AND, because of the way the thing is designed, its very cleanable. Essentially, this is a maintainable fan. If it is designed right, the bladed part can be removed from the motor. Remove the milled aluminum (or copper) 'Heatsink' and wash the sucker out. Unlike a normal computer fan, which is pretty un-washable thin plastic, with an electric motor permanently fixed to the middle of it, so washing is out of the question.
and at the same time, I think that anyone doing anything new with any sort of technology needs to post their idea on/. to be told all the ways they are doing it wrong, thus getting valuable feedback on how to improve it. Because from what I've seen,/. is a panel of experts on how EVERYTHING is being done wrong.
then buy some 2D glasses off ThinkGeek. problem solved. Attend 3D movies with your friends! watch in glorious 2D! leave your vomit bag at home! (the glasses have 2 left polarized lenses, instead of a left and right lens, result: 2D movie.)
Wow, sparked quite the discussion on that one. I made that statement as a fat person myself, and i gotta say, you are right, its not a 'lifestyle choice' for all fat people. Myself, i work 9+ hours a day on my feet, walking all day, I avoid ice cream and other sweets as much as i can, buy my weakness for sugary caffeinated drinks seems to be my down-falling.
However, there are plenty of people that i see every day (working in a grocery store.) that would loose 50 lbs if they would stop buying hostess cupcakes, frozen pizza, ice cream and hot-wings, and buy a few vegetables instead.
The point I'm trying to make is, if those of is that CAN make adjustments to alleviate preventable future health problems, it increases the availability of donor hearts to people that need them because of unpreventable things. Its sort of a "fix it because it WILL be broken soon if we don't." attitude.
Of course, the theoretical end game of this is being able to take a donor heart, strip it down to the protein structure, and grow a new heart with the recipients cells, thus drastically reducing the rejection issues.
And, as other posters have noted, it may be possible to eventually use an animal donor (such as a pig, as with the heart valves).
Imagine being able to harvest pig hearts from the normal food production process, strip them down, and make new hearts for transplant. Far enough down the line, it may be possible to tailor a re-grown heart that simply does not cause rejection issues. (not talking tomorrow, but maybe 50-100 years of research as a shot in the dark guess).
That's a pretty lofty goal, but this research is a stepping stone in that direction.
Of course, a better solution would be to train into the population a better attitude and awareness of health, leading to better lifestyle choices, increasing the overall health in the population, reducing the factors that cause heart problems such as obesity, thus reducing the load on the transplant list.
But where's the money in that?/fatalism
Exactly. A hammer is a building tool, a knife is a cooking tool. But you can murder someone just fine with either. Don't see anyone (anyone rational that is) calling for the ban of hammers and knives. A gun for most people is a 'Punch holes in paper at a distance' tool. or maybe a 'hunt for food tool' The military uses them as a 'defend the lives of people with force when needed' tool (mostly, yes, there are a few murdering whackos out to kill 'ragheads' but for the most part, that is not the case). Tools can be misused, but don't blame the tool, blame the damn fool holding it.
Wait, you can use Gaming Consoles for 'Constructive Activities' ? With a name like 'Gaming Console' i would not really expect it to be anything but a time wasting machine.
only if someone who knows your password system breaches one of your accounts, and knows about all the others. And even then its questionable, because knowing were the breaks in the 8 digit strings are is required. 1 digit left or right, and the factor goes back through the roof.
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You are talking about the company that Patched in NoCD cracks at the end of life for older games (diablo 2). Somehow, i suspect that when the time comes, and Diablo 3 servers no longer make the company enough money to bother with them, they will patch the login feature out in some way.
because everyone wants to go through the hassle of joining 150 different wifi networks while they are at a museum. That is where the laser idea makes sense. So you make a cradle 'touch your phone here to download this display's audio clip' You sandbox all the data that comes in from that port, and do away with cumbersome 'join this network?' notifications.
you've not lived until you start buying rain-X brand windshield wiper fluid. It amounts to Rain-X that never fades because 'oh, the rain-x seems to have worn off' *press button* 'good to go!'
