- mucked out a stall
- gotten up at o’dark thirty to feed and water the animals
- been awoken on the one day one might be able to sleep in by the crowing of a rooster
Above all, chicken manure stinks to high heaven --- when I spent a summer working in a friend's coop, my mother insisted on my hosing my clothes off when I came home, then undressing directly into the washer and going directly to the bath.
Nor to hide abuses of power and privilege, nor to protect traitors who have betrayed the trust which the public has placed in them that they will execute their offices faithfully and defend and preserve the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
The problem of course is how to sustain people who aren't / can't work. For a pessimistic view on this look at Manny by Marshall Brain: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Is it possible to reduce the light loss by using a reflective coating on all the interior parts? I'm given to understand that transflective displays do this, which allows them to bounce daylight out, making the machine outdoors-viewable in full sun.
That's a big part of why I'm still using a Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121 --- it's always viewable whether I'm in the shade or no.
The usual term among the hobbyists for the non-reproducible parts is ``vitamins'' and such hardware of course, has to be purchased in addition to the self-replicated parts --- I'd meant to make it clear that one was only producing a partial kit, but failed to in my original post.
Why isn't there a co-operative set up around the idea of these machines self-replicating?
Buy a machine kit --- get a rebate against the cost of the machine if you then print / mill the parts for 2 more kits and deliver them to the next 2 people who order kits and live near you (so as to save on shipping)
With MakerSlide, it's quite easy. There's a new version of the ShapeOko (Americas - http://www.shapeoko.com/ ) / eShapeOko (Europe - http://store.amberspyglass.co.uk/eshapeoko-mechanical-kit.html ) and it's quite easy to assemble / use, and can be used to build parts for robots as described in the ``Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (Home manufacturing tutorial for robot builders, model makers, and other hobbyists)'' http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/
>The organic farmer selling non-GMO crops who sues for damages >'cause his plants are cross-pollenated by a neighboring farmer using >GMO seeds who doesn't follow the guidelines for planting a barrier row >of non-GMO plants around the edges of his field.
I want to see a simple design, w/ a basic core which is:
- printable out of concrete using a system easily set up on site (the extruder and rails for it would be removed / re-used after the house was built --- alternately, print a form for the house out of plastic foam into which one pours concrete)
- structures the roof so that it incorporates a mix of solar panels and skylights (for lighting and hydroponic gardens)
- has a rain capture system, holding tank and water filtering system
- a gravity fed sink and a cistern for holding grey water
- has a composting toilet (as a fall-back system)
- includes an area for bicycle storage which includes a generator stand which allows one to use a bicycle to generate energy
Ideally, the basic core could be made as compact as possible and provided as a simple block which could be dropped in to disaster sites (once set up one could build a home around it).
Agreed. Lyonesse is simply magical, and it and Poul Anderson's _The Broken Sword_ and _The Merman's Children_ are a welcome break from imaginary fantasy world, instead being steeped in history and tradition.
Thank you for your written works --- they meant a lot to me, and I would have been a better person if I'd discovered them when I was younger. Thank you to your family for sharing your gifts with us --- I know that must have been a sacrifice at times and it is appreciated.
I just wrote in a card being given to a young lady who is just graduating high school,
``Life is a message written in ink. Write carefully, write beautifully, & write w/ character.''
Congratulations on a life written w/ care, using beautiful words and w/ a character which shines as an example of what men should aspire to be.
>Trimble Navigation Limited and/or its affiliates (“Trimble”) gives you a personal, >worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the >executable version of the Software for non-commercial use only. Non-commercial >use means: you may not sell, rent, lease or lend the output of the Software or >the Services. If you are a for-profit organization of any kind, or an employee >of a for-profit organization using the Software or Services in that capacity, >you are engaged in commercial activity; therefore, in order to use the Software >and Services, you must purchase a SketchUp Pro license.
I suppose if one makes something for one's home w/ it, then has to move and sells the item in a garage sale one is guilty of a thought-crime?
Here's a further list of brands w/ specifics: http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/tools.html (though I'm given to understand the quality of Klein tools has fallen off somewhat recently).
