Eventually you'll be able to print the whole thing, and synthesize the charge/primer too. The same equipment will be able to make food and medicine. Who do you want controlling that?
Synthesizing primers (e.g. fulminates and azides) is best left to the competent. I have no problem with letting the incompetent try, provided they're sufficiently far away.
``Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.'' --- Thomas Jefferson
I'm all for the Second Amendment (I almost agree with the talk.politics.guns poster who opined that handguns should be sold in vending machines next to the cigarettes and booze), but that quote is pretty obviously spurious; the language is all wrong for the early 19th century.
Hmm, a little
searching reveals that it's not completely spurious; Jefferson did copy it down, but the words aren't his; they're from Cesare Beccaria's "Essay on Crimes and Punishments" (in Italian).
I didn't say it was the answer to everything. But socialism is the answer for education. If it doesn't offend you that poor kids get a shit education while rich kids get an excellent education, thus locking them into their respective social classes for life, then you sir are an asshole.
The alternative seems to be that everyone gets a shit education. "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" has a real problem when there's bottomless need without endless ability. And that's always the case.
We desperately need to do more for education, whatever that may be. It offends me to no end when we discuss what can be done about education, and we stop ourselves short over money. The primary reason for this is all the stupid, unimportant, and corrupt shit that gets higher priority over education, and also infrastructure.
No. Education gets plenty of money. The problem is what's done with it. Throw more money at it, it goes in the same shithole. All your babbling over bridges and wall street and 1%ers and the military is irrelevant.
The education system is set up to take any money you throw at it, and any reform you attempt, and turn it to shit. That's the way it has evolved. All the blaming of Wall Street and the military won't change that.
Your cynicism is, frankly, pathetic. Don't think that a few people who care can't change the world -- indeed, they're the only ones who ever have.
Some groups of a few people who care have changed the world. A far larger number of groups of a few people who cared have found the world unyielding to their efforts.
Chesterton's gate: if, while driving through the English countryside, you encounter a gate across the road which does not at first glance appear to serve any purpose, you are not allowed to remove it just because you can't imagine what it is there for. Only when you can figure out why someone put up a gate there in the first place, and determine whether that reason is still valid or not, can you decide whether or not to remove the gate.
Following that policy leaves you open to the sort of jackass who would put up a gate just for the sake of doing so; because there was no reason for the gate, you can never find one in order to decide to take it down.
Here, let me give you a tale of two school districts. One, the school district of the city of Newark, NJ, spends $21,000 per pupil per year (or $17,000 depending on how you calculate it), and is one of the worst in the state; students don't learn shit. The other, the school district for Millburn Township, NJ spends $17,000 per year (or $14,000 using the other method) and is one of the best. You know what sort of improvement you're going to get by sending the kids in Newark to school 12 months a year? Fuck all. You know what sort of improvement you're going to get by sending the kids in Millburn to school 12 months a year? Still fuck all.
It isn't the money, and it isn't the time. Figure out why Johnny isn't learning jack shit in school during 9 months of the year (and fix it) before proposing that he go 12 months to learn the same jack shit.
I just want to know what suburb you live in with good food!:) Mine has all of the fast food places, an Applebees, a Chiles, an Outback, a couple of pretend Mexican places (Baja Fresh, Qdoba, Chipotle), a bunch of terrible Chinese, and some mediocre pizza places. Shockingly, no Fridays. The one bright spot is this fantastic Korean crispy chicken wing place, but it is technically inside Philly city limits... We generally hop on the train and go to Philly for our food.
In your area, try Conshohocken. Several Italian, Stonewell (Korean, might technically be in Plymouth Meeting), Coyote Crossing (real Mexican as good as any in the city). Used to be good Chinese in King of Prussia but the place I knew is gone.
But as for soul crushing... the suburbs might be soul crushing by accident, a mere side-effect of their design (or not). But take a look at the picture of 111 Eighth Avenue (the Google satellite office linked in the summary). That is a massive edifice designed to crush souls on an industrial scale. You can just imagine the souls entering beneath the two dark awnings on the 8th avenue side, and a diabolical system of ramps and conveyors bringing them through the machinery along the length of the building, only to be discharged as soul-paste onto 9th avenue.
