When was the last time you built your own car? All parts required are readily available.
What percentage of all PC users build their own PC (overall PC users, not/. geeks)??
The thing is, most people don't have patince/skill to build things, and they're better of just buying thigs they need, like TFA says.
3D printing could be the next industrial revolution, but it could also be a niche for hobbists.
It's very much like asking why my wife takes pictures and prints them out at home, when far superior photographers using far superior camera and printing gear make really cheap postcards. Why did my grandma knit sweaters that at any reasonable rate of pay were the equivalent of hundreds of dollars? Why did my mom make acrylic paintings instead of buying a reproduction or a professional painting?
Thats easy, because she wanted to, and no one could stop her. Same thing here. Good luck stopping the guys trying to make 3-d printers. Seriously.
I thought the lottery was for those who were bad at math?
Actually, they are mostly used by "poor" people for money laundering. By "poor" I mean people who have no W-2 or 1099 source of income, yet have rather large cash income lifestyles.
All you need is enough lotto ticket winnings to prove to the IRS you are declaring all your income, based on your lifestyle. Its really not all that expensive.
As a grocery store clerk decades ago, I sold a couple hundred dollars per day of lotto tickets for cash to a somewhat disreputable person. I never asked, and he never said... But he must have been selling a large fraction of a million per year for his profits to be that high.
Unless you can conceive of an economy run on simple plastic objects with no moving parts,
My main interest is making patterns to be sandcast in aluminum. It turns out that patternmaking is remarkably hard and painful when a pattern breaks or is lost. Of course when another is available by "press go" then its not so bad.
Also note that "simple plastic objects with no moving parts" represents probably 50% by weight or volume of the stuff at walmart and target. Entire aisles of laundry baskets, storage baskets, kitchen gadgets, housewares gadgets, all obsolete.
I read the fine pdf. Appears to be a degree system of measurement. Eat that, grad and radian fans...
How she has ruled out a flower with 18-fold symmetry, or just random decorative stuff, is not described. I'd like to see a table of intervals vs measured degrees, I wonder how accurately it measures up.
Finally, the third experiment was the one to link faces to their unique nine digits
For those participants who had date of birth and city publicly available on their account, the researchers could predict a social security number (based on the work from their 2009 study). The researchers sent a follow-up survey to their student participants asking them whether the first five digits of the social security number their algorithm predicted was correct.
I'm missing a little something here.
Until recently, the first five digits, were, by definition, based on state/city and birthdate. Ask a genealogist or anyone interested in "private eye" stuff from the past couple decades... they probably have a table you can look up the first five vs location. The first three were strictly based on state; I was born in WI in the 70s; We all have the same first 3. The next two were issued more or less by city/hospital. So everyone born in the same hospital, pretty much for that year, has the same first five. At most, they had a rather shallow pool of a couple to draw from. Why they needed a study in 2009 to "discover" something that has been in endless publications is a mystery. Its like saying we need a "study" to "discover" how to fill out a IRS 1040 form based on neural network analysis of a statistical sample of tax returns, or we could just RTFM or RTF govt publication explaining in great detail what the answer already is.
You don't even need a statistical sample study. Just pull the SSDI and chug away. Social Security Death Index. Notice anything interesting about the publicly available SSNs for people born in Milwaukee in the mid 70s who are already dead? You have to wonder about old people, if the only person left alive from my Grandma's birthplace/birthyear is granny, and all SSNs for that year and hospital are in the SSDI except for the one ending in 1234, and she's the only one left alive, hmm, I wonder what grannies SSN might be? The point being that the "secret" is by no means 4 digits long = 1 out of 1e4. Its more like 1 out of (1e4 minus the number of dead people per the SSDI) I would imagine some entire swaths of the SSN namespace are dead people in the SSDI, except for the few elderly still living.
The other mystery is all they verified was the "public" half of the SSN. The "private" 4 digits was not verified. So, they've accomplished... nothing.
Addons that do this have been available for Firefox for a long time.
Well, don't keep me/us in suspense... "tools" "addons" start searching...
