Poor choice of slang there - I should have written "merkin" instead since "'merican" implies proper use of American English. "Merkin" also sums up your role in this discussion very nicely.
I saw a similar thing in the late 1980s from the sidelines when a bunch of idiots that just happened to be gay men tried to take over a show on community radio and kick the girls out. Become popular enough and some idiots will be among those who want to be part of the popular thing. Eventually the idiots went after a different shiny thing and left.
I mostly knew about it from the cans found with the remains of the Franklin expedition - food that kept for over a century in cans that had to be opened with a hammer and chisel. Animal testing was used but the dog really liked the veal:)
Flint, that started fire. Best gadget ever. Also the fire starting kit made of a couple of sticks and piece of string.
String! We would have loved to have string!
Seriously three sticks and a leather thong start the fire if you want to get all boy scout about it. From the link: http://www.artofmanliness.com/... "When you see a good amount of smoke, stop and look at the punk"
Two sticks and a lot of blisters on the hands apparently works but not for me.
A stick! OK, so a knife lets you create a better stick, and is easier to use for firelighting than sticks.
As for your journal entry, personally I think it's about Facebook hitting peak stupid more than anything else. It's far more easy to be outspokenly stupid online than elsewhere so there is still hope for the world.
than the fact that Australia doesn't allow home-schooling
I know you people think the place is Mad Max with sharks, but WTF? We fucking INVENTED high quality home-schooling with School of the Air via radio in 1951. Governments in Australia have been supporting home schooling for generations - desert, city, wherever.
Since so few of you people actually bother to turn up and do your duty as citizens and vote he has more of a chance than you think. Even Reagan's landslide was under 20% of the people who could have voted in that election and that was an exceptional turnout. If Trump uses a few old carpetbagger tricks (or a few more of them than he currently is) he could get a few more people to vote for him even if the population at large wouldn't. Then there's always the possibility of gaming the electronic devices and gaming the legal system such as with Florida in 2000.
What in the world? Hillary Clinton's two biggest "controversies" are Benghazi, which is about as much of a controversy as global warming, and this whole email scandal where she used a private server instead of the State Department one
Which is truly bizzare since real scandals such as with Pfizer getting nothing but a rap on the knuckles then becoming a big donor, and the stuff from the Manning leak (ordering agents to get info to blackmail UN delegates) are ignored.
The email thing was dismissed as a non-issue with Palin by the same people that lazily push that instead of worrying about real problems. Of course opening the donor corruption can of worms could backfire on the R side so maybe that's why they don't push it.
There was a lot more than that - worth keeping in mind before electing an autocrat like Trump. It's no accident that there are elected groups with various levels of power running the place instead of a King.
Bernie is so far to the left he makes Hillary look like a Republican
Richard Nixon was so far to the left that he would have made Hillary look like a Republican! I wish it was a joke but with the EPA, his health care proposals and a few other things he would be called a Communist by some Republicans if he was pushing such things today. That was of course before Koch and other similar donors made the demands that shaped current politics.
If the choice comes down to being between somewhat-disliked Clinton and outspoken-bigot Trump
It's not over yet. The similar sort of "superdelagates" that prevent Sanders having a chance on the D side haven't been wooed by Trump on the R side. It could be Jeb or someone who hasn't been near the primaries that will be put up for election.
If you're a Republican and you don't vote for Trump, the dirty Democrats will win. If you're a Democrat and you don't vote for Clinton, the rotten Republicans will win
It's an expected outcome of playing deliberate wedge politics for far too long just to distinguish a "brand" (yes it is that petty) and history shows it can get violent.
Oh, I forgot to mention that she was lecturing me like a school-child
Indeed. One book you may be interested in is "A leg to stand on" by the recently late Dr Oliver Sachs. He was a world leader in his field of medicine and even had a movie made about his achievements (with Robin Williams playing his role) but when he was in hospital with a broken leg he was lectured like a school-child. The bits where he got to see the doctor-patient relationship from the other side and how ridiculous it can be sometimes were interesting.
When you are near death a mistake that would be trivial if you are healthy is enough to kill you. That's not excusing the mistakes just explaining some of the statistics.
Graphene on the other hand is a lot easier, hence the assumption in the article. It's a reordering of graphite that isn't as difficult to do as lining everything up in one direction as with carbon fibre.
As an analogy, it's like comparing the very large, very pure silicon ingots used for microprocessors with a sandcastle.
People want what they can get. I suggest you actually read some of the posts you have replied to instead of your lazy and insulting keyword kneejerks. It's very clear that you know less about the topic than you could have easily picked up today without even following a link.
I've got a device with a Triton display - nearly everyone will find it disappointing for colours since they come out very pale, like old newsprint really. The monochrome resolution is extremely high though compared even with most other e-ink at the time of release (1600x1200) - so text looks very nice on it. The WinCE software on the device with that screen holds it back from anything other than epubs and very simple PDF files (it can't even do rotate). It's a bit of an example of how the e-ink patent holders licence to single vendors so you get a single substandard niche device with their screen instead of several competing options
The market buys a lot of things, such as e-ink readers due to LCD sucking in direct sunlight. If the deliberately restricted market of e-ink opens up a bit due to real competition and is able to actually act like the market you describe then I think there will be room in the market for more devices. Your snarky "market" comment is amusing considering the topic. Do you really know that little about what has been going on with e-ink for a decade?
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Poor choice of slang there - I should have written "merkin" instead since "'merican" implies proper use of American English.
"Merkin" also sums up your role in this discussion very nicely.
