I can't pretend to fully understand it, but the article does go into some explanation of the mechanism by which the bacteria causes weight gain. The rough gist of it from what I can tell is that it produces a toxin that interferes with insulin production, thus causing a whole host of problems.
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of course there is. that molded 'specialty' piece is always a plethora of other things, you just have to attatch it to a hinge, or a side, or upside down and backwards. I played with legos all through my childhood, and the 'specialty' pieces from my 'Ice planet base' set, and my 'space shuttle' set always found new life in building space ships, giant robots, submarines, and a whole world of other things.
waste heat from other processes. (data centers, industrial fabrication, geothermal, and so forth, the article even mentions using naturally warm sea water for a heat source.) The idea being, this process does not add * additional* carbon emissions, it simply allows us to more efficiently generate power from the emissions we already create.
1. assemble the probe in space.
2. assemble a mass driver in space.
3. figure out all the math.
4. bring up a LOT of fuel.
5. use the mass driver to give the fuel and probe one hell of a kick to start them off.
6. dock the probe to the fuel once under way.
7. burn like hell.
8. wait a LONG time.
9. ?
10 profit!
Yeah, the thing is, I'm NOT going to invest 5000$ in 5 kickstarter projects. Most people are going to invest say, 50-100$ per project, tops, (yes, there are far larger investment points, but a lot of those go un-filled from what i've seen). investing 50$ in a normal IPO is going to be mostly a waste of time. personally, I don't feel that 'The Masses' should be dabbling in the stock market, but thats a discussion for another time.
kickstarter still reminds me of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/678/
i do agree with you though, you wonder about a lot of kickstarters being "I can't convince any bank to give me a loan because my business model is crap, so I'll ask the internet for money"
I think the idea of Kickstarter is not a 'preorder store', but is in fact a 'Everyone can be a venture capitalist!' website. You agree to give someone money, and *IF* their product/company succeeds, you get something out of it. in the case of Kickstarter, instead of 10% of the next 5 years profits or whatever, you get 1 or 2 of the product, and maybe your name on a shirt or something. Less risk, less reward, but essentially venture capitalism for the masses.
If that idea does not appeal to you, (that is to say, your not interested in risking a little money on a cool idea) then go to Quirky or something.
(for those of you not familiar with quirky, the basic idea is, people pay 10$ to submit a product idea. the community votes on ideas, and the most popular go for review by the company. If they are chosen, they go through a multi step community design, refining, branding, and naming process, until a final product emerges, which the company then produces. The original idea submitter then gets a percentage cut of the profits from that product as it sells.)
This is tailored more to people who don't want to spend money on vapourware, but want to help support ideas they like.
I think this is an excellent example of the difference between a good kickstarter campaign, and a bad one. This guy with his Teensy3 had developed a product, finished the design, and basically knew what needed to happen; cash to mass produce a working product. In short, the ideal kickstarter project. This is what people need to look for if they are going to fund projects, vs funding people who get on kickstarter and say something like 'I have this fantastic plan for a revolutionary new display made of lasers and unicorn dust! I just need a quarter million dollars to finalize the technology!"
of course, its generally a lot more subtle than that, but my point is, people who are at the final stages of bringing a product to market are going to be far better choice than the people who have some vague idea of glorious technology 'if only there was money'.
No one ever said 'The safest place for the crew'. The SHIP. yes, its a 60 year old wooden replica built for a movie, but that does not mean its not valuable. All the reports indicate they set sail while the predictions for the storm where vastly different from the final result. They where trying to ensure that the ship survived, because it was important to them. Yes, its a damn tragedy that people died sailing a ship. Its also a damn tragedy that people died in there living rooms, so lets get off our soap box and stop insulting a crew that was doing what it wanted to. (this is not Bligh's Bounty, they where not FORCED to go).
ok, anti skeuomophic people, answer me a few simple questions.
what do you propose to use to replace the following (when text is not an option)
the 'save icon'
the 'home' icon in browsers
the 'address book' icon
the phone icon
all of these are skeuomorphic icons, the floppy disk being the most outdated (in some regards anyhow). I agree that texturing the address book application itself to look like a spiral bound leather book with parchment pages is a waste of cycles, but skeuomorphics do have there (limited) place in a non textual interface.
