Seems simple enough, and is in fact what I've always done, simply by default.
I could see why some people would want to delete photos in the camera, after all, there's a delete button right there... but if you're shooting enough to where you're worried about the space available on the card, you can probably afford a couple extra cards.
The longevity of the weapon is absolutely an important factor.
If these printed weapons only last a few shots, then you don't have much to worry about when they start floating around neighborhoods.
Once they become durable, you're looking at weapons that can be used repeatedly, and then sold or otherwise change ownership, and they remain just as useful as when they were new. What if a crime lord decides to invest in printed gun equipment? He can print all he wants, pass them to his underlings, who then do whatever the hell they're going to do with them.
The longer the weapon lasts, the more weapons remain in circulation. The more weapons in circulation, the easier they will be to get a hold of.
My family's business has a radio ad that is infamous in the Denver area for it's use of numbers... specifically they are directions to get there (pretty ingenious of my late grandfather, really)
You take Eyeeeee Twenty Five to exit Twooooo Thirty Five.... then Fiveeee miles west to The Tree Farm!
(those of you who know this jingle... go buy a tree and plant it... that will keep your brain busy!)
This is pretty much what I was going to respond with. As a developer, it is my job to find clients who want to have work done. I generally care little what the work is (though I do have standards). If they want to make sure their product is compatible across all versions of IE between 6-11, that is their prerogative.
It's not so much a broken window fallacy at this point, but rather a "difficult to close window" fallacy.
The only company directly losing money in a situation like this is the company that requests this work to be done. After all, they could leave the window as-is and instead deal with the consequences. It could easily be argued, however, that this is merely an investment on their part, since having this type of cross-browser compatibility is a feature they wish to provide to users. This feature may be what helps distinguish their company from the next guy, and thus may be the reason they receive more business in turn.
Super off topic here, but since I started the sub-thread, I feel compelled...
I was waiting for some Chinese take-out the other night, and there was a Feng Shui book sitting on the counter, so I opened and started to flip through pages.
One page had a side bar that had a cute little anecdote. It tells of a story of John and Pamela (mostly paraphrased here, I don't remember it exactly). They had a great life, happy marriage, everything was nice. Eventually, John got a promotion and they were able to afford a new home.
A year or so after they moved, their marriage started to deteriorate. John's job became more difficult, and their son was starting to do poorly in school. As a lark, Pamela hired a Feng Shui expert to check their home and see if there were improvements that could be made. After a day or whatever, the expert came back and told them that the mirror in their bedroom was bad and that it should be removed. The bathroom was also located in the Southeast corner of their home, a location that apparently represents marriage. In essence, their marriage was literally going into the toilet.
The expert advised them to, "cease using the toilet entirely". Which they did, and it was not long before things started to turn positive, all because they stopped using the toilet.
Acutally, yeah, I manage the entire team here at my office... at home... consisting of myself... and, oh wait it's just me.
You can either bitch and moan about corporate lack of vision (or bureaucratic weight, or whatever you want to call it) or you can knuckle down and fix the shit they pile on everyone else's plate... and get paid for it.
I prefer to be the guy people can call when they want someone else's shitty mess fixed, rather than be known as the 'unapproachable tech guy'.
I've spraypainted nothing... But if someone wants to pay me to come clean it up, I have a contact form I can direct them to.
I graduated just a few years before you, from a pretty decent public school, and even we did not have access to a number of the courses you mentioned.
Growing up that close to Silicon Valley, I was fairly sure what type of work I would find myself doing later in life (not to mention being given my first computer, an 80286, before I was even a teenager). I remember Chemistry class fairly well. It was right after lunch my junior year. The class after lunch was when we had 'silent reading' time... usually when most students were busy copying last night's homework from other people, or trying to flurry together an overdue last-minute project.
I'm pretty sure I barely passed Chemistry, mainly because I rarely paid attention, never did homework, and only scraped it out by doing well on exams. Instead I would spend most of the class just still stuck in my silent reading book... The HTML Bible (circa '94-'95).
By the time that semester was over, I had learned some early fundamentals of web development that are still with me today.
The point is that if you're relying on the education system to adequately prepare you for self-sufficiency down the road, you're probably going to end up like Mr. Titus up there... off to college with a severe lack of confidence when you come to realize all of the things you haven't learned that you maybe should have. I barely had the benefit of the Internet when I was in high school, so there really shouldn't be any excuse for students today, as they can learn anything whenever they like.
