You're still stuck with the shitty sensor and tiny lens on the camera itself, regardless of what hipster filter you stick on it.
So? There are numerous photographers doing amazing work with "shitty sensors and tiny lenses". An iPhone camera is every bit as much a real camera as the latest four figure offering from Canon or Nikon. A camera is only a sensor or surface for collecting light combined with something to focus the light onto that sensor or surface after all.
Only a fool, a poseur, or a computer nerd thinks that you absolutely must have the best top end gear to do worthwhile work.
I hope this is an April Fools joke. How long have cameras had a bayonet lens mount?
"Bayonet mount" is a generic term, kind of like "screw" - I.E. just as there are a wide variety of screws and heads, specific mounts can and do vary wildly from each other.
Different specific mounts have different features and performance. For example, the bayonet mounts used for light bulbs aren't suitable for lenses because their depth would make a camera unwieldy, complicate optical design, and wear quickly because of the weight of the lens on the relatively small pins. Hence, lens mounts use typically tabs rather than pins. Light bulb mounts also suck at maintaining close and rigid alignment - something a lens mount absolutely must have. Lens mounts also use different retention features than a light bulb mount to facilitate quick changes and reduce the relative force required.
When apple wins a patent for "bayonet attachment mechanisms", why would you assume it would be used for camera lenses?
Let's see... The claims sections of the patent in question describes the use of bayonet connections for lenses. The description section of the patent describes the use of bayonet connections for lenses. The drawings section of the patent shows a phone and lenses and the details of a lens connections...
Nope, no reason at all to assume it would be used for lenses.
They did that again when they created Google Wave, and it made some sense as Wave was complex and resource intensive, but they never opened it fully up. And again when they created G+ they did the same... which went a long way towards keeping it from being any real kind of success.
It may have sense for Gmail. but they've kept to the same pattern.
Canon doesn't sell them anymore, but Lensrentals.com rents both Canons and Nikons DSLR's that have been modified to work in IR. (IR is currently something of a fad in the photography community though there's pretty much always someone working with it.)
On the contrary, I've made shoes, from scratch. I used to do medieval re-enactment as a hobby.
Well then, you're not only speaking to the right person (I've been nearly thirty years in the SCA), you're revealing yet again the depths of your cluelessness - you're an idiot who knows zip point shit about modern shoes or shoemaking. Crude crap ass medieval style shoes are just fine for weekend wear - they are not fine for daily wear over long periods because they provide no arch support. There's a reason why we don't make shoes like that any more.
And even then your 'solution' doesn't solve anything or answer my question - where to do the designs come from? A modern shoe isn't just sheets of leather sewn together.
UO very much resembled a MUD. It was also a pretty awesome game until EA took it over and turned it into a WOW-style gear grind and started screwing with the skill balance.
EA never 'took over' UO - it owned UO from day one. By the time EA disbanded Origin, the PvE-only areas had already been in existence for four years, and the gear-centric grindfest disaster that was AoS had been out for two years. Not to mention 'tinkering with skill balance' had been ongoing from day one. Etc... etc...
As a species yes, but much like rats - individuals not so much during the era of the Black Death.
Without human-to-human enzootic transmission it would not have spread so widely or kill such a high percentage of the population.
That's a stretch not clearly supported by the available evidence. That the pneumonic form that's spread human-to-human contributed has long been known, but the widest spread and most deaths came from the the rat borne bubonic form.
A group of former developers for Ultima Online has created a game company
Um... so what? UO has been around so long now there's a veritable legion of "former UO developers" out there running around. A quick check of the bios on the company website doesn't raise much confidence that the claim of being a "former UO developer" is worth much - they mostly only worked there for a short time and on one single expansion well into the "let's keep ol' bessie runnin' one more season" phase of UO's life.
Being "involved with UO" may have been a phrase to invoke magic with back in the late 90's/early 00's... But now that it's a pale shadow of it's heyday, it's just pathetic.
Unless 3D printers can start molding metals, rubber, paint, and various other base materials then this is a non-issue.
They are already doing this - just not at the 'home' level...
Not at Shapeways they aren't. Their 'steel' isn't molded steel (as specified by the OP), it's powder and glue. Their 'sandstone' isn't sandstone, it's gypsum powder and glue. Their ceramics are sintered powder, not a solid material. Etc... etc...
3D printing won't replace traditional manufacturing, any more than home laser printers replaced commercial printing.
Ubiquitous printers didn't replace commercial printing - but it sure as hell altered the landscape. Thirty years ago even my small town (20k in that era) supported three full time small scale printshops - and now there are none. (Heck, I earned my high school graduation trip working weekends in Mr Flynn's printshop.) When my dad finally retired in the mid 90's, he was the last small printer in a town of a quarter million.
I suspect 3D printing will be just like the microprocessor (the PC) and the web... it's not the big guys that will be hurt, but the little ones.
