This is pretty f'ing cool.... This is obviously going to be interesting for art projects and houses. I bet it is expensive, however, and we won't see any skyscrapers using this stuff anytime soon. (Can it be set like traditional concrete or do you buy blocks?)
I would love to see a list of all the anomalous photographs from the missions. I'm sure all the tin foil hat types are moving on this, but not necessarily in a constructive way. I saw the so called fossil rock (interesting, but not compelling enough to be likely over chance), and the bunny (a piece of the craft) and a couple of others, but it would be funny to get them organized into one place with the raw images (not photoshop altered) so we could play with statistics, so to speak.
For cooking interested types I highly recommend Cooks magazine (illustrated?) it is very down to earth and realistic. (It is run by chris Kimbel of pbs fame, americas test kitchen) Some cooking magazines are so ridiculously pretentious that they have to find at least one ingredient for every recipe that we can't find easily. Look at food and wine, for example. Geez and the recipes aren't even that good. Kimbel's crew will test down to earth stuff, like kraft cheese and compare it to things you get in the store. There website americastestkitchen.com is also very useful, and their recipes are generally good unpretentious fair.
I use google to find recipes. Usually I generally know what to make, and use google to "guide" the details. The thing I've learned is to look at many recipes and perform a bit of informatics. Some ingredients tend to vary between recipes and others are always the same. Then you can tell which parts to change to alter the recipe in your own personal way. For example, look for waffle recipes online. Some have mostly egg whites or some have a very pancake like recipe. Also you can find out how to alter the recipe with new ingredients. Very useful, when you can immediately get 10 different recipes for the same thing!
-Sean
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Me too. This almost sounds like FUD trolling. I have a dual G5 2.0 and while it is noisier than my G4 laptop, it is an order of magnitude quiter than any other desktop machine I have owned. The drive makes no noise at all and only the fan makes any real noise.
-Sean
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>o?go into the hazy Titan atmosphere and land on the moon's surface (if all goes well).
My understanding is that the probe can only survive landing in liquid and it will crash if it lands on rock.
judge someone's technology based on the marketing blurb on their website?
That wasn't a marketing blurb, it was taken from the lengthy technology description.... Sorry that people took the PhD thing so personally, I guess being an Anonymous Coward automatically makes you qualified to judge my degree.
Jeez, who peed in your cheerios (Anonymous Coward)? Not trying to be arrogant (I'm not an aerospace engineer), just commenting on this guys tech. BTW - I would much rather come across (unintentionally) as arrogant than as a bitter, pissed off person who has such a chip on his shoulder he blows up over a/. post, and acts like a jerk...
Well this PhD smells a quack (from the link on the page http://www.fuellessflight.com/techno/tech.htm):
"We humans can rarely invent any process that nature does not already use. Most of the science we know today merely copies nature. Our thermodynamic laws were formed by observation of nature. They are not proven, merely not disproved. Within this section of our website you will be taught a new science that mimics the earth's weather, by harnessing the dual forces of gravity -- buoyancy and gravity acceleration. Harnessing gravity may be more technically described as the science of harnessing mass differentials. High density mass falls within a low density lifting fluid, like rain falls from the sky, and low density mass rises in a high density lifting fluid, like a bubble rises in water or helium rises in air."
I think I understand the technology he is proposing (I'm confident it still requires input energy, beyond the environment), but he really should tone down the quack-o-meter. I think we can rest easily that the thermodynamic laws are intact.
I completely agree. I had for years gone wine tasting regularly at sonoma (and surrounding areas), without going to napa. I went to napa and I was apalled! $9 and $12 tastings? Super touristy rooms, that sell mostly cheap souveniers?
Sonoma has lots of excellent wines, the tastings are half the price and it is far more pretty, IMO. Hit Ferrari Carrano (sp?), Mondavi, Rodney Strong (one of my faves, you can often taste 3-4 price points of the same family of grape for about 5 bucks, for those who want more, try Gary Farrell and get their tour (res req'd), or go to the Alexander valley (Hanna is very good, free tasting). Glacier Peak is good, as well.
We call the windy road (can't remember the name) that ends up hitting lake sonoma the tipsy highway... heh.
Why is it that many/.'ers are so concerned with their privacy in some cases, such as pay pal, ebay, etc, and yet have no problem giving another company their contact info and the contact info of everyone they know? It seems that digitizing social networks (ala friendster) really opens you up for privacy abuse. These companies could, frankly, really mess up your life if they decided to do such a thing, or if a hacker broke in and did such a thing.
Uhh, this may not be the popular opinion, but it is possible that IBM doesn't want to do two things. 1) It may not want to develop an open source software suite (that would be unfortunate, but very possible) 2) It may not want to participate in a program that has such a strong pedigree with Sun, one of its competitors. I realize it is open source, but generally, I think that giving energy to openoffice would indirectly support sun, even if it is just the corporate statements in some of the code.
