In Iceland*, they have a means of preparing shark that pretty much involves letting it rot for a while first. The interesting part is that said species of shark is inedible as fresh due to the ammonia content.
So in theory, one might be able to prepare Giant Squid H%C3%A1karl. Yummy.
(*Okay, not quite the Netherlands, but pretty damn close if you ask me)
I pretty much came away with the same impression. The character development was really good for an action flick, especially considering how fast the pace was.
Can I submit an article about doing the reverse? Why did I take my gym bag out of the car and bring it into my office this morning? No matter how hard work is today I doubt that I'll be breaking a sweat.
Overheard earlier during the morning's staff meeting...
Boss: Now take a look at Johnson over here. He's a real-go-getter... wish I had, well, 5 more of him. I see him saunter up to the front door and what is he carrying? A gym-bag. That's right, while the rest of you slackasses are toting around your briefcases, laptops and courier-bags, he's ready to to work so hard that he'll sweat. While typing. At his cubicle.
Hoi Polloi: (Shrinks down in his seat, embarassed, actually starts to sweat.)
Boss: See, he's even doing it right now! Now some of you might complain of the smell, but not me. This plumber's son knows all about sweat equity and the way my old man would stink to high-heaven every day after work. That's the smell of success. So quit killing time in the break room and by the copier, and start making this company some money already.
A mark of a good writer is that he or she not only creates a new world, but also takes the time to "age" it a little. The use of the word "toner," which most of us recognize from our experience with copying machines and printers, conjures up an image of a very fine black dust.
The "mites" referred to in the following excerpt are nanomachines the same size as dust mites.
"See, there's mites around all the time. They use sparkles to talk to each other," Harv explained. "They're in the food and water, everywhere. And there's rules that these mites are supposed to follow. They're supposed to break down into safe pieces... But there are people who break those rules [so the] Protocol Enforcement guys make a mite to go out and find that mite and kill it. This dust - we call it toner - is actually the dead bodies of all those mites.
IIRC, Harv isn't doing well in this particular scene since he's trying to explain why he's hacking up a lung after being outside for a little while.
Honestly, I think the biggest problem is with the government and the public both lacking the gonads to launch with a substantial amount of nuclear material on board. Right now, that's the best tech we have for ground-based launch, and it's within easy reach, if not for the politics involved.
I can't stress the "ClearType" sub-pixel rendering enough. At work i switched from a CRT to an LCD and got eyestrain almost immediately afterwords. Enabling that feature caused the problem to go away just as fast.
You can also notice the refresh of a CRT if you chew on something hard, like peanuts, while staring at the screen. The crushing action of your teeth vibrates your head just enough to interface with the screen's refresh rate, causing the picture to "bounce" and shear in your field of view.
I can imagine. In the year 2095, I'll probably be too ancient to blog much more beyond "get my head out of this jar already" and "I really wish they'd move me closer to the window."
However, the user experience will be nice step up from Internet 3.11, even with the bugs and backwards compatibility issues.
I've been saying this for years. We'll be exploring landfills soon after they're no longer viable for producing methane gas. Meanwhile, states that refused to bury, and opted to dump their garbage elsewhere will be kicking themselves - hard.
Such "exhausted" landfills will be packed with little more than inorganic waste, like easily harvested metals. Point at anything on the periodic table and it'll exist in a landfill at concentrations far higher than what exists in ore deposits we're mining today; so this will be ridiculously profitable. Add to that the fact that they're all close to home, and you have yourself an industry that does a brisk business in mining landfills. And since all the stinky stuff has long since decomposed, you only have heavy-metals and toxic runoff to worry about (read: just like a normal mine).
After that, companies will look to cut out the middle man and buy back everyone's e-waste after the recycling plant has sorted it out. So the landfill will dissapear, leaving a closed loop from the recovery of raw materials all the way to the consumer and back again.
"Naval Reactors works by training Navy Nukes to a fair-thee-well: they know that overpriced hot water heater like Linus knows the kernel."
Then it's a win-win. Merchant vessels get nuclear reactors, but they also get a small chunk of the Navy to staff its maintenance, operation and security on board. This results in an honest-to-god peacetime use for the US military; IMO, that's a very good thing.