Yes, there's a problem with the education system, but there is also a problem with the students. If they don't stand up and demand curricula more relevant to today, it's certainly not going to just materialize. Do you think a majority of education administrators have even a fraction of a clue?
Did you seriously just admit to owning a cat stroller, while at the same time ridiculing a dog owner for giving their pet a jacket?...and THEN say your pet is better?
...they're gonna suffer because of MS and they don't deserve that.
Suffer? This just creates more billable hours. I'm not sure what line of work you're in, but the phrase "more work for you" isn't exactly a bad thing (as long as it's paid for!)
...and thus, the transfer of power over to China was complete. Lacking only the knowledge that, this entire time, they had simply been living with undersized pockets, the Chinese adapted by mandating all pants and shirt pockets, from the present going forward, must be large enough to accommodate not only one's hands during inclement weather, but also one's phone, key sets, spare coins, a snack for later, and some item the Ms. wants you to hold while you go for a walk together.
With their new found power, the Chinese quickly adapted to their new utilities, and quickly enslaved the world.
I've worked in e-commerce web development for the past several years.
On occasion, I check out a few various states to see if they've provided any kind of API to calculate tax based on address (NOT zip code!) I've never found anything.
There are indeed some tax calculation services out there, and I'd say now would be a good time to invest in them. They will be quite busy going forward.
It is simple enough to calculate down to the ZIP code level, and for many retails, that is good enough... the margin of error is still less costly than what it costs to calculate taxes accurately. Magento, one of the largest, and most "enterprisey" e-commerce platforms, only provides tax calculation down to the zip level (at least by default). I've worked with this platform extensively, and many of the smaller retails I've dealt with are fine purchasing a CSV with ZIP>Tax rates and calling it good. They deal with the odd instance of a user complaining about incorrect taxation as they arise (pretty rare in most locales).
With this new legislation, I definitely see 2013 as being the year that online retailers finally get their shit together with how they charge taxes, as well as the tax service providers really get a lot of new business (not to mention, ecommerce developers such as myself).
I did find it useful, for a short period of time, when I was greener to the web development industry. But in practice it just didn't provide proper feedback.
Yeah, except this kind of article doesn't make me think, "Yeah! Let's get those sneaky bastards! I'm in! Time for a Great Firewall of America!"...
It just makes me feel bad for some individual somewhere, that his life is just as mundane as anyone else's, and that he's seemingly unmotivated to perform his duty at top effort.
Not exactly the kind of message you want to send if you're hell-bent on promoting a cyber war or whatever.
It's probably a rather safe assumption that most of the Drupal implementations that give it a bad name were done by developers who "also use Drupal", and were rushed out the door due to limited budget.
This is not a problem inherent in Drupal, necessarily, but rather these types of projects will tend to gravitate towards Drupal (and the sales departments that whore out their developers).
I have no doubt that if you took a team of experienced Drupal developers, gave them a proper budget and appropriate schedule, they could produce a decent piece of work. Good luck finding someone willing fork out money for that.
I have a former employer that had no qualms about selling Drupal sites to clients, even though none of the devs were really familiar with it as a platform.
...for pretty much the same reasons, web development has "standardized" on various numbers, one of them 960, as the base for web page widths. It has nothing to do with anything other than it is divisible by 2,3,4,5,6,8,10,12,15,16 (only missing 7,9,11,13,14). Since dealing with fractions of pixels can be problematic, you want to be able to chop up your page into a grid with the highest degree of flexibility in terms of how many columns you're using.
Once, when I was young and idealistic, I really had a lot of fun playing around with TrueSpace, and subsequently Blender... for a bit.
Of course, then I got older and got into web development and lost touch with the creative side of things, and this article and your comment comes along.
Cheers, I think I might check out Blender for the first time in 10+ years. I'm sure I'll be delighted at what is possible now.
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Eating glass isn't that dangerous... you just have to chew for awhile until it turns back into gritty bits.
Seems simple enough, and is in fact what I've always done, simply by default.
I could see why some people would want to delete photos in the camera, after all, there's a delete button right there... but if you're shooting enough to where you're worried about the space available on the card, you can probably afford a couple extra cards.
The longevity of the weapon is absolutely an important factor.
