Well, I for one, do NOT welcome our robotic bartender overlords.
I like a real human bartender. One that I get to know, that knows me....at bars I'm a regular at, I like to have them set my usual drink in front of me when I sit down. I like that since I'm a good tipper...I get pretty heavily poured drinks.
I don't want anyone counting my drinks either.
There will be enough people like this that your needs will be accommodated. Instead of drinking at your local "hipster & automaton" you'll be drinking at the "luddite & technophobe".
There was an ad featuring a kid and (i think) an american basketball star. The latter would keep saying "Micky D" and the former would keep correcting him because it sounded stupid. I didn't really think the term was in common usage anywhere though. I'm in central Victoria.
Yeah but just as you would be hard pressed to say that calling dogshit delicious wasn't misleading I seriously doubt you'd find even 100 people, excluding the stoners of course who think a 99c bag of generic cookies taste like pepperidge farm, that would say a Mickey D's cheeseburger is delicious. Adequate,affordable, even filling? Sure I'll buy that, but delicious? That word and Mickey D hasn't been on speaking terms since the late 70s.
In what country is "Mickey D" the colloquialism for Maccas?
This is very cool but it is so well done that it looks less like one guys space video and more like a viral marketing effort from NASA...
Im ok with it because NASA needs to do whatever it can to recapture Americas attention and imagination and thus maybe we can get public support to make space a priority as it should have always remained.
Wrong angle. The record labels will be looking at how many hits this gets and paying NASA (or other space agency) to fly their latest project up into space to record a song. Space travel will be affordable within the decade.
I think you just made their point. Your feminist argument is 'men and women should be equal except women should be superior'.
No I think you have it upside down. I read the argument as 'all people should have equal opportunities but they don't right now so to set that right we are going to have to give the minorities a bit of special attention to show others that it's possible to succeed'. I can see why it might suck for you if they go and give attention to a girls achievements instead of yours, but it's for the greater good so get over yourself.
And, frankly, most guys who started programming in their teens or earlier are thinking 'WTF' when you suggest that a 'delay messages from twitter' app is somehow an example of amazing programming that should be lauded in the media. Had a guy done this, no-one would have cared.
And here's your problem. A 17yo girl invents a product that may just appeal mainly to 17yo girls, and you rubbish it on that basis. Got any other opinions that the marketplace doesn't care about?
I wish people would stop focusing on age and gender.
It's a double edged sword that one... On the one hand there's a danger of people focusing on her age and gender at the expense of her entry and tech skills, which is bad for all the obvious reasons. On the other hand this might open the eyes of other young girls who just assumed such things were out of their reach - an easy assumption to make when they look around and see a playing field dominated by males.
I watched the start of the vid... they made a bit of a big deal about it at the start and made some comments that were a bit silly and unnecessary, and which might be a bit intimidating , but then moved on to talk about the app and didn't mention the gender issue again... unless I missed something (my download speed has been all over the place lately so it was a bit stop/start watching it)
It isn't clear, exactly, from TFA what the drive will look like when you plug it in. Both components(the HDD and the SSD) apparently can function as SATA peripherals; but they are both behind some sort of bridge chip, type unspecified.
If the 'bridge chip' is just a reasonably generic SATA port multiplier, then an unsupported OS, or Windows without the driver, will just see two drives, the larger mechanical one and the smaller flash one. This would leave the way open for any OS with SATA and AHCI support to do whatever it prefers to get the best performance(on Linux, I assume that'd be at the filesystem level, with something like btrfs)
If the 'bridge chip' is some sort of proprietary oddity, and the vendor driver is required to even communicate with the flash portion(presumably at least some part of the drive will be visible as a normal SATA device, or booting without specific BIOS support would be a problem...), then that's pretty much worthless.
If their target market is Windows, then it is reasonable to assume that their target market is or includes desktops and laptops. At a guess, the disk will be readable from the BIOS for boot purposes (not much good if it only works as a second disk!), so it must be some sort of bridge that the BIOS doesn't care about... time will tell I guess.
Where's Google's chat support? I'm still looking for it.
And no a message board of users is not "chat support"
I do pretty much all my HP warranty/service calls via online chat. Much easier than trying to deal with accents and delays. Ditto for a lot of other providers.
I don't know about google... i've never needed their support on anything
It's a convenient way to run multiple command line windows:)
Microsoft have only just recently embraced the command line, so windows admins have been stuck using the GUI for decades. And used correctly, a GUI is a powerful admin tool, and it can be perfectly usable over a fairly slow connection, but Microsoft apparently didn't think of that when they created w8 and the shitty Metro interface, or at least didn't consider that it wasn't appropriate for a server.
