And if the people want to hear what you say they need to go to the site where you express yourself. There are so many ways to express ones self on the internet that I feel it is good to have real options and not all copy cats. Frankly I am in the "If you don't think it is worth standing behind what you say it isn't worth my time to hear it." Of course we live in a free society. What people don't get is that it is 100% to judge someone based on what they say and how they act. Yes if you are an extreme racist it is just fine that I don't like and don't want to be around you. So why do you want to take away my freedom to have a forum that requires people stand behind what they say? I am just fine that you have forums where you can post anonymously.
I disagree with people the them vs us mentality. Look how much better I am because I am a "liberal", "conservative", "republican", "democrate",.... take you pick. labels==bigotry even when you apply them to yourself. And when you use the label to degrade those you put in that label then you are being a bigot. Just thought I would toss in the inverse of the insult at an object lesson. Nothing wrong with charity at all. It is bigotry that I don't like.
If it becomes as successful as Google wants then it is because people choose to use it. Really how many social networks have been started by big companies and how many people have migrated from one to another? No you don't have to have be on Google+ your comment that you do not have to have email or a telephone. Well you are correct but you are not looking at it the right way. You do not have to be on Hotmail because you can use a different service. You do not have a phone you can have a mobile phone. You can even select a prepaid, pay as you go, or a contract for that mobile phone. That is why Google+ can decide that it only wants to have people use real names. That is because you have other choices if enough people don't like it then it will fail. And yes Google+ is just a site another site can take it's place. You can even choose to be on Google+ and only put up what you want tied to your name and then go to other places to express opinons that you don't want tied to your name.
Do you want a bunch of famous actors and actresses to campaign for you? Got the Democrats. You want big donations from Comcast and Sony? Got the Republicans.
It is simple you see famous actors, actresses, directors, and producers are special creative people that are better than the likes of you and me and must be protected. Why are you complaining? Don't you want to give them your money and freedom to make sure you can see Transformers 5?
I wouldn't worry about people trying to kill random people how ever I do think that there are way too many people that would think it was "funny" to really mess with people. "Dude, did you see those four just drop like a rock! That was so cool!" For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)#Epilepsy_Foundation_forum_invasion I just hope that they hackers are being as responsible as possible and are not going to publish this until any vulnerabilities are fixed. I would suggest publishing the results to all medical device makers so they can also check their devices for simular issues.
Not true, social networking sites function is find people and to be found. To be found you need to use a well known identity. Other sites are about using and often abusing free speech. Slashdot allows people to use an alias or post as an AC. Frankly I wouldn't mind seeing the option of posting as an AC going away because I feel that if you will not take the karma hit for saying I don't need to hear it. Others disagree including the people that run the site and that is okay. Then you have sites like 4chan and so on. As long all sites are not force by law to make you use a real name I don't see a problem with it. If a site doesn't allow posting profanity that is all just fine. If another site allows it then that is also just fine. The think here is freedom of choice. I would never want to take away someones freedom to use a site that allows or requires anonymity. But then I also don't want to be told that not site can require real names. That would be taking away my freedom to choose the environment I want to be in and as someone that runs a website it reduces my choices about the type of sites I can create and run. And yes it does offer value to users. The ability to locate and be located is one. The fact that people have to live with what they choose to say is another. It produces a more civil environment. Why shouldn't people have the option of that type of environment. After all you are not required to be on Facebook or Google+. Even if you decide to be on Facebook or Google plus you can decide how much info you put up or don't put up with your name.
Interesting. I can install Bing on my android phone and I can install Yahoo search. I have Yahoo mail as well on my android phone. Google does seem to be really open about allowing other search engines on their phones.
It is a press release. This is new not data, I am sure if you contact them with a set of research requirements that they could get you the data. Also more than one paper will be published on this subject so I would watch the journals.
