What we need to do is cure the world from capitalism, in particular the delusion that economic growth will be sustained forever. This mistaken belief can, and will, kill many more people than cancer. Think war.
Economic growth would have been sustained if we had kept our citizens from sterilizing themselves. Too late now though.. damage is done.
Hot melt glue guns have to melt the end of a large-diameter cylinder of plastic. The lix melts just the tip of a 1.75mm cylinder. Much less wattage is needed. I don't know if enough wattage is available from a USB connection, but it may be. I can easily imagine a 2 or 3 watt light bulb melting the plastic fast enough. I think the USB spec is 4.5 watts at 5v.
The lix is still just a hot-melt glue gun, though a smaller version than commonly seen. There doesn't seem to be a claim on the lix website that it is controlled in any way by the computer, only that it is powered by a USB source. It could just as easily be powered by an external battery or power brick. Any resulting sculpture would be created in real time in the user's hand, and would not be designed before hand.
This. The novelty is the ability to extrude by pushing a button instead of shoving the material in manually.
The disclaimer above the video clearly says that portions of the video have been accelerated. Which is normal when watching demos of 3D printers, and also normal when watching artists demonstrate their process via video. So, you could hardly claim it was misleading or deceptive.
There's nothing indicating that there isn't a warm up time involved in using the pen, just like any other glue gun. It would seem pretty self evident to me that there's some sort of thermal mass inside the pen, surrounded by an insulating sheath to protect the users hands, and that you have to let it sit and warm up before you use it.
Did anyone else realize Brian Benchoff's not exactly "Mr Wizard' when they read the second paragraph of his post?
The device is powered through a USB 3 port. In the video, the Lix team is using a MacBook Pro. This has a USB port capable of delivering 900 mA at 5 Volts, or 4.5 Watts. Another 3D printing pen, the 3Doodler, uses a 2A, 12V power adapter, equal to 24 Watts. Considering the 3Doodler works, and they both do the same basic thing, there’s something extremely odd going on here.
All I could think was "Did you see that nerd pick up that pen? That nerd is a scrawny wimp. A football player is much stronger. Considering that football players can pick up a pen, there's something extremely odd going on here."
Oh, and a revolution is not rioting, it's an organized replacement government attempting to win acceptance as "the system" in the hearts and minds of the population while the existing government tries to quell them with violence. By definition, a revolution has significant popular support and a structure of government. When the military is brought to bear by an existing government against people attempting to participate in a different structure of government that they prefer, that is textbook tyranny.
Professional army vs domestic population = tyranny.
That's not what happens. Obviously you weren't in the military.
Except, of course, that I was. Infantry. Honourable discharge following a car accident. Irrelevant to the point, though.
So, why did they make the treaty then, do you suppose? Do you have special knowledge those military advisers didn't have? I hope for the sake of discussion you will either take my word that it's a real thing or go google the subject without demanding I cite sources like this was some sort of thesis defense, because I'm a little drunk and really can't be bothered right now....
The best thing you can do is create more wealth to begin with. Our system of capitalism is effectively doing that. Every time you make a trade where what you gain is worth more to you than what you gave up for it, you have literally created more wealth for both you and whoever you traded with.
Meh, all I want is to kidnap a wife from the next tribe, throw her on the back of a horse, build a house on a modestly sized piece of land without too many people around, knock her up a few times and have the rest of you leave me the fuck alone while I look after my family with my own two hands, grow old and die. I have no interest in wealth. None whatsoever.
and I wish people would stop deluding themselves that it does. A bunch of untrained or moderately guys with AR-15s don't stand a chance against a modern military. That's sorta why we didn't lose in Iraq.
Do you think members of the US military will follow orders to shoot their countrymen?
The US government doesn't. That's why they made a treaty with Canada, that if Canada has a revolution, American solders will be sent to quell it, and if America has a revolution, Canadian solders will be sent to quell it.
With the right indoctrination, you can teach a man that his enemy is not human. But most people don't like shooting their neighbours, and will go AWOL if you try to make them.
I think that there's probably a way to regain control of our country with destroying the world economy.
It's only a matter of *who* will crash the Dollar - OPEC, non-aligned petro-states, The Federal Reserve ("neither Federal nor with any reserves"), Germany (gold), bitcoin, Americans, etc. Bretton Woods is no longer meaningful.