I saw a similar thing in the late 1980s from the sidelines when a bunch of idiots that just happened to be gay men tried to take over a show on community radio and kick the girls out. Become popular enough and some idiots will be among those who want to be part of the popular thing. Eventually the idiots went after a different shiny thing and left.
I mostly knew about it from the cans found with the remains of the Franklin expedition - food that kept for over a century in cans that had to be opened with a hammer and chisel. Animal testing was used but the dog really liked the veal :)
You got that banjo there yawl? There's all them folks givin ya a hard time for speakin' 'merican insteada English yawl.
Flint, that started fire. Best gadget ever. Also the fire starting kit made of a couple of sticks and piece of string.
String! We would have loved to have string!
Seriously three sticks and a leather thong start the fire if you want to get all boy scout about it.
From the link: http://www.artofmanliness.com/...
"When you see a good amount of smoke, stop and look at the punk"
Two sticks and a lot of blisters on the hands apparently works but not for me.
Not exactly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_opener
See also Vikings and their dried fish technology! Not to mention "Kingsbread" which is still made and possibly at a supermarket or deli near you.
A stick!
OK, so a knife lets you create a better stick, and is easier to use for firelighting than sticks.
As for your journal entry, personally I think it's about Facebook hitting peak stupid more than anything else. It's far more easy to be outspokenly stupid online than elsewhere so there is still hope for the world.
I know you people think the place is Mad Max with sharks, but WTF? We fucking INVENTED high quality home-schooling with School of the Air via radio in 1951. Governments in Australia have been supporting home schooling for generations - desert, city, wherever.
Since so few of you people actually bother to turn up and do your duty as citizens and vote he has more of a chance than you think. Even Reagan's landslide was under 20% of the people who could have voted in that election and that was an exceptional turnout. If Trump uses a few old carpetbagger tricks (or a few more of them than he currently is) he could get a few more people to vote for him even if the population at large wouldn't. Then there's always the possibility of gaming the electronic devices and gaming the legal system such as with Florida in 2000.
Which is truly bizzare since real scandals such as with Pfizer getting nothing but a rap on the knuckles then becoming a big donor, and the stuff from the Manning leak (ordering agents to get info to blackmail UN delegates) are ignored.
The email thing was dismissed as a non-issue with Palin by the same people that lazily push that instead of worrying about real problems. Of course opening the donor corruption can of worms could backfire on the R side so maybe that's why they don't push it.
There was a lot more than that - worth keeping in mind before electing an autocrat like Trump.
It's no accident that there are elected groups with various levels of power running the place instead of a King.
Richard Nixon was so far to the left that he would have made Hillary look like a Republican!
I wish it was a joke but with the EPA, his health care proposals and a few other things he would be called a Communist by some Republicans if he was pushing such things today. That was of course before Koch and other similar donors made the demands that shaped current politics.
It's not over yet. The similar sort of "superdelagates" that prevent Sanders having a chance on the D side haven't been wooed by Trump on the R side. It could be Jeb or someone who hasn't been near the primaries that will be put up for election.
It's an expected outcome of playing deliberate wedge politics for far too long just to distinguish a "brand" (yes it is that petty) and history shows it can get violent.
Indeed. One book you may be interested in is "A leg to stand on" by the recently late Dr Oliver Sachs. He was a world leader in his field of medicine and even had a movie made about his achievements (with Robin Williams playing his role) but when he was in hospital with a broken leg he was lectured like a school-child. The bits where he got to see the doctor-patient relationship from the other side and how ridiculous it can be sometimes were interesting.
When you are near death a mistake that would be trivial if you are healthy is enough to kill you. That's not excusing the mistakes just explaining some of the statistics.
Graphene on the other hand is a lot easier, hence the assumption in the article. It's a reordering of graphite that isn't as difficult to do as lining everything up in one direction as with carbon fibre.
As an analogy, it's like comparing the very large, very pure silicon ingots used for microprocessors with a sandcastle.
People want what they can get. I suggest you actually read some of the posts you have replied to instead of your lazy and insulting keyword kneejerks. It's very clear that you know less about the topic than you could have easily picked up today without even following a link.
I do not have an agenda - you are the one attempting to mislead here.
My post was very short.
You have no excuse.
If it's all too hard try just reading the "Two units at one plant = two units at one site" bit.
Any more of this stupidity and I'm going to start rolling out the moonshine and banjo insults.
I've got a device with a Triton display - nearly everyone will find it disappointing for colours since they come out very pale, like old newsprint really. The monochrome resolution is extremely high though compared even with most other e-ink at the time of release (1600x1200) - so text looks very nice on it. The WinCE software on the device with that screen holds it back from anything other than epubs and very simple PDF files (it can't even do rotate). It's a bit of an example of how the e-ink patent holders licence to single vendors so you get a single substandard niche device with their screen instead of several competing options
Yet it is not a product announcement so it is a mistake to treat it like one.
See the post at the start of this thread to get up to speed on things like those ridiculous prices.
If you had actually read my comment far above instead of a knee-jerk reaction to a keyword then you would know wouldn't you?
Congrats - you have demonstrated that you know less about the topic than was mentioned in a single short post that you replied to!
The market buys a lot of things, such as e-ink readers due to LCD sucking in direct sunlight. If the deliberately restricted market of e-ink opens up a bit due to real competition and is able to actually act like the market you describe then I think there will be room in the market for more devices.
Your snarky "market" comment is amusing considering the topic. Do you really know that little about what has been going on with e-ink for a decade?