Sounds like McDonalds was doing it right. I guess the woman that burned herself was unfit to experience coffee. Are you?
Abstract:
Hot beverages such as tea, hot chocolate, and coffee are frequently served at temperatures between 160 degrees F (71.1 degrees C) and 185 degrees F (85 degrees C). Brief exposures to liquids in this temperature range can cause significant scald burns. However, hot beverages must be served at a temperature that is high enough to provide a satisfactory sensation to the consumer. This paper presents an analysis to quantify hot beverage temperatures that balance limiting the potential scald burn hazard and maintaining an acceptable perception of adequate product warmth... Recent data from the literature defines the consumer preferred drinking temperature of coffee. A metric accommodates the thermal effects of both scald hazard and product taste to identify an optimal recommended serving temperature. The burn model shows the standard exponential dependence of injury level on temperature. The preferred drinking temperature of coffee is specified in the literature as 140+/-15 degrees F (60+/-8.3 degrees C) for a population of 300 subjects. A linear (with respect to temperature) figure of merit merged the two effects to identify an optimal drinking temperature of approximately 136 degrees F (57.8 degrees C). The analysis points to a reduction in the presently recommended serving temperature of coffee to achieve the combined result of reducing the scald burn hazard and improving customer satisfaction.
If you have a set, count them. Weigh them. Prove to me that you haven't lost one. Haven't lost several. A dozen, at least, perhaps more. Then we can talk. Otherwise, you've just proven that you can't keep these things out of the mouths of your kids and pets.
Just shut up and take it.. Ask for more. How dare you create a product that could be misused if used inappropriately.
The ingested BuckyBall is from a geek's desktop toy --- and banned because the geek couldn't keep them out of the reach of his own kids. Couldn't see the danger in these things even when it was staring him in the face.
Can be used an educational tool for children; Also a good gift for a friend.
[The Inevitable Disclaimer Follows]
Keep Away From All Children!
Do not put in nose or mouth. Swallowed magnets can stick to intestines causing serious injury or death. Seek immediate medical attention if magnets are swallowed or inhaled.
The one and only NeoCube! The fun never stops! The is the HOTTEST toy in 2010. It's a super-strong magnet, it's a toy & it's a stress reliever. This rare earth magnetic toy gives you and your loved ones hours of fun to build endless objects.
You can snap, pull, mold, squeeze and construct an endless variety of shapes with the 216 pc set. Each spherical magnet is made from a rare-earth, super-strong magnetic metal known as neodymium.
With these magnetic balls, you can create many cool shapes. You can play "darts" on your refrigerator even. Or just use them as small, but strong magnets for displaying photos or holding papers.
But there were riches to be had if you risked that crossing in a boat - there isn't in space. Etc... etc...
There were already riches to had in the farther reaches of the North Atlantic:
Cods. Seals. Whales and so on.
Columbus made the argument that the western sea route to Asia was commercially viable for the ships of his day. He was wrong ---- but in a way that could easily be tested.
That's like saying the first transatlantic flight was not a massive credit to the builders and aviators because the towns were already there and built by other people.
British aviators Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919. They flew a modified World War I Vickers Vimy bomber from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.
Two weeks before Alcock and Brown's flight, the first trans-Atlantic flight had been made by the NC-4, a United States Navy flying boat, commanded by Lt. Commander Albert Cushing Read, who flew from Naval Air Station Rockaway, New York to Plymouth with a crew of five, over 23 days, with six stops along the way. This flight was not eligible for the Daily Mail prize since it took more than 72 consecutive hours and also because more than one aircraft was used in the attempt.
A month after Alcock and Brown's achievement, British airship R34 made the first double crossing of the Atlantic, carrying 31 people (one a stowaway) and a cat; twenty-nine of this crew, plus two flight engineers and a different American observer, then flew back to Europe.
The common thread here:
This is all military tech which evolved under the pressure and with the support of unlimited government spending in World War I.
Obviously, at last week's event they came to the conclusion that this is something they need to address.
The story doesn't begin: "We ran into some problems at this year's HempFest , and we need to do better."
Do that and answers become more focused. Lead times. Costs. Technologies. Staffing. As it stands, we're left wondering how long this post lay moldering at the bottom of the pile before the editors got around to reading it.
Don't tell me you've never seen an "Ask Slashdot" that reads like a weirdly delayed SOS call from "Titanic."