I totally agree. I'm not sure why every time a scientist reports an observed change whether it be climate, ecological, etc., the sensationalist media immediately raises the alarm that it is a cause for concern. There is no law of nature that says change is going to be detrimental.
Which movies? Pirates of the Caribbean? Freaky Friday? (Well reviewed and pretty good, surprisingly) I know mansion sank, but in general most of their movies are pretty good. (I include Studio Ghibli films and Pixar on that list)
I'm sorry, but I side on Eisner on this one. People on/. love to hit on Disney but, frankly I've been pretty happy with what disney has done:
1. Sat morning-esque cartoons - Much better IMO than the competition (FOX, etc). Kim Possible (I hate to admit it, although the art looks a lot like penny arcade), Proud Family, etc are actually funny while kid centered.
2. Feature films. Like Pirates of the C. and Freaky Friday (surprisingly good as well). A few other flops, but they are trying.
3. They distributed pixar. I realize it was the creative genious of someone else, but that is the way *all* big studios work. Pixar was theirs to keep and they shouldn't have let them go.
4. Anime. Say what you will about burying studio ghibli films. They bought them and brought them to the US and played a big part in popularizing anime to the general public.
5. Other things. Like Broadway musicals. Bringing back sunday night disney movies. etc
That is a lot better in my opinion than Disney has been since its golden age. There are few things disney puts out that are *worse* than watching another episode of pokemon.
I agree, I thought he might have an outside shot at a nomination. I watched the movie again on DVD, and I still find his performance baffling, in that he pulled off being really wierd without really coming off as too silly...
That said, Bill Murray will probably win, also well deserved. If Depp had gotten the supporting actor nom, he might have won.
Don't be stupid. The guy in the game is amoral. He does only what you make him do. You make him hit a woman, and kick her until she bleeds to death, that's your affair.
What you have to worry about is the fact that people choose to make him do those things, over and over again. And then cry about how nasty the programmers are.
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This is pretty f'ing cool.... This is obviously going to be interesting for art projects and houses. I bet it is expensive, however, and we won't see any skyscrapers using this stuff anytime soon. (Can it be set like traditional concrete or do you buy blocks?)
-Sean
Shouldn't this violate some sort of International Space Law?
Maybe I'm wrong but I think it is permitted to have patent protection on an illegal invention.
-Sean
I would love to see a list of all the anomalous photographs from the missions. I'm sure all the tin foil hat types are moving on this, but not necessarily in a constructive way. I saw the so called fossil rock (interesting, but not compelling enough to be likely over chance), and the bunny (a piece of the craft) and a couple of others, but it would be funny to get them organized into one place with the raw images (not photoshop altered) so we could play with statistics, so to speak.
-Sean
This, of course, is derived from Winston Churchill's martini.
-Sean
For cooking interested types I highly recommend Cooks magazine (illustrated?) it is very down to earth and realistic. (It is run by chris Kimbel of pbs fame, americas test kitchen) Some cooking magazines are so ridiculously pretentious that they have to find at least one ingredient for every recipe that we can't find easily. Look at food and wine, for example. Geez and the recipes aren't even that good. Kimbel's crew will test down to earth stuff, like kraft cheese and compare it to things you get in the store. There website americastestkitchen.com is also very useful, and their recipes are generally good unpretentious fair.
-Sean
I use google to find recipes. Usually I generally know what to make, and use google to "guide" the details. The thing I've learned is to look at many recipes and perform a bit of informatics. Some ingredients tend to vary between recipes and others are always the same. Then you can tell which parts to change to alter the recipe in your own personal way. For example, look for waffle recipes online. Some have mostly egg whites or some have a very pancake like recipe. Also you can find out how to alter the recipe with new ingredients. Very useful, when you can immediately get 10 different recipes for the same thing!
-Sean
Me too. This almost sounds like FUD trolling. I have a dual G5 2.0 and while it is noisier than my G4 laptop, it is an order of magnitude quiter than any other desktop machine I have owned. The drive makes no noise at all and only the fan makes any real noise.
-Sean
>o?go into the hazy Titan atmosphere and land on the moon's surface (if all goes well).
My understanding is that the probe can only survive landing in liquid and it will crash if it lands on rock.
-Sean
judge someone's technology based on the marketing blurb on their website?
That wasn't a marketing blurb, it was taken from the lengthy technology description.... Sorry that people took the PhD thing so personally, I guess being an Anonymous Coward automatically makes you qualified to judge my degree.
-Sean
Jeez, who peed in your cheerios (Anonymous Coward)? Not trying to be arrogant (I'm not an aerospace engineer), just commenting on this guys tech. BTW - I would much rather come across (unintentionally) as arrogant than as a bitter, pissed off person who has such a chip on his shoulder he blows up over a /. post, and acts like a jerk...