They are not even that hard to process. The problem isn't processing it is that you get other things out of the process. Mainly Thorium which is radioactive. Of course if we built Thorium cycle reactors then it because a bonus. China doesn't have the environmental laws of the US so they don't have a problem with processing them and selling them. The other problem is that it is risky to invest in producing them. China can just start dumping them on the market at a low cost and blame your investment is gone. You go out of the rare earth market and China raises prices. Odds are you will not jump in again.
Umm not really that simple. You are thinking of this a nothing more than simple collision detection issue. Just as Ethernet detected when a packet collision happened it then waits a random within a range amount of time before retransmission. The problem here is that for an electric car you could also end up with a race condition. You see that car has to charge for X amount of time and must be Charged by x. Now if the charger waits for the price of electricity to reach X it could wait until it is too late to charge the car. So you would have to have the charger say if it is x amount of time before say 8am charge it up no matter how expensive. At that time you could have a big spike in energy use. Now your random wait will help prevent all the chargers jumping on at once so you will not have an almost square wave style spike but it still look very much like a spike when the price drops to x and then will fall off when the price drops to y. I would say that you are over trivializing the problem a good bit. Make smart charging stations could destabilize the grid if not done correctly. Think of the effect that program trading has had on markets before safeguards where put in. Not an unsolveable problem to be sure but also not the trivial duhh you seem to think it is.
Well Google just bought a bunch from IBM so maybe they own a patient on pointers or some other ridiculous fundmental technology that they can hold over their head. They really need to just go back to copyrights and trademarks. Makes me kind of sad because my company created some very interesting features in our software that I am sure we could have patented but didn't because we believed that software could not be patented. Too bad it would have been very profitable to lock our competitors out of copying those features we would probably have close to a 100% market share now if we had. If that had happened we could have taken our time adding new features and new patients and kept that locked up and raked in money for decades.
Here is the issue. Software patents shouldn't exist and don't in some nations. Patents are being used like nuclear weapons these days. Companies are getting them so that they don't get sued. They are also using them to limit competition and lock others out of the marketplace. Good luck if you want to start a software company in anything but a small vertical market these days. Some companies like IBM tended to use patents just defense. They rarely went after people with them. Apple and Microsoft have decided to go on the offensive. Google has not bought some nuclear weapons of it's own from IBM. I wonder how many patients on operating systems that IBM owns are Microsoft and Apple infringing on?
The solution is to just get rid of software patients. Go back to copyright and trademarks for protections as it should be.
I use Gnome 2, Windows XP, and OS/X and I can move between them all with a good bit of ease. I have not upgraded my Linux machine in a while because I have it working the way I want it to. I have not moved to Windows 7 for the same reason but I have used it a bit and I do feel it is a good update to Windows XP. Out of the three I like using OS/X the best followed by Gnome 2. I have not used Gnome 3 yet but I am beginning to wonder if it is just less friendly for command line driven developers. If you read the story you will see that statement that a lot of other users he showed it to liked Gnome 3 just fine. Honestly I am getting to the point where I feel desktops are trying to do too much and not doing the basics well. They should launch programs and help manage the system resources. Desktops should make those functions the highest priority. This seems to be the big fail for Gnome 3. Linus needs to launch terminals and it takes him too long. On OS/X I have the terminal on the launch bar on XP I have a command prompt on the desktop.It would seem that Gnome3 does not offer this vital function.
Even then it is going to be iffy. Lets just take one thing. A laundry basket. If it costs you $12 at the store and lasts 5 years. But only costs $2 if you print it yourself how many years will it take for payback on a $1000 3d printer? And frankly that is going to be cheap for a 3d printer big enough for a laundry basket. Of things change with the product but still it doesn't really works all that well for personal 3d printers. Now imagine a store like Ikea. Instead of you owning the 3d printer maybe they will. You just order what you want in the color you want online and then it is shipped to you or you pick it up. They could have a number of large and expensive machines but keep them going 24/7 making stuff. Some of it would be stocked at the store and other would be custom. That I could see. It is sort of like the difference between people having large really good photo printers at home vs having CVS or Snapfish print their pictures for them. But for that to work we will need to get the speed up, increase the number of materials we can use, and keep the costs down. Now if they could get one that has the same tolerances as CNC and produce stuff from Al and doesn't cost as much as an aircraft carrier then wow.
