You would be surprised how much can't be 3d printed. For example even if you can print aluminum, you couldn't print the outside edge of a iPhone. It is forged to get the right set of crystal structure and work hardening to give it the properties it needs.
And then there are electronics and all the different materials you would need. It won't be quite the revolution you think it will be. It is not like they are new or anything.
We do need a good open source cad program. While not cad both these projects (Art of Illusion and Blender) are fairly good. Blender is getting so much work put into over the last few years, and is getting pretty impressive. If they decided to add a "CAD" mode. It would be implemented fairly fast.
Of course even really good free/cheap CAD does not make everyone a CAD designer or whatever. 3D printers at home will do what most printers do at home. Print clip art (other peoples models) or photos (3d scan).
So your measuring your reproductive potential with how much money you have? Well i guess you can afford a lot of blue pills, but last I heard hookers tend to want you to use protection or are on the pill.
The whole point of a drinking game, is for it to "go to shit" or at least some shit to go down when someone, or a few people get really tanked. Life is too short, even with moderate drinking, not to have fun every step of the way.
Bullshit. Plenty of fields require much more confidence. 1 in 20 is something that happens lots. Its like rolling a 1 on a 20 sided die. Many fields use the so called 4 to 6 nines (99.99 to 99.9999) and other use 4 to 6 sigma....
...and we clearly have a minimal number of such sources in the US.
Don't be so hard on the US. They really do provide a lot of funding compared to many countries. Sure it is distributed in perhaps not the best way (few very large grants), but its pretty substantial. For example my PhD was 100% funded under a NSF grant despite the fact that i was not in the US. We also had the requirement that we had to make all findings and contributions reasonable public.
That has nothing to do with patents per-se though, it has to do with the perverse incentives in a profit-driven medical research.
I can't quite see how non profit driven medical research would need patents?
Hilarious. Was still hoping for some sort of vote of no confidence in the last election. These 2 party system are balls. Yea i know its a MMP thing. But in practice its still a 2 party system.
These development costs are massively overstated. Sure they are high. But not anything like high enough to justify the costs of some treatments in the US.
We already do a lot of computer simulations for this sort of thing. Paid for by public funding of course. So that the corporations can get their drug patented.
For profit is never right. And it should be noted that this "massive funding" is not as massive as you think. Not to mention that many of these companies still get grants and "collaborations" with uni. The are often recouping costs from their patents that the state paid for. There is a reason why treatments cost more in the US by a large margin that anywhere else. Because its not about health. Its about profit.
I have worked for pharmaceutical companies. They work well if you want these companies to make a lot of money. If general health of your population is the goal, then they are a total disaster. You don't work on cures, you work on treatments, for example. Why sell someone a week of pills, when you could sell them pills for a lifetime? Even worse is that a lot of money for these treatments is not invested by the company that holds the patent. But often heavily supported by the state through universities and grants.
The free market, capitalism, fails with health care at every level.
These days HVDC is getting quite popular. There are good reasons for it too. The insulation requirements are far less demanding and this makes the cables cheaper for a given power level. The ACDC/DCAC converters are getting cheap enough and reliable enough that total costs are lower.
It is really obvious that this is fraud. Its not even done particularly well. Not one but 2 black boxes, not allowed to touch anything, not allowed to measure anything properly. Total interference with the inventor. Oh and these guys have been working with him for more than 2 years. Not so independent. This report is to do nothing more that fleece more cash out of suckers.
The paper itself describes, quite credibly, exactly why they did not do that. Did you read it?
No it doesn't, and you can absolutely blame them for that. If you are not even allowed to measure the very thing that its claimed to do, you tell the guy to stick it where the sun don't shine.
It is pretty clear you have no idea about a really simple experiment i would expect anyone in high school science to manage.
I did read it. It is even written very poorly. They make up error intervals, and well you could do somethings with a black box. But they don't even get to touch the black boxes! And they have to ask the inventor to turn it on and off and stuff. Even worse this does not have continues measurement. The last "report" had pulses of power going in!
I think its pretty clear. These scientists are either very senile, or in on the scam. I suspect the later.
The problem is not just that he doesn't explain it. It is that he doesn't even describe it. He keeps what he claims is the magic sauce to make it work an explicit secret. You can't do that in a patent.
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bio-fouling happens on moving surfaces as well. It will be expensive keeping them clean.
And now you have some of the most expensive electricity ever.
You would be surprised how much can't be 3d printed. For example even if you can print aluminum, you couldn't print the outside edge of a iPhone. It is forged to get the right set of crystal structure and work hardening to give it the properties it needs.