(no, I'm kidding, of course. The dark awnings, helipad, and soul-crushing machinery were removed some time ago. The latter was relocated to Goldman Sachs's offices in Exchange Place, NJ, where there has been very little need for them)
I work at the Port of New York Authority building, and I'd much rather my job were in some soul-less office park in the suburbs. The choices for housing in the NYC area are to rent in a shoebox in Manhattan for insanely high prices, rent a slightly larger place in Hoboken, Jersey City, Queens or Brooklyn for also insanely high prices (and have a relatively long subway commute), or to buy in the suburbs (also insanely costly) and have a ridiculously long commute (1hr+, whether Long Island or New Jersey). I'm not a city person, I need some space. My wife is an artist, she needs some space to work. I'm not so interested in "nightlife" (#1, I'm married, so the payoff isn't there. #2, I'm a geek, so it never was)
I think there's two main reasons the tech companies are mostly going to cities. One is an ideological attraction to cities and antipathy to suburbs on the part of management. The other is an attraction to cities (particularly including New York and San Francisco) on the part of new grads; when you're competing for Ivy League CS grads, an office in Putnam County, NY or Eureka, IN just isn't going to cut it.
...that there'd be Buddhist trolls. I imagine after they he sent this answer to Tseung, they had a really good belly laugh... "Yeah, I told him that Steve Jobs was reincarnated into an invisible glass house above his former office. And I said when they built the new office, he'd take up a position directly over the center, so he could survey all his creation."
People who don't want to learn the nasty details of how computers work, and what's under the abstractions will always suffer from leaky abstractions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction). If you don't learn what the abstractions are meant to abstract, you don't really understand it. The abstractions are meant to make coding easier, not to replace understanding.
Unfortunately, you quickly get down to quantum physics. Good luck really understanding that. Not that I know of a case where a bug or glitch could actually be tied to an obscure quantum physical effect (alpha radiation doesn't count as obscure).
"Software Engineering, My Good Friend" would be similar but is not patronising, has no t-shirt shop (pocket protectors perhaps), takes well proven engineering principles and apply them to software and deliver quality working software the first time.
Certainly everyone has secrets; nearly everyone, secrets which if widely revealed would cause embarrassment and/or shame (I, for instance, once worked for a defense contractor, and wore a tie while doing it). But true facts that would lead to serious, concrete, devastating, harm, of the "Married Governor of New Jersey being blackmailed by former gay lover" level? I don't think so many people have secrets that dire.
I should fucking hope so. Making a movie or demo video of with a bunch of special effects is hardly the same thing as making an actual real-life device that works and can be bought down at the store.
Depends on if you're talking about the utility patents or the design patents. For the design patents, it's pretty much the same thing.
Samsung, for several devices (the ones that did look a bit more iphone-ish like the Fascinate) had oddly curved corners, not a perfect radius from the union of the two sides. Strangely, the courts didnt find this distinction sufficient (even though an Apple product would NEVER have anything but perfectly radius-ed corners.)
Typical patent problem. Prior art has to be dead-on to invalidate; alleged infringement just has to be "meh, close enough".
You bring a very interesting point. I've been traveling a lot, and I've seen people that text during landing, and others that just tap the power button of their device thinking that's enough to power it off.
Or "just tap the power buton of their device thinking that's enough to convince the flight attendant it's off".
In my final year of college, I heard about Linux. I then got a job working on AIX. A couple of years later, I then only had to stretch the truth slightly to claim 5 years of experience with Linux and thus meet the requirements of the job market at the time. Presto, instant Linux professional.
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You've got nothing. There is such a thing as aptitude, there are people lacking it in various areas, and this fact is plainly obvious.
Synthesizing primers (e.g. fulminates and azides) is best left to the competent. I have no problem with letting the incompetent try, provided they're sufficiently far away.
I'm all for the Second Amendment (I almost agree with the talk.politics.guns poster who opined that handguns should be sold in vending machines next to the cigarettes and booze), but that quote is pretty obviously spurious; the language is all wrong for the early 19th century. Hmm, a little searching reveals that it's not completely spurious; Jefferson did copy it down, but the words aren't his; they're from Cesare Beccaria's "Essay on Crimes and Punishments" (in Italian).
You've never heard of -fno-errors? Best paired with -Wnone.
Repeating a lie may make someone believe it; it will not make it true.
The alternative seems to be that everyone gets a shit education. "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" has a real problem when there's bottomless need without endless ability. And that's always the case.
No. Education gets plenty of money. The problem is what's done with it. Throw more money at it, it goes in the same shithole. All your babbling over bridges and wall street and 1%ers and the military is irrelevant.
The education system is set up to take any money you throw at it, and any reform you attempt, and turn it to shit. That's the way it has evolved. All the blaming of Wall Street and the military won't change that.
Some groups of a few people who care have changed the world. A far larger number of groups of a few people who cared have found the world unyielding to their efforts.
