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Envisioning the Desktop Fabricator
mkl writes "Yesterday I fantasized about a generator of matter. Not a laser plotter for carving 3d objects, but a device that will assemble any given object from its base, out of atoms. I was thinking about a device that can find its place under the roofs of all the people working on PCs all over the world. So I fantasize about it at work and what do I see in the Wired News newsletter? 'Any product, any shape, any size -- manufactured on your desktop! The future is the fabricator.' Heh."
I bet even a diamond-encased iPod would break when you sat on it... Still gotta buy that plastic case!
That's not a soda... it's a caffeine delivery device!
Which begs the question "Why do so many people who don't know what the phrase "begs the questioon" means, use it in conversation"?
Clue : it does not mean "leads to the obvious next question..."
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Flash ads on slashdot, yes, I noticed the same thing. I think we all know why; mozilla can block advertising images via the servers domain name, but it doesn't appear to work with flash stuff. So OSDN is getting around your open source browser's ad blocking features. Ironic, eh?
Did you know... the words sabotage and saboteur come from early Luddite-type malcontents who threw their wooden clogs (called sabots) into the factory machinery to break it.