I suppose they use less nasty stuff than current batteries.
Of course we recycle current batteries pretty well, oh, and metal body panels. I am sure it can't be TOOO hard to recycle nano-battery carbon fiber panels can it? Is it even possible in theory? What happens if you throw these in a dump with water, random metal things, and pressure?
I see the CG is a big point. I love the local EV that is 3 ft wide and looks like it would tip if you lean on it but has a 1000 lb battery pack in bottom and handles great. Too bad it is/was $40k+ for half a car.
Its seems that the parents of the girl who tragically leapt to her death could have sought counciling or maybe they did for their daughter, I don't know, but may have been able to contact school's admin or move her to another school or something to prevent this sad, sad death.
They did change schools but it persisted online. Apparently Facebook and stuff is now mandatory for kids as both suspect and victim seemed to continue. I guess i don't get how that works. You can't prevent someone from posting on your Facebook page?
lol, 25 years ago we had ONE programmer able to maintain our software as he had done much of the customization of an out of the box accounting system. Bloody thing was so complex to start with noone wanted to touch it before we fixed it up, much less afterwards. Upto 10 Megabytes worth of code but no more than 32K loadable in memory. Must have been 100's of small chunks of code all calling each other in and out of memory every other keystroke.
I managed to customize some reports but that was only part i ever dared to touch.
The real kicker...written in a version of BASIC.
Actually a pretty impressive system and worked well for 15 years. Always wondered how they managed to write such a monstrosity. Kept picturing a blimp hanger with a flowchart wrapped around the walls.
OK, I can debuke that one. More than one speaker certainly is distinct. I have no idea how those fancy headphones work but my pair of vintage quadraphonic headphones (front and back speaker for each ear) most certainly do give 4 seperate channels with clear front and back. I don't know how they compare with 5.1 but if the right sound is sent to the right speaker it should work great.
Wish i could get 5.1 properly converted to 4.0 to use my stereo for sound sometimes tho.
lol, no idea what the site was so had to check. Private airshow...was alternative to canceled military one....AT A MILITARY BASE... yup, totally not related to gov, eh?;p
Good to know there are still sites with 'better'headlines than us;)
hehe, my dad bought a new Fusion and got away with putting the whole thing on his rewards card. Never hurts to try...dealer didn't really have a policy per se. Now he can fly anywhere he doesn't want to drive:)
I don't give a hoot about most 3rd party sellers on Amazon (and seemingly every other big site now) especially one pointing me somewhere else to close. It is possible some of us want to buy from the company whose website we went to. I looked up an item on Walmart.com and got over 1000 results from like 100's different companies, didn't bother looking there again.
Don't care to think what all the web metrics and spying ad companies think when you click on a BUY button for a car either... they get the info but you don't get the convenience:(
You seem to be responding as if there is something to this....
And NO automatic crap for me please. You are coming to an intersection with red light and someone crossing. How does it know you will stop in time? By then i would be 10 ft away and the message wouldn't even get there much less get read before the splat. If you try and warn farther away then it will beep and flash warnings at every intersection. Or in your case, slam on the brakes a few feet short of the crosswalk and have everyone rear-end me.
Most people that step out from between cars are probably on a sidewalk first. This will detect when they take two steps left toawrd the road and warn me/them before the 4th step, lol.
As if anyone (outside of NYC) would remember to turn it on when walking. Drive to work with it off so it doesn't go nuts, park in lot, get hit crossing street to office:( Are you really going to turn on your crossing the street app.
Like it matters...there won't be enough cars/phones with this tech to make it more than a gimmick for a long, long time.
Makes me think of the article/demo of the car (or the truck one for that matter) with brake assist that they show it stopping when it got to close to a truck it was following. It seemed to come to a STOP when it was caught tailgating...hard not to picture a string of cars behind that one when it suddenly stops in the middle of the road and....
Not much of a feature if you compare the damage of rear ending a moving truck at like 5-10 mph difference VS stopping on freeway with no warning:O
On the other hand, i do want to take it downtown and play with it on the skywalks.
Have they ever gone after individual users in the 1st place?
Not hard to promise not to do something you don't do, haven't done, and don't intend on doing;)
Did they promise not to bother the Stores? Suppliers? Growers? Banks?
