when broccoli is good, there is just a hint of sweetness that can be awoken with a little salt. pouring cheese and/or other gunk on it just covers up the flavor.
on the other hand, there's a lot of lousy tasting broccoli out there that fully deserves to be drowned in velveeta.
now i have no idea what 'Crystal Technology' is or how it's supposed to work. i'd love it if someone took one of these things and sliced it open to find out what's inside. i suspect it's just a piece of solid plastic. however, i can't think why anyone would spend $119 just to find out. the depressing thing is how credulous the reviewer is and it ultimatly lends doubt on all the site's reviews.
what 3D printing needs to take off is a 3D scanner.
there are lots of 3D designs that you can download and print. if you're good with 3D drafting software, you can even make some of your own. but what i want is to make replacement parts for household goods (like pot handles, broken plastic bits on the car, etc.).
i don't expect most manufacturers will be willing to publish 3D print files for their products so that users can make minor repairs. in fact, i expect most manufacturers will invoke the DMCA to protect their product designs to prevent users from printing copies of them.
but ordinary people (i.e. those who are not geeks or nerds) will expect the use 3D printers for something. minor repairs to household goods qualify. and. so far, nothing i've seen seems to point that way.
none of the cartoons you describe "road runner, bugs bunny and crew, daffy duck, foghorn leghorn, jetsons, flintstones, pepe le pew" were designed for children. the loony tunes/merrie melodies cartoons (bugs bunny and crew) were created for theatrical distribution and the jetsons and flintstones were sitcoms intended for primetime broadcast.
if you're thinking of cartoons with smartly written scripts and were written for children perhaps you should have mentioned "rocky and bullwinkle". sure the animation was cheap, but that's the limitation of teevee budgets.
you're right about the corporate churn, though. hardly any saturday morning cartoons went for more than a half season or so. just not enough time for a series to find a voice or for the writers to get a feel for making it good.
more to the point, the virgin galactic craft doesn't go anywhere. it has no destination other than downrange. so all branson is selling is a roller coaster ride. and an expensive one at that.
the russians (and soon spacex) at least have a space station as a destination.
what i've always wanted to know was why are snowflakes symmetric?
sure, a hexagonal crystal has bilateral symmetry etc. but snowflakes form long, complex arms with what can best be described as filigree. and yet, the filigree on opposite sides of the snowflake are also symmetric - that's shown even in these photos.
so what i want to know is how does crystal faces on opposite sides of the snowflake 'know' to grow symmetric filligree? what mechanism is there that allows one crystal face of a snowflake to 'know' what the other crystal faces are doing and so grow identical structures?
as i understand it, h1-b visas are distributed by lottery, but are otherwise free.
but what if h1-b visas were auctioned? so those companies that wanted them had to bid for them pay a fee, say several thousand $ for each visa. companies complaining that they can't get enough tech employee visas could then be told to bid up the price and they could get al the visas they want. those that insist on using the visas for cheap tech labor will basically be forced to use the labor market.
it might suck for the workers on the h1-b visas who will see their wages reduced to pay for the visa.
i welcome people to speculate on how an auction for h1-b visas may affect the tech labor market and how companies use the h1-b visas.
also, if an auction is a viable option, should the auction be open or should it be through sealed bids? how should the auction be run?
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Ladies and gentlemen, I can envision a day when the brains of brilliant men can be kept alive in the bodies of dumb people.
- Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr
i generally prefer chocolate between 60 and 65% cocoa solids. that would count more as semisweet rather than bittersweet.
and the best chocolate is from central and south america and the us (except for hershey's which should be only be referred to as soylent brown).
when broccoli is good, there is just a hint of sweetness that can be awoken with a little salt. pouring cheese and/or other gunk on it just covers up the flavor.
on the other hand, there's a lot of lousy tasting broccoli out there that fully deserves to be drowned in velveeta.
yes, this is a spaceship.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lunar+module&safe=off&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=FPBXVdXaHJH5yQTUnYHIDw&ved=0CDAQsAQ&biw=1143&bih=869
Aahhhhh. Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends.
i thought they were in philadelphia.
