What??? No screaming and shouting match? No gratuitiously throwing insults and endless citations? But.. but we're on/. ! What happened with tradition?;)
There are working nanomotors and nanogear, so i don't see where this fits the " gizmos that were put off, put away or quietly put down" label. As for 'bots, they're still working on it, so again, not appliccable...
Agreed. They're more a 'what ll the socaleconomic problems be' but the artcle itself ve seen beng referred to on several places, so guess t's knda ok......
Just using 'grammarnazis' because it is a widely accepted term in the/. community, you know...
and you fail to see the point. Non-natives are regularly modded down by people like you (?) simply because their English isn't perfect.
Eloquence is sometimes a great way to veil ignorance. Bad grammar doesn't necc. mean you're stupid or a phillistine(sp?)
didn't want to bring you down, my english is bad, i liked your post becaus you say maybe i dont know, and are modded insightful.
but/. moderation is so bad, sometimes, i return to read at -1, if very interesting article, sometimes (no, a lot of times!) good posts are -1, sometimes idiot posts +5 with very much answers to them, crazy.
84-page peer-reviewed white paper on nanofactory. Conclusion: we see no hurdles, predicted time line: 10 years from now we could haave the first operating assembler...
http://www.jetpress.org/volume13/Nanofactory.htm
...by tonight. Hmmm... Wonder if they waited on purpose till weekend, and festivity period? (Thanksgiving)
I guess Redmont won't be running at 100% for some das to come, lotsa programmers on extended break, and all that.
And me just buned up my last mod points...
Your post is the best i rad so far, also like the 5 and 6 ones...
nr3 is +5 insightful, gotta remember that one!
What amazes me is that there is no talk of nanoassembly. It is now widely accepted that it would be possible to come up with the first nano self-assembler within about ten years, given enough funding and research.
google for primitive nanofactory design study
big peer-reviewed (84 pages) white paper that'll blow yer socks off...
I don't take my words back, cause what i tried to point out still stands. Since 80-ish% of the market is MS, i don't think this freedom of choice makes much difference. Most people'll just buy additional MS stuff. The voucher system is bogus, it's hard cash penalties that hurts, not this voucher joke.
Laugh... all the way to the bank.
That's not a settlement, it's a joke.
This way, Microsoft will end up earning more money... Eventually. Give some computers to school etc... Laugh all the way to the bank when they start upgrading/buying additional MS software...
Again, this is a joke.
SpaceX is not attempting to go into the X-prize race, despite their name, but their launcher shows how much cheaper you can go if building it from the ground up with reusability in mind. They're a private company, and planning to go bigger and eventually, manned.
...they already been deployed?
You call that good new?
it made me shudder involuntarily, considering if i too, at last would not be better off starting to wear a tinfoil hat.
nope, those glossy pages are a nightmare to restore into their original splendour; they're for a big percentage made of loose filler material, and optical whiteners, etc. all stuf that gets displaced when soaking wet... you could try to humidify them *slowly* and then carefully try to peel them, but chances are it'll not work. Afterwards, dry each page separately, between blotting paper, under weight,remove blotting paper after 10 minutes, replace with dry, then same thing after 30 min, 1 hour, 2,4; a day, till dry...
you get the picture:very time and labour consuming, and given the worth of a nat geogr secondhand, not practical to consider...
i guess they'll make some kind of nappie like things, that absorb the water, preventing the product itself to come into contact with the paper itself. Some kind of like the Gore-Tex sandwiches, already in use, but filled with 'normal' absorbants today.
too viscous? just add another spoonful of the-cheap- stuff. Problem solved (no pun intended)
BTW I sent the article to 4 paper restaurators, 2 already answered me in very enthousiastic ways... So it might be a killer-app in the making...
Two words: Weather Sats.
We take weather forecasting for granted, these days, but it's thanks to space exploration we are able to see hurricanes (sp?) forming etc. Some ordinary people on the Eastcoast in America are certainly grateful for the data they get from sats, today. Space explorations saves hundreds of lives each year. Tracking of forest fires, tropical storms, drought, floods...
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What??? No screaming and shouting match? No gratuitiously throwing insults and endless citations? But.. but we're on /. ! What happened with tradition? ;)
Sure do... 'n before you ask, yeah, I love to dream! :)
There are working nanomotors and nanogear, so i don't see where this fits the " gizmos that were put off, put away or quietly put down" label. As for 'bots, they're still working on it, so again, not appliccable...
