The demo on their website completely failed to flag up the sentence "Do you understand them?" [the terms and conditions] which I would consider quite condescending, and more offensive than the one it did flag up which was "It is time to either solidify matters or move on."
I think we are indeed driving towards a world where manufacturing and duplication (of objects or information) will not be the limited step: it will be design and creativity that will be limiting. I'm not at all convinced that our current models for "creativity-rewarding" (namely copyright and patents) are up to the task of maintaining the economy when that day comes. But will they need to be? We've all seen how the software piracy community thrives on kudos. Ditto the open-source community - and that's produced some pretty damn good software. What's to say that the open-source hardware community can't work the same way?
All it takes is one creative and altruistic person to come up with a good idea and put it into the public domain, and nobody will have to pay for that particular object again.
That's not quite a fair analogy. It produces all the specialised shaped parts that it needs, like the extruder mechanism. It doesn't produce the off-the-shelf parts.
It still means that if you buy the off-the-shelf parts (wires etc) you end up with:
a) A cheap rapid prototyper b) The ability to create more of them without any manufacturing expertise
That's orders of magnitude easier than building a rapid prototyper yourself from plans.
In an ideal world, the speech would be protected, but the actions (discrimination, abuse, etc) of thoughtless people who act on the speech without having verified its accuracy would be punishable.
Of course, that's not very practical, given human nature and the detectability of such actions, so instead the speech is punished (wrongly, IMHO).
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How is it that the "possibility of a sub-plot they don't know about" merits a highest-level "this means an attack is imminent" alert?
Especially as they've arrested 21 people and no terrorist in his right mind would try to put his "sub-plot" into action with the headlines full of this news.
Nonetheless, it's kind of neat making these free phone calls with Skype and hearing the people's voices come out of my computer speakers.
Suggestion: Get a headset.
If you're using your computer speakers, it's more than likely that the person at the other end is hearing their own voice too, fed back into your microphone, and delayed by half a second or so.
I am sick and tired of all these so-called experts driveling on about Standby power consumption.
If they stopped for 30 seconds to think, they'd realise where all the "wasted" energy goes. That's right folks, it's released as HEAT, into your LIVING ROOM.
And how do you heat your living room? With electricity. Even if you use gas or oil to heat your house, all leaving your devices on standby is doing is slightly subsidizing your heating energy usage.
These "experts" need to spend less time whining about red LEDs, and more time getting people to actually INSULATE THEIR HOUSES, which would reduce energy usage hundreds of times more than eliminating standby current.
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From TFA: "Email evidence that ACS:Law deliberately does not target two UK ISPs, TalkTalk and Virgin Media"
That's interesting. I'm with Virgin so that's nice to know. I wonder why these two?
Perhaps they don't cave as easily as the others.
The demo on their website completely failed to flag up the sentence "Do you understand them?" [the terms and conditions] which I would consider quite condescending, and more offensive than the one it did flag up which was "It is time to either solidify matters or move on."
I'd suggest just taking the battery out and running it on AC if he hardly ever moves it from his desk.
Heat is one of the main things that kills lithium-ion batteries in laptops.
I'd rather cow dung than human dung. Carnivore dung is far nastier than herbivore dung.
Is that 30 degrees C figure you quote before or after it's been through the cooling towers?
I think you'll find it's a lot hotter than that if you tap it before it hits the cooling towers.
Yes. Yes, it does (well, the host PC software anyway).
And yes, you do.
See http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/RepRapGPLLicence
All it takes is one creative and altruistic person to come up with a good idea and put it into the public domain, and nobody will have to pay for that particular object again.
That's not quite a fair analogy. It produces all the specialised shaped parts that it needs, like the extruder mechanism. It doesn't produce the off-the-shelf parts.
It still means that if you buy the off-the-shelf parts (wires etc) you end up with:
a) A cheap rapid prototyper
b) The ability to create more of them without any manufacturing expertise
That's orders of magnitude easier than building a rapid prototyper yourself from plans.
With current technology, this is about the closest we can get. Got any better ideas?
Well, plastic is fairly durable. And anyway, if it breaks, you already printed off a spare, didn't you?
Maybe you have the muscles in your right arm to pump away at that torch for 48 hours straight, but most of us haven't had quite that much practice.
You mean like this?
"Maybe he's Swedish, where every male is required..."
I think you mean Swiss...
I cannot pretend to be a digital photo manipulation expert - but by your comments, you (implicitly) are.
I therefore challenge you to put your money where your mouth is, and clean up one of the sample images better than the filter, posting a link here.
Snailmail.
In an ideal world, the speech would be protected, but the actions (discrimination, abuse, etc) of thoughtless people who act on the speech without having verified its accuracy would be punishable.
Of course, that's not very practical, given human nature and the detectability of such actions, so instead the speech is punished (wrongly, IMHO).
Sir, I earnestly invite you to place a lit match in your can of liquid gasoline. You would be doing us all a favour.
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How is it that the "possibility of a sub-plot they don't know about" merits a highest-level "this means an attack is imminent" alert?
Especially as they've arrested 21 people and no terrorist in his right mind would try to put his "sub-plot" into action with the headlines full of this news.
Author? He's an astrophysicist.
Of course he's published books, but anyone calling him an author first and anything else second obviously hasn't done their research.
Damn Journalists.
Suggestion: Get a headset.
If you're using your computer speakers, it's more than likely that the person at the other end is hearing their own voice too, fed back into your microphone, and delayed by half a second or so.
Hearing yourself is really annoying.
I am sick and tired of all these so-called experts driveling on about Standby power consumption.
If they stopped for 30 seconds to think, they'd realise where all the "wasted" energy goes. That's right folks, it's released as HEAT, into your LIVING ROOM.
And how do you heat your living room? With electricity. Even if you use gas or oil to heat your house, all leaving your devices on standby is doing is slightly subsidizing your heating energy usage.
These "experts" need to spend less time whining about red LEDs, and more time getting people to actually INSULATE THEIR HOUSES, which would reduce energy usage hundreds of times more than eliminating standby current.
End rant.
What good is it? How about: 15" monitor on your cellphone that you can carry anywhere?
Yes, but then you would be walking around, taking a shower and brushing your teeth in "one big toilet bowl"
The phrases
"You also have to completely believe in the TMS diagnosis."
and
"Read Dr. Sarno's books and then decide if this is right for you."
in the linked flyer suggest to me the phrase
"Money-spinning quack".