Dear AC, people really believe things. Really. They have values.
The holistic "healers" really believe that they have science on their side, or that they are being scientific. It is just like Ken Ham, and Lord Monckton.
That is what makes the situation sad. Not everything is about money.
The placebo effect is very real, it really works, and that's what this is, ie. placebo in the guise of "Energy Medicine" instead of a sugar pill.
Yes, it can cure, it can help people, but not people with real diseases/illnesses.
In no circumstances should it substitute proper science if there's something seriously wrong with you.
Most of the skills you'll learn at the moment with sub-$1000 printers are: * Calibration/leveling * Throwing away models because of bad calibration/leveling * Recalibration/adjusting the leveling * Throwing away models because of bad print options that caused the plastic to droop * Trying different print options to find one that works for that particular object
Printers (and printer driver software) will eventually improve and make most of those skills obsolete.
The name, for starters. How much untold confusion has that caused?
Then there's the language....
Still, JavaScript isn't any worse than all those other languages that the BASIC programmers of the world seem to prefer. Even if JavaScript hadn't 'won' it would have been something similar. Better the devil you know.
Have fun dealing with everybody trying to get free internet. My neighbor didn't lock his down, and once his internet started running like molasses, he checked and found six different people using his internet at the one time.
My router has a separate "guest" WiFi that I can limit the bandwidth on. I'm free from any lawsuit hassle if I open that up...?
Unfortunately, the bat-shit scary truth of the matter appears to be that the pilot decided to kill himself and everybody else on the plane, and there really isn't much that passengers or other flight crew can do to prevent the outcome.
Yep.
Nothing else explains the radio silence, transponder shut-down, etc. Those things are designed to keep basic electrical and comms functions working no matter what.
If it flew for a few hours after the 'failure' then it should have communicated with ground. The only conclusion is that it was deliberately done by somebody with cockpit access.
Turning off the transponders seems pretty deliberate.
Yes, but it doesn't make much sense to turn it off then continue to fly for several hours until you run out of fuel.
Seems much more likely that they went offline because of some massive hardware failure (or bomb). Either the pilots were killed by it or they were unable to regain control of the aircraft afterwards.
He's correct about the live video feeds of specific locations. You'd need a geostationary satellite every few degrees for that.
Spy satellites orbit. They have to pass over the ocean sometime. Most of the earth is covered a few times per day. I've worked with military satellites and the resolution is surprisingly low. No way they can recognize faces or anything like that, they're happy if they can see individual vehicles.
If they need better images than that they have to send in the spy 'planes. This can only be done over countries where they have permission or the countries can't stop them. No way is the USA doing it over China (or China over the USA), etc.
Coal produces a lot of other nasties apart from CO2. Long term usage of coal would still be a bad idea even if CO2 was harmless.
If a tiny fraction of the investment on military was spent on energy, it would be a solved problem by now.
Nuclear can be perfectly safe/clean. The current view of nuclear energy is based on reactors that were designed in the 1950s for making nuclear weapons. Science/technology has advanced since then. A lot.
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(why smartphone, by the way?)
It probably connects to a serial port or something.
ATM machines have ports where you can plug in a diagnostic computer. One of the diagnostic functions will be "test the cash dispenser".
The SMS trigger is just there so they can do it at night and make sure somebody's standing there to grab the money.
Really? This stuff isn't being done to begin with?
Why would they? It's in a locked steel box. People aren't using it to surf the web.
Yes, there is a burden of proof on the holistic healers to prove their case
Their "case" boils down to "placebo effect". Wikipedia already has that covered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Dear AC, people really believe things. Really. They have values.
The holistic "healers" really believe that they have science on their side, or that they are being scientific. It is just like Ken Ham, and Lord Monckton.
That is what makes the situation sad. Not everything is about money.
The placebo effect is very real, it really works, and that's what this is, ie. placebo in the guise of "Energy Medicine" instead of a sugar pill.
Yes, it can cure, it can help people, but not people with real diseases/illnesses.
In no circumstances should it substitute proper science if there's something seriously wrong with you.