"silence tab" Could not find any matching addons "silence" ditto "tab mute" Obviously none of those four search results are related... "detect sound" Could not find... etc "automute" ditto "auto mute" two things, one plays internet radio, the other appears to be a RSS reader "making a sound" Could not fine any... "tab sound" a whole pageful of results, mostly revolving around beeping when your web mail gets a mail and controlling web music players
Is this one of those things where "everybody knows" the project release name is "purple pineapple" so that's the only way to find it by searching?
Quit nut hugging the Canadian boarder for once and come down south, we make stuff here too
I've often wondered why they never go to Huntsville AL. Twenty years ago when I last visited, that was the high-tech-redneck capital of the south. Pretty much the "Eureka" TV show, but with a sweet iced teas, pecan pies, and grits flavor. Yes I'm well aware of Alabama's legendary average scholastic performance; Huntsville was kind of like Austin is today, ten thousand PHDs per square mile surrounded by a seemingly infinite sea of proud grade school dropouts. None the less it was a cool place to spend a summer, other than the heat. Is it still like that today, or have the govt contracts dried up and blown away?
I dunno about that - middle managers usually make decent incomes.
But they're such a tiny part of the pool as to be statistically insignificant. Take a million kids who's education plan and workforce training plan is "I'm gonna get in the NBA". One kid makes it and makes millions for playing a childs game. The other 999,999 live under a bridge. Same deal.
The biggest problem isn't how to remotely change the generator speed to blow it up, but how to change it at all. There seems little market advantage in being able to remotely configure a generator to overspeed and blow up; so it seems spectacularly unlikely a manufacturer would design to that spec, instead of the much cheaper competition configured to run at 60 hz. I'm not thinking marketing will have a power point slide "nee model now with the ability to blow up remotely over the internet"
My uncle the diesel maintenance tech claims they have entirely different models of gens to run at 50 hz. In the long run its worthwhile to optimize exhaust systems so at least some have different motor parts, and all of them have different alternators. From listening to him, sounds like at least the control board, mufflers, cooling fans, and cooling ducts need to be swapped out.
It does take a lot more iron to run at 50 hz than 60 hz. On a percentage basis you just oversize an old fashioned linear power supply to run here and europe. Also it helps that europe uses 220 volts so the xfrmr dumps a bit more heat due to 50 hz, but it dumps a bit less heat because 220 is slightly more efficient. But you "can't afford" to oversize a half million dollar generator by 20% just in case someone might want to run that model at 50 hz in the future. Its much cheaper to dispatch my uncle with a pickup truck full of 50 hz replacement parts.
Solution is raise the price to match the ipad? Crazily enough it might work to position themselves as "about the same although a little different" rather than carefully positioning themselves to be the ipad's annoying kid brother, or the ipad's poseur wannabe guy.
Imagine how horrible linux market share would be on servers if it was marketed in the 90s like Android is marketed in the 10s... "Well, RHAT will sell you a support contract for 10% less than msdos 3.30, so you save there, but its not quite as good and there's some minor UI issues where the world standard of blackslashes in directory names is forwards slashes on linux, and all the distributions are different and appear and disappear unless you stick to the majors, and individual issues have to be tracked by the end users, unlike msdos where everyone runs the same ver 3.30 so there's no real community amongst linux distros... But, hey, if you want to put in more effort for 10% less cost, its... usable...
Note I'm not talking about what it is, but how its marketed.
Tactical error on my part. A better standard/. analogy would have been:
$9K for a used beater from '05 with 100K miles driven hard by teenage fast-and-the-furious wannabe that often breaks down vs $10K for a new one of whatever jedidiah thinks is a decent car brand.
The point remaining, if I'm gonna toss out a substantial amount of dough for a luxury, I want it to "just work perfectly", not be "kinda close for 10% less".
"Kinda close for 10% less" is how you sell 6-32 screws to engineers who wanted to use 8-24 screws but the boss forced the redesign because its a little cheaper. "Kinda close for 10% less" is not how you sell luxury goods.
"Here's my new Rowlex... Its almost like a Rolex, in that its worn on a wrist and tries to tell time, but not really, because it doesn't work. Oh well, I saved 10%"... um, maybe, just maybe, that would fly at a 2600 meeting, but probably no where else..