Somehow, I don't think I'm going to ever trust my neighbor's foray into printing car tires.
Yes, and no. If he has a machine that can print tires, he can print tires with just a few keystrokes. What I don't trust is the design of the tires in an era of ubiquitous 3D printing. Where are the designs coming from? How can I rely on the designs? You can design an oddball toothbrush or vase and not cause too many problems, not so much with tires - or shoes.
You have missed the concept of distributed peer-to-peer commerce alluded to in the summary. You will not have a single machine that can make everything, but access to many different machines across a network, one of which might be yours..
So, I'm supposed to trust that somewhere in the network will be the machine that will print the one thing I (and everyone else) only occasionally need a new one of? It had better be a dang big network. (And the guy who owns that one machine had better have maintained it and remembered to refill it last week.) Not to mention the problem of transport, if I have to traipse around to half a dozen places or wait for the mail to arrive... well, there's not much of an advantage there over big box stores. Peer to peer works for software, but it doesn't work all that well for physical goods.
Makerspaces are community organizations that have multiple tools and machines, shared among their users. There are more of those, in various cities. The end point will be many such local workshops, plus individuals who have their own machines, and all of it linked into a network that can produce whatever you need.
That's a very nice fantasy... but it's utterly disconnected from reality. Once you get centralized machines owned by someone else, you're starting right down the same economic road that resulted in the creation of big-box stores in the first place.
I doubt it will ever get there... not everyone cooks or even microwaves their own food after all.
And that's without pondering whether we'll ever get a 3D printer that can print all those things that require so many different characteristics (I.E. so many different materials) - and still be cheap enough to be affordable to the average consumer. The average 3D printing fanboy seems to seriously lack a grasp of just how far we are from practical large scale 3d printing.
Why don't authors self publish, shouldn't be too diffucult with to days technology? Cut out the middle man altogether.
Self publishing *is* difficult - and a lot more work than you think because now the author has to do all the marketing, all the site maintenance, all the accounting, all the everything that isn't writing. Assuming a middle man is nothing but a leech is foolish, in many cases they actually do provide valuable services. Middle men didn't arise just by chance or malfeasance, nor do they persist solely by inertia.
And how do they know that Walmart is the place to go for low prices? How have they solidified themselves in the public mind as the low-cost leader?
Mostly word-of-mouth, they have been around for over half a century you know. Their actual marketing (commercials, sponsorships, etc...) is fairly modest in scope. And to be honest, with their national reach and lack of competition they don't need much in the way of marketing - they've all but crushed all competition. (Wal-Mart and Target fight over boundaries, but they're not really in direct competition.)
Factor #3: A spinning flywheel is one hell of an energy store. Having a stopped vehichle with a fully spun up flywheel hit could release the spinning flywheel to the detriment of pedestrians in the neighborhood. Factor #4: Starting from a stop and attempting to corner, left or right, having a spinning flywheel is going to do gyroscopic things to the vehicle.
You do know that cars already have a flywheel in them...
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Humor is supposed to be funny, you seem to have missed that part.
So? There are numerous photographers doing amazing work with "shitty sensors and tiny lenses". An iPhone camera is every bit as much a real camera as the latest four figure offering from Canon or Nikon. A camera is only a sensor or surface for collecting light combined with something to focus the light onto that sensor or surface after all.
Only a fool, a poseur, or a computer nerd thinks that you absolutely must have the best top end gear to do worthwhile work.
"Bayonet mount" is a generic term, kind of like "screw" - I.E. just as there are a wide variety of screws and heads, specific mounts can and do vary wildly from each other.
Different specific mounts have different features and performance. For example, the bayonet mounts used for light bulbs aren't suitable for lenses because their depth would make a camera unwieldy, complicate optical design, and wear quickly because of the weight of the lens on the relatively small pins. Hence, lens mounts use typically tabs rather than pins. Light bulb mounts also suck at maintaining close and rigid alignment - something a lens mount absolutely must have. Lens mounts also use different retention features than a light bulb mount to facilitate quick changes and reduce the relative force required.
Let's see... The claims sections of the patent in question describes the use of bayonet connections for lenses. The description section of the patent describes the use of bayonet connections for lenses. The drawings section of the patent shows a phone and lenses and the details of a lens connections...
Nope, no reason at all to assume it would be used for lenses.
(Seriously, how did this dreck get modded up?)
They did that again when they created Google Wave, and it made some sense as Wave was complex and resource intensive, but they never opened it fully up. And again when they created G+ they did the same... which went a long way towards keeping it from being any real kind of success.
It may have sense for Gmail. but they've kept to the same pattern.
And either way, cash or "barter", the exchange is taxable.