I really wish some politician would urge ``Buy American'' for say the Independence Day Holiday and try to get every retailer in the U.S. to (say) fill their end-caps (the displays at the end of an aisle) w/ only 100% Made in U.S. stuff (and to leave such empty as a symbolic gesture if they can't fill it w/ U.S. produced goods).
Moreover, the 180 degrees between freezing and boiling were selected to match a human's ability to differentiate temperature by touch --- if one can make two items 0.5 degrees Celsius apart, while they're the same temperature reading (disregarding the decimal), one will seem warmer than the other --- but things need to be a full degree different in Farenheit for the difference to be perceptible.
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Spoken like a city slicker who has never
- mucked out a stall
- gotten up at o’dark thirty to feed and water the animals
- been awoken on the one day one might be able to sleep in by the crowing of a rooster
Above all, chicken manure stinks to high heaven --- when I spent a summer working in a friend's coop, my mother insisted on my hosing my clothes off when I came home, then undressing directly into the washer and going directly to the bath.
http://www.twike.com/
Or buy one from Neiman Marcus?
http://green.autoblog.com/2006/10/06/neiman-marcus-tries-on-some-green-for-the-holidays-christmas-bo/
It's at least better looking than the Aptera.
Nor to hide abuses of power and privilege, nor to protect traitors who have betrayed the trust which the public has placed in them that they will execute their offices faithfully and defend and preserve the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Get a solid state drive, or if you're using Linux or Windows 2000 a Compact Flash-IDE adapter (couldn't get XP installed on mine).
I've been a believer in pen computing since reading Niven & Pournelle's _The Mote in God's Eye_.
Had an NCR-3125 running PenPoint. Using a Fujitsu Stylistic.
Can't find replacements for:
ArtRage
Autodesk Sketchbook
Macromedia Freehand
Creaturehouse Expression
Futurewave Smartsketch
Lotus Improv
Windows Journal
Yeah, I was thinking that the WPA needs to come back.
That was Steve Jobs' original vision at NeXT --- a fully-automated factory where raw materials came in one end and finished computers the other. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/24/business/all-next-inc-s-plant-lacks-is-orders.html
The problem of course is how to sustain people who aren't / can't work. For a pessimistic view on this look at Manny by Marshall Brain: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Coolest thing ever for glamping, a small stove w/ a USB power supply:
http://www.biolitestove.com/campstove/camp-overview/features/
Is it possible to reduce the light loss by using a reflective coating on all the interior parts? I'm given to understand that transflective displays do this, which allows them to bounce daylight out, making the machine outdoors-viewable in full sun.
That's a big part of why I'm still using a Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121 --- it's always viewable whether I'm in the shade or no.
The usual term among the hobbyists for the non-reproducible parts is ``vitamins'' and such hardware of course, has to be purchased in addition to the self-replicated parts --- I'd meant to make it clear that one was only producing a partial kit, but failed to in my original post.
Why isn't there a co-operative set up around the idea of these machines self-replicating?
Buy a machine kit --- get a rebate against the cost of the machine if you then print / mill the parts for 2 more kits and deliver them to the next 2 people who order kits and live near you (so as to save on shipping)
With MakerSlide, it's quite easy. There's a new version of the ShapeOko (Americas - http://www.shapeoko.com/ ) / eShapeOko (Europe - http://store.amberspyglass.co.uk/eshapeoko-mechanical-kit.html ) and it's quite easy to assemble / use, and can be used to build parts for robots as described in the ``Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (Home manufacturing tutorial for robot builders, model makers, and other hobbyists)'' http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/
At least these have a paper trail though --- anything's an improvement over ephemeral electrons for counting enumerating election results.
and maybe this is the case I've been waiting to see:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3745109&cid=43711491
>The organic farmer selling non-GMO crops who sues for damages
>'cause his plants are cross-pollenated by a neighboring farmer using
>GMO seeds who doesn't follow the guidelines for planting a barrier row
>of non-GMO plants around the edges of his field.
