Good luck with your career change. Contrary to what you might have heard, programming is not just for young people. There are qualities you gain with age. While you might not want to go up racing against kids for who can stay up longer coding, you've solved many more problems in life than they have. A large part of programming is problem solving. So you have an edge there.
There are many other things that get better with age, but I'm not going to change the subject.
I'm on a 50 mb/sec internet connection and can't stream youtube movies above 360p without the movie stopping every couple of minutes due to buffer underrun. I've no issues with amazon prime, hulu or netflix movies. I don't know why this only happens with youtube. I don't see why I'd be paying $1.99/month.
The webpage has mock up images of a plastic box. No actual photos, no printed objects. Some touchy-feely text. A scam kickstarter project has more information than this.
Obviously, this is paid advertising. Of very low quality. Probably a direct result of slashdot's corporate whor..., I mean takeover. Shame.
How is this different than installing some trojan botnet app that does ddos attacks or steals your credit card number? They stole money from users by using electricity to mine bitcoins. Handled well? Not until their asses are thrown in jail.
I never said it cannot be done. It's just not a magic bullet. It's a lot more work than hit "scan" then hit "print".
"give me a point cloud, and I can make you a model in under an hour"
Give me a knob from your stove and I model and slice it for you in 10 minutes. But most people can't do that, nor would they know what to do with a point cloud.
It's just very expensive to get into 3d printing. A makerbot is over $2k, a lulzbot is almost $2k. (It probably also doesn't help the cause that lulzbot sells 3d printed parts like this or this printed on the very same almost $2k machines that look like crap.) Even build-it-yourself machines cost close to $1k, not even factoring in time spent.
Then there's filament at $40/kg, the occasional hotend replacement, material wasted on prints that don't come out or stop halfway, etc.
The print quality and material strength is also questionable. PLA is water soluble so it doesn't work outdoors, cracks easily, on the other hand ABS releases toxic fumes when melted.
It's hard to justify all that cost even for someone with money to burn to print a $20 stove knob, or odd $5 broken plastic pieces for a car's door to open. It's a great tool for rapid prototyping and for nerds, but not for mainstream.
Have you ever worked with a 3d scanner before? It takes a lot of even more complicated work to get usable 3d models, and there are many features you have to model in by hand because they are not scannable. You couldn't even automagically scan something as simple as a knob for your stove.
No pun intended, but I don't get what the big fuss is all about.
a) We can still buy ball bearings, nails, fireworks (in some states), batteries, garage door remotes and pressure cookers even though two shitheads killed 3 people and injured over 200 using those items. You can go to home dipshits and buy all the tools and materials needed to make a weapon. So it's highly unlikely that 3d printing will be banned.
b) Can we just see what this dude comes up with first? If it's all made of ABS, it will be either extremely unsafe to use, or it might just fire some plastic blobs 10 feet, which would make it less harmful than a pellet gun or hell, even something from toys'r'us. This dude is obviously just enjoying his 15 minutes of fame. How about we just ignore him?
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Linux is merging with Windows?
Smart people hate it and don't use it.
Some in the middle hate it, but use it because they fear being left out.
Morons love it it and use it.
It does. And I just used it.
I agree with you but more importantly we need good parents. Less babysitters, less nannies, less ipad, less facebook, less drinking and drugs.
Parents should spend time with their kids and be available to help.
^^^ That was a joke.
Good luck with your career change. Contrary to what you might have heard, programming is not just for young people. There are qualities you gain with age. While you might not want to go up racing against kids for who can stay up longer coding, you've solved many more problems in life than they have. A large part of programming is problem solving. So you have an edge there.
There are many other things that get better with age, but I'm not going to change the subject.
I'm in Boston, so that's a possibility.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I wish I could edit my original post to add this information.
I'm not using my ISP's dns servers (Verizon). I'm using these DNS servers:
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
These are google's servers, so unless Verizon has some tricks around them, I don't think DNS is the issue.