The premium isn't that high for a SOHO setup. If you are a MAC office and you want a server a mac mini server is $999 You get a quad core i7 4GB of ram and two 500 GB drives in a RAID. Yes you could build the same thing for about half the price and put freenas on it but that isn't cost effective for everyone. The Apple server will be easy to configure, it has some pretty good software services right out the box, it will be small, silent, and will work really well with Macs right out of the box. If you have a Mac office and are not super computer literate then it can be a good choice. In other words you pay a bit more for features you may not find of value. But let's say that it takes you a week to get that freenas box working just they way you want it. How much is a week of your labor worth? If you can plug this box in and get it working in hour or so then the math is very different. Oh and I do not own a Mac myself but I have spent time setting up servers for people and a mini would be ideal for say a small law or real estate firm that doesn't want a mini tower setting someplace. Now they need to integrate Asterisk on Mac Server! Set up iPhones with SIP clients. If the sip client is attached to the server then you route the calls to SIP client, if not you forward them to iPhone.
Yes and then you have the Virus that is Visual Basic. There are so many programs written in VB that people depend on. If those don't run you are in deep trouble. Now if you look at the server side then yes you could see even more Linux and frankly MySQL and Postgres deployed.. I tired to get one person to move to Linux. I had an old box and I set it for the person at the Church Library to use. All they did was us it to look up videos from a list. I set up everything for them but they stopped using it. Why? It scared them because it looked different!
Sorry I did probably over react. Just used to people having a snit fit when every feet or mile is used on slashdot. I started off also trying to be funny with my reference to the Song Inch worm converted to metric but I I guess took it a bit too far. The thing is that Not a single person commented on my suggestions of how useful this could be in the consumer space. I for one love the idea for an app that would tell you how to find a conference room or even to an item on a shelf.
my bad. I don't know about Australia but I know that in the UK they still give miles per gallon and 0 to 60, and quater mile times for cars and motorcycles. Inches and miles are just a part of the language. More examples He will not give an inch. It will not budge an inch. A yard of ale, A pint of beer. Then metric nazis are just a bit much.
Here are some uses I can think of. It may not be cheaper. Think of anyplace that you already use wifi. How about in a home. Maybe as a replacement for DVI? Just put your laptop near your external monitor or TV and send video to it. As a solution for wifi saturation. There are locations where you have a lot of wifi points and they can interfere with each other. This should be blocked by walls so it will provide a local wireless internet. Think of an office complex where each room could have it's own optical wifi point and not interfere with the office next to it. It could also be a cheaper then wifi to implement. Of course it is LOS only but then you can bet bounce off of the walls and ceiling so that shadows are not as big of deal.
Inch is just embedded into the English language so get over it. If you give them 25.4 mm and they will take 1.06 Kilometers. Try singing 2.5 centimeter worm some time. And I doubt that you every put your car into low and just centimeter a long. That being said, this is really cool. Imagine this in a mall, hotel, convention center, Hospital, or government building. Your smartphone could find you and direct you to any location. It could take you right to your hotel room, right to your meeting room, right to that booth you really wanted to see.
Thanks for this. Everything you said is true including 3d printing is really cool. It is just too handy to draw a part and print it without waiting for a machine shop to get it done.
And look at the cost of most of that. A laundry basket? Storage Bins. Molding is cheap when you a lot anything. This is useful for limited run items like your patterns. Get on of these that prints in foam or wax and does it fast and it could be great for manufactures. For those widgets you mentioned the savings isn't worth the cost of the printer.
