I worked at my parents coffee house for 5 years, and I have to agree. As far as lattes go, I have yet to find a automated machine that can do the job better than I or other skilled baristas at steaming the milk. It is part science part art.
The site was down, so I couldn't actually read the article, but roasting takes a fair amount of time to get right. From the summary it made it sound like it was doing micro roasting for every drink. Roasting also smells pretty... weird, I wouldn't call it a bad smell but it doesn't smell like the finished product either.
It seems that many are approaching "educational games" from the wrong angle. While there can certainly be a place for games that simply teach concepts such as math or science in a relatively straightforward way, why not also use games such as Bioshock? Bioshock could be used in a ethics class to illustrate right and wrong, and how a decision that helps you now might hurt you down the road.
Games as educational tools should be approached just like reading is, there is a place for textbooks and a place for novels. Both lend to greater understanding, just in different ways.
Oh man, I just loved this:
"We are creating a set of intellectual properties and software assets that can be employed to gauge and improve levels of preparedness to tackle unforeseen natural disasters"
Awesome, now they get to patent how to respond to natural disasters so that no one else can innovate...
another victory for our wonderful patent process!
It would be nice if there was some way to add this to GPS devices. I'd rather not have to take my phone out when I already have a nice big GPS unit sitting right in my car.
I realize there probably isn't any sort of standardization for a plugin for GPS units, but it would be nice.
Once we get Mario elected to Congress we'll be a significant voting, until then I think most candidates will focus on "giving" healthcare or making us "secure".
The author went out of his way to label Ron Paul supporters loopy... why? I could give the standard, "Since when is the Constitution etc etc. loopy" line, but I am sure you have heard it before.
It is almost like political racism, like being a Ron Paul supporter automatically makes you a screaming lunatic that causes all of the problems in the country.
IMHO Visual Basic is a great teaching product. I go to a Technical Center for Juniors and Seniors, the curriculum(sp) is broken up into four sections - PC Technician, Networking, Multimedia, and Programming. Many of the students aren't really all that into programming, they came into the program for one of the other sections, but once they see that they can get immediate results and something "pretty" with VB, they get excited and actually do the work. Our teacher told us that they used to teach Java for the programming section, but switched to VB a year ago, I asked her about this and she said it was because with Java, noone liked it but the kids that were REALLY into programming and it was hard to keep their attention/on task. She said that with VB the students are much more into the assignments, mainly because of having a nice GUI looking at you right away.
Like anything, it has it's place.
I think the best way that these things can be employed is security. Just set them up as little mobile turrets on the top of walls, the soldiers won't be in harms way, and you will be under attack so you will know for sure who is attacking and who is just trying to get out of the way.
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Would I be willing to venture into space if given the chance? I'm not sure. I'd love to have the opportunity to consider it, though.
Are you a politician? Because you sound a hell of a lot like Congress : )
Do they really need computers to do this... I mean, it was easy enough so that even a caveman could do it.
I worked at my parents coffee house for 5 years, and I have to agree. As far as lattes go, I have yet to find a automated machine that can do the job better than I or other skilled baristas at steaming the milk. It is part science part art.
The site was down, so I couldn't actually read the article, but roasting takes a fair amount of time to get right. From the summary it made it sound like it was doing micro roasting for every drink. Roasting also smells pretty... weird, I wouldn't call it a bad smell but it doesn't smell like the finished product either.
There have also been machines around for a long time that do everything including steaming the milk, although much smaller. They are called super automatics in the industry. http://www.wholelattelove.com/reviews.cfm?ItemID=1130#reviewfaq
Not saying this isn't cool, but I don't think you'll see most coffee shops doing this.
Better hope this technology doesn't make its way to Redmond, if it does we will have a lot more than flying chairs to worry about...
It seems that many are approaching "educational games" from the wrong angle. While there can certainly be a place for games that simply teach concepts such as math or science in a relatively straightforward way, why not also use games such as Bioshock? Bioshock could be used in a ethics class to illustrate right and wrong, and how a decision that helps you now might hurt you down the road.
Games as educational tools should be approached just like reading is, there is a place for textbooks and a place for novels. Both lend to greater understanding, just in different ways.
Oh man, I just loved this: "We are creating a set of intellectual properties and software assets that can be employed to gauge and improve levels of preparedness to tackle unforeseen natural disasters"
Awesome, now they get to patent how to respond to natural disasters so that no one else can innovate... another victory for our wonderful patent process!
It would be nice if there was some way to add this to GPS devices. I'd rather not have to take my phone out when I already have a nice big GPS unit sitting right in my car.
I realize there probably isn't any sort of standardization for a plugin for GPS units, but it would be nice.
Remind me what is wrong with circumcision? It may have religious roots, but I do believe that it has some medical benefits as well.
Once we get Mario elected to Congress we'll be a significant voting, until then I think most candidates will focus on "giving" healthcare or making us "secure".
Mod parent up. Voting for the candidate who the media says can win is essentially selling your vote to the corporations that run the media.
The author went out of his way to label Ron Paul supporters loopy... why? I could give the standard, "Since when is the Constitution etc etc. loopy" line, but I am sure you have heard it before.
It is almost like political racism, like being a Ron Paul supporter automatically makes you a screaming lunatic that causes all of the problems in the country.
IMHO Visual Basic is a great teaching product. I go to a Technical Center for Juniors and Seniors, the curriculum(sp) is broken up into four sections - PC Technician, Networking, Multimedia, and Programming. Many of the students aren't really all that into programming, they came into the program for one of the other sections, but once they see that they can get immediate results and something "pretty" with VB, they get excited and actually do the work. Our teacher told us that they used to teach Java for the programming section, but switched to VB a year ago, I asked her about this and she said it was because with Java, noone liked it but the kids that were REALLY into programming and it was hard to keep their attention/on task. She said that with VB the students are much more into the assignments, mainly because of having a nice GUI looking at you right away. Like anything, it has it's place.
I think the best way that these things can be employed is security. Just set them up as little mobile turrets on the top of walls, the soldiers won't be in harms way, and you will be under attack so you will know for sure who is attacking and who is just trying to get out of the way.
Without competition software will just get worse, with no need to improve.