Robots and hot beverage. Robots are dangerous. There is a reason for the guard cages, light barriers and overhead camers arround robots. So for hygiene and safety sake, put those robot coffee makers into service but behind a half cylinder lexan shield. (Added benefit: You can watch the robot do a thing 180°)
I don't know if that robot can do everything a barista is doing. I do like good coffee, but am also ignorant of what something like 'Highland Mokka' means. So, a typical order goes something like this: "I'm hungry, but I don't have time for breakfast right now. I also have a craving for dessert for some reason. Yawn, oh seems I am also tired.. Anyway, I have to catch the train in 5 minutes, but I have to catch the toilet first, I'll come pick it up... Can you mix up something? Yeah? Basically I want fluid caffeine dessert with dietary fibre... I don't know... work with it...smile.."
PS: I do get the idea of what that pot shop is going for, but man, that neon lighting sign indoors.. I associate neon lighting with street food and brothels. Don't know about you Americans, but where I am, neon is tacky and nauseating, not something you'd want to be associated with you high-street brand.
@wendell, @kreestuh and @ryan / @grizzle about your potcast this is wat i associate with many american things, when you guys go crazy, you go crazy big time. But this time with some (design) taste. about the copper infrastructure i am on copper while the next town over is gearing up for fiber. by road it is about 2 km but i will never get it because my isp thinks it is to expensive for customers outside the build up area i can get a lte antenna and special router for 580 euro's so in the netherlands it start to suck as well
I will say the idea of having someone select a type of cannabis for you is probably a good idea, if there is actual research behind it and not just some dude's word. Some people will not enjoy the effects or strengths of certain pots, and they can be turned off entirely by it. It's all about balancing the brain chemistry interaction with a medicine. Some people who have never smoked before can have a major tolerance to cannabis. Some people can't even make use of the cannabis grown today because it's simply too strong. Some have to eat it because they can't smoke it. I've met patients in various medical groups in Michigan who are struggling to find something that works for them, but have had it in the past. If they had better access to a variety and having selections made for them by professionals this could be really good for them. But holy shit is that just expensive nonsense.
Banning people from public places because they have a mild flu bug could be disastrous in some ways. On a public level it could only help weaken human immunity systems overtime if people aren't being exposed to flu bugs or germs that do not need to be destroyed with medication and such.
i believe that this technology could be applyed in cars and workplaces to safe lives, if you are under the influence (drink or drug) you can not drive or operate a machine in the netherlands that would save about 5000 lives a year
About Windows DRM and Tor. It's actually Windows Media Player DRM.
You said, that if you're in a browser and you click on a link to a file with DRM, then it talks to Microsoft.
That's not what the article says.
The article says, that this only happends if the file is opened with Windows Media Player, and it talks to the supposed rights holder (or the attacker), not Microsoft.
I can't imagine Tor users being stupid enough to use Windows Media Player.
Also, you said something about Webm. The article is actually about WMV files.
That's exactly what I did. Bought a new GPU and got like 6 games with it. Sold all the codes which made the card even cheaper. Then again I didn't buy nVidia.
Last year, Microsoft was forced to revoke codes for Gears of War 4 after an Amazon loophole allowed users to order a GTX 1070, receive the code, and then cancel the order
The thing about robot baristas, go to any busy coffee shop when they are super busy and watch the baristas work. This is a scenario where robots would be perfect, because they are doing the same thing over and over, with minor variations for different types of coffee. Sure it takes skill and practice, especially to do it fast, but you could program it a robot to do it. You just need to make the robots sexy, and you have the complete package.
The branding is interesting. How do you market dope to upper class, so they can feel insulated from all the dope smoking scrubs? Make anonymous branding, hopefully relying on word of mouth. Price it so scrubs will not even go there.
But then again, they did write Quality Drugs everywhere. Hopefully the calligraphic type should make it illegible to scrubs.
Anonymous branding (a phrase i just made up but probably exists irl) piques people's curiosity:
Regarding the Robot Barrista and printing your face into coffee. It exists.
They took it to a more creepy level though, and are using it as a way to 'seek love'. Not only can you get your face printed in coffee, if someone you like buys a coffee, you can have your own face printed into it.
In Russia, games are cheaper (not all of them), but the hardware is more expensive (for most PC accessories the final price is about twice as high as in EU or US). What's worse is that there is no choice. For example, I can't buy a game as a present for someone unless this someone is from CIS. The least Valve/Steam could do is say "the recipient is in this country, his price for the game is that many, are you willing to pay it instead of your price?" and allow such payment. Then there's Ubisoft with their localization locks, which is the main reason I ignore Ubisoft games. There's a lot of bullshit in this "global" market and its regional pricing.
It looks exactly like a Keurig machine. But then you have a robot arm that takes the coffee from the machine and puts in on a plate for you to take. Completely pointless. (Well, there's a robot involved, so not entirely pointless.)
Using the robot to do something like hand drip coffee or something like that would be cool though. Particularly if it used cameras and stuff to actually react to what was happening. Most industrial robots are just dumb and don't adapt to anything.
I guess the argument is that you are not limited to what kind of coffee maker you choose, it can handle anything as long as it is programmed to do it, but I get your point, it is possible to make an all-in-one machine that can do most of what that arm or indeed a barista does. The point of my post was to exemplify that the job of making coffee might be purely functional, however, customers might need guidance or a second opinion on their choice before the purely functional part of the work can even begin.