Canon doesn't sell them anymore, but Lensrentals.com rents both Canons and Nikons DSLR's that have been modified to work in IR. (IR is currently something of a fad in the photography community though there's pretty much always someone working with it.)
If you don't know what that means, you aren't qualified to be in this conversation no matter what medical condition your child has.
Well then, you're not only speaking to the right person (I've been nearly thirty years in the SCA), you're revealing yet again the depths of your cluelessness - you're an idiot who knows zip point shit about modern shoes or shoemaking. Crude crap ass medieval style shoes are just fine for weekend wear - they are not fine for daily wear over long periods because they provide no arch support. There's a reason why we don't make shoes like that any more.
And even then your 'solution' doesn't solve anything or answer my question - where to do the designs come from? A modern shoe isn't just sheets of leather sewn together.
EA never 'took over' UO - it owned UO from day one. By the time EA disbanded Origin, the PvE-only areas had already been in existence for four years, and the gear-centric grindfest disaster that was AoS had been out for two years. Not to mention 'tinkering with skill balance' had been ongoing from day one. Etc... etc...
And we know that pigments and binders are completely stable across decades and centuries...
As a species yes, but much like rats - individuals not so much during the era of the Black Death.
That's a stretch not clearly supported by the available evidence. That the pneumonic form that's spread human-to-human contributed has long been known, but the widest spread and most deaths came from the the rat borne bubonic form.
Um... so what? UO has been around so long now there's a veritable legion of "former UO developers" out there running around. A quick check of the bios on the company website doesn't raise much confidence that the claim of being a "former UO developer" is worth much - they mostly only worked there for a short time and on one single expansion well into the "let's keep ol' bessie runnin' one more season" phase of UO's life.
Being "involved with UO" may have been a phrase to invoke magic with back in the late 90's/early 00's... But now that it's a pale shadow of it's heyday, it's just pathetic.
Not by the fanboys, but that's pretty much true of anything isn't it?
Not at Shapeways they aren't. Their 'steel' isn't molded steel (as specified by the OP), it's powder and glue. Their 'sandstone' isn't sandstone, it's gypsum powder and glue. Their ceramics are sintered powder, not a solid material. Etc... etc...
Read the specifications. And *think*.
Indeed. When my DVR picks up on a TNG episode, that's the only one I will watch every single time.
Ubiquitous printers didn't replace commercial printing - but it sure as hell altered the landscape. Thirty years ago even my small town (20k in that era) supported three full time small scale printshops - and now there are none. (Heck, I earned my high school graduation trip working weekends in Mr Flynn's printshop.) When my dad finally retired in the mid 90's, he was the last small printer in a town of a quarter million.
I suspect 3D printing will be just like the microprocessor (the PC) and the web... it's not the big guys that will be hurt, but the little ones.
Yes, and no. If he has a machine that can print tires, he can print tires with just a few keystrokes. What I don't trust is the design of the tires in an era of ubiquitous 3D printing. Where are the designs coming from? How can I rely on the designs? You can design an oddball toothbrush or vase and not cause too many problems, not so much with tires - or shoes.
So, I'm supposed to trust that somewhere in the network will be the machine that will print the one thing I (and everyone else) only occasionally need a new one of? It had better be a dang big network. (And the guy who owns that one machine had better have maintained it and remembered to refill it last week.) Not to mention the problem of transport, if I have to traipse around to half a dozen places or wait for the mail to arrive... well, there's not much of an advantage there over big box stores. Peer to peer works for software, but it doesn't work all that well for physical goods.
That's a very nice fantasy... but it's utterly disconnected from reality. Once you get centralized machines owned by someone else, you're starting right down the same economic road that resulted in the creation of big-box stores in the first place.
I doubt it will ever get there... not everyone cooks or even microwaves their own food after all.
And that's without pondering whether we'll ever get a 3D printer that can print all those things that require so many different characteristics (I.E. so many different materials) - and still be cheap enough to be affordable to the average consumer. The average 3D printing fanboy seems to seriously lack a grasp of just how far we are from practical large scale 3d printing.
Self publishing *is* difficult - and a lot more work than you think because now the author has to do all the marketing, all the site maintenance, all the accounting, all the everything that isn't writing. Assuming a middle man is nothing but a leech is foolish, in many cases they actually do provide valuable services. Middle men didn't arise just by chance or malfeasance, nor do they persist solely by inertia.
Mostly word-of-mouth, they have been around for over half a century you know. Their actual marketing (commercials, sponsorships, etc...) is fairly modest in scope. And to be honest, with their national reach and lack of competition they don't need much in the way of marketing - they've all but crushed all competition. (Wal-Mart and Target fight over boundaries, but they're not really in direct competition.)
Ah yes - the ancient strategy of attacking the questioner rather than answering the question.
Your cluelessness is duly noted.
Since a flywheel doesn't have velocity, you're full of shit.
You do know that cars already have a flywheel in them...