If you're using a hack-and-slash weapon, you want a thick bevel because it will still tear through your enemy with minimal damage to itself if you put enough force behind it.
I think it was Honest Abe who said, "if I had six hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend four hours sharpening the axe".
You make your edge as sharp as you can because if you don't your enemy who has a sharper edge will kill you first. A lot about hand to hand combat with edged weapons has been lost to time, but one thing that hasn't is that you aren't trying to protect your sword, you're trying to protect your life.
Serrated edges never gained popularity because they get caught on or in what they are trying to cut through, great for sawing, terrible for slashing or stabbing. Don't take my word for it, slash a steak with a breadknife and a hacksaw and see which does more damage.
Plus you don't have to deal with the politics and 'personalities' that inevitably emerge in third level institutions. Just pure knowledge baby, that will do nicely. It's also very exciting in terms of collaborative learning, after a few cycles you'd be left with something like stackexchange and TAs would be redundant. I guess eventually a lot of professors would be too if they were to release texts or videos and compete with one another. The best and most informative would rise to the top, and the energies of the rest could go into research, which is where they should be going.
Children being born today will have access to far more and better education than any generation ever, if we don't mess it up in some way.
USB tethering is always an alternative but if I could get five or six solid hours of wireless tethering out of it before needing a recharge that would do just fine.
What I'd like to see is a cheap little stick phone that does phone calls, text messages, and wireless tethering with a one week battery life. That is all I want from a phone. I have a nice smartphone right now, loaded with apps, which I use 99% of the time for phone calls, text messages, and wireless tethering. I bet a whole lot of people would buy one too.
From wiki: Tumblr made $13 million in revenue in 2012 and hopes to make $100 million in 2013. So far, Tumblr has taken $125 million in funding from its backers. Tumblr reportedly spent $25 million to fund operations last year.
So it's making a loss of $12 million a year and yahoo is willing to fork over $1.1 billion on the hope that it might actually make $100 million this year?
Mod parent up. What I want to know is where did she get access to technology that could operate on the "nanoscale" as well as fabrication equipment, this stuff isn't exactly commonplace or cheap. Although it would be great if it was in every school.
How you equate the human need to explore with this self indulgent shite is beyond me. Google is a marketing company, end of. That they've managed to make the "don't be evil" tag stick in the face of their persistent attempts to violate every human convention about privacy in the name of gross lucre merely means they are a good marketing company.
Why do critics need to argue anything? A simple no, get lost, should suffice. You don't need reasons to refuse law enforcement access to your communications, they need reasons to access them in the first place.
Guys who went to business school are running most companies.
Are they? I don't know any business owners who went to business school. I do know a lot of successful business owners from diverse backgrounds who are tough, resourceful, resilient, charming, lucky, and upon occasion ruthless, which are not qualities you are taught in school.
I'm likewise opposed to lengthy copyright terms, 14+14 should be plenty, and I understand how these longer terms came into being via corporate lobbying to protect the cost of the marketing applied to IP more than the IP itself, but couldn't an argument be made that artists are now forced to create entirely new non derivative works if they don't want to license the older ones? Does it stymie culture or encourage it?
Socially I absolutely agree. Commerce should be a vicious shark tank though, that's the foundation of capitalism. Don't try to apply social methods to commerce, or commercial methods to society, and you're good. The government only needs to step in when the competition fades, that's when you get monopolies causing trouble.
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If you're using a hack-and-slash weapon, you want a thick bevel because it will still tear through your enemy with minimal damage to itself if you put enough force behind it.
I think it was Honest Abe who said, "if I had six hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend four hours sharpening the axe".
You make your edge as sharp as you can because if you don't your enemy who has a sharper edge will kill you first. A lot about hand to hand combat with edged weapons has been lost to time, but one thing that hasn't is that you aren't trying to protect your sword, you're trying to protect your life.
Serrated edges never gained popularity because they get caught on or in what they are trying to cut through, great for sawing, terrible for slashing or stabbing. Don't take my word for it, slash a steak with a breadknife and a hacksaw and see which does more damage.
