Since when is bartering illegal? Also, there are always thousands of posts on craigslist like "TRADE PS3 for LAPTOP" etc.

It is this kind of thinking that makes people build something out of legos instead of trying to learn a new skill.

Whenever I see "professional" projects like this use legos- I have mixed feelings. Here is another example, a lab using legos for automation

I love to see legos doing advanced things, but for a chassis? I feel like people can be very smart, but sometimes afraid to learn how to build something with their hands. The lab example I posted above is at Cambridge University. Cambridge has a very competent engineering department, why not reach out to them?- It could have made for an excellent project for some engineering students.

I'm reminded of the very cited researcher who reinvented some calculus instead of simply reaching out to someone in another department for help

It is a sad day, but our low UID forebearers are going senile. I guess it was only a matter of time.

Nice Michael Crichton reference!

MARK OP UP

The ISS orbit height is 230 miles, we aren't quite there yet.

You have until the end of the day to gather your things and turn in your geek card.

Purdue tried that and had huge backlash.

We are Boilermakers, not Makers.

Apologies in advance to international, or even national readers who are not familiar with the university.

The OP's question illustrates a poor understanding of heat and mass transfer. I think a little redundancy is okay in this case if it helps clarify.

Yes, definitely.

It improves heat conduction by filling the small surface defects that would create miniature pockets of air. Air is a very good insulator, and very poor at conducting heat.

There is a noticeable difference, you can research it further, but as cheap as a tube of thermal paste is, why not spend an extra couple bucks on your shiny new processor?

It is their job to make the correct choice, especially difficult ones.

Whether or not they understood the ramifications and signed anyway, they are accountable for that decision.

Posting anonymously only further supports your attitude of minimal liability.

I understood the point was to be able to have humanless monitoring. The laplace calculations implied that the computer would be very aware if there was a visible frequency that was in the range of a human breathing, or heart rate. If this visible frequency disappeared, then either the subject obstructed itself from the camera, or the motion stopped. This could then set off an alarm- if motion didn't continue within a short time frame.

There are plenty of trannies that don't get surgery, that simply do hormones and grow their own tits, and their body over time deposits fat in the more feminine locations etc.

Whether or not they get their junk mutilated is not something that's going to change where they lie on the uncanny valley chart.

Perhaps it is a good thing to be disturbed.

Earlier this semester, I had shown my roommate actual footage of insurgents being taken out from the air. He was a bit disturbed, but later that week when he bought Modern Warfare 3, he was more disturbed at how similar it was- and for the first time felt uneasy about pulling the trigger in a videogame.

For a different anecdote, my father and I were on the highway, and we passed by a crew tossing animal corpses into a flatbed truck. Unexpectedly, to see them lifelessly thrown as such, was a bit disturbing to me. I mentioned this, and he said he was glad- he had been worried that violent games had desensitized me and was simply glad to see a "normal" response to gore/corpses.

So, what exactly is the downside of an extremely realistic game? Is it that we could actually be traumatized? De-sensitized? Or simply that the game would be less marketable with less people wanting to expose themselves to it? Maybe the game would actually be more marketable with people lining up to play it. What if it makes people realize what war actually looks like, and feels like? Would the next generation be less willing to go to war? To kill non-digital people?