Everyone else, stay away until they either become significantly cheaper than the iPad or Android has caught up in marketshare and polish (which, conveniently, is always 6 months from now.
6 months from now, when the androids can finally compete head to head with the ipad2, and all the early adopters have expired after being shot in the back with arrows, I'm sure sales against the ipad3 with retina display or whatever its supposed to have will be... once again, not so brisk; but I promise once again, in just 6 more months, we'll have an Ipad3-killer android tablet... ready by the rollout of the ipad4...
Samsung could drop its 10-inch tablet's price to $425 and pose a serious challenge to Apple's device. But will they...?
Why would anyone trade so much away for 10% of the price in a luxury market?
There's no way I'd drop most of my half of a mortgage payment on something that "kinda works sometimes" when I could just toss in the cost of a nice night out and get the top of the line...
Imagine if the decision was to buy the yugo for $9K or the BMW for $10K. You can have a grilled to perfection steak dinner for $5 or save a whopping 50 cents by having a three day old mcdonalds burger instead. Would I still be married if I told her to buy a $900 pair of sweatpants and teeshirt from walmart instead of a kilobuck wedding dress? Why throw down do much cash but not finish the job?
Now if it didn't really work, but it was 1/4 the price, Oh I'd find a way, even if it involved desoldering and remanufacturing. But almost but not quite the same cost? Forget it.
Having said that I really do hope that the EEs who know the system best (IE the ones who actually keep the grid running) have removed line of sight from the most vulnerable junctions.
A simple question for you to consider: How do you hide transmission lines from line-of-site?
The problem is you pop a hole in the bottom of an oil cooled transformer and as fast as the oil can run out, it'll overheat and shut down, or overheat and catch fire. Every hunting season at a previous job we used to lose power to a repeater site or two from that form of recreation.
a single person with a 4wd vehicle, and a high powered rifle with a scope
That would raise eyebrows in downtown Manhattan or maybe Norway now, but around here that is a standard issue hunter, a protected species, herd size measured in the hundreds of thousands each fall, no kidding. Mostly they spend "deer hunting time" drinking beer but they have been known to take pot shots at aerial fiber; I assume they occasionally miss our fiber and hit the electric co lines, insulators, and transformers. The big high voltage towers are supposed to be much more fun to hit than the little distribution lines. You're in their territory when you see road signs full of bullet holes, and trucks with big spotlights (for "shining")
It's not limited to good ole boys in the back woods. In certain multicultural / ethnic areas, every new years day morning is spent on aerial fiber damage caused by shooting into the air at midnight. Charming little tradition they have, amongst others. Glad I live many miles away.
Every employer I've ever had who owns aerial fiber has had these kind of problems.
So what if it used to be the main part of our economy? Things change. There's no shortage of work to be done....
Such as.... Don't leave us in suspense. We could sell each other houses, because real estate only goes up, until it doesn't... Err, we could sell each other copyrighted digital files, as long as no one invents an international data transfer networks... Err, too late for that.
Translation: China is anti-human rights while America is full of constitutionalists who protect self-evident unalienable rights only for the corporations who own the government.
The smaller the sample group, the more intelligent the average in it, in all recent "technology vs. intelligence" studies. Can we just deduct that the less intelligent flow with the crowd, the more intelligent actually pick what's best for them, and call it quits?
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When was the last time you built your own car? All parts required are readily available.
What percentage of all PC users build their own PC (overall PC users, not /. geeks)??
The thing is, most people don't have patince/skill to build things, and they're better of just buying thigs they need, like TFA says.
3D printing could be the next industrial revolution, but it could also be a niche for hobbists.
It's very much like asking why my wife takes pictures and prints them out at home, when far superior photographers using far superior camera and printing gear make really cheap postcards. Why did my grandma knit sweaters that at any reasonable rate of pay were the equivalent of hundreds of dollars? Why did my mom make acrylic paintings instead of buying a reproduction or a professional painting?
Thats easy, because she wanted to, and no one could stop her. Same thing here. Good luck stopping the guys trying to make 3-d printers. Seriously.
I thought the lottery was for those who were bad at math?
Actually, they are mostly used by "poor" people for money laundering. By "poor" I mean people who have no W-2 or 1099 source of income, yet have rather large cash income lifestyles.