I suppose I could make a crack about them trying this with a Pollock, but I personally consider slopping paint on the floor over and over again to not be art.
My painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added. When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. --- Jackson Pollock, My Painting, 1956
Pollock's finest paintings... reveal that his all-over line does not give rise to positive or negative areas: we are not made to feel that one part of the canvas demands to be read as figure, whether abstract or representational, against another part of the canvas read as ground. There is not inside or outside to Pollock's line or the space through which it moves.... Pollock has managed to free line not only from its function of representing objects in the world, but also from its task of describing or bounding shapes or figures, whether abstract or representational, on the surface of the canvas. --- Karmel, 132Jackson Pollack
Pollack made an intense study of paint and canvas. Introducing random elements drawn from physics and mathematics into a work of art does not mean that you have lost control.
Once you've spent some time with a Pollack in a gallery you shut up about dripping paint on the floor.
If you haven't seen the painting in person, don't make fun of this. Like most people, I saw pictures of Van Gogh's paintings in books for years. Then when I was in my early 20s I visited the Metropolitan, where IIRC at least two Van Goghs were there. The big takeaway from seeing them in person is the heavy paint.
The most recognizable Van Gogh in the Met's collection is "Starry Night."
If I understand the process correctly, these are digital photographs overlaid on 3D models of the canvas and brushwork. They are not built up layer upon layer as paint on canvas would be. That is why they are headed to the up-scale shopping mall and not to the gallery that specializes in hand-crafted reproductions.
Theaters, however, have the advantage of making a later decision on wether to screen, and for how long, a movie.
No.
Bookings are made far in advance. If you want "The Hunger Games" you have to be at the head of the line. You have to make a serious commitment. Sweeten the deal by agreeing to show a studio's second and third tier product.
A similar attitude was had when automatic transmissions first appeared. People wanted the freedom to shift when they wanted and not when some mechanism decided it should be done.
Automatic transmissions, power steering and power brakes all came into common use at about the same time. The adds targeted women. The adds targeted families. The adds targeted seniors. The newly minted suburbanite out shopping for a station wagon.
There are people who have medical or other reasons which make it so they can't drive. For them a self-driving car gives a huge amount of freedom: freedom to get yourself from point A to point B without relying on favors or public transit or taxis.
The only thing lacking is the money to pay for, insure and maintain an expensive and heavily customized vehicle.
Mechanical, electrical and hydraulic components. Doors, lifts and so on. The assistive technologies needed to communicate with the car, first responders, and others. Failure here is immediately life-threating.
When the car is the driver, the car has to know when his passenger is in trouble --- and vice versa, of course.
being able to sleep on a commute to work, or have the car pick me up and take me home from the pub is a pretty damn awesome feature
not so awesome if you remain legally responsible for any injuries or property damage caused by your "driverless car." not so awesome if your car is operating under conditions the automated systems are not equipped to handle.
after a sudden storm its not uncommon here for drivers to mistake how much water has collected under a small overpass or railroad bridge and now and then they drown in water no deeper than a backyard pool.
Not in public and not on camera you won't --- the Canadians learned that lesson the hard way --- and not in the numbers that would make any difference.
Anyone who is actually voting for wikileaks will likely be well informed and voting below the line anyways.
But what does it tell the voter who reads above the line and discovers some very uncomfortable truths about the alliances you have made. Is he voting Wikileaks or he is voting Fascist? Which is the real you?
Perhaps I should RTFA, but looking at the Wikipedia page on Energy_in_Germany, that looks to be about 10% of monthly electricity consumption, (generously, given that it's summer), and less than 2% of total energy consumption.
You were expecting better reporting in a post to Slashdot?
The US has vast reaches of desert land in the southwest for sola and n the plains sstates for wind. The northeast and the northwest for hydropower. The Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts for a mix of technologies beyond coal and oil.
It is the difference between the natural resources of a continental empire and those of a single central European state.
What the geek "knows" as folk music usually turns out to be "modern" and commercial.
"Happy Birthday To You" isn't the exception, it's the norm.
If the words or music are old, unfathomably old, perhaps, the arrangement and performance will be new and vital. Morning Has Broken This is much, mich, harder to pull off than you think.
The performer, booking agent, or broadcaster learns very quickly that he will burn through everything available --- everything authentic --- in folk music in no time flat.
You see that in the history of The Grand Old Opry. In the folk revivals of the fifties and sixties. The Plantation roots of jazz, blues, rock and gospel fit comfortably into the pages of a single modest sized paperback book.