I'm on a 50 mb/sec internet connection and can't stream youtube movies above 360p without the movie stopping every couple of minutes due to buffer underrun. I've no issues with amazon prime, hulu or netflix movies. I don't know why this only happens with youtube. I don't see why I'd be paying $1.99/month.
The webpage has mock up images of a plastic box. No actual photos, no printed objects. Some touchy-feely text. A scam kickstarter project has more information than this.
Obviously, this is paid advertising. Of very low quality. Probably a direct result of slashdot's corporate whor..., I mean takeover. Shame.
How is this different than installing some trojan botnet app that does ddos attacks or steals your credit card number? They stole money from users by using electricity to mine bitcoins. Handled well? Not until their asses are thrown in jail.
A ship, yes. But not a silly app on a phone.
She? Really? That's some revolutionary magical ridiculousness.
You're right, I stand corrected.
I never said it cannot be done. It's just not a magic bullet. It's a lot more work than hit "scan" then hit "print".
"give me a point cloud, and I can make you a model in under an hour"
Give me a knob from your stove and I model and slice it for you in 10 minutes. But most people can't do that, nor would they know what to do with a point cloud.
Simple: warping and printing time. There's a reason why the demo objects are "organic" vases. Ask them to print a 24x24x24 cube.
"There are thousands of visual effects artists who are, or soon will be, out of work"
Could you elaborate on why you think that?
It's just very expensive to get into 3d printing. A makerbot is over $2k, a lulzbot is almost $2k. (It probably also doesn't help the cause that lulzbot sells 3d printed parts like this or this printed on the very same almost $2k machines that look like crap.) Even build-it-yourself machines cost close to $1k, not even factoring in time spent.
Then there's filament at $40/kg, the occasional hotend replacement, material wasted on prints that don't come out or stop halfway, etc.
The print quality and material strength is also questionable. PLA is water soluble so it doesn't work outdoors, cracks easily, on the other hand ABS releases toxic fumes when melted.
It's hard to justify all that cost even for someone with money to burn to print a $20 stove knob, or odd $5 broken plastic pieces for a car's door to open. It's a great tool for rapid prototyping and for nerds, but not for mainstream.
"a 3D handheld scanner"
Have you ever worked with a 3d scanner before? It takes a lot of even more complicated work to get usable 3d models, and there are many features you have to model in by hand because they are not scannable. You couldn't even automagically scan something as simple as a knob for your stove.
"Microsoft screwed up with their redesign of Windows 8 and lousy integration...I don't even want to pirate Windows 8."
If you are not using windows 8, obviously you have no idea what you are talking about, so why don't you stfu and stop spreading fud?
We have that already. It's called fecesbook or something like that.
Nothing will change in your country:
- criminals already have guns, or know where to get them
- criminals will most likely pick something more reliable and powerful
Firearms being illegal in your country has nothing to do with criminals anyway. It's just gives your government more freedom and options.
Though you're right about the blood on his hands. That will happen when the thingy backfires or blows up.
No pun intended, but I don't get what the big fuss is all about.
a) We can still buy ball bearings, nails, fireworks (in some states), batteries, garage door remotes and pressure cookers even though two shitheads killed 3 people and injured over 200 using those items. You can go to home dipshits and buy all the tools and materials needed to make a weapon. So it's highly unlikely that 3d printing will be banned.
b) Can we just see what this dude comes up with first? If it's all made of ABS, it will be either extremely unsafe to use, or it might just fire some plastic blobs 10 feet, which would make it less harmful than a pellet gun or hell, even something from toys'r'us. This dude is obviously just enjoying his 15 minutes of fame. How about we just ignore him?
Soon you can change that to:
Cody Wilson was a fucking asshole.
That will happen as soon as his plastic gun (that gets nice and soft at a mere 200C) backfires or explodes in his hands.
ROFL. Thanks for the joke. Made my day.
+1. But then Bel Air to Hawthorne is not that bad. Shouldn't be more than 30 minutes. And there's not many nice places to live around Hawthorne.