"This new influx of funds will be used to further improve its operations in India, launch in new cities and develop new payment solutions and products. "
How do you spend 1B in this? a new payment portal, some advertising... but 1B?? considering the cost of IT and other resources in India, this seems like way too much money. Money laundering? Sending overvallued stock abroad?
It is more probable than the iranians assassinated him than the president, as much as I dislike her... But they certainly did not protect him. Big worlwide march to commemorate him and warn the govt, on oct 18th...
Such negative comments... This is a prettty cool idea, not for replacing a 3d printer, just something using similar technology... Reminds me of the hot wire styrofoam cutters when I was a kid... A toy CNC, nichts? This is a crowd pleaser, just for fun, like a toy.
There is a real 3d wire bender too yhat can take a cad file and render it, somewhat, but that is different. Kudos to the inventors! And to the critics, go do something useful instead...
I forget who, but someone made a 3d printer conceptual art project, where the printer uses wax to build something, and when its finished it melts it all and starts over, forever...
Now that we have private astronauts or are on the verge of having them, NASA should be redefined as having the missione of expanding knowledge, but not via manned flight, at least for a couple of decades. Let the "adventure" be funded by private enterprise, which can best recoup the cost via marketing. That Man can go to space safely has already be proven by NASA and others. The other way of looking at it is that NASAs unstated mission was to subsidize Cold War defense research, to make strong domestic industrial aeronautics industries. If it spent its budget on private space flights it will get a bigger bang for the buck, foment an industrial rennaissance in America at least, and do serious science on its own, with robots. Privatize the risk of human casualties, remove it from the politicians concerns.
Siri is the paradigm shift! No keyboard, just dictate long texts and ask for actions, do not do them by hand yourself.
The only benefit from RIM is their network effect, messaging between users who don't need to pay sms costs. But surely they can implement that too, like Apple has done, at less than a billion or two of costs...
Hype: everyone will print all their stuff at home. Mass production will be replace by 3d printing.
Reality: Some specific manufacturing will be done at smaller, nimbler, less expensive factories (sometimes neighborhood print shops) using 3d printers. Hobbyists will have fun with home 3d printers, like with PCs in the early 80's. A lot of people will be able to get into manufacturing, due to low entrance price, ability to print interesting parts (witness Shapeways), and advantage of being local/imaginative/sell personalized stuff/have not stock (so lower financial needs).
It's great to see a new industry arising, current ones are boring.
We can speculate about 3d printing changing manufacturing radically, but in the same light we can imagine cheaper non-oil-based energy changing the balance of payments substantially too, which will make the dollar stronger I believe (USA will have less deficit, can print less money). Unfortunately that won't happen soon enough, as long as oil is affordable (if you use less it will be affordable longer).
What if we had cheap available solar energy and did not need oil for so many things?
satellites? high altitude ballons? solar powered uavs? sounds like a way to spend many billions which could be better used to just bribe any enemies... or build a stronger economy, a much better defense!
my citroen piccaso also has a center mounted gauge, and I love it. it's less distracting, as it is not directly under your nose. Kinda like movies with subtitles, its hard not to read them even if you understand the language perfectly, simply because its there...
it will be done via computer viruses. All vehicles that need to communicate will be attackable at light speed by infected communications. All conceivable vehicles will have computer links, not just "radios"... so if you can infiltrate their comms, you win. This is both manned and unmanned vehicles, stealth or hidden or whatever.
precisely, it's a release of thousands of emails showing the goverment has been spying on citizens, illegally, and harassing oponents sometimes with made up charges. The blocking is stupid, it took me 2 minutes to download it all via a proxy...
if the USA had to stop all imports from China due to a war it would probably not be alone, with European and other partners perhaps following suit to some degree, since any reason that warrants such a ww4 move (think of the cold war as ww3) may trigger alliances. I don't know if Chinese rulers would not have an insurrection at home from the massive unemployment created there. They are in a tenuous position now, with many local protests squashed and kept quiet each year. India and others could probably substitute China within five years with such a situation. Of course the whole world would suffer more disruption than in the Great Depression! I really doubt it would ever come to that. Chinese and US leaders represent ecomic interests that would not allow any scenario where they all lose.
wow, finally got first comment!:-)
Forgot to say that iOS and OSX are likely to merge sometime in the future too, and are related technologies... but I suppose so is this Android with the other ones. Will Android ever run desktop/laptop/server computers?
