I'd like to caution the reader to take TFA with a grain of salt, lest they decide to use it as an excuse to feel better about getting less than the recommended 7.5-8 hours of sleep. Specifically, I'd like to note the following:
1.... A primitive forager doesn't usually live to an age where such things are an issue....
Exactly, can we just quit with all the Paleo BS now?
This is a big factor: the cheapness and distance shipped have us moving to a disposable model vs. repair. I just went through this with a washing machine and a lawn mower. The washing machine was LG; very hard to find a schematic with labeled parts. I had to guess and was wrong twice. I didn't bother to ship back the wrong parts as they were about 10 bucks, shipping was also about 10 bucks. So I threw the bad ones away.
Same issue with the lawnmower. Was a Yard Machines mower with Briggs & Stratton engine. tried the 800 number (was still under warrantee) which was a total joke. Web site was confusing and useless. Did not recognize my engine serial number to send me into someplace that I could get engine info/troubleshooting/parts list.
Ended up taking it to a local place where the Mexicanos who ran it figured out the problem and fixed the mower (In your face Donald Trump!)
So, while in theory the cost of these appliances and the world efficiency is improved with the model of cheap parts&labor from China. The reality is a lot of wasted time, shipping wrong replacement parts, and giving up and tossing out the old piece-o-crap to a landfill and buying something new.
I am not buying into the purported efficiencies posted here.
Fully agree. Is Mars such a hospitable place so that you have to think of a fake reason in order to get somebody in a story stranded on it?
I read the interview with the author; previous poster mentioned it. Basically Weir said that this book was essentially man vs. nature, and he wanted "nature" to strand the main character to get the story going. Pretty understandable to me that when creating a story, you need to take some creative license.
This is the part I don't get - anyone else at any other company (of size - not a mom&pop shop) would be written up or possibly fired for monkey business with company computer +/- email. How is is that the US government didn't have any policies in place about email when hillary took office a few years ago?
Not that I give a sh*t, because I don't. I know that this is a stupid attempt to weaken GOP foe; but still, WTF?
It would mirror the light hitting it, from all sides, and that would not just look very weird?
Sorry, but premise makes no sense. Invisibility requires that you process the image as seen from the viewer, then somehow project that image to the viewer on the surface of the cloak. Way, way, way different than what this might scale up to (if ever).
What's disgusting to me is the number of people who lead a devil-may-care lifestyle and then cry and moan about health problems to only turn around and cry and moan about what modern technology is available to them.
You want to battle "big pharma"? Put down the two liter soda, the doughnut and the grease burgers. Put down the xbox controller. Put down the smokes, the rum and cokes. Stop staring into the TV for 5 hours a day and take an hour out to move around a bit.
Society had fed itself into the cycle of chronic illness but man, don't we have to pry those bad habits out of their hands?
Now queue the 3% of those who are on a maintenance pharmaceutical regiment that legitimately are trying to keep up with their own well being but are still in a bad place.
There was a time when human beings watched no TV, only ate natural foods, had to rely on physically being in shape to scratch an existence out of the dirt.
Oh, by the way, life expectancy in that time was about 35 years of age...
How do they get a picture of you and what you are looking at together? If it is a mash up, couldn't they just mash up your face (pic they took) with some disgusting porn pic anyway?
Every time I go in there I get that dude coming up to me "sir, do you own a home, can I tell you about how Solar will blah blah blah"
Lemme alone, fools. I will burn hydrocarbons till the day I die. (just joking here)
At roughly 10% of the population left handed people are a minority. Watch designs have historically been designed for right handed people. When watches were mechanical devices that made sense. It didn't make economical sense to manufacturer two different designs of watches and it would have been to complex, and therefore expensive, to provide a stem and/or buttons on both sides of the watch. But with purely digital watches most of those barriers go away. What is the cost per watch to provide an additional button? Or even more simply, what about a configuration option that changes the orientation of the display. In the case of the Moto 360 that would mean that the button would be at the 7 o'clock position if worn upside down by a leftie. The button would be easily pushed by the thumb instead of the forefinger, but at least your hand would be out of the way.
People, just think of the lefties.
Apple watch can be set-up for lefties; one of the reasons I bought one.
1. The balls are hydrophobic, so they don't really "coat" themselves with water.
2. The real key is that the interstitial spaces are reflux zones, that let the evaporating water condense and run back into the pool.
3. Not sure where you were going with the "getting more water..." comment
I bet. Apple has more to loose than to gain, so I predict Apple management will come back with some gesture toward paying artists for the trial period. That's the smart thing to do anyway.
Don't be an ass. Its not in any employees interest including the CEO to run it into the ground when a lot of them are on performance related pay. And its certainly not in the governments interest.
I suggest you put your tin foil hat away. This is just plain old fashioned incompetance.
Incompetence - a bad day when you spell that word wrong.
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What the heck was he doing with a lunar rover prototype in Alabama?
I'd like to caution the reader to take TFA with a grain of salt, lest they decide to use it as an excuse to feel better about getting less than the recommended 7.5-8 hours of sleep. Specifically, I'd like to note the following:
... A primitive forager doesn't usually live to an age where such things are an issue. ...
1.
Exactly, can we just quit with all the Paleo BS now?
This is a big factor: the cheapness and distance shipped have us moving to a disposable model vs. repair. I just went through this with a washing machine and a lawn mower. The washing machine was LG; very hard to find a schematic with labeled parts. I had to guess and was wrong twice. I didn't bother to ship back the wrong parts as they were about 10 bucks, shipping was also about 10 bucks. So I threw the bad ones away.
