I'm sure the 3D printing will improve. I remember when "xerox" copies were low-quality purple ink. In the 80s that shifted to black-and-white which was more-readable but still tended to smudge a lot. Now these machines can produce grayscale photos and fit inside a printer that cost me a mere $100.
I expect in twenty years 3D printers will make a simialr progression from crap to near-perfection. They will be in people's living rooms, and you will be able to download 3D polygons that the machine can convert to a real world device.
>>> law enforcement looks at a firearm without a serial and assumes it has been removed, which is a felony.
Pretty soon lawmakers will pass a like regulation for computers (or any other net-enabled device). Can't have people exercising their right to carry a protective gun, or exercising their right to expression of thought, unless both devices have a serial number stamped. Gotta regulate these rights and make them revocable privileges instead.
>>> It'd be more akin to military grade hardware like ships and planes. Of course, even for some of those, 35 years is a stretch...
There are lots of military ships and planes with 35 year ages (aircraft carriers, bombers, Vietnam fighter jets). What they have to deal with is the constant erosion by earth's weather & hungry bacteria.
In space none of that exists so deterioration is much slower: Basically zero in human lifespans. Voyager will eventually run-out of nuclear power, but its electronics will never rust or get eaten by fungus/bacteria like an earthbound vessel will.
>>>>>very difficult, such as maintaining electronics... with hard radiation. But it's easy in that the environment doesn't change. You engineer for a fixed problem. >> >>You sound like a 70 something retired engineer... you get old and grumpy and say how you job what that much harder then today
You got a 70% on your English SAT didn't you? You're reading comprehension is zero. HE said it was "easy" because the environment is constant and known, but you somehow twisted it into "much harder". As kids today say: Fail.
Also find it UNassuring that he tries to dive-away from taking responsibility (typical of how large corporations act; inveigle, evade, and dodge).
QUOTE USER: "unencrypted backup?"
CEO/manager/whatever: "Yes. It was made when I manually did an upgrade and was put in the unencrypted area on disk. I realize the details of the failure and attack are interesting, but I am currently focused on user accounts and exchange status going forward."
No. Precisely HOW you fucked up is the most interesting bit of the sotry. You weasly-mouthed osn of a bitch! You COPIED UNECRYPTED KEYS on your drive. You stupid fuck.
But no. Instead he tries to pretend that it doesn't matter that he fucked up and lost people's labor (represented by money). He should be in a holding cell right next to Bernie Madoff for his incompetence. A shorter timespan of course since the crime is smaller, but still he deserves to be punished, instead of pretendign he didnntohign wrong. Typical megacorp managerial ass.
I've been following this bitcoin phenom for awhile, wondering what it was all about and if it really could replace "normal" currency. All these recent thefts makes me say "no." At least with dollars the private central bank only steals your money ~5% per year (via supply inflation & dollar devaluation) rather than all at once. And also it's insured from losses (FDIC).
And vice-versa: The DNC to bankrupt the country by overfunding projects. ("I want to redistribute the wealth"..... into billion-dollar tours of space tourist spots.)
That's how it sounds: They are complaining that the GOP relies too much on NASA, and doesn't provide enough incentives for private space companies. (I wonder if they think the DNC is any better?)
>>>net neutrality "a solution looking for a problem."
The problem is a company holding a monopoly (or duopoly) over the last ~25 miles of the internet. Net neutrality is simply a form of government regulation to prevent the monopoly from abusing its customers, just as the government regulates the electric, natural gas, and water monopolies.
Vice-versa Obama's solution is to impose harsh carbon-usage penalties (taxes), force us to drive teeny-tiny cars (54mpg average by 2025) and even population downsizing through birth limits (not Obama's plan, but the UN's plan). It's entirely possible the globe will go +2 degrees and nothing much will happen to the earth at all.
After all it used to be +10 degrees and life still continued and flourished. I think it's incumbent upon any politician to prove a disaster is coming before he starts forcing people to drastically change their lifestyle.
The president isn't supposed to be "in charge". He's merely supposed to execute the laws that have been passed by the Real body in chage: The Congress.
Unfortunately too many people don't object when he walks-around issuing commands (or executive orders) as if he were the law-maker.
>>>So it came with Windows 7 Ultimate right? Thunderbolt? 2560x 1536 screen resolution? Nah, didn't think so.
The $1300 Mac didn't come with that shit either. (Didn't even include a screen..... that costs extra.) Stop trying to pretend liike Apple computers are cheap. Because they ain't. Just like Lexuses and Acuras are not cheap.... if you want to throw-away your money on those overpriced items, fine, but I'd rather drive the cheaper $15-20,000 Toyota or Honda or $600 PC.