Anyways, it should be interesting. The only places that seem to qualify here as sales locations are in areas i don't care to go to.... the biker bar strip, and the strip club strip. There will not be any place in my neighborhood. It will require a special trip to one of the 2 worst areas in town because that is the only place far enough away from schools to qualify. Not sure what that does unless we plan on limiting travel to 21 and older:P Maybe we get a clump of shops outside town on an offramp or something, wouldn't be any farther than 'in town' anyway.
Soon have every cop within 100 miles looking for ID plates at the smokeshops in WA and the WA plates at the ID liquor store. The fact you aren't supposed to do liquor across state lines either didn't stop ID from putting the big new liquor store at the border.
... or maybe headbutting the wall a few times if the stubborn customer has insisted on actually paying for the car, thus depriving you of the finance company commission.
lol My dad found out how to frustrate the dealership, pick out a car and plop down a credit card. Salesman is frustrated, clerk is baffled, accounting is pissed(all of a sudden that 3% fee seems to matter...) He'll pay it off when the bill comes I imagine and the only one paying finance fees are the dealer. That probably wasn't their goal:) Airline miles reward card too of course on a nearly 30k car;)
When i looked at the chart in the article it looked to me like it had a hard time predicting the 'flops'.
Even then it seemed so compressed i am not sure how accurate any of it was. If the prediction was $10 million and the dot is at about $40-50 mil, is that a good guess or a bad guess. None of the low end ones looked accurate. Seems to be one with a prediction of $1000 (huh!!!) and a result of $1 mil.
We just added single-can recycling here. All recyclable stuff goes in one large can and the list of stuff is very extensive. Much easier to put out and to pick up than sorted bins. Everyone is now recycling much more and a good portion of the city changed to a smaller garbage can. Of course this means revenue drops and with garbage service being a private corporation........
I bet the small can costs the same as a large did shortly.
In WA, and i bet we doubled the amount of plastic we recycle last year with this change. Oops?
Wait, are you the SOB that made the grocery bags with holes in the bottom of every one i got last trip to grocery store?!? I felt like someone wanted me to BUY plastic bags to put the kitty litter in:/
Next time they ask "paper or plastic" i guess i have to inspect the choices closer. Paper is not good for wet litter but it would at least make it out of the kitchen..
Ironicly, the worst packaging was a bubble envelope. It's the American companies specifying (or even putting stuff into) all the annoying plastic packages with 2 cardboard inserts and 4 wireties. The Chinese are happy to send you box of 100 thingamajigs using only a doublewalled box that has been recycled 12 times already. Hopefully a few companies manage to do something in between that gets the product here in one piece without encasing it in it's own little world.
Used OKI 320 are fairly cheap and bulletproof. I used a bunch i got off eBay for billing a few years back. Ribbons add up pretty quick under heavy use but some can be reused a time or two if labor is not an issue.
I have most everything covered here BUT low-power. My collection of Laserjet 5 printers are pretty bulletproof (the one dropped off a UPS truck still works but the case was in 23 pieces) and cheap but pretty much the opposite of lowpower:( My Color Laserjet is actually cheaper to use with toner off eBay but might need to include a smaller nuclear plant to run em:O
Funimation and their ilk may not be to happy with Bill tho!
Will it add sound? I can't imagine kids being terribly entertained/engrossed with a silent anime version of Shakespeare clips and trying to add their own dialog !!!
He seems to be missing step 3. ??? just like we do also tho.
Vague being the fact they said: EVEN IF this was more efficient and not DESPITE this being more efficient. To give one the impression this is more efficient without actually saying so...
I can't imagine this is very efficient at all. Probably good for smog control in cities if widely adopted.
lol, no one appears to have looked at what that medium is and the fact they only found one suitable medium at the moment.
You really don't want to know so if you want to know you have to read it yourself;)
20000 protein strands grown in XXXXXX and mashed together to make a patty. eww. Doesn't sound like meat, doesn't look like meat, really doubt if feels like meat...actually tasting anything like a burger would be incredible. In fact we could then debate how you can do that...not holding my breath tho;)
They can replace the $20-40 ready made ones tho for like $1 in plastic or something. Hardy gonna pay for a printer but at least it is a decent use if enough plans are available. Most have a nice foam layer on top you have to add also however. Certainly better than replacing a $1 spoon holder with $.10 worth of plastic and a long print job.
No way will you get the plans for one you are prescribed tho, they aren't giving away plans to their $500 ones for nothing!