This really riles me that people are rejecting Windows 8 because it does not have a fucking 'Start' button. Just the mindless stupidity of it just boggles the mind.
Windows 8 is fast, lean and very impressive OS. It continues the great work done on Windows 7 and really builds on that foundation. How fucking stupid are these people that they don't understand the Metro start screen is just a full screen modern version of the start button. Fucking Lowest Common Denominator morons dragging the rest of us down with them.
Log into a 2012 server over a 128kbit/second connection and see how progressive it is then. It's awful. If you want to waste cpu cycles and bandwidth drawing pretty screens then more power to you, but I have work to do.
I hope not. I hope they stick to their guns. Look, I am not the biggest MS fan, but Windows 8 is probably the most innovative and certainly the boldest thing MS has done in years. Maybe, ever.
the start button is an afterthought, it was something to get rid of how we used Windows 3.11 (which was permanantly opened folders). It was neat, it worked, but that is the past. The part people don't seem to grasp is that window with all those boxy icons IS the start menu. it is just visulazed now.
they will cave, because that is what MS does, but they shouldn't. Windows 8 is fantatic, and MS should grab their users and drag them out of 1995.
Have you tried using w8/2012 over a low bandwidth link? The suckiness is terrible to behold. Visual prettiness may belong on a tablet where big icons are needed to accommodate big fat sausage fingers, but how useful is a touch screen going to be on a server where you need to create a new account or something useful?
The way I get around w8/2012 is much like w7 - hit the windows key and start typing what I want. w8 is _so_ much slower to give me the answer so i'm less productive.
You don't need a 3d printer to make molds. Making molds would nullify the advantage of using a 3d printer: simplicity.
Unless, of course, somebody invents a 3d printer that can automate the entire process.
Don't rule it out completely. Using a 3d printer to make a mold of something I downloaded is within the reach of my finances and ability, while making a mold from other means might not be. That doesn't really help me make a gun though, as i'd need to inject my mold with metal so it would need to withstand high temperatures, and such a printer is maybe not within my reach.
You could print out the appropriate patterns to make a mold out of though, and the rest of the casting process is also simple enough
Seems easier just to buy or steal a gun though, if you really wanted one
While 3D printing looks cool and interesting in general, this is really far fetched. You already can make assassination weapons from schematics from Internet - if you have skills and good understanding of physics involved.
And no, you can't really use this are argument against gun control laws.
An understanding of physics you say... we'll need to look into the school system to ensure a safer America for all.
- Need a key-value storage? Use tdb (or any dbm-like that you can find).
- Need a lightweight SQL-using database? Use SQLite.
- Need a lightweight and reliable database? Use Firebird.
- Need a database for your project(s) that might take off, raking millions of dollars and the one you want to rely as the backbone of your next company? Then.. use PostgreSQL.
A Mysqlite, Mariadblite, or postresqlite database would be really nice. Something that requires similar installation to sqlite (eg not much at all) and not a lot of tuning for a tiny database but that can scale up to the full thing as required. Most applications i've used have a compatibility layer that means you can choose from sqlite, mysql, or postgresql at installation time, but choosing sqlite initially because it's easy doesn't necessarily mean there is a straightforward migration path when you outgrow it.
I'm on my second car which gets its best mileage around 80 mph. It's a 300SD, which does happen to be German. But the prior one was a 240SX. Note that both cars were specifically designed primarily for aerodynamics...
If you knew how to use the gearbox i bet you could get even better mileage at 60 mph. Either that or the designers of the car are idiots.
You realize that makes almost no sense, right? It typically takes nearly EXACTLY the same fuel to maintain the same RPMs. After having a car with an MPG screen for 10 years, I can assure you that keeping your RPMs low IS efficient driving. They are exactly correlated.
your statement about "nearly EXACTLY the same fuel to maintain the same RPMs" is trivially easy to disprove. At 100kpm in 6th gear in my car, I use around 7L/100km (we don't do mpg over here!) going up a hill near my house, and <1L/100km down the other side. RPM's are unchanged up and down that hill, within a few %, and it requires additional fuel to get up the hill, but the injectors basically shut off as I roll down the other side. It's a manual transmission[1] so the RPM's are fixed to the wheel speed for a given gear. My RPM vs wheel speed changes when I change gear, obviously, and while going up a really steep hill I might need to change down to 5th gear (there is such a hill on one of my commutes).
