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Peer To Peer Meets Manufacturing
Crashmarik writes "Small times has an article detailing UCB advances in desktop manufacturing. They raise the possibility for effectively downloading physical objects through the net. We have allready seen the reaction "Property Holders" over downloading music, what is the likely upshot of being able to copy physical objects. More importantly what are the implications for our society as we move out of an age of scarcity to an age of plenty ?" Great article - the author of it also won The Foresight Institute's prize in communications for 2002.
+5 Funny! :)
Now we get to lose even more jobs.
What good is Capitalism if theres not enough jobs to hire everyone?
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I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Bob Hope was found dead in his California home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
...and dotted. Chalk another one up to the Slashdot Effect!
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Are you serious?
This has got to be the biggest troll/flaimbait posting ever
Red Hat in itself isn't an operating system, it is a distribution of linux.
The licensing is what keeps Microsoft from stealing code from linux and putting it into their own operating system and selling it.
MS-DOS didn't originally have a TCP/IP stack, in fact Microsoft didn't really introduce networking features until Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.
If you don't understand the importance of the linux shell, bash is one of the many, then maybe you should reconsider using linux.
There are a shitload of games out there available for linux, and there are comparable Office software, and somewhat-comparable internet browsing software.
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Mike
I'm going to kick the next person that I see with their karma rating in their sig.
So I can email myself cash?
the Quakeress...whoot!
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Bob Hope was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
And YOU get a -1 for using MSNBC as your news source!
Patent the idea of bitching about people copying your physical product.
.. you can even patent the business method describing a law to "protect" the products.
Then when RIAA equivalents start bitching when products get copied/printed you can demand royalties for the idea of bitching about copying physical hardware products.
"System and method of gaining financial benefit from suing peer to peer product printing specification information and printer systems"
Hmm
Then, when congress wants to pass such a law you can demand royalties.
Bob Hope, the longtime comedian has passed away at his home last night. He was 100 years old. He will be missed and he was certainly an American Icon.
1) Get a Nerf football and cut the ends off so there is a two inch flat on each end of the ball and hollow it out.
2) Get a piece of Armaflex which is a pipe insulator available at plumbing stores. It is the kind that is not split down the length.
3) Cut a piece of Armaflex slightly longer than the hollow football and put it in the football.
4) ???
5) Profit!
Dean is a serious threat The Weekly Standard
Read, the conservaties view Dean as a threat, I dont know where you get the un-electable crap.
You also make the unwarranted assumption that everyone will want, and will buy, a new hybrid or hydro-car, in a relatively short period of time. 10 years is by far too short a changeover period: I'd think 30 years is more reasonable. After all, people are still driving 1960's-vintage cars out there as classics, and I still see plenty of 1970's-vintage cars on the roads.
We were attacked by TERRORISTS because we use ridiculous forms of energy which supported them. Why cant Bush blame this on the terrorists? He can make up these masterful speeches about Bin Laden and Saddam being on the same team and having nuclear weapons, let him have his same speech writers write some new lines to get people to stop using gas in their cars.
And, recall that quite a few people cannot afford a new vehicle: a quick transition such as you propose would severely impact the lower end of the economic spectrum. By the standards that you appear to espouse as a general case, this is a rather large-turnabout. Somebody convert to to Pat Buchanan last night ???? (g)
I'm a college student, there are millions of me who dont even have their first car. Another excuse.
Pat Buchanan ? No I didnt convert to Republican, I'm independent and always will be. Both parties are evil in my opinion, I vote for the person who benefits me at the time. If I were a religious millionaire I'd vote for Bush.
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