Looks like this thread is going off the deep end (no offense to LED fans) but how about instead of a PCB, you just include some code in your invitations? Someone compiles it and it sends them to the geek section of the wedding site. MUCH cheaper than building 100-200 circuit boards and its non invasive. Put it on the back of the cards or something. Use your language of choice, include a bunch of puns about inheritance, child objects, etc. As cool as a PCB would be, an inside joke script could save you many hours that you probably don't have to waste.
Don't forget, someone will have to build those 300 (well 130 or so is a more common number) invitations. That could easily end up being over 50 hours of soldering. Plus theres a few bucks in parts. I'm not sure what an assembly house would charge but you could quickly be pushing $20/board even for something simple. Before you go this route, make sure you know what you're getting yourself into.
Well you know what they say, "theres nothing more permanent than a temporary government program/law/tax/etc.". Maybe its due for one such law to work out in favor of the tinkerers...
Guess you can't please everyone. At least window shade tv's are pretty much right on schedule according to Back to the Future part II...come to think of it, where's my hoverboard?
Yeah but Marty McFly is going to sue Apple before they can even add this to their legal team's inbox. They had these in Back to the Future part II...come to think of it, they're pretty much right on schedule with "tv shades". If only the same were true of they flying cars and hoverboards...
Of all things, you worry about THAT?! Do you work for apple selling iPads on commission? If so, please carry on worrying and disregard the following. If not, who the hell cares what "joe the internet" thinks of tablets he hasn't owned? Apple has already sold a zillion of them so the i-eco system will be around for quite sometime providing plenty of fodder for fanboy flame fests for fortnights (alliteration eh?) regardless if someone likes the freakin ASUS or not. There is no need to fear having to leave our basements any time soon.
Sure kids all have pads and tabs with touch screens but I think if you showed them something with buttons, knobs, dials, switches, glowing tubes, etc, they would go nuts. Who doesn't like pressing big red buttons? Zynga made a freaking BILLION dollars off of people pressing a flat surface/mouse with minimal tactile feedback. Imagine what would happen with a button you could feel?
There's been more than one case of airport security putting drugs in passenger bags for test purposes, losing track of it, and those people passing through countries with zero tolerance.
We almost got there in the late 70's. Fortunately, Reagan swooped in to save us from having to drive 370 kilosocialists from DC to NY. But you're in luck. If you really want to use the metric system exclusively in the US, just join the military ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States )
I'd much rather my tax dollars went to electric vehicle manufacturers trying to get off the ground and make waves in the system than to companies that have been recording record profits the past few years in a row (looking at you Exxon...).
Fair enough. Then the first order of business should be to change the name from PARC to PAPDC (palo alto product development center) so no one gets confused.
Is it a researcher's job to make a profit? The point of research is to learn something new, whether it works or not. Then its up to the business side to decide what to do with it. Perhaps instead of mandating that PARC must make money, the management should mandate they make smarter decisions on which inventions are marketable or not instead of giving away the mouse and GUI. Hows that 11 year old quest to return to profitability going?
It'll be interesting to see how they manage to implement new technologies while still maintaining the same broadcast length. The reason the NFL pulls in $9billion/year is because millions of rabid fans are glued to game broadcasts (and thus advertisements) for 3 hours blocks at a time. If they put sensors in the ball to tell you where it was every time and wireless communication to eliminate huddles, that'll cut the broadcast time down significantly, thus reducing revenue. The average football broadcast contains 11 minutes of total new football action. The rest is all replays, huddles, measurements, timeouts, challanges etc. If you had to replace all of that with an ad, their revenue might jump for a bit but I'd imagine it would fall off drastically as people got wise.
You realize thats the point right? A given football broadcast game has ~11 total minutes of actual football moving action (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406.html). They have to figure out some way to fill up the extra 3 hours so fans will stay and watch the commercials. If they got rid of all the time consuming parts of the broadcast, the NFL wouldn't be raking in $9 Billion/year.
Thats all well and good. I think GP's post suggested that religion is bad since it fosters extremism due to the requirement that one believe in something that can't be questioned. My contention is that one need not be religious to be extremist. Kudos on the triple negative btw...
