impairments who have traditionally relied on engine noise to identify approaching vehicles at low speed. The smartphone users will still be in danger, because they're invariably wearing headphones too.
Actually, you can set the visibility of those items in your profile. When you click to edit the text field, there is a little pull-down menu where you can choose who gets to see what.
We gave up cable several years ago and got rid of the TV too. Since then, we've purchased a 32" HDTV and built a small ATOM/ION-based HTPC that sits right behind it. Netflix and Hulu work quite well, as do most of the network streaming sites. We can access these through Boxee, which is an almost-great piece of software with a couple of major issues (especially on low-power systems like mine). Flash 10.2 is not supported in Boxee for Win/Mac/Linux at the moment, and development seems to be somewhat stalled out in favor of the Boxee Box hardware - a bummer, as the Boxee interface is really easy to navigate. I'm hoping for an update in the near future, otherwise I'll be looking for new frontend software.
The only thing I really miss is sports. I'd gladly pay MLB for the ability to stream local baseball, but I'm in my team's "blackout zone" and can't get access. I WANT to give them money to watch baseball, and they won't take it.
I'm a regular ebook borrower from the Boston Public Library(OverDrive), and I love it. I bought my Nook to take with me on my very frequent work travel, and the ability to borrow books from wherever I am (often a long way from a library or bookstore) is really great; if I place a hold on an unavailable book, the library emails me when it's my turn, and I can "check it out" immediately. In fact, I bought the nook specifically because it allows for easy side-loading of library (and other) books. Overall, I'm very happy with it - and by the way, you can use a swipe gesture on the LCD display to turn pages while reading, although I prefer the side buttons.
I don't care much for the iPhone, but I've always admired the Functionalist qualities of Braun's product lines, and their (at least historically) good production quality. I'm not sure that this prototype phone follows his famous ten principles, but Dieter Rams is a clear influence on Jonathan Ive; I wish Ive and others would follow his lead a little more closely and maybe let form follow function for a change. for example,
A label for every button!
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from most of the tweets I've seen, 140 characters is plenty of room for bullshit.
I just picked up 2 panasonic t2s from a dude at the MIT swap on sunday. Sharp little(12") screen, and really, really light(maybe 2 lb with battery and no HDD). Built like a tank too; I'm not worried about it bouncing around when I'm riding my bike, and running off a flash drive, the battery life is good too.
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Amen! (in lieu of mod points)
Hopefully they keep trying to outdo each other; they've got plenty more money to give away.
http://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/bill-gates-loses-worlds-richest-title-after-giving-28-billion-to-charity-1324573/
28 > 1.
And that was 2011.
...please check out the jet plane on a treadmill that I'm auctioning off - free shipping if it gets airborne!
From TFA: "...his reign lasted just 26 months and ended with his death on the battlefield at Bosworth in 1485. He was given a low-key burial in the church of Greyfriars in the center of Leicester, but the location of his grave was lost when the building was demolished in the 16th century. A team of historians, though, were determined to find the body. Archaeologists used ground-penetrating radar on the site of the former priory, and were able to locate the skeleton beneath a parking lot after only a few days of digging."
Google didn't write the pre-ios6 Maps app, Apple did. It just used the Google Maps API.
Steve, is that you?
sitting in my basement; not the pretty white ones, but the brown ones they send you when you need to send your poorly-produced, unreliable, overpriced, first-generation Macbook Pro back for AppleCare service. I got tired of sending it in, so I had a few extra boxes.
Seems kinda limiting. When I look at these machines I see the potential to make all sorts of stuff that normally I would have to contract out to a machine shop (which for 1 or 2 of an item is not very cost effective)... but if the thing is going to start breaking down after a few months or years that kinda limits applications.
The two standard printing materials for the RepRap family of printers (and their descendants, like the MakerBot) are the biodegradable PLA, and standard petroleum-based ABS. PLA will degrade over time, but only under certain environmental conditions; it's unlikely to fall apart in normal use (most industrial thermophilic composting processes run at pretty high temperatures (60C and up). I guess you probably shouldn't use it to print an industrial composter.
