I can't believe I'm reading comments complaining about the grammar of the post title. It's a perfectly hilarious bit of hyperbole, and I enjoyed it. "Man, Australia is on so freakin' much fire right now!"
These people must have already run out of stupid IRC arguments and stuff to downvote on Reddit and imgur for today...
Well, as someone who designs timepieces and clocks that would charitably be described as "Holy shit, is that a bomb?" I find this more than a little troubling... Oh well, at least the shoes I usually wear are an ancient and well-worn pair of Nike low-tops...no problems there...unless they decide my shoes look too old and I must be hiding a bomb in them.
What the fuck is going on with this country? Also, it makes me wonder if Woz has any trouble like this with his Nixie watch...
Why does every situation involving missing prototype phones turn into such a clustastrophuck? Is WWIII gonna be started over the iPhone 7 or something?
People have been making DIY laser cutters for a few years now. But sometimes it ends up being cheaper to just buy the whole damn thing instead of wasting months fine-tuning all the fiddly bits and still getting less than stellar results.
It's TRUE that there's no real 'definitive resource' for the A-to-Z on how to get it done, but then the same is true for CNC conversions, even though hundreds of people have done them.
I'm in the process of converting my mini-mill and mini-lathe to CNC, after that I've definitely got my eye on making a laser cutter!:3
I thought the whole point of Kickstarter was to help people raise money for ideas they can't afford to produce themselves. In fact, I distinctly remember there being some big stink about people trying to fund products they already had in production.
Now Kickstarter is saying you have to be able to produce a prototype before you can even try to raise money? Am I missing something here, or what?
Whether 'Texan environmentalists' can be real or not-- Personally I agree that spacetime would consume itself, or something. --can we please just give them back to Mexico now?
Hell, Florida too, for all I care, though I'm not entirely sure how that'd work out.
I had IndieGoGo recommended to me when I related this issue with Kickstarter in the comments on a Make article. I checked it out, and upon finding out you could crowdfund business endeavors, and not just projects... I decided "Go big or go home!" and made a campaign to try and raise money for some machine tools. (Read: Confronted with the possibility, I lost all sanity and did something impulsive and nutty.)
It proved semi-successful despite my bungling; I'm embarrassed to say it was rather spur of the moment, and the lack of preparation kept me from being able to adequately convey what I was offering...instead of just what I was trying to do.
And right now, I'm trying to fix my #$*&$@ printer so I can take care of the large mechanical drawings I promised as perks. (While also continuing to learn how to use my metalworking lathe.)
Luckily 90% of the donations came from people who know me on IRC and stuff so they get my awkwardness and will bear with me.;)
This is absolutely ridiculous. I'm simply appalled that they would even SAY THAT. I'm not really that surprised though, as I've been on the receiving end of Kickstarter's questionable behavior as well.
I submitted a Kickstarter for a generic USBHID interface board (For making game controllers and input devices, though it really had tons of applications) and they rejected it for no reason. When pressed for an explanation, they said "Kickstarter is for creative arts projects and [my] project did not fit."
So, I guess having a DOZEN Kickstarters for Arduino clones going at any given time is okay, but if someone wants to make something that hasn't been run into the ground yet, fuck 'em! I mean, wow! I was only trying to get $500 together!
Is it wrong that my first thought-- after "Oh good, it's not HERE." --was to wonder why the hell someone would hack the medicaid records for Utah? I mean, really. Utah?
Tell me about it... I've had the goddamn A/C in the window for the better part of a week now here in Vermont!
I distinctly remember it snowing for TWO SOLID DAYS at the end of May last year. What the hell is going on?! This doesn't feel like 'climate change' so much as 'climate schizophrenia'!
Would the Apollo example really trip up a decently-written program though? I mean, my first thought was "Well, what if it had a fallback routine where it tries anagrams of possible answers?" so I have to imagine someone smarter than me has thought of that. I guess there's some limitation I'm not seeing...
On second thought...what am I still doing awake at 5:48am commenting on a post about crossword-solving computers?!
It is literally impossible to keep a piece of software from being cracked if there's a demand. No matter how draconian a DRM scheme you implement, the software will be pirated, and the cracked version will be completely DRM-free, leaving you with pirated copies that treat the user better than the legit copies do.
Even software packages that utilize hardware security dongles are cracked between a week before, and a day after release.
For the most part, the people who don't pay for software wouldn't have paid in the first place. So what's the point? You just end up screwing your paying userbase.
Sharing login credentials as a sign of luuuuurve? This reminds me of the time I spent handling support tickets as a GM on a private Ragnarok Online server.
