Study claims some people react poorly to some things! World stunned! Slashdot enraged! Members engorged! Politicians scandalized! Pointless and boring film at 11 between the police blotter and the taped report from the orchid festival!
Why am I elbow deep in 1000-pin parts and ruing my eyesight scanning 600 page user manuals for the one poorly documented "gotcha" that could ruin my whole multimillion dollar R&D? Why do I live with this stress? Where do I send my resume so I can spend my work days doing *Important* *Studies* like this?
Hardware engineering not so much. The parts do more and wonderful things, but one miswired signal on a 1200 pad Ball Grid Array and the the board needs to be respun. You can't drill out a blind via under a $4000 component. Or some embedded core does not work as expected because the manufacturer released the errata list after the prototype was in assembly.
but engineering isn't about pushing the cutting edge of technology
Well, unless you are in R&D like me. I use plenty of those $100K tools. I commonly use parts in prototypes where I have to sign an NDA because the manufacturer has not even announced the parts to the market yet. Half the units I have designed are built exactly once simply to prove a point or a concept.
Just an idea from the outfield: maybe an added reason is that it's so much harder to make a contribution these days? We've gone from "Ow! Fire hot!" to needing a PhD or more just to achieve parity with the state of the art in some fields of science.
Engineering isn't much better- from spark gaps to iPhones in about a century.
We might need to start kids down the science path as early as the first grade, or come up with some radical new method of teaching/learning.
Cover the moon in solar cells. Beam back the energy. There ya go.:)
Of course, in the requisition process, form 27B/6 would get misfiled so that a senator's son could get a contract, and we'd wind up with the moon covered in windmills.
If someone could figure a good way to extract the uranium out of seawater, we'd have supplies to last essentially forever. The Japanese are the only ones I am aware of even working on the problem.
Good times: tell a really antinuclear person who likes going to the beach about how seawater has recoverable amounts of uranium in it.
Actually, is it the business model, or the fact that the content has become so piss poor no one cares anymore? Televised news is the same. Does *anyone* ask a followup question anymore?
Typical exchange:
Reporter: What do you think of state bill 31415?
Politician: The people who supported that bill are mutant, baby eating Nazis financially backed by pedophile terrorists from the fascistic hegemony of Earth 7B.
Reporter: (nods head)
Politician: Of course, I have yet to actually read the bill, but I have it on good authority via a blogger whose cousin once drove through the very state that the bill's author was born in.
Reporter: (nods head)
Politician: There are superintelligent bees living in my skull, and when I bend over, cliff racers with the power of Grayskull fly out of my ass.
Reporter: (nods head) Thank you, Senator Munchhausen.
100 years ago, you show someone a riding crop, and they'd think "transportation". Now a person might think "dominatrix". Well, if they're any fun, that is. Show someone a newspaper now and they think "information". Well, some think "liberal rag" or "conservative puppet", but they are definitely not any fun. Anyway, what will the people OF THE FUTURE (Wooooo!) think when shown a newspaper? Yeah, they may roll it up tight and think "dominatrix" again, but really, what if, er, um... I had a point here, but it seems to have lost track of itself.
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I seem to get extra socks out of my dryer. They must be yours. Gimme your address and I'll send them to you.
Aw, you got my hopes up. :-( Meanie. I smite you with my Bobbin Of Tangled Skeins.
>Yes because Crocheting & Knitting RPGs would sell so well.
There is one!!! ZOMG!!1! Gimme the link! At last I can use my +3 Knitting Needles Of Purling!
What's the story like? I'll bet that RPG spins quite a yarn!
I *wish* we had magical borders. We could make them teleport illegal border crossers to Chiapas.
Put sharp 1 inch spikes on the phone. They will have the added benefit of preventing pigeons from landing on your phone.
For every action, there is an equal opposite reaction, said Albert Einstien.
For every action, there is a Jackson, said Mike Nelson.
Study claims some people react poorly to some things! World stunned! Slashdot enraged! Members engorged! Politicians scandalized! Pointless and boring film at 11 between the police blotter and the taped report from the orchid festival!