Get a nice i7 pc or server with a UPS, 12-16 gb RAM, a small hard disk for booting/OS and 4 hard disks for RAID 10 storage (or RAID 5 even), which the motherboard should provide directly.
Put the free version of the XEN virtualizer on it. Install some VM's you can get preconfigured from Turnkey, Bitnami or Jumpbox or make yourself. Donwload an OpenFiler VM to use as a NAS for all your file needs, including storing the VM's. One VM could have a Liferay installation for a quick intranet. Another could have Postgress or MySQL, depending on your preferences, if you need a DB.
For the employees, I agree that Macs are a good investment with low maintenance compared to Windows. Just not dealing with viruses or AV software will make your lives much easier! If you can get discounted second-hand Macs, they are a good setup. You COULD perhaps have a $1000 Mac Mini Server with all the sw you need, and use the Pages/Numbers software on the Macs instead of Office (no extra price).
As an alternative, get semi-decent clones and use Ubuntu Linux on them, they are pretty close to Windows. Make sure eveyone knows how to print to PDF, send those files to clients instead of the original non-Word files and the formatting will go through ok. Configure the PC's to store the users documents in OpenFiler. If they don't have large files (or you pay for the additional storage, like $10/user/month) and wish to be able to work from home, rather than laptops get them DropBox accounts. By the time they get home, they can open the files on their home pc's AND have offsite backup.
Don't bother with LDAP or AD. Host the company webserver at an ISP for a couple of bucks per month, as well as a mail server.
The advantage of using XEN is that you can make any additional servers needed at the office easily without messing with existing servers or buying more hardware for a while. If the hardware died it's simple to put in a new server and run the images on it, without reinstalling or even restoring from backup. Ditto if you need to move to a larger server later on or want redundancy.
In 1982, Argentina caused major havoc in the war with Britain with just 5 exocet missiles. It nearly sank the Invincible, whicj probably would have made the war a draw. If Iran has these weapons that could have even a small chance of sinking or damaging a carrier, it will really complicate the war for the USA and could force it to restrict their use or keep even more forces dedicated to their defense. Dont underestimate countries like Iran, like the uk underestimated Argentina, or the USSR did with Finland in 1939, for instance...
Hey, I took a bunch of community college classes before graduating from HS, after hours, and got the credits. I took a bunch of Advanced Placement (AP) classes in high school and did not need to take those classes in college later. I don't see that you need to move out of high school entirely if you don't want to, yet can still get ahead.
Let people have several paths available:
1) go to high school until the end, like today
2) have fewer classes in hs so you can go to community college without having to do it after hours
3) go to college early (like some people have always been able to do regardless of their age!) when hs has nothing left for you
4) give these outstanding students more opportunities to do exchange semesters abroad. Now THAT will teach them really valuable things: languages, other cultures, and more rigorous high schools than in America (Japan, Germany, etc)
Society DOES have to move on from the formula for the past 100 years. More than uniformity and conformity now we need self-starting people that can learn their whole lives.
"U.S. military personnel in Iraq discovered the problem late last year when they apprehended a Shiite militant whose laptop contained files of intercepted drone video feeds. In July, the U.S. military found pirated drone video feeds on other militant laptops, leading some officials to conclude that militant groups trained and funded by Iran were regularly intercepting feeds."
The Germans did not think the Poles could break their codes. The Japanese did not think the US and the Australians would break their codes. The British did not think Argentina would finish assembling the Exocets on their own without the French manuals or use them in a way differently than designed.
The Afghan and Iraqi insurgents have the money and the brains to break into Western weapon systems, don't underestimate them (or the probable help from Iran, Syria, Korea, etc...)
The prospect of getting killed is a powerful motivator.
Argentina, where our laws are probably even sillier than in the USA, but that's beside the point. I don't think in most places someone would be accused of piracy and face years in jail for casually filming a screen for two minutes in the background of a birthday celebration. That is such a lapse of common sense that it's scary. For an adult to have reached that level of idiocy, the medium in which he moves (society) must also be pretty dumb... That is the tragedy, for if a great country like the USA with all its resources can generate these people, then the world is lost...
