Hold it-- lego bricks from the 1970s are still compatible with bricks made today. According to Lego, that's down to extreme quality control. You blame it on patents. Yet a patent only lasts 20 years. So how could a patent be the primary barrier to interoperability, given that the patents should have expired in the Reagan administration, if not before?
(*) The fit will likely never be as tight as real legos. Those are *tough* tolerances to match. Lego Corp are (i've heard) the masters of injection molded plastic
Now, if you don't really care about the toy aspect of legos--tiny reconfigurable bricks--
sure, you can just make a large hunk of plastic to take the place of dozens of bricks-- but that's a different kind of play.
Lego has a reputation for manufacturing high quality bricks that holds glue yet can be easily dismantled by young hands I'm not sure that you can get that sort of result with 3d printed bricks. After all, Lego has survived without being undercut on price by other manufacturers of plastic toys.
On the other hand, many of Lego's sets are licensed products, with highly specialized pieces that really don't serve a functional role, and may not need the precision tooling that Lego claims is needed to make a strong yet breakable bond.
Assuming you could do all that, there'd be a massive safety concern as well.
You may have concerns about safety. But the people who subvert the evil tire cartel may not. To attempt to impose your narrow view of "safety" upon others is the very essence of statism.
Kennedy is an Irish name, and there have been more than a few Irish terrorists. Still, the vast bulk of Irishman, including the vast bulk of Kennedys, aren't.
I approve of my own representative in Congress wholeheartedly. But Congress as a whole is a despicable institution, and other people need to vote their representative out. Repeat 435 times, and nothing will change.
I'm kind of attached to my name, for personal reasons. Perhaps I'll change it for matrimonial reasons, but likewise, I'm reluctant to wed unless it's for love.I shouldn't be forced into either choice for bureaucratic reasons.
Now that I've read this, I'm not sure that I now know what Google now is. Now, I already use google, but I've been using google now for many years. Now, what's changed?
My guess is that this would be useful for detecting people who only want narcotics to sell, or to use recreationally, But a computer algorithm that falsely identifies pain sufferers as fakers would be downright cruel, whereas a computer algorithm that fails to identify fakers is merely less useful for drug control efforts.
Judge her by her own words, not edited snippets of them. It's the job of an ethicist to appreciate ethical dilemmas before they become practical reality. I'm not completely convinced, however that she hasn't crossed the line into advocacy of some truly disturbing proposals.
did you know that london tube officials are considering a scheme whereby passersby will be able to help stop runaway trains by pushing others onto the tracks, thereby saving the lives of countless others. It's true. I read it in the daily mail.
I'm sure that you can keep a porn diary in OneNote. Approach your habit as you would an academic discipline, and take notes on videos. Annotate your dickpics. Keep a running bibliography of interesting urls.
And upload the whole bit to microsoft servers so that you can enjoy a seamless experience on phone, tablet, tv, and laptop.
Slashdot Mirror
Thieves steal copper cabling all the time. The value to the thieves (as scrap) is a mere fraction of what it's worth to the telecom provider.
If some one grants you a monopoly and you don't have that monopoly any longer, than the monopoly was stolen by those who infringed upon it.
It's not about stealing. It's about infringing on an legally granted monopoly, It's akin to trespass.
Hold it-- lego bricks from the 1970s are still compatible with bricks made today. According to Lego, that's down to extreme quality control. You blame it on patents. Yet a patent only lasts 20 years. So how could a patent be the primary barrier to interoperability, given that the patents should have expired in the Reagan administration, if not before?
here's a source
I don't have a micrometer sensitive enough, and most of my childhood toys are in storage, so someone else will have to confirm.
from your link
(*) The fit will likely never be as tight as real legos. Those are *tough* tolerances to match. Lego Corp are (i've heard) the masters of injection molded plastic
Now, if you don't really care about the toy aspect of legos--tiny reconfigurable bricks--
sure, you can just make a large hunk of plastic to take the place of dozens of bricks-- but that's a different kind of play.
"holds like glue"
If you apply glue to lego, it'd be less useful.
Lego has a reputation for manufacturing high quality bricks that holds glue yet can be easily dismantled by young hands I'm not sure that you can get that sort of result with 3d printed bricks. After all, Lego has survived without being undercut on price by other manufacturers of plastic toys.
On the other hand, many of Lego's sets are licensed products, with highly specialized pieces that really don't serve a functional role, and may not need the precision tooling that Lego claims is needed to make a strong yet breakable bond.
Sounds as if you are confusing positive liberty with negative liberty.
Is there particular reason why you would choose to group Lego with crappy plastic keychains?
Assuming you could do all that, there'd be a massive safety concern as well.
You may have concerns about safety. But the people who subvert the evil tire cartel may not. To attempt to impose your narrow view of "safety" upon others is the very essence of statism.
Kennedy is an Irish name, and there have been more than a few Irish terrorists. Still, the vast bulk of Irishman, including the vast bulk of Kennedys, aren't.
I approve of my own representative in Congress wholeheartedly. But Congress as a whole is a despicable institution, and other people need to vote their representative out. Repeat 435 times, and nothing will change.
I'm kind of attached to my name, for personal reasons. Perhaps I'll change it for matrimonial reasons, but likewise, I'm reluctant to wed unless it's for love.I shouldn't be forced into either choice for bureaucratic reasons.
The Wire asks astronomers about it.
Forget small black holes. There's a supermassive black hole right in our galaxy.
I saw on CNN that a black hole may have swallowed up flight 370 --about 2 minutes in. So the physicists may be luck.
Now that I've read this, I'm not sure that I now know what Google now is. Now, I already use google, but I've been using google now for many years. Now, what's changed?
a very clean and professional job.
Mr Pink sends his regards
The last elected Ukranian president was a Russian loyalist.
Perhaps he should have been loyal to Ukraine.
My guess is that this would be useful for detecting people who only want narcotics to sell, or to use recreationally, But a computer algorithm that falsely identifies pain sufferers as fakers would be downright cruel, whereas a computer algorithm that fails to identify fakers is merely less useful for drug control efforts.
Judge her by her own words, not edited snippets of them. It's the job of an ethicist to appreciate ethical dilemmas before they become practical reality. I'm not completely convinced, however that she hasn't crossed the line into advocacy of some truly disturbing proposals.
did you know that london tube officials are considering a scheme whereby passersby will be able to help stop runaway trains by pushing others onto the tracks, thereby saving the lives of countless others. It's true. I read it in the daily mail.
consults imdb
No.
I'm sure that you can keep a porn diary in OneNote. Approach your habit as you would an academic discipline, and take notes on videos. Annotate your dickpics. Keep a running bibliography of interesting urls.
And upload the whole bit to microsoft servers so that you can enjoy a seamless experience on phone, tablet, tv, and laptop.
Don't forget Sedna and Quaoar. and Makemake, and Varuna and...