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And if the people want to hear what you say they need to go to the site where you express yourself. There are so many ways to express ones self on the internet that I feel it is good to have real options and not all copy cats. Frankly I am in the "If you don't think it is worth standing behind what you say it isn't worth my time to hear it." Of course we live in a free society. What people don't get is that it is 100% to judge someone based on what they say and how they act. Yes if you are an extreme racist it is just fine that I don't like and don't want to be around you.
So why do you want to take away my freedom to have a forum that requires people stand behind what they say? I am just fine that you have forums where you can post anonymously.
I disagree with people the them vs us mentality. Look how much better I am because I am a "liberal", "conservative", "republican", "democrate",.... take you pick. labels==bigotry even when you apply them to yourself. And when you use the label to degrade those you put in that label then you are being a bigot.
Just thought I would toss in the inverse of the insult at an object lesson. Nothing wrong with charity at all. It is bigotry that I don't like.
And a liberal is someone who stays up at night because someone has more than they do. Take you pick greed or greed and envy.
If it becomes as successful as Google wants then it is because people choose to use it. Really how many social networks have been started by big companies and how many people have migrated from one to another? No you don't have to have be on Google+ your comment that you do not have to have email or a telephone. Well you are correct but you are not looking at it the right way. You do not have to be on Hotmail because you can use a different service. You do not have a phone you can have a mobile phone. You can even select a prepaid, pay as you go, or a contract for that mobile phone.
That is why Google+ can decide that it only wants to have people use real names. That is because you have other choices if enough people don't like it then it will fail. And yes Google+ is just a site another site can take it's place. You can even choose to be on Google+ and only put up what you want tied to your name and then go to other places to express opinons that you don't want tied to your name.
Do you want a bunch of famous actors and actresses to campaign for you? Got the Democrats.
You want big donations from Comcast and Sony? Got the Republicans.
It is simple you see famous actors, actresses, directors, and producers are special creative people that are better than the likes of you and me and must be protected. Why are you complaining? Don't you want to give them your money and freedom to make sure you can see Transformers 5?
I wouldn't worry about people trying to kill random people how ever I do think that there are way too many people that would think it was "funny" to really mess with people. "Dude, did you see those four just drop like a rock! That was so cool!"
For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)#Epilepsy_Foundation_forum_invasion
I just hope that they hackers are being as responsible as possible and are not going to publish this until any vulnerabilities are fixed. I would suggest publishing the results to all medical device makers so they can also check their devices for simular issues.
Not true, social networking sites function is find people and to be found. To be found you need to use a well known identity. Other sites are about using and often abusing free speech. Slashdot allows people to use an alias or post as an AC. Frankly I wouldn't mind seeing the option of posting as an AC going away because I feel that if you will not take the karma hit for saying I don't need to hear it. Others disagree including the people that run the site and that is okay.
Then you have sites like 4chan and so on.
As long all sites are not force by law to make you use a real name I don't see a problem with it. If a site doesn't allow posting profanity that is all just fine. If another site allows it then that is also just fine.
The think here is freedom of choice. I would never want to take away someones freedom to use a site that allows or requires anonymity. But then I also don't want to be told that not site can require real names. That would be taking away my freedom to choose the environment I want to be in and as someone that runs a website it reduces my choices about the type of sites I can create and run.
And yes it does offer value to users. The ability to locate and be located is one. The fact that people have to live with what they choose to say is another. It produces a more civil environment. Why shouldn't people have the option of that type of environment. After all you are not required to be on Facebook or Google+. Even if you decide to be on Facebook or Google plus you can decide how much info you put up or don't put up with your name.
Interesting. I can install Bing on my android phone and I can install Yahoo search. I have Yahoo mail as well on my android phone.
Google does seem to be really open about allowing other search engines on their phones.
It is a press release. This is new not data, I am sure if you contact them with a set of research requirements that they could get you the data. Also more than one paper will be published on this subject so I would watch the journals.
