I use a proxy for blocking too, as it allows centralised managment of blocking rather than having to deal with software on five laptops, two mobile phones and a tablet.
Probably because the command is so short (three words) that he never saw the need to shorten it further. It might also be an old habbit picked up through traveling between so many different ships and stations, where the replicators wouldn't have his preferences stored.
Nifty for counterfeiting though. Brand-name goods are already sold at times for thousands of times their manufacturing costs. Even if printing them costs a bit more, it'd still be cheaper than retail price. I'm thinking Warhammer figures, littly kitchy statues of Disney characters, designer sunglasses, that sort of thing.
Those parts are all common though - not custom-made for a specific application.
The toaster is almost doable. You could create a toaster frame out of thermoset plastic, but you'd have to wind the heating wire on it by hand, and it would have no timer or switch. Fire hazard.
Start trek replicators function by rearranging matter. Crap in*, stuff out. They use the same technology as transporters, but use low-resolution images rather than a submolecular-level resolution from a pattern buffer**. The lower resolution isn't good enough for making living tissue, and the slight chemical distortion in food products gives them a harmless but unpleasant taste.
*Literially. As Enterprise established, the toilets are piped into the replicator input. DS9 established that the ship's air is also fed into the replicators to scavange it for carbon atoms, thus keeping ihe CO2 levels down.
** Vital part of a transporter - a memory that can hold an insanely huge amount of information, including quantum information, though only for a very brief time before the data becomes corrupted (With dirty, dangerous hacks it can be made to sometimes last longer, but not reliably). Readout is also destructive (espicially the quantum. No-cloning theorm), which is why transporters cannot be used as replicators.
Warhammer figurines. Yay. Looking around this room, I also think of cable conduit (Exactly to length and shape of room), dog toys, replacement top covers for the radiator valves, coathangers, the plastic things that the electronics for a USB memory stick go inside... nifty. That last one for customisation purposes. Having a custom-shaped USB stick brings a little geek-cred.
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Not even congress is dumb enough to just issue new currency as needed. That would mean hyperinflation. This is a Very Bad Thing. Specifically, this bad. They instead run on a perpetual borrowing scheme: Borrow money, then borrow more to pay that off, and more to pay that off... obviously this isn't going to work for an individual, but money works differently to a government. Merely having the option of issueing new currency means they can give an infallable assurance of repayment, risk free, which means very low interest rates.
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Everyone: We need to stop spending on the programs I don't like.
The amusing thing is that every the most dedicated super-libertarian tea-party fanatic will always have some pet program they consider sacred. Given the overlap with the religious right, often literally so.
Diesel engines will run off a variety of fuels, but you do need a little skill to properly adjust them to differing fuel viscosities, flamabilities, and so on. They come set for 'generic pump diesel.' The modifications are not difficult, but if not done efficiency will be reduced and you might end up belching soot from the exaust. So it's something you'd need to talk to a mechanic about. There are companies that will modify a car for biodiesel operation for a fee. This is also why biodiesel is often sold mixed with regular diesel - it's a lot more palitable to the engines than biodiesel alone.
Petrol engines, on the other hand, are fussy. Try to feed them ethanol and they'll either sieze up or blow up.
Anonymous usually relies on force of numbers. Get 10,000 people attacking a site, and each individual is insignificent. Is it worth the site owners spending thousands of dollars in legal fees to get rid of some script-kiddie?
This being Anonymous, more likely a lot of angry parents who had no idea Little Jimmy was up to no good on the internet. Anonymous members do tend to be fairly young - often under eighteen. Legal minors.
That might work a bit, but you'd just find that all production shifted into the places where working hours were longest. Another idea would be a basic income. Tax progressively, and allocate a chunk of the money to give everyone a fixed, guaranteed income. Not an income of luxury - tax money isn't going to stretch that far - but enough to make sure that even the very poorest in society can afford housing, food, utilities, transport and just a little left over for themselves.
There is no reason the entire assembly and packing process couldn't be done robotically. All the humans need to do then is put in a new component-reel whenever one is starting to run low, top up the solder-hopper and drive the trucks off to shipping or retail.
Nice idea. But all current functioning economic systems are dependant upon keeping the vast majority employed. It doesn't matter if you have enough capacity to support everyone if none of them are earning money to pay for what they need - you just reach a situation where the producers are sitting on mountains of resources which most people can't afford. Your proposed solution is a new form of communism - a system which, though it looks excellent on paper, has so far failed dismally on every attempt to apply it on a large scale.