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"This new influx of funds will be used to further improve its operations in India, launch in new cities and develop new payment solutions and products. " How do you spend 1B in this? a new payment portal, some advertising... but 1B?? considering the cost of IT and other resources in India, this seems like way too much money. Money laundering? Sending overvallued stock abroad?
I was referring to Argentina, I forgotto mention that
It is more probable than the iranians assassinated him than the president, as much as I dislike her... But they certainly did not protect him. Big worlwide march to commemorate him and warn the govt, on oct 18th...
Such negative comments... This is a prettty cool idea, not for replacing a 3d printer, just something using similar technology... Reminds me of the hot wire styrofoam cutters when I was a kid... A toy CNC, nichts? This is a crowd pleaser, just for fun, like a toy. There is a real 3d wire bender too yhat can take a cad file and render it, somewhat, but that is different. Kudos to the inventors! And to the critics, go do something useful instead...
I forget who, but someone made a 3d printer conceptual art project, where the printer uses wax to build something, and when its finished it melts it all and starts over, forever...
3d printing is NOT mostly unnattended. For now it requires a bit of fiddling to get it right...
Now that we have private astronauts or are on the verge of having them, NASA should be redefined as having the missione of expanding knowledge, but not via manned flight, at least for a couple of decades. Let the "adventure" be funded by private enterprise, which can best recoup the cost via marketing. That Man can go to space safely has already be proven by NASA and others. The other way of looking at it is that NASAs unstated mission was to subsidize Cold War defense research, to make strong domestic industrial aeronautics industries. If it spent its budget on private space flights it will get a bigger bang for the buck, foment an industrial rennaissance in America at least, and do serious science on its own, with robots. Privatize the risk of human casualties, remove it from the politicians concerns.
Siri is the paradigm shift! No keyboard, just dictate long texts and ask for actions, do not do them by hand yourself. The only benefit from RIM is their network effect, messaging between users who don't need to pay sms costs. But surely they can implement that too, like Apple has done, at less than a billion or two of costs...
Hype: everyone will print all their stuff at home. Mass production will be replace by 3d printing. Reality: Some specific manufacturing will be done at smaller, nimbler, less expensive factories (sometimes neighborhood print shops) using 3d printers. Hobbyists will have fun with home 3d printers, like with PCs in the early 80's. A lot of people will be able to get into manufacturing, due to low entrance price, ability to print interesting parts (witness Shapeways), and advantage of being local/imaginative/sell personalized stuff/have not stock (so lower financial needs). It's great to see a new industry arising, current ones are boring.
All that survived deserved to survive, in a Darwinian way... All that perished deserved it too.
We can speculate about 3d printing changing manufacturing radically, but in the same light we can imagine cheaper non-oil-based energy changing the balance of payments substantially too, which will make the dollar stronger I believe (USA will have less deficit, can print less money). Unfortunately that won't happen soon enough, as long as oil is affordable (if you use less it will be affordable longer). What if we had cheap available solar energy and did not need oil for so many things?
satellites? high altitude ballons? solar powered uavs? sounds like a way to spend many billions which could be better used to just bribe any enemies... or build a stronger economy, a much better defense!
my citroen piccaso also has a center mounted gauge, and I love it. it's less distracting, as it is not directly under your nose. Kinda like movies with subtitles, its hard not to read them even if you understand the language perfectly, simply because its there...
it will be done via computer viruses. All vehicles that need to communicate will be attackable at light speed by infected communications. All conceivable vehicles will have computer links, not just "radios"... so if you can infiltrate their comms, you win. This is both manned and unmanned vehicles, stealth or hidden or whatever.
And of course the K govt will say its only 8 yrs old, not 94M, and they are responsible for finding it....
precisely, it's a release of thousands of emails showing the goverment has been spying on citizens, illegally, and harassing oponents sometimes with made up charges. The blocking is stupid, it took me 2 minutes to download it all via a proxy...
if the USA had to stop all imports from China due to a war it would probably not be alone, with European and other partners perhaps following suit to some degree, since any reason that warrants such a ww4 move (think of the cold war as ww3) may trigger alliances. I don't know if Chinese rulers would not have an insurrection at home from the massive unemployment created there. They are in a tenuous position now, with many local protests squashed and kept quiet each year. India and others could probably substitute China within five years with such a situation. Of course the whole world would suffer more disruption than in the Great Depression! I really doubt it would ever come to that. Chinese and US leaders represent ecomic interests that would not allow any scenario where they all lose.
wow, finally got first comment! :-)
Forgot to say that iOS and OSX are likely to merge sometime in the future too, and are related technologies... but I suppose so is this Android with the other ones. Will Android ever run desktop/laptop/server computers?
iOS works on tables AND phones... is Android inferior?