They are not even that hard to process. The problem isn't processing it is that you get other things out of the process. Mainly Thorium which is radioactive. Of course if we built Thorium cycle reactors then it because a bonus. China doesn't have the environmental laws of the US so they don't have a problem with processing them and selling them. The other problem is that it is risky to invest in producing them. China can just start dumping them on the market at a low cost and blame your investment is gone. You go out of the rare earth market and China raises prices. Odds are you will not jump in again.
Umm not really that simple. You are thinking of this a nothing more than simple collision detection issue. Just as Ethernet detected when a packet collision happened it then waits a random within a range amount of time before retransmission. The problem here is that for an electric car you could also end up with a race condition. You see that car has to charge for X amount of time and must be Charged by x. Now if the charger waits for the price of electricity to reach X it could wait until it is too late to charge the car. So you would have to have the charger say if it is x amount of time before say 8am charge it up no matter how expensive. At that time you could have a big spike in energy use.
Now your random wait will help prevent all the chargers jumping on at once so you will not have an almost square wave style spike but it still look very much like a spike when the price drops to x and then will fall off when the price drops to y.
I would say that you are over trivializing the problem a good bit. Make smart charging stations could destabilize the grid if not done correctly. Think of the effect that program trading has had on markets before safeguards where put in. Not an unsolveable problem to be sure but also not the trivial duhh you seem to think it is.
Well Google just bought a bunch from IBM so maybe they own a patient on pointers or some other ridiculous fundmental technology that they can hold over their head. They really need to just go back to copyrights and trademarks. Makes me kind of sad because my company created some very interesting features in our software that I am sure we could have patented but didn't because we believed that software could not be patented. Too bad it would have been very profitable to lock our competitors out of copying those features we would probably have close to a 100% market share now if we had. If that had happened we could have taken our time adding new features and new patients and kept that locked up and raked in money for decades.
Software like a book of movie should fall under copyright and trademark law.
Here is the issue. Software patents shouldn't exist and don't in some nations. Patents are being used like nuclear weapons these days. Companies are getting them so that they don't get sued. They are also using them to limit competition and lock others out of the marketplace.
Good luck if you want to start a software company in anything but a small vertical market these days. Some companies like IBM tended to use patents just defense. They rarely went after people with them. Apple and Microsoft have decided to go on the offensive. Google has not bought some nuclear weapons of it's own from IBM. I wonder how many patients on operating systems that IBM owns are Microsoft and Apple infringing on?
The solution is to just get rid of software patients. Go back to copyright and trademarks for protections as it should be.
I use Gnome 2, Windows XP, and OS/X and I can move between them all with a good bit of ease.
I have not upgraded my Linux machine in a while because I have it working the way I want it to. I have not moved to Windows 7 for the same reason but I have used it a bit and I do feel it is a good update to Windows XP.
Out of the three I like using OS/X the best followed by Gnome 2. I have not used Gnome 3 yet but I am beginning to wonder if it is just less friendly for command line driven developers. If you read the story you will see that statement that a lot of other users he showed it to liked Gnome 3 just fine.
Honestly I am getting to the point where I feel desktops are trying to do too much and not doing the basics well.
They should launch programs and help manage the system resources. Desktops should make those functions the highest priority. This seems to be the big fail for Gnome 3. Linus needs to launch terminals and it takes him too long. On OS/X I have the terminal on the launch bar on XP I have a command prompt on the desktop.It would seem that Gnome3 does not offer this vital function.
Even then it is going to be iffy. Lets just take one thing. A laundry basket.
If it costs you $12 at the store and lasts 5 years. But only costs $2 if you print it yourself how many years will it take for payback on a $1000 3d printer? And frankly that is going to be cheap for a 3d printer big enough for a laundry basket.
Of things change with the product but still it doesn't really works all that well for personal 3d printers.
Now imagine a store like Ikea. Instead of you owning the 3d printer maybe they will. You just order what you want in the color you want online and then it is shipped to you or you pick it up. They could have a number of large and expensive machines but keep them going 24/7 making stuff. Some of it would be stocked at the store and other would be custom. That I could see. It is sort of like the difference between people having large really good photo printers at home vs having CVS or Snapfish print their pictures for them. But for that to work we will need to get the speed up, increase the number of materials we can use, and keep the costs down. Now if they could get one that has the same tolerances as CNC and produce stuff from Al and doesn't cost as much as an aircraft carrier then wow.