Better for it to be done in an orderly fashion, but if it's not, it'll be done is a disorderly fashion. Oh - don't keep your retirement account in USD, m'kay?
It's the "command and control" technology for your civilization. But it's been subverted, just like a hacked server that is no longer doing what it was designed to do. If you act intelligently to replace it, most of you will be much better off. If you leave it to foreigners to smash it, you will be frantic to arrange "something" to co-ordinate your affairs, you'll make knee-jerk reactions, and most likely end up with something even worse.
This is a stupid idea. Pick up your guns and start a revolution, or don't.
I wonder how many years until the man will hunt down the authors of posts like this and charge them with sedition. And sad to say, I think that the new millennium government has a track record saying this is likely a "when", not an "if". Today, the tin foil hat wearers are those who believe in the government and agencies.
It's less work to wait someone to accumulate a following, then execute a campaign to trash their reputation and leave their followers without a coherent direction. That's how these things are done.
So what, you can work for money to give to people who screw you over at every turn, but you can't work to meet your needs directly without involving middle men? You can work for money to pay taxes to maintain the infrastructure you rely on, but you can't go work on that infrastructure without the guarantee of cash in your pocket, simply because it's important?
You ever think maybe if you spent less time thinking about all the things that you're entitled to have delivered to you on a silver platter......and more time thinking about your natural right to get off your ass and go address the problems in your life directly without middle men barring the way...... maybe, just maybe, you might be better off?
This is a stupid idea. Pick up your guns and start a revolution, or don't. Congress is just a building full of people you don't have to listen to. Why would you work like a slave to pay someone millions of dollars to say what you want them to say when you can just ignore them and work on improving your country?
You wanna shut them down? Bush told you how after 9/11. It's simple.
STOP FUCKING SHOPPING.
Destroy the value of currency, get your country back. It's that simple.
Um... okay. But what does that have to do with Spider Man? The earlier Spider Man movies weren't like that at all. On the contrary: those were fairly typical Damsel In Distress stuff.
Having said that: I agree that was a great scene. But one great scene does not make a movie.
I disliked Toby Maguire immensely. Spider-Man is supposed to be an overconfident wisecracking smart ass with a dash of brilliant intellect. Toby Maguire is an emo crybaby, the sort of guy who would keep his girlfriend by telling her he was going to kill himself.
The scene where the little kid faces down the villain was also an awesome scene. Not as good as Gwen's death scene, but awesome.
I think this was the best Spider Man movie ever made. That scene where Peter tells Gwen to stay out of the way because it's too dangerous, and she makes her oh-so-predictable "girls can do anything boys can do" speech, then gets shot dead... that was just awesome. I'm sick to death of the ridiculous "beefcake dressed as nerdy scientist wrings his hands while 110 lb woman dressed as dominatrix defeats six linebackers without messing up her hair" scenes coming out of Hollywood.
I don't really buy the "it's just jewelry" argument. You brag about the precision, it's self winding, solar powered, tells time in different time zones - crap like that. As men, we want it to serve a purpose, more than women do. We want a cool peice of gear, as well as a peice of jewelry (or a status symbol, if you're insecure).
No, really, we don't. It's 100% about timeless style, not about being useful beyond telling you what time it is. Tools and gear are great, but there's not a single smart watch concept that has ever been released that I'd wear on a night out. They look ridiculous. Maybe you could sell them to younger people who like wearing loud obnoxious crap to attract attention, if you got the price down to their range, but the guy wearing a high precision German timepiece is not going to switch for the sake of utility.
The early days, before they got comfortable with being, not just "an" advertising company, but the most insidious and powerful advertising company in history, grander in scale than George Orwell could ever have fathomed?
The Ivy League was basically a formal gentleman's agreement (you know, back from the good old days where they banned women and blacks from campus and had strict quotas on Jews) that they would mutually agree to be terrible at sports in order to maintain high academic standards.
Everyone who attends an Ivy League school to play sports is someone who would have been a serious consideration for admission without their athletic ability.
Of course they're going to be terrible at sports. They don't have any black people on their team!
