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Killer Drones, Stealth Jets, Spy Planes: Bob Gates’ Legacy in Military Tech
Photo Gallery: Departing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is a self-styled realist who cut a lot of cherished military programs. But a reflection on the military tech he favored — and disfavored — shows that he was mostly out to cut back on cherished military fantasies.
The Versatility Of Metal Working Equipment
Technologies nowadays keeps on innovating it’s purpose and scope of service towards human needs. Numerous inventions have arisen and the more people crave for something new as well as elite. One of the most needed supplies in the world today is the metal. Metal is found everywhere and it will give a lot of help and it has a wide and great scope of purpose. Most of the issues here on earth are made of steel; this is because metal has a cement and firm element that can suit the needs of the society. Another reason behind why it is widely used is because it is easy to mildew, form, and convert into the desired outputs and issues. Metals indeed have made the lives of the people become simpler, more convenient and suitable for everyday needs.
Metal working equipment is the term used for those products of metal meant for restricted purposes depending on it’s features. Many people have been making use of the different form of metal working equipment. Some purchased it for their profession while others have used it solely for their work. With regards to metal work as art, it can be called as sort of hobby or leisure. Others have also been using the work of metal as a source of profit rendering services and enthusiasm.
There is a bunch of advantages that people can get from the different forms of metal working equipment; let us start from our very own home. Because what people have observed, most of the issues present in a certain house comprise metal, from its outside feature up to its furnishing touches. Some examples of these are the rooftop materials, house braces, a few furniture and the gates by itself. Same as with the main advantage earned by a typical house, most of the offices also have already been earning the same advantage as well as purpose that they can get through those metal working tools.
The main reason why metal is widely used in making various equipments as well as devices is its effective corrosion-free feature. Commonly, it is termed as “stainless steel” feature. And because of this feature, metal working equipments are also designed for surgical purposes. The majority of the equipments and devices present in hospitals and other medical institutions are made of metal, particularly those stainless. This is ought to be safer, easy to disinfect and the most appropriate thins to make use of in any medical procedure.
In the world of cooking, there is also a need for the help of those metal working tools; the utensils, the cooking equipments and devices, the casseroles and many more to attain those tasty dishes and drinks. It keeps the food clean, preserves its savor and flavor and properly served. In the metal work of art, artists have been using it to create metal sculptures, metal boarders for their canvass paintings and many more. Through this particular, artists are earning more money for their profession of expressing their passion in art via metal work. There are some details at http://www.metalcastingzone.com/.
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Location Services Look to Future Check-Ins… With Friends
Earlier this week, I wrote about RedRover, a geo-social mobile network that allowed parents to connect, plan play dates and find places to go. Today Ditto, a new app from Jaiku founder Jyri Engestrom, is coming out of the gates with the premise of helping users get recommendations on the fly as they figure where to go next and who might want to join them.
In both cases, the emphasis isn’t where you are now or where you’ve been, but it’s about looking ahead to where you’ll be. That’s increasingly part of a larger shift in the location game as start-ups look to help users figure out where to go with personalized recommendations. Ditto is more weighted toward real-time recommendations from your current friends. It allows you to send out a query with a single click about where to go, what to eat or what movie to see, and it’s looking at expanding to books and music and other content. Users can send back suggestions or respond with a “ditto.”
What I think is interesting about RedRover and Ditto is that it’s not just about recommendations, but about creating future meetups. It’s throwing out an idea about what you might want to do or are planning on doing and seeing who responds. With Ditto, which is backed by True Ventures (see disclosure below) and Betaworks, you can say where you want to go and see who else wants to join. RedRover has a scrolling timeline where you can see not just where you’ve been but what events friends are casually posting in the future. They’re both giving us a lightweight and mobile way to schedule casual events.
There are already mechanisms for getting together, of course: People post things on Twitter or Facebook, but they can get lost in the stream at times. Group messaging apps can also serve this role on some level, but they’re more designed for real-time communication. Breaking this out into its own action makes sense because it’s designed to facilitate future check-ins with friends. Instead of sharing about where you’ve been, you’re figuring out where you and your friends can go together.
Location service WHERE also recently did something along these lines when it integrated its mobile app with Facebook Connect. When you click on a friend’s profile now, you can get place recommendations not just for you but both you and your friend together. The idea is that you’re finding another way to use location to be social in real life, to facilitate more real-world interaction.
I like that shift, and I think this is what we need more of. We’re not talking about formal Evites to people but simple location-aware apps and features dedicated to what people can do next together. It won’t be hard for the current location apps to incorporate this, and I think they should, just as many of them are doing with recommendations. What good is a check-in if not spent with friends?
Disclosure: True Ventures is an investor in the parent company of this blog, Giga Omni Media. Om Malik, founder of Giga Omni Media, is also a venture partner at True.
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Palomar Observatory Tour Getting inside the 200in Hale Telescope
A quick summary of the Palomar Observatory. Many thanks to CaptainCaustic and Palomarskyguy for helping set this up. It was greatly appreciated. www.youtube.com www.youtube.com The scope itself is intimidating impressive. You stand it Its Presence. Seeing the collage of technology was fascinating (from the smell of Victorian steam engines to the 8W laser used for the adaptive optics (along with actuators that twitch about 2000 times per second)). The dome itself also has a feel of Roman Empire Grandure. The building is beautiful and white. Thursday 23nd july Well, didnt really get up the dawn chorus broke out, and the light grew more full, and then I could see the high cloud that had ruined the seeing for the latter half of the night. No matter, both transits could clearly be seen, and Im pretty sure to meteor impact site too! (southern hemisphere) Packed up the scope and drove up to observatory. There by 7ish. Slept in car till they opened gates at 9ish. Had the observatory much to myself. And amazing place, got a vaguely greek feel to it. Very white, large buildings, tied up with the discovery of the unknown. Had a nose around myself, before trying to call the outreach guy. My phone struggled for signal, so I asked for help from one of the helps in the visitors center. The guys name was Scott. We got on well. Very much kindred spirits with an appreciation for what these great machines symbolize. The Palomar observatory is over 50 years old, but its mass has the feeling …
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