Following that policy leaves you open to the sort of jackass who would put up a gate just for the sake of doing so; because there was no reason for the gate, you can never find one in order to decide to take it down.
Here, let me give you a tale of two school districts. One, the school district of the city of Newark, NJ, spends $21,000 per pupil per year (or $17,000 depending on how you calculate it), and is one of the worst in the state; students don't learn shit. The other, the school district for Millburn Township, NJ spends $17,000 per year (or $14,000 using the other method) and is one of the best. You know what sort of improvement you're going to get by sending the kids in Newark to school 12 months a year? Fuck all. You know what sort of improvement you're going to get by sending the kids in Millburn to school 12 months a year? Still fuck all.
It isn't the money, and it isn't the time. Figure out why Johnny isn't learning jack shit in school during 9 months of the year (and fix it) before proposing that he go 12 months to learn the same jack shit.
In your area, try Conshohocken. Several Italian, Stonewell (Korean, might technically be in Plymouth Meeting), Coyote Crossing (real Mexican as good as any in the city). Used to be good Chinese in King of Prussia but the place I knew is gone.
But as for soul crushing... the suburbs might be soul crushing by accident, a mere side-effect of their design (or not). But take a look at the picture of 111 Eighth Avenue (the Google satellite office linked in the summary). That is a massive edifice designed to crush souls on an industrial scale. You can just imagine the souls entering beneath the two dark awnings on the 8th avenue side, and a diabolical system of ramps and conveyors bringing them through the machinery along the length of the building, only to be discharged as soul-paste onto 9th avenue.
(no, I'm kidding, of course. The dark awnings, helipad, and soul-crushing machinery were removed some time ago. The latter was relocated to Goldman Sachs's offices in Exchange Place, NJ, where there has been very little need for them)
I work at the Port of New York Authority building, and I'd much rather my job were in some soul-less office park in the suburbs. The choices for housing in the NYC area are to rent in a shoebox in Manhattan for insanely high prices, rent a slightly larger place in Hoboken, Jersey City, Queens or Brooklyn for also insanely high prices (and have a relatively long subway commute), or to buy in the suburbs (also insanely costly) and have a ridiculously long commute (1hr+, whether Long Island or New Jersey). I'm not a city person, I need some space. My wife is an artist, she needs some space to work. I'm not so interested in "nightlife" (#1, I'm married, so the payoff isn't there. #2, I'm a geek, so it never was)
I think there's two main reasons the tech companies are mostly going to cities. One is an ideological attraction to cities and antipathy to suburbs on the part of management. The other is an attraction to cities (particularly including New York and San Francisco) on the part of new grads; when you're competing for Ivy League CS grads, an office in Putnam County, NY or Eureka, IN just isn't going to cut it.
...that there'd be Buddhist trolls. I imagine after they he sent this answer to Tseung, they had a really good belly laugh... "Yeah, I told him that Steve Jobs was reincarnated into an invisible glass house above his former office. And I said when they built the new office, he'd take up a position directly over the center, so he could survey all his creation."
Unfortunately, you quickly get down to quantum physics. Good luck really understanding that. Not that I know of a case where a bug or glitch could actually be tied to an obscure quantum physical effect (alpha radiation doesn't count as obscure).
Ah. So both mythical AND dull.
Certainly everyone has secrets; nearly everyone, secrets which if widely revealed would cause embarrassment and/or shame (I, for instance, once worked for a defense contractor, and wore a tie while doing it). But true facts that would lead to serious, concrete, devastating, harm, of the "Married Governor of New Jersey being blackmailed by former gay lover" level? I don't think so many people have secrets that dire.
Exposure to light can reduce production of a hormone known to have its production reduced by exposure to light.
These are domestic exports, not including transit (but including imports that are re-exported after processing).
Depends on if you're talking about the utility patents or the design patents. For the design patents, it's pretty much the same thing.
Typical patent problem. Prior art has to be dead-on to invalidate; alleged infringement just has to be "meh, close enough".
Or "just tap the power buton of their device thinking that's enough to convince the flight attendant it's off".
Sure, if the pilot's phone is ringing. A phone in the cabin doesn't have enough power to induce the GSM buzz in the pilot's headphones.
...yeah, but I'd copy their model files and 3D print my own.
In my final year of college, I heard about Linux. I then got a job working on AIX. A couple of years later, I then only had to stretch the truth slightly to claim 5 years of experience with Linux and thus meet the requirements of the job market at the time. Presto, instant Linux professional.
We liked 7 of 9 so much we cloned her twice.