Not all of us have insurance. Even then i don't use enough to cover the deductable. It is only an admit ticket for the hospital if ever needed:(
Wonder what they priced the caliper at? This is gonna to print one similar to the ones in the bargain bin not the Snap-on truck, right? I think mine was $5 for a big one and a little one.
Article should get an award for fluff and puff journalism or something! The AVERAGE household is probably not buying EVERYTHING at the HIGHEST price possible (and rounded up)...not really the idea behind AVERAGE now is it folks.
That and a paper towel holder is the only thing useful on the list for me:(
Really hard water here so i just buy a new shower head for $5.99 at the hardware store each year. About the same price as a bottle of CLR to clean the old head:/
The shower curtains i've bought come with rings, that seems pointless as the curtain needs replacing 1st. Has anyone just had to replace the rings? Mine are right where they were 12 years ago when i moved in (with a spare set in drawer from buying the last curtain.
The orthotic thing is good i hadn't thought of that one. Still have cut and add foam to top tho i would think most are padded. If there are designs for lots of sizes and shapes that could be handy.
Never used a spoon holder in my life. Looks like 2 for $1 at the dollar store type item tho so who cares if i can make for $.10 and a few hours time.
These printers don't take much power? $.31 isn't a lot of juice and how many hours did this stuff take to print?
These are so you don't have to carry a camera. If i am planning on taking pictures it would be nice to leave my phone behind as i am not really planning on using it much.
That said....how is the PHONE? Some of my cohorts have $300 phones that sounds worse than my ANCIENT flip-phone after a couple dozen drops to the concrete:/ (makes note to stop dropping phone in front of said cohorts to freak em out..even if it is the one thing my phone does theirs doesn't!)
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I suppose they use less nasty stuff than current batteries.
Of course we recycle current batteries pretty well, oh, and metal body panels. I am sure it can't be TOOO hard to recycle nano-battery carbon fiber panels can it? Is it even possible in theory? What happens if you throw these in a dump with water, random metal things, and pressure?
I see the CG is a big point. I love the local EV that is 3 ft wide and looks like it would tip if you lean on it but has a 1000 lb battery pack in bottom and handles great. Too bad it is/was $40k+ for half a car.
LOL, a neighbor once descibed hell to me since she happened to work there..... DSHS office filled with 45 women.
Its seems that the parents of the girl who tragically leapt to her death could have sought counciling or maybe they did for their daughter, I don't know, but may have been able to contact school's admin or move her to another school or something to prevent this sad, sad death.
They did change schools but it persisted online.
Apparently Facebook and stuff is now mandatory for kids as both suspect and victim seemed to continue. I guess i don't get how that works. You can't prevent someone from posting on your Facebook page?
lol, 25 years ago we had ONE programmer able to maintain our software as he had done much of the customization of an out of the box accounting system. Bloody thing was so complex to start with noone wanted to touch it before we fixed it up, much less afterwards. Upto 10 Megabytes worth of code but no more than 32K loadable in memory. Must have been 100's of small chunks of code all calling each other in and out of memory every other keystroke.
I managed to customize some reports but that was only part i ever dared to touch.
The real kicker...written in a version of BASIC.
Actually a pretty impressive system and worked well for 15 years. Always wondered how they managed to write such a monstrosity. Kept picturing a blimp hanger with a flowchart wrapped around the walls.
OK, I can debuke that one. More than one speaker certainly is distinct. I have no idea how those fancy headphones work but my pair of vintage quadraphonic headphones (front and back speaker for each ear) most certainly do give 4 seperate channels with clear front and back. I don't know how they compare with 5.1 but if the right sound is sent to the right speaker it should work great.
Wish i could get 5.1 properly converted to 4.0 to use my stereo for sound sometimes tho.
lol, no idea what the site was so had to check. Private airshow...was alternative to canceled military one....AT A MILITARY BASE... yup, totally not related to gov, eh? ;p
Good to know there are still sites with 'better'headlines than us ;)
Subtract the time spent at the dentist, getting to the dentist, waiting for the dentist !
I assume the cost includes the dentist visit or does it?
hehe, my dad bought a new Fusion and got away with putting the whole thing on his rewards card. Never hurts to try...dealer didn't really have a policy per se. Now he can fly anywhere he doesn't want to drive :)
I don't give a hoot about most 3rd party sellers on Amazon (and seemingly every other big site now) especially one pointing me somewhere else to close. It is possible some of us want to buy from the company whose website we went to. I looked up an item on Walmart.com and got over 1000 results from like 100's different companies, didn't bother looking there again.