The problem with eliminating the less decorative skeuomorphics (like the save button) is that, while (young) people who never used floppy disks may not know what it is a picture of, they do know what it *does*. If you start eradicating them from your system, and replacing them with whatever you see fit, people are going to hate it.
Just try any piece of software that has done exactly that (you run into it in cheep games a bit, and bad free software all the time)
All existing users have been trained to know that the little 'square thing with two rectangles in it' (floppy disk) means save, so why retrain everyone, because the untrained don't know yet?
Capsule was returned to earth via parachute, to be recovered. Balloon will land eventually, somewhere, or was dragged down by the capsule after being vented. The helium was not really much of a waste, because the Helium used for lifting operations like this is the waste helium that comes out of the process of making liquid helium for medical and scientific purposes. Turns out, you can only purify helium so far, and so you get a tank of nice clean liquid helium, and also tank with a mix of helium and various other gasses that is not useful for much besides party balloons and Felix Baumgartner's death wishes.
they literally said that, IN the summary. 'We are mathematicians, not physicists, so we've approached this problem from a theoretical mathematical perspective,'
along those lines, my personal suggestion would be: have them install an extra conduit to every room, all leading back to your tech room/closet. be sure they leave a pull line in each of those conduits. That way, in 5 years or whatever when you need to install some new equipment somewhere, and need 1 more line back to the closet, you can simply pull it through, and not deal with the general headache and clustermuck that generally comes with retrofitting new/more hardware/cable into an existing building.
if you have enough budget, ask for a backup generator that can power the server room/closet.
and at.01c your turning radius (well, more like slow down, stop, and go the other direction) gets into the 'well, we don't have anything else to do this month besides turn this thing around'
couple other books that take a good hard science based look at space combat are Jump Pay, by Rick Shelly, and the Leviathan Wakes from 'The Expanse' series by James S. A. Corey. It's been to long since I re-read Jump Pay to remember the FTL details, and Leviathan Wakes does not have FTL, but both detail the difficulties of space combat. Careful though, Leviathan Wakes will make you read all night and be dead at work the next day.
i guess you could describe warp drive like surfing. you cause a wave in the surface of space, and ride it forward, (part of the theory states that even though you may be moving at some significant fraction of C, you would remain weightless, as you are effectively falling from somewhere behind you to somewhere in front of you.)
... I am absolutely dumbfounded. Someone actually found an answer to the radiation question. There goes my special modified theory of FTL. (which was that the universe will allow you to accelerate to FTL, but the universe balanced the equation of you violating causality, by obliterating you when you decelerated)
however, once I learned that the American public collectively spends more on new cell phones each year than they do on NASA's budget, NASA spending money on silly things like this bothers me a lot less.
Things like hawking radiation snowplowing on the event shock of the warp field, nuking the ship and everything around it when the field drops as the ship leaves FTL.
You know, I've now decided upon my personal theory of FTL, and you inspired it. acceleration of an object to FTL *may* be possible, through as of yet unknown means, however, the way the universe deals with the causality issues created by doing so is by using the built up ram pressure to reduce said object to loose electrons neutrons and protons when it drops out of FTL, and there is no way around that. So your options become 'never go FTL, or never stop once you go FTL'
can you elaborate in 2 of fewer paragraphs? I don't really feel like looking up, buying, and reading an entire book to know how 1 company handled bathroom breaks.