Its a nice idea, but I think the only reason why LEGO works as well as it does is the scale of the materials involved; think friction and density.
You'd probably wind up with something like a full-scale erector set after you fool around with scaled-up (and incredibly heavy) metal LEGO bricks. To wit, there are already things like this out there, like "speed rail" and "aluminum extrusion" systems that are highly modular and require minimal tools to apply your every creative whim. They're also expensive as hell.
Anyway, once you have a arc-welder in the garage, just about everything made of metal feels like LEGO anyway, since you're only a few *zaps* away from sticking two pieces together however you want. And the best part: not having to separate those pesky 2x1 pieces with your teeth.
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Correction: it will be served in just one glass that is roughly the size of Mars. Customers may view their drink with aid of a high-powered telescope (not included).
The $3M pricetag is to fund the delivery of the other ingredients to where the drink is made.
I disagree - how does this prove that a robot is less effective from a practical standpoint? I thought the OP's joke was more about the huge amount of effort and press that went into something that is so fundamental here on terra-firma.
The way I see it: a human would be just as clueless thanks to their environmental suit since basic safety protocols dictate that you're not getting that stuff anywhere near someone's nose, lips or fingertips without knowing its benign first. Besides, NASA didn't even use the lander's built-in chemistry lab or gas analyzer to come to this conclusion - they just took two pictures, and recorded the temperature and the air pressure. So they could have knocked this one out of the park inside a few minutes if they wanted to.
Come to think of it: either of the Mars rovers could have done this experiment just as effectively.
Coincidentally, one can easily call Twain a 'stand up comedian' of his day; what with his public appearances (performances?) and all. In my mind, it was as if they were cut from the same cloth.
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In spelunker "culture" we have a word for people who enjoy spending an inordinate amount of time in caves:
Troglodytes
Or more colloquially: "Trogs". I think the word is quite apt here.
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Yea, but I've heard that its one helluva drug.
Its funny you mention that.
In Iceland*, they have a means of preparing shark that pretty much involves letting it rot for a while first. The interesting part is that said species of shark is inedible as fresh due to the ammonia content.
So in theory, one might be able to prepare Giant Squid H%C3%A1karl. Yummy.
(*Okay, not quite the Netherlands, but pretty damn close if you ask me)
Exactly. They should've gone with the already proven, and venerable, inanimate carbon rod.
Cones!? You had cones?
Try using your shoe, lad. That's all we did. All the paper was used for clothing in those days, and that wasn't even the good stuff.
Don't worry. Apple is planning to come out with the iSnot that features a facial-only-mode, to avoid any unpleasant confusion.
Mod parent up.
I pretty much came away with the same impression. The character development was really good for an action flick, especially considering how fast the pace was.
Overheard earlier during the morning's staff meeting...
Boss: Now take a look at Johnson over here. He's a real-go-getter... wish I had, well, 5 more of him. I see him saunter up to the front door and what is he carrying? A gym-bag. That's right, while the rest of you slackasses are toting around your briefcases, laptops and courier-bags, he's ready to to work so hard that he'll sweat. While typing. At his cubicle.
Hoi Polloi: (Shrinks down in his seat, embarassed, actually starts to sweat.)
Boss: See, he's even doing it right now! Now some of you might complain of the smell, but not me. This plumber's son knows all about sweat equity and the way my old man would stink to high-heaven every day after work. That's the smell of success. So quit killing time in the break room and by the copier, and start making this company some money already.
Boss: Meeting adjourned.
You forgot: FISA just passed Congress.
So that's another 100 years of BS right there.
In the Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson already touched on this very concept.
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=245
IIRC, Harv isn't doing well in this particular scene since he's trying to explain why he's hacking up a lung after being outside for a little while.
Can anyone tell me if this is complete hyperbole, or if it's the real deal? For that matter, why does the CA legislature even care about this?
Honestly, I think the biggest problem is with the government and the public both lacking the gonads to launch with a substantial amount of nuclear material on board. Right now, that's the best tech we have for ground-based launch, and it's within easy reach, if not for the politics involved.
