Back in the 80s when the cube was new and popular, I was really into it. IIRC, I got my times down under 3 minutes. Yeah, I know. Pretty pathetic by today's standards.
Anyway, somebody gave me a cube to solve once. After about 15 or 20 minutes it dawned on me that I had an impossible cube. Somebody who thinks they're moving closer to the solution by swapping stickers can do something like put the white sticker on a corner cubie with the blue sticker, not realizing that white and blue are always on opposite sides.
It's sintering, and it looks like you end up with lots of little pits and stuff in the finished work. It's also probably a glass-sand aggregate of sorts. They didn't show close-ups of the objects, or any attempt to "finish" them. They might be strong when finished, but not clear.
I've got a passing interest in glasswork, and one of the things I learned is that it's more complicated than "melt into mold, let it cool". Glass has to go through a carefully controlled cool-down period so that the molecular structure will set up properly. Otherwise, the resulting object is far more brittle than it should be. If not done properly you can have cracks form during the cooling phase, ruining the object.
Does the incremental deposition solve the annealing problem? Being able to make glass objects without having to carefully control the cool-down would be very nice.
Given the number of victim's its rolled in over the year's, I thinks it's utilizationism of subtlety is optimised. Your welcome to craft your own original grammar troll of course.
Amen. You just reminded me of the time I got a defective monitor, a defective RMA, and then finally a 3rd monitor RMA that worked. The 3rd one was made in USA. The others were made someplace else. I was thinking, "so this is what they do when they really want to make sure he's not an unhappy customer--dip into the limited supply of American-made monitors".
I'm much more concerned about my laptop power supply and the several hundred dollars I might have to shell out if this insanity fries my laptop. Ditto for the TV and the other appliances. The other appliances belong to the landlord; but it's still no fun to have to be around and have some tech service them.
Maybe someday we'll have the perfect language that satisfies everybody. Right now, every language has quirks. Beginners are going to have to learn that. You are not going to find a language that doesn't have something like this. If it isn't whitespace, it's a missing semicolon. Ruby? How will a beginner grok the idea that 2 has methods? They think numbers are just numbers. You mean all this time 2 has an entire world full of stuff in it? What's in 6? I'll tell you what's in 6. Quirks. And the quirks are based on quirks. After that, it's turtles.
I think you've taken the analogy and extended it improperly. What if woodworking were like programming?
We'd have a circular saw that never broke down, that was designed over 50 years ago, but that takes a journeyman carpenter a year to learn how to use (Lisp). We'd have another design that takes about the same ammount of time to learn, cuts through lumber 10 times as fast, but occassionally blows up and takes off the arms of novices (C). Then we'd have a whole bunch of slow saws imported from China that have to be serviced every other week, and tend to break down every other day. Wait, I haven't told you the best part. When you go out on one jobsite, you have to use a particular saw. Houses in the Web Districts have banned C-saws because they assume they're unsafe despite the fact that somebody invented a safety shield for them. Other job sites have arbitrarily committed you to a particular saw because once their carpenters are trained on it it's hard to switch. Also, the saws make cuts such that wood can't be joined properly if it was cut with a different saw. The only way to fix that problem is to bring in a nail and glue consultant who charges 3 times what a regular carpenter does.
Every once in a while, I'll think about some crappy situation I was in while doing something really cool, like driving along the coast. That's when I know I got the best revenge.
What happens when they wear out? People are criticising the US notes a lot here; but I like the fact that it's paper and not plastic. What will happen if a baby sucks on a polymer note? Is there BPA in there? Also, I like the fact that if you look closely at a US note you can see blue threads--from recycled Levi's jeans.
I agree, where "Idiots" is defined as all the congresscritters, C*Os, and thinktank wonks who thought our currrent trade policy would be such a great idea.
When I was a kid I watched my Dad buy a few cars. You could customize a lot of things. Some of them were technical. You could even customize your rear differential ratio. The salesman would explain that to you if you didn't know.
I wasn't asked anything like that when I bought my first new car. Then again, it wasn't an American make so perhaps the big 3 dealers still do this?
Anyway, why not just offer different batteries as an option? If I've worked the same job for the past 5 years and it's a 10 mile commute, and I think I'll be working it for the next 5 years then why should I pay for a 30 mile battery that fits the "average driver"?
Sports riots happen all the time in the US. Maybe you don't get news about them as much over there. Maybe the scale is less dramatic. I'm not certain. I just know that sports riots happen here. Note, the link is a UK source reporting on a California riot from several years ago, which argues against my theory that people outside the US don't get news about our riots.
Anyway, it's kind of nice to think that there's a myth about America that involves us not being violent.
Now, what would be the best objective statistical way to evaluate sports riots in a society?Is anybody keeping a sports riot rating for each country?