The premium isn't that high for a SOHO setup.
If you are a MAC office and you want a server a mac mini server is $999 You get a quad core i7 4GB of ram and two 500 GB drives in a RAID. Yes you could build the same thing for about half the price and put freenas on it but that isn't cost effective for everyone.
The Apple server will be easy to configure, it has some pretty good software services right out the box, it will be small, silent, and will work really well with Macs right out of the box.
If you have a Mac office and are not super computer literate then it can be a good choice. In other words you pay a bit more for features you may not find of value. But let's say that it takes you a week to get that freenas box working just they way you want it. How much is a week of your labor worth? If you can plug this box in and get it working in hour or so then the math is very different.
Oh and I do not own a Mac myself but I have spent time setting up servers for people and a mini would be ideal for say a small law or real estate firm that doesn't want a mini tower setting someplace. Now they need to integrate Asterisk on Mac Server! Set up iPhones with SIP clients. If the sip client is attached to the server then you route the calls to SIP client, if not you forward them to iPhone.
Yes and then you have the Virus that is Visual Basic. There are so many programs written in VB that people depend on. If those don't run you are in deep trouble. Now if you look at the server side then yes you could see even more Linux and frankly MySQL and Postgres deployed.. I tired to get one person to move to Linux. I had an old box and I set it for the person at the Church Library to use. All they did was us it to look up videos from a list. I set up everything for them but they stopped using it. Why? It scared them because it looked different!
Sorry I did probably over react. Just used to people having a snit fit when every feet or mile is used on slashdot. I started off also trying to be funny with my reference to the Song Inch worm converted to metric but I I guess took it a bit too far.
The thing is that Not a single person commented on my suggestions of how useful this could be in the consumer space. I for one love the idea for an app that would tell you how to find a conference room or even to an item on a shelf.
my bad.
I don't know about Australia but I know that in the UK they still give miles per gallon and 0 to 60, and quater mile times for cars and motorcycles.
Inches and miles are just a part of the language. More examples
He will not give an inch.
It will not budge an inch.
A yard of ale,
A pint of beer.
Then metric nazis are just a bit much.
Here are some uses I can think of.
It may not be cheaper. Think of anyplace that you already use wifi.
How about in a home. Maybe as a replacement for DVI? Just put your laptop near your external monitor or TV and send video to it.
As a solution for wifi saturation. There are locations where you have a lot of wifi points and they can interfere with each other. This should be blocked by walls so it will provide a local wireless internet. Think of an office complex where each room could have it's own optical wifi point and not interfere with the office next to it.
It could also be a cheaper then wifi to implement. Of course it is LOS only but then you can bet bounce off of the walls and ceiling so that shadows are not as big of deal.
Inch is just embedded into the English language so get over it. If you give them 25.4 mm and they will take 1.06 Kilometers. Try singing 2.5 centimeter worm some time. And I doubt that you every put your car into low and just centimeter a long.
That being said, this is really cool. Imagine this in a mall, hotel, convention center, Hospital, or government building. Your smartphone could find you and direct you to any location. It could take you right to your hotel room, right to your meeting room, right to that booth you really wanted to see.
Thanks for this. Everything you said is true including 3d printing is really cool. It is just too handy to draw a part and print it without waiting for a machine shop to get it done.
Automated machine tools are differn't from 3D printers. Very cool mind you but different CNC has been around for decades.
And look at the cost of most of that. A laundry basket? Storage Bins. Molding is cheap when you a lot anything. This is useful for limited run items like your patterns. Get on of these that prints in foam or wax and does it fast and it could be great for manufactures. For those widgets you mentioned the savings isn't worth the cost of the printer.