In order to balance out the force of partisan jokes, I ask of the red state forms include 'Does it have holders for beer and shotgun?' and 'Does it run on almighty Texas Tea, or Pathetic Lieberal 'Leccy?'
Yours are funnier though. Bah. I need more tea to make jokes well.
Poster has a point: Most of what a 3D printer can do, a C&C machine could have done in metal. The advantage of 3d printing is that it is cheap, safe in inexperienced hands, compact and almost affordable: All things that C&C metalworking is not.
I've played with a C&C plastic-cutting lathe before. Training model. Used it in university to make giant pawns.
With the materials of 3d printers, guns would explode on the first shot. Bombs would be really pointless, as any container will do - the explosives and the electronics are the skilled part. You can count the rest though, and I'd add warhammer figures and other counterfeit merchandise, replacement car components and imitation brand-name jewelry (Just add gold paint!) as potential illicit uses.
Actually, in some US states, they are illegal to sell or to posess in quantity. Texas and Alabama at least, and I believe quite a few more, have made the sale of sex toys a criminal offence. I'm not going to google the details from work, look it up yourself. That's one reason you'll often see them sold as 'novelty' items: The manufacuters maintain some facade of them not really being what they are, knowing that most of the time the police have more important laws to enforce. Every now and again some local politician orders a crackdown to win the Family Values voters over.
Really, really huge telescopes. Not only is there no atmospheric distortion (Adaptive optics will only take you so far) but with low gravity and no wind at all you can build them big and build them light.
And, best of all, a convenient tidal lock: The elevator always points to earth. All you need to do is time for approximate destination of drop.
Downside: As at least one famous work of fiction pointed out, any mechanism capable of throwing materials from moon to earth is inherently weaponiseable, which leads to political considerations. A few tons of smelted rock should be able to get through reentry with enough left to make a sizeable hole, even if you can't aim at anything more precise than a city.
That's the problem we have in the UK currently. Our IT curriculum is a joke, and everyone knows it, but reform is strongly opposed by teaching unions who are aware that IT teachers would need to undergo much additional training if they had to teach real IT.
Or the other end: They all get lessons covering only Visual Studio and.NET, or making iOS apps in xcode, because Microsoft or Apple respectively offers a massive discount and almost-free support to schools to make sure the programmers of the future are their customers of the future too.
I'm not so sure. These are textbooks, remember: Thousand-page tomes like small telephone directories. Add in the savings for personal use of the iPad - movies downloaded rather than DVDs shipped, novels read as ebook - and it might be possible to break even.
One day we might achieve the fabled state of heirloom electronics, and then it'll be easy.
Depends on volume. An iPad (Or comparable tablet) is a lot more polluting than one book, but less than a million books. Somewhere in that range is a number where they are equal, which may or may not be less than the number of books an iPad can replace for a typical student (Including a couple of novels for recreation). Estimating that number is going to be hard though.
I have never uploaded to mediafire (I have my own webserver, and seldom need to send to more than a few people) but I have in the past used it to download both infringing and non-infringing content.
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"Document keeps formatting. Tried to go on different machines but still not working"
Where is the document? What program is the document for? Filename? Purpose? Anything? Nothing.... as well as obviously not knowing what 'formatting' means, as neither the computer-sense nor the page-laying-sense fit there.
Did anyone of low rank ever try that? It might be a function limited to senior officers, who have an obvious need to access that type of information for reasons of ship security.
You're right. There are two types: General purpose and medical. On the standard four-man away team, three will carry general-purpose tricorders and one, with specialist training, carries a medical tricorder.
For reasons of optimal storytelling, an away team is almost always composed of four senior officers. No-one wants to watch middle-management and their flock of ensigns. If you see a non-regular character on an away mission, start placing bets on how long he'll live.
Star Trek doesn't just have 'a' tricorder. There are two classes commonly seen. A general-purpose tricorder (The thing you see them waving around on away missions) and a more specialised medical tricorder (Found in sickbay, and carried by one member only of an away team). The general purpose model has very limited medical functions, and the medical one has very limited general-purpose functions. If it can detect cancer, it should be called a medical tricorder, not just a tricorder.
The wonky alternative medicine people already found ways to skirt the law by the use of contradictory statements: It's medicine when they want it to be, but isn't when they do not.
1. Everyone stops pirating, they keep trying to expand copyright protection for other reasons. For one, I imagine that they would absolutly love it if they could get rid of the first sale doctrine and close down all those second-hand CD and DVD sales that undercut their own prices. The shift to digital distribution is the perfect chance for that - if you buy a 'licence' rather than a physical product, you have no right to sell it on to someone else. Lobbying for term extensions would also continue, as many influencial copyright holders have very valuable and old works. Micky Mouse is the most famous, but over in Europe music labels were the big lobbiers to protect their ownership of the Beatles and many of the influencial rock-and-roll bands. Then there is the issue of grey market imports - plenty of distributors would like to turn that grey market black
I'd rather option 2. I'm quite willing to sacrifice the big-budget movie if that is what it takes to defend free speech and access to unrestricted computing technology.
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Huh... all that time I heard it wrong, and never noticed.
In order to balance out the force of partisan jokes, I ask of the red state forms include 'Does it have holders for beer and shotgun?' and 'Does it run on almighty Texas Tea, or Pathetic Lieberal 'Leccy?'