And, to add creepy insult to injury, it shows every miserable two track goat path and jeep road on every ranch in west texas. right up to my front door. This is why we get those people on the news who get lost in the ass end of Utah or something, and spend a week slowly freezing to death in the mountains because they where blindly following roads they saw 'on the internets'
Which will last until duckduckgo starts getting more traffic than is being paid for by the ad's, and suddenly, duckduckgo becomes the next google, where the ads are compulsory. As much as we hate it, we have to realize, the ads pay for these fantastic magical services, so that you don't have to fork over 5$ or 10$ or 15$ a month to use them. Nothing is free. Ever.
The reason EA is not Indie is because they are a publisher. Other, smaller companies make games for them. For example, DICE made Battlefield 1942, but EA funded/published it, because EA has the money and name to get it out there.
Mojang is indie because they made the game, AND they published the game. DICE, had it funded and published Battlefield 1942 themselves, they would have been the big Indie publisher on the block at the time.
Now, if Mojang starts spending their money to fund other developers, and publishes a game for them, then they would be on the road to becoming a major publisher.
i suppose because despite its national scope, literally hundreds of companies all have to get their shit together, at approximately the same time, all with enough budget to upgrade/replace *their* portion of the grid. And we all know how good humans are at working together when money is involved.
As someone who lives in the US near some of the HUGE wind farms that have been installed over the past 10 years, i have to point out that the reason we don't use more wind is because we are STILL not ready for it. These massive wind farms are situated in ideal locations, and yet, they sit there, standing still. Why? because the grid is just not capable of handling the load that these huge farms produce. We can make loads of electricity, we just have not built up the infrastructure to get that electricity to where we need it. And of course, part of that is because 'wah wah wah big oil subsidy takes the money' and whatnot, and part of it is because these things take time when the distances you have to cover are larger than most European countries.
I checked the one weird calm spot in Idaho southeast of Boise. It is a low area surrounded by hills, with a lot of irrigated fields. Now i'm trying to figure out how that causes a still spot in the wind. Something to do with extra humidity from the irrigation making the air in the low area denser and causing a bubble perhaps?
On one of the other faces of the dice (in more physical labor type jobs) you slave drive your employees until they are burnt out and stupid, and finally, in an exhausted stupor, someone lops off a toe or something on the job, and you have to pay workmans comp on the deal.
which is kind of the point people are making, that a rested, not overworked employee makes fewer mistakes, and saves the employer money in the long run.
and if the well rested employee STILL makes lots of mistakes, you know to replace him, because he no longer has an excuse for not getting it right.
what he said was: the law there states that in a 7 day period, the limit of overtime is 8 hours. however, they are allowed to take string 8 periods of 7 days together, and average them, thus allowing single weeks with say, 14 hours of overtime, and single weeks with 4 hours of overtime, and still be within the law.
had this idea? heck, it has been done. googled 'spaced penguins'. I played that like, 8 years ago, and it was old then. exact concept. gravity wells, target, projectile. was kinda fun for a while, and after i beat it once, I started trying to put the projectile in orbit around various gravity wells.
I read somewhere that the original concept for the 3 movies is that 'The Matrix' which we know as part 1, was originally supposed to be the middle movie, with the actual 'first' movie supposed to cover the machine war, and subjugation of the humans. However, they decided that the fans would not stand for a matrix movie without the stars from the first one, so that story ended up getting pieced out into 'The Animatrix' and they broke part 3 in half.
based on THAT theory, a re-edit of part 2 and 3 into 1 film might actually work.
