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by hop 15y ago
From http://www.gomboc-shop.com/app/urwfilter/faq/do/index.html Is there only one Gömböc shape? No, in fact, there are infinitely many Gömböc shapes. However, the overwhelming majority of these shapes could never be manufactured because
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by hop 15y ago
If you look at the close up of picture #2, they are nowhere near a 10 micron finish, which you would be able see your reflection in - all those tool marks (not to mention the logo) are an order of magnitude above 10 microns. http://www.gom
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by hop 15y ago
If anyone can find a cad model, I'll machine one out of aluminum or print an SLA.
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by hop 15y ago
No more local backups? That seems like the next big step.
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by hop 15y ago
Glass is a pretty cool looking surface to make a whiteboard (clearboard?) with too and can be cheaper than this stuff, even with the hanging hardware. I wonder how well ideapaint works with textured walls? Have to tip my hat to these guys f
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by hop 15y ago
It will be nice when the technology advances to make full size computer screens with >300dpi screens like the iPhone4. Pixels and heavy font tricks will likely be a relic of the past.
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by hop 15y ago
If it was possible to consistently tell the difference in wine quality, then wine judging could be done in a lab by chemical analysis and published in Consumer Reports. This wouldn't matter though because humans innately value alcohol based
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by hop 16y ago
First, putting a want ad on Alibaba is asking for trouble - i doubt any good playing card manufacturer is monitoring that and the one that do respond probably don't specialize in card printing and don't have the equipment to make them effic
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by hop 16y ago
Why don't they just charge businesses to use the site? And charge relative to their number of employees or revenue. All on the honor system - you get a badge by your company name when you pay.
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by hop 16y ago
Looking forward to seeing what the next Canon 5D will do. Could very well have 2k resolution and do 120+ fps at lower resolutions with it's big full frame sensor.
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by hop 16y ago
If you invested money equally in all the 1999 IPO companies, you would have less money now, 13 years later, than what you started with and thats not factoring in the time value of money. Its a horrible investment in aggregate.
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by hop 16y ago
No, not close. Its only the ones that IPO'd in that year. And in aggregate, a horrible investment.
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by hop 16y ago
If this bubble is confined to a few private equity parties and the amount actually invested is only a few billion total (2.4 in FB's case), then you can blow bigger ones with soapy water.
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by hop 16y ago
AMZN's P/E of 65 is historically massive, especially when others like Apple are at 19. You flip 65 upside down to get .0154, or 1.54% if you want to compare it to a bond. Steep price to pay, market must expect them to quadruple or so profit
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by hop 16y ago
That was yesterdays news. Those ~50 remaining all evacuated apparently. Also, the Wikipedia "Timeline of Fukushima nuclear accidents" has been reliable for the latest updates - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Fukushima_nucle..
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by hop 16y ago
Caesium-137 has a 30 year half life. If that blew into Tokyo, the city would be uninhabitable for 200 years - just like Chernobyl.
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by hop 16y ago
The wikipedia "Timeline of the Fukushima Nuclear accidents" is the most up to date source I have been following - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Fukushima_nucle...
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by hop 16y ago
Yes, in history. But that turns an eye to black swan events of mass proportion that only nuclear power is capable of.
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by hop 16y ago
Anyone know where all the engineers would be located in a plant like this - an onsite shielded bunker? What if they were to get hit by an explosion like this - remote redundant control far offsite?
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by hop 16y ago
Unless you have to do some crazy undercuts, you'll never need more than 3 axes. And even if you do, you can flip the part. A good Cam program and some ball endmills will do very complicated 3D machining. We had a giant 5-axis Thermwood gant
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by hop 16y ago
Love how Apple up-sells storage in hundred dollar increments. I just bought a 32GB SD card (class 10) for my camera for $50 and I'm not buying millions of them at a time.
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by hop 16y ago
J Ive manages and coaches a team of industrial designers and their collaboration with engineers. You cant be very effective, no matter how good you are, when you are on the other side of the world - someone would surely step up and take his
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by hop 16y ago
I don't know, but there is a reason no other manufacturers use it. And its a massive legal and due diligence process to get into the Made for iPod program which gives you all the specs and supplies the connectors, along with charging royalt
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by hop 16y ago
You can't just get them from JAE, you have to license the male plug thru Apple and it's a big process. And Apple lets no one but Apple use the female 30 pin plug.
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by hop 16y ago
Thunderbolt may work thru the 30 pin conector, needs four lanes of copper. We should know Tuesday if they do it with the iPad 2.
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by hop 16y ago
Yep, Apple charges royalty on the 30 pin conector, which varies in cost depending on what it's used for. You have to be enrolled in Apple's MiFi program too. Apple makes money everywhere.
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by hop 16y ago
Well possibly, if it's in displayport mode using all four lanes in one direction, it can push that much bandwidth. How much bandwidth does a 27" apple display use?
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by hop 16y ago
USB2 and FireWire were close to the same speed. Thunderbolt is twice as fast as USB3 and can push DisplayPorts, so I doubt it will be the same.
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by hop 16y ago
Wonder how many monitors this can push. Also, what will happen to Apples 30pin connector on their iPods,iPhones... I guess we will know Tuesday. Are there any external hard drives with thunderbolt yet?
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by hop 16y ago
Maybe give extra or different points to those upvoting and thereby curating the newly posted links that haven't reached the frontpage yet.

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