Exactly. In looking through the comments so far, it appears/. is still inhabited by young, single people that do very little cooking. I estimate the washing of dishes to be at least half of the time to cook (assuming prep and clean, as "cooking" is usually unattended), and even more time when serving multi-course meals, such as holiday meals for a group of people.
Taken to its conclusion, time tending to cooking duties can be cut in half at such gatherings. This is worth a lot of money.
When people travel thousands of miles to visit someone they rarely see, but care about very much, who the hell wants to do dishes? This is time that is invaluable and I'm fairly certain even a price of $20,000 will be a worthwhile expense to millions if not tens of millions of households.
I had the same experience. This Brooks piece was more appealing for us adolescents and teens in the 80s. However, other Brooks pieces got better with age, especially Blazing Saddles (I recall not understanding and being largely bored with the Governor scenes - now they are my favorite: "Work-work-work...")
I think this was the first core Sci-Fi film I watched and felt like I really got the whole thing. I never went back and watched a second time, because that is really the whole point - man cannot create a desired future, it is just too complex. I totally dug that the film maker treated the audience as intelligent viewers, something that can't work in a big-budget piece (see Starship Troopers).
It looks like nearly everybody here missed the point of the movie. I missed it also, and then I watched RedLetterMedia cover it in this episode of re:View, and really felt humbled and disappointed that I completely missed the point of a brilliant piece.
Somewhere around the mid- to late 2000s, I was researching LiFEPO4 patents, and came across the University of Texas (UT) patent for which you are listed as an inventor. When I investigated licensing the patent, it was so expensive that it was not profitable to bother with the license at all. The factory partner I worked with was in China, and they were mass-producing the same LiFePO4 for jurisdictions not impacted by the patent.
As I understand it, the law firm that UT chose to manage the patent set a price that was incredibly high. Then, invariably, some company would build a market for a LiFePO4 product that violated the patent, and then the law firm would step in after the company had actually done some business and sue them for all they were worth. I have to admit that this last bit was told to me by some battery industry veterans, but it seems plausible based on how the battery industry works.
Nonetheless, the decision of UT to exclusively grant permission to the law firm to manage the patent kept the invention out of the market and likely cost UT some incredible amount (billions?) in royalties.
How do you feel about your invention, which clearly made mass-production of the chemistry viable, being effectively kept off the market for so long?
(BTW, when UT lowered their prices with, like, 5 years or so left on the patent, the factory I worked with immediately purchased the licensed material for selling their batteries in the U.S.)
I was really hoping that Microsoft would realize their blunder, as they did with Vista and 8, but it looks like they aren't seeing it. I'm guessing maybe they have one more release before 7 is dead, but I'm no longer hopeful.
Did the phone actually connect and state LTE? HSPA+ and lower work without issue, but LTE I have yet to see work, including a friend who has one of the OnePlus phones.
Is this correct for AT&T? When I have experimented with non-AT&T phones, AT&T will not allow access to their LTE service, so always end up stuck at HSPA+.
I realize I'm getting really nit-picky here, but I also want the trackpad. That is another invaluable tool, especially when used for editing. I have yet to see an interface that is as effective at manually editing. I find most people who try to debate me on this topic have never had a job where actually had to respond, in a professional manner, to a high volume of emails. Everyone else I've discussed this with who has such work experience is in agreement that the touchscreen keyboards are a step backwards in productivity.
Right, which is why it takes considerably longer to type the same email, as I was indicating with the word "quickly". By my estimate, it takes up to five times longer to send a reply on touchscreen than on BlackBerry keyboard, with the biggest time waster coming from the pathetic editing interface that's used for, you know, corrections from proofreading. The sig entry coming because there are still problems. Nothing sloppy about it - respond to 100 emails a day on your touch screen and guess what happens despite proofreading? Stupid spelling errors, and I long ago turned off autocorrect because it never seems to know what word I'm actually trying to type.
As a salesman, I sorely miss the physical keyboard. For those of us who need to quickly bang out good looking, professional emails, I have not found a single touch-screen keyboard that holds a candle to the physical keyboards of the classic BlackBerry phones, especially the Bold 9900. I had to add back in to my sig "sent from my phone" because of the persistent typos.
I have similar thoughts. Let's send one of our biggest personalities to some woeful startup. I do hope that in the event of such an occurrence, Trump has the business sense to just start his own network or work with someone. Gab is terrible. It uses unlimited up/down voting.
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Exactly. In looking through the comments so far, it appears /. is still inhabited by young, single people that do very little cooking. I estimate the washing of dishes to be at least half of the time to cook (assuming prep and clean, as "cooking" is usually unattended), and even more time when serving multi-course meals, such as holiday meals for a group of people.
Taken to its conclusion, time tending to cooking duties can be cut in half at such gatherings. This is worth a lot of money.