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AND, because of the way the thing is designed, its very cleanable. Essentially, this is a maintainable fan. If it is designed right, the bladed part can be removed from the motor. Remove the milled aluminum (or copper) 'Heatsink' and wash the sucker out. Unlike a normal computer fan, which is pretty un-washable thin plastic, with an electric motor permanently fixed to the middle of it, so washing is out of the question.
that's ok, there is video also! no nerd cred needed!
the virus must have been on the floppy disk he left in the drive the whole time! /joke.
and at the same time, I think that anyone doing anything new with any sort of technology needs to post their idea on /. to be told all the ways they are doing it wrong, thus getting valuable feedback on how to improve it. Because from what I've seen, /. is a panel of experts on how EVERYTHING is being done wrong.
Sir, I hereby award you the internet for the day, as you have made me laugh heartily at your witty commentary. Someone mod this person +1 funny.
then buy some 2D glasses off ThinkGeek. problem solved. Attend 3D movies with your friends! watch in glorious 2D! leave your vomit bag at home! (the glasses have 2 left polarized lenses, instead of a left and right lens, result: 2D movie.)
Wow, sparked quite the discussion on that one. I made that statement as a fat person myself, and i gotta say, you are right, its not a 'lifestyle choice' for all fat people. Myself, i work 9+ hours a day on my feet, walking all day, I avoid ice cream and other sweets as much as i can, buy my weakness for sugary caffeinated drinks seems to be my down-falling. However, there are plenty of people that i see every day (working in a grocery store.) that would loose 50 lbs if they would stop buying hostess cupcakes, frozen pizza, ice cream and hot-wings, and buy a few vegetables instead.
The point I'm trying to make is, if those of is that CAN make adjustments to alleviate preventable future health problems, it increases the availability of donor hearts to people that need them because of unpreventable things. Its sort of a "fix it because it WILL be broken soon if we don't." attitude.
Of course, the theoretical end game of this is being able to take a donor heart, strip it down to the protein structure, and grow a new heart with the recipients cells, thus drastically reducing the rejection issues.
/fatalism
And, as other posters have noted, it may be possible to eventually use an animal donor (such as a pig, as with the heart valves).
Imagine being able to harvest pig hearts from the normal food production process, strip them down, and make new hearts for transplant. Far enough down the line, it may be possible to tailor a re-grown heart that simply does not cause rejection issues. (not talking tomorrow, but maybe 50-100 years of research as a shot in the dark guess).
That's a pretty lofty goal, but this research is a stepping stone in that direction.
Of course, a better solution would be to train into the population a better attitude and awareness of health, leading to better lifestyle choices, increasing the overall health in the population, reducing the factors that cause heart problems such as obesity, thus reducing the load on the transplant list.
But where's the money in that?
Exactly. A hammer is a building tool, a knife is a cooking tool. But you can murder someone just fine with either. Don't see anyone (anyone rational that is) calling for the ban of hammers and knives. A gun for most people is a 'Punch holes in paper at a distance' tool. or maybe a 'hunt for food tool' The military uses them as a 'defend the lives of people with force when needed' tool (mostly, yes, there are a few murdering whackos out to kill 'ragheads' but for the most part, that is not the case). Tools can be misused, but don't blame the tool, blame the damn fool holding it.
Wait, you can use Gaming Consoles for 'Constructive Activities' ? With a name like 'Gaming Console' i would not really expect it to be anything but a time wasting machine.
only if someone who knows your password system breaches one of your accounts, and knows about all the others. And even then its questionable, because knowing were the breaks in the 8 digit strings are is required. 1 digit left or right, and the factor goes back through the roof.
You are talking about the company that Patched in NoCD cracks at the end of life for older games (diablo 2). Somehow, i suspect that when the time comes, and Diablo 3 servers no longer make the company enough money to bother with them, they will patch the login feature out in some way.
and if you do it wrong, your bathroom faucet will shock the shit right out of you!
because everyone wants to go through the hassle of joining 150 different wifi networks while they are at a museum. That is where the laser idea makes sense. So you make a cradle 'touch your phone here to download this display's audio clip' You sandbox all the data that comes in from that port, and do away with cumbersome 'join this network?' notifications.
you've not lived until you start buying rain-X brand windshield wiper fluid. It amounts to Rain-X that never fades because 'oh, the rain-x seems to have worn off' *press button* 'good to go!'