All you need is enough lotto ticket winnings to prove to the IRS you are declaring all your income, based on your lifestyle. Its really not all that expensive.
As a grocery store clerk decades ago, I sold a couple hundred dollars per day of lotto tickets for cash to a somewhat disreputable person. I never asked, and he never said... But he must have been selling a large fraction of a million per year for his profits to be that high.
Unless you can conceive of an economy run on simple plastic objects with no moving parts,
My main interest is making patterns to be sandcast in aluminum. It turns out that patternmaking is remarkably hard and painful when a pattern breaks or is lost. Of course when another is available by "press go" then its not so bad.
Also note that "simple plastic objects with no moving parts" represents probably 50% by weight or volume of the stuff at walmart and target. Entire aisles of laundry baskets, storage baskets, kitchen gadgets, housewares gadgets, all obsolete.
12,000 square miles
12000 square miles is not very impressive from a purely RF perspective. In fact, its not even trying very hard.
A=pi*r**2 thats sqrt(12000/3) thats sqrt(4000) thats a bit more than 60, since 60**2 = 3600.
So estimated in my head they're saying a 60 mile radius. BFD.
Now 60 miles at "digital TV" spectrum freqs and bandwidth with less than a couple kilowatts out to a 500 foot tower, now that would be impressive.
Or a battery life that does not require tethering the device to a 440V 3-phase AC supply rather than being "wireless".
I'm curious how they're working around that "obvious" physical limitation.
I read the fine pdf. Appears to be a degree system of measurement. Eat that, grad and radian fans...
How she has ruled out a flower with 18-fold symmetry, or just random decorative stuff, is not described. I'd like to see a table of intervals vs measured degrees, I wonder how accurately it measures up.
Finally, the third experiment was the one to link faces to their unique nine digits
For those participants who had date of birth and city publicly available on their account, the researchers could predict a social security number (based on the work from their 2009 study). The researchers sent a follow-up survey to their student participants asking them whether the first five digits of the social security number their algorithm predicted was correct.
I'm missing a little something here.
Until recently, the first five digits, were, by definition, based on state/city and birthdate. Ask a genealogist or anyone interested in "private eye" stuff from the past couple decades... they probably have a table you can look up the first five vs location. The first three were strictly based on state; I was born in WI in the 70s; We all have the same first 3. The next two were issued more or less by city/hospital. So everyone born in the same hospital, pretty much for that year, has the same first five. At most, they had a rather shallow pool of a couple to draw from. Why they needed a study in 2009 to "discover" something that has been in endless publications is a mystery. Its like saying we need a "study" to "discover" how to fill out a IRS 1040 form based on neural network analysis of a statistical sample of tax returns, or we could just RTFM or RTF govt publication explaining in great detail what the answer already is.
You don't even need a statistical sample study. Just pull the SSDI and chug away. Social Security Death Index. Notice anything interesting about the publicly available SSNs for people born in Milwaukee in the mid 70s who are already dead? You have to wonder about old people, if the only person left alive from my Grandma's birthplace/birthyear is granny, and all SSNs for that year and hospital are in the SSDI except for the one ending in 1234, and she's the only one left alive, hmm, I wonder what grannies SSN might be? The point being that the "secret" is by no means 4 digits long = 1 out of 1e4. Its more like 1 out of (1e4 minus the number of dead people per the SSDI) I would imagine some entire swaths of the SSN namespace are dead people in the SSDI, except for the few elderly still living.
The other mystery is all they verified was the "public" half of the SSN. The "private" 4 digits was not verified. So, they've accomplished ... nothing.
Addons that do this have been available for Firefox for a long time.
Well, don't keep me/us in suspense... "tools" "addons" start searching...
"silence tab" Could not find any matching addons ... etc ...
"silence" ditto
"tab mute" Obviously none of those four search results are related...
"detect sound" Could not find
"automute" ditto
"auto mute" two things, one plays internet radio, the other appears to be a RSS reader
"making a sound" Could not fine any
"tab sound" a whole pageful of results, mostly revolving around beeping when your web mail gets a mail and controlling web music players
Is this one of those things where "everybody knows" the project release name is "purple pineapple" so that's the only way to find it by searching?