If these printed weapons only last a few shots, then you don't have much to worry about when they start floating around neighborhoods.
Once they become durable, you're looking at weapons that can be used repeatedly, and then sold or otherwise change ownership, and they remain just as useful as when they were new. What if a crime lord decides to invest in printed gun equipment? He can print all he wants, pass them to his underlings, who then do whatever the hell they're going to do with them.
The longer the weapon lasts, the more weapons remain in circulation. The more weapons in circulation, the easier they will be to get a hold of.
Number sequences are incredibly catchy.
My family's business has a radio ad that is infamous in the Denver area for it's use of numbers... specifically they are directions to get there (pretty ingenious of my late grandfather, really)
You take Eyeeeee Twenty Five to exit Twooooo Thirty Five.... then Fiveeee miles west to The Tree Farm!
(those of you who know this jingle... go buy a tree and plant it... that will keep your brain busy!)
He was born a poor black man...
That must have been a painful delivery.
You mean like every single Mumford and Sons song?
Yeah, thanks! Please see responses above!
This is pretty much what I was going to respond with. As a developer, it is my job to find clients who want to have work done. I generally care little what the work is (though I do have standards). If they want to make sure their product is compatible across all versions of IE between 6-11, that is their prerogative.
It's not so much a broken window fallacy at this point, but rather a "difficult to close window" fallacy.
The only company directly losing money in a situation like this is the company that requests this work to be done. After all, they could leave the window as-is and instead deal with the consequences. It could easily be argued, however, that this is merely an investment on their part, since having this type of cross-browser compatibility is a feature they wish to provide to users. This feature may be what helps distinguish their company from the next guy, and thus may be the reason they receive more business in turn.
Super off topic here, but since I started the sub-thread, I feel compelled...
I was waiting for some Chinese take-out the other night, and there was a Feng Shui book sitting on the counter, so I opened and started to flip through pages.
One page had a side bar that had a cute little anecdote. It tells of a story of John and Pamela (mostly paraphrased here, I don't remember it exactly). They had a great life, happy marriage, everything was nice. Eventually, John got a promotion and they were able to afford a new home.
A year or so after they moved, their marriage started to deteriorate. John's job became more difficult, and their son was starting to do poorly in school. As a lark, Pamela hired a Feng Shui expert to check their home and see if there were improvements that could be made. After a day or whatever, the expert came back and told them that the mirror in their bedroom was bad and that it should be removed. The bathroom was also located in the Southeast corner of their home, a location that apparently represents marriage. In essence, their marriage was literally going into the toilet.
The expert advised them to, "cease using the toilet entirely". Which they did, and it was not long before things started to turn positive, all because they stopped using the toilet.
Acutally, yeah, I manage the entire team here at my office... at home... consisting of myself... and, oh wait it's just me.
You can either bitch and moan about corporate lack of vision (or bureaucratic weight, or whatever you want to call it) or you can knuckle down and fix the shit they pile on everyone else's plate... and get paid for it.
I prefer to be the guy people can call when they want someone else's shitty mess fixed, rather than be known as the 'unapproachable tech guy'.
I've spraypainted nothing... But if someone wants to pay me to come clean it up, I have a contact form I can direct them to.
I graduated just a few years before you, from a pretty decent public school, and even we did not have access to a number of the courses you mentioned.
Growing up that close to Silicon Valley, I was fairly sure what type of work I would find myself doing later in life (not to mention being given my first computer, an 80286, before I was even a teenager). I remember Chemistry class fairly well. It was right after lunch my junior year. The class after lunch was when we had 'silent reading' time... usually when most students were busy copying last night's homework from other people, or trying to flurry together an overdue last-minute project.
I'm pretty sure I barely passed Chemistry, mainly because I rarely paid attention, never did homework, and only scraped it out by doing well on exams. Instead I would spend most of the class just still stuck in my silent reading book... The HTML Bible (circa '94-'95).
By the time that semester was over, I had learned some early fundamentals of web development that are still with me today.
The point is that if you're relying on the education system to adequately prepare you for self-sufficiency down the road, you're probably going to end up like Mr. Titus up there... off to college with a severe lack of confidence when you come to realize all of the things you haven't learned that you maybe should have. I barely had the benefit of the Internet when I was in high school, so there really shouldn't be any excuse for students today, as they can learn anything whenever they like.