And, to add creepy insult to injury, it shows every miserable two track goat path and jeep road on every ranch in west texas. right up to my front door. This is why we get those people on the news who get lost in the ass end of Utah or something, and spend a week slowly freezing to death in the mountains because they where blindly following roads they saw 'on the internets'
Which will last until duckduckgo starts getting more traffic than is being paid for by the ad's, and suddenly, duckduckgo becomes the next google, where the ads are compulsory. As much as we hate it, we have to realize, the ads pay for these fantastic magical services, so that you don't have to fork over 5$ or 10$ or 15$ a month to use them. Nothing is free. Ever.
The reason EA is not Indie is because they are a publisher. Other, smaller companies make games for them. For example, DICE made Battlefield 1942, but EA funded/published it, because EA has the money and name to get it out there.
Mojang is indie because they made the game, AND they published the game. DICE, had it funded and published Battlefield 1942 themselves, they would have been the big Indie publisher on the block at the time. Now, if Mojang starts spending their money to fund other developers, and publishes a game for them, then they would be on the road to becoming a major publisher.
i suppose because despite its national scope, literally hundreds of companies all have to get their shit together, at approximately the same time, all with enough budget to upgrade/replace *their* portion of the grid. And we all know how good humans are at working together when money is involved.
As someone who lives in the US near some of the HUGE wind farms that have been installed over the past 10 years, i have to point out that the reason we don't use more wind is because we are STILL not ready for it. These massive wind farms are situated in ideal locations, and yet, they sit there, standing still. Why? because the grid is just not capable of handling the load that these huge farms produce. We can make loads of electricity, we just have not built up the infrastructure to get that electricity to where we need it. And of course, part of that is because 'wah wah wah big oil subsidy takes the money' and whatnot, and part of it is because these things take time when the distances you have to cover are larger than most European countries.
I checked the one weird calm spot in Idaho southeast of Boise. It is a low area surrounded by hills, with a lot of irrigated fields. Now i'm trying to figure out how that causes a still spot in the wind. Something to do with extra humidity from the irrigation making the air in the low area denser and causing a bubble perhaps?
On one of the other faces of the dice (in more physical labor type jobs) you slave drive your employees until they are burnt out and stupid, and finally, in an exhausted stupor, someone lops off a toe or something on the job, and you have to pay workmans comp on the deal.
which is kind of the point people are making, that a rested, not overworked employee makes fewer mistakes, and saves the employer money in the long run.
and if the well rested employee STILL makes lots of mistakes, you know to replace him, because he no longer has an excuse for not getting it right.
i really wish i could mod you '-1 retarded'
what he said was: the law there states that in a 7 day period, the limit of overtime is 8 hours. however, they are allowed to take string 8 periods of 7 days together, and average them, thus allowing single weeks with say, 14 hours of overtime, and single weeks with 4 hours of overtime, and still be within the law.
but you already knew that.
had this idea? heck, it has been done. googled 'spaced penguins'. I played that like, 8 years ago, and it was old then. exact concept. gravity wells, target, projectile. was kinda fun for a while, and after i beat it once, I started trying to put the projectile in orbit around various gravity wells.
I read somewhere that the original concept for the 3 movies is that 'The Matrix' which we know as part 1, was originally supposed to be the middle movie, with the actual 'first' movie supposed to cover the machine war, and subjugation of the humans. However, they decided that the fans would not stand for a matrix movie without the stars from the first one, so that story ended up getting pieced out into 'The Animatrix' and they broke part 3 in half.
based on THAT theory, a re-edit of part 2 and 3 into 1 film might actually work.