If I were to guess the number of item recovery tickets I handled that were about people sharing their accounts with significant others and having all their stuff stolen, the answer might cause your head to explode.
It wasn't limited to real-world relationships either. I once handled a ticket where someone was ripped off by their in-game spouse. To make matters even more lulzy, I distinctly remember having processed a divorce request ticket for the thief earlier that day.
The thief's character name? Louise_Greed. (Not even kidding.) It took all my willpower not to ask the victim exactly what the hell he thought was going to happen.
I have once again overestimated Microsoft... I didn't think they'd find a way to screw this up.
But $250?? Are you fucking cracked? I bought one for $150 LAST YEAR. So, basically, KNOWING that most of the people who want a Kinect for their computer already bought Xbox ones, they've decided not only to sell a SPECIAL one for computers, but to almost DOUBLE the price?
Apple will succeed in getting the product pulled, and six weeks later, will release their own creepy doll of Steve Jobs that looks (not surprisingly) identical, but costs five times as much.;)
You obviously haven't seen these little pricks. They're spoiled rich kids playing pirate. I seriously doubt they'll feel the loss of a couple cheap UAVs.
After all, they didn't seem to care much when they lost their uber stealth boat thing, after RAMMING A WHALING VESSEL with it and claiming the whaling vessel rammed THEM.
These people piss me the hell off. I couldn't care less about whaling one way or the other, but whenever I hear about these assholes in the news, it makes me think "Plate me up some whale meat! YEAHHH!"
Kind of like the reaction I have to anything PETA does. "Sea kittens? Sounds tasty! WHAT NOW, BITCHES?"
"Simmons apparently drew the ire of the Anonymous set after he lambasted their peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading proclivities..."
And then his son traced whole pages out of the Japanese manga 'Bleach' and proceeded to make his own even more terrible comic book out of it. Could that possibly have something to do with it? (Or was this before that? Either way, pretty damned funny!)
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I can't believe I'm reading comments complaining about the grammar of the post title. It's a perfectly hilarious bit of hyperbole, and I enjoyed it. "Man, Australia is on so freakin' much fire right now!"
These people must have already run out of stupid IRC arguments and stuff to downvote on Reddit and imgur for today...
NORAD, using Microsoft products... Well, at least we know how the world ends.
Well, as someone who designs timepieces and clocks that would charitably be described as "Holy shit, is that a bomb?" I find this more than a little troubling... Oh well, at least the shoes I usually wear are an ancient and well-worn pair of Nike low-tops...no problems there...unless they decide my shoes look too old and I must be hiding a bomb in them.
What the fuck is going on with this country? Also, it makes me wonder if Woz has any trouble like this with his Nixie watch...
Why does every situation involving missing prototype phones turn into such a clustastrophuck? Is WWIII gonna be started over the iPhone 7 or something?
People have been making DIY laser cutters for a few years now. But sometimes it ends up being cheaper to just buy the whole damn thing instead of wasting months fine-tuning all the fiddly bits and still getting less than stellar results.
It's TRUE that there's no real 'definitive resource' for the A-to-Z on how to get it done, but then the same is true for CNC conversions, even though hundreds of people have done them.
I'm in the process of converting my mini-mill and mini-lathe to CNC, after that I've definitely got my eye on making a laser cutter! :3
And so Apple makes their products incompatible with the rest of the universe in yet one more way! It's not easy being an Apple customer, is it?
I thought the whole point of Kickstarter was to help people raise money for ideas they can't afford to produce themselves. In fact, I distinctly remember there being some big stink about people trying to fund products they already had in production.
Now Kickstarter is saying you have to be able to produce a prototype before you can even try to raise money? Am I missing something here, or what?
Whether 'Texan environmentalists' can be real or not-- Personally I agree that spacetime would consume itself, or something. --can we please just give them back to Mexico now?
Hell, Florida too, for all I care, though I'm not entirely sure how that'd work out.
Ah yeah, the website in my profile is just where I post dumb crap. :)
;)
I save http://tangibleimagination.com/ for more serious-ish stuff.
I had IndieGoGo recommended to me when I related this issue with Kickstarter in the comments on a Make article. I checked it out, and upon finding out you could crowdfund business endeavors, and not just projects... I decided "Go big or go home!" and made a campaign to try and raise money for some machine tools. (Read: Confronted with the possibility, I lost all sanity and did something impulsive and nutty.)
It proved semi-successful despite my bungling; I'm embarrassed to say it was rather spur of the moment, and the lack of preparation kept me from being able to adequately convey what I was offering...instead of just what I was trying to do.
And right now, I'm trying to fix my #$*&$@ printer so I can take care of the large mechanical drawings I promised as perks. (While also continuing to learn how to use my metalworking lathe.)