I hope you're including atheists and agnostics. (Google for examples) You could change that ridiculous opinion into a fact if you said "all religions have bad extremists" or "there are extremist human beings on earth".
I got one...A cell phone that fits in a pocket has a GPS chip in it that can track a GPS signal at -162 dBm (Ublox6 based). Thats ONE THOUSAND times less received energy than what voyager equipment receives! In your pocket! All those posts in here saying "they don't make em like they used to" are correct. Stuff is largely better now (not that voyager isn't freaking amazing and one of the greatest achievements of human technology). A while back I did a back of a napkin calculation based on numbers I found on the internet (for what its worth) and came up with: The amount of power contained in the GPS signal that a device uses to find your position on the earth down to a few meters is 10,000 times weaker than the energy contained in the sound of normal human breathing (not mouth breathing not wheezing, just what you generally can't even perceive from someone standing 3 feet from you). Hows that for amazing?
Probably a minority. But on the other hand, how many japanese and korean cars are built abroad and imported to the US? Also a minority! Toyota has 6 US factories building the camry and corolla (by far their biggest US sellers), Honda has 3, Hyundai has a few, BMW, VW, etc. BMW ships its X series SUV's from north carolina all over the world. I'm sure there are other examples. I guess my point is, most of the money spent on cars in america stays in america and a non trivial amount comes in from abroad. Unfortunately (and counter to common practice on/.) this car analogy does not hold true for the main story...
Our car brands are non sellers abroad. Talk of GM and Asians will laugh at you
Unless you count china. Of all things, BUICK sells almost half a million cars a year there. Then there is the plethora of ford foci, fiestas, mondeos that you'll find all across Europe. Holden is Australian for GM. Just cause chysler made the sebring for so long doesn't mean the US can't make a world class car. Didn't pay much attention to the rest of your rant but that line was flat out wrong.
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Looks like this thread is going off the deep end (no offense to LED fans) but how about instead of a PCB, you just include some code in your invitations? Someone compiles it and it sends them to the geek section of the wedding site. MUCH cheaper than building 100-200 circuit boards and its non invasive. Put it on the back of the cards or something. Use your language of choice, include a bunch of puns about inheritance, child objects, etc. As cool as a PCB would be, an inside joke script could save you many hours that you probably don't have to waste.
Don't forget, someone will have to build those 300 (well 130 or so is a more common number) invitations. That could easily end up being over 50 hours of soldering. Plus theres a few bucks in parts. I'm not sure what an assembly house would charge but you could quickly be pushing $20/board even for something simple. Before you go this route, make sure you know what you're getting yourself into.
Well you know what they say, "theres nothing more permanent than a temporary government program/law/tax/etc.". Maybe its due for one such law to work out in favor of the tinkerers...
Guess you can't please everyone. At least window shade tv's are pretty much right on schedule according to Back to the Future part II...come to think of it, where's my hoverboard?
Looks like it's going to take more than links to bulletproof glass to save wikipedia. Write your Senator!
Yeah but Marty McFly is going to sue Apple before they can even add this to their legal team's inbox. They had these in Back to the Future part II...come to think of it, they're pretty much right on schedule with "tv shades". If only the same were true of they flying cars and hoverboards...
Of all things, you worry about THAT?! Do you work for apple selling iPads on commission? If so, please carry on worrying and disregard the following. If not, who the hell cares what "joe the internet" thinks of tablets he hasn't owned? Apple has already sold a zillion of them so the i-eco system will be around for quite sometime providing plenty of fodder for fanboy flame fests for fortnights (alliteration eh?) regardless if someone likes the freakin ASUS or not. There is no need to fear having to leave our basements any time soon.
"Just working" and "Open architecture" are not mutually exclusive....
Sure kids all have pads and tabs with touch screens but I think if you showed them something with buttons, knobs, dials, switches, glowing tubes, etc, they would go nuts. Who doesn't like pressing big red buttons? Zynga made a freaking BILLION dollars off of people pressing a flat surface/mouse with minimal tactile feedback. Imagine what would happen with a button you could feel?
There's been more than one case of airport security putting drugs in passenger bags for test purposes, losing track of it, and those people passing through countries with zero tolerance.
Citation?!?