And then there are electronics and all the different materials you would need. It won't be quite the revolution you think it will be. It is not like they are new or anything.
We do need a good open source cad program. While not cad both these projects (Art of Illusion and Blender) are fairly good. Blender is getting so much work put into over the last few years, and is getting pretty impressive. If they decided to add a "CAD" mode. It would be implemented fairly fast.
Of course even really good free/cheap CAD does not make everyone a CAD designer or whatever. 3D printers at home will do what most printers do at home. Print clip art (other peoples models) or photos (3d scan).
using just a camera you can 3d scan things.
So your measuring your reproductive potential with how much money you have? Well i guess you can afford a lot of blue pills, but last I heard hookers tend to want you to use protection or are on the pill.
It is far better to be happy than wealthy.
I think you should. They are not as advertised.
High pulp does. I love high pulp... Basically just blend that fruit... mmmmmmmmmmm
The whole point of a drinking game, is for it to "go to shit" or at least some shit to go down when someone, or a few people get really tanked. Life is too short, even with moderate drinking, not to have fun every step of the way.
Bullshit. Plenty of fields require much more confidence. 1 in 20 is something that happens lots. Its like rolling a 1 on a 20 sided die. Many fields use the so called 4 to 6 nines (99.99 to 99.9999) and other use 4 to 6 sigma....
...and we clearly have a minimal number of such sources in the US.
Don't be so hard on the US. They really do provide a lot of funding compared to many countries. Sure it is distributed in perhaps not the best way (few very large grants), but its pretty substantial. For example my PhD was 100% funded under a NSF grant despite the fact that i was not in the US. We also had the requirement that we had to make all findings and contributions reasonable public.
That has nothing to do with patents per-se though, it has to do with the perverse incentives in a profit-driven medical research.
I can't quite see how non profit driven medical research would need patents?
Hilarious. Was still hoping for some sort of vote of no confidence in the last election. These 2 party system are balls. Yea i know its a MMP thing. But in practice its still a 2 party system.
These development costs are massively overstated. Sure they are high. But not anything like high enough to justify the costs of some treatments in the US.
We already do a lot of computer simulations for this sort of thing. Paid for by public funding of course. So that the corporations can get their drug patented.
For profit is never right. And it should be noted that this "massive funding" is not as massive as you think. Not to mention that many of these companies still get grants and "collaborations" with uni. The are often recouping costs from their patents that the state paid for. There is a reason why treatments cost more in the US by a large margin that anywhere else. Because its not about health. Its about profit.
Patents in pharmacuticals work well.
I have worked for pharmaceutical companies. They work well if you want these companies to make a lot of money. If general health of your population is the goal, then they are a total disaster. You don't work on cures, you work on treatments, for example. Why sell someone a week of pills, when you could sell them pills for a lifetime? Even worse is that a lot of money for these treatments is not invested by the company that holds the patent. But often heavily supported by the state through universities and grants.
The free market, capitalism, fails with health care at every level.
These days HVDC is getting quite popular. There are good reasons for it too. The insulation requirements are far less demanding and this makes the cables cheaper for a given power level. The ACDC/DCAC converters are getting cheap enough and reliable enough that total costs are lower.
They wouldn't see a blip in the data because data was not collected continuously.
It is really obvious that this is fraud. Its not even done particularly well. Not one but 2 black boxes, not allowed to touch anything, not allowed to measure anything properly. Total interference with the inventor. Oh and these guys have been working with him for more than 2 years. Not so independent. This report is to do nothing more that fleece more cash out of suckers.
The paper itself describes, quite credibly, exactly why they did not do that. Did you read it?
No it doesn't, and you can absolutely blame them for that. If you are not even allowed to measure the very thing that its claimed to do, you tell the guy to stick it where the sun don't shine.
It is pretty clear you have no idea about a really simple experiment i would expect anyone in high school science to manage.
I did read it. It is even written very poorly. They make up error intervals, and well you could do somethings with a black box. But they don't even get to touch the black boxes! And they have to ask the inventor to turn it on and off and stuff. Even worse this does not have continues measurement. The last "report" had pulses of power going in!
I think its pretty clear. These scientists are either very senile, or in on the scam. I suspect the later.
It isn't as though Rossi had one bolted to a table and wouldn't let anyone under the table to look.
Eh yes it is. Really.
The problem is not just that he doesn't explain it. It is that he doesn't even describe it. He keeps what he claims is the magic sauce to make it work an explicit secret. You can't do that in a patent.
Because he doesn't describe anything in these patents. look them up yourself.
Exactly! However many inventors are obsessed with getting really rich. They only people that get rich in these cases are patent attorneys.