Get a nice i7 pc or server with a UPS, 12-16 gb RAM, a small hard disk for booting/OS and 4 hard disks for RAID 10 storage (or RAID 5 even), which the motherboard should provide directly. Put the free version of the XEN virtualizer on it. Install some VM's you can get preconfigured from Turnkey, Bitnami or Jumpbox or make yourself. Donwload an OpenFiler VM to use as a NAS for all your file needs, including storing the VM's. One VM could have a Liferay installation for a quick intranet. Another could have Postgress or MySQL, depending on your preferences, if you need a DB. For the employees, I agree that Macs are a good investment with low maintenance compared to Windows. Just not dealing with viruses or AV software will make your lives much easier! If you can get discounted second-hand Macs, they are a good setup. You COULD perhaps have a $1000 Mac Mini Server with all the sw you need, and use the Pages/Numbers software on the Macs instead of Office (no extra price). As an alternative, get semi-decent clones and use Ubuntu Linux on them, they are pretty close to Windows. Make sure eveyone knows how to print to PDF, send those files to clients instead of the original non-Word files and the formatting will go through ok. Configure the PC's to store the users documents in OpenFiler. If they don't have large files (or you pay for the additional storage, like $10/user/month) and wish to be able to work from home, rather than laptops get them DropBox accounts. By the time they get home, they can open the files on their home pc's AND have offsite backup. Don't bother with LDAP or AD. Host the company webserver at an ISP for a couple of bucks per month, as well as a mail server. The advantage of using XEN is that you can make any additional servers needed at the office easily without messing with existing servers or buying more hardware for a while. If the hardware died it's simple to put in a new server and run the images on it, without reinstalling or even restoring from backup. Ditto if you need to move to a larger server later on or want redundancy.
I thought Guantanamo was under US jurisdiction...
In 1982, Argentina caused major havoc in the war with Britain with just 5 exocet missiles. It nearly sank the Invincible, whicj probably would have made the war a draw. If Iran has these weapons that could have even a small chance of sinking or damaging a carrier, it will really complicate the war for the USA and could force it to restrict their use or keep even more forces dedicated to their defense. Dont underestimate countries like Iran, like the uk underestimated Argentina, or the USSR did with Finland in 1939, for instance...
1) go to high school until the end, like today
2) have fewer classes in hs so you can go to community college without having to do it after hours
3) go to college early (like some people have always been able to do regardless of their age!) when hs has nothing left for you
4) give these outstanding students more opportunities to do exchange semesters abroad. Now THAT will teach them really valuable things: languages, other cultures, and more rigorous high schools than in America (Japan, Germany, etc)
Society DOES have to move on from the formula for the past 100 years. More than uniformity and conformity now we need self-starting people that can learn their whole lives.
"U.S. military personnel in Iraq discovered the problem late last year when they apprehended a Shiite militant whose laptop contained files of intercepted drone video feeds. In July, the U.S. military found pirated drone video feeds on other militant laptops, leading some officials to conclude that militant groups trained and funded by Iran were regularly intercepting feeds." The Germans did not think the Poles could break their codes. The Japanese did not think the US and the Australians would break their codes. The British did not think Argentina would finish assembling the Exocets on their own without the French manuals or use them in a way differently than designed. The Afghan and Iraqi insurgents have the money and the brains to break into Western weapon systems, don't underestimate them (or the probable help from Iran, Syria, Korea, etc...) The prospect of getting killed is a powerful motivator.
Argentina, where our laws are probably even sillier than in the USA, but that's beside the point. I don't think in most places someone would be accused of piracy and face years in jail for casually filming a screen for two minutes in the background of a birthday celebration. That is such a lapse of common sense that it's scary. For an adult to have reached that level of idiocy, the medium in which he moves (society) must also be pretty dumb... That is the tragedy, for if a great country like the USA with all its resources can generate these people, then the world is lost...