You assume that there will always be demand. In practice, there has to be a limit to how much people can consume. Once you reach the point where people are buying new clothes every day just to avoid the inconvenience of washing, where do you go from there? Worse, we may just start hitting resource limits. The various metals are good for a long time, but freshwater is growing expensive, and farmable land is finite.
Sounds like the situation with Microsoft and office document formats or HTML back in the earlier days of IE. What they did, everyone else followed - because maintaining compatibility with the market-leader-by-far was far more important than following any openly-defined standard.
Except with freenet, you don't have to trust the nodes. Unless an attacker can control a great many nodes, more than is practical, they can't determine what you are doing even if you are connected to a node they control. They can tell you are using Freenet, but that's about it.
It makes the information morevaluable to marketting departments. Once they have a real name they can trust, they can associate the account with financial records, store loyalty cards, etc. It also helps google detect false accounts used for manipulating rankings.
I cant stand religion. The catholic church in particular strikes me as a corrupt, money-grabbing monster that cant get out of the middle ages. But my bosses boss is a devout catholi and it is likely I will one day end up unemployed again and apply to work at a catholic schol. It wouldnt be the first time. Does this mean i have to keep quiet with my views on religion,as well as politics and social policy, lest I upset an employer? Free speech is worthless if you can't say anything important for fear of disapproval and informal punishment. Besides, do you really want your boss to find ou about your drunken partying?
Because we're moving to a new site. The Powers that Be say that since we will be throwing out almost all of our current (ageing) IT assets, we shouldn't be buying anything new. It's not quite a total freeze - we did get funding to replace all the old 1.3GHz Celeron desktop machines, years after it should have been done - but they just take a lot of convincing even for a cheap UPS. In any case, the G5s are on the 'not keeping' list. Once the site closes down they go off to the recycling company, and we get new iMacs instead. And no more generator-induced failures.
Those G5s do fail quite impressively though. A very loud bang and then magic smoke wafts out.
Our temperature monitoring system for the server room consists of a 400MHz laptop, ubuntu, digitemp and perl. It works though, and built out of parts headed for the bin.
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I use a proxy for blocking too, as it allows centralised managment of blocking rather than having to deal with software on five laptops, two mobile phones and a tablet.
Nope. That poem is copyrighted (In the US, anyway) until 70 years after the death of the author. That will be in 2033.
Probably because the command is so short (three words) that he never saw the need to shorten it further. It might also be an old habbit picked up through traveling between so many different ships and stations, where the replicators wouldn't have his preferences stored.
Nifty for counterfeiting though. Brand-name goods are already sold at times for thousands of times their manufacturing costs. Even if printing them costs a bit more, it'd still be cheaper than retail price. I'm thinking Warhammer figures, littly kitchy statues of Disney characters, designer sunglasses, that sort of thing.
Copyright would be a nightmare.
Very hard to make guns out of plastic.
They can make knives instead. Those are much more practical. A replicated knife would dull after a few stabbings, but you can always replace it.
Then someone else can use it to make knife-resistant armor custom-fitted to each wearer.
Those parts are all common though - not custom-made for a specific application.
The toaster is almost doable. You could create a toaster frame out of thermoset plastic, but you'd have to wind the heating wire on it by hand, and it would have no timer or switch. Fire hazard.
Start trek replicators function by rearranging matter. Crap in*, stuff out. They use the same technology as transporters, but use low-resolution images rather than a submolecular-level resolution from a pattern buffer**. The lower resolution isn't good enough for making living tissue, and the slight chemical distortion in food products gives them a harmless but unpleasant taste.
*Literially. As Enterprise established, the toilets are piped into the replicator input. DS9 established that the ship's air is also fed into the replicators to scavange it for carbon atoms, thus keeping ihe CO2 levels down.
** Vital part of a transporter - a memory that can hold an insanely huge amount of information, including quantum information, though only for a very brief time before the data becomes corrupted (With dirty, dangerous hacks it can be made to sometimes last longer, but not reliably). Readout is also destructive (espicially the quantum. No-cloning theorm), which is why transporters cannot be used as replicators.
Warhammer figurines. Yay. Looking around this room, I also think of cable conduit (Exactly to length and shape of room), dog toys, replacement top covers for the radiator valves, coathangers, the plastic things that the electronics for a USB memory stick go inside... nifty. That last one for customisation purposes. Having a custom-shaped USB stick brings a little geek-cred.
Not even congress is dumb enough to just issue new currency as needed. That would mean hyperinflation. This is a Very Bad Thing. Specifically, this bad. They instead run on a perpetual borrowing scheme: Borrow money, then borrow more to pay that off, and more to pay that off... obviously this isn't going to work for an individual, but money works differently to a government. Merely having the option of issueing new currency means they can give an infallable assurance of repayment, risk free, which means very low interest rates.