>>> there have been some worthwhile films made in the last 15 years from Hunger (re IRA, not the Hunger Games bullshit) to El Perro
Nothing worth plopping-down $15 for the DVD though. Not even the Star Trek reboot. Out of the hundreds of movies I downloaded these last 2 year, I liked maybe 5% of them, and none that I would want to purchase on DVD to watch again and again. (Oh and the new 3D shades give me headaches... the old red/blue ones never did, but the new ones look blurry/out of focus. Maybe because I wear glasses.)
Ditto here. $100 to clarkesworldmagazine.com because they had ~5 years of audiobooks that I listened to and enjoyed while at work. I figured it helps pay for the bandwidth I used, plus I want to see more audios uploaded in the future (plus it made me an "overlord" of the website). So sometimes I spend money. Not often.
>>> sitting in an office for 8 hours a day would be unbearable
Which is why I bring-in a USB drive filled with music, college lectures, and movies. Or listen to newsradio or RT.com. It makes the boredom of the office less-bearable. And the guy below is correct: I tried to find a parttime engineering job and it didn't exist. So I just take the fulltime job, with 6 hours of actual productivity, and 2 hours zoning-out when the stress becomes too much (like now).
>>>So, you're saying that because Comcast has corrupted Congress, they had to give themselves preferential treatment?
Well of course. Comcast doesn't want true net neutrality, so they bribed the Congress members to write the Net Neutrality law to allow Comcast to treat their own data as higher priority than outside competitors' data. (This is so fucking obvious, I am amazed I have to explain it. Regulations are written for the *benefit* of corporations, and rarely for the people.)
>>> You're not expected to consume ALL the entertainment that is produced, and in fact most of the entertainment that is produced isn't even expected to be to your liking - it's aimed at OTHER people, other demographics.
So in other words: We don't need copyright to stimulate entertainment's production. We already have too much of it. It would be like handing-out stimulus to encourage people to have sex..... you don't need that stimulus.
>>>A minute to file the appeal. Usually a month for the appeal to be acted upon.
Hardly. Every time it's happened to me my video or audio was restored in mere hours. The DMCA is designed to protect copyright, but it is also designed to protect the right of uploaders to have their stuff published (via the counter-claim process). A few hours downtime on your National Anthem video is hardly anything to cry about.
Why's everyone bashing generations? I don't think this has anything to do with generational groupthink and has everything to do with a small minority of businessmen (~1000 or so) who work for organizations like RIAA or the Authors Guild, who desire to suck as much money as possible from consumer wallets. This small minority of 1000 people have discovered a way to use technology to lock-up the homework problems & thereby charge twice (once for the book; again to get the material that was left out). If you took a survey of baby boomers, I suspect millions of them would call this bullshit.
ALSO: You ALREADY paid for the book, so why is it incomplete? That appears to be an obvious breach of consumer protection laws (advertising a full product, but only giving 3/4 of it) (bait&switch). Here's a thought: What if you bought just the homework codes and left the textbook on the shelf?
If I had a professor that banned us from having used books (i.e. notes already in them), and required we take notes direct to the books instead of whereever we choose, I'd be introducing him to Consumer Protection Laws and a lawsuit.
No company (the college) or employee of a company (the lecturer) has the authority to order customers how they should "absorb" the product being sold. *I* paid the money, and *I* decide where I will write my damn notes (on lined paper in my open-leaf notebook).
If the professor has a problem with that, then he can be named in a lawsuit and stand before a State Judge to explain why he's violating consumer rights' laws.
Sitting in an office for 8 hours a day is not a big deal? I have whole weeks where I go without talking to a single person (except email updates). Even during meetings I often just sit there without talking.
And when I get bored (or stressed) I stop the work and just zone out or listen to music until I feel better. Maybe you should try to find a job like mine (designer/programmer).
>>> people love to talk about how they don't really want this stuff for free - they only want to be able to pay a reasonable amount of money to the people who create it. But the majority of these people rarely put their money where their mouth is
I want it for free. There I said it. I bet 99% of us are the same. For example I read books for free that are published online. The number of actual books on my kindle that I paid for? Zero? If it costs money I skip over it and read the free stuff instead. Same with software. Why pay for MC Office when I can get OpenOffice free? Why buy a CD when I can hear the music free on youtube? There is simply too much free entertainment/software in the world to ever bother paying for something.
>>>monitored torrents likely to be monitored... news at 11.
"Film at 11" was the old catchphrase used by TV stations. And you're right this is hardly new information, though it is interesting to see HOW much torrents are monitored. After getting caught 3 times I decided to download stuff from a private tracker..... no more problems.
Harlan is right. He does deserve to be paid for his work..... right up til he dies. Then it should end when his coffin is lowered into the ground (or one generation/20 years after first date of publication). BTW I thoroughly enjoyed Harlan's 70s-era audiorecord that I downloaded off the internet!..... ooops I've said too much.
