I think you may be looking the wrong direction as to "who they're copying."
They are looking directly at the Cricut. Call it a hunch, very soon there will be an online store where you can buy objects for printing: and those will be where the profit is made.
Not necessarily. $1200 puts it into the reach of the kinds of people who bought the first generation Cricut. Plus, the cartridge-based consumables and the software makes it pretty user-friendly. My guess is that you can go from open-the-box to printing something off Thingiverse in a matter of minutes.
This is the Apple ][ of the 3D printing world: the first completely assembled ready-to-go take-it-out-of-the-box-and-start-printing consumer 3D printer. Yes, it's likely going to have a fair share of early adopters and hobbyists, but this is a likely candidate for something that takes 3D printing into a lot of homes and workshops that six months ago wouldn't have imagined owning a 3D printer.
Yes, I can imagine one soccer mom type I know getting one of these. It will sit right next to the Cricut and the $1200 embroidery machine.
If only there was some kind of necklace or bracelet with a corresponding wallet card one could purchase that would alert a first responder that you have a medical condition and/or are taking medication that they need to be aware of.
Install the Android app and just watch how much data leaks out to Facebook. Google at least requires me to opt-in to Latitude: Facebook sends "fine" location data regardless of whether or not I want it to.
To the point that the Facebook app will crash if installed on a device with no GPS receiver (say, for example, a rooted Nook Color).
While that's technically true, 4 of those 7 states only have one major 1,000,000+ population center (Oregon [Portland], Washington [Seattle], Nevada [Las Vegas], and Arizona [Phoenix]). So, that's not telling the whole story.
Except you can't. Like most LiIon batteries, it's likely the pack has a protection mechanism that permanently fuses if the battery faults. A completely discharged LiIon cell goes dead short, and there's no way to bring it back. Some battery systems can isolate a dead cell and allow the battery to continue to function at reduced capacity, but if you lose too many cells I can see the entire pack going "fault" and you lose.
Part of the reason Prineville is attractive is the local ambient temperature. Many of the datacenter projects (including Facebook) in eastern Oregon use ambient outside air to cool the datacenter most of the year.
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, it's a bit of a fun drive to head out to Prineville and play "Spot the Datacenter." It's so out of place it's real easy to spot. It took me all of about 10 minutes of driving around to find it.
I have to support visually impaired users, and users who don't like a lot of change. I've had more than one person who saw the upgrade message in 10.04 and upgraded to 11.(whatever) and managed to not only completely hose all of the "assistive technology" stuff we set up for them, but to add fuel to the fire they couldn't even navigate around the desktop enough to get onto the "log me in to your computer" page.
Even Microsoft hasn't foisted this many major UI changes on their end-users. KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF.
That rarely happens, at least in the United States.
And even if it does, in many cases you will be in a better facility than a maximum-security prison, depending on the state and the crime you are accused of. You will likely eventually be released, and you will have not been convicted of the crime, therefore retaining your civil rights (if you were accused of a felony).
Given that they imply "passenger service" was affected and use terms like "rush-hour", there's really only two railroads that could have been affected.
My money's on the smaller of the two: P&W. Anybody else care to lay a wager?
"not painted at all" should have been more accurately "branded". Of course they were painted.
And that makes sense now that I think about it: Qwest had been looking for somebody to buy them out for at least a couple of years before CenturyLink counted their pennies to see if they had enough.
You "see their trucks all over the place" mostly because CenturyLink has painted all of the trucks.
I know for a fact that many of the vehicles Qwest operated here in Portland were not painted at all. At the CO up the street it wasn't unusual to see about a third of the vans as plain-white. Add to that the fact that Qwest's (like most utilities) vehicles kind-of blend into the landscape after a while. It's likely that you didn't notice them because.. well, there's nothing to notice. You're noticing the CenturyLink vans because.. well, it's new.
Given that CenturyLink hasn't gone on a massive hiring spree after the merger (in fact, I know that more than one business unit has been under a hiring freeze since the merger) it's more likely that it is in your head.
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They are a backronym. IIRC, it was Southern Pacific Railroad INternal [Telephone | Telecommunications].
It would seem to me that anything that would deserve the moniker "hackerspace" will have problems with, at minimum, one of those.
I think you may be looking the wrong direction as to "who they're copying."
They are looking directly at the Cricut. Call it a hunch, very soon there will be an online store where you can buy objects for printing: and those will be where the profit is made.