Why am I elbow deep in 1000-pin parts and ruing my eyesight scanning 600 page user manuals for the one poorly documented "gotcha" that could ruin my whole multimillion dollar R&D? Why do I live with this stress? Where do I send my resume so I can spend my work days doing *Important* *Studies* like this?
pre WWW
World War W? When the hell was that?
Hardware engineering not so much. The parts do more and wonderful things, but one miswired signal on a 1200 pad Ball Grid Array and the the board needs to be respun. You can't drill out a blind via under a $4000 component. Or some embedded core does not work as expected because the manufacturer released the errata list after the prototype was in assembly.
but engineering isn't about pushing the cutting edge of technology
Well, unless you are in R&D like me. I use plenty of those $100K tools. I commonly use parts in prototypes where I have to sign an NDA because the manufacturer has not even announced the parts to the market yet. Half the units I have designed are built exactly once simply to prove a point or a concept.
Carl Malamud -- underrated work shedding sunshine on the sort of things that 'sunshine laws' may make legally accessible
Silver birds flying on wings of fog above the many things that may compete for my attention.
Burma shave.
Where shall we have lunch?
Just an idea from the outfield: maybe an added reason is that it's so much harder to make a contribution these days? We've gone from "Ow! Fire hot!" to needing a PhD or more just to achieve parity with the state of the art in some fields of science.
Engineering isn't much better- from spark gaps to iPhones in about a century.
We might need to start kids down the science path as early as the first grade, or come up with some radical new method of teaching/learning.
Ah, I'm just babbling. Ignore me.
Cover the moon in solar cells. Beam back the energy. There ya go. :)
Of course, in the requisition process, form 27B/6 would get misfiled so that a senator's son could get a contract, and we'd wind up with the moon covered in windmills.
If someone could figure a good way to extract the uranium out of seawater, we'd have supplies to last essentially forever. The Japanese are the only ones I am aware of even working on the problem.
Good times: tell a really antinuclear person who likes going to the beach about how seawater has recoverable amounts of uranium in it.
I researched a report on intelligent highway systems 25 years ago in college. They've been promising this shit forever just like fusion power and AI.
ScentAir, The Silent Killer
by Mavra Chang, Reuters, New York
June 9, 2023
The advertising world took another hit as the 1000th case of brain cancer from the ScentAir advertising campaign was announced today...
Actually, is it the business model, or the fact that the content has become so piss poor no one cares anymore? Televised news is the same. Does *anyone* ask a followup question anymore?
Typical exchange:
Reporter: What do you think of state bill 31415?
Politician: The people who supported that bill are mutant, baby eating Nazis financially backed by pedophile terrorists from the fascistic hegemony of Earth 7B.
Reporter: (nods head)
Politician: Of course, I have yet to actually read the bill, but I have it on good authority via a blogger whose cousin once drove through the very state that the bill's author was born in.
Reporter: (nods head)
Politician: There are superintelligent bees living in my skull, and when I bend over, cliff racers with the power of Grayskull fly out of my ass.
Reporter: (nods head) Thank you, Senator Munchhausen.
100 years ago, you show someone a riding crop, and they'd think "transportation". Now a person might think "dominatrix". Well, if they're any fun, that is. Show someone a newspaper now and they think "information". Well, some think "liberal rag" or "conservative puppet", but they are definitely not any fun. Anyway, what will the people OF THE FUTURE (Wooooo!) think when shown a newspaper? Yeah, they may roll it up tight and think "dominatrix" again, but really, what if, er, um... I had a point here, but it seems to have lost track of itself.
John Cleese did a lot of stuff like this. Some were pretty good.
...don't give cellphones to your bees is the lesson here...? (blank stare)
Point is, people don't seem to understand the 'broad' part of 'broadcast'
Or the 'cast' part.
What about personal respon- oh, fuck it. Just bomb Utah.
I'm sure no one will stoop to the level of calling it a Pee Pad. Nope.
I'd actually like to see more research done on the placebo effect itself. :-) Seems useful.
I've always found them a bit derivative.
People just say, "How do I use this? This iTunes program? Oh, OK."