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I'm sure the 3D printing will improve. I remember when "xerox" copies were low-quality purple ink. In the 80s that shifted to black-and-white which was more-readable but still tended to smudge a lot. Now these machines can produce grayscale photos and fit inside a printer that cost me a mere $100.
I expect in twenty years 3D printers will make a simialr progression from crap to near-perfection. They will be in people's living rooms, and you will be able to download 3D polygons that the machine can convert to a real world device.
>>> law enforcement looks at a firearm without a serial and assumes it has been removed, which is a felony.
Pretty soon lawmakers will pass a like regulation for computers (or any other net-enabled device). Can't have people exercising their right to carry a protective gun, or exercising their right to expression of thought, unless both devices have a serial number stamped. Gotta regulate these rights and make them revocable privileges instead.
>>> It'd be more akin to military grade hardware like ships and planes. Of course, even for some of those, 35 years is a stretch...
There are lots of military ships and planes with 35 year ages (aircraft carriers, bombers, Vietnam fighter jets). What they have to deal with is the constant erosion by earth's weather & hungry bacteria.
In space none of that exists so deterioration is much slower: Basically zero in human lifespans. Voyager will eventually run-out of nuclear power, but its electronics will never rust or get eaten by fungus/bacteria like an earthbound vessel will.
>>>>>very difficult, such as maintaining electronics... with hard radiation. But it's easy in that the environment doesn't change. You engineer for a fixed problem.
>>
>>You sound like a 70 something retired engineer... you get old and grumpy and say how you job what that much harder then today
You got a 70% on your English SAT didn't you?
You're reading comprehension is zero. HE said it was "easy" because the environment is constant and known, but you somehow twisted it into "much harder". As kids today say: Fail.
Also find it UNassuring that he tries to dive-away from taking responsibility (typical of how large corporations act; inveigle, evade, and dodge).
QUOTE USER: "unencrypted backup?"
CEO/manager/whatever: "Yes. It was made when I manually did an upgrade and was put in the unencrypted area on disk. I realize the details of the failure and attack are interesting, but I am currently focused on user accounts and exchange status going forward."
No.
Precisely HOW you fucked up is the most interesting bit of the sotry. You weasly-mouthed osn of a bitch! You COPIED UNECRYPTED KEYS on your drive. You stupid fuck.
But no.
Instead he tries to pretend that it doesn't matter that he fucked up and lost people's labor (represented by money). He should be in a holding cell right next to Bernie Madoff for his incompetence. A shorter timespan of course since the crime is smaller, but still he deserves to be punished, instead of pretendign he didnntohign wrong. Typical megacorp managerial ass.
I've been following this bitcoin phenom for awhile, wondering what it was all about and if it really could replace "normal" currency. All these recent thefts makes me say "no." At least with dollars the private central bank only steals your money ~5% per year (via supply inflation & dollar devaluation) rather than all at once. And also it's insured from losses (FDIC).
And vice-versa: The DNC to bankrupt the country by overfunding projects. ("I want to redistribute the wealth"..... into billion-dollar tours of space tourist spots.)
That's how it sounds: They are complaining that the GOP relies too much on NASA, and doesn't provide enough incentives for private space companies. (I wonder if they think the DNC is any better?)
>>>net neutrality "a solution looking for a problem."
The problem is a company holding a monopoly (or duopoly) over the last ~25 miles of the internet. Net neutrality is simply a form of government regulation to prevent the monopoly from abusing its customers, just as the government regulates the electric, natural gas, and water monopolies.
Vice-versa Obama's solution is to impose harsh carbon-usage penalties (taxes), force us to drive teeny-tiny cars (54mpg average by 2025) and even population downsizing through birth limits (not Obama's plan, but the UN's plan). It's entirely possible the globe will go +2 degrees and nothing much will happen to the earth at all.
After all it used to be +10 degrees and life still continued and flourished. I think it's incumbent upon any politician to prove a disaster is coming before he starts forcing people to drastically change their lifestyle.
The president isn't supposed to be "in charge". He's merely supposed to execute the laws that have been passed by the Real body in chage: The Congress.
Unfortunately too many people don't object when he walks-around issuing commands (or executive orders) as if he were the law-maker.
>>>So it came with Windows 7 Ultimate right? Thunderbolt? 2560x 1536 screen resolution? Nah, didn't think so.
The $1300 Mac didn't come with that shit either. (Didn't even include a screen..... that costs extra.) Stop trying to pretend liike Apple computers are cheap. Because they ain't. Just like Lexuses and Acuras are not cheap.... if you want to throw-away your money on those overpriced items, fine, but I'd rather drive the cheaper $15-20,000 Toyota or Honda or $600 PC.