We almost got there in the late 70's. Fortunately, Reagan swooped in to save us from having to drive 370 kilosocialists from DC to NY. But you're in luck. If you really want to use the metric system exclusively in the US, just join the military ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States )
I'd much rather my tax dollars went to electric vehicle manufacturers trying to get off the ground and make waves in the system than to companies that have been recording record profits the past few years in a row (looking at you Exxon...).
Fair enough. Then the first order of business should be to change the name from PARC to PAPDC (palo alto product development center) so no one gets confused.
Is it a researcher's job to make a profit? The point of research is to learn something new, whether it works or not. Then its up to the business side to decide what to do with it. Perhaps instead of mandating that PARC must make money, the management should mandate they make smarter decisions on which inventions are marketable or not instead of giving away the mouse and GUI. Hows that 11 year old quest to return to profitability going?
It'll be interesting to see how they manage to implement new technologies while still maintaining the same broadcast length. The reason the NFL pulls in $9billion/year is because millions of rabid fans are glued to game broadcasts (and thus advertisements) for 3 hours blocks at a time. If they put sensors in the ball to tell you where it was every time and wireless communication to eliminate huddles, that'll cut the broadcast time down significantly, thus reducing revenue. The average football broadcast contains 11 minutes of total new football action. The rest is all replays, huddles, measurements, timeouts, challanges etc. If you had to replace all of that with an ad, their revenue might jump for a bit but I'd imagine it would fall off drastically as people got wise.
no more wasting time on replays.
You realize thats the point right? A given football broadcast game has ~11 total minutes of actual football moving action (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406.html). They have to figure out some way to fill up the extra 3 hours so fans will stay and watch the commercials. If they got rid of all the time consuming parts of the broadcast, the NFL wouldn't be raking in $9 Billion/year.
Thats all well and good. I think GP's post suggested that religion is bad since it fosters extremism due to the requirement that one believe in something that can't be questioned. My contention is that one need not be religious to be extremist. Kudos on the triple negative btw...
All religions are bad.
I hope you're including atheists and agnostics. (Google for examples) You could change that ridiculous opinion into a fact if you said "all religions have bad extremists" or "there are extremist human beings on earth".
Hence values Gt, Gr. The gain relative to isotropic. In other words, how directional the antenna is (plus efficiency).
I got one...A cell phone that fits in a pocket has a GPS chip in it that can track a GPS signal at -162 dBm (Ublox6 based). Thats ONE THOUSAND times less received energy than what voyager equipment receives! In your pocket! All those posts in here saying "they don't make em like they used to" are correct. Stuff is largely better now (not that voyager isn't freaking amazing and one of the greatest achievements of human technology). A while back I did a back of a napkin calculation based on numbers I found on the internet (for what its worth) and came up with: The amount of power contained in the GPS signal that a device uses to find your position on the earth down to a few meters is 10,000 times weaker than the energy contained in the sound of normal human breathing (not mouth breathing not wheezing, just what you generally can't even perceive from someone standing 3 feet from you). Hows that for amazing?
I bet a tablet running Ubuntu will be released as soon as you can find 1,000,000+ people to pre-order one for $500. No personal checks please.
You know it's arty when the camera never stops moving.
You mean like when the camera never stops moving in a Michael Bay movie? Hundreds of millions of blackened souls would disagree...
Probably a minority. But on the other hand, how many japanese and korean cars are built abroad and imported to the US? Also a minority! Toyota has 6 US factories building the camry and corolla (by far their biggest US sellers), Honda has 3, Hyundai has a few, BMW, VW, etc. BMW ships its X series SUV's from north carolina all over the world. I'm sure there are other examples. I guess my point is, most of the money spent on cars in america stays in america and a non trivial amount comes in from abroad. Unfortunately (and counter to common practice on /.) this car analogy does not hold true for the main story...
And you can't forget that for the past decade, the most brilliant minds in the US have wasted all of their time complaining on /.
Our car brands are non sellers abroad. Talk of GM and Asians will laugh at you
Unless you count china. Of all things, BUICK sells almost half a million cars a year there. Then there is the plethora of ford foci, fiestas, mondeos that you'll find all across Europe. Holden is Australian for GM. Just cause chysler made the sebring for so long doesn't mean the US can't make a world class car. Didn't pay much attention to the rest of your rant but that line was flat out wrong.