A culture of fanatic overprotection from the wrong things, yeah, that's going to end well in history. Don't run with rulers, round off the scissor ends, no paper clips because we must not have anything with pointy ends, reduce chemistry set functionality because of litigation potential. Dumb down the schools because with jobs going offshore, who needs smart workers here? And dumb kids grow up to be dumb manipulatible voters, just what is desired. Helicopter parents resulting in middle-class kids not growing up until they're in their 20s. Pretty soon apple trees will be required to have protective safety nets so that kids can't fall out of them, the old swimming holes will require lifeguard towers, and all bicycles must have airbags. By the way, now in Australia, knives must be registered. Sorry, Crocodile Dundee. You have to give up that pigsticker.
We are over-regulated on the wrong things and under-regulated on the vital things. The nanny state fosters dependency on others to make critical judgments for us so that all th consumer need worry about is buying, buying, buying instead of thinking for themselves about a product. Meanwhile, banks destroy the economy and BP destroys the Gulf region because of lack of preventive oversight.
I say we're so out of balance we're headed to be a footnote in the history books. "The US, an experiment in democracy that failed due to growing beyond the scale where it could be managed properly."
Their stated plan of getting plants and umbrellas will just result in burned dead plants and flaming umbrellas with holes. I suspect the only practical way to deal with this will be to install metal screens on posts to block the focused rays. Of course, anyone walking between the rays and (near) the blocking screen will get zapped. Alternatively, the hotel should charge extra and say "This is not a bug! It's a feature! We offer SuperQuickTan tm, the only place you can get tanned in 0.1 second! However, if you're already tanned or you're an ethnic minority, DO NOT USE this service."
That explains the 14 bald screaming women who ran out of the development lab after an embarrassing controller code bug. "Massage_hair" is NOT a subclass of "Pluck_eyebrow".
My rough analysis says that if a high-energy electron beam can cut holes in metal, then a high-energy beam of much more massive protons with high kinetic energy would have an effect on tissue mass it encounters. My guess then is that the beam could slice through tissue like a thin blade. Maybe like the fabled monomolecular blade of science fiction would. Obviously a heavy stream of protons would break bonds between molecules and act like a cutter. It would be a high density stream of positive charges, and that's got to have both a mechanical effect from the kinetic energy and an electrostatic effect that just has to be playing havoc with hydrogen bonds and covalent bonds (by hammering electrons in shells). The guy whose head entered a beam probably got a large planar slice cut internally as he moved his head. The slice thickness being only beam-thick, it may not have had much volumetric tissue damage but certainly a lot of connectivity damage between each side of the slice.
I have trademarked the word 'quack', patented the 'one-click quack', and plan to sue you for infringement, sir. Also, I am descended from royalty. Cease and desist or I shall be forced to make you eat glycemic high fructose corn syrup bicycle tires.
We at Cyberdyne Systems consider this all amusing. Our early, now-obsolete flying killbots could eat these for breakfast and spit out bolts in all directions. Our patented "Headshot" tm techology supports a 100 kpm strike rate, For more information query our website, indicating your security clearance level and service rating. We are unable to respond below 3 stars, sorry.
I'm leery of any computer company based in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. Florida is the capitol of sleazy companies. And I'd be worried that the PCs on bootup would ask you whether you want to take a free, easy personality test too. (Okay, Ft L. is not Clearwater but ya never know...)
Well hell, I still haven't given up believing in the aether. or that ghosts can pass through solid objects, except for the floor. A man's not a man without something to believe in, I say. Nixon for President in '012. And I have a proof a bit too large to scribble in the margin here about P and NP.
I wonder how effective lead-based paint is in dealing with backscatter? I frankly would not want to be sitting in a livingroom in a brownstone building and having regular street sweeps by these vans. Oh, but with a glass front window, paint would be useless.
What kind of insane level have we reached when the government X-rays us at their whim and we have no recourse?
Sure, there are more efficient and practical ways but the point of personal manufacturing systems is to be able to make things yourself in small runs instead of depending on large-scale mass production manufacturers. If I have a home box that can make shoes, I might choose to pay a little more for raw materials but I gain the ability to be independent of a specific finished goods maker. Even it is slower than buying off the shelf and it takes two days to process, I don't care if it runs overnight and takes six different kind of plastic feedstock. Essentially it amounts having tiny elves in my cottage who magically make things at night without my doing it and without my depending on China and Walmart.
But I understand your point about mass production and agree that one-offs are not always the perfect solution.
Well, look what the ability to make hundreds of dies simultaneously on a wafer did for the semiconductor revolution. If one could make hundreds of small plastic custom parts at one time, it could enable small businesses to make things they otherwise couldn't do economically. I look at cheap Chinese products and ask, why make them over there and lug them thousands of miles at a cost of energy, when we could do short runs as needed here, locally and by American businesses. I have lots of things around the house that could have been made by a machine with this technology (layered up). By the way, let's extend the manufacturing principle to not just 2D axes but also rotational, as in what a lathe does but instead of removing material you add it to a rotated base. So for example you could make a cup on demand out of plastic beads fused together - which is just about what a styrofoam cup is.
