Posts by Falanx

The most potent irony...

Is that one of those 'green scientists' is holding a flask of potassium dichromate and one of chromic acid. Not exactly best friend chemicals with the green lobbies right now....

Direction?

The only downside of course to 3D Printing structures is those that intended to have anisotropic mechanical properties, like, oh, I don't know EADS airframe parts.

There's a reason why we still forge metal.

With heat, and everything.

Hogwash!

Yet anecdotal evidence suggests that people who *air* their greviances straight away, rather than bottling them like the 'aggreable' types*, are the least stressed of all people. Blow your stack, over and done with, get on with your day...

*There's no such thing as an agreeable human. We're predators, murderers and thieves, just like all the other animals. A substantial section of the populous just forgot that when they moved into houses. It's still there, bubbling under the surfaces, which is why all the news reports always say "He was a lovely young man, never hurt a fly, we can't believe he hauled off with a hammer and brutalised 85 people to death."

And all the pocket-Mother Theresas put their oar in...

Or, alternatively, being the subject of a many-sided smear campaign that our gloriously easily led friends in the charities are beign unwittingly dragegd into. Have you ever dealt with any of the Red Cross/World Vision (especially) lot? As dumb as a box of rocks.

Let's see what comes out in the wash. After all, it's not like most of the world media is as honest and agenda-free as this here august organ.

Dumber than a box of Ehlers

As was said before, and before, and before...

About the easiest way to turn a rape into a murder.

Can we have some new news, please?

Has Jarred from Anandtech found another job?

My install of OO has always started quicker than I can reach over to throw the kettle switch, let alone walk downstairs to grab coffee. You want to stop trying to test computer software on a TI pocket calculator if you want some credibility in these reviews :-p

Although I'm not trying to run it on a bloaty MS OS, so maybe that's where I'm going wrong... :-)

Re: Nigel 11

Actually, no. You have no inalienable Human Right not to die at all. In any way, shape or form. What you have are human rights concerning the moments while you are still alive. Murder, assassination, collateral damage for a bloody message, call death by terrorism what you will, it's still death, and completely irrelevant to your human rights. The mode of your death is even less relevant. it's not even happened until it's over. It's merely potential. But scanning your childrens' bits and then format shifting it to some ephemeral media that not even the manufacturer will tell you the real functionality of is utterly *real*.

Sorry to make it so stark. When you've nearly died this many times just making it to 30, familiarity breeds boredom and you can't fear the boring. While it's the Undiscovered Country, and exploration of it will be fun for those of us who believe there's something more after, I'd like to take part in as much of what's on this side as possible with the minimum of ill-conceived, brigand, pestilent interruptions by the machinations of the essentially soulless.

It pains me that commentators on websites such as this, TechReport -et al you know, the ones where the consumers are meant to be educated, still trot out some kool-aid supping, credulous claptrap.

A finger of fudge is all you.. hang on. Am I doing this right?

Wow, was I beaten. I'ma have to stop returning to work straight after lunch whether or not I was about to first post and rip the reporting here a new one...

Let me get this straight - this article is based on the first half of a report in New Scientist from last *year* - whoops, two years ago now - the entirety of which is smackdowned by the second half of the same report in which some actual science happens, yet it's deemed not only newsworthy, but also implied as accurate research? Lesta, please.

It's there, ladies. You don't need man who's entire 'research' history is essentially an attempt to soothe his injured pride at being unable to satisfy women to tell you otherwise. Those of you who've been lucky enough to locate it, well, you're either endowed with a prominent mass of hemiprostatic tissue, or a skilled partner, or both. Those who haven't, well you still have a joy button :-) (my girlfriend is reading this over my shoulder and told me I should have written 'well, sad face', but she's cruel and unusual, or at least elfin.)

Glad to see that the UK medical fraternity is still flying the flag for a level of incompetence unseen outside of the fourteenth century.

Remember, Remember...

...The 21st of December...

...As a box of rocks...

So it's not only Kansas and Utah that are likely to not so much be related to monkeys, as surpassed by them, then?

Poof!

I would love to see you pump any appreciable volume of a high-surface tension fluid down a pipe with an ID significantly less than a human hair. That goes for gases too, which in these volumes would be just as viscous. I wonder how loud the pump detonation would be...?

As for the pure water to avoid gumming up the coolant paths, it's not going ot make a difference if the water is purely atomic or swimming with fish. Two minutes of pure water flowing through an arrangement of semiconductor this porous will very rapidly become a contained circuit of the same cutting fluids used for water jet machining of metal blocks.

Although a high pressure jet of silica in water lancing under the skin of a the first techie to stick their fingers in this diesel-injector-alike would serve as a suitable warnign to others...

Just my two penn'orth.

Qualifications, schmalifications

Biology. So, not a real science :-p

Discuss

Anatomy 101

Or they could, you know, just REST IT ON YOUR DAMNED RIBCAGE

Honour, guide me....

Ah, a weapon after a Zealot's heart...

Switzerland browns out...

And where are they going to get the energy required to make antimatter, and then hold it away from all the 'real' matter until they want to poke a hole in reality?

@ AC 11:59

"Structural steel for 100 generations? 2000 years? I don't think so. Swords yes, building not. Even structural *iron* is only 18th century."

You might want to check with the Chinese. They were making ductile iron over 2000 years ago, and that's steel in all but carbon morphology.

Besides - I can't think of a more structural application than a spring-temper, impact-resistant, standalone spar of steel. Can you?

Re: Llama-made

It was actually spelt 'Cnut'. Not joking :-) Ironic, that...

Re: Corner Reflector et al.

Which is exactly why you shouldn't have stopped at high-school level.

It's very, very easy to keep a highly polished, highly refelective surface in that state in an environmentally sealed chamber, like, oh, for example, a laser unit built into a plane. I have yet, however to see any missile launch that did not develop a substantial amount of dust and garbage. Nor have I ever seen a missile launch that wasn't flown through a not insignificantly dirty atmosphere that, due to your highly polished gold layer with its concomitant enormous surface energy wouldn't be attracted all over that lovely shiny surface.

Oh dear. Not so reflective anymore. That's all it takes.

Just a little degree level physiscs there for you.

Mangey French?

A man with a double barrel surname has difficulty with his Modern Languages? Perish the thought. The home counties education standards have slipped further than we thought.

Pay? Pay you say?

State sponsored theft is hardly moral. You do not pay taxes. They are taken from you. As the Right Honorable Chris Rock once put it, that's not a payment, that's a jacking.