The ideal RPM for your car depends on more factors than you seem to understand. It requires a certain amount of power to push your car along, and that amount of power increases as your speed increases because it's harder to push your car through the air. Ideally you would match your engine speed such that at a given wheel speed the engines use of fuel is optimal to deliver the required amount of power[2]. Your gearbox only allows for fairly coarse adjustements which are a compromise based on expected speed vs power requirements, but generally speaking if you go faster and run out of gears to keep the engine RPM at peak efficiency for that wheel speed then your efficiency will go down, so having an extra gear to "keep the RPMs low" will help.
If your car is geared such that on a nice flat road on a still day (a 40kpm headwind makes a difference here) and you have (say) 5th gear to keep your engine at optimal RPM at 60mph, and 6th gear to keep your engine at optimal RPM at 75mph, then your car _will_ use less fuel at 60mph in 5th than it will at 75mph in 6th. About 20% less. If you go and stick your car in 6th gear at 60mph to "keep the RPMs low", you may well find that your engine is no longer spinning at an efficient speed and your fuel economy will suck. Don't do that.
[1] my gearbox is internally a manual transmission, having a clutch not a torque converter, but the computer controls the clutch and the gear changes (if I let it), I don't have a clutch pedal, so it's listed as an auto even though it has the efficiencies and behaviors of a manual.
[2] 'continously variable' transmissions do exist that can do just that, and while I believe they have inefficiencies of their own they are improving and becoming more common.
And the 60-mph maximum speed on the highway test does not accord with the 75-mph truth of today's interstate traffic.
Well there's your problem. If you are doing 75mph on the highway you are burning around 20% more fuel to cover the same distance as you would at 60mph, with the resulting increase in wear and tear as your engine works harder to push you through the air. Make sure you tailgate a big truck to lessen your fuel usage - they love it when you do that!
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Well, I for one, do NOT welcome our robotic bartender overlords.
I like a real human bartender. One that I get to know, that knows me....at bars I'm a regular at, I like to have them set my usual drink in front of me when I sit down. I like that since I'm a good tipper...I get pretty heavily poured drinks.
I don't want anyone counting my drinks either.
There will be enough people like this that your needs will be accommodated. Instead of drinking at your local "hipster & automaton" you'll be drinking at the "luddite & technophobe".
What if you assemble the robot out of 18/21 year old surplus equiptment?
Or new equipment made from atoms "created" in an exploding sun [mb]illions of years ago?
There was an ad featuring a kid and (i think) an american basketball star. The latter would keep saying "Micky D" and the former would keep correcting him because it sounded stupid. I didn't really think the term was in common usage anywhere though. I'm in central Victoria.
Which doesn't mean the garbage man has the same value as the scientist.
Theirs is a contribution that isn't fully appreciated until it ceases.
Yeah but just as you would be hard pressed to say that calling dogshit delicious wasn't misleading I seriously doubt you'd find even 100 people, excluding the stoners of course who think a 99c bag of generic cookies taste like pepperidge farm, that would say a Mickey D's cheeseburger is delicious. Adequate,affordable, even filling? Sure I'll buy that, but delicious? That word and Mickey D hasn't been on speaking terms since the late 70s.
In what country is "Mickey D" the colloquialism for Maccas?
I used to drive an Austin Mini...
Stories like this only remind me of how ignorant I still am and how I've wasted my life.
Don't feel bad. Maybe you've made coffee for, served fries to, or unclogged the toilet of one of these great people? Every little bit helps!
This is very cool but it is so well done that it looks less like one guys space video and more like a viral marketing effort from NASA...
Im ok with it because NASA needs to do whatever it can to recapture Americas attention and imagination and thus maybe we can get public support to make space a priority as it should have always remained.
Wrong angle. The record labels will be looking at how many hits this gets and paying NASA (or other space agency) to fly their latest project up into space to record a song. Space travel will be affordable within the decade.
I think you just made their point. Your feminist argument is 'men and women should be equal except women should be superior'.
No I think you have it upside down. I read the argument as 'all people should have equal opportunities but they don't right now so to set that right we are going to have to give the minorities a bit of special attention to show others that it's possible to succeed'. I can see why it might suck for you if they go and give attention to a girls achievements instead of yours, but it's for the greater good so get over yourself.
And, frankly, most guys who started programming in their teens or earlier are thinking 'WTF' when you suggest that a 'delay messages from twitter' app is somehow an example of amazing programming that should be lauded in the media. Had a guy done this, no-one would have cared.
And here's your problem. A 17yo girl invents a product that may just appeal mainly to 17yo girls, and you rubbish it on that basis. Got any other opinions that the marketplace doesn't care about?