When people travel thousands of miles to visit someone they rarely see, but care about very much, who the hell wants to do dishes? This is time that is invaluable and I'm fairly certain even a price of $20,000 will be a worthwhile expense to millions if not tens of millions of households.
Ever try to take a cigarette from a smoker? Yeah, that won't last long.
Some folks call it a Graphene; I call it a Flubber.
With original score by Fall On Your Sword, makers of Shatner Of The Mount, to boot.
I felt the point of Primer was that man cannot control the future, which is why I didn't watch it again - I was sated with that.
I had the same experience. This Brooks piece was more appealing for us adolescents and teens in the 80s. However, other Brooks pieces got better with age, especially Blazing Saddles (I recall not understanding and being largely bored with the Governor scenes - now they are my favorite: "Work-work-work...")
I think this was the first core Sci-Fi film I watched and felt like I really got the whole thing. I never went back and watched a second time, because that is really the whole point - man cannot create a desired future, it is just too complex. I totally dug that the film maker treated the audience as intelligent viewers, something that can't work in a big-budget piece (see Starship Troopers).
It looks like nearly everybody here missed the point of the movie. I missed it also, and then I watched RedLetterMedia cover it in this episode of re:View, and really felt humbled and disappointed that I completely missed the point of a brilliant piece.
Somewhere around the mid- to late 2000s, I was researching LiFEPO4 patents, and came across the University of Texas (UT) patent for which you are listed as an inventor. When I investigated licensing the patent, it was so expensive that it was not profitable to bother with the license at all. The factory partner I worked with was in China, and they were mass-producing the same LiFePO4 for jurisdictions not impacted by the patent.
As I understand it, the law firm that UT chose to manage the patent set a price that was incredibly high. Then, invariably, some company would build a market for a LiFePO4 product that violated the patent, and then the law firm would step in after the company had actually done some business and sue them for all they were worth. I have to admit that this last bit was told to me by some battery industry veterans, but it seems plausible based on how the battery industry works.
Nonetheless, the decision of UT to exclusively grant permission to the law firm to manage the patent kept the invention out of the market and likely cost UT some incredible amount (billions?) in royalties.
How do you feel about your invention, which clearly made mass-production of the chemistry viable, being effectively kept off the market for so long?
(BTW, when UT lowered their prices with, like, 5 years or so left on the patent, the factory I worked with immediately purchased the licensed material for selling their batteries in the U.S.)
"It can only be attributable to human error."
When I read these stories, I find myself wondering if I am the only one aware that humans write algorithms.
To tell me which installed plugins are going to die.
The longer, the better.
I was really hoping that Microsoft would realize their blunder, as they did with Vista and 8, but it looks like they aren't seeing it. I'm guessing maybe they have one more release before 7 is dead, but I'm no longer hopeful.
Did the phone actually connect and state LTE? HSPA+ and lower work without issue, but LTE I have yet to see work, including a friend who has one of the OnePlus phones.
Is this correct for AT&T? When I have experimented with non-AT&T phones, AT&T will not allow access to their LTE service, so always end up stuck at HSPA+.
I realize I'm getting really nit-picky here, but I also want the trackpad. That is another invaluable tool, especially when used for editing. I have yet to see an interface that is as effective at manually editing. I find most people who try to debate me on this topic have never had a job where actually had to respond, in a professional manner, to a high volume of emails. Everyone else I've discussed this with who has such work experience is in agreement that the touchscreen keyboards are a step backwards in productivity.
Right, which is why it takes considerably longer to type the same email, as I was indicating with the word "quickly". By my estimate, it takes up to five times longer to send a reply on touchscreen than on BlackBerry keyboard, with the biggest time waster coming from the pathetic editing interface that's used for, you know, corrections from proofreading. The sig entry coming because there are still problems. Nothing sloppy about it - respond to 100 emails a day on your touch screen and guess what happens despite proofreading? Stupid spelling errors, and I long ago turned off autocorrect because it never seems to know what word I'm actually trying to type.
As a salesman, I sorely miss the physical keyboard. For those of us who need to quickly bang out good looking, professional emails, I have not found a single touch-screen keyboard that holds a candle to the physical keyboards of the classic BlackBerry phones, especially the Bold 9900. I had to add back in to my sig "sent from my phone" because of the persistent typos.
The site was founded on fake. They never had integrity, never will.
I have similar thoughts. Let's send one of our biggest personalities to some woeful startup. I do hope that in the event of such an occurrence, Trump has the business sense to just start his own network or work with someone. Gab is terrible. It uses unlimited up/down voting.
Wouldn't "most" of 900 million be a number greater than 450 million?
As expected. Fanboys will be out in force on a thread like this.
Dollars to doughnuts that gets flipped after updates every six months or so.