Dude, you're the worst sort of person to argue with. You've demonstrated poor reading comprehension and a willingness to hand-wave away the distinction between similar words if you don't think they are relevant to you or serve your position. You seriously make me wonder why I even bother trying to express myself precisely
I never used the word explosion. I used the word detonation. I contrasted it with the deflagration that occurs in internal combustion engines like we see in cars.
A detonation occurs when the shock wave expanding out of the reaction zone compresses the unburnt fuel ahead of the wave, and the compressive heating raises the temperature in the unburnt fuel above it's autoignition temperature.
10 m/s is well below the threshold. Try 2000 m/s.
Detonation produces a more efficient combustion than deflagration, gives higher yields, and generates more kinetic force relative to the thermal energy released. It's a whole different kettle of fish.
I assume that picture was meant to be a German V-1 flying bomb? Those were pulse jet engines, but not pulse detonation engines. They used the expanding gas of repeated combustion reactions, they didn't cause fuel to detonate.
I was apparently mistaken about there not having ever been a PDE powered flight
From France to London in the mid 1940s - get a grip before trying to lecture others who are not entirely keyboard jockeys.
Do you have any more information? I can't find any references to a successful PDE powered flight outside of the work being done by the Air Force Research Laboratory and Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc.
Why do I say it's hoped that they will replace scramjets? Because aerospace and military engineers are spending millions of dollars working on trying to engineer them as a replacement for scramjets and hoping they succeed:
I was apparently mistaken about there not having ever been a PDE powered flight... looks like researchers flew one for 10 seconds at an altitude of 100 feet with engines that create detonations at a frequency of 80 Hz.
I imagine a power station that could harness the power of nitroglycerin. Nitro is cheap as hell to make and releases incredible power... I'd love to try and build a plant that's buried deep in bracing rock and uses a very dense inert metallic alloy as a hydraulic fluid to harness the incredible power of cheap organic explosives.
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What we need to do is cure the world from capitalism, in particular the delusion that economic growth will be sustained forever. This mistaken belief can, and will, kill many more people than cancer. Think war.
Economic growth would have been sustained if we had kept our citizens from sterilizing themselves. Too late now though.. damage is done.
Hot melt glue guns have to melt the end of a large-diameter cylinder of plastic. The lix melts just the tip of a 1.75mm cylinder. Much less wattage is needed. I don't know if enough wattage is available from a USB connection, but it may be. I can easily imagine a 2 or 3 watt light bulb melting the plastic fast enough. I think the USB spec is 4.5 watts at 5v.
The lix is still just a hot-melt glue gun, though a smaller version than commonly seen. There doesn't seem to be a claim on the lix website that it is controlled in any way by the computer, only that it is powered by a USB source. It could just as easily be powered by an external battery or power brick. Any resulting sculpture would be created in real time in the user's hand, and would not be designed before hand.
This. The novelty is the ability to extrude by pushing a button instead of shoving the material in manually.
The disclaimer above the video clearly says that portions of the video have been accelerated. Which is normal when watching demos of 3D printers, and also normal when watching artists demonstrate their process via video. So, you could hardly claim it was misleading or deceptive.
There's nothing indicating that there isn't a warm up time involved in using the pen, just like any other glue gun. It would seem pretty self evident to me that there's some sort of thermal mass inside the pen, surrounded by an insulating sheath to protect the users hands, and that you have to let it sit and warm up before you use it.
Did anyone else realize Brian Benchoff's not exactly "Mr Wizard' when they read the second paragraph of his post?
The device is powered through a USB 3 port. In the video, the Lix team is using a MacBook Pro. This has a USB port capable of delivering 900 mA at 5 Volts, or 4.5 Watts. Another 3D printing pen, the 3Doodler, uses a 2A, 12V power adapter, equal to 24 Watts. Considering the 3Doodler works, and they both do the same basic thing, there’s something extremely odd going on here.
All I could think was "Did you see that nerd pick up that pen? That nerd is a scrawny wimp. A football player is much stronger. Considering that football players can pick up a pen, there's something extremely odd going on here."
Oh, and a revolution is not rioting, it's an organized replacement government attempting to win acceptance as "the system" in the hearts and minds of the population while the existing government tries to quell them with violence. By definition, a revolution has significant popular support and a structure of government. When the military is brought to bear by an existing government against people attempting to participate in a different structure of government that they prefer, that is textbook tyranny.