Well, Egyptian Consumer Reports noted that "The Tut Chariot, made by Toyota, is prone to unexplainable sudden acceleration. However, it gets good hay mileage. And depending on the whip you use, it can do 0-60 in under 3 minutes."
There are at least two major issues with using synthesizer over live performers. First, a human will almost always have ability to interpret music and add human variations to timing, duration, expression that a sampled tone cannot usually offer. In fact, it is the human subtle flaws that add to the effect of live music. Second, a live performer's instrument emits sound three-dimensionally into a performance space and the sound is subtly different from that coming out of speakers. A speaker most often emits within a 180 degree forward plane. A live performer emits 360 degrees with the result that live sound creates subtle reverberations from all directions. Of course all this varies according to the environment qualities. Even a speaker with a dipole radiator for midrange and high end will not radially emit the same as a live instrument. So for audiences at a performance - not ones at home listening to two speakers - there will certainly be differences between live and canned.
Of course, in an era where idiots can't hear the difference between compressed MP3s and live music, this may not matter, but quality is a nice thing and not everyone is a #&^** blind moron.
Hello citizen! We have a new, improved headset for your iPod! It comes with this tiny scalp electrode. Make sure you wear it for best audio quality! And keep the WiFi connection active. It's almost like the new, improved cell phone we just issued, Make sure you always use that too. Good citizens always listen!
And also, the WJS article is self-inconsistent. In one paragraph it says "The U.S. Department of Transportation has analyzed dozens of data recorders from Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles involved in accidents" but then a few paragraphs down it then says "It is unknown how many data recorders NHTSA has read so far" and then it notes "Because the data recorders can lose their information if disconnected from the car's battery or if the battery dies--as could happen after a crash--the agency is focusing only on recent accidents...NHTSA has received more than 3,000 complaints of sudden acceleration in Toyotas and Lexuses, including some dating to early last decade, according to a report the agency compiled in March. The incidents include 75 fatal crashes involving 93 deaths."
So the story is wonky and reads like Toyota paid Rupert Murdoch's WSJ to blame drivers, when really only a small percentage of accidents were actually analyzed from data. Given 3000 accident reports and 75 fatal crashes, yet fewer than maybe 24 recorders read, the story positions all the blame on drivers. This is a PR flack at work making Toyota look blameless and using the name of the NHTSA to make it look real.
It's all because of piracy. If you look at line 54(b) of the Warners statement, it clearly says "Losses due to piracy by Jammie Thomas --- 212,000,637.15". With terrible theft like that going on, it's no wonder studios make no profit and can't pay contributors anything.
Maybe not Intel because they're not much into codecs and packet processors. I'd figure various vendors having custom chips, ASICs for it. CISCO this year bought Tandberg for their technologies in this area.
Yes, with all the imported produce such as Mexican tomatoes, Brazilian orange juice, and Greek olives, I'd say there are a lot of foreign isotopes floating around.
CSI Miami: "Hey, either the murderer lives in Colombia or he just ate some Campbell Soup from New Jersey. Let's indict the coke-using bastard anyway!"
Detective: "I'd say... puts on sunglasses... how do you like THEM tomatoes!"
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BTW, when I drink too much, I get terrible ping floods the next morning,
1880 telegraphed. They want their meme updated, but they have no tech support back there.
We are over-regulated on the wrong things and under-regulated on the vital things. The nanny state fosters dependency on others to make critical judgments for us so that all th consumer need worry about is buying, buying, buying instead of thinking for themselves about a product. Meanwhile, banks destroy the economy and BP destroys the Gulf region because of lack of preventive oversight.
I say we're so out of balance we're headed to be a footnote in the history books. "The US, an experiment in democracy that failed due to growing beyond the scale where it could be managed properly."
Before I moved to Mars, I just didn't appreciate three-breasted mutants. Now that I'm stuck here, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Their stated plan of getting plants and umbrellas will just result in burned dead plants and flaming umbrellas with holes. I suspect the only practical way to deal with this will be to install metal screens on posts to block the focused rays. Of course, anyone walking between the rays and (near) the blocking screen will get zapped. Alternatively, the hotel should charge extra and say "This is not a bug! It's a feature! We offer SuperQuickTan tm, the only place you can get tanned in 0.1 second! However, if you're already tanned or you're an ethnic minority, DO NOT USE this service."
That explains the 14 bald screaming women who ran out of the development lab after an embarrassing controller code bug. "Massage_hair" is NOT a subclass of "Pluck_eyebrow".
My rough analysis says that if a high-energy electron beam can cut holes in metal, then a high-energy beam of much more massive protons with high kinetic energy would have an effect on tissue mass it encounters. My guess then is that the beam could slice through tissue like a thin blade. Maybe like the fabled monomolecular blade of science fiction would. Obviously a heavy stream of protons would break bonds between molecules and act like a cutter. It would be a high density stream of positive charges, and that's got to have both a mechanical effect from the kinetic energy and an electrostatic effect that just has to be playing havoc with hydrogen bonds and covalent bonds (by hammering electrons in shells). The guy whose head entered a beam probably got a large planar slice cut internally as he moved his head. The slice thickness being only beam-thick, it may not have had much volumetric tissue damage but certainly a lot of connectivity damage between each side of the slice.