Operating costs include not just gasoline but also maintenance, insurance, registration, and parking. Other costs of owning a car include depreciation, loan servicing, and the opportunity cost of capital.
True now. True then.
But no matter how you cherry pick the numbers, the Ford Model T was still dirt cheap transportation, versatile and affordable. Hobbyist and commercial conversions became legendary: pick-up trucks, delivery vans, lunch wagons, tractors, you name it.
You cannot escape the expense of building and maintaining a road; even in its prime, the streetcar shared the lanes with an extraordinary amount of traffic.
The old time streetcar is nostalgic urban fantasy.
The displacement of the inexpensive, efficient and reliable urban transportation known as "street cars" by diesel-powered buses was one of the gravest errors in urban planning.
The streetcar wasn't all that efficient, cheap or reliable.
The humble Ford Model T cost about 1 cent a mile to operate --- in an era when a streetcar ticket cost 5 cents. The Ford provided portal to portal service for a family of five plus dog and cargo.
You could shop the big downtown department stores, take in a movie, buy your groceries at the new A&P. Unless you were shopping for something like a piano or a sofa you would never again see a surcharge for merchant home delivery. The savings added up quickly.
The streetcar lines had tracks, cars and overheads to maintain. Most were in deep financial trouble before World War I.
Slashdot Mirror
1) Zucker did not market buckyballs. The company, of which he is CEO, marketed them.
The distinction without a difference.
Sounds like McDonalds was doing it right. I guess the woman that burned herself was unfit to experience coffee. Are you?
Abstract:
Hot beverages such as tea, hot chocolate, and coffee are frequently served at temperatures between 160 degrees F (71.1 degrees C) and 185 degrees F (85 degrees C). Brief exposures to liquids in this temperature range can cause significant scald burns. However, hot beverages must be served at a temperature that is high enough to provide a satisfactory sensation to the consumer.
This paper presents an analysis to quantify hot beverage temperatures that balance limiting the potential scald burn hazard and maintaining an acceptable perception of adequate product warmth...
Recent data from the literature defines the consumer preferred drinking temperature of coffee. A metric accommodates the thermal effects of both scald hazard and product taste to identify an optimal recommended serving temperature. The burn model shows the standard exponential dependence of injury level on temperature.
The preferred drinking temperature of coffee is specified in the literature as 140+/-15 degrees F (60+/-8.3 degrees C) for a population of 300 subjects.
A linear (with respect to temperature) figure of merit merged the two effects to identify an optimal drinking temperature of approximately 136 degrees F (57.8 degrees C). The analysis points to a reduction in the presently recommended serving temperature of coffee to achieve the combined result of reducing the scald burn hazard and improving customer satisfaction.
Calculating the optimum temperature for serving hot beverages.
Burns, The Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries, August 2008
Who gave that magnet to the kid?
The magnets are small. Easily lost and mislaid.
If you have a set, count them. Weigh them. Prove to me that you haven't lost one. Haven't lost several. A dozen, at least, perhaps more. Then we can talk. Otherwise, you've just proven that you can't keep these things out of the mouths of your kids and pets.
No one can.
Just shut up and take it.. Ask for more. How dare you create a product that could be misused if used inappropriately.
The ingested BuckyBall is from a geek's desktop toy --- and banned because the geek couldn't keep them out of the reach of his own kids. Couldn't see the danger in these things even when it was staring him in the face.
Can be used an educational tool for children; Also a good gift for a friend.
[The Inevitable Disclaimer Follows]
Keep Away From All Children!
Do not put in nose or mouth. Swallowed magnets can stick to intestines causing serious injury or death. Seek immediate medical attention if magnets are swallowed or inhaled.
Black Bucky balls Magnets Supraballs
The one and only NeoCube! The fun never stops! The is the HOTTEST toy in 2010. It's a super-strong magnet, it's a toy & it's a stress reliever. This rare earth magnetic toy gives you and your loved ones hours of fun to build endless objects.
You can snap, pull, mold, squeeze and construct an endless variety of shapes with the 216 pc set. Each spherical magnet is made from a rare-earth, super-strong magnetic metal known as neodymium.
With these magnetic balls, you can create many cool shapes. You can play "darts" on your refrigerator even. Or just use them as small, but strong magnets for displaying photos or holding papers.
NeoCube
But there were riches to be had if you risked that crossing in a boat - there isn't in space. Etc... etc...