Luckily 90% of the donations came from people who know me on IRC and stuff so they get my awkwardness and will bear with me.
I'll let you know when I take another shot at making the boards. ;)
Wow, those look awesome. My boards were more input device oriented though, and the pricepoint I was aiming for was ~$30 for over a dozen inputs.
This is absolutely ridiculous. I'm simply appalled that they would even SAY THAT. I'm not really that surprised though, as I've been on the receiving end of Kickstarter's questionable behavior as well.
I submitted a Kickstarter for a generic USBHID interface board (For making game controllers and input devices, though it really had tons of applications) and they rejected it for no reason. When pressed for an explanation, they said "Kickstarter is for creative arts projects and [my] project did not fit."
So, I guess having a DOZEN Kickstarters for Arduino clones going at any given time is okay, but if someone wants to make something that hasn't been run into the ground yet, fuck 'em! I mean, wow! I was only trying to get $500 together!
Is it wrong that my first thought-- after "Oh good, it's not HERE." --was to wonder why the hell someone would hack the medicaid records for Utah? I mean, really. Utah?
Tell me about it... I've had the goddamn A/C in the window for the better part of a week now here in Vermont!
I distinctly remember it snowing for TWO SOLID DAYS at the end of May last year. What the hell is going on?! This doesn't feel like 'climate change' so much as 'climate schizophrenia'!
Christ! Those are... Those are just ridiculous... I guess what I didn't understand is what crosswords have become!
Now I get what they mean by requiring some cleverness... I mean, there're PEOPLE who wouldn't get those! It makes a lot more sense now.
Would the Apollo example really trip up a decently-written program though? I mean, my first thought was "Well, what if it had a fallback routine where it tries anagrams of possible answers?" so I have to imagine someone smarter than me has thought of that. I guess there's some limitation I'm not seeing...
On second thought...what am I still doing awake at 5:48am commenting on a post about crossword-solving computers?!
It is literally impossible to keep a piece of software from being cracked if there's a demand. No matter how draconian a DRM scheme you implement, the software will be pirated, and the cracked version will be completely DRM-free, leaving you with pirated copies that treat the user better than the legit copies do.
Even software packages that utilize hardware security dongles are cracked between a week before, and a day after release.
For the most part, the people who don't pay for software wouldn't have paid in the first place. So what's the point? You just end up screwing your paying userbase.
Sharing login credentials as a sign of luuuuurve ? This reminds me of the time I spent handling support tickets as a GM on a private Ragnarok Online server.
If I were to guess the number of item recovery tickets I handled that were about people sharing their accounts with significant others and having all their stuff stolen, the answer might cause your head to explode.
It wasn't limited to real-world relationships either. I once handled a ticket where someone was ripped off by their in-game spouse. To make matters even more lulzy, I distinctly remember having processed a divorce request ticket for the thief earlier that day.
The thief's character name? Louise_Greed. (Not even kidding.) It took all my willpower not to ask the victim exactly what the hell he thought was going to happen.
I have once again overestimated Microsoft... I didn't think they'd find a way to screw this up.
But $250?? Are you fucking cracked? I bought one for $150 LAST YEAR. So, basically, KNOWING that most of the people who want a Kinect for their computer already bought Xbox ones, they've decided not only to sell a SPECIAL one for computers, but to almost DOUBLE the price?
Apple will succeed in getting the product pulled, and six weeks later, will release their own creepy doll of Steve Jobs that looks (not surprisingly) identical, but costs five times as much. ;)
Really guys, REALLY? Modded up to +4 Insightful, and then all the way down to -1 Flamebait?
You obviously haven't seen these little pricks. They're spoiled rich kids playing pirate. I seriously doubt they'll feel the loss of a couple cheap UAVs.
After all, they didn't seem to care much when they lost their uber stealth boat thing, after RAMMING A WHALING VESSEL with it and claiming the whaling vessel rammed THEM.
These people piss me the hell off. I couldn't care less about whaling one way or the other, but whenever I hear about these assholes in the news, it makes me think "Plate me up some whale meat! YEAHHH!"
Kind of like the reaction I have to anything PETA does. "Sea kittens? Sounds tasty! WHAT NOW, BITCHES?"
And here I thought the major problem would be "I'll feel stupid using it." ;)
The Quake source code was released TWELVE YEARS AGO? ...this realization just gave me arthritis in every joint. I think I need to go lie down...
And then his son traced whole pages out of the Japanese manga 'Bleach' and proceeded to make his own even more terrible comic book out of it. Could that possibly have something to do with it? (Or was this before that? Either way, pretty damned funny!)