Awesome find! I'm still trying to track down some working SID chips for mine (I have two) since they went bad years ago.
BTW, do the disks still work?
I can't stress the "ClearType" sub-pixel rendering enough. At work i switched from a CRT to an LCD and got eyestrain almost immediately afterwords. Enabling that feature caused the problem to go away just as fast.
A little slash-trivia here:
You can also notice the refresh of a CRT if you chew on something hard, like peanuts, while staring at the screen. The crushing action of your teeth vibrates your head just enough to interface with the screen's refresh rate, causing the picture to "bounce" and shear in your field of view.
I can imagine. In the year 2095, I'll probably be too ancient to blog much more beyond "get my head out of this jar already" and "I really wish they'd move me closer to the window."
However, the user experience will be nice step up from Internet 3.11, even with the bugs and backwards compatibility issues.
I've been saying this for years. We'll be exploring landfills soon after they're no longer viable for producing methane gas. Meanwhile, states that refused to bury, and opted to dump their garbage elsewhere will be kicking themselves - hard.
Such "exhausted" landfills will be packed with little more than inorganic waste, like easily harvested metals. Point at anything on the periodic table and it'll exist in a landfill at concentrations far higher than what exists in ore deposits we're mining today; so this will be ridiculously profitable. Add to that the fact that they're all close to home, and you have yourself an industry that does a brisk business in mining landfills. And since all the stinky stuff has long since decomposed, you only have heavy-metals and toxic runoff to worry about (read: just like a normal mine).
After that, companies will look to cut out the middle man and buy back everyone's e-waste after the recycling plant has sorted it out. So the landfill will dissapear, leaving a closed loop from the recovery of raw materials all the way to the consumer and back again.
"SQL Error", you have the board. Pick a category.
"Naval Reactors works by training Navy Nukes to a fair-thee-well: they know that overpriced hot water heater like Linus knows the kernel."
Then it's a win-win. Merchant vessels get nuclear reactors, but they also get a small chunk of the Navy to staff its maintenance, operation and security on board. This results in an honest-to-god peacetime use for the US military; IMO, that's a very good thing.
Its a nice idea, but I think the only reason why LEGO works as well as it does is the scale of the materials involved; think friction and density.
You'd probably wind up with something like a full-scale erector set after you fool around with scaled-up (and incredibly heavy) metal LEGO bricks. To wit, there are already things like this out there, like "speed rail" and "aluminum extrusion" systems that are highly modular and require minimal tools to apply your every creative whim. They're also expensive as hell.
Anyway, once you have a arc-welder in the garage, just about everything made of metal feels like LEGO anyway, since you're only a few *zaps* away from sticking two pieces together however you want. And the best part: not having to separate those pesky 2x1 pieces with your teeth.
Correction: it will be served in just one glass that is roughly the size of Mars. Customers may view their drink with aid of a high-powered telescope (not included).
The $3M pricetag is to fund the delivery of the other ingredients to where the drink is made.
I disagree - how does this prove that a robot is less effective from a practical standpoint? I thought the OP's joke was more about the huge amount of effort and press that went into something that is so fundamental here on terra-firma.
The way I see it: a human would be just as clueless thanks to their environmental suit since basic safety protocols dictate that you're not getting that stuff anywhere near someone's nose, lips or fingertips without knowing its benign first. Besides, NASA didn't even use the lander's built-in chemistry lab or gas analyzer to come to this conclusion - they just took two pictures, and recorded the temperature and the air pressure. So they could have knocked this one out of the park inside a few minutes if they wanted to.
Come to think of it: either of the Mars rovers could have done this experiment just as effectively.
Coincidentally, one can easily call Twain a 'stand up comedian' of his day; what with his public appearances (performances?) and all. In my mind, it was as if they were cut from the same cloth.
In spelunker "culture" we have a word for people who enjoy spending an inordinate amount of time in caves:
Troglodytes
Or more colloquially: "Trogs". I think the word is quite apt here.
I agree.
The only way to win is not to play.
1. Call South Park "a show for small minded idiots"
2. ?
3. Profit!