-Sean
Well this PhD smells a quack (from the link on the page http://www.fuellessflight.com/techno/tech.htm):
"We humans can rarely invent any process that nature does not already use. Most of the science we know today merely copies nature. Our thermodynamic laws were formed by observation of nature. They are not proven, merely not disproved. Within this section of our website you will be taught a new science that mimics the earth's weather, by harnessing the dual forces of gravity -- buoyancy and gravity acceleration. Harnessing gravity may be more technically described as the science of harnessing mass differentials. High density mass falls within a low density lifting fluid, like rain falls from the sky, and low density mass rises in a high density lifting fluid, like a bubble rises in water or helium rises in air."
I think I understand the technology he is proposing (I'm confident it still requires input energy, beyond the environment), but he really should tone down the quack-o-meter. I think we can rest easily that the thermodynamic laws are intact.
-Sean
Make that Geyser peak....
-Sean
I completely agree. I had for years gone wine tasting regularly at sonoma (and surrounding areas), without going to napa. I went to napa and I was apalled! $9 and $12 tastings? Super touristy rooms, that sell mostly cheap souveniers?
... heh.
Sonoma has lots of excellent wines, the tastings are half the price and it is far more pretty, IMO. Hit Ferrari Carrano (sp?), Mondavi, Rodney Strong (one of my faves, you can often taste 3-4 price points of the same family of grape for about 5 bucks, for those who want more, try Gary Farrell and get their tour (res req'd), or go to the Alexander valley (Hanna is very good, free tasting). Glacier Peak is good, as well.
We call the windy road (can't remember the name) that ends up hitting lake sonoma the tipsy highway
-Sean
that politics influences the scientific process.
No offense, but you are misguided by an idealistic vision. Science is, and has been very political. In fact in some areas, it is nothing but politics.
-Sean
Now this really starts to get interesting. I better buy some fresh popcorn.
-Sean
Why is it that many /.'ers are so concerned with their privacy in some cases, such as pay pal, ebay, etc, and yet have no problem giving another company their contact info and the contact info of everyone they know? It seems that digitizing social networks (ala friendster) really opens you up for privacy abuse. These companies could, frankly, really mess up your life if they decided to do such a thing, or if a hacker broke in and did such a thing.
Uhh, this may not be the popular opinion, but it is possible that IBM doesn't want to do two things. 1) It may not want to develop an open source software suite (that would be unfortunate, but very possible) 2) It may not want to participate in a program that has such a strong pedigree with Sun, one of its competitors. I realize it is open source, but generally, I think that giving energy to openoffice would indirectly support sun, even if it is just the corporate statements in some of the code.
Just a thought....
-Sean
Many hackers, including Woz, have delved into the dark side, if just to gain more understanding of it.
That is like saying you read playboy just for the articles.
-Sean
I totally agree. I'm not sure why every time a scientist reports an observed change whether it be climate, ecological, etc., the sensationalist media immediately raises the alarm that it is a cause for concern. There is no law of nature that says change is going to be detrimental.
-Sean
You misspelled forgettable.
-Sean
Which movies? Pirates of the Caribbean? Freaky Friday? (Well reviewed and pretty good, surprisingly) I know mansion sank, but in general most of their movies are pretty good. (I include Studio Ghibli films and Pixar on that list)
-Sean
I'm sorry, but I side on Eisner on this one. People on /. love to hit on Disney but, frankly I've been pretty happy with what disney has done:
1. Sat morning-esque cartoons - Much better IMO than the competition (FOX, etc). Kim Possible (I hate to admit it, although the art looks a lot like penny arcade), Proud Family, etc are actually funny while kid centered.
2. Feature films. Like Pirates of the C. and Freaky Friday (surprisingly good as well). A few other flops, but they are trying.
3. They distributed pixar. I realize it was the creative genious of someone else, but that is the way *all* big studios work. Pixar was theirs to keep and they shouldn't have let them go.
4. Anime. Say what you will about burying studio ghibli films. They bought them and brought them to the US and played a big part in popularizing anime to the general public.
5. Other things. Like Broadway musicals. Bringing back sunday night disney movies. etc
That is a lot better in my opinion than Disney has been since its golden age. There are few things disney puts out that are *worse* than watching another episode of pokemon.
-Sean
I agree, I thought he might have an outside shot at a nomination. I watched the movie again on DVD, and I still find his performance baffling, in that he pulled off being really wierd without really coming off as too silly ...
That said, Bill Murray will probably win, also well deserved. If Depp had gotten the supporting actor nom, he might have won.
-Sean
Could you post your experiences on /.? I think it would be interesting to the community to get your first hand impressions.
Thanks,
-Sean
Don't be stupid. The guy in the game is amoral. He does only what you make him do. You make him hit a woman, and kick her until she bleeds to death, that's your affair.
What you have to worry about is the fact that people choose to make him do those things, over and over again. And then cry about how nasty the programmers are.
Yes, but can you give her flowers?
-Sean