There were already riches to had in the farther reaches of the North Atlantic:
Cods. Seals. Whales and so on.
Columbus made the argument that the western sea route to Asia was commercially viable for the ships of his day. He was wrong ---- but in a way that could easily be tested.
That's like saying the first transatlantic flight was not a massive credit to the builders and aviators because the towns were already there and built by other people.
British aviators Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919. They flew a modified World War I Vickers Vimy bomber from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.
Two weeks before Alcock and Brown's flight, the first trans-Atlantic flight had been made by the NC-4, a United States Navy flying boat, commanded by Lt. Commander Albert Cushing Read, who flew from Naval Air Station Rockaway, New York to Plymouth with a crew of five, over 23 days, with six stops along the way. This flight was not eligible for the Daily Mail prize since it took more than 72 consecutive hours and also because more than one aircraft was used in the attempt.
A month after Alcock and Brown's achievement, British airship R34 made the first double crossing of the Atlantic, carrying 31 people (one a stowaway) and a cat; twenty-nine of this crew, plus two flight engineers and a different American observer, then flew back to Europe.
The common thread here:
This is all military tech which evolved under the pressure and with the support of unlimited government spending in World War I.
I doubt very much that there is any of that supposed $300 worth of software that there isn't as good or better free alternatives for.
That was the sales pitch when the XO tablet was launched.
Distribution: 1.8 million units. Most to Peru and Uruguay. That's a slight exaggeration. But not by much. One Laptop per Child: Deployment of XO laptops
It was the "New Math:"
The Media Lab knows all. One size fits all.
No need for a teacher. The geek can get the job done. Through the magic of open source software.
Obviously, at last week's event they came to the conclusion that this is something they need to address.
The story doesn't begin: "We ran into some problems at this year's HempFest , and we need to do better."
Do that and answers become more focused. Lead times. Costs. Technologies. Staffing. As it stands, we're left wondering how long this post lay moldering at the bottom of the pile before the editors got around to reading it.
Don't tell me you've never seen an "Ask Slashdot" that reads like a weirdly delayed SOS call from "Titanic."
I suppose I could make a crack about them trying this with a Pollock, but I personally consider slopping paint on the floor over and over again to not be art.
My painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added. When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. --- Jackson Pollock, My Painting, 1956
Pollock's finest paintings... reveal that his all-over line does not give rise to positive or negative areas: we are not made to feel that one part of the canvas demands to be read as figure, whether abstract or representational, against another part of the canvas read as ground. There is not inside or outside to Pollock's line or the space through which it moves.... Pollock has managed to free line not only from its function of representing objects in the world, but also from its task of describing or bounding shapes or figures, whether abstract or representational, on the surface of the canvas. --- Karmel, 132Jackson Pollack
Pollack made an intense study of paint and canvas. Introducing random elements drawn from physics and mathematics into a work of art does not mean that you have lost control.
Once you've spent some time with a Pollack in a gallery you shut up about dripping paint on the floor.
If you haven't seen the painting in person, don't make fun of this. Like most people, I saw pictures of Van Gogh's paintings in books for years. Then when I was in my early 20s I visited the Metropolitan, where IIRC at least two Van Goghs were there. The big takeaway from seeing them in person is the heavy paint.
The most recognizable Van Gogh in the Met's collection is "Starry Night."
If I understand the process correctly, these are digital photographs overlaid on 3D models of the canvas and brushwork. They are not built up layer upon layer as paint on canvas would be. That is why they are headed to the up-scale shopping mall and not to the gallery that specializes in hand-crafted reproductions.
2013 Schedule (August 16-August 18)
Theaters, however, have the advantage of making a later decision on wether to screen, and for how long, a movie.
No.
Bookings are made far in advance. If you want "The Hunger Games" you have to be at the head of the line. You have to make a serious commitment. Sweeten the deal by agreeing to show a studio's second and third tier product.
A similar attitude was had when automatic transmissions first appeared. People wanted the freedom to shift when they wanted and not when some mechanism decided it should be done.
Automatic transmissions, power steering and power brakes all came into common use at about the same time. The adds targeted women. The adds targeted families. The adds targeted seniors. The newly minted suburbanite out shopping for a station wagon.
There are people who have medical or other reasons which make it so they can't drive. For them a self-driving car gives a huge amount of freedom: freedom to get yourself from point A to point B without relying on favors or public transit or taxis.
