This guy didn't nearly the amount of press but here's the article from 2009. I've seen on print chocolate at a convention / maker faire before too but I don't know who owned it.

http://builders.reprap.org/2009/03/chocolate-extruder.html

It would be interesting if they really did reinvent the wheel instead of copying everything that already exists though. Hopefully they will publish their plans.

Perhaps one change will be that PostgreSQL will no longer be moving forward so fast in the realm of free and open source high availability databases. Skype uses PostgreSQL for it's backend and has created SkyTools for managing replication and failover for a large numbers of servers. It's the biggest user I'm aware of, but I don't follow sql development that closely.

Maybe like hotmail running linux they will try to port it over to Azure or something. They could learn a lot.

More likely this gives the automatic ties to a global communication network that already has ties to the telecommunication systems. Windows Phones use skype instead of sms. Audio and video calls and conferencing at the cost of bandwidth. Huge installed user base on desktop, PC, iPhone and Android.

Like a game of go they just did a really neat move that opens up a lot of new possibilities for the future.

Honestly. Do you really believe what you just wrote?

People are people. As soon as you start saying every kind of person with a certain job or nationality is something you stop thinking and start dehumanizing.

Are all stoners whiney spoiled and lazy semi-libertarians who like to talk about their ultimate personal rights but only the part that would let them smoke weed all day, not the part that prevents highways, selling yourself into slavery and common land from existing or people polluting and dumping toxic waste in their backyard? I don't know. The vocal ones seem to be that way but I know some people just have a joint and lead normal lives. A few do it because cancer sucks.

You seem like the ignorant All-Or-Nothing type fighting against "The Man" by wearing a dent in the couch.

Could be wrong about you, just a guess. People are just people. You don't present yourself well in this comment and I haven't bother to look up any others.

Think for real before you type.

The animals may have been fed, but that's not really treating them well. Training bears that people are good sources of food is dangerous. Eventually they will seek out camp sites, homes or businesses and hurt someone or get killed themselves. Once they start depending on humans for food it's a slow form of starvation and when food gets scarce the bears get violent. They won't get enough to survive the winter.

No one got hurt, but bears can always be dangerous.

Some cops are assholes but in general they are good guys. People don't like them because they enforce the rules we ask them to and you usually only see them when you break the rules.

> One thing glaringly missing from the article is the cost of the battery pack. On the open market right now, 56kWh of LiFePO4 cells runs a bit over US$120,000.

I know most of the lithium batteries I have at home don't run nearly as long after a year or so. When they say it would take 60 charges are they assuming it's always going back to full power? They also seem to die really fast too, instead of a gradual amount of power loss compared to some other battery chemistries.

Would you (or anyone else) happen to know how many charges such a battery pack is capable of?

On a more technical level - radios implemented in silicon are really inefficient - even to this day. Its something a lot of really smart people are working really hard to fix, and even if they do solve the problem they can never get above 50% efficiency (ie - 2 watts in for 1 watt out) with even the best semi-conductors.

Interesting. I don't know anything about radio communications at all from a technical standpoint, but I'm very interested. I work with lots of EE's. Can you describe this in more detail or give me some keywords so I can learn more about radio efficiency?

Thanks

Considering the cost of the recalls have had a couple of extra digits this sounds like a pretty cheap bounty.

Obviously I meant without overtime. And I'm on lunch at the moment

When the uproar finally reaches a volume that upper management can hear it, the first question will be "Why are you watching YouTube videos on our time?"

It's the only way I can manage 80 hours a week with overtime. Not worried though, funnyordie still loves my old ass.

Someone mod parent up.
Thank you.

This is only true because it's an arms race all of the development companies are involved in. If one company stopped the policy, they quickly wouldn't be able to compete with the shiny and new titles the other companies can put out

If what everyone is saying is true, then crunch time is counter productive.

Shouldn't the 40 hour a week people produce higher quality, better code on schedule and eventually overtake the crunchers?

I have no idea why, but my spam count has gone down. I have my own domain name and I used to receive about 100 spam per day. Lately that's gone down to 2 or 3.

I'm not doing anything different so I assume I fell off a list or someone upstream is fixing things.

Sometimes I run a filter that let's all plaintext through but whitelists mime and messages with http or www in the message. They get rejected at the server level.

I just turn it off when I register for new web sites.

Why make things worse? Block the ip address or range and notify the admins. This isn't a chan mob.

Am I the only one who read Hillary Clinton but thought Hilarious Clinton?

YES. Now stop asking these silly questions.

Cute toy. I remember doing something like this back in high school in 2D after getting Koza's book about 20 years ago.

It's one hell of a stretch to suggest this does something for pleasure or is complex enough that virtual "drugs" can affect it's processing. The only thing high was the person writing up the description... ya know man because may like - we're all simulations - woah!