You think the senators actually do this? No way. The lobbyists write the bills for them. You can't leave jobs like that up to politicians. It's too important. You draft the bill, you send it to your lackey... errr... senator's office, with a cover letter extolling the virtues of it. Then your l...senator's staff "reviews this recommended legislation" which means they putz around on their FaceBook pages for a while with the PDF open in the background so they can punch it up in case anybody walks by. Then it gets voted on. That's how it works.
Sounds like a web site. They stuck "app" on it. Booooring. Wake me up when you have an iCloudApp. Now, that would be truly revolutionary. Bonus points if it has synergy.
I figured that somebody who really knows music would be able to come up with a tune that works within the restrictions of the doodle. That Minuet actually sounds good.
Obviously you've never been to Apostrophes. It's in Greece. You should go. You can get great rates because of the debt crisis, and the weather is perfect this time of year. The best way to use Apostophes is as a getaway from Turkey, which is still chilly this time of year and makes you sleepy after you eat. BTW, Apostrophes used to be the Capital until they lost a war with neighboring city-state Athens in ancient times. Apparently ancient history and geography aren't being taught either.
I seem to recall having seen online ordering a number of years ago where state taxes were being collected. You'd go to a site and see, "Michigan resident add 5% sales tax". They'd sometimes even be smart about it and check your ZIP code.
Then, some people didn't do that. Amazon didn't do it either; but a lot of small places didn't do it. States didn't do anything about it, either because they were behind the curve on the Internet, or they were too busy debating about gay abortions and hemp-scented trigger locks.
California has been known to set trends. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
OK; I always get called out one way or another when it comes to statistics. Not my strongest subject. OTOH, your proper analysis lines up approximately what my seat-of-the-pants intuition. That 2nd attempt has much more serious consequences than the Nth attempt.
Intuitively, we also know that *something* is doubled and as you say, opportunities is what's doubled, not "odds".
You also make some very good points about the independance of the events. A criminal with a MO, or one that attracts media attention... increases... well... he increases something, and it ain't good for him.
Makes sense. If you have to do it twice, you double your odds of getting caught. OTOH, if you're a pro and do thousands of crimes per second then the incremental odds of getting caught are negligible. That's why the best criminals are corporations.
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White is opposite yellow. Blue is opposite green. Are you sure you hadn't just forgotten how to solve a Rubik's Cubes?
In jr. high, I knew what I was doing. Now? I forgot which color was opposite which and didn't bother to google-check it.
Back in the 80s when the cube was new and popular, I was really into it. IIRC, I got my times down under 3 minutes. Yeah, I know. Pretty pathetic by today's standards.
Anyway, somebody gave me a cube to solve once. After about 15 or 20 minutes it dawned on me that I had an impossible cube. Somebody who thinks they're moving closer to the solution by swapping stickers can do something like put the white sticker on a corner cubie with the blue sticker, not realizing that white and blue are always on opposite sides.
It's sintering, and it looks like you end up with lots of little pits and stuff in the finished work. It's also probably a glass-sand aggregate of sorts. They didn't show close-ups of the objects, or any attempt to "finish" them. They might be strong when finished, but not clear.
I've got a passing interest in glasswork, and one of the things I learned is that it's more complicated than "melt into mold, let it cool". Glass has to go through a carefully controlled cool-down period so that the molecular structure will set up properly. Otherwise, the resulting object is far more brittle than it should be. If not done properly you can have cracks form during the cooling phase, ruining the object.
Does the incremental deposition solve the annealing problem? Being able to make glass objects without having to carefully control the cool-down would be very nice.
Dude. I'm making that a QOTD.
Given the number of victim's its rolled in over the year's, I thinks it's utilizationism of subtlety is optimised. Your welcome to craft your own original grammar troll of course.
Amen. You just reminded me of the time I got a defective monitor, a defective RMA, and then finally a 3rd monitor RMA that worked. The 3rd one was made in USA. The others were made someplace else. I was thinking, "so this is what they do when they really want to make sure he's not an unhappy customer--dip into the limited supply of American-made monitors".
Junis, is that you? Shades of 2001.
I'm much more concerned about my laptop power supply and the several hundred dollars I might have to shell out if this insanity fries my laptop. Ditto for the TV and the other appliances. The other appliances belong to the landlord; but it's still no fun to have to be around and have some tech service them.
Maybe someday we'll have the perfect language that satisfies everybody. Right now, every language has quirks. Beginners are going to have to learn that. You are not going to find a language that doesn't have something like this. If it isn't whitespace, it's a missing semicolon. Ruby? How will a beginner grok the idea that 2 has methods? They think numbers are just numbers. You mean all this time 2 has an entire world full of stuff in it? What's in 6? I'll tell you what's in 6. Quirks. And the quirks are based on quirks. After that, it's turtles.
I think you've taken the analogy and extended it improperly. What if woodworking were like programming?