The only thing lacking is the money to pay for, insure and maintain an expensive and heavily customized vehicle.
Mechanical, electrical and hydraulic components. Doors, lifts and so on. The assistive technologies needed to communicate with the car, first responders, and others. Failure here is immediately life-threating.
When the car is the driver, the car has to know when his passenger is in trouble --- and vice versa, of course.
being able to sleep on a commute to work, or have the car pick me up and take me home from the pub is a pretty damn awesome feature
not so awesome if you remain legally responsible for any injuries or property damage caused by your "driverless car." not so awesome if your car is operating under conditions the automated systems are not equipped to handle.
after a sudden storm its not uncommon here for drivers to mistake how much water has collected under a small overpass or railroad bridge and now and then they drown in water no deeper than a backyard pool.
club...
Not in public and not on camera you won't --- the Canadians learned that lesson the hard way --- and not in the numbers that would make any difference.
Anyone who is actually voting for wikileaks will likely be well informed and voting below the line anyways.
But what does it tell the voter who reads above the line and discovers some very uncomfortable truths about the alliances you have made. Is he voting Wikileaks or he is voting Fascist? Which is the real you?
Sometimes, you have to become the villain in order to achieve an even greater good.
The end justifies the means.
The perfect Godwinism never mentions the National Socialist German Workers' Party by name. It simply expresses its core values in their purist form.
I'd love to hunt these things (they're so unafraid of humans now that you could whack them with a club)
You won't be hunting within city limits.
The fitness requirements are harsh. You have to be good with a gun.
The family of "Duck Dynasty" banks its megabucks by selling supplies to hunters who will never be as good with a gun.
Perhaps I should RTFA, but looking at the Wikipedia page on Energy_in_Germany, that looks to be about 10% of monthly electricity consumption, (generously, given that it's summer), and less than 2% of total energy consumption.
You were expecting better reporting in a post to Slashdot?
The US has vast reaches of desert land in the southwest for sola and n the plains sstates for wind. The northeast and the northwest for hydropower. The Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts for a mix of technologies beyond coal and oil.
It is the difference between the natural resources of a continental empire and those of a single central European state.
It's called "Traditional" or "folk music".
What the geek "knows" as folk music usually turns out to be "modern" and commercial.
"Happy Birthday To You" isn't the exception, it's the norm.
If the words or music are old, unfathomably old, perhaps, the arrangement and performance will be new and vital. Morning Has Broken This is much, mich, harder to pull off than you think.
The performer, booking agent, or broadcaster learns very quickly that he will burn through everything available --- everything authentic --- in folk music in no time flat.
You see that in the history of The Grand Old Opry. In the folk revivals of the fifties and sixties. The Plantation roots of jazz, blues, rock and gospel fit comfortably into the pages of a single modest sized paperback book.
Cultural ubiquity is so high, it should be considered to have lost all copyright.
That argument could be used to deny protection to any performance or work of art that has met with broad popular acceptance in less than one week.
Operating costs include not just gasoline but also maintenance, insurance, registration, and parking. Other costs of owning a car include depreciation, loan servicing, and the opportunity cost of capital.
True now. True then.
But no matter how you cherry pick the numbers, the Ford Model T was still dirt cheap transportation, versatile and affordable. Hobbyist and commercial conversions became legendary: pick-up trucks, delivery vans, lunch wagons, tractors, you name it.
You cannot escape the expense of building and maintaining a road; even in its prime, the streetcar shared the lanes with an extraordinary amount of traffic.
The old time streetcar is nostalgic urban fantasy.
The reality was more like this: http://levyrapidtransit.ca/wp-content/uploads/s-fig8a.jpg
The displacement of the inexpensive, efficient and reliable urban transportation known as "street cars" by diesel-powered buses was one of the gravest errors in urban planning.
The streetcar wasn't all that efficient, cheap or reliable.
The humble Ford Model T cost about 1 cent a mile to operate --- in an era when a streetcar ticket cost 5 cents. The Ford provided portal to portal service for a family of five plus dog and cargo.
You could shop the big downtown department stores, take in a movie, buy your groceries at the new A&P. Unless you were shopping for something like a piano or a sofa you would never again see a surcharge for merchant home delivery. The savings added up quickly.
The streetcar lines had tracks, cars and overheads to maintain. Most were in deep financial trouble before World War I.
Four people will cost $80 as opposed to $10 at home.
More like $25 to $30, Exclusive of $10 a car promotions.