Yes, there's a problem with the education system, but there is also a problem with the students. If they don't stand up and demand curricula more relevant to today, it's certainly not going to just materialize. Do you think a majority of education administrators have even a fraction of a clue?
Did you seriously just admit to owning a cat stroller, while at the same time ridiculing a dog owner for giving their pet a jacket? ...and THEN say your pet is better?
Someone... please, take care of the riff-raff.
...they're gonna suffer because of MS and they don't deserve that.
Suffer? This just creates more billable hours. I'm not sure what line of work you're in, but the phrase "more work for you" isn't exactly a bad thing (as long as it's paid for!)
How small are your pockets?
...and thus, the transfer of power over to China was complete. Lacking only the knowledge that, this entire time, they had simply been living with undersized pockets, the Chinese adapted by mandating all pants and shirt pockets, from the present going forward, must be large enough to accommodate not only one's hands during inclement weather, but also one's phone, key sets, spare coins, a snack for later, and some item the Ms. wants you to hold while you go for a walk together.
With their new found power, the Chinese quickly adapted to their new utilities, and quickly enslaved the world.
...because?? Think of the morons??
I've worked in e-commerce web development for the past several years.
On occasion, I check out a few various states to see if they've provided any kind of API to calculate tax based on address (NOT zip code!) I've never found anything.
There are indeed some tax calculation services out there, and I'd say now would be a good time to invest in them. They will be quite busy going forward.
It is simple enough to calculate down to the ZIP code level, and for many retails, that is good enough... the margin of error is still less costly than what it costs to calculate taxes accurately. Magento, one of the largest, and most "enterprisey" e-commerce platforms, only provides tax calculation down to the zip level (at least by default). I've worked with this platform extensively, and many of the smaller retails I've dealt with are fine purchasing a CSV with ZIP>Tax rates and calling it good. They deal with the odd instance of a user complaining about incorrect taxation as they arise (pretty rare in most locales).
With this new legislation, I definitely see 2013 as being the year that online retailers finally get their shit together with how they charge taxes, as well as the tax service providers really get a lot of new business (not to mention, ecommerce developers such as myself).
Nine out of Ten sexist male /.ers agree... fuck this bitch.
I'm pretty sure there was very little "programming" involved.
I think people just don't give programmers enough credit these days.
Agreed.
I did find it useful, for a short period of time, when I was greener to the web development industry. But in practice it just didn't provide proper feedback.
I was implored to download this and play for a bit...
Then I remembered it requires Java. So much for that... I'm too lazy to set up a VM just for that.
Yeah, except this kind of article doesn't make me think, "Yeah! Let's get those sneaky bastards! I'm in! Time for a Great Firewall of America!"...
It just makes me feel bad for some individual somewhere, that his life is just as mundane as anyone else's, and that he's seemingly unmotivated to perform his duty at top effort.
Not exactly the kind of message you want to send if you're hell-bent on promoting a cyber war or whatever.
It's probably a rather safe assumption that most of the Drupal implementations that give it a bad name were done by developers who "also use Drupal", and were rushed out the door due to limited budget.
This is not a problem inherent in Drupal, necessarily, but rather these types of projects will tend to gravitate towards Drupal (and the sales departments that whore out their developers).
I have no doubt that if you took a team of experienced Drupal developers, gave them a proper budget and appropriate schedule, they could produce a decent piece of work. Good luck finding someone willing fork out money for that.
I have a former employer that had no qualms about selling Drupal sites to clients, even though none of the devs were really familiar with it as a platform.
...for pretty much the same reasons, web development has "standardized" on various numbers, one of them 960, as the base for web page widths. It has nothing to do with anything other than it is divisible by 2,3,4,5,6,8,10,12,15,16 (only missing 7,9,11,13,14). Since dealing with fractions of pixels can be problematic, you want to be able to chop up your page into a grid with the highest degree of flexibility in terms of how many columns you're using.
Ehh.... what did he just say to us?
Once, when I was young and idealistic, I really had a lot of fun playing around with TrueSpace, and subsequently Blender... for a bit.
Of course, then I got older and got into web development and lost touch with the creative side of things, and this article and your comment comes along.
Cheers, I think I might check out Blender for the first time in 10+ years. I'm sure I'll be delighted at what is possible now.