>>> there have been some worthwhile films made in the last 15 years from Hunger (re IRA, not the Hunger Games bullshit) to El Perro
Nothing worth plopping-down $15 for the DVD though. Not even the Star Trek reboot. Out of the hundreds of movies I downloaded these last 2 year, I liked maybe 5% of them, and none that I would want to purchase on DVD to watch again and again. (Oh and the new 3D shades give me headaches... the old red/blue ones never did, but the new ones look blurry/out of focus. Maybe because I wear glasses.)
Ditto here. $100 to clarkesworldmagazine.com because they had ~5 years of audiobooks that I listened to and enjoyed while at work. I figured it helps pay for the bandwidth I used, plus I want to see more audios uploaded in the future (plus it made me an "overlord" of the website).
So sometimes I spend money.
Not often.
>>> sitting in an office for 8 hours a day would be unbearable
Which is why I bring-in a USB drive filled with music, college lectures, and movies. Or listen to newsradio or RT.com. It makes the boredom of the office less-bearable.
And the guy below is correct:
I tried to find a parttime engineering job and it didn't exist. So I just take the fulltime job, with 6 hours of actual productivity, and 2 hours zoning-out when the stress becomes too much (like now).
>>>So, you're saying that because Comcast has corrupted Congress, they had to give themselves preferential treatment?
Well of course. Comcast doesn't want true net neutrality, so they bribed the Congress members to write the Net Neutrality law to allow Comcast to treat their own data as higher priority than outside competitors' data. (This is so fucking obvious, I am amazed I have to explain it. Regulations are written for the *benefit* of corporations, and rarely for the people.)
>>> You're not expected to consume ALL the entertainment that is produced, and in fact most of the entertainment that is produced isn't even expected to be to your liking - it's aimed at OTHER people, other demographics.
So in other words: We don't need copyright to stimulate entertainment's production. We already have too much of it. It would be like handing-out stimulus to encourage people to have sex..... you don't need that stimulus.
>>>A minute to file the appeal. Usually a month for the appeal to be acted upon.
Hardly. Every time it's happened to me my video or audio was restored in mere hours. The DMCA is designed to protect copyright, but it is also designed to protect the right of uploaders to have their stuff published (via the counter-claim process). A few hours downtime on your National Anthem video is hardly anything to cry about.
Why's everyone bashing generations?
I don't think this has anything to do with generational groupthink and has everything to do with a small minority of businessmen (~1000 or so) who work for organizations like RIAA or the Authors Guild, who desire to suck as much money as possible from consumer wallets. This small minority of 1000 people have discovered a way to use technology to lock-up the homework problems & thereby charge twice (once for the book; again to get the material that was left out). If you took a survey of baby boomers, I suspect millions of them would call this bullshit.
ALSO: You ALREADY paid for the book, so why is it incomplete? That appears to be an obvious breach of consumer protection laws (advertising a full product, but only giving 3/4 of it) (bait&switch). Here's a thought: What if you bought just the homework codes and left the textbook on the shelf?
If I had a professor that banned us from having used books (i.e. notes already in them), and required we take notes direct to the books instead of whereever we choose, I'd be introducing him to Consumer Protection Laws and a lawsuit.
No company (the college) or employee of a company (the lecturer) has the authority to order customers how they should "absorb" the product being sold. *I* paid the money, and *I* decide where I will write my damn notes (on lined paper in my open-leaf notebook).
If the professor has a problem with that, then he can be named in a lawsuit and stand before a State Judge to explain why he's violating consumer rights' laws.
Sitting in an office for 8 hours a day is not a big deal? I have whole weeks where I go without talking to a single person (except email updates). Even during meetings I often just sit there without talking.
And when I get bored (or stressed) I stop the work and just zone out or listen to music until I feel better. Maybe you should try to find a job like mine (designer/programmer).
>>> people love to talk about how they don't really want this stuff for free - they only want to be able to pay a reasonable amount of money to the people who create it. But the majority of these people rarely put their money where their mouth is
I want it for free.
There I said it.
I bet 99% of us are the same. For example I read books for free that are published online. The number of actual books on my kindle that I paid for? Zero? If it costs money I skip over it and read the free stuff instead. Same with software. Why pay for MC Office when I can get OpenOffice free? Why buy a CD when I can hear the music free on youtube? There is simply too much free entertainment/software in the world to ever bother paying for something.
>>>monitored torrents likely to be monitored... news at 11.
"Film at 11" was the old catchphrase used by TV stations. And you're right this is hardly new information, though it is interesting to see HOW much torrents are monitored. After getting caught 3 times I decided to download stuff from a private tracker..... no more problems.
Harlan is right. He does deserve to be paid for his work..... right up til he dies. Then it should end when his coffin is lowered into the ground (or one generation/20 years after first date of publication). BTW I thoroughly enjoyed Harlan's 70s-era audiorecord that I downloaded off the internet!..... ooops I've said too much.
But how am I going to eat my cow-burger or chicken-sandwich if they are granted personhood and rights? :-(