I wish people would stop focusing on age and gender.
It's a double edged sword that one... On the one hand there's a danger of people focusing on her age and gender at the expense of her entry and tech skills, which is bad for all the obvious reasons. On the other hand this might open the eyes of other young girls who just assumed such things were out of their reach - an easy assumption to make when they look around and see a playing field dominated by males.
I watched the start of the vid... they made a bit of a big deal about it at the start and made some comments that were a bit silly and unnecessary, and which might be a bit intimidating , but then moved on to talk about the app and didn't mention the gender issue again... unless I missed something (my download speed has been all over the place lately so it was a bit stop/start watching it)
It isn't clear, exactly, from TFA what the drive will look like when you plug it in. Both components(the HDD and the SSD) apparently can function as SATA peripherals; but they are both behind some sort of bridge chip, type unspecified.
If the 'bridge chip' is just a reasonably generic SATA port multiplier, then an unsupported OS, or Windows without the driver, will just see two drives, the larger mechanical one and the smaller flash one. This would leave the way open for any OS with SATA and AHCI support to do whatever it prefers to get the best performance(on Linux, I assume that'd be at the filesystem level, with something like btrfs)
If the 'bridge chip' is some sort of proprietary oddity, and the vendor driver is required to even communicate with the flash portion(presumably at least some part of the drive will be visible as a normal SATA device, or booting without specific BIOS support would be a problem...), then that's pretty much worthless.
If their target market is Windows, then it is reasonable to assume that their target market is or includes desktops and laptops. At a guess, the disk will be readable from the BIOS for boot purposes (not much good if it only works as a second disk!), so it must be some sort of bridge that the BIOS doesn't care about... time will tell I guess.
...so this is a pretty big deal."
As if it would NOT be a big deal for anybody else?
If you were a street beggar then having a limb or two missing might be good for business.
(sorry OP, that's probably in bad taste, but not any more so than the masturbation threads.)
Where's Google's chat support? I'm still looking for it.
And no a message board of users is not "chat support"
I do pretty much all my HP warranty/service calls via online chat. Much easier than trying to deal with accents and delays. Ditto for a lot of other providers.
I don't know about google... i've never needed their support on anything
Delivering beer via drone seems far better than this idea.
Why are you running a GUI on a server?
It's a convenient way to run multiple command line windows :)
Microsoft have only just recently embraced the command line, so windows admins have been stuck using the GUI for decades. And used correctly, a GUI is a powerful admin tool, and it can be perfectly usable over a fairly slow connection, but Microsoft apparently didn't think of that when they created w8 and the shitty Metro interface, or at least didn't consider that it wasn't appropriate for a server.
This really riles me that people are rejecting Windows 8 because it does not have a fucking 'Start' button. Just the mindless stupidity of it just boggles the mind. Windows 8 is fast, lean and very impressive OS. It continues the great work done on Windows 7 and really builds on that foundation. How fucking stupid are these people that they don't understand the Metro start screen is just a full screen modern version of the start button. Fucking Lowest Common Denominator morons dragging the rest of us down with them.
Log into a 2012 server over a 128kbit/second connection and see how progressive it is then. It's awful. If you want to waste cpu cycles and bandwidth drawing pretty screens then more power to you, but I have work to do.
I hope not. I hope they stick to their guns. Look, I am not the biggest MS fan, but Windows 8 is probably the most innovative and certainly the boldest thing MS has done in years. Maybe, ever.
the start button is an afterthought, it was something to get rid of how we used Windows 3.11 (which was permanantly opened folders). It was neat, it worked, but that is the past. The part people don't seem to grasp is that window with all those boxy icons IS the start menu. it is just visulazed now.
they will cave, because that is what MS does, but they shouldn't. Windows 8 is fantatic, and MS should grab their users and drag them out of 1995.
Have you tried using w8/2012 over a low bandwidth link? The suckiness is terrible to behold. Visual prettiness may belong on a tablet where big icons are needed to accommodate big fat sausage fingers, but how useful is a touch screen going to be on a server where you need to create a new account or something useful?
The way I get around w8/2012 is much like w7 - hit the windows key and start typing what I want. w8 is _so_ much slower to give me the answer so i'm less productive.
I said just that about Vista when Windows 7 came out.
You don't need a 3d printer to make molds. Making molds would nullify the advantage of using a 3d printer: simplicity.
Unless, of course, somebody invents a 3d printer that can automate the entire process.