You're missing the real story.
The real story is that a cool new addon is available for chrome, not FF.
Firefox was made by its addons. FF is just a bootloader for adblock+, noscript, firebug, flashblock, xmarks, and others.
If new addon development is going to Chrome, then I inevitably also have to move to Chrome. FF was fun and worked great, but...
Is there an equivalent for FF? Has Chrome's addons finally caught up with FF? That is the real story.
Don't buy a TV...
Quit nut hugging the Canadian boarder for once and come down south, we make stuff here too
I've often wondered why they never go to Huntsville AL. Twenty years ago when I last visited, that was the high-tech-redneck capital of the south. Pretty much the "Eureka" TV show, but with a sweet iced teas, pecan pies, and grits flavor. Yes I'm well aware of Alabama's legendary average scholastic performance; Huntsville was kind of like Austin is today, ten thousand PHDs per square mile surrounded by a seemingly infinite sea of proud grade school dropouts. None the less it was a cool place to spend a summer, other than the heat. Is it still like that today, or have the govt contracts dried up and blown away?
Plus, quite a lot of regulation is designed to protect incumbent interests, squeezing out any potential competitors before they even get to market
That's not a "plus", that's the entire purpose.
You can't seriously be suggesting that a good life plan is to intentionally do dumb things to improve income and net worth?
If so, this is a classic "I strongly encourage my competitors to implement this idea" moment.
Dumb people tend to end up poor.
I dunno about that - middle managers usually make decent incomes.
But they're such a tiny part of the pool as to be statistically insignificant. Take a million kids who's education plan and workforce training plan is "I'm gonna get in the NBA". One kid makes it and makes millions for playing a childs game. The other 999,999 live under a bridge. Same deal.
The biggest problem isn't how to remotely change the generator speed to blow it up, but how to change it at all. There seems little market advantage in being able to remotely configure a generator to overspeed and blow up; so it seems spectacularly unlikely a manufacturer would design to that spec, instead of the much cheaper competition configured to run at 60 hz. I'm not thinking marketing will have a power point slide "nee model now with the ability to blow up remotely over the internet"
My uncle the diesel maintenance tech claims they have entirely different models of gens to run at 50 hz. In the long run its worthwhile to optimize exhaust systems so at least some have different motor parts, and all of them have different alternators. From listening to him, sounds like at least the control board, mufflers, cooling fans, and cooling ducts need to be swapped out.
It does take a lot more iron to run at 50 hz than 60 hz. On a percentage basis you just oversize an old fashioned linear power supply to run here and europe. Also it helps that europe uses 220 volts so the xfrmr dumps a bit more heat due to 50 hz, but it dumps a bit less heat because 220 is slightly more efficient. But you "can't afford" to oversize a half million dollar generator by 20% just in case someone might want to run that model at 50 hz in the future. Its much cheaper to dispatch my uncle with a pickup truck full of 50 hz replacement parts.
Solution is raise the price to match the ipad? Crazily enough it might work to position themselves as "about the same although a little different" rather than carefully positioning themselves to be the ipad's annoying kid brother, or the ipad's poseur wannabe guy.
Imagine how horrible linux market share would be on servers if it was marketed in the 90s like Android is marketed in the 10s... "Well, RHAT will sell you a support contract for 10% less than msdos 3.30, so you save there, but its not quite as good and there's some minor UI issues where the world standard of blackslashes in directory names is forwards slashes on linux, and all the distributions are different and appear and disappear unless you stick to the majors, and individual issues have to be tracked by the end users, unlike msdos where everyone runs the same ver 3.30 so there's no real community amongst linux distros... But, hey, if you want to put in more effort for 10% less cost, its ... usable...
Note I'm not talking about what it is, but how its marketed.
Tactical error on my part. A better standard /. analogy would have been:
$9K for a used beater from '05 with 100K miles driven hard by teenage fast-and-the-furious wannabe that often breaks down vs $10K for a new one of whatever jedidiah thinks is a decent car brand.
The point remaining, if I'm gonna toss out a substantial amount of dough for a luxury, I want it to "just work perfectly", not be "kinda close for 10% less".