Yours are funnier though. Bah. I need more tea to make jokes well.
Poster has a point: Most of what a 3D printer can do, a C&C machine could have done in metal. The advantage of 3d printing is that it is cheap, safe in inexperienced hands, compact and almost affordable: All things that C&C metalworking is not.
I've played with a C&C plastic-cutting lathe before. Training model. Used it in university to make giant pawns.
With the materials of 3d printers, guns would explode on the first shot. Bombs would be really pointless, as any container will do - the explosives and the electronics are the skilled part. You can count the rest though, and I'd add warhammer figures and other counterfeit merchandise, replacement car components and imitation brand-name jewelry (Just add gold paint!) as potential illicit uses.
Actually, in some US states, they are illegal to sell or to posess in quantity. Texas and Alabama at least, and I believe quite a few more, have made the sale of sex toys a criminal offence. I'm not going to google the details from work, look it up yourself. That's one reason you'll often see them sold as 'novelty' items: The manufacuters maintain some facade of them not really being what they are, knowing that most of the time the police have more important laws to enforce. Every now and again some local politician orders a crackdown to win the Family Values voters over.
Really, really huge telescopes. Not only is there no atmospheric distortion (Adaptive optics will only take you so far) but with low gravity and no wind at all you can build them big and build them light.
Russia already completed its collapse into economic irrelevance. Oil is about all they have left.
And, best of all, a convenient tidal lock: The elevator always points to earth. All you need to do is time for approximate destination of drop.
Downside: As at least one famous work of fiction pointed out, any mechanism capable of throwing materials from moon to earth is inherently weaponiseable, which leads to political considerations. A few tons of smelted rock should be able to get through reentry with enough left to make a sizeable hole, even if you can't aim at anything more precise than a city.
A lot of that is only a problem if you want to come back again. There is an obvious solution.
Somewhere out in space is a huge rock, and it is heading our way.
Right? We're in charge RIGHT now. That is all the right we need.
That's the problem we have in the UK currently. Our IT curriculum is a joke, and everyone knows it, but reform is strongly opposed by teaching unions who are aware that IT teachers would need to undergo much additional training if they had to teach real IT.
Or possibly just to push more people towards their paid plans.
Or the other end: They all get lessons covering only Visual Studio and .NET, or making iOS apps in xcode, because Microsoft or Apple respectively offers a massive discount and almost-free support to schools to make sure the programmers of the future are their customers of the future too.
I'm not so sure. These are textbooks, remember: Thousand-page tomes like small telephone directories. Add in the savings for personal use of the iPad - movies downloaded rather than DVDs shipped, novels read as ebook - and it might be possible to break even.
One day we might achieve the fabled state of heirloom electronics, and then it'll be easy.
Depends on volume. An iPad (Or comparable tablet) is a lot more polluting than one book, but less than a million books. Somewhere in that range is a number where they are equal, which may or may not be less than the number of books an iPad can replace for a typical student (Including a couple of novels for recreation). Estimating that number is going to be hard though.
6. Someone sets up a members-only site called TheGameBay.net and uses it to post links to roms hosted on your hypothetical site.
Never trust your cloud backup provider. Encrypt. If they can't read the file, you don't have to worry about them peeking.
I have never uploaded to mediafire (I have my own webserver, and seldom need to send to more than a few people) but I have in the past used it to download both infringing and non-infringing content.
"Document keeps formatting. Tried to go on different machines but still not working"
Where is the document? What program is the document for? Filename? Purpose? Anything? Nothing.... as well as obviously not knowing what 'formatting' means, as neither the computer-sense nor the page-laying-sense fit there.
Did anyone of low rank ever try that? It might be a function limited to senior officers, who have an obvious need to access that type of information for reasons of ship security.
You're right. There are two types: General purpose and medical. On the standard four-man away team, three will carry general-purpose tricorders and one, with specialist training, carries a medical tricorder.
For reasons of optimal storytelling, an away team is almost always composed of four senior officers. No-one wants to watch middle-management and their flock of ensigns. If you see a non-regular character on an away mission, start placing bets on how long he'll live.
Star Trek doesn't just have 'a' tricorder. There are two classes commonly seen. A general-purpose tricorder (The thing you see them waving around on away missions) and a more specialised medical tricorder (Found in sickbay, and carried by one member only of an away team). The general purpose model has very limited medical functions, and the medical one has very limited general-purpose functions. If it can detect cancer, it should be called a medical tricorder, not just a tricorder.
The wonky alternative medicine people already found ways to skirt the law by the use of contradictory statements: It's medicine when they want it to be, but isn't when they do not.
1. Everyone stops pirating, they keep trying to expand copyright protection for other reasons. For one, I imagine that they would absolutly love it if they could get rid of the first sale doctrine and close down all those second-hand CD and DVD sales that undercut their own prices. The shift to digital distribution is the perfect chance for that - if you buy a 'licence' rather than a physical product, you have no right to sell it on to someone else. Lobbying for term extensions would also continue, as many influencial copyright holders have very valuable and old works. Micky Mouse is the most famous, but over in Europe music labels were the big lobbiers to protect their ownership of the Beatles and many of the influencial rock-and-roll bands. Then there is the issue of grey market imports - plenty of distributors would like to turn that grey market black
I'd rather option 2. I'm quite willing to sacrifice the big-budget movie if that is what it takes to defend free speech and access to unrestricted computing technology.