That would be nice but I think registering patents is a fairly costly process.
Doesn't matter, you get the steel as sharp as it can get. The worst that can happen is it takes longer to get blunt.
I think biologically they were little different from ourselves, so they were less 'creatures' than 'people'.
Plus you don't have to deal with the politics and 'personalities' that inevitably emerge in third level institutions. Just pure knowledge baby, that will do nicely. It's also very exciting in terms of collaborative learning, after a few cycles you'd be left with something like stackexchange and TAs would be redundant. I guess eventually a lot of professors would be too if they were to release texts or videos and compete with one another. The best and most informative would rise to the top, and the energies of the rest could go into research, which is where they should be going.
Children being born today will have access to far more and better education than any generation ever, if we don't mess it up in some way.
USB tethering is always an alternative but if I could get five or six solid hours of wireless tethering out of it before needing a recharge that would do just fine.
What I'd like to see is a cheap little stick phone that does phone calls, text messages, and wireless tethering with a one week battery life. That is all I want from a phone. I have a nice smartphone right now, loaded with apps, which I use 99% of the time for phone calls, text messages, and wireless tethering. I bet a whole lot of people would buy one too.
Well, yeah.
Today's value of a stock (bond, or any finical asset) is based on all future cash flows discounted (i.e. interest rate / time value).
No it really, really isn't.
numbers are projected
Indeed they are.
As soon as I can buy my dinner with a sack of eyeballs that's just what I'll do.
From wiki: Tumblr made $13 million in revenue in 2012 and hopes to make $100 million in 2013. So far, Tumblr has taken $125 million in funding from its backers. Tumblr reportedly spent $25 million to fund operations last year.
So it's making a loss of $12 million a year and yahoo is willing to fork over $1.1 billion on the hope that it might actually make $100 million this year?
Interesting!
Mod parent up. What I want to know is where did she get access to technology that could operate on the "nanoscale" as well as fabrication equipment, this stuff isn't exactly commonplace or cheap. Although it would be great if it was in every school.
How you equate the human need to explore with this self indulgent shite is beyond me. Google is a marketing company, end of. That they've managed to make the "don't be evil" tag stick in the face of their persistent attempts to violate every human convention about privacy in the name of gross lucre merely means they are a good marketing company.
Hopefully it will be forgotten before too long.
Why do they need VCs, they have millions in the bank already.
My watch hasn't had a battery change in 7 years and still works fine.
Yep well done America, you've partisaned the English back into power, whether republican or democrat.
Thre is already a name for it - totalitarianism, the involvement of the state in all aspects of life.
Why do critics need to argue anything? A simple no, get lost, should suffice. You don't need reasons to refuse law enforcement access to your communications, they need reasons to access them in the first place.
Guys who went to business school are running most companies.
Are they? I don't know any business owners who went to business school. I do know a lot of successful business owners from diverse backgrounds who are tough, resourceful, resilient, charming, lucky, and upon occasion ruthless, which are not qualities you are taught in school.
A thousand times this. I've a great deal of respect for tradesmen, and if it's money you're after you could do a lot worse than the trades.
I'm likewise opposed to lengthy copyright terms, 14+14 should be plenty, and I understand how these longer terms came into being via corporate lobbying to protect the cost of the marketing applied to IP more than the IP itself, but couldn't an argument be made that artists are now forced to create entirely new non derivative works if they don't want to license the older ones? Does it stymie culture or encourage it?
And the news agency should buy everyone a pony!
There's good eating on them things, as I have recently discovered.
I find that hard to credit, Youtube pays out SFA unless you're routinely getting millions of views. Beer and pizza money I could believe.
Socially I absolutely agree. Commerce should be a vicious shark tank though, that's the foundation of capitalism. Don't try to apply social methods to commerce, or commercial methods to society, and you're good. The government only needs to step in when the competition fades, that's when you get monopolies causing trouble.
And yet most developed countries are functioning fairly well. Certainly compared to poorer countries.