Professional army vs domestic population = tyranny.
That's not what happens. Obviously you weren't in the military.
Except, of course, that I was. Infantry. Honourable discharge following a car accident. Irrelevant to the point, though.
So, why did they make the treaty then, do you suppose? Do you have special knowledge those military advisers didn't have? I hope for the sake of discussion you will either take my word that it's a real thing or go google the subject without demanding I cite sources like this was some sort of thesis defense, because I'm a little drunk and really can't be bothered right now....
The best thing you can do is create more wealth to begin with. Our system of capitalism is effectively doing that. Every time you make a trade where what you gain is worth more to you than what you gave up for it, you have literally created more wealth for both you and whoever you traded with.
Meh, all I want is to kidnap a wife from the next tribe, throw her on the back of a horse, build a house on a modestly sized piece of land without too many people around, knock her up a few times and have the rest of you leave me the fuck alone while I look after my family with my own two hands, grow old and die. I have no interest in wealth. None whatsoever.
and I wish people would stop deluding themselves that it does. A bunch of untrained or moderately guys with AR-15s don't stand a chance against a modern military. That's sorta why we didn't lose in Iraq.
Do you think members of the US military will follow orders to shoot their countrymen?
The US government doesn't. That's why they made a treaty with Canada, that if Canada has a revolution, American solders will be sent to quell it, and if America has a revolution, Canadian solders will be sent to quell it.
With the right indoctrination, you can teach a man that his enemy is not human. But most people don't like shooting their neighbours, and will go AWOL if you try to make them.
I think that there's probably a way to regain control of our country with destroying the world economy.
It's only a matter of *who* will crash the Dollar - OPEC, non-aligned petro-states, The Federal Reserve ("neither Federal nor with any reserves"), Germany (gold), bitcoin, Americans, etc. Bretton Woods is no longer meaningful.
Better for it to be done in an orderly fashion, but if it's not, it'll be done is a disorderly fashion. Oh - don't keep your retirement account in USD, m'kay?
It's the "command and control" technology for your civilization. But it's been subverted, just like a hacked server that is no longer doing what it was designed to do. If you act intelligently to replace it, most of you will be much better off. If you leave it to foreigners to smash it, you will be frantic to arrange "something" to co-ordinate your affairs, you'll make knee-jerk reactions, and most likely end up with something even worse.
Just a thought.
This is a stupid idea. Pick up your guns and start a revolution, or don't.
I wonder how many years until the man will hunt down the authors of posts like this and charge them with sedition.
And sad to say, I think that the new millennium government has a track record saying this is likely a "when", not an "if". Today, the tin foil hat wearers are those who believe in the government and agencies.
It's less work to wait someone to accumulate a following, then execute a campaign to trash their reputation and leave their followers without a coherent direction. That's how these things are done.
Ever think, maybe, the point of the education system from Day 1 is to interfere in your ability to do this? It seems custom made for such a purpose...
Right, and HIS idea was the stupid one...
So what, you can work for money to give to people who screw you over at every turn, but you can't work to meet your needs directly without involving middle men? You can work for money to pay taxes to maintain the infrastructure you rely on, but you can't go work on that infrastructure without the guarantee of cash in your pocket, simply because it's important?
You ever think maybe if you spent less time thinking about all the things that you're entitled to have delivered to you on a silver platter... ...and more time thinking about your natural right to get off your ass and go address the problems in your life directly without middle men barring the way... ... maybe, just maybe, you might be better off?
This is a stupid idea. Pick up your guns and start a revolution, or don't. Congress is just a building full of people you don't have to listen to. Why would you work like a slave to pay someone millions of dollars to say what you want them to say when you can just ignore them and work on improving your country?
You wanna shut them down? Bush told you how after 9/11. It's simple.
STOP FUCKING SHOPPING.
Destroy the value of currency, get your country back. It's that simple.
Um... okay. But what does that have to do with Spider Man? The earlier Spider Man movies weren't like that at all. On the contrary: those were fairly typical Damsel In Distress stuff.
Having said that: I agree that was a great scene. But one great scene does not make a movie.
I disliked Toby Maguire immensely. Spider-Man is supposed to be an overconfident wisecracking smart ass with a dash of brilliant intellect. Toby Maguire is an emo crybaby, the sort of guy who would keep his girlfriend by telling her he was going to kill himself.