ABS is ABS, and whatever you make with it will be around forever, so print your PLA composter with this instead.
Ha ha ha.
The language in the book is an essential part of the storytelling. I generally don't like that sort of thing either; however, Hoban used it very intentionally as a pacing device, as well as to reveal things to the reader that the limited narrator didn't understand. It's very effective, although it does take some getting used to.
Also, the late, great Russell Hoban's post-apocalyptic masterpiece, Riddley Walker. And if you want non-fiction, I really enjoyed In the Shadow Of the Moon, part of Francis French and Colin Burgess's People's History of Spaceflight series. And then there is always SkyMall.
Seconded. Murakami is fantastic.
There is a lot of work being done (and maybe some field trials already) on short-range vehicle-to-vehicle communications systems . I'm not sure if there are plans to integrate pedestrian nodes into these networks, but it's certainly a possibility.
The motivation behind this is not to protect oblivious smartphone users, but for people with visual impairments who have traditionally relied on engine noise to identify approaching vehicles at low speed. The smartphone users will still be in danger, because they're invariably wearing headphones too.
They're more apt at what, interpreting the massive amounts of weather data supplied to them by NOAA?
Your office phone probably has a dial tone, and maybe a real chime when it rings. We're talking mobile phone calls, not 1980s desk technology. Here's a pre-iPhone mobile phone with a green "call" button, and a red "hang up" button.
Actually, you can set the visibility of those items in your profile. When you click to edit the text field, there is a little pull-down menu where you can choose who gets to see what.
We gave up cable several years ago and got rid of the TV too. Since then, we've purchased a 32" HDTV and built a small ATOM/ION-based HTPC that sits right behind it. Netflix and Hulu work quite well, as do most of the network streaming sites. We can access these through Boxee, which is an almost-great piece of software with a couple of major issues (especially on low-power systems like mine). Flash 10.2 is not supported in Boxee for Win/Mac/Linux at the moment, and development seems to be somewhat stalled out in favor of the Boxee Box hardware - a bummer, as the Boxee interface is really easy to navigate. I'm hoping for an update in the near future, otherwise I'll be looking for new frontend software. The only thing I really miss is sports. I'd gladly pay MLB for the ability to stream local baseball, but I'm in my team's "blackout zone" and can't get access. I WANT to give them money to watch baseball, and they won't take it.
"After all, the overhead is low!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5vtT6xByVE
Maybe they'll name the next version "Civet," acknowledging that we're willing to pay a premium for whatever they crap out.
I'm a regular ebook borrower from the Boston Public Library(OverDrive), and I love it. I bought my Nook to take with me on my very frequent work travel, and the ability to borrow books from wherever I am (often a long way from a library or bookstore) is really great; if I place a hold on an unavailable book, the library emails me when it's my turn, and I can "check it out" immediately. In fact, I bought the nook specifically because it allows for easy side-loading of library (and other) books. Overall, I'm very happy with it - and by the way, you can use a swipe gesture on the LCD display to turn pages while reading, although I prefer the side buttons.
I don't care much for the iPhone, but I've always admired the Functionalist qualities of Braun's product lines, and their (at least historically) good production quality. I'm not sure that this prototype phone follows his famous ten principles, but Dieter Rams is a clear influence on Jonathan Ive; I wish Ive and others would follow his lead a little more closely and maybe let form follow function for a change.
for example, A label for every button!
from most of the tweets I've seen, 140 characters is plenty of room for bullshit.
I just picked up 2 panasonic t2s from a dude at the MIT swap on sunday. Sharp little(12") screen, and really, really light(maybe 2 lb with battery and no HDD). Built like a tank too; I'm not worried about it bouncing around when I'm riding my bike, and running off a flash drive, the battery life is good too.