moocowduckquack
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Comment · 12 years ago
Not only is it horrible, but it is also mean, wrong and stupid. Well done, you nearly have the full set.
Comment · 12 years ago
Was the place run by Uncle Ruckus?
Comment · 12 years ago
We have detected a lot of ice, but we haven't confirmed flowing liquid water yet, and while water can be used to mean the chemical in any phase, it is more commonly used to mean the liquid phase of H2O.
Comment · 12 years ago
To be fair, we know there is sometimes liquid water on mars, at least it is incredibly unlikely that there would be none at all, comets crash into it occaisionally, for instance.
Evidence of liquid water regularly occuring near the surface is very exciting though. This isn't cool because they might find H2O, we know that there is H2O, this is cool because having liquid water near the surface increases the chance of finding life.
Comment · 12 years ago
So given that, to see significant ROI you need to find genuine experts in how to use each form of media.
So, even if it is technically possible to do well in a given media, if it is really hard to identify who is a genuine expert in that media due to it being new and full of snake-oil merchants, then you are likely to do better in a more established field.
Comment · 12 years ago
google display network advertising is equally useless/fraudulent
It is very good at giving me pictures of the more expensive things that I have recently bought, should I suddenly need two.
Comment · 12 years ago
Depends if you take absolute or probablistic logic to be the more fundamental. Absolute logic has held sway for a very long time, because it is obvious that either something is there, or it is not. Since the birth of quantum mechanics however, it is looking as though probability might be a little more fundamental to reality itself than we had previously assumed. Look at the classic "Cogito ergo sum". With an absolute perspective on logic, you cannot get much further, however if looked at probalistically, you can start looking at options and start assigning them weights. Now this doesn't get you any closer to the concept of what is absolutely true beyond the initial statement, however I am not sure that it is a given that reality itself is absolute for all parameters, so the trap might be that many of what we percieve as flaws in induction are actually meaningless questions until they are reformulated probabalistically.
Alternatively I might be talking bollocks, I did first think of this while pretty drunk.
Comment · 12 years ago
Given there are experiments run to explicitly check for stuff like that (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10619127.2010.506...), I think you are possibly wrong.
I'd put it as "All empiricists have faith that there is not much point in being an empiricist if there is a comedy god fiddling the numbers on purpose, purely to screw with the notion of empiricism, so therefore they cheerfully discount that notion as otherwise they wouldn't get much done."
Comment · 12 years ago
An open letter comparing him to Dave Chapelle is probably not a good plan, given his statement:
Press people are overrating the success of my games. It is something I never want. Please give me peace.
Comment · 12 years ago
I suspect it might if you doped the graphite oxide with something to muck up the sheets a little and allow vertical bonds, perhaps a bit of boron.
Comment · 12 years ago
swarf
Comment · 12 years ago
You keep a stock of base materials and things like chips that you can't fabricate onsite.
Is the same as keeping stock for a normal shop, you keep track of what is being used and order more when it gets low.
Comment · 12 years ago
I have seen what people are developing. Besides, cars do not need to have micro electronics.
http://reprap.org/wiki/MetalicaRap
http://medtechinsider.com/archives/24967
http://www.nthdegreetech.com/printed-semiconductors.php
That said, there will always be some things for which economies of scale win out against customisation, and I suspect that many electronics components are in that bracket. Luckily we have things like FPGAs, so you don't need to keep a huge stock of specialised chips to make a wide variety of devices.
Comment · 12 years ago
NASA have put a 3d printed exhaust port on a rocket engine and test fired it successfully. - http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/j2x/3d_print.htm...
Besides, as long as you know what you are doing it is just another material to select from and you just calculate critical dimensions based on measured properties.
Comment · 12 years ago
I thought about this a couple of years back and as far as I can make out, we are approaching the situation where you could just about fit a digitised general engineering factory and materials store into a high street shop unit. At that point you could robotically fabricate a car to order and just drive it out the front onto the street when it is finished.