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I can't pretend to fully understand it, but the article does go into some explanation of the mechanism by which the bacteria causes weight gain. The rough gist of it from what I can tell is that it produces a toxin that interferes with insulin production, thus causing a whole host of problems.
of course there is. that molded 'specialty' piece is always a plethora of other things, you just have to attatch it to a hinge, or a side, or upside down and backwards. I played with legos all through my childhood, and the 'specialty' pieces from my 'Ice planet base' set, and my 'space shuttle' set always found new life in building space ships, giant robots, submarines, and a whole world of other things.
waste heat from other processes. (data centers, industrial fabrication, geothermal, and so forth, the article even mentions using naturally warm sea water for a heat source.) The idea being, this process does not add * additional* carbon emissions, it simply allows us to more efficiently generate power from the emissions we already create.
1. assemble the probe in space.
2. assemble a mass driver in space.
3. figure out all the math.
4. bring up a LOT of fuel.
5. use the mass driver to give the fuel and probe one hell of a kick to start them off.
6. dock the probe to the fuel once under way.
7. burn like hell.
8. wait a LONG time.
9. ?
10 profit!
Yeah, the thing is, I'm NOT going to invest 5000$ in 5 kickstarter projects. Most people are going to invest say, 50-100$ per project, tops, (yes, there are far larger investment points, but a lot of those go un-filled from what i've seen). investing 50$ in a normal IPO is going to be mostly a waste of time. personally, I don't feel that 'The Masses' should be dabbling in the stock market, but thats a discussion for another time.
its for locating events temporally, not geographically. Did you read the summary or not?
kickstarter still reminds me of this XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/678/
i do agree with you though, you wonder about a lot of kickstarters being "I can't convince any bank to give me a loan because my business model is crap, so I'll ask the internet for money"
I think the idea of Kickstarter is not a 'preorder store', but is in fact a 'Everyone can be a venture capitalist!' website. You agree to give someone money, and *IF* their product/company succeeds, you get something out of it. in the case of Kickstarter, instead of 10% of the next 5 years profits or whatever, you get 1 or 2 of the product, and maybe your name on a shirt or something. Less risk, less reward, but essentially venture capitalism for the masses.
If that idea does not appeal to you, (that is to say, your not interested in risking a little money on a cool idea) then go to Quirky or something.
(for those of you not familiar with quirky, the basic idea is, people pay 10$ to submit a product idea. the community votes on ideas, and the most popular go for review by the company. If they are chosen, they go through a multi step community design, refining, branding, and naming process, until a final product emerges, which the company then produces. The original idea submitter then gets a percentage cut of the profits from that product as it sells.)
This is tailored more to people who don't want to spend money on vapourware, but want to help support ideas they like.
I think this is an excellent example of the difference between a good kickstarter campaign, and a bad one. This guy with his Teensy3 had developed a product, finished the design, and basically knew what needed to happen; cash to mass produce a working product. In short, the ideal kickstarter project. This is what people need to look for if they are going to fund projects, vs funding people who get on kickstarter and say something like 'I have this fantastic plan for a revolutionary new display made of lasers and unicorn dust! I just need a quarter million dollars to finalize the technology!"
of course, its generally a lot more subtle than that, but my point is, people who are at the final stages of bringing a product to market are going to be far better choice than the people who have some vague idea of glorious technology 'if only there was money'.
The one thing everyone who clicked on the article wanted: Pictures of the watch in question. the thing not in the article: Pictures of the watch.
No one ever said 'The safest place for the crew'. The SHIP. yes, its a 60 year old wooden replica built for a movie, but that does not mean its not valuable. All the reports indicate they set sail while the predictions for the storm where vastly different from the final result. They where trying to ensure that the ship survived, because it was important to them. Yes, its a damn tragedy that people died sailing a ship. Its also a damn tragedy that people died in there living rooms, so lets get off our soap box and stop insulting a crew that was doing what it wanted to. (this is not Bligh's Bounty, they where not FORCED to go).
ok, anti skeuomophic people, answer me a few simple questions.
what do you propose to use to replace the following (when text is not an option)
the 'save icon'
the 'home' icon in browsers
the 'address book' icon
the phone icon
all of these are skeuomorphic icons, the floppy disk being the most outdated (in some regards anyhow). I agree that texturing the address book application itself to look like a spiral bound leather book with parchment pages is a waste of cycles, but skeuomorphics do have there (limited) place in a non textual interface.
