3D printers will be attractive to consumers when they are sub$500 AND provide quality prints quickly. People take print time into account along with price so if it takes hours to print an object that they can buy over the counter, people will just buy over the counter and avoid the hassle of a machine thumping away for hours. My prediction has always been that 3D printing will be done in a shop front or via mail order. This latest unit is just taking advantage of the dissatisfaction with the current crop of consumer printers, and may not actually live up to the promises.
MS has offered upgrades at a reduced cost, it has supported it for about a decade, if people hold onto it, they do so at their own peril. Who holds onto a photocopier for ten years and expects spare parts? Yes I own an old laser printer and sadly, if it breaks I don't expect to have spare parts available. The devil inside me says that people are also holding on to XP because many machines could be activated with the same code, or even without a code in the case of many laptops supplied with a restore CD.
I want my DVD and not be dependant on streaming through a dodgy telco network. I can use a DVD anytime and play it many times without additional cost, I can lend it out and get it back, and not depend on a company like Netflix staying in business.
beef cycles water, else they would explode! they give a lot of the water back as sweat, and urine, etc. Running cattle on desert is stupidity, almost as stupid as people who believe that turning everyone to vegan would not bring on it's own sowing, fertiliser, and irrigation problems. They should also sight the origin of the water use research as it seems to be a vegan resource that pops up constantly, i.e. have the details been peer reviewed? Where would our woolly jumpers come from?
from vision and personal experience, most people wearing masks don't wear them correctly. This includes nurses, builders and people trying to get protection from the rest of us. It's not not just Chinese, it's everywhere. Also, most masks just keep out dust, not fumes or virus, the good ones are more expensive.
Nokia had there own connectors for years, the B+N nook has it's own connector, it just one of those things. I think it's more important to have a single USB charger.
It's a bad example, you can see who you are following, metadata is blind, it does not know anything about the specific person, it just indicates patterns.
Apple TV mirrors your desktop, so you can do on the TV what you can do on the mac. Macosx maverick will use use Apple TV as a second desktop, menu bar and all, so Sony get a PS4 extension, well done!
The USA didn't give a poop about Dr. Who until 'recently'. It isn't a lame show made in the US with nice PC characters. Dr.Who can kill, lie, and deceive, and make monumental blunders. If it was written in the US he'd be nice and strong. He is male, and regenerates as a male, to regenerate as a female would mean a gender change, just to please a small whiny few. OFFS! The US networks kill good Si-Fi so leave the rest of us alone.(Firefly).
Many people get this far with Gauss gun, then the exponential power requirements kick in and you see why only big companies continue development. The theory is good, but it's Hollywood science when it comed down to physical size.
Factor in the average households inability to set up an email account without help, the chances that the average family would find it easy to print what they need is not for this generation. I would see a business model more like the photo printing services, good quality, expensive machines doing print to order stuff. Why would you waste your time printing a curtain ring?
I'd let the robot show a human the vein, but it would stop there. just spent 3 months in hospital, needles every 3 days, only one nurse used an infra-red device to locate a vein, many were told to come back later, they only get 2 chances!
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The film must have been a reference to a section of an Adams story where a survey marker was placed on earth to mark the center of the universe. IIRC
It's a rock! It takes a pretty stoned mind to call it Australia. And Tasmania misses out again!
3D printers will be attractive to consumers when they are sub$500 AND provide quality prints quickly. People take print time into account along with price so if it takes hours to print an object that they can buy over the counter, people will just buy over the counter and avoid the hassle of a machine thumping away for hours. My prediction has always been that 3D printing will be done in a shop front or via mail order. This latest unit is just taking advantage of the dissatisfaction with the current crop of consumer printers, and may not actually live up to the promises.
MS has offered upgrades at a reduced cost, it has supported it for about a decade, if people hold onto it, they do so at their own peril. Who holds onto a photocopier for ten years and expects spare parts? Yes I own an old laser printer and sadly, if it breaks I don't expect to have spare parts available. The devil inside me says that people are also holding on to XP because many machines could be activated with the same code, or even without a code in the case of many laptops supplied with a restore CD.
Jail breaking automobile software, yer, there's a recipe for disaster!
I want my DVD and not be dependant on streaming through a dodgy telco network. I can use a DVD anytime and play it many times without additional cost, I can lend it out and get it back, and not depend on a company like Netflix staying in business.
I'm a good programmer, and I have friends too.
beef cycles water, else they would explode! they give a lot of the water back as sweat, and urine, etc. Running cattle on desert is stupidity, almost as stupid as people who believe that turning everyone to vegan would not bring on it's own sowing, fertiliser, and irrigation problems. They should also sight the origin of the water use research as it seems to be a vegan resource that pops up constantly, i.e. have the details been peer reviewed? Where would our woolly jumpers come from?
bzzzzzt, wrong! my gen 4 iPod touch can't be upgraded to iOS 7. or are you trying to say iPAD?
free vs. commercial, free with cheap hardware will win every time.
from vision and personal experience, most people wearing masks don't wear them correctly. This includes nurses, builders and people trying to get protection from the rest of us. It's not not just Chinese, it's everywhere. Also, most masks just keep out dust, not fumes or virus, the good ones are more expensive.
Gosh, an OS that mimics another GUI? Would never happen in the 'west'?
In An interview with Myers CEO, he said a small percentage of their sales are online, so they will not miss too much.
Nokia had there own connectors for years, the B+N nook has it's own connector, it just one of those things. I think it's more important to have a single USB charger.
It's a bad example, you can see who you are following, metadata is blind, it does not know anything about the specific person, it just indicates patterns.
Feels a little faster in some areas like web browsing, generally about the same, but I prefer the old UI.
Another /. Link that attracts anti apple people who don't RTFA.
Apple TV mirrors your desktop, so you can do on the TV what you can do on the mac. Macosx maverick will use use Apple TV as a second desktop, menu bar and all, so Sony get a PS4 extension, well done!
Ok, hands up who thought of posting the same quote! o/
The USA didn't give a poop about Dr. Who until 'recently'. It isn't a lame show made in the US with nice PC characters. Dr.Who can kill, lie, and deceive, and make monumental blunders. If it was written in the US he'd be nice and strong. He is male, and regenerates as a male, to regenerate as a female would mean a gender change, just to please a small whiny few. OFFS! The US networks kill good Si-Fi so leave the rest of us alone.(Firefly).
Many people get this far with Gauss gun, then the exponential power requirements kick in and you see why only big companies continue development. The theory is good, but it's Hollywood science when it comed down to physical size.
Factor in the average households inability to set up an email account without help, the chances that the average family would find it easy to print what they need is not for this generation. I would see a business model more like the photo printing services, good quality, expensive machines doing print to order stuff. Why would you waste your time printing a curtain ring?
This is just a story about 2 stores, and my guess is that it's about paranoid managers who have lost stock in the past. No news here.
What about Dell and HP? All made in China, all used by big government. Ah! HP and Dell are US companies, so that's OK.
I'd let the robot show a human the vein, but it would stop there. just spent 3 months in hospital, needles every 3 days, only one nurse used an infra-red device to locate a vein, many were told to come back later, they only get 2 chances!