I have trademarked the word 'quack', patented the 'one-click quack', and plan to sue you for infringement, sir. Also, I am descended from royalty. Cease and desist or I shall be forced to make you eat glycemic high fructose corn syrup bicycle tires.
We at Cyberdyne Systems consider this all amusing. Our early, now-obsolete flying killbots could eat these for breakfast and spit out bolts in all directions. Our patented "Headshot" tm techology supports a 100 kpm strike rate, For more information query our website, indicating your security clearance level and service rating. We are unable to respond below 3 stars, sorry.
I'm leery of any computer company based in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. Florida is the capitol of sleazy companies. And I'd be worried that the PCs on bootup would ask you whether you want to take a free, easy personality test too. (Okay, Ft L. is not Clearwater but ya never know...)
Well hell, I still haven't given up believing in the aether. or that ghosts can pass through solid objects, except for the floor. A man's not a man without something to believe in, I say. Nixon for President in '012. And I have a proof a bit too large to scribble in the margin here about P and NP.
Thank you, yes. I'd like to buy an SCO office urinal so I can do in reality what I always fantasized about doing to McBride's head.
I wonder how effective lead-based paint is in dealing with backscatter? I frankly would not want to be sitting in a livingroom in a brownstone building and having regular street sweeps by these vans. Oh, but with a glass front window, paint would be useless. What kind of insane level have we reached when the government X-rays us at their whim and we have no recourse?
Sure, there are more efficient and practical ways but the point of personal manufacturing systems is to be able to make things yourself in small runs instead of depending on large-scale mass production manufacturers. If I have a home box that can make shoes, I might choose to pay a little more for raw materials but I gain the ability to be independent of a specific finished goods maker. Even it is slower than buying off the shelf and it takes two days to process, I don't care if it runs overnight and takes six different kind of plastic feedstock. Essentially it amounts having tiny elves in my cottage who magically make things at night without my doing it and without my depending on China and Walmart. But I understand your point about mass production and agree that one-offs are not always the perfect solution.
Well, look what the ability to make hundreds of dies simultaneously on a wafer did for the semiconductor revolution. If one could make hundreds of small plastic custom parts at one time, it could enable small businesses to make things they otherwise couldn't do economically. I look at cheap Chinese products and ask, why make them over there and lug them thousands of miles at a cost of energy, when we could do short runs as needed here, locally and by American businesses. I have lots of things around the house that could have been made by a machine with this technology (layered up). By the way, let's extend the manufacturing principle to not just 2D axes but also rotational, as in what a lathe does but instead of removing material you add it to a rotated base. So for example you could make a cup on demand out of plastic beads fused together - which is just about what a styrofoam cup is.
Well, Egyptian Consumer Reports noted that "The Tut Chariot, made by Toyota, is prone to unexplainable sudden acceleration. However, it gets good hay mileage. And depending on the whip you use, it can do 0-60 in under 3 minutes."
Of course, in an era where idiots can't hear the difference between compressed MP3s and live music, this may not matter, but quality is a nice thing and not everyone is a #&^** blind moron.
Hello citizen! We have a new, improved headset for your iPod! It comes with this tiny scalp electrode. Make sure you wear it for best audio quality! And keep the WiFi connection active. It's almost like the new, improved cell phone we just issued, Make sure you always use that too. Good citizens always listen!
To be honest, the acting by Matt Smith as Doctor Who invokes images of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.
So, it is indeed a bogus PR attempt to shift blame from Toyota to drivers.
So the story is wonky and reads like Toyota paid Rupert Murdoch's WSJ to blame drivers, when really only a small percentage of accidents were actually analyzed from data. Given 3000 accident reports and 75 fatal crashes, yet fewer than maybe 24 recorders read, the story positions all the blame on drivers. This is a PR flack at work making Toyota look blameless and using the name of the NHTSA to make it look real.
It's all because of piracy. If you look at line 54(b) of the Warners statement, it clearly says "Losses due to piracy by Jammie Thomas --- 212,000,637.15". With terrible theft like that going on, it's no wonder studios make no profit and can't pay contributors anything.
Obligatory scene of Bender going back in time and teaching PR2 to reply "Bite my shiny metal ass" when you ask for a beer.
Maybe not Intel because they're not much into codecs and packet processors. I'd figure various vendors having custom chips, ASICs for it. CISCO this year bought Tandberg for their technologies in this area.
CSI Miami: "Hey, either the murderer lives in Colombia or he just ate some Campbell Soup from New Jersey. Let's indict the coke-using bastard anyway!"
Detective: "I'd say ... puts on sunglasses ... how do you like THEM tomatoes!"