The scene where the little kid faces down the villain was also an awesome scene. Not as good as Gwen's death scene, but awesome.
I think this was the best Spider Man movie ever made. That scene where Peter tells Gwen to stay out of the way because it's too dangerous, and she makes her oh-so-predictable "girls can do anything boys can do" speech, then gets shot dead... that was just awesome. I'm sick to death of the ridiculous "beefcake dressed as nerdy scientist wrings his hands while 110 lb woman dressed as dominatrix defeats six linebackers without messing up her hair" scenes coming out of Hollywood.
I don't really buy the "it's just jewelry" argument. You brag about the precision, it's self winding, solar powered, tells time in different time zones - crap like that. As men, we want it to serve a purpose, more than women do. We want a cool peice of gear, as well as a peice of jewelry (or a status symbol, if you're insecure).
No, really, we don't. It's 100% about timeless style, not about being useful beyond telling you what time it is. Tools and gear are great, but there's not a single smart watch concept that has ever been released that I'd wear on a night out. They look ridiculous. Maybe you could sell them to younger people who like wearing loud obnoxious crap to attract attention, if you got the price down to their range, but the guy wearing a high precision German timepiece is not going to switch for the sake of utility.
When was Google ever "good"?
The early days, before they got comfortable with being, not just "an" advertising company, but the most insidious and powerful advertising company in history, grander in scale than George Orwell could ever have fathomed?
My guess was "succeeding is easy if you can throw money about".
What happened to Windows 8 then?
You're not really going to humiliate yourself by continuing this, are you?
Bill Burr says it best :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The Ivy League was basically a formal gentleman's agreement (you know, back from the good old days where they banned women and blacks from campus and had strict quotas on Jews) that they would mutually agree to be terrible at sports in order to maintain high academic standards.
Everyone who attends an Ivy League school to play sports is someone who would have been a serious consideration for admission without their athletic ability.
Of course they're going to be terrible at sports. They don't have any black people on their team!
Dude, you're the worst sort of person to argue with. You've demonstrated poor reading comprehension and a willingness to hand-wave away the distinction between similar words if you don't think they are relevant to you or serve your position. You seriously make me wonder why I even bother trying to express myself precisely
I never used the word explosion. I used the word detonation. I contrasted it with the deflagration that occurs in internal combustion engines like we see in cars.
A detonation occurs when the shock wave expanding out of the reaction zone compresses the unburnt fuel ahead of the wave, and the compressive heating raises the temperature in the unburnt fuel above it's autoignition temperature.
10 m/s is well below the threshold. Try 2000 m/s.
Detonation produces a more efficient combustion than deflagration, gives higher yields, and generates more kinetic force relative to the thermal energy released. It's a whole different kettle of fish.
I assume that picture was meant to be a German V-1 flying bomb? Those were pulse jet engines, but not pulse detonation engines. They used the expanding gas of repeated combustion reactions, they didn't cause fuel to detonate.
From France to London in the mid 1940s - get a grip before trying to lecture others who are not entirely keyboard jockeys.
Do you have any more information? I can't find any references to a successful PDE powered flight outside of the work being done by the Air Force Research Laboratory and Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc.
Sorry, I'm not an engineer. I've worked in a fireworks factory and made my own model rockets, but I'm not a professional.
And no, I was thinking something like Galinstan, and not for propulsion, but for a power station.
As far as the difference between deflagration and detonation, you may find this helpful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
Why do I say it's hoped that they will replace scramjets? Because aerospace and military engineers are spending millions of dollars working on trying to engineer them as a replacement for scramjets and hoping they succeed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
I was apparently mistaken about there not having ever been a PDE powered flight... looks like researchers flew one for 10 seconds at an altitude of 100 feet with engines that create detonations at a frequency of 80 Hz.
I imagine a power station that could harness the power of nitroglycerin. Nitro is cheap as hell to make and releases incredible power... I'd love to try and build a plant that's buried deep in bracing rock and uses a very dense inert metallic alloy as a hydraulic fluid to harness the incredible power of cheap organic explosives.
Am I missing something here or are you ignoring how diesel engines work? To me at least it looks like a series of small explosions.
You're missing something. Diesel engines are internal combustion engines.