I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the purchases were intended to be gag gifts to friends. "Ha ha Bob, I bought you some penis pills for your honeymoon!" I've bought some ridiculous stuff for that very reason.
They are cleaning every room at the same time? I doubt it. It is just laziness and a lack of a proper energy efficient lighting system. You leave an empty room, you turn off the lights.
Prove this statement. Based on this logic any crime that occurs in the daytime could be reduced by blocking the sun. Crime is more likely to happen at night due to the lack of witnesses than due to the lighting.
Streetlights make night driving harder by interfering with your night vision (along with high intensity headlights) as you pass from light to dark and back. The only place they should exist is at busy intersections and crosswalks. Lighting up the sky is a total waste of money and anyone, right or left wing, should be against waste.
The problem with any technological "solution" is that it breeds more problems. If you depend on this tech to determine people's locations then it can be faked. What if I just left my cell phone dialed into, say, my ISP and left it sitting in my house? Now the snoop will confidently think I'm at home when in reality I'm well on my way to Tiajuana.
Eat a bowl of Lucky Charms and you'll get at least 200W of glucose power. Plus, they are magically delicious!
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I don't know why they used the idiotic plot device of the Matrix using people as human batteries. It would've been far more believable if they had the plot be that the Matrix was using the extra processing power of people's brains (whether there really is any extra or not in reality) for its own purposes. It would let people use just enough to live in the Matrix and take the rest. Sort of a giant SETI@home type system. Disconnect enough people and you'd have the Matrix singing "Daisy" before long. Plus you could have little story extras like explaining that inspiration and visions in people are actually due to "bad connections" in their heads (and possibly important loopholes into the system?) and that dreams are Matrix background noise.
Maybe the idea of people not using all of their brains would be too realistic.
The other point the article made was that particle size and hardness prevents the surfaces from mating properly. Since the carbon particles are so small and can be deformed they won't preclude this from happening.
I lapped the heatsink mirror smooth then I lapped the CPU until bare metal circuitry was exposed and put them together but now it won't boot up. Please advise.
Read the article closely. You'll see that one of the main points is that even if you did spread it nicely the size of the particles in the silicon paste prevents the surfaces from mating properly. The carbon particles on the other hand are soft enough to distort and allow surface imperfections to mate.
Buck Rodgers, like Baywatch, was best watched with the sound off to prevent the awful scripts from ruining the visuals. I think Erin Gray's shiny spandex clad body greatly accelerated my puberty.
This is a good way to break down tasks into manageable bites. I use the same tactic when hiking/climbing ("just to that boulder then rest, ok now just to that ledge...").
I prefer to break up tasks into completion based pieces instead of time based pieces. For instance, I also had to do a spring cleaning of my apt. I broke it up into rooms or even sections of large rooms, "I'm going to clean the storage room, then I'll move the couch and get that whole side of the room..." I didn't stop until I had finished that subproject and didn't start a new one until the old one was completed (barring something forcing me to stop temporarily). I feel this is more satisfying for people like myself who have to take a task to completion but would otherwise never start a big task because of the intimidation factor and the fear of not being able to finish the project as a whole.
I couldn't handle your trick of stopping in mid-thought, once I get going I have to ride that wave of mental momentum while it is there or I risk losing it.
I would add to this one of the enemies of the procrastinator, the "initial hump." I've found that getting started on a project is the hardest part and it is the intimidation factor that is the problem. Once I get started I'm ok, especially if I find it interesting and then I usually can't stop!
So bite the bullet and force yourself to at least outline the project at hand. Once you start thinking about it even at a simple level just getting your mind wrapped around it makes it feel much more feasable. You'll have a plan of attack and it won't be so intimidating anymore.
The value of items based on their scarcity would fade to the cost of their raw materials and energy in such a situation. The only items that would have a high value would be those with a story (the item's historical significance), and that value would be an emotional one.
The value of, say, drugs would only be the cost of the instructions to make them. There would still be a way to profit then. It would be an intellectual property based society.
One problem if such a concept was taken to it's extreme conclusion (the end of manufacturing) would be how anyone would make enough money to pay for the intellectual property needed to produce what they need. Not everyone is going to be an inventor themselves. You still need a way for people to convert their time into money. At the same time, however, once you had the instructions for your basic needs the effort needed to satisfy them would shrink to a trivial amount and most of your efforts would be focused on acquiring plans for luxuries.
You'd end up having a situation similar to the towns of Middle Ages Europe where they were basically self-sufficient and indistinguishable in their products (barring differences in crops). Until manufacturing started (such as the textile mills of Flanders) their biggest distinguishing factors were cultural ones mainly.
One side note, I hope recycling would be able to keep up with all of this home manufacturing. Judging from the amount of paper wasted on unnecessary and botched printouts I could imagine heaps of white test runs dumped in front of people's homes every trash day.
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2,928,000,000 - 1, I am already hung like a stallion, thank you very much.
May I suggest (from the "Life of Brian") BIGGUS DICKUS?
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the purchases were intended to be gag gifts to friends. "Ha ha Bob, I bought you some penis pills for your honeymoon!" I've bought some ridiculous stuff for that very reason.
They are cleaning every room at the same time? I doubt it. It is just laziness and a lack of a proper energy efficient lighting system. You leave an empty room, you turn off the lights.
"Streetlights...make us safer."
Prove this statement. Based on this logic any crime that occurs in the daytime could be reduced by blocking the sun. Crime is more likely to happen at night due to the lack of witnesses than due to the lighting.
