People in their own workshops and homes are doing some amazing stuff. Companies see this and think they need to get in on it, but the hobbyists aren't doing it to make money, and most of them don't have much money, so there isn't much money to be made.
It depends on how they're trying to make money. As the old adage says, "When there's a gold rush you make money by selling shovels" or something.
As an example, I have a project that requires me to do plastic welding. I know I can just wing it with a regular soldering iron, but I'm looking for a budget-friendly plastic welder that uses plastic rods like the pros use. But those things start at around USD$200~300 and there's no way I'm buying something that expensive to weld two boxes.
A plastic welder is probably relatively easy to do myself and with 3D printers everywhere I could buy a roll of 3MM filament instead of high-priced industrial plastic rods too. I just haven't found any plans yet and I'm not sure how an industrial plastic welder works.
The "maker mouvement" isn't fueled by high-priced gadgets. In fact it's the opposite, it's people building things for themselves because either what they want doesn't exists or because what already exists costs too much.
Arduino became successful because it was powerful enough and cheap enough for thousands of projects. Then it became extremely successful when China started selling clones at about 25% or less than the original. If you have space on your PCB design, it costs less to add an Arduino Pro mini at around $2 than adding a bare ATmega328P + crystal + caps.
Intel's game is to make extreme profits just like Apple. If AMD entered the "maker mouvement" they would probably have a chance because they'd design for a fixed cost, not a high-end features list.
Imagine yourself at the beginning of the 1990's. You hear some idiot talking about how "A.I. is going to infiltrate the Internet and do bad things".
Fast-forward to 2017 and we have self-replicating worms and botnets trying to assimilate anything they can install themselves on.
We can't understand what Musk is talking about because it hasn't happened yet. But because of movies everybody things A.I. is going to go on a rampage all by itself. It will not. Think military A.I. project gone very wrong.
I think Elon Musk is the one that has either a limited understanding of current AI technology.
And I think Elon Musk is from the future and has seen the devastation future A.I. will be capable of.
He's working on trying to save us from extinction from pollution (Tesla and Solar City), extinction from a surface-wide planetary event (his new Boring Company could be used to build massive underground bunkers), extinction from a planet-wide event (SpaceX, Mars colonisation) and extinction from predatory A.I. (what we're talking about).
Either he's a mad man with too much money, or he's from the future and knows what's in store for us and trying to prevent it. But a mad man wouldn't be working on so many "random" things that all lead to the salvation of mankind.
Haven't you heard? There's no team working on AirPort products at Apple anymore. That means even Apple users need to buy bug-ridden, backdoor-infested routers from crap companies now.
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I'm sorry but that's too big for a stupid smart speaker.
So you mean those speakers will act just like our relatives?
It depends on how they're trying to make money. As the old adage says, "When there's a gold rush you make money by selling shovels" or something.
As an example, I have a project that requires me to do plastic welding. I know I can just wing it with a regular soldering iron, but I'm looking for a budget-friendly plastic welder that uses plastic rods like the pros use. But those things start at around USD$200~300 and there's no way I'm buying something that expensive to weld two boxes.
A plastic welder is probably relatively easy to do myself and with 3D printers everywhere I could buy a roll of 3MM filament instead of high-priced industrial plastic rods too. I just haven't found any plans yet and I'm not sure how an industrial plastic welder works.
The "maker mouvement" isn't fueled by high-priced gadgets. In fact it's the opposite, it's people building things for themselves because either what they want doesn't exists or because what already exists costs too much.
Arduino became successful because it was powerful enough and cheap enough for thousands of projects. Then it became extremely successful when China started selling clones at about 25% or less than the original. If you have space on your PCB design, it costs less to add an Arduino Pro mini at around $2 than adding a bare ATmega328P + crystal + caps.
Intel's game is to make extreme profits just like Apple. If AMD entered the "maker mouvement" they would probably have a chance because they'd design for a fixed cost, not a high-end features list.
If I was the time traveller I would have 100K Bitcoins, not 100K Dogecoins.
The worst is some third party sellers on Amazon.ca
What costs USD$1.25 ends up costing CAD$3.75 + CAD$30 shipping.
I like the "Buy two for the price of two!" specials.
Obligatory Robocop reference.
Imagine yourself at the beginning of the 1990's. You hear some idiot talking about how "A.I. is going to infiltrate the Internet and do bad things".
Fast-forward to 2017 and we have self-replicating worms and botnets trying to assimilate anything they can install themselves on.
We can't understand what Musk is talking about because it hasn't happened yet. But because of movies everybody things A.I. is going to go on a rampage all by itself. It will not. Think military A.I. project gone very wrong.
Indeed, Musk is using the strategy from the master himself: Wayne Gretzky.
"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."
And I think Elon Musk is from the future and has seen the devastation future A.I. will be capable of.
He's working on trying to save us from extinction from pollution (Tesla and Solar City), extinction from a surface-wide planetary event (his new Boring Company could be used to build massive underground bunkers), extinction from a planet-wide event (SpaceX, Mars colonisation) and extinction from predatory A.I. (what we're talking about).
Either he's a mad man with too much money, or he's from the future and knows what's in store for us and trying to prevent it. But a mad man wouldn't be working on so many "random" things that all lead to the salvation of mankind.
Or maybe I'm the mad man. Who knows!? Not me!
Haven't you heard? There's no team working on AirPort products at Apple anymore. That means even Apple users need to buy bug-ridden, backdoor-infested routers from crap companies now.
Unfortunately, we spent all the budget on Steve Austin.
My 100K Dogecoins beg to differ. You may laugh at their combined value now, but in a few years you'll be laughing even more.
Litecoin is still going strong and Dogecoin is still slowly gaining in value.
They should try Pepsi, I've heard it's cheaper.
Books are not meant to be read.
So... don't download music and don't stream movies while you're on tour? Ever heard of local storage? That's still a thing you know.
Present:
Most of us: alright then, we'll continue to use keycards instead.
In the near future:
Companies/governments: if you still use keycards you are terrorists.
Does that include chest size for the women? We need to know!
The truth is out there. You just have to find it.
Thank you! I've never got such high praise!
I'll be here all week! Try the Tofurky hot dogs!
Guys! Stop reading his post! You're infecting Windows PCs!
Is it really a self-installing virus, or user-installed malware?
Have you tried spooning it?