Everyone: We need to stop spending on the programs I don't like.
The amusing thing is that every the most dedicated super-libertarian tea-party fanatic will always have some pet program they consider sacred. Given the overlap with the religious right, often literally so.
Diesel engines will run off a variety of fuels, but you do need a little skill to properly adjust them to differing fuel viscosities, flamabilities, and so on. They come set for 'generic pump diesel.' The modifications are not difficult, but if not done efficiency will be reduced and you might end up belching soot from the exaust. So it's something you'd need to talk to a mechanic about. There are companies that will modify a car for biodiesel operation for a fee. This is also why biodiesel is often sold mixed with regular diesel - it's a lot more palitable to the engines than biodiesel alone.
Petrol engines, on the other hand, are fussy. Try to feed them ethanol and they'll either sieze up or blow up.
Anonymous usually relies on force of numbers. Get 10,000 people attacking a site, and each individual is insignificent. Is it worth the site owners spending thousands of dollars in legal fees to get rid of some script-kiddie?
This being Anonymous, more likely a lot of angry parents who had no idea Little Jimmy was up to no good on the internet. Anonymous members do tend to be fairly young - often under eighteen. Legal minors.
That might work a bit, but you'd just find that all production shifted into the places where working hours were longest. Another idea would be a basic income. Tax progressively, and allocate a chunk of the money to give everyone a fixed, guaranteed income. Not an income of luxury - tax money isn't going to stretch that far - but enough to make sure that even the very poorest in society can afford housing, food, utilities, transport and just a little left over for themselves.
He was probably referencing Apple's dependance upon branding - they don't just sell technology, they sell a lifestyle.
There is no reason the entire assembly and packing process couldn't be done robotically. All the humans need to do then is put in a new component-reel whenever one is starting to run low, top up the solder-hopper and drive the trucks off to shipping or retail.
Nice idea. But all current functioning economic systems are dependant upon keeping the vast majority employed. It doesn't matter if you have enough capacity to support everyone if none of them are earning money to pay for what they need - you just reach a situation where the producers are sitting on mountains of resources which most people can't afford. Your proposed solution is a new form of communism - a system which, though it looks excellent on paper, has so far failed dismally on every attempt to apply it on a large scale.
You assume that there will always be demand. In practice, there has to be a limit to how much people can consume. Once you reach the point where people are buying new clothes every day just to avoid the inconvenience of washing, where do you go from there? Worse, we may just start hitting resource limits. The various metals are good for a long time, but freshwater is growing expensive, and farmable land is finite.
Sounds like the situation with Microsoft and office document formats or HTML back in the earlier days of IE. What they did, everyone else followed - because maintaining compatibility with the market-leader-by-far was far more important than following any openly-defined standard.
Except with freenet, you don't have to trust the nodes. Unless an attacker can control a great many nodes, more than is practical, they can't determine what you are doing even if you are connected to a node they control. They can tell you are using Freenet, but that's about it.
It makes the information morevaluable to marketting departments. Once they have a real name they can trust, they can associate the account with financial records, store loyalty cards, etc. It also helps google detect false accounts used for manipulating rankings.
I cant stand religion. The catholic church in particular strikes me as a corrupt, money-grabbing monster that cant get out of the middle ages. But my bosses boss is a devout catholi and it is likely I will one day end up unemployed again and apply to work at a catholic schol. It wouldnt be the first time. Does this mean i have to keep quiet with my views on religion,as well as politics and social policy, lest I upset an employer? Free speech is worthless if you can't say anything important for fear of disapproval and informal punishment. Besides, do you really want your boss to find ou about your drunken partying?
Because we're moving to a new site. The Powers that Be say that since we will be throwing out almost all of our current (ageing) IT assets, we shouldn't be buying anything new. It's not quite a total freeze - we did get funding to replace all the old 1.3GHz Celeron desktop machines, years after it should have been done - but they just take a lot of convincing even for a cheap UPS. In any case, the G5s are on the 'not keeping' list. Once the site closes down they go off to the recycling company, and we get new iMacs instead. And no more generator-induced failures.
Those G5s do fail quite impressively though. A very loud bang and then magic smoke wafts out.
Our temperature monitoring system for the server room consists of a 400MHz laptop, ubuntu, digitemp and perl. It works though, and built out of parts headed for the bin.
If the engineers responsible for implimenting Cleanfeed quit, it would just result in them being fired and someone else being hired in their place.