The problem with eliminating the less decorative skeuomorphics (like the save button) is that, while (young) people who never used floppy disks may not know what it is a picture of, they do know what it *does*. If you start eradicating them from your system, and replacing them with whatever you see fit, people are going to hate it.
Just try any piece of software that has done exactly that (you run into it in cheep games a bit, and bad free software all the time)
All existing users have been trained to know that the little 'square thing with two rectangles in it' (floppy disk) means save, so why retrain everyone, because the untrained don't know yet?
because animated .PNG is a thing, and people are to lazy to change the way the do things.
the purer it is, the more effective a coolant it is.
Capsule was returned to earth via parachute, to be recovered. Balloon will land eventually, somewhere, or was dragged down by the capsule after being vented. The helium was not really much of a waste, because the Helium used for lifting operations like this is the waste helium that comes out of the process of making liquid helium for medical and scientific purposes. Turns out, you can only purify helium so far, and so you get a tank of nice clean liquid helium, and also tank with a mix of helium and various other gasses that is not useful for much besides party balloons and Felix Baumgartner's death wishes.
they literally said that, IN the summary. 'We are mathematicians, not physicists, so we've approached this problem from a theoretical mathematical perspective,'
along those lines, my personal suggestion would be: have them install an extra conduit to every room, all leading back to your tech room/closet. be sure they leave a pull line in each of those conduits. That way, in 5 years or whatever when you need to install some new equipment somewhere, and need 1 more line back to the closet, you can simply pull it through, and not deal with the general headache and clustermuck that generally comes with retrofitting new/more hardware/cable into an existing building. if you have enough budget, ask for a backup generator that can power the server room/closet.
and at .01c your turning radius (well, more like slow down, stop, and go the other direction) gets into the 'well, we don't have anything else to do this month besides turn this thing around'
couple other books that take a good hard science based look at space combat are Jump Pay, by Rick Shelly, and the Leviathan Wakes from 'The Expanse' series by James S. A. Corey. It's been to long since I re-read Jump Pay to remember the FTL details, and Leviathan Wakes does not have FTL, but both detail the difficulties of space combat. Careful though, Leviathan Wakes will make you read all night and be dead at work the next day.
the solution is: be able to print any 1 section of the comic that you particularly love as a poster.
i guess you could describe warp drive like surfing. you cause a wave in the surface of space, and ride it forward, (part of the theory states that even though you may be moving at some significant fraction of C, you would remain weightless, as you are effectively falling from somewhere behind you to somewhere in front of you.)
... I am absolutely dumbfounded. Someone actually found an answer to the radiation question. There goes my special modified theory of FTL. (which was that the universe will allow you to accelerate to FTL, but the universe balanced the equation of you violating causality, by obliterating you when you decelerated)
however, once I learned that the American public collectively spends more on new cell phones each year than they do on NASA's budget, NASA spending money on silly things like this bothers me a lot less.
Things like hawking radiation snowplowing on the event shock of the warp field, nuking the ship and everything around it when the field drops as the ship leaves FTL.
You know, I've now decided upon my personal theory of FTL, and you inspired it. acceleration of an object to FTL *may* be possible, through as of yet unknown means, however, the way the universe deals with the causality issues created by doing so is by using the built up ram pressure to reduce said object to loose electrons neutrons and protons when it drops out of FTL, and there is no way around that. So your options become 'never go FTL, or never stop once you go FTL'
can you elaborate in 2 of fewer paragraphs? I don't really feel like looking up, buying, and reading an entire book to know how 1 company handled bathroom breaks.