I would imagine using a different extruder head (or whatever it is) for each compound. Then there's nothing to clean between compounds, because it's always the same compound going through the same extruder.
Well, I did not RTFA and don't plan to, but it seems to me that if you're creating bespoke pills for people, and you're expecting people to take all of those pills, what you should do is create packets of pills which are all in the same color scheme which is always the same for that patient. I imagine sort of miniature Easter egg-like pills with very distinctive character and with patterns appropriate to the patient, taking into account colorblindness and the like. Perhaps it would even be possible to give them distinctive textures for the blind, although I picture that causing pills to have a greater tendency to lodge in place. I imagine, though, that there's someone out there with a magical new pill coating to handle just such a case...
Obviously the pills should then be printed with serial numbers so that they can be identified with more precision, but lots of people can't read numbers that small without assistance so the focus should really be on distinctive color combinations.
So, it's good because it's only fascism-lite for now?
You should know by now that if I had meant that, I would have said it. It's just less bad, at this time. That's all I said, that's all I meant.
I don't think the code is anywhere near the hardest part of the endeavor; I'm a pretty mediocre programmer but I can envision that part. The hard part is designing an economy that both works and makes sense, with no cheating. All the money has to go somewhere and do something that makes sense, that's non-trivial. Economists argue over how economics works in the real world as it is.
Not if Amazon and Google have anything to say about it.
You won't even notice those drones most of the time. There's a whole lot of space in which they can operate which is below aircraft but well above the humans.
If you are going to shoot at it with a pellet gun, skip the hassle of trailing a thread and just shoot it directly with the pellet or BlackBerry or
The problem with that is that with many designs, it will take many shots to have a hope of reliably disabling the model. A lot of these things are just a big wad of polystyrene, which can take a whole lot of hits without really caring if they're not really good ones. Then there's the ones made of carbon fiber rods, yeah that stuff is fragile in its own way but if you don't get a solid hit with your pellet you can't expect to do anything good. Props are fragile but there's a substantial chance of a miss there for obvious reasons... unless your projectile is trailing something.
They said the same for their Bulldozer CPU, remember that?
Sure, we all do, but we also remember the K6/2+ and
If only they could get their graphics drivers in hand, I would really be a massive fan. As it is, I did just build an FX-8350-based machine, because it hit the right price point for me.
And we're supposed to think this is different from Western governments demanding crypto backdoors, the ability to intercept at the data center, and secret warrants allowing them to demand all info in secret?
It is different, but the difference is one of degree, not character. These guys will be doing a lot of work to censor everyday speech. Our guys do a little bit of work to target individuals.
The whole idea of a game is to win, to come out on top. There has to be a way to do that.
One of the things you have to do to make a game "good" is manage difficulty. It should be possible for the player to win; depending on the difficult level, perhaps even "easy". But a challenge should be available to the player who is looking for it.
You should have to do realistic sorts of things to succeed in a game, it just shouldn't be as difficult for your character to do it as it would be for you in the really real world. But then, one's character is usually an exceptional person, so it's reasonable that they would have more success than you would.
Something too light won't have good flight characteristics, it'll be inclined to slow and deflect as it passes through air. Tungsten might be overkill, but it'd probably still need to be heavier than nylon.
I think the ideal would be a CO2-driven pellet which trailed the line... You could get the whole thing to be pretty small and light, ideal for mounting on another drone.
In the Wild West most people wouldn't hunt down an individual that wronged them. They'd report it to the sheriff who would post a wanted poster which would attract bounty hunters to go hunt down the criminal.
In the Wild West, if you made enough problems, they would send out the fucking Cavalry to hunt your ass down, shoot you a whole bunch, and drag your sorry leaking corpse back to town for a quick exhibit and cheap burial to remind others what lies down that road.
In the really real world, shipping is protected by threat of military action.
EVE is a cheesefest because there is insufficient motivation to provide stability.
There's also the issue of touching the live wire. If you touch a DC main, your hand will spasm and you're likely to end up gripping it. If you touch AC, then you feel a buzzing at the frequency, but it's a lot easier to pull away.
The problem with this idea is that the muscles which grip are a lot stronger than the muscles which open the hand, so AC will make your hand clench anyway.
The people repeating the "Steve Jobs was the Greatest" mantra over and over are the Apple haters who really feel the need for their predictions that Apple will fail without him to be true. Any moment now.
Apple has only enjoyed sustained growth under Steve Jobs. When they got rid of him, they suffered. Now he's gone again, and they're suffering again. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to recognize that Apple needs a strong hand at the helm. But it also doesn't take a genius to recognize that Apple can flail for quite some time before it runs out of money, or even cachet.
The only real trick to that was sticking in a big enough battery- a big battery helps two ways- it increases range, but more subtly it increases the power/weight ratio.
The real trick was doing it at the right time; when battery technology had made it affordable. I know that's a funny word to use in conjunction with the Tesla, but it wasn't that long ago that a water-cooled Lithium battery pack big enough to run a glorified motorcycle (e.g. Corbin Sparrow) was $20k, and the Tesla packs are dramatically larger than that.
Perhaps eventually we'll have air guns firing very fine lengths of tungsten wire to physically foul the propellers.
You don't need anything so exotic; cheap and readily available nylon monofilament will do just fine. But if I were going to use something fancy, I'd use carbon fiber thread.
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