"Kinda close for 10% less" is how you sell 6-32 screws to engineers who wanted to use 8-24 screws but the boss forced the redesign because its a little cheaper. "Kinda close for 10% less" is not how you sell luxury goods.
"Here's my new Rowlex... Its almost like a Rolex, in that its worn on a wrist and tries to tell time, but not really, because it doesn't work. Oh well, I saved 10%" ... um, maybe, just maybe, that would fly at a 2600 meeting, but probably no where else..
Everyone else, stay away until they either become significantly cheaper than the iPad or Android has caught up in marketshare and polish (which, conveniently, is always 6 months from now.
6 months from now, when the androids can finally compete head to head with the ipad2, and all the early adopters have expired after being shot in the back with arrows, I'm sure sales against the ipad3 with retina display or whatever its supposed to have will be ... once again, not so brisk; but I promise once again, in just 6 more months, we'll have an Ipad3-killer android tablet ... ready by the rollout of the ipad4...
Here's something I've never understood...
Samsung could drop its 10-inch tablet's price to $425 and pose a serious challenge to Apple's device. But will they...?
Why would anyone trade so much away for 10% of the price in a luxury market?
There's no way I'd drop most of my half of a mortgage payment on something that "kinda works sometimes" when I could just toss in the cost of a nice night out and get the top of the line...
Imagine if the decision was to buy the yugo for $9K or the BMW for $10K. You can have a grilled to perfection steak dinner for $5 or save a whopping 50 cents by having a three day old mcdonalds burger instead. Would I still be married if I told her to buy a $900 pair of sweatpants and teeshirt from walmart instead of a kilobuck wedding dress? Why throw down do much cash but not finish the job?
Now if it didn't really work, but it was 1/4 the price, Oh I'd find a way, even if it involved desoldering and remanufacturing. But almost but not quite the same cost? Forget it.
Neglecting to mention those were paid for using $25 face value 1/2 oz golden eagles.
Yes I'm well aware its laughably bad comment spam, but its kinda funny how the numbers pretty much work out...
Having said that I really do hope that the EEs who know the system best (IE the ones who actually keep the grid running) have removed line of sight from the most vulnerable junctions.
A simple question for you to consider: How do you hide transmission lines from line-of-site?
The problem is you pop a hole in the bottom of an oil cooled transformer and as fast as the oil can run out, it'll overheat and shut down, or overheat and catch fire. Every hunting season at a previous job we used to lose power to a repeater site or two from that form of recreation.
That person would have to risk getting caught.
Caught doing what? Surely not this:
a single person with a 4wd vehicle, and a high powered rifle with a scope
That would raise eyebrows in downtown Manhattan or maybe Norway now, but around here that is a standard issue hunter, a protected species, herd size measured in the hundreds of thousands each fall, no kidding. Mostly they spend "deer hunting time" drinking beer but they have been known to take pot shots at aerial fiber; I assume they occasionally miss our fiber and hit the electric co lines, insulators, and transformers. The big high voltage towers are supposed to be much more fun to hit than the little distribution lines. You're in their territory when you see road signs full of bullet holes, and trucks with big spotlights (for "shining")
It's not limited to good ole boys in the back woods. In certain multicultural / ethnic areas, every new years day morning is spent on aerial fiber damage caused by shooting into the air at midnight. Charming little tradition they have, amongst others. Glad I live many miles away.
Every employer I've ever had who owns aerial fiber has had these kind of problems.
If only those web browsers wouldn't be so dawn expensive....
Try running IE9 on windows XP... You'll find it quite the challenge.
So what if it used to be the main part of our economy? Things change. There's no shortage of work to be done ....
Such as .... Don't leave us in suspense. We could sell each other houses, because real estate only goes up, until it doesn't... Err, we could sell each other copyrighted digital files, as long as no one invents an international data transfer networks... Err, too late for that.
Translation: China is anti-human rights while America is full of constitutionalists who protect self-evident unalienable rights only for the corporations who own the government.
Fixed that for you
The smaller the sample group, the more intelligent the average in it, in all recent "technology vs. intelligence" studies. Can we just deduct that the less intelligent flow with the crowd, the more intelligent actually pick what's best for them, and call it quits?
Shachar
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