Same issue with the lawnmower. Was a Yard Machines mower with Briggs & Stratton engine. tried the 800 number (was still under warrantee) which was a total joke. Web site was confusing and useless. Did not recognize my engine serial number to send me into someplace that I could get engine info/troubleshooting/parts list.
Ended up taking it to a local place where the Mexicanos who ran it figured out the problem and fixed the mower (In your face Donald Trump!)
So, while in theory the cost of these appliances and the world efficiency is improved with the model of cheap parts&labor from China. The reality is a lot of wasted time, shipping wrong replacement parts, and giving up and tossing out the old piece-o-crap to a landfill and buying something new.
I am not buying into the purported efficiencies posted here.
How the charge of a single electron was measured back in the early 1900's - good luck to these scientists.
Fully agree. Is Mars such a hospitable place so that you have to think of a fake reason in order to get somebody in a story stranded on it?
I read the interview with the author; previous poster mentioned it. Basically Weir said that this book was essentially man vs. nature, and he wanted "nature" to strand the main character to get the story going. Pretty understandable to me that when creating a story, you need to take some creative license.
This is the part I don't get - anyone else at any other company (of size - not a mom&pop shop) would be written up or possibly fired for monkey business with company computer +/- email. How is is that the US government didn't have any policies in place about email when hillary took office a few years ago?
Not that I give a sh*t, because I don't. I know that this is a stupid attempt to weaken GOP foe; but still, WTF?
It would mirror the light hitting it, from all sides, and that would not just look very weird?
Sorry, but premise makes no sense. Invisibility requires that you process the image as seen from the viewer, then somehow project that image to the viewer on the surface of the cloak. Way, way, way different than what this might scale up to (if ever).
This is just part of the gamification of everything.
gamification - I'm using it.
If they were picture books, how did you recite them word-for-word?
What's disgusting to me is the number of people who lead a devil-may-care lifestyle and then cry and moan about health problems to only turn around and cry and moan about what modern technology is available to them. You want to battle "big pharma"? Put down the two liter soda, the doughnut and the grease burgers. Put down the xbox controller. Put down the smokes, the rum and cokes. Stop staring into the TV for 5 hours a day and take an hour out to move around a bit. Society had fed itself into the cycle of chronic illness but man, don't we have to pry those bad habits out of their hands? Now queue the 3% of those who are on a maintenance pharmaceutical regiment that legitimately are trying to keep up with their own well being but are still in a bad place.
There was a time when human beings watched no TV, only ate natural foods, had to rely on physically being in shape to scratch an existence out of the dirt.
...
Oh, by the way, life expectancy in that time was about 35 years of age
good point - wish I had mod points today.
How do they get a picture of you and what you are looking at together? If it is a mash up, couldn't they just mash up your face (pic they took) with some disgusting porn pic anyway?
I don't get it.
at first, nanobots delivering drugs in the bloodstream and all...
But then, I read that they were "3D printed" nanobots, and I was all like "Whoahh, these guys are onto something!"
Martian Chronicles is so strange ... it was all about inciting hysteria, not about story telling.
Every time I go in there I get that dude coming up to me "sir, do you own a home, can I tell you about how Solar will blah blah blah"
Lemme alone, fools. I will burn hydrocarbons till the day I die. (just joking here)
At roughly 10% of the population left handed people are a minority. Watch designs have historically been designed for right handed people. When watches were mechanical devices that made sense. It didn't make economical sense to manufacturer two different designs of watches and it would have been to complex, and therefore expensive, to provide a stem and/or buttons on both sides of the watch. But with purely digital watches most of those barriers go away. What is the cost per watch to provide an additional button? Or even more simply, what about a configuration option that changes the orientation of the display. In the case of the Moto 360 that would mean that the button would be at the 7 o'clock position if worn upside down by a leftie. The button would be easily pushed by the thumb instead of the forefinger, but at least your hand would be out of the way.
People, just think of the lefties.
Apple watch can be set-up for lefties; one of the reasons I bought one.
1. The balls are hydrophobic, so they don't really "coat" themselves with water.
2. The real key is that the interstitial spaces are reflux zones, that let the evaporating water condense and run back into the pool.
3. Not sure where you were going with the "getting more water..." comment
yep, reading glasses are annoying as hell especially when your distance vision is perfect.
Will now finally have to start that band.
I want in ... can play guitar and piano. lemme know
I've never been a fan, but increasingly, I find myself admiring what he is doing with his wealth and time post-microsoft.
Good for you Mr. Gates, use your money to try and do something positive in this world.
I bet. Apple has more to loose than to gain, so I predict Apple management will come back with some gesture toward paying artists for the trial period. That's the smart thing to do anyway.
Also, good for her to take this role.
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Don't be an ass. Its not in any employees interest including the CEO to run it into the ground when a lot of them are on performance related pay. And its certainly not in the governments interest.
I suggest you put your tin foil hat away. This is just plain old fashioned incompetance.
Incompetence - a bad day when you spell that word wrong.
I knew that whole story was made up BS. No way that kid doesn't get yelled at for using nail polish in upstairs. Every parent knows this.
For many countries, the passport stamp is your tourist visa.
But back on topic, Does my weedwacker need a passport? Does my electric razor need a passport? WTF would my robot need a passport?