Yes there is, and there will always be as long as two children left home alone for a short while one afternoon get visited by a very interesting yet troublesome cat wearing a tall striped hat.
NerveGear is much better. Now if only reality could catch up with anime science-fiction so that companies could make it available as a consumer product.
The concept is sound, depending on the project. Sometimes the person/team already has a working prototype and only needs the funds to be able to manufacture the item in larger quantities at a lower price.
As an example, The Link was a very successful project. And the end product is exactly as described and works as well as any other huge commercial corporation would have been able to produce.
Other Kickstarter projects, however, such as those "We need two million to make a game" where the team only has one guy who knows photoshop and has an idea for a game, and another who knows how to make music but no programmer at all, you usually need to steer clear of those.
Romans: I think we should stop using dirt roads and instead dig a few inches and lay flat rocks in the trench to make our roads. People of that era: Do you have any idea how much work that would involve? How many flat rocks would be required? Are you nuts?
Early 20th century: I think we should stop using roads made from flat rocks and use asphaltum to make our roads. People of that era: Do you have any idea how much work that would involve? And to remove the rock roads? How much asphaltum would be required? Are you nuts?
Early 21th century: I think we should replace our asphalt roads with solar roadways. People of that era: Do you have any idea how costly that would be? This will never work! Are you nuts?
The gravity helps feed the raw materials through a hopper? You think 3D printers use plastic pellets?
Have you ever seen a 3D printer in action in the last few years? They use plastic filament and can print upside-down without any problems. The fumes can probably be eliminated by using an enclosed printing space with a filtered exhaust, and the toxicity of the fumes lowered by using PLA instead of ABS.
Thomas Pfeiffer Thomas prefers a layered feature exposure so that users can enjoy certain advanced features at a later stage after they get accustomed to the basic functionality of the application.
Either I misunderstand, or power users will have to wait to be able to access advanced features.
Why not go with the usual basic settings, with a button/tab to access advanced settings? Is that too complex for end-users?
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Depends on the font size.
Yes there is, and there will always be as long as two children left home alone for a short while one afternoon get visited by a very interesting yet troublesome cat wearing a tall striped hat.
Of course they do. Just ask Dr. Whooooo.
That might be a good idea for people to start doing that right now, even if Kickstarter/IndieGogo/etc themselves don't officially require it.
NerveGear is much better. Now if only reality could catch up with anime science-fiction so that companies could make it available as a consumer product.
I agree, "exclusive distribution rights" should be illegal unless you are the content creator. Capitalism is supposed to be about competition.
That's still not enough watts to go back in time to prevent all this mess.
Yeah! We'll make our own Kickstarter! With blackjack and hookers!
The concept is sound, depending on the project. Sometimes the person/team already has a working prototype and only needs the funds to be able to manufacture the item in larger quantities at a lower price.
As an example, The Link was a very successful project. And the end product is exactly as described and works as well as any other huge commercial corporation would have been able to produce.
Other Kickstarter projects, however, such as those "We need two million to make a game" where the team only has one guy who knows photoshop and has an idea for a game, and another who knows how to make music but no programmer at all, you usually need to steer clear of those.
Wouldn't limiting the transfer of funds, via signed contracts or something, limit the risks of such a thing happening?
Romans: I think we should stop using dirt roads and instead dig a few inches and lay flat rocks in the trench to make our roads.
People of that era: Do you have any idea how much work that would involve? How many flat rocks would be required? Are you nuts?
Early 20th century: I think we should stop using roads made from flat rocks and use asphaltum to make our roads.
People of that era: Do you have any idea how much work that would involve? And to remove the rock roads? How much asphaltum would be required? Are you nuts?
Early 21th century: I think we should replace our asphalt roads with solar roadways.
People of that era: Do you have any idea how costly that would be? This will never work! Are you nuts?
If you read my past comments, you'll see I'm not a MS shill at all, quite the opposite.
I hate testing for Microsoft browsers, it's usually a PITA.
Anyway this super-duper-amazing deal is only available in Walmart U.S.A., it's not even listed on walmart.ca
Thanks, I'll check it out. Being able to test on a real Windows 8 phone for 50 bucks with no strings attached is a bargain.
The belts can be replaced with printed rack and pinion (probably herringbone too), the motors are being worked on (still slow and weak, but it's a start) and the electronics... I don't think so.
Anyway there's still the bushings/linear bearings (I've seen PLA bushings), smooth rods, nuts and bolts, the hot end, etc.
I don't think RepRap will ever achieve 100% replicating ability, but the highest percentage they can reach, the better it is.
Ever heard of RepRap?
The gravity helps feed the raw materials through a hopper? You think 3D printers use plastic pellets?
Have you ever seen a 3D printer in action in the last few years? They use plastic filament and can print upside-down without any problems. The fumes can probably be eliminated by using an enclosed printing space with a filtered exhaust, and the toxicity of the fumes lowered by using PLA instead of ABS.
It's Wozniak.
And don't forget that those armies of near-slaves also work for all tech companies, not just Apple.
I always go with Logitech.
Do you work for the Microsoft advertising department?
Yes it was. The target audience was movie pirates.
Indeed, I was reading the title and summary and thought "Slashdot really is dead" if they confuse memory and storage like the ignorant masses.
Maybe the KDE team is thinking about going into advertising?
Either I misunderstand, or power users will have to wait to be able to access advanced features.
Why not go with the usual basic settings, with a button/tab to access advanced settings? Is that too complex for end-users?
Something about securing genomes, coming from a guy called Newman? And not a single Jurassic Park joke after 79 posts?
What a shame.
Is the next step to add a 3D printer into the bezel of laptop displays?
Do you.... do you have an onion on your belt?