I want to see a simple design, w/ a basic core which is:
- printable out of concrete using a system easily set up on site (the extruder and rails for it would be removed / re-used after the house was built --- alternately, print a form for the house out of plastic foam into which one pours concrete)
- structures the roof so that it incorporates a mix of solar panels and skylights (for lighting and hydroponic gardens)
- has a rain capture system, holding tank and water filtering system
- a gravity fed sink and a cistern for holding grey water
- has a composting toilet (as a fall-back system)
- includes an area for bicycle storage which includes a generator stand which allows one to use a bicycle to generate energy
Ideally, the basic core could be made as compact as possible and provided as a simple block which could be dropped in to disaster sites (once set up one could build a home around it).
Agreed. Lyonesse is simply magical, and it and Poul Anderson's _The Broken Sword_ and _The Merman's Children_ are a welcome break from imaginary fantasy world, instead being steeped in history and tradition.
posted to: http://foreverness.jackvance.com/
Thank you for your written works --- they meant a lot to me, and I would have been a better person if I'd discovered them when I was younger. Thank you to your family for sharing your gifts with us --- I know that must have been a sacrifice at times and it is appreciated.
I just wrote in a card being given to a young lady who is just graduating high school,
``Life is a message written in ink. Write carefully, write beautifully, & write w/ character.''
Congratulations on a life written w/ care, using beautiful words and w/ a character which shines as an example of what men should aspire to be.
That should sidestep all the legal complications.
Surprised this is going over so quietly, the new ``Free'' version of SketchUp is prohibited from commercial use:
http://sketchup.com/license/b/sketchup-make
>Trimble Navigation Limited and/or its affiliates (“Trimble”) gives you a personal,
>worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the
>executable version of the Software for non-commercial use only. Non-commercial
>use means: you may not sell, rent, lease or lend the output of the Software or
>the Services. If you are a for-profit organization of any kind, or an employee
>of a for-profit organization using the Software or Services in that capacity,
>you are engaged in commercial activity; therefore, in order to use the Software
>and Services, you must purchase a SketchUp Pro license.
I suppose if one makes something for one's home w/ it, then has to move and sells the item in a garage sale one is guilty of a thought-crime?
Wonder how that'll hold up in court.
targeted specifically to the kid in question.
There are still some notable U.S. tool brands:
http://www.starrett.com/
http://www.graceusaguntools.com/screwdrivers.htm
http://www.bridgecitytools.com/ (almost bought a JointMaker Pro instead of a CNC Mill)
Here's a further list of brands w/ specifics: http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/tools.html (though I'm given to understand the quality of Klein tools has fallen off somewhat recently).
But yeah, it's depressing how few tools appear under the ``USA Made'' link at http://www.garrettwade.com/made-in-america/c/13618/
I really wish some politician would urge ``Buy American'' for say the Independence Day Holiday and try to get every retailer in the U.S. to (say) fill their end-caps (the displays at the end of an aisle) w/ only 100% Made in U.S. stuff (and to leave such empty as a symbolic gesture if they can't fill it w/ U.S. produced goods).
Agreed.
Moreover, the 180 degrees between freezing and boiling were selected to match a human's ability to differentiate temperature by touch --- if one can make two items 0.5 degrees Celsius apart, while they're the same temperature reading (disregarding the decimal), one will seem warmer than the other --- but things need to be a full degree different in Farenheit for the difference to be perceptible.
The stackexchange point was a good one, so I asked the question there:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16719747/opensource-tool-which-accepts-freeform-posts-from-a-forum-and-structures-tags-a
Feel free to answer it.
Thanks. It's of course, the former that I want.
I guess it'd be summed up by the XKCD comic:
http://xkcd.com/810/
My point is, this isn't a simple task.
Concatenation, or building a list of links would be trivial.
Taking untagged and unformatted information and providing it with:
- semantic tagging
- structure
- hierarchy
Is not something which happens w/ free-form data w/ publicly available tools resulting in a usable result.
Closest thing to it I've found is Simson Garfinkel's address book sBook:
http://simson.net/ref/sbook5/
and it can barely handle addresses, e-mails and URLs.
If I've missed a tool, I'd be delighted to be shown where it is.
William