Not necessarily. $1200 puts it into the reach of the kinds of people who bought the first generation Cricut. Plus, the cartridge-based consumables and the software makes it pretty user-friendly. My guess is that you can go from open-the-box to printing something off Thingiverse in a matter of minutes.
This is the Apple ][ of the 3D printing world: the first completely assembled ready-to-go take-it-out-of-the-box-and-start-printing consumer 3D printer. Yes, it's likely going to have a fair share of early adopters and hobbyists, but this is a likely candidate for something that takes 3D printing into a lot of homes and workshops that six months ago wouldn't have imagined owning a 3D printer.
Yes, I can imagine one soccer mom type I know getting one of these. It will sit right next to the Cricut and the $1200 embroidery machine.
If only there was some kind of necklace or bracelet with a corresponding wallet card one could purchase that would alert a first responder that you have a medical condition and/or are taking medication that they need to be aware of.
Working on?
Install the Android app and just watch how much data leaks out to Facebook. Google at least requires me to opt-in to Latitude: Facebook sends "fine" location data regardless of whether or not I want it to.
To the point that the Facebook app will crash if installed on a device with no GPS receiver (say, for example, a rooted Nook Color).
I'm sure it was returned.. um.. "better than they found it."
While that's technically true, 4 of those 7 states only have one major 1,000,000+ population center (Oregon [Portland], Washington [Seattle], Nevada [Las Vegas], and Arizona [Phoenix]). So, that's not telling the whole story.
Doubly so considering Atari didn't invent Pong, they stole it from Magnavox and the original developer Ralph Baer.
Except you can't. Like most LiIon batteries, it's likely the pack has a protection mechanism that permanently fuses if the battery faults. A completely discharged LiIon cell goes dead short, and there's no way to bring it back. Some battery systems can isolate a dead cell and allow the battery to continue to function at reduced capacity, but if you lose too many cells I can see the entire pack going "fault" and you lose.
IIRC, the Tesla Roadster has an electric wheel locking mechanism. No power = no way to unlock the wheels.
Part of the reason Prineville is attractive is the local ambient temperature. Many of the datacenter projects (including Facebook) in eastern Oregon use ambient outside air to cool the datacenter most of the year.
Ever been to Eastern Oregon? It kinda is it's own little country.
This.
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, it's a bit of a fun drive to head out to Prineville and play "Spot the Datacenter." It's so out of place it's real easy to spot. It took me all of about 10 minutes of driving around to find it.
This is getting to be a pet peeve.
I have to support visually impaired users, and users who don't like a lot of change. I've had more than one person who saw the upgrade message in 10.04 and upgraded to 11.(whatever) and managed to not only completely hose all of the "assistive technology" stuff we set up for them, but to add fuel to the fire they couldn't even navigate around the desktop enough to get onto the "log me in to your computer" page.
Even Microsoft hasn't foisted this many major UI changes on their end-users. KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF.
That rarely happens, at least in the United States.
And even if it does, in many cases you will be in a better facility than a maximum-security prison, depending on the state and the crime you are accused of. You will likely eventually be released, and you will have not been convicted of the crime, therefore retaining your civil rights (if you were accused of a felony).
That, or eventually they crack the crypto.
"I forgot."
Um.. they did it once. It was called the "telegraph."
Hmm.. they don't really say which railroad, but..
Given that they imply "passenger service" was affected and use terms like "rush-hour", there's really only two railroads that could have been affected.
My money's on the smaller of the two: P&W. Anybody else care to lay a wager?
I know the relationship has gone a little cold, but Microsoft makes a few phone calls to NBC and they have all the news content Bing needs.
Google has enough change in their pockets to build their own news gathering organization.
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
Socialism and factual news.
Two things most 'murricans don't really want.
"not painted at all" should have been more accurately "branded". Of course they were painted.
And that makes sense now that I think about it: Qwest had been looking for somebody to buy them out for at least a couple of years before CenturyLink counted their pennies to see if they had enough.
You "see their trucks all over the place" mostly because CenturyLink has painted all of the trucks.
I know for a fact that many of the vehicles Qwest operated here in Portland were not painted at all. At the CO up the street it wasn't unusual to see about a third of the vans as plain-white. Add to that the fact that Qwest's (like most utilities) vehicles kind-of blend into the landscape after a while. It's likely that you didn't notice them because.. well, there's nothing to notice. You're noticing the CenturyLink vans because.. well, it's new.
Given that CenturyLink hasn't gone on a massive hiring spree after the merger (in fact, I know that more than one business unit has been under a hiring freeze since the merger) it's more likely that it is in your head.
You obviously have never heard of the CU Service Center network.