That they ARE there, to begin with...
The other half to beta-test Duke Nukem Forever- the Network Game
Another giveaway that its a fake is that you don't see any stars in the background, nomally when you hit someone, you shoulda see stars!
Agreed. They're more a 'what ll the socaleconomic problems be' but the artcle itself ve seen beng referred to on several places, so guess t's knda ok......
Just using 'grammarnazis' because it is a widely accepted term in the /. community, you know...
and you fail to see the point. Non-natives are regularly modded down by people like you (?) simply because their English isn't perfect.
Eloquence is sometimes a great way to veil ignorance. Bad grammar doesn't necc. mean you're stupid or a phillistine(sp?)
didn't want to bring you down, my english is bad, i liked your post becaus you say maybe i dont know, and are modded insightful. but /. moderation is so bad, sometimes, i return to read at -1, if very interesting article, sometimes (no, a lot of times!) good posts are -1, sometimes idiot posts +5 with very much answers to them, crazy.
Engines of creation, as mentioned in the article, is available online, and in palmreader format at http://www.foresight.org/EOC/
84-page peer-reviewed white paper on nanofactory. Conclusion: we see no hurdles, predicted time line: 10 years from now we could haave the first operating assembler... http://www.jetpress.org/volume13/Nanofactory.htm
...by tonight. Hmmm... Wonder if they waited on purpose till weekend, and festivity period? (Thanksgiving) I guess Redmont won't be running at 100% for some das to come, lotsa programmers on extended break, and all that.
Yes... Drug barons will *love* this thing... Easy to deploy, launch it and forget it till it arrives... Much safer than sailboats etc...
And me just buned up my last mod points... Your post is the best i rad so far, also like the 5 and 6 ones... nr3 is +5 insightful, gotta remember that one!
What amazes me is that there is no talk of nanoassembly. It is now widely accepted that it would be possible to come up with the first nano self-assembler within about ten years, given enough funding and research. google for primitive nanofactory design study big peer-reviewed (84 pages) white paper that'll blow yer socks off...
I don't take my words back, cause what i tried to point out still stands. Since 80-ish% of the market is MS, i don't think this freedom of choice makes much difference. Most people'll just buy additional MS stuff. The voucher system is bogus, it's hard cash penalties that hurts, not this voucher joke. Laugh... all the way to the bank.
That's not a settlement, it's a joke. This way, Microsoft will end up earning more money... Eventually. Give some computers to school etc... Laugh all the way to the bank when they start upgrading/buying additional MS software... Again, this is a joke.
Have to ask the obvious: what about the astronauts themselves? How are they protected?
SpaceX is not attempting to go into the X-prize race, despite their name, but their launcher shows how much cheaper you can go if building it from the ground up with reusability in mind. They're a private company, and planning to go bigger and eventually, manned.
...they already been deployed? You call that good new? it made me shudder involuntarily, considering if i too, at last would not be better off starting to wear a tinfoil hat.
nope, those glossy pages are a nightmare to restore into their original splendour; they're for a big percentage made of loose filler material, and optical whiteners, etc. all stuf that gets displaced when soaking wet... you could try to humidify them *slowly* and then carefully try to peel them, but chances are it'll not work. Afterwards, dry each page separately, between blotting paper, under weight ,remove blotting paper after 10 minutes, replace with dry, then same thing after 30 min, 1 hour, 2,4; a day, till dry...
you get the picture:very time and labour consuming, and given the worth of a nat geogr secondhand, not practical to consider...
i guess they'll make some kind of nappie like things, that absorb the water, preventing the product itself to come into contact with the paper itself. Some kind of like the Gore-Tex sandwiches, already in use, but filled with 'normal' absorbants today.
too viscous? just add another spoonful of the-cheap- stuff. Problem solved (no pun intended) BTW I sent the article to 4 paper restaurators, 2 already answered me in very enthousiastic ways... So it might be a killer-app in the making...
Two words: Weather Sats. We take weather forecasting for granted, these days, but it's thanks to space exploration we are able to see hurricanes (sp?) forming etc. Some ordinary people on the Eastcoast in America are certainly grateful for the data they get from sats, today. Space explorations saves hundreds of lives each year. Tracking of forest fires, tropical storms, drought, floods...
keee-rap! me bad, of course it's "beginning of 19th century"... though one could not be blamed for thinking he's from the early 1800s himself...