Go Team Ant!
http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/Ant#.22Go_Team_Ant.22
proof that robots are cooler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_QsY7govq0
i want one in new york!
which game is the AI's favorite?
$160 for a memory card may be exorbitant, but at least it is a memory card and does something useful.
while checking for reviews on audio gear (i do appreciate well designed hifi) i saw this review for what looks like a 4" x 6" plastic slab.
http://www.stereotimes.com/post/bybee--quantum-signal-enhancer/
now i have no idea what 'Crystal Technology' is or how it's supposed to work. i'd love it if someone took one of these things and sliced it open to find out what's inside. i suspect it's just a piece of solid plastic. however, i can't think why anyone would spend $119 just to find out. the depressing thing is how credulous the reviewer is and it ultimatly lends doubt on all the site's reviews.
what 3D printing needs to take off is a 3D scanner.
there are lots of 3D designs that you can download and print. if you're good with 3D drafting software, you can even make some of your own. but what i want is to make replacement parts for household goods (like pot handles, broken plastic bits on the car, etc.).
i don't expect most manufacturers will be willing to publish 3D print files for their products so that users can make minor repairs. in fact, i expect most manufacturers will invoke the DMCA to protect their product designs to prevent users from printing copies of them.
but ordinary people (i.e. those who are not geeks or nerds) will expect the use 3D printers for something. minor repairs to household goods qualify. and. so far, nothing i've seen seems to point that way.
the colt was a dodge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Colt
can someone explain to me why it's so important to have a Facebook account?
star wars episode vii: rise of the lens flare
none of the cartoons you describe "road runner, bugs bunny and crew, daffy duck, foghorn leghorn, jetsons, flintstones, pepe le pew" were designed for children. the loony tunes/merrie melodies cartoons (bugs bunny and crew) were created for theatrical distribution and the jetsons and flintstones were sitcoms intended for primetime broadcast.
if you're thinking of cartoons with smartly written scripts and were written for children perhaps you should have mentioned "rocky and bullwinkle". sure the animation was cheap, but that's the limitation of teevee budgets.
you're right about the corporate churn, though. hardly any saturday morning cartoons went for more than a half season or so. just not enough time for a series to find a voice or for the writers to get a feel for making it good.
leave it to the finance and banking industry to give hackers another toy to play with.
really, doesn't anyone else see the mischief that hackers can get into with theses things?
more to the point, the virgin galactic craft doesn't go anywhere. it has no destination other than downrange. so all branson is selling is a roller coaster ride. and an expensive one at that.
the russians (and soon spacex) at least have a space station as a destination.
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it's actually on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SgjQw0k-0w
what i've always wanted to know was why are snowflakes symmetric?
sure, a hexagonal crystal has bilateral symmetry etc. but snowflakes form long, complex arms with what can best be described as filigree. and yet, the filigree on opposite sides of the snowflake are also symmetric - that's shown even in these photos.
so what i want to know is how does crystal faces on opposite sides of the snowflake 'know' to grow symmetric filligree? what mechanism is there that allows one crystal face of a snowflake to 'know' what the other crystal faces are doing and so grow identical structures?
the dodge dart is really a fiat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Dart_(2013)
or is at least based on a fiat.
call it soylent brown.
i wonder how many people will deep fry a frozen turkey on purpose just to see the explosion.
and for good measure, drop a pumpkin or two in the deep fryer, also just to see what happens.
as i understand it, h1-b visas are distributed by lottery, but are otherwise free.
but what if h1-b visas were auctioned? so those companies that wanted them had to bid for them pay a fee, say several thousand $ for each visa. companies complaining that they can't get enough tech employee visas could then be told to bid up the price and they could get al the visas they want. those that insist on using the visas for cheap tech labor will basically be forced to use the labor market.
it might suck for the workers on the h1-b visas who will see their wages reduced to pay for the visa.
i welcome people to speculate on how an auction for h1-b visas may affect the tech labor market and how companies use the h1-b visas.
also, if an auction is a viable option, should the auction be open or should it be through sealed bids? how should the auction be run?
is that Fahrenheit or Celsius?