Don't care to think what all the web metrics and spying ad companies think when you click on a BUY button for a car either ... they get the info but you don't get the convenience :(
You seem to be responding as if there is something to this....
And NO automatic crap for me please. You are coming to an intersection with red light and someone crossing. How does it know you will stop in time? By then i would be 10 ft away and the message wouldn't even get there much less get read before the splat. If you try and warn farther away then it will beep and flash warnings at every intersection. Or in your case, slam on the brakes a few feet short of the crosswalk and have everyone rear-end me.
Most people that step out from between cars are probably on a sidewalk first. This will detect when they take two steps left toawrd the road and warn me/them before the 4th step, lol.
As if anyone (outside of NYC) would remember to turn it on when walking. Drive to work with it off so it doesn't go nuts, park in lot, get hit crossing street to office :( Are you really going to turn on your crossing the street app.
Like it matters...there won't be enough cars/phones with this tech to make it more than a gimmick for a long, long time.
Makes me think of the article/demo of the car (or the truck one for that matter) with brake assist that they show it stopping when it got to close to a truck it was following. It seemed to come to a STOP when it was caught tailgating...hard not to picture a string of cars behind that one when it suddenly stops in the middle of the road and....
Not much of a feature if you compare the damage of rear ending a moving truck at like 5-10 mph difference VS stopping on freeway with no warning :O
On the other hand, i do want to take it downtown and play with it on the skywalks.
Have they ever gone after individual users in the 1st place?
Not hard to promise not to do something you don't do, haven't done, and don't intend on doing ;)
Did they promise not to bother the Stores? Suppliers? Growers? Banks?
Anyways, it should be interesting. The only places that seem to qualify here as sales locations are in areas i don't care to go to.... the biker bar strip, and the strip club strip. There will not be any place in my neighborhood. It will require a special trip to one of the 2 worst areas in town because that is the only place far enough away from schools to qualify. Not sure what that does unless we plan on limiting travel to 21 and older :P Maybe we get a clump of shops outside town on an offramp or something, wouldn't be any farther than 'in town' anyway.
Soon have every cop within 100 miles looking for ID plates at the smokeshops in WA and the WA plates at the ID liquor store. The fact you aren't supposed to do liquor across state lines either didn't stop ID from putting the big new liquor store at the border.
All he has to do is eliminate the current use of energy for advertisement, waste, and prestige and we would never need to mine it for energy.
I see no reason for him to worry, he just has to get busy :)
... or maybe headbutting the wall a few times if the stubborn customer has insisted on actually paying for the car, thus depriving you of the finance company commission.
lol :) Airline miles reward card too of course on a nearly 30k car ;)
My dad found out how to frustrate the dealership, pick out a car and plop down a credit card. Salesman is frustrated, clerk is baffled, accounting is pissed(all of a sudden that 3% fee seems to matter...) He'll pay it off when the bill comes I imagine and the only one paying finance fees are the dealer. That probably wasn't their goal
When i looked at the chart in the article it looked to me like it had a hard time predicting the 'flops'.
Even then it seemed so compressed i am not sure how accurate any of it was.
If the prediction was $10 million and the dot is at about $40-50 mil, is that a good guess or a bad guess. None of the low end ones looked accurate. Seems to be one with a prediction of $1000 (huh!!!) and a result of $1 mil.
Great in theory.....
We just added single-can recycling here. All recyclable stuff goes in one large can and the list of stuff is very extensive. Much easier to put out and to pick up than sorted bins. Everyone is now recycling much more and a good portion of the city changed to a smaller garbage can. Of course this means revenue drops and with garbage service being a private corporation........
I bet the small can costs the same as a large did shortly.
In WA, and i bet we doubled the amount of plastic we recycle last year with this change. Oops?
What happened to "Reuse"
Wait, are you the SOB that made the grocery bags with holes in the bottom of every one i got last trip to grocery store?!? :/
I felt like someone wanted me to BUY plastic bags to put the kitty litter in
Next time they ask "paper or plastic" i guess i have to inspect the choices closer. Paper is not good for wet litter but it would at least make it out of the kitchen..