We'd have a circular saw that never broke down, that was designed over 50 years ago, but that takes a journeyman carpenter a year to learn how to use (Lisp). We'd have another design that takes about the same ammount of time to learn, cuts through lumber 10 times as fast, but occassionally blows up and takes off the arms of novices (C). Then we'd have a whole bunch of slow saws imported from China that have to be serviced every other week, and tend to break down every other day. Wait, I haven't told you the best part. When you go out on one jobsite, you have to use a particular saw. Houses in the Web Districts have banned C-saws because they assume they're unsafe despite the fact that somebody invented a safety shield for them. Other job sites have arbitrarily committed you to a particular saw because once their carpenters are trained on it it's hard to switch. Also, the saws make cuts such that wood can't be joined properly if it was cut with a different saw. The only way to fix that problem is to bring in a nail and glue consultant who charges 3 times what a regular carpenter does.
Now, how's that for a coding analogy?
Every once in a while, I'll think about some crappy situation I was in while doing something really cool, like driving along the coast. That's when I know I got the best revenge.
What happens when they wear out? People are criticising the US notes a lot here; but I like the fact that it's paper and not plastic. What will happen if a baby sucks on a polymer note? Is there BPA in there? Also, I like the fact that if you look closely at a US note you can see blue threads--from recycled Levi's jeans.
I agree, where "Idiots" is defined as all the congresscritters, C*Os, and thinktank wonks who thought our currrent trade policy would be such a great idea.
When I was a kid I watched my Dad buy a few cars. You could customize a lot of things. Some of them were technical. You could even customize your rear differential ratio. The salesman would explain that to you if you didn't know.
I wasn't asked anything like that when I bought my first new car. Then again, it wasn't an American make so perhaps the big 3 dealers still do this?
Anyway, why not just offer different batteries as an option? If I've worked the same job for the past 5 years and it's a 10 mile commute, and I think I'll be working it for the next 5 years then why should I pay for a 30 mile battery that fits the "average driver"?
Sports riots happen all the time in the US. Maybe you don't get news about them as much over there. Maybe the scale is less dramatic. I'm not certain. I just know that sports riots happen here. Note, the link is a UK source reporting on a California riot from several years ago, which argues against my theory that people outside the US don't get news about our riots.
Anyway, it's kind of nice to think that there's a myth about America that involves us not being violent.
Now, what would be the best objective statistical way to evaluate sports riots in a society?Is anybody keeping a sports riot rating for each country?
You think the senators actually do this? No way. The lobbyists write the bills for them. You can't leave jobs like that up to politicians. It's too important. You draft the bill, you send it to your lackey... errr... senator's office, with a cover letter extolling the virtues of it. Then your l...senator's staff "reviews this recommended legislation" which means they putz around on their FaceBook pages for a while with the PDF open in the background so they can punch it up in case anybody walks by. Then it gets voted on. That's how it works.
Sounds like a web site. They stuck "app" on it. Booooring. Wake me up when you have an iCloudApp. Now, that would be truly revolutionary. Bonus points if it has synergy.
This jibes with "common sense" and the computer-language shoot-out
It's not useless. It's nice to see multiple studies with different approaches coming to the same conclusions.
I figured that somebody who really knows music would be able to come up with a tune that works within the restrictions of the doodle. That Minuet actually sounds good.
Obviously you've never been to Apostrophes. It's in Greece. You should go. You can get great rates because of the debt crisis, and the weather is perfect this time of year. The best way to use Apostophes is as a getaway from Turkey, which is still chilly this time of year and makes you sleepy after you eat. BTW, Apostrophes used to be the Capital until they lost a war with neighboring city-state Athens in ancient times. Apparently ancient history and geography aren't being taught either.
I seem to recall having seen online ordering a number of years ago where state taxes were being collected. You'd go to a site and see, "Michigan resident add 5% sales tax". They'd sometimes even be smart about it and check your ZIP code.
Then, some people didn't do that. Amazon didn't do it either; but a lot of small places didn't do it. States didn't do anything about it, either because they were behind the curve on the Internet, or they were too busy debating about gay abortions and hemp-scented trigger locks.
California has been known to set trends. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
OK; I always get called out one way or another when it comes to statistics. Not my strongest subject. OTOH, your proper analysis lines up approximately what my seat-of-the-pants intuition. That 2nd attempt has much more serious consequences than the Nth attempt.
Intuitively, we also know that *something* is doubled and as you say, opportunities is what's doubled, not "odds".
You also make some very good points about the independance of the events. A criminal with a MO, or one that attracts media attention... increases... well... he increases something, and it ain't good for him.
Makes sense. If you have to do it twice, you double your odds of getting caught. OTOH, if you're a pro and do thousands of crimes per second then the incremental odds of getting caught are negligible. That's why the best criminals are corporations.
1: What happened to our Apache build?
2: I updated the web server by replacing it with Tetris.