Don't rule it out completely. Using a 3d printer to make a mold of something I downloaded is within the reach of my finances and ability, while making a mold from other means might not be. That doesn't really help me make a gun though, as i'd need to inject my mold with metal so it would need to withstand high temperatures, and such a printer is maybe not within my reach.
You could print out the appropriate patterns to make a mold out of though, and the rest of the casting process is also simple enough
Seems easier just to buy or steal a gun though, if you really wanted one
While 3D printing looks cool and interesting in general, this is really far fetched. You already can make assassination weapons from schematics from Internet - if you have skills and good understanding of physics involved.
And no, you can't really use this are argument against gun control laws.
An understanding of physics you say... we'll need to look into the school system to ensure a safer America for all.
- Need a key-value storage? Use tdb (or any dbm-like that you can find). - Need a lightweight SQL-using database? Use SQLite. - Need a lightweight and reliable database? Use Firebird. - Need a database for your project(s) that might take off, raking millions of dollars and the one you want to rely as the backbone of your next company? Then .. use PostgreSQL.
A Mysqlite, Mariadblite, or postresqlite database would be really nice. Something that requires similar installation to sqlite (eg not much at all) and not a lot of tuning for a tiny database but that can scale up to the full thing as required. Most applications i've used have a compatibility layer that means you can choose from sqlite, mysql, or postgresql at installation time, but choosing sqlite initially because it's easy doesn't necessarily mean there is a straightforward migration path when you outgrow it.
I'm on my second car which gets its best mileage around 80 mph. It's a 300SD, which does happen to be German. But the prior one was a 240SX. Note that both cars were specifically designed primarily for aerodynamics...
If you knew how to use the gearbox i bet you could get even better mileage at 60 mph. Either that or the designers of the car are idiots.
You realize that makes almost no sense, right? It typically takes nearly EXACTLY the same fuel to maintain the same RPMs. After having a car with an MPG screen for 10 years, I can assure you that keeping your RPMs low IS efficient driving. They are exactly correlated.
your statement about "nearly EXACTLY the same fuel to maintain the same RPMs" is trivially easy to disprove. At 100kpm in 6th gear in my car, I use around 7L/100km (we don't do mpg over here!) going up a hill near my house, and <1L/100km down the other side. RPM's are unchanged up and down that hill, within a few %, and it requires additional fuel to get up the hill, but the injectors basically shut off as I roll down the other side. It's a manual transmission[1] so the RPM's are fixed to the wheel speed for a given gear. My RPM vs wheel speed changes when I change gear, obviously, and while going up a really steep hill I might need to change down to 5th gear (there is such a hill on one of my commutes).
The ideal RPM for your car depends on more factors than you seem to understand. It requires a certain amount of power to push your car along, and that amount of power increases as your speed increases because it's harder to push your car through the air. Ideally you would match your engine speed such that at a given wheel speed the engines use of fuel is optimal to deliver the required amount of power[2]. Your gearbox only allows for fairly coarse adjustements which are a compromise based on expected speed vs power requirements, but generally speaking if you go faster and run out of gears to keep the engine RPM at peak efficiency for that wheel speed then your efficiency will go down, so having an extra gear to "keep the RPMs low" will help.
If your car is geared such that on a nice flat road on a still day (a 40kpm headwind makes a difference here) and you have (say) 5th gear to keep your engine at optimal RPM at 60mph, and 6th gear to keep your engine at optimal RPM at 75mph, then your car _will_ use less fuel at 60mph in 5th than it will at 75mph in 6th. About 20% less. If you go and stick your car in 6th gear at 60mph to "keep the RPMs low", you may well find that your engine is no longer spinning at an efficient speed and your fuel economy will suck. Don't do that.
[1] my gearbox is internally a manual transmission, having a clutch not a torque converter, but the computer controls the clutch and the gear changes (if I let it), I don't have a clutch pedal, so it's listed as an auto even though it has the efficiencies and behaviors of a manual.
[2] 'continously variable' transmissions do exist that can do just that, and while I believe they have inefficiencies of their own they are improving and becoming more common.
If you are doing 75mph on the highway you are burning around 20% more fuel to cover the same distance as you would at 60mph
I used to have a car like that.
Now I drive a German one. It idles in sixth gear at that speed.
And has some magic device to negate the effects of wind resistance?
And the 60-mph maximum speed on the highway test does not accord with the 75-mph truth of today's interstate traffic.
Well there's your problem. If you are doing 75mph on the highway you are burning around 20% more fuel to cover the same distance as you would at 60mph, with the resulting increase in wear and tear as your engine works harder to push you through the air. Make sure you tailgate a big truck to lessen your fuel usage - they love it when you do that!