Most of the skills you'll learn at the moment with sub-$1000 printers are:
* Calibration/leveling
* Throwing away models because of bad calibration/leveling
* Recalibration/adjusting the leveling
* Throwing away models because of bad print options that caused the plastic to droop
* Trying different print options to find one that works for that particular object
Printers (and printer driver software) will eventually improve and make most of those skills obsolete.
That's funny. I could have sworn one of the hottest technologies around was a thing called a "cellphone".
I guess I must be old fashioned...
This proposal will get a lot of publicity.
The "rejected" vote will come after the next elections and will be played down by the media...
...and how does Google dumping money into something make it un-doomed? It can still fail just as badly as before.
Why?
The name, for starters. How much untold confusion has that caused?
Then there's the language....
Still, JavaScript isn't any worse than all those other languages that the BASIC programmers of the world seem to prefer. Even if JavaScript hadn't 'won' it would have been something similar. Better the devil you know.
Have fun dealing with everybody trying to get free internet. My neighbor didn't lock his down, and once his internet started running like molasses, he checked and found six different people using his internet at the one time.
My router has a separate "guest" WiFi that I can limit the bandwidth on. I'm free from any lawsuit hassle if I open that up ...?
That only applies to the Pro line (which is selling pretty fast).
The camera on the "Pro" is useless (720p resolution), the camera on the "RT" is actually better (5 megapixels).
That's got to be a deal breaker for many people (it is for me).
it's hard to compete on the market for just making the prints.
Yep. There's a lot of printers out there among 'makers', and if there really is any money in it then there'll soon be a lot more.
My advice to him would be to get an angle grinder and chop 0.3" off the side of the brake pedal to bring it up to international safety standards.
You can never be too careful.
If you double pedal the car will break
I don't think a car which breaks if you hit both pedals is a car I'd want to buy...I'd like to be able to continue my journey.
No I haven't. I though you meant you stomped the brake pedal when you went for the clutch.
All the parking brakes I've seen are way higher than the other pedals and way over on the left. Pretty darn difficult to hit accidentally.
Yep, I've done that....
Unfortunately, the bat-shit scary truth of the matter appears to be that the pilot decided to kill himself and everybody else on the plane, and there really isn't much that passengers or other flight crew can do to prevent the outcome.
Yep.
Nothing else explains the radio silence, transponder shut-down, etc. Those things are designed to keep basic electrical and comms functions working no matter what.
If it flew for a few hours after the 'failure' then it should have communicated with ground. The only conclusion is that it was deliberately done by somebody with cockpit access.
ZERO spy satellites point at the open ocean, nothing interesting going on out there.
Rubbish.
Spy satellites aren't in geostationary orbit so they have to pass over ocean sometime.
You'd think FDRs would float and be mounted in a section of the aircraft that detaches on impact (accelerometer+explosive bolts).
I wonder why they don't do that...
Turning off the transponders seems pretty deliberate.
Yes, but it doesn't make much sense to turn it off then continue to fly for several hours until you run out of fuel.
Seems much more likely that they went offline because of some massive hardware failure (or bomb). Either the pilots were killed by it or they were unable to regain control of the aircraft afterwards.
There are ways to deal with that situation. I'd like to think we'd use them.
Yep. They'd just make a phone call and say "we had a radio message from a ship in the area" or something like that.
Anything else is conspiracy theory.
He's correct about the live video feeds of specific locations. You'd need a geostationary satellite every few degrees for that.
Spy satellites orbit. They have to pass over the ocean sometime. Most of the earth is covered a few times per day. I've worked with military satellites and the resolution is surprisingly low. No way they can recognize faces or anything like that, they're happy if they can see individual vehicles.
If they need better images than that they have to send in the spy 'planes. This can only be done over countries where they have permission or the countries can't stop them. No way is the USA doing it over China (or China over the USA), etc.
Any floating debris could be a looooong way from the crash site by now.
Coal produces a lot of other nasties apart from CO2. Long term usage of coal would still be a bad idea even if CO2 was harmless.
If a tiny fraction of the investment on military was spent on energy, it would be a solved problem by now.
Nuclear can be perfectly safe/clean. The current view of nuclear energy is based on reactors that were designed in the 1950s for making nuclear weapons. Science/technology has advanced since then. A lot.
'Scientists' also think that bees can't fly, right?