Streetlights make night driving harder by interfering with your night vision (along with high intensity headlights) as you pass from light to dark and back. The only place they should exist is at busy intersections and crosswalks. Lighting up the sky is a total waste of money and anyone, right or left wing, should be against waste.
The problem with any technological "solution" is that it breeds more problems. If you depend on this tech to determine people's locations then it can be faked. What if I just left my cell phone dialed into, say, my ISP and left it sitting in my house? Now the snoop will confidently think I'm at home when in reality I'm well on my way to Tiajuana.
Eat a bowl of Lucky Charms and you'll get at least 200W of glucose power. Plus, they are magically delicious!
I don't know why they used the idiotic plot device of the Matrix using people as human batteries. It would've been far more believable if they had the plot be that the Matrix was using the extra processing power of people's brains (whether there really is any extra or not in reality) for its own purposes. It would let people use just enough to live in the Matrix and take the rest. Sort of a giant SETI@home type system. Disconnect enough people and you'd have the Matrix singing "Daisy" before long. Plus you could have little story extras like explaining that inspiration and visions in people are actually due to "bad connections" in their heads (and possibly important loopholes into the system?) and that dreams are Matrix background noise.
Maybe the idea of people not using all of their brains would be too realistic.
(Said in best Charlton Heston voice)
Damn you entropy! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!
The other point the article made was that particle size and hardness prevents the surfaces from mating properly. Since the carbon particles are so small and can be deformed they won't preclude this from happening.
It would be a breakthrough for heat dissipating sexual lubricants.
"Honey, don't use so much, the Slashdot guys said to use a thin layer."
I lapped the heatsink mirror smooth then I lapped the CPU until bare metal circuitry was exposed and put them together but now it won't boot up. Please advise.
Read the article closely. You'll see that one of the main points is that even if you did spread it nicely the size of the particles in the silicon paste prevents the surfaces from mating properly. The carbon particles on the other hand are soft enough to distort and allow surface imperfections to mate.
"The reference to the face hugger modeled after a vagina is probably very true."
Ummm, wouldn't that make it a "c*ck hugger"?
There are two available I know of, "Star Wars I" and II.
Sorry, but I refuse to cave into my wife and get ride of my "Princess Leia in a Metal Bikini" doll.
Funny, I don't remember what happened right after I bought mine and now I'm eating like crazy!
Buck Rodgers, like Baywatch, was best watched with the sound off to prevent the awful scripts from ruining the visuals. I think Erin Gray's shiny spandex clad body greatly accelerated my puberty.
This is a good way to break down tasks into manageable bites. I use the same tactic when hiking/climbing ("just to that boulder then rest, ok now just to that ledge...").
I prefer to break up tasks into completion based pieces instead of time based pieces. For instance, I also had to do a spring cleaning of my apt. I broke it up into rooms or even sections of large rooms, "I'm going to clean the storage room, then I'll move the couch and get that whole side of the room..." I didn't stop until I had finished that subproject and didn't start a new one until the old one was completed (barring something forcing me to stop temporarily). I feel this is more satisfying for people like myself who have to take a task to completion but would otherwise never start a big task because of the intimidation factor and the fear of not being able to finish the project as a whole.
I couldn't handle your trick of stopping in mid-thought, once I get going I have to ride that wave of mental momentum while it is there or I risk losing it.
I would add to this one of the enemies of the procrastinator, the "initial hump." I've found that getting started on a project is the hardest part and it is the intimidation factor that is the problem. Once I get started I'm ok, especially if I find it interesting and then I usually can't stop!
So bite the bullet and force yourself to at least outline the project at hand. Once you start thinking about it even at a simple level just getting your mind wrapped around it makes it feel much more feasable. You'll have a plan of attack and it won't be so intimidating anymore.
"get rid of your addictive bookmarks"
Thanks for the tip!
[Deleting my Slashdot bookmark]
The value of items based on their scarcity would fade to the cost of their raw materials and energy in such a situation. The only items that would have a high value would be those with a story (the item's historical significance), and that value would be an emotional one.
The value of, say, drugs would only be the cost of the instructions to make them. There would still be a way to profit then. It would be an intellectual property based society.
One problem if such a concept was taken to it's extreme conclusion (the end of manufacturing) would be how anyone would make enough money to pay for the intellectual property needed to produce what they need. Not everyone is going to be an inventor themselves. You still need a way for people to convert their time into money. At the same time, however, once you had the instructions for your basic needs the effort needed to satisfy them would shrink to a trivial amount and most of your efforts would be focused on acquiring plans for luxuries.
You'd end up having a situation similar to the towns of Middle Ages Europe where they were basically self-sufficient and indistinguishable in their products (barring differences in crops). Until manufacturing started (such as the textile mills of Flanders) their biggest distinguishing factors were cultural ones mainly.
One side note, I hope recycling would be able to keep up with all of this home manufacturing. Judging from the amount of paper wasted on unnecessary and botched printouts I could imagine heaps of white test runs dumped in front of people's homes every trash day.
You mean it isn't a game simulation of ancient Mesoamerica (Olmecs)? I thought it was odd that the ball court was in Manchester UK and not Tikal.
This technology has already been perfected. It is called the "attentive waiter." All it requires is a waiter who does his/her job and can see.
If a waiter can monitor a screen they can look around and spot your hand up in the air also.
That explains why the folks who supported the "Patriot Act" only act like they're patriotic.