Quite a few actually.
Ironicly, the worst packaging was a bubble envelope. It's the American companies specifying (or even putting stuff into) all the annoying plastic packages with 2 cardboard inserts and 4 wireties. The Chinese are happy to send you box of 100 thingamajigs using only a doublewalled box that has been recycled 12 times already. Hopefully a few companies manage to do something in between that gets the product here in one piece without encasing it in it's own little world.
Yup
Used OKI 320 are fairly cheap and bulletproof. I used a bunch i got off eBay for billing a few years back. Ribbons add up pretty quick under heavy use but some can be reused a time or two if labor is not an issue.
I have most everything covered here BUT low-power. My collection of Laserjet 5 printers are pretty bulletproof (the one dropped off a UPS truck still works but the case was in 23 pieces) and cheap but pretty much the opposite of lowpower :( My Color Laserjet is actually cheaper to use with toner off eBay but might need to include a smaller nuclear plant to run em :O
..."synthesized image sequence"...
So point it at manga....instant anime
Funimation and their ilk may not be to happy with Bill tho!
Will it add sound? I can't imagine kids being terribly entertained/engrossed with a silent anime version of Shakespeare clips and trying to add their own dialog !!!
He seems to be missing step 3. ??? just like we do also tho.
and apparently every assembly manual for chinese products or Ikea furniture was produced on these machines....
Vague being the fact they said: EVEN IF this was more efficient and not DESPITE this being more efficient. To give one the impression this is more efficient without actually saying so...
I can't imagine this is very efficient at all. Probably good for smog control in cities if widely adopted.
lol, no one appears to have looked at what that medium is and the fact they only found one suitable medium at the moment.
You really don't want to know so if you want to know you have to read it yourself ;)
20000 protein strands grown in XXXXXX and mashed together to make a patty. eww. Doesn't sound like meat, doesn't look like meat, really doubt if feels like meat...actually tasting anything like a burger would be incredible. In fact we could then debate how you can do that...not holding my breath tho ;)
Yup, probably the most puffed up article I can recall reading.
These guys make the Stay-Puft marshmellow man look anorexic.
These guys are doing more harm than good
They can replace the $20-40 ready made ones tho for like $1 in plastic or something. Hardy gonna pay for a printer but at least it is a decent use if enough plans are available. Most have a nice foam layer on top you have to add also however. Certainly better than replacing a $1 spoon holder with $.10 worth of plastic and a long print job.
No way will you get the plans for one you are prescribed tho, they aren't giving away plans to their $500 ones for nothing!
Not all of us have insurance. Even then i don't use enough to cover the deductable. It is only an admit ticket for the hospital if ever needed :(
Wonder what they priced the caliper at? This is gonna to print one similar to the ones in the bargain bin not the Snap-on truck, right? I think mine was $5 for a big one and a little one.
Article should get an award for fluff and puff journalism or something! The AVERAGE household is probably not buying EVERYTHING at the HIGHEST price possible (and rounded up)...not really the idea behind AVERAGE now is it folks.
Surely that isn't a plastic shower head for $400!
That and a paper towel holder is the only thing useful on the list for me :(
Really hard water here so i just buy a new shower head for $5.99 at the hardware store each year. About the same price as a bottle of CLR to clean the old head :/
The shower curtains i've bought come with rings, that seems pointless as the curtain needs replacing 1st. Has anyone just had to replace the rings? Mine are right where they were 12 years ago when i moved in (with a spare set in drawer from buying the last curtain.
The orthotic thing is good i hadn't thought of that one. Still have cut and add foam to top tho i would think most are padded. If there are designs for lots of sizes and shapes that could be handy.
Never used a spoon holder in my life. Looks like 2 for $1 at the dollar store type item tho so who cares if i can make for $.10 and a few hours time.
These printers don't take much power? $.31 isn't a lot of juice and how many hours did this stuff take to print?
I'd take my old P&S with a phone attached tho.
These are so you don't have to carry a camera. If i am planning on taking pictures it would be nice to leave my phone behind as i am not really planning on using it much.
That said....how is the PHONE? Some of my cohorts have $300 phones that sounds worse than my ANCIENT flip-phone after a couple dozen drops to the concrete :/ (makes note to stop dropping phone in front of said cohorts to freak em out..even if it is the one thing my phone does theirs doesn't!)